Book Review
of The Naked Truth Sponsored by Bewitching Book Tours
The
Naked Truth
The
Confederacy Treaty Book Two
Carina
Press
Book
Synopsis:
Captain
Susan Branscombe was the victim of brutal torture at the hands of terrorists.
Though rescued, she’s now facing an equally brutal accusation: treason.
The
only way she can prove her innocence is to allow Asler Kiis, a Confederacy
Examiner, to delve into the depths of her mind. Asler is Inarri, the alien race
that made contact with Earth just months before. His duty is to find the truth,
but when he explores Susan’s mind he can’t resist drawing her into a more
intimate experience.
Susan
takes comfort in Asler’s heated sensuality. Their erotic sensory exploration
chases away the darkness and her body aches for more. But as their desire
reaches new limits Susan finds it difficult to suppress the memories she is
desperate to forget.
Is the
passion they share enough to let Susan push aside her fear and trust Asler, not
only with her mind and body but with her ever-opening heart?
37,000
words
About the Author:
Lilly Cain is a wild woman with a deep throaty laugh,
plunging necklines and a great lover of all things sensual - perfume,
chocolate, silk! She never has to worry about finding a date or keeping a man
in line. She keeps her blond hair long and curly, wears beautiful clothes and
loves loud music. Lilly lives her private life in the pages of her books.
Lilly lives in Atlantic Canada, although she spent
eight years in Bermuda, enjoying the heat and the pink sands. She returned
to her homeland so she could see the changing of the seasons once again. When
not writing she paints, swills coffee and vodka (but not together), and fights
her writing pals for chocolate.
When not living up to her pen name, Lilly is a single
mom who loves reading and writing, dabbling in art and loving and caring for
her two daughters. She loves romance and the freedom erotic fantasy provides
her imagination. She loves the chilling moments in her novels as much as the
steaming hot interludes. Her stories are an escape and a release, and she hopes
that they can give you that power, too.
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Excerpt
The Naked Truth
The lights were too bright. They kept her awake when all she wanted
was to sleep. Worse, the Medtechs never left her alone and were always prodding
her, poking her with some needle or drawing blood or insisting she talk or eat.
She hurt everywhere. She didn’t want to talk to them, hadn’t
expected to live long enough to have to tell them what she had gone through.
She didn’t want to think about it. What was done was done, no use crying about
it.
“Captain Branscombe, open your eyes!” The sharp bark of her commander
had her snapping to alertness even as part of her willed him to go away. The
nasty vomit-green walls of the medroom swam into focus, along with the blinking
lights of her medical monitors and her commander’s concerned frown.
“Listen up, Branscombe, and pay attention. I know damn well you’re
a good soldier and loyal to the Starforce Marines. Never mind what they’re
saying. You stand tall and proud.” Commander John Davies leaned over her, his
gray camouflage hat seeming to blend in with his hair. Steel-blue eyes stared
into her own.
“The admiral has decided the Confederacy will be handling the
investigation into the attack.” He turned away from her, looking at the humming
machines that surrounded her medroom bed. “It’s not my choice, but you are to
report to the Confederacy shuttle at o-nine-hundred today.”
“What?” She struggled to sit up, tried to understand through the
haze of drugs she’d been given what he was trying to say. “Am I under
investigation?”
“I’ll be frank, Branscombe. There are some who are certain you gave
away the location of the base.”
To hell with this. She lifted her chin and stared into his eyes. “I
did.”
“What?” He shook his head. “You were tortured. You didn’t know what
you were doing.”
“I knew exactly what I was doing. I did tell them, but only because
I fully expected our ships to defeat theirs. I knew if I didn’t give them a
believable target, they’d attack somewhere else, maybe some place we couldn’t
defend. We had three warships at the base, Commander. There was no chance we wouldn’t
win. That was the part I didn’t tell them. It was the only thing I could do.”
Spent and dizzy from the longest speech she’d made since her rescue, she
dropped back against the bed pillow.
“Hmmph,” he huffed, his face unreadable.
A soft rustling noise at the doorway caught Sue’s attention. Her
eyes flicked to a stranger at the entrance and back to her base commander as he
opened his mouth to say more.
