Friday, March 8, 2024

Bargain Book

 

 Caroline Keller has recently returned to Kellersburg, her hometown, after spending nearly six years teaching the children of missionaries in Kenya. While there she lived through a horrific experience, and she feels broken and in need of healing. She hasn’t been able to share her hurt, even with family and friends, until she meets Wyatt Bayer, her old nemesis.

Wyatt has spent the last ten years on the rodeo circuit with a lot of success, but one mistimed ride on a bronc ends his career. He’s in need of healing and is doing rehab at a nursing home in Kellersburg where he grew up. He’s an angry man until Caroline walks into his room and tells him to be kind.

Can two broken souls help each other heal and find love?

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Merrillee Whren is the winner of the 2003 Golden Heart Award presented by Romance Writers of American. She is married to her own personal hero, her husband of forty-plus years, and has two grown daughters. Connect with her on her Facebook page and sign up for her newsletter.
 

 

Thursday, March 7, 2024

End of a Series ~ Jean C. Gordon

Can their book boyfriends lead a book club of hopeless romantics to a real happily ever after?

As a reader, I'm always sad when a series ends. So with a combination of excitement and sadness, I'm announcing my latest release and the end of the Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge multi-author series— with a shout out to the great group of sweet romance authors I worked with on this series and the No Brides Club series. My new Falling for the Guitar Man is a companion book to my Falling for the Scotsman.

How about you. Are you a series reader? Do you have a favorite series?


Fiona Campbell can’t believe that her Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge book club is reading a romance with a rock star hero. Let alone a story that mirrors her younger years in Scotland. Younger years that the friends she’s made since moving to the States and taking on a partnership in Euans’s Distillery know nothing about. Moreover, she’s recently learned “her” rock star is a hometown boy.

Kyle McCabe is about to do something he’d vowed never to do: bring back his band, the one he destroyed with his personal downward spiral 15 years ago – Rebel Picts. It’s for a good cause, a benefit concert at the Willow Ridge summer festival to help the family of his deceased best friend and bandmate. Little did he know when he agreed to the concert that the cause of that spiral, Fee Campbell, now lives in Willow Ridge.

Initially, Kyle isn’t ready to forgive Fee’s youthful desertion that exploded their college relationship. When he needed her most, she abandoned him and the band and broke his heart. But as they work together on the concert and reviving the band, adult trust and love take root. That is until Fee repeats her teenage dump-and-run behavior.

As Fiona confronts her hidden history, she and Kyle must navigate a labyrinth of old wounds and new feelings. Will they overcome the shadows of their past mistakes to embrace a future together? Uncover the magic of forgiveness and second chances in this heartwarming tale of love rediscovered.

The Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge series are sweet, small-town contemporary romances. Each book is a standalone and can be read individually or as part of the series.

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Sorcha Laurent’s family-owned distillery has become her whole life. A far cry from where she’d expected to be when she’d left school with her newly minted MS in Chemistry and a sparkling new engagement ring on her finger. The family-business emergency that brought her home to the small-town of Willow Ridge has cost her a fiancée and her dream job in medical research. Now she’s at the end of the five-year agreement to manage the family distillery. Sorcha is ready to get back to having a life of her own. It’s time to throw in the bar towel and figure out what new dream might replace the one she lost. Little does she suspect that dream might involve potential business rival and swoon-worthy scholar, Ross Campbell.

A former Scotland National Rugby team player Ross Campbell is on track to his dream job, a professorship at his alma mater Edinburgh University. All he has left is to finish his doctoral thesis, while earning a few bona fides as a history teacher at an exclusive boys school outside Savannah. The fact that people here in the States accept him for himself, not as a former rugby star nor an heir to the Campbell Beverage conglomerate, is only frosting on the cake. And there’s no overbearing grandfather around pushing him to join the family corporation. Ross expects all things to continue according to plan, but meeting fiery Sorcha draws him down an unexpected and surprisingly enjoyable path.

When Ross catches Sorcha’s eye at the Savanah Scottish Games because he looks just like her historical romance book boyfriend, little do they know where their chance meeting will lead. A 50-year-old connection between her grandmother and his grandfather. A centuries-old mystery about a rumored stolen whisky recipe. Feelings that neither have experienced before and don’t know how to handle.

Will Sorcha and Ross’s research sessions take them beyond solving the recipe mystery and their intertwined ancestry to true love? Can they break free of family obligations and interference to live their dreams in a future together?

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Bargain Books: Dancing in the Dark March Madness Sale

Dancing in the Dark, Cheryl St.John

 

He’d had his own baby. Without her.


Dusty Cavanaugh has loved Kendra Price since she walked into the school cafeteria and captured a dozen boyish hearts with the sweep of her stormy gray-green gaze and the lift of her chin. College, marriage, and children had been the plan. But then Dusty made a mistake.


Kendra Price had never wanted to be rich, but she’d wanted to be comfortable, which she was. She’d never wanted to be famous, but to live her passion to the fullest and dance, which she had. She’d wanted to marry Dusty, have babies and live happily ever after. All she had left was dance.

 

Sweet romance by a USA Today bestselling author

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MARCH MADNESS

All 21 books in this series are on sale for 99c throughout March.

Fans of Robyn Carr's Virgin River Series will enjoy this multi-author series set in the fictional tourist town of Spencer, Colorado.

Monday, March 4, 2024

Sandals in March....Something Rotten...and Roxanne asks a question about llamas

 How's that for a strange subject line?  It has been strange here in the Upper Midwest, as far as the weather goes.  From single digits at the end of last week, to almost eighty degrees yesterday.  

