Sneak Peek at The Cougar Club by Susan McBride
Aging gracefully isn’t about aging gratefully. It’s about living life with your engine on overdrive, making love with all the lights on, trashing your diet books, and diving into the chocolate cake.
Chapter One
When it rains, it pours.
For a third of her life, she’d devoted herself to this place, sacrificing holidays, her family, and her social life, all so she could ravage her manicure climbing the ladder from lowly copy writer to New Accounts Team Leader. If the BuzzShots campaign scored a hit, she’d be due a more senior position with plenty of perks and more job security.
“It’s a scary world,” she heard Chace saying as he slid a dreaded red folder from beneath his pudgy hands. “Nothing’s certain these days.”
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Sounds fabulous – my kind of book. It gives me hope that the type of book I love to read and write may be selling – woo hoo! Wishing you much success!
Thank you, Kathy! 🙂 I hope you enjoy the heck out of Cougar once it's out on January 26. I'm counting the days (um, the hours, the minutes!). 😉
Cheers,
Susan
Great and fun first chapter. Definitely gives a hint of what is to come. I've always enjoyed your writing, Susan, so fresh and intriguing.
Marilyn
Thank you, too, Ms. Marilyn! I had to kind of truncate the chapter a bit so I didn't take up even more space than I ended up taking! So I cut out a few graphs toward the end…and you don't get to see Kat go back to the loft and catch her boyfriend doing something, er, surprising (to her anyway!). Okay, I won't say more so I don't spoil anything for anyone. But it was so much fun to write about 45 year old women and how the world has changed so much(in matters of work and love) since my generation was in high school. It was a total blast and kind of cathartic, too!
Cheers,
Susan