New Release and the best cover ever…

I have a new book coming out next month from Silhouette Special Edition. The Reluctant Cinderella kicks off a brand-new Special Edition series, Talk of the Neighborhood. Megan Schumacher is the girl most likely to blend into the crowd. Nobody would ever imagine she’d hook the hunkiest guy in town. So much for what anyone can imagine…

And I’m so excited to debut the cover for my first HQN book right here on my website this month. Ralphie’s Wives won’t be out until April of next year, but I’ve posted the back cover copy and the prologue just to get your attention. Just click on the title above and enjoy.

And about this fabulous cover….

I just love, love, love it. And may I add…I love it!

As I mentioned in the March newsletter, we went around and around about the title. Ralphie’s Wives was going to be the title, then it wasn’t—and in the end, it is. A final decision about which I remain totally ecstatic.

The main problem with deciding on the title was that none of us—meaning me, my editor, my agent, my publisher and all my publisher’s brilliant editorial and marketing people—could come up with a workable packaging/cover concept. I did have, er, images. You know, visions in my head. Not in a woo-woo way, though. Hah! No, really. In a strictly, “This is what I picture when I think of a possible cover” sort of way.

The images were:

1. The wives’ bouquets, each one different from the others: red for Phoebe, yellow for Cimarron Rose, pink/lavender for Tiffany and white for Darla Jo

2. The wives standing in a circle/huddle. The view is looking down on their feet, and each wears different shoes—shoes that show who each character is…

Amazing! The cover team took those two strange suggestions and came up with the wives at graveside—just their legs, their black skirts and their shoes. And they’re throwing those bouquets, just as I suggested them, into Ralphie’s grave.

Oh, yeah. I love it. Did I say that already?

Hope y’all have a terrific summer.

Yours,

Christine

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