If you enjoy Romance with strong women fiction elements, you'll want to check it out.
I asked Tina to share with me the story behind this series and this is what she had to say.
When I start thinking about writing a
new series, I look first at what will make the stories different.
What’s kernel of an ideal sets it apart from other stories? I realized I wanted
a series about how important women are to women. No matter, how much we might
enjoy the men in our lives. Women connect to other women in a unique way.
Maybe, because we think alike or can share emotions men can’t understand, but
women need women.
So then I asked, what
type of situation would force four women together emotional?
Okay, four women all lose
their husband at one time in a car accident. These women are connected only by
their husband’s jobs. They know each other, but are not what you call close
until their husbands are killed. This forever alters their world. Each has
their unique problem.
Jen Larson is a realtor,
who has for years lived as a married single. Her husband, Craig was her college
sweetheart. She believes they have a good life but less than a year after losing
him, she’s ready to start dating again. This throws her relationship with the
other executives’ wives into a tailspin. They don’t understand how she can do
this, which makes for the first book in the series, The Marketing Exec’s Widow.
The
truly fun part about a series like this is no one book is about only one woman.
Each plays a part in the other book. They’re stories continue and you learn
more about what each woman is facing in her life. The happy-ever-after
continues, and the reader learns how these women have grown to depend on each
other.
In the second book, IT
Exec’s Baby, the reader already knows from the first book that Brie Sullivan is
pregnant. She has had the baby and is facing the challenges of dealing with a
newborn as well as postpartum depression.
She also has two other children, she’s trying to raise alone. Life for
her is not going well, and she’s searching for answers. During one of her more
trying moments, she believes she has the answer and asks Jason Clark to marry
her. He’s the son of one of the other executives’ wives, Marianne Clark. This
is the beginning of their journey to finding happiness.
Book three, CFO’s Affair
is about Sylvia Donovan. The reader finds outs in book one that Sylvia’s
husband, Bob asked her for a divorce on the morning he left on the business
trip in which he died. Sylvia is going through a difficult time with her
daughter having just left for college. She’s suffering from empty nest
syndrome. She needs a diversion from her loneliness and decides to help at the
company where her husband once worked. This sets her on the trail of finding
answers as to why her husband asked for a divorce. She discovers her husband
had an affair and his son is in an abusive situation. This rocks her world and
forces her to make some very hard decision about not only her future, but also
the future of her husband’s son.
The last book in the
series, CFO’s Widow - Marianne
Clark is the oldest of the four women. She loved her husband and has done her
best to deal with the massive hole his death has caused in her life. She is
ready to give love a chance when she discovers a lump in breasts. Faced with
her mortality, she has to make the hard decision of letting a man into her life
or building a wall around herself. Shouldn’t she know the outcome before
allowing a man she cares about into her life?
All of these books deal
with major women issues. They show not only what women can endure during
different phases of their lives, but how the relationship with not only men,
but also women, help them deal with the problems they face.
Here are the blurbs for all
the books.
Marketing
Exec’s Widow -
Needing to revive her
life and jump start her heart, Jennifer Larson is facing the biggest challenge
of her life, moving into an unplanned future. While the rest of the Executives Wives’ Club continues to mourn
their husbands, Jen is tempted into the future by a sexy chiropractor, Hagan
Chaney.
But does he really love her or
is he only after her money?
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IT Exec’s Baby -
Brie Sullivan has
a new baby girl and there are a million things to do, but Brie doesn’t have the
energy to keep up. Why? She’s still grieving for her husband and suffering from
baby blues, but she won’t let that stop her. She’s come up with the
answer--find a new husband to be the father of her kids.
Jason Clark has been doing everything he can to help Brie. He loves her but can
he accept her proposal of marriage knowing she’s not thinking clearly about the
future?
CFO’s Affair
Sylvia Donovan is
emotionally wounded from the unexpected death of her husband and still haunted
by their last conversation: his request for a divorce and his confession of
love for another woman. Her husband gone, her only daughter off to college,
Sylvia faces the challenges of learning to live alone and move on with her
life.
Vince Wilshire, enchanted with Sylvia, is more than willing to do what it takes
to capture the heart of the hurting and untrusting Sylvia.
Can he help her forget the past and make her believe in love again?
CEO’s Widow
After surviving the grief from her husband’s death,
Marianne Clark has built a new life with the help of the other Executive Wives.
She plans to enjoy grandchildren and friends until her doctor tells her he
found a lump in her breast. Her world turned upside down. She re-evaluates her
priorities and decides she will grab hold of life with both hands.
Knox Turner lost his first wife to cancer. He’s
determined not to let Marianne face this challenge alone.
Can this couple face the trials ahead and build a
future together?
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Bio
Tina
Gayle grew up a dreamer and loved to escape into the world of books.
After years of working in the
business world doing a variety of jobs, she decided to try her hand at writing
in hopes of incorporate the joy of being a mother into her books.
Currently working on a series
about four executive wives, she is excited about combining elements of women
fiction with the passion of romance. The first three books have been released
and the last one is coming out in 2015.
Married twenty-five years, she
and her husband love to travel and play golf.
She can’t wait for Mike to retire so they can do more of both.
Read
the first chapter of any of her books by visiting her website.
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Thanks Tina for sharing,
Anita
