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Hello You,
I hope this finds you and yours safe, healthy, and doing well during these turbulent times.
We're in the process of moving into our new home. ("Moving is fun and easy," said no one ever.) Right now we're having some repair work that started out small and is now...not so small. But when all is said and done, it's a great house with lots of room to spread out, work, relax, and play. Here's my new office as of yesterday...
ANYHOO, ONTO BOOK NEWS!
MY NEWEST RELEASE IS ALMOST READY!
I finally wrapped up Even Better Than the Real Thing on Tuesday night, and it's off to editing.
It's a bit longer than some of my novels, and it's probably got a more romantic feel, it's fun, and I hope you'll love it as much as I do. Because I do.
It's coming your way on April 7th!!
Here's a word from Finley Greene, our heroine, who hails from Virginia but has landed in London, England so she can pursue her dream of a career in Art History...
A swoon-worthy, buttery, uber-fun romance about a fake marriage between two people who couldn't be more wrong for each other... You know what’s great about applying for an art history PhD program at one of the world’s most prestigious universities? I get to study what I love and land my dream job at the end of it. You know what’s not so great? Being told I’ll only get accepted to the program if I gain access to my aloof, uppity, super grumpy boss’s private art collection.
As it turns out, said boss—a one Lord Hayden Stuart—needs to get married to inherit his late father’s estate and earldom. And if there’s one thing Hayden Stuart is never going to want for real—it’s a wife.
So, we strike up a deal: I marry him and go live at his castle, where I’ll have unlimited access to his collection, he gets his earldom, and when the estate is settled, we part ways forever.
Win-win, right?
Wrong.
I may have fooled myself into believing I wasn’t risking my heart, but there’s one huge problem: I’m definitely falling for him. He’s not just another man. He’s THE man—an irresistibly good-looking, in-control, expensive-suit-wearing man who makes all the other men look like little boys. And the more time I spend with him pretending to be his wife, the more desperate I become to believe the lie.
But he’s never going to fall for some lowly PhD student. So what if at the wedding he looked at me as if I’m the only woman in the world, and kissed me like he’s shipping off to war in the morning? It doesn’t mean anything.
Or does it?
Because the more we’re together, the more I realize that, even though we’re from totally different worlds, we have a lot more in common than I ever could have imagined.
Now all I have to do is convince him he really does want a wife…
*** Even Better Than the Real Thing is a standalone romance with a little extra spice than a regular Melanie Summers book. ***
PRE-ORDER HERE: mybook.to/EvenBetter
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All right, my friends, that's it for me today. Happy Spring. I'll be in touch soon.
I wish you love, peace, good health, and happy reading!
Mel