Beth’s Acceptance

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Details

EROTIC URBAN FANTASY

Can she accept the destiny being thrust at her?

Released October 7, 2009

• 2009 CAPA Finalist for Best Erotic Paranormal Romance.

Beth’s Acceptance is book I in the Destiny’s Trinities series

• Beth’s Acceptance is Book I (now available)
• Mia’s Return is Book II (now available)
• Sera’s Gift is Book II (now available)
• Destiny’s Trinities (Print collection of entire series) – Now Available!

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Reviews

“There are no words for the talent of Teal Ceagh. She writes a suspenseful story with enough intrigue and erotica to keep the reader deeply engrossed. I was unable to put the book down until the very end. I found the erotic scenes just edgy enough to make me gasp and loving enough to make me coo. I recommend this book as a must have for everyone. By the end of the book I was scrambling to find the release date of the next one, anxious to see what happens in the next installment.”

Delane – Coffee Time Romance

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“Teal Ceagh’s latest release, Beth’s Acceptance is an alluring, intelligent, scorching hot read that will leave you waiting impatiently for more … Ms. Ceagh has woven a beautiful story with characters, emotions, and passions that leave you breathless. Her characters are well written, interesting and believable. The sexual tension between the trio is spicy, well plotted and enhances the story. I am a big fan of paranormal romances and this is one that I am definitely adding to my keeper collection. I really enjoyed this book and I am delighted to recommend it to other readers.”

Heather –Night Owl Reviews

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“Ms. Ceagh has created a dark and delightfully erotic new series that sizzles in passionand crackles in danger, delivering suspense with an edge that will have readers eager for more. Beth’s Acceptance intertwines adventure and paranormal elements surrounded by a considerable depth of emotion and laced with a constantly increasing level of fire and sensuality that makes for a stunning story. The touches of humor the author adds to the plot and characters works wonderfully to lighten the mood and capture the reader’s heart just a little more. This talented author vividly uses descriptive details allowing the reader to easily call up the images as if they were watching a movie.

Beth, Luke, and Zachariah are wonderfully drawn, empathetic characters that are all from different worlds they are intriguing, honorable, intelligent, and deeply emotional. The plot magically seems to walk the reader through the bond these three must create in order to become a true trinity making the connection feel like a natural and deeply emotional one. The sexual escapades are a feast full of scorching hot pleasure, tender touches, daring and edgy play that will have the reader wickedly hooked to the pages. Warning — the ménage scenes do include M/M scenes but they are shown as a necessary part of the three-way bond.

Prepare to be dazzled by Beth’s Acceptance the first book in this explosive new series!”

Shannon – The Romance Studio

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Beth’s Acceptance does a great job of combining erotic romance with paranormal aspects. There is a lot of m/f/m action going on and it was written very well. The three of them have to have sex to bond together to fight for mankind – it sounds dramatic, but in the story events unfold at a very nice and steady pace. … the role of Zach as a vampire and Lindal as an elf and their struggle to get along after an eternity of being enemies was very interesting. Zach and Lindal both have a common goal to protect and be with Beth, but they also need to overcome their preconceived notions about each other. For the bond to work, all three of them have to be in it together. Beth’s life goes from working in a library and a bar, to being a pivotal player in the supernatural world and being in a serious relationship with two men. … The romance scenes were hot. They both pleasured her, they took turns, and to my surprise and enjoyment, Lindal and Zach also have a small moment of romance. Zach is a bit more of the passionate alpha, while Lindal, although he knows his way around in the bedroom, is more reserved and serious. The[y] play off each other really well, each a very strong independent character.”

Mandi – Smexy Books

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Zach and Luke are complete opposites. Luke is light, whereas Zach is mostly darkness. They both complement and irritate each other. Beth likes both men for different reasons, but when it comes to trying to choose, she cannot decide. So, she figures why should she have to choose, and just grabs them both. You go, girl!

Beth’s Acceptance by Teal Ceagh is a wondrous ride in the paranormal. The cliff hanger at the end can lead to another fantastic story to follow. I cannot wait for the second book, and yes, this is my way of saying hurry please!

Bitten By Books

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Beth’s Acceptance is just the right read to heat you up on a cold Winters night! The heat radiates from the story from start to finish and the bits in between come close to bringing the reader to melt down in delight. I am not a huge fan of erotic stories but this one really got my pulse going and the storyline kept me intrigued enough to read till the end.

The paranormal elements were well thought out and I am interested to see what happens in the next two books in this series. Luckily I have them waiting for me and I am already feeling the pull to check out the sequel Mia’s Return.

The Destiny’s Trinities are technically only novella’s with their size of 100 pages but with the vampires and other creatures filling the pages who cares? These are just the right size to curl up with when you need a little time alone and a little excitement.

