Third-generation matchmaker, Olivia Joyner, enjoys a 99% success rate when it comes to helping people find their happily ever afters. But her newest client is proving to be part of the 0.1 percent.
All the women Olivia have matched geriatrician Hunter Reinhart with have been perfect on paper. None of them, though, have resulted in a second request for a date, and all the women say the same thing: Hunter, although handsome and successful is just…dull. And boring. And too reserved.
Olivia can’t understand it, because to her? Hunter is none of those things. In fact, he’s the exact opposite of dull, boring, and reserved. He’s a man she would consider worthy of marrying herself – if she was in the market for a spouse.
Which she isn’t.
Olivia needs to figure out why she can’t find Hunter Reinhart the perfect match, and it just may require her to do something she’s never done before: go on a “date” with a client.
Purely for research and educational purposes, that is.
I’ve been hawking the preorders for this book for months!! ( Sorry!!, not sorry, lol) and the day is finally here! Release day for PERFECT MATCH, book 3 in the Heaven’s Matchmaker series.
I had such fun writing Olivia and Hunter’s story and finding ways for them to fall in love. I hope I did that, coherently and fully. When the reviews come in, I guess I’ll find out, LOL!
So,if you’re looking for something that’s a little sweet with heat, small-town, rich with main characters 40+, give this one a chance.
And I hope you enjoy all the books in the series so far ( there’s one more to come this November!)
Third generation matchmaker, Olivia Joyner, enjoys a 99% success rate when it comes to helping people find their happily ever afters. But her newest client is proving to be part of the 0.1 percent.
All the women Olivia have matched geriatrician Hunter Reinhart with have been perfect on paper. None of them, though, have resulted in a second request for a date, and all the women say the same thing: Hunter, although handsome and successful is just…dull. And boring. And too reserved.
Olivia can’t understand it, because to her? Hunter is none of those things. In fact, he’s the exact opposite of dull, boring, and reserved. He’s a man she would consider worthy of marrying herself – if she was in the market for a spouse.
Which she isn’t.
Olivia needs to figure out why she can’t find Hunter Reinhart the perfect match, and it just may require her to do something she’s never done before: go on a “date” with a client.
Purely for research and educational purposes, that is.
PERFECT MATCH releases in under 2 weeks so I’m introducing you to the main characters. Today, it’s Hunter Reinhart’s turn. This is how I’ve pictured him since I began the series…
If you are a certain age, the acronym IFYKYK will hit you hard. For those of you who don’t know, this is Richard Chamberlain, a mega-heartthrob in the 1960’s for his role as Dr. Kildaire, then as Fr. Ralph de Bricassart in the THORN BIRDS series. I have always adored this man for soso many reasons, the most obvious? That face. He just looks like a kindhearted doctor! Hence, he’s my Hunter.
About Hunter…
he’s a geriatrician
he’s divorced, no kids
he comes from “old” money
he’s naturally shy and reserved
he has a real love and adoration of older people
Hunter’s been on a lot of dates before he finds his Perfect Match. You can guess who that is! But it’s better to read the book, lol.
PERFECT MATCH releases 2 weeks from today, so I thought you might want to know a few things about the main characters.
Today, it’s OLIVIA JOYNER, Heaven’s Matchmaker. This is how I’ve pictured her since day 1, book 1 MIX and MATCH:
she’s been a widow for 21 years
She’s 40 years old
she has a 23 year old daughter
she got married at 17
she has a 99% success rate for matches/marriages
Tomorrow, you’ll meet Hunter Reinhart – the main male character.
Third-generation matchmaker, Olivia Joyner, enjoys a 99% success rate when it comes to helping people find their happily ever afters. But her newest client is proving to be part of the 0.1 percent.
All the women Olivia have matched geriatrician Hunter Reinhart with have been perfect on paper. None of them, though, have resulted in a second request for a date, and all the women say the same thing: Hunter, although handsome and successful is just…dull. And boring. And too reserved.
Olivia can’t understand it, because to her? Hunter is none of those things. In fact, he’s the exact opposite of dull, boring, and reserved. He’s a man she would consider worthy of marrying herself – if she was in the market for a spouse.
Which she isn’t.
