Guest Post & Giveaway: Frisk Me by Lauren Layne
Frisk
Me
New York’s Finest #1
New York’s Finest #1
By:
Lauren Layne
Releasing
July 28, 2015
Forever
Blurb
After
a photograph of Luc Moretti saving a tourist hits social media, he
instantly becomes New York's most famous and beloved cop. When a
major network decides to run a special on the "American Hero,"
Luc's boss gives him no choice but to cooperate in the name of good
exposure for the department. Luc doesn't mind the celebrity
status-what he does mind is the gorgeous brunette journalist who's
been assigned to follow his every move. Especially since she also
happens to be the same knockout that rejected him rather publicly the
week before.
Ava
Sims is a woman who gets what she wants. And what she wants is to be
CBC's lead anchor-but to get there, she'll need to nail the fluff
piece on the playboy cop. Luc Moretti is everything Ava knows to stay
away from: a stubborn charmer with a hero-complex. But the more Ava
gets to know Luc and his oddball family, the more she realizes that
beneath the swagger and the blue uniform is a complex man who makes
her heart beat too fast. Soon, Ava's doing the unthinkable, and
falling for the best of New York's finest ...
Excerpt
Luc
stifled the smile, letting his former scowl resettle on his face. If
Lopez thought he was being played, there was no way he’d go for it.
“Hey,
so Cap said the hot reporter would be doing ride-alongs with us.
That’ll be cool,” Lopez said.
“Seriously?
You hate ride-alongs,” Luc said.
Lopez
held up a finger. “No, I hate the dippy, I-wanna-be-a-cop-someday
type of ride-alongs. Those stupid kids are always offering advice
when they don’t know shit about shit. But Ms. Sims will be a nice
kind of ride-along. Just sitting, observing…looking fine…”
Luc
withheld the snort. If Lopez thought Ava wouldn’t be offering
plenty of unsolicited advice, he had an unpleasant surprise. He
doubted mind your own business was in her DNA, not to mention it was
a blatant contradiction of her job description.
“Hot
or not, same rules apply,” Luc said, just to set the record
straight. “She can come on the tame ride-alongs. That’s it.”
“Shit,
and here I was planning to bring her to a shoot-out,” Lopez mused.
Luc
flung the paperclip back at his partner, nailing him in the forehead.
“Hey. So, I need you to be my wingman.”
Lopez
rubbed the red spot to the right of his temple with a knowing grin.
“Ah, so you do want a piece of Miss Media.”
Yes.
No!
Damn
it.
“Let
me rephrase,” Luc said, sitting back in his chair. “I need you to
be my reverse wingman. Do whatever you need to keep that plastic,
nosy diva away from me.”
There
was a light tap on his shoulder before a female voice spoke up.
“Gonna be hard when this nosy diva is hell-bent on getting all up
in your business.”
Whoops.
“Nice
job, Wingman,” Luc said with a glare at Lopez, whose grin indicated
that he’d definitely seen Ava approaching and had opted not to
mention it.
Luc
pivoted around in his chair so he faced Ava. Only he was sitting, and
she was standing, which put him exactly at eye level with Ava’s
slim hips.
Generally
speaking, Luc liked a little more curve to his women, but apparently
his preferences were shifting, because he couldn’t help his
sex-starved brain from thinking that Ava Sims’s hips were the
perfect size for his hands to wrap around, his fingers holding her
still as he prepared to plunge into her…
The
fantasy dissolved into a million pieces when she opened her sassy
mouth again.
“You
know…” her voice was considering, her finger tapping idly against
her lips. “I’d always heard that the whole man-in-uniform thing
was supposed to be a turn-on. Guess it’s an acquired taste.”
Romancing the Readers thanks, Lauren Layne for visiting with us!
5 Reasons to Love a Cop
Hi there, and thanks so much for
letting me stop by to talk about my new book!!
Frisk Me is the first in my New York’s
Finest series about a family of NYPD cops, and I’m SO EXCITED for
the world to meet the Morettis.
Although, I’ll be honest, when I sat
down to put together my marketing plan for this series, I pretty much
wrote one word:
Cops.
And then I got on a call with my
marketing team, and they were like, “This series is going to sell
itself because … Cops.”
RIGHT?! There’s something just sexy
about police officers. Actually, there’s 5 things, and I took the
liberty of listing them out for you
(1) Because there’s just something
about a man in uniform ...
(2) One word: handcuffs
(3) Saving lives: all in a days work.
(4) Strip searches.
(5) Your own personal hero.
Author
Info
Lauren
Layne is the USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance.
Prior
to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing.
In 2011, she and her husband moved from Seattle to New York City,
where Lauren decided to pursue a full-time writing career. It took
six months to get her first book deal (despite ardent assurances to
her husband that it would only take three). Since then, Lauren's gone
on to publish ten books, including the bestselling Stiletto series,
with several more on the way in 2015.
Lauren
currently lives in Chicago with her husband and spoiled Pomeranian.
When not writing, you'll find her at happy hour, running at a
doggedly slow pace, or trying to straighten her naturally curly
hair.
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