It's only March 5th, but the shade trees are budding and the local orchard owners are worried about their apple crops.  I hope the trees haven't been fooled by the unseasonable weather! How is it where you live?

There's a beautiful old community theatre in town where one can see excellent productions.  It had been a long while since we'd gone, but I saw the musical "Something Rotten" on Broadway at least five years ago and thought it would be fun to see it again.  The local talent blew me away.  I can't carry a tune in a bucket, so I love to listen to people who can--and can do it so brilliantly!

I write romantic suspense, and my "brand" (my promise to readers) is that in addition to suspense and romance, they will find a warm thread of family relationships, a thread of faith, and an animal of some kind that makes a difference for the characters in the story.

Including an animal on my covers visually alludes to that, as opposed to covers promising gritty, intense, or even violent suspense. Usually, there's a dog of some kind in the story. My next release is just a bit different!

I posted a question about its cover on our Sweet Romance Reads Cafe, learned from those answers, then asked my cover artist for a tweak. Here is the new version.

Question! What do you think about having a llama on a clean romantic suspense cover? Intriguing...or jarring?  This llama does appear throughout this light romantic suspense, with humorous notes. 

I would love to hear your comments and suggestions. 

Final Truth is available for preorder. 
Click here to buy, or read more about it!

One of the people who leaves a comment will receive a free copy of  Final Chance.

One last thing: would you like to receive a free ebook from a different Christian romantic suspense author every month?  Click here to sign up for my monthly newsletter, then check each issue for a link to receive your new book!

Wishing you all the best for a wonderful spring, 

Roxanne Rustand


Thursday, February 29, 2024

Lyn Cote Asks What was Your Favorite Trip?


My daughter and I as lumberjacks at a park somewhere in Wisconsin on a day trip!
After watching the weather channel this winter, I don't think ANYONE in the USA is having a "normal" winter. (If you are, I want to hear about it!'-)

Anyway this has made me long to go...somewhere but I have obligations keeping me here, enjoying the third most SNOWLESS winter in the history of the northwoods. 

Wildfire danger has already started--dry grass and no snow causes this. So let's take our minds off what's going on outside our windows!

 Now for the February question- Since I’m not planning on going anywhere soon, I’m asking: “What was the best trip you ever enjoyed? And why?” Please leave a comment. Then I can travel with you vicariously! ‘-)


My book, KAT’S STRICTLY BUSINESS PARTNER, came out last month. Kat, short for Katherine, owns a garden nursery. So far the response to Kat has been very positive. Here’s one: 

“Yet another cute read by the fabulous Lyn Cote. I was anxiously awaiting to hear this story, and I wasn't disappointed.”

This is the final book in my “The Preacher’s Daughters” series. (And I’m trying to feel ‘fabulous’—first time I’ve been called that! Don’t worry—I won’t let it go to my head.:-)--Lyn



Laura Scott's New Release!


Good morning! I'm thrilled to let you know about my latest release, Brock the second book in my Oath of Honor series.

I've been blessed with many amazing notes, comments and reviews on my Finnegan First Responders series that I thought it would be fun to spinoff series featuring Rhy's tactical team. 



I've become a huge audiobook fan, so Brock is available in ebook, audio and print formats. My books are also available on all vendor sites. As an added bonus Brock is in ebook and audio from my website. My audiobooks on my website are offered at a significant discount, so don't hesitate to check them out.


Brock by Laura Scott $3.99


From USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott

Oath of Honor - A promise to protect and serve.

Marriage under fire!

Tactical police officer Brock Greer can’t bring himself to divorce his wife despite how she’d left him five months ago for another man. But when he stumbles into the kitchen at their once favorite restaurant, he’s shocked to find Liana speaking in rapid fire Chinese to a tall Asian. And even more horrified when that same man pulls a gun, pointing it at Liana’s head.

Liana Wong has no idea why Brock had shown up at the restaurant in his police uniform, but worse he’d blown her cover. When she’s tracked to several locations, it’s clear that the leader of the sex trafficking ring wants her dead. And the only way to survive is to team up with Brock, despite his deep mistrust. Is it possible that working together to destroy a common enemy will save their marriage?



Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Cheryl St.John: Reading full-length novels or novellas

I read both. I’ve read big fat novels, medium-length novels as well as novellas. I enjoy both. As long as a book keeps the tension high and is consistently making me care what happens next, length isn’t an issue. As for novellas, I prefer them in an anthology, where there’s more than one story to read—although sometimes that can be disappointing if one tale is great and another isn’t.

Writing full-length novels or novellas & shorts:
I’ve written plenty of full-length novels as well as several novellas. A common remark from readers when they read one of my novella-length stories is that they wish it had been longer. I’ve only written a couple of actual short stories, but they were quick to write and a good way to use a character who doesn’t really have a bigger story to tell.


What’s your preference or do you read any length books?

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Whisper My Name

She was the girl behind the headlines

Laurel Whitaker has been her name for fifteen years. Anyone hearing her true identity would know who she was, and she’s had enough of cameras, questions and stares. Spencer, Colorado is a great place to blend in among the tourists. But unwanted attention comes in the worst possible form—a tough, perceptive, and all too determined lawman.


Sheriff Joe Cavanaugh looks out for people—his large loving family, his teenage daughter, anyone in his county who needs him. But the mistrustful young woman staying in the lake house beside his property goes out of her way to avoid his help, and that’s suspicious. Instinct tells him she’s hiding something…and attraction motivates him to uncover her secrets.


Will Laurel’s truth be his undoing…or hers?


Sweet Romance from a USA Today Bestselling Author
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