Title:
Remaking Ryan
Author:
Jacie Floyd
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Pub.
Date: January 4, 2016
ISBN:
978-1523255368
In
Book Three of the Billionaire Brotherhood, Ryan Eastham appears to
have it all—fame, fortune, and legendary good looks—but injury
has ended his high-profile professional football career and he’s at
loose ends. After years of living, breathing, and training for
football, he’s searching for something meaningful to do with his
future. He expects nothing but boredom from the on-air sports
announcer job he’s been offered, and his so-called love life is
more tabloid fiction than fact.
Due
to the shattering betrayal of her late husband, Jenna McCall is wary
of men and their meaningless promises. Isolating herself from friends
and family while she reexamines her goals and dreams, her baby
daughter is her sole focus. Ryan’s unscheduled intrusion into her
life leaves her irritated, edgy, and a little intrigued.
Family
commitments throw this pair together as reluctant companions on a
cross-country drive from Massachusetts to Missouri. Despite a wrong
turn, stolen car, and fussy baby, they find unexpected pleasure in
one another’s company. Amid wedding chaos and intense family drama
in St. Louis, they each proceed with plans to start new careers in
different parts of the country, but their attraction continues to
build. When it’s time to say good-bye, Ryan challenges Jenna to
remake their lives and plan a future together instead.
Ryan
wheeled himself out of the lift. “What was that about?”
“Exercise,”
Jenna explained. “I’m trying to work off ten pounds of leftover
baby fat.”
His
eyes searched her up and down with a spark of interest. Yikes. She
controlled the urge to cross her arms and hide the various lumps and
bumps of cellulite behind strategic hand placement. No one had looked
at her like she was an attractive woman in
eleven-months-two-weeks-and-three-days. Not that she was counting.
Much.
His
inspection made her all too aware of the white Capris stained with
something green on the knee. Grass stain? Strained spinach? Hard to
say.
She’d
topped the pants with a tan T-shirt she’d pulled straight out of
the laundry basket. So that was massively boring. And wrinkled.
Instead
of the cute little kitten-heeled mules or pointy-toed power shoes she
would have worn in her previously stylish life as an up-and-coming
art historian at The Smithsonian, she’d slipped on a pair of grungy
flip flops more suited to beach patrol than hospital visitation.
Had
she washed her hair this morning? She pushed some stray tendrils
behind her ear to make a casual check. Nope, not freshly washed.
Obviously
personal appearance wasn’t a high priority for her. She’d learned
the hard way how little looks mattered. Nothing but Elly mattered
these days.
“Where
are they?” he asked about the extra poundage.
“Oh,
they’re there.” She patted her tummy and thighs and stepped
behind his chair to escape the scrutiny.
“Nope,”
he said. “You’re thinner now than you used to be.”
“Huh.”
She doubted both his vision and his sincerity. “You should see me
naked.”
An
awkward silence hung between them. Clapping her hand over her mouth,
she closed her eyes and cursed her thoughtless tongue.
“Sure,”
Ryan said. “I’m game, but could we wait until the medication
wears off? I want to remember every detail.”
“From
what I’ve heard,” Jenna sassed back, “you’re always game.”
“Yeah,”
he admitted, after a yawn, “but this isn’t my best day.”
Like
most writers, I’ve always been an avid reader. I always knew I
wanted to write, too, but I kept that tidbit to myself for a very
long time. What does a reader who secretly wants to write do? She
works in a library. My very first job, and maybe my favorite, was in
my hometown public library. I loved everything about the grand old
building and was fascinated by the people who came and went every
day. But mostly, I loved the books. Seeing them, handling them,
checking them in and out, shelving them, and, of course, reading
them. To have access to books that contained so much knowledge,
history, and tradition was a pleasure that never grew old.
In
my spare time through the next few years, I continued reading and
began learning how to write. I accumulated stacks of completed
manuscripts and an increasing determination to get them published.
Happily, my sixth full-length novel has just been released. I would
describe my books as fresh, flirty, and fun contemporaries about
strong women and men who deal with relatable situations in familiar
settings. They’re also emotionally rewarding with a liberal helping
of humor, because, really, what point is there to life without
laughter?
After
living my childhood and adult life in a variety of Midwestern cities,
I was always an island girl at heart, yearning for white sands,
perpetual sunshine, and crystal blue waters. This past year I turned
that dream into reality by abandoning my snow shovel along with my
day job and moving to Florida to write full-time. The view from my
lanai is great, the wildlife is interesting, and my handsome and
heroic husband handles all of my IT issues and regularly prods me to
interact with actual living, breathing people, not just the ones I
invent and put on the page.
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