LISA SUZANNE BIO
Lisa Suzanne started handwriting her books on yellow
legal pads after she took a creative writing class in high school. She still
has those legal pads full of stories, but now one of them is published under
the title How He Really Feels. She
currently works as a full time high school English teacher, and her favorite
part of the year is summer. She has been blessed with the
world’s best dog, a supportive family, and a husband who encouraged her to
publish after reading one of her novels. She likes the advice of Ernest
Hemingway’s famous quote, “Write drunk. Edit sober.”
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Q&A With Lisa!
1. What was you fav
book from your childhood?
I was really into the Babysitter’s Club and Sweet Valley
High. My favorite standalone book was probably Freaky Friday.
2. Who inspires you?
Musicians. Music constantly inspires me. When I’m writing, I
listen mostly to Matchbox Twenty, Maroon 5, and Imagine Dragons, but my
playlist is constantly changing… although I tend to listen to the same set of
songs on repeat.
3. If you could bring
to life any one character who would it be and why?
Jesse Drake from my book Separation
Anxiety. He’s perfect. :)
4. If you could be a
man for the day what would you do? (Crazy silly answers are welcome ;)
5.If you could live
in a book which book would it be?
Harry Potter
6. Celebrity crush?
Adam Levine
7.What are you
currently reading?
Torture to Her Soul by JM Darhower
8.One thing most
people don't know about you?
I love going to concerts. I just saw Britney Spears last
weekend!
9. Are any characters
in your books similar to you as a person? personality, traits so on?
Some of my characters have a random personality traits that
I also have (like Travis in the He Feels Trilogy loves American Cheese… so do
I), but they are all very different from me.
10. Fav book of all
time?
I can’t pick just one! One of my current favorites is Night
Owl by M. Pierce.
11. Fav tv show and/Or
movie?
New Girl is my favorite TV show. I have lots of favorite
movies! Ocean’s 11 and Forgetting Sarah Marshall are two that come to mind.
12. If you could be
any paranormal being for a day which would you choose to be and why?
I would be a Twilight vampire because they’re all so good
looking.
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Books By Lisa Suzanne
SEPARATION ANXIETY
Separation.
We all get one true love in our lives, and it’s up to us to find it. Fate will act and try to push us together, but ultimately it’s up to us to recognize who that one person is when he’s standing in front of us.
It turns out that I recognized who my one person was when I was separated from my husband.
Anxiety.
On the same day I determined that I was finally going to file for divorce, I confessed my secret to Jesse Drake, my swoon-worthy colleague known for his womanizing ways. Jesse invited me to crash with him, and with each new piece of the enigmatic Jesse puzzle that I started to fit into place, I found myself wondering if Fate had pushed us together for a reason.
If only my husband would stop getting in the way of the man with whom I was meant to be
It turns out that I recognized who my one person was when I was separated from my husband.
Anxiety.
On the same day I determined that I was finally going to file for divorce, I confessed my secret to Jesse Drake, my swoon-worthy colleague known for his womanizing ways. Jesse invited me to crash with him, and with each new piece of the enigmatic Jesse puzzle that I started to fit into place, I found myself wondering if Fate had pushed us together for a reason.
If only my husband would stop getting in the way of the man with whom I was meant to be
We all get one true love in our lives, and it’s up to us to find it. Fate will act and try to push us together, but ultimately it’s up to us to recognize who that one person is when he’s standing in front of us. If only my husband would stop getting in the way of the man with whom I was meant to be.
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Excerpt
As
we approached my neighborhood, I gathered my purse from the floor of the car
and took a deep breath, steeling myself for what was awaiting me.
But
we drove right past my neighborhood. “I live back there,” I said, pointing my
thumb behind us.
“Well
I live up here,” he countered.
What?
“What?”
I put voice to the question in my head.
“I’m
not taking you to your house. You need someone to talk to, and you obviously
need a night away from your almost ex. I’ve got extra space, and you might be
aware that I have a degree in counseling, so I’m taking you home with me.”
My
heart pounded, and then I felt a deep, aching throb start to form between my
legs.
He
was taking me home?
He
was taking me home!
Holy
shit!
I
was going to Jesse’s house.
I
was going to sleep in Jesse Drake’s bed.
Well,
technically a guest bed that belonged to Jesse Drake.
Same
difference.
“It’s
okay, Jesse. You can take me to my house.” My argument was weak, but I knew I
had to put one up anyway.
“Forget
about it. You’re coming with me.”
