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Cover Reveal: 8 Weeks by Bethany Lopez

Publication Date: March 24, 2014

Summary: Is eight weeks enough time to earn back the love of someone you've betrayed...the only one you've ever loved?

Shelly has been in love with Cal since they started dating in eleventh grade. Despite everyone saying that the odds were against them, they got married after graduation and built a life together. Now, six years later, she is faced with the ultimate betrayal. Devastated, her first instinct is to call it quits…

After a drunken binge at his best friends’ bachelor party, Cal betrays the one person who has always been there for him, his wife, Shelly. Terrified and realizing she might divorce him, Cal must come up with a way to prove to her that his love is true…

Cal asks Shelly for eight weeks. Eight weeks to convince her that their marriage is worth the fight. Will Shelly be able to trust him again, or will their marriage end the way many others do when faced with opposition… In divorce?


About Bethany Lopez: Award-Winning Author Bethany Lopez began self-publishing in June 2011. Since then she has published various YA and NA books. She is a lover of romance, family, and friends, and enjoys incorporating those things in what she writes. When she isn't reading or writing, she loves spending time with her husband and children, traveling whenever possible.

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Blog Tour: My Inspiration for Samir from I SEE LONDON By Chanel Cleeton

My Inspiration for Samir from I SEE LONDON

By Chanel Cleeton

When I started writing I SEE LONDON I knew I wanted a hero who came from a completely different background than my heroine, Maggie. I’m a sucker for taking opposites and throwing them together, forcing my characters to step outside of their comfort zones. With that idea in mind I began writing Samir.

Samir is one of the most complex characters I’ve ever written. He’s struggling with a lot of the same coming of age ideas that we see in New Adult, but his cultural background provides a different spin on his transition to adulthood. I loved exploring what coming of age would mean for him.

Samir is caught between two cultures—his mother is French, his father is Lebanese. On one hand he was born in Beirut and very much identifies with his Lebanese heritage; on the other hand he’s spent quite a bit of time in Paris and his French background is very much a part of who he is. He’s often caught between languages—his mind a combination of French and Arabic. Both cultures are very much a part of him and yet at times he struggles to define who he is. As a Cuban-American I definitely related to his sense of identity and the feeling that he is, at times, straddling two different worlds.

Samir’s cultural expectations play a large role in his coming of age development. His family has a very clear path laid out for him—one that clearly doesn’t involve a girl like Maggie. The differences in their backgrounds is one of the things that brings them closer together and forces them outside of their comfort zones, but at the same time it’s also the wedge that could drive them apart.

For Samir university is a chance to let loose, one final hurrah before he returns back to Lebanon and steps into the family fold and all of the expectations that come with it. For Samir graduation means more than just getting a job, it means a marriage his parents will approve of, a career that they’ve planned for him, and the need to assume his position as the future head of his family. It’s a completely different set of expectations than what we’ve come to associate with coming of age and it will bring a whole host of challenges for him and Maggie.

BOOK SUMMARY: 

Maggie Carpenter is ready for a change— and to leave her ordinary life in South Carolina behind. But when she accepts a scholarship to the International School in London, a university attended by the privileged offspring of diplomats and world leaders, Maggie might get more than she bargained for.

When Maggie meets Hugh, a twentysomething British guy, she finds herself living the life she always wanted. Suddenly she’s riding around the city in a Ferrari, wearing borrowed designer clothes and going to the hottest clubs. The only problem? Another guy, the one she can’t seem to keep her hands off of.

Half French, half Lebanese, and ridiculously wealthy, Samir Khouri has made it clear he doesn’t do relationships. He’s the opposite of everything Maggie thought she wanted…and he’s everything she can’t resist. Torn between her dream guy and the boy haunting her dreams, Maggie has to fight for her own happy ending. In a city like London, you never know where you stand, and everything can change in the blink of an eye.

This is a New Adult romance recommended for readers 17 and up.

AUTHOR BIO: 
Originally a Florida girl, at seventeen Chanel moved to London to attend an international university.  In the four years that followed, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, learned how to dance, travelled through Europe, and made lifelong friendships.  Chanel fell in love with London and planned to stay there forever.  But fate intervened on a Caribbean cruise, when an American fighter pilot with smooth dance moves, swept her off her feet.
Now, a happily ever after later, Chanel is living her next adventure in South Korea.  An avid reader and hopeless romantic, she is happiest curled up with a book.  She has a weakness for handbags, puppy cuddles, and her fighter pilot husband.  Chanel writes New Adult contemporary romances and Young Adult thrillers.  Her New Adult debut, I SEE LONDON, will be released by Harlequin (HQN) on February 3, 2014, followed by a sequel, LONDON FALLING, later in the year.

AUTHOR LINKS: 
Website:   www.chanelcleeton.com
Facebook:   www.facebook.com/authorchanelcleeton
Twitter:   www.twitter.com/chanelcleeton
Goodreads:   www.goodreads.com/chanelcleeton

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