Happily Ever After, Inc.

MATCHED TO HER RIVAL

Harlequin Desire

September

She was supposed to match him with someone else…

Elise Arundel won't let anyone compromise her high-profile matchmaking business—certainly not Dax Wakefield, the doubting tycoon determined to prove she's a sham. She'll find the sexy bachelor a perfect mate. But when her foolproof program matches him with her, what's a woman to do but give in to unbridled passion?

Dax can't believe how the former-duckling-turned-swan is making him question his playboy status…and his vow to bring down her company. Could sultry Elise—his enemy!—be the one to change his life from one night only to happily ever after?

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MATCHED TO A PRINCE

Harlequin Desire

August

How could she be his perfect match?

Prince Alain "Finn" Phineas pledged his love to Juliet Villere once—and she betrayed him. Despite the desire he still feels, Finn would never act on those feelings again. Not even when Juliet is chosen for him by an elite matchmaker. Then fate, in the form of the royal family, intervenes.

Trapped alone on a beautiful island, they are held "captive" until Finn can convince Juliet to marry him and end a political nightmare. His motives should be about serving his country. So why does his heart yearn for a second chance with Juliet…a real chance this time?

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MATCHED TO A BILLIONAIRE

Harlequin Desire

July

Wanted: one convenient wife

Venture capitalist Leo Reynolds is married to his work, but now he needs a wife. Someone to run his home, host his parties—and accept a marriage that's strictly business. His one rule: love will play no part in their union. At least that's the lie he tells himself, until he meets his match….

Enter Daniella White—handpicked by the matchmaker as the perfect wife. Marriage to Leo means security, and she's willing to give up passion for friendship. But the moment they meet, sparks fly. And now temptation—and Leo's own heart—have the billionaire ready to change all the rules.

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MATCHED TO HIS CRUSH

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If you like it, don’t miss the full-length companion books starring three more couples matched by EA International. Happily Ever After Inc.—Their business is makeovers and matchmaking, but love doesn’t always go according to plan!

THE MATCHMAKER LOWDOWN

ANGI: What's your favorite thing about

MATCHED TO HER RIVAL?  KAT: The chocolate chips. No hints—you’ll have to read the scene for yourselves…and I promise you it’s worth it! :P

MATCHED TO A PRINCE?  KAT: It’s set on a fictional island in the Mediterranean and I had a blast making it all up.

MATCHED TO A BILLIONAIRE?  KAT: Daniella compares herself to Scarlett O’Hara a lot. I loved coming up with her internal monologue for that.

ANGI: Happily Ever After is a match matching company, so what's the one special thing that would have matched…

Elise & Dax have in MATCHED TO HER RIVAL? KAT: They’re both too smart for their own good. :O) They have to put down their psychology degrees and find each other’s hearts.

Juliet & Finn have in MATCHED TO A PRINCE?  KAT: They both value honor and integrity above everything else but learn that compromise is the only way to live happily ever after.

Daniella & Leo have in MATCHED TO A BILLIONAIRE?  KAT: They’re both looking for security in an arranged marriage but learn that love is the best security.

ANGI: What was your favorite thing you did this summer?

KAT: I participated in an anthology with some other authors and it was a truly memorable experience! I learned a lot and I was the one who researched the charity we ended up selecting—all the proceeds for the Love Is… Anthology go to Reach Out and Read, an organization that partners with pediatricians to put books into parents’ hands so reading can be a family experience. It’s .99 cents, 100% of the proceeds go to charity and it includes 40 short stories in 3 genres. That’s easy math, ya’ll!

ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: The kids are about to be back in school… Is there one thing you wanted to do this summer that you couldn't?

KAT'S GOTTA ANSWER: I really wanted to go to France to see a stage of the Tour De France. But it’s just too far to go with small kids, so I had to watch it on TV…again. But since this year was the 101 time they’ve done it, I’m pretty sure they’ll be another one next year!  