“Captain Susan Branscombe, you are requested to accompany me to the
Confederacy ship Horneu.” The stranger spoke brusquely, interrupting Davies.
The base commander’s mouth snapped shut. He swallowed whatever he
had been about to say, looking as if the taste of it hit a sour note.
Sue examined the figure in her doorway, her gaze caught by the
startlingly intense expression in the stranger’s eyes. His mouth turned down at
the corners, full lips pressed thin in a disapproving grimace. She shivered,
her fingers nervously fisting in the soft folds of the medroom bedcovers. How
long has he been listening?
He had to be an Inarrii. She’d seen pictures, read the descriptions
of all the aliens in the Confederacy they were about to join. She’d even had
personal contact with Alinna Gaerrii, the Inarrii spy who’d practically
crash-landed in her backyard. She’d guessed the Inarrii were selected from
among the Confederacy to discuss the Treaty because they would garner the most
respect. They looked human, aside from their skin markings, which to her eye
looked like henna tattoos.
What the pictures hadn’t shown, or perhaps she hadn’t noticed, was
how patrician their features were, with their long, thin noses and well-defined
cheekbones and jaws, sensual lips. She certainly hadn’t noticed Alinna that
way. And the news vids hadn’t done justice to the gorgeous contrast of bronzed
skin against long blond hair and eyebrows, either. Or how their bright green
eyes could flash with anger. Discomfort sent a chill through her as curiosity
morphed into anxiety.
“Commander Davies, we do not need your presence, nor was it
indicated or even implied that you would brief Captain Branscombe. Please
leave.” His voice was tight with controlled emotion, but she could see it
reflected in his eyes.
Sue watched as her base commander drew himself up, his spine
snapping stiffly to full attention. This was the man she’d come to consider as
a friend, perhaps even a father, in light of her orphaned state. She’d served
under him for nearly a dozen years, on one base or another until her recent
transfer to the Mars Settlement Defense unit. And when that mission had been
placed on hold with the Confederacy’s arrival, she’d returned to piloting the
base scout shuttle at his request. Now he defended her again, even though she’d
disappointed him and her career was likely over. She tasted bitterness at the
realization. She’d never fly again, and her dream of visiting an alien world
would be only that, an impossible dream.
“Examiner Kiis. Dragging this woman out of her sick bed is
ridiculous. I can’t imagine what you hope to accomplish, but this kind of
behavior won’t go unnoticed,” Davies said coldly.
The Inarrii stepped into the room, his shadow stretching over Sue
as she lay on the medroom bed. Her heart pounded. He was taller than the
commander. Not by much, but he seemed huge from her vulnerably prone position.
She pressed backward against the pillow, but there was nowhere to go.
Her mouth dried as the stranger broke eye contact with the base
commander and looked down at her. This was an Examiner, one of the Confederacy
law enforcement officials.
What the hell does he want with me? What is he going to do with me?
Interrogate me? Torture me some more?
A shudder rippled down her spine, despite her attempts to stay
calm. She ground her teeth together. Get it together, Branscombe, tough it out.
Book Review:
The first book in this series is Alien Revealed. This book is not as overtly sensuous, not
that it’s not sensuous it’s more subtle.
Once again the Inarrii are present.
They are involved in making a treaty with the Earth. During the treaty process, the ship they are
meeting on is attacked, while it is defeated it is determined that a Starforce
Marines officer is on board. To
determine if she committed treason she is examined by the Inarrii examiner, who
is skilled in mind speak examinations. Captain
Susan Branscombe has many physical and mental injuries from her capture and
torture.
The Inarrii heal her body, and
during her time on the ship her mental scars begin to heal. As she heals and works with Asler, the Inarrii
Examiner, they begin to fall in love.
For the first time in her life, Susan feels protected and safe but will forces
in Starforce Marines tear them apart for good
The book is tender, sexy, and seriously
hot. I give this book 4 out of 5 clouds
and a chili pepper rating of 7. And,
really, if you meet any Inarrii men, call me.
If we are going to have company in this wide universe, may they be hot,
sexy, and skilled ‘:)
This
product or book may have been distributed for review; this in no way affects my
opinions or reviews.
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