On Fire by Alicia Nordwell Cover Reveal, Guest Post, Excerpt & Giveaway!

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Hi guys, we have Alicia Nordwell popping in today to show of the fantastic cover to her upcoming release On Fire, we have a guest post from Alicia, a great excerpt and a brilliant giveaway, so check out the post and click that giveaway link <3 ~Pixie~

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On Fire

(States of Love 06: Washington)
by

Alicia Nordwell

Nothing beats getting out of the concrete jungle and into the quiet of the forest. Website designer Scottie Ness is taking a well-deserved vacation from the grindstone, and he plans to spend it in the solitude of Washington’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest around Mt. Adams. He’s prepared for everything—except the lightning storm that traps him in a wildfire.

The firefighter who rescues him sustains serious injuries and ends up in the hospital. Jax Quintero might be abrasive, but the guy saved his life, and Scottie wants to thank him. As they spend time together during Jax’s recovery and exploring the state’s landmarks when he’s released from the hospital, Scottie discovers there’s more to Jax than a smart-ass adrenaline junkie. Jax reassesses his opinion of Scottie as an arrogant city boy who has no business in the mountains. Though Jax’s wounds prevent them from taking things as far as they’d like for a while, they can’t deny the heat building between them—and this is one fire they don’t want to put out.

States of Love: Stories of romance that span every corner of the United States.

Release date: 26th October 2016
Pre-order: Dreamspinner Press

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I want to share a big thank you to my host for featuring the cover reveal today for my latest Dreamspinner Press release, On Fire, made by Garrett Leigh. Without further ado…

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A fun tidbit: I actually took the picture of the mountain (it was not on fire at the time, lol)

A picture is definitely worth a thousand words when it comes to a cover, and these guys are hot, but I bet you’d like to know more about their story, so here goes!

Blurb:

Nothing beats getting out of the concrete jungle and into the quiet of the forest. Website designer Scottie Ness is taking a well-deserved vacation from the grindstone, and he plans to spend it in the solitude of Washington’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest around Mt. Adams. He’s prepared for everything—except the lightning storm that traps him in a wildfire.

The firefighter who rescues him sustains serious injuries and ends up in the hospital. Jax Quintero might be abrasive, but the guy saved his life, and Scottie wants to thank him. As they spend time together during Jax’s recovery and exploring the state’s landmarks when he’s released from the hospital, Scottie discovers there’s more to Jax than a smart-ass adrenaline junkie. Jax reassesses his opinion of Scottie as an arrogant city boy who has no business in the mountains. Though Jax’s wounds prevent them from taking things as far as they’d like for a while, they can’t deny the heat building between them—and this is one fire they don’t want to put out.

Where can you pick up your copy?

On Fire is available for pre-order at Dreamspinner Press now!

https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/on-fire-by-alicia-nordwell-7675-b

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Excerpt

SCOTTIE ROLLED up his backpacking tent with an extra tarp and fastened it to the bottom of his pack. His sleeping bag, a change of clothes, survival kit, portable stove, water filter, and food fit inside. The rest of his camping gear was piled along the wall, taking up most of the living room floor in his postage stamp of an apartment. He plopped down on the couch with a beer and opened his laptop.

Using a red highlighter, he outlined the trails he planned to take and marked his base camp as well as his possible overnight camping sites before printing out two copies. Picking up a pen, Scottie scribbled his full name, the dates of his trip, and what kind of vehicle he was driving on the back of one map. He’d drop it off at the ranger station before he stopped in Trout Lake for some sandwiches. No idea what they did to make them taste so great, but they were way better than anything he could make. He’d have to stop by the ATM on the way out of Vancouver to pick up some cash.

Now that he had all the nitty-gritty survival stuff out of the way, he had to get his photography equipment in order. Scottie didn’t spend much money on himself, but he had a nice Canon camera, lenses, a flexible tripod for his hiking pack, and a bigger telescoping tripod in its own bag. Using a polishing cloth from his cleaning kit, Scottie went over every piece of glass in his camera bag, making sure all the lenses and filters were spotless. Photography might be just a hobby, but he took pride in getting that one shot that made all the hard work worth it.

