Day 3 Mature Romance Week features Margaret Ethridge

Mature Romance Week has been fabulous so far. Today it is about to get even better because today I am hosting one of my favourite authors, Margaret Ethridge.


I asked Margaret about Spring Chickens and the "maturity" of the couple and she so kindly wrote this piece for my blog today. 

We’re sexy and we know it 

I told a friend of mine that I was writing a book with a hero and heroine hovering around big 5-0, and she wrinkled her nose in distaste. Apparently ‘older people’ can’t be sexy. I pointed out that my own husband—the very same guy she once described as a hottie-hubby—is fifty-one, and she was forced to make an exception to the rule.

But who made the rule? Where did we ever get the idea that people forty aren’t sexy? Were we supposed to leave lust in the dust once after our first-annual thirty-ninth birthday?  Oops. Nobody told me.

And who decided that love was only meant for the young? George Bernard Shaw said the ‘Youth is wasted on the young.’ So true. They screw love up all the time. At least, I know I did when I was their age. Looking back on my twenties and thirties, I realize how much time I wasted anticipating and not savoring.

As I grow older, I come to appreciate those things younger people find so unattractive. To me, laugh lines, sun spots, and crow’s feet are symbols of a life well-lived. And a second, third, or even fiftieth chance to fall in love? In my opinion, that’s an opportunity too precious to waste.

Spring Chickens

You don’t have to be a spring chicken to fall in love.

The residents of Heartsfield, Arkansas think Lynne Prescott has it all. The wealthy suburban divorcee captures everyone’s attention when she blows into town to dispose of the family farm. But her nosy new neighbors don’t know she ran away from home.

Bram Hatchett’s interest in buying the land adjoining his farm is yesterday’s news, but the handsome widower’s inability to contain his attraction to the land’s beautiful owner quickly becomes fodder for the local gossip mill.

A rickety old porch and a disturbing decrease in the poultry population bring them together—but with wagging tongues and grown children against them, Lynne’s inclination toward flight comes smack against Bram’s aversion to fight. Can they whittle away the secrets of the past in order to scratch out a future together?

Would you like to win an ebook format of Spring Chickens? 

Just leave your name and email address in the comments. All winners will be drawn Wednesday May 9th. 

If you are interested in checking out Margaret Ethridge she can be found all over the place. Twitter, Facebook, and here is her Goodreads. 

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