The Year of the Fox: A quirky romantic comedy

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Lola Publications, Sep 4, 2019 - Fiction - 373 pages

When Nancy Myers starts her New Life in the mountains with a wild leap of faith and a cordless drill in her back pocket, she discovers:

a) working stuff out as you go along tends to bite you in the ass

b) men who look good in rain boots are Dangerous

c) it’s a good idea to keep an eye out for neighbors when bathing naked in your sheep trough

"Tait offers an auspicious and cute premise, a scorchingly hot romance, and a highly original setting." – The Booklife Prize

Nancy’s having a hard time. Her career trajectory has flatlined, she’s just been jilted for a prettier, more limber girl-woman, and her car is starting to look like an attractive housing option.

But Nancy has a secret weapon. Desperation.

Determined to make a fresh start (one that on no account features men of the falling-in-love-with variety), she purchases a rural property on a whim at the foot of a mountain range and attempts to settle into country life.

She finds the vista of the alps healing. She also finds a tall, dark, farming stranger (who proves to be therapeutic in other ways).

But when she discovers her precious view is about to be taken away, Nancy faces a hard choice. Should she play saboteur to protect her own happiness, even if it means losing the man who just might possibly be the key to it?

Maybe her fresh start is actually a false start. Or maybe she’s learning a thing or two about how to be a kick-ass, self-reliant woman.

“This is chick-lit at its best. Merren Tait has written a genuinely funny novel.” – Readers’ Favorite

If you like boy-next-door, annoyances-to-lovers romance, you'll love the first book in Merren Tait's award-winning Good Life series. Discover the outrageously funny The Year of the Fox today!

 

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Contents

Into the Big Green
Who Needs a Plan When you Have a Multitool?
Pure Schist
Silver
A Bloody Good Shindig
Live Long and Prosper
The Driving Lesson
Metallica Lives
Sabretooth Cougar
Sleepless in Pukeroa
The Lot Plot
Return of the Sabretooth
Stalemate
Checkmate
Wocka Wocka
Technicolour Yawn

A Big Load of Bull
The Dinner Party
Burning Rubber
For the Love of a Good
Kicking over the Piss
Hitting the Wall
Carbon Zero Hero
The Elusive Stockman
THE YEAR OF THE FOX BONUS CHAPTER
Read the next book in the Good Life series
Thanks for taking the time to read my book
Also by Merren Tait
Acknowledgments About the Author
Copyright

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About the author (2019)

MERREN TAIT didn’t know she had a writer lurking in her, but after studying literature, teaching literature, and sharing the love of it as a librarian, she figures it had only been a matter of time before the author within burst out. The Year of the Fox, her debut novel, is what happened after a year of feverish writing in her spare time.

Merren lives in a small house on a large piece of land near Raglan, New Zealand where she dreams up fabulous names for her chickens. Like Princess Layer.

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