She’s lonely. Why shouldn’t she make a mad romantic dash up to the last frontier to meet a man? She’ll just ignore the practicality and logistics of a long-distance relationship. When she calls George to let him know her arrival time, he chooses that awful moment to let Abbie know that he thinks they don’t have much in common after all and she should cancel her plane reservations. Abbie is stunned, humiliated and ashamed of the lonely desperation that drove her to make nonrefundable airline reservations to Alaska.
What to do? Abbie decides to go to Alaska anyway. A grouchy and depressed Abbie meets Tom on the plane, a tall, handsome anthropology professor who happens to be half Native Alaskan and half Caucasian. As the plane flies north, Tom and Abbie discover a mutual attraction. By flight’s end, Abbie is completely enamored of the stranger, and she doubts her judgment, perhaps even her sanity, as she finds herself falling again for yet another Alaskan male...until George shows up, that is.
Reviews for A Sigh of Love
"In A Sigh of Love, Bess McBride has once again delivered a heart-warming romance between two deserving people... The author’s wonderful descriptions of Alaska provide the perfect backdrop for the story. By the time I finished the book, I felt as if I’d been there with Tom and Abbie. I highly recommend A Sigh of Love for anyone wanting a sweet, satisfying romance in a beautiful setting." - Ann Elizabeth Cree
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An excerpt from A Sigh of Love
About Bess McBride
Bess McBride began her first fiction writing attempt when she was 14. She shut herself up in her bedroom one summer while obsessively working on a time travel/pirate novel set in the beloved Caribbean of her youth. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to hammer it out on a manual typewriter (oh yeah, she's that old) before it was time to go back to school. The draft of that novel has long since disappeared, but the story is still simmering within her, and she will get it written one day soon.
Bess was born in Aruba to American parents and lived in Venezuela until her family returned to the United States when she was 12. She couldn't fight the global travel bug within her and joined the U.S. Air Force at 18 to "see the world." After 21 wonderful and fulfilling years traveling the world and gaining one beautiful daughter, she pursued her dream of finally getting a college education. Armed and overeducated, the gypsy in her has taken over once again, and she is now embarking on a full-time journey in a recreational vehicle as she continues to look for new adventures and place settings for her writing. The Wild Rose Press has helped her fulfill a lifelong dream of writing romances.
Backlist
“Love of My Heart” available now at The Wild Rose Press and Amazon
“Caribbean Dreams of Love” coming soon from The Wild Rose Press
“Across the Room” coming soon from The Wild Rose Press
“A Train Through Time” coming soon from The Wild Rose Press
An Interview with Bess McBride
By Holly Hewson, Marketing Director for The Romance StudioHH: Bess, welcome back to TRS! Please tell us about your featured work, A Sigh of Love. What do you like best about Tom? BM: I like that he is a beta male. I’m particularly fond of beta males with kind and generous dispositions, a ready smile, and dancing eyes. I think Tom has all of these qualities. Oh, and his long dark hair. He is half Native Alaskan after all.
HH: What made you choose the Alaskan setting aside from the fact that you once lived there? BM: My plan is to set as many romance novels as I can in the places where I have lived or will be traveling to. I’ve heard the question over and over: Which comes first? The plot or the characters. In my case, the setting comes first. I choose the location for my book, somewhere with beautiful scenery, and then I pick the story and the characters to enhance the location.
HH: What do you like best about Abbie? BM: I like Abbie’s vulnerability. She’s a lonely woman who is willing to look for someone to share her life with though she fails miserably at first. I find her very lifelike: Complicated, cranky, funny, lonely at times, happy at other times, looking for love in all the wrong places, but always unpredictable. Just like real women.
HH: What are you working on now? BM: Right now, I’m working on my first romantic suspense set on the beautiful Gulf Coast of Alabama.
HH: What else do you have in store for readers in 2008? BM: I have three additional books under contract with The Wild Rose Press right now, and I hope to see them all released in 2008. “Caribbean Dreams of Love” is set on a Caribbean cruise and features a mysterious musician, a ghost, an enigmatic pirate and love, love, love. “Across the Room” is a contemporary set in beautiful Glacier National Park in Montana and features a woman running from a painful past, a handsome bear ranger, grizzly bears, majestic scenery and more love. “A Train through Time” is a time travel featuring a woman who boards a sleek modern silver train to Seattle to attend a seminar on women’s studies only to wake up and find herself on a vintage train surrounded by Victorian era reenactors...or so she thinks.
HH: What do you enjoy reading? BM: I can’t remember what I enjoy reading because I’m too busy reading “how-to” books on writing! I do love time travels.
HH: What do you consider to be your unique contribution to the romance genre? BM: My unique contribution is a combination of “romantic” love stories which are not necessarily sweet but will never be sexually explicit, books for women who really want to stick with the romance and let the characters make love in private. In addition, most of my books will be set in wonderful locations or settings that should truly help transport the reader to another place and time.
HH: What do you hope readers enjoy about your work? BM: I hope they enjoy my style of writing. My biggest wish is that I can do justice to the fabulous locations and beautiful scenery of most of my books, and that my readers pick up another of my books with an expectation...and rightfully so...that I’ll carry them away to places they wish they could visit.
HH: What would you most like for readers to know about you? BM: I want readers to know that although I don’t describe my work as “sweet” since my heroines tend to be in their 30’s and 40s, readers will not find explicit sexual scenes in my books. I believe in putting the “romance” back into romances and letting my readers use their own imaginations and experiences to bring our hero and heroine to the physical fulfillment of their love.
Thank you very much for the interview, Holly, and The Romance Studio. As always, I love interviewing with you!
HH: Thank you!
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