🌟BOOK BLITZ:🌟 Meant to Be by Nan Reinhardt {EXCERPT + GIVEAWAY!}

Meant to Be by Nan Reinhardt

Release Date: July 18th 2019 by Tule Publishing

Series: Four Irish Brothers Winery #2

Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Can a near-tragedy help two best friends realize they’re meant to be so much more?

Best friends since grade school, high-powered Chicago attorney, Sean Flaherty, and small-town mayor Megan Mackenzie have always shared a special bond. When Sean is shot by a client’s angry ex, Megan rushes to his side, terrified she’s about to lose her long-time confidant.

Upon his return to River’s Edge to recuperate, Sean discovers that his feelings for his pal have taken an undeniable turn for the romantic. While Megan struggles with an unfamiliar longing for Sean, she worries that he may be mistaking a safe place to land for love. 

Can Sean help her realize that they are truly meant to be so much more than friends?

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{EXCERPT}

The silence was killing him. Meg hadn’t said more than six words since they’d left the diner. Not on the walk to her apartment, not while they piled into her ancient Honda Accord. Nada. Beyond telling him to feel free to set the seat back if he needed more legroom, she’d been uncharacteristically silent. They were almost to Char’s and her lips were still pressed together in a tight line.

Oh, she’d had plenty to say at the diner when they went back out to their table to collect her purse and sweater. Sean chuckled to himself remembering Vinnie’s face. The guy had been gobsmacked when Megs lit into him. Using her smiling mayor voice, she’d skinned him alive, riding over his protestations of innocence, while Gia shrank back into her chair and cringed. Meg had ignored Sean’s blind date until the very end when she’d simply turned to Gia and said, “Enjoy the rest of your date, Gia. You two deserve each other.”

Of course Vin was clueless and acted, once again, as if he were the one being wronged. Sean had watched from the steps of the courtyard, not even bothering to say anything to Gia, although their eyes met while Meg shredded Vinnie. Gia’s face showed part terror and part regret, so Sean had simply shrugged his shoulders and given her a brief nod.

He glanced over at Meg, who appeared focused on navigating the curvy driveway into the winery property. “Here’s the thing”—he side-eyed her as she pulled into Char’s driveway—“Vin is like... like that dog in Up.”

She switched off the car and turned to face him, her expression incredulous. “What?”

“You know the dog in that movie Up? We watched it with Ali at Christmas?” His point was valid if she would just open her mind, so he explained further. “The dog had a great ball that he was playing with—having fun, enjoying himself. Loved that ball. Then a squirrel ran by and he was completely distracted, dropped the ball, and chased the squirrel.” He grinned, hoping to get some kind of positive reaction.

She rested her elbow on the steering wheel and cupped her chin in her palm. “So, I’m the ball in this scenario?”

“Yeah.”

“And Vin is the dog?”

He nodded. She was getting it.

“And Gia is what? The squirrel?”

He threw his hands up in exultation. “Yes, exactly.”

She gazed at him for a long moment, “I’ve heard you say some really dumb stuff over the years, Sean Flaherty, but that has to be the dumbest. Stop defending him.” She yanked the keys from the ignition and opened her door. “Come on. I’ll walk you in.”

AUTHOR BIO:

Nan Reinhardt is a USA Today-bestselling author of romantic fiction for women in their prime. Yeah, women still fall in love and have sex, even after 45! Imagine! She is a wife, a mom, a mother-in-law, and a grandmother. Nan has been a copyeditor and proofreader for over 25 years, and currently works on romantic fiction titles for a variety of clients, including Avon Books, St. Martin’s Press, Kensington Books, and Entangled Publishing, as well as for many indie authors.

Although she loves her life as an editor, writing is Nan’s first and most enduring passion. Her latest novel, Meant to Be, Book 2 in the Four Irish Brothers Winery series from Tule Publishing releases on July 18, 2019. A Small Town Christmas, which is the first book in the Four Irish Brothers Winery series from Tule Publishing, is available now, and she is currently hard at work on Book 3.

Visit Nan’s website at www.nanreinhardt.com, where you’ll find links to all her books as well as blogs about writing, being a Baby Boomer, and aging gracefully…mostly. Nan also blogs every sixth Wednesday at Word Wranglers, sharing the spotlight with five other romance authors and is a frequent contributor the RWA Contemporary Romance blog, and she contributes to the Romance University blog where she writes as Editor Nan.

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