The lovely Christine Stovell (Turning the Tide, Move over Darling – published by Choc Lit) has invited me to be part of the zig-zag blogposts. For this, authors need to find the word ‘like’ in one of their books and post a paragraph or two around that word.

Well, I’m a Choc Lit writer so it seems only sensible to build my post around chocolate, doesn’t it? In this small extract, Seth – my hero – is offering Emma (the heroine) a bar of choclate. How can we not love a man who gives us chocolate?

So here’s my link in the zig-zag chain. It comes from my novel, TO TURN FULL CIRCLE.

Emma shrugged. What could she say? And if she did speak she had a feeling she might cry and no way did she want Seth Jago feeling sorry for her. She was surprised when he drew a small bar of chocolate from the pocket of his trousers.

“I thought you might like this,” he said.

Emma had eaten chocolate once before and had found it bitter. But Seth was offering her a gift, and she would accept it with good grace.

“Thank you.” She took the chocolate and sniffed it. It smelled of almonds. And then she noticed the wording on it and her heart lifted. “Oh, it’s French! Where did you get it?”

Eagerly she read the words, not needing to translate them into English, but understanding them for themselves. How good it felt. How close to her papa she felt reading them. Maybe she could buy more for herself somewhere close by when she had the funds.

And a picture for you……no suprises for guessing of what!