Title: Lingerie for Felons
Author: Ros Baxter
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: March 2014
Format: eBook
Pagination: 252
Ros Baxter has a free copy of Lingerie for Felons! Simply comment below after her guest post!
Blurb:
If there’s one universal truth, it’s this: You’re always wearing your worst underwear when you land in trouble.
Lola’s parents told her that everyone can make a difference. And she believed them. She’s been fighting the good fights since she was eleven years old. But at 23, Lola falls hard for an Australian stockbroker who thinks Doctors Without Borders is a porno and Joni Mitchell sounds like a harp seal being battered to death. She cuts him loose, but over the next fifteen years, through protests, misunderstandings, humiliating predicaments, and a number of poor underwear choices, their lives and paths continue to converge.
Along the way, Lola learns a few important life lessons: Never wear a red lace thong to a strip search. Make sure you take motion sickness pills if you’re going to the Southern Ocean to save the whales. And sometimes, Mr Right can be all wrong, and Mr Wrong just needs time to find the right path.
Funny, touching, emotional and political, Lingerie for Felons is Bridget Jones meets An Inconvenient Truth, about doing the right thing, finding the right person, and always thinking through your underwear choices.
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Guest Post
Why do some people have our hearts from hello?
Y’know how it is. Some of the really great loves of our life are kind of a slow burn. For others, it’s instant. Like two magnetised souls pulling towards each other over the span of the universe.
Or, in the case of Lola and Wayne, my hero and heroine from Lingerie for Felons, at a train station over a slightly drunken snog.
With Lola, I wanted to test the idea of Love at First Sight, have it play out the way it might really, in Real Life.
Lola and Wayne are worlds apart. He’s a stockbroker who makes his money (a lot of money) without thinking about the impact on the world. She’s a bleeding heart who grew up believing ‘everyone can make a difference and together we can change the world’.
How many of us would really trust that an instant connection was anything more than a burst of hormones and a slash of lust? Why would Lola trust that this guy, Wayne, who was so different from her, would be The One? Like the good girl that she is (kind of), she tries to be sensible. She cuts him loose, Mr Apparently Wrong, and (in time) hooks up with Mr Must-be-Right.
But it take fifteen years and a series of near-disasters and unforgettable reunions for her to realise that sometimes Mr Right can be all Wrong, and Mr Wrong just needed some time to marinate.
What about you – have you ever fallen head over heels for Mr Wrong? How did it turn out? I have a free copy of Lingerie for Felons for the most interesting story…
Lingerie for Felons by Ros Baxter
Available from Escape Publishing on 1 March 2014
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About the author
Ros writes fresh, funny, genre-busting fiction. She digs feisty heroines, quirky families, heroes who make you sigh and tingle, and a dash of fantasy from time to time.
Ros has published Sister Pact (a romantic comedy co-written with her sister Ali) with Harper Collins, Fish Out of Water, Lingerie for Felons and White Christmas (Escape Publishing), Home for the Holidays and Seven Deadly Sins (Amazon). Sequels to Sister Pact and Fish Out of Water are coming out in 2014, along with Second Chances, a Bold and the Beautiful story published through Pan Macmillan.
In her spare time, Ros is also a public servant, consultant, mother, lover, taxi service for extra-curricular activities, and (because she is so freakin’ busy) maker-of-the-fastest-family-meals in the business. There is nothing you can teach her about using a slow cooker or making the same dinner sound more appealing by giving it an exotic name or interesting backstory.
Ros also coordinates “Tomorrowgirl”, a short story competition for remote Indigenous girls in Australia. You can find out more at www.tomorrow girl.au
Ros lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband Blair, four small but very opinionated children, a neurotic dog and nine billion germs.
You can email Ros at rosbaxterink@gmail.com, find her on Facebook or on twitter @RosBaxter. You can also visit her website