Beside Your Heart – Omnific Book Boyfriend Character Smackdown!

** Originally posted 6 October 2013 **

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I am VERY excited to be part of the Omnific Character Smackdown!

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My sponsored book boyfriend is Adam Kincaid & I need your help to vote for him here:

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Character Name:  Adam Kincaid
Personality Type: Swoony and Sensitive

 

Author:  Mary Whitney

Book Title:  Beside Your Heart / Full Disclosure (forthcoming November 2013)

Genre:  New Adult / Contemporary Romance

Goodreads:  Beside Your Heart / Full Disclosure

Author Website:  www.wordymary.com

T:  https://twitter.com/WordyMary / FB:  https://www.facebook.com/MaryWhitneyAuthor

Buy on Amazon US:  Beside Your Heart

 

The blurb is:

Beside Your Heart: Late one night Nicki Johnson plays with emotional fire and Googles her high school love, only to find his name splashed across the British gossip columns. Back in his native England, Adam Kincaid is successful and dating a woman from an aristocratic family like his own. With a career in politics, Nicki’s no slouch, but she knows Adam is living a world away from her life.

Yet there was a time he was no farther than the next locker. Nicki will never forget their year together in high school—the year of her sister’s death, the year her mother checked out. Adam helped Nicki through suffocating grief, and she led him through a coming of age. Was it just high school, or was it something more?

Full Disclosure: Fifteen years is a long time to wait for your true love to reappear, and anyway, Nicki Johnson couldn’t wait for the impossible to happen. Hard life lessons have taught her that fairy tales are children’s stories, and fate is cruel. Burying her hopes, she’s spent the last fifteen years focused and driven toward her career, and it’s landed her with a job the White House with a gem of a boyfriend. But when her high school love, Adam Kincaid walks into the White House as a BBC reporter, Nicki’s world is thrown in turmoil as she relives their past. Adam came back for her, but did he arrive too late?

 

Read a teaser:

“No British literature. Isn’t this supposed to be an English class?” Adam asked.

“Uh.” My ancestors would’ve been proud of the jolt of American patriotism that hit me.  “There was a revolution two hundred years ago. We write our own books now.”

He leaned back in his seat with a smile. “I think I heard about that.”

“We still share the same language.”

“Sometimes I’m not too sure.”

“I bet not.” I could imagine what he thought of a Texas accent. 

 He picked up the list of books again. “What about Catcher in the Rye?”

“I read it a long time ago when I was, like, eleven.” I laughed a little as I remembered how I’d first come to read it.

“Is there something funny about that?”

“Yeah. My father had suggested I read it then. The book is the classic coming-of-age story. Clearly, he wasn’t really thinking about whether or not it was appropriate for an eleven-year-old.”

“Really? Why?”

“Well, for one thing, the main character is a guy who swears a lot.”

“I suppose I swear a lot.” He cracked a sly smile. “At least compared to you Yankees.”

“Yankees? You’re in the South.” I laughed.

“What else is inappropriate about the book? Now I’m interested. It can’t only be a few swear words.”

“No, it’s not just that. It’s…” I hesitated for a moment as I realized I was about to bring up the topic of sex with Adam Kincaid. What the hell, I thought. I should be matter-of-fact about it. He had a girlfriend and would never want anything with me. I could hide I thought he was hot, so I shrugged. “Holden, the main character…he’s a little sexually frustrated.”

His eyes twinkled, and it felt as if my words hung in the air. I wanted to squirm in my seat. ‘Sexually frustrated’—like me checking out Adam Kincaid.

His proper upbringing showed again as he sidestepped the issue, yet he smirked. “That sounds like an adventurous book to be on an American high school syllabus.”

“Like I said—it’s considered an American classic.” I laughed. “I guess some things are sacred.”

“But of course.” The gleam appeared in his eye again, and he turned toward me in his seat. “Teenage sexual frustration is sort of a rite of passage, if you will.”

There went the good-English-boy manners out the window. His tone, the look in his eye, his body language—was he flirting with or taunting me? I decided the former was impossible, and if the latter, I wasn’t going to back down. With two parents who were lawyers, debate was a family routine. 

“A rite of passage? More like a biological fact, isn’t it?” I asked, casually clicking my pen. I raised a brow. “Especially for guys.”

“You’re right about that,” he said with a grin. 

 

Character Casting Photos:

I couldn’t resist casting Henry Cavill as my Adam Kincaid!  He’s always a good casting choice! 🙂

 

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Character Bio:

In Beside Your Heart, Adam Kincaid is a British teenager in America for a year of high school. Fifteen years later in the sequel, Full Disclosure, he’s the BBC White House Correspondent living in Washington, DC. Adam is also the son of Viscount Kincaid and will assume the title upon his father’s death. 

 

  • What is your ideal woman like?

 

I’m drawn to women who are very clever and of course, rather attractive.

 

  • What do you like the least about yourself?

 

I’d say I’ve made a few mistakes in my life based on selfishness and immaturity. It’s something I’ve worked on over the years. 

  

  • What are the three most important things in life to you? 

 

My family, my work, and Liverpool football. 

 

  • What music is on your playlist right now?

 

Macklemore. John Coltrane. Richard Thompson.

 

  • What is your favorite curse/dirty word?

 

Why, “fuck,” of course. I’m English.

 

  • How do you seduce and/or excite a woman?

 

Americans  seem to like my accent.

 

  • Where is the most interesting place you’ve ever made love?

 

My American high school sweetheart’s childhood bed. 

 

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