YOURS TO KEEP
A Loveswept
Contemporary Romance
By Serena Bell
On
sale: November 11, 2013
Today we are joined by Serena Bell for a Guest Post spotlighting her debut, Yours to Keep. Enjoy, and don't forget to enter the giveaway!
GUEST POST
Good
morning. I'm very excited to be visiting Love Affair With An E-Reader this
morning as part of my Yours to Keep
blog tour. Yours to Keep is the story
of Ana, a Dominican immigrant whose visa expired 20 years earlier as a result
of a mistake her parents made, and Ethan, a widowed pediatrician with a balky,
sometimes sulky, but often charming teenage son. Ana is determined to keep her
dangerous situation secret, and Ethan is intent on getting to know his son's
new Spanish teacher as thoroughly as possible.
Today
I’m talking about Ana's reading list. Unlike Ethan, who keeps his
to-be-read-stack neatly lined up on his night table, Ana leave books lying
everywhere and is always in the middle of at least two. She’s mid-way through Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, a fictional
memoir of Frank Lloyd Wright’s scandalous lover, Mamah Cheney, and she’s
fascinated by Mamah’s willingness to challenge conventional beliefs about
women’s roles. Ana can’t wait to discuss the book in the book club she recently
joined, led by her new friend, Rena Abrams.
Ana
is also knee-deep in When I was Puerto
Rican: a memoir by Esmeralda Santiago, a story about a Puerto Rican woman
in America. Santiago’s story echo’s Ana’s own and makes her feel less alone.
As
soon as she finishes one of those two books, she’ll pick up the novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia
Alvarez. In the Time of the Butterflies,
the re-imagined story of four revolutionary sisters fighting to unseat the
Dominican Republic’s dictator Trujillo in the 60s, was a Christmas gift from
Ana’s sister Cara. When Ana unwrapped it, she started to cry, because it was so
exactly right for her. Cara knew that Ana has been feeling bad about how little
she knows about her country of origin. When Ana started to cry, Cara enfolded
her in a big, bubble-gum scented hug.
At
the bottom of stack are textbooks for the two college-level courses Ana began recently,
Modern English Poetry and Human Neuropsychology. The Modern English Poetry
Textbook is an oversized red paperback packed with poems by the likes of Yeats
and T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens. The neuropsychology book is humongous and
daunting. Ana is fluent in two languages, but she’s pretty sure the textbook
isn’t actually written in either of them. Still, she’s dead set on getting her
bachelor’s degree in record time, and she’ll never see college as anything
other than a welcome privilege.
And
then there’s Ana’s guilty pleasure—romance. Some day, if she’s feeling brave,
she’ll confess to her friend Rena how much she loves a really good historical.
Like Cecilia Grant’s A Woman Entangled,
or Theresa Romain’s Season for Scandal.
(And if she does, she might just find out that Rena also has quite a few
romance novels tossed under her bed.)
What’s on your
reading list right now? Do you have guilty pleasures? Do your friends know
about them?
SUMMARY:
Ana
Travares has been looking over her shoulder her whole life. Her U.S. visa
expired when she
Even
though pediatrician Ethan Hansen is a natural when it comes to little kids, as
the single father of a teenage son he just can’t seem to get it right . . .
except for the Spanish tutor he’s hired for his son, Theo. Ana has managed to
crack Theo’s shell—and he isn’t the only one taken with her. The sexy tutor has
fired up Ethan with a potent mix of lust and protectiveness. But as he starts
to envision a future with Ana, Ethan is devastated to learn the truth about her
citizenship. Somehow he’s got to find a way to help her—and hold on to the
woman he’s falling hopelessly in love with.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Serena
Bell writes stories about how sex messes with your head, why smart people do
stupidthings sometimes, and how love can make it all better. She wrote her
first steamy romance before she was old enough to understand what all the words
meant and has been perfecting the art of hiding pages and screens from curious
eyes ever since—a skill that’s particularly useful now that she’s the mother of
two school-age children.
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