 I have warm feelings for my hometown. I used to visit it each month but in the recent years, I haven't been back. My father had moved out of town and so we never got back. But the town is still the place my heart recognizes as my home. It still shows up in my dreams. Author Lorelei Henderson shows that same love for Boston, the hometown of her main characters in TO PLAY FOR LOVE. They both have fond memories of growing up, high school, and want to give back to their community. It's that love of home that resonates through the book. TO PLAY FOR LOVE is a wonderful romance filled with nostalgia and family moments. I loved the twist with the characters' choices. Now available in ebook, TO PLAY FOR LOVE will be one story you will want to read again and again. Blurb: A struggling actress must decide between Hollywood success or a hometown love…Especially when her heart is on the line. Cassandra Chaletaine worked hard to catch her break in Tinsel Town but she’s struggling because of her race, talent or plain bad luck. She returns home to Boston for her father’s retirement party and to re-evaluate her career. While touring a new theatre in her old neighborhood, she literally bumped into her old friend and former Hollywood writer, Michael Kiley. They’d always had much in common, both being bi-racial and shared dreams of Hollywood success. After finding Hollywood lacking, Michael fled to give back to his hometown. He was delighted to see Cassandra, having always been in love with her but too afraid to risk their friendship. Now that she was back in Boston, the love he’d harbored for years, blooms. Cassandra falls hard for Michael too, but she’s pulled between her life in Hollywood and the one in her hometown. When her agent calls with her dream break, Cassandra has to make the biggest decision of her life— would it be Hollywood or Love? TO PLAY FOR LOVE is great for fans of Elin Hilderbrand’s novels. Many of her novels are about family, it’s the foundational theme and TO PLAY FOR LOVE is all about family and hometown love. Additionally, fans of Jasmine Guillory’s wonderful novels will also love TO PLAY FOR LOVE. Ms. Guillory’s characters are fully fleshed out people with tremendously relatable storylines that her readers love, just as they will love Cassandra, Michael and all the people that make up their lives. EXCERPT: Cassandra continued up the walk toward the double-glass entrance doors when she was suddenly bumped from behind. When she turned, a stack of wooden dining chairs were being held aloft by strong arms. Through the chair’s slats, she caught a glimpse of bright gray eyes in a solidly handsome brown face partially covered in a neatly trimmed beard. They stared at each other through the slats for brief, heart-pounding seconds with a sudden, irretrievable fore knowledge of the past and the present entwining like lovers. “Sorry,” a deep, rum-colored voice said from the stack. “I wasn’t paying enough attention to where I was going.” He side-stepped right at the same time Cassandra did, causing them to bump again before he pulled off a deft twist, turning the chairs from between them out of harm’s way as he circled around her. He took a few steps, stopped a beat before moving off, and disappearing inside. She stared after him. For a moment, she thought she’d recognized him. It was the voice … she knew it yet couldn’t place it. Then again, it could just be her active imagination. “What’s wrong, Cass?” Her sister had come up beside her. “I thought I recognized someone, but maybe not.” Buy Links: |
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