Aloha With Love by Lindy Miller & Terence Brody – excerpt and giveaway!

Aloha With Love
Lindy Miller with Terence Brody
Published by: Rosewind Books
Publication date: July 13th 2021
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Soon to be a motion picture.
From the screenwriter of Rescuing Madison and
A Lesson in Romance on Hallmark

“[A] charming romance. Miller and Brody do a masterful job of pacing and plotting, while creating a hero and heroine readers will easily relate to. This sweet, G-rated contemporary should draw in Hallmark Channel devotees in droves.” ~Publishers Weekly

After a tough week that includes losing a big job opportunity and being dumped by her long-term boyfriend, Jenna Burke receives word that her beloved Aunt May passed away.

Traveling back to her Hawaiian hometown for the reading of the will, Jenna discovers she and her sister have inherited May’s dilapidated Victorian home on desirable beachfront land. The sisters can do whatever they want with the property, but there’s one catch: the house must be renovated before it can be sold, and Jenna has to oversee the work. Their Aunt even stipulated the contractor for the job—Ben Fletcher—who has a gift for making things beautiful again. He also has another skill: driving Jenna crazy.

Jenna vows to sell the property the moment the job is done. But as Aunt May’s broken old house starts to feel like home again, Jenna is torn between the life she’s been chasing in the city, and the one she’d left behind.

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Excerpt

Ben lifted his roller, his eyes widening meaningfully as he brandished the brush at her.

Instantly, Jenna knew she was in for it.

Ben lurched forward and Jenna fled from the bathroom, holding her roller in front of her as she ran through the house, avoiding Ben as he closed in behind her.

“You’re right, you would look so much better in this color than I would!” he called after her as they ran in circles through the open floorplan of the house, both with paint rollers outstretched and dangerously close to smearing the wrong color paint on freshly finished walls.

“You’re fired!” Jenna yelled from the dining room, watching as Ben’s shadow slid into the kitchen.

“No, I’m not!” he called back, hot on her trail.

Jenna pivoted and ran for the living room. “Yes, you are!”

Ben caught up with her, cornering her between the fireplace and the ladder in the living room. She turned her head and bared her teeth playfully as he advanced on her. He’d lost his roller and, somewhere along the chase, picked up a can of leftover paint from the dining room. Dusky red paint dripped from the edges of the paintbrush bristles as he wagged the brush in a way that seemed to have a direct connection to her heartbeat, which had developed the peculiar habit of skipping a little whenever she looked at him. “Don’t you dare!”

His eyebrow lifted. “Oh, I dare.”

Ben was so close now she could feel the heat of his words on her skin. He lifted his brush and swiped a red mark across her cheek.

She gaped at him, and he swiped her other cheek.

“You started it, not me,” he reminded her.

Jenna spied a gallon of white paint by Ben’s foot and she grinned at him, evil thoughts taking over her mind. “Okay, then I’m finishing it!”

She snatched up the paint can and dumped it over Ben’s head before he could stop her, then laughed until her ribs ached as Ben stood before her, dripping and sputtering.

“I can’t believe you did that!” he intoned before a wily look passed over his face. He reached forward and grabbed Jenna, pulling her against him so his body pressed against hers, smothering her entire front in white.

Before she knew it, Ben’s lips were on hers. Warm, soft, and slightly tacky from paint, the kiss was enough to push any concern about being covered in paint out of her mind. Paint, schmaint. Jenna put her arms around Ben’s neck and kissed him back. Lifting herself onto her toes, she tightened her arms around him and kissed away all her grief over Aunt May. All her frustration over the Barrington pitch and the weeks of home renovations and manual labor she hadn’t planned for. Jenna kissed Ben Fletcher until the paint on their faces began to dry and crack. Even then his palm against her face and arm wrapped around her back kept them together, as if the two of them had become a part of the house itself—as much a part of the structure as the newly installed crown moulding and tile.

Author Bio:

Lindy Miller is an entrepreneur, award-winning professor, and publishing professional. In 2011, Miller was part of the executive leadership team that founded Radiant Advisors, a data and business intelligence research and advisory firm, where Miller developed and launched the company’s editorial and research divisions, and later its data visualization practice, for clients that included 21st Century Fox Films, Fox Networks, Warner Bros., and Disney. She is the author of numerous papers and two textbooks under the name of Lindy Ryan, The Visual Imperative: Creating a Culture of Visual Discovery (Elsevier) and Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau (Pearson) Miller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration: Entrepreneurship and Strategy, and a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and a Doctorate in Education, Organizational Leadership.

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Terence Brody is an active captain in the New York Fire Dept, assigned to Ladder 10 in lower Manhattan.

Two of his feature scripts, RESCUING MADISON (Ethan Peck, C. Thomas Howell, Alona Tal) and A LESSON IN ROMANCE (Kristy Swanson, Scott Grimes, directed by Ron Oliver) aired on the Hallmark Channel.

In 2021, his script, ALOHA WITH LOVE, was produced by Oren Kamara/Fade to Black Films, Branscombe Richmond, and Brian Bird of When Calls The Heart. The movie starred Trevor Donovan and Tiffany Smith and was directed by Brian Herzlinger. The novel is co-written with author Lindy Miller (July 2021).

Brody also wrote the screenplay for Miller’s novel Sleigh Bells on Bread Loaf Mountain (2021) and The Christmas Spirit by Alexandrea Weis (Nov 2020).
Brody resides in Long Island, NY with his wife and two children.

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