So happy to have Diane Saxon here today. Congratulations on nearing the end of your blog hop Diane and good luck with your romantic comedy Flight of Her Life!
It’s really great to be here today at the end of my blog hop visits to my favorite authors, Thank you for hosting me, Layne.
I’ve done a consecutive Excerpt
of Flight of Her Life, my new Romantic Comedy especially for Christmas, so if
you missed the other installments you can go back and start at the beginning. By
the end, you will have read my first two chapters.
I love life and I laugh a lot. I
think that’s why funny things seem to happen to me, so I thought I would do a
little competition during the hop, the answers were a pure guess, and I am
giving away a copy of Flight of Her Life to the two top scoring visitors.
Here are the answers:
1. a.
I leapt into the sea from the top of the ship – I was invited to by the
Captain.
2. c.
Target practice, I’m afraid. But rumor had it I swung from the chandeliers and
most people were very impressed.
3. a.
I stepped in cow muck, well I ran full pelt into cow muck, my dog escaped
covered in poo and I had to get hauled out with a rope. I ruined my very
expensive walking boots and never trekked that way again.
4. b.
I got stuck in a lift and everyone was out at the beach so no-one heard me
calling. They had disabled the outside alarm because it was disturbing the
reception desk. There was a little dead mouse and I wondered how long he had
been there before I discovered him.
5. c.
Oh, my goodness. The poor, poor man. He was such a mess by the time he
disembarked. It’s not like she was a little girl, nope, she was 19.
6. c.
Stuck. Stuck. Stuck. Scary stuck in steaming hot temperatures, our girls were
only 4 and 8, no shade, no shelter, no water. Just sun cream and a metal boat,
surrounded by alligators.
So, if you’ve commented I will
have chosen by now the person with the most correct answers and I will let you
know shortly who will win a copy of my new release, Flight of Her Life.
Blurb
Traveling from New York
City to Houston to meet her future in-laws and announce her engagement,
accident prone Bailey finds herself in a situation beyond her control. All
flights are cancelled the night before Christmas Eve, leaving Bailey stranded
at the airport with a cowboy from her past.
Against all odds, Sebastian
manages to rescue Bailey from one disaster after another, but is it too late to
rescue her from her future? Faced with a heartrending dilemma, does Bailey turn
her back on the man who offers her a life of security, or does she run off to
Maui with a cowboy?
Excerpt
She drew in a breath and closed her eyes briefly,
while she tried to ignore the pulsing warmth spreading through her stomach.
“Right, let’s go.” She turned to march away and was
brought up short as he restrained her with the grasp of his strong hand on her
elbow.
“It’s this way; you never could find your way
anywhere worth a damn.” He turned her in the opposite direction, tucked her arm
into his elbow. “And you should hold on to me so you don’t slip on your naked
little tush. You don’t want everyone getting an eyeful, do you?”
She cast him an irritated sideways glance, but he
was intent on moving through the crowds, toward the exit.
“I’ve booked a hotel. There’s a shuttle bus about
to leave in five minutes. It’ll be the last one of the day. They can barely get
through the roads now, so get a trot on.”
“I hope you’ve booked separate rooms.” She made her
voice as waspish as she could, but he ignored her completely.
They stepped out into the minus fifteen blizzard.
She sucked in a shocked breath and felt it turn to icicles in her lungs, making
her want to cough it back out again.
She ducked her head just as he wrapped his thick,
sheepskin coat around her shoulders, engulfing her in his warmth, and she
automatically slipped her arms into the sleeves, which dangled almost to her
knees.
“Thank you.” Not in the least inclined to refuse
his offer, she pulled the coat snug around her and tucked her nose inside the
collar to absorb the warm, spicy scent of him. It smelled of horses, and
leather, and man. So different from the cool, aloof lemon and washing powder
aroma Phillip emanated.
She whipped her nose back out of Sebastian’s coat
and snapped an accusing glare over her shoulder at him as his hands firmly
gripped her backside and pushed her up the two steps into the shuttle bus.
“Sebastian!”
He held his hands up and gave her an innocent look.
“Just giving a helping hand.”
“Well, don’t. I can manage fine without…” Her heel
slipped in the wet and as her legs shot from underneath her, Sebastian neatly
snaked his arm around her waist and let her back hit his chest.
“Ooommmff.” He steadied her. “You’re not as light
as you used to be.” His cool lips touched her burning ear and his breath puffed
gently across her cheek, sending delicious goose bumps chasing themselves down
her spine. “Must be the boobs you’ve developed since I last had my hands on you
when you were sixteen.”
That same fickle spine jerked to attention. She
pushed away from him and lifted her chin while she stepped cautiously along the
aisle.
The bus was full, except for one seat which she sat
in, making sure his coat was securely wrapped around her and tucked under her
knees, so she didn’t expose herself to any of the other passengers. She
understood why crossing your legs at this stage could be considered vulgar.
“You have to find a seat, son, or you’re walking.
No standing when we have to travel the interstate.” The bus driver turned his
head and pinned her with a look over the top of his glasses. “You could ask
your girl to sit on your knee, but I can’t allow you to stand.”
She didn’t even have time to shake her head in
denial before Sebastian leaned down, scooped her up and plunked her on his lap.
Her legs dangled between his wide spread ones, and his arms wrapped snugly
around her waist. He burrowed his icy nose into the collar of his coat and
buried it in her neck as she snaked her freezing legs against his warmer ones. She
knew she should tell him not to get so close, she shouldn’t allow him to
snuggle in, but she felt the shudder run through him and figured it wouldn’t
harm under the circumstances if she relaxed against him and they shared their
warmth. She was sure Phillip would understand.
Where to Buy Flight of Her Life
All Romance http://bit.ly/193gk5c
Where to find Diane:
Website http://dianesaxon.com
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Twitter: @Diane_Saxon
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Twitter: @Diane_Saxon
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