We have a winner!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to help me celebrate the release of Crossing Hathaway. I hope you’re able to check out the book sometime, and that you enjoy reading it as much as I liked writing it.
So, without further ado, congrats to:
I’ll be in touch shortly to arrange for your ebook copy.
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After so long stewing in the basement of my laptop, Crossing Hathaway is finally here!
Ben Hathaway and Eva Ross are now waiting for your hot little e-readers in virtual stores everywhere. I’m so excited I’m giving away a free e-book copy to one lucky commenter.
Check it out the deets.
Back of the book:
Thirtysomething Eva had a choice to make: shut her big mouth and work directly for Ben Hathaway—the übersexy, incredibly arrogant, reclusive owner of Hathaway Pharmaceuticals. Or tell him he’s an ass like she’s dying to do and get herself fired.
Giving up, though, would leave her penniless, land her back home with a father who hates her, and without the only job she’s ever loved.
Decision made, Eva opts for the lesser of two evils. So she thinks.
Ben keeps Eva on call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—tasked with activities that don’t fit her job description: like getting him coffee, staying for dinner, and more … personal requests. Despite having sworn off men, the chemistry between them lights fires she’s supposed to be putting out.
As it turns out, getting screwed by the boss takes on a whole new meaning. When word of their developing relationship leaks, both of Eva’s roles—reluctant girlfriend and IT genius—are subject to termination.
She was absolutely right when she thought getting involved with Ben was a bad idea, and now, balancing work and love may no longer even be an option. Saving Ben may require that Eva walk away. From everyone.
That, or, death may be the cause that parts them. Forever.
How do you win?
It’s easy. I just want your opinion on something that’s been stewing in my mind. Speaking of adult romance only, would you find the same satisfaction in a book where there was no sex between the hero and heroine? Would you be satisfied with just the development of the relationship? Or do you need the physical?
Just leave your opinion in the comments below, and I’ll choose one person using random.org on Thursday, August 9th. Please leave me a way to reach you, an email address, Goodreads name, Twitter, Facebook, etc., which will only be used for the purpose of sending your prize if you should win.
Thanks for stopping by, and good luck!
If you’d like to skip the contest and pick one up right now, here are some purchase links:
The day is almost here! Only twelve more days until you can meet Ben and Eva starring in my very first contemporary romance.
In the meantime, I thought I’d wet your appetite with a little excerpt. Enjoy!
Chapter 1
I turned up the radio to drown out Paul and Jeremy’s daily argument over who would win a fight between Superman and Yoda. Although my vote went to Yoda, I didn’t advertise my membership in the geek club. Instead, I tapped my foot to Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl and shivered in the arctic wind blasting from IT’s massive air conditioner.
“Eva!”
The whiny voice made me flinch. My screwdriver flew out of my hand and crashed into the electronic chaos on my workstation. An avalanche of computer video cards and memory toppled onto the floor. I gritted my teeth as I turned to face my boss.
Cameron stood in his doorway, giving me his scrawny come-hither finger. “In my office. Now.” He disappeared into his dark cave.
A rush of heat swept across my face.
Oh hell.
Jeremy leaned out from behind the cubicle wall and shoved his glasses up his nose with his forearm. “Damn, dude. What the hell did you do?”
I groaned and rolled down the sleeves of my blue dress shirt. “I don’t think I did anything.” Did I?
“Are you sure you didn’t piss off Rita in accounting again?” Paul asked, his head buried in the chassis of a computer on his workbench. As usual, his hairy butt-crack showed above the sagging waist of his jeans.
Nice. Just what I needed to see right after lunch.
“I didn’t go near that old crab.” I threw up a hand. “And I didn’t do anything to piss her off in the first place. I just told her I couldn’t fix her computer speakers before the freakin’ e-mail server. Christ.” I shook my head and trudged toward Cameron’s office.
I popped my head into the pigsty. “You rang?” His windowless cell always smelled of fish and BO, an aroma that always stirred up the contents of my stomach and threatened to unload it onto his carpet.
Cameron slouched at his desk, fingers poised over his keyboard. His instant messenger dinged, and he typed without looking up. “Come in and shut the door.”
Flying fuckballs.
I backed out, inhaled as much clean air as I could, stepped into his office, and sat in the chair arranged in front of his desk. Shallow breaths helped me control my gag reflex as I stared at his bony profile and waited, my hands pinned between my legs and the chair so I wouldn’t fidget. I commanded my leg to stop bouncing, but it ignored me as usual.
He’d painted his office dark gray, the same shade as his desk, carpet, and chair. And, come to think of it, his hair, at least some of it. Who decorated a lightless hellhole in shades of gray? I wasn’t even sure it was a color, more a lack of color—a big gray hole. It matched his winning personality.
