Welcome to my stop for this first tour part of Six Months of Heart Stopping Tara Taylor Quinn! Today I get to share an excerpt from Claire McEwen's Wild Horses. Go check that and all the fabulous giveaways out below...
Love by Association
Love by Association
(Where Secrets are Safe #7)
by Tara Taylor Quinn
Adult Contemporary Romance
Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 384 pages
March 1st 2016 by Harlequin
Summary
Love isn't part of the job…
A tough-as-nails cop, Chantel Harris faces whatever life throws at her, and then some. As part of Santa Raquel's High Risk team—created by the town's women's shelter, The Lemonade Stand—she goes undercover to expose one of the community's elite as an abuser.
Looking the part is easy, but gaining acceptance into upper society circles is a different matter. That's where gorgeous and successful lawyer Colin Fairbanks comes in. But Colin is so much more than Chantel could have dreamed. Wanting him is dangerous. Falling for him could ruin everything…
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Wild Horses
by Claire McEwen
Adult Contemporary Romance
Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 384 pages
March 1st 2016 by Harlequin
Summary
This wild stallion can't be tamed
Todd Williams is still the naive idealist he was in college. Only now he's endangering lives—Nora Hoffman's to be exact. Nora hasn't seen Todd since he decided that saving the rain forest was more important than their relationship. Until the night she's nearly crushed by the stampede he causes. Now Todd is determined to make amends, for everything.
She may not agree with his methods, but even Nora can't deny the importance of his fight to save the wild horses. With the attraction between them still sizzling and the fate of the horses in the balance, Nora must decide just how much she's willing to risk.
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Excerpt from Wild Horses
“I had a lot of time to lie in bed
and wish I’d never taken that job. That I’d stayed in the States. With you.”
The words she’d wanted to hear for
so long, right there between them on the table. Now that they’d been said, Nora
realized that no matter how many times she’d imagined him saying them, she’d
never imagined her answer. She stared at Todd, but he was still looking out
over the bar, lost in memory. Maybe he didn’t even realize what he’d said. The
gulp she took of her vodka went down with a burn and she coughed.
The sound seemed to bring Todd back
to the present. If he was self-conscious about his confession, he masked it
with a smile. “On the upside, I got a pretty big settlement. Turned out the guy
who drove that bulldozer worked for one of the world’s biggest timber
companies. I had money to buy my ranch and my machine shop. Plus, now I can
predict the weather with my leg.” He took a swallow of beer, grinned, and the
cocky college boy she’d loved was suddenly right there in front of her.
She couldn’t help but smile back.
“So you’re the guy I call when I want to know if rain is coming?”
“So far I’ve been right
ninety-seven percent of the time. I’ve been keeping a spreadsheet.”
She laughed outright. “Why am I not
surprised by that? Geek.”
He laughed too and she had to look
away. He was too familiar, still so beautiful, with a smile that lit his whole
face, slashed dimples in his cheeks and added a spark of delight to his eyes.
“Some things don’t change.” He lifted
his bottle in her direction. “To old friends.” But the way he held her gaze,
just a little too long, told her he was thinking about more. About what they’d
been and how they’d been. About afternoons tangled up in his bed and nights
sitting on his roof, watching the stars, reading poetry out loud by flashlight.
He was remembering how crazy in love they’d been, so that it seemed the stars
they watched were wheeling overhead in a private show just for them. He was
remembering, suddenly, the utter magic of it all. The magic she’d never been
able to forget.
“To old friends,” she answered,
watching him clink his bottle to her glass. The sound was oddly festive, and
very much at odds with the worry in her heart.
About the Authors
The author of more than 70 original novels, in twenty languages, Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA Today bestseller with over six million copies sold. A 2015 RITA finalist Tara appears frequently on bestseller lists, including #1 placement on Amazon lists, and multiple showings on the Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller list. She has appeared on national and local TV across the country, including CBS Sunday Morning.
Tara is a supporter of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. If you or someone you know might be a victim of domestic violence in the United States, please contact 1-800-799-7233.
Claire McEwen lives by the ocean in Northern California with her family and a scruffy, mischievous terrier. When not dreaming up new stories, she can be found digging in her garden with a lot of enthusiasm but, unfortunately, no green thumb.
Claire enjoys discovering flea-market treasures, walking on the beach, dancing, traveling, and reading, of course! She loves to write complex heroes and heroines, who grow and find themselves through their search for love.
Tour Schedule
February 29th: Launch
March 1st: Brooke Blogs & Lady Amber's Reviews
March 2nd: Beck Valley Books & Cu's eBook Giveaways
March 3rd: Harlie's Books & deal sharing aunt
March 4th: Wishful Endings & underneath the covers
March 6th: EskieMama Reads & Becky on Books
March 7th: Percy Reads & Thoughts of a Blonde
March 8th: Grand Finale
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Heart Stopping Tara Taylor Quinn Giveaways
LOVE BY ASSOCIATION & WILD HORSES TOUR GIVEAWAY
$20 VISA Gift Card (US only)
ebooks of Wife By Design, Once A Family, and Husband by Choice by Tara Taylor Quinn (open internationally)
ebooks of Wife By Design, Once A Family, and Husband by Choice by Tara Taylor Quinn (open internationally)
ebooks of A Ranch to Keep, More Than a Rancher and Convincing the Rancher by Claire McEwen (open internationally)
TTQ PRE-ORDER/PURCHASE KINDLE FIRE GIVEAWAY
Kindle Fire with Six Pre-loaded TTQ Books (books 1-6 from Where Secrets are Safe series)
US only
Ends August 31st
To Enter: Submit your receipt online for your pre-order or purchase of any of Tara Taylor Quinn’s five releases being promoted on her Heart Stopping Tour (Love By Association, His First Choice, The Promise He Made Her, Strangers in Paradise: Sheltered In His Arms, and For Love Or Money). Enter as many times as you purchase. One book purchase equals one entry (one receipt per entry and must be uploaded at time of entry).
TTQ HARLEQUIN MY REWARDS POINTS GIVEAWAY
1st Place: 25,000 Harlequin My Rewards Points – equivalent of 5 free books, reader’s choice of any book published by Harlequin/MIRA/Carina Press.
2nd Place: 15,000 Harlequin My Rewards Points – equivalent of 3 free books, reader’s choice
3rd Place: 10,000 Harlequin My Rewards Points – equivalent of 2 free books, readers choice
Ends August 31st
To Enter: Submit your receipt online for your pre-order or purchase of any of Tara Taylor Quinn’s five releases being promoted on her Heart Stopping Tour (Love By Association, His First Choice, The Promise He Made Her, Strangers in Paradise: Sheltered In His Arms, and For Love Or Money). Enter as many times as you purchase. One book purchase equals one entry (one receipt per entry and must be uploaded at time of entry).
1st Place: 25,000 Harlequin My Rewards Points – equivalent of 5 free books, reader’s choice of any book published by Harlequin/MIRA/Carina Press.
2nd Place: 15,000 Harlequin My Rewards Points – equivalent of 3 free books, reader’s choice
3rd Place: 10,000 Harlequin My Rewards Points – equivalent of 2 free books, readers choice
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