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SIDE EFFECTS
She has been hurt. She has a past of lies, cheating, and
pain. She has severe panic attacks when she’s in enclosed spaces, a side effect
of a horrible accident caused by a man she thought she loved. Quinn Carpenter
has a distinct type: bad boys with dark hair, dark eyes, and tattoos. Tyler,
her friend with benefits, fits the bill perfectly. They have fun together and
they both know that fun is where their relationship begins and ends.
Quinn’s life is exactly how she wants it until she meets Reed
Porter, the typical pretty boy with blue eyes, blonde hair, and zero tattoos.
He is the exact opposite of everything Quinn likes.
So why can’t she get the frustrating, preppy, blue-eyed Reed
out of her head?
She isn’t interested in commitment. She doesn’t want a
relationship. But Reed challenges her, he puts her in her place, and he makes
her nervous. The confident Quinn is never nervous around men, so what is it
about Reed that has her questioning everything? And what will be the side
effects of attempting to juggle two men at the same time?
Side Effects contains adult situations and is intended for mature
readers.
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Excerpt
I
saw Grant first. He was my brother, so I couldn’t really judge his appearance,
but Avery badgered me constantly about hooking her up with him. I told her that
he was off limits. He was my brother, for God’s sake, not some random guy she
met in a bar.
Besides,
I couldn’t fathom the thought of my brother having sex, let alone having it
with one of my friends. The thought disgusted me.
My
mom stood and walked toward me to give me a hug when she saw me enter the room,
and I locked eyes with my dad, who winked at me.
And
then I noticed the guy with dark blonde hair sitting at the table.
He
turned around to face me and something about him was oddly familiar.
Surprised
blue eyes hidden behind black framed glasses.
A
white polo shirt tucked neatly into khaki pants.
I
tugged at my ponytail, tightening my hair in the band, suddenly self-conscious
and not sure why. Okay, I was kind of sure why. This blonde guy was staring at
me like he knew me, and then the next word out of his mouth confirmed that he
did. “Quinn?”
Shit.
He knew my name?
Who
the hell was this guy, and why did he look so familiar?
“Reed.
From the bar last night?”
Recognition
dawned. Ah yes, the preppy guy who bought me a shot and whose name I
immediately forgot.
What
the fuck was he doing at my parents’ house?
“How
do you two know each other?” Grant looked back and forth between us.
I glanced at my
brother. “We don’t,” I said at the same time Preppy said, “We met last night at
Strikers.”
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SECOND OPINION
What
do you do when the person you love most in the world breaks your heart… twice?
Grant’s solution is avoiding relationships. Four years since the last time he
saw Rachelle, his heart still can’t take another break.
“You’re
not marriage material.” From the time he’d first heard those words spoken by
the woman he loved, Grant Carpenter believed them.
When
a woman he’s known for years shows an interest in him, he starts to question
Rachelle’s words about marriage material, wondering if he might need a second
opinion. Someone in the present, someone who has always been in the periphery
but who he never gave a second glance, starts to take over his every thought.
Grant
is armed with plenty of reasons to ignore what he’s feeling, but someone who
should remain off-limits is suddenly overshadowing his obsession with his past.
She’s making him want a future that he thought he’d written off, but he isn’t
sure that she wants a future with him.
Ultimately,
he has to decide what to do when the past makes her way back into his present.
Second Opinion contains adult situations and is intended for
mature readers.
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Excerpt
“Grant,
I need your help.”
I
turned toward the voice purring like a kitten in my ear and locked eyes with
the same gorgeous brown ones that had been glancing in my direction all night.
I
grinned and her face lit up. Somehow my smile tended to have that effect on
women, especially when I turned it on full blast.
“What
can I do for you?” I grabbed my bottle and took a long drink of my beer. It
gave me something to do while I thought up my next line.
“Veronica
and I got some stuff to decorate the bridal suite tomorrow. We need your help
getting into the room.”
I
thought quickly. “I’ve got it covered.”
“Thanks,
Grant,” she said, squeezing my bicep.
I
liked her hands on me.
I
wanted more of that.
“Anything
else I can do for you?”
“I
can think of a few things.” A wicked smile broke across her face.
I
raised an eyebrow in her direction.
I
reasoned with myself through my beer-induced haze. I didn’t have a date for my
sister’s wedding. I had decided to go solo because my choices weren’t very
appetizing, for one, and for another thing, bringing a date to a wedding sent
all the wrong messages to women.
Women
loved weddings because they loved seeing the bride, they loved making judgments
about everything from the flowers to the cake, and they loved the idea of
happily ever after.
