Author Genre: Romance, Contemporary
Website: Judith Arnold
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E-Mail: judith_arnold@verizon.net
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Author Description:
USA Today bestselling author Judith Arnold knew she wanted to be a writer by the time she was four. She loved making up stories (not exactly the same thing as lying) and enjoying the adventures of her fictional characters. With more than eight-five published novels to her name, she has been able to live her dream. Four of Judith's novels have received awards from RT Book Reviews Magazine (for Best Harlequin American Romance, Best Harlequin Superromance, Best Series Romance Novel and Best Contemporary Romance Novel) and she's a three-time finalist for Romance Writers of America's RITA Award. Her novel Love In Bloom's was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. A New York native, Judith lives in New England.
SPOTLIGHT Questions and Answers with the Author
Congratulations on your book: The Fixer Upper. What do you have on the drawing board next? Can you tell us the timeline for its release and give us a little tease?
I’ve just finished the first draft of a new Magic Jukebox story. The Magic Jukebox series is a collection of romance novels that revolve around an antique Wurlitzer jukebox in a tavern located in a seaside town north of Boston. Every now and then, the jukebox will play a song (one old enough to have been released as a 45 rpm vinyl record) that will somehow draw two people in the tavern together and change their lives. The new book—seventh in the series—is called Angel of the Morning, after the old Merrilee Rush song. I’m really excited about it. I hope to have it released by the start of 2017. After that, I plan to write a new mystery for my Lainie Lovett mystery series. I’ve also got the rights back to a few more of my older, traditionally published books that I want to update and reissue in digital editions. It looks as if 2017 will be a busy year for me.
You have a good following on twitter. Since you started before the social media buzz, what impact has social media relationships had on your current success? How did you build your following in your niche? How much has it changed your book launch process?
Actually, I’m more a Facebook than a Twitter fan. I’ve got the two accounts linked so that my Facebook posts appear on Twitter. I love that social media make it possible for authors and readers to connect. During the years I wrote for traditional publishers, the publishers gradually cut back on the promotion they did for their authors and expected authors to do more of the promotion ourselves. We used to complain about that, but in retrospect, I admit that this was good preparation for my career as an independent author. I built my first website a good twenty years ago. I knew how to put together a newsletter by the time my first indie book was released in 2010. I had worked hard over the years to connect with my readers, and I think most of them followed me into indie-land. As far as launching books now, the biggest change is that I get to decide when to launch them. I set my own deadlines and release dates. I can time the books to my own needs and get all the marketing in place, rather than biting my nails and hoping my publisher will take care of that for me.
You do a lot of book signings, interviews, speaking and personal appearances. When and where is the next place where your readers can see you? Where can they keep up with your personal contacts online?
Just a couple of weeks ago, I spoke at the Boston Book Festival, which was great fun. I don’t do much public speaking over the winter; living in New England, we never know when a blizzard is going to strike! However, I’m scheduled to speak to the Rhode Island Romance Writers in March and the New England Chapter of Romance Writers of America sometime in the spring (we’re still figuring out the date.) I’ll also participate in the NEC-RWA conference in April, both running a workshop and signing books. If other invitations come in, I’ll say yes if I can. Connecting with readers through social media is great, but meeting them in person is much more satisfying.
You have great covers. They carry a theme and your brand with them. How does your book cover creation process work? Do you hand over the basic theme or do you have more of a hands-on approach? Do you get your readers involved in its development?
I create most of my covers myself. I’ve hired an artist to design the covers for my Lainie Lovett mysteries, and she’s done a fabulous job of capturing my vision for those books. For the romances, I worked with a cover artist for a while. We originally came up with traditional “couples” covers, but then I decided I wanted a different look. My books tend toward the women’s-fiction end of the romance genre, and I wanted covers that captured more of a women’s-fiction feel. My cover artist designed some lovely covers, then told me she was retiring. She graciously taught me basic Photoshop, and I’ve been designing the covers myself since then. My Magic Jukebox series books have “couples” covers, because they’re quite romance-y. I loved conceiving the look of those books—the band across the bottom, with cool fonts, and the jukebox image in the corner.
I like the idea of Author bundles. You are a part of a novel collection called Heart Stealers. What was the impact on your other sales? What was the main objective of bundling your works with other romance authors? How did you put something like that together?