Olivia needs to figure out why she can’t find Hunter Reinhart the perfect match, and it just may require her to do something she’s never done before: go on a “date” with a client.
Purely for research and educational purposes, that is.
This is the part of being a writer I hate – all the marketing. I swear, if I ever hit Powerball, I’m hiring a PR and marketing firm to do all this for me!
Anyhoo…
So, Perfect Match is book 3 in the series, and it’s the story of matchmaker Olivia Joyner and Hunter Reinhardt, one of the .01% of clients she can’t find a match for. Since she has 99% success rate, she figures finding him a wife should be easy peasy. After all, he’s handsome, successful, rich, and actually wants to get married again. Shouldn’t be a problem, right?
Yeah…no. So far, none of the dates she’s set him on have worked out and for the life of her, she can’t understand why the women think he’s boring and reserved and no fun, since she finds him none of those things.
Liv devises a plan to find out just what’s happening on those get-to-know-you-dates. What ensues, is a story filled with acceptance, caring, and a slow burn love awareness of one another. I loved writing this book and was so happy I could give Liv her HEA.
Here’s a little sumthin; sumthin‘ from the book to ( hopefully) whet your appetite to preorder it.
“You are the most capable woman I’ve ever met,” he said, simply, because it was the truth. Without knowing why, he rose and crossed to her side of the table. Squatting in front of her, he was fascinated when her eyes went wide as he took her hands and squeezed them. “But even the most capable people need someone they can just,” he shook his head, once, “let loose with. Unburden to. Discuss and digest everything with.”
“I-I’m…okay,” she managed, her gaze never leaving his. Her eyes were huge, wet pools of emotions. His insides quaked when he found her eyelashes spikey with unshed tears. The urge to kiss her, yank her into his arms, and calm away all those fears he knew she carried about inside her, hidden from everyone, was so strong, he physically had to pull his head from leaning down and sliding his lips across her beautiful mouth. He’d give anything to just spend the day with her. Just her. No fake date attached to it all.
He swallowed.
“I know you are Olivia, but please know, please realize, it’s okay not to be okay at times.”
Wonder crossed her gaze as one wet, fat tear cascaded down her cheek. Hunter released one of her hands and swiped at it with his index finger.
“And,” he added his voice hushed, “there’s no shame in asking for help. Especially from people who care about you. Please believe and know that.”
“I- I…do.” She managed to say. Her voice was raw and raspy, like she’d given fifty public speeches that day and now her vocal cords were revolting.
He squeezed her hands again, the rest of what he wanted to say going unspoken as his pager blared from his belt buckle.
With an unsaid oath, he stood and pulled the device from its holder, simultaneously taking his phone from his pocket.
“Excuse me,” he said, seeing fear jump to her face. Gentling his voice, he said, “It’s the Arms, not the hospital.”
So, yesterday, my Valentine’s Day Novella 3 WISHES was released, and today, I’m running my sales stats and checking all my social sites to see if there’s any buzz about it.
Yeah, it’s just something writers have to do, lIke actors check their acting reviews, writers do the same with the added check of social media and book sales.
For social stuff, one of my favorite Instagram Influencers, The Sebrero Sisters, added me to their daily shoutout of new releases – which, believe me , is HUGE!
This is free advertising at its finest, and these influencers are top-notch!
As for sales, well in the new releases category over on Amazon, this morning I am # 17 in sales in kindle romance>medical books..
and # 70 in the category Short reads (90mins-2 hrs) because it’s a novella…
To rank so high in both of these categories is, to use the same words again, HUGE!
No, by the time you read this post, those numbers may have changed because Amazon updates sales hourly. But right now, at 330 a.m. on Saturday, 2.15.25, these are accurate.
Have you gotten your copy yet? 3 WISHES is only 99cents on kindle and 5.99 in print.
Happy reading, kids. Hope your Valentine’s day was filled with love, laughter, and a good book! ( preferably mine! LOL)
In one month, on Valentine’s Day, 3 WISHES re-releases and I thought I’d give you a little taste of this romcom, mistaken identity and medical-themed romance today.
