KEEPER BY SURPRISE by Laurie Larsen
New Adult Contemporary Romance
Publication Date: September 2012
College life provides the reprieve Keith Hanson dreamed of while growing
up in his father's strict household. Now, he concentrates on keeping
his grades up (just enough to get Dad off his back), and loving his
girlfriend Carly. He never knew life could be this good. Until a
terrible accident leaves his parents killed, and Keith named as guardian
over his three siblings. Although only 20, he's the one now who has to
earn money to support the family and take care of the kids. Including
the discipline, something his teenage sister Dana is totally lacking.
Brand
new social worker Lisa Carle has a lot to prove to her boss about her
ability to do a good job. But it's hard to focus on professionalism
when she's falling in love with the client. Can the two of them help
each other? And will their budding relationship survive screaming
twins, a teenage runaway and an unethical boss?
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About this Author:
Since as far back as I can
remember, I’ve been a writer. As a child, I wrote stories featuring my
favorite characters at the time: horses. I created plays and nagged my
neighborhood friends into acting, while I produced and directed, and
presented them to our parents. I constantly kept a journal, a way to
document my life’s events, and also try to make sense of the world
around me. As a student at Blackburn College, I majored in English, and
accepted my first job as an assistant editor at a small magazine
publishing company.
Somewhere along the way, though, life got in
the way. The salary that the magazine paid me to do the work I loved
was minimal. Insulting, even. I needed to finance the basics of life –
a home, a car, food. So I left the magazine, and embarked on a very
different kind of career with a large insurance company. I got lots of
opportunities — I paid health insurance claims, I taught the computer to
insurance agents, I supervised customer service representatives in the
billing department. I love my career and all the complex challenges I
encounter there. During the course of my duties, I wrote memos and
evaluations, but nothing that satisfied that creative urge within me to
express myself.
When my life was at its busiest, juggling the
responsibilities of marriage, homeownership, motherhood, and a full
time career, I decided to resurrect my dream. I began writing – only in
dribs and drabs, because that’s all I had time for. I looked forward
to running up to my “office” (actually, my guest bedroom) every day, so I
could spend my allotted one hour (the most I could convince my kids to
leave me to myself) and write. The result was my first published book:
Whispers of the Heart.
I was absolutely thrilled when
Publishamerica, the first publisher I sent the manuscript to, loved it
and wanted to publish it. Since then, I’ve been hooked. Since I began
Whispers in 1998, I’ve consistently had a project underway. I now have
six books published, and three more completed manuscripts which I’m
shopping around, hoping to find a publisher who believes in them as much
as I do. Along the way, I’ve won a couple awards, done many
booksignings and appearances and met a lot of great people, both readers
and writers.
Life is still busy. I’m currently a manager in the
Information Technology field. My day job is a fast-paced,
stress-filled environment. My husband and I are the proud parents of
two sons. Seventeen and twenty, my oldest is in college and my younger
is in high school. Although parenting changes the older they get, it’s
still the most rewarding part of my life helping my boys grow and mature
into their own lives.
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