KAT CANTRELL read her first Harlequin novel in third grade and has been scribbling in notebooks since she learned to spell. What else would she write but romance? She majored in Literature, officially with the intent to teach, but somehow ended up buried in middle management at Corporate America, Inc.

Kat became a stay-at-home mom in 2009 and devoted nap time to writing. After three years and many thousands of words, her dream of publication finally came true. When she’s not writing about characters on the journey to happily ever after, she can be found at a soccer game, watching Friends or dancing with her kids to Duran Duran and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Kat, her husband and their two boys live in North Texas. She’s a proud member of Romance Writers of America®. Kat was the 2011 Harlequin So You Think You Can Write winner and a 2012 RWA® Golden Heart® finalist for best unpublished series contemporary manuscript.

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LOVE IS…

Anthology includes prequel to Marriage Reinvented

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MARRIAGE REINVENTED

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PREGNANT BY MORNING

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THE BABY DEAL

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THE THINGS SHE SAYS

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MARRIAGE WITH BENEFITS

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MINDLINK

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KAT is giving away print copies of ALL THREE Happily Ever After Inc. books, MATCHED TO A BILLIONAIRE, MATCHED TO A PRINCE, and MATCHED TO HER RIVAL. North America Readers giveaway.

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KAT WANTS TO KNOW: What’s the number one quality (and you only get ONE!) you’d tell a matchmaker your perfect match HAD to have?

MINDLINK

KAT CANTRELL "took a complete new world with new possibilities and let it all blend into a mesmerizing, captivating world of danger…showing trust is the ultimate reason for love when you find right person.”  

~5 of 5 stars from Fantasy Romance Reviews

MINDLINK

Carina Press

ASIN: B00APEXMHE
EXCERPT

Determined to revitalize her imploding career, blacklisted movie star Ashley V takes on her biggest role yet: posing as one of ten scientists invited by aliens to a universal summit. But when the aliens seize, strip and implant the entire delegation to extract their knowledge, she is quickly found out and sent to a cell to await recycling.

The alien research director designated ZXQ-One devised a plan to let the humans volunteer their best and brightest in a gamble to solve his people’s energy crisis. But he fails to find anything useful and winds up imprisoned alongside the fiery human woman who refuses to give up, and who insists on calling him Sam.

After an accidental link between their implants lets them share their thoughts, they find themselves drawn to each other. Sam will have to trust in her human compassion and forgiveness for his role in her capture, and Ashley will have to trust him with her deepest secrets if they are to have any chance at survival…

THE EARTHLY KAT CANTRELL

read her first Harlequin novel in third grade and has been scribbling in notebooks since she learned to spell. What else would she write but romance? She majored in Literature, officially with the intent to teach, but somehow ended up buried in middle management at Corporate America, Inc.

Kat became a stay-at-home mom in 2009 and devoted nap time to writing. After three years and many thousands of words, her dream of publication finally came true. When she’s not writing about characters on the journey to happily ever after, she can be found at a soccer game, watching Friends or dancing with her kids to Duran Duran and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Kat, her husband and their two boys live in North Texas. She’s a proud member of Romance Writers of America®. Kat was the 2011 Harlequin So You Think You Can Write winner and a 2012 RWA® Golden Heart® finalist for best unpublished series contemporary manuscript.

OUT OF THIS WORLD QUESTIONS

We are so lucky to have a famous actress with us today. Her newest role landed her in a heap of trouble with aliens! I couldn't resist this interview.

ANGI: Who was your favorite character you portrayed?

ASHLEY: Ashley V. No really. In Hollywood, you’re never off camera and the me sitting here right now is as much an invention as any movie character. That’s how you survive the casting jungle.

ANGI: What’s the first book you remember reading? 

ASHLEY: The first thing I remember reading is the script for the first commercial I did when I was six. Does that count? I didn’t go to school like normal kids, so it was pretty much all about the script from way back.

ANGI: What’s your favorite “love” word?

ASHLEY: Jewelry. The more sparkle, the more love. ;)

ANGI: Can you tell us about a real-life hero you’ve met?

