Harlequin
SuperRomance
A win-win negotiation?
Truman
"Tru" Jelinek's life is pretty much off the rails. With his
professional hockey career on thin ice, and his personal life falling apart,
he's ready to implement some serious changes. Helping Jenny Martin—the only
girl he's ever loved—make her dreams a reality is a good place to start.
There's
just one problem: Jenny doesn't want his help. She barely wants to speak to
him. But Tru is prepared to negotiate a deal that even Jenny can't refuse. As
trading favors turns into sharing passion, he has to face the truth that when
it comes to Jenny, the game is far from over.
SuperRomance
author, ANNA SUGDEN, is a three-time
Golden Heart finalist who loves reading and writing happy endings as much as
hockey! When not reading or watching hockey, she loves football, good food
& wine, making simple cross-stitch projects, and collecting memorabilia,
penguins and fab shoes!
A
former marketing executive and primary teacher, Anna lives in Cambridge,
England, with her husband and two bossy black cats. Learn more about Anna, her
heart-warming romances and her shoes at her website.
TRADING FOR ANSWERS
ANGI: What’s the first book you remember
reading?
ANNA: That’s a tough one! I think it’s a
children’s book called The Story About Ping. It’s about a little duck on the
Yangtze River. Part of the reason this stands out for me is because at the
time, we were living in Afghanistan and English language books were hard to
come by. I remember receiving a special parcel with books in it, via the
British Embassy, and Ping was my favourite.
ANGI: Can you tell us about a real-life
hero you’ve met?
ANNA: Apart
from my wonderful husband, Doc Cambridge? My lovely father-in-law is 92 and
such an inspiration. A gentleman, with strong family values and a generous
nature, he grew up in Yorkshire. He actually saw the Hindenburg fly over his
hometown! He joined the RAF during the war and ended up working on planes in
Nigeria. Back home in Cambridge, he met his future wife in a tea-shop and they
were happily married for over 60 years! They still held hands and giggled
together! When she passed, we all thought he would crumble. But to this day he
still lives life the way he did when she was alive. He cooks, cleans and does
laundry for himself. For his 90th birthday, we gave him an iPad. For
a man who missed the computer generation completely, he’s taken to it like a duck
to water!
ANGI: What do you like about the hero of
your book?
ANNA: Apart
from the fact he’s a sexy hockey player? J Like the best of men, he always
believes he’s doing the right thing for the right reasons. He’s a loyal man,
who will do anything for those he loves. Sadly, sometimes he needs to learn he
can’t fix everything for them … and he doesn’t always know best.
ANNA: Don’t I always? LOL I have a lovely pair of black suede Giuseppe Zanottis with a bow on the ankle, that I got in a super sale!
ANGI: What's your favorite thing about
your home country?
ANNA: Another
tough one! Being English, there are so many things I love. But I also have a
split-soul - half of me belongs to the USA. I believe that I take both
countries for what they are - good and bad!
ANGI: What was the first story you
remember writing?
ANNA: I
don’t really remember - but one that I’m very proud of is a story I wrote for
my English ‘O’ level. We had to write a story under the title Night Travel. I
wrote about an owl, flying over his territory and what he saw. Then about his
journey back to his nest in the dawn, revisiting some of the scenes he saw
earlier and how they’d changed. I got an A!
ANGI: Who’s your favorite villain this
year?
ANGI’S
GOTTA ASK: What's
your favorite thing to do when you visit the U.S.?
ANNA'S GOTTA ANSWER: Aside from catching up with friends - going
to a hockey game J.
I was lucky enough earlier in the year -- thanks to a wonderful Christmas
present from Doc Cambridge -- to be able to go to the outdoor hockey game at
Yankee Stadium. Sadly my beloved Devils lost - but what a fabulous experience!
FIND ANNA:
I blog on the 22nd of every month. I also post news and fun stuff on my website.
My
next book, which I’m finishing up now, is the third book in the New Jersey Ice
Cats series. It’s tentatively titled A Perfect Catch and is Ike and Tracy’s
story. (Ike is Tru’s older brother and the Ice Cats goaltender. Tracy is
Maggie’s younger sister.) The release is scheduled for Feb 2015.
PREVIOUSLY RELEASED by ANNA:
A PERFECT DISTRACTION
ANNA is giving away A
signed copy of A Perfect Trade and an exclusive A Perfect Trade key ring.
International giveaway.
Note: COMMENTERS are encouraged
to leave a contact email address to speed the prize notification process. Offer
void where prohibited. Prizes will be mailed to North America addresses only
unless specifically mentioned in the post. Odds of winning vary due to the
number of entrants. Winners of drawings are responsible for checking this site
in a timely manner. If prizes are not claimed in a timely manner, the
author may not have a prize available. Get Lost In A Story cannot be
responsible for an author's failure to mail the listed prize. GLIAS does not
automatically pass email addresses to guest authors unless the commenter
publicly posts their email address.
ANNA WANTS TO KNOW: If you could go out to dinner with a hero from a
novel, who would it be?_