Jencey's Corner

Hayley Oakes is visiting Writer's Corner today to share her hot new novel Closing the Deal . Synopsis:  Charlotte Blake. Cut throat business woman and a powerhouse professional. Her interpersonal skills could use some work but her career comes first. Everything she has, she has worked for. Luke ‘Dex’ Dexter. Her adversary at work with the face of an angel and the charm of the devil. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he’s everything that Charlotte resents. Everything he has, has been handed to him. He’s a self-entitled arrogant playboy. She’s an uptight work-focused bore. Two opposing colleagues forced together in small-town America through decisions beyond their control. Charlotte and Dex must find a way to make it work and close the deal a thousand miles from home. Charlotte can’t remember how it feels to be young and carefree and Dex doesn’t know what it means to be an adult. When the sworn enemies unwitting

Another highlighted novel from this summer is Emily Giffin’s First Comes Love.   She is famous for getting to the heart of the matter, in her writing.  Will it be beach worthy? Synopsis: Daniel leaves to go get a burger during the Christmas holiday, and never comes back.  He dies in a car accident.  Daniel’s family buries him but is forever changed.  Their parents’ have divorced.  Meredith the younger sister marries her brother’s best friend.  Is it a happy marriage?  Or is she left yearning for more?  Then her older sister Josie has just wanted to meet the perfect guy and form a family.  She is 38 years old and the biological clock is ticking.  She is still single.  So Josie decides to go ahead and have her child without getting married. Josie teaches first grade at a private school in Buckhead. She faces the opportunity to teach her exboyfriend’s daughter in her class.  Can she let go and move forward? Will the sisters finally be able to put their brother’s death behind them

The sunlight spilled into the bedroom through the faded gold curtains and onto the pillow, illuminating Corinne’s wavy blonde hair. The young woman lay nestled in her queen-size bed, entangled in a white duvet fit for a king, still wearing her clothes from the evening before. Most mornings, she’d have been up and out on a nearby running trail for half an hour by now, and she would be showered, dolled up, and ready for the day before the sun had even made its way over the North Carolina coast. Most mornings, she’d be composed and cheery as she greeted the locals at her favorite coffeehouse just two blocks away from where she lived. And she certainly would not be hungover as hell. But today was proving to be unlike most mornings. She turned on her side, and before she could use her forearm as a shield, a beam of sunlight stabbed her directly in the eyes. Slowly, she began to reopen them and noticed the room was a little blurry. So was her mind.           Wait, this is my room, right?

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