Cover Reveal ~ Break Even by Lisa De Jong

Cover & Excerpt Reveal

Break Even by Lisa De Jong

Release Date: December 27, 2015

Cover Designer: Mae I Design and Photography

Photo Credit: My MoJo Photo

Blurb: 

My story isn’t a love story … not the typical kind anyway.

As a lawyer, I’m used to discovery, but I never saw this one coming. 

Every day, River gives me ten reasons to stay away, and then eleven reasons 

why I can't. Our relationship was to remain strictly business, or at least I 

tried. 

Four years of marriage, and everything with Cole has changed. I never knew 

two people who lived together could be so distant. But I’m not ready to give 

up on him.

One man wants to break me.

The other is just trying to get even. 

Both are lying to me.

Excerpt 1 ~

He puts the SUV in park and turns his body toward me. “Most things 

you can, Mrs. Mason. Hang around me for a little while, and you’ll find out 

how.”

“For instance,” I tease, still feeling some of the vodka. “You can’t 

make me take your case. If I wanted to, I could dump you as a client and 

there wouldn’t be a damn thing you could do about it.”

He scoffs. “But you won’t.”

“How do you know that?” I grin back at him. Conversing with River 

has become a game.

“Because right now, I’m the most exciting thing you have going on in 

your life.” He brushes a stray piece of hair away from my eyes. “You get up 

every morning and throw on one of your expensive business suits. You wear 

your hair the same way, take your coffee the same way, and leave for work 

at exactly the same time. Your life revolves around the four walls that make 

up your little office, but your clients—they aren’t like me. You work late 

because your husband either isn’t home or he’s home but he’s not really 

there, not the way you want him to be anyway. That’s your life, Marley.”

“You don’t know anything.” My voice bellows.

“Then tell me what part of that I got wrong.”

I open my mouth to argue, but he has me pegged. One freaking day, 

and he has me all figured out. 

“I need to go,” I say, pushing the door open. I punch the numbers into 

garage door and pray it opens before he has any thought of coming after me. 

It works the first time, and as soon as I close the door and walk into the 

kitchen, I hear his SUV pull away. 

This isn’t going to work. 

Excerpt 2 ~

“Cole!” I scream, curling my fingers around the edge of the counter. 

He pulls out slowly then thrusts back inside me; there’s nothing soft and 

tender about it. 

During the first few years of our marriage he made love to me. His 

lips would brush against my skin from head to toe and his hands would 

caress my inner thighs until I ached for him to be inside of me. 

He’d tease. 

He had me gasping for breath before he even reached where I needed 

him most. 

He knew exactly how I liked it; it was insane bliss. It was the reason I 

sped home from work every night. It was one of the reasons I knew he was 

the one—our maddening physical connection translated into every aspect of 

our relationship. Every last inch of me was wrapped around him. 

Everything: heart, soul, and body. 

He pushes in again until it aches, burying his head deep in the crook 

of my neck. 

“Don’t stop,” I moan, slipping my fingers between us. I need to come 

so badly. Three weeks and four days… that’s how long it’s been. 

Sex isn’t about me lately, and it hasn’t been for a while. 

His teeth dig into my skin. “I can’t stop myself, baby. You feel so 

good.” 

“Cole, please,” I beg, rubbing my fingers in circles. If he notices, he 

doesn’t acknowledge my need. 

He thrusts all the way in. “Christ, Marley,” he murmurs against my 

skin as he releases into me. My heart sinks, but my desire is stuck at an all 

time high. 

My orgasms have become as rare as a full moon. In less than an hour, 

it will be three weeks and five days since I last felt what it was like to clench 

around him over and over again. 

My breathing is heavy. My fingers still. His head still pressed against 

my neck as his fingers run gently along my spine. 

“Did I hurt you?” he whispers against my skin. 

Not the way you’re thinking.

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