Hale Maree by Misty Provencher
(Crossed & Bared Series #1)
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
NEW ADULT CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNG ADULT READERS
Hale Simmons’s life is already bottoming out and she’s only eighteen. Struggling on welfare, while trying to keep her alcoholic father on track, her dreams of having a better life fade a little more each day.
But, when her dad witnesses a brutal accident at the bar one night, it changes the entire course of Hale’s future.
Thrust into an arranged marriage
with Oscar Maree, the playboy son of a wealthy man, Hale must learn to trust a
stranger to give her the life she’s always wanted.
First, Hale needs to figure out if love can ever happen by accident.
NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNG ADULT READERS
Hale Simmons’s life is already bottoming out and she’s only eighteen. Struggling on welfare, while trying to keep her alcoholic father on track, her dreams of having a better life fade a little more each day.
But, when her dad witnesses a brutal accident at the bar one night, it changes the entire course of Hale’s future.
Thrust into an arranged marriage
with Oscar Maree, the playboy son of a wealthy man, Hale must learn to trust a
stranger to give her the life she’s always wanted.
First, Hale needs to figure out if love can ever happen by accident.
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EXCERPT – HALE
MAREE
Oscar
puts the mug on the counter. I think he’s going to tell me I’m a spoiled brat,
or that I don’t know a thing about how relationships work, or that I’m just
plain impossible, but instead, he leans forward with one hand on the countertop
before he says, “Done.”
My
fingertips slip from the door handle.
“I
would notice you, Hale,” he continues, “if you walked into a room behind a 500
pound lion that was charging straight at me. I would notice you if the room
were full of naked women, and I was in deep conversation about my own death. I
will always come running, I’ll eat the dinner, and wear the shirts and I’ve
already thought that if you put on ten more pounds, it’d be a sure bet that I
would never let you out of my bed. I’ve been trying to soak up every word
you’ve said since the first time we spoke, so I think it’s only fair that you
try just as hard to hear me now. I think you are perfect for me, Hale, and I’m
just waiting for you to realize that I’m perfect for you too.”
It’s
like the entire room disappears and all I see is Oscar with his level gaze. He
drops his voice to a whisper as he says, “Come here.”
But
I stay where I am, with the sun warming my back through the windows, and I
shake my head at him.
“No,”
I say. “Come running.”
AUTHOR BIO
Misty Provencher is a long-term wife, mama, and author. The first two are a bit more recent, but Provencher's writing roots date back to the hieroglyphics she left in her mother's womb.
While Provencher can ride a motorcycle, knows how to Karate chop, and has learned enough French, Spanish, and Sign Language to get herself slapped, Misty's life is actually just the ruse she uses to connect with people. She is totally enchanted with them and spends her days trying to translate the soul bouquets of her muses into words.
Misty Provencher lives in the Mitten. Knock on her internet blog door at: Misty Provencher's Books, http://mistypro.blogspot.com/ or find her on Facebook and Twitter as Misty Provencher.
While Provencher can ride a motorcycle, knows how to Karate chop, and has learned enough French, Spanish, and Sign Language to get herself slapped, Misty's life is actually just the ruse she uses to connect with people. She is totally enchanted with them and spends her days trying to translate the soul bouquets of her muses into words.
Misty Provencher lives in the Mitten. Knock on her internet blog door at: Misty Provencher's Books, http://mistypro.blogspot.com/ or find her on Facebook and Twitter as Misty Provencher.
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INTERVIEW
Hi there! Thank you
so much for having me over for an interview on your blog today! I’m excited to talk with you about Hale Maree
and where the idea came from. I will do
my best to make this wild and raucous fun, so don your lampshades and let’s
jump on into it!!
1) Wait a second. First, I’ve got to know if this book is
religious. Hale Maree? Full of Grace? But the series name is Crossed &
Bared…are these books hot and sexy or do they have a religious element?
Oh my goodness! No, the books are absolutely not religious
and by no means meant to be a comment or slight to the Blessed Mother,
Mary.
The name of the book came during a
conversation I was having with Michelle Leighton. I had just left my job and needed to make a
good go in the book world, but I’d had only limited success at that point. I was mired in one of those discouraging,
down-with-everything moments and Michelle was trying to yank me out of it. She mentioned that she’d written a ‘Hail
Mary’ story herself and that it changed her career. She used the term the same way the Deadliest
Catch fishermen on TV put out a Hail Mary
string of crab pots. It’s your
biggest and best effort, you pour yourself in and hope for the best.
Well, I wanted to write a hot and
sexy, contemporary romance. I thought,
why not name the book after my hope of its success? And BLAM.
That’s how Hale Maree came to be.
2) Okay, then how do you explain the second
book in the series, Full of Grace?
Full of Grace (FoG) is a spin
off—a story told by Landon Grace, who we meet in Hale Maree. I don’t want to spoil the surprises, so…when
you’ve read Hale and then read the synopsis for FoG, you’ll totally understand
the name of the book!
3)Tell me, where did
you get the idea of an arranged marriage?
That doesn’t happen these days!
A friend of mine actually did
arrange his own marriage to a woman overseas.
When he told me he was going to do it, I was intrigued at how it would
work. I was fascinated at the aspect of
marrying a person you’d never met and what it would take to make a marriage
like that not only work, but work well with both spouses actually finding
love.
I used much more exciting
mechanisms to arrange the marriage in Hale, because my focus was not on
depicting the culture gap or the red tape of an arranged marriage, but of explore
the relationship between two strangers who must make a marriage work and what
it would take to create a true romance under those circumstances. Hopefully,
readers will enjoy the fantastical story of Hale and Oscar’s pulse-pumping
romance.
4) You mentioned you had just left your job
before writing Hale Maree. Are you a
full time writer now?
I am! I spend my days plotting and writing and
hoping that my books will bring others some joy.
5) What is your next project?
I’m actually working on three
projects right now. I’ve got a Young
Adult manuscript, a New Adult serial, and a New Adult where I let my raunchy
humor out of its cage. Be scared. Hee hee.
This was a great time! I hope that
your readers will help themselves to a free copy of Hale Maree and grab Full of
Grace while it is still on sale this week too.
Regularly $3.99, it’s a dollar off right now! Enjoy!
GIVEAWAY
Blitz-wide giveaway
--Signed copy of Hale Maree (US only)
--Signed copy of Full of Grace (US only)
--1 eBook copy of any of Misty's books (INTL)
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