One Night In Paradise

The cover is HERE for One Night In Paradise and I am SO excited!! And now you have to listen to me blah blah blah about this book!! Heee!

This is my Coffee Magnate hero and my Cupcake Baker heroine. I got the inspiration for the idea after watching this dance. Where the idea behind it was that he was left at the altar and his best friend was there for him. And then he saw her as something more!

I knew I had to do something with that because I just couldn’t get the image of a big strong alpha hero being left on his wedding day! So, my editor and I had this big long phone call one day in which I told her that I was going to do a friends to lovers next. And she said “hmmm.” and I said, I know you don’t see that a lot in Presents. She said, no you don’t. And I said…well, I want to do it! This is one of the many things I love about her. She let me go off and give it a try!

That brought me to Zack and Clara. Clara’s pretty sure she must have been crazy to agree to make Zack’s wedding cake, and then, when the bride fails to show up at the wedding, she thinks she must be even crazier to agree to go on his honeymoon/business trip with him and pretend to be his new fiancee in order to help him seal the deal.

I liked playing with the dynamic of their friendship. Zack is quite alpha, but he has a great deal of affection for Clara and his interactions with her are different, softer, than they are with anyone else. Just as Clara is the only person willing to take Zack down a peg if he needs it. It was fun to write two characters who knew so much about each other, and it’s also tricky.

I think one of my favorite parts of a good Presents is when the heroine sees the hero for the first time, either ever or in a long time, and he’s so larger-than-life, so arresting. And trying to capture that with a man who spends every Monday night at the heroine’s house, watching sports and eating takeout, was difficult. But it was also one of my favorite books to write ever. there were cupcakes and elephants and Thai temples and two best friends who grew to realize that they had something much deeper. 🙂

Oh, and it’s doubly neat I got this cover right now because I just turned in revisions for the book about the woman who left Zack at the altar. Hey, Zack’s a great guy. It made me wonder why any woman would leave him! Turns out it wasn’t exactly her choice…but that’s a different story. 😉

All her most exotic fantasies are about to bubble over into reality!

Clara Davis knows the moment yes slips from her lips that she’s in way over her head.

Just how is she supposed to pretend to be her boss’s fiancée on his luxury honeymoon?

Zack Parsons’s Don’t date the staff rule has prevented him from ever seeing beyond Clara’s baker’s apron. But now he’s looking at her in a completely different, rather more tempting light. Giving in to one night of wickedness should be enough to satisfy their new-found cravings…

Shouldn’t it?

One Night in Paradise is out in the UK in May!