I am so excited to bring you the release day launch for Kat and Stone Bastion's NO WEDDINGS, the first in their new contemporary romance series!!! Check out the blogs helping us with this release day launch, and be sure to check out the giveaway!!!
Award-winning author Kat Bastion teams with her husband,
Stone Bastion, in this first book in the No Weddings Series about Cade
Michaelson, a successful man with his sights set on a new venture in business,
and Hannah Martin, the woman who makes it personal.
I think I have my act together as a successful bar owner, my
master’s degree within reach, and a list of no-strings-attached women warming
my bed. Turns out, I don’t.
Hannah believes she has safeguarded her wounded heart by
shunning men and focusing on her new baking business. The thing is, she hasn’t.
When my three sisters and I form an event-planning business
with Hannah as our baker, I have no idea how my life is about to change. As
Hannah and I work closely together, the attraction between us becomes
irresistible. And complicated. I’ve promised my sisters I wouldn’t mix business
with pleasure. But I’ve never been one to follow the rules.
Exclusive Excerpt
Her eyes narrowed
for a split second as she pulled out a large pan with two hands. “This is not
even close to a date. What would you suggest instead, a notepad and pen?”
I
leaned a hip on the far counter, watching her light the stove and drop a large
tablespoon of solidified coconut oil into the pan. “Would you be wearing those
sexy librarian glasses?”
She
raised her brows. “You think my glasses are sexy?”
Leaning
up on her tiptoes, she reached for and pulled down a glass container full of
popcorn kernels from a cabinet beside the stove. A few hundred kernels pinged
into the pan before she replaced the lid. With both hands, she lifted the pan a
few inches above the gas burner and gave it a good shake before resting it back
down.
The
response to her question demanded her full attention, so I waited. She turned,
leaning back on her counter edge. We faced each other, her island between us.
The few feet may as well have been inches with the way the air was charged
between us.
I
gave her a heated stare.
Her
breath caught, her chest expanding.
Which
caused my cock to twitch. I began to feel like one of Pavlov’s dogs.
“You are sexy.” I held her gaze captive.
“Therefore, anything you wear becomes sexy.”
She
smirked. The power she knew she had over me emboldened her. “Even my apron?”
I
inhaled, remembering that ruffled apron, her thin T-shirt and short shorts
hiding underneath. “Sexy as fuck.”
A
kernel popped.
She
swallowed. “‘As fuck?’”
I
nodded. “Doesn’t get any sexier than that.”
A
slight tilt of her head, and Hannah began to play. “What if I wore a potato sack?”
I
snorted. “Do you own a potato sack?”
She
crossed her arms, shaking her head.
My
eyes were drawn down to that tempting cleavage. I took my sweet time dropping
my gaze down her body, imagining her in a potato sack.
Pops
sounded out. One after another. Faster and faster, like my pulse going out of
control. Hannah began shallow breathing under the intensity of my stare.
“I
would love to see you in a potato sack. Just like I’d love to see you in
lingerie. To me, they’re both the same.”
She
laughed, then turned quickly, grabbing the heavy pan with both hands and giving
it another hard shake. When she turned around again, she resumed her stance in
the same place, back to the counter.
This
was another dance—a different location, a more enticing rhythm, but a dance all
the same. Two partners circled each other, deciding how long to draw out the
beginning steps before pulling each other even closer.
“How
can they both be the same? You’d find me equally sexy in either?”
A
deep inhale was the only thing I could do to clear my mind, keep me sane. That,
and the white-knuckled grip I had on the edge of her counter, holding me
immobile, keeping me from launching at her and showing her just how sexy I found her.
I
tilted my face down, holding her gaze beneath my lowered brows. “Hannah, you
have no idea. Whatever you think you do to me, magnify it. I don’t see you in anything. I just see you. And if
you’re ever brave enough to wear a potato sack for me, wear nothing else
underneath.”
The
popping slowed. Her attention was needed at the stove at that critical point.
She
didn’t move. “Why?”
“Because
I’ll shred it and have you naked in three seconds flat. Might as well save the
lingerie.”
Kat & Stone Bastion Bio:
Award-winning and bestselling romance author Kat Bastion has teamed up with her husband Stone Bastion to create the new contemporary romance series No Weddings.
A few factoids about the writing team…
Kat enjoys her chocolate rich and dark, her music edgy and soul-filling, and her vacations exotic with toes dug into the sand. And she’s wildly, madly, deeply in love with Stone.
Stone likes pounding the trails on a mountain bike, vibrating the sound system with rock music, and down time spent on a stand up paddleboard. And he loves Kat wildly, madly, deeply…and then some.
Together, they’re having a blast bringing fun-filled
romantic stories to life and hope you’ll join them in the exciting adventure.
Kat’s first published work, Utterly Loved, was a twentieth anniversary gift of love poems to Stone that they decided to share with the world to benefit charity. Net proceeds from Utterly Loved, and a portion of net proceeds from all their books, go toward charities involved in the fight against human trafficking.
Kat and Stone live amid the beautiful Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Visit their blog at www.talktotheshoe.com, website at www.katbastion.com, and their Twitter accounts at https://twitter.com/KatBastion and https://twitter.com/StoneBastion for more information.
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