Spotlight & Giveaway: It Happens by Lani Lynn Vale

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Lani Lynn Vale to HJ!

Hi Lani Lynn and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, It Happens!

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

It Happens is about a couple who have known each other for forever, and have hated each other just as long. This book is an emotional rollercoaster, and the hero & heroine have a lot of hurdles to overcome before they get their HEA!
 

Please share the opening lines of this book:

“Give it back!” I screamed at the little girl.
The little devil known as Jubilee waved the hat like it was a red flag, and like the bull that I was acting like, I started to charge.
She squeaked in surprise when she realized her danger and started to run.

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

•  The skunk thing really did happen–to me!
• Lichtenberg Figures: The Fractal Patterns of Lightning Strike Scars.
• Love-to-hate books are my absolute favorite books to write!

Please tell us a little about the characters in your book. As you wrote your protagonist was there anything about them that surprised you?

When I start writing a book, I have absolutely zero idea where I’m going. I just sit down and write, and sometimes I’m just as surprised as everyone else is!

If your book was optioned for a movie, what scene would you use for the audition of the main characters and why?

Oh, wow! Ummm, Likely around the end where they’re holding each other, their scars from the lightning strike they both survived touching, as they profess their feelings for each other.

What do you want people to take away from reading this book?

Other than the fact that they absolutely LOVED it?
Probably that you never really quite know where you’ll find love. My two characters had it staring them right in the face for years!

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have planned?

I’m currently writing F-Bomb, the last book in The Bear Bottom Guardians MC Series.
As of right now I have Keep It Classy, Hissy Fit, Snitches Get Stitches, and Lord Have Mercy all up for pre-order!
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

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Excerpt from It Happens:

“Why are you talking to me?” I grumbled, gesturing to the bartender for another round with a raise of my glass.
She nodded her head but didn’t fill me up a glass of beer, but a glass of water.
I glared at the woman at my side.
“Why must you always make deals with the bartender before I get here?” I asked with annoyance.
“Because if I don’t, nobody else will. And your dad and I have an understanding,” she muttered darkly.
I didn’t bother to say anything to that. Jubilee’s dad, Pete, and I had an understanding, too.
No matter what happened, or how much we disliked each other, I would always have Jubilee’s back. I was sure the same went for her and the ‘understanding’ she had with my father.
Whatever the reason, we’d never let anything happen to the other. Despite both of us hating the other.
Jubilee’s and my dislike for each other went way back. It didn’t start the day that we both were struck by lightning and Eitan and Annmarie died. No, it started back when her father and my father first brought us around each other at the age of six and nine and she stole my favorite hat and threw it into the fire.
It only got worse from there, and eventually our aversion had turned into a strong dislike, closer to hate.
Not that I would say I hated Jubilee now, but I definitely didn’t like her.
I took another swig of beer instead of saying anything to her idiotic statement.
“Thirty-four years old,” she murmured. “How do you feel? Old?”
I looked over at her and glared. “You’re only three years younger than me, and I’m sure I’m in way better shape than you. Why don’t you tell me how you feel?”
She made a disgusted face. “I was just trying to make conversation.”
“Well make it with someone else. You annoy me,” I muttered darkly.
Jubilee rolled her eyes. “Whatever.”
Another dark laugh had us both looking in the direction of Zuri, who’d come up to get the drinks this time.
“Still can’t get along, I see?” Zuri sneered.
Jubilee blinked. “Actually, we’re fucking and having a grand ol’ time. But we still like to talk cruelly to each other. It makes us hot.”
Zuri’s face went slack. “You’re what?”
Jubilee grinned and leaned forward, her mouth perilously close to mine.
And, blaming it on the beer, I turned my face so that our mouths connected. Then I kissed the shit out of my enemy.

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Book Info:

Zee + Annmarie and Tan + Jubilee.

Forever. No exceptions.

They were to have the picture-perfect life together. Everything was all planned out.

Jubilee was to marry Eitan and Ezekiel was to marry Annmarie. That’s how it was always supposed to be from the moment that they met. Textbook, right?

Wrong.

Eitan and Annmarie die in a freak accident that never should have happened, leaving the two survivors reeling.

Sixteen years later, Jubilee and Zee can’t even be in the same room with each other before things begin to deteriorate. Too many memories. Too much pain. Not enough forgiveness.

They’re like hellfire and holy water, and neither one of them is willing to admit that they’re wrong.

Then one day things change, and all of a sudden, they’re looking at each other like maybe they aren’t each other’s enemies after all.

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Meet the Author:

Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.
When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.
Lani is married with three children and lives in the Great State of Texas.

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