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Anna Alkire | Author-Reader Match: BUCK UP, BUTTERCUP

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Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Anna Alkire!

 

Writes:

Fun adventurous Romantic Comedy, with all the feels and lots of laughs.

 

About:

Anna Alkire has been a long-term college student, a business owner, and a world traveler. Now “settled”—with a sigh and a cup of decaf—Anna lives in Washington state, where she splits her time between a husband who thinks the North Pole would be a great place to live, chasing her hurricane of a son, learning new handicrafts, and creating worlds full of the kind of romance and fun she most wants to read. Find more about her (and grab a freebie or two) at her website.

 

What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:

Appreciates well-crafted writing, that has been professionally edited, and enjoys humor that doesn’t take itself too seriously…

 

What to expect if we're compatible:

  • Free Short story for newsletter signup! Story is called, “Just Eat The Frog,” and is about characters from BUCK UP, BUTTERCUP. Other freebies in the future.
  • Working on an audiobook with a pro narrator
  • More Montgomery Brothers—yummy cowboys for days!
  • Pictures of quilts and flowers on Instagram. Other random and pretty stuff…

BUCK UP, BUTTERCUP by Anna Alkire

Montgomery Brothers #1

Buck Up, Buttercup

All’s fair in love and war.
With Randi and Buck, it’s hard to tell the two apart…

An uptight, self-contained college girl, Randi Becker just needed one thing: a room. Somewhere she could study, and keep away from the things that most confuse and frighten her: people.

Unfortunately, the “nice quiet place” she reserved turns out to be a room in the campus’ most raucous house. A place seemingly designed to make studying impossible, made even worse by the other girls’ non-stop drama.

But then Buck, a fun-loving cowboy whom all the ladies love, shows up…and everything gets much worse.

Buck seems to have it all: friends, fun, and a never-ending line of admirers. But what he most desires is a break. So when Buck spots Randi, he figures she’s a perfect decoy: he can play up a “crush” on her that will take him off the market; buy him some breathing room. And if he can tease her a bit, and get under the skin of the uptight busybody? Well, that’s just gravy.

But Buck is about to find more than he bargained for. Randi’s strong-willed, opinionated, difficult—and maybe just what he needs. And Buck isn’t alone. Soon Randi wonders as well…if the world she wanted is really the world she needs. If her future is nothing more than a diploma on the wall. And if the most important thing in her world isn’t a grade, but the cowboy who’s planted his boots firmly in her heart.

Fans of Beth O’Leary’s The Flatshare and Sally Thorne’s The Hating Game will delight at this mix of romantic comedy, contemporary romance, and cultures colliding in a campus town with a western flair. Grab your copy today, and fall in love with Buck Up, Buttercup!

Romance Contemporary [Water's Edge Publishing, On Sale: June 30, 2022, e-Book, / eISBN: 9798986388113]

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About Anna Alkire

Anna Alkire

Anna Alkire has been a long-term college student, a business owner, and a world traveler.

Now “settled”—with a sigh and a cup of decaf—Anna lives in Washington state, where she splits her time between a husband who thinks the North Pole would be a great place to live, chasing her hurricane of a son, learning new handicrafts, and creating worlds full of the kind of romance and fun she most wants to read.

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