A SEAL's Vow
by Cora
Seton
GENRE: contemporary
romance
BLURB:
After fifteen long, dangerous years in the service, Navy SEAL
Clay Pickett is ready for his new mission: build a model sustainable community
and show the world an exciting alternative to a consumption-based life. If that
means he’s got a deadline to find a wife in order to win the reality TV show
that’s filming his sustainable adventure, so be it. He’s got just the woman for
the job in mind: beautiful, dedicated Nora Ridgeway.
When Nora left her job as a school teacher in Baltimore to live
a simpler, Jane Austen style life in Montana with her friends, she was relieved
to escape the escalating threats of violence from an unknown student stalker,
but she can’t help feeling she’s abandoned the other high schoolers who put
their faith in her. She’s torn about Clay’s advances, too. On the one hand
she’s never met anyone like the strong, sexy SEAL. On the other hand, life’s
taught her to take relationships slow—and Clay’s on a deadline.
When arson strikes and Nora disappears, Clay knows he’ll need
every trick he learned in his time with the SEALs to track her down and save
her life.
Can two people caught by their pasts have a chance at a future?
EXCERPT:
Clay wrapped an arm around her waist,
pulled her to him and explored her mouth with his, deepening the kiss until she
clung to him, dizzy with the sensations swirling inside of her.
“We’ve got to take this slow,” Nora
gasped.
“Slow?” Clay said. He searched her
face. “What does that mean, exactly?” His breathing was uneven. Nora knew he
wanted her and knew she was close to giving in to him. She wanted it too. But
how would she feel tomorrow?
“Just kissing.”
Clay visibly struggled get himself
under control. “That’s a tall order,” he confessed with a lopsided grin.
“I know.” She hoped he had the
self-control to pull it off. She wasn’t sure she did.
“Just kissing,” he agreed after a moment.
“But a whole hell of a lot of it.”
“That’s perfect.” As he bent toward
her, she met him halfway.
An hour later, when Clay walked her to
the manor, Nora was practically panting with the need to be made love to. She
ached for Clay’s touch—wanted so badly to be with him.
“I’m never getting to sleep,” Clay
murmured in her ear when they paused outside the manor’s front door. “Can I at
least think of you while I… you know?”
“Only if I can think of you,” she said
honestly. She couldn’t even pretend she wouldn’t do the same as soon as she was
upstairs alone. No way could she sleep in this state.
“We could help each other,” Clay
suggested.
“No, we can’t,” she said sadly.
“Why not?” He pressed another kiss to
the base of her neck and Nora felt herself slipping, wanting to give in.
“Because if you touch me much longer,
I’m going to beg you to take me,” she confessed.
“I want to.”
“I want you to, too.”
“Nora…”
She knew all that Clay wanted to say.
This was crazy. It was agony. It wasn’t fair.
But it was the way it had to be. In the
morning light they’d still be at Westfield. Clay would still have to marry
within two months. That still wouldn’t be long enough for them to really get to
know each other.
Would it?
AUTHOR BIO:
NYT and USA Today bestselling
author Cora Seton loves cowboys, country life, gardening, bike-riding, and
lazing around with a good book. Mother of four, wife to a computer
programmer/environmentalist, she ditched her California lifestyle and moved
north to laid-back Vancouver Island. Like the characters in her Chance Creek
series, Cora enjoys old-fashioned pursuits and modern technology, and is never
happier than when planting flowers or creating her next Chance Creek novel.
Visit www.coraseton.com to read about new releases, contests and other
cool events!
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6 comments:
I like the excerpt!
--Trix
Thanks for sharing the excerpt :D
What do you want people to take away from reading this book?
Got to love a SEAL.
Oh yummy I do love my SEAL romances.... This book looks like it's gonna be so great! Thank you for the excerpt and thank you for the giveaway! :)
I enjoyed the post! Thank you for sharing.
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