Jannine Gallant will be giving away a digital copy of Wilde Thing.
BLURB
The
Wilde brothers are addicted to the rush of adventure. But one of them is about
to learn no matter how often you look for danger, you don’t want danger finding
you.
For extreme skier
Tripp Wilde, pushing the limits is what he lives for. Unfortunately, the
inherent risk takes a toll on his body. After an injury sidelines him, he ends
up in the care of his little sister’s best friend, physical therapist Hannah
Ryder—who has grown up in all the right ways since they last met.
Hannah doesn’t mix
business with pleasure, even though she harbored a maddening crush on the
irresistible Tripp years before. So, while Tripp tries every slick maneuver he
knows to bed her, Hannah uses her own moves to keep the hotshot skier cooled
off while trying to control her own growing desire for him.
After the pair
witness what they think may be a murder on the slopes, along with the men
responsible, no one believes their story. But when a series of unlikely
accidents suggests they are being targeted, the two will have to trust in each
other like never before if they are going to survive.
EXCERPT
When
the door to his hospital room opened, Tripp didn’t bother to glance up from the
text he was trying to send one-handed. He fumbled the phone and swore then
tossed it down on the bed. “Damn it. This sucks. I feel like a freaking
invalid.”
“Problem?”
His
chin came up as his gaze shot toward the doorway. Not Jake, who’d left to get
something to eat and promised to come back later to drive him home. Hannah
Ryder. His little sister’s old college roommate. Once in a while, when he was
actually home and not to the far corners of the world, he caught sight of Hannah
around town, but they’d never been anything but casual acquaintances at best.
From the way her golden eyes narrowed on him, Tripp got the feeling she could
take him or leave him…and would prefer the latter.
“I
guess I wasn’t imagining you were on the hill this morning when they hauled me
out of the avalanche.”
“No,
you weren’t.” She advanced into the room and stopped a yard short of his bed.
Hands tucked into the pockets of her down jacket, she regarded him steadily.
“How’re you feeling?”
Strong
was the word that sprang to mind as he studied Hannah. Those golden eyes
reflected intelligence in their depths along with a mental toughness. Model
tall but without scrawny angles, this woman looked capable of taking down any
man stupid enough to mess with her without permission. Not that he’d ever try.
Tripp
let out a breath. “Uh, I’m feeling okay. A little loopy from the pain meds. I
imagine my shoulder will hurt like hell when they wear off.”
“Probably,
but they’ll give you more drugs to manage any discomfort. I ran into a friend
on the nursing staff out in the hall and got the basic facts. No fractures.
That’s great.”
He
scowled. “The dislocated shoulder is bad enough.”
“And
only a mild concussion. You were extremely lucky. You could easily have been
killed.”
He
rolled his eyes. “Aren’t you Miss Glass Half-full. Lucky would have been not
getting caught in the avalanche. Really lucky would have been finishing my run
before the cornice broke free.”
Her
golden cat eyes darkened to the color of her tawny-brown hair as she tucked a
stray lock behind one ear. “I’ll report back to Eden that you’re not going to
drop dead anytime soon…unless one of the nurses gets fed up with your bad mood
and kills you.”
AUTHOR Bio and Links
Write what
you know. Jannine Gallant has taken this advice to heart, creating characters
from small towns and plots that unfold in the great outdoors. She grew up in a
tiny Northern California town and currently lives in beautiful Lake Tahoe with
her husband and two daughters. When she isn’t busy writing or being a full time
mom, Jannine hikes or snowshoes in the woods around her home. Whether she’s
writing contemporary, historical or romantic suspense, Jannine brings the
beauty of nature to her stories.
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