Solstice, Part I: The Seduction: Chapters Excerpted from Solstice: Book I of the Alessandra Legacy Trilogy

by K.W. Keith

Driven by the ghosts of her past, New York Times journalist Solana Trent lives for one goal – to bring down the mob. After her first successful exposé destroyed one crime family, she now has her sights set on another, namely the notorious syndicate spearheaded by the charismatic, devastatingly handsome acquisition mogul Raine Mathison.

While Solana is astonished to discover the true extent of Mathison’s power, more startling is their magnetic attraction to each other. Seduced by the scent of a story, Solana raises the stakes in her hunt for Mathison, but when her reckless ambition lands her in the mob boss’s crosshairs, she becomes the hunted in a game for her life.

A battle of wits and wills ensues, culminating in a passionate encounter neither one of them had anticipated. Solana suspects there’s much more to the intense, complicated man she’s been investigating, whereas Mathison finds himself entertaining unorthodox plans for the beautiful, dangerous journalist in his debt.

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 28, 2014

About the author

I was born to write. At ten years old, I was penning 30-page princess stories in long hand, to the delight of my parents and sisters. Adolescence brought murder mysteries and tales of romance that left my friends begging me for more – horrid penmanship be damned. This trilogy began when I was sixteen, pink ink on pink paper, but it took a back seat to my BA from Wellesley in Classics and Astronomy, and then suffered a full-on demotion to the trunk while I earned my joint MS/MBA from Northeastern.

While my professional career flourished, my incensed characters haunted me. I caved to them in March of 2011 and they subsequently took over my life – much to my abandoned husband’s chagrin and my friends’ bubbling excitement. Accountant by day, novelist by night, I’ve breathed new life into my long-neglected story, and the labor of love has brought me joy unparalleled. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I've enjoyed writing it.