Please help us welcome Seelie Kay to the blog today. Seelie is here to share her book, Seizing Hope. Seizing Hope is part of the Divorced Divas Collection. Welcome, Seelie! We can’t wait to hear more about Seizing Hope.
Seizing Hope
Part of eXtasy Books’ Divorced Divas Collection
By Seelie Kay
An interview with Seelie Kay:
Q: Why do you write romance?
A: Because I am fascinated by the games people play to find and secure a lasting relationship, which is not always love. There’s the chase, the courtship, the falling, the surrender. That’s what I try to capture in my stories.
Q: Do you prefer a certain type of romantic hero?
A: I adore smart, dashing gentlemen who aren’t afraid to live on the edge. They can be a bad boy, a billionaire, a prince, or a secret agent. That hint of danger just hooks me! However, I also love strong, independent women who aren’t afraid to fight for what they want, even love.
Q: Why did you write “Seizing Hope?”
A: Because I have been there: Knocked down by divorce, financially and emotionally devastated, and in my case, with sole custody of a toddler. I wanted, no, I needed to, write a story about women who fought back, who overcame the obstacles placed in their way, and reclaimed not only their dignity, but their lives.
Q: Yet, instead of focusing on one lead character, you chose four…
A: Divorce is a many-splendored thing. No one tale is alike. I thought it important to reveal the many sides of divorce and the power behind women banding together to fight for what’s theirs. This book is about more than women rediscovering their worth, it is about using their talents and educations in positive ways.
Q: How does your former profession as a lawyer impact your writing?
A: After 30 years, the law and the legal world are so firmly embedded in my brain that I can’t flush them out. That has become the lens through which I view the world and that naturally guides my characters and plots. Little peculiarities that I have witnessed in lawyers and the law always work their way into my stories. In this case, however, I unleashed my full legal bitch, utilizing the law to recoup what these women had lost.
Q: Any plans to write outside the romance genre completely?
A: Actually, I ghostwrite non-fiction for other professionals—doctors, lawyers, financial gurus—so I dip my toes into a lot of different genres. However, I have been itching to write a book about a relative who founded a religious cult. I researched it for years and found a lot of information that had been buried. I have a pile of paper a foot high. Someday, I need to go through it carefully and start writing. I have the interest, just not the time.
About Seizing Hope:
When four former law school classmates get kicked off the marriage train, they band together, put on their big girl panties, and fight back!
Former Northwestern Law School classmates Dina Willoughby, Miranda Mena, Leah Fraser, and Melody Harris are living the dream. Each had fantasized about the perfect husband while in law school and happily—for a time—that dream became a reality.
Until Dina’s husband kicks her out two weeks before her prenuptial agreement kicks in, Miranda’s husband is arrested for securities fraud and flees the country with all of their money, Leah discovers that her royal husband misrepresented his feelings for her in order to get his hands on her money, and newly-pregnant Melody finally admits her artist husband is a sadistic, manipulative, jerk.
Facing the loss of their husbands and stripped of any financial support, the four women band together to fight back. Drawing on their unique legal skills and with the help of a few friends, including a hunky private investigator, a sexy law school professor, a determined cyber-security billionaire, and the Queen of England, these four women not only take what’s theirs, they build the path to a new future—one filled with hope.
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Genres: Contemporary romance, erotic romance, legal fiction (4 flames)
Excerpt from Seizing Hope:
“As he droned on about his golf game or the newest addition to his car collection or some gossipy tidbit among his fellow shallows, Dina was forced to drive her nails into her thighs just to stay awake. There she sat, the perfect debutante, a smile pasted onto her face, nodding in all the right places, nary a word embedding itself in her brain.
Oh, she wanted out. She needed to get out. Before George Donovan Willoughby the Third bored her to death. She squelched a sigh. Only two more weeks and she could be free. Sure, it wouldn’t be the many millions she had dreamed of, but it would still be seven figures, adequate compensation for five years of boredom.
Wearily, she tuned into his latest prattle. “And as I told my attorneys, there is no reason why we can’t end this amicably. After all, you must agree that this marriage was a mistake, and since our prenup settles a sufficient sum upon you should I pull the plug, you will continue to live comfortably, so what do you say? Let’s end this quickly and get on with our lives.”
Dina blinked, then she became outraged. Did George Donovan Willoughby the Third, the most boring man on the planet, just dump her? “Wait a minute. You want a divorce? From me?” She glared at George. “Surely you jest, darling.”
George gazed at her, his smile condescending. “As I said, darling, I am finding life with you rather boring. I need more stimulating companionship, and I have found it in Mimi Morrison.” His eyes brightened. “That woman is sweet, sassy, and sexy, and quite the firecracker in bed.” He sighed. “I married you because you were hot between the sheets, but once you had that ring on your finger, it rapidly became clear that we weren’t well-suited in other ways. It’s time to admit that marrying you was a mistake. Mother was right. Never marry beneath you.
“So, I think a quick and dirty divorce is for the best, don’t you? After all, we are adults and quite capable of civility. Perhaps Mexico on the ‘morrow?”
Dina stood, picked up her glass and dumped the well-aged bourbon onto George’s head. “This isn’t over until I say it’s over, dear George. Your timing sucks. In two more weeks, my property settlement increases by millions. I can’t believe you want to pull the plug and deprive me of the monies I am due. Being married to you was hard work, and I earned every penny of that settlement.”
Seizing Hope Buy links:
- eXtasy Books: https://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-2349-0-seizing-hope/
- Amazon: https://amzn.to/2VRSybs
- Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seizing-hope-seelie-kay/1130392799?ean=2940156266692
- Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/920225
- Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/seizing-hope
About Seelie Kay:
Seelie Kay writes about lawyers in love, with a dash of kink.
Writing under a nom de plume, the former lawyer and journalist draws her stories from more than 30 years in the legal world. Seelie’s wicked pen has resulted in 12 works of fiction, including the Kinky Briefs series, the Feisty Lawyers series, The Garage Dweller, A Touchdown to Remember, The President’s Wife, and The President’s Daughter, as well as the romance anthology, Pieces of Us.
When not spinning her kinky tales, Seelie ghostwrites nonfiction for lawyers and other professionals. Currently she resides in a bucolic exurb outside Milwaukee, WI, where she shares a home with her son and enjoys opera, the Green Bay Packers, gourmet cooking, organic gardening, and an occasional bottle of red wine.
Seelie is an MS warrior and ruthlessly battles the disease on a daily basis. Her message to those diagnosed with MS: Never give up. You define MS, it does not define you!
Seelie can be reached at www.seeliekay.com, www.seeliekay.blogspot.com, or on Twitter or Facebook.
Author links:
- www.seeliekay.com
- www.seeliekay.blogspot.com
- Twitter: @SeelieKay https://twitter.com/SeelieKay
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seelie.kay.77
- Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Seelie-Kay/e/B074RDRWNZ/
Prior Books:
- http://www.extasybooks.com/kinky-briefs/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/kinky-briefs-too/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/kinky-briefs-thrice/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-1734-5-kinky-briefs-quatro/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-2023-9-kinky-briefs-cinque/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/the-garage-dweller/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-1504-4-a-touchdown-to-remember/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-1795-6-the-presidents-wife/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-2263-9-snatching-diana/
- http://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-2032-1-the-presidents-daughter/
- https://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-2291-2-infamy/