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Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Guest Post and Giveaway: Laugh (Burnside #2) by Mary Ann Rivers

Description:

Mary Ann Rivers continues her Burnside family series—perfect for readers of Kristan Higgins, Jill Shalvis, and Ruthie Knox—as two people try to share their hearts without losing their cool.

Dr. Sam Burnside is convinced that volunteering at an urban green-space farm in Lakefield, Ohio, is a waste of time—especially with his new health clinic about to open. He only goes to mollify his partner, suspecting she wants him to lighten up. Then Sam catches sight of Nina Paz, a woman who gives off more heat than a scorcher in July. Her easy smile and flirty, sizzling wit has him forgetting his infamous need for control.

Widowed when her husband was killed in Afghanistan, Nina has learned that life exists to take chances. As the daughter of migrant workers turned organic farmers, she’s built an exciting and successful business by valuing new opportunities and working hard to take care of her own. But when Sam pushes for a relationship that goes beyond their hotter-than-fire escapades, Nina ignores her own hard-won wisdom. She isn’t ready for a man who needs saving—even if her heart compels her to take the greatest risk of all: love.

GUEST POST
Do I believe in love at first sight? 

Love is pretty complicated, and it's tempting to argue that love at first sight doesn't exist. However, I find that I can't make that claim. Obviously, all of us receive love so differently, and also, there may be many reasons why a person might present to another in such a way that inspires love. What we see and understand in another person has a way of fitting into what we have already seen and understood about ourselves. Maybe there could be some kind of convergence of those kinds of things, at the right moment, and love is made the moment a person sees another. 

Maybe, too, sight is the word to analyze. When we start to really see someone is when we fall in love with them, for example -- that's our first sight. Or when we see something in someone we already love one way, and seeing that something means we suddenly love them another way. We've caught first sight of them as a beloved, as a lover, when before, they were something else wonderful. 

Or maybe what we're talking about when we talk about love at first sight is the idea of first, of love happening anew, every day, at the first start of every day, at the first of every thought of the person, like it is a choice. First, we choose to love, then we see or remember or touch our beloved, and the love comes again. They are first, they are our first sight, they are our first love, our first, our sight, our love, over and over and over, all again. 

All of this seems pretty easy enough to believe in, to me. 

About the author:
Mary Ann Rivers was an English and music major and went on to earn her MFA in creative writing, publishing poetry in journals and leading creative-writing workshops for at-risk youth. While training for her day job as a nurse practitioner, she rediscovered romance on the bedside tables of her favorite patients. Now she writes smart and emotional contemporary romance, imagining stories featuring the heroes and heroines just ahead of her in the coffee line. Mary Ann Rivers lives in the Midwest with her handsome professor husband and their imaginative school-aged son.

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