We're happy to have Johnnie Alexander with us today talking about her book Match You Like Crazy. To learn more about Johnnie and her book, read on!
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cover blurb
They have
everything in common. So why aren’t they a perfect match?
Bre Fisher wishes she’d said no
when her grandmother gave her a trip to Matchmaking Week, especially when Nate
Hunter takes the seat beside her on the puddle-jumper to Joy Island. He’s the
last person she expected to see.
Nate figures he can’t go home if
Bre is his match. The longstanding business rivalry between their families
makes romance with a Fisher impossible.
Yet in addition to the same family
expectations and obligations, Bre and Nate have the same interests ~ maybe even
the same dream.
Will a week on Joy Island spark
another feud? Or prove they’re a crazy perfect match?
FIRST PAGE
“Match You Like Crazy”
Resort to Romance
Series
Johnnie Alexander
Chapter One
A puddle-jumper!
For the hundredth
time since Bre had arrived at the oceanside airport, she wished she had paid
more attention when Gran asked if she wanted to take a plane or a boat to Joy
Island. The plane seemed the obvious choice since the flight didn’t depart till
three. The boat had left the dock at ten that morning. Way too early!
By choosing to
fly, she’d had plenty of time to make the drive from her Tampa home to the
private airport located along Miami’s southeastern seaboard.
But a
puddle-jumper?
She prayed she
wouldn’t vomit as she maneuvered the narrow aisle on her way to Seat L-1 near
the back of the small plane.
L
for Love. Perhaps it was a sign.
Gran had suggested
as much when she printed out the ticket and stuffed it in the packet with Bre’s
other travel documents. Her gray eyes had sparkled with a mischievous glint.
Bre should have summoned the courage to say no.
No to the plane.
No to Joy Island. No to the whole matchmaking scheme.
Yet here she was,
entrusting her life to a flying tin can to make her grandmother happy. But she
refused to sit in a window seat no matter what it said on her ticket.
Each row held
three seats—two on the right side of the aisle and one on the left. Row L was
empty, and Bre gratefully dropped into L-2, the only seat that wasn’t next to a
window. Perhaps L also stood for Luck
and no one else had been assigned to the row.
She stowed her
tote then opened the texting app on her phone to send a quick “I’m on board”
message to Gran and her parents.
“I think you’re in
my seat.”
Bre looked up at
the man hovering above her. And gasped. It couldn’t be. Not him.
Recognition dawned
in his eyes, and a slow smile curved his lips.
“You’re Bre
Fisher. Aren’t you?”
“And you’re Nate
Hunter. Small world.”
“Too small.” He
tapped his phone screen. “I’m pretty sure my ticket said L-2. I’ve got it on
here.”
“I’m L-1. It’s
just that . . .” Bre gazed toward the window. Outside the plane, palm trees
waved their fronds in beat with the tropical breezes wafting from the Atlantic
Ocean. The sun shone bright and hot in a perfect blue sky dotted with perfect
white clouds. A tranquil picturesque scene if you overlooked the concrete of
the tarmac.
But to be among
those clouds in that perfect blue? Bre gagged at the thought.
“How about I take
the window seat?” Nate offered. “You look a little tense.”
“Thank you.” Bre
stood so he could squeeze past her. She’d imagined this day getting worse
before it got better but sitting beside Nate Hunter for the duration of the
flight was the worst of the worst. Unless she did vomit. She shuddered at the
thought of that humiliation.
Please
tell us five random things we might not know about you.
1.
My birthday is in a couple weeks!
2.
Captain America is my favorite Avenger.
3.
I traveled through Europe with a penguin travel
pillow.
4.
My mom lost the crest on her class ring, so she
had it polished and gave it to me when I was thirteen. I’ve been wearing it
ever since.
5.
I took my kids out of school for Trilogy Tuesday—when
theaters showed all three of the Lord of the Ring movies.
Why did you choose to
write this book?
Authors
Jill Kemerer and Jessica Patch created the series and asked me to write one of
the ten novellas. The concept—ten couples spending Matchmaking Week on a Bahama
island owned by two eccentric and wealthy sisters—sounded so fun that I
immediately said yes. All the stories in the Resort to Romance Series have the
word “Match” in the title.
What do you hope
readers to take away from your novel?
This
is a light-hearted romance which I hope readers will simply enjoy—an escape
from the to-do list to a romantic tropical island. The main characters, Nate
and Bre, work in their individual family businesses but they both have an
adventurous dream. It’s a story of reconciliation and following one’s heart.
What
is something you hope to achieve, writing-related or not?
I’d like to write a screenplay based on a
short story that was published in an anthology. And though I don’t expect to
ever have the opportunity, I’d love to be a director’s VIP guest on a movie
set.
What
do you do for fun when you finish a writing project?
Start
on the next one!
However,
I also enjoy going to the movies, browsing the shelves of my local library,
taking walks, and curling up on the couch with a good book.
What
are you working on now?
I’m writing “Blue Moon,” a WWII novella for Barbour’s Hometown Heroines Collection. My
heroine, a member of the Women Officers of Public Safety unit, teams up with an
Army Intelligence agent to protect a top-secret atom bomb facility from
sabotage.
Bio
Johnnie Alexander creates characters you want
to meet and imagines stories you won't forget. Her award-winning debut novel, Where
Treasure Hides, is a CBA bestseller. She writes contemporaries,
historicals, and cozy mysteries, serves on the executive boards of Serious Writer, Inc. and the Mid-South Christian Writers Conference, co-hosts an online show called Writers
Chat, and interviews inspirational authors for Novelists
Unwind. She also teaches at writers conferences and
for Serious Writer Academy. Johnnie lives in Oklahoma with Griff, her
happy-go-lucky collie, and Rugby, her raccoon-treeing papillon. Connect with
her at www.johnnie-alexander.com and
other social media sites via https://linktr.ee/johnniealexndr.
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