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holidays! Read Yours After Dark Today! He didn’t believe in love at first sight… Until it happened to him. Finn McCarthy, the youngest of the McCarthy cousins, is at a crossroads. As the lease on his Gansett Island rental comes to an end, he's making plans to return to his “real” life on the mainland. He’s enjoyed the nearly two years on Gansett with his boisterous fun-loving family, but it’s time to get back to the life he put on hold when he came to the island for his cousin’s wedding—and never left. With renovations to the Wayfarer, the family’s latest business endeavor, all but completed and the grand opening slated for Memorial Day weekend, the time is right to make a move. That is until he stops by the local salon for a quick trim that turns his life plan upside down... Chloe Dennis, owner of the Curl Up and Dye Salon, is about to close the shop after another ordinary day when Finn McCarthy walks in and turns the ordinary into the extraordinary. Holy hotness! How has she never met the youngest of the McCarthys, and now that she has met him, why is it that she runs into him everywhere she goes? Despite the undeniable sizzle of attraction between Finn and Chloe, she is dealing with life-changing news that makes her reluctant to get involved with anyone, let alone a man who plans to leave the island for good in two short weeks. Finn can’t understand why he reacts to Chloe the way he does or why she won’t give him a chance to see what they could be. When she makes it clear that it’s not going to happen between them, what else can he do but go forward with his plan to pack up and leave at the end of the month? Unless the push-pull of undeniable desire makes them forget the many reasons why this could be a bad idea... Return to Gansett Island for another visit with all the series regulars and to find out if Finn and Chloe can overcome the obstacles that stand between them and the possibility of true love. Catch up with Mac, Maddie, Adam, Abby, Riley, Nikki, Blaine and Tiffany, attend Shane and Katie's wedding, and find out what happens when Blaine’s troubled brother Deacon comes to the island. Get ready for another hot, sexy summer on Gansett Island! Read Yours After Dark THIS WEEK and Enter to WIN Release Week Prizes: Giveaway includes:
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Click here to enter! Winners will be notified on Jan. 2. Follow Me on BookBub and Win a $100 Gift Card! Follow these steps to win an $100 Amazon gift card. Giveaway extended through Jan. 7. The winner will be announced on Jan. 8. The Year that Was & The Year Ahead Eighteen is usually my lucky number. Both my kids were born on the 18th of the month, and other great things have happened to me on the 18th, such as finishing my first book. Treading Water, on May 18, 2005. The year 2018, however, hasn’t been the greatest year I ever had. As many of you know, I lost my beloved dad on July 12, after a very brief illness that came on out of nowhere (on my birthday, no less) and took him with a swiftness that has us still reeling all these months later. He was 84 and would tell you he had no complaints after an awesome run, but we weren’t done with him yet. Not by a longshot. In the last few months, my brother and I have been dealing with closing his estate and cleaning out our childhood home, the house our parents moved into 52 years ago this month. We sold it to longtime neighbors last week, and while we know it was the right thing to do as neither of us wanted to keep it, it was still another hard moment in a half year full of hard moments. Kindle Unlimited Readers! Get NINE of my popular standalone novels (not part of a series) for a LITTLE WHILE longer through your Kindle Unlimited subscription. Get Georgia on My Mind, The Wreck, True North, The Fall. Line of Scrimmage, Love at First Flight, Everyone Loves a Hero, Sex Machine and Sex God. Get links to each of these books at https://marieforce.com/usku/. Attention Nook Readers—Read Treading Water at a 30 Percent Discount Starting Dec. 29! Get Treading Water at a 30 percent discount at Barnes & Noble for a limited time starting Dec. 29 through Jan. 31. Use the discount code BNPJACK at BN.com when you check out to apply the discount starting on Dec. 29. Code is only redeemable online, not in the Nook app. More about how Treading Water came to be... The first character to take up occupancy in my mind as a living, breathing human being, was a handsome, successful architect named Jack Harrington. Jack and I ran around together for a long time before I ever put fingers to keyboard to tell his story. I wanted to write about a man who has it all, a wife he still adores after twenty years of marriage, three beautiful daughters he’d do anything for, and a life most people would envy. That life is turned upside down when his wife is hit by a car and plunged into a coma. I wanted to show Jack’s struggles to rebuild his life as he becomes the custodial parent for his daughters, two of them teenagers with all the accompanying issues and I wanted to show his conflict when he finds a new love. These issues make up the core of my first book, Treading Water, which led to three sequels, Marking Time, Starting Over and Coming Home. It’s Treading Water, however, that is the book of my heart. |