Showing posts with label sampler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sampler. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 20, 2018 | By: The Write Way Cafe

Tuesday Special: Nice to Come Home To by Liz Flaherty

LIZ FLAHERTY



by Liz FlahertyWill an apple a day…

Keep love at bay?

For Cass Gentry, coming home to Lake Miniagua, teenage half sister in tow, is bittersweet. But her half of the orchard she inherited awaits, and so does a fresh face—Luke Rossiter, her new business partner. Even though they butt heads in business, they share one key piece of common ground: refusing to ever fall in love again. But as their lives get bigger, that stance doesn’t feel like enough…


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Liz Flaherty spent way too much time when she was young worrying about growing old. Regardless of how much hair color and moisturizer she used, it happened anyway. Now that she really IS old, she only worries that it won't last long enough--it's a lot more fun than she anticipated. She still loves adventures with Duane, her husband of 47 years, and she's not even going to get started on the grandkids--there are seven, by the way, all perfect... She writes and makes quilts and spends time with friends and family and never dusts. It's all good.


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Monday, September 10, 2018 | By: The Write Way Cafe

Monday Morsels: Two Days Until Midnight

 

My novella, Two Days Until Midnight, is one of the eleven romance first chapters featured in Love, Forever. Thank you for stopping by to read the blurb and an excerpt of Two Days Until Midnight.  Find Love, Forever at your favorite retailer https://books2read.com/love-forever and read all the first chapters to find your next reads.



Two Days Until Midnight
by Lynn Crandall


Tamier closed his eyes, clinging to the sense of wonder and peace spreading through him, and trying to ignore his spontaneous impulses to reach for her. “I do know I don’t want this moment to end.” He stepped close to her, so close he felt her breath on his face. She didn’t move away, and he looped a lock of her hair behind her ear, sinking into the soft feel of it. Oh, how he wanted to kiss her lips, but he stood suspended in doubt nanomillimeters away.

“Tamier.” She stared at his mouth. “You don’t know everything about me.”

He pulled his eyes from her lips and looked into her eyes. “I don’t expect I do.”

“There are things I want to tell you, but I’m afraid.”

“Don’t be. If there are things I need to know, you’ll tell me or they will come up.” He nuzzled the soft spot under her ear and into her neck, all of his senses exploding with sensations.
“Tamier,” she whispered. “What?”

“Remember later that I warned you.” 



Bird-shifter Lark Ellis has spent her life shielding her true identity. Now, to protect her flock’s habitat she’s taken a job that pits her mission against her secret and her integrity.


Reclusive billionaire architect and CEO of Global Environments, Tamier Rein lost his freedom and his dreams the day a Society assassin cursed him and changed him into a were-cheetah. Imprisoned by uncontrollable transing, he faces a devastating condition of his curse on the approaching Autumn Solstice.



Lark risks her identity and all she holds dear to help Tamier as their relationship develops into a promise of true love. As the deadline looms, Tamier must let her teach him to live or lose everything in two days.



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Monday, September 3, 2018 | By: The Write Way Cafe

Monday Morsels: The Gingerbread Heart


The Gingerbread Heart
The Gingerbread Men: Novella 1
by Liz Flaherty

Cass drove west into the tie-dyed sunset, keeping her eyes on the two-lane road that stretched before her after she took the exit for Christmas Town, Maine. The audio book that had played for the last twelve hours of driving time held her interest, but she had to work at it, backing it up sometimes when she lost track of Cyrus Wisdom’s latest adventures. This never happened—Cyrus was her favorite mystery protagonist since Murder, She Wrote’s Jessica Fletcher. Cass called the self-professed “nosy preacher” by his first name and laughed out loud at his self-deprecating humor even when she was alone. But her mind wandered in spite of herself to places she didn’t want it to go.

She couldn’t bear to think about the empty spaces she’d left behind, but she didn’t want to think about her destination, either. Other than her girls, who didn’t need her anymore, there was nothing left in Christmas Town for Cassandra Logan. There was nothing left anywhere.

She supposed she’d been deep-down lonely at some previous point in her fifty-few years. Maybe in high school before Paul asked her out and ended their first date by giving her his class ring, but she’d been sixteen then, and even now she remembered the kind of barren separateness that went with being that age. She’d felt profound grief after Paul’s death eighteen months ago, but the move to Indiana to care for her mother in the end stages of Alzheimer’s came so soon after it that there hadn’t been time to feel lonely. At least not the bone-hurting kind she felt now.

The road was cleared of snow, but she still slowed her speed to a few miles an hour below sedate. Twilight was the trickiest part of the day when it came to seeing where you were going, and no one was behind her to sigh and look at the time because they had something or someone to go home to and they were in a hurry.



