Exclusive Content: The First Time We Met

Title : The First Time We Met
Author : Pippa Croft
Publication date : 13 February 2014
Publisher : Penguin
Purchase eBook: Kindle
Rating : Rating & Review Coming Soon!

News!: Today marks the publication of Pippa Crofts new book The First Time We Met, this is the first book in the Oxford blue Series by Pippa. Twitter has been awash with people talking about this book and everyone wants to get their hands on a copy. Here’s why…

The Blurb –
When US Senator’s daughter, Lauren Cusack, arrives at the enchanting Wyckham College of Oxford University she hopes to mend a broken heart by throwing herself in to her studies. But then the English aristocrat Alexander Hunt walks in to her life and everything changes. Handsome, brooding and with his own dark past to escape, Alexander is exactly what Lauren doesn’t need – but she finds herself helplessly drawn towards him.

They are attracted to one another with an intensity that should warn them that neither is what the other needs. But sometimes desire is too powerful to ignore…

Exclusive Extract – 

“         ‘Alexander Hunt asked you into his house?’
‘Sure. He had to fetch an ice pack and some vet tape for me.’
She squeals in delight. ‘Vet tape!’
Oh, hell, what have I started now? ‘He, um, said it was the best thing for sports injuries and that he’d used it on his horses.’
Immy’s shriek attracts the attention of some of our fellow drinkers.
‘Immy, please.’
Her face is mock solemn. ‘And, pray, what happened after he’d done his Nurse Alexander act?’
And? Should I tell her that he kissed me and had his hand inside my shorts and that we were on the verge of having sex on his sofa? No way. We may have got to know each other pretty well in a short time, but I’m not ready to share that info with anyone.
I shrug. ‘He drove me back to college.’
‘So,’ she says, leaning forward. ‘Let me get this straight. Alexander Hunt carried you into his house, laid you on his sofa, strapped up your injured ankle and brought you home in the Range Rover and you say it’s nothing?’
‘He didn’t carry me into his house and I didn’t say he’d laid me on his sofa.’
‘But you were lying on it?’ Wow, Immy could work for MI6.
‘Sitting, actually. I had no choice.’
Immy snorts. ‘Do you have any idea what you’re saying here?’
‘That I fell over outside some random guy’s house? That he taped up my foot? Is that such a big deal?’
‘It is when Alexander Hunt is the random guy in question!’
I shrug my shoulders. ‘So?’
‘So, he’s incredibly choosy about his women and a huge catch and when this gets out, half the girls in Oxford will have the knives out for you.’
‘His women? Hey, I’m deeply flattered to be one of the chosen few – I don’t think –  but there’s no need for anything to “get out”. I’d hate people to get the impression I set out to ‘hook’ Alexander or something which incidentally makes him sound like some huge great fish that I’ve landed.’
Immy wipes her eyes and I see her mascara has run where she’s been laughing at my horrified response. ‘I know you haven’t set out to get him and that’s probably half the attraction with him – not that you’re not gorgeous and glamorous, of course.’
I roll my eyes and Immy smirks mischievously.  ‘And he also totally cannot resist a challenge.’       ”

The Promo Video  – 

A few of the lovely book bloggers have taken to youtube via the lovely Gosling Girls Book Tours for The First Time We Met Promo Blitz, telling stories of the first time they met special people in their lives!

Watch for our author Q&A with Pippa Croft on her new book right here tomorrow!