tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62472606190482724012024-03-13T03:21:44.496-05:00Christi Snow Christi Snow (romantic suspense author, reader, coffee and beer aficionado)Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.comBlogger415125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-19838886913939598872021-10-28T09:12:00.000-05:002021-10-28T09:12:05.795-05:00Let me introduce you to my latest release, THAT TOUCH...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VA0B67CRTgZT8DKtlFmzGC7zWCulwOy5j4mxnZ7YSQeUqnBijhFOD4ogQO2wcWc-diAhg5PCMV7Ovm-vlzXEBG1HtA6Q_my-KtBsInVKH6S8Sa92mNoIiiZD1tanzbsIfmAIU4yRdADD/s1350/TT+collage+done2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VA0B67CRTgZT8DKtlFmzGC7zWCulwOy5j4mxnZ7YSQeUqnBijhFOD4ogQO2wcWc-diAhg5PCMV7Ovm-vlzXEBG1HtA6Q_my-KtBsInVKH6S8Sa92mNoIiiZD1tanzbsIfmAIU4yRdADD/w512-h640/TT+collage+done2.png" width="512" /></a></div><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;"><a href="http://books2read.com/thattouch" target="_blank">Buy now!</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">THAT TOUCH...</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">by Christi Snow</div></div><p></p><h1 align="center" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4667px; margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; text-align: center;">Prologue</h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p align="center" class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i>“I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.” –Rick Blaine</i></p><p align="center" class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i>CASABLANCA</i></p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i>20 years ago – 7 yo</i></p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Izzy</i></p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i> </i></p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I rounded the corner of the boys’ bathroom and closed my eyes for a moment, hoping I wasn’t about to see <i>disreputable</i> things.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">That was a big word, and I wasn’t sure what it meant.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Mom used it with a sneer about Mr. Henley when she talked about something <i>scandalous</i> he’d done with his secretary (although I hadn’t been able to figure out exactly what that had been).</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I figured it might be the type of thing I’d see in the boys’ bathroom at school.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I slowly opened my eyes and had to admit the view was slightly disappointing.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">This looked just like the girls’ restroom, but instead of the stuck up cluster of bi-atches (my mom told me I shouldn’t repeat that word, but I could think it and she’d never find out) giggling in the corner, I found a group of the male variety of bullies from my second-grade class.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Ugh...they were the worst! I didn’t want to explain my presence, so I turned back toward the door.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">But then I heard a small sniffle from the center of the group.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“Stop it. Give them back,” a weak voice pleaded.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Oh, no, they weren’t...</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I turned around slowly, staring the group down, trying to see who they had captured.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Forgetting my escape, I stomped over to the cluster of boys and grabbed the shoulder of the jerk closest to me, yanking him out of the way so I could see who they were tormenting.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Leo, the new kid that had joined our class late last year looked up at me, tears filling his eyes and his lips trembling.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">The biggest bully of the bunch, Mikey Etheridge, held him by his shirtfront with one hand, Leo’s glasses up in the sky over Leo’s head in the other.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“Michael Bartholomew Etheridge,” I said using my meanest ‘mom’ voice, “you give those back to him.” I didn’t know what Mikey’s middle name really was, but that sounded right.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">It always scared the bejeezus out of me when mom middle-named me.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Mikey hadn’t heard me walk in, and he swung his shocked gaze over to me. “Izzy,” he sounded pretty scandalized himself, “this is the boys’ bathroom! You can’t come in here.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“Well, I just did, so that shows what you know. Now unhand Leo right now or I’m going to tell Mrs. Brooks that you cheated off my math test earlier.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">He opened and closed his mouth like a fish searching for food.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">He was taking too long to decide to make the right move, so I took a threatening step toward him.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">As a general rule, I didn’t like violence. Mom said it didn’t solve anything, but after I broke Bethany Ann Sherwood’s nose in first grade, no one teased me about my buckteeth anymore.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">In my book, that was solving a problem.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">In front of me, I found another problem that needed to be solved. Mikey and his friends would not bully Leo anymore. It didn’t matter that Mikey was the biggest boy in second grade. I still had several inches on him.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I looked down my nose at him now. “You don’t want me to get mad, do you?” I clenched my fist so he could see exactly what I meant.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">His eyes widened, and he quickly let go of Leo, shoving his glasses toward him. He and his crew started a wild scramble toward the door.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“I’m gonna tell...” Mikey began.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I cut him off and sing-songed, “Math test.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">He stopped for a full second to turn a hate-filled glare at me. “Bitch.” Then he took off running.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">My mouth dropped open.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I turned to Leo and gasped. “He said the actual word.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">No one in the second grade had been brave enough to use real curse words. That was unheard of.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Suddenly Mikey’s status rose in my mind. He was ballsy. Not as ballsy as me, but I respected him a tiny bit more for having the bravery to use the real curse word, even if it was against me.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Maybe I’d have to start cursing, too.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I thought about it for a moment. Mom wouldn’t like it, and dad would start another one of his lectures about how ‘proper young ladies behaved.’ I shivered.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Maybe I’d wait a year or two more before I tried it.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“Are you okay?” I asked Leo.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“Yeah.” Leo nodded and examined his glasses. “Thank you. My mom would have killed me if he’d broken my glasses. It took forever to get them to fit right.” He gave a weary sigh as he replaced them on his face.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I tilted my head and studied him. I’d never really paid that close of attention to Leo Bennett before, and the glasses were new. They made him look different.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“I like them,” I told him. “They make you look distinguished.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">He wrinkled his nose. “I don’t know what that means.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I twisted up my mouth as I thought about it.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I shrugged. “I don’t really know either, but my mom always says that Rock Hudson and Cary Grant look distinguished—like my daddy—so I think it’s really good.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">His brow wrinkled like that confused him. “Okay. I don’t know who they are, but I guess that’s okay, as long as you aren’t being mean.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“Never,” I said in my scandalized voice. “Being mean isn’t nice. You and me, Leo...we’re going to be best friends and BFFs don’t say mean things about each other.”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Leo’s smile took over his whole face.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I returned that smile. It made me feel good about my split second decision to replace Melody in that position, but she’d been a bi-atch lately. Leo and I might be a better fit.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">“Um, Izzy?” Leo asked in a quiet whisper as his face turned a bright shade of red. “Why are you in the boys’ bathroom?”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">My eyes widened, and I began to dance in place. “I forgot. I need to pee like a racehorse. Guard the door for me, ‘kay?”</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">For a moment he didn’t look too sure, but then he nodded, resolved. “We’re best friends now. That’s one thing best friends should do.” Then he marched over to the door while I raced into the bathroom stall, feeling relief in more ways than one.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">I’d gotten a new best friend today.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">Leo Bennett. He’d be my sidekick, my very own Tony Randall.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">A smile took over my face.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;">It had been an excellent decision to sneak into the boys’ bathroom today.</p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;"><br /></p><p class="yiv5146731853ydp8e6f21c3MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJTvERL38mwZp717e_OvtdHvkm64Lhl0zCzsv3MmD8hYqhYHh3yNc_XRs_NzOq7_ZzL5JvcduhbpJdTe-wlwPfolDQK7vWYXONxSm4DrgxF9rFwlHWqa0DqVVlyJvhm0TWnJnIcF4mmZX/s2048/That+Touch+cover+IG+available.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRJTvERL38mwZp717e_OvtdHvkm64Lhl0zCzsv3MmD8hYqhYHh3yNc_XRs_NzOq7_ZzL5JvcduhbpJdTe-wlwPfolDQK7vWYXONxSm4DrgxF9rFwlHWqa0DqVVlyJvhm0TWnJnIcF4mmZX/w400-h400/That+Touch+cover+IG+available.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://books2read.com/thattouch" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: large;">BUY NOW!</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="yiv6409553167ydp2e370271MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i>She’s oblivious...</i></p><p class="yiv6409553167ydp2e370271MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">Isolde Collins has lived her life inhaling old rom-com movies and dreaming the perfect guy’s out there. She just has to find him. In the meantime, she’s chasing her dream of becoming an advertising power mogul, even if her father—who’s also her boss—doesn’t think a female is capable.</p><p class="yiv6409553167ydp2e370271MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"> </p><p class="yiv6409553167ydp2e370271MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i>He has secrets...</i></p><p class="yiv6409553167ydp2e370271MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">Leo Bennett has been in love with his best friend, Izzy, pretty much their entire lives. She doesn’t know and he never plans to tell her. Why screw everything up? In the meantime, he’s too old to hang on to his virginity waiting for Izzy to wake up and see him. Oh, and he probably should stop following her dreams and find some of his own.</p><p class="yiv6409553167ydp2e370271MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"> </p><p class="yiv6409553167ydp2e370271MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i>Things heat up...</i></p><p class="yiv6409553167ydp2e370271MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">As these two best friends hit the snowy slopes of Colorado, they find they’re living a life like they see in the movies. It’s just that maybe Leo’s the hero and not the sidekick they both always assumed him to be.</p></div><h1 style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.3in;"><a href="http://books2read.com/thattouch" target="_blank"><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Buy now!</span></a></h1></div>Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-12778393581206617462021-10-04T12:08:00.005-05:002021-10-04T12:09:48.541-05:00What's Coming Soon...<p>Like so many, the last couple of years haven't been easy around here, so I have taken time to simply enjoy writing and not worry about all the rest...i.e. all that marketing stuff that I am really not comfortable with. I'll admit, I never set out with the intent of not releasing any new books for a year and a half. It just kind of happened. YIKES!</p><p>I am sorry about that.</p><p>But the good news to my prolonged absence is that I have a ton of new books coming your way. </p><p>Up first...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIpFw8yrIl-GdaOATdaLTVw6enwDXcqGhp2aSG7A1aM-26G95KSFGlP0RQtHDMP_8uHnJQarz3uN3IiXysspa9amh_V4LkwJkCda3bssJkJrPk-0DFLAdp0al7B88GN8hyqH4-vYAxtXi/s2048/die+a+virgin.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2047" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIpFw8yrIl-GdaOATdaLTVw6enwDXcqGhp2aSG7A1aM-26G95KSFGlP0RQtHDMP_8uHnJQarz3uN3IiXysspa9amh_V4LkwJkCda3bssJkJrPk-0DFLAdp0al7B88GN8hyqH4-vYAxtXi/w400-h400/die+a+virgin.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">That Touch...</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">releasing October 28th</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://books2read.com/thattouch" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">preorder now</span></b></a></div><u>Story Description:</u><div><u><br /></u><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><i>She’s oblivious...