The Pulse, Book 1 in the Pulse
Trilogy
by Shoshanna Evers
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BLURB:
Book One in the heart-pounding Pulse Trilogy—a gripping
erotic romance set in post-apocalyptic New York City one year after an
electromagnetic pulse destroys America’s power grid. "Intense, exciting,
and sizzlingly sexy—a perfect post-apocalyptic romance!" (Heather
Thurmeier, bestselling author of Escape to My Arms and Stuck on You)
Emily Rosen lives in a military camp at Grand Central
Station, where women sell their bodies to soldiers for extra rations. When she
discovers a dark secret—that America is rebuilding outside of New York City,
and everything the city’s refugees have been told is a lie—she escapes, the
soldiers hot on her heels…
But Christopher Mason, a convict who broke out of prison
after the Pulse, finds Emily first. Although he’s survived this long on the
streets by looking out only for himself, Emily is beautiful, alluring, and
impossible to leave behind.
Now Emily must convince this intimidating, magnetic stranger
to be her guide as they journey out of New York and into the unknown. She’ll
barter with her body, but sex with Mason can never be currency—it’s pure
passion, and everything she desires. Despite the crumbling world around them,
can Emily and Mason discover true love blooming in the darkest of places?
EXCERPT
Excerpt from The Pulse, Book 1 in the Pulse Trilogy by Shoshanna Evers
Copyright Shoshanna Evers 2013 Simon & Schuster Pocket Star, All
Rights Reserved.
“Look at me,” Emily said soothingly. “I need to see your pupils.”
She peered into his eyes. In a perfect world, she’d shine a flashlight
in them, but there were no flashlights. The only light she had now streamed in
through the dirty glass panes of the windows.
Man, he was good-looking. Too good-looking. And large.
Mason leaned forward on the cot and grabbed her wrists. “It’s you,” he
said groggily.
“I’m Emily, I’m taking care
of you,” she said gently. “I’m going to clean your wound. It may hurt.”
“I remember you. I saw you that day, when they picked you up. When you
got brought in.”
Emily looked at him in horror. He was from the camp, he had to be. She
shrank away from him, feeling her heart race. The washrag hung limply from her
hand.
Focus, don’t be blinded by fear.
“I remember you. When they took you away, it was me, hiding behind the
cab,” Mason said, staring intently into her eyes. “Are you okay?”
She remembered him now, the man who held his finger to his lips. At the
time she had assumed he was hiding from the soldiers, just like she had been.
Like she was now.
“You—you’re not one of them?” she asked, hating how weak and scared she
sounded.
“No. I’ve got my reasons to hide from the law. Like you, I imagine.”
She laughed, a dry barking sound. “Not like my reason.”
Quickly, she quieted herself. The less he knew about her hidden radio,
the safer for both of them.
“Are you . . . Why are you hiding, Mason?” She had to know, as much as
she didn’t want to. He was the only man around she could possibly trust—if he
truly had nothing to do with the soldiers.
As much as she wanted to make it on her own, it didn’t hurt to know who
her friends were—and her enemies.
Suddenly, he looked at her suspiciously. “I should never have told you
my name.”
“I’m sorry,” Emily whispered. “I saw the tattoo, on your arm. I thought
maybe you had been in prison.”
“Do you know what they do to prisoners now, Emily?”
Emily looked at him and cocked her head. “My understanding is they let
all the petty criminals go. The ones who were murderers, rapists, pedophiles
and psychos they . . . they shot them. Killed them all so they wouldn’t take up
valuable resources.”
“They kill prisoners, huh?” Mason said, staring at her intently, holding
her wrists. “So what makes you think I want you spreading rumors about me being
in prison?”
“I won’t tell anyone. Not a soul.”
He dropped his hands then, as if suddenly realizing what he was doing.
“There’re no computers to track me. No fingerprint files. I’m a blank slate
now, and I intend to start over.”
“What did you do?” she whispered.
“I’m not going to hurt you,” he said. “And that’s all you need to know.
Understand?”
“Okay,” she said softly, and picked up the rag to finish cleaning his
wound, grateful to have a task to keep her focused. He wouldn’t need stitches,
but she’d have to check him every fifteen minutes or so for a while to make
sure he wasn’t suffering from a brain injury.
Not that she could do anything for him if he was. If his head injury was
truly serious, then he would just go to sleep and die. She wasn’t about to do
brain surgery. She couldn’t even if she knew how.
His T-shirt was saturated with blood—scalps tend to bleed a lot. “Can
you . . . take off your shirt?” she asked tentatively.
“You don’t have to do this,” he said. His face looked flushed, a deep
pink coloring his previously pale cheeks. “I’m not—I don’t expect you to—”
She took a step back. “No! That’s not what I meant. I just—your shirt is
ruined. Bloody. I can wash it.”
He turned his face from her for a moment as if trying to compose
himself.
“Where you gonna wash it?” he asked as he pulled the filthy shirt over
his shoulders.
She glimpsed tight abdominal muscles and an incredibly large, smooth
chest before the shirt came completely off . He had a sprinkling of crinkly
dark hair leading down around his navel, trailing into the waistband of his
cargo pants.
Emily sighed. “I don’t know. But I bet one of the shirts I took with me
from Grand Central will fit. Might be a bit tight,” she acknowledged as she
ruffled through a worn backpack. “Here.”
It was definitely too small, outlining all of his muscles in stark
relief.
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Critically-acclaimed author Shoshanna Evers has written dozens of sexy
stories including Amazon Erotica Bestsellers Overheated, and Enslaved, Book 1
in the Enslaved Trilogy. Her work has been featured in Best Bondage Erotica
2012 and Best Bondage Erotica 2013, the Penguin/Berkley Heat anthology
Agony/Ecstasy, and numerous erotic BDSM novellas including Chastity Belt and
Punishing the Art Thief from Ellora's Cave Publishing.
The non-fiction anthology Shoshanna Evers edited and contributed to, How
To Write Hot Sex: Tips from Multi-Published Erotic Romance Authors, is a #1
Bestseller in the Authorship, Erotica Writing Reference, and Romance Writing
categories.
Her BDSM erotic romance The Enslaved Trilogy released in April 2013 from
Simon & Schuster's Pocket Star imprint, followed by the Pulse Trilogy, a
post-apocalyptic dystopian erotic romance releasing November 2013.
Shoshanna is a New York native who now lives with her family and two big
dogs in Northern Idaho. She welcomes emails from readers and writers, and loves
to interact on Twitter and Facebook.
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