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Risking Love #4
Anthony
Excerpt from Anthony Chapters one and two https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
ANTHONY (Risking Love Book Four) is now available.
Read as a standalone or as part of the Risking Love series
ANTHONY (Risking Love Book Four):
Tessa seemed to have it all, her father’s fortune, men falling at her feet, and a fairly new but successful business.
Secretly, all she longed for was her mother’s hug once more, her heartbroken widowed father acknowledging her existence, and the love of Tony.
Recently divorced, from a selfish, demanding ex-wife, Tony Telesco wanted nothing to do with a rich, spoiled, daddy’s girl like Tessa.
Would she be able to convince him that she was not as she seemed?
ANTHONY (Risking Love Book Four) is now available.
Read as a standalone or as part of the Risking Love series
ANTHONY (Risking Love Book Four):
Tessa seemed to have it all, her father’s fortune, men falling at her feet, and a fairly new but successful business.
Secretly, all she longed for was her mother’s hug once more, her heartbroken widowed father acknowledging her existence, and the love of Tony.
Recently divorced, from a selfish, demanding ex-wife, Tony Telesco wanted nothing to do with a rich, spoiled, daddy’s girl like Tessa.
Would she be able to convince him that she was not as she seemed?
177 pages, Paperback
First published March 13, 2020
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September 7, 2020
It is a romance-novel cliché that that the hero must be a man of leisure, independently wealthy with a ton of time of his hands. It’s also a cliché that the heroine often begins as a ‘good girl’, and slowly becomes ‘bad’ as the story moves forward. Such tales are nearly always narrated exclusively from the heroine’s point of view.
Callie Carmen’s ‘Anthony’ turns all of those clichés onto their heads.
Anthony… is a chef. Successful, yes, but still a blue-collar fellow whose personality is firmly rooted in reality. He views the lovely Tessa as a spoiled ‘rich girl’, someone not to be trusted. In order to secure Anthony’s love, Tessa must change his perception of her.
The narrative of ‘Anthony’ rotates between Tessa and Anthony’s respective points of view, fleshing out the tale from both sides in order to tell a complete, balanced story. The genius of Callie Carmen’s writing is that it’s lush and descriptive without feeling surreal; one almost gets the impression that Anthony and Tessa are real people, that this story is actually happening.
‘Anthony’ can be read as a stand-alone novel, or as part of Callie Carmen’s ‘Risking Love’ series. (If ‘Anthony’ is any indication… it’s one hell of a series.) So check it out!
Callie Carmen’s ‘Anthony’ turns all of those clichés onto their heads.
Anthony… is a chef. Successful, yes, but still a blue-collar fellow whose personality is firmly rooted in reality. He views the lovely Tessa as a spoiled ‘rich girl’, someone not to be trusted. In order to secure Anthony’s love, Tessa must change his perception of her.
The narrative of ‘Anthony’ rotates between Tessa and Anthony’s respective points of view, fleshing out the tale from both sides in order to tell a complete, balanced story. The genius of Callie Carmen’s writing is that it’s lush and descriptive without feeling surreal; one almost gets the impression that Anthony and Tessa are real people, that this story is actually happening.
‘Anthony’ can be read as a stand-alone novel, or as part of Callie Carmen’s ‘Risking Love’ series. (If ‘Anthony’ is any indication… it’s one hell of a series.) So check it out!
April 25, 2020
An erotic romance with true heart! The Risking Love series follows a group of young women as one by one they find true love. Tessa was always my favourite because she’s a bad girl gone good – in a previous book, Nicolas, she does her best to seduce her friend’s man! But in Anthony she has left her flirty ways behind and fallen hard and fast for handsome, brooding restaurant owner Tony. But Tony has been burned by a failed marriage and is unwilling to risk his heart again, while Tessa is still wrestling with the loss of her mum and a prickly relationship with her dad. Those two make the pages sizzle as in spite of their doubts they just can’t keep their hands (and the rest of their anatomies) off each other. They're great together... when they're together... and there's the rub. Tessa has to work hard to get Tony to open up and own up to his feelings. The happy ending when it comes is tender and believable. Passion and heart, a winning combination!
August 1, 2020
Sparks fly when Tony and Tessa finally go on their first date. The only problem is that can Tony trusts his judgement. Married once to a rich daddy's girl was never enough and one failed marriage. Can Tony trust to open up his heart again, or will he go down the same road? Tony soon realizes that from the moment they are together, Tessa is nothing like his ex-wife. Rapidly he's falling for her, yet he's still holding back when one weekend of pure happiness and three little words from Tessa has him holding back his feelings for her.
Insecurities of acceptance or being accepted, Tessa would do anything for Tony Telesco to fall in love with her, it felt right when she was with him. Tessa knew about his divorce, his ex-wife, but she was nothing like her, how could she make him see who she was. She knew they were attracted to each other, yet when she told him she loved him, she felt him pull back, how could she make him see she wasn't a spoil rich girl.
Will Tony and Tessa finally get their happily ever after. Fall in love with their story. I'm a true believer on characters that keep coming back from one story to another. Thank you, Callie, for writing an amazing story. Can't wait to read Bella's story
Insecurities of acceptance or being accepted, Tessa would do anything for Tony Telesco to fall in love with her, it felt right when she was with him. Tessa knew about his divorce, his ex-wife, but she was nothing like her, how could she make him see who she was. She knew they were attracted to each other, yet when she told him she loved him, she felt him pull back, how could she make him see she wasn't a spoil rich girl.
Will Tony and Tessa finally get their happily ever after. Fall in love with their story. I'm a true believer on characters that keep coming back from one story to another. Thank you, Callie, for writing an amazing story. Can't wait to read Bella's story
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