Happy Valentine’s Day!
I hope you and your beloved are enjoying the day wherever you are and whatever you’re doing.
My beloved is teaching today and I’m up to my eyeballs in a run-through of my book which, I hope, will be out for Christmas.
It’s been something of a devil to write because there were so many things that needed to fall in exactly the right order – and it was only through trial and error that I discovered what they needed to be.
Lots of trials and lots of errors.
But that’s the future (or my present). What’s important to day is that it’s the first day of this year’s Here Come The Grooms! contest.
The contest will run until Sadie Hawkins Day on February 29th. If you don’t know about Sadie, please read what I posted on the Tote Bags ‘n’ Blogs site last week.
So, here’s the lowdown about the books, heroes and questions that Kate Walker, Liz Fielding and I are featuring this year:
SAVAS’S WILDCAT
That’s my book – about Yiannis, the youngest of the Savas brothers and his heroine, Catriona MacLean. Yiannis and Cat have a bit of a history – or a lot of history, depending on which of them you ask.
The book is coming out in both UK (as an M&B Modern) and the US (as a Presents Extra) in April. But if you enter the contest, answer all three questions correctly and your name is drawn, you could get your copy a month early when Mitch and Micah draw a winner on February 29th.
According to the back cover:
Yiannis Savas, the irresistible playboy of the Savas dynasty, was every girl’s dream. But he quickly turned into Cat’s nightmare when his idea of a relationship was no more than a fiery affair.
Now Cat MacLean has grown up and out of her girlish fantasies. Determined not to fall prey to smooth talk and fast charm again, she’d engaged to someone sensible.
Then she’s forced to spend a week with the one man she’s never been able to forget . . .
THE DEVIL AND MISS JONES
That’s Kate’s book – about – you guessed it – the Devil – aka Carlos Diablo Ortega, polo player and vineyard owner, and the very exemplary and decidedly enticing Martha Jones who – until now — has never done a daring things in her life.
Nothing like jumping in at the deep end, Martha!
According to the blurb:
Martha Jones has never taken a risk in her whole life. Until the day she runs out on her wedding and succumbs to the magnetism of a man she has only just met! A man she knows only as Diablo.
Lone wolf Carlos Ortega won’t promise Miss Jones more than one searing-hot night.
Yet Carlos is shocked by Martha’s sweet innocence. This runaway bride is a virgin, and it seems the repercussions of their sizzling encounter could last forever . . .
FLIRTING WITH ITALIAN
That’s Liz’s book – which has just been short-listed for the Romance Novelists’ Association’s RoNA award this year!
Her hero is Conte Matteo di Serrone, the owner of a great vineyard, a plant breeder who is working with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Office. The lady in Matteo’s life is Sarah Gratton, a history teacher, who is picking up her life after her fiance falls for someone new and she finds herself working in an international school in Rome.
The blurb for Liz’s book says:
Bag: packed. Flight: booked. Soon I’ll be in Rome and experiencing life in a foreign language! Watch this space…
Newly single Sarah Gratton is about to jump start her life and a just-for-fun romance with dark-eyed Matteo di Serrone could be just what the doctor ordered! This Italian count is ideal flirting material—if Sarah’s brave enough to make a move!
Well, she might not be—but luckily Matteo is! Matteo decides to keep this mysterious woman close—no hardship at all, given their spine-tingling awareness of each other and for a while it’s like something out of a fairy tale—until Sarah realizes she’s made the most rookie mistake of all: falling in love with her holiday fling….
Yiannis, Carlos and Matteo would like you to check out their books. You can access them by clicking on the book tab at the top of each of our web pages.
If you’d like to enter this year’s Here Come the Grooms! contest, read the blurbs and/or our blogs and find the answers to the following questions and send them to each of us (all three answers to all three of us). You can contact us via our blogs (check the sidebar).
Hope to hear from lots of you! If you have questions or don’t understand what I said, read Kate’s explanation or Liz’s. Maybe they are clearer!
Here are the questions:
Yiannis’s question is: Who’s Harry?
Carlos’s question is: What is Martha wearing – and holding when Carlos first sees her?
Matteo’s question is: I asked Sarah if she’d found someone. Who was it?
Good luck!
Really? All I want is a good night’s sleep.
Catriona – who definitely should be called Cat – is a seriously tempting, feisty woman in a curvy, piles of wavy auburn hair, eyes the color of a stormy sea, half a million freckles on golden soft skin sort of way. I thought so from the minute I first saw her. 