He’d finished his beer by the time he had the last memory card and battery stowed, and he waffled on what he wanted to do. He’d been up since six, worked a full day, and finished getting all his camping gear ready to load in the morning, but he wasn’t tired enough to go to bed. The weather report he checked promised sunny days and clear nights—though it wouldn’t be nearly as warm around Mt. Adams as it would be in Portland. With as dry as the summer had been, many of the creeks would be down to a trickle, though, and that’s how he got a lot of his water. He’d have to grab an extra water jug.

Knowing how dry the trip would be, Scottie couldn’t resist going for a swim before he left. His apartment might be tiny, but the complex had its perks besides the low rent. He liked the interior doors, and the pool and exercise room privileges were rolled into his rent. After changing into his trunks and flip-flops, Scottie grabbed a towel and his keys. A family with two kids under the age of ten were in the pool when he got there, and he made sure to wrap his keys up in his towel so the electronic door key that got him in the exterior doors wouldn’t get wet. He moved to the deep end, avoiding the giggling and splashing over near the stairs.

Not long after he got in the parents pulled the protesting kids out of the water, and Scottie was left alone. He swam some laps just fast enough to feel the muscles in his body stretching after a long day sitting at the computer. After fifty, he stopped in the center of the pool and flipped onto his back, floating with his arms and legs stretched out. There were large skylights over the pool, but it was too dark to see anything. No stars in the city.

Scottie missed the stars. He’d grown up in a small town up the Gorge where the night pollution didn’t block the twinkles of millions of lights in the sky. His work was in the city, and as much as he’d like to live outside the concrete jungle, there were other aspects of small-town life he could do without.

Everyone knowing everything about you and thinking it was their right to judge, for example.

The peaceful mood was broken by Scottie’s downward spiral into morose thoughts, so he swam over to the ladder and climbed out. He ran the towel over his hair and then wiped down his chest and arms. Mostly dry, he wrapped the towel around his waist. His feet squeaked in his flip-flops as he headed back to his apartment, ready to get out of the city and away from everything he dealt with on a daily basis.

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About Alicia

The number one question folks ask Alicia when she shares she’s a MM romance author: “Why gay fiction? Why write men when you’re a woman?” and her answer is: “Why the hell not!” Alicia Nordwell is one of those not so rare creatures, a reader turned writer. Striving to find an interesting story one day, she decided to write what she wanted instead. Then the voices started… Yep, not only does she talk about herself in the third person for bios, she has voices in her head constantly clamoring to get out.

Fortunately, with the encouragement of her family and friends, she decided for her own sanity to keep writing. Now you can find her stories both free and e-published. When she’s not on the computer typing away, she’s a wife and a mom of two in the dreary, yet ideal for her redhead complexion, Pacific Northwest. Except for when she disappears into one of the many worlds in her head, of course!

She can also be found quite often at her blog, where she has a lot of free fiction for readers to enjoy or working hard, or maybe hardly working, as an admin on GayAuthors.org under her online nickname, Cia.   

Find her at: 

Cia’s Stories (Blog) | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

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Giveaway!

Because I love my fellow readaholics, I’m giving away a $5 gift card to Dreamspinner Press to celebrate finally being able to share On Fire’s awesome cover and my photo inspiration for Jax and Scottie.

(Just click the link below)

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(Ends 26th September 2016)
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11 thoughts on “On Fire by Alicia Nordwell Cover Reveal, Guest Post, Excerpt & Giveaway!

  1. Great cover and excerpt! Thanks so much for sharing and for offering the Giveaway! Have a great Monday!

  2. I haven’t traveled much at all and I’ve never visited Washington State but would love to someday

  3. Great cover! I’ve been to Washington state once. I visited the Univeraity of Washington and then soent a couple extra days there. We took a ferry boat across the Sound and loved it. The Sound is so beautiful.

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