Book Tour ~ Rock Hard by Nalini Singh
Meet Gabriel (sexy rugby player turned CEO) & Charlotte in this fantastic addition to
the Rock Kiss Series!
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In New York Times Bestselling author Nalini Singh’s newest contemporary romance, passion ignites between a gorgeous, sinfully sexy man who built himself up from
nothing and a shy woman who has a terrible secret in her past…
Wealthy businessman Gabriel Bishop rules the boardroom with the same
determination and ruthlessness that made him a rock star on the rugby field. He knows what he wants, and he’ll go after it no-holds-barred.
And what he wants is Charlotte Baird.
Charlotte knows she’s a mouse. Emotionally scarred and painfully shy, she just wants to do her job and remain as invisible as possible. But the new CEO—a brilliant, broad-shouldered T-Rex of a man who growls and storms through the office, leaving carnage in his wake—clearly has other plans. Plans that may be equal parts business and bedroom.
If Charlotte intends to survive this battle of wits and hearts, the mouse will have to learn to wrangle the T-Rex. Game on.
Charlotte arrived at work at seven thirty the next morning to find Gabriel Bishop’s office door open, but no carnivorous predator inside. A fresh suit was hanging on the back of his door, however, which meant he’d been in already.
Deciding to catch up on e-mails that had come in overnight from international suppliers as well as stores involved in a stock take, she was typing a reply when a sweaty Gabriel arrived fifteen minutes later. He was dressed in black running shorts and a faded University of Auckland T-shirt that was currently sticking to his body.
She’d known he was in shape, but now she realized none of it was an illusion created
by his well-cut suits. Okay, she’d already known that, but seeing his muscled body in the flesh was a whole different ball game. He was built like a tank, hard and powerful.
Each of his thighs was thicker than both of hers put together, his biceps toned, his
shoulders appearing even wider than usual. Everything about him was big. Civilized
clothing didn’t make him look better, she realized—it toned down his intense masculinity. Out of his suits, with the ink on the upper part of his left arm exposed, as well as that on his opposing thigh and…
Her skin hot and lower body clenching, she just nodded in response to his
“Good morning.”
Disappearing into his office, he returned with his suit pants and a fresh shirt slung over his arm, along with a sports bag. “Push the meeting with Sales to nine, will you,
Ms. Baird? I need to talk to HR about something before then.”
“Yes, sir,” Charlotte said almost soundlessly, but he was already gone, heading toward the employee shower one floor down.
The thigh tattoo went all the way around, the design intricate.
Heart rate a rapid stutter, Charlotte got up after he disappeared and decided to go grab him a coffee. He’d bought her one yesterday after all. She was just being nice.
“Oh, shut up, Charlotte,” she muttered once she was in the elevator, and slumped her
face into an upraised hand.
The truth was she was running away. Only for a few minutes, but that’s what this was: strategic retreat. Gabriel Bishop was overwhelming. Once, before she’d ever met him and under the influence of cocktails, she’d told Molly she wanted to rip off his shirt and sink her teeth into his pecs.
That desire hadn’t waned even now that she knew he was a T-Rex. Of course, the desire was all strictly in her imagination. The idea of actually handling him in real life? So impossible as to be laughable. Charlie-mouse was not about to play with a predator who could eat her alive and not even
notice the bones. The good news was that she could admire him in relative safety—there was no chance in hell he’d ever notice her as a woman.
Getting the coffee from a nearby café, she took it back upstairs. He was in his office when she entered, the striped dark gray of his tie hanging around his neck and his damp hair roughly combed. The scent of clean, fresh soap over warm skin permeated the #office. Shooting her a smile that turned him from gorgeous to flat-out devastating, he flipped up the collar of his white shirt to get the tie in place. “Thank you, Ms. Baird.”
Nodding, Charlotte escaped, though she really wanted to stay. She’d never realized
how erotic it was to watch a man dress until this precise moment. And she shouldn’t
be having these thoughts about her boss—especially since she couldn’t keep from quivering like a rabbit in his presence.
Sometimes she just annoyed herself.
“Get to work,” she muttered and knuckled down.
Gabriel was fine for the first hour, but then he began barking orders even a six-armed woman with a split personality would have had trouble handling.
Finally, pushed to the edge, Charlotte snapped. “I’m going as fast as I can!” she yelled when he asked her for something a minute after he’d asked her to complete another
task.
He scowled and held out a file. “This is a priority.”
Grabbing it from his hand, she said, “Fine,” and slapped it down on her desk.
It was over an hour later that he disappeared for ten minutes. When he returned, it was to put a small bakery box on her desk. “I think you need something to sweeten your
mood today, Ms. Baird.”
What she needed was for the T-Rex who was her boss to stop snarling and growling, she thought as he returned to his office. Not opening the box until her curiosity had almost killed her, she found it held a slice of decadent chocolate cake with a white-chocolate ganache topped with curls of both white and milk chocolate.
“I cannot be bribed with cake,” she muttered, eating a bite nonetheless.
The Rock Kiss Series
Rock Addiction (Book One) Rock Kiss Series
Rock Courtship (bk 1.5) A Rock Kiss Novel:
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Rock Hard (Book Two) Rock Kiss Series
Rock Hard (Book Two) Rock Kiss Series
***ARC provided in exchange for an honest review - Jacquie / Scandalous Book Blog***
This is the story of Charlotte, the best friend of Molly who we met in book 1 and her alpha
boss ex rugby player Gabe who she nicknames T Rex.
This is the classic tale of opposites attract; Charlie has been left mentally and physically
scarred by an abusive ex and his scared of her own shadow. She’s your typical wall flower with low self esteem, who has has panic attacks and is terrified of men.
Enter Gabriel her new boss who’s hot, sexy and domineering and sets his sights on her.
He’s also got a reputation as a player and usually one night is enough for him.
Nalini Singh did a fabulous job of relating the story of Charlie and Gabriel as it could have
turned into a caricature of a Disney cartoon It would also have been easy to make Charlie a very introspected one dimensional figure but Nalini makes her witty, loveable and fun,
whilst Gabe is shown as more than we first expected and has hidden depths.
In places the book was laugh out loud funny especially when Charlie describes him to Molly and the banter between Gabe and his family.
It also had the inevitable
re-entry of her violent first love back into her life and the terrifying results.
I thought I would be disappointed as I expected this book to follow on from book one and be about another band member but I was very pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed this and
will probably read it again.
NEW YORK TIMES AND USA Today bestselling author of the
Psy-Changeling and Guild Hunter series Nalini Singh usually writes about hot shapeshifters and dangerous angels. This time around, she decided to write about hot and wickedly tempting rock stars (and one gorgeous ex- rugby player). If you’re seeing a theme here, you’re not wrong.
Nalini lives and works in beautiful New Zealand, and is passionate about writing.
If you’d like to explore her other books, you can find lots of excerpts on her website. Slave to Sensation is the first book in the Psy-Changeling series, while Angels’ Blood is the first book in the Guild Hunter series.
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