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    Afternoon Delight

    By Mia Zachary

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    Rei Davis is a tough-minded judge who wishes someone could see her softer side. Chris London is a lighthearted matchmaker who wishes someone would take him seriously. When Rei walks into Lunch Meetings--Chris's dating service--and the computer determines that they're a perfect match, sparks fly!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Blaze
    Release dateJan 1, 2010
    ISBN9781426853159
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    Afternoon Delight
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    Mia Zachary

    When Mia was about 10 years old, her mother let her read a "grown-up" book. It was a Harlequin Romance novel about a small-town veterinarian and the family practitioner he falls in love with. That story was pretty tame by today's standards - the hero and heroine didn't even kiss until the last page - but it opened up a whole new world to a romantic little girl who loved to write. Over the years, Mia penned really bad poetry, even worse song lyrics, adolescent short stories and overly descriptive class papers. Then one day a scene for a medieval romance emerged fully detailed in her head and she rushed to get it on paper. That scene eventually turned into eight chapters and a synopsis, but she kept getting bogged down in historical research and set the story aside. Deep in a sea of self-doubt, she set writing aside as well. Mia met her husband in Russian 101 at the beginning of the university semester. Their first date was November 17, 1989, and they eloped one year and 13 days later. She credits her husband with encouraging her to write again and for suggesting that a contemporary time frame might help her focus more on the story than the setting. One of her contemporary romance manuscripts won the Harlequin Books 2000 Summer Blaze Contest for bold, brash love scenes, placing second in the published category. On July 10, 2002, after four years and nine rewrites, Red Shoes & a Diary finally sold to the Harlequin Blaze line! Mia figures it was fate. Mia lives in Maryland with her wonderful husband and their beautiful little boy. In addition to being a fiction author, she's also a creativity coach and a paralegal hoping to quit the law firm to write full-time.

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    • 5/5
      Wow. For all those people out there that htink category writing is trite and unengaging, read this one and say that again. The characters are well-drawn, the prose flows easily and pleasantly, and the setup is cute and engaging. At first I thought, "Get fucked, not ANOTHER cancer/life list combo", but the book was so well written that I could forgive her the plot device. Which just goes to show, anything can work for you if you are fantastic. This is the book I'll give to people who want to know about catgory. Or Blaze. Or good sexy romance writing.