Love and Shenanigans (Ballybeg, Book 1) (The Ballybeg Series) (35 page)

Love and Shenanigans
is the first book in the Ballybeg series. Find out what’s next by checking out my website at
http://zarakeane.com

You can also turn the page to read the blurbs for
Love and Blarney
(Ballybeg, #1.5) and
Love and Leprechauns
(Ballybeg, #2).

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Coming September 2014

Married in Manhattan…

Ruairí MacCarthy left his wife behind in New York to deal with a family crisis in Ireland. Twelve months later, Ruairí’s replaced his three-piece suits and Wall Street career with jeans and a job managing his family’s pub. When his estranged wife breezes back into his life looking for a reconciliation, Ruairí must decide if home is really where the heart is.

…True Love in Ballybeg

Jayme King won’t take no for an answer. She wants Ruairí back, and she’s prepared to risk her designer shoes in an Irish cow pasture to get him. Discovering her husband lied to her about his past was a shock, but Jayme’s had a year to come to terms with Ruairí’s betrayal. A brush with death has given her a new perspective, and she knows letting Ruairí go was the biggest mistake of her life. Can she persuade him to return to America and give their marriage a second chance?

Coming November 2014

Tattooed in Tipperary…

Olivia Gant is determined to escape her abusive marriage and live life on her own terms. Desperation drives her to agree to rent premises for her new café from her teenage nemesis, the man who tattooed her arse and stomped on her heart. Can she maintain a haughty distance, or will she succumb to temptation once more?

Jonas O’Mahony is a struggling single father to a child with special needs. The last thing he wants is the beautiful-but-infuriating Olivia under his roof and underfoot, but a childcare crisis forces him to accept her offer to babysit in return for the lease on the cottage. Can Jonas resist Olivia’s allures, or will he finally admit he’s in love?

…True Love in Ballybeg

When Olivia’s ex is clobbered to death by a garden gnome, the fickle finger of suspicion points to Olivia and Jonas. Can they prove their innocence? Or is their happily ever after doomed?

Zara Keane grew up in Dublin, Ireland, but spent her summers in a small town very similar to the fictitious Ballybeg.

She currently lives in Switzerland with her family. When she’s not writing or wrestling small people, she drinks far too much coffee, and tries—with occasional success—to resist the siren call of Swiss chocolate.

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I’m enormously fortunate to be surrounded by family and friends who have always encouraged my writing career. To name them all would take up more pages than anyone would care to read, so I’ll confine myself to those without whom
Love and Shenanigans
never would have been finished, let alone published.

Many thanks to Kate Garrabrant for suggesting I give NaNoWriMo a shot back in November 2009; to my wonderful critique partner, Magdalen Braden, for always telling me the unvarnished truth; to Janet Webb for encouraging me to write a romance set in Ireland; to Nadia Lee for patiently answering numerous newbie questions over the years; to Rhonda Helms, editor extraordinaire, for her excellent suggestions on story development and character arcs and for reining in my comma abuse; to Gwen Hayes for her wonderful Fresh Eyes Critique; to Trish Slattery, April Weigele, and Michele Harvey for beta reading and proofreading the book; and to Anne and Linda at Victory Editing for the thorough proofread.

Last but definitely not least, thank you to my family for always believing in me and for encouraging me to live my dream.

LOVE AND SHENANIGANS

Copyright © 2014 by Sarah Tanner

Published 2014 by Beaverstone Press GmbH (LLC)

ISBN-13: 978-3-906245-01-0

Cover design © Kim Killion

Cover photographs
The Killion Group Inc.
and
Patryk Kosmider at Bigstock

Formatting by
Zara Keane

Amazon Kindle Version 1.1.

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This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales, or organizations is entirely coincidental.