Girl in Trouble

I’m delighted to be taking part in Rhoda Baxter’s blog splash today, for her fab new book  Girl in Trouble.

Grown up tomboy Olivia doesn't need a man to complete her. Judging by her absent father, men aren't that reliable anyway. She's got a successful career, good friends and can evict spiders from the bath herself, so she doesn't need to settle down, thanks.
Walter's ex is moving his daughter to America and Walter feels like he's losing his family. When his friend-with-benefits, Olivia, discovers she's pregnant by her douchebag ex, Walter sees the perfect chance to be part of a family with a woman he loves. But how can Walter persuade the most independent woman he's ever met to accept his help, let alone his heart?

Rhoda has asked her blog splashees some very interesting questions:

Rhoda: Both Olivia and Walter undergo changes that they feel are bad, but end up being positive. Have you ever had a blessing in disguise?

Kate: I don’t think I’ve had a dramatic blessing in disguise myself (or maybe I haven’t recognised one) – but my heroine certainly had in Stella’s Christmas Wish. She’s at work in London when she gets a phone call telling her that her beloved granny back home in the Scottish Borders has had a bad fall. As she rushes north it’s impossible for her to see anything good in that situation – and there’s also the reason she left Scotland in the first place – but sometime blessings come very heavily disguised …

Rhoda: Walter thinks hydrothermal vents are beautiful, but no one else does. What is your obscure love/ guilty pleasure, and why?

Kate: It’s not really obscure but it’s a pleasure I’m surprised to find myself having. Since visiting my daughter in rural China where she was teaching English six years ago, I’ve become rather obsessed with that country. So I joined the Scotland-China Association and enjoy the speakers at their monthly meetings, not to mention the get-togethers in Chinese restaurants. I did a Future Learn course on the European Discovery of China – loved it. And I read anything to do with China – my favourite author on the subject is Peter Hessler, an American who went originally with the Peace Corps and then was Beijing correspondent for the New Yorker from 2000 to 2007. Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip, his account of travelling around China in 2001 when there were still very few cars on the road, is mind-boggling and very entertaining.

Rhoda: Since The Octonauts comes up a lot in the book – what is the TV programme or book or game that you miss most from your childhood?

Kate: I was brought up in rural Scotland and we didn’t have a television until I was fifteen. In any case, there weren’t the round-the-clock programmes there are now. Not being an outdoorsy type (despite the lovely outdoors around us) I read every minute I could. Luckily for me, my mum didn’t say (very often!) ‘Why are you inside on a such a lovely day?’ and when she did – well, I just transferred myself, book in hand, onto a rug in the garden. I still read a lot but I miss those unguilty hours and hours … and hours, of getting lost in books.

Girl In Trouble is the third book in the award nominated Smart Girls series by Rhoda Baxter. If you like charming heroes, alpha heroines and sparkling dialogue, you'll love this series. Ideal for fans of Sarah Morgan, Lindsey Kelk or Meg Cabot's Boy books. Buy now and meet your new favourite heroine today.

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