My
#RomanticIdea for this summer
I
love the beach and for me there’s nothing nicer than walk along the beach with
my feet in the water, listening to the sound of the waves crushing along the
shore, and my loved one by my side – hoping to spot a dolphin.
~~ Little Beginnings ~~
by
Iris Blobel
“I
suppose it doesn’t hurt to dream sometimes.”
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BLURB ♥♦♥
A blind date that doesn't happen might lead to love.
After her divorce, Jeri Belmont moved to Hobart and now runs a successful art gallery. When her niece sets her up with a neighbour, Jeri expects a blind date like the many she’s had. But she never expected her date wouldn’t even show up because of her age. Despite feeling unjustly judged, when she unexpectedly runs into him again, she finds it hard to ignore Ely’s charm.
After her divorce, Jeri Belmont moved to Hobart and now runs a successful art gallery. When her niece sets her up with a neighbour, Jeri expects a blind date like the many she’s had. But she never expected her date wouldn’t even show up because of her age. Despite feeling unjustly judged, when she unexpectedly runs into him again, she finds it hard to ignore Ely’s charm.
Ely Lennox knows he
shouldn’t have skipped the blind date because of the lady’s age. After all, it
had only been a date, not a lifetime commitment. When his carpentry business
takes him right to the woman he bailed out on, his guilt turns into regret when
he finds out she’s everything a man could hope for. How can he convince Jeri
that he knows acting so immaturely was a big mistake? Will she ever forgive
him? Or is she hiding behind something else?
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MEET THE AUTHOR ♥♦♥
IRIS
BLOBEL
Iris Blobel was born
and raised in Germany and only immigrated to Australia in the late 1990s.
Having had the travel bug most of her life, Iris spent quite some time living
in Scotland, London as well as Canada where she her husband. Her love for
putting her stories onto paper has only emerged recently, but now her laptop is
a constant companion.
Iris resides west of
Melbourne with her husband and her two beautiful daughters.
Next to her job at a
private school, she also presents a German Program at the local Community
Radio.
Social
Media Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IrisBlobel
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_iris_b
Instagram: https:/www.instagram.com/iris_blobel/
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EXCERPT ♥♦♥
Jeri Belmont checked the time on her
watch. It was twenty past six, and they’d
agreed to
meet at six.
He
was late!
Steaming
inside, and less than impressed by her blind date, she took another sip of the
Chardonnay as she gazed around the restaurant. Everyone was engulfed in their conversations,
but occasionally one of the patrons glanced at her. She shrugged it off, confident
in sitting on her own in the town’s most elegant restaurant. What she couldn’t
shrug off, though, was her date being late.
She drank the
last little bit of her wine, paid, and left. A deep disappointment settled in
the pit of her stomach, surprising her, because it hadn’t been the first time she’d
been on a blind date that ended with the guy not showing up.
She
suppressed a groan as she thought of the man she’d met only a few weeks earlier.
Admittedly, he’d been nice, but not at all what he’d pretended to be in the details
she received from the “Your Future Heart” agency.
Yet, this
rejection hurt inside. Olivia had told her so much about her neighbour, and
she’d trusted her niece when she’d assured he’d be there.
Olivia was
Georgia’s daughter. Georgia was Jeri’s cousin, but to avoid confusion they all
agreed on Olivia being her niece. Jeri loved Olivia like her own daughter and had
often babysat her when she’d been younger. They’d been to movies, concerts, and
Jeri had even been along to one of her niece’s trips to Melbourne to visit
Olivia’s best friend Mia, who had moved across the Bass Strait.
As Jeri
walked down the streets to her car, she replayed her conversation with her niece
in her mind.
“How are your
blind dates going?” her niece had asked as she came into Jeri’s gallery a
couple of days ago.
She’d
shrugged. “I have a winner’s luck getting hooked up with all the duds in town.”
Jeri remembered hesitating, contemplating whether to speak the words in her head.
Was she destined to live alone
after her divorce? She
wasn’t looking for the man of her dreams, just companionship. Someone to go out
with once in a while.
Someone to
share her day’s highlights or nightmares with.
“You should
meet the guy from next door,” Olivia said. “He’s like sex on legs.
Honestly.”
Jeri let out
a stifled laugh. “Listen, sweetie. I’m in my late thirties, good looking for
that age, but sex on
legs?”
“You just
wait and see,” Olivia said as she looked at her watch. “Anyway, I’d better go.
I’ll give you a call tonight. Prepare yourself for a nice night out with my neighbour!”
That had
basically been it — she’d been set up on a blind date without actually agreeing
to it. In hindsight, she knew she should’ve called it off, but deep inside, she’d
hoped for a nice evening. She’d been most certain that none of Olivia’s friends
were what she was looking for, but then again, she didn’t even know herself what
she was looking for.
Thanks for sharing,
Tina
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Thank you, Gayle, for having me on your blog today.
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