Did I mention I’m a chocolatier? My shop is called Caramelle di Chloe, roughly translated as Chloe’s Candy. In addition to my retail business, I cater all sorts of events from bachelorette parties, complete with naughty, anatomically correct chocolates, baby showers, anniversaries, and even weddings. I’ve been written up twice in national newspaper reviews and my business is a solid, financially successful one. Recently I’d begun to dream of expanding.
“Dio mio, Chloe. This is insane.” My sister’s beautiful blue eyes rolled back in her head as she licked her lips and savored the candy-cookie. “This is gonna be a major seller.”
I smiled, pleased. I’d thought so, too, but it was nice hearing it from someone else.
“So, are you going to tell Daddy about his clothes?” she asked, reaching for another sample.
“Not in this lifetime.” The chocolate was perfect, so I turned off the stovetop flame and dumped the gooey confection onto the marble countertop. I had to get ready for Valentine’s Day, a mere week away. While I smoothed the warm caramel from one end of the marble to the other and began rolling it between my gloved fingers into bite-sized nibbles of deliciousness, I told Snoop, whose real name is Gia, about the box mom had left for me.
“She gave me one, too.” Gia licked her fingers. “It was filled with stuff I don’t even remember owning.”
I mentioned the diaries and the candy sweethearts in mine.
“Those are still your favorite.” Gia grinned. “You work with the most delicious ingredient on the planet and you still love those little candies best.”
“I know.” Every year I featured candy hearts in some of my Valentine’s Day offerings. I’d decorate cakes and cupcakes with them, fill bags tied with pink or red ribbons with them, add them to lollipop sticks, anything I could think of.
…So a romance about a chocolatier on Valentine’s Day. Sound good? Lol
You can preorder it here, and it will be in KU for 90 days after release day, then I’m going wide with it.
Looking for a new holiday romance read? Well, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and my Valentine’s romcom 3 WISHES is available for preorder right now here: 3 Wishes.
Valentine’s Day is chocolatier Chloe San Valentino’s favorite day of the year. Not only is it the busiest day in her candy shop, Caramelle de Chloe, but it’s also her birthday.
Chloe’s got a birthday wish list for the perfect man she pulls out every year: he’d fall in love with her in a heartbeat, he’d be someone who cares about people, and he’d have one blue eye and one green eye, just like her. So far, Chloe’s fantasy man hasn’t materialized, despite the matchmaking efforts of her big, close-knit Italian family.
But this year, for her 30th birthday, she just might get her three wishes.
Next up in my 2025 publishing calendar is PERFECT MATCH, book 3 in the HEAVEN’S MATCHMAKER series.
Third-generation matchmaker, Olivia Joyner, enjoys a 99% success rate when it comes to helping people find their happily ever afters. But her newest client is proving to be part of the 0.1 percent.
All the women Olivia have matched geriatrician Hunter Reinhart with have been perfect on paper. None of them, though, have resulted in a second request for a date, and all the women say the same thing: Hunter, although handsome and successful, is just…dull. And boring. And too reserved.
Olivia can’t understand it, because to her? Hunter is none of those things. In fact, he’s the exact opposite of dull, boring, and reserved. He’s a man she would consider worthy of marrying herself – if she was in the market for a spouse.
Which she isn’t.
Olivia needs to figure out why she can’t find Hunter Reinhart the perfect match, and it just may require her to do something she’s never done before: go on a “date” with a client.
Purely for research and educational purposes, that is.
“So, tell me, Olivia, why matchmaking?”
Okay, not the question she would have led with, but he was making an effort.
She answered honestly. “Because I’m good at it. Always have been, even when I was in school. Plus, it’s the family business. I’m the third generation of Crally women to be a matchmaker.”
His eyes widened and he stopped cutting the roll in half to stare across at her. “Your grandmother is a matchmaker?”
“Mom, too. You didn’t know?”
“About your grandmother? No. She never mentioned it or even gave any indication she was in all the interactions we’ve had.”
“Well, in all fairness, the mantle was passed a while ago. First to my mom, and then from my mom to me.” She sighed. “It dies with me, too, because my daughter has no desire to take over for me.”
“You have a daughter.” Surprise lit his eyes. “I had no idea.”
She nodded. “Freya. She’s twenty-three and just got her Master’s Degree in physical therapy.”
