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BLURB:
When a series of failed relationships and
business ventures have Monica Jackson doubting her self-worth, she turns to
spell casting to attract positive energy and the opportunities needed to
achieve her goals. But can Monica’s
belief in spells restore her belief in herself?
Monica creates a spell to find her soul mate, and one to ensure the
success of her new romantic event planning company, Enhance Your Romance. Monica is confident she has found her niche
until divorce lawyer Reed Walker opens a practice next door to her office. The anti-marriage slogan plastered on his
office window, and his down-on-love clients, quickly prove detrimental to
Monica’s business. When his arrival
appears to trigger a string of bad luck, Monica fears one of her spells sent
negative energy into the universe and it has returned to her threefold. Although Reed is beyond sexy, and she admires
his self-confidence, she’ll do whatever it takes to get the universe back on
her side, and Reed out of her life. No way is she losing another business.
Reed finds himself attracted to Monica’s beauty and her optimism. His
job and his parents’ divorce have made him a pessimist, especially when it
comes to love. However, he soon finds that Monica’s pro-love attitude is
rubbing off on him, causing him to lose his edge. If Reed doesn’t distance himself from Monica,
he’ll likely destroy his reputation as a pit bull divorce lawyer.
Can Monica and Reed look past what they might be losing to realize the
love they have found?
Excerpt:
Prologue
“A spell … ” Hope
mused, then her face lit up. “If there’s a spell to attract a man to a woman,
there must be one to repel women from a man. Right?”
“Spells shouldn’t involve negative energy. Sending out
negative energy can cause it to return threefold. They aren’t intended to harm
someone or make them do something against their will.” Jordan had drilled this
into her head.
“I wouldn’t be making Kyle do anything against his will. I’d
be warning women to stay away from him.”
Sounded borderline.
“Please,” Hope whined, picking a clump of batter from her
long, wavy hair.
Monica let out a defeated groan. “All right.” Hope would
never actually cast the spell anyway. When they were young, Hope refused to
wear a Casper costume for Halloween because she didn’t believe in ghosts. She
was closed-minded when it came to paranormal or New Age beliefs. And you had to
truly believe in a spell for it to work.
Monica set down the bowl of salt and grabbed a pencil and
pad of paper off her desk and handed them to Hope. “Write this down. It’s
called,” she tapped a hot pink nail against her lip, “the dirtbag spell. Take
one of Kyle’s socks, fill it with dirt, and add a photo of him. It’s critical
you aren’t in the photo.” Monica paced, tightening the sash on her lavender
silk robe. “Include something of his like … ”
“His new Rolex?”
Personally, Monica would list the watch on eBay and pray for
a bidding war. But Hope, no matter how ticked off, was too timid to sell Kyle’s
precious watch, and too frugal to risk damaging it by mixing it with dirt.
“That’s fine. Sew up the sock and bury it in your front
yard. It’ll warn all women he’s a dirtbag.”
Hope poised the pencil against her lower lip, reviewing the
spell. “Don’t I have to say something when I bury it, like a chant?”
What happened to being spell ignorant?
“Bury it in the moonlight while saying … ” Monica scrambled
for a few rhyming lines, “moonlight, glowing bright, warn all women in your
sight, the man who lives in this house, is a dirtbag and a total louse.”
“Perfect.” Hope sprang from the bed, looking inspired.
“Kyle’s at work. I’m going over to the house right now to bury that sock.” She
turned and marched out, a woman on a mission.
Monica nibbled nervously on her fingernail. Hope wouldn’t
seriously go through with casting the spell, would she? A big part of spell
casting was psychological, focusing all your energy on making something happen.
Monica had never seen Hope look so determined, or vindictive. Hopefully, if she
did cast the spell the negative energy didn’t return threefold.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Eliza Daly’s
first attempt at creative writing was in fourth grade. She and her friends were
huge Charlie’s Angels fans and she would sit in her bedroom at night writing
scripts for them to act out at recess the following day. She was Kelly Garrett.
Fast forward to the present, she’s still writing stories about beautiful women
who always get their men. The journey from fourth grade script writer to published
author wasn’t an easy one, but it was always an adventure and the final
destination was well worth it.
When Eliza
isn’t traveling for her job as an event planner, or tracing her ancestry roots
through Ireland, she’s at home in Milwaukee working on her next novel, bouncing
ideas off her husband Mark, and her cats Quigley and Frankie.
You can find
Eliza on the web at
Website: http://www.elizadaly.com/
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/ElizaDalyAuthor
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/ElizaDalyAuthor
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/elizadaly
Under Her
Spell is available at
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