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Here Come the Winners!

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

The 4th Annual Here Come the Grooms! contest is over.

The winners are:

Desere from South Africa

Mik from Michigan

Kelly from Canada

Congratulations to all three of the winners! And thank you so much to everyone who entered.

We had lots of entries this year. George and Fayad and Pietro were suitably impressed – and delighted to have met all of you.

Liz Fielding and Kate Walker and I hope to be back next year with another Here Come the Grooms! contest – provided we can find suitable grooms!

In the meantime, please do stop by to visit. We’d love to have you come by again – and again.

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Not Exactly a Groom

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Hi.

George here.

Anne told you that I’d be along this week on account of my book being out — and her having to work on my cousin Nick’s. Seemed like a good idea to me.

She says she and Kate and Liz are doing a Here Come the Grooms! contest, which they do every February to celebrate their books — and us grooms.

Except . . . I’m not exactly a groom.

I was a groom — about four and a half years ago. That’s when I married Sophy. So you’d think that we’d be an old married couple by now.

You’d think . . .

But not long after Lily was born (Lily is our daughter) something happened. I didn’t even know what it was — one day I thought things were fine, and the next she was furious and crying and telling me she didn’t need me to do my duty and she was damned if she was going to allow herself to be considered my responsibility — and a whole lot of other emotional claptrap.

I was floored.

I tried to make her see sense. Sophy doesn’t do sense. Well, no, that’s not true. She’s usually the most sensible, amazing, wonderful woman in the world. But not that day.

Then — just like that — she was gone.

And I couldn’t go after her.

I know you’ll ask why. You’ll think I should have moved heaven and earth — and maybe I should have. Except there was a tiny bit (a damn tiny bit) of truth to what she said — about duty and responsibility and getting married for the wrong reasons. Yeah, she said that, too.

And I thought she probably had come to her senses, realized she’d done the wrong thing — married the wrong guy.

So . . . I let her go. Then.

But now — now I’m damned if I’m letting her out of my sight again. And yeah, so what if the only reason she came back is that I got hit by a truck?

If it got Sophy back here — even for a day — well, it was a price worth paying. Or it will be if I can convince her to give us another chance.

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Here Come The Grooms! Year 4

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

It’s that time of year again!

For the fourth year in a row, Kate Walker, Liz Fielding and I are celebrating our latest books with a Here Come The Grooms! contest.

It’s a chance to answer three questions, win three great new books, and meet three gorgeous guys in the process.

What could be better?

This year the heroes are my very own sexy physicist, George Savas, who – when he finally deigned to surface and take over the story – turned out to be the real deal, a man I’d definitely go for; Kate’s Pietro D’Inzeo, a hot Sicilian prince, and Liz’s gorgeous sheikh Fayad al Khalifa.

How’s that for variety? A hero for every taste. You’ll get to meet each of them in the coming days. But for now here’s glimpse – think: each picture is worth 10,000 words!

GEORGE

PIETRO

FAYAD

Here are the back cover blurbs for all three books:

Hired by her Husband —

Back in her husband’s bed!
Once Sophy and George Savas were happily married . . . Then Sophy woke up and realized that her blissful marriage was a sham. She’s never looked back — until the day she learns her husband has been critically injured and her world is shaken.

Now though he’s stubborn and proud, George wants Sophy’s help. He knows she won’t come willingly, so he hires her to be his wife for as long as he needs her! But playing happy families is dangerous, and soon George realizes that his need for Sophy runs deep and strong . . .

The Proud Wife —

Her husband wants her back!

Marina thought her dreams had come true when her husband placed a wedding band on her finger. But their marriage was not the fairytale she’d hoped for, and eventually Marina walked away, her heart broken.

Two years on Pietro DInzeo no longer haunts Marinas dreams. She knows the time has come to move on, and even a summons to join him in Sicily won’t deter her. However, with his wife standing before him, about to sign on the dotted line of their divorce papers, Pietro wonders why he ever let her go?

Chosen as the Sheikh’s Wife —

After a beautiful stranger discovers his long-lost heirloom under a floorboard, Sheikh Fayad al Kuwani swoops in to protect innocent Violent Hamilton. Now, with greedy enemiesgathering, the only way he can keep her safe is to put her on his private jet, take her to his desert kingdom and … marry her!

If that isn’t enough to whet your appetite, you can check out excerpts on my website – go to the book page and click on Hired By Her Husband – and also on Kate’s and Liz’s websites and blogs you will find links to the contests. You can access them through the links on my side bar.

If you want to enter the contest – you get three chances to win! – go to each of our contest pages, answer the three questions there, follow the rest of the directions on how to enter, and you’ll have three chances to win the books.

And do stop back. George will be blogging this week so I can finish my revisions and send them off. He’s very eager to do so – as soon as I can figure out how to get him a user name and a password!

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