Good Enough to Share (Good Enough, Part 1-Christmas) by Zara Stoneley – Review/Excerpt/Giveaway

 

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Good Enough to Share (Good Enough, Part 1 – Christmas)

by Zara Stoneley

Erotic Contemporary Romance

Self-Published/Indie

Heat Level: Sizzling

Word Count: 48,000

 

Available at…

Amazon (US):  http://www.amazon.com/Good-Enough-Share-Book1-ebook/dp/B00AEV1JPA

Amazon (UK):  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Good-Enough-Share-Book1-ebook/dp/B00AEV1JPA/

 

Blurb

One Christmas, four friends – will they still be together by New Year?

 

Divorce wasn’t part of the plan for Holly, but then again nor was spending the festive period with two sexy men and Santa’s little helper! With a disastrous marriage behind her, and three good friends who are willing to share, moving on could be fun – if only she can accept that sometimes her heart is wiser than her head.

 

Dane doesn’t do commitment, which suits Holly just fine. But when things heat up between the four friends, he’s forced to face up to his past. Will realizing he’s good enough mean he no longer wants to share…?

 

Laid back Charlie knows that if his best friend becomes his lover he could end up losing big time. But can he resist? And when the girl he once loved comes back, who will he decide to spend the New Year with?

 

…And Sophie just wants to have fun. She’s got the answers to everyone’s problems, except her own …. is she the one who needs good friends most of all?

 

Will a caring, sharing, lust and love filled Christmas lead to the happy ever after they all desire?

 

Warning: This title is intended for readers over the age of 18 as it contains explicit sex scenes and/or situations (including f/m/f and m/f/m ménage) and adult language which may be considered offensive to some readers.

 

Reviews

“Loved it! This is a hot, steamy read! If you don’t like your books full of hot men, women and sex then this isn’t the one for you…. I enjoyed it and look forward to the others in this series.”

 

“Hot, fun read!!! …A great, hot read to warm up the cold winter night!!!!! Wish it was longer, definitely wanted more!!!!”

 

“Where’s #2?? This was my first novel of it’s kind to read. I LOVED it and it has me begging for a sequel!”

Excerpt #4

I’d never really looked at Charlie before, you know, properly looked – because he was more like a geeky big brother. The annoying idiot who always stole the game controller from you, the guy who laughed at your high heels and told you the tart look was hot this season. The guy who was always there to cuddle up to and offer wise words when you’d had a shit day. But for some reason I was looking now, well staring, at his trim bum that his expensive chinos were hugging like a second skin. And I felt tempted, very tempted.

 

“Can he surf?”

 

“What?” Sophie gave me her ‘you’ve grown two heads’ look. Shit I’d done that speaking out loud thing when it was supposed to be in my head.

 

“I was just wondering. He just looks like he should be on a surf board in the sun somewhere.”

 

“Oh yeah, sure. The sun kissed beaches of Anglesey.” Sophie did sarcasm well, very well.

 

“They don’t get breakers there do they? I was thinking more sun-drenched Australia.”

 

“Is there something in your wine that I’ve missed out on?” She was right, it was a bit random, but I have this thing with people where I tend to imagine what they really should be doing, and I’d just had this startling image of Charlie with his hair slightly longer, and his body slightly more toned. He’d make a good surfer dude. “Anyway, forget Charlie, I’ve just spotted something much better.”

 

The evil glint in her eye, and the instant switch-on of her sultry smile should have warned me, but being one drink up and a bit slow on the uptake I swung round to follow the line of her sight. And really wished I had kept my head turned and my nose buried in my wine glass.

 

“You two out on the pull then?” You know how some deep male voices have that perfect resonance to vibrate right down to the bottom of your stomach and beyond? Yeah, that. I was blushing from the inside out and I had completely and utterly forgotten about Charlie, with or without a surfboard.

 

Christ, why was it that every time Dane Stephens popped up I was dressed in something that either said ‘shag me, I’m a complete tart’ or ‘I’m a complete saddo’? Or in this case a mixture of both. The fact that Sophie and I were propping up the bar, both with a goblet of wine in hand each didn’t help with the image much either.

 

“We’ve been working.” I tried to keep my face straight and stop my nipples making a break for freedom as the gorgeous guy who seemed to feature in every one of my current run of dirty dreams rested his hand on my shoulder and sent a warm thrill straight between my thighs. Along with a very strong urge to grab hold of him and give him the type of kiss that would leave a lasting impression. Gee, life would be so much easier if that kind of full frontal attack was one of my special skills. It wasn’t. Best mates with a bit of flirting thrown in as a side order was a better description of my capabilities.

