Ramblings From Beneath The Sheets: Saving Erica Release Blitz

Saving Erica

by
J.A. Melville

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Synopsis:

Erica Rothman looked to
have it all. Beauty, a successful modelling career, overseas travel, money and a
handsome boyfriend or did she? Looks can be deceiving.

After fleeing the UK and
her violent, abusive boyfriend she gave up modelling and came home to Australia
to lick her wounds after Liam had attempted to kill them both in a car accident
during a fit of jealous rage.

She wanted to keep what had
happened to her a secret from her family until her brother Nathan accidentally
learns the truth.

When he takes her to see
the project he and his business partner and friend have bought to make money
on, it seemed innocent enough until she meets his friend.

Zane Harrison is gorgeous,
sexy and everything a woman could ever want in a man. He was probably used to
having women fall at his feet. That’s exactly what Erica did when she met him;
she literally fainted at the man’s feet.

The attraction is there and
he could be the perfect man for her but is it too risky to get involved with
him? Can she escape the horrors of her past? Will she ever be able to overcome
just what it is about him that affects her so much?

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WARNING: THIS BOOK IS
INTENDED FOR THOSE 18 YEARS AND OVER. IT CONTAINS CONSENSUAL SEX SCENES,
DESCRIPTIONS OF ABUSE AND ONE NON CONSENSUAL SEX SCENE. HOWEVER THIS IS NOT
DARK EROTICA AND I DO BELIEVE IN HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

This book is a sequel to
Taming Eric but set 15 years later. It is a standalone novel and it is not
necessary to read Taming Eric first.

Excerpt

Erica let herself
into her parents’ home, the home she’d lived in from birth and listened for
a moment to the laughter and voices coming from thedining room. It was Christmas Eve and she
was late for the family dinner. Not that her family knewthat since she hadn’t been able to
guarantee she’d make it home for Christmas anyway.

It was just lucky
that filming had finished early and she’d been able to get a seat on the
first flight out of London. Someone had cancelledmaking a seat available and although she’d
been stuck with an economy seat and jammed in between aquite large woman and a man who
had spent most of the flight trying to chat her up, it hadbeen worth it to get home that little bit
quicker. She knew she could have called Daddy and he wouldhave sent the company jet but she
wanted to surprise her family when they really weren’texpecting her.

She stopped for a
moment to check her appearance in the mirror over the hall stand and
noticed the dark circles under her blue eyes, a bluethat vivid they appeared almost purple under
some lighting. Her auburn hair hung down oneshoulder in a plait that finished just below her full
breasts and she ran her hands downover her dress trying to smooth out the creases after being
crammed in a plane for so manyhours.

Slowly she moved
towards the dining room, smiling as the voices grew louder the closer
she got. Nathan was telling them something about hisand his girlfriend Taylah’s last holiday
together. Apparently she had managed to lock herself outof their room while only wearing a towel
and Erica grinned to herself when everyone burst outlaughing.

She made it to the
dining room doorway and got her first look at her family in three
months. Alice was there as were Beverly, Tom andMaggie but her eyes shifted past them to the
tall figure of her Father standing by the window.Even in his early 50’s he was still a very attractive
man and to her he was her hero.She loved her Father, she always had. He had been her
protector, her savior and theperson who could never say no to her.

Nathan was seated
at the table, the light shining on his strawberry blonde hair with
Taylah by his side; her dark almost exotic looks acomplete contrast to him.

Brooklyn and
Charlotte occupied another couple of chairs at the table and Erica noticed
Brooklyn had somehow talked her parents in toletting her get a nose piercing if the diamond
glinting in it was any indication. At 15 they werelooking so much more mature than she
remembered but the phones in their hands as they texted orwere on Facebook proved that they
still had some maturing to do yet.

Her Mother was
seated up the other end of the table, looking her usual unruffled self, her
auburn hair the exact same color as Erica’s twistedinto some elaborate knot at her nape.

Erica smiled at the
sight of them all together, all the people she loved most in her life.
Suddenly her Mother looked up and saw her standingthere and a wide smile transformed her
face at the sight of her eldest daughter.