As far as I know, Heart Stealers was the first multi-author bundle to be independently published. When indie-publishing was still in its infancy, several friends and I were brainstorming about how to get our books in front of more readers. I’m pretty sure it was Patricia McLinn, one of the four authors in Heart Stealers, who came up with the idea of collecting a group of authors’ novels into one volume and selling it inexpensively. Patricia, Kathryn Shay, Julie Ortolon and I each had a series we wanted to promote, so we each chose a book from our series—mine is from my Daddy School series—and packaged them in a bundle. Heart Stealers was—and still is—a huge success. We then put together a group of bundles based on classic romance fiction themes: marriage of convenience, bad boys, wounded warriors, and so on. We invited other authors to contribute to our bundles and marketed each one for a limited time. They, too, sold phenomenally. Patricia, Kathryn, and I published a bundle of Christmas novellas called The Heart of Christmas, which readers really enjoy during the holidays. Now multi-author bundles are very common. They’re a great way for readers to sample a variety of authors.
I’m currently involved in a project somewhat similar to bundles, although the books are being published individually. The project is called the Inheritance Series. Every Inheritance Series book begins with a hero or heroine receiving an unexpected inheritance from a billionaire who crossed paths with that character in the past. Each of the authors in the series has her own individual romance series, and her Inheritance Series book is part of her own series as well. My Inheritance Series book, Take the Long Way Home, is part of my Magic Jukebox series, and it begins with the heroine receiving an unusual bequest from the billionaire. We’ve got an Inheritance Series website (http://theinheritanceseries.com/) and an Inheritance Series Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/theinheritancecollection/). Working with this group of lovely, talented authors has been inspiring—and fun!
Between your book writing, blogging, marketing, family and all the other things that can get in your way, how do you manage your time? Do you have a set schedule or do you sort of play it by ear?
I try to keep to a schedule, although I’m not fanatical about it. A typical workday for me begins with a 6½ mile jog. I shower, eat breakfast and devour one of the two newspapers I read every day. Then I take care of email and marketing tasks, or I run errands. I read the second newspaper with my lunch. I get most of my writing done in the afternoon, but I will often return to my desk after dinner to do a little more writing, and also to check email again and post on Facebook. Usually, I’m done by about nine o’clock, and I watch TV and read before bed.
My schedule has changed over the years. When my sons were young, I wrote when they were at school, and as soon as they got home I was at their disposal. I used to lug my laptop to their Little League games and music lessons and sneak in some writing then. Now I help my mother out a lot, which can eat into my writing time. My husband and I make sure to have dinner together every night. No TV, no cellphones. Just the two of us, sharing the news of our days
What has been your experience in giving your books away free? Have you been involved in any other type of giveaways and how did that work out? What was your main goal in doing this? Did you run into any obstacles?
I currently have three books which are more or less permanently free: Changes, the first book in the Magic Jukebox series, Father Found, the first book in the Daddy School series, and Still Kicking, the first book in the Lainie Lovett Mysteries series. Free books are an excellent way to introduce readers to a series. Readers can check out the series at no cost to them, and if they like the first book, they can buy subsequent books in the series. Free books work best when you can publicize their availability; the point is to get lots of readers to try them. And since they’re free, why not? I’ve discovered some new-to-me writers, thanks to their having made their books free.
Do you maintain a reader list? What are the methods you use to find your readers and create the list and the relationship? Do you use social media, forums, newsletters and/or support groups to build your list?
I send out a newsletter about once a month. I consider the people who sign up to receive my friends, and I don’t want to clog their email inboxes with lots of junk. So I don’t bombard them with newsletters, but send a newsletter only when I have news to share. I know some authors hire assistants to write, format, and send their newsletters for them, but I do all that myself. I see it as a way of communicating with my readers, letting them hear directly from me.
I’ve built up my reader list over the years through my website, through my Facebook page, with sign-up sheets at book signings, and with promotions and contests. Readers can unsubscribe if they decide they don’t want to receive the newsletter anymore. Of course, I don’t want readers to unsubscribe, so I try to keep my newsletters short and sweet. It’s easy enough to subscribe. Just go to https://madmimi.com/signups/60624/join?signup%5Bemail%5D= and enter your email address.
