Laid Bare With Flair Contest Day 28!
Jul
30
2009

Today I’m giving away a copy of Laid Bare! I got a box of author copies all shiny and pretty so I thought I’d share.

Great Googly Moogly do I love that cover! The excerpt below is the opening of the book.

Unexpected Desire…

It’s been ten years since clean-cut, sexy-as-hell police officer Todd Keenan had a white-hot fling with Erin Brown, the provocative, wild rocker chick next door. Their power exchange in the bedroom got under his skin. But love wasn’t in the cards just yet…

Now, life has thrown the pair back together. But picking up where they left off is tough, in light of a painful event from Erin’s past. As Todd struggles to earn her trust, their relationship takes an unexpected and exciting turn when Todd’s best friend, Ben, ends up in their bed—and all three are quite satisfied in this relationship without a name. As the passion they share transforms Erin, will it be enough to help her face the evil she thought she had left behind?

Excerpt from LAID BARE by LAUREN DANE
Copyright Lauren Dane, 2009
All Rights Reserved, Penguin Group

Seattle, The Off Ramp, Ten Years Ago

Music, raw and hard like sex, pulsed through the speaker stack, caught the people in front of the stage as much as it had her in its grip.

The bass line throbbed through her like a second pulse as the scent of beer and sweat settled into her system. Sweat slicked her forehead and slid down the line of her spine. The muscles in her forearm corded as she played, her fingers finding their way as they had time and again. A secret smile marked her lips as her halflidded eyes focused on something not visible to anyone else.

Yes, it was a man’s world up there, but she’d kicked down the door with her Doc Martens and she wasn’t giving her spot to anyone else. She loved making music, and it fit her like a second skin.

It made her alive.

Her dreads swung forward, partially obscuring her face—adding, she knew, to the overall effect. Her belly, glistening with sweat, slid against the back of her bass where her shirt ended and her low-slung jeans began.

Up there, under the blue lights, she didn’t have to work at it. She was. She was exactly where she wanted to be, a guitar strapped to her body, calluses on her fingers from playing. The muscles in her upper arms were well defined because she hauled equipment around for gigs. There wasn’t any doubt, any self-consciousness. She lived the life she wanted.

Erin Brown had stopped apologizing for wanting things. She grabbed experiences with both hands and gobbled them down.

Even if the band never made it beyond small, local rock clubs, she’d be happy to just keep playing. There wasn’t much more you could ask for in life, and Erin accepted her blessings quite happily and graciously.

Todd took a pull from his beer, one leg bent as he leaned against the windowsill, looking out toward the street. There she was, getting out of her beat-up van. He had no idea why the hell he did it, but since he’d moved to the day shift he found himself at his window every night at six-fourteen to watch her make the walk from car to door.

She was so not the kind of woman who usually caught his eye. Still, his fingers gripped the sill as he greedily took in the way she moved. Like she couldn’t care less if people watched. Or worse, got off on it.

Long and lean, her gait ate up the walk, her dreadlocks swinging to her ass. A fine ass it was in those faded jeans. If he looked close enough, he saw the threadbare spots just beneath the pockets.
Reflexively, he tightened his hands into fists as tension hummed through him. Anticipation and a sort of need filled his gut as he watched her.

He snorted at what an idiot he was being. Dreadlocks. What woman wore dreadlocks? Not his sort of woman, that was all there was to it.

Time stopped, along with his heart, when she turned at her door and met his gaze with a smile. A smile that told him she’d known he watched. Surprised but rooted to the spot, he raised a hand in greeting. She paused a moment before tipping her chin at him.

Briefly he relaxed as she turned back to her door, but that slid away when she paused again, dropped her bag on the porch and turned back toward his place.

Shit.

She was already on his doorstep by the time he’d put his beer down and opened the door to face her.

“Officer Keenan, how are you today?”

Her voice did things to him. Unwilling things. Low and smoky. It went with her eyes, a sort of brownish green, full of promises. Damn it, she was not what he wanted. And still he couldn’t keep his eyes from dropping to take in her nipples straining against the front of her shirt.

“Erin, I’ve told you, it’s Todd.” Yanking his gaze back to her face, he stood in the doorway, fighting the urge to invite her in. She put a hand on her hip and he caught the taut expanse of her belly exposed with the movement. And the glimmer of the ring she had there.

“I know, but I like calling you Officer Keenan. It’s sort of sexy. Very in-charge and authoritative.” She winked. “Anyway, I wanted to let you know we were having some people over later tonight. It shouldn’t be loud. You should come over if you’re going to be around.”

“Thanks for asking, but it’s really not my thing.” He shoved his hands in his front pockets before he did something stupid like reaching out to trace around the ring in her belly button or to test the texture of the dread hanging nearest to him.

She smelled of something unique. Heady, smoldering and sweet all at once. Every time they came in close contact he had that scent in his nose for days.

Today’s Question: What’s your favorite book to movie or television series?

I’ll choose a winner tomorrow afternoon!

123 comments to “Laid Bare With Flair Contest Day 28!”

