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SUDDENLY IN LOVE
Lake Haven #1
Julia London
Releasing April 5th, 2016
Montlake
Mia Lassiter is thrilled to finally
put her artistic skills to use working for her aunt’s interior design shop in
her hometown of East Beach. While renovating an old mansion overlooking
stunning Lake Haven, she encounters a scruffy but attractive man named
Brennan—the owner’s son. She doesn’t realize this sexy recluse is actually
Everett Alden, the world-famous rock star in hiding who’s nursing his own
artistic and personal crises.
As their personalities clash,
tension simmers between the struggling artist and jaded musician, and their
time spent alone together in the gorgeous old house only serves to turn up the
heat. Soon, Mia and Brennan’s creative passions boil over to inspire passions
of another kind…
But reality comes crashing in when
Mia’s celeb-obsessed cousin discovers Brennan’s true identity—and reveals it to
the world. As paparazzi swarm the mansion, Brennan is thrust back into his rock
star lifestyle. Will Mia lose her soul mate just when she’s finally found him?
Can their love survive the glaring spotlight?
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Mia had no idea how she got out of there. Had Vincent thrown her out, or had she crawled out? She remembered being on the train, staring at the ad across from her of a handsome man with shaving cream all over his face. She remembered slowly realizing that Mr. Brockway was right.
His delivery sucked, but he was right. He’d hit the nail on the head, had zeroed in on the thing that had nagged at Mia for a very long time, but she hadn’t been able to name. Her work had no clear vision, no real point of view. It was what her professors called “needs improvement” and “let’s work on what message you’re trying to convey.” She tried one idea after the next, never finding that common thread in her body of work. Her subjects were run of the mill.
He was right—she didn’t have what it took to be a working, viable artist. It was so unfair! Her love of art was what ran through her veins.
She couldn’t keep the desire out of her. She couldn’t not create.
Mia was so shaken that she didn’t notice her landlady until she almost collided with her. Mrs. Chalupnik was standing in the entry hall with one thick arm across her body, holding her threadbare bath-robe closed.
“Oh, hi, Mrs. Chalupnik.” She put her head down and tried to scoot past. She was on the verge of a meltdown and didn’t have time to chat.
“The check, it’s no good,” Mrs. Chalupnik said, waving a paper at Mia with her free hand.
Mia’s step slowed. “What?”
“Your rent check is no good!” Mrs. Chalupnik said, only louder. “It comes back with insufficient funds!”
Mia felt a horrible twist of impending doom. “That’s impossible!” she cried, and took the paper, staring at it. How was that possible?
“Now you owe me two hundred dollars on top of rent,” Mrs. Chalupnik said. “You have until Friday.”
“But I can’t get it by Friday,” Mia said. Her head was reeling. “There has to be some mistake. I’m very careful about this—it’s impossible I bounced a rent check.”
“My eyes do not lie,” Mrs. Chalupnik said, jabbing a finger dangerously near her eye for emphasis. She snatched the paper from Mia’s hands. “Your bank, it doesn’t tell you this?”
Her bank. The truth was that Mia hadn’t collected her mail in several days. And she had turned off notices on her phone to keep the bat-tery from draining.
“You find the money,” Mrs. Chalupnik said. She turned around and opened the door to her apartment. The smell of sauerkraut wafted out and hit Mia squarely in the face before Mrs. Chalupnik slammed the door shut.
Mia whirled around, hurried to her mailbox, and opened it. Several things fell out, and among them, two notices from her bank. She fell back against the wall and slid down to her haunches in her stupid tea-stained dress and with a rash where her portfolio had rubbed against her leg as she’d trudged home.
So this, apparently, was how a life was completely deconstructed.
Born in Canyon, Texas, and raised on a ranch, Julia
London didn’t have her eye on writing romance right away. After
graduating with a degree in political science from the University of Texas in
Austin, she moved out to Washington, DC, eventually working in the White House.
She later decided to take a break from government work and start writing.
Today, she is the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestselling
author of more than thirty novels. She writes historical romance and
contemporary women’s fiction, and her most popular series include the Secrets
of Hadley Green series, the Cabot Sisters series, the Desperate Debutantes
series, the Lear Sisters series, and the Pine River series. She is a recipient
of the RT Book Reviews Best Regency Historical Romance award for The Dangerous
Gentleman, and a six-time finalist for the renowned RITA Award for excellence
in romantic fiction. She resides in Austin, Texas.
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