Title: Teach Your
Heart (Far North Book 3)
Author: Tracey
Alvarez
Release Date:
November 30, 2016
Some lessons are harder to learn than others…
Doctor O-for-Awesome Owen Bennett is all about
fixing broken things. Then the arrival of his orphaned nieces and nephew for
twelve weeks causes his workaholic life to plummet into chaos. Hiring the
beautiful but unpredictable Gracie Cooper as a live-in nanny might just get him
out of a tight spot…or it could seduce them both into a reckless affair.
Excerpt
Gracie squinted into the dim interior and took a few
steps inside. She hadn’t noticed the workbench, covered with rags and odd tools
and some grease-slicked motor parts, last night. Beside the bench, a weed
trimmer was in at least a half-dozen pieces. For a man who looked like dirt or
motor oil wouldn’t dare cling to his Teflon-slick surface, he sure had one hell
of a man cave.
“You’re
going to fix the mower?”
“Nobody else around to do it.” He picked up a
metal toolbox and dumped it on the opposite side of the mower to where she
stood. “Call it a leftover childhood hobby.”
“Fixing lawn mowers?”
“Fixing anything. Often stuff I’d already
fiddled with and screwed up.”
“You taught yourself to repair things?”
He shook his head. “My dad taught me, mostly.
He used to work as a mechanic before he met my mum. Think I got my love of
figuring out how things work from him.”
“You didn’t want to become a mechanic like
your dad?”
A cloud passed over Owen’s face then
disappeared. “Not after I decided fixing people was way more interesting than
fixing a motor.”
“I guess there’s a different kind of job
satisfaction in that. Your family must be proud.”
“Yeah.”
His tone was so carefully neutral, Gracie
couldn’t work out if there was an undercurrent of sarcasm beneath the word.
“So your parents still live in a house bus?
The same one you lived in as a kid?”
A beat of silence followed while Owen stared
into his open toolbox. After a moment, he selected a spanner and replied, “The
very same.”
“And your siblings? You all grew up in the
house bus?”
“Yup.” He crouched beside the lawn mower,
slitting his eyes at it as if the thing had defied a direct order. “Think the
spark plug is dirty.”
With two older brothers, Gracie was familiar
with the male I don’t want to discuss
this vibe. Rationally, she should back off and leave him alone.
Emotionally, he’d piqued her curiosity, and she couldn’t resist jabbing the
sleeping bear a bit more.
“So…no other awesome doctors in the family?”
He angled his chin, a grimace pulling down
his mouth. “I don’t encourage that nickname in adult company; it makes me sound
like an arrogant dick.”
Yep, she, too, had been guilty of an
uncomplimentary first impression. But after meeting Owen, the nickname was
actually kinda adorable. “Who started it?”
“One of my fellow interns, during training in
Auckland. They called me ‘O’, and after one of our most grueling double shifts,
one tagged me as ‘Doctor O-for-Overworked.’ My mate Simon deemed
‘O-for-Awesome’ funnier, and somehow it bloody stuck. It’s since followed me to
Bounty Bay, and I suspect Simon contacted one of the triage nurses on the sly.”
He shot her a grin that caused a low flutter
in her belly.
“The nurses introduce me to kids as Doctor O-for-Awesome—sometimes it
distracts them for a moment; sometimes it makes them smile. It’s worth an
embarrassing nickname then,” he added.
“I’m sure the patients you save think it’s
very apt.” She gave her watch a pointed glance. “I’d better get myself and the
girls ready.”
She backed out of the garage and hurried into
the guest room to shower and change. If she woke in an emergency cubicle to see
Owen’s face above her, she’d smile, too. Hey, a hottie doctor was easy on the
eyes, but not a threat to her equilibrium.
But the guy tinkering with a mower, grease on
his hands and scruff along his jaw…
The guy exposing a sliver of his vulnerable
self he was probably unaware of…
That guy popped
her bubble of safe distance he
probably hadn’t even noticed her hiding behind.
Release Day Giveaway
(Open Internationally)
1st Prize (over $50 value)
includes:
~ Know Your Heart (Far North Book #2) signed
paperback
~ Beautiful NZ themed scarf
~ New Zealand Wild Ferns Lanolin Pure & Delicate soap
~ New Zealand Wild Ferns Lanolin lip balm with Shea Butter
~ Pascall Jet Planes lollies - for those of us with a sweet tooth and who
like to fly away to exotic places like Gracie. Classic NZ candy.
~ Cute New Zealand bird (Fantail) hanging decoration (Christmas
tree?)
~ New Zealand made Whittaker's dark chocolate bar Kaitaia Fire Chili
Pepper Spice. Kaitaia Fire hot-sauce was created in the Far North, where Teach
Your Heart is set.
~ Author magnet (not pictured)
~ Author bookmark (not pictured)
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Author Bio
Tracey
Alvarez is a USA Today Bestselling Author living in the Coolest Little Capital
in the World (a.k.a Wellington, New Zealand). Married to a wonderfully
supportive IT guy, she has two teens who would love to be surgically linked to
their electronic devices.
Fuelled by copious amounts of coffee, she’s
the author of contemporary romantic fiction set predominantly in New Zealand.
Small-towns, close communities, and families are a big part of the
heart-warming stories she writes. Oh, and hot, down-to-earth heroes—Kiwi men,
in other words.
When she’s not writing, thinking about
writing, or procrastinating about writing, Tracey can be found with her nose in
her e-reader, nibbling on smuggled chocolate bars, or bribing her kids to take
over the housework.
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