Play My Game (Stark Trilogy, #3.7)(29)

He licks the spoon, then takes my finger and dips it into the ice cream. Then he offers my finger to the kitten, who runs her rough little tongue over it, making me laugh again. “In that case,” Damien says, “I’ve changed my mind. I like domesticity very much.”

“I like it, too,” I say, snuggling closer. “And I love you.”

He brushes a soft kiss across my lips and we lay together as the kitten climbs over us to find a spot on the pillow. And as the little ball of fluff settles in and starts to purr, I sigh with satisfaction.

This is us.

This is our life.

And it is exceptional.





About the Author


J. Kenner is the New York Times bestselling author of the Stark trilogy, including Release Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me, and the tie-in novellas Take Me, Have Me, and Play My Game, and the Most Wanted series, comprised of Wanted, Heated, and Ignited. She spent more than ten years as a litigator in Southern California and central Texas, using her rare free time to indulge in her passion of writing. She lives in Texas with her husband and daughters.

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Release Me



He was the one man I couldn’t avoid.

And the one man I couldn’t resist.


Damien Stark could have his way with any woman.

He was sexy, confident, and commanding: anything he wanted, he got. And what he wanted was me.


Our attraction was unmistakable, almost beyond control, but as much as I ached to be his, I feared the pressures of his demands. Submitting to Damien meant I had to bare the darkest truth about my past – and risk breaking us apart.


But Damien was haunted, too. And as our passion came to obsess us both? his secrets threatened to destroy him – and us – for ever.





Claim Me



For Damien, our obsession is a game.

For me, it is fiercely, blindingly, real.


Damien Stark’s need is palpable – his need for pleasure, his need for control, his need for me. Beautiful and brilliant yet tortured at his core, he is in every way my match.


I have agreed to be his alone, and now I want him to be fully mine. I want us to possess each other beyond the sweetest edge of our ecstasy, into the deepest desires of our souls. To let the fire that burns between us consume us both.


But there are dark places within Damien that not even our wildest passion can touch. I yearn to know his secrets, for him to surrender to me as I have surrendered to him. But our troubled pasts will either bind us close … or shatter us completely.





Complete Me



Our desire runs deep.

But our secrets cut close.


Beautiful, strong, and commanding, Damien Stark fills a void in me that no other man can touch. His fierce cravings push me beyond the brink of bliss – and unleash a wild passion that utterly consumes us both.


Yet beneath his need for dominance, he carries the wounds of a painful past. Haunted by a legacy of dark secrets and broken trust, he seeks release in our shared ecstasy, the heat between us burning stronger each day.


Our attraction is undeniable, our obsession inevitable.

But not even Damien can run from his ghosts, or shield us from the dangers yet to come.





Take Me



Our wedding approaches.

But our past still threatens.


I’ve long dreamed of my fairy tale wedding, but it wasn’t until I met Damien Stark that I began to believe it was my destiny. Though we both carry secrets and scars, our shared passion heals us, binding us together. Our mutual ecstasy is the brightest light in my life.


But darkness still snakes through the cracks in our armour.

Ghosts from our past have moved in, bringing fresh pain that cuts deep and threatens to destroy everything we hold dear.


Damien is my anchor to this world, and I am his. But if we are going to keep each other, we have to fight the shadows of our pasts to move forward into our future.





Have Me



Happy Ever After is just the beginning …


Our wedding was everything I dreamed of, and now the honeymoon is a living fantasy. To be Mrs Damien Stark is the ultimate rush – to know that our claim to each other is real, our fierce passion sealing our bond. My kiss is forever his, his touch is forever mine.


We both harbor deep scars from our pasts, and we’ve done everything we can to lay our ghosts to rest. But there are still dreams that haunt me, and people that threaten to tear us apart.


Our shared ecstasy makes me feel alive, and I’ll do anything to keep Damien close. He is my future, my hope, my every want and need. And once you’ve tasted that kind of obsession, nothing can make you give it up.





New York Times bestselling author J. Kenner kicks off a smoking hot, emotionally compelling new erotic trilogy that returns to the world of her beloved Stark novels: Release Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me.

Say My Name

Featuring Jackson Steele, a strong-willed man who goes after what he wants, and Sylvia Brooks, a disciplined woman who’s hard to get—and exactly who Jackson needs.