Please help me welcome today’s guest, Amber Cross…
**Giveaway: A copy of the first book in this series-Precedent for Passion
A name will be drawn from all those who comment
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Amber Cross is from Northern New England, still lives in the same town she grew up in with her husband, two dogs, and two teens.
I was always meant to write David’s story; the handsome Chinese American who goes from being an only child to being the middle child in a blended, interracial family, and he is the quintessential middle child. His brilliant siblings come to him whenever they need “grounding.”
Jonnie has been “speaking” to me for some time. She’s an impulsive, colorful, affectionate sensory-seeker. I knew she would be an unusual heroine and wanted desperately to find love for her; I just didn’t know David would be her man!
The book’s title was easy. America tried for decades to find an “open door” to China, and Jonnie is trying to find an opening into David’s heart.
Writing the book was not as easy. I kept re-writing, revising, and rearranging the early chapters. David and Jonnie met three years ago, and I wasn’t sure if I should start then, or use flashbacks. In the end, I chose flashbacks.
It’s always a challenge to write about characters you’re emotionally invested in, and I wanted so much to give you, the reader, a love story. Not a book about ethnicity that also has romantic elements, but a romance about two people who just happen to be from different ethnic backgrounds. As David likes to say, “It’s that simple.”
A hot chef in a cold climate makes this wild woman want to settle down
Blurb:
Jonnie Moulton’s chance for a fresh start as Somerset’s marketing consultant might be over before it begins unless she can convince David Wang she knows what she’s doing and isn’t the desperate woman he met three years ago.
This confident new Jonnie makes David’s blood sizzle. He plans to keep her close and not just because she’s living in one of his resort cabins.
He “gets” her like no one else.
She excites him more every day.
But is this simply passion, or have they found an open door to love?
Excerpt:
They couldn’t run in the morning. Much as he wanted to spend time with her, the temperature had risen so much over the last two days the trail wasn’t safe. A thick layer of mud covered still-frozen ground. One misplaced foot could result in an injury.
“Makes sense,” she said when he explained this at the gazebo, the disappointment in her tone gratifying.
“You can always use the gym.” He wanted her to. Wanted to know she worked out one floor below his bedroom.
“Hmm. Thank you. And I will,” she hurried to add, as if he might not believe her. “It’s just that I need an aerobic workout in the morning, and being outside gives me a rush nothing else can match.”
David looked out over the hill, at the lake shrouded in fog and the white steepled church in the distance. He didn’t trust himself to look at her because he wanted to give her a rush, and he was afraid she’d see that on his face. She might find him attractive, but she hadn’t given him a green light, and he didn’t want to scare her off.
“Maybe I’ll just take a walk around the common.”
Under control once more, he met her gaze. She would never be content with a gentle stroll or simply stretching her legs for a few minutes. “How many times around?”
She grinned, and he couldn’t help smiling with her. “A few.”
Buy link(s):
https://books.apple.com/mt/book/open-door-to-love/id1561488551
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/open-door-to-love-amber-cross/1139174487?ean=2940162252184
Bio
Amber Cross was raised on a family farm in New England, one of a dozen siblings, each one inspiring her writing in some way. She still lives in that same small town with her husband and the youngest of their five children. She loves spending time in the woods, in the water, and watching people because every one of them has a unique and fascinating story to tell.
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Find Amber online at: https://www.amber-cross.com/
Author Alicia Dean 
What a Beautiful cover!
Lovely excerpt too.
Good luck and God’s blessings
PamT
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I enjoyed learning about you and your book. I especially liked the blurb! Filled with lots of good romantic tension!
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I was glad to meet you and learn more about your books. Love the book cover. Would love to read and review book in print format.
Thanks for review
Hope I Win
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Hi Crystal,
You’re the winner. Please contact me at fallinlovewithambercross@gmail.com so we can arrange book shipment.
Amber
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This sounds like a lovely story! Congratulations on the book.
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