This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by
Goddess Fish Promotions. Erika and Kim will be awarding a $15 Starbucks card to
a randomly drawn winner during the tour via the rafflecopter at the end of this
post.
Willamena Dunn is having a lousy week. Not only is her baby
sister about to marry into the family of Dunn-Right Preservation’s biggest
professional rival, but the historic bungalow of her dreams has just been
bought by the most infuriating (not to mention exceedingly handsome and
notoriously wicked) man to ever hammer a nail in Magnolia Bay, Knox Loveless.
But when Knox offers her a wager she can’t refuse, a bet
with the coveted bungalow as its prize, Willa is sure her bad luck might
finally be turning around—until Knox surprises her with a passionate kiss, and
suddenly all bets are off.
Could this be just another one of Knox Loveless’ games, or
will two rivals finally surrender to a long-simmering attraction and declare a
truce once and for all?
Darcy Vance has sunk every cent she has into making Mimosa
House the best bed and breakfast in Magnolia Bay. But the key to her success
lies in the hands of the Historic Preservation Society run by the Bloom bitches
who are embarrassed about their father’s connection to the storied house and
they have no intention of validating it with a spot on the society’s
registry.
After losing his PGA card, Trent Mauldin has come home to
Magnolia Bay to lick his wounds and has no plans to stay. Until he falls for
Darcy. Things heat up between the two until Trent’s good intentions to help
Darcy go sideways. While Darcy works to
save her house, Trent fights to win her back and keep her in Magnolia Bay for
good.
Enjoy an excerpt from Sweet Home Carolina
Kim Boykin
©Copyright 2014
The ancient clock that came with the house chimed
the hour. As I shinnied down the ladder, I ran through the to-do list in my
head—shower at ten, hair appointment at eleven, then back to the grind of
turning Mimosa House into a stellar bed-and-breakfast. My brain counted the bongs
as they reverberated off of the walls of my new lease on life that came with a
seven-figure mortgage. Nine. Ten. Eleven. “Eleven? Shit.”
I stepped into my good flip-flops by the front door, the
ones with hardly any paint on them, grabbed my purse and keys, and sprinted
toward the Jeep.
“Yankee.” The hiss came from my lovely neighbor, Mr.
Hunsucker, who was somewhere between five and a hundred and five years old and
wasn’t at all happy I was opening a B&B. He was watering the prize
roses he’d accused me of pilfering on more than one occasion. Okay, so when I
thought no one was looking, I’d pulled a spent blossom off, just to smell it,
which made me a flower thief and a Yankee.
“Good morning, Mr. Hunsucker,” I called and then ducked into
the Jeep before the spray drenched my windshield. Missed me.
Looking up at him in my rearview mirror, he only held up his
middle finger a few seconds this time. A new record. Yep, I was definitely
growing on him.
Kim Boykin is a women's fiction author with a sassy Southern
streak. She is the author of The Wisdom of Hair, Steal Me, Cowboy, and Palmetto
Moon (Summer 2014.) While her heart is always in South Carolina, she lives in
Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, 3 dogs, and 126 rose bushes.
Erika Marks is a women's fiction writer and the author of
LITTLE GALE GUMBO, THE MERMAID COLLECTOR, THE GUEST HOUSE and IT COMES IN WAVES
(July, 2014). On the long and winding road to becoming published, she worked
many different jobs, including carpenter, cake decorator, art director, and
illustrator. But if pressed, she might say it was her brief tenure with a
match-making service in Los Angeles after college that set her on the path to
writing love stories (not that there isn't romance in frosting or power tools!)
A native New Englander, she now makes her home in Charlotte, NC, with her
husband, a native New Orleanian who has taught her to make a wicked gumbo, and
their two little mermaids.
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