What if your crush crushed back?
Like many teenage girls during the brief but brilliant chart
reign of Norwegian popsters, A-ha, I wondered what it would be like to date
lead singer, Morten Harket. Eyes like
the crystal clear waters of the fjords, cheekbones cut from Nordic glaciers and
hair that seemed to defy gravity, from the moment he reached out of that comic
book during the video to Take on Me,
I was lost. The first concert I ever went to see was A-ha at the BIC in Bournemouth . My dear old Granddad steadfastly waited
outside in his car the whole time, refusing to leave the venue until he had got
me safe back with him. I can still remember
leaving at the end of the night, feeling like something very important had
happened on that stage, and that I would never be the same girl again.
I often laugh with old friends now about those times, but it
was these events that sparked the original idea for Hopelessly Devoted. What if you had this crazy, debilitating crush
now, as a much older woman with a normal job and a family to raise? And what if you didn’t just have a crush on
your pop idol, what if you met him? What if he actually liked you too? Where
could it go? Bonnie, the heroine of Hopelessly Devoted, is just that: an
ordinary thirty-something woman with a teenage daughter and a mundane shop job
who finds herself slap bang in the middle of a very strange turn of events when
her daughter, Paige, wins a radio contest to meet the members of the boy band,
Every Which Way. Paige has a huge crush on one of the members, Holden. The
trouble is, so does Bonnie.
Hopelessly Devoted
There’s only one
man for Bonnie, and that’s Holden Finn. The problem is, Holden Finn a
twenty-something pop megastar with his boy band, Every Which Way, who
doesn’t even know she exists. Not only that, but half the women of the world
want to be Mrs Finn, including Bonnie’s teenage daughter, Paige. But the real
men in Bonnie’s life only let her down, and a man you can never have can never
let you down… right? When Paige wins a radio competition to meet Holden
and his band, it seems all that is set to change. Bonnie is about to find out
that you should be careful what you wish for, and that happiness can come in
the most unexpected shape…
Hopelessly Devoted is due for
release December 2013 but you can get your hands on a free copy by entering the
Hopelessly Devoted blog giveaway. Not
only that, but you’ll also win an exclusive unreleased Christmas novella, Mishaps and Mistletoe, which is only
available by entering the draw below.
About Tilly:
About Tilly:
Tilly Tennant was
born in Dorset but now lives in Staffordshire with her slightly nutty
family. Tilly is married to Mr Tennant (not that one, though a
girl can dream). After years of dismal and disastrous jobs, including paper
plate stacking, shop girl, newspaper promotions and waitressing (she never
could carry a bowl of soup without spilling a bit), she decided to indulge her
passion for the written word by enrolling on a degree in English and creative
writing. She wrote her first novel in 2007 during her first summer break at
university and has not stopped writing since. She also works as a freelance
editor, and considers herself very lucky that this enables her to read many
wonderful books while getting paid for it.
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