I love Liza O'Connor's books, and it is my absolute pleasure to turn over the pen, well, keyboard to her for the Coming to Reason blog tour!
Doesn’t matter if you are
alien or human, we all have to Come to Reason when we are in an unhealthy
relationship. Only it’s not that easy for those of us who take commitment
seriously. In fact, we can be incredibly blind to reality.
Take for example Carrie and
Trent from A Long Road to Love series. Book 1: Worst Week Ever. 80% of my reviewers thought it hysterical. The
other 20% focused in on the unhealthy relationship and were thus unable to
laugh at anything.
Then came Book 2: Oh Stupid Heart where I let Carrie try
her best to make Trent a good man. While she made him good enough to make me
love the jerk, fundamentally he didn’t change. And part of the problem is
Carrie. Her need to fix everything
prevents him from growing up and taking responsibility.
I introduced a better man in
book 1, but right now she refuses to see him as anything but a friend. But let
me show you a side by side comparison and you decide who is better…by a mile.
A slam dunk, right?
Wrong.
Carrie is so committed to
Trent, she won’t even considered this fabulous guy as anything but a good
friend.
So I had no choice. I had to
make use of some untied strings in book two and blow up the relationship. It’s
the only way Trent will fundamentally change himself. He has to lose the ONLY
person who has ever loved him. Well many of us loved him, but he doesn’t know
that.
All Carrie has to do to find
her HEA is open her eyes to the great guy right before her…well it’s a little
more complicated than that, but she’s clever, so I’m sure she’ll solve the ‘no
rebound’ problem.
However, Trent is going to
need a whole book to fundamentally change himself. So book four is his journey.
It’s called Climbing Out of Hell and
because I love my readers, I reshuffled my schedule so it will come out next.
COMING TO REASON
Book Three: A Long Road to Love
Humorous Contemporary Disaster Romance
Blurb
Book 3 of A Long Road to Love series
Carrie
has committed to an inter-species engagement with Trent, her billionaire boss.
Presently, he is eighty percent dreamboat and twenty percent nightmare. When he
fires her so they can become a ‘normal couple’, everything heads south.
Providing
her a stark contrast, her new boss, Dan Marshal, is everything a woman could
want. But for Carrie, her heart is taken and thus, her path to reason remains
long and arduous.
When her
relationship with Trent explodes in a shocking fashion, finally her heart gives
up and reason takes over. She realizes a brighter future and a better man has
been at her side all this time. But can she overcome the obstacles in her path
to secure him? Or is Carrie doomed to never know true love?
Warning: If you loved Carrie and Trent as a couple,
this book may break your heart.
Liza
O'Conner writes books that speak to my soul. Carrie is a character you will not
soon forget.
--Rebecca Royce, author
of The Warrior series.
I only have one thing to say
about Liza O'Connor's A Long Road to Love series: Read them.
They're funny. You won't regret it!
--Maria
Hammarblad, author of Kidnapped.
Excerpt
Monday morning, Carrie stood outside Dan Marshal’s resource firm, wearing her best blue suit. She’d arrived early, knowing Dan kept to a tight schedule. She smiled as his car pulled to the curb.
Dan let
himself out of the limo, something Trent still wouldn’t do, and headed to the
office door. His brow remained furrowed until his gaze settled on her, then a
smile brightened his handsome face.
“Carrie!
What a pleasant surprise.” Leaning down, he kissed both her cheeks in greeting.
While Dan didn’t possess Trent’s height, he still towered over her. “Are you by
chance wishing to speak to me?”
“If you
have time.”
He
glanced at his watch and the furrows in his brow returned. “Fifteen minutes,
before a meeting I’ve called. If you need more time, hopefully, you can wait an
hour for the meeting to be finished.”
“More
than fair since I didn’t make an appointment.”
His head
tilted as he studied her. “Which is unlike you.”
“True,
but I didn’t know I needed a job until yesterday, when Trent decided the time
had come for him to grow up and run his own company.”
Dan led
her to the elevator with his hand rested on her back. “Really?” His tone turned
happy upon discovering her state of unemployment, but she let it slide.
“Evidently,
he made the decision a while back, but didn’t bother to share it with me until
yesterday.”
Dan’s
smile grew more pronounced, borderline celebratory.
Once
they entered the elevator and the doors closed, she wrinkled her nose at him.
“Well, I’m glad my unemployment makes you happy. I expected a stern lecture
after the last time I asked you to get me an interview.”
His
smile disappeared. “Good point. Is this a real job you want, or are you trying
to get rid of one of Trent’s groupies?”
She
laughed. “Trent doesn’t have groupies. And this is a real job I want. We’ve
decided to become a normal couple with daily time off from each other.
Otherwise, Trent will continue to rely on me too much.”
For some reason, her reply
saddened him.
Links
A Long Road to Love
Book
One
Worst Week Ever
“Love this book and couldn't stop laughing from
beginning to end.” 5 stars – Alves - Amazon
71 reviews: 4.2 stars
Book
Two
Oh Stupid Heart
“Be warned though, this book is completely
different from The Worst Week Ever. Yes, there is still humor, dry wit,
situations that you would think...NOT AGAIN but this one humanizes Trent more.”
5 stars - Brian’s Mom – Amazon
8
reviews: 4.8 stars
Book
Three
Coming to Reason
“This series has become addictive for me. Liza
is unpredictable in her twists and turns which I love.”
2 reviews: 4.5 stars
Other Books by Liza
O’Connor
Liza O’Connor
Author Bio:
Liza lives in Denville, NJ with her dog Jess. They
hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an
adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New
Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white
sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and
raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid gardener, amateur
photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through her
entire life, her first love has and always will be writing novels. She loves to
create interesting characters, set them loose, and scribe what happens.
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Wow... I didn't know about those two possible babies on Trent's side. He certainly isn't looking good in that comparison.
ReplyDeleteI know. When you line them up side by side..the answer is clear. Maybe we should do this while in our relationships. I could have pulled a guy off the street to compare to my Ex, and there was a guy that my friends wanted to hook me up with, really nice, but I had found my 'soulmate' so I wouldn't reconsider him. But a side by side list might have change my mind.
DeleteOh dear, that comparison sure makes Trent look... like a complete disaster. I like him in the books, though. I would have loved for them to find a happily ever after. On the other hand, I haven't read the book yet, so I have no idea what really happens. Something to look forward to! =D
DeleteTo say that you'll be annoyed with him is a bit mild, but losing Carrie causes him to hit rock bottom and in Book 4, he becomes the man Carrie always thought he could be. You'll be very angry with him in Book 3, but in Book 4 he's fabulous.
DeleteOh dear. Poor Carrie. I tweeted.
ReplyDeleteCarrie thanks you for tweeting. I think a relationship that blows up quickly is actually less painful than one that slowly tears apart, takng years to the final Come to Reason.
ReplyDeleteThe wonderful side-by-side comparison makes Trent look pretty shabby. I wonder what it is about Carrie that makes her need to fix him.
ReplyDeleteShe's a 100 percent commit-to-it girl. But when Trent blows this relationship up, (she doesn't actually know about a lot of what is listed on that comparison yet) she will reassess the entire relationship and realize she has yet to find a man capable of love...but she has Dan in her view now. Get ready for a satisfying HEA for Carrie.
ReplyDeleteI have also had a relationship explode into pieces when I had no clue anything was wrong at all, but I was glad it ended that way rather than living in a lie and finding out further down the road I would imagine that would have been much more painful and harder to move on from.
ReplyDeletenmn10365@huskies.bloomu.edu
Totally agree with you Nichole. If it's going to explode, let it be sooner so you can get on with your life.
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