First Kiss Friday with Aviva Orr

Welcome to my First Kiss Friday blog. Today’s guest is Aviva Orr who has an excerpt from her Dragonblade Publishing book Love and Literature. We hope you enjoy this first kiss scene. Happy reading, my lovelies!

Excerpt:

He pulled her towards him, and she folded against his chest. He caught his breath. How was it that she was able to stir his passions so violently? One minute he felt enraged by her, and the next, he wanted nothing more than to hold her in his arms. He knew that he should push her from him, but he could not make himself do it. Instead, he moved both of them farther under the dense cluster of trees so they would be better concealed.

She looked up at him and started to speak, but he placed his finger on her mouth.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered, “I tried to be your schoolmaster, but I failed.”

“Do not say such things. You have taught me more and better than anyone else.”

Her face expressed such intense earnestness that tenderness for her overwhelmed him. He lost all sense of decorum, drew her closer to him, and pressed his lips to hers.

She did not resist.

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Although she yearned for it, Violet had never imagined that she would allow a man to kiss her unless he’d already proposed marriage. But she was unprepared for the sensation of Byron’s lips against hers. The kiss heightened her senses and made her tingle with pleasure as though his lips breathed life into her body that had heretofore been asleep.

Decorum dictated that she push him away; after all, how could a man respect a woman who would allow him such free access to her lips? She knew this all too well, yet both her mind and her body betrayed her. And when he slipped his tongue through her parted lips, she met it willingly—even eagerly—and her brain erased all notions of decorum. She gave herself to him, mind and body, with no regard to their positions as pupil and schoolmaster. It felt natural and right.

But when he pulled his lips gently from hers, and the mist of pleasure gradually faded from Violet’s eyes, she came speeding back to earth.

Suddenly, she stood face to face with her classics master—whom she’d just kissed. His tongue had been in her mouth, and she had enjoyed it. Her breath caught in her throat, and all she could do to hide her shame was avert her face from his. Her legs trembled, and she covered her hand with her mouth in disbelief.

“Violet,” Byron whispered and tugged gently at her arm, “look at me.”

Her body stiffened. She could not turn to face him. In fact, she might never be able to look him in the eyes again.

Love and Literature
By Aviva Orr

The only adventure Violet Greyson has ever known has come from books, but that all changes when her father dies, and she moves from remote Dartmoor to London. There, she finds her purpose amongst the pioneers of women’s education and begins a new life as a teacher’s assistant at one of England’s first academic ladies’ colleges. Love is the last thing on Violet’s mind as she embarks on her new venture, but the harder she works to prove her worth to her capricious classics master, the more attached she becomes to him.

Byron Thomas, schoolmaster at the prestigious St. James’s Independent School for Boys, set out in life determined to be different from his brutish father but became disillusioned and bitter after typhus took his beloved wife and infant daughter. Beset with pain, he sets his sights on a marriage of convenience to the headmaster’s stepdaughter. But his plans become muddled when he agrees to teach a course in the classics at a new ladies’ college. Drawn to his intelligent and fiery assistant, Byron struggles to maintain a proper master-student relationship as she begins to chip away at the shield that guards his heart.

Will love derail Violet’s and Byron’s plans for their futures, or will it bring them the happiness they thought out of reach?

Love and Literature series
Book 1: Love and Literature
Book 2: Love and Vengeance
Book 3: Love and Liberty

Buy Links:

Amazon/KU https://amzn.to/3EPNqh7

Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-and-literature-aviva-orr/1143303004

About the Author:

Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Aviva lives in Southern California with her husband, two daughters, and rambunctious Yorkshire terrier Branwell. She holds a master’s degree in literature, loves to travel, and has long been a Brontë enthusiast. A visit to the Brontë parsonage in Haworth started her writing journey and resulted in her first novel, The Mist on Brontë Moor.

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