A BRIDE FOR HOUSTON

 By Caroline Clemmons

What are you reading? This is great weather to stay in and curl up with a good book. Actually, I think anytime is great for reading—unless I’m writing one.

Hero is reading PLAYING FOR PIZZA by John Grisham. I’m reading Loretta Chase’s TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT THE DUKE, which I received for Christmas. Each of us loves reading and generally we enjoy the same books. The exception is that I don’t care for sci-fi or futuristic .

I don’t read erudite, thought provoking tomes. Hero reads things like Stephen Hawking. But each of us reads for entertainment. Of course, I delve into non-fiction for research. After a career working with defense missile guidance systems, Hero enjoys space subjects and scientific books that would leave me yawning. I want a happily-ever-after in anything on which I invest my time!

We also read favorites again and again. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read Louis L’Amour’s westerns, Julie Garwood’s PRINCE CHARMING, and Loretta Chase’s LORD PERFECT. I think we have most of Jayne Ann Krentz’s books by that name as well as many by her Amanda Quick and Jayne Castle pen names.  

With so many great authors as friends, I’ll never run out of good reading material. The other members of this blog, for instance, are great writers whose books I enjoy. I hope you support them and buy their books.

But this is my chance to tell you about my current work in progress. A BRIDE FOR HOUSTON is part of the popular Proxy Brides series. It won’t be released until March, but (big hint here) it is already up for preorder at https://www.amzn.com/B08THSBZH5/. Once released, the book will be in e-book and print and will be in Kindle Unlimited.

Isn’t the cover lovely? Virginia McKevitt of Black Widow Designs created each cover in the series.

Here’s the blurb:

She barely escapes death…

He is angry when a mail-order bride jilts him…

They must defend themselves against mysterious assailants.

Theodosia “Theo” Jordan has lived with the harsh aunt and uncle who are her guardians since her parents’ death five years ago. In three weeks she will turn twenty-one and inherit the estate now controlled by her uncle. When she overhears her aunt and uncle planning her death, she immediately escapes Atlanta by becoming a proxy bride and heading for a small town in Texas.

Houston Kingsley yearns for a happy family like his brother has. Being cheated by a fraudulent mail-order bride who jilts him and keeps the money he sent her discourages him. Is he destined to live alone? His brother convinces him to try for a proxy bride.  The process sounds simple enough—if he can scrape up the cash for a second fare and travel expenses.

But unknown forces create danger for Theo and Houston. Can they discover and defeat the guilty to achieve the happy home each desires? 

Obviously, I hope you’ll preorder A BRIDE FOR HOUSTON. I’m loving the story and hope readers will, too.

Thanks for dropping by. Keep reading!