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#SexySnippets ... Captured

Welcome to my first week participating in Sexy Snippets. Here are the rules…

Sexy Snippets are seven sentences, taken from a work in progress, or published book, brought to you every Sunday.

If you want to join in the fun, click the button to sign up. Then on Sunday, put seven sentences on your blog. Be sure to use #SexySnippets in the title and link back to their page.

Only seven sentences, please, and make sure your post is up by 9.00 am GMT. If you're in a different timezone, then please schedule your post to be up for midnight your time.

This week I’m taking seven sentences from my work in progress, Captured. Joanne, the heroine was hired against her will to break into Marco’s mansion. When he catches her, she knows she failed and the guys who sent her on the job won’t hesitate to hurt her. Staying with Marco is the lesser of two evils, but he wants to get information out of her and the torture he uses as a means drives her wild…

But he kept going, taking her right to the edge, then his mouth left her. His fingers flexed in her ass but it wasn’t the same, and she ground her teeth against the please waiting to burst free.

She wasn’t going to beg, and wasn’t going to cave either.

“Are you ready to tell me who sent you?” he asked, his breathing as haggard as her own, and she smiled a little.

“No.”

Marco chuckled. “So be it, I’ve got all night.”

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Character Actions/Reader’s Reactions

I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently. I read a lot of paranormal, and dark contemporary romance, but I find different things acceptable behavior with different characters.

For instance, if a human guy, let’s call him Ben, commits a serious crime like murder, I’m probably going to lose respect for him. Now there are different ways to portray this, but say Ben’s sister was murdered and Ben spent a year looking for her killer, only to take the guy out in cold blood. Personally, I wouldn’t be able to relate to him. Yeah, he has motivation, but we’re living in a world governed by laws, and Ben could have handed the killer over to the cops.

However, if Ben was a vampire, then that changes everything. Crazy, I know right? I can accept a vampire committing murder and still relate to him, because that’s in a vampire’s nature, but not if he were human.

Then I have to think about a recent book I read, where the hero killed a guy who had raped the heroine. Strangely, it didn’t put me off Gideon Cross too much, and he killed Eva’s ex-stepbrother with cold calculation, but his motivation was to keep her safe, alive even. Ben in scenario 1 did it for vengeance, which doesn’t seem right somehow, but to do it to protect someone dear to you? Makes me like the character more.

So I guess anything is acceptable in fiction these days, as long as the character has strong, relatable motivation. I’d love to know what everyone thinks.

New Beginnings

Today I have taken the scary leap into social networking land, and it’s all a bit daunting so far. I now have a blog, and twitter account. You can find me at @rachelsummerwrite.

So who am I? Well, I’m a writer, have been at this gig for a while and hopefully will have something published very soon. I have another, more contemporary novel published under a different name, however I will be writing erotic romance under Rachel Summer.

Thanks for visiting. Hope you have a lovely weekend.