I’m thrilled to be visiting the Roses of
Prose today.
When I read your blog, I feel roots. I
experience the pull, the comfort, the inevitable obligations, and the warmth of
family and home. It’s that rare thing we all want but some of us spend a
lifetime seeking. A sense of belonging.
The characters in my stories are uprooted,
for the most part, whether through choice or just life happening. In my City
of Dreams series, they’ve come to New York to chase a career. But though
they’re searching for a once in a lifetime love, underneath it all they’re
looking for HOME.
My heroine Lacey in A Model Engagement is
a Navy brat, and an only child. She takes a dream job in NYC with the idea she
will fund her design business but then falls prey to a blackmailer.
Lacey
Lee Reed was at the type of event, which for years had
been, if not her life’s blood, then at least her meal ticket. Anyone who knew
her, or thought they did, would say she was in her element—smack dab in the
middle of a society party with every A-lister in New York in attendance.
But
she couldn’t breathe.
The
combination of exotic perfumes and expensive colognes in the warm room hit her
harder than the kick of a mule. She swayed on her five-inch heels.
Focus,
Lacey. You will not have a panic attack in the middle of your best friend’s
wedding.
She
pasted on a smile as she scanned the sparkling sea of Prada, Gucci, and Dior
visible over his head, scoping out her escape.
She
inhaled again, slower this time then eased out a steady, candle extinguishing
breath. Ridiculous to feel trapped. Another focused breath. She wasn’t alone.
Not by a long shot.
She
was in the middle of the most enormous ballroom the Pierre Hotel possessed at
one of the splashiest New York City weddings in decades. The VIP crowd was
nothing new, nothing she couldn’t handle.
It was
individual people that creeped her out.
The
old Lacey would have told this SOB staring straight into her cleavage where to
go. Politely and with every bit of the charm her mama taught her. But that was
the old Lacey.
A
Model Engagement
September
20, 2017 release
Blurb
Lacey
Reed jumps at the chance for independence with a career in the big city. But
her naivety and ambition blind her to the lure of a blackmailer.
With
her savings gone she has nowhere to turn when she literally runs into financier
Connor Devlin.
Though
dazzled by Lacey, Connor sees the desperation she tries to hide. He hires her
as his fake fiancée. Now Lacey has a job and he has a bandage for a family
crisis.
When
the blackmailer ups the ante, Lacey resolves to face him down— no matter what
the consequences.
Does
that mean Lacey will lose the only man who’s ever seen who she truly is?
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Author
Bio and Links:
Charlotte
O'Shay was born into a big family and married into another big family.
The
drama! The noise! The inspiration!
Negotiating skills honed at the dinner
table led her to a career in law. After four beautiful children joined the
crowded family tree, Charlotte traded her legal career to write about happily
ever afters. She lives on the far westside only 3 subway stops from where she
grew up.
When Charlotte isn't reading or writing steamy contemporaries
featuring heroines in crisis and swoony heroes with issues, she's on the hunt
for that perfect pair of sunglasses.
She LOVES to hear from readers.
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The City of
Dreams series are standalone books linked by the wedding in The Marriage
Ultimatum.
Book 1, The Marriage Ultimatum ~ Sabrina & Vlad
Book 2, A Model
Engagement ~ Lacey & Connor
Book 3, An Illicit Affair ~ Honey &
Jake
RWA & RWA-NYC
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