[Promo & Review] Beyond Words by Diane O’Key
Beyond Words
by Diane O’Key
Genre: Contemporary Romance
The last thing Abby Mathieson wants is what she most needs: a take-care-of-the-business-end partner. Emotional and financial demons spur her dreams of self-reliance and her vow to continue her aunt’s legacy of Beyond Words, a Blue Ridge Mountains book-and-gift shop.
Trey Dalton, sexy CPA with a heart of gold and backbone of steel, wants nothing more than to return to his home in sunny Florida. But he made a death-bed promise to help Abby succeed… whatever it takes.
Conflict and sexual tension intensify as they wrangle over the shop and deal with Abby’s quirky best friend and the incorrigible resident parrot. Abby’s sworn to trust no man, but Trey has her tangled up worse than knotted fishing line. If she can’t overcome her insecurities before he unravels her finances and leaves town forever, her precious independence will cost her a love Beyond Words.
Trey Dalton, sexy CPA with a heart of gold and backbone of steel, wants nothing more than to return to his home in sunny Florida. But he made a death-bed promise to help Abby succeed… whatever it takes.
Conflict and sexual tension intensify as they wrangle over the shop and deal with Abby’s quirky best friend and the incorrigible resident parrot. Abby’s sworn to trust no man, but Trey has her tangled up worse than knotted fishing line. If she can’t overcome her insecurities before he unravels her finances and leaves town forever, her precious independence will cost her a love Beyond Words.
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REVIEW
This book is what I class as a cosy romance, the kind you read on a Sunday all snuggled up in a chair with a cuppa.
Abby and Trey are thrown together by their late Aunt who left her bookshop Beyond Words to each of them in her will.
Abby is is true country girl and Trey is from warm, sunny Florida, so when he turns up at the shop Abby is shocked to say the least. She expected him to be a silent partner. The chemistry between them is evident from the start, and whilst Abby is quite uptight and reserved , but you can see that she is warming to him as the book progresses.
This is a sweet wee romance between Abby and Trey and her friend Mel is a hoot, I loved this book, it was a nice change to what I have been currently reading.
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Diane O’Key can’t ever remember not reading—or writing, for that matter. By the end of eighth grade, she’d written numerous poems and short stories and won an award for having read over 500 books grades 1 through 8. Her lifelong love of storytelling, classical literature, and history—inspired by incredible and demanding teachers—propelled her into a 22-year secondary language arts teaching career, in which her students and colleagues immeasurably enriched her life…though one of her great points of pride—and greatest fears—is that they remember her as OCD about grammar, spelling, and syntax….
Raised on the Jersey Shore, she discovered a deep love of theater (for which she won several awards) and gymnastics in high school. Aided by scholarships and loans, she worked her way through Georgian Court University, and upon graduation with honors and 42 English literature credits, taught high school in Pt. Pleasant and Pt. Pleasant Beach.
Then, she and her high-school sweetheart, now husband, moved to Southwest Florida, where she continued to teach. Married for 40 years, she and her better-half, a retired firefighter, have one grown son, a talented airbrush artist, and divide their time between we-love-winters-in Florida (though they’re there—at least for now—most of the year) and their beloved South Carolina Upstate lake home as often as they can get away.
Her interests include making custom jewelry and bookmarks, snow skiing, baking, and anything to do with the water. A member of SW Florida Romance Writers and RWA for eighteen years, she has two wonderful, multi-published authors as critique partners: the self-dubbed Three Musketeers. Diane writes medieval historical romance, contemporary romance, and romantic suspense.
Writing as she does “in the mist,” without absolute direction or outlines, is both a challenge and a joy. She delights in those moments when the characters pop full-blown into her head, carrying on a conversation. As that pop is rarely the first chapter, however, the struggle begins to write from that point-first backward, then forward. Keeps her awake at night…and life interesting.
This sounds like a beautiful book and an amazing romance!
Thanks again, Cecy, so much! I truly enjoyed writing…and rewriting :-)…it!
This second book of Diane O’Key’s is a real keeper as was her first, Cherish the Knight! Beyond Words will warm your heart as you travel with Abby and Trey on their road to true love and happy-ever-after!
Ah, Lynn, thanks…again 🙂
I love finding a “cozy” romance for my lazy Sundays! All the best, Diane! 🙂
Thanks so much, Mary, for taking the time to stop by and for your kind comment 🙂
Really hope you enjoy it! I fell in love with both Trey and Abby…as well as Mellie and Phineas. Writing Mellie and Gabe’s story (short in an anthology we hope to see out this fall. Doing it as a labor of love, all profits to the Leukiemia Society.) Would love to hear back from you 🙂
Thanks so much to ebookaddicts for hosting me today 🙂 Really appreciate it!