Release Blitz - It Had to be You by Tracy Solheim

Title: It Had to be You

Series: Chances Inlet #4

Author: Tracy Solheim

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Sports/Small Town/Nanny/Forced Proximity

Release Date: June 5, 2023

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It’s hard to keep a big secret in a small town . . .

When Paige Hollister discovers her “Mr. Right” already has a “Mrs. Right,” she swears off men forever. Even more humiliating, she suddenly finds herself labeled the other woman and out of the teaching job she loves. So Paige does what every unemployed single woman staring thirty in the face does: She hightails it to the beach. Bad luck like hers is hard to outrun, however. Her getaway is stalled when her car breaks down in a small-town chock full of meddling, nosy residents. The worst of them being the local sheriff—none other than her estranged father.

Finally on top of the golf world, Tanner Gillette is poised to show everyone he’s not just an entitled playboy coasting through tournaments on his pedigree. That is until his life is turned upside down by a little girl who shows up on his doorstep with a birth certificate inexplicably bearing his name. Complicating matters more, the kid isn’t talking. When the stress of caring for a child whose mother is AWOL gives Tanner a bad case of the yips, he’s forced to enlist help from the one person in town who can’t wait to leave.

Sticking around Chances Inlet and her father’s shiny new, über-successful family isn’t on Paige’s to-do list. Especially when she’d prefer to keep her embarrassing incident under wraps. Yet she can’t walk away from the troubled little girl. Or the sexy Australian golfer who just might make her want to take a chance on trusting her heart again.

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USA Today bestselling author Tracy Solheim writes books with shirtless men on the cover. Some of them are actually best-sellers. The books, not the men. When she's not writing, she's practicing her curling. . . bottles of wine, that is. She's been known to cook dinner but no more than two nights in a row. Most days, she'd rather be reading, which to her is just necessary research. She lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband and a neurotic Labrador retriever. Her two adult children visit but not often enough. (See the note above about cooking.) Check out her romantic suspense series featuring the Men of the Secret Service--shirtless, of course! See what she’s up to at www.tracysolheim.com

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Release Blitz - Second Chance Christmas by Tracy Solheim

Title: Second Chance Christmas

Series: Chances Inlet #3

Author: Tracy Solheim

Genre: Second Chance Romance

Release Date: October 25, 2021

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Chances Inlet is the home of second chances. Too bad not everyone wants one. Not even for Christmas . . .

Chances Inlet, North Carolina is the last place major leaguer Ryan McAlister wants to hide from the media to rest up his broken hand. He left his gossipy, Christmas-obsessed hometown in the dust over a decade ago. When he gets caught up in the town’s holiday antics, he finds himself responsible for making a little boy’s Christmas wish come true. The kid’s widowed mother, however—a blast from Ryan’s past—just might make his stay a bit more exciting.

Physical therapist Jane Sheffield loves her hometown. Especially at Christmastime. Since this may be her last in Chances Inlet, she’s determined to make the most of it with her young son. But after her childcare falls apart, she gets more than she bargained for when her best friend’s younger brother volunteers to help out. The rebellious teen she tutored in high school has grown up into a sexy charmer and so much more than the pretty face he pretends to be.

Can a stray dog, the Ghost of Christmas past, and a host of meddling townsfolk muster up enough Christmas spirit to convince Ryan and Jane to give their hometown—and each other--a second chance?

This book is the third book in a family saga but can be read as a standalone.

Chances Inlet Series:

Book 1: Back to Before

Book 2: All They Ever Wanted

Book 3: Second Chance Christmas

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He grinned at the women. “Batter up.”

“Hold up there, Santa.” Bernice’s elf slippers swished over the tiger-wood floor as she stepped in front of him. “You can’t just step out there willy-nilly. We need to go over the rules first.”

“Rules? There are rules to this?” He glanced around the kitchen to the coven of women surrounding him. His mother nodded solemnly, the ridiculous antlers on her head threatening to take someone’s eye out. Kate shrugged her shoulders with a smirk. Cassidy offered up her signature move, the eye roll, executing it with the style and finesse of an Olympic athlete.

“Yes. Rules.” Bernice narrowed her eyes at him. It was hard to take the older woman seriously on a good day, but dressed as she was, Ryan had to fight twice as hard to keep a straight face when she spoke. Especially when she was talking nonsense.

“Seeing how there wasn’t any time for you to attend Santa training or read the manual,” she said, “I’m going to go over the most important ones quickly. So listen up.”

“Santa training?” Ryan’s chuckle was met with a fierce glare. He sobered up immediately. Were these women actually serious? “I don’t need a manual to figure this out. The kids sit on my lap. They tell me what they want. I tell them to be good. Cassidy snaps a photo and we’re done. How hard can this be?”

“Ugh,” Cassidy groaned behind him. “We are so screwed.”

“Look, honey.” His mother rested her hand on his forearm. “I appreciate you stepping up. But Bernice is right. This isn’t as simple as it sounds. But all you have to do is follow her lead, and you’ll do great.”

