Family...the Good, the Bad, and There For You by Ella Braeme

MUSE MONDAY

Please welcome my guest today on Discover... for Muse Monday, Ella Braeme. Tell us about your new book, Ella.

There are good families and bad ones. And then there are those that somehow do not work, although every member tries their best. Something is off and nobody knows how to fix things.

In my novella Butting Heads with Her Mountain Man I confront Grace with her well-meaning, but ill-advised family. They want to help her, but whatever they do—they make things worse.

One of my beta-readers was outraged that Grace did not cut ties with her family. But that’s not how family works. You can’t choose them, you’ve got to live with them. Just because they are obnoxious you can’t just leave, too strong are the emotional ties that connect us. 

I suppose we all know of times when our family did something nice for us and it did not please us. Like the time I came back to my room to find the furniture re-arranged to allow for more natural light. Just I didn’t want any light where my bed was, I wanted it all at my desk. Or the time my grandpa fixed my bike. He repaired the brake just fine—with duct tape. Now my bike was safe again, but ugly. So very ugly. Or the time I groomed my daughters dog. It was the first time ever I did anything like that, and let’s just say it’s a good thing that the puppy’s fur grew back.

So if you can relate to things like these, you might enjoy following Grace moving back to her home town.

Butting Heads with Her Mountain Man is a heartwarming, small-town romance novella with a heroine who's determined to make her dreams come true, a grumpy mountain man who’s doing his best to keep her at arm’s length, and a nettlesome audience of townspeople buzzing with Christmas cheer, or in Lyle’s case: Christmas scowling. Light steam, HEA, no cheating, standalone.

Could this grinch with his dark scowl be the light of my life?

Grace

I need to start afresh in my small hometown. While I am happy to be back in the mountains, the efforts of my hapless family to help me settle in lead to me running zig-zag to avoid further disasters. Being scrutinized by the townsfolk doesn’t help either. Still, I set to work to establish my own accounting business with all the determination that I can muster. 

I count myself lucky when I get my first client—only to find out he is as grumpy as they get—and yet, I can't deny the pull I feel towards him. 

Lyle

I hate Christmas. And it shows. So I need help keeping my Christmas tree farm afloat. The accountant turns out to be an opinionated lover of all things holiday. Still, I can't help but feel a spark of attraction for her. An attraction that I have no intention of owning up to.

Excerpt

When I wake up the next morning, I find myself in Lyle’s embrace. This mountain man is a hugger! I snuggle even closer, as I want as much skin-on-skin as I can ever have.

A beam of sunlight casts a splendid shine on Lyle, and I cannot resist touching him. My fingers caress his temple and his cheek. Just as they touch the very corner of his mouth, Lyle turns his head a little and kisses my thumb. My body goes soft in a wave of bliss.

Lyle cranks an eye open and squints at the bright light. “Morning, princess.” His voice is way deeper than usual. Maybe he feels that heavy bliss, too?

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Author Bio

Ella writes sweet'n'steamy romances that are meant to provide short vacations from your everyday life. She loves to read, mostly romances, of course, and to putter around in her backyard, forever trying to turn it into a blooming garden. She’s got a dog who is helping greatly with all the garden work by supervising everything Ella does and—for the most part—not digging up her flowers.

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