Mrs. Riggins Presents

Jonesing for Mr. Jones

2009-11-05T13:57:00.000-08:00

Nanowrimo 2009 is off and running! This year I decided to try my hand at a Romantic Comedy. It's titled Jonesing for Mr. Jones and I'm going to leave a little teaser for all of you!

CHAPTER ONE

“I’m through with men.” Katie declared.

Her mirror image looked back at her, solemn and determined. She meant business this time, she was kicking men for good. The decision had been made that morning after yet another disastrous date.

Paul Dodd had all the potential to be a good date. He’d seemed genuine when he had asked her out. He was good looking, average height, seemingly good sense of humor. They had gone to a club, not the most romantic for a first date, but it was a local hot spot so Katie had gone along with the idea. Until Paul had proceeded to get drunk in under ten minutes and spill his drink on her new cream satin blouse. Not to mention that he had called her by the wrong name three times.

There were others too. Paul was the last in a long line of bad dates. At first Katie had thought that maybe her datees were just bad examples of the male sex. But as they continued on one after the other she concluded that either she was cursed to be a jerk magnet or men in general were simply pigs. She did know exceptions to the rule, her father and brother being two fine upstanding men. It was most likely just her. Which was even more reason why she should keep her distance from any man who seemed interested in her.

Prologue

2009-07-09T15:37:00.000-07:00

Fate is a fickle thing, constantly meddling in the lives of mortals. For one woman, two men, and a kingdom fate would forever alter our lives. It was fate whose hand happened upon a chance meeting between me and my Lancelot. Fate swayed our hearts to love one another, and doomed us to be parted. Parted more than ere we thought when my hand was given to the great King Arthur who vowed he must wed me upon his first sight of my beauty. Meddling fate that my one love was Arthur’s first knight and sworn to his service as surely as I was sworn to his bed.

Our love was forbidden. To this day I am not sure whether it was the temptation of the forbidden fruit that drove us to disobey each of our vows, or if our love was simply destined and too great to be denied.

This love that fate cast upon us one day by the willow tree would condemn us both. It would see my husband’s death and the destruction of the fair kingdom that was once known as Camelot.

I'm Back!

2009-03-13T15:07:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone! I'm back and writing! I'm finishing up For the Love of Guinevere and I'm going to be doing a self publishing deal on it. I will let you all know where to buy it at when it is available. But for now I'll post the some teasers, Enjoy!