I mustered a smile when he turned his chair and folded his fingers together among the paper city on his desk. His silence stretched on, emphasizing the steady beeps and blips from the bank of servers outside his door.
“Something wrong?” I asked, fighting the urge to shake him and tell him to get on with it.
Cameron sighed and shoved his skeletal fingers into his rat’s nest of salt and pepper curls. “I’ve got a problem, and I think you’re my only solution.”
My eyebrows shot up, and my shoulders relaxed. If he needed my help, then he wasn’t about to chew me out. Better and better. “Yeah? What kind of problem?”
And why did he say it as if I were the lesser of two evils?
“My wife thinks she’s in labor.”
I shifted forward in my chair. “Oh. Crap. Then what the hell are you doing here?”
He clamped his fingers on to the edge of the desk, then proceeded to drum an annoying tune on it. “You know I spend most afternoons with Mr. Hathaway, right?”
“Yeah, though I’m not sure what the Big Cheese has you fixing all that time. How many computers does he have in there, anyway?”
Cameron reached into his drawer, then clunked a black iPhone on his desk and glared at it as if it had just peed on his shoes. “Mr. Hathaway is … eccentric. No—jeez, that doesn’t even come close to covering what he is. He’s effed up eight ways from Sunday. Look, I need someone to cover for me while I’m away, and you’re my sucker.”
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So, what do you think? One part geek plus one part funny-bone plus one part lip-smacking man in a snazzy suit. Have I peaked your interest? 🙂
Release date: August 6th, 2012
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Yippeee! I am so uber-doober psyched to share the cover of my latest novel with you. Here’s the pretty face Liquid Silver Books has given me for Crossing Hathaway, my contemporary romance coming out August 4th. Yes! Ben and Eva will be unleashed upon the world this very summer!
Here it is. Isn’t it B-E-A-eutiful? I love the colors and the font. The skyline of Toronto, the setting of the novel, fits in perfectly.
Back of the book:
Thirtysomething Eva had a choice to make: shut her big mouth and work directly for Ben Hathaway—the übersexy, incredibly arrogant, reclusive owner of Hathaway Pharmaceuticals. Or tell him he’s an ass like she’s dying to do and get herself fired.
Giving up, though, would leave her penniless, land her back home with a father who hates her, and without the only job she’s ever loved.
Decision made, Eva opts for the lesser of two evils. So she thinks.
Ben keeps Eva on call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week—tasked with activities that don’t fit her job description: like getting him coffee, staying for dinner, and more … personal requests. Despite having sworn off men, the chemistry between them lights fires she’s supposed to be putting out.
As it turns out, getting screwed by the boss takes on a whole new meaning. When word of their developing relationship leaks, both of Eva’s roles—reluctant girlfriend and IT genius—are subject to termination.
She was absolutely right when she thought getting involved with Ben was a bad idea, and now, balancing work and love may no longer even be an option. Saving Ben may require that Eva walk away. From everyone.
That, or, death may be the cause that parts them. Forever.
This novel was so much fun to write. It takes my closet romantic and tosses her naked onstage for all to see. Yikes. I wrote a romance! And I really liked it! Eeek! 😉
Add in a dash of my former computer geeky-self, a few sprinkles of a smart-ass, witty heroine, and a giant helping of a gorgeous and charming Ben Hathaway, and that’s what you’ll find beyond the cover of this book.
Coming to eReaders everywhere in August. Stay tuned for more details!
So, about a year and a half ago, right after I finished writing The Glass Man, I got a crazy idea for a contemporary romance novel.
Yeah. Me. Romance. Pfft. Who’d a thunk it, right?
It took me a few weeks to write it, and I have to say, I kind of dig it. Not my usual style, but I like it all the same.
Well, it’s been sitting in my laptop collecting dust for a while, forgotten. Until I received an email about four months ago. When is it coming out, she asked. I’m dying to buy it. Over the course of the last few months, I’ve had ten random people around the world email me, asking me when it’s going to be published.
Huh? What universe have I landed in?
How does anyone even know it exists outside of my Sisterhood of the Traveling Pens buds? Whatever happened, I’m over the moon. Hearing from those folks and their enthusiasm about something I wrote lit a fire under my rear end last week.
After putting on a final editing polish on Crossing Hathaway, I sent it off to a publisher on Saturday. Monday, I had the contract in my inbox.
What? Geez, how did they even read it that fast?
Anyhow, I’m over the moon to announce that Crossing Hathaway will be published by Liquid Silver Books in eBook format on August 6, 2012.
I love their enthusiasm. They’ve been amazing so far, so fast and professional, but down to earth, too, hooking me up to an author’s group where I’m learning tons in the back-and-forth banter going on. My editor contacted me today, and so the process begins. I’m just a little excited, and can’t wait to catch the first glimpse of my cover.
Do you read romance novels? What are some of your favorites?
Jocelyn Adams 