{"id":10577,"date":"2016-08-01T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=10577"},"modified":"2016-07-31T18:21:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T22:21:26","slug":"state-of-the-trout-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-stranger-edition-plus-a-chance-to-meet-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=10577","title":{"rendered":"State Of The Trout: &#8220;Everything You Need To Know About THE STRANGER&#8221; edition (plus a chance to meet me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going to talk about\u00a0<em>The Stranger<\/em> in a minute here. First, though, I want to tell you about an upcoming chance to meet me, if you live in the Savannah, GA, area. On Saturday, August 6th, I&#8217;ll be signing books at the Authors After Dark signing at the Savannah Marriott Riverfront from 2-4pm. There are going to be a lot of great authors there, including Sherrilyn Kenyon, who wrote one of my very favorite romances of all time,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B001OO4H14\/\"><em>Fantasy Lover<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Anyway, come on out and see me, pick up some swag. If you&#8217;d like to get something signed, I&#8217;ll have paperback copies of\u00a0<em>The Baby<\/em>, and <i>First Time<\/i>, as well as a few assorted audio editions.<em>\u00a0<\/em>Or,\u00a0feel free to bring your own stuff from home.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, about\u00a0<em>The Stranger&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Stranger-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10494\" src=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Stranger-cover-639x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A dark-haired woman's naked back, with a man's large hands at her waist and neck. The words &quot;The Stranger&quot; are superimposed over the black and white image, and &quot;Abigail Barnette&quot; is printed at the bottom of the image.\" width=\"404\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Stranger-cover-639x1024.jpg 639w, https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Stranger-cover-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Stranger-cover.jpg 1562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Six years before Neil Elwood became Sophie Scaife\u2019s boss\u2014and Dom\u2014she knew him as Leif, the charming stranger in the Los Angeles International Airport, and the man who would change her life forever\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fresh from the class of 2007, eighteen-year-old Sophie Scaife is ready to throw her carefully planned future to the wind\u00a0and chase her dreams all the way to Tokyo. When her flight is canceled and a handsome stranger offers her a night of no-strings-attached pleasure, Sophie finds herself on a much different adventure than she\u2019d expected. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With his commanding sexual presence and deviously filthy mind, Leif is the perfect man to teach Sophie everything that\u2019s been missing with other lovers. But while Sophie can trust him with her body, she\u2019s not sure he\u2019s all that\u00a0he claims to be\u2026and their night of passion could change everything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Stranger<\/em> will be released on Amazon and Smashwords on\u00a0<strong>August 9th.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will be available across other platforms soon after.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Stranger\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0<strong>not a full-length novel<em>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>It&#8217;s a novella, coming in at approximately 30,000 words.<\/li>\n<li>There will be something of <strong>great interest<\/strong> to Neil and Sophie fans at the end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope every is as excited about this story as I am. I started writing it in 2014, shortly after\u00a0<em>The Girlfriend\u00a0<\/em>was released, but a failed backup resulted in the loss of the nearly completed manuscript. I&#8217;m so please to finally put it into readers&#8217; hands. If you know fans of the series, make sure\u00a0<em>they<\/em> know about this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want a sneak peek of\u00a0<em>The Stranger<\/em>?\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Leif used the key card to unlock the door, ushered me through, and kicked it closed behind us. I laughed, breathless, as he hauled me up against his chest, and we both dropped our bags where we stood. It was the first unrestrained contact we\u2019d had, and I ached for it. His mouth covered mine, and senses I didn\u2019t know I had jolted awake.<\/p>\n<p>He palmed my ass and squeezed. \u201cThis\u2026has been driving me wild.\u201d One hand rummaged between us for the button on my jeans. We were at the pants-coming-off stage? This was moving so fast!<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t push them down. Instead, he took advantage of their looseness and slid both hands down my back and into my pants to cup my ass, his fingers digging into my flesh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to get my hands on this since I first saw you,\u201d he confessed between kisses. \u201cI\u2019ve wanted to touch every part of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you to, too,\u201d I whimpered. Every brush of his lips promised that I had made the right decision coming here with him. He dragged his mouth across my cheek, to the edge of my jaw, down my neck.<\/p>\n<p>He tugged at the hem of my T-shirt. \u201cTake this off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, um.\u201d I knew we were going to get naked at some point. We kind of had to, to have sex. But, now, it felt a little more serious. \u201cI don\u2019t have a bra on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope you don\u2019t think me rude for saying so, but I did notice.\u201d He rubbed his thumb over my hard nipple through my T-shirt. Suddenly, the barrier of the cotton was too much; I stepped back and whipped my shirt over my head.<\/p>\n<p>I hoped he wouldn\u2019t notice that one of my boobs was slightly larger than the other.<\/p>\n<p>Holding me tight with an arm around my waist, he sucked and kissed his way from my collarbones to the upturned points of my nipples. His mouth closed over one; I thought I would die.<\/p>\n<p>This was so much different than anything I\u2019d done before. I didn\u2019t feel like a buffet of parts for him to pick and choose from. He held all of me, molded my body to his, and murmured over and over how much he wanted to fuck me, how good I felt. It didn\u2019t feel like getting fucked; it felt like being worshipped.<\/p>\n<p>I held onto his upper arms, but felt bold enough to raise my hands and run my fingers through his hair. I pulled his face closer, and he groaned, flicking his tongue over my captured nipple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want\u2026\u201d Had I gasped that aloud? Because I didn\u2019t know exactly what I\u2019d meant to ask for.<\/p>\n<p>He straightened and pulled me close, then spun us to trap me between him and the wall. He traced the shell of my ear with his tongue before he asked, \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Yeah, what do you want?<\/em> I\u2019d thought of this as my chance to live out my fantasies. And one loomed so much larger than any of the others. I\u2019d heard of kinky stuff before. At least, I\u2019d watched <em>Secretary<\/em> before. I\u2019d watched the first spanking scene over and over for\u2026 personal reasons, and I\u2019d even followed Lee\u2019s lead and tried to spank myself with a hairbrush.<\/p>\n<p>That shit definitely did not work.<\/p>\n<p>But there was only one way to find out if the real thing was better. \u201cUm\u2026 you could\u2026 spank me? Maybe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His body went still. I wasn\u2019t sure he was still breathing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeif?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A mixture of disbelief and delight crossed his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly if you\u2019re cool with that,\u201d I added, hoping I hadn\u2019t offended him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, I absolutely am.\u201d His half-smile showed again. \u201cI was just thinking how lucky it is that our paths crossed today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust give me one second, okay?\u201d I asked, and he moved his arm to let me pass.<\/p>\n<p>I went into the bathroom and shut the door, then turned on the water in the sink to cover the sound of peeing. Then, I frantically found a washcloth and used it to clean all of my crucial parts from the armpits down. All the while I hurriedly worked, I stared at myself in the mirror. Topless, pants around my ankles, about to go out there and be spanked by a guy older than my mom.<\/p>\n<p>This had not been part of the plan when I\u2019d left the house this morning.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re going to talk about\u00a0The Stranger in a minute here. 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