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Series tag line: The Love Brothers: A family saga with humor,
heat and heart—not to mention beer, bourbon and basketball!
Where to Buy: Amazon
Love Garage
January 5, 2015 (ebook and audio) ~
March 14, 2015 (Print)
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Blurb
Antony Love is the quintessential
responsible oldest brother of a boisterous, Italian/Irish family, placed in
charge at a young age by his parents who are busy running the family business.
He manages his siblings with a fair but iron hand, until his life is shattered
by personal tragedy leaving him the shell of the man he once was.
When outspoken matriarch Lindsay
Halloran Love falls ill, the youngest brother Aiden shows up at Antony's
garage, having dropped out of school (again), needing work and a place to
crash. Antony provides both, with three caveats: "Don't smoke in my truck,
don't be late for work, and don't mess with my girlfriend."
But Aiden Love, budding novelist, gets
one glimpse of Rosalee Norris, young widow of Antony's lifelong best friend and
all bets are off.
Set in horse country near Lexington, Kentucky, The Love Brothers Series is
a saga of family devotion that runs as wide and deep as the Ohio River--except
on Sundays when brothers Antony, Kieran, Dominic and Aiden work out their
frustrations on the basketball court, Love brother style.
Excerpt:
Love Garage opened bright and
early the next morning, a Saturday, a day Aiden had hoped to spend recovering.
“I get so many oil changes and
random small jobs on Saturdays, it doesn’t make sense to be closed and let the
jackasses with the Quickilube at Walmart get the business,” Antony insisted
when Aiden groaned with dismay upon being awakened after two hours of drunken
sleep. It didn’t help that the awakening occurred at the business end of a
thrown pillow. “Get up, Romeo. You owe me rent money.”
He did, slowly, queasily hitting
a shower, sore all over, his skin mottled from bug bites. But nothing topped
the glorious agony of a bourbon hangover like the one that had him firmly in
its evil grasp.
He slouched out the door, cursing
Antony, cursing Tricia, cursing her ex-husband for throwing her in his path
last night. But mostly cursing his own weak-ass uselessness. He rested his head
against the cool comfort of the truck window until Antony hit a bump or two,
which sent extra pain jolting down his spine.
“Sorry,” his brother muttered,
glancing over at him.
“No, you’re not.”
“Got me there. And you’d better
warn me if you’re about to toss your cookies. I won’t have that in my vehicle,
got me?”
Aiden rubbed his neck and nodded,
swallowing the urge to throw up all over the pristine interior on principal.
“Why d’you hate me so much? You used to like me.” He stared over at his
brother, heart thumping, ears humming, throat closing up with nausea. He
despised waking up still drunk.
“I don’t hate you.” Antony turned
onto the main road headed into town.
“Could’ve fooled me. You’re a
real asshole anymore. Worse than Dom.”
Antony merely shrugged, not
rising to that tried-and-true bait. So they spent the rest of the ride to the
garage in silence. Once there, Antony sat gripping the wheel. Aiden waited,
hoping he’d get something out of him—something he would assure him that the man
he thought he remembered as the protective, funny, and loving guy he’d grown up
with still existed inside the guy walking around wearing Antony’s skin.
Finally, he let go of the wheel,
exhaled, and squared his shoulders as if prepping for battle. Aiden made a
mental note to talk to Kieran about how badly Antony had descended into his
life of non-stop mourning and jerk-hood.
“So, Rosalee, not putting out for
you or what? You need to get laid maybe? Knock the edge off?”
The glare Aiden got for saying
those particular words did make him worry Antony might punch his aching head
through the passenger-side window.
He clenched his jaw in the way
Aiden remembered from their childhood. “That is so far outside the realm of
your business as to be in another galaxy. Get to work and don’t say her name to
me again.”
And with that, Aiden was left
with the fleeting thought that mentioning Rosalee directly was probably not a
good idea. He surely didn’t need Antony to guess that her name was on his lips,
or front and center of his mind.
He shook his head—a Bad Plan
because it summoned the pounding agony back with a vengeance. Groaning, he
climbed out and shuffled over to the door.
A new day began at Love Garage.
Coach
Love
January
5, 2015 (ebook and audio) ~ March 14, 2015 (Print)
Amazon
Blurb
The
smoldering intensity of first love ~ the forbidden fantasy of temptation ~ the
cold hard facts of real life.
When
one man’s hopes are dashed apart in a split second after years spent chasing a
dream, he returns home to Kentucky furious at the world and everyone around
him.
Kieran Francesco is the middle son of the
volatile, tight-knit Halloran-Love family. His role as peacemaker and the one
true athlete is well established. He now faces life devoid of the sport he
adores after a horrific, career-ending accident, which places him in a new and
entirely uncomfortable position—that of the brother with no future.
Over
the course of a few tumultuous months Kieran is plunged back into life at the
center of the Love family, where he must cope with one self-destructive
brother, one ill-timed reconnection to an old flame and a series of bad choices
that land him in more trouble than he’d ever known existed.
COACH
LOVE, book 2 of The Love Brothers, a family saga of sibling loyalty that runs
as deep and wide as the Ohio River—at least until Sunday, when Antony, Kieran,
Dominic and Aiden work out their frustrations at the weekly Love brother
pick-up basketball game.
Love
Brewing
March
1, 2015 (ebook and audio) ~ March 14, 2015 (Print)
Blurb:
Every
family has one—the black sheep, the problem child, the prodigal. But Dominic
Sean Love could teach all of those guys a lesson or two. Stuck in the middle of
a boisterous group of siblings, he’s given “acting out” a new meaning from the day
he drew his first breath.
While
he’s the one son who follows his strict father’s footsteps into the Love family
business, he’s also the one who butts heads with him the hardest. Their epic
clashes are the stuff of family legend. But they have made peace and work side
by side to take Love Brewing to the next level of success.
Until
Dominic does the one thing his father can never forgive.
Diana
Brantley has been Dominic’s friend, girlfriend and ex-girlfriend so many times
she’s lost count. When he shows up at the farm she’s slowly transforming into a
wildly popular farm-to-table resource for restaurants all over the U.S. her
first impulse is to shoot first and ask questions later. But she doesn’t. And their
lives entwine once more, for good, bad and ugly.
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