Today we are happy to welcome to Book Lovers Inc. Claire Robyns a globetrotter author like you don’t come across everyday! Claire grew up in South Africa, visited Zimbabwe, Mozambique and right now besides living in England loves to discover the sights of Europe! I bet she could tell us about her adventures. But today she is here with us to tell you more about her latest novel, Second-Guessing Fate, a light and funny contemporary romance recently released by Carina Press. So come join us in celebrating Claire’s new release and tell us about your take on fortune-tellers and psychics and you could win yourself a copy of her book! Please give Claire a warm welcome and now I’ll cede the blog to her.

Thanks to Book Lovers Inc. for having me over today. Second-Guessing Fate is a fun and flirty contemporary about a girl, a guy, best friends and fortunetellers.

Gemma’s just your everyday girl carrying a dream in one pocket and a healthy dollop of wariness in the other. She’s had her share of heartbreak (and then some) but who hasn’t? Right?

I don’t often get to write about what I know. I’ve never been chased across continents by a gorgeous hunk who can’t get over his love for me, I’ve never had a secret baby and the only multi-millionaire I’ve ever met was happily married with kids my age.My chance finally came with Second-Guessing Fate. Like my heroine, Gemma, I was dragged to a fortune-teller by an obsessed friend years and years ago. I thought to myself, “How bad can it be? At least I’ll have a good ol’ laugh.”And I did. But even now, almost 20 years on, I still recall those thirty minutes clearly. Ever since, whenever something happens that draws even a slight parallel with that’s woman’s predictions, I can’t help smiling and tingling and thinking back fondly on that day and…well, just wondering, what if…? And I realized how possible it might be for some silly predictions to grow on a person, warping every reasonable bit of sense in their bones until they’re acting madder than a mad hatter.

But then Gemma’s friend drags her off to Madame Hooch for a little fortune telling therapy. She’s a total skeptic about all that mumbo jumbo, but seriously! She hasn’t even met the guy yet and he’s going to dump her? That’s enough to make any girl mad enough to get even. In this case, it means tricking the gorgeous Nick into dumping her sooner rather than later. There’s a soul mate on the line if Madame Hooch is to be trusted. Unfortunately she’s up against Fate and things don’t go quite according to plan.

This book was so much fun to write and I hope it gives my readers a few smiles.

Meet Gemma, speaking about her ex-fiancée: “What was I supposed to do? Hold a grudge against the poor man because he changed his mind?” She’d done the next best thing. She’d put the Atlantic between herself and all that heartbreak.

Meet Nick: He was mature enough to admit that experience had stripped his ego, and man enough to make sure it never happened again. He could reconstruct his idea of a woman’s place in his life; reevaluate the balance of give-and-take. He could change. If he couldn’t find his sweet, understanding, feminist side, he’d damn well go out and borrow one.

You can chat with Claire Robyns on twitter at @ClaireRobyns or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ClaireRobyns, and you can find out more about her books at  http://www.clairerobyns.com/