“If you’re sure…”
“I am.”
She finally nods, her lips curving in a slow grin. “Oh, by the way, I almost forgot. I have a surprise for you when we get home.” She leans close and lowers her voice. “I bought some new lingerie. Play nice and I’ll let you tear it off me with your teeth.”
“You little asshole,” I breathe. I have to adjust my pants a little, which makes her smirk. Even her damn smirk is sexy. “Just for that, I am going to tear it off with my teeth, strip by lacy strip.”
“Oh no, not that,” she says, deadpan.
I laugh. It’s big and freeing and banishes the last of the nerves that clung through dinner. A beautiful wife who is everything I never dreamed of deserving. A loving family that seems all too ready to draw me into their circle. I really am the luckiest son of a bitch in Olympus.
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Acknowledgments
A massive thanks to all my readers. I wouldn’t be able to do this without your support, and I am constantly humbled and so incredibly grateful for your response to the sexy little stories I enjoy writing so much.
Huge thanks to my editorial team at Sourcebooks for helping me craft Electric Idol into the best version of itself. Mary Altman and Christa Désir, your insight was exactly what I needed! Thanks to Jessica Smith, Rachel Gilmer, Jocelyn Travis, and Susie Benton.
Thank you to Dawn Adams for the design! This book feels so special because of it. Big, BIG thanks to Stefani Sloma and Katie Stutz for your support with marketing and PR. You’ve gone above and beyond! Thanks to Liz Otte for talking up this series so much!
Thank you, as always, to my agent, Laura Bradford, for always being in my corner!
Thanks to my team in the very unofficial sense. Piper J. Drake, you suggested having a literal “take the heart” moment and it really made all the difference in this book. Thanks to Asa Maria Bradley and Jenny Nordbak for always being only a text away when I get stuck or just have a bonkers idea. Big appreciation to Andie J. Christopher and Nisha Sharma for keeping me fed on TikToks. Many, many thanks to the WordMakers group for writing with me, day in and day out, and always believing me when I say “It’ll be FINE” even when I’m barely reining in my scattered chaos.
Last but never least, thank you to my family for keeping me tethered to reality, or at least some approximation of it. Thanks to the kids for weathering truly unprecedented times （really, would love to get back to something resembling precedented） with all of us stuck under one roof for thirteen months and counting. All my love to Tim for being the best partner a person could ever dream of. Your support and belief in me has kept me going through ups and downs and loop-de-loops. You really are romance hero material!
About the Author
Katee Robert is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Entertainment Weekly calls her writing “unspeakably hot.” Her books have sold over a million copies. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, children, a cat who thinks he’s a dog, and two Great Danes who think they’re lap dogs. You can visit her at kateerobert.com or on Twitter @katee_robert.
Wicked Beauty
by Katee Robert
Olympus has never felt so wicked…
When Achilles’s mother fell out of favor in Olympus, he vowed that he’d do whatever it took to claw his family’s way back into the inner circle. Now that the former Ares is gone and the coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his lover, Patroclus, plan to both compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect the infamous beauty Helen to be part of the prize…or for the sparks that fly when the three of them reunite after so many years apart.
Zeus may have decided Helen is his to give away, but she has her own plans. She enters the competition as a middle finger to the meddling Thirteen, effectively vying for her own hand in marriage. The only people she can trust are the ones she can’t quite keep her hands off of. But even they might not be strong enough to help her face the worst Olympus has to throw at them…
“Deliciously inventive.”
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review for Neon Gods For more info about Sourcebooks’s books and authors, visit: sourcebooks.com
A Promise of Fire
by Amanda Bouchet
A fierce woman cursed with powerful magic, abducted by a dangerous warlord determined to save his country, igniting a forbidden attraction that will make them burn.
Cat Fisa isn’t who she pretends to be. She’s perfectly content living disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus, avoiding the destiny the Gods—and her dangerous family—have saddled her with. As far as she’s concerned, the magic humming within her blood can live and die with her. She won’t be a pawn in anyone’s game.