Spotlight & Giveaway: Good Girl’s Bad Lessons by Carmen Falcone

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Carmen Falcone to HJ!

Hi Carmen Falcone and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Good Girl’s Bad Lessons!

Tell us about the book with this fun little challenge using the title of the book:

G is for: Glamorous
O is for: The Big “O”
O is for: Ohmigod
D is for: Delicious

G is for: Girrrrrrl—you need to read this book!
I is for: Italian
R is for: Raunchy
L is for: Love
S is for: Sweet

B is for: Big-hearted
A is for: Adorable
D is for: Dirrrrrrty

L is for: Lips
E is for: Emma
S is for: Sin
S is for: Sexy
O is for: Outrageous
N is for: Nico!
S is for: So hot!
 

Please share the opening lines of this book:

“Would you like to see the wine list, mademoiselle?” the waiter with a thick French accent asked.
“Not yet. I’m waiting for my… boyfriend,” Emma Cavanaugh said, realizing the word fiancé almost slipped from her mouth.

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• Heroine wants her brother’s best friend to give her sex lessons so she can win back her ex fiancé
• If you like gorgeous international settings, there’s a trip to Mauritius
• Dirty romance (hehe)
• Swoony, Italian hero
• Standalone

Was there a scene in this book that was harder to write than others?

Yes, this one. Emma is a bit tipsy, and feeling down and because her fiancé broke up with her and she confides in her brother’s best friend Nico.

When they entered the living area, Emma turned on two lamps and turned down the TV’s volume. She reached for the bottle of red wine and gestured it to him. “Want?”
Nico grabbed it from her hand. “Doesn’t it seem like you’ve had enough?”
She shook her head and took it back from him. “Please. I was dumped today. I’m entitled.”
He cleared his throat. “Your fiancé broke up with you?”
“Yeah. Said I suck in the bedroom,” she said, then chugged down the glass. “That’s a complaint I bet you never had.”
“Can’t say that I have.” He went to the kitchen, opened a few cupboards until he found wine glasses, and took one. When he returned, he poured himself some. What the hell could he say to make her feel better? He didn’t get this whole male/female friendship thing, which was why he never wasted time befriending the opposite sex. Still. A flicker of sadness gleamed in her pretty eyes, and he wanted it gone. “Listen, it has nothing to do with you. He’s the loser.”
She rolled her eyes at him, unfazed. “Whatever. It has everything to do with me. Simon’s perfect for me. And I’m perfect for him, if he’s willing to look past his stupid fantasies.”
He glanced down at the red contents in his glass. “He doesn’t know how to stoke that fire in you.”
“It’s not him. Like, I never had an orgasm before. I’m good at faking it. So it can’t be him.”
Poor girl. “Never?”
“Never. But it’s not like I slept with the entire city.”
Like I have. Hmmm… “You don’t need the entire city. You just need one person to make you come.”
“I guess. Sex isn’t really that important for me.”
“How can it not be? Relationships start with sex and end with sex,” he said matter-of-factly. Hell, it probably had been that way between his folks, too. If they’d stuck with sex and not foolish emotions, they wouldn’t have had a fucked-up marriage and produced fucked-up children. Not that he’d ever have to worry about making the same mistake. He’d gotten a vasectomy for that exact reason.
“Thanks.”
“I don’t mean to hurt you, but—”
She waved him off, impatient. “Listen, I know you’re the sex king. I get it. But all I want is someone to share my life with. Have kids. Someone who will be there through thick and thin, like my parents’ marriage.”
“I’m sorry Simon wasn’t that guy,” he said, even though he didn’t feel sorry at all.
“That’s where you’re wrong. He is that guy. I wish I wasn’t such a bad lay.”
He gritted his teeth. Her low self-esteem about her performance bugged him, and he didn’t even know why. “Dio, you can’t be.”
She shook her head. “Let’s face it. I never even came. Well, it’s not as easy for girls.”
“Not if your man knows what he’s doing. It wasn’t your fault.”
She sighed. “How can you be sure? You weren’t there.”
Enough talking. A mix of frustration and challenge worked its way into his bloodstream, pumping his veins so hard, they were about to pop. He shouldn’t be doing this, but hell, it was too fucking late. “But I’m here now…and I’m about to show you that you can come. Take off your robe, get on the sofa, and I’ll teach you a thing or two about orgasms.”

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What do you want people to take away from reading this book?

I want people to feel good and hopeful about love.

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Book Info:

Translator Emma Cavanaugh will do anything to win her ex-boyfriend back—including summoning her brother’s best friend, Italian billionaire and playboy Nico Giordano, to give her much-needed lessons in the art of seducing and pleasing a man. Sex was never her thing, so if anyone is going to know how to teach her how to be bad it’ll be Mr. Sex-on-A-Stick himself.

Nico doesn’t want any part of the crazy plan to teach Emma to be the mayor of pleasureville because not only will her brother kill him, but little does she know he wants nothing more than to taste her, touch her, and hear her moan his name. So that’s a hard no…until she begs him to show her, to let her be his student for a month of blistering hot instruction that will make not only Emma’s ex panting for more, but Nico as well as it turns out.

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Meet the Author:

Carmen Falcone writes sexy, edgy, emotional romance. She loves to create deliciously hot, Alpha book boyfriends and the quirky, smart and sassy heroines readers relate to.
Brazilian by birth and traveler by nature, she moved to Central Texas after college and met her broody Swiss husband—living proof that opposites attract. She found in writing the best excuse to avoid the healthy lifestyle everyone keeps bragging about. When she’s not lost in the world of romance, she enjoys spending time with her two kids, being walked by her three crazy pugs, reading, catching up with friends, and chatting with random people in the checkout line.
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