You have published some of your books in Spanish. How is your audience abroad? Does marketing online help in this situation?
The only books of mine that are published in foreign languages are those released by traditional publishers. I’ve looked into publishing translations of my indie books, but translators are expensive, and in some countries the laws require an author to share her copyright with the translator, which I’m hesitant to do. My indie books are distributed in English in many foreign countries, though. My biggest foreign sales tend to be in English-speaking countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and India.
What is your method of getting reviews for your novels? Do you seek professional reviews, use social media or do you rely on your reading audience to supply them?
Reviews are an important part of marketing our books, and authors welcome them. (Of course, we welcome the 5-star reviews a lot more than the 1-star reviews!) Many advertising venues will not run ads for books that haven’t received a minimum number of reviews. So getting reviews is important to me. I put a note in the back of most of my books, reminding readers that they can post a review of the book if they wish. I’ve occasionally made books available to review services, too. I hate badgering my readers, but if they like a book, I hope they understand how important it is for the author to receive good reviews for that book. The more reviews a book gets, the more buzz it will attract, and the more buzz, the better the sales.
Author's Book List
The Fixer Upper
Libby Kimmelman is overwhelmed. As the admissions director at an exclusive Manhattan private school, she’s awash in bribes from parents desperate to get their offspring into the school. Her apartment is going co-op, and she can’t afford it without financial help from her obnoxious ex-husband. Her thirteen-year-old daughter has discovered boys, music, and rule-breaking. Her sister-in-law is determined to set her up with a boring guy from the local synagogue.
And then there’s Vermont transplant Ned Donovan, whose smart, scrappy son longs to attend Libby’s school. Ned’s a widower, a carpenter, sexy as sin—and wild about the fireplace in Libby’s living room. Ned wants to fix up her apartment. Libby believes he could fix up her life…if only she could be sure that his love isn’t simply the biggest, most dangerous bribe she’s ever received.
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The Woman Downstairs
Ex-cop Alec Fontana may not be able to patrol the streets of Boston anymore, but when his aunt, a college president, asks him to investigate whether an esteemed professor is preying sexually on his students, he’s up to the task. He’s a city boy, and a few weeks in a college-owned apartment near the bucolic campus would be a nice change of pace.
But the woman in the apartment directly below his is a distraction. Lauren Wyler is beautiful and mysterious. Through the floor, Alec can hear her playing the piano like a virtuoso—until her performance turns into a painful mess of mistakes. How can someone with so much talent play so poorly? With each note, Alec’s obsession with his downstairs neighbor grows. Will that obsession heal Lauren or wound her beyond repair?
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Still Kicking
- The Lainie Lovett Mysteries Book 1Lainie Lovett has three passions: her two nearly-grown children, her fourth-grade students at the Hopwell School, and the Rockettes, her recreational soccer team. One evening after soccer practice, she’s startled to spot the husband of one of her teammates canoodling with another woman in a local eatery. She’s even more shocked when he turns up dead the next day. And more shocked yet when she winds up under suspicion as an accessory to murder. But Lainie is smart and she’s stubborn. She’ll figure out who killed her teammate’s husband—if she can stay out of jail, if she can stay alive, and if she can hang onto her sense of humor.
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Moondance
- The Magic Jukebox Book 5The Magic Jukebox sits in the Faulk Street Tavern in the quiet seaside town of Brogan’s Point, Massachusetts. No one knows what classic rock songs will come out of the jukebox when a coin is inserted, but every now and then, the jukebox will play a song that casts a spell on two bar patrons—a song that will change their lives and open their hearts to love.
Cory Malone and Talia Roszik married as teenagers after Talia became pregnant. Their marriage didn’t last, but their love for their daughter did. Fifteen years after their divorce, Wendy Malone is graduating from high school, and Cory has traveled to Brogan’s Point for the occasion. But Cory’s and Talia’s plans—and their emotions—are thrown into turmoil when they hear the Magic Jukebox play “Moondance.” Can a single song make them forget all the hurt and rediscover the love that once brought them together?
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Heat Wave
- The Magic Jukebox Book 4The Magic Jukebox sits in the Faulk Street Tavern in the quiet seaside town of Brogan’s Point, Massachusetts. No one knows what classic rock songs will come out of the jukebox when a coin is inserted, but every now and then, the jukebox will play a song that casts a spell on two bar patrons—a song that will change their lives and open their hearts to love.
