Good morning! I have my Romance Gems friend Peggy Jaeger here with her latest release, MIX & MATCH! So, take it away, Peggy! ~
MJ thank you so much for introducing me to your fans and followers today! I’m thrilled to be here to tell you a little something about my newest release MIX & MATCH.
It’s a small town, later in life romance, with a matchmaker finding
the perfect love matches for the town residents.
Here are 5 things to know about my heroine, Jasmine Green.
She’s:
1. Divorced and has moved back to Heaven, NH – her
home town – to try and get back on her feet financially and emotionally.
2.
A registered nurse and works in the oncology department of Heaven’s hospital.
3.
Has a tortured relationship with her mother and
has never known her father since he left the family when Jasmine’s mom was pregnant with her.
4. Looking for a guy who’ll treat her like an equal
in the marriage and who understands her need to keep working even when they start to have kids. Jasmine sees her job as making a difference in people’s
lives and can’t ever imagine not working as a nurse.
5.
Has never been friends with a guy before.
I hope those little tidbits have intrigued you to read
Jasmine and Donovan’s story. The book releases on 3.1 2022 and is exclusive to
Amazon and KU here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09P48WPZC
MJ again, thank you so much for hosting me today and for
letting your readers get to know a little about my book! ~Peg
Let's find out a little more about MIX & MATCH...
Blurb ~
Divorced and lonely, nurse Jasmine Green retains the services of Heaven, NH’s very own successful matchmaker, Olivia Joyner. The bar scene and dating apps give Jasmine hives and Liv’s reputation is stellar. If anyone can help guide her through the quagmire that dating has become, Olivia can.
Architect Donovan Boyd is ready to settle down. He wants the
kind of marriage his parents have; long lasting, filled with love, children,
and joy. But even after a year of living and working in Heaven he’s still considered
an outsider by many. Meeting the type of woman he’s looking for is hard in the
tightknit community. Retaining Olivia Joyner to help him find his forever love is one of the smartest
things he’s done, especially after she sets him up with Jasmine Green.
Can these two strong-willed people learn to compromise so
they can both find their happily ever after? Or will their relationship forever
be relegated to the friend zone?
Excerpt ~
Jasmine scanned
the bar where Olivia told her her date
would be waiting. There were three men
scattered down along the rail. Two she recognized from high school and one guy
whose face she couldn’t see because his back was to her. When he turned she
realized immediately this was not the man she was due to have drinks with.
First, there was
no way this guy was 36 years old. Her mother would have called him Gramps.
Clue number two
was the wedding band on the hand holding his beer. It was so tight, the skin
surrounding it swollen, his knuckle hair squeezed around it, indicating it had
been there for decades.
Nope. This wasn’t
her guy. A cursory glance around the place showed most of the tables were taken
with couples.
Her date had yet
to arrive.
“Hey, Jazz,” the
bartender and owner, Kick Loomis said from his perch drying beer glasses behind
the bar.
“Kick.”
“You squattin’ or
sittin’, sweetheart?”
She’d been in the
place enough times in her life to know he meant was she going to sit at the bar
or take a table.
Jasmine was
self-conscious enough she didn’t want to be seated on a bar stool, sitting
alone while waiting for her date, especially when one of the guys she’d gone to
school with tossed her an inquiring eye and a raised eyebrow. She didn’t want
to get into a how-you-doing-what-you-been-up-to-since-high school chat. If her
memory served, and it always did, the guy had been one of the football heroes
of Heaven High back in the day. Those glory days were long gone and she had no
desire to listen to him dredge them up.
She spotted an
empty table in the corner and nodded toward it.
“I’ll send Raylynn
over with a menu.”
She nodded and as
she was about to head for it felt a tap on her arm.
“Excuse me.
Jasmine?”
She turned at the
sound of her name, spoken in a deep, soft voice blessed with a charming accent
and found herself face to face with the gorgeous guy she’d spotted in her mom’s
office. The one Sharmaine had been sucked on to like a tick.
Good Lord, he was even
better looking up close and personal than he’d been, seated, and ten feet away
from her. Stunning blue eyes, the color of freshly laid Robin’s eggs topped a
face with high cut cheeks and a jaw forged from granite. Midnight hair curled
around his ears and caressed the nape of his neck. Layered waves fell across
his head in a chaos of perfection.
She’d been right
about his height. Most men she could stare straight in the eyes due to her own
long legs. But she had to tilt her head back a bit to look into this man’s
striking ones.
“You are Jasmine,
aye?”
Even his voice was
gorgeous, the song of Ireland singing through it.
She nodded, her
own voice deciding now would be a good time to leave on vacation. And when his
smile took a slow stroll from one corner of his full, thick lips to the other,
showing perfect, straight white teeth, the tips of her fingertips began to
tingle like she’d fallen asleep on them and spent the night with them cuddled
beneath the weight of her body.
He-of-the-handsome-face
stuck out his hand and declared, “Good. Olivia said to meet you here. Donovan
Boyd, but everyone calls me Van. Lovely to meet you.”
Jasmine knew she
should shake his hand. It was the polite thing to do, wasn’t it? For some
reason, her brain wasn’t sending any signals down her arm to lift it up to his
outstretched one.
Donovan, or Van, kept his hand out, his smile in
place, and ticked his head to the left a hair. A clap of booming laughter rang
out from somewhere behind her and finally propelled the gears in her brain to
start turning again.
After a headshake
where she actually heard her brains rattle, she extended her hand and slipped
it into his.
Warmth, like she’d
just stepped into a bubbling hot tub, spread along her fingers, shot across her
palm, then jumped all the way up to her neck.
A feeling of familiarity bolted through her. With a shock, she
recognized it for what it was – desire. Pure and simple. Something she hadn’t
felt in almost forever.
She swallowed,
said, “It’s nice to meet you,” then
shook her head again as she slid her hand back.
“Would you like to
sit at the bar or would ya prefer a table?” he asked.
At the bar she’d
have to sit next to him, shoulder to shoulder. That seemed a bit too intimate
right now, especially when the nerves she’d thought to quell had started
bounding through her again. Better to be across from him, keep them at a bit of
a physical distance.
Van thrust his
chin toward the empty table she’d been aiming for, extended his hand and said,
“Shall we?”
He got points for
good manners, that was for sure.
Exclusive to Amazon and KU : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09P48WPZC
Bio ~
Peggy Jaeger writes contemporary romances and rom coms about
strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without
them.
Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she
believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a
meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they
are loving, Peggy brings all aspects of life into her stories: life, death,
sibling rivalry, illness, and the desire for everyone to find their own happily
ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for
sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came
their way. Through her books, she has created the families she wanted as that
lonely child.
As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and you can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go "What??!"
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Thank you for visiting with us, Peggy! And best wishes for MIX & MATCH!
