Spotlight & Giveaway: Lovewrecked by Karina Halle

Posted April 28th, 2020 by in Blog, Spotlight / 45 comments

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Karina Halle’s new release: Lovewrecked

 

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Daisy Lewis is experiencing a relentless string of bad luck.

Fortunately, Daisy has her sister’s destination wedding coming up. A week of sand, sea, and sun in the South Pacific as the maid-of-honor is exactly what Daisy needs to forget her upturned life and focus on the positive.
That is until Daisy meets the best man.
If you take tall, dark, and handsome, and add a dash of rugged, a pinch of brooding, and a whole lot of sexy, you’ve got Tai Wakefield. Unfortunately he’s also a major grump, total alpha, and seemingly out to antagonize Daisy at every turn.
As if being part of the wedding party with Tai wasn’t bad enough, Daisy’s bad luck soon resurfaces when she ends up on a cramped sailboat with Tai and the newlyweds.
Which then shipwrecks on a deserted island near Fiji.
Okay, so they aren’t completely alone. There’s an oddball research scientist who has been isolated for far too long, they have rundown bungalows as shelter, stores of water and canned food, plus a feral goat named Wilson. It’s Lost…without the smoke monster.
But with rescue weeks away, Tai and Daisy realize the only way they’re going to get through this mess is to stop fighting and start working together.
And with their guards down, they get closer.
A lot closer.
Soon, Daisy realizes that the only thing worse than being stuck on a deserted island, is being stuck on a deserted island with a man she hates to love and loves to hate.
A man that can break her heart.

 

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from Lovewrecked 

“Let me help you with that,” he says, moving closer, even though it’s obvious I don’t need any help at all. Working in athleisure wear has ensured I work out a lot and I’m a lot stronger than I look.
Meanwhile I can’t help but glance at his girlfriend who is sitting down in her seat and glaring at me, as if I’m not to be trusted. I’m distracted enough that the suitcase slips out of my hands and before I can stop it, it falls and bonks the guy right in the head.
Ow.
That’s gotta hurt.
“I’m so sorry!” I cry out, awkwardly trying to regain control of the suitcase.
The guy holds onto his head where the wheel hit him, wincing in pain and trying to smile like he’s fine.
I quickly manage to shove the suitcase into the bin and apologize again, just as his girlfriend says, “That’s what you get,” to him in a smug voice.
“That’s what I get for trying to help?” he asks her, voice raised, as if that hit a nerve more than my falling suitcase did.
Oh boy. I swiftly get in seat by the window, shove my purse under the seat beside me and bring out my noise-cancelling headphones. I can tell the couple is about to get into a fight and I don’t want any part of it. My own wounds are too fresh.
It’s a thirteen-hour flight across the Pacific, the longest flight I’ve ever been on. After dinner is served and I’ve had some complimentary red wine, I’ve watched every single movie that there is, and it’s time for the sky couch.
I take off my headphones, the cabin lights already dim, and bring out the information card that tells you how to create your bed.
I’ve only read the first sentence when I notice the row in front of me is starting to shake.
Repeatedly.
The dregs of wine in the bottom of my glass start to slosh back and forth on the tray table.
There is some turbulence, so I don’t think much of it.
But the seats don’t seem to be moving with the turbulence.
Wait…
Are they…?
And then I hear it.
A low moan.
Oh my god.
They can’t be…
“Oh god, yes,” the girl’s breathless voice comes from the seat and through the tiny gap between the seats I can see bodies moving.
Oh my god.
They are.
They’re having sex right in front of me!
Even though I know they can’t see me, I can feel my cheeks immediately go to Tomato Zone One. I’m notorious for blushing easily and if it gets really bad, where my whole face will match my dark strawberry blonde hair and all my freckles will meld together.
What do I do?
I look around, trying to see if anyone else is seeing (or hearing) this but everyone else is lying down, sound asleep. I crane my head around, hoping to spot a flight attendant but I don’t see any. Besides, what am I going to do, rat on them?
I mean, I probably should…
“Lower, lower,” the girl says. “Yes!”
Oh hell no.
I put my headphones back on and sit back, trying to watch another movie on the seatback. But of course that keeps shaking and shaking. The turbulence has nothing on those two.
How long is this going to go on for?
I’m getting over a breakup, I’m heading across an ocean to go to a wedding all alone, can’t they show me a little bit of respect?
But no, the seats continue to shake and I swear I can hear the moans through my headphones, and they aren’t showing any signs of stopping.
This is hell.
There’s only one thing for me to do.
I undo my belt and raise the arm rests and slowly sidle out of my row.
I know I shouldn’t look at them, I know I need to just ignore them.
But either watching strangers do it on a plane is some new kink of mine, or curiosity killed the cat.
I stand at the end of their row and look down.
I can’t see anything, blankets are covering them as they go at it from the side. And at it, and at it.
Way to rub it in.
(Oh, he’s rubbing something alright).
I’m in the middle of turning around when suddenly the plane hits an air pocket, the turbulence causing the plane to drop some feet.
I lose my footing, thrown forward.
I fall right over on the couple, face down where you don’t want to be face down.
Oh. My. God.
“Hey!” the girl cries out.
“Sorry!” I say, placing my hands on their hips and other body parts, trying to push myself back up. “So sorry!”
I can’t even look at them.
“As you were,” I say.
I straighten up somehow and then, feeling panicked, head right to the galley at the back of the plane.
There are two flight attendants back there sitting down and chatting. They both look at me with weary smiles, the kind that says they’d rather not be dealing with passengers right now, especially not someone like me who must look all flushed and wild-eyed.
I’m tempted to tell them about the sexcapades in row 50, but decide they probably don’t need the extra stress.
So instead I ask for a glass of wine and if I can just hang out in the galley with them, because I am not going back to my seat.
I think they can tell I’m desperate for company or something, because they say yes.
I go through another glass of wine. And then I start talking about my old job, and then Chris.
And they start feeling sorry for me.
The wine keeps coming.

Excerpt. ©Karina Halle. Posted by arrangement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
 

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Meet the Author:

Karina Halle is a former travel writer, music journalist & screenwriter, and The New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling author of over 55 bestselling novels, ranging from horror and suspense to contemporary romance. She lives on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband, and her adopted pitbull Bruce, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails and devours a lot of books.

Halle is represented by the Root Literary Agency and is both self-published and published by Simon & Schuster, Hachette & Montlake. Her work has been translated and published in 20 languages.

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45 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Lovewrecked by Karina Halle”

  10. Diana Hardt

    Nice cover. I liked the blurb and excerpt. It sounds like a really interesting book.

  25. Debra Branigan

    Sorry, not interested in such a scene. This one turned me off to the book.

  31. BookLady

    This book sounds like a fun summer read. Great excerpt. Thanks for sharing.

  41. laurieg72

    I never thought about people doing it right in their seats always think they’re in the tiny bathroom. I kept wondering if the guy was Tai. Quite an intro.