Author: Nina Lewis
Genre: Contemporary Romance /Fiction
Publication Date: May 12 ,2013
Publisher: Onmific Publishing
ISBN: 162342012
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Book Description
Anna has landed her dream job as an Assistant Professor of
English literature at a prestigious college in the South. Instead of charging
ahead with her career, however, she is confronted by hurdles, pitfalls and
mysteries. Why does no one restrain the demented hoarder who secretly uses her
office as his private storeroom? Who is responsible for her sudden loss in
salary? What is behind the vandalism in her department? Is it a personal attack
against her irreverent and somewhat unconventional teaching style?
Professor Giles Cleveland is supposed to mentor
her in all this, but he’s arrogant, sardonic, condescending, disconcertingly
attractive and – Anna keeps reminding herself as the temptation to start a
kamikaze affair with him becomes overwhelming – absolutely out of bounds. Anna
and Giles grow increasingly reckless and it is only a matter of time before
they will be caught and Anna’s career will crash and burn. But when the crash
comes, it’s worse than Anna imagined. And far better than she could have dreamed.
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Six Fun Facts about The Author
2) Inspiration
hits me in the shower, in the car, between waking and sleeping – whenever I
don’t have pen and paper handy.
3) The
last time I cried in the cinema was during the voting scene in Lincoln. The pathos! The idealism!
4) The
first adult romance I read, when I was about eleven, was Kathleen E. Woodiwiss’
Shanna. It came as a serial in the
women’s mag my mother took, and I hid the back copies in my wardrobe and read
them secretly – with red ears! When I read it again years later I was shocked to find how much it had
influenced my teenage ideas about love and sex.
5) When
my publisher found my story on the internet and offered to publish it, the only
romance authors I had ever read were Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Kathleen
E. Woodiwiss. That explains a lot, I’m afraid.
6) If I
went over to the Dark Side, I would be an animal rights terrorist. (No fun. But
a fact.)
Book Excerpt
[Giles
and Anna meet for the first time]
“Giles, I’ve brought our new assistant professor to meet
you. Anna Lieberman.”
“Professor Cleveland…”
In a split second I debate with myself whether to extend my
hand or not, and decide on a gut feeling that I will not. Reserve seems a
better strategy here than familiarity. He sits at his desk—not a particularly
tidy desk—and looks reluctant even to rise from his chair, let alone to shake
my hand. Eventually he does get up, and my heart beats faster, nervousness
becoming tinged with alarm. Tall I knew him to be, but up close his six foot
something tower above my five foot four like Gandalf over a Hobbit. A Celt,
with light eyes and dark hair gone prematurely gray. There is nothing
remarkable about his appearance, except that a tall man, halfway between gangly
and gaunt, will always look good in light brown cotton pants and a blue shirt,
open at the neck and rolled up at the sleeves. Next to him I look like a
complete klutz. I am furious that I have allowed Elizabeth Mayfield to put me
at such a disadvantage.
I nerve myself to smile up into his face. His features are
lean and regular but not wildly handsome, and there is nothing charming about
him at all when he looks down at me—on
me, too—with that particularly English brand of polite dislike and says,
“Dr. Lieberman. How do you do. I was…told of your
appointment.”
The sound of that well-educated, faintly nasal English voice
hits me in the middle of my body and contracts the muscles of my womb in a
spasm of response.
I feel a spate of explanations and justifications rushing to
my tongue. I want him to know that although I have been foisted on him I am
sure that we will get along well, that I will do my best to honor the confidence
the college has shown in me. But I say none of these things. Could not, because
my tongue is in knots; and do not want to, either, suddenly, because he is so
pompous and unwelcoming to a junior colleague who really cannot help the
situation at all.
“How do you do, sir.”
He blinks, as if taken aback. “I assume you’ve been well
looked after?”
“Yes, sir, thank you.”
“Right. Well, then…” Get the hell outta here, bitch.
He does not say it out loud, but I can see the words forming behind his
forehead. Evidently Cleveland hasn’t been told yet that he is to play Mother
Goose to this gosling.
“Can you spare a few minutes, Giles? The least we can do is
make sure Anna has a smooth start, and I was hoping you’d show her the ropes.”
There is an edge in Elizabeth’s voice now, a note of admonishment, and he hears
it and, to my surprise, heeds it. He comes down from his high horse and
suddenly looks very much younger. At a loss, almost vulnerable, with his soft
gray hair curling in wisps behind his ears, and his broad, lean, boyish
shoulders. The man is a chameleon.
“By all means. Dr. Lieberman, won’t you sit down?”
It is all I can do not to clutch Elizabeth’s skirt to beg
her not to leave me alone with him, but she closes the door behind herself and
we are alone. In very non-companionable silence. He points toward the sofa,
which has clearly been chosen to make people feel small. Its seat is very deep,
so I can either perch on the edge, looking nervous, or sit back, in which case
my feet will hardly touch the floor and I will look like a five-year-old. I
choose a mid-position, put my bunch of keys on the low table in front of me and
hope Cleveland will not see my hairy little Hobbit-feet.
He stands over me, reluctant, a very remote fortress.
Isengard.
About the Author
Nina Lewis wrote her first story when she
was nine years old, a drama of love and jealousy set in a circus. Her best
friend and she performed it to themselves over and over again, for ever
changing the dialogue, conflicts and endings. It strikes her as ironically
appropriate that her first published novel is set on a college campus – the
habitat of many a strange, loveable or fierce creature. When she isn’t busy
training animals to jump through the hoops of college education, Nina is
knee-deep in her second novel, which is set in England during the French
Revolution – historical romance being her favourite genre of fiction.
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Looks interesting alright. But for the life of me I cannot disassociate the name Giles with an old man's name! Blame Buffy :D
ReplyDeleteI agree Giles makes me think of Buffy but maybe this Giles will change all that! The book sounds really good and I love the cover!
ReplyDeleteI might have double entered the first two entries on the giveaway for the ebook. I entered and then rafflecopter didn't recognize that I did and I had to do it again. Sorry!
DeleteI can't wait to read this, I have a thing for the English :)
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