Harlequin has reissued 16 of my backlist titles in
ebook. Today I'm talking with Paige
Bradford and Bryce Lexington about FALLING FOR THE ENEMY, a Silhouette Desire
originally released in print and currently available as a Harlequin Desire in
ebook.
Hello, Paige and
Bryce. Thank you for making room in your
schedule to chat with us today.
Bryce: It's our pleasure.
My first question is
for you, Paige. You moved from St.
Louis, Missouri, to Los Angeles, California, then you went to work for Bryce's
company…is that correct?
Paige: I'm from Los Angeles originally. After my divorce, I returned to be near my
father. He was my only family.
About your father…I
understand that you're the one who found his body after he…
Bryce: Would you mind skipping that topic? It's an emotional—
Paige: It's all right, Bryce. Yes, I'm the one who found my father's body
after he…he shot himself. In addition to
a suicide note, I also found scraps of paper in the fireplace that he had
apparently tried to burn. Bits and
pieces of things that didn't make sense, lots of numbers. (glances at Bryce as if seeking
reassurance) And Bryce's name mentioned
several times.
Bryce: (grasps her hand and holds it) And that's when she started prying into my
life, a situation that quickly came to my attention only I didn't have a clue
why she was doing it or what she was looking for.
Paige: Well, my initial findings led me to believe
he was responsible for my father committing suicide. I was determined to prove it…to bring him
down and expose him for what he was. Or,
more accurately, what I believed him to be.
I also wanted to find some way of keeping him from closing down my
father's company and putting 100 employees with families out of work.
Really? Bryce, you actually owned her father's
company?
Bryce: Well, yeah…by default, actually. I didn't really want it.
What happened next?
Bryce: What else…I hired her as my personal
assistant so I could keep my eye on her in order to find out what she was up
to. And the rest, as they say, is
history. (LOL)
No, I meant what
happened next with her father's company.
Bryce: You'll need to buy the book to find the
answer to that one.
Okay, I'll accept
that. Now let me change the
subject. There's a question I've been
dying to ask you.
Bryce: (laughs softly then flashes a teasing
grin) Uh Oh. That sounds ominous. Do I need to consult my attorney?
LOL…I think you'll be
okay.
Paige: Don't worry.
(offers a mischievous grin) I'll
protect you if she gets too rough.
Bryce: Looks like I'm covered. Fire away.
From the beginning, I
notice you called her Bradford rather than Paige, Ms. Bradford, or Mrs.
Bradford, and continued it for quite a while in the same way as guys refer to
each other by their last names. Why did
you do that?
Bryce: That's an easy one. From the first time we met I knew I had to
keep an emotional distance and make sure nothing between us became personal.
Do I detect an
immediate attraction?
Bryce: Definitely.
Calling her Bradford helped me maintain that emotional distance. At least for a while.
Paige: I was feeling it, too. As much as I wanted to believe he was the
ruthless shark I had made him out to be, the more I was around him…the more I
found out about him…my firm convictions began to crumble. There was the Italian family who owned the
small neighborhood restaurant in London, the business negotiations for new
contracts, his work ethic. Everything
going on around me shot down all my preconceived notions until I didn't know
what to think anymore.
Tell me about the
avalanche.
Paige: Plain and simple…Bryce literally saved my
life.
What happened?
Paige: It's all in the book.
Oh, I see. LOL
Another suggestion to buy the book if you want to know the answers. Sounds like a good idea. Thank you for being with us today.
FALLING FOR THE ENEMY, a Silhouette Desire by Shawna
Delacorte reissued in ebook format. Available at http://ebooks.eharlequin.com (do a
search for author name Shawna Delacorte). Barnes and Nobel for NookBooks at www.bn.com and Amazon for Kindle at www.amazon.com and other online vendors.
Check out my website for more excerpts from FALLING FOR THE
ENEMY as well as information on my other Harlequin ebook reissues. www.shawnadelacorte.com
Blurb:
A Dangerously Desirable Boss:
Paige Bradford intended to expose Bryce Lexington for the
ruthless shark he was. But when they started working together, the sparks they
gave off jettisoned her best intentions…. Paige knew this corporate hunk wasn't
what he seemed—but was she losing her heart…to the enemy?
Hiring oh-so-sexy Paige might have been the biggest mistake
Bryce had ever made, but he had to learn what she was after. Especially since
she had Bryce—the man with everything—wanting something far more precious:
Paige's love.
G-rated excerpt
(inside front cover):
The look on Bryce Lexington's handsome face said it
all. He liked what he saw, liked it very
much. Paige felt an inexplicable tingle of excitement as he continued to stare
at her. She quickly pulled the beach jacket on, covering her body from
shoulders to mid thigh.
"Tomorrow, Bradford…" Bryce paused to take a
calming breath. "Tomorrow bring your own swimsuit." He quickly turned
and left the pool house without even pausing to look back.
Paige closed her eyes. The look of smoldering intensity that
Bryce had greeted her with popped back into her mind. A tremor of sensual
desire made its way through her body, then settled low inside her.
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