Thank
you for stopping at my spot on Cupid's Christmas Promo.
I will provide you with a synopsis of the book, Excerpt and a
small bio from Bette Lee Crosby. Visit the
other blogs on this Book Tour to learn more about this book.
Romance, Women’s Fiction
Title: Cupid’s Christmas
Author: Bette Lee Crosby
In a fun Christmas Romance, Cupid is charged with making certain an
older couple gets the love they've been waiting for and a young woman
who’s far too attracted to handsome men with sexy eyes finds her perfect
match. And, he has to make it happen by Christmas.
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In a spot somewhere between Heaven and Earth, Cupid tries to
maneuver around the complications that threaten to wreck this romance as
he struggles to overcome the forces of lust, jealousy and the events
brought on by his nemeses—Life Management. He matched John and Eleanor
some thirty years ago, but Life Management stepped in and fouled things
up. Now they’re both single and back together again. But before Cupid
can give them the happiness they deserve, he’s got to come up with some
magic, a few miracles and a dog for John’s daughter.
If you’re a Debbie Macomber fan, you’re gonna love Cupid’s Christmas!
A wonderful feel-good story that I for one am better for having
read it. I definitely recommend this book very highly…Goodreads review
Excerpt:
The problem with humans is they’re in love with love. Even worse,
they’re determined to find it themselves. They stumble in and out of
relationships that simply were never meant to be and then wonder why it didn’t
work. Females are infinitely more complicated than males. Lindsay Gray for
example, she’s dead-set on doing this her way and four times she’s ended up
with the wrong male. She’s the kind of female who makes my job a nightmare.
Contrary to
popular belief, love isn’t a result of me shooting an arrow into some human’s
heart—that whole bit is a lot of hooey. I get my orders from Upstairs. The Boss
gives me a rundown of matches then it’s my job to make sure the male and female
get together. When things go wrong I’ve got to come up with a Plan B. Unfortunately
Lindsay Gray has already used up B through E, I’m now working on Plan F and
she’s dangerously close to being reclassified as Love-Challenged.
Her problem is
she can’t tell love from lust. She sees a pair of heavy-lidded dark eyes, or a
rippling muscle and thinks she’s in love. This started when she was only ten
years old and caught sight of the boy who lived two doors down. The lad was
twelve and wanted nothing to do with her, but that didn’t stop Lindsay from
developing a preadolescent case of lovesickness. She followed that poor boy
around like a faithful puppy until she saw him kissing Sara McLachlan. Once
that happened she swore she’d never love again and she didn’t, until she was
eleven.
Lindsay’s
mistaken love more times than I can count, and every time it ended in a
disaster. She can’t understand why this keeps happening to her, but the answer
is obvious—humans with do-it-yourself determination are not equipped to
identify true love. They inevitably mistake passion for love. Elizabeth Taylor
is a perfect example. She refused to let me handle things, so eight times she
got married and seven times she got divorced. One poor chap was killed in a
plane crash before she had a chance to divorce him—that was not my doing, that
unfortunate event came from Life
Management. Not one of those gents was included in Elizabeth’s plan which goes
to prove what I’ve been saying.
But I’m
digressing, so let me get back to the subject at hand.
One of the
advantages of this job is my ability to see the future and I can tell you
Lindsay’s got a lot of problems ahead of her. Problems far worse than her bad
boyfriend choices. Most of those problems are coming from the guy over in Life
Management. Me, I’m a lovable fellow. But Life Management—well suffice it to say
he handles things like car crashes, bankruptcies and heart attacks.
.
Right now my primary assignment isn’t
Lindsay—it’s her father and Eleanor Barrow. But if I don’t step in and take
control of Lindsay’s life, she’ll ruin theirs. Eleanor and John deserve better,
they’ve been waiting a long time.
Author Bio
Award-winning
novelist Bette Lee Crosby brings the wit and wisdom of her Southern
Mama to works of fiction—the result is a delightful blend of humor,
mystery and romance along with a cast of quirky charters who will steal
your heart away.
Born
in Detroit and raised in a plethora of states scattered across the
South and Northeast, Crosby originally studied art and began her career
as a packaging designer. When asked to write a few lines of copy for the
back of a pantyhose package, she discovered a love for words that was
irrepressible. After years of writing for business, she turned to works
of fiction and never looked back. “Storytelling is in my blood,” Crosby
laughingly admits, “My mom was not a writer, but she was a captivating
storyteller, so I find myself using bits and pieces of her voice in most
everything I write.”
Crosby’s
work was first recognized in 2006 when she received The National League
of American Pen Women Award for a then unpublished manuscript. Since
that, she has gone on to win several more awards, including another
NLAPW award, three Royal Palm Literary Awards, the FPA President’s Book
Award Gold Medal and most recently the 2011 Reviewer’s Choice Award and
Reader’s View Southeast Fiction Literary Award.
Her
published works to date are: Cracks in the Sidewalk (2009), Spare
Change (2011), The Twelfth Child (2012), and Life in the Land of IS
(2012). Life in the Land of IS is a memoir written for Lani Deauville, a
woman the Guinness Book of Records lists as the world’s longest living
quadriplegic.
Crosby
newest novel Cupid’s Christmas is scheduled for release in early
October and following that, What Matters Most will be released in early
2013.
Twitter - @betteleecrosby
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