PROMO TOUR AUTHOR Q&A & GIVEAWAY: SMOLDERED by Rachel Blaufeld

Posted October 23, 2014 by Kris and Vik in Blog Tours, Book Love, Giveaways, Guest Posts & Reviews, Home / 0 Comments

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Title: Smoldered

Author: Rachel Blaufeld

Date of Publication: October 16th 2014

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About Smoldered:

Asher Peterson is a self-made man, owner of the Electric Tunnel, Sin City’s hottest adult entertainment spot. Brazen and formidable in designer T-shirts and motorcycle boots, he seems unflappable whether he’s making his rounds through the decadent decor of the Tunnel, or whipping through the desert heat on his bike. But inside he is a shattered man, desperate to understand what unconditional love from a woman feels like.

Hiding the effects of his emotionally stunted youth behind a gritty persona, and keeping his fractured soul buried deep while seeking out his baser instincts, Asher is convinced he is man enough to leave the past in the past. The only clue to his broken soul is his deep-seated need to provide safety and a good life for emotionally damaged women within the glamorous walls of his strip club.

Fooling himself that he deserves little in life, Asher keeps his big heart tightly guarded with everyone but Sienna Flower, his friend, business partner, and headliner. Until, that is, the night he runs into his childhood friend, Natalie Parker. While trolling a rival strip club, perusing their offerings for his own personal pleasure, he collides with his past. Coming face-to-face with a woman he only knew as a girl, he’s shaken when he finds the dark-haired beauty in a precarious position. Now all grown up, she’s a hardened soul who reminds him of where he came from, and stirs within him the need to protect yet another woman.

Known as Nat to most everyone, Natalie is a single mom to Quinn. But when she’s under the bright spotlights in a thong, she’s known as Natasha or Nataleigh Dallas. A girl who once had everything going for her, she’s now a jaded stripper with only room for her son in her life, and has erected impenetrable barriers around her heart. The strength of those walls is challenged the night a man she has known since childhood steamrolls his way back into her life, flashing those smoky-gray eyes that have always melted her.

A man she has loved from afar since she was a young girl, one who lights fire to her walls, burning deeper, setting everything ablaze––smoldering her.

Asher and Natalie, two people who are equally tormented by their own demons, set out to rescue each other as part-time lovers in a torrid, desperate workplace affair. Thinking they can remain friends while keeping their hearts at a safe distance, they find themselves at odds when their situation morphs into a messy, tangled mess.

Ripping free of each other proves impossible as they learn that the very web that connects them goes much deeper than they ever expected.

 

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EXCERPT

With Quinn handled, I turned my full attention to the man who both gloriously consumed and scarily haunted my thoughts. At the moment he happened to be snaking his way down my body with his tongue, pausing at the dip in my belly, licking and blowing, then sweeping his mouth gently down a path marked by him, making his way to the screaming, burning heat between my legs.

“Ash, I thought you mentioned coffee and breakfast,” I said with a halfhearted tug on his hair.

He looked up at me with those eyes. Neither shiny silver nor smoky gray, but somewhere in the middle, they were a quiet inferno, smoldering when he said, “First, I’m going to have some room service, and then we’ll have a proper breakfast with coffee, doll.”

Then the man went back to what he had been doing before I interrupted him.

AUTHOR Q & A 

Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?  

I am originally a social worker, so I like to think my characters are steeped in psychological meaning. The Tunnel series is all about this…we are never really exactly who or what others perceive us as being, like the stripper who has no sexual experience to call her own or the strip club owner who cares more about the emotional well being of his girls than the money. So, the message is to delve deep and get to know someone.

I can’t write a story without understanding what makes the characters tick beneath the love and sex and craziness of their lives.

 

What is for you the perfect book hero?

I like bad boys. Really bad boys. Naughty, Dirty, Foul-Mouthed men who know their way around a bedroom and a KITCHEN! Except, preferably one who doesn’t cook bacon. I hate the smell of bacon. I don’t get how that is romantic to smell a pig cooking! HA.

Just give me a cup of java and a donut, and get back in bed.

 

List three books you have recently read and would recommend. 

All Indies

Unbeloved – Madeline Sheehan – I love the whole Undeniable Series. Madeline made me actually sit down at my laptop and write my first book. Her books instilled a sense of confidence in me that I could be who I wanted and write what I wanted.

Very Bad Things – Ilsa Madden Mills – I LOVE this book. Seriously, Leo is so bad and dreamy and ugh, just everything…and, I adore anything NA- It brings to mind a time of life that I will not get back, but love living vicariously through NA stories.

This Tied Man (which I read a while ago, but I adored it, and I am not sure when the next one is coming out) – Tabitha McGowan

GIVEAWAY 

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About Rachel Blaufeld:

Rachel BlaufeldRachel Blaufeld is a social worker/entrepreneur/blogger turned author. Fearless about sharing her opinion, Rachel captured the ear of stay-at-home and working moms on her blog, BacknGrooveMom, chronicling her adventures in parenting tweens and inventing a product, often at the same time. She has also blogged for The Huffington Post, Modern Mom, and StartupNation. Turning her focus on her sometimes wild-and-crazy creative side, it only took Rachel two decades to do exactly what she wanted to do—write a fiction novel. Now she spends way too many hours in local coffee shops plotting her ideas. Her tales may all come with a side of angst and naughtiness, but end lusciously. Rachel lives around the corner from her childhood home in Pennsylvania with her family and two dogs. Her obsessions include running, coffee, icing-filled doughnuts, antiheroes, and mighty fine epilogues. Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads Logo2.png

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