A warm welcome to author Eli Easton joining us today to talk about her new release “The Stolen Suitor”.

“That’s What He Wants”

Most of my books have a theme to them, though admittedly not all are particularly profound. 🙂 The theme of “The Stolen Suitor” can be found in the line: “That’s what he wants” (or “That’s what she wants”). All of the main characters in the book think this to themselves in the early chapters. They all know exactly what they want. Absolutely!

The tricky thing is, sometimes what we think we want is not what we really need. There’s an old Chinese curse that goes: “May you get what you wish for.” Because often, what we wish for is completely fucked. In “The Stolen Suitor”, none of my characters get what they think they want early on. And they’re much better off for it.

The story is set in the small town of Clyde’s Corner, Montana, where my novella “A Prairie Dog’s Love Song” also takes place. Chris Ramsey is the town ‘dandy’ who leaves to go to college and then work in Denver as a marketing executive. But when his best friend is killed in a tragic farming accident, Chris moves back home. He was out and proud in Denver, but now he decides to marry his best friend’s widow and help her raise her little girl. He wants a home and stability for himself, and he wants to ‘do the right thing’ for the widow Trixie and her daughter.

Jeremy Crassen knows what he wants—he wants to move away from Clyde’s Corner, go to college, and become a famous writer. In Clyde’s Corner he will always be seen as the shy, nearly invisible member of a disreputable family from the wrong side of the tracks.

Trixie Stubben knows what she wants—she wants to hold on to her dead husband’s memory forever, to never fall in love again, and marry her gay friend Chris in a utilitarian partnership.

And Jeremy’s brother, Eric Crassen, the big, good-looking, and lazy town n’ere-do-well, just wants to survive his mother’s scheming and get back to partying and loose women.

I’ll give you a hint: None of these characters get what they want. But what they do get is an HEA.

The Dreamspun Desires line is all about classic romance tropes—arranged marriages, enemies-to-lovers, the prim schoolteacher and the bad man, etc. I’ve always loved the classic category romances, so I was very excited about this new line from Dreamspinner and wanted to write something for it right away.

The trope in “The Stolen Suitor” is stealing a nice guy out of a doomed or abusive relationship. In this case, the relationship isn’t abusive, it’s just a really bad idea undertaken with the best of intentions. Fortunately, fate has better things in mind for the would-be bride and groom—true love.

I hope you enjoy this story and all the other wonderful new Dreamspun Desires titles. I’m thrilled to be on the line-up with Andrew Grey this month. Have a wonderful February!

Eli Easton

Blurb:

Eli Easton has been at various times and under different names a minister’s daughter, a computer programmer, a game designer, the author of paranormal mysteries, a fanfiction writer, an organic farmer, and a profound sleeper. She is now happily embarking on yet another incarnation, this time as an m/m romance author.

As an avid reader of such, she is tickled pink when an author manages to combine literary merit, vast stores of humor, melting hotness, and eye-dabbing sweetness into one story. She promises to strive to achieve most of that most of the time. She currently lives on a farm in Pennsylvania with her husband, three bulldogs, three cows, and six chickens. All of them (except for the husband) are female, hence explaining the naked men that have taken up residence in her latest fiction writing.

Website: www.elieaston.com

Twitter: @EliEaston

E-mail: eli@elieaston.com

Eli and Dreamspinner Press are offering an ecopy of The Stolen Suitor to one Lucky reader

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