Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Courting Mrs McCarthy by Ian Thomas Malone
Release Date: 9th June 2015
Publisher: Limitless Publishing
Publisher: Limitless Publishing
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Nathan is
terrible at relationships…
Just ask
his absent father, his controlling aunt and uncle…or his ex-girlfriend, Sarah.
All he wants is to spend the summer before his senior year relaxing in the sun
without any conflict or drama. But when he lays eyes on the beautiful, married
mother of three at the opening of a yacht club, all bets are off.
Jacqueline
McCarthy’s life is nothing but a façade…
Her
husband is a disgraced former athlete who prefers to have his ego stroked by
other women. Jackie fills her empty days with yacht club events with other
bored, wealthy housewives she can’t stand, and she’d give anything to truly
connect with someone.
When she
meets Nathan and asks him to watch her children, she is captivated by the
handsome, charismatic young man with a swimmer’s body.
Jacqueline’s
attraction to Nathan doesn’t go unnoticed and one particular vindictive gossip
is determined to expose what she considers an unsavory secret.
Her
campaign of rumors and innuendo—and eventually physical evidence—draws the
attention of friends and strangers alike, and threatens to bring their world
crashing down.
However,
sometimes those who are quickest to judge
are the
last ones who should be throwing stones…
Excerpt
Nathan knew what normally came
next even though there were no standards for the path he was on. He wondered
how affairs usually started without judging the fact that he fully accepted
that what he was doing was a violation of one of the Ten Commandments. All the thoughts
he’d experienced about morality faded from his brain. This was what he wanted,
and he could gather beyond a reasonable doubt that it was what Jackie wanted
too.
That didn’t stop him from
opening his mouth.
“Jackie,” he started to say. She
turned around so they were facing each other.
“Shh,” she said, putting her
finger to his mouth. “You’ll spoil the moment.”
They kissed. Time, ideas of
whether this was right or wrong, and all the other voices in his head stopped.
Nathan’s brain switched over to autopilot and knew when the moment was right to
end their first kiss. He adhered to her command to keep quiet and stared deep
into her eyes. Two weeks ago, Jackie McCarthy was just a name to him, one he
wouldn’t have given a second thought about. Now she mattered. Now she was the
object of his youthful desire. What he was to her didn’t matter tonight.
She broke the silence. “You do
have a bedroom here, right?”
Nathan nodded, and she got off
the couch with his hand in her palm.
“Show me the way,” she whispered.
AUTHOR BIO
Ian Thomas Malone is an author and a yogi from Greenwich, CT. He
is a graduate of Boston College, where he founded The Rock at Boston College.
He is the grandson of noted Sherlockian scholar Colonel John Linsenmeyer. Ian
has published thousands of articles on diverse subjects such as popular
culture, baseball, and social commentary. His favorite things to post on social
media are pictures of his golden retriever Georgie and his collection of
stuffed animals. Ian will
be pursuing a Masters in English Literature at Claremont Graduate University
starting fall 2015, where he has been awarded a writing fellowship.
Ian believes firmly
that “there’s more to life than books you know, but not much more,” a quote
from his hero Morrissey. When he’s not reading, writing, or teaching yoga, he
can probably be found in a pool playing water polo. He aspires to move to the
Hundred Acre Wood someday, though he hopes it has wi-fi by then.
Author
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