Welcome to Cat Grant who stops by here at Love Bytes with her blog tour for “In From the Cold ” !
Hi! Thanks for joining me on my week long blog tour celebrating the first chapter in my brand new series – The Courtlands: The Next Generation.
Leave a comment below and you could win an exclusive T-shirt! Follow me on the rest of this tour for a chance at some other special prizes – backlist ebooks, exclusive swag (for the original Courtland series, and several other books), maybe even get to name a character in an upcoming Courtland book. Yes, there will be more – at least one novel, possibly two!
Writing this novella was a really interesting experience. I’ve written plenty of series, but I’d never been seriously tempted to revive any of them once they were “put to bed,” as it were. “Sequels are never as good as the original.” “You can’t repeat yourself.” “Leave a happy ending alone.”
Who, me? Leave a happy ending alone? Um, have you met me?
Don’t worry—I don’t have anything earth-shattering (on the personal front) planned for Eric, Nick and Ally, our original triad. Oh, they’ll play a key part in the story, but this time the supporting cast. This time I decided to take a different tack, and try a different point of view altogether…
Seth, Nick’s twenty year old son, now a senior at Cornell University.
And, well… anyone who’s read By Chance knows what happens when the Courtlands go to college.
But seriously, I am in love with Seth’s voice. One day I heard it in my head so incredibly clearly, I just knew who he was and what it would mean to write his story. (No, I’m not schizophrenic. I swear! J) Thus far he’s been a real sweetheart to write, and the guy he falls for…
Well, why don’t I shut up and let you go read the book instead? 🙂
Blurb:
For all the Courtland fans clamoring for the next generation…
Cold and sick, Seth Thompson must fight through a snowstorm to get home. Seth’s unconventional upbringing taught him to always reach out to strangers in need, and Iranian engineering student Bilal al-Mansoori is no exception. Being trapped together leads to an unexpected mutual attraction—and a feverishly hot night under the covers.
But Bilal needs more than simply a rescue from the weather—he’s trapped under lifetime of cultural pressures. His strict Muslim father and fellow Iranian students have no clue about his inner torment. His attraction to Seth isn’t a welcome discovery—instead he’s trapped between the existence he’s always known and the prospect of living and loving openly for the first time in his life.
Cat Grant lives by the sea in beautiful Monterey, California, with one persnickety feline and way too many books and DVDs. When she’s not writing, you can usually find her watching movies or TV (Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries are among her favorite shows), singing along to her favorite band (30 Seconds to Mars), or fantasizing about kinky sex with Michael Fassbender and/or Jared Leto.
Here’s Cat’s various hideouts on the Internet:
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I love the cover. I would want to come in from the cold as well.
I would like to read In from the cold, I always enjoy Cat’s books. Please count me in.
Sounds interesting. Thanks for the excerpt. 🙂
intriguing story…please count me in
Such a sweet story I cannot wait to read it, the Courtland tales are new to me so its on my wish now. Thank you for the chance of winning some swag 🙂