</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">Isolde Collins has lived her life inhaling old rom-com movies and dreaming the perfect guy’s out there. She just has to find him. In the meantime, she’s chasing her dream of becoming an advertising power mogul, even if her father—who’s also her boss—doesn’t think a female is capable.</p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"> </p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i>He has secrets...</i></p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">Leo Bennett has been in love with his best friend, Izzy, pretty much their entire lives. She doesn’t know and he never plans to tell her. Why screw everything up? In the meantime, he’s too old to hang on to his virginity waiting for Izzy to wake up and see him. Oh, and he probably should stop following her dreams and find some of his own.</p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"> </p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i>Things heat up...</i></p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">As these two best friends hit the snowy slopes of Colorado, they find they’re living a life like they see in the movies. It’s just that maybe Leo’s the hero and not the sidekick they both always assumed him to be.</p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"> </p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i>Note: this is a stand-alone, holiday romance. I wrote it as an escape and need for a simple feel-good romance... for me. </i></p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">Other books on the horizon...</p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnng61VPC-P51Pz7-NLDQVvZKy_QChRaJsyNO6WWSPW_z2XCUaadeXWjbJP8lfVKObHizdQ3Xezs6ekVbMnX9btxHYR7dSl1IaZKoSqhmFH66DOLN0OXDQQZeuo6IfGAOtTRhdUfDmnewW/s1640/Druid+Destiny+Trilogy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1640" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnng61VPC-P51Pz7-NLDQVvZKy_QChRaJsyNO6WWSPW_z2XCUaadeXWjbJP8lfVKObHizdQ3Xezs6ekVbMnX9btxHYR7dSl1IaZKoSqhmFH66DOLN0OXDQQZeuo6IfGAOtTRhdUfDmnewW/w640-h334/Druid+Destiny+Trilogy.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW6wMO50HveaQ4d4E0X1gBroKmBCJztHC6l_hEnn2Tu49c1-AEtSJQZTkKuabsgifhkfQUAvp3atqw6q_RIlL2tWxVC_0xT9EvkH48947FPFJ3zDAoPsipqR-klXM2WC6iP1WD_TtMXNGj/s1815/TX+Paranormals+series.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="1815" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW6wMO50HveaQ4d4E0X1gBroKmBCJztHC6l_hEnn2Tu49c1-AEtSJQZTkKuabsgifhkfQUAvp3atqw6q_RIlL2tWxVC_0xT9EvkH48947FPFJ3zDAoPsipqR-klXM2WC6iP1WD_TtMXNGj/w640-h232/TX+Paranormals+series.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">All of these books are written. </p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">They just need to be polished and then they will be released fairly quickly.</p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">More details to come soon!</p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="yiv2162114462ydp11f68116MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">Have a great day!</p></div></div>Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-50024376990998168692021-03-25T12:34:00.001-05:002021-03-25T12:34:12.325-05:00Don't Miss This Sale...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4-PGsS62FJ5de4lwR_zQWyfJtW90kq0tS5luhqYHrZkrlnuGvnpWohwZZUa7B5daFktMFfLhHmzPzRmL4qmq7lH42fDhCopfb2Siy7VSO7tHS9rH443DD8pQxck58yHmJwO5drNijv-s/s2048/Rock+concert+sale+price.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO4-PGsS62FJ5de4lwR_zQWyfJtW90kq0tS5luhqYHrZkrlnuGvnpWohwZZUa7B5daFktMFfLhHmzPzRmL4qmq7lH42fDhCopfb2Siy7VSO7tHS9rH443DD8pQxck58yHmJwO5drNijv-s/w400-h400/Rock+concert+sale+price.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Buy Found At the Rock Concert at your favorite e-retailer...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://books2read.com/FoundattheRockConcert">Buy Now</a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">before the price returns to its normal $3.99 pricetag.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">A wounded rock star, a bodyguard, and a CEO get trapped in a snowed-in cabin...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s not. This is the start of an epic love story between three men. Three men who have a history twined together with encounters and impressions that have marked their years.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">They just never realized how all those brief encounters would eventually change their lives forever.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Daniel, the rock star who survived a plane crash and is trying to figure out how to live his life without legs.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Luke, the bodyguard who made so many mistakes and now thinks he doesn’t deserve the man he’s loved for years.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Austin, the CEO who thinks he’s on the outside pulling the strings, but what he doesn’t realize is without him at the core, this relationship will never work...for any of them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Three men, one snowy winter cabin, one epic love story waiting to be discovered...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">(This is book #4 in the Found series, but each book can be read as a stand-alone story.)</span></div><p></p>Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-49398697175383102432020-08-03T14:36:00.000-05:002020-08-03T14:36:13.845-05:00August news...<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><h1 style="font-size: 26px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Lots of news to share...</h1><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">First for my male/male readers, I have FIVE releases coming this fall.<br /><br />The Texas Paranormals series is a series of novellas that I started a few years ago with <strong>Smolder</strong> and <strong>Shiver.</strong> Well, I have good news for you. Both of these books are coming back, bigger and better along with THREE more brand new releases.<br /><br />All the books take place in the West Texas town where I live, San Angelo and feature a plethora of paranormal creatures. I've been immersed in this series during lockdown and have had so much fun writing them. I hope you have just as much fun reading them. </p><ol><li><strong>Smolder</strong> - vampires...a grumpy 150 year old vampire who has to take a newbie vamp under his wing.</li><li><strong>Shiver</strong> - deer shifter and human...a few days before Christmas and my human accidentally runs over a deer that he doesn't realize is a shifter until he takes the carcass home.</li><li><strong>Shelter</strong> - fae healer and human...a half Fae healer whose magick is malfunctioning and the human librarian from the local college campus who discovers the naked Fae on campus</li><li><strong>Summon</strong> - witch and dragon shifter...when a witch accidentally teleports into a very aggressive dragon's compound, sparks fly...literally.</li><li><strong>Shunned</strong> - fae healer and deer shifter...two characters who've learned the hard way not to trust others to take care of them...until they have no choice but to trust.</li></ol>And that's just the start to this series. As always, there are so many other stories brewing inside my brain because this town is rife with paranormals...gargoyles, river nymphs, incubus, kitsune, and trolls...oh my!<br /><br />These books will be releasing directly into Kindle Unlimited beginning in September or early October.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnImageBlockInner" style="padding: 9px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnImageContent" style="padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><img align="center" alt="" class="yiv8345330705mcnImage" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fbc1697850b18bcf6104f60f3c%2Fimages%2Fe14f76d8-68c0-4c85-80c9-f8e1b440bee2.jpg&t=1596483188&ymreqid=737c5070-f9b8-139e-1c22-510001013000&sig=1SLEMDEDc5d6_R8iM1o3Zw--~D" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -9999px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnTextBlockInner" style="padding-top: 9px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: normal;" valign="top">And for my male/female readers, I have all kinds of good Kindle Unlimited news.<br /><br />A couple of years ago, I wrote a couple of series with an amazing author, Sarah Nego. The first series is the Naked Brews series which follows three friends as they take over a family brewery that one of the girls inherits. But three young women trying to run a brewery in the middle of the Rocky Mountains is not without its challenges and that's where the Naked Brews series comes in.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlockOuter"><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlockInner" style="padding: 9px 18px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBottomContent" style="background-color: #404040; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBottomImageContent" style="padding: 0px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="yiv8345330705mcnImage" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fbc1697850b18bcf6104f60f3c%2Fimages%2F151b91a4-878f-4c9a-a85c-d1c2011a83e3.jpg&t=1596483188&ymreqid=737c5070-f9b8-139e-1c22-510001013000&sig=t1iEehMznPy.rYVsDUjswA--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnTextContent" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 9px 18px; text-align: center; word-break: normal;" valign="top" width="546">Lake<br />The plan had always been finish college, move back to Colorado, and run Naked Brews with her dad. That plan fell apart when Lake's dad died and his ex-wife, AKA the absent maternal figure, inherited the brewery. Now Lake will have to convince her perfectionist mom not to sell the place, sweet talk the bank into a loan she has no credit for, and figure out how to turn the failing brewery into a success. No problem.<br /><br />Walsh<br />The job should be simple. Pretend to be his millionaire best friend, buy a failing brewery, and honor their fallen brother-in-arms. But simple went down the drain the minute he met the sassy new brewery manager. Now he's stuck between a loud-mouth sarcasm factory and her mom. He'd prefer to be trapped between Lake and a soft bed, but he swore he wouldn't sleep with the brewery owner. Though technically she doesn't own the brewery...Naked Brews<br /><br />They both want to buy the same brewery and ignore the chemistry brewing between them. What could possibly go wrong?</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlockOuter"><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlockInner" style="padding: 9px 18px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBottomContent" style="background-color: #404040; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBottomImageContent" style="padding: 0px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="yiv8345330705mcnImage" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fbc1697850b18bcf6104f60f3c%2Fimages%2Fd5a6ae2d-bf7e-4d87-ba0f-7500a3995500.jpg&t=1596483188&ymreqid=737c5070-f9b8-139e-1c22-510001013000&sig=55oHg1z6xargL.rlTQkWEA--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnTextContent" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 9px 18px; text-align: center; word-break: normal;" valign="top" width="546">Melissa<br />A tragic fire left Melissa Frye homeless and with nothing to her name except a single tea cup from her massive collection and a box of clothes that don't fit. Her life isn't the raging success she thought it would be, but she refuses to go home and work for her uncle's CPA firm. She'd rather live out of her car than face that soul-sucking future. But with hardly any savings and months of couch surfing with friends in front of her, her car is looking more tempting by the day.<br /><br />Anthony<br />Anthony Millett has spent years as the Bad Boy of Boarding, but his high life of snowboarding and non-stop parties is starting to catch up with him. After sustaining an injury while saving Melissa from a fire, his competition season is over and his sponsors aren't willing to put with his bad boy persona anymore. He needs a reputation fix quick and the lovely Melissa could be just the answer.<br /><br />The plot Thickens<br />Anthony has plenty of spare bedrooms in his mountain-side mansion and Melissa has the perfect face of innocence to convince his sponsors he's a new man. Pretending to date her won't be hard. Not falling for her could be a challenge.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlockOuter"><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlockInner" style="padding: 9px 18px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBottomContent" style="background-color: #404040; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBottomImageContent" style="padding: 0px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="yiv8345330705mcnImage" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fbc1697850b18bcf6104f60f3c%2Fimages%2F25bab4ab-43d7-4ac2-95d9-e2d6f7e40349.jpg&t=1596483188&ymreqid=737c5070-f9b8-139e-1c22-510001013000&sig=HjsRcsla8whgUMACl4.64w--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 1535px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnTextContent" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 9px 18px; text-align: center; word-break: normal;" valign="top" width="546">Alex<br />Alexandra Nichols spent her childhood in the leftover spotlight of her actress mother and producer father, smiling for the cameras and hating every minute. The paparazzi have taken her picture way more times than her own parents. Living with her best friends in the middle of Colorado is about as far from that life as she could get, but no matter how far away she is, her parents keep finding ways to keep her pinned beneath their thumbs and pulling her back into their crazy world.<br /><br />Damian<br />Ever since the IED explosion that killed his army brothers, Damian Thorne has hidden himself away from everyone except his best friend. Walsh is the public face of their massive non-profit, so Damian never has to leave home. It's easier than tolerating the stares of horror or explaining the scars that disfigured half his body. The last thing he wants to do is spend two weeks with a bunch of strangers, but his best friend is getting married and he owes him so much.