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Friday, 27 July 2012

Author Spotlight on Lace Daltyn




Hey, Jorja and everyone! Lace Daltyn here. Many thanks to Jorja for letting me stop in and talk about my newest story, Forever Men. Beyond being an author, I’m an avid reader who loves emotional stories with Happily Ever After endings. So when these three characters started jumping up and down inside my brain, I gave them a story that put them smack in the middle of my heart. I hope you will love them as much as I do.



Blurb



Walls crumble when you build a forever love.

 As a couple, the deep, sensual connection between Desi and Alec is imaginative and limitless, even though Desi’s fear that love is transient keeps her from telling her man how she feels. Fun-loving Alec, who lost his parents in a tragic accident, has found that kind of forever love again. He’ll do whatever it takes to keep it, including giving Desi the one thing he lacks—a partner with a serious side.

 With their fledgling construction company headed for the skids if they don’t finish the job on time, Desi and Alec are frantic to catch up. Enter Alec’s friend, Matt, a man haunted by the “dull and unimaginative” label his ex-fiancĂ© pinned on him.

 Working side by side, a thirst grows that seems unquenchable and each must come to terms with old hurts in order to consider possibilities never before imagined.

Excerpt



Desi glanced down to the empty dirt yard. Where the hell was Alec, anyhow? She’d sent him to pick up materials two hours ago.

Right on cue, a black truck raced up the treed lane and squirreled to a stop in front of the house, sending a dust cloud skyward.

            About time.

            When Alec jumped out and grinned up at her, Desi’s irritation started to fade.

            He bounded up the stairs, brushing his shaggy blond hair back as he joined her and wrapped tanned arms around her waist.

            “Hey, Gorgeous.” 

            When his eyes brimmed with amusement, as they did now, Desi found it hard to stay annoyed with him. She tried, pushing against him. “I’m mad at you.”

            Alec threw his head back and laughed. “You can never stay mad at me.”

            The smile she tried to hide refused to cooperate. Staying mad at Alec was just too damn hard. Everything about him was designed to make the world seem perfect, from his construction-hardened body to the almost constant gleam in his eyes. When Alec was near, it was easy to believe The Dream. Desi sobered as she looked around. Things were a far sight from all right at the moment.

“We’re so far behind, Alec.”

            “Trust me,” he said. “We’ll be fine.”

            “I don’t know...” Desi chewed her lower lip. Alec always saw the bright side of things, sometimes to the exclusion of the issues they needed to solve.

Alec took the hammer out of her hand and let it drop to the plywood sub-floor. “It sounds like you need a distraction.”

            The flash of his dark eyes as they inspected her from toe to head started a familiar fire deep in her belly. “Oh-h-h, no,” she stuttered. Desi backed up until a two-by-four, part of the wall frame, stopped her. “No way, Alec. We’ve got no time for that.”

Together over a year now, she still couldn’t get enough of him. When he turned on the charm, like now, the man was irresistible. But they couldn’t. Not now. Not today.

The look in his eyes crumbled her resolve further. He stepped closer, and heat, both familiar and delicious, spread between her legs.

“We can’t, Alec. We’re so far behind schedule.”

“What’s a few more minutes, then?” He leaned in, his lips grazing her neck, strumming an already taut thread of need.

Arousal swept away the last vestiges of hesitation, and Desi wound her hands into Alec’s hair. “Work can wait.”




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9 comments:

  1. Love the cover!!! Sounds like a great book too

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    1. Thanks, Cherie! I oohed and aahed over that cover! :) I appreciate you stopping by.

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  2. Hmmm, Work can wait indeed ;-)

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    1. Oh, yes. Work can definitely wait. And that's only page 4! :)

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  3. Oh sexy construction workers! YUM! Sounds like an emotional story too.

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    1. Hi, Yazmin. I know. Who doesn't love shirtless construction workers, eh? It was a little hard for me to let go of these characters. They got under my skin.
      Thanks for stopping by!

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  4. oh my, anther fab book for my wish list!

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    1. Thanks, Raven. I appreciate the support and hope you get the chance to read the story! :)

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  5. Thanks for having me here, Jorja! And mega-congratulations on your own newest release--Jackie and her Loose Talk!

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