Guest Post
Erin Nicholas’s Favorite HEAs!
Oh, I love this topic! HEA is my addiction ☺
When I think of “favorite” ones, a few come to mind. In no particular order…
- Gracie Snow and Bobby Tom Denton from Susan Elizabeth Phillips’ Heaven, Texas. I do love a big, embarrassing public display at the end 😉
- Amanda and Danny in Erin McCarthy’s Heiress for Hire. I love opposites attract and seeing the debutant find her place with the small town farmer totally stole my heart.
- Josie and Sam, in the movie Never Been Kissed. My favorite movie kiss of all time for one thing! And that nerdy, awkward Josie was finally seen and appreciated and loved by hot, good-guy Sam is what love is all about to me.
- The happily ever after in the movie Ever After is, of course, very well-known and beloved…the Cinderella story…but the way they did that one in that movie-wow. Not only was it true love but it was in spite of everything (with a little dose of well-deserved revenge 😉 ). Happy sigh.
- And last but not least, my parents’ happily ever after. My mother was a senior in high school when my dad took his first teaching job in the same school. Them dating would be, of course, frowned upon. So they resisted. In fact, over the course of the year, my dad gave my mother her first and only B of her high school career for, of all things, speech class. (if you knew my mother, you would know that speech is a particular talent of hers 😉 ). But then, at the Prom at the end of her senior year, my dad was chaperoning and ended up cutting in on a dance. And now, fifty-one years later, my mom is still punishing him for that B! (her words, not mine! 😉 )
ABOUT ERIN NICHOLAS:
I’ve been reading romance since my mom first let me into her book cupboard when I was about fourteen. LaVyrle Spencer, Julie Garwood, Debbie Macomber… they took my ‘happily ever after’ ideas from animated princesses to real people in the real world.
I’ve been writing romance almost as long. Many a family car trip was spent with my head bent over a spiral notebook in the back seat. I’ll confess that my very first attempts at fiction were fantasy and paranormals, influenced by my father’s love of the Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and the original Alice in Wonderland. If Harry Potter had been around, I’m sure he would have been on the bedtime story shelf as well.
But it wasn’t long until I started writing about true love and that’s where I’ve been ever since.
I’m so thrilled to be able to share these stories with you! I hope that they make you smile, sigh, maybe even choke up a little. Most of all, I hope that they help you believe in magical things like first kisses, the spark of passion, and the power of true love.Author Links:
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
~ Return to Sapphire Falls in this new novel from the little town with lots of heat and heart ~
Only one thing has not gone according to Kyle Ames’ grand life plan.
Hannah McIntire.
She was his first love, the woman he planned to make his wife, the one that got away—all that romantic crap.
Two years ago, Hannah broke his heart and ruined all of his dreams… not necessarily in that order. Which has been, well, not exactly fine, but he’s handling it because he doesn’t have to see her every day.
In fact, Kyle had kind-of hoped to keep up with the not-seeing-Hannah thing for at least a couple more years. Or a couple more decades. Or forever.
But now she’s back in town to help her grandmother, Kyle’s patient and one of his favorite people, recover from hip surgery. Okay, so two things haven’t gone according to Kyle’s plans.
It’s only for six weeks. Surely Hannah can survive living in her hometown and helping her grandmother for six short weeks. If she doesn’t leave the house any more than absolutely necessary. And puts on the show of being the same girl they all remember. And absolutely avoids Kyle Ames.
But that plan evaporates the moment she sees Kyle again. And then things get worse—way worse. Kyle plans to also put on a show too. To make Hannah’s grandmother happy, he has to pretend that he completely forgives Hannah and wants her back. He doesn’t. But he and Hannah are the only ones who know that. And the pretend seduction quickly starts feeling far too real and Hannah’s having a hard time remembering that she’s supposed to be resisting the whole thing.
And then there’s the not-so-tiny complication of falling in love with Kyle all over again. And the fact that he’s falling for her too. And that they’re both realizing that maybe this time they’re doing it right.
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