*~*It Will Always Be You by Tina Ness Blog Tour – Excerpt & Giveaway*~*

After surviving four years with a commitment-phobic boyfriend, Elizabeth wants nothing more than to settle down. Too bad the man she desires, Marshall Roderick, leaves her flustered, trembling, and unable to utter a single word when he’s near.Assuming he’s the very definition of a womanizing bachelor, Elizabeth relegates him to fantasyland and makes no move to get to know him. That is, until a chance encounter along the shores of Lake Superior leads to drinks and a steamy romance.

Confident, successful, and freakishly handsome, Marshall is everything Elizabeth has been looking for. But when an unthinkable act of violence shakes them both to the core, she discovers that Marshall isn’t as carefree and put-together as he led her to believe.

Now it’s up to Marshall and Elizabeth to figure out if their love can heal the scars of the past and turn them into the people they’ve always wanted to be.

 

With a failed four year relationship, a career headed for nowhere Elizabeth Rose Murphy want nothing more than to move forward and leave behind dull hum-drum existence in the town she’s lived in her whole life.

Marshall is a freakishly handsome, well balanced, successful businessman—or is he?

Elizabeth and Marshall lead very different lives. Both have pasts that have left them broken, but Are they better together or is it all in their heads.

Did you see Marshall’s Love Note from Valentine’s Day?

 Marshall and I are at the street corner, waiting to cross, when I turn toward the window of the Intrigued, an upscale clothing store. The mannequin on display is wearing a flirty, low-cut silver dress with a large turquoise jeweled necklace and a pair of black high-heeled strappy sandals that I find myself in love with. The outfit is the polar opposite of my Plain Jane T-shirt and jeans.

Marshall comes alongside me and sweeps the hair from my shoulder, away from my neck, then leans in, whispering in my ear, “You would look fantastic in that.”

His words make me blush, but at the same time, I’m charged with a sense of empowerment. I decide that I’m coming into town this week and buying the whole outfit, even if I never have a place to wear it. I know Marshall must be a pro at telling women just what they want to hear to get them into bed; however, I can’t help but have the notion that his words are sincere.

We finish our coffees and are moments away from being back at his truck. Now I feel nervous again.

We make our way around the corner into the dimly lit parking lot. Anxiety, anticipation, and pure adrenaline are weighing my breath. He presses the key fob to unlock the doors, and the truck beeps, startling me. He opens my door, but I don’t turn to get in. My hands are trembling and my heart is pounding in my ears, but I grab ahold of his arm, searching for his eyes. His hand touches the back of my neck. A fire burns deep within his eyes as he studies me. His intensity should make me pull away or, at the very least, hesitate, but instead, my grip tightens on his arm as he lifts me nearly off my toes to meet his lips.

All of my nerve endings dance wildly. His grip is so tight that if his kiss hadn’t taken my breath away, his intense strength surely would. A moan rattles deep in his throat. The sound makes me even weaker. His soft tongue sweeps along inside my mouth with such longing it renders me totally breathless. We stumble back a few steps until I’m pinned between him and the truck. I feel the glory of his firm bulge press against my belly. A sigh escapes me as I lace my fingers into his thick brown hair — something I have desired to do from the first time I saw him, when Marshall had looked at me with those intense eyes, those eyes that I have felt studying me so many times.

I love this feeling, the pure, raw, and ravishing emotion of a first kiss. The intenseness of being pinned against his truck and the twisted excitement of feeling unable to escape cause an almost primal desire to tighten like a fist within my belly. His teeth lightly graze my bottom lip, making me tremble with arousal.I never want this kiss to end.