Spotlight
with author Cerise Deland
What’s up everyone?!?!?! Those of you who
have been around for a while know how much I love the 1 Night Stand series by
Decadent Publishing. This is another of those default automatic posts for me. 1
Night Stand? Decadent Publishing? Yes, please. I mean I don’t even have to
think about it. I just rush to my schedule to see what I have available for the
blog. Seriously. So today I have another of these fabulous little novella gems
to share with you. I haven’t read this particular story or author before, but
with the crazy good luck I have had with the publisher and series, you can bet
I will be making my way to this story soon. I am excited to find out more, so
let’s get on with it, shall we? Please allow me to introduce to the blog:
**CERISE
DELAND**
**BIO**
(taken
from her website)
Ah.
She becomes an author who can write about those romantic places. With a passion for cowboys, spies, rakes, knights in shining armor and their gutsy women, Cerise DeLand is an author who adores an alpha male with a tender heart and a need for a smoldering erotic love affair with the right woman!
Cerise is a Top 20 Best Selling author on Amazon with more than three dozen works published in erotic romance, and she is the award-winning author of mystery, mainstream and romance with St. Martin’s Press, Pocket Books and Kensington. Her books are on numerous book clubs, including Featured Selections of The Mystery Guild, Doubleday and Rhapsody. And when she isn’t dreaming up fiction or traveling? Cerise is a fabulous cook and an avid history buff.
Busy lady. Happy writer.
Find her books at Ellora’s Cave, Resplendence Publishing, Wild Rose Press and Total-E-Bound!
You
can find out more about Ms. Deland at the following places:
**MORE THAN YOU KNOW**
**1 Night Stand Series**
Erotic
Romance
Word
Count: 11,000
**BLURB**
When a va-va-voom redhead walks into
Luke Hurley’s bar, he vows to get to know her. But she escapes him every time,
her family besieging her. Luke wants to save her. Hell, he wants to savor her
if he can only figure out how to intrigue her…and nail her. Luke has his hands
full of the classiest, funniest female he’s ever met for one naughty night. But
will she love him tomorrow?
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**EXCERPT**
“Hi, Luke Hurley.” His redhead stood
right in front of him, beaming at him so the world glowed suddenly more
brightly in this dark crowded room.
“Hi, there,” he said to her, as she
inched closer to the bar. “I’m so glad you came in.”
“This has got to be Rita. Right?”
Teresa took a slow gander at the woman he had told her kept him awake at night.
“Rita?” asked the lady in question, looking
humored. “I’m—“
“Rita Hayworth. You bet!” Teresa
clamped a hand on his lady’s arm and peered at her like an X-ray machine.
“Luke, you pegged her. That is who she looks like. Gee. Lucky you, huh?”
Rita questioned him with a sideways
grin. “Luke, I—”
“Teresa is my friend,” he explained,
trying to keep Rita here until he got her phone number and her real name.
“I’m his copyeditor!” Teresa put in.
“His friend.”
“Yes, Teresa, and the lady would like
to have her arm back.”
“Oh, don’t chu worry yourself none,
Luke and Rita. I am leaving. I am!”
He turned back to his redhead. “I’m
glad you came in tonight. I’ve been trying to find out your name. Went to the
catering manager and asked about the wedding here tomorrow, but she says the
mother of the groom is a platinum blonde and short.”
“She is,” Rita exclaimed, little
chuckles escaping her.
Someone shouted out that he had to
stop holding hands with the bombshell and take his order. Where was his
assistant bartender? He looked around but tugged at Rita’s hand.
“Okay, okay!” Luke told him, but
zeroed in on Rita. “I want to call you. Ask you to dinner or drinks. Coffee,
anything. I need your phone number.”
“Really? Oh, Luke, please let me—”
“I’ll find a pencil and pad. And by
the way, that gown is unbelievable.” He had to tame his voice so he could speak
about the gold-sequined mermaid thing that made his cock twitch. “I think I
just went blind. Don’t move.”
He strode toward the register, found
what he needed and stepped toward her.
But her son and Blondie appeared
beside her. Blondie was pouting. The son raked his hair.
“I’m sorry. Tamara,” Rita bit off the
words, never looking at her future daughter-in-law as she took Luke’s pen and
wrote on his paper. “But I am the one who brought up Josh. And I will sit in
the first pew. If you or your parents don’t like it, too bad. And Josh, if your
father or his new wife don’t like it, tough.”
Luke watched the family drama,
realizing why he hadn’t been able to learn Rita’s name. She was the divorced
wife of Mr. Silver-haired Banker. And judging from the close ages of stepmother
and son, Rita might actually be wife numero dos.
The son cursed. “Tam, I want her to
sit in the front pew. This is my mother, and she deserves to take precedence.”
Ouch. Luke couldn’t help but look at
Rita, who locked her gaze on his and grinned.
Blondie stomped her foot. “I won’t do
this to my daddy. He wants this to look good for his friends. You know how he
is about marriages made in heaven and no divorce.”
“Well, Tam, next to golf, divorce is
my father’s favorite pastime,” Josh retorted, as Blondie huffed and made a
beeline toward the door. “Aw, hell. Mom, what can I do here?”
Before Rita could answer, he fled. To
Luke’s dismay, Rita raised her hands in frustration, threw him an apologetic
look and followed her son.
Luke pounded his fist on the bar and
the pad of paper jumped with the blow. Numbers and words bounced around. He
grabbed the sheet.
Room 428. Rita
“Ricardo!” Luke called out to his
assistant, as he ripped off his bar apron. “Take over here.”
Soooooooo ………. What did you think? Sounds like there is a
lot going on – both before and after this particular scene. That could be a
good sign to indicate that there will be some substance to this short, steamy
read. I love quick reads as much as the next person, but I also like to have a
little bit of depth to the story. This can be somewhat difficult within the
shortened length of a novella, but when accomplished enhances the read that
much more. I have hopes that such is the case given everything going on in and
around that scene.
Tell me your thoughts. Ms. Deland has a lot of books out
with several publishers. Have you read her work before? Maybe you have even had
the chance to read this book. I always welcome your feedback. I hope you all
enjoyed getting to know a bit about Ms. Deland and her book. Have a wonderful
day and until next time …
HAPPY READING!!!
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