Cassidy Clarke once climbed the world’s highest mountains, but after an unexpected illness ends her career she’s back in her hometown, broke and hoping for a little luck. But the townsfolk aren’t exactly putting out a welcome mat for the woman who once snubbed them in the media, despite her apologies now.
Mitch Anders knows someone has set up camp on the grounds of his plant nursery, and he’s surprised to find his sexy high school crush ducking questions about where she’s staying. Though he’s sworn to stop cleaning up other people’s messes, Mitch offers Cassidy a job and a place to stay—his place. Bedsharing optional, but definitely welcome.
Out of options and too attracted to Mitch to keep things platonic, Cassidy says yes to his offer. She wants to get back on her feet financially and start a new career. She never expects to suffer a different kind of fall, one that has her believing Mitch just might bring her something bigger and better than luck
Thank you for having me here today to talk about my newest
release, LEAN ON ME. It's a contemporary romance. I love writing suspense but
there's no suspense in this one. It's about a heroine who returns to her
hometown after a string of bad luck and runs right into the guy who had a crush
on her in high school.
A reader emailed asking if this was a friends-to-lovers
romance or a reunited lovers romance.
The real answer is neither. See,
the hero's crush was unspoken in high school and they never dated. I think that
takes the book out of both categories, But the question got me thinking about
contemporary romance categories. There are many more in addition to the two
above, like second chance at first love, star-crossed lovers, coming home and
marriage of convenience (one of my favorites, but really hard to pull off in a
contemporary romance).
I'm thinking LEAN ON ME is a hybrid of a couple different
categories. I actually didn’t think about it or try to define it while I was
writing it. I wanted a hottie hero, a realistic heroine and zinging
tension. Honestly, I kind of want that
in every romance I read, too. But, for
me, it all starts with the hero. In LEAN
ON ME, the heroine (Cassidy) described it best when she saw Mitch (her future
hero) for the first time in years:
He had a five-o'clock shadow at two in the afternoon, and,
boy, wasn't that the sexiest thing ever.
Why, yes. I think it is.
:)
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8 comments:
Congratulations on the release, HelenKay! I love that line about his five o'clock shadow. *swoon*
Melissa
I love finding new authors and books. Cant wait to read this book.
lauratroxel@yahoo.com
Sounds like a great book to curl up with after all the shopping on black Friday!
Sounds fantastic! Thanks for the great post and giveaway!
efender1(at)gmail(dot)com
This looks awesome! The perfect hero is loyal and has your back.
sasims526 at att dot net
My first Helenkay Dimon book I read was Your mouth drives me crazy. It gave handcuffs a whole new meaning. Give me a good boy/ bad boy with a pair of handcuffs any day.
Cclescoulson@gmail.com
Great post! Helenkay Dimon is a new-to-me author and Lean On Me sounds great. My hero is loyal, protective, and a little possessive... the perfect alpha male. :)
bimmergrlmd at gmail dot com
Wow this sounds like a really interesting story ^^
I can´t think of something better than starting a story with a worsecase scenario, and a hot guy who are the only one willing to be her friend <- really love that, and I also guess that is what the perfect hero is for me. I love stories where the guy knows first that there is something speciel about this woman, and is a really charmer (but also is a very good friend) to get her attention :)
This book goes definitely on my to-be-read list :)
Thank you for this giveaway
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