Simone Levin had a dream job as a safari pilot until an unexpected pregnancy clipped her wings. Tired of juggling motherhood with her demanding flight schedule, Simone applies for an office job, unaware that her new boss is Carlo Carlevaro, the man who’d ditched her before finding out he’d knocked her up. Carlo returns to East Africa only to kill another fire—Ivory trafficking from his lodges threatens to destroy his company. Finding Simone back on the payroll comes as a pleasant surprise. As his employee, Simone is off-limits, but she is the only one he trusts to help with his undercover investigation. With time running out, Simone and Carlo strive to expose the trafficking ring, but working together rekindles their mutual desire. When Simone is implicated as a trafficker, revealing her daughter’s existence to Carlo seems inevitable. Acting on her instincts might come too late as the syndicate retaliate and hone in their threat. Will they survive to give their love a chance?
Excerpt
Simone went to stand next to him. “Why am I here?”
He turned to her. The dark shadows under his eyes were somehow more accentuated in the play of lamplight than in the bright sunshine. “Let’s talk somewhere else.”
“Where do you suggest? The guests are bound to arrive soon and you know we can’t walk around by ourselves after dark.”
“Come to my room.”
She inhaled sharply, her hands clenching into fists. “Is that why I’m here? Do you really think–”
With a soft groan, Carlo curled his fingers around her arm and pulled her onto the deck, away from the other people sitting in the lounge. “To your room then,” he whispered, “although I much prefer mine. And no scenes, if you please.” His hand was a ring of fire around her arm, propelling her to the wooden walkway.
He walked next to her but let go of her arm.
A few steps from her tent she stopped. “I don’t care who hears this. If you think we’re going to carry on where we left off four years ago you are very much mistaken.”
He didn’t blink an eye. “You seem to be singularly one-track-minded, Simone.”
Heat rose to her cheeks; it spread down her chest to her treacherous heart, which pounded at the thought of him. Why was he still able to do this to her? Being alone with him was the worst possible idea.
“Well, if not for that, why march me to my tent as if you would have your way–”
“You may still be devilishly tempting, Simone, but now that I’m your boss you’re completely off limits.”
Guest Blog
Background of the book
Perfect Mistake is a mismatch of a lot of things that came together over a couple of years. I used to work in the safari tourism industry and got properly hooked on going on safari. I’ve been lucky to have traveled widely, and I can honestly say that the level of safari service I’ve experienced have been unsurpassed anywhere else I’ve been. When you are in the African Bush, in an unfenced camp, people really take care of you and you get thoroughly pampered.
Once on an educational trip for work purposes, we were canoeing on the Zambezi River, when we came across a headless crocodile. Seeing this predator’s body floating down river was so out of tune with the rest of our experience. The ranger then told us that the crocodile was a victim of poaching, and that the poachers left just the body behind. The experience left me quite distraught, and usually, when on safari, the rangers won’t go past carcasses like these with guests. This experience, combined with the increasing rhino horn poaching and elephant poaching for ivory has made my stomach turn for years. Perfect Mistake is my way of adding my voice to the conservation effort – a different way for sure, but just maybe the book will talk to someone out there.
The last puzzle piece for this book is from experience I gathered in Madagascar. The roads there are practically non-existent, and driving 250 kilometers can take an easy eight hours. So we ending up flying from where we stayed to the capital Antananarivo whenever we needed to travel out of Madagascar. Seeing the pilots in action triggered idea for my heroine and hero, who are both pilots in Perfect Mistake. Being a female pilot comes with a few challenges which was really the foundation of my story.
Sophia Karlson has lived in France, Germany, East Africa, Madagascar (not the movie, the country) and now finds herself back on home ground in South Africa. As a teenager, she devoured romances with far flung settings, loving to travel through books. After school her itchy feet took her around the world, but now she doesn’t get much further than the school run and the daily walk with her very demanding beagle. She writes contemporary and erotic romance, wanting to take readers on a journey of their own. She loves hearing from readers, follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophia.karlson.5, Twitter: @SophiaKarlson, on the web at www.sophiakarlson.com.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Mistake-Sophia-Karlson-ebook/dp/B07CXWFKQ2
BN: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/perfect-mistake-sophia-karlson/1128760824
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