Rough Weather: Elemental Passions Book 2

By Lisabet Sarai

Destiny hides in the tempest’s heart

A fated encounter. A familiar stranger. A storm of passion. Can Ondine release her fear, surrender to Marut’s power, and claim her own?
Marine biologist Ondine Ambrose has always felt at home in the sea. Orphaned at birth and raised by her grandmother on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, she has never really questioned her extraordinary affinity for the watery world.

When she encounters an attractive but arrogant engineer on her private beach, surveying the site for a prospective off-shore wind farm, anger is her first reaction. A casual touch, however, transforms that emotion to incomprehensible, irresistible, terrifying lust.

Ebony-skinned Marut has his own talents—aside from his uncanny ability to swamp Ondine with desire. He can control the winds and summon storms. When he insists that they are both more than human, and that she is his destined mate, Ondine responds with skepticism. She tries to resist the charismatic Haitian, but ultimately she cannot deny the evidence of her senses—and her heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lisabet Sarai
• Release date: Apr 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005160470

Lisabet Sarai

I became addicted to words at an early age. I began reading when I was four. I wrote my first story at five years old and my first poem at seven. Since then, I have written plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – more than fifty single author titles including eight full length novels, plus dozens of short stories in various collections. My credits include contributions to the Lambda winner Where the Girls Are and the IPPIE Best Erotic Book of 2011, Carnal Machines. My gay scifi erotic romance Quarantine won a Rainbow Awards 2012 Honorable Mention. I have also edited a number of acclaimed erotica anthologies. Currently I am responsible for the charity erotica imprint Coming Together Presents, which as of December 2014 has published six volumes by top erotic authors, supporting causes such as Amnesty International, Planned Parenthood, and the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America.I have more degrees than anyone would ever need, from prestigious educational institutions who would no doubt be deeply embarrassed by my chosen genre. Aside from writing, travel is one of my most fervent passions. I’ve visited every continent except Australia, though I still have a long bucket list of places I haven’t been. Currently I live in Southeast Asia with my indulgent husband and two exceptional felines, where I pursues an alternative career that is completely unrelated to my creative writing.For more information about me and my writing, visit my website (http://www.lisabetsarai.com) or my blog Beyond Romance (http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com). Join my VIP email list here: https://btn.ymlp.com/xgjjhmhugmgh I also hang out at Goodreads, (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/83387.Lisabet_Sarai) because I love the idea of a social network focusing on the love of reading. I’m not on Facebook, because I don’t trust it.

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Rough Weather

Elemental Passions Book 2

Lisabet Sarai

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Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

About the Author

Blurb: Hot Spell

Excerpt: Hot Spell

A Final Message from Lisabet

For Juliana

Chapter One

Only the sea could soothe her.

Abandoning her shorts and sweatshirt on the damp sand, Ondine splashed into the surf. Chill water climbed her bare thighs as she waded deeper, sending delicious prickles racing across her skin. The Atlantic was always frigid, even after three months baking in the summer sun, but Ondine experienced the icy swells as pure pleasure. She dived under a wave and savored the exquisite shock of total immersion.

Her body came alive with fluid energy. A powerful kick propelled her toward the bottom, where she cruised with practiced ease, eyes open to the greenish translucency around her. Kelp fronds fluttered with the current, tethered to the rocks below. Fish darted like silver lightning among the rippling blades of sea grass. A cobalt-blue crab inched its way along a ledge, pincers held high like a dancer with castanets. The distant, haunting call of a whale reached her sensitive ears, vibrations transmitting faint but clear though the miles of ocean that separated her from the creature. A mating cry, she thought, smiling to herself, alert for the reply which came a minute later, the female even farther away but definitely receptive.

The cycles of nature continue, despite our assaults. Calmed as always by the rich life that thrived beneath the waves, she surfaced and rolled onto her back with her arms spread wide. The sea supported her, rocking her in a gentle and familiar embrace. The currents tugged at her long hair until it fanned out around her head like a platinum halo.

The anxieties that dogged her on land evaporated. Eyes closed, she synchronized her breath with the muted roar of the breakers upon the beach. The water bathing her limbs felt blood-warm now—though intellectually she knew its temperature was in the single digits—and viscous as honey. Morning sunlight dried her exposed breasts and belly, leaving a sweet sting of salt. Her thoughts drifted along with her body, to the cetacean couple, then to her dream—the one that had wrenched her from her slumbers, sweat-drenched and hungry, and driven her down to the shore to seek some peace.

She had been swimming in the dream, far from land, slicing through the sea with the speed of a shark, the grace of a dolphin, acutely aware of the burgeoning life around her, glorying in her freedom. The space below the surface had glowed like the interior of an emerald, lit by the sun above. Arousal hummed through her, wellbeing shading into something like need, but not urgent, not yet—merely a side effect of her finely tuned perception. She would let the ache build, gathering force and volume, until the flood of release was as inevitable as the tide.

Shadows had gathered overhead. The pellucid depths turned gray. Choppy swells churned above. Then with terrifying suddenness she’d been hooked—arrested in her liquid trajectory, dragged up into the air, sputtering and thrashing like the fish she sometimes resembled.

She had found herself suspended in lightning-shot blackness, hung by some pivot between her shoulder blades. Fierce winds swung her back and forth, whipping her hair into her face. Anger and terror warred in her chest.

Release me! she’d cried. The gale had ripped the words from her and flung them into the skies. "Let me go, whoever