Guest Post with Author Hayson Manning and Giveaway

Today I would like to welcome to RFTC author Hayson Manning. Hayson is celebrating the recent release of her book, Wife in Name Only and has stopped by to chat. Please give Hayson a warm welcome.


Hayson Manning's debut release, Wife in Name Only with Entangled Publishing, is available now. She lives in Southern California with her lovely sloth children, infuriating but much loved shoe-dropping husband, a tubby opinionated cat (as if a cat never doesn't have an opinion). There will often be a foster dog parked on the couch waiting for their forever home. She loves to read, cry watching Antiques Roadshow and is an expert at finding new and inventive ways to avoid exercise.

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Soundtracks of Life

In Wife in Name Only, my heroine, Zoe plays ABBA. A lot. It's her happy music. When she was little her mom would sit Zoe on the kitchen bench and sing along to Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Björn, and Benny when she was baking. Zoe lost her mom at a young age and listening to ABBA always make her smile and feel loved. I know I can't stay in a bad mood when belting out `Waterloo.'

This got me thinking of songs that affect me.

Galveston

Yep. Glen Campbell. Showing my age here, but my mom loved him. My mum died suddenly a long time ago now. She'd sing along at maximum volume as if she was twenty-one and leaving Galveston. I play that song, a lot, and it always makes me smile and feel that she's beside me, singing loudly. It is also guaranteed to clear the room of my moaning children, so I play it. Often.

Hallelujah

The Jeff Buckley version. It's breathtaking. The words are beyond beautiful and I'm in awe of Leonard Cohen. The way Jeff Buckley sings it with such beauty always moves me to tears.

Mad World

Gary Jules singing. Chez Manning were lounging around too large to move after chowing down on Christmas day in 2004. It was the next day and the images of the Tsunami that hit on the twenty-sixth of December started rolling in. While I was standing frozen at the despair and heartache on the faces of the people, the television station played Mad World and it was stamped on my soul. Every time I hear it now I hug my boys, much to their horror.

Tongue Tied

Something about this Grouplove song just makes me smile. I don't know why. It's my happy song.

Dancing Queen

Because you can't stay in a bad mood with Dancing Queen booming. It might be something about me wanting to be young and seventeen again.

There're many songs that are on my soundtrack of life. Are there songs or bands like Zoe likes that are on your soundtrack of life?

Trapped in a loveless marriage, Zoe Hughes escaped to make a new life for herself on a tiny island in Tonga. Now she runs a successful boutique honeymoon resort. Selling true love is easy. No one needs to know she's married in name only. At least until Americas premier honeymoon magazine wants to publish a feature on her perfect marriage. Now she must convince her estranged husband to rip himself away from plotting corporate takeovers in LA to save her island paradise.

Rory agrees to come for forty-eight hours, but only because he needs the positive PR. To his surprise, the wife he finds in Tonga isn't the same woman he married. Now she's so much more and he wants her back by his side in LA.

Can love be reborn on an island paradise or will the storm of the century rip them apart?

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• 1 lucky winner will win an eBook copy of Wife in Name Only

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• Please answer the question: What are some of the songs in the soundtrack of your life?
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