Welcome, Laura Haley-McNeil to Five on Friday. Check out the five questions she chose to answer.

Laura Haley-McNeil is an award-winning author of romantic suspense and women’s fiction in novel length and in short stories. Her work has been featured in several women’s magazines. She has studied piano and ballet and has been a board member for two community orchestras. She and her husband reside in Colorado. When she isn’t writing, she jogs, bicycles and crochets.

What is one of your favorite quotes?
I LOVE quotes! I post them on my Facebook page all the time. I hope that I’m posting something that will resonate with someone somewhere. You never know when someone needs encouragement. Recently, I posted this quote from Winnie the Pooh. “What day is it?”, asked Winnie the Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.

Ann: I also love quotes. Once I start reading them I can’t stop!

What is your favorite TV show of all times and why?
I hate to think that I have to go back several decades to think of a TV show I liked. I rarely watch TV anymore. I loved The Dick Van Dyke Show. I’m really dating myself here. The characters were self-effacing and funny. But something about TV back then was that the stories had a beginning, a middle and an end. Now, the programs have twists and turns and few have resolutions. I think the writers are trying to imitate life, but I miss the old days when the program had an ending. And next week, the program had a new dilemma to solve.

Ann: I’m a TV-aholic. I probably have 40 timers set! It takes me forever to watch them because I don’t have a lot of “free” time.

Do you remember your first kiss? Care to elaborate?
My first kiss was the worst kiss of my life! How’s that for a memory? We were in his family’s barn. I’m not sure what exactly led to it, but then he kissed me. It totally ruined me for wanting anyone else to kiss me, but I knew my parents didn’t kiss that way. Needless to say, I left immediately and made sure I was never alone with him again. My second kiss must have been much better, so I guess I wasn’t scarred for life!

Ann: Every time someone chooses this question I think it will spark my memory and I’ll recall my first kiss. So far, no luck.

Do you sing in the shower or car? What type of music?
I sing all the time, and I’m grateful that my husband likes to hear me sing, because if he didn’t, that wouldn’t stop me. Unfortunately, if I hear a song, it sticks in my mind and I might sing that song for days!

Ann: I don’t sing much anymore. I used to sing in the car all the time, but my daughter (young at the time) would tell me to stop. She broke me from the habit.

What is the loveliest thing you have ever seen?

A new mother holding her baby. I have a video on my Facebook page of a new mother. She’s stroking the baby’s check. I’m not if the baby is a boy or a girl, but this baby is smiling. It’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.

Ann: That would be in my top five. 

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JT Whitloch can’t close his eyes without seeing the body of the woman who drowned in his swimming pool two years ago. He doesn’t remember that night but blames himself for her death. He walks away from his affluent life and moves to Crystal Creek, but still he can’t find peace.

Then Gretchen Moore moves to town. She stirs up his desire and his past with a secret so deadly it could destroy her.

Gretchen wants nothing to do with JT. Because of him, someone wants her dead. The terror from his past forces them into an alliance that soon ignites their passion. Fighting these feelings leads them to the secret of the woman floating in JT’s swimming pool, but the knowledge doesn’t ease JT’s inner turmoil. Instead, it reveals an answer that could destroy him and Gretchen. His own destruction he could accept, but he’ll defend Gretchen to his death.

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Defending-Heart-Crystal-Creek-Book-ebook/dp/B079QVZDFH/
Kobo
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/defending-her-heart
Barnes and Noble
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/defending-her-heart-laura-haley-mcneil/1127951550;jsessionid=99CC144C2F1E272328398980D4E60247.prodny_store02-atgap11?ean=2940155417736
Apple
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/defending-her-heart/id1347905885?mt=11