Generational Curse Blog Tour! (+$10 Amazon GC Giveaway!)

Title: Generational Curse

Author: Tracy Reed

Series: N/A

Pages: 440

Date Published: 2014

Publisher: Self-Published

Format: Kindle

Genre: Romance

Source: Goddess Fish Blog Tours

Synopsis:
What happens when a celibate Christian Man befriends a woman involved with a married man? Will he run in the other direction or continue the relationship? Or will he abandon his Christian beliefs for a taste of the forbidden? Or will she learn being with a married man isn’t the fantasy life the generations of women in her family made it appear?

Sean Prescott and Kyla James are business associates playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse, hoping the other will give in. But in this high stakes game is there really a winner or will both be losers.

~Best Heroes in Contemporary Lit~

The Best Contemporary Male Heroes or MEN. A topic all romance writers should be well versed in talking about.

Let’s go in a different direction. How about what makes a great male hero for one of my books?

Physically, the male hero in one of my books is usually…tall, dark like milk chocolate or black coffee, very little facial hair, well groomed, impeccably dressed, has an amazing smile, muscular but not like a body builder, large hands and eyes that only see the heroine.

Character is what makes a hero. My heroes have to be intelligent, compassionate, strong in mind, loaded with swagger, loving and a real fighter. He has ability to read a situation and provide a solution. He needs to be a good listener and revere the heroine. No matter how strong my heroine is, she’s always looking for someone to rescue her. Her hero can’t let her walk all over him, because she won’t respect or trust him.

The Contemporary Heroes aren’t that much different from those of other genres. A true hero can be dropped into any genre or time and still be a hero.

Here’s the thing about Contemporary Heroes, eventually, with time, they’ll become Historical Heroes.

Some of my favorite Contemporary Heroes are:

1. Idris Elba as Luther [I know, in this role, he’s not the most put together, but you over look that because he’s cleaver]
2. Daniel Craig as James Bond [okay, so he’s a little short, but he’s still hot and tough]
3. Tom Cruise in the Mission: Impossible franchise
4. Bruce Willis in the Die Hard and Red Franchises
5. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the Fast and Furious franchise and Game Plan [in The Game Plan, he plays the ultimate hero, a loving and caring dad]

~Try an Excerpt!~

“I WANNA GET MARRIED,” ERIC announced.

Kyla leaned up against the headboard. “Excuse me?”

“I want, let me rephrase that. If I want to be taken seriously as a marriage therapist, it would help if I were married.”

“I see.”

“Most of the couples I’ve been working with are beginning to question my ability to treat them, seeing I’m not married. So, what do you say?” He waited for her answer.

“That was a horrible proposal.”

“I’m sorry.” He got up and walked over to her side of the bed, took her hand in his, cleared his throat and made a second attempt. “Kyla, will you marry me.”

She looked at him for a brief moment, before replying, “Baby, I’m not Susie Homemaker. I like things the way they are.” He stood up, looking at her with no reaction. “Like I told you before, I’m not interested in marriage.”

“We don’t have to live together, it could be like it is now. Only difference is, we’d be married.”

“How is that like what we have now? I don’t want to be legally bound to you, or anyone else for that matter.” She tried to read his expression. “If this is something you feel you need to do, then I think you should get married.”

“But you said you didn’t want to get married.”

“I don’t.” She stood up and put her robe on. “Excuse me.” She walked into the kitchen and he followed her.

“I’m a little confused. You agree with my decision to get married, but you don’t want to marry me.”

“That’s correct.” She poured two glasses of champagne.

“I don’t understand.”

She took a long sip and answered him. “It’s very simple. You need a wife. Let me rephrase that, you want a showpiece. Someone your patients can relate to, right?”

“Yes.”

“All I want from you is sex.”

~Meet Tracy!~ 

I’m a single Christian Woman who loves God, Fashion and Cute Guys. I live in California, but consider myself a partial New Yorker because of the two and half years I lived there. I own www.thepinkduchess.com, a lingerie site for curvy women. GENERATIONAL CURSE is my debut novel.

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