  1. Ong
    July 30th, 2009 at 3:39 pm · Link

    The Godfather



  2. zarifina
    July 30th, 2009 at 3:41 pm · Link

    What’s your favorite book to movie or television series?

    I liked the book the beach. All though the book was better than the movie I liked the movie too.



  3. Patty S.
    July 30th, 2009 at 3:54 pm · Link

    Honestly, I hate most of them. If I’ve read the book, I’m never satisfied with the actors they choose, or the way they adapt the book for the screen. The one series I did like was Dresden Files, mainly because I had not yet read the books.



  4. Patty S.
    July 30th, 2009 at 3:55 pm · Link

    Oops! Forgot the Bourne trilogy. LOVE those movies!!



  5. jessi
    July 30th, 2009 at 4:01 pm · Link

    My favorite book to movie series would be Harry Potter. I loved Lord of the Rings, but not as much as Harry Potter books; though the Vampire Diaries might be good to (will have to see)

    Jessi 😆



  6. Terri W.
    July 30th, 2009 at 4:34 pm · Link

    My favorite book to movie would be Gone With the Wind.

    Also Brokeback Mountain.



  7. Amelia
    July 30th, 2009 at 4:45 pm · Link

    My favorites are Gone With the Wind and Lord of the Rings!



  8. Beverly G.
    July 30th, 2009 at 5:12 pm · Link

    True Blood I LOVE the books and the show i have to say

    of mice and men i love both the book and the movie

    im not a big book to movie fan but those i love and am addicted

    and what yummy cover



  9. Diane Sadler
    July 30th, 2009 at 5:38 pm · Link

    I loved many of them: Lord of the rings, Blood Ties, To kill a mockingbird and of course Twilight, also Harry Potter but I did not read the books for that one



  10. Mari
    July 30th, 2009 at 5:42 pm · Link

    Twin Peaks. I loved that show!



  11. Virginia Hendricks
    July 30th, 2009 at 6:02 pm · Link

    OOO Pretty.

    Book to movie would be Stand By Me. They turned a short story into a couple hour movie.



  12. stacey smith
    July 30th, 2009 at 6:38 pm · Link

    my fav book to movie is Twilight before that it was harry potter which was very like the book.
    sasluvbooks@yahoo.com



  13. Teresa C
    July 30th, 2009 at 6:39 pm · Link

    ” and all the films made so far from Terry Pratchett’s books. Soul Music, Hogfather, Wyrd Sisters and The Color of Magic.”
    Oh! There are more Pratchett movies than Hogfather and the Colour of Magic????

    Must find. Those movies are perfect visual adaptations for me.

    The Dresden Files is the other series that visually matches what I read. Now, if I could merge James Marsters audio version with the TV series, I think my head would explode.



  14. Linda Henderson
    July 30th, 2009 at 6:48 pm · Link

    I guess I would have to say the Tom Clancy books that have been adapted to the screen.

    Linda Henderson



  15. limecello
    July 30th, 2009 at 7:05 pm · Link

    Uhhhh favorite book to movie? Uhhhh series? lol Gone with the Wind. Book book book… uhhh… iuno 🙂
    bar brain.

    Also, as to Maya’s extra give away… I am so freaking jealous I could die. Die. 😛

    Congratulations to whoever is lucky enough to win this book!! (No need to enter me in the draw either) 🙂 I’ve got this baby.



  16. Chinnie Malixi
    July 30th, 2009 at 7:13 pm · Link

    My favorite book to movie is Pride and Prejudice. There’s been a lot of versions but the one with Colin Firth is the best!!!
    Thank you!



  17. Llehn
    July 30th, 2009 at 7:35 pm · Link

    My favorite book to movie is Neil Gaiman’s Stardust.



  18. (Mickey) m-square
    July 30th, 2009 at 8:14 pm · Link

    Although Peter Jackson left a couple of characters out of his version, the Lord of the Rings trilogy was a pretty faithful adaptation to me. Another outstanding work was Kenneth Brannagh’s Henry V.
    Very excited about the release of Laid Bare, the excerpt is great….



  19. Carol Woodruff
    July 30th, 2009 at 8:38 pm · Link

    I seldom watch a movie made from a book I’ve read. Every time I do, I’m disappointed.
    The only books made into movies that I like are ones where I haven’t read the book.



  20. Michelle B.
    July 30th, 2009 at 9:18 pm · Link

    Well, currently I’m really in to Queen of the Damned and Twilight…



  21. Donna S
    July 30th, 2009 at 10:23 pm · Link

    The recent version of Pride and Prejudice



  22. Lori T
    July 31st, 2009 at 6:19 am · Link

    Gone With the Wind was great. I liked Bridget Jones’ Diary, too.

    TV series…True Blood, Sex in the City, and Lipstick Jungle.



  23. Jennifer Hernandez
    July 31st, 2009 at 3:02 pm · Link

    I LOVE just about all of the movies based on Jane Austen’s books, even the made for TV ones. But the newest version of Pride and Prejudice is my favorite of them all. Matthew Macfadyen is the perfect Mr. Darcy!! 😉