Hey everyone, and Happy New Year! Joining us today at the Junction is Michelle Major. We’re real excited to have her here, so join us in welcoming Michelle!
Howdy and Happy New Year!
I’m so excited for 2020 – to me there’s always so much potential in the new year. And I can’t think of a better way to kick it off th
an with a new book. Fortune’s Fresh Start, my January release, is the first in the long-running Fortune’s series from Harlequin Special Edition.
Here’s a bit more about the book: In the small Texas burg of Rambling Rose, real estate investor Callum Fortune is making a big splash. The last thing he needs is any personal complications slowing his pace—least of all nurse Becky Averill, a beautiful widow with twin baby girls. Callum’s past has convinced him he’s not cut out for commitment. Yet, drawn to Becky in ways he can’t understand, Callum is torn between moving on…and moving in!
It’s been great fun to be part of the Fortune’s series over the past several years. I love working with other authors when our stories overlap and being part of such a well-loved family within the book world. Being the start of the new year, I find myself looking forward as well as back over the past twelve months. One tradition I’ve enjoyed recently is picking a ‘word of the year’. This is a somewhat popular trend – a little different from resolutions – in that the word guides you through the year and helps set a course.
This yearmy word is ‘purpose’. I’ve thought about it long and hard, and for me it’s a word that will hold meaning and guide me through 2020. Both of my kids are teenagers now and I have a bit more time on my hands to reflect on who I want to be in both my personal and professional life. What I want my ‘purpose’ to be and how the actions I take can enhance that.
Purpose also has meaning for me with the characters I create. Becky, the heroine of Fortune’s Fresh Start, is working to find purpose and meaning in her life as she raises her twin girls on her own after her husband’s death. Callum Fortune has come to Rambling Rose to find his purpose and when the two of them meet, their connection is instantaneous. But both Callum and Becky have been hurt in the past and it takes a lot of growth along their journey to finally take the risk of loving again. I hope readers find hope and healing in the book and can relate to two not-so-perfect people discovering a love that’s perfect for them.
I love to hear about how other people start the new year. Do you like resolutions or can you relate to selecting a guiding ‘word of the year’? Tell me something you hope to do/accomplish/experience in 2020 or something special that happened in 2019. I’d love to give away two copies of Fortune’s Fresh Start to P&P readers.
Thanks again for having me at Petticoats & Pistols. I wish each of you an amazing new year and all the blessings in 2020!
