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EXCERPT
An Excerpt From: RED
LIGHT SPECIALISTS
Copyright
© MICHELLE M. PILLOW AND MANDY M. ROTH, 2005.
All Rights Reserved,
Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Bianca’s body was tossed into a wall. For a moment, she stood pressed to the
hard surface, stunned that the damned A-mac had
actually spit her out onto stone. If she wanted stone, she could’ve stayed on
Restigatio, where she’d
spent four years in the mines. If not for Director Simon’s offer of
rehabilitation, she’d still be there—sleeping in some dark hole in between
digging shifts, her hands bleeding and raw, her body
always aching.
Rehabilitation.
Bianca
snorted. What a fool she’d been when she signed on for that. She actually
thought she would spend a few months saying she was sorry to a counselor in a
halfway
repenting her sins and begging forgiveness for her heinous crimes.
Instead, she
was sent to a training facility where they taught her how to fight and, more
importantly, how to seduce. They turned her into a Red Light Specialist, part of
the RLS-69s. She was elite now, special.
She was
especially annoyed to have landed on stone.
“I
specifically said no stone. Was it really too much to ask?” Agent Bianca rolled
her eyes. Gingerly, she pushed away from the hard barrier and grumbled, “Ouch.”
Bianca took
a deep breath, trying to get her bearings. Big evenly cut blocks of gray stone
lined the walls of a long hallway. Torches lit the otherwise dim area. It wasn’t
much to go on.
This is
an alien planet? Looks more like the images of those Medieval Earth castles
Abbi showed us. Blessed Stars! I’m not in a place
that primitive, am I? Damn it, Simon! I thought those images were just so we
could make fun of old Earth culture, not an actual training lesson.
“This
blows!” Bianca frowned.
Her mission
was supposed to have downloaded into her brain during the transfer to the
planet. Maybe it wouldn’t be as bad as she first feared. Concentrating, she had
no clue what she was doing or where she was. Although, she was thinking in a
different language, so that was something at least. It meant the information
she’d been embedded with was working. Now, if only she could find a place to
hide for an hour or so while her brain released the rest of her assignment.
The A-mac
embedded everything she needed into her head during transfer. But
Abbi had warned her that the brain could only take
in so much at once and sometimes, due to the sudden burst of new information, it
had to recharge afterward. That would account for half of the headache she now
had. The damned stone wall would account for the other half.
Bianca
decided to find a good hiding spot until she knew what she was up against.
Feeling a chill against her legs as she began to walk, she glanced down and
caught sight of what the A-mac had dressed her in.
She froze, unable to make her feet move.
“Ah, blazes,
no!” she swore. “Come on guys! You have got to be kidding me! Ha! Ha! Ha! Rookie
hazing joke is now over. Get me out of here.”
Bianca
waited, hoping she’d be jerked back to the training facility. Nothing changed.
Damn! She’d really hoped this one was a joke. She was going to strangle Simon
and Abbi when she saw them next. Then she’d strangle
the A-mac.
This was
just too humiliating. She could see every last stitch of skin through the thin
red gauze of her non-existent outfit. She might as well be naked. Well, to be
fair, there was a triangle piece of cloth over the thin thatch of hair guarding
her pussy and two more, tinier triangles fitted over her nipples.
Grimacing,
she tipped her head back, doing her best to see what the back half of her looked
like. Yep. It too was covered only in the thin veil. Turning in a circle, she
caught the slightest glint of light further down the hall. It was a long mirror.
Going to check out her outfit, she posed before her reflection. Her eyes were
lined with thick, black makeup and her cheeks had been painted a bright red with
rouge. She didn’t care for the makeup, but her body looked damned good in the
outfit.
“Hmm, not
bad,” she said to herself. Good thing her ass was sexy and toned. She flexed it
for effect, tensing, releasing, tensing, releasing, jiggling it fast to make the
muscles ripple under the almost non-existent weight of the red material. Not
bad. Not bad at all. Four years of lifting boulders could really tone up a
figure. It still didn’t mean she wanted her ass out for the world to see, but
hey, as long as she was the only one looking…
“This is a
dance I have not seen before.”
As the words
rolled over her, Bianca shivered with feminine awareness. It was the first male
voice, besides Simon and the prison guards, that
she’d heard in nearly four years. It was deep, low, sexy…
Wait a
minute. Whoever it belonged to was watching her wiggle her ass.
Blazes!
Think,
think, think.
Bianca’s
first instinct was to beat up the guy. Well, the A-mac
would surely give her the instincts she needed. Fighting it was!
Bianca
focused on where the voice came from. Twirling on her heels, she threw out her
fist. For a brief second, she saw incredibly dark eyes, before focusing on a
white mist. Her fist went through the mist and hit the stone wall.
“Ah, sacred
comet!” she gasped, cradling her injured hand. She’d swung hard. Now her
knuckles were bleeding and she couldn’t move her fingers. So much for her
dominant fighting hand.
“That
looks like it hurt,” the man’s voice continued. He was behind her. He sounded
amused, mocking. “I would not have done that,
gengli.”
© copyright Michelle M. Pillow, 2006
This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and places are of the
author’s imagination and not to be confused with fact. Any resemblance to living
persons or events is merely coincidence.
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REVIEWS
"5 STARS!
This collection is full of beautiful
woman, handsome men with unusual abilities, and subplots that connect the
stories together. The women make use of their seduction training as well as
their fighting abilities and give them just the right amount of action. A
large dollop of humor is added to the mix to make this collection one of the
best I have read in a long time. I hope the authors will continue to write
more adventures for these women. I want to know what happens next." Candy,
eCataRomance reviews
"5 HEARTS! I love both of
these authors and when they collaborate, they are even better.... The love
scenes are extremely hot, and the characters very well developed. The
authors also leave plenty of room for sequels. I can't wait to read them."
Maura Frankman, The Romance Studio, July 2005
"5 STARS!
Red
Light Specialists
is wonderful, I
loved this book! From start to finish I was immersed within the pages... Mandy M.
Roth & Michelle M. Pillow have a fan for life in me!"
Chantay, Euro-Reviews August 2005
"4
1/2 Blue Ribbons!
This book is a true
testament to the talent of Misses Roth and Pillow....
A
wild, sexy and very enjoyable ride into one of the most creative books I’ve ever
had the pleasure to read!"
By Romance Junkies
Reviewer Christine Ventura, June 2005
"4 STARS! Red Light Specialists is a super sexy series of adventures
...The sexuality is explicit, adventurous and arousing with each couple finding
that their passions are ignited on first sight. But M&M also infuse each
situation and character with humor as well as lusty satisfaction. This is a fine
start to an exciting new paranormal series!"
Patrice
Storie, Just Erotic
Romance Reviews
"4 ANGELS! Mandy M. Roth and Michelle M. Pillow are a great
writing pair... I loved spending time with the Red Light Specialists
and hope to read more stories about these sexy special agents very soon."
Tanya, Fallen Angel Reviews, June 2005
"4 Tattoos!
Red Light Specialists
proves to be an exciting, adventurous and highly erotic read... from start
to finish I was deeply engrossed."
Erotic Escapades, July 2006
"Mandy
Roth and Michelle Pillow are a writing team that will set you
on fire with this story. Red Light Specialists is definitely one of those
books you cannot put down." Debbie Braaten
"...intriguing, fast-paced..."
Sinclair Reid, Romance Reviews
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