Twice In A Lifetime by Jodie Griffin virtual tour | Spotlight, Excerpt & #giveaway @RiptideBooks Jodie

Hi! I’m Jodie Griffin, and I write contemporary romance and kinky erotic romance. I’m here to talk about my sixth published book, TWICE IN A LIFETIME, a contemporary female/female story with mature characters—and my first story for Riptide! I’d like to thank all the blog hosts for letting me stop by, and I hope you take the chance to visit all of their sites. Leave a comment and you’ll be entered to win a $25 Riptide Publishing gift card.

When widow Talia Wasserman applies for a job with the local police department, she’s shocked to discover she’ll be working for Lieutenant Eve Poe, an officer she’d met—and been attracted to—during a long-ago citizen’s police academy workshop. Fifteen years later, the spark is still there, and no one’s currently in Talia’s life or in her bed. But there’s just one teeny, tiny problem. Eve is her boss, so she’s completely off-limits.

Eve feels a sizzling connection with Talia from the very first, but Talia works for her, and that’s just a bad idea. Besides, Eve needs to focus on the person sending disturbing emails to her office, and not on the woman who quickly makes herself invaluable to the department. It’s too bad her heart doesn’t agree with her.

Then Eve is badly injured in the line of duty, and Talia’s worst fears are realized. She may lose her chance at happiness with the woman she’s come to love, and she can’t survive that kind of loss twice in a lifetime.

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Excerpt...

Chapter One

With a bounce in my step, I walked into the police station and stopped at the metal detector. I gave a half laugh as the officer at the door told me to put my things on the table. Poor planning on my part. I’d brought two tote bags full of stuff I wanted to put on my desk this first day of my brand-new job. Photos of my girls. A potted plant. A mug that said World’s Okayest Mom. He looked through the items and lifted the mug out. With a snort, he put it back in, then moved my bags to the far end of the table and waved me forward to the detector.

I stepped through . . . and set the damn buzzer off. I flinched.

He ran the wand over me, up and down my arms and legs, over my back and then my front. When he got to my waist, the thing beeped.

Oh, hell.

“Are you wearing a belt, ma’am?”

If only. “No. But I have a navel piercing with a metal charm on it.”

A low female voice came from the line forming behind the metal detector, and an unexpected shiver slid down my spine. “I can verify for you, Ramirez, if you’d like to get all these people moving along.”

“Thanks, Lieutenant.”

A middle-aged Black woman in a police uniform stepped into view, and my heart sank. My new boss, Lieutenant Eve Poe. Great. Just great. Way to make an impression.

“Good morning, Talia. Would you step over here, please?” She led me to a private corner facing away from the people coming into the lobby, which fronted the public entrance to both the police station and the courthouse. “Standard procedure.”

I must’ve turned purple, but after I looked over my shoulder to make sure no one was staring, I lifted the edge of my blouse and nudged down the waist of my trousers. “I meant to take it out before I came to work, but I forgot.”

My stomach fluttered when her deep-brown eyes lingered maybe a fraction of a second too long before she nodded. “Good enough. Usually piercings don’t set off the detectors. Not sure why this one did.”

“My lucky day?” I quipped, trying to cover my embarrassment—and my unsettled libido. I’d only met her twice before this, once during a Citizen’s Police Academy class I’d taken when my daughters were little, and once a few weeks ago during my interview for this community liaison job. Both times, I’d had the same instant reaction to the woman in front of me. A visceral attraction, simmering under the surface, an awareness I’d only ever had with one other person in my life. My late husband, Seth.

She grinned then, and it changed her angular brown face from average to heart-stoppingly gorgeous in a single beat. This was the smile I remembered from that long-ago class, one that had zinged me when I’d had no business being zinged. And it was a grin that had recently fueled some intense fantasies while I’d waited for my paperwork and background checks for this job to clear.

Focus, Talia.

She led me back to the officer manning the metal detector. “Talia Wasserman, this is Officer First Class Juan Ramirez. Juan, Talia’s the new civilian community liaison working in my office. She’ll get her credentials today.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Read the entire excerpt and learn more about the Author at Riptide Publishing.

Jodie Griffin didn’t always want to be a writer. She spent hours reading, but school papers were written one painful word at a time. Then a story idea came, demanding to be put on paper. After years of practice, she took the leap, submitted her first manuscript, and hasn’t looked back.

Jodie is also an avid photographer, a chocoholic, and a lover of bad puns. When she’s not writing, she’s likely out stalking the moon for that perfect shot.

Jodie’s own happily ever after includes one incredibly supportive husband and one future heroine. Visit Jodie at www.jodiegriffin.com.

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