But you know what? I picked up the book and could not for the life of me put it down.

There are no big surprises in terms of the plot and it kind of sounds like that movie “The Proposal” with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds but with the roles reversed. She resigns and he tries to get her back not as a personal assistant but as his wife because he’s Canadian and needs to marry an American to stay in the country and play. Aiden Graves, the Wall of Winnipeg, is a fantastic football player but a really meh boss. WoW is the story of a girl named Vanessa and it starts with her being the long suffering personal assistant of the greatest defensive player in the fictional NFO (An American Football League). In a few short months, I’ve bought her entire backlist including audiobooks and have read all of them – TWICE. You can usually find her harassing her dogs, being a hermit at home or cracking jokes at the expense of her family members.I read Wall of Winnipeg (WoW) at the end of last year and all I could think was: How could I not have discovered Mariana Zapata before this?! Her writing style really, really works for me. When she’s not pretending to write, she’s reading sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk or historical romance novels. Mariana lives in a small town called Pagosa Springs, Colorado with her husband/best friend, Chris Letchford, and their two well-beloved (and emotionally manipulative) Great Dane children, Dorian and Kaiser. Her novels tend to include potty humor, bodily functions, and bad words. Eventually, her significant other finally told her to do what she wanted to do and she began working on her original work.

In her teens, she wrote boy band fanfiction (there’s still a website up somewhere on the internet with those masterpieces), and in her early twenties, she picked it back up again with Sookie Stackhouse and Twilight. Luckily, she stuck to stories about princesses and princes for a while.

She probably shouldn’t admit that she started sneaking romance novels from her aunt’s bookshelves way before she was old enough to even understand what it meant when a man flipped up a woman’s skirt… don’t tell her mom. Mariana Zapata began writing love stories soon after she learned how to spell.

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