 

I’d been having dirty dreams about Dane for as long as I can remember. Well, probably since the first time all six foot something of him had swaggered into this bar and given me the type of smile that gave me an almost, emphasis on almost here, uncontrollable urge to strip every last inch of his clothing off in slow motion. But I hadn’t, because nice girls don’t, do they?

 

“Been out hammering shoes on?” I tweaked a bit of straw out of his thick dark hair and resisted the urge to tangle my fingers in deeper, just in case I’d missed a bit. And then rub a hand over that broad, strong chest just for good measure. He was buff underneath that shirt, I just knew it. Well, I did actually. I’d seen him strip to the waist the odd time at the tail end of the summer when we’d actually seen a bit of that golden orb in the sky they call the sun, and he’d built up a sweat manhandling horses. And along with every other girl on the yard I’d gone weak-kneed and tried not to stare as I’d watched his muscles ripple and a trickle of sweat bead its way down his back. A bead of sweat that needed licking off.

 

Review:

Let me start off with a bit of warning…British humor, writing, mannerisms and about everything else British that you can think of is in this book.  If you have read Bridget Jones’ Diary or watched the brilliant British comedy, “Coupling” then the language, writing and mannerisms will be familiar.  If not, don’t be scared.  Sit back, relax and enjoy it.  You won’t be sorry.

As the blurb tells you that this story is about 4 friends that meet in college and have been friends ever since.  Holly is bunking with Charlie because she is coming off a divorce and moved from London.  Sophie is the girl that fixes everyone’s problems except her own.  Charlie comes from wealth but ran from it because he wanted to make his own way.  Dane is the cowboy in the group.  He too is divorced and still hurting from it.

Oh my…these friends have all kinds of issues to deal with and in some ways aren’t mature enough to deal with them.  When Sophie suggests to Holly that she needs to have a “shag” without strings, there is only one man that she wants one with…Dane.  Problem is that she lives with Charlie and feels a bit of pull towards him, too.  Oh what a tangled web we weave…

The title of the book speaks about all four of the friends and the issues that they are having to deal with right now.  Are they good enough within themselves?  Will they be able to be good enough in their relationships with each other and to others?  Its not about the sex.  In fact the sex in the book is not graphic but sensual and in some ways funny.

Yes, is there ménage sex in the book.  F/M/F (only one scene), M/F, M/F/M; a bit of voyeurism, jealousy, tears and a bit of a misunderstanding.  It is beautifully written and raw.  Its about the lust and need that people have with others and just a bit of “what if” with friends.  Its not the center of the book, it enhances the story and the reactions and emotions of the four main characters.  Oh and its HAWT!

Yes, there are secondary characters in the book but to talk about them would spoil it and I don’t do spoilers.   I will say that what the secondary characters have to say will shock you, just as they shock the main characters.  Sophie is all I’m going to say and I PRAY her book is next.

If you are looking for a friends to lovers/swinging/swapping/free for all sex book you won’t find it here.  What you will find is a book about 4 friends searching for the answer that everyone has…are we good enough?  To find the answers about Charlie, Dane, Holly and Sophie…you will have to read the book to see.

 

 

About the Author 

Zara has been writing stories for as long as she’s been reading them. She submitted her first novel, a thriller, when she was twelve years old but as she hit her mid teens her tastes shifted from action to romance. She was soon addicted to alpha heroes, and what could be better than writing about them?

 

Her days are now spent daydreaming, and writing, about good looking, well built men who know what they want and know how to get it, men who know the meaning of sensual and put a girl’s needs before their own, men who have a sensitive side (for your eyes only) as well as a rough edge, men who love women for what they are, men who aren’t afraid to take on an intelligent, sassy woman.

 

She’s had an exciting and varied life, which feeds into her stories. She’s got an Honours degree in Computer Science, a teenage son, a cat, a cottage in the English countryside, and her own sexy alpha hero! She loves sexy high heels, good food, good wine, music, coffee (lots and lots of coffee), and sunshine. So, whenever she can, she heads off in search of the sun and inspiration for her stories.

 

Connect with Zara Stoneley

Website: http://www.zarastoneley.com

Blog: http://zarastoneley.blogspot.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZaraStoneley

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/zarastoneley

Amazon Author Page: http://amazon.com/author/zarastoneley

Other Books by Zara Stoneley

Forfeit

Riding High

Masquerade (The Secret Library)

Freefalling (an erotic romance novella from Xcite Books/Romance)

Miss Pemberton’s Drawers (an Xcite Books collection of six erotic stories)

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