Stuck In Books: Love Blooms On Main Street by Olivia Miles ~ Release Week, Author Q&A, Excerpt & Giveaway

Monday, July 25, 2016

Love Blooms On Main Street by Olivia Miles ~ Release Week, Author Q&A, Excerpt & Giveaway

Title: Love Blooms on Main Street

Author: Olivia Miles

Series: The Briar Creek Series, #4

On Sale: July 26, 2016

Publisher: Forever

Format: Mass Market & eBook

Price: $5.99 USD (MM) & $4.99 USD (eBook)

Love is always in season . . .
Florist Ivy Birch fantasizes about the day a man will surprise her with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Especially if that man happens to be Brett Hastings. One stolen kiss at her best friend's wedding and Ivy can't get the sexy ER doctor out of her head.

In the small town of Briar Creek, you can't avoid anyone for very long. Not that Brett has been trying to avoid Ivy. He just can't afford to let anything distract him from his work-not again. So when a hospital fundraiser throws them together, love is the last thing on his mind. But with her quick wit and sweet laugh, soon the one woman he's tried to keep at arm's length is capturing his heart...

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Val had the opportunity to interview Olivia Miles. Check this out!

Love Blooms on Main Street is set in a small town. Are you from a small town?

I grew up in a small town in Connecticut, but definitely not as small as Briar Creek, where everyone huddles around Main Street and knows each other’s business! I have lived in one major city or another since I was 18, though, so I tend to imagine a completely different way of life and idealize it in my books.

What's your favorite flower and does it make an appearance in this book?

I love peonies and they do make an appearance in this book (and on the cover!). I actually planted some last year and was thrilled to see that I had about 30 blooms this spring, which was a big accomplishment for me given that, unlike my heroine, I do not have a green thumb whatsoever.

How did you meet Ivy & Brett?

Ivy was a minor secondary character in the first book in the series, and Brett was discussed vaguely throughout the first two books, as he didn’t live in Misty Point. When I write a series, I like to tuck aside a few single people that I might be able to have a little fun with down the road.

What was the last book you devoured and loved?

Not a new release, but one that always stands out for me is A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant. I love her spunky heroine.

LOVE BLOOMS ON MAIN STREET Blitz Excerpt

A small gasp escaped from her but was quickly silenced by the firm press of Brett’s mouth on hers. Unlike their last kiss, which had felt so tender, this time Brett was leaving no room for confusion about his intentions. She stiffened against his touch, trying to resist him, but pleasure pooled warm in her stomach and the space between her legs began to ache as he wrapped two arms around her waist and pulled her to his chest.

Oh, God. She wanted to fight this. The feeling he was stirring within her. The need for more. She opened her mouth to him, letting him in. He kissed her deeply, not giving her a chance to break away, and she wasn’t so sure she could, even if she wanted to. Her hands, which had been pushed off her hips by the strength of his arms, hung loosely at her sides, as if determined to stay out of this drama she was creating for herself, but, like her mouth, they lost the fight. She slid her hands up onto Brett’s arms, taking in every curve of his hard muscles, and up onto his shoulders as she leaned into him. His breath was heavy as he kissed her harder, and she parted her legs to let his slide between and press against the tightness that was building within her.

“What are we doing?” she asked when they finally came apart. She blinked up at him and resisted the urge to flatten his disheveled locks. I did that, she realized with a flutter.

“I don’t really know.” Brett’s voice was low and coarse. “But I like it.”

She firmed her mouth and smoothed her dress. Not good enough.

Turning to stare at the folding table, she felt her spirits begin to sag. She’d let him in again. Let him take her to places she’d wanted, to dream dreams that should have stayed in her unconscious. And nothing had changed. Men don’t change, Ivy. That’s what her mother had always said. When would she learn?

“Well, it can’t happen again,” she insisted.

“Oh no?”

She glanced back to see that slow, sexy smile. “No.” But even as she said it, her body was saying yes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Olivia Miles is a Chicago-based romance writer. Having grown up in New England, Olivia attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec before settling in Chicago where she lives with her husband, their daughter, and two ridiculously pampered pups.

When she is not chasing after her little ones, she is hard at work creating feisty heroines and alpha heroes with a heart. A city girl with a fondness for small-town charm, Olivia enjoys highlighting both ways of life in her stories.

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