Hi GLIAS Family!
I’m thrilled to be here sharing my brand new novel, HEATING UP PARADISE, with you. It’s my first new book in a year—and the first “Seven Brides for Seven Cowboys” book in two years. My long “sabbatical” was filled with writing discoveries and a few sweats and tears—but I’m really pleased with the book that resulted and I hope you will be, too.
HEATING UP PARADISE is the fifth of seven books in the Seven Brides saga—the stories of the Crockett sisters, who inherit their family’s 50,000-acre Paradise Ranch in western Wyoming. Each woman left home years before and now has a career and a career path far from ranching. What could possibly convince them, one by one, to stay in Wyoming and change course? Why, true love. What else?
So, the men who become part of Paradise Ranch have to be worthy of the challenge and the legacy. And I truly believe each one is!
The first three books in the series feature the oldest Crockett girls—Harper ("The Bride Wore Denim"); Mia ("The Bride Wore Red Boots"); and Joely ("The Bride Wore Starlight") and their strong, worthy heroes Cole, Gabe, and Alec.
The next
three books feature (and will feature) the Crockett triplets:
Grace,
Kelly, and Raquel--named for their father's two favorite movie stars!). BETTING
ON PARADISE told Grace and Ty’s story. (Coming early 2022: SEARCHING FOR PARADISE, Raquel’s story.)
But today we're celebrating HEATING UP PARADISE—Kelly and Damien’s story! What could a chef and a smokejumper firefighter possibly have in common? Here’s a little about the book:
She has dreams as big as the Tetons of her home. He can’t unlock the dreams that haunt him. Neither has time for love. But, this is Paradise…
Kelly Crockett longs to be known for her culinary skill. But achieving her dream seems impossible when Fate insists on sabotaging every idea for transforming her award-winning Denver coffee-and-sandwich shop into a top-tier restaurant.
Kelly’s life’s-a-party attitude helps her stand out from her triplet sisters, but it’s useless when a fire at her restaurant sends her appearance on a career-building cooking show up in flames. Devastated, she heads home to vast and beautiful Paradise Ranch where, while helping in her sister’s new restaurant, she conceives a bold plan for rescuing her dreams. But Fate isn’t done throwing obstacles in her path, not the least of which is a gorgeous but troubled man who’s all wrong for her.
Damien Finney believes that after three years as a firefighter, two tours in
Afghanistan, and one year in PTSD therapy, he’s ready to leave hell and start the
next chapter of his life. After rigorous training, he’s earned a spot on an
elite smokejumper crew, but then a failed jump lands him right back on the
Devil’s doorstep.
After Afghanistan, Damien found healing at Paradise Ranch in a program that paired veterans with wild mustangs. With his smoke-jumping career in jeopardy, he returns to the ranch and the horses, seeking a miracle cure to save his future. The last thing he needs is a bubbly extrovert-of-a-woman invading his refuge and throwing his plans off course.
Although they fight it, the heat between Kelly and Damien’s opposite personalities builds, but there’s trouble in Paradise: Kelly’s plans cause strife with her sisters. Damien’s past haunts him. And when wildfires threaten the land they both love, each must decide if the heat will forge a new future or tear them apart. Are they brave enough to see that buried beneath the dreams they hoped for is the dream they actually need—one that’s theirs together?
was his healing grace. Pan and her colt Apollo play huge roles in this new book—and Damien spends a lot of time looking for Pan’s roots and hoping for more healing strength. I loved writing about the horses again—pure magic.
For her part, Kelly thinks she knows exactly
what she wants in life – to work with a
Michelin-starred chef and become a
top-tier chef herself. She does get her chance and what she learns surprises
her and makes her rethink her relationship with her triplet sisters.
I love when my characters teach me something as I write and learn about them. I think HEATING UP PARADISE has lots of life lessons about trust, patience, loyalty and love. But it also has some plain fun moments! I hope you’ll check it out and enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!
You can find HEATING UP PARADISE in e-book at the following e-tailers. The paperback version will be available within a few days as well!
AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE APPLE KOBO
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