Back Cover Copy--and home stretch!

Got the back cover copy for Bowie's book:

WELL, TIMING NEVER HAD BEEN HIS STRONG SUIT...

And the fact that Bowie Bravo walked in the door, after seven years away, just when Glory Rossi was about to go  into labor with another man’s child certainly proved the point. Because the last time Glory had seen Bowie was when she was delivering his child—a little boy who’d never known his real father. But according to Bowie, that was about to change.

Bowie was now a respectable businessman, and he was more than ready to be a father—to both of Glory’s children. He was also ready to be a husband to the woman he’d never been able to live without. And when he saw that their feelings for each other still burned bright, he

didn’t see any reason why he’d have to….

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And I'm in the home stretch on the writing of my July 2012 Montana Maverick book, THE LAST SINGLE MAVERICK. Such fun.  And I do love when everything comes together and I'm racing to the finish.  

Cover for February 2012 release

Yes, I love it!  Bowie returns to New Bethlehem Flat, California, his tiny hometown in the Sierras.  After six and a half years away.  He left town and the great love of his life, Glory Dellazola, to try and make something of himself--after Glory repeatedly refused his proposals of marriage.  She wasn't marrying a guy with all his problems.  Even if she was pregnant with his son.

So now he's back and determined to make things right at last.  That would be Glory on the porch, with the son he's never seen since the little boy was a baby.  Yep.  She's pregnant.  She married someone else. A good man, who died recently.

Bowie has a lot to make up for.  A lot!

Thanks to reader, Patsy Adkins, who suggested this image for the cover.  And thanks to the art department and my editor at Harlequin, who went for it!

Bowie's Return

Making good progress with Bowie Bravo's book--that's Jason Lewis on the left there; he's my working image for Bowie.

This one's turning out to be a really...tender kind of story.  I guess I knew it would be, since it's a second-chance story. Bowie has a lot to make up for.  Sometimes he wants to give up--and leave again.

But he knows he can't.  He knows that this is his big chance, and no matter how hard it gets, he is not going to blow it.  Glory, his heroine, is having a tough time of it, too.  She's still attracted to him and doesn't want to be.  She also knows it's her job to help him forge a relationship with the son he left behind.  So she's totally conflicted.  And that makes for fun writing.

In the end, it's all about the conflict when you're writing fiction.  This book has plenty.

Also, I find myself using a whole lot of Kleenex.  I'm almost halfway through with the manuscript, and already it's a two-box-of-Kleenex job.  I'm telling myself that means I'm getting the emotion on the page.  And that's a very good thing!