Heated
Naima Simone
(Burned, Inc., #1)
Publication date: July 5th 2022
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

From USA Today bestselling author Naima Simone comes Heated, a sizzling novel about a breakup professional who embarks on a fake relationship with a client’s ex—the one person she wasn’t supposed to fall for.

Zora

I’m Denver’s unmatchmaker. Every city needs one.

Why? Because people break up—and sometimes they should. But when I learn that entertainment attorney Cyrus Hart is someone else’s mistake, I can’t believe it. He’s smart, successful, and sexy as hell.

When a chance encounter with Cyrus turns into something more, I can’t help but fall for him. Our chemistry is undeniable. But his ex used my company to send him that letter—and that’s a problem. Especially since he doesn’t know I own the company.

How can this possibly work? I know from experience that the riskiest ventures are the worthiest ones…but falling for Cyrus Hart may be my biggest gamble yet.

Cyrus

I’m a man with a plan—college, law school, a great career. So far, so good.

Until a stranger shows up on my doorstep and reads me a breakup letter from my girlfriend. My carefully laid plans unravel.

But then I meet someone new. It’s spontaneous. It’s electric. And it’s not according to plan.

We asked Zora to write a letter to Cyrus. Take a moment to read what she had to say.

Dear Cyrus,

Can I admit something? Be honest? I feel foolish writing this letter. But it’s easier putting this on paper—or email—than it is saying them aloud. More specifically, to you. Funny, isn’t it? Confrontation is my business, but just the thought of sitting down across from you, looking into your beautiful but way-too-perceptive blue eyes has me running scared. Like, showing-Road-Runner-how-it’s-done running.

Here’s the thing… I’ve wanted you before I met you. I, the anti-matchmaker who’d seen the worst things people could do in the name of love, fell for you from a picture. Now do you understand why I couldn’t say that to you? Do you hear how find-me-in-a-glass-coffin-and-wake-me-with-a-kiss that sounds? I do. And it terrifies me. It terrifies me more that I feel it. That every time I look at you I’m tempted to forget that love hurts. I want to take a risk on you and with you. But neither one of us are “those people,” are we? You with your plans and me with my lies… We were doomed before we started.

And yet…

And yet, you are worth every heartbreak waiting on me. I call you My Next Big Mistake because giving into you, loving you was always a foregone conclusion. You, with your rigid ways, unyielding manner and broken, tragic eyes. You, who’s shown me the meaning of true passion, of the tender greed that goes hand in hand with it. You, who I’m safe with—and in the most danger I’ve ever been.

I should walk away from you. If I were as intelligent as I’m purported to be, I’d do just that. I’d end the charade we’re both engaging in and the one you have no idea is occurring. If I were stronger, I’d end this before we cross a line we obliterate so there’s not only no going back, but there’s no locating it.

If. If. If.

But as I lie here, the scent of you, of us heavy like the headiest perfume in this bed, in this room, I can admit in this letter that I won’t be smart. I won’t be strong. Because I wanted you long before I met you. I fell for you from a picture.

And I’ve been free-falling ever since.

Cyrus, please…catch me.

Zora

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Author Bio:

Published since 2009, USA Today Bestselling author Naima Simone loves writing sizzling romances with heart, a touch of humor and snark. Her books have been featured in The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly, and described as balancing “crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters caught in emotional turmoil.”

She is wife to Superman, or his non-Kryptonian, less bullet proof equivalent, and mother to the most awesome kids ever. They all live in perfect, sometimes domestically-challenged bliss in the southern United States.

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