Series Title & Book #: Harmony
Falls Book 1
Author: Elley
Arden
Published Date: July
15, 2013
Published By: Crimson
Romance
Genre: Contemporary
Romance
Book Blurb:
Alice
Cramer is tired of being pitied for her family’s transgressions, so she
resolves to break out of the gutter and into the spotlight. As long as her
local congressman can forget about their checkered past and help her secure a
federal grant to open Harmony Falls Little Theatre, she’ll be the brightest
star in town. But when Alice stands up in church and stops the congressman’s
wedding, she dives headfirst into fresh scandal.
Why
is Harmony Fall’s golden boy, Justin Mitchell, speeding down the interstate
sans a new wife but with the local drama queen he’s been trying his whole life
to avoid? Alice Cramer may have saved him the hassle of an arranged marriage to
a woman he didn’t love, but she’s also put a business transaction big enough to
save an entire town in jeopardy—not to mention his reputation.Soon Alice and Justin are dredging up and indulging in an attraction that threatens all their dreams and aspirations. But what if life together is the dream that matters most?
Excerpt Two:
Ten minutes remained, and Alice still had no idea where to find her keys. For all she knew, Mouse stole them again so he could chew on her lucky rabbit’s foot. When she rolled her eyes, she noticed her brother’s keys hanging on the hook by the door where he’d left them when he rode off with a group of deadbeat friends. Her nose crinkled. Charlie’s car smelled like cigarettes and was littered with trash, but it would get her to the church faster than walking.
Snagging the metal off the hook, Alice tiptoed through the grass (careful not to step in anything questionable) and scooped her purse from the front yard before plopping into the driver’s seat of Charlie’s car.
“Ouch!” She dug a hand underneath yards of scratchy skirt and pulled out a tiara. The glistening crown was pretty. A bit odd, too. And it definitely wasn’t hers. She tossed the headpiece into the backseat and shook her head. How Charlie managed to get any woman into this car willingly was beyond Alice. She kicked aside empty paper cups, shut the ashtray, rolled down the windows and pressed pedal to the floor all the way to church.
Making it with a few minutes to spare, Alice paused at the back of the sanctuary, smiling down the lily-lined aisle at the smoking hot man standing before the altar. His tuxedo was tailored, his shoulders were back and his hair was impeccably groomed. He’d worn the same lift to his blond bangs since high school. Back then, the fashionable hair blended with city-bought clothes to make him look even more privileged than he was.
Now, almost fifteen years and two professional titles later, the flip of his bangs made her smile, because she recognized it for what it was—who he was—a predictable, responsible, creature of habit.
Alice sighed, smoothed a hand over the snug bodice of her dress and tried to remember a time when she didn’t love Justin Mitchell.
He saw her then, and she dug deep into her theatrical bag of tricks to smile with a sincerity that would charm sight-challenged ladies in a theatre’s back row. He bought it, smiled back, and Alice imagined the fine lines crinkling around his green eyes. The breath she tried to take stuck in her too-small throat, and she remembered she needed to walk, needed to move, needed to take her place. This wasn’t the time for longing or regrets. This was a wedding.
The man she loved was getting married.
But he wasn’t marrying her.
Quote from the book:
Reality trickled into Alice’s sleepy brain. He wasn’t married. She watched early morning sunlight dance across his face. He was here. With her. In…Carolina Beach?
“Where are we going?”
“On my honeymoon.”
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Author Bio:
Elley Arden is a born and bred
Pennsylvanian who has lived as far west as Utah and as far north as Wisconsin.
She drinks wine like it’s water (a slight exaggeration), prefers a night
at the ballpark to a night on the town, and believes almond English toffee
is the key to happiness.
Elley has
been reading romance novels since she was a sixteen-year-old babysitter,
sneaking Judith McNaught and Danielle Steele novels off the bookshelves of
the women who employed her. She started her first manuscript when she was
twenty-five, writing during babies’ naps. A total of three children and
ten years later, she thought the manuscript was complete. Little did she
know, her journey to publication was only beginning…
Author Links:
Website:
http://www.elleyarden.com
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/elleywrites
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https://pinterest.com/elleyarden/
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