<br /><br />The Bitter Truth<br />Alex can't seem to find her way out of the public eye and Damian wants nothing more than to hide in the shadows. When Hollywood royalty meets the boy with the ruined face, sparks fly. But everyone knows Beauty and the Beast was nothing more than a fairytale.</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonBlockOuter"><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonBlockInner" style="padding: 0px 18px 18px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonContentContainer" style="background-color: #dd2929; border-radius: 4px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonContent" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; padding: 18px; word-break: normal;" valign="middle"><a class="yiv8345330705mcnButton " href="https://books2read.com/rl/NakedBrews" rel="noreferrer" style="color: white; display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Buy the Naked Brews Series in Kindle Unlimited ***FREE***">Buy the Naked Brews Series in Kindle Unlimited ***FREE***</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlockOuter"><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardBlockInner" style="padding: 9px 18px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardTopContent" style="background-color: #404040; border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv8345330705mcnTextContent" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; padding: 18px 18px 0px; text-align: center; word-break: normal;" valign="top" width="546">And don't forget this other male/female series,<br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><em>Locating Love</em>,</span><br />is also available in Kindle Unlimited right now.<br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>***for a limited time only***</em></span></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="yiv8345330705mcnImageCardTopImageContent" style="padding: 9px 0px 0px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><img alt="" class="yiv8345330705mcnImage" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmcusercontent.com%2Fbc1697850b18bcf6104f60f3c%2Fimages%2F23650cb9-86a6-4e81-8769-c9f955cb6e4d.jpg&t=1596483188&ymreqid=737c5070-f9b8-139e-1c22-510001013000&sig=VOGAMIyMifpXG.fdBqcUBA--~D" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 1200px; outline: none; text-indent: -9999px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="564" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonBlockOuter"><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonBlockInner" style="padding: 0px 18px 18px; word-break: normal;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonContentContainer" style="background-color: #1a2b8a; border-radius: 4px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="yiv8345330705mcnButtonContent" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; padding: 18px; word-break: normal;" valign="middle"><a class="yiv8345330705mcnButton " href="https://books2read.com/rl/locatinglove" rel="noreferrer" style="color: white; display: block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Buy the Locating Love Series in Kindle Unlimited ***FREE***">Buy the Locating Love Series in Kindle Unlimited ***FREE***</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-37131723939920734932020-06-23T12:37:00.002-05:002020-06-23T12:37:52.491-05:00***Excerpt from QUICKLY FALLING IN QATAR***<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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He let the valet take the car after he grabbed his overnight bag out of the backseat, then he entered the very upscale, modern, high-rise hotel. The swanky, marble-filled lobby bustled with various clusters of people standing around chatting and doing their business. He scanned the area, but didn’t see anyone immediately who struck him as the person who’d be filling the role of his fiancée.</div>
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The agents hadn’t told him what to do in that instance. Maybe whoever he was meeting had left him a note at check-in. He approached the long desk and smiled at the concierge standing there waiting to help.</div>
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But before he made it, he heard his name. “Mal?”</div>
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He knew that voice.</div>
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His breath froze in his chest.</div>
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It couldn’t be.</div>
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He turned toward the person.</div>
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His knees wobbled even as his heart rate took off like he was on the verge of having a heart attack.</div>
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Hell, maybe he was.</div>
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“Petra?” he asked, his voice hardly more than a whisper of shock.</div>
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He hadn’t seen her in nine years, but she looked exactly the same...just more stunningly beautiful. He wouldn’t have thought that was possible.</div>
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Petra Compton.</div>
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The only woman he’d ever loved.</div>
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The woman who’d broken his heart and never looked back.</div>
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She was looking at him now though, gauging his reaction.</div>
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He didn’t know how to react. How had this happened?</div>
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She couldn’t be his contact. Life couldn’t be that cruel. But why was she here?</div>
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She wore a slim-fitting black pantsuit with red, mile high heels. The heels gave her an inch or two on his height since she was tall for a woman at five foot nine. In college, she’d always dressed casually and used very little makeup. That wasn’t the version of Petra standing in front of him today. Her long red hair was pulled back into a tight bun on the back of her head, and she’d done her makeup to perfection.</div>
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She looked like a high price model and he wasn’t the only one who thought so as heads across the lobby turned to watch her elegant approach.</div>
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When she reached him, she leaned forward to embrace him. Her lips brushed over his ear, leaving goosebumps trailing down his spine. “Play along,” she whispered.</div>
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Then she pulled back as she kissed his cheek. “Hello, darling,” she said exuberantly, using her normal voice that carried over the marble-floored lobby. “I’ve missed you.”</div>
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Up close, she smelled exactly the same as he remembered, honeysuckles in the morning. That scent hit him like a deathblow. Oh, god. He’d missed her so much.</div>
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His arms tightened around her instinctually. “Petra.” His voice didn’t even sound like his own.</div>
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He pulled away, needing separation from her. He had to get his brain to function and he couldn’t do that with her so close.<br />For a split second, her eyes flashed with worry at whatever she could read on his face.</div>
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He worked to school his expression. He couldn’t blow this operation when it had barely even begun, no matter much her being here shocked him.</div>
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She hooked her arm in his and gently tugged him toward the back of the lobby. “Did you have any problems finding the hotel? Wait until you see our suite. It’s just gorgeous. I’m so glad you could get the time off. We’re going to have an amazing visit.” She continued to gush like any normal almost-married couple would.</div>
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He just nodded along. That was the extent of his acting ability right here, while his heart and mind both reeled. Nine years ago, they’d fought, and she’d left. No goodbye, no fuck you, no nothing. One day she was there, the next she’d left, and he felt like she’d ripped his heart from his chest.</div>
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Hell, it kind of felt the same way right now. Guess somewhere along the line, his heart had healed...just so she could come back and pummel it again.</div>
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He followed her into the elevator that he assumed led up to their room, like a lamb being led to slaughter.</div>
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When they entered the elevator, she squeezed his hand and glanced meaningfully up at the camera in the corner, like he was a novice at this. He knew the camera was there, although now when the anger was pulsing under the thin layer of his skin, he wasn’t sure how much he really cared.</div>
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How dare she show up like this out of the blue?</div>
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It didn’t matter that this was their job.</div>
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It didn’t matter that a twenty-five-year-old lieutenant was missing.</div>
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It didn’t matter if the fucking President himself had sent Petra to be here.</div>
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It should matter how much she knew this would hurt him.</div>
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How could she come here like this and act like it was no big thing?</div>
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It's release day...</h1>
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<strong>Quickly Falling in Qatar</strong> is the final book in my <em>Locating Love</em> trilogy that falls within the <em>Ticket to True Love</em> world. I love all three of these books for different reasons, but Qatar will always be special just because I wrote it while my son was deployed there.<br />
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It's also special to me because it features a couple getting a second chance at love after their engagement fell apart nine years ago. It's also a return to my romantic suspense roots because the heroine is an FBI agent and the hero is an Air Force investigator. They are working undercover in Qatar trying to find out what happened to a missing Air Force lieutenant.<br />
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I hope you all have enjoyed this series and especially enjoy Mal and Petra's story.<br />
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Note: If you are a kindle unlimited reader, the entire series will be headed into the program within the next couple of weeks. For those non-kindle readers that means these books will only be available at all retailers for a very limited time...SO GRAB THEM NOW!</div>
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Book #1, <strong>Amorous in Appleton</strong>, features a pop star hiding out in a small orchard in Pennsylvania, but she's about to be discovered.<br />
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Book #2, <strong>Falling Hard in Frisco</strong>, features a couple of hot-for-one-another architects who are vying for the same job...they just don't realize it.<br />
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Book #3, <strong>Quickly Falling in Qatar</strong>, features a couple who were once engaged. That all fell apart when she left him to join the FBI. Now her job has brought them back together as they search for a missing soldier in a foreign country.</td></tr>
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<li><strong>Found at the Library</strong> (m/m) - out of KU June 27</li>
<li><strong>Found at the Bookstore</strong> (m/m) - out of KU June 27</li>
<li><strong>Found at the Jazz Club</strong> (m/f) - out of KU June 27</li>
<li><strong>Found at the Rock Concert</strong> (m/m/m) - out of KU June 28</li>
<li><strong>Believe in the Wish</strong> (m/m) - out of KU Aug 3</li>
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<li><strong>Amorous in Appleto</strong>n (m/f) - into KU June 25</li>
<li><strong>Falling Hard in Frisco</strong> (m/f) - into KU June 25</li>
<li><strong>Quickly Falling in Qatar</strong> (m/f) - into KU July 1</li>
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Peace in the chaos...</h1>
I don't normally get personnel with my newsletters, but this month, I feel the need. Like so many, my husband lost his job in the last few months. He is the primary breadwinner in our family. (While I'm lucky to be able to write and sell books, it isn't enough income to support our household.) No doubt, it's been stressful, but it's also been really nice to have him home.<br /><br />We've been having fun. We celebrate 28 years together this month, so I feel like it's saying something that we can have fun together. That's a gift.<br /><br />The reality is that if he finds another job, it will probably not be in our hometown. The kid and I won't be moving with him. There are a host of reasons why, but the most important is our 13 yo who is in a really good environment right now. That is also an important gift especially at that age.<br /><br />So, I'm trying to enjoy every minute with my husband and we've been doing that by watching a lot of Netflix/Amazon Prime. We've discovered some fun shows/movies, so I thought it might be fun to share our recommendations...<ul>
<li>Our nightly fixation right now...<ul>
<li><strong>The Last Kingdom</strong> (television series on Netflix)...We're loving this show so far. (We're on season 2 of 4 out so far.) We lived in England for 2 years when hubby was in the Air Force, so it's fun to get to see a somewhat fictional version of how England came to be from the perspective of the middle 800's AD.</li>
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<li><strong>Mr. Right</strong> with Anna Kendrick (quirky and dark humor);</li>
<li><strong>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society</strong> (gorgeous, wonderful movie about a book club established during WWII to cover subterfuge in Europe);</li>
<li><strong>SALT</strong> (an old Angelina Jolie movie, but we both LOVED it...lots of action and twists):</li>
<li><strong>Late Night</strong> (Amazon original movie...was really pretty good and entertaining)</li>