“You have a twenty-three-year-old daughter. How is that possible?”
“What do you mean?”
“You’re what? Thirty-two? Thirty-three, tops?”
She laughed. “Okay, I know I shouldn’t have to say this, but you should never ask a woman her age on a first date. Or ever! Whether it’s a real date or fake,” she added when he began to protest. “But thank you for the compliment, and for the record, I just turned forty a few months ago.”
“Impossible. That means you had her at,” he thought for a moment, “Seventeen?”
She nodded.
“You were a child, Olivia.”
Not the first time she’d heard this from someone who didn’t know her past. “A little more than a child, I think.”
“How?”
She cocked her head, her lips twisting into a grin. “The usual way.”
He shook his head. “No, I mean…” His face pulled into a confused mask. There was no judgment in his tone or his expression, just bewilderment.
She took pity on him. “My boyfriend and I had been together since third grade and had always planned to get married after college.” She shrugged. “Freya just upped the timeline a bit.”
“You were married at seventeen?”
“Sixteen, actually. And before you say I was a child again, my mother was married at seventeen, my grandmother at fifteen. Early marriages are another thing we’ve passed down through the generations in my family.” She rolled her eyes. “And Freya broke the mold on that one too, since she’s twenty-three and single.”
He sat back in his chair, the roll and his hunger forgotten, and simply stared at her.
“Why are you looking at me that way?”
“Because I have a million other questions and I’m trying to discern if I should ask them.”
She waved her hand in the air. “Go for it.”
“Did you finish school? Go to college?”
“Yes and yes. I graduated high school as did Jon, my husband, and we both went to college in Concord. I majored in communications before you ask.”
“Where did you live?”
“With my parents.”
“They were…okay? With your…situation?”
“I told you, young marriages aren’t uncommon in my family. My grandparents and parents helped out, all of them thrilled to have a new baby to care for. My grandfather was the town pediatrician at the time and Freya couldn’t have had better care than from him and my grandmother and my parents. My grandparents said helping raise her made them feel young again.”
“I didn’t know your grandfather was a physician.”
She shrugged. “You didn’t grow up here, so why would you? He practiced for almost forty years and was still in practice when he…died.”
“I’m sorry,” he said automatically.
“You don’t need to be. He had a fabulous, fulfilling life, a thriving, rewarding practice, married his childhood sweetheart – see a pattern here?- and lived every day of his life with joy. That’s more than most people get in a fraction of their life.”
Again, the way he was staring at her, peering at her as though trying to see inside her head and body was a little disconcerting…but…alluring, as well.
“You are a surprise, Olivia Joyner,” he said as their waitress brought out their entrees.
Preorders are up here: PERFECT MATCH. Release date is 4.9.25! I can’t wait.
The countdown is starting!!! In just 7 days, SABLE ( ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID) releases into the romance reading world. This pediatrician is sick and tired of always being a bridesmaid. She’s determined that the next wedding she attends will be her own.
Pediatrician Sable Miller is sick and tired of being the go-to, dependable bridesmaid in all her family and friends’ weddings. But her demanding job, the ridiculous hours, and endless family commitments keep her from finding the perfect man. A matchmaking service? Sounds like too much work. Swipe right dating? Not her thing. The bar scene? When was the last time she even had an evening free to go to a bar?
And forget about dating the myriad of on-the-make doctors and residents in her hospital. Besides, workplace romances never work out.
Sable’s options to meet the man of her dreams and start a family are dwindling and time is running out, because she promised herself the next wedding she would attend would be her own.
Kristopher Lee, the Physician’s Assistant assigned to Sable has a crush on his new mentor. But she’s got a hands-off rule when it comes to dating someone she works with. Kris is nothing if not persistent, though. After all, he didn’t survive three tours in the Army without focusing on a goal. And making Sable Miller fall in love with him is his best goal yet.
Did you preorder your copy yet? I’m still running a little giveaway if you haven’t – the rules are in the graphic below. Click on this link to my FB page. Preorder, let me know, and you’ll be in the running to win a $10.00 amazon gift card. I’m giving away 5 on the day Sable releases!
Peggy Jaeger, Author 