Christine Presents ~ Smoke by Emily Mims

Please welcome Emily Mims author of Smoke.

Emily Mims will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

Smoke

by Emily Mims

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GENRE:   Romance/Romantic suspense

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INTERVIEW:

1. What or who inspired you to start writing? Actually, it was a poorly written romance novel I picked up years ago. I threw it across the floor, said I could do better and my husband dared me to do so.
2. How did you come up with ideas for your books? This series is set in the mountains of Appalachia. I love the old mountain tunes from that region bluegrass music you hear so often performed there. Plus, I learned to play the dulcimer I bought in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

• What expertise did you bring to your writing?

‘Smoke’ is my 29^th book. I’ve learned a whole lot writing that many books.

4. As far as your writing goes, what are your future plans? I have written two more in the Smoky Blue series and have four more plotted and ready to write.
5. Do you outline your books or just start writing? I write an excruciatingly detailed plot before I ever write a word of the story.
6. Do you have any hobbies and does the knowledge you’ve gained from these carry over into your characters or the plot of your books? Oh, yes! I play both the dulcimer and the ukulele and go to a lot of music festivals.
7. Have you started your next project? If so, can you share a little bit about your book? The next book I will write involves the local minister and a certain sexy pole dancer…
8. Can you tell us a little about the black moment in your book? Cooper and Francesca make love for the last time before she goes back to her glamorous life.
9. What is your favorite reality show? Dancing with the Stars (If you can call that reality!)
10. Can you tell us a little bit about what it was like to write a series. I love working with a series! It gives both me and the reader a chance to get to know characters in depth. I make it a point to introduce at least one of the leads in a previous book, and my former heroes and heroines appear as supporting characters in subsequent stories.

BLURB:

A concert violinist and musical prodigy, Francesca Giordano is internationally acclaimed and always in the spotlight—right where she doesn’t want to be. Not after she’s witnessed a murder. Suddenly on the run, she finds her way to Bristol, Tennessee, and to the music club Acoustics. There, as “ Chessie Hope,” she can hide out in the open. But with this newest gig comes a different kind of danger. Older and impossibly sexy, bluegrass singer Cooper Barstow is everything she’s ever wanted in a man, and his daughters are just as easy to love. Yet Francesca cannot enjoy the luxury of such a relationship, not even if he could protect her from the men on her trail or if she could be honest with him about who she is. Cooper is as wounded as he is strong, and he needs someone who will stay by his side for the rest of his life. Just as Francesca does. And the smoke on the mountains and the haze of desire almost make her believe that could happen.

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EXCERPT:

“No, it was more than that. You’re wise for your tender years, Chessie. How did you get to be so smart?”

“I’m not all that smart. You’d eventually have figured it all out.”

They stared into one another’s eyes for a moment. “I was jealous.” Cooper was abrupt. “Of Jeremy. When he came on to you.”

Chessie cupped his face between her hands. “Cooper, why?”

Cooper put his good hand on Chessie’s shoulder. “He’s young and he’s cute and he has both his arms.”

“If I were into boys, I might have been impressed. But I’m not into boys, Cooper. I’m into men. One man, in particular. And you know what? I’m going to kiss that man, right now.”

Cooper stood, not moving, as Chessie went up on her tiptoes and placed her lips against his. She held his face in her hands and nibbled, touching and seeking in the gentlest of caresses before deepening their embrace. At first Cooper let her take the lead, but as hiss torment became unbearable he crushed her to him, her soft curves fitting just right into his hard, muscled body like a cool drink of water in the parched Arizona desert. She wrapped her arms around his body and held him even closer. Her nipples stiffened with desire and poked into his chest. Cooper was overcome with longing. He wanted this woman so badly he could taste it.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Author of thirty romance novels, Emily Mims combined her writing career with a career in public education until leaving the classroom to write full time. The mother of two sons and grandmother of six, she and her husband Charles live in central Texas but frequently visit grandchildren in eastern Tennessee and Georgia. She plays the piano, organ, dulcimer, and ukulele and belongs to two performing bands. She says, “I love to write romances because I believe in them. Romance happened to me and it can happen to any woman-if she’ll just let it.”

Website:

http://www.emilymims.com

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/EmilyMimsAuthor

Twitter:

@EmilyMimsAuthor

Amazon buy link:

https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Smokey-Blues-Book-2-ebook/dp/B01MSP4FGJ/

Barnes and Noble buy link:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/smoke-emily-mims/1125196052

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE

Emily Mims will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f2202