Title: The Deception Incident
Series: The Incident
Author: Marla Holt
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Release Date: 21st July 2020
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Her life is stabilizing and his is spiraling while they both keep
secrets.
Minnie Halvarson moved to Kansas to start over. She wanted to be anonymous, live a simple life, and heal from her past. When Bryant Wilder walks into her bookstore, she thinks she’s hit the boyfriend jackpot. What more could she want than a tall, bookish man who worships her?
Until Minnie finds out he’s dating mega pop star, Van Birch and cuts all ties with him.
Bryant Wilder is a humble Kansas contractor by day and Van Birch’s fake boyfriend whenever she needs him to bel. At first Bryant is happy to do it, but after five years, he is tired of dodging paparazzi and keeping his hookups on the down low.
Bryant wants more.
Who he wants is Minnie. But she won’t even look at him.
Now Van is back in Wellville, and has adopted Minnie into their friend group, Bryant is just as smitten with her as ever. Maybe if she hadn’t just had a baby, he’d actually have a chance.
The Deception Incident is the second book in the Incident Series. Dig into this steamy, instalove, secret baby romance with a guaranteed happily ever after by Marla Holt.
Minnie Halvarson moved to Kansas to start over. She wanted to be anonymous, live a simple life, and heal from her past. When Bryant Wilder walks into her bookstore, she thinks she’s hit the boyfriend jackpot. What more could she want than a tall, bookish man who worships her?
Until Minnie finds out he’s dating mega pop star, Van Birch and cuts all ties with him.
Bryant Wilder is a humble Kansas contractor by day and Van Birch’s fake boyfriend whenever she needs him to bel. At first Bryant is happy to do it, but after five years, he is tired of dodging paparazzi and keeping his hookups on the down low.
Bryant wants more.
Who he wants is Minnie. But she won’t even look at him.
Now Van is back in Wellville, and has adopted Minnie into their friend group, Bryant is just as smitten with her as ever. Maybe if she hadn’t just had a baby, he’d actually have a chance.
The Deception Incident is the second book in the Incident Series. Dig into this steamy, instalove, secret baby romance with a guaranteed happily ever after by Marla Holt.
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EXCERPT
ONE
Bryant thought he might have died. On some level, he knew
he lay in bed next to the voluptuous woman he’d been lusting after for weeks.
That was the only way to account for the otherworldly satiety that had him
feeling as though he’d left his body behind altogether and reached some other
level of consciousness.
His mind was not functioning. Bryant couldn’t form
thoughts, couldn’t speak words. This tiny woman, whom he’d thought so shy when
he’d first met her, had rocked his world. It was as if her touch had
electrocuted him onto a new plane of existence, because he was certain that he
was no longer the same Bryant Wilder he had always been an hour ago.
Was that even possible?
The only thing he was sure of was that as soon as his
body re-materialized and his thoughts could coalesce into coherence, he was
going to have a new obsession. This woman. She was going to be the undoing of
him.
The first conscious thought he had that didn’t have to do
with the freewheeling pleasure centers in his brain was that he had to tell
Van.
Telling Van what was harder to grasp. That he’d just had
the most amazing sex of his life? Sure, he’d guess that might be something
they’d discuss, but it wasn’t what he wanted to talk to her about. He couldn’t
articulate why. He and Van talked about everything.
Then Minnie stirred in his arms, and Bryant fell back
into his body. His limbs were heavy, his muscles relaxed, and he thought maybe
he had been asleep for a little while. He didn’t remember getting rid of the
condom, but he must have at some point. All there was in his memory was his
skin on Minnie’s in a chilly room. He pulled her closer, not sure if they’d
knocked all the covers to the floor or if the bed was still made.
Minnie rolled in his arms so her breath tickled his ear,
then she skimmed her finger tips up his arm and over his collarbone. She
scratched in the three day’s worth of stubble on his chin, then trailed up to
tap on the hinge of his glasses.
“You still have your glasses on,” she said, a giggle in
the back of her throat.
“Of course,” Bryant said. His voice came out in a
decidedly unsexy croak. “I needed to be able to see every expression you made,
every sensuous writhe, every shudder of delight, and I’m blind without my
glasses.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marla Holt believes in second chances, romance, and the radical
notion that everyone deserves a happily every after. She's living her
own fairy tale, writing contemporary romance novels in her Kansas
farmhouse with her husband, three boys, three cats, and flock of
imaginary sheep. Follow her at marlaholt.com or on
Instagram as @marlaholtauthor
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