<li><strong>Extraction</strong> (Netflix movie starring Chris Hemsworth...we both really liked it although it's really violent)</li>
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<li>Our escape from reality standbys...we have a couple of shows that we rewatch for escape...<ul>
<li><strong>Gilmore Girls</strong>;</li>
<li><strong>Great British Baking Show;</strong></li>
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Things are changing...</h1>
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This is your last chance to get the <em>Found Series</em> books 1-3 at $.99 AND to get the entire series from other retailers besides Amazon.<br /><br />Sunday night all the sale prices for books 1-3 of the <em>Found Series</em> will be going back to regular retail PLUS all four books will no longer be available at all retailers.<br /><br />I am going to put the whole <em>Found Series</em> into Amazon's Kindle Unlimited program, which is good news for KU customers, but not so good news for readers on other platforms. This is an experiment, and right now I plan to only have the series in the program for 90 days.</div>
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<tr><td class="yiv8196715595mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 9px;" valign="top" width="264">His entire life, Tommy Garrett has dealt with self-doubts. He thought he’d conquered the majority of them until a chance meeting with an author brought his illiteracy to the forefront...again. Growing up with un-diagnosed dyslexia has left Tommy barely able to read, but books are his Nirvana. Now he spends his life creating art dedicated to the love of those “untouchable” items.<br /><br />Robert McIntyre, Mac, is a best-selling, highly celebrated author. But his point of view has become a little bit too narrow...until Tommy opens his eyes. That chance meeting has changed everything about his world. He has no idea how to find the beautiful man he met, and offended, at the library book sale. But when he does, Tommy’s life is in crisis-mode. It’s the holidays and Mac can’t just standby when Tommy needs help, whether Tommy wants it or not.<br /><br />Two artistic men. One shared passion for books.<br /><br />Life is hard, and sometimes when conflict arises you have to write your own plot twist to pull yourself out of the fray.<br /><br />Book #1 in the Found series:</td></tr>
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I get it. Believe me, I get it. Things are scary right now, but we've got this. The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that we're all in this together. The future is uncertain, but it's that way for the entire world so I have to believe that it's going to be okay...for all of us.<br />
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*positive thoughts*</div>
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Honestly, there is no better time to escape into a book (seriously, I will use any excuse I can to do this...even when the world is normal...LOL). And that's why I'm coming to you today with a recommendation. I love books that offer me a few hours of happy escape and this one is a good one for that!</div>
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I just finished drafting the final book in my Locating Love series that falls in the Ticket to True Love series. <strong>Quickly Falling in Qatar</strong> features an Air Force Intelligence officer and the FBI agent who left him for her job. There is some MAJOR unfinished business between them...like the fact that they're still in love. (I mentioned I like second chance love stories, right?) Also this book goes back to my romantic suspense roots with a disappearance that the two are having to investigate.<br />
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<strong>Quickly Falling in Qatar</strong> will be out June 23. Preorder links aren't up yet, but I will let you know as soon as they are.<br />
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But in the meantime, the other two books in the cousins series are available. I love these three books so much. I hope you'll give them a chance. They are simply light, happy reads that are perfect for these difficult days.<br />
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Book #1, <strong>Amorous in Appleton</strong>, features a pop star hiding out in a small orchard in Pennsylvania, but she's about to be discovered.<br />
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<span style="color: lavenderblush;">***March 29***</span></h1>
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Then the books will go back to regular price on Amazon and will be pulled from the other retailers.<br />
Hopefully, it will only take a couple of weeks before they will then all go into Kindle Unlimited and be exclusive to Amazon.<br />
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I know this isn't ideal for everyone, but money is tight for a lot of us right now and I'm trying to do what's best financially for me as an author and my readers. My plan is to put the series wide again in 90 days, but that isn't set in stone. </div>
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Breathe...</h1>
I've chosen a new word a year for the last several years. Ironically, BREATHE was my word for 2020. Who knew I would need that reminder so much?<br />Dang, this has been a year already, hasn't it?<br />We're all doing everything we can to get through it, but if you're like me, you're probably still more than a little stressed.<br />So, this is your reminder from me...JUST BREATHE.<br />Relax.<br />Nothing was ever solved by constant worry. In fact, that shit (worrying all the time) will just make everything worse.<br />So, I'm here to remind of a few ways to find your inner Zen, peace, or to just remind you to chill and relax. <ol>
<li><strong>Breathe</strong>...take a few minutes, close your eyes, and take some deep breaths. It helps to just allow yourself to "be"...no stress.</li>
<li><strong>Meditate</strong>...This is something I've been doing for a few months now. Taking ten to fifteen minutes at the beginning or end of the day to relax does wonders for your mental health. (Note: I use the Calm app and love it.)</li>
<li><strong>Listen to Nature</strong>...one of the most relaxing, energizing things in this world is the sound of birds in the morning. Open your windows for a few moments and enjoy nature's gorgeous symphony (this also works at night with the night bugs, or taking a walk to where you can listen to the sound of rushing water...all good things OR there is a soundscapes section on the Calm app that has an amazing choice for different sounds)</li>
<li><strong>Escape into Music</strong>...there's a reason that spas choose the music that they do. It helps to relax you. Find something you can play in the background of your life (replace the sound of news in the background) that helps you feel soothed and relaxed (most the music streaming services have a spa station...you just have to find it...or something like that that makes you feel better).</li>
<li><strong>Create a Safe Zone</strong>...lighting is huge for a relaxed state. Turn off your bright overhead lights. Light your candles, put a fire in the fireplace, pull out your Christmas twinkle lights, create a softer, more relaxed ambience.</li>
<li><strong>Escape Reality</strong>...read (obviously, my choice) or binge watch something light and fun. Even my husband who prefers to live with the news on came home the other day and put on a romantic comedy movie for us to watch (<em>Mr. Right</em> for those wondering...it was cute even with its dark twist). Everyone hits their limit. Escape to keep your mental stability in place.</li>
<li><strong>Art</strong>...adult coloring books are a thing for a reason. It's fun to color. It's a mindless activity that you can do while listening to an audiobook. Personally, I escape into art by watercoloring stamped images. Other ideas are creating Zentangles (look it up if you don't know what they are)...all you need is a pen and paper. Easy, relaxing, fun.</li>
<li><strong>Write a Letter</strong>...we're all staying home more these days. Think about everyone else out there in the same boat, and send them a letter. This is a fun thing to do with your kids, too. Find penpals. Get the mailing address to your local retirement home. We can connect even while staying home and what's better than this old-style method of keeping touch without actual touch. </li>
<li><strong>Shut Down the Stress</strong>...This is important...***<em>turn off the news and social media</em>***. It doesn't have to be permanent. Choose an hour a day and unplug. It doesn't take much, but will be huge for how you feel.</li>
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<br />FYI:<br /><strong>Found at the Library</strong> (#1) is m/m.<br /><strong>Found at the Bookstore</strong> (#2) is m/m.<br /><strong>Found at the Jazz Club</strong> (#3) is m/f.<br /><strong>Found at the Rock Concert</strong> (#4) is m/m/m.<br /><br />All four books can be read as standalones since they all feature their own individual couplings...BUT the same core group of characters flow from one book to another AND books 3 and 4 have overlapping scenes.<br /> </div>
Warning...this is going to sound complicated, but I"ll try to break it down simply.<br /> <div style="text-align: center;">
<em><strong>From now until March 29th:</strong></em><br />Books 1-3 will be on sale for $.99 each at all retailers.<br /><br /><em><strong>March 30th:</strong></em><br />ALL 4 books will be coming down from the other retailers so that I can put the whole series into Kindle Unlimited.<br /><br /><em><strong>Sometime in mid-April:</strong><br />(depending on how long it takes the books to come down at the other retailers)</em><br />ALL 4 books will only be available through Kindle Unlimited and will be back at normal retail prices.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prologue<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Delaney<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Delaney Matthews watched the press footage on the television screen
with dawning horror.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the screen, large, protective, sexy, alpha Micah
Frederickson shot through the door glaring like he’d kill one of the reporters surrounding
him with a look if they dared to mess with the five pre-teens in his care. His
wide arms protected them as he tried to get them to the limo by sheer will and
brute force.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The girls looked terrified. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Micah looked fierce. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
Delaney felt sick.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Reporters surrounded them. Light bulbs went off from every
direction while reporters yelled questions at him. Cameras and microphones got
shoved into his face. It sounded like the click of a thousand or more cameras taking
photos.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And then the questions:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Micah! Laney loves you. How do you feel about her?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What’s it like to date America’s most notorious
heartbreaker?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Can you tell us where Laney’s been?”<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
“Was she institutionalized?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Where’s she been hiding?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Will there be a wedding soon?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She wanted to sob at this violation. Those girls had been at
the concert tonight for a fun birthday celebration, and Micah didn’t understand
what he’d been walking into. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because she’d lied to him.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
God, she should have come clean before now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the screen, several of the girls were crying. Micah
continued to hold on to as many of them as he could and made sure they stayed
close to the two massive guards’ backs that led them to the limo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, all five of the girls were in the car. Before
crawling in after them, Micah grabbed the arm of one of the security guards and
spoke to him, but on the screen, she couldn’t tell what he’d said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Get in the car,</i> she
silently urged. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Get out of here before it
gets worse.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Not that it could get much worse. The reporters were in a
frenzy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Even knowing that this had happened hours ago, her heartbeat
galloped in panic for their safety. <o:p></o:p></div>
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No one was safe when the reporters got like this.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, Micah got into the car and they slowly pulled away
from the building. As the limo left the reporters pressed cameras up against
the windows. It was utterly crazy and more than a little frightening just
watching it. She couldn’t imagine how traumatized those girls were now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And it was all her fault. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Her lies and evasions had led to this. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She had to fix it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chapter One<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Micah<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Three weeks before...<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“You need a woman in your life.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Micah Frederickson choked and coughed on the coffee he’d just
sipped. “Are you insane?” He glared at his sister as he snatched up a napkin to
sop up the scalding liquid from his lips and beard. “Why would you say that?
Especially since you know how bad everything went down with Cynthia?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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His ex-wife had been a nightmare.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She shrugged as she took another bite of pie. “I don’t know.