ASHLEY: My mom. She raised me after my dad left and without her pushing me through Hollywood's closed doors, I’d be a nobody.

ANGI: What was your first thought meeting Sam?

ASHLEY: Here’s someone who can help me escape. Fantastic. And I keep forgetting he’s not human. What is with that?

ANGI: Which is your favorite movie?

ASHLEY: The one that grosses the highest. Oh, did you mean one that I wasn’t in? I watched Contact a bunch of times for research. It was pretty cool.

ANGI: Who’s your favorite villain?

ASHLEY: Voldemort. He was virtually invisible and slowly clawed his way back into existence and power, despite not even having a body. You have to admire that kind of resolve.

ANGI: What's your least favorite thing about aliens?

ASHLEY: (makes a face) That they exist. And do horrific things to humans. And lie to everybody. Oh, and they’re bossy.

ANGI: What is your biggest vice?

ASHLEY: Seriously? You know I had to go to court-ordered rehab, right? That’s code for never-met-a-vice-I-didn’t-like.

ANGI: What role do you wish you could have snagged?

ASHLEY: You’ll think it’s silly, but I’m really mad I didn’t get The Ugly Truth. Stupid Katherine Heigl. She used to be an alien on that show Roswell, you know.

ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: While creating your world for MINDLINK, what stumped you the most?

KAT'S GOTTA ANSWER: Oh, man. I hate to tell you…it’s kind of the crux of the alien’s secret. Let’s just say the alien world is a derivative of another society and it was a challenge to envision how the original society might reasonably evolve and change over time. I had to think about culture, government, politics, economics, technology, etc. It’s not an exaggeration when I say I had seventy-five pages of notes for this book before I wrote the first word.

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THE BABY DEAL

Harlequin Desire, August 

PREGNANT BY MORNING

Harlequin Desire, January 2014

PREVIOUS RELEASES
by KAT

MARRIAGE WITH BENEFITS

Harlequin Desire, February

Excerpt

THE THINGS SHE SAYS

Harlequin Desire, March
Excerpt

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KAT WANTS TO KNOW: Ashley, the heroine of MINDLINK, is kind of a mess and has a reputation for being difficult on the set. But she knows she caused her own problems and desperately wants a second chance. Do you think people can really change?

Cantrell Desire

MARRIAGE WITH BENEFITS

Harlequin Desire, February

ISBN: 0373732252

Her ideal ex-husband

“Will you divorce me?” Those are the four little words Cia Allende wants to hear Lucas Wheeler say. Of course, they have to marry first. The gorgeous Texas real estate tycoon shuns commitment, but a six-month fake marriage will help them both. Cia can access her trust fund and build a women’s shelter, and Lucas’s playboy reputation is repaired. No strings. No romance. Simple.

Except it’s anything but. Lucas intends to seduce his in-name-only wife. It’s a battle of wills, and Cia is losing…and loving it. And now the divorce she needs is the last thing she wants….

EXCERPT 

THE THINGS SHE SAYS

Harlequin Desire, March

ISBN: 0373732317

Her Knight in a Shining Yellow Ferrari

One wrong turn on a Texas highway and heartthrob director Kristian Demetrious is breaking his first rule: don’t get involved. Beautiful, sassy VJ Lewis needs his help—and a ride to Dallas. Kris wants to give her both….

Yet his career depends on arriving without giving in to the passion VJ ignites in him. And denying temptation gets harder with every mile. VJ insists the heart of a hero beats beneath Kris’s suave exterior—and she intends to prove it, one hands-on lesson at a time. Suddenly this road trip is taking a whole new direction….

WHO'S KAT?

Kat read her first Harlequin novel in third grade and has been scribbling in notebooks since she learned to spell. What else would she write but romance? She majored in Literature, officially with the intent to teach, but somehow ended up buried in middle management at Corporate America, Inc.

