{"id":34700,"date":"2018-07-10T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=34700"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:16:34","slug":"release-blitz-excerpt-reveal-murder-girl-lilah-love-2-by-lisa-renee-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=34700","title":{"rendered":"Release Blitz & Excerpt Reveal: Murder Girl (Lilah Love, #2) by Lisa Renee Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Murder Girl<\/strong>
\n(Lilah Love, #2)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

by Lisa Renee Jones<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Released – 10 July 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Available Now!<\/strong>
\nAmazon US<\/a>\u00a0| Amazon UK<\/a> | Amazon CA<\/a> |\u00a0Paperback<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Audio<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Blurb<\/strong><\/h4>\n

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones returns with the second book in her electrifying series featuring Lilah Love, an FBI profiler who doesn\u2019t fight her dark side\u2014she embraces it.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Lilah Love\u2019s job to inhabit a killer\u2019s mind. The unapologetically tough FBI profiler is very comfortable there. But her latest case is making her head spin. It\u2019s a string of brutal assassinations carried out across the country, each tied to a mysterious tattoo. Body by body, she\u2019s followed the clues all the way back to her hometown. And every step of the way, the killer has been following her.<\/p>\n

Here, beneath the glamour of the privileged Hamptons community, is a secret long buried but never forgotten. It\u2019s bigger than Lilah. It\u2019s powerful enough to escape the reach of the FBI. And it\u2019s more personal than anyone can imagine. Because it\u2019s hiding in Lilah\u2019s own past. To fight it, she\u2019s forced to turn to her lethally tempting ex, Kane Mendez. He\u2019s an expert at bringing out Lilah\u2019s darkest impulses. If she plans to survive, she\u2019s going to need them.<\/p>\n

**You MUST read book one, MURDER NOTES, in order to read this book. <\/b><\/p>\n

Find\u00a0Murder Girl<\/em> on GOODREADS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Excerpt<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I enter the building and ignore the pretty brunette behind the triangle-shaped stone desk and head to the stairs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me,\u201d she calls out, but I ignore her. Kane knows I\u2019m coming. He has people watching me and this building. He knows I\u2019m in the building by now. I don\u2019t need \u201csweet thing\u201d down there to announce me in yet another way. I\u2019m at the top of the stairs before she finishes her fourth <\/span>excuse me<\/span><\/i>, which is now a bit louder, as if I just haven\u2019t heard her the other three times. I turn down the hallway and walk toward the desk outside Kane\u2019s office where Tabitha sits, minus any more originality today than the last time I was here. She\u2019s still bleached blonde, with her fake, giant-ass boobs hanging out of a silk blouse with numerous buttons undone that turn it into a slut show that could have been professional.<\/span><\/p>\n

I pass her without a word, approaching Kane\u2019s double doors, when she says, \u201cDrama follows you, Lilah Love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d I say without looking at her. \u201cDead bodies follow me.\u201d I glance over my shoulder at her. \u201cYou should remember that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And with that statement that really had no purpose other than it felt really damn good, I open Kane\u2019s door.<\/span><\/p>\n

I step inside Kane\u2019s office and find him sitting behind his desk, just in time to hear him say, \u201cShe\u2019s here,\u201d into his intercom and then release the button.<\/span><\/p>\n

With exaggerated drama that I reserve for moments when I want to be a smart-ass or simply announce my fucking presence, I use my body to shut the door, but I don\u2019t hang out and wait for it to grow roots. I rotate and charge toward Kane and that King Mendez desk of his that he doesn\u2019t get to use as shelter. By the time I round the wooden atrocity, he\u2019s standing, towering over me in a charcoal suit and a purple shirt with black stripes and some sort of black-and-gray tie. It\u2019s flashy, expensive, and works on him when it would not on nine out of ten other people. But then, while I keep a low profile\u2014aside from the door drama, of course\u2014and favor my black nondescript looks, his entire persona says \u201clook at me\u201d with the intended message of \u201cI have nothing to hide.\u201d A lie he tells the world and, after he drugged me to keep me from knowing what happened last night, apparently me.<\/span><\/p>\n

