Surprise!

rachelspangler • June 13, 2019

Hi Friends,

I haven’t been blogging much lately, and I would apologize for not writing more, except I haven’t been blogging as much lately as I’ve been busy working on a surprise for you! Spoiler Alert–the surprise is a book!

That’s right, a brand new, not even on the schedule, sexy summer romance called Spanish Surrender. And I wrote it fast! Like In Development fast. So fast that, also like In Development, it knocked the traditional publishing schedule out of the park, and once again my awesome friends Susan and Carolyn over at Brisk did me the great favor of allowing me to do it as “drop in” title with them. What this means is that we just sent it right to print with no idea when it would actually come out. Then we held our breath until we got the news I’d been hoping for.

Are you ready?

Spanish Surrender will officially debut at GCLS in Pittsburg July 10!

That’s less than a month away, and better still, it’ll be available on the Brisk website right around the same time, with a wider release on Amazon in August. You can even pre-order it there now, but if you want it sooner, stay tuned for updates on when and where you can make that happen, or better yet, get ye to GCLS!

In the coming weeks I’ll be sharing more about why I think you’ll want to get your hands on this hot little number, but for now I’m going to leave you with the blurb and the sexy Ann McMan cover, just to pique your interest and hopefully keep you coming back for more.

Spanish Surrender
Simone and Loreto don’t have to like each other. They only need to work together, but the heat and the history around them and between them conspires to demand so much more. 

When Simone Price lands in southern Spain, she has one job upon which the future of her entire career rests: She must convince a small, Spanish publishing house to sell their business to her much larger American corporation. The job should be easy, but many others have failed. Refusing to repeat their mistakes, she hires a guide, translator, and purveyor of Andalucían culture for the week leading up to her big meeting. 

The plan seems simple enough until she meets Loreto Molina, and it quickly becomes apparent that Loreto knows more than her casual demeanor might suggest. The complications only escalate as the two set out on a scorching path through a region that shatters all expectations. As their time together stretches on, both women must confront not only their assumptions about each other, but also their own world views amidst a steamy landscape of temptation, power, purpose and raw attraction. Spain acts as both catalyst and conduit for unearthing desires long buried and threatening carefully planned futures. 

As the stakes and emotions rise like the hot, unrelenting sun, Simone and Loreto fight to hold onto the ideals they hold dear, but what if the only way for either of them to truly win is to surrender?

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