Happy Valentine's Day everyone...
Hope yours is full of love whether it comes from your other half, your kids, your BFF, your Facebook friends, your Mum and/or Dad, your cat, your dog, your golfish, your favourite chick-flick or your favourite romance novel. Because in the words of a particularly cheesy (but very appropriate for the purposes of this blog) song Love Is All Around so let's think outside the box and celebrate love wherever you find it this V-Day. You don't have to be hooked up to enjoy it, IMHO!!
And in the spirit of spreading the love for a price (because let's face it V-Day is a little bit about commercial exploitation too - hello card companies, thanks for that!) Here's a sneaky sneak peek of my short story in the fabulous
Truly Madly Deeply RNA collection just out from M&B...
The Fundamental Things
by
Heidi Rice
Elizabeth Ryan and Lorenzo Kelly haven't seen each other for over 20
years, when they get stuck in a lift together for 20 life-changing
minutes...
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Unbelievable. Of all the lifts, in all the office
blocks, in the whole of London, the biggest mistake of my life has to walk into
mine.
Elizabeth Ryan
sent up a silent prayer for invisibility as she inched behind two suited
executives. Her back bumped against the mirrored wall in the executive elevator
at Stokes and Company’s brand new twenty-eighth storey tower in Canary Wharf. Unfortunately,
someone up there wasn’t listening, because she failed to disappear.
Lorenzo Kelly.
The name
whispered across her consciousness as heat crawled up her neck and flared
across her scalp.
Twenty-two years
since she’d last seen him and yet recognition had blasted her in the sternum as
soon as he’d edged into the crowded lift. Which was surprising, because that fitted
steel-grey designer suit was one heck of a departure from the wrecked jeans and
third-hand leather jacket he’d lived in at Hillbrook Secondary.
Thank god he was
absorbed in the lift monitor and hadn’t looked her way. One glance at those heavy-lidded
bedroom eyes a moment ago had been more than enough to make her heart swell up
and stop beating for several crucial seconds. Funny how even after two plus
decades, and what looked like a major GQ make-over, those slightly slanting
emerald green eyes still made him look as if he’d just gotten out of bed — or
was about to lure her back into one....
Wanna read some more? Or enjoy 23 other fabulous short stories from the likes of Fiona Harper, India Grey, Adele Parkes and Katie Fforde for the bargain basement price of £7.99? Then pick up a copy
online, at
Mills and Boon now, or in stores on 21st Feb...
But even if you don't want to buy my book, I hope you have a brilliant day (how generous is that?). Why not tell me what you're doing today in the comments? And remember it doesn't have to be luvey dovey with your honey, just something that spreads the lurve. I'm going to be having coffee shortly with my oldest son and maybe watching a couple of episodes of HBO's Girls! Then tucking in to the rest of my RITA books... How's that for spreading the love?