And there it was again. That lifelong implication that Ryan couldn’t handle anything too complicated. Granted, he didn’t have the advanced degrees and college pedigrees of his siblings. So what? Why did no one here expect him to be capable of much, other than turning a double play? It shouldn’t bother him. He was successful in his own right and he rarely felt inadequate in any aspect of his life. Yet, for some reason, whenever he returned home, all the old insecurities resurfaced. It stuck in his craw to have to feel this way every time he set foot in this town. It was one of the reasons he stayed away as much as he could.

“It’s not brain surgery, for crying out loud,” he snapped at his mom. “I’ve got this.”

Kate’s eyes went wide. He ignored the looks on the other women’s faces. Instead, he buttoned up the rest of the Santa jacket, tapped his beard to make sure it was secure, and shoved his way through the swinging door with a hearty “Ho, ho, ho!”

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USA Today bestselling author Tracy Solheim writes books with shirtless men on the cover. Some of them are actually best-sellers. The books, not the men. When she's not writing, she's practicing her curling. . . bottles of wine, that is. She's been known to cook dinner but no more than two nights in a row. Most days, she'd rather be reading, which to her is just necessary research. She lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband and a neurotic Labrador retriever. Her two adult children visit but not often enough. (See the note above about cooking.) Check out her romantic suspense series featuring the Men of the Secret Service--shirtless, of course! See what she’s up to at www.tracysolheim.com

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Title: Second Chance Christmas

Series: Chances Inlet #3

Author: Tracy Solheim

Genre: Second Chance Romance

Release Date: October 25, 2021

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Chances Inlet is the home of second chances. Too bad not everyone wants one. Not even for Christmas . . .

Chances Inlet, North Carolina is the last place major leaguer Ryan McAlister wants to hide from the media to rest up his broken hand. He left his gossipy, Christmas-obsessed hometown in the dust over a decade ago. When he gets caught up in the town’s holiday antics, he finds himself responsible for making a little boy’s Christmas wish come true. The kid’s widowed mother, however—a blast from Ryan’s past—just might make his stay a bit more exciting.

Physical therapist Jane Sheffield loves her hometown. Especially at Christmastime. Since this may be her last in Chances Inlet, she’s determined to make the most of it with her young son. But after her childcare falls apart, she gets more than she bargained for when her best friend’s younger brother volunteers to help out. The rebellious teen she tutored in high school has grown up into a sexy charmer and so much more than the pretty face he pretends to be.

Can a stray dog, the Ghost of Christmas past, and a host of meddling townsfolk muster up enough Christmas spirit to convince Ryan and Jane to give their hometown—and each other--a second chance?

This book is the third book in a family saga but can be read as a standalone.

Chances Inlet Series:

Book 1: Back to Before

Book 2: All They Ever Wanted

Book 3: Second Chance Christmas

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“YOU PROMISED MY son a puppy?”

Ryan whipped his head around to see Jane headed in his direction. Make that a very pissed off Jane. The expression on her face was nothing like the one she’d been bewitching him with a few moments ago. Hell, she’d looked so fresh and alluring when he’d had his arms around her, he’d damn near kissed her, right here in front of his family and half the town of Chances Inlet. Not that any red-blooded dude staring down those luscious lips of hers wouldn’t do the same.

But this was Jane “Uptight” Upton Whatever-her-new-name-was.

His sister’s best friend.

His older sister’s best friend.

A married woman.

And where the hell was that husband of hers anyway? The dude should be here having a go at Ryan for the way he’d put his hands all over the guy’s wife. Ryan wanted to bust his own ass for being so touchy-feely with Jane, of all people.

It was just the excitement of the game.

And the fact that he’d been celibate since freaking spring training. Not that the opportunities hadn’t existed. He just hadn’t been interested, despite what was falsely reported about him. Frankly, he’d been beginning to wonder if something was wrong with him.

Until he’d had Jane in his arms.

Nothing to wonder about now. In fact, everything seemed to be in working order and ready for a test drive. Had he held her in his arms any longer, he might have embarrassed himself, his parts were working so well.

But there would no test driving—or anything else—with the woman bearing down on him, however, even if she weren’t married. Or his older sister’s best friend. Or his former tutor. Nope. Jane’s gray eyes were dark as storm clouds. And she was babbling something about a dog.

“Promised who, what?” he asked, resisting the urge to lower his hands so he could protect the family jewels.

“My son, you idiot,” she ground out through clenched teeth. “You promised him Santa would bring him a puppy for Christmas.”

The chorus of gasps and groans around him barely registered. Ryan sucked in a stunned breath. It couldn’t be. But that would mean she wasn’t married. She was a widow. With a young son. One who wanted her to have a—boyfriend for Christmas.

Oh, hell, nah.

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USA Today bestselling author Tracy Solheim writes books with shirtless men on the cover. Some of them are actually best-sellers. The books, not the men. When she's not writing, she's practicing her curling. . . bottles of wine, that is. She's been known to cook dinner but no more than two nights in a row. Most days, she'd rather be reading, which to her is just necessary research. She lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband and a neurotic Labrador retriever. Her two adult children visit but not often enough. (See the note above about cooking.) Check out her romantic suspense series featuring the Men of the Secret Service--shirtless, of course! See what she’s up to at www.tracysolheim.com

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