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Wednesday Words: Win Place Show by Liz Crowe

3/23/2022

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All right my Happily Ever After friends, we've got Liz Crowe back with her newest release, WIN PLACE SHOW! It's available for pre-order right now and releases on March 28th! Let me tell you, this book sounds full of wit and sass and LOTS of steamy romance! Take it away, Liz!
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​Win Place Show: All bets are on!
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WIN PLACE SHOW
Contemporary Romance

Start with a perfect spring weekend full of pretty dresses, high heels, fancy hats, horse races, and bourbon.

Combine with a friends-from-childhood couple whose ongoing misunderstandings have led Lucy Granger to swear she’ll never move back home.

Mix in a splash of combined family pressure for Lucy and Nate Hawthorne to be The Golden Couple.

Pour over crushed ice and garnish with plenty of hot, secret hookups.

Win. Place. Show.

​A funny sort of romance chock full of dressing up, mint juleps, an axe-throwing bar, and a huge winning bet at the big race.

WIN PLACE SHOW: AN EXCERPT

Lucy dropped the phone to her side, wishing she could sleep another three hours to skip the whole still-a-tad-drunk part of the hangover. She had, indeed, made some poor choices the night before. Beginning with thinking she could slide back into easy, sexy time with Nate. She’d already more or less decided against it before he’d gotten there. But, of course, he’d shown up looking so flipping edible in a pair of dark jeans and a form-fitting purple polo with the Trifecta logo stitched where the little polo guy usually sat. Damn the man. He had no right to go around being so...hot.

He’d always been vain about his hair, something he’d discovered was a featured benefit about the same time he decided she no longer deserved his friendship. It was a wavy strawberry blond, cut just short enough so he didn’t have to use any products while it was full and tempting to female fingers. His eyes were so green, people accused him of wearing contacts to make them that way. Someone had obviously told him the trick about green eyes, that wearing purple made them even more striking.

“Some woman, I’m sure,” she said, lying flat on her back a few more seconds before hauling herself up and limping toward the shower.

Maintaining her anger at Nate was easy. She’d been ready to outright reject him. But when he’d shown up looking like some kind of a male model, turning every damn female head in the place, she’d stumbled. He was such a good dancer, not to mention a top notch kisser. So she’d gone with it, fueled by too much booze, ready to leap back into bed with him as if no time had passed since they last hooked up.

Thankfully, he’d given her an out by going all talkative. That was the last thing she wanted from him. So she’d walked away. And subsequently had a lot more to drink, hence her current condition, ergo she planned to lay blame for her pounding head and queasy stomach at his feet, too.

So there, Mr. Perfect.

The shower transformed her from being a woman with a hangover into a clean woman with a hangover and many regrets. She glared at her bloodshot eyes in the foggy mirror, hating herself for being here, in her stupid bathroom where she’d spent so many hours as a little girl and later a teenager, second guessing herself and her relationship with Nate.

She slapped on some rudimentary makeup, dried and styled her hair enough to pass her mother’s scrutiny, then stood in front of the dresses hanging in her closet. A line of matching shoes were on the floor beneath them. Several hatboxes stacked on the shelves to one side. The floral-patterned one made her headache worse, so she chose a light blue option, with a halter neckline, tight-fitting bodice and skirt. It was a beautiful choice, as they all were. One thing she could never accuse her mother of was shopping poorly.

​She slid her feet into a pair of cream-colored high heels, then pondered the hats with a sigh. When they were little, she and Mimi loved this weekend more than any other. The opportunity to put on a pretty new dress, hat, and shoes had been the highlight of their year. The hours spent at the track over the course of Derby weekends were some of her best memoires.

PURCHASE WIN PLACE SHOW

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09FH7BMCG
Universal buy link: https://books2read.com/winplaceshowromance
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60143414-win-place-show
Bookbub: tbd (release day is 3/28)
Trailer: https://youtu.be/Y0OGI-iGVTc (public on 3/28 but can be accessed with this link now)
ARC sign up (good through April 28, 2022):  https://forms.gle/mkNU7UFMxqjg2M3P8


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BIO: LIZ CROWE

Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Louisville living in South Carolina. She's spent her time as a three-continent expat trailing spouse, mom of three, real estate agent, brewery owner and bar manager, and is currently a digital marketing and fundraising consultant, in addition to being an award-winning author.

​With stories set in breweries, on the soccer pitch, inside fictional television stations and successful real estate offices, and even in exotic locales like Istanbul, Turkey, her books are compelling and told with a fresh voice. The Liz Crowe backlist has something for any reader seeking complex storylines with humor and complete casts of characters that will delight and linger in the imagination long after the book is finished.​

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16 Comments
Liz Crowe link
3/23/2022 05:12:45 am

THANKS so much for featuring my upcoming release!

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Patricia Kiyono link
3/23/2022 05:17:42 am

Wit and sass and lots of steamy romance is the perfect description of this book! I was honored to read an ARC and thoroughly enjoyed it!

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Liz Crowe
3/24/2022 06:55:33 am

Thanks Patricia! That makes me so happy to hear you enjoyed it! xoxo Liz

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Pamela S Thibodeaux link
3/23/2022 05:20:55 am

Sounds like a wonderful book, Liz!
Great spotlight, Kara.
Good luck and God's blessings to you both.
PamT

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Liz Crowe
3/24/2022 06:55:53 am

Thanks Pam! I appreciate your support!
xoxo
Liz

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M. J. Schiller link
3/23/2022 07:23:59 am

Love this cover, and sounds like a great read! Thanks for sharing it with us, Kara, and best wishes for WIN PLACE SHOW, Liz!

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Liz Crowe
3/24/2022 06:56:13 am

Thank you M.J.!
xoxo
Liz

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Caroline Clemmons
3/23/2022 08:15:08 am

Sounds like a fun read. Love the cover.

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Liz Crowe
3/24/2022 06:56:45 am

I love the cove too, Caroline! It really captures the tone of the book.
I hope you get a chance to read it.
xoxo
Liz

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Barbara Bettis
3/23/2022 09:42:55 am

Ok, I admit it. I love(d) clothes and dressing up. I wore heels to work/teach every day until I broke my leg and was no longer comfortable in them. I used the past tense, not because I don't still love clothes, but because I'm retired now and don't have the excuse to shop as much as I used to. all of this is beside the point, which is--your book sounds delightful and I'm looking forward to its release, Liz. :) Wishing you the best.

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Liz Crowe
3/24/2022 06:57:20 am

THANKS Barbara. I'm the same about high heels these days. Even at Derby (which we may be attending this year) I'm going for wedges or flats.

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Alina K. Field link
3/23/2022 02:09:04 pm

I love the blurb, the cover, and the excerpt! Congratulations on the new release!

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Liz Crowe
3/24/2022 06:57:33 am

Thank you Alina!
xoxo
Liz

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joylene link
3/23/2022 06:14:16 pm

Congratulations, Liz. By the looks of the cover, whoever designed loved the book. It looks like a fun read. Ah, to be young and in love!

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Liz crowe
3/24/2022 06:58:21 am

Joylene,
Diana Carlile does my covers for Wild Rose Press and she ALWAYS creates beautiful ones.
thanks for your comment!
xoxo
Liz

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Liz Crowe
3/24/2022 06:58:57 am

Thanks again for having me Kara! It's an honor to be here and to receive so much positive feedback from your blog followers.
xoxo
Liz

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