Amber – Amberkatz Book Blog

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Outline

For weeks, the darkly sinful Zachariah, her favourite customer at McGinty’s, has been raising NYC student Beth Siegel’s pulse, driving her crazy with need.

Neither can she keep the tall, blue-eyed mysterious Luke, who haunts the library stacks at her day job, out of her mind or her sweaty, desperate fantasies.

Fate hands Beth a startling destiny: to bond with both of them—a bond formed via sex.  Sex with either one of them would have been fabulous.  Together?  Irresistible.

But fate is a two-edged sword and the bond comes at a price.  Luke and Zack are not what they seem, and the world as Beth knows it not quite the real deal.  Can Beth accept the price the bond will ask of her?

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Excerpt

Chapter One

“Beth. Earth to Beth?”

Beth blinked, looked down at the overflowing glass of soda she was pouring, gasped and switched off the mixer tap. She looked over her shoulder at Jerry, the bar manager, who lifted a brow before hurrying away. “Sorry,” she called although she knew he probably wouldn’t hear her. It was still busy even though the bar was winding down for the night and the conversational noise level was enough to drown her apology.

She dumped the ruined drink and started again, loading a fresh glass with ice, pouring the soda and thrusting the straw at the same time. It was one of six on the tray and the others were alcoholic drinks. This one was for the driver of the group of yahoos she had been catering to in the corner booth, a tired businessman with bloodshot eyes who looked like he just wanted to get home. He’d drawn the short straw tonight. Well, at least they’d picked someone to stay sober, she reflected, concentrating on the task of pushing the drink onto the tray.

Despite trying to distract herself with thoughts of designated drivers and potential tips, as she carried the tray over to the booth she found her thoughts right back where they had been when Jerry caught her drifting a moment ago—at the library this afternoon.

It was hot in the bar. Jerry kept the heat up to encourage drinking and it was a popular place even in the middle of the week, so the packed bodies pushed the heat higher. Even so, Beth felt a shiver ripple down her spine as she remembered that afternoon. It spread fingers across her back, making her abruptly aware of her bra-less state. Why, oh why had she left off her bra tonight? She never did that. Was it prompted by this afternoon?

She stopped at the booth and delivered the round of drinks. The group was rowdy, happy and was tipping well tonight. She wondered if the lack of a bra was helping and could feel her cheeks burning as she bantered with them like she did with all the McGinty’s crowd, wondering if they knew she was naked beneath the little waistcoat. Is that why they were paying her so much attention?

She threw a saucy comment over her shoulder as she left the booth, balancing empties and stopped at other tables on her way back, clearing and gathering orders but her mind was more fully occupied on that afternoon, puzzling it out. What had happened? She still wasn’t entirely sure.

The man who called himself Luke-no-last-name had been showing up at the library for about a month, now. Almost from the first, she had noticed him. He was hard to miss. He stood over six feet tall and he had shoulders to match. His hair was somewhat shaggy, a honey blond with bleached highlights. Unusual coloring to catch her eye. Beth—when she spared men a thought at all—preferred her men dark.

Beth’s library shifts were Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Luke was there every day she worked. Unlike most students, he didn’t settle in at a favorite carrel, or stake out a table. He wandered. One day he’d be in the philosophy section. The next he’d literally sprawl on the floor at the foot of the Zang China history stacks, books on either side of him, as happy as a puppy at play with a ball of wool. Each day it seemed to be a different subject.

When Beth had finally built up enough guts to ask him about his eclectic study habits, she’d come close enough to notice his eyes. Dark blue. Stormy blue. She was tall—at five ten, she’d spent her life feeling like a stork—but she had to lift her chin to look him in the eye. He had seemed to hold his breath for a moment before he’d answered her. Then he’d just shrugged. “My professor gave me an open ticket. I get to write a report a day. If he likes it, I pass.”

“Who’s your professor? I want to transfer,” Beth had instantly responded.

He’d smiled then and something in the pit of her stomach had clenched and her pussy had throbbed. Startled, she had hidden her reaction and moved away, murmuring about getting back to work. But she had found herself watching him ever since.

From a distance.

And like clockwork, every day she was on shift at the library, Luke showed up. She’d burned to ask her coworkers if he studied on Thursdays and Fridays or on the weekends, when she wasn’t there. But to ask would be to signal her interest in him and she didn’t want to sow the seeds among them for their gossip sessions. Columbia was a huge campus but was surprisingly interconnected. It just wasn’t possible to know who knew whom. With the use of text messages and email, gossip could move way too fast. No, she wasn’t going to let this go anywhere. Besides she wasn’t even sure what “this” was, yet.

