Tasting Never Series by C.M. Stunich

Tasting Never, a New Adult Romance Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and UpTasting Never Series, book #1.(Books #2-#5 are also available! Reading list included below.)"Never Ross wants to be loved.It's that simple, but it's not that easy."Never is a girl with a broken soul who doesn't date nice guys and can't seem to go to bed at night without crying herself to sleep. She doesn't need any complications in her life, especially not when they're attached to a man that could be her emotional twin... moreTasting Never, a New Adult Romance Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and UpTasting Never Series, book #1.(Books #2-#5 are also available! Reading list included below.)"Never Ross wants to be loved.It's that simple, but it's not that easy."Never is a girl with a broken soul who doesn't date nice guys and can't seem to go to bed at night without crying herself to sleep. She doesn't need any complications in her life, especially not when they're attached to a man that could be her emotional twin.Ty McCabe can't stand Never the first time he meets her. He's aware that the feeling's mutual and the two don't think they'll ever see each other again, but when fate takes a hand and puts them both in the wrong place at the wrong time, Ty and Never form a tentative friendship that opens the door on their dark sides and shows them what it's like to live in the light."Sometimes, the only way to go forward, is to take a few, careful steps back."READING LIST#1: Tasting Never#2: Finding Never#3: Keeping NeverOR Books #1-#3 in one volume: "Tasting, Finding, Keeping: The Story of Never"#4: Never Can Tell#5: Never Let Go#6: Never Did SayTASTING NEVER EXCERPT:Ty's hot mouth is on my neck, and I find myself taking short, sharp, little breaths as I press my shaking hands to his chest. If I sleep with him again, I'll be making the biggest mistake of my life. He's the first real friend I've ever had, and I don't want to cheapen the feelings that are simmering between us. We made that mistake once before, and we survived. We've been through a lot since then, and I know that if I lose him now, I will never be whole again. Ty is my other half, lover or no, and just being around him is enough for me. “Ty,” I say, trying my best to sound stern. Instead, my voice comes out like a butterfly, flutters against Ty's hair and swirls it gently against my lips. I moan and find that my fingers are now curled in the fabric of his T-shirt. “Never,” he says back to me, the word like fire against my skin. In those two syllables, I hear how he feels about me. He thinks he's in love. Ty McCabe thinks he's in love with me. He doesn't say it aloud, but I can tell. Sex isn't the best way for me to show my feelings; I've abused it for far too long that it has somehow lost some of its meaning. I try to tell Ty this, but I can't speak with his lips on my throat and his hand sliding across the nape of my neck. I run my own hands down his chest and put them beneath his shirt, on the hard plane of his belly. His muscles contract as I press my fingers into them, touching, feeling, absorbing the man, the complication, that is Ty McCabe. All the while, my mind is racing in circles trying to talk me out of this.“Kiss me,” Ty says and it's not a question, it's a request, albeit a gentle one. His voice is softer than I've ever heard it. His words are naked, stripped of all the bullshit that's happened to him, all of the horrible things that mirror my own life. Ty and I are like twins, like two halves of the same whole. They say that opposites attract, but Ty and I are very much the same and the attraction between us burns brighter than the sun. “Kiss me,” he says again and I do. less

Finding Never, a New Adult Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and Up#2 in the series beginning with "Tasting Never"(Books 1-5 are available now - Reading list included below!)"Tell me, Never, do you still love him?"Never Ross and Ty McCabe have come a long way – but they can't stop now. Their pasts are still there, ready to sweep over and consume them if they don't confront them... moreFinding Never, a New Adult Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and Up#2 in the series beginning with "Tasting Never"(Books 1-5 are available now - Reading list included below!)"Tell me, Never, do you still love him?"Never Ross and Ty McCabe have come a long way – but they can't stop now. Their pasts are still there, ready to sweep over and consume them if they don't confront them. A visit to Never's family seems like the first logical step, but will it make things better or worse? And what about Noah Scott? Ty is Never's tortured other half, but can he also be the healing balm that she so desperately needs? With McCabe's past still a virtual unknown, Never is going to have to make more than one decision capable of breaking both their hearts."Ty has changed; I have changed, and things are not always what they seem."READING LIST:#1: Tasting Never#2: Finding Never#3: Keeping NeverOR #1-3: "Tasting, Finding, Keeping: The Story of Never"#4: Never Can Tell#5: Never Let Go#6: Never Did Say (Releases July 2015)FINDING NEVER EXCERPT:“Before you say whatever it is that you're going to say, can I show you something?” he asks as the fog of his breath tangles and dances with mine in the crisp winter air.“Ty, you don't – ”He cuts me off.“Please.” He says the word like it's a question, but it's not. He's not asking my permission. Ty is telling me that he's going to show me whether I like it or not, so I better be ready for it. “I need to show you how much you rock my f*cking world.” And then Ty is kissing me hot and hungry, down my neck and back up again. He's biting my lip and making me bleed, brushing his lips across the beating pulse in my neck, the one that throbs like crazy when he's around.“Ty, stop,” I say because we're on a playground for God's sake, but he doesn't. He doesn't stop. He adjusts my wrists so that he's holding them with one hand, and although I probably could fight him if I wanted to, I don't. I don't want him to stop, not now, not ever. less

