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This morning we welcome Barbara DeLeo’s heroine, Ellie Jacobs, from Last Chance Proposal as she faces a … tense situation.

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Immigration Service: State your full name, age, occupation and residence, please.

Ellie: My name Ellison Jacobs, I’m a 26 year old architect from New Zealand.  I’m staying in the beach town of Rata Cove, New Zealand over Christmas and then I have projects all over the world.

Immigration Service: So, Miss Jacobs we’re conducting this interview today because there has been some question about the legitimacy of the relationship between you and surf store owner and U.S. resident, Cy Hathaway.

Ellie (clearing her throat): I don’t understand what you mean. Cy and I have been friends for years. Anyone will tell you that our relationship is real.

Immigration Service: Friendship’s one thing, Ms Jacobs, we want to ensure that you’re not just marrying him to gain entry into the United States and so he will have a better custody case for his son, Jonty,

Is it true that Mr Hathaway left you a number of years ago and you hadn’t seen him again since last week.

Ellie : Yes, but…

Immigration Service: And is it true what some of the townsfolk have told us—that he broke your heart back then and that you were surprised when he turned up at Rata Cove for Christmas?

Ellie: We were teenagers back then, and my heart was broken by something even bigger than my relationship with Cy.

Sometimes you never forget people. Sometimes they become a part of you so deeply that you can’t turn your back on them when they need you most.

Immigration Service: Yes, Ms Jacobs, that’s exactly what we’re afraid of.

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9781622663859_500Blurb:

A wife he needs. The woman he desires.

Cy Hathaway needs a wife, fast, to win custody of his son, Jonty. He returns home to discover the childhood sweetheart he left behind has become a vibrant, beautiful woman. Even though wanting to sweep her off her feet wasn’t part of the plan…

For Ellie, Cy’s sudden reappearance awakens a flood of memories—and resentments for the way he’d abandoned her all those years ago. But she has a life now, a career. She can’t simply drop everything and get hitched, even if the sight of him still makes her heart race.

But after Ellie meets his little boy, she can’t refuse. Certain she has a grip on her old feelings for Cy, she agrees to marry her first love until he gains custody. But when did helping out a friend become something with the capacity to hijack her heart?

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authorAuthor Info:

Barbara DeLeo’s first book, co-written with her best friend, was a story about beauty queens in space. She was eleven, and the sole, handwritten copy was lost years ago, much to everyone’s relief. It’s some small miracle that she kept the faith and is now living her dream of writing sparkling contemporary romance with unforgettable characters.

After completing degrees in Psychology and English then travelling the world, Barbara married her winemaker hero and had two sets of twins.

She still loves telling stories about finding love in all the wrong places, with not a beauty queen or spaceship in sight.

Find Barbara and her books here:

http://www.barbaradeleo.com

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