I just think if you had a wife you wouldn’t be over here pawning off your pies
on me and I wouldn’t be gaining all this weight.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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His gaze dropped to her large, protruding, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pregnant</i> belly. “Um, Alex, maybe you
should have a talk with mom because I hate to break it to you, but,” he nodded
his head at her stomach, “that didn’t happen because you ate apple pies.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She snorted around a mouthful of pie. “I know that you idiot,
but my doctor says that I should only gain around twenty-five pounds throughout
the entire pregnancy. I’m only seven months pregnant and I’ve already gained
thirty-four.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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There wasn’t a damn thing safe for him to say to that,
especially as she shoved another mouthful of pie into her mouth. He knew better
than to go anywhere near her weight gain as a topic of conversation. That would
have been off-limits before she got pregnant. Now he put the future health of
his balls into jeopardy if he said a word more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, instead, he changed the subject. “So, you have your first
renter in the house this week, right?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yeah. Matthew Delaney. He arrived a couple of days ago. I
haven’t heard anything from him, so the house must be okay. I have to admit
that’s a relief because after his hefty list of requirements beforehand, I was
a bit worried.” She took another bite and moaned around the chunk of pie before
opening her eyes and stealing a bite off his plate, even though she still had
over half a piece on hers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Not going to say a
thing.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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He pushed his piece over so she could reach it better. Again,
he wouldn’t get in the way of a pregnant woman and her food. Plus, he still had
two other pies cooling at his place. He wouldn’t go without. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“That sounds great, sis. I’m so proud of you. How long does
he have the place rented for?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She closed her eyes appreciatively as she appeared to roll
the pie around in her mouth. “He wanted to leave it open-ended,” she said
around the big bite of pie, “but hopes to be here through Thanksgiving at
least.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Wow, that’s a big chunk of time.” Since it was only
mid-October now.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She nodded, but then her face scrunched up and her eyes
filled with tears like it was actually a tragedy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Uh-oh. This was the problem dealing with her pregnancy
hormones. He had no idea what these tears meant. It could be the whole weight
gain thing again, or they could be happy tears for the good occupancy of her
rental house, or she could just be thinking about a sad commercial she saw on
TV.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He had to tread lightly here.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You okay?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yeah.” She sniffled. “It’s just so sad. I don’t think he has
anyone with him. He’ll be spending the holiday alone. How miserable would that
be?” Then she burst into full-body sobs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As he gathered her up in his arms and tried to figure out how
to surreptitiously text his brother-in-law for help, it occurred to him that
alone for Thanksgiving might not be such a bad thing. At least Mr. Delaney
wouldn’t be dealing with a highly emotional, very pregnant, irrational woman
for what could already be a stress-filled family day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chapter Two<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Delaney<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Delaney Matthew’s throat grew tight as she took in the beauty
of the quaint little town, filled with cute little gift shops with awnings over
the windows, lanterns on poles lining the streets, and huge old-growth trees
turning all the shades of red and gold of the autumnal season. <o:p></o:p></div>
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All of it combined to make her misery seem all that worse. How
could there be this much peaceful beauty when her life was in utter chaos? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Talk about first world problems. She was drowning in them
today.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Maybe all her haters had it right. The world might be better off
without her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh, god, had she just had that thought? She internally rolled
her eyes. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Get over yourself,
Delaney!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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And now she was acting like a freaking drama queen, proving
all the haters right. That’s why she’d come to this tiny town in the middle of
nowhere, Pennsylvania. She needed a dose of real life, not the insane dramatic chaos
her life had become over the last ten years. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Living in the public spotlight since she’d turned fifteen had
warped her sense of the world. That year she’d hit number one with her hit
single, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Love Me</i>, and every single
album released since then had debuted on the Billboard Pop charts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She’d forgotten what normal looked like.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Peace and quiet and normal...this is what she’d needed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Someone across the street yelled. She didn’t hear the words,
but that didn’t matter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her heart rate ratcheted up in panic and she dove behind a
bush, frantically searching for some place to hide, to escape. She ducked her
head, praying they couldn’t see her. She ignored the branches cutting into her
exposed skin. Her security was more important. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Whoa, whoa there, little filly.” A gnarled hand covered with
age spots reached into the bush, grabbed her, and tugged her away from the
camouflaging foliage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She immediately ducked her head, hoping the black long hair
of her wig combined with her hat would conceal her identity from the paparazzi
that had found her. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why hadn’t she hired bodyguards? “Please don’t,” she pleaded
with the man tugging her. “I’m not her.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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She gazed up at the elderly, kind-looking man tugging her
from the bush and realized he didn’t have a camera or a phone shoved at her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But that didn’t change the danger. “They will see me,” she
hissed at the man still holding her arm as she tried to escape from his grip.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He glanced around the town square, a deep furrow in between
his eyebrows. “Someone’s chasing you? I don’t see anyone who isn’t normally
around.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Slowly she lifted her head and searched in the direction from
where the person had yelled. Two men stood there hugging and laughing like they
hadn’t seen one another in a long time. Nobody else was around and nobody
looked their direction.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her face heated. “Sorry. I thought it was someone else.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The old man focused his rheumy eyes on her. His frown
deepened. “No harm, darling.” He stroked her arm, trying to soothe her. “I
can’t help but notice you’re still shaking like a leaf, though.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He wasn’t lying, and suddenly her throat tightened with
tears. Maybe she should have followed her manager’s suggestion and checked
herself into a clinic. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She’d thought a few weeks alone would settle her stress
levels, but she’d been here two days already and she felt even more on edge
than she’d been when she’d arrived. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She expected paparazzi and crazed fans to be around every
corner. She couldn’t live like this. Her life had become a nightmare and the
constant fear had left her with a diagnosed case of PTSD. How about that for
ridiculous? She had PTSD from her legions of fans.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Again the phrase <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">first
world problems</i> flitted through her brain. No wonder she’d become constant
fodder for the late-night comics. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fame had turned out to be nothing like her teenage dreams.
Instead, it was a nightmare, one that she couldn’t seem to escape.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Where are you from, girly?” the old man asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“California,” she whispered, hoping he wouldn’t get a good
enough look at her to recognize her, although he sure didn’t fall into her
typical fan demographic, so maybe she’d be safe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, no wonder you’re shivering. You aren’t used to these cool
fall temperatures. I know just what will fix you up. Let’s head on over to
Brewster’s and I’ll treat you to some of their specially made hot chai tea.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“No, I couldn’t—” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Nonsense. I insist. Come on. Give this old guy some pretty
eye candy for my arm. You’ll help me build my rep.” He winked at her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She found herself unexpectedly charmed. It had been a long
time since someone had approached her for honest reasons. He seemed like the
exception and that made her trust him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Please don’t let me be
wrong.</i> Her mental stability couldn’t handle the blow that another betrayal
would level.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When he waggled his eyebrows at her, she couldn’t help but
giggle. She also couldn’t turn him down, not with those blazing blue eyes
gazing at her so earnestly. “With such a charming invitation, who am I to
refuse?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He hooked his arm through hers and patted her forearm. “Good.
Stick with me, girly, and I’ll show you all the secrets of what Appleton
offers.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Secrets? That sounds intriguing.” She’d come to this little
quiet area of Pennsylvania because some of her best childhood memories—before
fame had occupied every moment of her time—had come from visiting the Poconos
with her family.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He gave her a mischievous eyebrow waggle. “You have no idea.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She couldn’t resist letting loose with the wide smile that
spread over her face. When her face muscles strained with the move, she
realized it was the first time she’d truly smiled in months. This might be fun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Okay, but first things first.” She reached a hand out to
him. “I think I need to know the name of the handsome gentleman taking me out
on this date. My name’s Delaney Matthews.” It was her real name that she never
used, not her stage name, Laney Starr, so no one should recognize her from it.
“What’s yours?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You are exactly right, Ms. Matthews. Where are my manners?
Allow me to introduce myself.” He shook her hand with both of his wrapped
around it, making her feel like this meant more than it did. “I am Eustis P.
Montague, the Third.” Then he kissed the back of her hand. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Charmed, Mr. Montague.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Pshaw, call me Eustis. Everyone does. We aren’t formal here
in Appleton.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Then you must call me Delaney.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Excellent.” He re-engaged his elbow inside hers and guided
her down the street. “Now I think you promised to accompany me to Brewster’s,”
he said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Lead the way. I am in your hands.” And as they leisurely
strolled down the scenic sidewalk, it occurred to her that for the first time
in a very long time she didn’t have that itchy feeling crawling under her skin,
as if someone would jump out and take her photo at any moment. <o:p></o:p></div>
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She felt...free to breathe.<o:p></o:p></div>
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God, this was what she’d been hoping for when she decided to
visit here. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I think it’s a very good thing that I met you today, Eustis
P. Montague, the Third.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He winked at her. “Aww, now you’ll give me a big head and
make all these young bucks around here jealous because I have the prettiest
girl in town on my arm.” He stopped walking. “But wait, you may already have a
beau. Tell me, Ms. Delaney, are you attached to some hot young stud...or
studette?” He frowned. “I understand that’s a thing nowadays, not that I’m
judging. I’m definitely not.” He waggled his eyebrows at her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She laughed. “It is indeed a thing for some people, but not
for me. If I were attached, it would be to a stud, but alas...my luck with love
has not been very kind to me.” In fact, it had been about as bad as it could
get—from getting left at the altar by one man to being left with crippling debt
by another. There’d been countless cheaters and abusers. Somewhere karma had
decided she should be a doormat. Either that or she just had deplorable taste
in men.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Luckily, heartache made for great songwriting. She’d made a
career out of her many, many, many tragic breakups. In fact, that was the thing
she was most known for. Nothing like being infamous for being unlucky in love. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You’re still young.” He patted the back of her hand. “Enjoy
sowing those wild oats while you can.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Delaney had to bite back the bitter chuckle. She’d learned
her lesson, way too many times to count. There would be no more sowing for her wild
oats, or rather, normal bland, vanilla oats. She had vowed that from here on
out she would live an oat-less life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Men weren’t worth the heartache.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eustis drew her to a halt outside a cute little coffee shop,
complete with small tables outside under an awning filled with small clusters
of happy, smiling people having a good time. She welcomed the diversion from
the depressing turn her thoughts had taken. “How have I missed this place? It’s
so cute.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Just wait until you try their drinks. You won’t want to get
your coffee or tea from anywhere else in town.” He held the front door open for
her as she entered the bustling shop.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They filed into the back of the line waiting to order. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Delaney ducked her head, hoping against hope that no one
recognized her. But everyone around them focused on their own lives and didn’t
pay the two of them any mind. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After a moment, when no one screamed her name, she hazarded a
glance at the hand-drawn menu above the counter. “Wow. They have everything,
don’t they?” They literally covered the wall with writing because there were so
many choices. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Trust me?” Eustis asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She nodded. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Good girl. Let me order. I won’t steer you wrong.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Sounds good.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The line moved quickly and then they stood in front of a tiny
pixie of an Asian girl with purple hair that faded to green tips and a jeweled nose
ring. She was gorgeous and had used heavy makeup to accent her exotic, delicate
features. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Hey, how’s it hanging, Mayor E?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mayor? Delaney had no idea that she’d garnered such esteemed
attention. That was the last thing she needed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cashier reached across and exchanged a complicated fist
bump and a handshake with Eustis. “You haven’t been in lately? Have you been
avoiding me?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Never, Brewster,” he answered. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This was Brewster? She’d expected an older middle-aged guy
with a paunch, not this barely-legal-looking rebel. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Eustis shook his head. “I’ve just been lying low lately. I
caught a late summer cold, and it took longer to shake.” He shook his head.
