Pairing Authors Favorite Recipe with a Contest, Interview & Exerpt: RESCUE MY HEART'S NYT Bestselling Author Jill Shalvis

Today, I am sharing  with readers one of my favorite contemporary authors.  New York Times bestselling author, Jill Shalvis and her latest An Animal Magnetism Novel---RESCUE MY HEART is one of my favorite reads this years.  This heart warming story with spectaular characters is a book readers will adore.  Jill rocks!!  She is sharing her one-of-a- kind KICK-ASS BREAKFAST CASSAROLE recipe.  With a Kick-Ass Breakfast and RESCUE MY HEART both will warm a reader from the inside out.  Scroll down to enter to win your very own copy of RESCUE MY HEART and the recipe to make this delicious cassarole. =)

RESCUE MY HEART

Excerpt, Interview and Review

for 

New York Times Bestselling 

Author

Jill Shalvis

1. Jill, I'm so psyched you've stopped by.  I know you're in the thick of your engagingly heart-felt Animal Magnetism series.  For those not familiar with the series would you explain a bit more about it.

Three wildly alpha brothers come together to run an animal center in Sunshine, Idaho at the base of the Bitteroot Mountains. 

2. I know that you put your own blood, sweat and tears into every page.  So, I'm curious to know if your characters have any of your own traits.  Is there one character you think is more like you than any other?

I’d like to say I’m tough as Holly Reed from Rescue My Heart but in truth I’m probably more like Lilah from Animal Magnetism – a little bit of a push over.  J

3. Jill, would you share with us a bit more about Adam and Holly's story from RESCUE MY HEART?

Holly Reed is certain something bad has happened to her father on his hunting trip, and with a massive storm coming, she needs help.  There’s only one man she knows can track her father – the man who once broke her heart.  He’s also the one man she’d rather never “need” again.  Adam Connelly.

Adam, back in the real world from being an S&R specialist in the National Guard, would like to just be left alone to do this thing, which is training S&R dogs and assisting at the Animal Center he runs with his brother Dell.  He sure as hell doesn’t need to face yet another of his failures, but there she is, his biggest one, named Holly, staring up at him with her gorgeous eyes, needing him.  He can’t commit to a dentist appointment, much less a woman, and yet he can’t fail her.  Not again.  Out in the wilds of the Idaho Bitterroot Mountains, they’ll each face their fears, and something else – the fact that they never stopped loving each other.

4. I'd like to end by asking Adam and Holly one question, if you do not mind.  Hi, Guys, thanks for stopping by with Jill. I really appreciate you taking the time from your busy schedules to chat with readers.  My question for both of you is, what is the one thing you hope readers gain from reading your love story in RESCUE MY HEART?

Adam:

That resisting a woman once she gets you in her sites is futile.

Holly:

Oh, Adam, you know you fell hard and fast and loved every minute of it…  Readers, don’t be fooled by his badass exterior, on the interior he’s a total marshmallow.

Adam:

Wince.

Jill it was a blast having you stop by.  Thank you for taking the time to shoot the breeze about your latest contemporary romance, RESCUE MY HEART, released by Berkley Sensation (Penguin Group).  I really enjoyed getting to know more about these wonderful characters and you.

Thanks for having me!

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Excerpt from RESCUE MY HEART by Jill Shalvis

She didn’t bother to roll her eyes.  They headed back to the ATV in silence.  Holly’s mind was whirling.  Two days ago she’d been happily hoarding resentment, regret, and a whole bunch of other repressed emotions for Adam.  She’d been doing so assuming that he was that same person he’d been all those years ago.

            And in some ways he was.  He still could think faster on his feet than anyone she knew.  He was strong of body and mind, and he never, ever backed down.  But he wasn’t the same wild, dangerous rebel she’d once been so desperately in love with, and so desperate to save.  Clearly he still had his ghosts, but he’d grown into a flesh and bones man, and a good one.

            And suddenly she had a new problem.  She was seeing Adam, the real Adam, warts and all.  No rose-rose colored glasses this time.  And she liked this man.

            A lot.

           

She could fall hard for him, if she let herself.  Luckily she understood him now and knew he wouldn’t want that. She shouldn’t want it, either. After all, her parents’ marriage had been smoke and mirrors.  Hell, her marriage had been smoke and mirrors.  Her entire life had been smoke and mirrors.

           

A façade.

           

She was good at that, at building unrealistic expectations.  But she was over it. She wasn’t living that way anymore. Her eyes were wide open now, and staying that way.  Life wasn’t perfect and she knew now it never would be. She had faults, and she wanted to be with someone who revealed his faults right up front.  No hidden agenda. Adam fit the bill. Could she allow herself to fall for him again, the man he was now?

Or maybe the more accurate question was…how could she not?

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Rescue My Heart (Animal Magnetism Series #3)

by Jill Shalvis

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780425255810

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Publication date: 11/6/2012

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Pages: 304

Sales rank: 377

Series: Animal Magnetism Series , #3

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Overview

She never wants a hero…

After a tragic stint in the National Guards, Adam Connelly returns to Idaho and to Belle Haven, the animal shelter he owns with his brothers. All Adam wants is to be alone. Then he opens the door to the past—the woman whose heart he once broke. Still gorgeous, still tough-as-nails, but this time, unusually vulnerable.

Holly learned the hard way to never depend on a man for anything. Now, of all men, Adam is the last one she wants to see, and the only one she needs. Her father has gone missing in the Bitterroot Mountains and she could use someone with tracking skills to help find him.

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Kick-Ass Breakfast Casserole
from 
NYT Bestselling Author
Jill Shalvis's
Recipe Box

Ingredients:

1 layer of tater tots

1 layer of ham or sausage cubes (or crumbled bacon, whatever makes your skirt blow up)

1 layer of grated cheddar cheese (there’s no such thing as too much cheese in Kick-Ass breakfast)

Pour this over the layers:

6 beaten eggs

1/2 tsp. salt (or more, if no one’s looking)

1/2 tsp. pepper

1 tsp. dry mustard

1/2 cup of chopped onion

3 cups of milk

2 tsp. worcesterchire sauce

Add 1/2 cup melted butter over all that.  Cook 1 hour at 350 degrees uncovered.

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