Title:
Finding a Man for Sylvia
Author:
Margaret Lesh
Genre:
Chick-lit, romantic comedy, adult
Release
date:
Nov. 23, 2012
A
well-intentioned but clueless romantic is determined to find love for
her lonely neighbor over her exasperated husband’s objections.
Julia
Hawthorne-Florez has the best of intentions, and everyone knows what
the road to Hell is paved with. Her husband Javier accuses her of
playing God with people’s lives, but Julia is simply a fool for
love. (Or maybe just a fool?)
When
lonely Sylvia moves in across the street, Julia is determined to find
her match. Of course, there are obstacles. Javier, for one, who’s
forbidden any further matchmaking attempts on his well-intentioned
wife’s part. And there’s the little matter of Sylvia being in
love with a man who’s taken a vow of celibacy.
Julia
schemes; the hamster wheel in her head spins furiously. Handsome Ted
is Julia’s first choice. Except shy Ted happens to be interested in
Julia’s best friend, certified dominatrix Lisa. And so it goes.
Julia spins her web; Javier laughs at her. But Julia always gets the
last laugh in this Latin-infused contemporary romantic comedy.
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Description for Normalish :
Fifteen-year-old
Stacy questions the strange world of high school, family, friends,
love, and her role in the universe.
People
tell you high school’s so great and wonderful, but they’re lying.
It’s mostly horrible and full of disappointment. It sucks. Your
best friend abandons you. The jerk you’re in love with pretends to
be into you, and then the big dump. The boy you’ve really clicked
with as a friend decides to go all crushy over you, so you break his
heart just like yours was—smashed into little pieces. Your sister
goes mental , and you get involved with an older guy who’s even
crazier than she is (who you know is a very bad idea, but you do it
anyway). Math only adds another stink of failure to the whole thing.
High
school blows. Just ask freshman Stacy. She’d want you to know.
Excerpt
2:
Frank
went inside to greet Matilda, while Lisa gave me her typical
greeting.
“Anyone
interesting I should know about?” My body froze for a second; I
wanted to kick myself. “Hmm?” she purred in her innocent black
widow way.
I
realized I’d made the most amateur of all rookie mistakes: I’d
provided fresh prey for this cold-blooded huntress. We walked in
together as Frank said hello to Ted and Matilda.
“No,”
I said emphatically. “There’s no
one
here for you.”
She
stopped in her long-legged tracks when she saw Ted, jabbing me in the
side sharply.
Noooooo!
My
world was beginning to spin out of control.
I
grabbed her arm, again insisting, “Don’t even think
about it. He’s off-limits.”
She
shook me off and was within an inch of Ted in less than a second,
she’s that good.
“Hello,”
she said with her hand extended, “I’m Lisa.” She practically
oozed warm and fuzzy. Black widows can be very deceptive when they
wish.
Ted’s
cheeks were crimson, and I cursed silently. His blush was just the
sort of thing to set Lisa’s predatory heart aflutter. She has a
particular fondness for virgins, which I’m guessing Ted was. The
hamster wheel in my head began to turn fast as I had the fleeting
thought of bashing my evil friend over the head with a frying pan,
but it was too late, other guests were arriving. I had to greet them.
I couldn’t tell if Ted was afraid or entranced by the she-devil.
Luckily,
Matilda grabbed him by the hand, ushering him back to their game.
I
had a very bad feeling about things.
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Author
Bio:
California girl Margaret Lesh lives with her husband Steve and son
Andrew in a quiet suburb near Los Angeles. Co-creator of
StoryRhyme.com, she writes middle grade, young adult, and women’s
fiction. When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about baked
goods, especially donuts, far too often. She believes tacos are
magic.
Author
Links:
Twitter:
https://Twitter.com/MargaretLesh
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