Welcome Guest Author
Sofia Grey
to the Blog!
I'm happy to welcome Sofia Grey to the blog today to talk about her new release, Obsession. She has an interesting post today about obsessive behavior and a giveaway down below, so read on...
Obsessive Behaviour
I used to
work for a guy who was obsessive about having a tidy desk, with everything in
its place, and always in the same place. When he annoyed anyone in his
team, they’d take great delight in rearranging the items on his desktop while
he wasn’t looking. Nothing major, just shuffling the order and positioning, the
kind of minor movements that I’d never even notice, but he did. He’d sit down
and go silent, then give a little sigh of frustration, and start moving
everything again. Pens had to line up precisely. The paperclips had to be
sorted by colour and size. The ruler had to be aligned with the keyboard. We’d
all hide grins and pretend not to notice.
It makes me
wonder how he ended up that way. Did it start with losing his favourite pen,
perhaps, and always replacing it where he knew he’d find it? Or was he a
natural neat-freak who let it get out of control? Or was that his attempt at stamping control
over his desktop?
In Obsession,
Gabe becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife, Suki, is cheating on him:
I
idly flicked through a loose stack of magazine clippings on the side of her
desk and watched them spill across the surface. That must be her ‘ideas file’.
Yep, they definitely looked like the subjects she covered in her phone-ins. One
particularly interesting bundle of pages near the top caught my eye and I took
it back to my den to read in more detail.
Twelve Ways To Spot A
Cheat—How To Tell When Your Man Is Playing Away
It
was amusing, full of handy hints such as the classic lipstick on his collar and
unexplained credit card bills for flowers and hotel rooms. Pu-lease. I found it
difficult to believe that anyone would be so stupid, but I could see how Suki
would make this into a fun piece. The next two pages made me pause and stare.
They were printouts from the Internet. Suki, or one of her team, had done some
research.
Signs Of A Cheating
Wife—Thirty Things To Look For
I
probably wouldn’t have paid it any attention if it hadn’t been for Suki’s
scrawled note in the margin. Would he
notice this? And then, another note at the bottom: How many?
Smiling,
amused at first, I read through all thirty items… and realised too many of them
could be applied to my wife.
As for me,
I have to have my tea made just the right way. A specific brand of teabags.
Boiling water, not leaving the tea bag in for too long, half fat milk, no
sugar. I’m not obsessive you understand, just fussy about my hot beverages *
grin *
So what do you
obsess about? Do you line up your shoes neatly in pairs? Refuse to walk under
ladders? Leave me a comment about your pet obsession and you’ll go into a draw
to win a copy of Obsession.
Obsession is available 12 June 2013, from Time &
Tide Publishing.
Josh Delaney is the ideal honey trap.
His charm and model good looks would be
enough for most women, but coupled with his psychic ability to read their
thoughts, he’s impossible to resist. Suspicious husbands employ him to test
their wives, to see if they can be tempted to stray.
High profile couple Suki and Gabe
Bridgewater have the perfect marriage, or at least, that’s the image they
portray to the world. Behind closed doors, Gabe’s dominance in the marriage is
unravelling and he decides to test Suki, using Josh as bait.
For Josh it should be just another easy
job, but two things go horribly wrong.
One, Josh falls in love with Suki.
And two, Gabe refuses to let her go.
Blog tours
are fun to take part in, these are my stops:
About Sofia Grey:
Romance author Sofia Grey spends her days managing projects in the
corporate world and her nights hanging out with wolf shifters and alpha males.
She devours pretty much anything in the fiction line, but she prefers her
romances to be hot, and her heroes to have hidden depths. When writing, she
enjoys peeling back the layers to expose her characters’ flaws and always
makes them work hard for their happy endings.
* images courtesy of 123rf.com
Giveaway!
So what do you obsess about? Do you line up your shoes neatly in pairs? Refuse to walk under ladders? One commenter who leaves their email address will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of Obsession. Good luck!
Thanks for reading!
Laura
