Good morning, one and all! Hope you guys are having a splendid day thus far! I've got my Romance Gem friend, Bonnie Edwards, on with her new book, releasing today, CLAIMING SHANDY! Let's find out more...
Blurb ~
She
thought her divorce was final…
Welcome
WA, where rumor, gossip, and old grudges endure long past their best before
date.
Justin
Camden wants his life back. His wife back. His son back. And he’s returned to
Welcome to get them. Justin has a plan for the Christmas season and moving in
with his ex and his boy is just the beginning.
Shandy
Camden is stuck. Her big oaf of an ex-husband has finagled his way into her
home for the entire month of December. He claims to want an old-fashioned
family Christmas with their son. She’s forced to let Justin stay because
refusing will break her son’s heart.
Slowly,
Shandy sees that her ex may have another agenda. But she doesn’t believe in the
magic of Christmas the way their son does. Helpless and forced to live with her
ex, Shandy struggles to overcome her growing attraction to the only man who’s
ever left her. The only man she’s ever loved. But Justin left once and if he
leaves again, she’ll never recover, and neither will their son…
When the
truth comes out, Shandy and Justin may well have discovered that more than
anything, Christmas is about love.
Warning:
This book has lots of groveling in it. If you don’t want to read about a
divorced man making things right, then this romance isn’t for you.
Excerpt ~
Chapter One
December 1 Welcome WA
Justin Camden was no quitter. Never had been and
he wasn’t about to give up now. But first he had to do battle against the
dragons breathing fire in his gut. He’d never been this scared. Not even at
fourteen when his dad caught him out driving his mom’s car at midnight.
He parked outside the Welcome Bar & Grill and
called his buddy, Jake Morrow who was inside with a group of friends. Friends
who included Justin’s wife, Shandy.
Everything he wanted to accomplish tonight hinged
on whatever BS line Jake had come up with. “It’s me. I’m here. What did
you tell her?”
In the background, Justin heard happy people
greeting each other over the distant sound of a Christmas song. The season had
begun. He climbed out of his car while he heard Jake excuse himself to take the
call.
“Bedbugs.”
The background noise had receded, but Justin
couldn’t have heard right. “What?”
“Every hotel in the area’s infested. Didn’t you
know?” Jake said with a smirk in his voice.
“She’ll never believe that.” He had his hand on
the brass door pull. Yanked it toward him.
“I believe she does believe me.”
He shook his head. No way. Shandy was the smartest
woman he’d ever met and for the past three years, she’d been made of stone. He
had to make her crack, but nonsense about bedbugs wouldn’t do it. The
flame-thrower in his belly belched. Maybe he should turn around and leave.
“Plus, I told Shandy how much Brianna and I are
enjoying our honeymoon period,” Jake was saying. “She can’t force you to stay
with us. She has to let you stay at her place. She’ll have no choice.”
“Our place.” The home they’d bought
together, to raise their family in. “You ass. Bedbugs?” He was inside the
vestibule now, looking through the stained-glass partition, searching the
restaurant side of the building. “I see the table.”
Jake stood a few feet away from the group. “Don’t
worry, you got this,” he said, looking right at him through the multi-colored
pane.
“My best and only shot.” He ended the call,
plastered a smile on his face and made his way through the tables to where
Shandy sat beside an empty chair. If this crazy bedbug story worked, he’d have
a chance to get her angry. He needed her angry.
If she were angry with him, it was a sign that she
still cared. That he could still make her feel something for him.
An angry Shandy was honest, and open. Angry Shandy
was not a stone angel, cold and remote, the way she’d been for too long. He
needed honest and open or his plan to return to Welcome and be the husband and
father he wanted to be would fail.
Justin Camden was no quitter. He doused the flames
in his gut.
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Bonnie Edwards has been writing all her life, starting with a poem about Santa suffering with gout. She was seven, Santa was a thousandteen years old. Delighted with writing, she went on to write family sagas, humorous contemporary romance, romantic suspense, erotic paranormal ghost romances and more.
She may jump around within romance, but all her stories come with a tear, a laugh, and a happy ending. Published by Kensington Books, Harlequin Books, Carina Press, and Robinson (UK) Bonnie’s stories stretch from short stories to novellas and novels. Now, she's happy to be publishing her work herself.