Apart
from the false sense of hope, I wasn’t about to bring some random girl to meet
my family.
I’d
never brought home anyone to meet my parents, including Rachelle. I was
intensely private about my personal life, although my sister had gotten a
pretty good idea of what I did in my spare time. She’d stayed with me for a
while when Reed had been living with me.
But
not bringing a date meant my dance card was essentially empty barring the
requisite bridal party dances. And that meant I’d have plenty of time at the
reception the next night to get to know Avery.
Unless,
of course, she was bringing a date to the wedding. I wasn’t sure how to ask
that question without sending the wrong message.
Avery
broke into my thoughts. “Save me a dance tomorrow, okay?”
I
lowered my voice and leaned in toward her. “I’ll save you more than a dance,
Avery.”
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HOW HE REALLY FEELS
(HE FEELS, BOOK 1)
Julianne
Becker is desperately in love with her boss, Nick Matthews. She has daydreamed
about him since the day she first met him a year earlier, but she is firmly
stuck in the friend-zone until New Year’s Eve, when the game completely changes
and she finds out how Nick really feels about her. They embark on a sexy affair
that’s everything Julianne ever dreamed of... except she can’t tell anyone
about it. What will happen if anyone finds out about their secret relationship?
And how will her lifelong best friend, Travis Miller, react when Julianne
begins a relationship with someone who isn’t him?
How He Really Feels is a novel that explores relationships and love between coworkers and friends. It contains some adult situations and is intended for mature readers.
How He Really Feels is a novel that explores relationships and love between coworkers and friends. It contains some adult situations and is intended for mature readers.
Who
cared that I didn’t have anyone to kiss at midnight? The important thing was
that this was the end of an old year and the start of a brand new one, and I
had several goals in mind for this new year. The most important, of course,
being Nick. I would find a way to push past this professional business
friendship relationship we had formed. I would find a way to kiss him, hold
him, make love to him in this new year.
It
was my resolution, and I was determined to make it happen.
Everyone
raised their glasses in the air and counted along, “Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven!
Six! Five! Four! Three! Two! One! HAPPY NEW YEAR!” I glanced over at Lucy,
whose lips were locked to Jake’s, and then Travis, who was kissing Brooke. I
smiled, happy for my friends despite my lack of a man to kiss at midnight, when
I felt a tap on my shoulder.
I
turned around, and my heart stopped as my eyes met Nick’s. Utter shock hit me
as I realized that he was actually here. And he looked fucking sexy in a black
suit with a gray shirt under it, open at the collar. He had just a shadow of a
beard, making him look rugged and manly, and his hair was mussed perfectly in
every direction. I was so dazed that he was standing in front of me that I was
rendered momentarily speechless.
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WHAT HE REALLY FEELS
(HE FEELS, BOOK 2)
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SINCE HE REALLY FEELS (HE FEELS, BOOK 3)
Will
Travis ever figure out What He Really Feels, or will he be stuck on his first
love forever? Will he find his happily ever after?
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Excerpt
We headed to
Mahogany, the same place I had gone for New Year’s Eve a little over a month
earlier. While the place immediately reminded me of Jules, I had to admit that
it was an awesome bar with a great vibe. The bar was, obviously, made from
mahogany, and that’s where Bill, Mike, and I had settled in on three barstools
with me in the middle.
“Barkeep!” Mike
yelled obnoxiously over the dance music that pumped from the sound system. The
male bartender looked over at him and then proceeded to totally ignore him.
Bill pulled out a twenty and waved it around, and the bartender made his way
over.
“What’re you having?”
he asked.
“Three shots of
Jaeger,” Bill said.
The bartender looked
at him. “You’re gonna need more than twenty bucks for three shots.”
Bill glanced over at
us, and then he took his wallet out to provide more money while the bartender
poured our drinks.
He passed the drinks
across the bar to us. “Twenty-four,” he said to Bill.
“Fuck,” Bill said. He
looked at me. “Eight bucks for a shot?”
I shrugged while he
paid, and then the three of us toasted. “To getting fucked up,” Mike said, and
we cheered and threw back the Jaeger.
A hundred bucks
later, the three of us were feeling good and drunk when three ladies walked up
to the bar to order their drinks. I checked each of them out from behind since
their backs were to us, and after they placed their orders, they turned their
attention to my friends and me. Each one of them focused on one of us, as if
they had some sort of pre-arranged deal. It wasn’t my first time playing that
particular game, and I somehow found myself incredibly drawn to the hottest
one, the one whose attention was on me.
