Enticed (The Core: Alice, #1)

By Nola Sarina

The Core – a nightclub where anything goes – is alive with music, dancing, and sexy people making the most intimate connections.

Alice, The Core’s top matchmaker, is gunning for a promotion. A promotion she’ll easily get if nothing gets in her way.

Then in walks Evan: tall, blond, strong, and with the most piercing green eyes Alice has ever seen. Desperate to hide her deepest flaws, Alice pushes him away.

But in a dark booth with Evan’s enticing words and muscled body, she’s faced with the most difficult choice: let his irresistible mouth, body, and words into her life, or keep her walls up to guard her heart.

Anything goes, in The Core... for everyone except Alice, who must do whatever it takes to protect her secret past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nola Sarina
• Release date: May 11, 2014

Nola Sarina

Nola Sarina and Emily Faith are authors, mothers, and lovers of music and art. Represented by Michelle Johnson of Inklings Literary Agency, they draw inspiration for their fiction from Nola's dark fantasy concepts and Emily's flair for romance that ignites both in and out of the bedroom. Learn more and sign up for the email contact list for up-to-date info on appearances, new releases, and special offers at www.nolasarina.com/contact/. They also love to be stalked on Twitter @NolaSarina and @EmilyFaith2012.

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The Core

Alice: Enticed

Nola Sarina & Emily Faith

THE CORE: Alice Enticed

Smashwords Edition

Nola Sarina & Emily Faith

Copyright Nola Sarina & Emily Faith, April 2014

Based on THE CORE, written September 2013 by Nola Sarina & Emily Faith

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Table of Contents

Where I Belong

What The Hell Is Happening?

Doing My Job

Okay. I Want It.

More To It Than That

Stalk The Authors

Coming Soon From The Core...

Where I Belong

This place is my life.

The Core. The place that saved my life.

Everyone here looks at me like a queen: the goddess of the dance floor, matchmaker extraordinaire. And I’ve earned the title, dancing my heart out four nights a week, picking up on who will fit well with whom... sometimes for just a night. Sometimes for life.

I’m not being braggy, I swear. It’s happened. Les and Greg got married last week, and Tony and Sarah are having a baby soon. A planned baby. None of those no-condom whoopsies go down when I’m in charge.

The music pulses through me like life itself. Andee’s spinning through the dance floor with two glasses of champagne in her hands. God, the way she dances is hypnotic. She’s learned so much since she started working here six months ago, and she’s so comfortable with people that some nights she out-matchmakerizes me. The couple she hands the glasses to—discreetly passing the gentleman a condom, as I taught her to do out of the eyesight of the woman—look like they might just make it for the long haul. Andee’s perception of compatibility is as sharp as mine, and I’m so damn proud of her. She’s come a long way since she walked into this club sheepish and afraid to show her true self.

I can tell what everyone around me needs. I can sense