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Driven To Distraction by Ashleigh Raine

Take two authors’ lifelong obsessions with the entertainment industry and romance novels, add a love of cars, throw in a stunt-driving class and lots of lust for hot men with hot cars, and it all adds up to author duo Ashleigh Raine having no choice but to write Driven to Distraction.

Lisa half of Ashleigh Raine: I’ve been an extra for about five years now, so I know my way around Hollywood sets. In fact, one of my first gigs was on Starsky & Hutch (the movie!), and I got to be a precision driver for a day. I’ve been on many sets where non-car stunts were being done, too. I soaked all that up like a sponge because it’s just so exhilarating. Seeing the Hollywood magic happen in the moment is awesome.

I now know how the slit-throat, arm-chop-off and various other injuries are done as well as flipping and/or jumping cars and trucks. I find it fascinating and whenever I call Jen from a set, she says things like “Oh, we gotta use that in a book somewhere…” and that gets our minds turning.

I’ve always been into cars (had my 1968 Mustang fastback for 15 years now and I’m always working on it!), so when I had an opportunity to take a stunt-driving class I jumped on it. I mean, it was taught by guys who’ve been in the business for 20+ years. I learned a lot about driving and about stunts.

And my experience with that class enabled me to get a temporary job where I got to drive a Porsche, Lamborghini and two Ferraris for a week and a half. (I would’ve paid them for the job, but whatever.) So, between my on-set experiences, stunt-driving class and test-driving gig, I had a ton of personal experience to draw from. In fact, the whole opening scene was a fantasized version of a real incident where I’d stopped to help a sexy man in a hot car.

Jen half of Ashleigh Raine: I worked for a year in the late-90s as an intern at a production company, sometimes as a script-reader, most times doing whatever little behind-the-scenes jobs needed to be done. That little taste of the industry started the fire. Lisa’s stories to me of on-set life fueled it to an explosion. How could we not write a hot and sexy romance with a Hollywood backdrop?

So now that you know some of our inspiration for Driven to Distraction, we hope you’ll pick up a copy, available this month in paperback.

“A fabulous talent, Ashleigh Raine never fails to satisfy.”
~Cheyenne McCray, New York Times bestselling author

“Original…erotic…emotional, Driven to Distraction is an absolute must read!”
~Lucy Monroe, national bestselling author

Rating: 94
Fast cars, hot sex, and plenty of mad hot chemistry – this one drives me past distraction and straight to WIIIIILLLLLLDDD…This story is all about fast cars, faster men and women, and plenty of the hot, hot, hot stuff. Did I say that this story is hot, hot, hot? Driven To Distraction is like the Barracuda that is taking me for the ride of my life and I’m like that silly young girl laughing in exhilaration. Baby, this is hot stuff.
~Mrs. Giggles

And now for the blurb:

Dodging explosions, crashing cars, jumping off rooftops…and falling in love.

Up-and-coming stuntwoman Blaina Triton stops to help a sexy stranded stranger on the side of the road. Passion ignites hotter than the asphalt beneath their feet and they go back to his place for an anonymous carnal romp. Days later, she arrives on the set of her next feature film only to discover that the man she played out wanton erotic fantasies with is also her boss, Jay Williams. She thinks this job just got a whole lot better, until Jay makes it clear he never mixes business with pleasure.

Jay knows firsthand how distraction can be fatal, but around Blaina, his full, lust-ridden attention strays to her rather than staying on the job. In an effort to regain control, he offers an ultimatum—off set, their relationship is no-naughty-holds-barred, but on set, when they touch, it has to be strictly professional.

Soon their clandestine rendezvous ignite as hot as the movie’s onscreen explosions. As an unstoppable stunt team they are flawless, until the strain of their secret relationship begins to tear them apart. Jay has to make a decision. Walk away from the woman he loves, or allow himself to be driven to distraction…

Warning, this title contains the following: Jay and Blaina are imaginative in their proclivities. There’s lots of sex in, on and around cars. Sex in public places, sex in a hotel room, masturbation, exhibitionism, oral sex, anal sex, spanking, minor bondage of the tie-me-up-and-have-your-wicked-way-with-me kind and sex with a foreign object.

You can read several excerpts on our website:

EXCERPT: Roadside Attraction
EXCERPT: Garage Rendezvous
EXCERPT: After Race Romp
EXCERPT: Helicopter Stunt

We hope you enjoy the distraction!

Category: New Releases/Excerpts | 06/22/08 03:00 AM