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Thirsty: Meet Vanessa Velasco

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Hi, I'm Mia Hopkins and I write supersexy contemporary romance. My latest release, THIRSTY, is about an ex-convict and former gang member who falls in love with his landlady, a young single mother who works as a bookkeeper and is studying to become an accountant.

Sal and Vanessa might be from the same neighborhood, but they are two people heading in different directions. Vanessa is working hard to secure her daughter's future. Sal is on parole and re-starting his life from the ground up. Their toughness, passion, and deep desire for a better future eventually bind Sal and Vanessa together in ways neither one expect.

For introverted, broody Sal Rosas, so only an outspoken heroine will do. Here's what Vanessa Velasco is all about.

  1. She loves her community. Even though life in her working-class neighborhood can be tough, Vanessa has no intentions of leaving. She wants to stay in her family home and remain a strong member of the community.
  2. She sticks to her goals. Sal soon becomes a very sexy distraction, but Vanessa never stops working toward her goals. She wants to become a certified public accountant, and she studies hard for the test while working full time and raising a little girl.
  3. She's had a rough past. Vanessa's mother's drug abuse made her early life unstable, and her young husband eventually died of a heroin overdose. She has picked herself up again and again, but sometimes the weight of what she's experienced is difficult to bear.
  4. She's a good mother. No matter how exhausted she is, Vanessa always makes time for her daughter Muñ
  5. She's looking for a strong man to share her life with. Sal grew up stealing cars, gangbanging, and spending time in and out of prison. At first glance, he is an extremely bad choice. But Vanessa looks past his history and sees a man with a good head and a good heart. Their unconventional relationship requires both her strength and her courage, especially when Sal's past comes back to haunt him.

THIRSTY by Mia Hopkins

Eastside Brewery #1

Thirsty

A gangster hiding from his past. A single mom fighting for her future. Can she show this bad boy the man he's meant to be?

My name is Salvador Rosas. Back in the barrio, my past is written on the walls: ESHB. Short for East Side Hollenbeck, my father's gang—my gang. Hell, it's a family tradition, one that sent both my brothers away. They used to call me "Ghost" because I haunted people's dreams. Now I've got nothing going for me except a hipster gringo mentoring me in a new career. An ex-con making craft beer? No mames.

Still, people in this neighborhood look out for one another. That's how I became Vanessa Velasco's unwelcome tenant. Chiquita pero picosa. She's little, but with curves so sweet they're dangerous. I remember Vanessa from the old days, the straight-A student with big plans. Plans that were derailed by another kid stupid enough to think he was bulletproof. Now Vanessa knows better than to believe in empty promises. There's fire in her . . . and if I touch her, I might get burned.

I'm trying everything I can to go straight. But when East Side Hollenbeck comes calling, I might have to risk it all to find out if there's a future for Vanessa and me. Because she's the only one who can quench my thirst for something real.

Romance Contemporary [Loveswept, On Sale: March 13, 2018, e-Book, ISBN: 9780525478638 / eISBN: 9780525478638]

About Mia Hopkins

Mia Hopkins

Mia Hopkins writes lush romances starring fun, sexy characters who love to get down and dirty. She’s a sucker for working class heroes, brainy heroines and wisecracking best friends.

When she’s not lost in a story, Mia spends her time cooking, gardening, traveling, volunteering and looking for her keys. In a past life, she was a classroom teacher and still has a pretty good “teacher voice” and “teacher stare.”

She lives in the heart of Los Angeles with her roguish husband and two waggish dogs.

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