Spotlight: Love on the Winter Steppes by Paris Wynters
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Can a magical day at the Ice Festival melt this career-focused woman’s heart?
Marketing consultant Qara Whitaker loves her job, happily putting in endless hours and working through holidays. But when her grandmother asks that she accompany her on a birthday trip to Mongolia to visit their family, Qara can’t say no. Packing up her laptop, Qara boards the plane—never imagining that a shared cab ride with a stranger will change her life forever.
Hoping to push through writer’s block, author Benjamin Lacoy hops on a plane to Mongolia looking for inspiration. A chance meeting with a beautiful and intelligent woman whose smile ignites his heart leads to them playing tourists. Sparks fly and Ben is feeling far more than inspiration, yet each time he and Qara get close, she’s distracted by work.
Ben is torn; he likes Qara, but he always promised himself he’d never let work come before family and friends like his parents did. Opposites clearly attract, but can they learn to balance work with love in order to build a future together?
Excerpt
Qara winced. Right. The cooking tour Emee somehow had talked all of them into going on—including Ben, the stranger who’d shared their taxi yesterday. She nibbled her lip while taking one more nervous look at her calendar. She didn’t see anything on there for her—yet. Hopefully, that would hold.
She glanced around the room. “Where’s Emee?”
“Went to get breakfast downstairs. She’s been up for a while. I asked her to bring us something to eat.” Rose narrowed her eyes. “You planning on working the whole day?”
Qara sighed. “Look, I’m lucky my boss gave me the time off. Though, it helped Amanda and I came up with a plan beforehand.”
Truth was, Qara’s boss didn’t put up much resistance since she’d proven to be reliable over the years. But she also couldn’t forget the utter shock on her boss’s face when she had requested time off. He’d even asked if her family was okay, thinking something might have happened. Maybe her family was onto something if others saw her asking for time off as something akin to an alien spaceship landing in Times Square. In the end, he was more than happy to give her the days off, even mentioning using the time to recharge so she didn’t burn out from working all the time.
Why did everyone seem to think all the effort she put into her job was a bad thing?
Qara swung her legs out of the bed. Her body ached from the long flight, and her mind felt like it was full of marbles from the time change. Forget food. She needed coffee, stat. Otherwise she’d be a walking zombie.
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About Paris Wynters
I'm a hopeless romantic and a lover of all things coffee, canine, and exercise. When I'm not writing, I'm at the hockey rink cheering on my son, playing HALO on Xbox, or breaking a sweat in the gym. live in New York with my family and my two lovable and psychotic working dogs. I also run numerous 5k races in the New York area that raise funds to support the military/veteran community.