I gasped for breath
as I gazed down the length of her petite, tight body and briefly thought that
she could easily help me get over Jules. I frowned at the random thought.
She had dark hair and
dark eyes, and she was short – a full foot shorter than me at least, if not
more. She was Jules’s exact opposite in almost every way. Jules was tall with
flowing blond hair and beautiful blue eyes while this woman was short with dark
hair cut in a blunt style that fell just above her shoulders and dark, exotic
eyes that I could get lost in.
In fact, I think I
was already lost in them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SINCE HE REALLY FEELS (HE FEELS, BOOK 3)
Julianne
and Nick know they should form a united front, but knowing what to do and
actually doing it are two very different things. Will Travis’s presence in
their life pull them together or push them apart? Find out in the passionate
and emotional concluding book of the He Feels Trilogy.
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I walked into his
office and stood on the opposite side of his desk from him. “Nick, you know I
choose you. I can’t live without you. I love you, and I can’t wait to become
your wife.”
He gazed at me for a
long moment, and then the corners of his mouth tipped up into a small smile.
“My wife,” he repeated.
He stood up from his
chair, the leather squeaking as he rose. He walked over to the door and shut
it. Eric and Josh, Nick’s roommates, were around somewhere, both getting ready
to move out by the end of the month, and clearly Nick wanted privacy. With me.
After he shut the
door, he stalked over to me. “My wife,” he whispered again, taking me in his
arms.
“Let’s not fight,” I
pleaded.
“Let’s never fight
again,” he murmured.
“Deal,” I said, and I
pressed my lips to his. The familiar buzz zipped through my spine as his mouth
took mine aggressively. I loved the way his tongue moved sensually against
mine, and the slow burn in my belly made its way down as desire overtook every
sensation in my body and every thought in my mind.
God, I had missed
him. I had missed this intimacy, this connection with him.
His electric
fingertips danced across my skin slowly, leaving a burning tingle in their
wake. He found the hem of my shirt and lifted it over my head, tossing it on
the floor next to us and then removing his own before his lips crashed back
down over mine. He unsnapped my bra with one hand as the other hand pressed
into the small of my back. The feeling of his fingertips across my skin was
utter perfection.
He was truly an expert
at seduction, and he was mine.
Forever.
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NIGHTTIDES
(Anthology)
I
wished I would get over the pain of a broken heart. I thought an escape to the
beach with my best friend would make my wish come true.
My
goal was to meet a sexy stranger and fall in lust.
Cue
Ben, a sexy stranger traveling on business.
I
made him promise that our week of fun would stay in California. He made me
promise that I wouldn’t fall for him.
I’m
not sure that either of us will be able to keep our promises.
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You come out here for
a breath of fresh air, too?”
“Yeah. Honestly, I
don’t even know what I’m doing here. This isn’t my scene.”
“Can I tell you a
secret?” I asked, wondering where this sudden burst of confidence came from in
the presence of such an attractive man.
He nodded, and I
leaned in. “This isn’t my scene, either.”
He rewarded my
flirtation with a laugh, and I couldn’t help but laugh along with him. “Walk
with me,” he said, and I followed him along the balcony to a staircase.
He led me down the
stairs, and I walked alongside him down the sidewalk away from the club.
“I really shouldn’t
go too far,” I said, suddenly nervous to be walking away from my friend with a
complete stranger. “My friend will wonder where I went.”
“The friend you were
escaping by getting a breather on the balcony?”
He had a point, and
something made me trust him. My instincts about people tended to be dead on, a
trait that came in handy in my public relations career. “I'm Emily Foster.”
“Ben Parker.”
“What’s a guy like
you doing at a bar like that, Ben Parker?”
“Same thing a girl
like you was doing there, Emily Foster.”
I loved the way the
deep timbre of his voice formed my name.
“Scouting the crowd
for hot guys?”
He chuckled. “I was
going to say that I went for a drink.”
I shrugged
unapologetically.
“Well?”
I glanced over at
Ben. “Well what?”
“Did you find any hot
guys?”
I liked where he was
headed with this. “Just one.”
“That’s interesting.”
“Oh?”
“Because I only found
one hot girl.”
My face heated at his
words.
“Yeah, but she left
just before I went out to the balcony for some fresh air.”
“Oh.” My ego deflated
almost instantaneously.
Caught up in my own
head, I hadn’t realized that he had stopped walking. I stopped, too, and turned
back to look at Ben.
“Emily, I’m fucking
with you. You’re the only hot girl I saw all night.”
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