Caleb Solomon’s office air conditioner is on the fritz. Although not his choice, he winds up meeting with a difficult but profitable client in the pleasant chill of the air-conditioned Faulk Street Tavern. It’s there that high school teacher Meredith Benoit finds him. Due to a silly prank, her job and her reputation are in jeopardy. She needs a lawyer, fast. But the Magic Jukebox starts playing “Heat Wave,” and a hot wave of passion crashes over Caleb and Meredith, catching them in its undertow and carrying them off.
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Wild Thing
- The Magic Jukebox Book 3The Magic Jukebox sits in the Faulk Street Tavern in the quiet seaside town of Brogan’s Point, Massachusetts. No one knows what classic rock songs will come out of the jukebox when a coin is inserted, but every now and then, the jukebox will play a song that casts a spell on two bar patrons—a song that will change their lives and open their hearts to love.
Monica Reinhart is a good girl. A hometown girl. After college, she returned to Brogan’s Point to help run the family business, an oceanfront inn. She’s never done a wild thing in her life. When Ty Cronin sails into town, his wildness intrigues her. When the jukebox plays “Wild Thing,” that wildness infects her, and soon she finds herself doing things she never would have imagined. But Ty could be big trouble. She hardly knows him. She mustn’t trust him. Yet once she’s taken a walk on the wild side with him, how can she go back to being a good hometown girl?
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True Colors
- The Magic Jukebox Book 2The Magic Jukebox sits in the Faulk Street Tavern in the quiet seaside town of Brogan’s Point, Massachusetts. No one knows what classic rock songs will come out of the jukebox when a coin is inserted, but every now and then, the jukebox will play a song that casts a spell on two bar patrons—a song that will change their lives and open their hearts to love. When she finds herself homeless after breaking up with her boyfriend, artist Emma Glendon accepts her best friend’s invitation to share a rental house in Brogan’s Point. But their absentee landlord, Max Tarloff, has come to town from his home in San Francisco to sell the house, which will mean evicting his tenants. Max is a high-tech brainiac and a self-made millionaire. Emma is a painter and a free spirit. They have nothing in common—except the jukebox, which plays “True Colors” and forces them to recognize their own true colors, colors that can match and blend magnificently, if the magic of the jukebox has its way.
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Changes
- The Magic Jukebox Book 1The Magic Jukebox sits in the Faulk Street Tavern in the quiet seaside town of Brogan’s Point, Massachusetts. No one knows what classic rock songs will come out of the jukebox when a coin is inserted, but every now and then, the jukebox will play a song that casts a spell on two bar patrons—a song that will change their lives and open their hearts to love.
Antiques dealer Diana Simms is engaged to her longtime boyfriend when she finds herself inside the Faulk Street Tavern. The song “Changes” emerges from the jukebox and enchants her. It also captivates Nick Fiore, a local guy who’s arrived at adulthood the hard way, after a tour through the juvenile justice system. Now he’s dedicated his life to helping other troubled kids. He has no business even looking at a beautiful, well-bred woman wearing a diamond engagement ring. But once they’re bewitched by the jukebox, he and Diana must change their lives, their goals, their dreams…and their hearts.
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Best Friends
Lonny Reed and Samantha Janek became best friends in college. She was a chubby, insecure scholarship student who harbored a secret crush on him, but he loved her only as the closest, most trustworthy friend he’d ever had—a buddy who’d offer a sympathetic ear as he fell in and out of love with breathtaking frequency. Although she adored Lonny, Sammy knew that his lovers were always temporary. Friendship was forever, and she wanted forever with him.
Still best friends years after college, Lonny invites Sammy to stay with him at his fixer-upper beach house while she recuperates from being dumped by her longtime boyfriend. He’ll introduce her to friends, set her up on blind dates, get her back on her feet. The only problem is, she’s no longer a chubby, insecure scholarship student. She’s smart, accomplished and beautiful. And all of a sudden, Lonny wants to be more than friends.
With Lonny, lovers don’t last. Samantha knows that becoming his lover means risking the loss of his friendship. Can they be friends—and lovers—forever?
