About the Author
RITA® Award Nominee CARA SUMMERS has written more than thirty books. She has won several awards, including an Award of Excellence, three Golden Quills, and two Golden Leaf Awards. She has also been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews. She loves coming up with stories—from Gothic romance and mystery adventures to romantic comedies. When Cara isn’t creating new stories, she teaches at Syracuse University.
Taken Beyond Temptation
Cara Summers
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To my editor Brenda Chin who continually inspires me
to write better stories. thanks for always encouraging
me to take on new challenges. And thanks for your
never-wavering and never-ending support.
You’ve made me a better writer.
Dear Reader,
Have you ever had a secret fantasy that you’ve never shared with anyone? I’d forgotten mine until my editor suggested I write a story for Blaze®‘s FORBIDDEN FANTASY series. Then I ended up writing three books!
When interior designer Jillian Brightman and her sisters buy Haworth House and turn it into an exclusive hotel, they fulfill a dream that they’ve shared since they were children. But they get more than they bargained for, including a former resident who tempts them to unearth their most secret and forbidden fantasies …
Jillian’s purpose in visiting Haworth House is strictly business. Pursuing a fantasy, no matter how tempting it might be, is not on her agenda. Until she meets him. Posing as a writer, ex-CIA analyst Ian MacFarland’s goal is to investigate the series of disturbing incidents that have been plaguing Haworth House. But once he meets Jillian, all he can think about is fulfilling any and every fantasy she has.
I hope you enjoy Ian and Jillian’s seductive adventures, and that you’ll look for the other books in this series. Reese will find her fantasy in Twice the Temptation later in the year. Please visit me at www.carasummers. com.
Happy reading,
Cara Summers
Table of Contents
1
Fourteen months earlier
THE MOMENT JILLIAN STEPPED into the tower room, she knew she wasn’t alone. It wasn’t just the steady dip in the temperature as she’d climbed the circular iron staircase. Although that was a big clue. According to the research she’d done, haunted houses were known for those cold spots.
Another big clue was she suddenly had goose bumps and the hairs on the back of her neck were snapping to attention like soldiers at the first sound of reveille.
Jillian peered into the gloom. The grime on the windows that circled the outer wall cut down on the amount of sunlight. But there was definitely someone else here.
“Hello?”
The only answer was the muted sound of the Atlantic sweeping into the rocks below.
“I’m not a trespasser,” she said. “The real estate agent gave me the key.”
No response.
“She gave it to me because I’m one of the new owners. My sisters and I put in a purchase offer and it was accepted today.”
The air shimmered. She was certain of it. Encouraged, she took another tentative step.
Sensing the presence of an incorporeal being was a first for Jillian. And it kicked up her heartbeat considerably. A ghost-buster she wasn’t. Or at least she never had been.
What she had been was an avid reader of the Nancy Drew mysteries when she was a child. She’d always admired Nancy’s