It is with pleasure I bring to you a fellow Pelican Book Group Author, Zoe M McCarthy with her debut PBG title, Calculated Risk.
Zoe
M. McCarthy believes the little known fact that opposites distract. Thus, she
spins Christian contemporary romances entangling extreme opposites.
Her tagline
is: Distraction to Attraction, Magnetic Romances Between Opposites.
Calculated Risk is Zoe’s debut novel.
Christian Fiction Online Magazine published two of her short stories. Zoe
enjoys leading workshops on the craft of writing, speaking about her faith,
planning fun events for her 5 grandchildren, and exploring the Blue Ridge
Mountains, where she lives with her husband, John.
Find out more about Zoe by visiting her website.
What happens
when an analytical numbers man meets a mercurial
Whoever said
opposites attract was right, of course…but no one ever said what they attract.
Jilted by the
latest of her father’s choices of “real men,” Cisney Baldwin rashly accepts an
invitation to spend Thanksgiving weekend with a sympathetic colleague and his
family. Nick LeCrone is a man too much her opposite to interest her and too
mild-mannered to make her overbearing father’s “list.” Now, Cisney fears Nick
wants to take advantage of her vulnerable state over the holiday. Boy, is she
wrong.
Nick wants
little to do with Cisney. She drives him crazy with all her sticky notes and
quirks. He extended an invitation because he felt sorry for her. Now he’s
stuck, and to make matters worse, his family thinks she’s his perfect match.
He’ll do what he can to keep his distance, but there’s just one problem—he’s
starting to believe Cisney’s magnetism is stronger than he can resist.
Excerpt:
In search of
the yellow sticky with her ideas for today’s meeting, Cisney Baldwin sifted
through papers on her desk. She had a choice: honor her rash commitment to
spend the Thanksgiving holiday with Nick LeCrone and his family, or lie and
join her friends on the Colorado ski slopes.
Biting cold
air and exhilarating speed might keep her mind off slime-ball Jason. And, she’d
need her Richmond friends nearby to nurse her self-esteem after she told Daddy
she’d lost his pick for her future.
She planted
fists on her hips and stared at the papers sprinkled with yellow stickies that
covered her workspace. Minutes before her meetings with Nick, she could never
put her fingers on her notes. Why did this always happen?
How was she
going to face him today, after he’d stood in her office doorway last week and
watched her disintegrate during Jason’s dump-Cisney phone call? If only she’d
stopped there, but no, she hung up and blubbered about the end of her six-month
relationship and having nowhere to go for Thanksgiving.
She splayed
her arms over her paper-covered desk and knocked her head on the piles. This
was all Jason’s fault. Jason needed space? Right. What he needed was freedom to
date that woman with a waist the size of his muscular neck.
“Hi.”
She shot
erect, raking her hair from her face.
Nick stood in
her doorway. He didn’t have a greasy mop of hair or wear button-down shirts two
sizes too small, but he carried a calculator loaded with countless complicated functions.
The joke around Marketing was that actuaries were accountants without
personalities.
Sounds like a wonderfully funny & romantic read. Get your copy of Calculated Risk today!
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PamT
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