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Going Back
Eight years ago, Daphne Stoltz and Brad Torrance wound up in bed together. She was reeling from her old boyfriend’s betrayal, he was bored, and they’d both had a bit too much to drink. Their encounter was quick, bad and embarrassing, something they’d both prefer to forget.
They can’t forget it, because mutual friends have thrown them together. Brad’s job transfer to New York City places him in Realtor Daphne’s region, and their college classmates insist that Brad should use Daphne to help him find a house. Stuck together on this mission, they discover that they actually like each other.
They could never be lovers, though, because Brad startlingly handsome and Daphne is homely. They just don’t match. But they could be friends—true, close friends—if only they can figure out a way to undo the mistake from their past. All they’d have to do is go back and make things right.
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Somebody's Dad
- The Daddy School Series Book 8Sharon Bartell knows how to photograph people, even people like successful but camera-phobic fund manager Brett Stockton, who needs an updated portrait for his company’s annual report hates having his photo taken. Within minutes, Sharon has him at ease, laughing and shedding his self-consciousness. She’s so poised, so calm and focused—and so attractive. On an impulse, he asks her to accompany him to a fundraising dinner he’s hosting, and on an impulse she says yes...as long as she’s able to hire a babysitter.
A babysitter? Brett hates children. He had to raise his younger siblings when he was just a child himself, and he never wants to deal with children again. He’s always been honest with women about this, and the reason he’s still single is that most of the women he meets want to become mothers.
Sharon is already a mother. Widowed while pregnant, she has raised two-year-old Max alone. She devotes herself to her son while also running her photography studio—and also competing for a commission to do the photographs for her town’s 300th birthday celebration.
A power player in town, Brett happens to know one of the birthday celebration committee members. He could get the commission for Sharon. But he wants more than her gratitude. He wants her. Without her son. But they’re a package deal, and perhaps with the help of the Daddy School, he can learn to love Max.
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Hope Street
- The Daddy School Series Book 7Curt and Ellie fell in love as college students, in a grungy apartment on Hope Street. When Curt asked Ellie to marry him, he promised her that as long as they were together, they would always live on a metaphorical “Hope Street.” And for many years, as they established a home and their careers and welcomed two daughters and a son into their lives, they did dwell in their own love-filled neighborhood of hope.
Then a tragedy shattered their family. Anguish drove Ellie into a world of darkness. Cut off from his wife, Curt found a way to heal without her. Exiled from Hope Street, they decide to end a marriage that is already dead.
Unaware of their parents’ plans for divorce, their children spring a surprise birthday party on Ellie, create a video of her life, and arrange for a romantic night for their parents at a charming country inn. As Curt and Ellie venture into that night together, they are forced to reconsider everything that once was so right between them, and everything that has gone so wrong. Is it possible that their love still exists? Can they ever forgive each other? Is it possible to return to Hope Street?
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Hush, Little Baby
- The Daddy School Series Book 6When Levi Holt’s unmarried sister dies unexpectedly, she leaves him with a lot of grief—and custody of her six-month-old son, D.J. An architect with a demanding career, Levi knows nothing about child care—but he’s got to learn fast. He also has to keep D.J. from derailing his career.
Corinne Lanier doesn’t want to derail Levi’s career, but she wants him to come up with a new design for her boss’s vacation home in the hills of western Connecticut. Having grown up in a series of broken homes, Corinne doesn’t have much faith in love or family stability, and she doesn’t have much patience for an architect with a cranky, teething baby on his shoulder. Yet Levi and D.J. somehow erode Corinne’s certainty about what she believes in—and what she wants.
With love, lullabies and a few desperately needed classes at the Daddy School, Levi might figure out how to put the fragmented pieces of his life back together. But will there be room in it for Corinne? And can he be certain Corinne loves him for himself and not for his precious little baby?
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'Tis the Season
- The Daddy School Series Book 5Evan Myers, divorced father of two, needs a baby-sitter fast to get him through a work crunch just before Christmas. He also needs a few Daddy School lessons to help him cope with his kids—their secrecy and odd behavior have really got him scratching his head.
Beautiful, bewitching Filomena Albright can certainly assist Evan with child care for the kids. And a whole lot more, if he dares take the chance. Trouble is, both Evan and Filomena are reluctant to acknowledge that the magic between them isn't magic—it's real!