So she watched Luke and tried to figure it out for herself and did a slow burn at night in her lonely bed as she tried to pretend she wasn’t horny at all, because it wasn’t just Luke—that was the problem. If it had just been Luke, that was an itch she could have easily scratched.

Every now and again, they would exchange a sentence or two. She would help him find a book, or look up a title for him. He never took notes for his study, either. It could be because he had an eidetic memory but she knew of at least one other eidetic student and she studied with an intense, don’t-fuck-with-me posture that barred interruptions, and a wrinkled brow. Memorizing pages of text took effort. Luke didn’t look like he was making an effort to remember anything.

She would look up and catch him watching her from across the room, the blue eyes almost black with some emotion she couldn’t name, before he would casually turn back to the book he was reading, not embarrassed at being caught observing her.

This afternoon, though, had been…off the charts. She had been heading back to the front desk when she had found Luke in the small business section, leaning against the stacks with a small pile of books at his feet, another in his hands and yet another small pile resting on the steps of the sliding ladder next to him.

Beth had stopped and gripped the handle of the ladder. “We’ve got tables and carrels for this sort of thing you know.” She tried look severe as she said it.

Luke glanced over the top of the book he was flipping through, the blue eyes the only part of his face visible. It emphasized their color and made his stare more intense. “I’m narrowing down my choice, ma’am,” he said, his voice quiet. “Then I’ll move to the table.”

Her grip on the ladder was not steady. She had been gripping it for added support and trying to make it look casual.

There was no hint of warning. No whisper of sound. Nothing. Even now as she kept replaying it over in her mind, she was sure of it.

Despite the lack of any signal, Luke looked up, dropped his book and lunged toward her. He spun her around, threw his arms around her, scooped her off her feet and tucked her into him as he hunched over.

“What…?” Beth began.

Books hit the ground around them. They were heavy, ancient hardcover tomes from the second floor stacks that somebody had been filing, using the ladder and had left sitting on the ladder steps temporarily. Beth’s grip on the ladder had brought them all down around them.

In spite of the danger of the books raining around them, all she could think of was Luke’s body pressed up against hers. Bent over as she was, her ass was pushed against him and she clenched her jaw against the need to moan in pleasure. She could feel his cock against her ass. She closed her eyes. A few more seconds…just a few more seconds and it would be over.

Then she heard Luke gasp as a book hit him. She struggled to straighten up and managed to stand. She suspected that Luke let her. He was far stronger than her as he’d just demonstrated. She twisted in his grasp and cupped his face. “Are you all right?”

She searched his face for pain, for signs of injury, then her gaze met his eyes and she forgot to search any further.

She realized several things almost instantaneously.

One—that Luke hadn’t let her go. She was still held hard against him. One large hand was flat against the back of her hip, low down, the tips of the fingers resting on the belt threaded through the carrier of her low-rise jeans. The other hand was on her shoulder, pressing her against him so that her breasts pushed against his chest.

Two—that her hair had come loose and was now brushing against both his hands.

Three—that she was suddenly hungry for his kiss…no, not his kiss. For him. She wanted him to fuck her, to take her now. Her body ached to take him into her. Every nerve ending tingled. Her nipples were hard pebbles digging into the protective shield of her bra and she longed to rip away her bra so that she could press her breasts against his chest and let him feel her arousal.

Did he feel it though? Did he feel the same?

His hand on her shoulder moved. It lifted away and she bit her lip, hiding her disappointment. He was going to let her go.

But it plunged into her hair and lifted it. She saw his gaze shift as he marveled over her hair, the bane of her life. He let it slide over the back of his hand and drop again. “It’s like liquid fire.” The husky note in his voice made her cunt clench and her clit throb. Her heart leapt in joy. He wanted her.

His gaze jumped to her face as if he was also aware of what that rough note in his voice revealed.

She held her breath as he stared at her, trying to read her face, to see if she had guessed. The hand on the back of her hip shifted restlessly. He was like a man skewered on the horns of a dilemma and she couldn’t help him because her own was just as painful.

His chest lifted, as if he would speak. Briefly, he shut his eyes. Then he pushed her gently away from him, whirled and strode away from her. She watched him go, feeling the swirl of heavy want circle through her and marveled at the power of his self-control. She had offered herself freely. He could have taken her with no consequences. He didn’t know about her own complications and didn’t need to know. If he had wanted her with anything like the degree she wanted him, his ability to say “no” despite that want was staggering.

She wasn’t sure she would have been able to do it, had they traded places.

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Available now.

This is the first book in the Destiny’s Trinities series.

The next two books are Mia’s Return, and Sera’s Gift.

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