Once Upon a Blizzard by Lisabet Sarai @LisabetSarai #RLFblog #NewRelease #SecondChanceRomance #HolidayRomance
A mistletoe kiss rekindles an old spark in Lisabet Sarai’s second chance holiday romance Once upon a Blizzard. Suzanne finds some things do indeed get better with age, but when her high school crush Gino rescues her from a blizzard, she discovers that she’s not the only love in his life
Lisabet, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Once upon a Blizzard.
Once Upon a Blizzard by Lisabet Sarai
Genre MMF second chance holiday romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R/NC
No electricity. No water. Plenty of heat.
Suzanne and Gino have a history going back to high school, but for more than a decade the workaholic CEO has been thousands of miles from her New England home town.
A mistletoe kiss at a Christmas party rekindles the old spark and Suzanne finds some things do indeed get better with age. When Gino rescues her from a blizzard, though, she discovers that she’s not the only love in his life. Gino shares his bed and his colonial-era farm house with taciturn painter Harris Steele.
Snowed in with two lusty men who truly seem to care, she wonders why she’s so determined to return to her lonely West Coast life. Is there really a chance for a holiday happy ending?
Note: this book was previously published by Totally Entwined with the title Almost Home. It has been revised and re-edited for this edition.
Why did you write this book?
For the past two decades I’ve resided in the tropics of Southeast Asia, but before we moved here, my husband and I lived in a rural town in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts. The region offers fantastic natural beauty, wonderful local food, and a culture of easy-going individualism that suited us well. However, it also requires a certain level of fortitude from its inhabitants. One spends a significant amount of time and effort dealing with the environment: battling undergrowth, pulling weeds, raking leaves, shoveling snow, cleaning gutters, installing or removing storm windows and snow tires, checking the anti-freeze in the radiator and the oil in the furnace tank, storing summer clothing while exhuming winter garb and vice versa, catching and evicting mice and squirrels, and so on. Folks in the Pioneer Valley have to be tough.
New England winters are not as cold as some parts of the U.S., like Wisconsin or Minnesota, but they’re far less predictable. I can remember sixty degree weather on Christmas Eve in some years, temperatures below zero in others. Ice storms are a real menace; one year an ice-laded bough snapped off one of our trees and thoroughly crushed the roof of my car. Then there was the morning I skidded on a snowy road on my way to work and rammed into a tree, crumpling the front end like tin foil. Scary indeed.
No, New England was not for the faint of heart. After the easy life here in Asia, I can’t imagine ever going back.
Nevertheless, I have incredibly vivid memories of New England’s unique charms and I do find myself becoming nostalgic. One of the joys of being a writer that I can channel this nostalgia into my stories.
Once Upon a Blizzard draws heavily from my own experience. The farm house occupied by Gino and Harris is based on the home of our close neighbor (although they didn’t have a hot tub in their back yard). The crispness of the winter air, the clarity of the winter sky, the distant clank of the snow plows when they finally arrive – I’ve been there.
The strangely freeing experience of being snowed in, without electricity, heat or running water is something I remember well. It’s almost like a holiday. Time is suspended. You’re forced to let go. You’ll get dug out, eventually. You’re not that worried, because of course you’re prepared with wood for the fireplace, propane for the stove, candles and flash lights. That’s just how New Englanders are.
My heroine in Once Upon a Blizzard grew up in the Pioneer Valley, but she has been working in Silicon Valley for a decade. In writing this story I was rediscovering, with her, the special magic of New England.
What is your favorite genre to read?
When I read for pleasure, I like variety. So I’m partial to many genres: science fiction, historical fiction, paranormal/urban fantasy, mysteries and of course romance and erotica.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
I’m sure my answer to this question would vary from one day to the next. Some likely candidates include Sherlock Holmes and Jane Eyre.
What are you working on at the moment?
I am within one chapter of finishing The Master’s Mark, the third volume in my erotic steampunk trilogy The Toymaker’s Guild. I’ve been working on this book since the beginning of 2022. I very much hope to finish it before the New Year’s ball drops in Time Square!
What books will we see from you in coming months?
My plan is to release The Master’s Mark on January 31, 2023, which is my birthday – actually a very significant one. After that, I have plans for a third volume in my Elemental Passions series, which includes Hot Spell and Rough Weather. I also will be revisiting the Las Vegas setting of my Vegas Babes series, bringing together two characters from two different story worlds — by reader request!
In addition, I’ll be reclaiming the rights and republishing a number of my romance works in 2023. RLF readers will probably be most excited by the reboot of my paranormal erotic romance The Eyes of Bast, a rather unusual shifter story.
Where to buy Once upon a Blizzard
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPMPZ7NG
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Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has penned plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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