Harlequin has reissued 16 of my backlist titles in ebook.
Today I'm talking with Lexi Parker and Nick Clayton about THE DADDY SEARCH, a
Silhouette Desire originally released in print and currently available as a
Harlequin Desire in ebook.
Hello Lexi and
Nick. Welcome to my blog. Thank you for being here with us today.
Nick: It's our pleasure, Shawna. Thanks for the invitation.
My first question is
for you, Lexi. As I understand it, you
had an absolute personal agenda that took you to the Via Verde Dude Ranch at
Jackson Hole, Wyoming—something far removed from a vacation.
Lexi: That's right.
I was determined to locate my nephew's father and make him take
financial responsibility for his son.
But why the Via Verde
Dude Ranch?
Lexi: My sister had always been wild and
irresponsible, but when she became pregnant she totally changed. She doted on her son. Mother and I kept asking her who the father
was but she would only say that the father told her he didn't want anything to
do with the baby, that it was her problem and not his. She eventually admitted to me that the boy's
father was Nick Clayton who, along with his brother and mother, owned the Via
Verde. She had met him when she
vacationed there and he had taken her to Hawaii which was when she became
pregnant. But she remained adamant that
she didn't want anything from him, that she would take care of her son on her
own. She even took on a second job to
earn more money. It was a bad rainstorm
that caused the accident when she was on her way to that job. Custody of my nephew passed to me upon her
death. I decided that Nick Clayton had
to take financial responsibility whether he wanted to or not. So, I booked a three week vacation at the
ranch for the sole purpose of confronting him.
Nick: She totally grabbed my attention as soon as
she got off the shuttle bus from the airport.
She had wandered over to the corral where I had just been thrown from a
bucking bronco…(chuckles at the mental image) not a very impressive
introduction.
Well, that certainly
doesn't seem like the type of circumstances that could lead to romance. Lexi had already made up her mind about the
type of person you were. How did you
manage to get beyond that?
Nick: I didn't have a clue about her agenda. She did mention that her sister had
vacationed at the ranch and had said how much she enjoyed it, but her sister's
name didn't register with me.
Lexi: The more I saw him, talked to him, was around
him and his family, the more confused I became.
I started doubting my sister's claim about Nick being the father. I couldn't reconcile what she claimed with
the reality of man I had met…and against my better judgment, the man with whom
I was becoming personally involved.
Obviously, somewhere
along the way you changed your mind about Nick.
How did that come about? What
happened to make you think that perhaps Nick was not your nephew's father?
Lexi: That's all in the book.
LOL…okay, let me try a
different question. Nick—at what point
did you realize that Lexi had a hidden agenda toward you and what that was?
Nick: (grins) That's in the book, too.
Thank you, Nick and Lexi,
for being with us today.
THE DADDY SEARCH, a Silhouette Desire by Shawna Delacorte
reissued in ebook format. Available at http://ebooks.eharlequin.com (do search
for author name Shawna Delacorte). Also available
from Amazon for Kindle and Barnes and Noble for Nook and also at other online
vendors.
Check out my website for additional excerpts from THE DADDY
SEARCH and information about my other Harlequin ebook reissues.
Blurb:
RANCHER DAD?
When Lexi Parker first set foot onto Nick Clayton's dude
ranch, she had one goal in mind: to vacation undercover and find out if Nick
really was the father of Lexi's precious, now-motherless nephew. It seemed like
a perfect plan…
Until Lexi herself succumbed to the cowboy's devastating
charms—and found out that this bighearted, honorable rancher was nothing like
the love-'em-and-leave-'em rake her sister had portrayed. But if Lexi revealed
her secret agenda to Nick now, would she lose her chance with the one man who'd
ever stolen her heart?
Inside front cover
excerpt:
Which one was the real Nick Clayton? The man her sister had
described, or the one Lexi herself had observed?
There was no way you could call Nick irresponsible or
callous. She could not imagine him knowingly abandoning his son or tell the
boy's mother to get out of his life.
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