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FIGHTING DIRTY
Worth the Fight #5
Sidney Halston
Releasing Jan 5th, 2016
Loveswept
If
you love the MMA romances of Vi Kreeland and Kendall Ryan, Sidney Halston’s
Worth the Fight series will knock your socks off! In Fighting Dirty, a
geek-chic cage fighter proves that appearances can be deceiving . . . and
oh-so-tempting.
With
his preppy clothes and horn-rimmed glasses, Enzo Silva is the last dude anyone
expects to find in a mixed martial arts gym. A wealthy Brazilian banker who
never had to fight for anything, Enzo’s stuck in the amateur circuit—but he
burns to make the pros. Maybe that explains the heat he feels whenever he’s
around Jamie Lynn Calhoun. The pint-size, magenta-haired bartender with the
Texas drawl is everything he’s not . . . and everything he craves.
Tough
as nails and independent to a fault, Jamie Lynn—JL to her friends—works hard to
pay her bills and keep life simple. Enzo is doing his best to complicate that.
Even though she likes to bust his balls, he’s got some kind of a nerdy-hot vibe
that makes JL wonder if she might finally be able to let her guard down. It
might do the boy some good to spend some time in her world, where blood, sweat,
and victory are as sweet as the first taste of real love.
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Thank you for having me here today! Hope you
all got your copy of FIGHTING DIRTY and are loving it as much as I loved
writing it. Here are 3 of my favorite scenes from FIGHTING DIRTY (with a few
teasers.) Enjoy…
11. I really enjoyed writing the opening scene. We’ve gotten to know
Enzo as the conservative and serious member of the group. He doesn’t break any
rules and, unlike the rest of the fighters in the series, he’s always in a
business suit—unless he’s training. In the opening scene, he loses a bet to Travis
and for the first time you see him out of his comfort zone. Also, JL, the
heroine, sees a different side of him. Here’s a snippet.
Slowly she turned her head back to the front. There, in the center of the
enormous room, buck-ass naked, with an apple in the palm of his hand and an
embarrassed look in his eyes, sat the man who’d been starring in all her
fantasies for the last year: Enzo Silva.
What the fuck . . . ?
Her phone vibrated in her pocket, and she took it out, her eyes still
glued to the flawless body on display.
The text was from Travis: Close
your eyes and walk away, sis.
She texted back quickly. Why
is Enzo here? Naked? And why are you all here?
The reply came back almost instantly. He lost a bet. We’re
here to laugh at him.
22. Another scene that I love is also in the beginning during their
epically long date. Like in the first scene above where you finally see a
different side to Enzo, in this scene- the indoor rock climbing scene—you get
to see JL’s vulnerability. Plus Enzo’s
protective side. I really liked writing this scene.
“Don’t laugh at
me!” She glared at him, almost crying. “I hate heights.”
He began to move
up, not letting go of her hand, and she slowly followed. “This is a ridiculous
date, babe,” he said with a gentle smile. “You should’ve let me pick. Who the
hell takes a date rock climbing? We could’ve been having a delicious lobster
meal right this second at the Manhattan in Tampa.”
Moving gingerly
from one hold to the next, she noticed that when she slowed down, unsure of
where to put her foot or hand, he guided her patiently. “I hate lobster!” she
yelled. “And anyway, you’re having a great time.”
“And you’re
having the time of your life, I can see,” he said sarcastically.
“Shut up, Enzo!
I’m getting over my fucking fears! Epiphany, happening here!” Her voice was
shaky, though. She was about to look down, but he hollered at her.
“I told you to
look at me. Don’t look down.” Again his voice was firm, but the playfulness
returned immediately. “I mean, really, don’t you want to look at my ass?”
If she hadn’t
been certain she was about to plummet to her death, then yes, she would
definitely have wanted to look at his ass. But right at that moment she wanted
to get off the wall. “I want to go down. Not up. I know they can make that
happen. The guys holding the ropes down there can do shit to make that happen.
I give up. So, make it happen. Reverse this fucker.”
“No. We’re going
to finish. I told them not to do that when you first let go.”
33. All my books have a scene where the girls are all hanging
out—talking crap and drinking. I love this one, because Francesca is always
funny.
Francesca pointed to the Batman boy shorts
that peeked out from the hem of JL’s matching Batman camisole. “And someone
actually fucked you in those?”
“They’re cute,” Violet said.
“Listen, ladies, we are in our thirties. We
aren’t eighteen-year-old frat boys. Batman doesn’t say sexy.”
“I think it does,” Violet replied
defensively.
“Enzo didn’t seem to mind,” JL added.
“Aha!” Jessica pointed a finger.
So there you go….my three favorite scenes.
There’s a lot more but these were the three that stuck out. Can’t
wait to hear from you. What are your favorite scenes from FIGHTING DIRTY?
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Sidney Halston lives her life
by one simple rule: “Just do it.” And that’s exactly what she did. At the age
of thirty, having never written anything other than a legal brief, she picked
up a pen for the first time to pursue her dream of becoming an author. That first
stroke sealed the deal, and she fell in love with writing. Halston lives in
South Florida with her husband and children.
Thank you for hosting FIGHTING DIRTY and Sidney!
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