“Getting older is not for the faint of heart, but it’s better than the option.
And I’m feeling much better now and craving some of your chai for myself and my
friend.” He turned toward Delaney with a wave of his hand. “Brewster, meet
Delaney. She’s visiting us temporarily so I want you to treat her with your
very best brew so she will come back.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Delaney shot a small closed-mouth smile at Brewster, whose
eyes widened when she got a good look at Delaney. Yeah, Brewster may be more
rock than pop, but she still fit the core demographic for Laney Starr’s
audience. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Even with Delaney wearing the wig, big hat and sunglasses,
and an obvious lack of makeup, the coffee barista knew who Delaney was
immediately. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But instead of screaming out her name or doing something else
to draw attention to Delaney, she composed herself rather quickly and nodded
toward her. “Any friend of Eustis’ is welcome here. What can I get you both
today?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“We want to order two of your large nutmeg, vanilla chai’s.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She nodded and began to punch their order into the computer,
but suddenly stopped sending a hard to read look at Delaney. “For you,” she
nodded at Delaney, “I’ll add a True Love Tonic, on the house.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Delaney felt her eyes go wide. “And what is that?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brewster laughed. “I’ll let Eustis explain it to you while
you wait for your drinks, but believe me, you need it.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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That sounded...ominous.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The two of them stepped over to the side to wait and Delaney
raised her eyebrows at Eustis. “So, the True Love Tonic? Tell me it’s not some
sort of hippie psychotropic drug.” The last thing she needed now was a drug
scandal on top of everything else.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He snorted. “No. It’s actually very good for you. A town to
the north of us has a natural spring. They say the water from it is blessed and
if you drink the water from the spring, you’ll find your true love.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“So, not psychotropic, just psychotic. Got it.” She eyed the
menu again and spotted the True Love Tonic option on it. Wow. They thought
highly of that imported spring water, didn’t they? She shrugged. Since she
didn’t believe in true love and knew the power of media spin to earn a buck,
she didn’t worry too much about it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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True love couldn’t find her because it didn’t exist.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To the world she has many labels...<o:p></o:p></div>
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Laney Starr.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pop princess.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most powerful woman in music.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In reality, she has one...<o:p></o:p></div>
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Broken.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once upon a time, people knew his name, but now he’s just...<o:p></o:p></div>
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Small town guy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dependable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rugged.<o:p></o:p></div>
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to True Love</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a new series about fresh beginnings, second chances,
and finding true love in unexpected places. Visitors to True Springs are
skeptical about the town’s legendary water leading them to love, but residents
believe. Even they don’t realize, however, that the water is only part of the
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Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-37623641072745418272019-10-02T12:55:00.000-05:002019-10-02T12:55:54.139-05:00Explaining how these new books tie together...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I'm hoping everyone saw the announcement last month about my upcoming release, <b>Amorous in Appleton</b>. If you missed it, you can find the details here...<a href="http://christi-snow.blogspot.com/2019/09/and-im-finally-back.html">blog post</a>.</div>
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But I thought it would be a good idea to explain this all new series.</div>
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The overarching series is a <i>Ticket to True Love</i> and will be written by a multitude of very talented authors. While the series thread remains the same, each book has its own stand-alone couple and you skip around through the series as much as you want...although we're hoping you all will want to read them all.</div>
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Because at the heart of this series is the magic of love.</div>
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There's a legendary natural spring fountain in a small town in Pennsylvania called True Springs. The legend says that if you sip the spring water, then you'll open your heart to find your true love. It's based on a couple who were separated during WWII...the location of the fountain just happened to be the bus stop and a bus ticket brought them finally together. The legend of the fountain grew from that, and the town has learned to capitalize on it. </div>
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Now, people from all over the world have sipped from the legendary springs...as there is a spigot on the fountain that enables people to be able to take the water with them as they leave. They use those valuable drops and add them to recipes for friends and family who need love in their lives.</div>
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But...what no one knows is that there's another very important element to ignite the magic...</div>
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the Ticket.</div>
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You can find the first five books in the series available for preorder...</div>
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The first book, <b>Practically Persuaded in Pittsburgh</b>, is available next week and all five of the initial release will be out within the next 7 weeks.</div>
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But when it comes to my books, I actually have a series within the series. </div>
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My <i>Locating Love</i> trilogy is about three cousins...so there will be three separate love stories featuring each cousin, although you will see glimpses of all the cousins throughout all three books.</div>
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1. <i>Delaney</i>...(<b>Amorous in Appleton) </b></div>
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who just also happens to be a world famous pop princess in desperate need for an escape from the ever intrusive paparazzi before she has a nervous breakdown.</div>
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2. <i>Ari</i>...(<b>Falling Hard in Frisco</b>) </div>
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3. <i>Mal</i>... (<b>Quickly Falling in Qatar</b>) </div>
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who has found himself investigating a lieutenant's disappearance in the middle of a foreign country and having to work way too close with his first love who dumped him in college.</div>
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While the twins are 5 years older than Delaney, their mother got pregnant via artificial insemination. She felt that motherhood was something she *should* do to be a fulfilled human, but was never really a true mother to them. She's one of the premier oncological surgeons/experts in the country and her patients always take priority over her two children. As a result, Mal and Ari were raised by a series of nannies and their Aunt and Uncle (Delaney's parents).</div>
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Being five years younger, Delaney always worshipped the twins as her favorite people in the world. But at the age of fifteen, she was ripped out of her family when she was discovered by a talent manager. Her parents tried, but they didn't really realize what they were signing her up for when they agreed to let her into the world of music. </div>
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These books are fun and romantic and I hope you love them as much as I do.</div>
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Here's the release schedule:</div>
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October 22...Amorous in Appleton</div>
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January 28...Falling Hard in Frisco</div>
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(preorder available soon)</div>
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June 9....Quickly Falling in Qatar</div>
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Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-66856176365991416972019-09-05T05:00:00.000-05:002019-09-05T05:00:06.142-05:00And I'm finally back!<div style="text-align: center;">
I bet you thought you were never going to see me here again, didn't you?</div>
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Well...SURPRISE! </div>
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I'm back...</div>
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And with all kinds of information about a new series and a cover reveal. </div>
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First, let's do the pretties...the cover reveal...</div>
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Laney Starr.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Normal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Delaney needed an escape. Instead she found Micah. A small
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But the world has claims on Laney and they won’t let her go.
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Micah is going to have to fight for her if he wants to keep
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and finding true love in unexpected places. Visitors to True Springs are
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<span style="background-color: white;"><em style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><strong>Ticket to True Love</strong></em><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"> is a huge series of books written by a group of extremely talented authors.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Visitors to True Springs are skeptical about the town's legendary water leading them to true love, but even the local residents don't realize the water is only part of the story...</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">The series is about fresh beginnings, second chances, and finding love in unexpected places.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">The first batch of five books will release between Oct 8 and Nov 19. Then there will be a second batch coming in January.</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">I have three books eventually coming out in this series (I will have one book in each of the first three batches). All three of my books have characters that are connected...cousins...and I can't wait for you to meet them all. I've been having so much fun writing them (right now, I'm finishing up the 3rd book).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><u><span style="font-size: small;">All the books in the initial release batch are available for preorder now...</span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Over the next few weeks, I will give you a brief intro into each of these books and more insight into the three books of mine that make up my stand-alone series within the series.</span></div>
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This whole series has been so much fun to write. I can't wait until you get to meet Delaney (<i>Amorous in Appleton</i>), Ari (<i>Falling Hard in Frisco</i>), and Mal (<i>Quickly Falling in Qatar</i>)...three cousins who drink some very special water.</div>
Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-85974204672666980422018-12-22T06:48:00.003-06:002018-12-22T06:49:07.602-06:00Happy Holidays...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-41640940770563529962018-12-12T09:59:00.003-06:002018-12-12T09:59:39.225-06:00It's TASTY LOVE release day!!
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Out of all the books that Sarah and I have written, this is my favorite.<br /><br />It's a second chance at love story and I adore the hero and the heroine.</div>
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The hero...Spencer...is a police detective at the Aspenridge PD.<br /><br />The heroine...Val...is the baker at Em-Dash (the local bookstore), but in high school, she was the cheerleader and he was the dorky brainy kid who never thought he had a chance.<br /><br />Then they fell in love...until life fell apart.</div>
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Eight years ago, she broke his heart.</div>
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Eight years ago, he vowed never to let her hurt him again.</div>
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At the age of sixteen, Val Garcia made the worst mistake of her life. She trusted the wrong guy, and hurt the guy she loved. She can never atone for that one mistake, but she’s trying.</div>
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As a cop, Spencer Murdock is trained in the art of evasion, but that isn’t helping him avoid the pariah in his life...his first love, Val. It doesn’t help that as the town baker, his friends and coworkers are always moaning over her cupcakes. Yeah, it sounds dirty to him when they do it, too.</div>
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Now, he has to work with her daily, see her daily, listen to her soft voice and see her smooth skin...daily. And daily he’s seeing her more as the girl he fell in love with, not the girl who destroyed him.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Chapter One<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Val</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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It was too early in the morning
for whining, but obviously Travis hadn’t gotten that memo.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What am I going to do, Val?” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I worked hard not to roll my
eyes at him. The young college-aged cutie that my BFF and owner of Em-Dash,
Kali, had left in charge of her bookstore while she jaunted off to Kenya with
her new love looked completely panicked. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pulling the tray of cookies
from the oven, I set them on the row of waiting hot pads and gave Travis my
best stern adult look. The comforting scent of cinnamon and sugar filled the
air and immediately dropped my heart rate. There was nothing like fresh baked
goods to ease the soul.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Travis, Kali wouldn’t have
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pointed look before reaching into the oven for a second tray. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“And I was capable . . . <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">am</i> capable,” Travis said, snaking a hand
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every day to get in classes, work, studying, and the occasional nap.” He ran
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I laughed and grabbed my
dusting tin. “Welcome to the wonderful world of being an adult.” I paused in my
cookie routine to give him a soft smile. “Kali said it was okay to hire some
part-time help, so do it. Take out an ad in the paper, or put up some signs in
the student center.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Turning my attention back to
the cookies, I uncapped the dusting tin and shook out a shimmering cascade of
cinnamon and sugar to fall delicately on the still-warm tops of my
snickerdoodles. The second dose of cinnamon and sugar gave them that extra oomph
that left my customers coming back for more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I don’t love the idea of a
bunch of new people traipsing around the bookstore.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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My shoulders tightened. “You
can’t have it both ways,” I snapped a little too forcefully. “Either you play
loosey-goosey with your grades and handle Em-Dash on your own or you hire
someone new.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blowing hair out of my face, I
tried to soften my words with a little smile. Travis wasn’t the only one
feeling Kali’s absence. It was hitting me harder than expected to be without my
boss babe and bestie. And there was no use pretending that when she got back
from Kenya a few days after Christmas that everything would go back to normal.
