Blinding Lights is the second in Jessica Florence’s Lights of Scotland series and it is a story filled with danger, passion, and hope. Check out more about this new release, read Tina’s Thoughts and an excerpt from the story, and enter the giveaway to celebrate!

Blinding Lights
Lights of Scotland #2
Jessica Florence
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Publication Date: April 26, 2016

She dances with a passion I’ll never know
Seeing her again tears me at the seams
She was never mine
My soul is stained with the darkness of death
I have killed
I have tortured
I have lost
Her soul is too bright for the shadows within.
and her determination to be the flame in my heart could kill us both
Still, I want her, I crave her
But not even her blinding lights can fight away the darkness threatening us both.
Eventually, everything gets snuffed out.

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Guiding Lights was my first ever Jessica Florence book and I fell in LOVE with it. I had no idea what to expect and it floored me. So naturally when I saw that there was a second book in the Lights of Scotland series, I was more than ready to read it. Blinding Lights focuses on Lachlan, a man we meet in the first book, a friend of Wolfe’s. He is a man of danger and mystery. Being able to finally get in his head and understand him better was both intriguing and slightly terrifying. To say that he is a man you do not want to be at odds with is putting it mildly. Lachlan is a man who saves the innocent and enacts vengeance for those who cannot avenge themselves.

This book is a story of lifelong friends who fall deep into the love, lust, and connection that has been brewing for the majority of their lives. Lily and Lachaln could not be more opposite. Lily is a tiny dancer and Lachlan is a brute of a man. These two shouldn’t work but they do. As the story unfolds, you learn that they have loved each other from a distance for years, never admitting their true feelings. But when Lachlan is horrified to find Lily in a dangerous situation, one he ends up rescuing her from, their paths begin to intertwine. Lily is a fierce woman. She is determined to make Lachlan see what they could be and will stop at nothing to make it happen. These two are meant to be together. They work so well, even when it seems like they should not. I loved how Lily softened Lachlan’s edges and how he gave her an extra boost of confidence and resilience. Their love story is not easy, especially when someone is determined to take Lily for their own.

Blinding Lights is a roller coaster of passion, danger, friendship, and determination. This story had sweet moments followed by hot and heavy ones. We see a lot of Wolfe and Nera from Guiding Lights, and that was the icing on the cake! I love this side of Jessica’s writing and I am hoping for so much more!

Prologue

The speakers started playing a piano melody. At the first word of the song, Lily walked onto the stage, one foot in front of the other as her hands gracefully moved beside her. I watched her long starlight colored hair flow as she started to sway. Her head cast down. She rolled her body and stuck her long leg in the air behind her then spun in a circle. The material of her dancer’s skirt flowed around her like a pinwheel.

Her head went back down conveying sorrow. I wanted to lift her chin up. She should not be looking down, her beautiful amethyst eyes deserved to be seen. I hadn’t seen her dance since we were teens. I felt enraptured by her.

My eyes were glued as the singer started bellowing out the chorus. Her head whipped back again as she leapt into the air and spun. She landed on one foot, and her hands moved around her like a swan. I felt every bit of the emotions in my soul from the song through her dance. It was as if she herself was giving life to the words with every move of her body. She leapt, spun, and bounced around. She swayed back and forth as if she was being pulled between two forces.

My heart ached for her. The emotions in this dance were ones of devastation and regret. She fell to the ground lying on her back then her chest came up then fell back slowly, as if trying to bring herself back to life. Her hair swirled around her in soft waves. She got back up quickly and twirled to the back on the stage. With the last bit of the song, she ran and jumped into the air, spread her legs into a split into the air and landed. She gave it her all, she threw everything she had into the emotions of this dance. At the end she fell to the ground and crumpled.

I wanted to run to her, scoop her up, and tell her everything. But she could never be mine. I’d given up that dream years ago. I wasn’t even sure why I had stopped by to see her perform. I almost wish I hadn’t. To see her move with that much passion, so much that I could only dream to possess an ounce of it. I spared one last look at her as I stood. The crowd had erupted into cheers and screams in applause for her performance. She was smiling while flowers were placed in her hands as she took a bow to her audience.

Tears glistened on her rosy cheeks. She had such a powerful spirit in everything she did.

Not able to take anymore I turned and left the cheers and the woman I loved behind me. My soul was stained black with death. Someone as bright and pure as my Lily, deserved more. I think I had convinced myself if I saw her again that maybe I would change my mind to pursue her. To finally find peace in my life, but only to see her and feel just as I did when I left a few years ago. Devastated.

I walked out of the auditorium building promising myself that I wouldn’t try to see her anymore. It was just torture on my soul. I had to give her up completely. The hope of having Lily was left back on that stage with her.

I had jobs to do, that would be my only salvation in this hell of a life.

I got on my bike and sped off as far away from my starlight as could.