Today's post is a Super Book Blast for Late Last Night by Lilian Darcy, a Contemporary Romance book available now from Tule Publishing. As a book blast, there will be no interview or guest post, but will include a blurb and excerpt, and a brief introduction to the author. I will also post links to the other blogs participating on February 6th. The author and publisher will be awarding a $10 Amazon gift card, Valentine Mug and yummy candies to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour (US only). Please leave your e-mail address when you comment.
Lilian Darcy is a five-time
Rita™ Award nominee who has written over eighty romances for Harlequin, as well
as several mainstream novels. She has also written for Australian theatre and
television under another name, and has received two award nominations for Best
Play from the Australian Writers Guild. In 1990 she was the co-recipient of an
Australian Film Institute award for best TV mini-series.
Blurb for Late Last Night
It’s May 1996 and Marietta
High School English teacher Kate MacCreadie is almost at the end of her rope,
torn between the demands of her work and her heavy involvement in helping her
younger brother Rob and his wife Melinda take care of their five young children
on the MacCreadie family ranch.
When Marietta’s fine-looking
new sheriff, Harrison Pearce, pulls Kate over for her third traffic violation
in as many months, they both know it’s a sign that something has to give.
Kate finds it almost a
relief to be told by this calm, strong man to get her life in order, and then
she just keeps on seeing him - at school after there’s been a suspicious
break-in, on the evening of the prom when he’s off duty and driving his nephew
and friends to the event in one of his brother’s gorgeous vintage cars.
Late that night, after prom
is over, a tragedy at River Bend Park brings Kate and Harrison together yet
again, and this time, in the highly charged atmosphere, Kate discovers that she
never wants to let him go. But with his divorce still fresh, is Harrison ready
for someone new?
Excerpt from Late Last Night
“Kate,”
Harrison said, reaching her. He looked happy to see her. His dark eyes
contained an intent light and their focus was very steady.
“Hi,”
she said. “I’ve been tasked to show you the break-in, since I was the one who
found it.”
She
knew she was blushing a little. They’d had such a great conversation, looking
over his place last month. She’d had this shy, tentative little idea that he
might call and ask her out, afterward, but he hadn’t and silly, romantic Kate
had required a good, cheerful talking to from sensible, cynical Kate to put the
idea out of her mind.
It
was probably the three sets of glasses on your head and the four traffic
violations, Kate. He thinks you’re a lunatic, and dangerous.
Harrison
introduced the police detective, Greg Holding, who asked, “Has everything been
left just as it was when you first saw it?”
“Um,
yes, come this way and I’ll show you.” She almost took Harrison’s arm, pulling
back just in time. It wasn’t the occasion for touching a man, for heaven’s
sake, and especially not a man like this, in uniform! “There’s a lot of broken
glass. Mr Earnshaw wanted to sweep it up, but I thought you both should see it
first, on the chance there’s—”
Evidence.
But she didn’t say this, in case they thought she’d been watching too many TV
cop shows and crime dramas. Or in case she was gabbling.
“Good
thinking,” Harrison said, and she felt ridiculously happy about the praise.
They
smiled at each other, and her whole day changed.
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