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Title - Three Rivers
Author - Chloe Barlow
Genre - Contemporary Romance
Expected Release Date - March 25th 2014
"A heartbreaking tale of letting go and learning to love again. A
jaw-dropping debut novel you have to read.” - Helena Newbury, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author.
A self-contained bittersweet romance (no cliffhanger ending!) 87,000 words.
How do you
start over when you gave everything to one life, one plan, and lost it all?
Althea
refuses to allow herself to love again. Imprisoned in grief at twenty-four
after her husband’s sudden death, she’s convinced her heart died along with
him. She spends her days honoring his memory by clinging to the legal career he
helped her to build and to the remaining pieces linking them together.
Griffen’s
been running from his past. Despite success as an author and
investigative journalist, he’s been traveling through life on autopilot. For a
decade, he’s chosen perilous adventures and meaningless sex over the danger of
any attachments. When he finally returns home to Pittsburgh, he’s slammed by
the awakened memories and regret he’s spent years trying to escape.
A chance
encounter brings them together. Their instant desire for each other – and the
bond they discover between them – shocks them both. Despite
her best efforts, Althea can’t resist Griffen’s charm or his intriguing
proposition – if she agrees to a no-strings affair with him for the two weeks
he’s in town, he swears he’ll walk away when their time is up. Assured she can
test the waters of a new life while keeping her vow never to betray her
husband’s memory by opening her heart to another, Althea throws herself into
the escape Griffen provides her.
Their
perfect plans go awry when the intensity of their connection overwhelms them. Will they
risk it all on the chance of something great together…or will the power of
their secrets and guilt tear them apart?
“Griffen… Oh! That feels so good,” Althea whispered
roughly, her voice slurring a little — whether it was from the drinks she’d had
or arousal — she wasn’t sure.
“How drunk are you Althea?” he asked, leaning back,
and his surprise growth of a conscience jarred her.
“Excuse me? Don’t you want me?” She suddenly
felt shy and embarrassed, like her pretense was ripped away and she was just her
same old stable self again.
“Dammit, Althea. I want you like crazy, but I want
to know you really want this, too.”
“I know what I’m doing Griffen. I know what I want
to do.”
“And what’s that?”
“You.” Whoa. What brazen hussy said that? She
asked herself as his answering groan made the muscles in her stomach squeeze
tight.
“Shit. You’re so sexy Althea. But you’re a good
girl. I don’t have a lot of experience with good girls. I’m not quite
sure what to do here.”
Althea smirked at him, grabbing his butt and pulling him
tightly against her center. “Something tells me you’ve done this before.”
Griffen laughed, “Yes, that’s true. And I definitely have
lots of ideas of what I’d like to do to you…with you. I meant I just want
you to be sure.”
It was bizarre to Althea that his man, whom she’d
followed to his hotel room after only just meeting him, could tell so easily
that she was a good girl. Because he was right — she was one, always had
been.
“Yes Griffen. I guess I’ve done my best to be a good girl
my whole life. I also try to be a damn great woman. But
tonight. Now. Here,” she purred, enunciating each word with
the scratching of her nails up and down his smooth cotton shirt, brushing his
nipples until he groaned. “I just want to be…with you. What
do you say?”
“Yeah, gorgeous,” he said, lightly
brushing the fingertips of one hand down her face. Running them across her
lips and resting them there. “We can definitely do that.”
Chloe
is a contemporary romance novelist and practicing attorney living in
Pittsburgh, PA with her husband and their sweet puppy. She is a native
Washingtonian that graduated Duke University with a degree in English and
Chinese language. She met her husband at Duke and he brought her to Pittsburgh
over a decade ago, which she has loved ever since and made her adopted
hometown. She also attended University of Pittsburgh Law School where she
continued to be an overachieving nerd.
Chloe
has always loved writing and although she does do it professionally as a
lawyer, she cherishes the opportunity to craft her contemporary romances and
share them with the world.
She
is an avid romance fan and wrote her debut novel Three Rivers in her spare
time. She continues her tireless legal style of research in her fiction work as
well. For example, in an effort to bring authenticity to Three River’s
treatment of grief and loss, she consulted with a psychologist and grief counselor
during its preparation.
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Random Question about Chole
1)
What has been your worst haircut/style?
I have crazy thick hair and lots of it (I mean, we’re
talking use-a-quart-of-conditioner-without-blinking amount of hair). It really
only works as a super short or really long. In high school I chopped it off in
this cute edgy pixie I loved! Then I spent a semester of my senior year in high
school in China and couldn’t get it cut right. It grew out like some sort of
bizarre mullet version of the three stooges hair. I have pretty exclusively
just done long hair ever since.
2)
In O’s and X’s which do you normally pick?
X’s all the way
3)
Bottle beer or draft?
Draft
4)
If you could learn any language fluently what would it be?
French. Studying Chinese and living there twice
was great, but I love France and wish I could speak more than just the basics I
know.
5)
What is your favorite board game?
I love Clue! I so want to do a grown up Clue dinner party
where people have to dress up like the characters. I want to dress up as Miss
Scarlet. She has the best outfit and what woman doesn’t want to be a femme
fatale for a night?
6)
What is your favorite movie?
Lady
and the Tramp. I named our springer spaniel Lady, now I just need to rescue
Tramp! Second place is The Thin Man.
7)
Which song do you hate the most?
Tied between Celebration and YMCA. For our wedding I put
those on the DO NOT PLAY list. I think some guests wanted to rebel against my
tyrannical refual to abide by wedding music protocol, but, damn, those are
awful!
8)
Who is your celebrity crush?
I
have been in love with Ewan McGregor since I was 15. I swear my husband looks
like him. He tells me he doesn’t see it. Good thing, mine is the opinion that
matters on that issue.
9)
Can you do 10 revolutions of a hula hoop?
Oh dear Lord, no. I can barely do one, and its not a sight
anyone wants to see. I am beyond uncoordinated. My friends, family and husband
lovingly refer to me as “The Spaz.”
10) What’s the worst
pick up line ever used on you?
I was a waitress at the main hangout restaurant my senior
year at Duke. We had “big beer night” on Thursdays. It was great for tips but
terrible for pick up lines. One guy said to me 4 times: “I’ll have a beer . . .
and your number.” He would have asked more times I think, but he couldn’t handle
any more big beers after that.
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