Thank you, Paty, for hosting me on your blog today, and I
must say it’s an honor for Sleight of
Heart to be included in the 9 Ways to Fall in Love box set with
your book and the seven other books—quality, all.
Here’s a little about my book and how several little prompts
come together, making the basis for Sleight
of Heart.
Prompt #1: First of all, meet Aunt Grace, with curly gray
hair, softly lined face, and a ready smile showing one gold tooth. Oh, and with a little padding around the
middle. Doesn’t really sound like
heroine material, does she? But this
woman was amazing. She could add any column
of numbers in her head, or calculate any type of arithmetic problem for that
matter. But her real talent was at the
poker table. My dad’s greatest
achievement was when he actually beat her one night at penny ante poker—we
heard about that for years. Aunt Grace could
calculate odds in a heartbeat. She knew
what cards had been played and who played them.
Your pennies were only safe if you did NOT play blackjack with her—I
never saw her lose. She wasn’t welcome
in the Reno
casinos.
Prompt #2: Magicians amaze me, and who doesn’t love watching
an accomplished prestidigitator perform sleight of hand tricks? Several years ago, my husband’s company
Christmas party featured a magician, and a kernel of an idea formed. On the way home, we turned on the radio to
the oldies station and Heart came on singing—you guessed it—Magic Man. You know, the one with the magic hands.
But other projects had to be finished and a few more stories
were waiting in the wings. My magic
man’s time had not yet come.
Prompt #3: Five or six years later: I love trains, so when a
friend and I visited Durango ,
Colorado
Mash up the train ride with Maverick, or maybe a historical
Remington Steele, and Aunt Grace as a young Poker Alice, throw in a little
phantom at the opera house and a few magic tricks—and there you have Sleight of Heart. Enjoy!
About Sleight of
Heart
Straight-laced Lexie Campbell, more comfortable with neat
and tidy numbers than messy emotions, must find the man who ruined her little
sister and make him marry her. When his lookalike brother Burke appears, she
greets him with a gun and forces him to help her.
Smooth-dealing Burke O’Shaughnessy, riverboat gambler and
prestidigitator, must find his brother Patrick to claim the family fortune. But
when Lexie shows an astounding talent for counting cards and calculating odds,
he figures she might be useful after all. Can he resist the queen of hearts?
About Jacquie
Jacquie Rogers grew up on a dairy farm in southwest Idaho , where she set her Hearts of Owyhee series (Owyhee County
Sleight of Heart is one of nine books in the box set 9 Ways to Fall in Love that is now available for a special introductory price of $.99!! It will only be this price for 30 days, so get your e-copy soon! As part of the special introductory offer we are also giving away prices one a day. You can sign up to win at http://southerncomfortromance.com/ or by leaving a comment on any one of the author's blogs.
2 comments:
Love the cover, Jacquie. Hope this is one of the books in the group I already bought. Can't wait to read it.
I bought this set and look forward to all the books in it. I started Mayan Moon but my time is really a push right now to get everything done before we take the trailer to Montana and hopefully Yellowstone (depending on snow). It is a great opportunity to find so many books at this price.
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