Nameless-with Guest Claire Kent!
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**Today's excerpt contains mature themes**
Today I'm joined by author Claire Kent, who is busy with her Super Book Blast tour to promote her book Nameless. Claire will be awarding a $50 Amazon GC to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour, so be sure to post down below that you stopped by!
NAMELESS
by Claire
Kent
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BLURB:
They
named it anything but love.
After a failed marriage to a domineering man, Erin refuses to be controlled by anything or anyone. That includes Seth, the father of her baby—a man who was supposed to be only a one-night-stand, a man who’s used to always getting his way.
There’s a reason that Seth Thomas, a successful defense attorney, is often referred to as the Bulldozer. If something needs to happen, he makes it happen. That includes being part of his baby’s life—even if he never expected to be a father, even if Erin doesn’t really trust him.
They’ll work out an arrangement in the best interest of their baby—and if they occasionally have sex, well, that’s just an added perk—but they both agree on one thing.
What they have will never be love.
After a failed marriage to a domineering man, Erin refuses to be controlled by anything or anyone. That includes Seth, the father of her baby—a man who was supposed to be only a one-night-stand, a man who’s used to always getting his way.
There’s a reason that Seth Thomas, a successful defense attorney, is often referred to as the Bulldozer. If something needs to happen, he makes it happen. That includes being part of his baby’s life—even if he never expected to be a father, even if Erin doesn’t really trust him.
They’ll work out an arrangement in the best interest of their baby—and if they occasionally have sex, well, that’s just an added perk—but they both agree on one thing.
What they have will never be love.
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EXCERPT:
She wandered
back to the table to find Seth staring broodingly at his empty glass.
She watched
him for a minute. Then, “Are you all
right?”
He jerked his
head toward her, as if he hadn’t realized she’d returned. “Yeah.”
Studying him
closely, she decided she didn’t believe him.
He was flushed from warmth and the Scotch, adorably rumpled in his
wrinkled suit and loosened tie, and sprawled out on the booth seat. But he looked vulnerable somehow.
Wounded.
She sat down
beside him, instead of in her chair.
“I’m switching to water. If I drink any more, I might throw up.” This she said by way of explanation, so he
wouldn’t think she was giving up on their evening.
“Very
sensible of you.”
“Throwing up
in front of you would be embarrassing.”
Seth
nodded. “It wouldn’t be very pleasant
for me either.”
Then he
licked his lips the way he had before.
Erin watched
his tongue slide across the supple line of each lip, moistening each as it
went.
She moved
toward him. Slid her hands up his chest
until they settled on his shoulders. “I
asked you to stop licking your lips.”
His mouth
parted slightly, perhaps in surprise, but he didn’t have time to say anything.
Leaning her
face toward his, she pressed her lips into his.
He was warm and solid beneath her, and he made a little grunt in his
throat.
He tasted and
smelled like Scotch, and also something fainter, more masculine.
When she
relaxed her mouth on his, he murmured against her lips, “What was that?”
“That,” she
pronounced, pleased she was thinking so clearly, “was a kiss.”
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Bio:
Claire has
been writing romance novels since she was twelve years old. She has a PhD in
British literature and, when she's not writing, she teaches English at the
university level.
She also
writes contemporary romance under the penname Noelle Adams.
Links:
Website:
http://clairekent.com/
Facebook
(under my other penname Noelle Adams):
https://www.facebook.com/NoelleAdamsAuthor
Twitter
(under my other penname Noelle Adams): https://twitter.com/NoelleAdams3
Book Trailer:
http://youtu.be/wTMd2TBKXVA
