Coming your way in July!
Dear readers,
First of all, a great big thank you from me for all the love that you have shown One Last Kiss and When I Kissed You. Although I had fun writing the Girl-Boy novellas, I think my heart is more invested in writing full-length novels, so that’s what I’ll be doing in future.
How have things been for you all? I’m just writing away because it helps me stay in a safe zone in my head. Currently, I’m writing When I Loved You, the second book in the new series. When I wrote the first one - When I Kissed You, I hadn’t really thought of making a series, but Akanksha has two brothers and of course I wanted to write about their love stories too.
Anyway, I’ve written 17000 words in the book and it seems to be progressing really well. I’m quite sure you will love Gaurav and Natasha’s story too. Here’s a sneak peek at their cover -
Their story is very heartwarming and well, there’s a baby involved, and that makes it all the more fuzzy and warm right?
Huh? Who are you and what have you done with Anna C, writer of steamy novels?
Well, well, not to worry. She’s still here. And I promise that this book will also have scorching sex and lots of hotness. Don’t you worry.
Here’s a snippet:
When we were together, it had felt like home. She had felt like home to me. And I knew that a part of me had created that Instagram page because of what she had said. I was following my dreams, even if they would never lead to her.
With Natasha, it wasn’t just about the sex, although that had been spectacular. Or maybe I had just romanticised it in my head now, since it had happened so long ago.
Sex had been new to both of us and it was all about the discovery of feelings and sensations paired with emotions that took us to new highs. That and of course, the secrecy of everything. It helped that we were both away from home, studying engineering and we could meet in the hostel. It helped that once we had become a couple, we’d decided that we wanted to have sex and we figured out a way to do it without getting into trouble. I thought back to those days with a pang. It had all felt so good. I had been so happy I had been able to push aside all the normally despairing thoughts that flitted through my head. She had made me feel so alive.
I still remembered that wide-eyed look in her eyes the first night we had spent together. Both of us were virgins and we were relying on instinct to take us through. I had been nervous and flustered and she had been anxious too. We lay in bed together for a while, not talking, but just touching quietly, hands skimming over each other lightly and then I could take it no longer. I was hard and aching but I needed to take it slow, so I turned to her.
‘I need to kiss you,’ I said.
She nodded and closed the gap between us, touching her lips to mine and we started kissing. This was okay. This was more than okay, I thought as she held my head and her lips parted so I could push my tongue inside. This time, something changed in the way we kissed, because we knew that it was the precursor to something bigger and not the main act in itself. I kissed her collarbone and she shivered. Hesitantly, I put my hands over her breasts and she arched into me.
‘I want to look at you,’ I said, my voice now gruff with desire as I squeezed her breasts. She nodded and then, half sitting up, she yanked her top and tossed it behind her. My eyes widened as she reached behind her to unsnap her bra and remove it. I was holding my breath and I let it out slowly.
Hope you enjoyed reading this and I really can’t reveal more because this is a Work in Progress and things sometimes do change around when the book will be finally released.
When I Loved You is coming to your Kindle/Kindle App in July! Haven’t read the first book When I Kissed You?
Here’s what it’s about:
Meet Akanksha and Neel - Akanksha has lived with her parents and her brothers for all of her 25 years and feels stifled with their over protectiveness. She has been waiting for the chance to get away and when she gets a job in Pune, off she goes, hoping to get herself a boyfriend and experience everything the world has to offer.
Neel, the bad boy with a heart of gold has just discovered that his temper can lead him into difficult situations at work. But all this falls by the side when he's tasked with looking after Akanksha, his best friend Girish's sister. But what happens when they do meet? Read on...
Akanksha
‘I’m twenty five,’ I said. He frowned but didn’t say anything. ‘And my family wants me to get married to some respectable person soon. They don’t want me to live or experience life like everyone else because they’re too scared, I’ll get hurt. They’re petrified that I’ll get hurt somehow.’
His eyes softened, as though he agreed with them on this point. No dammit, I thought in frustration.
‘It explains why I’m still a virgin.’
His face turned a little red. Was he blushing? Alpha male Neel?
‘And I want you to take my virginity.’
Neel
I swallowed so fast that I nearly choked. Sputtering, I put the coffee cup on the table, amazed I hadn’t spilled any of it.
‘What?’
She nodded resolutely, as if she hadn’t just said the most outrageous thing I’d heard in my life. She was asking me to take her virginity. What the actual fuck? My head instantly populated with images of her lying on my bed, writhing naked while I spread apart her legs and…
Stop, I told myself.
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