Their passion will consume everythingâand everyoneâin its pathâ¦.
Iâm on a train.
I donât know which stop I got on at; I only know the train is going fast and the world outside becomes a blur. I should get off, but I donât. The universe is playing a cosmic joke on me. Here I had my lifeâa good life with everything a woman could wantâand suddenly, there is something more I didnât know I could have. A chance for me to be satisfied and content and maybe even on occasion deliriously, amazingly, exuberantly fulfilled.
So this is where I am, on a train thatâs out of control, and I am not just a passenger. Iâm the one shoveling the furnace full of coal to keep it going fast and faster.
If I could make myself believe it all happened by chance and I couldnât help it, that Iâve been swept away, that itâs not my fault, that itâs fate...would that be easier? The truth is, I didnât know I was looking for this until I found Will, but I mustâve been, all this time. And now it is not random, it is not fate, it is not being swept away.
This is my choice.
And I donât know how to stop. Or even if I want to.
Praise for the novels of
New York Times bestselling author Megan Hart
âNaked is a great story, steeped in emotion. Hart has a wonderful way with her characters.⦠She conveys their thoughts and actions in a manner that brings them to life. And the erotic scenes provide a sizzling read.â
âRT Book Reviews
âDeeper is absolutely, positively, the best book that I have read in ages! I cannot say enough about this book. The writing is fabulous, the charactersâ chemistry is combustible, and the story line brought tears to my eyes more than onceâ¦. Beautiful, poignant and bittersweet⦠Megan Hart never disappoints me, but with Deeper she went above and beyond.â
âRomance Reader at Heart, Top Pick
âStranger, like Megan Hartâs previous novels, is an action-packed, sexy, emotional romance that tears up the pages with heat while also telling a touching love storyâ¦. Stranger has a unique, hot premise that Hart delivers on fully.â
âBestselling author Rachel Kramer Bussel
â[Broken] is not a traditional romance but the story of a real and complex woman caught in a difficult situation with no easy answers. Well-developed secondary characters and a compelling plot add depth to this absorbing and enticing novel.â
âLibrary Journal
âAn exceptional story and honest characters make Dirty a must-read.â
âRomance Reviews Today
â[Hart] writes erotica for grown-ups. She doesnât write sex just to titillate and she holds her characters to a higher standard. [The Space Between Us] is a quiet book, but it packed a major punch for meâ¦. Sheâs a stunning writer, and this is a stunning book.â
âSuper Librarian
For all those who have ever lost their willâ
good night, and dream in color.
Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. Itâs everything in between we live for.
âAnn Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending
Chapter One
I came in on the train and then took a cab, but that didnât stop the late March drizzle from destroying everything Iâd carefully put together at home earlier this afternoon. My hair hangs sodden against my forehead and cheeks. My clothes cling, damp and heavy and chilled. I stripped off my dark, soaked stockings in the gallery bathroom and wrapped them in paper towels to tuck inside my purse, and my legs feel glaringly pale. Instead of the glass of white wine in my hand, Iâm desperate for a cup of coffee, or better yet, a mug of hot chocolate. With whipped cream.
Iâm desperate for the taste of something sweet.
There should be desserts here, but all I can find are blocks of cut cheese, sweating on the tray among the slaughtered remains of fancy crackers. The bowl of what looks like honey mustard is probably all right, but the companion bowl of ranch dressing looks like a playground for gastrointestinal distress. Courtesy of the rain, Iâm more chilled than the cheese, the dips or the wine.
I havenât seen Naveen yet. Heâs flirting his way through the entire crowd, and I canât begrudge him that. Itâs exciting, this new gallery. New York is different than Philly. He needs to make an impression with this opening. Heâll get to me eventually. He always does.