Blurb:
Confirmed
bachelor, Nigel Turner, needs a wife in order to inherit his father's millions.
And he needs one in short order. His only option, other than kidnapping which
is illegal, is to use the internet site Rent-a-bride.
Chloe Wilkes
brother signed her up for the site as a joke. Only when Nigel's details end up
in her inbox, she decides to get her own back and reply.
Only neither
expected to fall in love with something that was only expected to be a
temporary arrangement.
Excerpt:
Another email
arrived. Chloe moved the mouse to delete, but instead opened it. She sighed.
“Hello, Chloe. My name is Nigel. I read your profile and am contacting you as
we are both Christians and have a lot of other things in common. I find myself
in a bit of a fix and am hoping we can come to a mutually beneficial agreement.
I’ve attached a picture of myself and hope to hear from you soon. Yours
faithfully, Nigel Turner.” The email ended with a verse. The joy of the Lord is
my strength. Nehemiah 8:10.
She scrolled down
the page and looked at the photo.
“Wow.”
Close cropped wavy
brown hair, a neat trimmed beard and the most amazing brown eyes she had ever
seen. He wore a grey suit and brown tie with a bright white button down shirt.
She picked up the bottle of water on the desk and drained it. Be still my
heart, the bloke is a hunk. And a Christian.
But still a bloke
nonetheless. How did she know he wasn’t a creep like the other emails she’d
received?
She took a deep
breath. She probably shouldn’t do this, but she was going to reply. “Hello,
Nigel. I don’t make it a habit to advertise on sites like this, and I have no
desire for a mutually beneficial anything with anyone. Especially when I know
next to nothing about you. This is real life, not some trashy romance novel and
a casual hook up.” She hit send.
And just in case you'd forgotten or didn't know, here's my bio:
Clare is a
British author. She lives in a small town just outside Reading, England with
her husband, whom she married in 1992, their three children, and unfriendly mini-panther,
aka Tilly the black cat. They have recently been joined by Hedwig and Sirius
the guinea pigs. Clare is half English and half Welsh, which makes watching
rugby interesting at times as it doesn’t matter who wins.
Writing from an
early childhood and encouraged by her teachers, she graduated from rewriting
fairy stories through fan fiction to using her own original characters and
enjoys writing an eclectic mix of romance, crime fiction and children's
stories. When she's not writing, she can be found reading, crocheting or doing
the many piles of laundry the occupants of her house manage to make.
Her books are
based in the UK, with a couple of exceptions, thus, although the spelling may
be American in some of them, the books contain British language and terminology
and the more recent ones are written in UK English.
The first draft
of every novel is hand written.
She has been a
Christian for more than half her life. She goes to Carey Baptist where she is
one of four registrars.
She can be found
at:
I also have a
newsletter. You can sign up for it HERE.
Your email never gets passed on, and you won’t be inundated with mail either.
It’s four maybe five times a year.
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