{"id":7214,"date":"2017-11-14T01:05:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T05:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7214"},"modified":"2017-11-13T21:46:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T01:46:30","slug":"art-inspired-with-every-kiss-by-nancy-lee-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=7214","title":{"rendered":"Art Inspired – With Every Kiss by Nancy Lee Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Art Inspired<\/strong>
\nWith Every Kiss by Nancy Lee Badger<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI wanted to be an artist. Since childhood, I had wanted to create beautiful paintings so, I said good-bye to my home on New York\u2019s Long Island, and headed to college in rural New Hampshire. I didn\u2019t realize how much I would miss the school field trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or the weirdly circular Guggenheim Museum. I gave them up for actual beauty\u2026streams, mountains, birch trees, and moose. Replacing skyscrapers with the ability to paint landscapes next to country roads made me want to stay. This is where I met the love of my life. I wrote this story while looking back on how such a move changed my life, and set up my unhappy city-dwelling characters so they, too, could find love in the country.
\nBook Blurb from With Every Kiss: an Opportunity Falls novel<\/strong>
\nAbigail Huntington, a successful Manhattan artist, is burned out, and is more comfortable wearing jogging attire, than dresses and heels. Bored by the city, and the jerks she\u2019s dated, she needs to get away to paint beautiful and pricey landscapes, which is why she starts asking about New England campgrounds during her one-woman art show.<\/p>\n

Mitchel Campbell, a corporate lawyer working for his father, wants to bed the pretty jogger he has watched for weeks. Recalling happier times in New England at his aunt and uncle\u2019s campground near Opportunity Falls, he grumbles when he is ordered to attend an art show. He overhears a woman asking about campgrounds, and realizes she is the jogger. When he disappears minutes later, Abigail is left fuming. Meeting him again in a campground in New Hampshire is a coincidence\u2026or is it?<\/p>\n

Excerpt<\/strong>
\nAbby glanced at Mitch\u2019s backside, bit her bottom lip, and stifled a groan. Wide shoulders and a narrow waist led down to a tight pair of jeans. She shook herself and decided to glance at the landscape instead. Mitch led them along a trail bordered by sweet smelling pine trees and bushes filled with the fragrance of mountain honeysuckle. Frik ran ahead, barked, then returned to Mitch\u2019s side.
\n\u201cFrik, leave the deer alone. Abigail might actually like to see one.\u201d Mitch stopped to let her catch up.
\nHer gaze followed his pointing finger. Nearly hidden in the trees, a deer nibbled on a branch. The delicate creature inspected the humans and continued to chew until the dog growled. In a flash, the animal bounded away with her white tail bobbing.
\n\u201cHow beautiful.\u201d Abby stared, her gaze attempting to follow the doe. Awareness crept into her thoughts. When Mitch wrapped an arm around her, she gasped in surprise. When she immediately tensed, he quickly backed away.
\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry. Forgive me.\u201d
\nShe glanced over at him. Fisted hands perched on his hips. He glared down at his feet and kicked a root. Ashamed at her edginess, she stepped closer and wrapped her arm around his waist. He raised icy blue eyes filled with questions.
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s next?\u201d she asked.
\nHe seemed to stumble to get the words out. \u201cLet\u2019s keep going.\u201d
\nShe smiled at him and his embarrassment. She was beginning to trust him, but bending to a man\u2019s sexual urges couldn\u2019t happen. Not here. Not now.
\nWhy not?
\nToo many months of celibacy, sprinkled with dates with boring men, had pushed her into a sexless existence. Where was the fun in that?<\/p>\n

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\"\"More about the Author<\/strong>
\nNancy Lee Badger, formerly of Huntington, New York, has fond memories of growing up on Long Island. Her life changed when she attended college in New Hampshire. After meeting her husband at Plymouth State, and raising two handsome sons, Nancy moved to North Carolina where she writes full-time. Nancy is a member of Romance Writers of America, Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, Fantasy-Futuristic & Paranormal Romance Writers, and the Triangle Association of Freelancers.
\nConnect with Nancy Lee Badger
\nBlog<\/a> Website<\/a> Twitter<\/a> Facebook<\/a> Goodreads<\/a> Amazon Author Page<\/a><\/p>\n

*a personal note from Nancy: With Every Kiss: an Opportunity Falls novel was released November 3rd. Since this is also my birthday month, I am giving away an Artist\u2019s Assortment of Goodies. No purchase necessary, and it ends November 18th.
\nHead over to my Blog to Enter: http:\/\/nancyleebadger.blogspot.com\/p\/contests.html
\nThis giveaway is not associated with, managed, endorsed or sponsored by the Kate Hill Blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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