We stand there for a beat or ten without words before he says, \u201cLilah,\u201d and the very fact that he says it like sex is all it takes for me to snap.<\/span><\/p>\n

I slap him in the face, because my bare fist is too small to hurt him the way his jaw would hurt me. It\u2019s also a disgrace to a man to be slapped, which is why one UFC fighter I\u2019ve watched here and there does it to his opponents. And Kane <\/span>is <\/span><\/i>my opponent. He turns his head with the force of the blow, my palm stinging in the aftermath.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell now, beautiful,\u201d he says, fixing me with a brown-eyed stare. \u201cI know you like it rough, but is now the time? We both have questions we want answered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I slap him again, and this time he catches my wrist before I pull back. I try to slap him with my free hand, and he catches it as well, this time before contact. \u201cYou get two, not three.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

My gaze flicks to the handprint on his right cheek that matches the one on the left before I meet his stare and say, \u201cTwo was pretty damn satisfying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell me about your stalker?\u201d he demands, his question low, lethal, his anger banked just beneath the surface, while mine is the cherry on top of every lie he\u2019s told me. \u201cBecause we both know that\u2019s what we\u2019re dealing with here,\u201d he adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet go of me, Kane,\u201d I bite out, my voice taut with impatience. No. Make that a desire to smack him again.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter you tell me about your stalker and the notes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLet go of me, Kane,\u201d I repeat slowly, \u201cor my next move will be a knee to your family jewels. And I promise you, it will be hard enough that neither of us will have to worry about our urge to fuck ever again.\u201d My jaw sets hard, but he doesn\u2019t release me. \u201cYou drugged me,\u201d I remind him, \u201cand then searched my house before leaving me with a gun that I was too drugged to use. So if you think I won\u2019t do it\u2014\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He releases me but doesn\u2019t step back. \u201cI didn\u2019t leave you with a gun you couldn\u2019t use. I kept you at my house until sunrise, and I left a team guarding your place, front and back. I protected you, like I always do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t analyze why that makes me angrier. That\u2019s for later. For now, there is this: \u201cI\u2019d pull my gun on you and back you off, Kane, but I swore the next time I did that, I\u2019d shoot you. And I need information from you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m all yours, beautiful,\u201d he says, holding his hands out. \u201cI always am.\u201d He motions to the sitting area to his left and behind him. \u201cLet\u2019s sit and make this peaceful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeaceful, my ass,\u201d I say.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lilah Love<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Murder Notes (#1)
\n<\/strong>Review<\/a>
\nBuy:\u00a0Amazon<\/a>\u00a0 | \u00a0Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n

Murder Girl (#2)
\n<\/strong>Review<\/a>
\nBuy: Amazon<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Paperback<\/a><\/p>\n

Love Me Dead (#3)
\n<\/strong>Buy: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Love Kills (#4)<\/strong>
\nBuy: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloody Vows (#5)
\n<\/strong>Releasing – 26 January 2021
\nPre-order: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloody Love (#6)
\n<\/strong>Releasing – 29 June 2021
\nPre-order: Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

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About the Author<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"\"New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT series.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the success of Lisa’s INSIDE OUT series, she has published many successful titles. The TALL, DARK AND DEADLY series and THE SECRET LIFE OF AMY BENSEN series, both spent several months on a combination of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling lists. Lisa is also the author of the bestselling DIRTY MONEY and WHITE LIES series. Presently, Lisa is working on her Murder Girl\/Lilah Love series to be published by Montlake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to publishing Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by the Dallas Women’s Magazine. In 1998 Lisa was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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FACEBOOK<\/a> | NEWSLETTER<\/a> | TWITTER<\/a> | INSTAGRAM<\/a> | GOODREADS<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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