Authors: Candace Schuler

All Night Long (27 page)

Excerpt from

Lovers & Strangers

The Hollywood Nights Series

Book One

Candace Schuler

Bestselling, award-winning Author

LOVERS & STRANGERS

Reviews & Accolades

5 Stars – A Little Romance

REVIEWS

"...characters are deeply motivated, emotional people."

~Inside Romance

"Candace Schuler challenges the reader to feel—love, pain, sympathy and compassion."

~A Little Romance

"Passion, trust, and love go hand-in-hand in this story of two remarkable people who, somehow, in this great big world, find each other."

~Rendezvous

"A romantic portrait of two people who find meaning in their love for one another."

~Romantic Times

Faith sighed and closed her eyes, nestling into him as they swayed together on the dance floor.

Don't,
he wanted to say to her.
Don't trust me.
But he folded his arms around her and lay his cheek against her hair.

Faith felt unutterably safe, cradled, oh so gently, in the hard circle of his enveloping arms. She felt his lips move against her temple, whisper soft, and she wanted more than safety and gentleness from him. She stirred restlessly in his embrace.

Jack's arms tightened around her. "Be still," he murmured raggedly, fighting for control.

Her answer was a plaintive murmur of dissent and the soft press of her breasts against his chest as she slipped her arms around his back and nestled closer.

Jack moaned in defeat and desire and bent his head lower, burrowing through her hair to press his face against the curve of her neck. His lips touched warm flesh and, helplessly, he opened his mouth to taste her.

Faith felt the dampness of his lips and tongue against her skin and shivered in response, unconsciously letting her head fall back to give him better access. "Jack," she sighed, her voice rife with longing. "Jack."

"Dammit, Faith, I'm no good for you," he growled, low, but his tone made the harsh words a caress. "I've done things and seen things you can't possibly imagine. I'm too old for you. I—Faith, dammit, open your eyes and
look at
me."

She lifted her lids, looking up at him through eyes made slumberous and heavy with desire. He stared down at her for a long moment, frozen with indecision and guilt. And then she parted her lips slightly, her tongue peeking out as if to taste the kiss he hadn't yet given her, and he was lost.

A low sound, half pain, half pleasure, rumbled in his chest. "I'll probably burn in hell for this," he growled, his voice savage, his mouth so close his lips brushed hers as he spoke. "But I can only resist just so much temptation. And you, Angel—Dammit,
you
I can't resist at all," he groaned, and took her mouth with his.

Lovers & Strangers

The Hollywood Nights Series

Book One

Candace Schuler

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Candace Schuler is a writer with a multiple personalities. In her 20+ year career, she has written software user guides, various types of instruction manuals, marketing collateral, grant proposals, case statements, case studies, business profiles, newsletters, press releases, white papers, speeches, scripts, short stories, a cookbook—and 26 (to date) romance novels.

Candace credits her husband Joe and her love of travel with starting her career as a romance writer. It was his comments on a letter describing a trip to New Orleans that prompted her to try writing romance fiction.

She wrote her first novel
Desire's Child
by hand on 12 yellow legal pads. It was published by Harlequin Books in September, 1984 (after she typed it into a computer, of course). Her second book
A Cherished Account
was published by New American Library under the pen name Jeanette Darwin just one month later. She is also published under the name Candace Spencer.

Her books have appeared on the B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks bestseller lists and have twice been nominated by the Romance Writers of America for a RITA award in the Best Short Contemporary Romance category—in 1996 for
Passion and Scandal
and in 2003 for
Good Time Girl
.
Good Time Girl
also received the 2003 Scarlett Letter Award, presented by the Tampa Bay Romance Writers for excellence in sensual romance writing. Candace's books have also received three Reviewers' Choice Awards from Romantic Times magazine. In 1992, she was awarded the Career Achievement Award as Series Story Teller of the Year by RT.

She is currently in the process of digitizing her backlist for e-book publication.

Other stuff:

* Well and happily married to the love of her life

* Mom to two 70-pound Dobermans who think they are lap dogs

* Plants a garden every year in hopes of producing the perfect tomato

* Bakes a to-die-for chocolate cheesecake

* Is a Big Brother Big Sister volunteer

* Buys way too many shoes

* Holds the Grant Professional Certified credential

* Is a member of Novelists, Inc.

You can contact Candace through her website:
www.CandaceSchuler.com

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