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Meet the Marketing Exec’s Widow @authortinagayle #eggcerptexchange

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eggsPlease welcome Tina Gayle with an eggcerpt from her contemporary romance, Marketing Exec’s Widow, part of the Executives’ Wives’ Club series.

Four women…
One fatal car wreck…
Everyone’s lives changed…

Marketing Exec's Widow“The Unwilling Widow”

Jennifer Larson, having lost her husband, friends and the perfect life she’d had planned, now faces the biggest challenge of her life, moving into an unplanned future. While the rest of the Executive Wife Club is still wallowing in the past, Jen is tempted into the future by a sexy chiropractor, Hagan Chaney.

But does he really love her or is he only after her money?

Excerpt:

Jen gathered her strength and followed Hagan through the house. The easy flow of his long limbs showed incredible grace for a big man. So tempting, yet, she couldn’t pursue him. Not now, not with everyone watching her, they expected her to act like a grieving widow. If she didn’t, they’d forever brand her as an unloving wife.

She hated the farce, but she had no choice. No one knew her marriage had turned into a sham long before Craig died.

A few minutes later, she walked outside and breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, with the showing done, she could return Hagan to his office. She locked the front door and stored the key in the lockbox. Spinning on her heels, she faced Hagan.

At the end of the porch, one foot already positioned on the first step with a hand out to assist her, he waited. “So, Jen, since we’re done for today, why don’t we meet tomorrow night for dinner?”

Jen edged backward and her butt hit the closed door. The urge to run away from his undeniable magnetism, and the problems he’d cause, sent her mind into a tail spin.

What in the hell should I do now?

Marketing Exec’s Widow is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBooks, Kobo, and Smashwords.

About the Author

Author Tina Gayle
Tina Gayle was born in Texas, the place of her heart and where most of her family still lives. The youngest of four daughters, she grew up a dreamer.

She worked for years in the business world doing a variety of accounting jobs. Then when her two sons were little, Tina decided to go back to school to get a degree in MIS. She only used this degree a few years before deciding to follow her passion for writing romance.

Married twenty-five years, she and her husband love to travel and can’t wait for Mike to retire so they can do it more.

Find Tina Gayle everywhere

Home – www.tinagayle.net
Blog – www.tinagayle.blogspot.com
Twitter – https://twitter.com/#!/AuthorTinaGayle
Goodreads – http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1641826.Tina_Gayle
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/tina.gayle
Google + – https://plus.google.com
Linkedin – http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tina-gayle/11/689/759

Book Review Club: Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

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Romancing the Duke coverRomancing the Duke
(Castles Ever After)
by Tessa Dare
Regency Romance

(Disclaimer: Tessa Dare is a personal friend from my local writers group, however I bought the book and read it of my own volition.)

Tessa’s book has two of the most unique characters and plot I’ve read in a while, and it’s a variant of the Beauty and the Beast theme. The twist is that the heroine is not actually a beauty, but the “beast” is nearly blind and just assumes she’s a beauty. (He can see a mass of dark hair and a shapely body and that’s enough for him.)

Miss Isolde Ophelia Goodnight is an impoverished spinster of 26 whose father was a well-known author of a series of romantic stories set in the fictional world of Moranglia. Her fortunes appear to change when her godfather wills her a castle of her very own. She travels there with high hopes only to find the castle a ruin inhabited by a bad-tempered man who tells her he is the Duke of Rothbury and the castle belongs to him.

Ransom, the duke, is an embittered man who was left scarred and blind after a duel with the man who stole his fiancee. He has hidden himself in the decrepit Gostley Castle* with just his valet for company, not counting the pesky vicar’s daughter who insists on bringing him baskets of treats. The last thing he wants is a young woman in his castle unless she’s there to warm his bed. He also knows that he hasn’t sold the castle so it can’t possibly be hers.

Kenilworth Castle

Kenilworth Castle via Bigstock license Copyright: siavramova

* In one of my favorite lines, a secondary character asks if the name of the castle is pronounced Ghostly or Ghastly, as either one applies.

The duke hasn’t read any of the correspondence piled on a table, and Izzy agrees to be his private secretary and sort through the mail to find out what has happened. As she goes through it, both realize his solicitors, and possibly his heir, have been stealing from him.

The two have a prickly relationship, filled with equal parts squabbling and sexual tension. Ransom persists in mispronouncing Moranglia and making fun of Izzy’s belief in romance and true love. But she’s the one who stands by him when his solicitors turn up with a doctor, determined to declare him incompetent so his heir can seize his title and estate.

The book is both touching and humorous, and I heartily recommend it.

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Linda

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