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The Fixer Upper
by Maggie Mae Gallagher
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
Abby
Callier is more in love with Shakespearean heroes than any real man, and she’s
beginning to wonder if there is life for her outside the pages of a book. It
doesn’t help that her esteemed parents tend to view her as they would one of
their science experiments gone wrong. On the eve of finishing her dissertation,
she escapes her staid existence to live in the house she inherited from her
Great Aunt Evie in the small town of Echo Springs, Colorado. Because, let’s
face it, when a woman starts comparing her life to horror films, it might be
time for a break.
Sheriff
Nate Barnes believes in law and order and carefully building the life you want.
In his spare time, he has been remodeling his house in the hope that one day it
will be filled with the family he makes. But Nate doesn’t like drama or
complications and tends to avoid them at all costs. And yet, when Miss Abigail
Callier, his newest neighbor, beans him with a nine iron, he can’t help but
wonder if she might just be the complication he’s been searching for all along.
It doesn’t hurt that he discovers a journal hidden away by the previous tenant
and decides to use Old Man Turner’s advice to romance Abby into his life.
Abby
never expected her next-door neighbor, the newly dubbed Sheriff Stud Muffin, to
be just the distraction her world needed. The problem is she doesn’t know
whether she should make Echo Springs her home, or if this town is just a
stopover point in her life’s trajectory. And she doesn’t want to tell Nate that
she might not be sticking around—even though she should because it’s the right
thing to do, the honest thing—because then all the scintillatingly hot kisses
with the Sheriff will come to an abrupt halt. Did she mention that he’s a
really great kisser?
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EXCERPT TWO:
Abby
opened the door to two delivery men wearing Styman and Sons logos on their
polos. Greg Styman Junior and Teddy Styman were the sons part of the company.
They were both relatively attractive guys in a down-home Mayberry type of way,
and were young—far, far too young. While
Abby might be nearing her twenty-ninth birthday, these two reminded her of
students—fresh-faced, with that innocent wide-eyed wonder of youth that people
tended to lose by their mid-twenties.
One
of the things that had drawn her to the local appliance shop, instead of
heading into Denver and one of those big-box stores to make her purchase, had
been their willingness to haul away the old freezer free of charge. Styman and
Sons would strip it and refurbish any of the old parts that weren’t rusted or
still viable and resell them online. It made Abby feel like she was doing
something good for the environment because the whole thing wouldn’t end up in a
landfill.
Abby
was standing on her porch, watching the two guys pull her handy-dandy new
deepfreeze from the truck, when she was flattened.
She’d
barely had time to issue an umphff before she was on her back on the ivory
wooden porch, a hulking brute covered in dark black fur towering over her. She
lay on her back, trying to assess the damage as a large, wet, pink tongue
slobbered over her face. From this angle, she could tell there were a few parts
of the roof overhang that needed to be fixed before winter arrived.
Her
hands slid into the soft, short fur, attempting to move the massive beast as it
said hello with an almost rabid enthusiasm. Abby would have had better luck
moving one of the fourteen footers nearby.
“Rufus,
stupid mutt, get off her.” Abby heard the deep baritone filled with abject
horror.
Rufus,
the mammoth Great Dane, listened about as well as a toddler playing with his
favorite toy and, instead of moving off her, decided he really wanted to cuddle
and lie on top of her. Her breath whooshed out of her again at the dog’s
impressive weight. He had to outweigh her by twenty pounds.
“Jesus,
Rufus.” Nate Barnes tugged and yanked the hulking beast of a dog off Abby’s
prone form. Rufus seemed to think that meant Nate wanted to play and wrestle
around. They skirmished on her porch for a minute or so, until Rufus spied a
rabbit and took off after the poor creature.
She
was starting to push herself up, mentally assessing the damage, when Nate held
out a hand to her, a mask of apology adding a deep line to his furrowed brow.
“I’m so sorry. Are you all right? He’s harmless, really. The lamebrain just
thinks he’s more of a lap dog and doesn’t realize how big he is.”
Abby
felt a few brain cells faint as she accepted his help, placing her hand in his
much longer one, noticing that the fingers were rough with calluses.
“It’s
okay,” she said as she gained her feet, only to be shocked—and a little turned
on—as he ran his hands over her, checking for injuries. As much as she tried to
rationalize that it was a police-style frisking, a low burn ignited in her
belly. Before she did something entirely stupid, like invite him in where he
could give her body a private inspection, she batted his hands away. “No harm
done. He seems like a big lover.”
Nate
smiled sheepishly as he retreated a step, and it did nothing to lessen his impact.
She
almost sawed her tongue in half. See? I shouldn’t talk to people, ever.
Especially not after Sheriff Stud Muffin put his hands all over her. The action
had short-wired and fried her brain, leading to her precarious foot-in-mouth
disease. As if he knew she had been talking about him, Rufus loped back up her
porch, making a beeline directly for her or, better yet, her crotch, as he
planted his wet nose there by way of greeting.
“Rufus,
get off her. Jesus, I’m sorry. He’s normally not like this,” Nate explained,
more than a little flummoxed and embarrassed as he tried to yank him off.
It
was nice to know the guy was human. After their initial and rather violent
meeting, she’d wondered if he was a superhero in disguise. She had hit him with
the golf club with her full force and the guy had barely flinched.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, Maggie grew
up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything she could get her hands
on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of
books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore,
she’d have been a doctor. While Maggie never did get that doctorate, she
graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in
History.
Maggie
is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres.
She also writes erotic romance under the name Anya Summers. A total geek at her
core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or
spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two
furry felines.
And
if you like your romance with a bit of spice and kink be sure to check out
Maggie Mae Gallagher writing as Anya Summers on Amazon!
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Looks to be a lovely read and can't wait to see what happens between our heroine and Sheriff Stud Muffin :) Good luck on your tour
ReplyDeleteMaggie ~ Good morning! Welcome back! It is so great to have you here again! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteI liked the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway; I like the excerpt. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing and for the awesome giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThe excerpt sounds great.
ReplyDeleteI love the excerpt. Was the Sheriff based on anyone in your life?
ReplyDeleteSounds like my kind of read!
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