The Matchmakers–The Setup
Wonder how these grannies got started with their matchmaking ways? Here’s the setup:
LOVE REMAINS
Book 1 of the Matchmakers Series
ISBN-13: 978-1-60260-989-1
© 2010 by Kaye Dacus
Prologue
“You’d think she won the lottery or something.” Katrina Breitinger glared at the woman flouncing by, nose in the air.
. . . . . . . .“She’ll be lording it over all of us until someone else achieves the same feat.” Lindy Patterson crossed her arms and blew a lock of blond hair from her eyes.
. . . . . . . .“One would think she’d be mortified that it happened when she’s still so young.” Celeste Evans craned her neck to continue watching the woman in question.
. . . . . . . .Helen Bradley made a derisive raspberry sound. “Young, my foot! You know she’s had work done.”
. . . . . . . .“The least she could do would be to stop coloring her own hair.” Maureen O’Connor touched her professionally hued auburn tresses. “Hers always looks so brassy.”
. . . . . . . .Trina clicked her tongue, feeling slightly guilty. “Listen to the five of us. Standing here being catty about someone in church.”
. . . . . . . .“You’re right. Someone might overhear us and tell her.” Lindy looked over both shoulders.
. . . . . . . .“We sound just like teenagers. It’s unbecoming of us to speak ill of someone else.” Trina set her lips in a firm line and looked at her four companions.
. . . . . . . .“To speak ill of her, but not to think ill of her?” Lindy, Trina’s best friend since high school, winked.
. . . . . . . .“You know what I mean. Honestly. We’re over eighty years old, and we’re still acting like sorority girls.” Trina raised her hand to signal her husband, who’d just entered the back of the sanctuary.
. . . . . . . .“But what are we going to do about her?” Helen jutted her chin toward the object of their ire.
. . . . . . . .“There’s nothing we can do. Until one of our grandchildren get married, she’ll keep taunting us with the fact that she’ll have great-grandchildren before we do.”
. . . . . . . .Lindy grabbed Trina’s arm. “That’s it!”
. . . . . . . .“What?” Maureen asked.
. . . . . . . .“All of us have grandkids who’re getting up into their twenties and thirties. High time they should be getting married.” Lindy pulled the rest of the girls into a huddle.
. . . . . . . .“Don’t remind us,” Helen wailed.
. . . . . . . .“No, listen. We make a pact. Since each of us prides ourselves on knowing our offspring well, we’re going to be very picky about whom our grandchildren choose. So we narrow the pool.”
. . . . . . . .Trina stared at Lindy, following the train of thought to the next logical step. “We set our grandkids up with each other’s grandkids.”
. . . . . . . .“Exactly! We take the guesswork out of finding suitable partners for them.”
. . . . . . . .“But how—?” Celeste’s question was cut off by the organist beginning the prelude.
. . . . . . . .“We’ll work that out later—we’ll talk about it at coffee on Thursday.” Lindy stuck her right hand into the middle of the circle. “Who’s with me?”
. . . . . . . .Trina hesitated only a second before placing her hand on top of Lindy’s. Celeste, Helen, and Maureen quickly followed suit.
. . . . . . . .Lindy looked around at each of them, beaming. “I hereby dub us the Matchmakers.”
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Oh my stars — that’s brilliant! I was smiling through the whole thing!! Though I imagine the grandkids won’t be smiling when they figure out what’s going on…well, not at first anyway. This is going to be a great series to follow. No wonder your publisher gobbled it up.
I’m aching to start working on the second book (well, continue working on it—I’ve already written the prologue and first chapter). But I must spend the next month getting Ransome’s Quest finished!
I am really looking forward to reading this. I should get it anyday. My imagination started to wonder when reading this how many problems they are going to cause between themselves by matching up their own grandkids. I can imagine there will be arguing over who should get who…lol..I will find out soon. (=
Amazon shipments went out yesterday. And I believe Barbour is sending influencer copies some time after the holiday weekend.
Oh Kaye,
Sounds like SOOOO much fun – and definitely something my granny would do
It was scary how easy it was for me to put myself into those octogenarians’ heads!
And just when, pray tell, did you meet MY grandmothers? LOL
Wow. I want to be THEM when I grow up! Looking SO forward to reading this series!!
MY grandmother (Mamie) would never act anything like this. So this is definitely more a projection of me in about forty-five years!
oh, I can’t wait, sounds good, guess I better go order it, if I want to read it, lol!
Sounds like a good plan!
Oh wow!!! This will be a GREAT one! I can’t wait!!!! You have the best covers, you know.
I LOVE the covers for this series.
I’ve been a reader of your blog for AGES, but I’ve never commented, nor read your books. Let me make up for the harshness of that comment by pointing out that I have learned a lot from your posts on writing, and you are the first person to inspire me to do anything to make my characters more believable to myself, before I even write them.
That being said, I can no longer resist buying one of your books. This one, in particular. The plot has me tickled pink, and the cover has me green with envy (and jealousy, I think). Seriously, your covers are some of the best I’ve ever seen.
- J. Kinsey
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