Kat became a stay-at-home mom in 2009 and devoted nap time to writing. After three years and many thousands of words, her dream of publication finally came true. When she’s not writing about characters on the journey to happily ever after, she can be found at a soccer game, watching Friends or dancing with her kids to Duran Duran and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Kat, her husband and their two boys live in North Texas. She’s a proud member of Romance Writers of America®. Kat was the 2011 Harlequin So You Think You Can Write winner and a 2012 RWA® Golden Heart® finalist for best unpublished series contemporary manuscript.

ALL ABOUT KAT

ANGI: How often to you get lost in a story?

KAT: I’m constantly lost in a story. Usually in my own head. I’m one of those who can’t see an abandoned car on the side of the road without spinning a tale instantly of what happened to the down-on-her-luck heroine.

ANGI: What’s your favorite “love” word?

KAT: Sacrifice. To me, that’s the embodiment of love.

ANGI: Can you tell us about a real-life hero you’ve met?

KAT: My husband. He inspires all my fictional heroes. I know everyone says that, but mine really does. J Yeah, he cooks and cleans, but he’s a hero to me because he always does the right thing no matter what and his first priority is taking care of his family. If that’s not heroic, I don’t know what is.

ANGI: What’s your favorite fairy tale?

KAT: Definitely Cinderella, though I like the Drew Barrymore version—Ever After—the best because she rescues herself and her reward is true love. I’ve written my own version of Cinderella twice now and both my heroines do the same!

ANGI: AH !! A woman after my own heart. My absolute favorite version of this story. I sometimes  listen to the movie to hear Dougray Scott's voice. LOL

ANGI: What do you like about the hero of your book?

KAT: He likes to take care of people…see above about my husband. So many readers complain about heroes in books being unrealistic and it was important to me to write people with realistic qualities.

ANGI: Where do you read and how often?

KAT: I read at night before I go to bed. I usually only get about fifteen minutes in, so it takes me a long time to read an entire book, but it’s all I can manage right now. Unfortunately, reading time is one of the things I had to sacrifice so I could be a career author.

ANGI: Fairy Tale or Action Adventure?

KAT: Both. >>>big grin<<<

ANGI: What was the first story you remember writing?

KAT: Jane and the Rainbow in first grade. I was hooked! By fourth grade, I was writing Encyclopedia Brown and Trixie Beldon knockoffs and finally found my calling in ninth grade when I started my first romance. It was a historical. Set in 1971.

ANGI: What’s your favorite movie of all time?

KAT: Lord of the Rings. I like all three equally so don’t you dare make me pick just one!

ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: How are the gerbils? (BIG GRIN) I have to admit that those were one animal I never allowed in the house, so you can tell I’m not a fan. Keeping my fingers crossed they’re working out for not only your son, but also the mom that has to clean their cage.

KAT’S GOTTA ANSWER: Well…that’s a story. I guess I’m in the right place for that. J Turns out I’m allergic to gerbils so we had to take them back. Apparently it happens often because the store refunded 100% of my money despite the obvious use of the cage and other accessories. It’s a hard, hard thing to disappoint your kid and I think I cried over it for at least a week. But I learned I have a great son who handled the whole thing with maturity. I’m so proud of him!

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MINDLINK

Carina Press, April

ASIN: B00APEXMHE

THE BABY PLAN

Harlequin Desire, August

ONE NIGHT IN VENICE

Harlequin Desire, January 2014

KAT's drawing for a print copy of either Marriage With Benefits or The Things She Says (before you can buy it!) North America readers only. Please leave your email for notification.

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DON'T FORGET to FOLLOW us on Twitter #GetLostStories or LIKE us on Facebook to keep up with all our guest authors and their prizes. Join me Sunday when I host Lena Diaz who'll be kicking off Intrigue Week. And come back tomorrow when Donnell hosts Deb Coonts. And Friday when Kari Lee Townsend will be Maureen’s guest. ~Angi 

GOT A QUESTION FOR READERS TODAY? In MARRIAGE WITH BENEFITS, Cia wants to use her inheritance to open a women’s shelter—what would you do if you had a huge pile of cash dropped in your lap?