Tantalized

Allison Michaels quickly learns she is in way over her head. Taking a design job with unscrupulous strings attached to ruin a man she doesn't know spirals out of control and she fears she has lost Bryant forever. Like everyone warned her, "she never could do the job."Allison is determined to find a way to convince her boss, Martin Kirklen, to let her out of the deal in hopes of salvaging her dignity and her relationship. But when she receives a cryptic message from her sister and Martin implies she would not only be risking her own life but the life of her sister, Allison is trapped.Hurt the man she loves or risk her sister's life. There never was a win-win-win.Tantalizedis the second book of the slow-burn Taste of Freedom Trilogy, following the cliffhanger ending of Tempted. The books within the trilogy are continuous and not stand-alone novels. The trilogy concludes with book three, Torn. The birth of Kate Oleander happened on a whim, a chance, and a forgotten dream. One day and several hours later the obsession took root deep in an elementary school teacher on a lazy summer afternoon. At the time the writer was nameless, and over the span of a week the pen name Kate Oleander became an alias to embrace and cherish. She breathes life into imaginary scenes, ideas, and characters bursting from a suppressed imagination. Many of the entities finding life on the pages of the novels have rattled around Kate's mind for decades.When not writing, Kate is a middle school teacher in the Midwest. She and her husband have four children and three dogs.Kate's favorite genres to write are paranormal romance and fantasy romance, but contemporary romances with suspense, danger, and a wicked antagonist are a close third to the others. All of her stories entertain the growth of a strong-willed female finding happiness and love at last while staying true to herself and fighting even when she thinks she has nothing left.Sometimes the most beautiful things arise out of the ashes of destruction, and Kate Oleander enjoys lighting the match. Debt-free, a dream job with adventure but one catch: destroy a bad man. It is worth the risk until Allie meets Bryant, a love she did not expect.All Allison Michaels ever wanted was to become a graphic designer, be like her big sister, and find the love of her life. But buried under mounds of student loan debt, working two dead-end jobs, she has no time for a social life. As things stand, she can't see how any of her dreams will ever come true. That is until an opportunity of a lifetime lands on her doorstep.Tempted by the seductive promise of being debt-free, walking in her sister's footsteps, and living it up in Chicago, small town girl, Allie takes a chance. If she is successful, she will be debt-free, and have real-world references from a big-time graphic design firm. It is a win-win-win situation. All she has to do is ruin a man. A very bad man.Finding the love of her life can wait, or can it?