Fielder's Choice
by Pamela Aares
Heart of the Game #3
Publication Date: April 22, 2014
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
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Alana Tavonesi loves her cosmopolitan life in Paris. But when she inherits the renowned Tavonesi Olive Ranch, she has to return to California and face obligations she never wanted. Selling the place is her first instinct, but life at the ranch begins to crack her open, exposing the dreams hidden inside her heart.
On a lark she leads a ranch tour, where she meets Matt Darrington. His physical power and a captivating sensual appeal fire her in a way no man ever has, but he has a kid—and being a stepmom is a responsibility Alana will never be ready for. Still…she can’t keep her mind or her hands off him.
When Matt’s daughter goes missing from a kid’s camp at the ranch, Alana organizes the search effort, knowing from experience the areas a bright child would be drawn to explore. As she and Matt work together to search for the little girl, Alana discovers that father and daughter have won her heart. Yet it may be too late for love…
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About Pamela Aares
Pamela Aares is an award-winning author of contemporary and historical romance novels and also writes about fictional romance in sports with her new baseball romance book series titled Heart of the Game.
Her first book, Jane Austen and the Archangel (Angels Come to Earth, #1) was released in 2012. Midnight Becomes You, the second in the series will release this year as will the celebrated historical romance novel, The Lady and the Patriot.
Her popularity as a romance writer continues to grow with each new book release, so much so, that the Bay area author has drawn comparisons by reviewers to Nora Roberts.
Pamela Aares writes romance books that she loves reading, particularly those that entertain, transport and inspire dreams while captivating and tugging at the heart. She takes her readers on a journey with complex characters in both contemporary and historical settings who are thrown in situations that tempt love, adventure and self-discovery.
Before becoming a romance author, Aares wrote and produced award-winning films including Your Water, Your Life, featuring actress Susan Sarandon and NPR series New Voices, The Powers of the Universe and The Earth’s Imagination. She holds a Master’s degree from Harvard and currently resides in the wine country of Northern California with her husband, a former MLB All-Star and two curious cats.
If not behind her computer, you can probably find her reading a romance novel, hiking the beach or savoring life with friends. You can visit Pamela on the web at http://www.PamelaAares.com.
Interview:
How did you get
started writing?
I'm lucky to have had a family that
loves stories. My great-great uncle James was a famous American poet and the
love of language and storytelling stayed in the family. I wrote my first play
in grade school and fell into the power of story. I went on to write and
produce documentaries for PBS and National Public Radio. I also wrote grants
and ran national and international campaigns to improve the lives of wild
animal and their habitats--story is at the heart of any good grant
proposal--it's the stories of the animals and their lives that grab people's
hearts and create change for the better. I moved away from writing
documentaries and started writing romance in 2004. In some ways romance picked
me--I'm convinced that love powers everything in the universe!
What is your
most interesting writing quirk?
I love heroes and heroines that
walk off with the story and who challenge each other so strongly that by the
end of the book nothing can pull them apart. As far as personal, writing craft
quirks? I make story maps. My walls look like something out of the film "A
Beautiful Mind-- papers taped to the walls, yellow and pink and green stickies
all over the room. Sometimes guests walk in and their jaws drop. They'd never imagined
the craft that lives behind a good book.
How long does it take
you to write a book?
Some books take longer than others,
not due of length but because even though the story structure if there in the
first draft, the characters continue to deepen and grow. Each Hero and Heroine
in the Heart of the Game series has
their own passion.
In the first book, Love Bats Last, the heroine, Jackie
Brandon, is a world-class marine mammal vet. She takes enormous risks,
rappelling down cliffs to rescue whales, jumping out of boats to free sea lions
caught in nets. She's amazing. And very, very allergic to athletes due to a bad
experience in her past.
Chloe McNalley, he heroine in
the second book, Thrown by Love,
inherits a baseball team when her father dies and she finds herself smack in
the middle of the tough, male-focused world of Major League Baseball.
In the third book, Fielder's Choice, Alana Tavonesi, a
young and carefree heiress, inherits her grandmother’s internationally famous
organic olive ranch. Think Green Acres with a twist!
And the men! The heroes are
astonishing. In this series they are all top-of-their-game All-Stars, but they
each have another driving force in their lives. Alex Tavonesi is a
world-class vintner (and he loves the ocean, so when he meets Jackie, their
passion collide in more ways than one). Scotty Donovan, the hero of Thrown by Love has a passion for the
night sky, for the stars, for how the universe works.
In the 5th book, Aim for Love, I was gripped by the
excellence of Japanese athletes. A teammate of my husband managed the team that
won the World Series in Japan. Then one thing led to another and I found myself
fascinated by the Samurai masters who can draw a sword and slice a 2mm ceramic
BB shot at them from 72 feet before it hits them. If I hadn't seen it in slow
motion, I might not have believed it possible. So the hero in book five is a
sixteenth generation trained Samurai, but he's also an American, a peach
farmer, and one of the hottest young pitchers to ever throw from the baseball
mound.
What would you like
our readers to know about you?
That I think romance powers life.
And that courage is a key to romance. One of the most powerful moments in a
great love story is the moment when the heroine or hero has the courage to face
the fear that has been holding them back from fully living and step into love.
This is why romances are stories
of transformation. Those who would push romance off to the side and scoff do not understand the healing aspect of romance.
Naysayers simply don't get that reading a well-written romance bolsters a
reader's courage and takes them on a journey to wholeness.
Why is courage the key to love?
Because in order to love fully, a character has to be willing to give up their
carefully constructed persona. In a great romance the hero and heroine see
beneath the guarded persona, or false self, and connect with the truth of who
they really are. The trials and tribulations that stand in their way are the
path by which they gain the tools and insights and motivation to choose to
love, no matter how scary.
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