Spotlight & Giveaway: Deal with the Devil by Meghan March

Posted January 15th, 2019 by in Blog, Spotlight / 42 comments

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Meghan March to HJ!
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Hi Meghan and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Deal with the Devil!

Hey y’all!!! Thank you so much for letting me stop by to gush about my brand new book, Deal with the Devil, the ruthless and calculating billionaire hero, Jericho Forge, and his strong, independent (read: stubborn as hell) heroine, India Baptiste! I’m so thrilled to share a little sneak peek and some of the inside scoop with you today!
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

Jericho Forge, a shipping magnate who looks more like a pirate than a CEO and prefers to spend more time on the deck of his ship than on land, first meets India Baptiste at the poker table. This tenacious heroine finds herself in a jam of a lifetime, and is forced to bet herself. All hell breaks loose when she loses and has to make a deal with the devil.
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

“More pirate than CEO. That’s how people describe him.”

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

Deal with the Devil is largely set in the island paradise of Ibiza, Spain, where I went for the first time last year. We fell so in love with the island that we had to go back, and Deal with the Devil was born from the inspiration!

 

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

Jericho Forge is the CEO who has everything money can buy, but very little intrigues him… at least until his mortal enemy falls for a woman, and Forge plans to steal her from him. It doesn’t take long before he realizes that she’s not just a trophy to be won—she’s the ultimate prize.

India Baptiste fights her attraction to Jericho Forge hard. She has no interest in this domineering, ruthless man, but then she starts peeling back his layers, and fighting the attraction is the last thing she wants to do.

 

If your book was optioned for a movie, what scene would you use for the audition of the main characters and why?

In this scene, Indy has an almost impossible decision to make…

“We’re only playing what’s on the table tonight, Indy,” Bastien says, leaning back in his chair and crossing his arms over his chest. “You made the rule.”
Goddamn you, Bastien, I curse silently. You’re going to cost me everything, all because I refuse to sleep with you.
My chin dips. I do another mental tally of my chips, but it’s pointless. I don’t have enough, and the side pot won’t even come close to what I need to win.
“Then I guess that means . . .” My heart clogs my throat, and I can barely get out the words I need to speak. The words of defeat.
“You’re not done yet,” Forge says.
After an entire night of purposely avoiding the man, I turn to face him. “What do you mean?”
“We’re not playing by casino rules . . . only our own, correct?”
I have no idea what the hell Forge is getting at, but I can’t imagine it’s going to help me.
“Correct,” I reply, caution underlying my tone.
His gaze drops to the space in front of me. “Then you can play whatever’s on the table.”
I look down to see the condensation dripping from my untouched champagne flute . . . and the keycard beside it. The keycard for the suite Jean Phillippe comped me for tonight.
Oh, fuck no. Just no.
Silently, I meet Forge’s dark gaze without blinking. He doesn’t even bother to try to hide the hunger in it. There’s no question what he wants.
Me.
“You can’t be serious,” I say, but we both know it’s a waste of breath. Forge has probably never joked in his entire life. And now he wants to put a monetary value on my room key and have me toss it in the pot?
“You fucking bastard,” Bastien says with hatred practically incinerating his words.
Forge’s attention cuts to Bastien, and the triumph in his gaze tells me exactly what his goal has been all night. Destroy Bastien through any means necessary, including taking away the one thing he wants more in this room than money—me.
“I’m not a whore.” I force out the words from between clenched teeth.
Forge’s gaze shifts to me. “Whores don’t get millions for a night with me.”
Chills shoot down my spine, and they have nothing to do with the air-conditioning being on full blast. No, they have everything to do with my all-too-vivid imagination conjuring images of a night with the untamable Jericho Forge. Him slipping this dress off my body. Gripping my hair. Taking my lips. Sliding between my legs. Moving over me as I dig my nails into his shoulders.
My nipples peak, and I slam my eyes shut. It doesn’t help. The scene plays like a movie in my head.
I knew when he walked in the room that he was dangerous on every level, and I wasn’t wrong. Everything about Jericho Forge screams to me to run in the other direction.
I shouldn’t be affected by him. But there’s no arguing the truth.
I open my eyes and stare the man down before making the only real choice I have left. I lift my hand from the edge of the table, and like I’m moving through quicksand, my fingers hover over the keycard.
There’s no going back if I do this.
I have to win.
I don’t have to look down at my cards to see the full house I’m holding. I haven’t been bluffing.
I will win.

