Ramblings of a Book Lunatic: Favorite Places by Kelly Gendron with Giveaway, 20 Fun Facts & Review

Friday, January 17, 2014

Favorite Places by Kelly Gendron with Giveaway, 20 Fun Facts & Review

A five-minute trolley ride, one troublemaking luggage, and two stolen identities. Six months later, two strangers discover they’re married. She wants an annulment. He has other plans. Being illegally hitched is about the only way Chase Lennox would ever be shackled to any woman. But when the multimillionaire playboy finds out he’s married to the woman who caused him to lose the biggest deal of his life, Chase decides before he gives his new wife an annulment, she’s going to help him close the deal he’d lost. Jessina Landi has a three-foot radius comfort zone. The last man she let into it cost her a lot more than a broken heart. And the huge debt she owes for that trust, well, it’s due. If she takes Chase Lennox's up on his offer, it’s sure to cover the bill. There’s an annulment waiting at the end of their rainbow… well, that’s if they can get through the next two weeks without consummating the marriage.

Kelly resides in a quiet suburb somewhere between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY. Her day job? Kelly works in health care representing a group of nursing facilities in the WNY area. She’s been faithfully writing for three years but did write her first book ten years ago. She put it down to raise her son as a single mom and then picked it back up when she and her son finally grew up. That's when she settled into her newly married adult life and started to seriously write again. She's dabbled with Romantic Suspense stories, but recently she's been on a contemporary kick. The recipe for the men in her stories: a dash of bad boy attitude, a cup of strong and confident and, of course, besides being packed with magnificent bodies, and doused with shameless aptitudes, they must have a tender heart you want to rip out of the pages (or your e-Reader) and take to bed with you at night.

20 Fun Facts ~ Kelly Gendron

1. My first bike was a boys BMX. It was blue.

2. I owned an iguana, a baby mouse my dad caught in the house, countless chameleons, and a snake my uncle caught while fishing.

3. I got my first Barbie doll when I was 15 years old (as a “gag” gift)

4. If you haven’t guessed it yet. Yes. Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy… at least, until I kissed my first boy.

5. I went to cosmetology school.

6. First and only fan letter ever written was to Keanu Reeves.

7. My husband asked me to marry him at Fenway Park on the Jumbotron.

8. My son was born on Ground Hog day.

9. I flipped/beat the Pac-Man game twice. My dad gave me $2 for doing it.

10. Hallmark movies make me cry like a baby.

11. I always have nail polish but never a nail file.

12. I’m a Superhero Junky.

13. First phone ringtone ever ~ “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”

14. My mom’s nickname for me is “Kelisha.” It was the name of a princess in a romance novel she read years ago.

15. Friends nickname for me is “Kelbell”

16. My husband’s nickname is “Tank.” Not sure why, he’s not built like a tank.

17. My first vehicle was a S10 pick-up truck.

18. I sang “Country Roads” by John Denver in my grammar school talent show.

19. Day job ~ Nurse.

20. “Stolen Vows” was the original title for my latest release, “Favorite Places.”

5 stars most definitely. I love Kelly's work. She always presents a great story with fantastic characters. I totally loved Jessina. She was spunky, and fiesty and not afraid of facing things head on. Chase was cocky, self-assured and totally smokin' hot. There was no denying that there was a spark between them from the beginning. I really loved the whole story, how everything came together and then fell apart. I loved that Hannah and Mrs. Caplin. They're the ones who got Chase thinking on what he hadn't done, that he should have. I want more of this series, and I'm glad to see that there is another coming out. I can't wait for Lucky Numbers, the third book in the series!!