She had Ten, and that meant I would have less of her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Look, I’ve got to get these
cookies off the trays before the bottoms brown, but we can sit down tomorrow
and write up an advertisement to put in the paper. Okay?” I asked, sliding a
hot and somewhat-melty cookie off the tray and handing it to Travis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Okay,” he mumbled around soft
dough and perfectly portioned sugar and cinnamon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I would never be a super-nurturing
maternal type who could make everything better with a hug and a soft word or
two, but I could bake the best snickerdoodle in Colorado, and that was almost
the same thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Now, get out of here before
the ladies start showing up and you really get uncomfortable with people in
your bookstore.” I gave him a playful wink.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Travis was a good kid, and he
was super dedicated to Kali, even more so since we all found out that she had
been secretly writing horror books as David Greer for the past six years. But
even that level of fanboy had its limits, and the line was drawn a long time
ago at Single Ladies Book Club.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once a week—and sometimes it
even happened twice a week—the single women of Aspenridge descended on Em-Dash
to eat cookies, talk vaguely about books, and watch the firemen across the
street wash their truck. Travis decided in his first week of working at the
bookstore that that level of estrogen was way too much for him. Since then,
he’d always made it a point to be out of here well before the ladies started
showing up. But a quick glance at the clock hanging next to my giant stainless-steel
fridge confirmed he was cutting it close.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I scooped another cookie off
the tray and passed it over to him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Thanks, Val. See you
tomorrow.” He stuck the cookie in his mouth, grabbed his bag and keys, and
rushed out of the kitchen to head home.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chuckling, I finished plating
the rest of the snickerdoodles. The SLBC was scheduled to start in less than
fifteen minutes, and eager members would be showing up soon. I scooped the last
cookie onto the plate and tossed the trays into the sink to clean later, adding
it to the list of things I’d need to take care of before finally heading home. <o:p></o:p></div>
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With Kali gone, my hours at
Em-Dash had about doubled, and after getting there at four in the morning to
start the daily baking, I was usually exhausted by lunch. Staying until five
for book club was just about killing me, but I desperately needed some girl
time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I marched out of the kitchen,
cookies in hand, just as the front door opened.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Where would you like me?” A
tall, muscular man stood in the entry, already removing his jacket to reveal a
tight T-shirt barely holding back a moan-inducing set of pectoral muscles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My legs quivered, and I bit my
lip hard to keep myself under control. I set the cookies down on a table and
pointed to a stool next to a floor lamp. “Will that work?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He nodded and gave me quick
wink before pointing at the cookies. “Mind if I snag one of those before we
start?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I simply nodded back, frozen in
place. He leaned around me to grab a snickerdoodle, and his tight chest brushed
against my shoulder, releasing a deep, musky aroma that didn’t help my thin
control. I bit my lip harder. If one touch from this guy was getting me this
worked up, I was in desperate need of getting laid.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The chime above the door
sounded again and pulled me out of my stupor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, hello there.” Britney’s
cheerful voice cut across the silent bookstore as she focused in on the fire station
hottie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I backed away from the very
hard chest and created some distance from the distraction. “Britney, this is .
. .” I motioned toward the man, but my brain couldn’t pull up the name I was so
desperately searching for. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Mick,” he offered up. “Mick
Forrester.” He held his hand out to me, and I gave it a quick shake.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Mick is going to be helping us
out with book club today. With the weather turning colder, the guys at the
firehouse won’t be washing the truck as often. So several of them have
graciously volunteered to read for us in exchange for a steady supply of baked
goods.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mick bit into his cookie and
licked crumbs off his full lips. “If everything you send over is this good, you
ladies might not be too impressed with the show once the spring weather comes
back.” Mick patted his rock-hard abs and gave me another wink.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Indeed,” Britney said,
shooting me a loaded look.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I handed Mick a copy of that
month’s book, and thankfully he took it and walked over to his stool. Kali had
been the one to suggest inviting the firemen to come do readings for us since
our usual club entertainment was locked away for the winter. At the time, I
thought it was brilliant, but I was seriously rethinking that. I knew the girls
would flirt and fawn all over the well-built guys, but I didn’t expect the guys
to flirt back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I hurried behind the counter
where I’d stashed the chairs for the meeting, and Britney followed tight on my
heels.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Well, that was interesting,”
Britney whispered in my ear, casting a coy glance back at Mick still sitting on
his stool and flipping through the book I gave him. “If I’m reading that right,
I’d say Mr. Fireman is interested in more than just your baked goods.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I picked up two chairs and
steadied my face into what I hoped was a neutral expression. “He can be as
interested as he likes, I don’t care so long as he sits pretty on the stool and
reads all the sexy bits of the books.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Right,” Britney said, rolling
her eyes. “So you weren’t at all affected by his solid abs, luscious lips, or
charming glances?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I can appreciate a fine man
without wanting to date him.” I hefted a chair under each arm and turned back
toward the front of the store. “Besides, I’ve got enough on my plate between
covering Kali’s absence and the holiday baking season. The last thing I need is
a guy to complicate things.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_gjdgxs"></a>And it
wouldn’t matter anyway. I’d screwed up my chance at living happily ever after a
long time ago, and that wasn’t something you got a second chance at.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria;">Chapter Two<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spencer<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I walked into the Aspenridge
Police Department to the normal Monday morning trash talk being thrown around,
with one notable exception. “I’m telling you man. Val Garcia’s muffins make me
hard.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Every part of my body—including
my heart—stilled as that caveman part of my brain, which was still attached to
her even after all these years, roared in outrage. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mine! </i>But instead of letting loose with the scream, I shoved that
primal part of me down and glared across the room at the rookie beat cop who’d
been talking.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nathan Peters. His back was to
me, so he didn’t see me coming as I stomped across the room, but his buddies
did. And from their reaction, my face must have shown some of that inner
caveman, because both of their eyes widened and they scurried away. But I
clamped down on top of Peters’ shoulder so he couldn’t escape.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He flinched under my grip as I
turned him to me. “Peters, don’t you have a school zone to go patrol?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“D-detective,” he stuttered.
“Yes, sir. Sorry, sir. I just wanted to get a muffin before they were all
gone.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I scowled at him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Tonja from dispatch dropped
these by.” He twisted out of my grip and offered up the distinctive pastry box
from Em-Dash. Val’s muffins . . . from Val’s bakery. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Suddenly it all made sense, but
I still didn’t like the tone of voice Nathan Peters had been using to refer to
Val. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Are they any good?” I growled
at him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oh, yeah.” His eyes
practically rolled back into his head. “They’re some sort of pumpkin, walnut,
and white-chocolate mixture that melts in my mouth. A woman who can make something
like that . . .” He groaned like she was sucking his cock.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I growled again, and his eyes
widened as if he’d forgotten who he’d been talking to.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Detective,” Chief Klune called
from across the room. “Stop harassing the rookies and get in here.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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With one last threatening scowl
at Officer Peters, I turned and strode to the chief’s office.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As soon as I entered, he barked
out, “Shut the door behind you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I complied and then turned to
meet the frown my boss aimed at me. “What the hell was that out there with
Peters?” He waved a hand to the bullpen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Nothing to worry about, sir.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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He examined me for a moment,
and I could almost see his inner debate about pushing the matter further. In
the end, he must have decided not to, because he simply shook his head and nodded
at the chair in front of his desk. “Sit.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He clicked a few keys on his
computer and then met my gaze. “The independent investigation into your conduct
with the Naked Brews case has been concluded.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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My stomach clenched. The Naked
Brews case had been my first big investigation with the department. I’d been
naively excited about the case when it began. Aspenridge was a small town in
Colorado. We weren’t exactly in the middle of a hotbed of crime. Petty
shoplifting, mischievous teenagers on vacation, along with an occasional DUI
hit and run into a tree from one of the tourists were the norm. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So, when it looked like the
Naked Brews incidences were a pattern of something more sinister . . . hell,
yeah, I’d been excited. I wanted to prove my worth and my investigative
abilities. Well, I’d failed big time. Not only had my failure endangered lives
and property, but I hadn’t seen the evidence right in front of me . . . that my
little brother, Warner, was behind the majority of the crimes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Since that day four months ago,
which ended with Warner in the hospital and eventually on his way to prison,
I’d spent too many sleepless nights wondering exactly where I’d gone wrong. I
hadn’t felt like I was missing the obvious at the time, but had I let my family
ties blind me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That question would
always haunt me. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I should have been able to see
what was going on with Warner. I should have been able to prevent it from
happening. Not only as a detective, but as his big brother. And because of that,
my little brother was a convicted felon. So, yeah, I’d failed big time, and my
little brother was paying the price in prison.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“ . . . free and clear.” The chief
looked at me with a grim smile on his face, and I realized I’d zoned out from
what he’d been telling me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’m sorry. Can you repeat that
again?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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His scowl was back, and he
shoved a piece of paper into my hands.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You can read it yourself, but
they found you and the department free and clear of any wrongdoing on the case.
You’re being reinstated as a detective.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Suddenly, I could feel the
blood flow back into my limbs again. I had my job back. Relief wasn’t even a
big enough word for what I felt in that moment. Four months of sitting at my
desk working as a glorified secretary filing all the paperwork for the
department had been sucking my soul dry. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Thank you, sir.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He nodded, although his lips
were in a tight line like he didn’t necessarily agree with the determination of
the investigation. “Lucky for you, I had a case come across my desk this
morning. He handed me a folder filled about a half-inch thick with reports. My
eyebrows lifted. I hadn’t heard of anything that would require this many pages
happening in Aspenridge. That little buzz of anticipation curled in my gut.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He nodded at the file. “In the
past month, there have been twenty-one thefts reported.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I flipped open the file and
quickly scanned the first couple of reports. I turned a couple more sheets
before meeting the chief’s amused gaze. “Are you shitting me? You want me to
investigate a rash of garden-gnome thefts?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yes, I do, and I expect quick
results. The citizens of Aspenridge are having their property stolen. No matter
what that property is or how questionable their taste, your job is to recover it
and find out who is doing the crime? Any further questions?” he growled.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I shook my head and clenched my
teeth. “No, sir.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He went back to typing. I had
obviously been dismissed to carry out my <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very
important</i> investigation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fuck my life. Garden gnomes.