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Dr. Dad
- The Daddy School Series Book 4Changed by fatherhood…
Between a rebellious teenager and a busy medical practice, Dr. Toby Cole didn't have a moment to himself. In fact, until an attractive actress moves into the neighborhood he'd never once considered filling the void in his life in all the years since he lost his wife.…
Healed by love
Giving up her TV series for a farmhouse in Connecticut is Susannah Dawson's antidote to a bad love affair and all the backstabbing she endured in Hollywood. Now the doctor next door is offering the family she craves, and yet she's not convinced his prescription is a good idea. Until a crisis proves there is something—and someone—more valuable than her independence.…
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Father of Two
- The Daddy School Series Book 3Book Three of the Daddy School series, originally published in 1998. Dennis Murphy’s rambunctious seven-year-old twins swear he’s the best lawyer in Arlington, Connecticut. They don’t make his job easy, however. When the nanny he hires to watch the twins walks out on them one afternoon while Dennis is meeting with the opposing attorney concerning a libel case, Dennis is forced to bring his work home with him.
Gail Saunders is a lawyer in the public defender’s office. When her former client, a Russian immigrant who’s had a few scrapes with the law in the past, implores her to sue the city’s newspaper for libel after his name appears in a front page article in connection with a series of thefts, she agrees to represent him, even if it means going up against Murphy and his prestigious, wealthy law firm, and even if it means she has to deal with his wild children once their nanny goes AWOL. Gail isn’t the sort to become all warm and fuzzy around children—especially imps like Sean and Erin Murphy. She’s missing the maternal gene, and the romantic gene as well. Just because Murphy is smart and funny and sexy as hell doesn’t mean she’s going to fall for him. She knows his seductive charms are merely tactics in his effort to win the libel suit.
Being the sister of one of the founders of the Daddy School, Gail believes Murphy could use a few lessons in how to be a better father. But she’s got a few things to learn, too, and Dennis Murphy might just be the man to teach her.
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Father Christmas
- The Daddy School Series Book 2Book Two of the Daddy School series, originally published in 1997. Arlington, Connecticut police detective John Russo is responsible to a fault. When his girlfriend got pregnant, he married her. When she walked out on the marriage, he committed himself to raising their son himself. But when his baby-sitter has a family emergency and must fly to California, John’s carefully rigged existence comes crashing down. He needs help, and fast.
Molly Saunders co-founded the Daddy School to help men become better fathers. She wants to help John, not just by providing a space for his two-year-old son in her preschool but also by teaching him how to deal with his son’s demands—and teaching him that despite the occasional brutality of his work, he can still be a loving, vulnerable man. When it comes to learning the skills he needs to raise his son well, John is an A student. But Molly’s lessons in love prove much more challenging. Can a man who conceals a gun inside his undercover Santa Claus costume actually be the gentle, sensitive man of Molly’s dreams?
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Father Found
- The Daddy School Series Book 1Book One of Judith Arnold’s popular Daddy School series. Jamie McCoy is the ultimate guy: thirty years old, carefree and professionally successful as the writer of a nationally syndicated humor column called “Guy Stuff.” Nine and a half months ago, he spent a week basking on the beach in Eluthera and indulging in a fling with a woman at the resort. Never did he expect to find the unplanned result of that fling—a healthy, wailing baby named Samantha—strapped into a car seat on his back porch, along with a suitcase full of diapers and infant apparel and a note informing Jamie that he’s her father.
Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. But first things first. He’s never fed a baby or changed a diaper in his life. He doesn’t own a crib or a stroller. In a panic, he phones the nearest hospital, where neonatal nurse Allison Winslow takes his call and tells him about a class she teaches called the Daddy School.
Classes on how to be a dad are exactly what Jamie needs. But when he attends his first class and sees the tall, earnest, amazingly beautiful and even more amazingly competent Allison, he realizes that he might just need more from her than her lectures on how to hold a baby.
Jamie’s efforts to be a father to this precious baby touch Allison. His sense of humor amuses her. His striking good looks turn her on. But how can she trust the sort of guy who’d sleep with a stranger on vacation, without giving a thought to the consequences? How can she give her heart to such a reckless man?
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