Bestselling
author Sawyer Bennett has released her latest New Adult Contemporary novel in
the Off Series! We have an excerpt and giveaway below to help celebrate!
Flynn Caldwell
EXCERPT
FROM OFF CHANCE
I can only imagine what Thanksgiving would be like
with the Caldwells. There will be plenty of good food, lots of laughter, and
probably some naps when it’s all said and done.
“And Capone can come, too,” Flynn throws in to entice
me further, but I’d already decided to accept.
“Okay. We’re in. Can you ask your mom what I can
bring?”
“I’ll ask but I know she’ll say ‘don’t bring a thing
but yourself’.”
I laugh over Flynn’s impersonation of his mom’s Irish
accent. “In that case, don’t bother asking and I’ll just bring something. Maybe
a pie.”
“You can cook?” Flynn asks with astonishment.
“Of course I can cook,” I tell him with indignation.
“Then how come all we ever have is pizza or bologna
sandwiches when it’s your turn to cook?”
“Just because I can cook, doesn’t mean I want to. This
is the twenty-first century pal... get with the times. Women have shed the
chains of slavery and we no longer serve you menfolk.”
Flynn throws his head back and starts howling with
laughter, then he pitches forward, holding the hand with Capone’s leash to his
stomach while he laughs, with the other holding onto his hot cocoa. It’s
infectious and I start laughing along with him.
He looks at me and our eyes meet.
Then it happens... there is almost a crackle in the
air, like electricity is flowing between us. Flynn’s laughter immediately dies
away and the smile slides from my face. The same happens to me and nothing is
left in our expressions except a focused intensity on each other. It’s almost
as if I can feel heat swirling all around us, and the backdrop of the world
fades to black.
Until nothing is left but just Flynn and me.
I call it “The Happening” and it represents those few
times when the resolve to just be friends seems to melt away into oblivion. It
occurs at the weirdest of times and I have no control over it. When I’m in that
moment with Flynn, I want nothing more than for him to grab me and kiss me like
I was the oxygen his lungs crave. I want to strip him bare and use just my
fingertips to trace every inch of skin on his body. I want to get lost... deeply lost, in Flynn.
“The Happening” hits Flynn just as hard as it hits me.
I see the desire light him up from within. I feel the sexual tension pouring
off him with visceral awareness, and I swear I can feel his heart moaning for
me.
When “The Happening” occurs, I am powerless to fight
it. In fact, if Flynn ever made a move to touch me during the event, I would
completely submit to him body and soul. But thankfully, Flynn is a stronger
person than I am, and he is clearly the more responsible of the two of us.
He’ll usually snap out of it first, and bring me crashing back to reality.
Like he does right at this moment.
TOP TEN
GUEST POST BY FLYNN CALDWELL
TOP TEN
GUEST POST BY FLYNN CALDWELL
1. Favorite movie/actor/actress?
Milla Jovovich… she is freaky in really hot way in The 5th Element.
2. Favorite song/singer? I hate to admit
this but my cousin, Renner’s boyfriend has a really great song I listen to all
the time called Walking On Treetops. God, I hope he doesn’t read this and think
that I actually like the dude.
3. Favorite place you would love to visit?
I’ve always wanted to go to New Zealand. Maybe one day with my girl.
4. One item you can not live with out?
Coffee… it is like oxygen to me.
5. Who would you like to meet?(dead or
alive) Martin Brodeur
6. Favorite hobby? Xbox… especially
playing with Tim’s son, Sam. But that little monster kicks my butt all the
time.
7. Guilty pleasure? Rowan… but there’s no
guilt about it.
8. Favorite author and/book? The Catcher in
the Rye by J.D. Salinger
9. Do you collect anything? Dog hair… since Capone moved in.
10. Favorite color?
Gray. Read Off Chance and you’ll understand why
Release:
October 21, 2013
He is seeking
absolution.
Flynn
Caldwell has a hero complex and it’s one of the reasons he joined the New York
City Fire Department. He has spent his entire professional career trying to
atone for that one person he failed to save. Because, if he can do that, then
perhaps he can be worthy of love again.
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She is seeking escape.
Rowan Page’s
life is nothing short of a disaster. Always immersed in trouble, she has only
herself to depend on. She’s determined to pull herself out of this mess and
make something of her life, despite the hard years she has lived on the streets
of New York.
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Together, they have the
chance to become complete.
Flynn and
Rowan’s worlds exist miles apart, but when a chance meeting brings them
together, neither of them can deny the instant pull that connects them to each
other. What starts as a tiny spark eventually flares into a fire so hot, it
refuses to be extinguished.
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Both are willing to
jump feet first into the flames to see where it takes them, despite the risk of
being burned.
About
the Author
USA Today Best-Selling author, Sawyer Bennett, is a
snarky southern woman and reformed trial lawyer who decided to finally start
putting on paper all of the stories that were floating in her head. She is
married to a mobster (well, a market researcher) and they have two big, furry
dogs who hog the bed. Sawyer would like to report she doesn't have many
weaknesses but can be bribed with a nominal amount of milk chocolate.
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