Copyright © 2008 by Karina Bliss. All rights reserved.
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~ Second Chance Family ~
Harlequin SuperRomance
November 2008 (USA)
December 2008 (ANZ)
When his younger brother and his wife are killed in a car accident, Jack Galloway discovers he's sharing guardianship of their three children with his ex wife.
The last time he saw Roz he was walking out on her after a personal tragedy ripped apart their marriage. In the five years since, he's become a workaholic. He can't possibly take on the care of children.
Rosalind Valentine lost both her baby and her husband within months, and she can't forgive Jack for his desertion when she needed him most.
Now he's planning on deserting the kids depending on him, by shipping them off to maternal family in England - without giving them time to adjust to their parents' death.
This time she's going to fight, a battle that becomes not just about the kids' future, but theirs.
Award nominee
SECOND-CHANCE FAMILY has just been announced as a finalist in Australia's 2008 Romantic Book of the Year awards (R*BY). The Australian competition is open to Aussie and Kiwi authors and I'm thrilled to final for the second time. My debut book, MR IMPERFECT won the long category award in 2007.
Blog diary
Superromance authors are now blogging on e-harlequin.com. My first blog is on June 29. Hope to see you there!
Competition
The April draw for any book from my backlist was won by Shirley Wilson in Virginia who chose Second-Chance Family. For June/July's competition click here.
Next release
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON hits stores in November 2009. It's one of the four-book Diamond Continuity commissioned to celebrate Harlequin's 60th anniversary. My hero is Joe Fraser, a guy who makes Atlas (who held the world on his shoulders) look like a slouch!
Dealing with the fallout of a sixty-year-old family secret that's left his estranged father recovering from a stroke, the last thing Joe Fraser needs is a feisty young teacher telling him he needs to get his act together with his ten-year-old daughter.
Who the hell does Philippa Browne think she is?
Unfortunately he's desperate enough to take her advice. But when he attends a four-day school camp as parent helper his clashes with Miss Browne take an unexpected direction...
Pip certainly hasn't resisted the advances of charming, easy-going Californians to fall for this taciturn tough guy so close to returning home. But does any woman walk away from the temptation of a dangerous attraction.
And they both have a safety net - she's leaving the States at Christmas.
Her unexpected pregnancy ruins everything.
Pip's not ready for motherhood and while Joe's suggesting marriage, his heart's not in it - at least that he'll acknowledge. Unfortunately hers is. As for Joe, he's been down this road before. In fact, his new family tree is littered with examples of divided loyalties and unplanned pregnancies.
But is he really repeating the past...or finally getting a chance to do things right?
And here's a summary of the series as a whole:
"Sarah Carson, 80, was a well-respected member of the San Francisco community; predeceased by her husband Robert, mother to Samuel and Jenny, beloved grandmother of Belle and Jan. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her." That's how Sarah's obituary read in the San Francisco Chronicle. But it's the poignant letter she left behind that tells the real story behind a 60-year-old secret that not only shatters one family, but two. And it all began in 1949 with a man who loved two women… yet neither love could be denied."
The splintered family saga follows the stories of cousins Jan and Belle Carson and their newfound relatives, Joe Fraser and Daniel Kane-the offspring of Robert, Sarah and Jo-as they come to terms with the complications of love and what it means to be a family.
The books will be released monthly as follows:
September 2009: A DAUGHTER'S TRUST by Tara Taylor Quinn
October 2009: FOR THE LOVE OF FAMILY by Kathleen O'Brien
November 2009: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON by Karina Bliss
December 2009: A MOTHER'S SECRET by Janice Kay Johnson
Free Books
To celebrate 60 years of being the world's leading publisher of romantic fiction, Harlequin is giving away 16 free books (one from every series) that readers can download. Simply go to Harlequin Celebrates.
Backlist Republished
Can't find new copies of MR. IMPERFECT and MR. UNFORGETTABLE? Both were published with Mills and Boon this year under the titles (in order) FALLING FOR THE TYCOON (Jan 09) and THE MILLIONAIRE'S PRIVATE AFFAIR (May 09). You can also get MR. UNFORGETTABLE as an e-book from e-harlequin.com. NOTE: All my books are loosely linked in a series. While each can be read as a stand-alone novel, if you'd like to read them in order, it is MR IMPERFECT; MR IRRESISTIBLE, MR UNFORGETTABLE, SECOND-CHANCE FAMILY.
