Live:
The Burnside Series by Mary Ann Rivers
Loveswept
January
21, 2014
Blurb
Mary Ann
Rivers kicks off a new contemporary romance series—sure to please readers of
Ruthie Knox, Kristan Higgins, and Jill Shalvis—where love can be found
unexpectedly.
If there’s
an upside to unemployment, Destiny Burnside may have found it. Job searching at
her local library in Lakefield, Ohio, gives her plenty of time to ogle the
hottest man she has ever laid eyes on: the sexy wood-carver who’s restoring the
building. But as the rejection letters pile up, Destiny finds an unexpected
shoulder to cry on. With his rich Welsh accent, Hefin Thomas stirs Destiny so
completely that, even though he’s leaving soon, she lets herself believe the
memory of his scorching kisses will be enough.
Hefin can’t help but notice the slender,
confident woman with ginger hair who returns each day, so hopeful and
determined. So when the tears start to fall, his silence—penance for a failed
marriage—finally cracks. Once he’s touched her, what Hefin wants is to take her
back to Wales and hold her forever. But Destiny’s roots run too deep. What they
both need is each other—to learn how to live and love again.
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Ten Things About Live: The Burnsides Series #1
*I originally started writing the
story as a screenplay called POS LIMO.
*Then I
rewrote the first part as a YA, and there were many more YA characters.
*My son
shares Destiny's (Des) and Sam's coloring.
*I have been
to the village where Hefin lives, and had tea at the Hotel where his mom likes
to get sticky toffee pudding, and looking at many, many carvings.
*Hefin is a
very common name for his generation. It's comparable to Owen/Evan/Ethan.
*My name was
Destiny for the first few days of my life, then changed to Mary Ann.
*Lakefield,
OH is a fictional recreation of a Columbus/Cleveland hybrid.
*The library
in LIVE is the same library where Carrie West, from THE STORY GUY works, and
she has a brief appearance.
*My holiday
novella SNOWFALL, in an earlier version, included a now deleted scene in Potato
Mountain, Hefin's favorite restaurant in Lakefield (SNOWFALL is also set in
Lakefield).
*Andy
Goldsworthy, Hefin and Des's favorite artist, is an actual artist and you can
watch the movie Des loves about him Rivers and Tides, and you should, it's
lovely.
Author Info
Mary Ann
Rivers was an English and music major and went on to earn her MFA in creative
writing, publishing poetry in journals and leading creative-writing workshops
for at-risk youth. While training for her day job as a nurse practitioner, she
rediscovered romance on the bedside tables of her favorite patients. Now she writes
smart and emotional contemporary romance, imagining stories featuring the
heroes and heroines just ahead of her in the coffee line. Mary Ann Rivers lives
in the Midwest with her handsome professor husband and their imaginative
school-aged son.
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