“Erica, darling,
you made it.” She stood up with her usual grace. Her Mother’s mention of
her name was enough to draw the attention ofeveryone else and the chatter stopped briefly
before everyone started getting to their feet tocome and greet her.

Before anyone
reached her, she saw her father coming towards her with that long stride
of his and he caught her up, swinging her around andaround in his arms despite her protests and
squeals at him.

He lowered her feet
to the floor and pulled her into his arms for a hug, holding her tight
and Erica realized at that moment how much herfather had missed her. They’d been inseparable
until her career had started to take off and now shewas often gone for weeks or even several
months at a time. Lately it was months and months inbetween visits back home.

“Daddy.” She said
and that was all she could say as the tears started to fall and when
she finally pulled back enough to see her father’sface, he had tears rolling down his cheeks too.

“I missed you so
much Daddy.”

“Not as much as
I’ve missed you sweet pea.” He told her huskily before hugging her
tightly to him again.

Erica knew her
father hated her job. She’d heard often enough about how he used to
only date models years ago before Mum’s time. He’dfound them shallow and self-centered so he
had found it hard to accept that his own daughter had goneon to become a highly successful
model.

He’d never once
tried to stop her and had always been supportive and going by the
collection of her professional photos hanging aroundthe house, he was proud of her despite her
career choice. Technically she hadn’t intended to get intomodelling but it had been the fairy tale
beginning for her. After being spotted at sixteen andtalked into having some studio shots taken
the rest as they say was history.

She had become an
extremely wealthy woman from modelling but all that money didn’t
mean much when her personal life was one huge mess.She had come home not just to see her
family but to lick her wounds and recover from thephysical and emotional damage done to her by
her ex-boyfriend. She didn’t dare tell her fatherabout what Liam had done to her. She just wanted
to spend time with her family and try to push thewhole horrible nightmare to the back of her mind.

With a huge grin on
her face she pulled out of her father’s arms and turned to greet the
rest of her family, her arms spread wide. “Well comeon then, is Daddy the only one pleased to
see me? Where’s my hugs?”

Her Mother stepped
forward, a wide smile on her face, her arms outstretched and Erica
walked into her embrace, dropping her head on hershoulder as she breathed in her Mother’s
familiar vanilla scent. Before she could get toocomfortable though, she was pulled into Nathan’s
arms and given a hug that tight, she winced. Shefought to keep the pain from her expression
because her pain was from more than his big bear hugembrace, it was pain from bones that were
still healing. She didn’t want anyone to see that thoughso she struggled to mask her reaction
from her family. She didn’t want anyone to know what hadhappened. She just needed time to get
over this with the people she loved most around her. Sheneeded time to forget what Liam had
done to her. God, just thinking about him sent a shiverthrough her and Erica pulled away from
her brother and with a false smile on her face she said.“I’m starving. Can your poor old daughter
and sister get something to eat before I collapse?”

With bursts of
laughter and Nathan teasing her about her not being entitled to anything
more than a lettuce leaf given she was some big shotmodel, her family cleared a spot for her at
the table.

Brooklyn and
Charlotte dropped kisses on her cheeks when she sat down. Erica took the
plate of food from her mother’s hands that seemed tohave miraculously filled itself and began to
eat. The constant noise and laughter from her familywas both comforting and familiar to her. She
realized just how much she’d missed it, how muchshe’d missed them. Being back with them like
this would help for a short time at least. She couldforget about the past, forget about the pain and
try and push the hell Liam had put her through fromher mind.

About J.A. Melville

From
my teenage years, all I wanted to do was become a writer one day. Even now as
an adult woman with a partner and three children who are not so little anymore,
I've always lived with my head in the clouds, a dreamer, often amusing myself
with my own imagination. It might have taken me awhile to finally live my
dream, but I did it. I hope to one day be good enough to stand beside the many
talented writers out there who have kept me entertained with their wonderful
stories over the years. I live in a sleepy country town in Tasmania, Australia
with my partner and three children plus our 4 cats, dog and cattle. I've had to
overcome many emotional obstacles along the way to get to this point and
attempting to self-publish a book does tend to make a person feel like they've
thrown themselves in at the deep end of the pool. Here's hoping some of you
actually like what I write and save me from drowning in the deep end as I
probably forgot to mention, I can't swim.