Book Hooks is a weekly meme hosted by Marketing for Romance Writers as part of the MFRW Authors Blog. It's a chance each week for you the reader to discover current WIP or previously published book by possibly new to you authors. The Perfect Pitch is book 1 in the Seaside Boulevard Series.   $3.99 on Amazon Kindle & $12.99 Paperback BLURB      Francine and Richie Ragglio are high school sweethearts. Francine owns her own real estate business and Richie pitches for the New York Pelicans. Richie hurts his shoulder while pitching the first game of the season, not the way he wants to end his career. When Francine is left an abandoned restaurant from someone from her past, things begin to spiral out of control. The mystery of a hidden basement brings Francine and her friends together to do their own investigation, which puts them in the middle of a smuggling ring.      Will Richie's get through his surgery so he...

Welcome to this weeks Tuesday Tales to the word prompt Light.  Pia remembered repeatedly asking him to bring her back to her hotel room, but Larry kept saying soon.   While walking down the strip, he took her hand leading her into one of the stores.   One thing she remembered distinctively was Larry leading her into a jewelry store telling her to pick whatever she wanted.   That was the last thing she recalled. The next morning she woke up naked in bed with Larry.   Closing her eyes she tried to think back to the night before.   What had happened between walking back to her hotel room and here?    She sat up.   Her head was killing her.   Boy she had some hell of a hangover.   She slid her legs off the bed, just as she got off, Larry wrapped his hands around her waist pulling her next to him. “What are you doing?” Pia asked. “I was just about to ask you the same thing.   Where are you going?” ...

  Welcome to this week's Tuesday's Tales.  This week, Pia is thinking back to when Larry and she had regular business meeting four years prior. Pia sat on the cushioned window seat staring out into the valley.   Larry had been asking her for months to join him on a weekend getaway in his house upstate New York.    Finally, she gave in and insisted they use the weekend to outline the expansion of their small closet size office into a free standing building on Hylan Boulevard.   While Larry walked across the yard in the snow to replenish the wood for the fireplace, Pia watched, second-guessing her decision to join him. She had met Larry in a business class in college.   They started talking and hit it off when they realized they both wanted to start a real estate business.   After his persuasion, she decided to join forces with him.   She had the business sense and Larry had the collateral to get the business up and ru...

--> Welcome to Tuesday Tales where tales turn into novels.  This week word prompt is Future.                                                 Pia had called Larry asking him to meet her at Dai Noi, explaining she needed to discuss something with him.   At twelve-thirty, she pulled into the small parking lot behind the restaurant.   As she walked in, she rehearsed in her mind what she wanted to say to him.   The big question was how she would end their nonexistent relationship without ruining the business they built together. A few months ago, she had thought about venturing out on her own.   She had been the one with the real estate license doing ninety percent of the work.   Larry had taken the exam a few times without...

Welcome to this weeks Tuesday's Tale to the word prompt - Silent.  When you're done, don't forget to click the link on  the bottom to return to Tuesday Tales. --> Pia stood on her porch, with her arms folded watching Lorenzo’s convertible pull down the street.   When his car was totally out of sight, she walked back inside.   For the first time in two weeks her house was silent.   Most of the time she spent running around cleaning, organizing and figuring out how to handle this unbelievably flawless relationship she had going with Lorenzo. The past two weeks had been like heaven.   Lorenzo turned out to be a loving, compassionate man, despite the rumors he had been a ladies man.   But who was she to judge. Pia had some big time problems to deal with.   Opening the top drawer of her mahogany breakfront, she pulled out the picture frame of Larry and her, the picture of them on his boat down in the Virgin Islands, three year...