Always happy to Host Peri Elizabeth Scott in the Lair, today with her new release, Nothing Else Matters.
Blurb:
Claire and Liam had a good thing going until he walks out of her life. Being
dumped without warning is devastating enough, discovering she isn’t pregnant
leaves her without even a part of him.
Withdrawing from everyone, she moves to
another city and immerses herself in work, the better to forget Liam. Not that
it’s working. Claire is a one-man woman,
to her despair.
Back stateside after an unexpectedly long deployment, security
contractor Liam Cafferty has accepted the truth: walking out on Claire makes
him a coward. Thinking it for the best, given his dangerous profession, doesn’t
cut it. She should have been given the choice.
With the biggest heart of any woman he’s
known, he’s hopeful she might take him back
and makes it his new mission to convince her.
Claire must decide what matters: her pride
or taking another chance on Liam—and love.
Excerpt:
The streets were full of people as
she used her phone to arrange an Uber. Small groups with youthful faces,
couples, and the occasional single individual
moved along, their destinations unknown but likely the restaurants that crowded
downtown, or maybe a club later on after dusk fell. The camaraderie left her
cold, and with some desperation to
escape, she scanned the curb for her lift.
Maybe she was indeed crazy, choosing
to cut herself off from everyone, cutting ties with her old life, all to forget
Liam. Because, newsflash, it wasn’t working. She was like one of those
historical romance novel heroines who languished and withered into old age
after losing a beau. Whatever empty spaces that opened up in her head, past all
her attempts to fill them, Liam snuck in.
While she waited, she opened her
messages, trying to shut out the people and noise around her that were
reminders of a different life. There weren’t many on the phone. She had no one
local to give the number to, outside of work, sad commentary. She was more like
one half of those werewolf or vampire couples who wasted away without their
mate.
Joanne’s number came up several
times, and there was also a text. Hoping nothing was wrong, she opened it.
Haven’t been able to reach u b/phone and u haven’t
responded to vms. Assuming u r busy but u should know Liam is looking for
u. Call me!
Suddenly lax fingers nearly let the
device slip to the pavement, and she
tightened her grip. Rereading the text,
she remembered to breathe and swayed on her feet.
“Claire?” His familiar voice, hard on
the heels of Jo’s text, was surreal. Had she conjured him?
She resisted the urge to spin wildly
and shriek at the top of her lungs. It couldn’t be. She wasn’t prepared. How
was this happening?
His SUV was nose-in to the curb, the
back end blocking traffic and already, impatient drivers were honking. But her
attention was on the tall, broad-shouldered
man rounding the hood.
“Claire.”
He hadn’t changed at all. Unless one
considered the burnished skin and a leaner
look. Her stare took in his appearance in minute detail, and something in her chest lurched his way,
even as her feet tried to carry her in the other direction.
Hand shaking, she held it up as if to ward off an advancing horde and shook her
head. “Go away!”
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About the author:
Peri
Elizabeth Scott aka Allyson Young lives in cottage country, Manitoba, Canada
where she and her husband pretend to work well together in their seasonal
business.
She has
always enjoyed the written word, and after reading an erotic romance, quite by
mistake, decided to try her hand at penning one. That was followed by a mix of
spicy (Ally) and sweet (Peribeth) romances in various genres as well as a
post-apocalyptic adventure without a lick of romance by Peribeth.
A
bestselling Amazon author, a hybrid, and a coauthor, as of April 2019 she has
published eight series and several standalones,
with others in the works.