This was what I wanted off desk-jockey duty for? Not hardly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Seven hours later, I glanced
down at my list of victims that I still needed to interview about the garden
gnome thefts and sighed. One glaring victim name had been mocking me all
through this fabulously shitty day. What was one more thing to make it even
more sucktastic?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I turned and headed toward
Em-Dash. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ever since the scene that
morning in the bullpen, Val had stayed in the back of my mind, lingering,
taunting me. Most days I was able to ignore her presence in town. It was easier
that way . . . if I pretended she simply wasn’t here. And hopefully it was late
enough that she wouldn’t be at work so I could keep pretending. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Val owned and ran the bakery at
the back of the local bookstore, Em-Dash. But running a bakery meant she kept a
baker’s hours—early mornings followed by getting off in the early
afternoon—which I hoped meant she’d probably left the bookstore hours ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But as I approached the store,
the lights from within illuminated the occupants against the growing dusk
outside. There was no mistaking the long, silky, red hair that haunted my
dreams. The lights of the store caught those glossy tresses and made them look
like they were lit by candlelight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fuck my life. I just couldn’t
catch a break.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once upon a time, I’d tangled
my hands in that gorgeous hair as I’d buried myself inside her luscious body. I
knew how silky the strands felt . . . almost as silky as the inside of her
pussy had felt on my dick. The thought hit me like a punch to the gut. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Fuck. It had been eight years.
I should be over this shit. She didn’t want me. She’d never wanted me. I’d been
a game to her, a silly teenage game. A geeky kid blown away by the head
cheerleader. Unfortunately, by the time I’d discovered that, she already had my
heart, and it had gotten trampled in the fallout, too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I took a deep breath and
squared my shoulders in my suit coat, making sure my badge was showing on my
waistband and my gun was still safely tucked against my ribs. I pulled open the
door to the store. I was a man, and I had a job to do. I was stronger than the
shit she’d pulled on me in high school. She might have been my first love, but
I’d never again let her see that she had the power to hurt me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Note: <i>While this is book #2 of the Bookstore Love duology, this book can be read alone. It stands completely on its own.</i></u></div>
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Sorry, I've been quiet about a few things. I try to maintain transparency about what's happening, but this time life and truly not knowing definite timeframes have both contributed to late deadlines. </div>
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So, let me update you about where everything is scheduled right now.</div>
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Out of all the books that Sarah and I have written, this is my favorite. </div>
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It's a second chance at love story and I adore the hero and the heroine. The hero...Spencer...is a police detective at the Aspenridge PD. The heroine...Val...is the baker at Em-Dash (the local bookstore), but in high school, she was the cheerleader and he was the dorky brainy kid who never thought he had a chance. Then they fell in love...until life fell apart.</div>
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It's complicated to write books with three main characters and life has been a little crazy this fall. BUT the good news is that it's coming soon...probably February. But I have to finish writing it first. It's at 55,000 words right now. I'd guess it's going to hit about 75k...or maybe more...eeps. </div>
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<i>It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s not. This
is the start of an epic love story between three men. Three men who have a
history twined together with encounters and impressions that have marked their
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<i>They just never realized how all those brief encounters
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<i>Daniel, the rock star who survived a plane crash who’s
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<i>Luke, the bodyguard who made so many mistakes and now thinks
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<i>Austin, the CEO who thinks he’s on the outside pulling the
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<i>Three men, one snowy winter cabin, one epic love story
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">My review blog is shutting down.</span></b></div>
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I have a review blog called <a href="http://smittenwithreading.blogspot.com/">Smitten with Reading</a>. </div>
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Before I ever started writing fiction, I was a book review blogger. </div>
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Smitten with Reading started officially in December 2010. </div>
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Well, December 2018 will be its last. I'm shutting it down. </div>
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It's just gotten to be too much. Writing and formatting official reviews takes a lot of time (minimum of an hour or two for each book and that's not counting the time it takes to read the books). </div>
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There are 3554 published posts.</div>
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At least 98 or 99% of those are reviews. </div>
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That's a lot of work and I did almost all of it myself (I had a handful of guest reviews over the years, but easily less than ten).</div>
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And while I'm sad to be ending it, I also have this huge sense of freedom. I'm reading whatever I want when I want. I share the books that I've LOVED and nothing else.</div>
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There's so much freedom in that!</div>
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No worries...I'll still be reading just as much as before (actually probably more now because of the time I've freed up) and I'll tell you all when I read a phenomenal book.</div>
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You know I'm not going to stop reading books. </div>
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That's an addiction I refuse to recover from!</div>
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But from now on I will only be sharing the books that I found to be excellent...A or A+ ratings only. And my reviews will be very abbreviated...just a few sentences to say concisely about exactly why I loved the book and recommend it.</div>
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You will find those recommendations mainly by following me on Bookbub.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/profile/christi-snow">Follow me on Bookbub</a></span></b>.</div>
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You can check out my profile to see what books I've been recommending this month for a sample of how I'll be recommending from here on out. (Although warning: a few of my recommendations on there like <b><i>My Favorite Half Night Stand</i></b> and <b><i>Rough Trade</i></b> are my pro reviews because I already had them written for my blog.)</div>
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There I will be tracking every book I read...I just won't post reviews for the ones that weren't books that I recommend. (Again...note...I'll only recommend books that are 5-star reads or phenomenal in some way. I read a ton of really good books that are 4 star ratings...those are still good books...just not the best of the best (in my opinion).)</div>
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And I know that I haven't even finished with 2018 releases, but I have been working hard behind the scenes on books for 2019 release. (Two of 2019 releases are already written...they're just awaiting editing.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>So, here's a tentative 2019 release schedule...</u></span></div>
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*<b>Found at the Rock Concert (mmm)</b></div>
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*<i>Play It Again series</i> </div>
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1. <b>Sweet Disaster (mf)</b></div>
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2. <b>Disenchanted Hearts (mf)</b></div>
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3. <b>Recovering Hope (mf)</b></div>
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(three standalone series books that I will be telling you about SOON...because I'm so excited for these books to release. They're so good! Sports m/f)...there may also be a novella or two and I'm thinking this will have an m/m spinoff series (tentatively titled <i>Caught in the Closet series</i>)</div>
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*<b>Firefly Magic</b>...</div>
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my first young adult book written specifically at my daughter's request...but gah, I ADORE this book (it's also almost finished already...I've promised her that I'll have it done this month)</div>
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*<b>Photo Op Serendipity </b>(book #2 in <i>NM Protectors series</i>)</div>
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That's my news for now. Watch this space next week for more information and behind the scenes glimpses into the world of <b>Tasty Love</b>.</div>
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Have a great weekend everyone!</div>
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<br />Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-67518409667171862922018-12-02T05:00:00.000-06:002018-12-02T05:00:04.989-06:00It will be worth it...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-29370960747709880922018-11-25T05:00:00.000-06:002018-11-25T05:00:04.571-06:00Let's all make it...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-31775353154280721862018-11-18T05:00:00.000-06:002018-11-18T05:00:05.563-06:00Reading and Writing = Breathing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-67921195823448461052018-11-11T05:00:00.000-06:002018-11-11T05:00:05.927-06:00You're never too old...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Christihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10648877069682515109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6247260619048272401.post-65718054987405498442018-11-09T11:48:00.000-06:002018-11-09T11:48:17.431-06:00Five Favorites for Friday Five...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every few days, I see someone post a countdown for Christmas and panic a little bit. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">It's </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">46 days</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"> until Christmas!?!?</span></b></div>
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So, if you're like me, this post is part <i>these are just some of my favorite things</i>, but also a bit of <i>hey, these might be fun gifts for the right person on your shopping list</i>.</div>
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Either way, maybe you'll see something fun on my Friday Five for today.</div>
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Anyone that has followed along my instagram feed knows I'm a sucker for a good coffee mug (I try to post my current one with the book I'm reading every day). </div>
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I recently discovered a fantastic mug company that I'm in love with!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SweetMintHandmade">SweetMint Handmade</a></i></b></span></div>
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My personal favorite is the <b><i>It's Too Peoplely Outside</i></b> mug. </div>
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Growing up, my favorite gifts were books. Well, I have no idea what books my nieces have, so a long time ago, I began a tradition of giving them Barnes and Noble gift cards (Amazon for the one who doesn't have a local B&N like us...sigh).</div>
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I love giving these because my nieces are readers, so I know they look forward to them and the shopping trip that follows. I HIGHLY recommend book store gift cards for the coming holiday season. </div>
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One thing about being a well-known bibliophile is that people share really cool finds with me. This next item is one of those. I had a friend <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/john-green-wants-you-to-read-tiny-books/2018/08/02/3110b5bc-94e6-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.32cddf513b9a">post this article from the </a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/john-green-wants-you-to-read-tiny-books/2018/08/02/3110b5bc-94e6-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.32cddf513b9a"><i>Washington Post</i></a> about this new style of mini-books. </div>
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So, I had to order them! OMG, I'm totally in love with this format...</div>
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Literally, these books will fit into the back pocket of your jeans. They're actually about an inch smaller than my cell phone, but the font isn't any smaller than a normal book. You read them sideways and the pages feel similar to the pages of a bible. They have a unique binding (which you can see better in the bottom right corner photo of the collage above) that I think makes them tougher than your typical paperback. </div>
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Needless to say, I'm in love and hope to see LOTS more books in this printing format. I will buy them ALL...LOL. They retail at $12/each, but Amazon has the box set priced at $27.17 (as of this morning...11/9/18). Here's the link to that...<b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Minis-John-Green-Box/dp/0525555765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541783874&sr=8-1&keywords=john+green+mini+books">Amazon boxed set</a></b>.</div>
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I adore burning candles. Certain scents can help put me in the mood to write and Sarra Cannon recently talked about using a single scent to put her mind in the right frame to write. She chooses a set scent for each book. I love that idea and plan to implement it into my writing.</div>
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But I just recently discovered <b><a href="https://www.antiquecandleworks.com/">Antique Candle Works</a></b>. Not only do they have normal candles, but they also have a line that they put into antique vessels like this turquoise blue ball jar (something that I just happen to enjoy collecting). I think it's a gorgeous combination of two of my favorite things. </div>
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This is a great little item for the book reader in your life...or you. Novel Grounds makes pencil bags in a variety of sizes and styles at such affordable prices. (The reader, bookmark, writer ones in the photo below this were only $7/each.)</div>
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<b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/NovelGrounds?ref=pr2018_faveshops">Novel Grounds on etsy</a></b>.</div>
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And one final photo of my girly from a fun photo shoot she did last weekend. (Although this is a photo I took with my phone, not one of the pro ones.)</div>
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Christmas is coming!</div>
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Christi</div>
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