 

Readers should read this book….

Are you wishing for a new alpha hero who is the perfect mix of ruthless, but with a hidden soft spot he hides from all but the one woman strong enough to bring him to his knees? If that’s your jam, Jericho Forge and Deal with the Devil are exactly what you need. If you’re a Meghan March fan, then Jericho Forge is the perfect blend of Lachlan Mount from Ruthless King and Creighton Karas from Dirty Billionaire. Early readers are claiming Jericho Forge has dethroned all their past favorite heroes from my books!

 

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

The Forge Trilogy owns my life. Seriously. It’s the kind of story that sucked me in completely and took over. I sincerely hope it does the same for you! After you devour Deal with the Devil, Luck of the Devil releases on February 12 and Heart of the Devil releases March 12. After that… well, a girl has to have some secrets 😉 I promise that when I reveal my next project, a lot of my readers are going to FREAK OUT. #tease.
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

 

Giveaway: One signed paperback of Deal with the Devil

 

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Excerpt from Deal with the Devil:

“I don’t do anything for anyone without getting something in return.”

I should have expected him to say that. My heart hammers harder as I study the austere lines of his face, softened only by the stubble that seems to permanently color his jaw.

“What do you want?”

One arrogant eyebrow rises. “From you? You should already know the answer to that.” The corners of his mouth lift until his expression is the picture of sheer triumph. “Every-fucking-thing.”

Every-fucking-thing. The word vibrates through my body, hardening my nipples further and intensifying the thrumming pulse between my legs.

“I’m keeping my clothes on,” I tell him, my voice sounding husky, even to my ears.

“Good, because when I want them off, I’ll strip you myself.”

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Book Info:

“You can put that man in a suit, but he’ll never be tame.”

One look at Jericho Forge and I knew the rumors were true. He was a predator, and he had set his sights on me.

I knew better than to bet more than I could afford to lose that night. I knew better than to bet myself. But desperation leads to bad decisions, and I thought there was no way I could lose.

I was wrong.

Now I have no choice but to make a deal with the devil.
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Meet the Author:

Making the jump from corporate lawyer to romance author was a leap of faith that New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Meghan March will never regret. With over thirty titles published, she has sold millions of books in nearly a dozen languages to fellow romance-lovers around the world. A nomad at heart, she can currently be found in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, living her happily ever after with her real-life alpha hero.
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42 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Deal with the Devil by Meghan March”

  1. HEATHER SCULLY

    At the moment… I’d sell my soul, or anyone else’s for that matter… To have a cure for chronic illnesses. They steal what’s left of your life. Regardless of how determined you are to continue to carry forward, the moments that any disease takes from you…the times that you want to share with the people that you love and can’t, the things you wish you could still do, the hopes and dreams and future plans it shatters…all of those accumulated losses, and those minor and major modifications to your life…they steal from you. And I would give anything, not to watch people, including myself suffer through that. ❤

  9. Chris Gutowski

    I’d think about making a deal with the devil to keep a roof over my head, a paycheck in my pocket and a Kindle filled with books in my hand!

  10. Heidi

    At this point, for the betterment of the entire country, I’d make a deal with the devil to get a certain toxic person out of the Oval Office.

  21. Teresa Williams

    My health back.so I could stand up Long enough to shop and do things in my house.

  24. Nina T

    I don’t want to tell, like Natalija I’m a little bit supersticious too 🙂

  25. Joy Tetterton Avery

    The only way I’d ever make a deal with the devil would be if it was for loved ones.

  31. Jessica

    Probably for my own all access pass to frankie ballard shows. That would be nice lol

  34. Nikki

    I”d make a Deal with the Devil to be with my forever love. I’ve hoped…wished…prayed…and experienced only heartbreak. To have the man that makes it hard to breathe…to feel like the only two people in the room when its actually full…the chemistry…the heat of his touch….I’d make the Deal.

  35. erinf1

    lol… that’s a hard one… i’d ask for stuff the Devil would hate! and possible make a deal where my request is twisted,… like world peace would turn everyone into inanimate objects, etc, etc. So I think I’d be too afraid to make a deal! thanks for sharing!

  39. Sonia

    I would not make a deal since I don’t need or want anything at the moment:)