Audio excerpt: 'Mai Tai'd Up' by Alice Clayton
HEA is thrilled to share an audio excerpt from Mai Tai'd Up (out today!), book four in Alice Clayton's The Cocktail Series. AND Alice shares the top five reasons she loves this audiobook.
Alice: So. Top five reasons I am in love with the Mai Tai'd Up audiobook. I'm so in love with the way this audiobook turned out it's difficult for me to list only five, but I'm gonna give it a shot. By the way, for an author, listing only five things they love about their own book is like asking a mother to choose their favorite child. And as a non-mother, I'm still pretty convinced every mother has a favorite child, but I digress …
5. Sex scenes. Is it weird that when I get one of my audiobooks I automatically search for the steamier scenes? Instant pervert? Perhaps. But I'm fascinated how these scenes, meant for eyeballs, become so different when meant for earholes. And I do love a good sex scene in my earhole. Ahem.
4. Lucas Campbell. I, like our heroine Chloe in Mai Tai'd Up, am a sucker for a ginger. Redheaded men are my soft spot. I go weak-kneed and stupid in the head. Prince Harry. I'd break that kid. So I knew when I began daydreaming about this very sexy and very available veterinarian, I knew I needed to make him a redhead. And hearing him speak out loud? Especially when he does the dirty talk? (See above #5.) Mmmm. Lucas.
3. You'll need tissues. There's a scene in this book that I wrote in less than ten minutes because I was sobbing the entire time and I just needed to get through it. It translates beautifully, but painfully, to audio in a wonderful way. But tissues. Yep. Bring 'em.
2. Chloe Patterson. I've been dying to write a recovering beauty queen for ages now, and I finally figured out the story to do it with. Chloe is a woman just beginning to come into her own, and I love the way the scenes between she and her mother just jump off the page when you listen to the audio version. I often repeat dialogue out loud over and over again when I'm writing, to make sure the cadence is correct, that it sounds like something people would actually say. And Chloe was a blast to write dialogue for.
1. Heather Smith. I was gifted with the most wonderful narrator ever with Heather Smith. She was the first narrator to ever give voice to my characters, back when she first recorded Wallbanger, and I have been blessed to have her work on this entire Cocktail Series. How amazing is this woman? She can convey so many different moods, so many different characters all together, and deliver them in such a way that you always know exactly what's happening and where the action is. And, chickens, she can deliver a sexy scene like NO ONE ELSE. She kills it! She's the best reason to listen to any of these audiobooks, because she's simply the best. (Cue Tina Turner.)
That's it, chickens, your Top 5 Reasons to listen to my latest audiobook, Mai Tai'd Up. Can't wait to hear what you think! And how often you blush …
Here's the blurb about Mai Tai'd Up (courtesy of Gallery Books):
Looking for the perfect mix of smart, sexy, and sassy? Mai Tai'd Up continues New York Times bestselling author Alice Clayton's Cocktail series, which began with Wallbanger and continued with Rusty Nailed and Screwdrivered.
The gossip mill in the seaside community of Monterey is churning about Chloe Patterson, the newcomer who is starting a sanctuary for rescued pit bulls. It's rumored that she's a former beauty queen (true) who ditched her fiancé the morning of their wedding (also true). And that while she's not looking for a new man, the good-looking local veterinarian has his eye on her. Absolutely, positively true.
When Lucas Campbell isn't at the family veterinary clinic, he's paddle boarding in Monterey Bay. Recently single, he's definitely not in the market for a new relationship, but he still can't resist taking a second, third, and fourth look at the recent arrival of Miss Golden State.
Neither Lucas nor Chloe has any interest in being tied down. Being tied up, however—now there's a thought. But are a few Mai Tais, a moonlit night, and the music of Frank Sinatra enough to allow them both to forget their past? Let's hope Ol' Blue Eyes knows what he's doing.
Mix one part tiki, one part kinky, and a splash of old black magic matchmaking, and it's time to be ... Mai Tai'd Up.
Check out the audio excerpt …
Find out more about Alice and her books at aliceclayton.com.