Desire Me

By Linzé Brandon

Jackson has the perfect setup going for him: a job he loves, Friday night poker with his four best friends, idyllic surroundings and no woman to mess it up. Until Lillian moves her gorgeous behind into his line of sight. He can’t resist watching her, even as he promises himself to keep his distance. He doesn’t do relationships and she has the look of a woman who will demand nothing less.
Lillian was getting ready to give up on the idea of a last summer fling, when an explosive encounter changes her mind. Jackson makes it clear that he is not looking for a relationship, and that suits her plans, since she only has an itch to scratch, right? With the heat between them rivalling that of the African summer, she starts to wonder if a fling will ever be enough, no matter how hot it burned.
Fern Haven is a secret kept by the locals because they love its peace, seclusion and natural beauty. When that peace is disturbed, Jackson and the guys realise that military training alone may not be enough to deal with this invasion of their privacy. Drawn into the mystery, the women they meet may hold the key to finding the culprit and the reason behind this threat to their tiny community.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Muses and Broomsticks
• Release date: Dec 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310124587

Linzé Brandon

Teaching herself to read before she went to school was the start of her life-long love affair with books.Trained as an engineer, Linzé has worked as a specialist engineer in two fields of engineering. Thereafter, she was self-employed, working as a consultant to commercial companies exporting their products to other countries.When the economy forced her back into full-time employment, she worked as a systems engineer and senior project manager at a company that designs and manufactures products for the military industry.In January 2019, she left her full-time job to enjoy the challenges of self-employment once more. Now she spends her days doing competence training, career development and retirement coaching, and engineering consulting work.Although she still loves to read, she also enjoys counted stitch embroidery, t’ai chi, archery, fly fishing, drawing, painting with pastels, her husband's medal-winning photographs, and watching Manchester United play.She is one of the moderators of two Facebook writers' groups, and leads the Pretoria Writers' Group, who boasts several published authors in various genres.Linzé Brandon lives in Pretoria, South Africa, with her engineer husband and German Shepherds who are convinced that the world revolves only around them.

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Desire Me

Bachelors of Fern Haven

by Linzé Brandon

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Thank goodness the week was over.

Jackson Blake saved the last file for the day, closed the compiler, disconnected the network, and reached for the power button on his computer. Repeating the process until the entire network was hibernating.

One older model tucked away right at the end of the room, was for his personal stuff. That one he would power up later to see if there were any messages from his family.

But now he needed a beer. Seriously. It had been a difficult week. Not that any weeks were easy, but heading your own company and still writing code at the same time, posed some serious challenges on even the easiest of days.

The team had started beta testing on Skyball and the Dragon Ryders II and they had found so many bugs that he wanted to pull his hair out.

The fantasy adventure game had been so popular, that his marketing director convinced him to release a follow up version of the software.

He grimaced as he took off his work clothes, formal shirt, pants, shoes and socks.

The young programmers he employed to write the code for the game had been grating on his nerves, so he decided to call it a day. Their seniors had been lacking in their duties and now they had to sort out this mess, he was done.

Donning a favourite pair of faded denim shorts, he retrieved a beer from the kitchen and walked to the balcony. It faced the central garden of the horseshoe shaped apartment complex.

As soon as his butt kissed the chair, a sigh of relief escaped from deep inside his chest. Propping his feet on the railing, he popped the cap on the bottle and took a long satisfying swig of the chilled contents.

He closed his eyes for a moment, resting the cold beer on his naked stomach. The late afternoon sun casted much needed peace and quiet over the valley below. He wiggled his bare toes on the railing. A cheeky Indian Myna landed close to his feet.

Living on the top floor of the building had definite advantages, but the damn