Janet Chapman, Maine Romance Author

:: The Seduction Of His Wife ::

Book 1 of the Logger Series
(Alex Knight and Sarah)

The Seduction of His Wife

Doesn't the very idea give you pause?

Well readers, that's the title of my new book released in July 2006 from Pocket Star. Set deep in the Maine woods, it's a story about a family of loggers and a woman who challenges the eldest son's resolve to remain happily single. I can't tell you how much fun I had writing about Sarah and Alex as their lives get really complicated by a marriage neither of them wants.

Sarah quite willingly – and happily – becomes a wife, a mother, and a widow all in one week by agreeing to marry by proxy Grady Knight's eldest son, and adopt Alex's children to secure their custody before it is publicly known Alex is dead. But sometimes even the most well-intentioned plan can backfire on its perpetrators – which Sarah discovers the day Alex Knight comes back from the dead.

So what's a woman to do when she finds herself married to a complete stranger? Run back to her tiny island in the Gulf of Maine, and resume running a Bed & Breakfast she no longer owns? Or put up with her very-much-alive husband just long to keep Grady Knight out of trouble, then quietly divorce Alex and continue her plan to operate a set of sporting camps three miles farther up the shoreline of Frost Lake?

Bolstered by the smart, confident, feisty heroines in the romance novels she reads, Sarah decides to stay and fight for her dream – all while fighting her growing attraction to her maddening husband. Alex, on the other hand, sets out to seduce Sarah for all the wrong reasons, but quickly finds himself falling in love with her for all the right ones. And that, readers, is the gist of The Seduction of His Wife, for which I hope you will join me this July to find out how these two dynamic people discover that love has the power to overcome even the firmest resolve.