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Also by Sandi Kahn Shelton:

Kissing Games Of The World, November 2009
Paperback
Kissing Games Of The World, November 2008
Hardcover
A Piece Of Normal, April 2007
Trade Size (reprint)
What Comes After Crazy, January 2006
Trade Size (reprint)

Kissing Games Of The World
Sandi Kahn Shelton

Shaye Areheart Books
November 2008
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Featuring: Jamie McClintock; Nate Goddard
400 pages
ISBN: 0307393658
EAN: 9780307393654
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction

If there’s one point that Jamie McClintock and Nate Goddard can agree upon, it’s that love is overrated. Jamie doesn’t have time for it. Nate doesn’t need it. And they certainly don’t want it from each other.

Jamie, a struggling free-spirited artist, is a devoted single mother who hasn’t been in a serious relationship since her boyfriend abandoned her after their son was born. Nate, a charismatic jet-setting salesman, is widowed and estranged from his father and five-year-old son, Christopher. Jamie would rather glue glitter to pinecones than go out on a date. Nate spends most of his nights wooing his clients. Then one afternoon Nate’s father drops dead of a heart attack. In that moment, their highly guarded worlds collide.

When Nate shows up at his childhood home to settle the estate and reclaim his son, he discovers that Jamie has been living in the Connecticut farmhouse as his father’s roommate. Mistrustful of each other’s motives, Nate and Jamie bicker about everything from children’s nicknames to Jamie’s fashion choices to Nate’s home renovation methods. It doesn’t help that Christopher prefers Jamie to his absentee father.

But after the funeral, Nate and Jamie begin to see each other in a more forgiving light. Nate, traveling to sales conferences all over the country with a sullen Christopher in tow, learns he can’t breeze his way through single parenthood. Jamie, who has moved back in with her sister, wonders at the wisdom of her unconventional choices as a woman with a child to support. And both begin to realize they don’t know as much about love as they thought. Still wounded by past heartbreak and sorrow, can they learn to trust each other and open their hearts?

Comments

8 comments posted.

Re: Kissing Games Of The World

Really enjoyed reading your tale of writing. It amazes me; many authors say, their characters speaks to them, ruling or running the book. I think anyone who can write a "lie" to make money has talent. LOL.

Pat L.
(Pat Lieberman 7:24am December 30, 2008)

Sandi - your characters sound like some people I need to get to know! Sometimes, reading a really good book, you think, this person could really be my best friend! Thanks for writing!
(Kelli Jo Calvert 12:28pm December 30, 2008)

Sandy, Love the plot of this new book!
I always enjoyed your columns in the Register and this book sounds great,
Sharon
(Sharon Cerasoli 12:42pm December 30, 2008)

I love your characters showing up anytime. Mine usually come while driving and I need to hold that thought until a red light and fumble around for pen and paper. Talking on the cell phone on freeway ramps and characters dropping in make me nervous.
(Alyson Widen 1:25pm December 30, 2008)

I really enjoyed reading your post and about your book. It sounds wonderful and putting it on my TBR. Thanks .
(Sara Hurt 5:04pm December 30, 2008)

Enjoyed your description of having your
characters find you and give you their
story. They are obviously doing a good
job. Keep up the good work and keep
your "door"(?) open for your next story.
(Patricia Barraclough 10:46pm December 30, 2008)

Thanks for stopping by today to talk to us all!


Tami
(Tami Cullen 10:58pm December 30, 2008)

Oh did I miss it???
(Pamela Shockley 7:31pm December 31, 2008)