Hi guys, we have R.J. Scott stopping by to show off her upcoming release The Summer House, I’ve nicked a short excerpt off R.J. and there’s a great giveaway so enjoy the post and click that Rafflecopter link <3 ~Pixie~

The Summer House

R.J. Scott

Ashby Sebastian Sterling-Haynes has had a lot of boyfriends, but he’s never found the one.

The only person he can form an attachment to is his fourteen year old niece, and even that is in jeopardy when babysitting her cat goes all kinds of wrong.

Veterinarian, Connor Lawson is much happier working with animals than with people. He has deliberately returned home and to the Summer House he recalled from childhood holidays for peace and quiet and the chance to heal from wounds no one would ever see.

When his next door neighbor comes into the practice with a cat that has been in a fight he hides in his office because this Ashby guy is all kinds of dangerous. Too hot, too rich, too titled, and way too sexy for his own good.

Can two men who refuse to believe in love ever learn that love is the easy part of the journey to forever?

Excerpt

Rachel stepped out from behind him straightening her shoulders and putting on her game face. She rummaged in her bag, pulled out a small pack of tissues and wiped her eyes, glancing down and shaking her head at the smear of black mascara on them. For someone who had been crushed against his chest crying for a few minutes, Connor thought she looked adorably cute and confused, if a little panda-eyed. 

Ash took a step closer. “Landon’s devastated that he upset you. Can you maybe talk to him and see past the stupidity?” 

“What does he want from Rachel?” Connor asked when Rachel didn’t answer. 

“Honestly, he just wants to… talk.” Ash shrugged. “He’s pacing a few hedge lines down. Will you just talk to him?” 

“So he can ask more questions about Rachel being pregnant?” Connor asked. 

Ash shook his head. “Are you, Rachel? Pregnant that is? Because if you are—” 

Connor walked the few steps right up into Ash’s space. “And what if she was, huh?” Ash’s eyes widened, then his lips parted on a sigh. 

“I didn’t mean anything by it—” 

“I’m not.” Rachel hit Connor on the arm with her purse, and his anger subsided. Rachel didn’t need him stirring this up out of all proportion. “I’ll talk to Landon. I’m okay to talk to him.” 

“I’ll come with you,” Connor said. 

“No, I’ll be okay.” 

“What if he hurts you?” 

Ash interjected, “What are you implying?” 

“Just that your brother has already fucked my friend over once and if he touches her—” 

“Connor, it will be okay.” Rachel hugged him briefly, then pressed a kiss to his cheek. 

“It won’t be, he’ll try and talk you around.” 

“I’ll let him talk,” she said. “And if I don’t like what he has to say…” she shrugged. 

Connor knew it wasn’t that easy. What if Landon was the type who could talk himself out of everything? “I’ll come with you.” 

Rachel placed a hand to his chest. “I’ll be okay.” Then shoulders back, she walked around the hedge and disappeared. 

Connor was left with Ash, and unexpectedly he didn’t know what to say. Rachel had gone, and even though he wanted to follow her, she had absolved him from being her protector, and now what he really needed was a drink. Connor didn’t know Landon; there was no reason to think he was like the manipulative bastards that Connor had met before. I need a fucking drink. He walked past Ash to head back into The Wychwood. 

“I’d love it,” Ash said from behind him. 

Politeness had Connor stopping to face Ash, but irritability had him losing his will to be well-mannered when he spoke. “What?” He knew he sounded uptight and probably more than a little rude. He’d never wanted to be at this damn wedding, let alone deal with idiots like the Sterling-Hayes brothers. Even the pretty gay ones. 

To his credit Ash didn’t back down. He shrugged. “If Rachel was pregnant, then I’d have another niece or nephew to spoil and I’d love it. We all would.” 

The words somewhat took the wind out of Connor’s sails. That wasn’t what he’d expected to hear. He’d been part of the world Ash lived in before and he knew how to play the game. 

Icy politeness was a good place to start. “Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.” 

“Have we met before?” Ash asked, stopping Connor from leaving. Again. 

“No.” 

“Oh,” Ash began, “normally people hate me after they meet me, not before.” It was Ash who left, brushing past Connor and disappearing into the darkness of The Wychwood’s old interior and leaving Connor standing like an idiot. 

More excerpt at http://rjscottauthor.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-summer-house.html

About R.J.

RJ Scott has been writing since age six, when she was made to stay in at lunchtime for an infraction involving cookies. She was told to write a story and two sides of paper about a trapped princess later, a lover of writing was born.

As an avid reader herself, she can be found reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror. However, her first real true love will always be the world of romance where she takes cowboys, bodyguards, firemen and billionaires (to name a few) and writes dramatic and romantic stories of love and passion between these men.

With over seventy titles to her name and counting, she is the author of the award winning book, The Christmas Throwaway. She is also known for the Texas series charting the lives of Riley and Jack, and the Sanctuary series following the work of the Sanctuary Foundation and the people it protects.

Her goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.

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