Keeping Never, a New Adult Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and UpBook #3 in the series beginning with "Tasting Never"(Books 1-5 are available now - Reading list included below)“In your pain, I see my own, so I'm going to tell you and only you, okay?”Never's past might be under control, but Ty's is just starting to unravel... moreKeeping Never, a New Adult Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and UpBook #3 in the series beginning with "Tasting Never"(Books 1-5 are available now - Reading list included below)“In your pain, I see my own, so I'm going to tell you and only you, okay?”Never's past might be under control, but Ty's is just starting to unravel. After receiving a phone call from his broken past, tensions run high between Never and Ty, especially with Never deciding to do something she's never done and keep her pregnancy a secret.While visiting the skeletons in his dark, dark closet, Ty is threatened by all that he once was and all that he thought he'd overcome. With his pain about to consume him, Never is the only one who stands between Ty and relapse, who can help him control his emotions and find peace, but is she up to it? After all, with two tortured souls desperate for a healing touch, are they more of a hindrance to one another than a help?Love, marriage, and a baby. Three things that Ty and Never didn't see coming. It's judgment time for both of them, time to see if the light really can overcome the dark. Here's to hoping.“I know you'll make the right decision, no matter how hard it is, no matter if it cuts you into pieces, because you have to believe that I'll be there for you in the end.”Reading List:#1: Tasting Never#2: Finding Never#3: Keeping NeverOR #1-#3: "Tasting, Finding, Keeping: The Story of Never"#4: Never Can Tell#5: Never Let Go#6: Never Did Say (Releases January 7th, 2015)KEEPING NEVER EXCERPT:Ty enters the bathroom, and I turn my head forward, back towards the large, gray seat in front of me, determined not to give myself away by acting too anxiously. After all, I've seen one too many horrible scenarios in movies regarding the infamous Mile High Club. I suppose now I'll get to find out if it's really a reality or if Ty's just sh*tting with me. I want to erase his pain, though, give him something else to occupy his mind for a little while. After all, he did the same for me on the bus, took something that used to be my weakness, twisted it around so that it was not only a distraction technique but a bonding exercise that drew the two of us together in ways that I can still barely understand. For so, so long, sex was just this thing, this dangerous activity with physical and emotional consequences that I ignored in desperation, wildly fighting to fill that emptiness inside of myself. Now, my feelings for Ty and my family sit there and make my heart tight with love, and sex has become … something else. It's just pleasure and not pain, another way for me to show Ty how I feel and vice versa, a stress reliever, exercise, relaxation … It's all of those things and more. It's something for him and me alone, just the two of us. Just us. Us, us, us. less

Never Did Say, a New Adult Romance Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and Up Book #6 in the series beginning with "Tasting Never" *Reading Order Included Below* “You are my happy ending. Everything else happening around us? It doesn't mean shit.” Life is made up of hills and valleys, but fate Never did say that I'd get stuck in a rut like this. It's my turn now, mine, and I'm supposed to be happy... moreNever Did Say, a New Adult Romance Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and Up Book #6 in the series beginning with "Tasting Never" *Reading Order Included Below* “You are my happy ending. Everything else happening around us? It doesn't mean shit.” Life is made up of hills and valleys, but fate Never did say that I'd get stuck in a rut like this. It's my turn now, mine, and I'm supposed to be happy. I've got Ty McCabe, my dark butterfly, my prince in a crown of thorns, so why is there all of this blood and this bullshit? What ever happened to happily ever after? But I'm different now. Stronger. I won't sit back and watch everything fall away. This time, instead of running, I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight with everything and then some because I have my soul mate, my son, my sisters. I finally have a life worth fighting for, and I won't give it up. Not even to fate. “We're worth more than just ourselves alone, Never; we're the sum of each other.” *Never Series Reading Order* Book #1: Tasting Never Book #2: Finding Never Book #3: Keeping Never OR BOXED SET of Books #1-#3: Tasting, Finding, Keeping: The Story of Never Book #4: Never Can Tell Book #5: Never Let Go Book #6: Never Did Say Book #7: Never Could Stop (coming soon!) Also Available by C.M. Stunich -Taming Her Boss (Romantic Comedy) -Taboo Unchained (Dark Romance/Erotica) -Real Ugly (New Adult Rock Star Romance) -Losing Me, Finding You (New Adult Biker Erotic Romance) NEVER DID SAY Excerpt I burrow into Ty's side, breathe his scent in and let it coat my lungs. This, this is how I want to die, lying next to the love of my life with the gritty perfection of bad boy and cigarettes and f*cking soap filling my nostrils. I'll die happy then, truly I will. “Will you still love me when I'm old and wrinkled?” I whisper randomly. Everybody has these thoughts at some point, don't they? I have no idea why I decide to ask this question at this exact moment, but I do. Maybe it's because I know Ty will give me the answer I want to hear. What I don't say, but that he probably already knows, is that lying next to him like this is the most soothing balm my twisted soul could ever ask for. Sleeping next to a guy, knowing him, not f*cking him. It's the most intimate thing I've ever done. And the fact that I have Ty's baby inside of me? My stomach explodes into a swarm of butterflies, and I actually feel nervous being around him, excited. I hope this feeling never fades. Ty pulls me just a little bit closer, hugs me a little tighter. “I'll love you because you're old and wrinkled. Nev, some people get freaked out at the thought of being old, but you know what? If you get that far, you should just consider yourself lucky. I'd rather die old and toothless in your arms than drop dead tomorrow. Sure, I'd leave a pretty corpse, but it wouldn't be worth it. Each second with you is a f*cking gift.” I laugh, lifting up his shirt with my left hand, so I can lay my fingers against bare skin. “You're too much, you know that? Do you come up with this sh*t on the fly or plan your lines in advance?” “Um, I'm a bad boy, remember? I got lines for days, baby cakes.” less

NEVER COULD STOP is the 7th book in the series beginning with TASTING NEVER... JADE'S STORY... (although Ty and Never feature heavily!) Three breaths before he pulled the trigger, he told me he loved me. Two breaths before, I told him I loved him. One breath later, everything was different. Zero breaths. That's how many I have left in this life. Zero. That's how many regrets I wish I had. Be careful today because sometimes, tomorrow never comes.