Sunday, February 25, 2007

CONTEST!! Win a copy of Alison Kent's THE PERFECT STRANGER

Everyone probably gets tired of hearing how much I absolutely adore Alison Kent - I'm the proud owner of all of her books but one, MOTHER PLEASE! I'll soon be reviewing her upcoming (March 27) release, THE PERFECT STRANGER - here is your chance to win a copy for yourself. I'm not clever enough to come up with some snappy contest, so I'm just going to draw a name on March 9 from everyone who posts here to indicate that they are interested in a copy. The only thing I would ask in return is that you stop back and give us your thoughts on the book, and if you're so inclined, post an online review at Amazon.

Here's the backcover blurb:

Some like it hot. The men and women of Alison Kent’s sizzling SG-5 series like it hotter. In this all-new novel of steamy suspense, the jungle is the only place wild enough for a hotshot helicopter pilot and a renegade rich girl with one hell of an agenda…

Bachelor parties are fun, as long as you’re not the poor sap getting hitched…or slipped a Mickey and waking to discover you just became the poor sap. Not to mention that your “wife” is pregnant, and if you don’t go along to her village to meet the in-laws, the nice police comandante will be muy unhappy. Just another day in the life of helicopter pilot J. Jackson Briggs? Not so much. His Smithson Group gig wasn’t supposed to be dangerous, but the the woman who drugs him, then knocks him out, then drugs him again certainly is. She also may or may not be a nun. She’s definitely a lying, scheming, lethally gorgeous…American. Jack’s light years from believing the story Jillian Endicott gives him about her noble cause in the sweltering wilds of San Torisco, but he knows one thing: he’ll get the truth—and plenty more—from her, one way or another…
Being an Endicott of the Boston Endicotts taught Jillian plenty about the haves vs. the have-nots—and made it easy to choose sides. But there’s nothing easy about her mission in San Torisco, and things only get harder when Jack Briggs is thrown into the mix. Six-foot-three of big Texas mouth and big…other things…Jack’s pegged her as a bored little rich girl. Hey, he can think what he wants, as long as he does what she wants. Do unto others what needs to be done—that’s Jillian’s motto. Problem is, Jack knows how to push her buttons from minute one—and the closer he gets to pushing her over the edge, the more she wants him to…Now under dark velvet cover of jungle nights, two rebels with a cause are going deep—and falling hard—for the perfect stranger…


And if that's not enticement enough, here's an exclusive, never-before-seen excerpt:

Jack had to admit he’d had little contact with religious types during his thirty-nine years. His oldest memory was of the base chaplain who’d directed a sort of all-denominational service every Sunday.
He’d been the same one who’d come to the house after the crash, the one who’d told Jack’s mother that her husband had flown all the way to Heaven.
Then there’d been the Air Force chaplain who’d sided with Jack’s grandfather and tried to talk him into a lifetime of service rather than the four years he’d served.
The chaplain at the university had conducted Sunday afternoon services for the premed students who woke up in time to feel guilty about how they’d spent Saturday night.
The chaplain at the hospital had counseled the members of the aeromedical helicopter crew when the stress of flying and fighting to save lives got to be too much.
But the closest Jack had come to a nun had to be Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music. Julie’d been a doll, a syrupy sweet stick of candy.

Jack’s nun was a chili pepper. Spicy. Hot. Mouth-watering temptation. Her eyes should’ve belonged to an angel, but were too old and damaged to be anything but human. Jack wondered at the tragedies she’d seen.

Sakes alive! I can't wait to crack this book - just as soon as I finish up two outstanding reviews for Romance Junkies, I'll be losing myself in it!

Bookseller, Lee Ann Daugherty, has compared Alison to Cherry Adair, Suzanne Brockmann, Amy Fetzner and Cindy Gerard - it doesn't get much better than that! This is what she had to say:
I've already recommended you to my customers, but I've just thought ofsome others who I've turned on to Cherry Adair, Suzanne Brockman, AmyFetzer, Cindy Gerard, the women writers who construct great adventure novels with fierce romances attached, that I'll have to turn them on to you, too. Lee Ann Daugherty, Romance "Mistress", Waldenbooks #1393, Elizabethtown, KY

I hope you'll take a chance on winning a copy - all you have to do is tell me you're interested, and you're entered!

Good luck!
Laurie

14 comments:

Judy F said...

oh me me me......

Maria, Lover of All Things Romance said...

I'm not entering because I have it but I had to say this is a damn good book!

Jodi said...

I'm interested!!

I'll keep my eye out for an extra copy of Mother, Please. I found mine at the usb here.

Anonymous said...

Hi Laurie, I'm interested!

Anonymous said...

Love Alison Kent....I'm interested!

Jennifer Y. said...

I am definitely interested...enter me!

Laurie D. said...

Thanks, everyone, for stopping by! Jodi and Barb - thanks for keeping an eye out for Mother, Please! for me - I appreciate it! The UBS in our town absolutely sucks and I stopped going in about three years ago. Not like I don't have enough books, but I am interested in getting this one!

I hope everyone will remind their friends to pop over!

Anonymous said...

I am so interested! I love Alison Kent!

Lis said...

I'm definitely interested! This one sounds great :O)

Anonymous said...

I'm interested. ;-)

Anonymous said...

I'm a fan of Alison's books, too, so please count me in for this contest. Thanks.

Diana

Fedora said...

Hi, Laurie, I'm very interested in winning a copy. Thanks for running the contest!

Jeanette J said...

I am interested in winning this book..great excerpt

robynl said...

I'm interested also.