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Widowed Cass Logan has done her time as a caregiver. But when her boss, mystery-writer Eli Welcome, needs surgery, Cass is faced with following her heart...or walking away.

This sweet holiday romance novella is set in Christmas Town, Maine, and shares characters and storylines with 11 other PG-rated romances written by Harlequin Heartwarming authors. It was featured in A Heartwarming Christmas anthology.






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Monday, August 27, 2018 | By: The Write Way Cafe

Monday Morsels: Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind


We're highlighting the authors of Love, Forever, a sampler of first chapters of books written by eleven authors of different genres but each one a romance. This week, say "Hi!" to author Karen Kelley.


Close Encounters of the Sexy Kind
Planet Nerak Series Book 1
by Karen Kelley


“I’m going crazy,” Mala murmured. Jumping to her feet, she strode to the plate glass window overlooking the pristine city surrounding her townhouse.

The planet Nerak, where the light never faded and everything was white. So horribly white—colorless, stark and cold. Just like everything on her planet.

“Would you like a hormone smoothie?” Barton asked over the monitoring system.

She stuck her tongue out. “No, I wouldn’t like a smoothie.”

A small aero unit whizzed past, rattling her window. Everything moved too fast. Instant gratification. Sad? Drink a happy smoothie. Tired? Drink an energy smoothie. Horny? Drink a hormone smoothie. Everything was a quick fix.

“You get this way every year. I’m only suggesting a smoothie because it usually calms you.”

She cocked an eyebrow. “Maybe because it has a sedative in it?”

“We could copulate.” A door that blended with the wall whisked silently open.

She turned as Barton stepped inside the room. He was like no other. Six feet three inches of rugged, sexy male. Blond hair, blue eyes...she should be happy. She should. Shouldn’t she?

Then why was she so frustrated!

“It’s been three years, twenty-one days, fourteen hours, twenty-two minutes and nine seconds since you’ve had an orgasm,” he informed her.

And he was driving her crazy. She didn’t want perfection, but Barton was exactly the way she’d ordered him. A gift from her cousin on Mala’s twenty-first birthday. Together they had chosen everything about him. He was their creation.

At the time, her older cousin, Kia, had been going through a rebellious period and had smuggled a catalog of male specimens into Mala’s apartment. Barton was born from a sketch they’d compiled.

But they had taken their creation a step further. They’d practically breathed life into him. At least, as much life as could be breathed into a companion unit. Barton had all the emotions of any Nerakian.

He was the perfect male.

He was still perfect five years later.

Everything about her life was perfect.

She hated it.


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There are no men on Mala’s home planet. Only robots to serve and satisfy, but after viewing her space-traveling grandmother’s documentary about the planet Earth, and seeing Sheriff, the superb male specimen in the documentary, Mala knows she must break the rules of forbidden space travel and see for herself what a real man is like.

Sheriff Mason McKinley has his hands full after the town nutcase reports a UFO crashing near Devil’s Bend. The idiot already has three reporters from a national rag magazine convinced Big Foot is in the area. When he investigates, he doesn’t find little green men, instead he finds a very sexy female stumbling around in the dark.

Staying with Sheriff is the best solution. What wonderful things he has, like chocolate! It’s her duty to explore Sheriff’s planet…and Sheriff. As long as the Elders don’t realize she’s gone, that is.


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Monday, August 13, 2018 | By: The Write Way Cafe

Welcome to Monday Morsels!

Welcome to Monday Morsels... a taste of romance!






Everyone likes to know what they're getting into before diving in. We taste the spaghetti sauce we're making for dinner. We like to peek at the insides of chocolates in a box before we commit to a full bite of marshmallow cream when we prefer nuts. That's what Monday Morsels allows you to do, only with books. Instead of relying on just a book blurb, you can read paragraphs on Monday Morsels that authors share of books. Take a taste of romance to discover new authors, new genres, and new books by favorite authors, knowing a little more. Then, click on links that take you to authors social media to learn more about them, and buy links that take you right to your favorite retailers.

To start Monday Morsels, we're highlighting the authors of Love, Forever, a sampler of first chapters of books written by eleven authors of different genres but each one a romance. First up, say "Hi!" to author Bonnie Edwards.



Finding Mercy
Return to Welcome Book 1
 by Bonnie Edwards


“Did you hear your sister-in-law’s back in town?”

Clay Foster’s receptionist watched for his reaction from her seat across the front counter of his veterinarian clinic.

This was his dead wife’s sister’s first trip home in two years. “She must have blown in for a quick visit.”

“Pfft, so much for making it big,” Sybil commented with a glance at her computer screen.

“Out with it, Sybil. You look too delighted for this to be anything but juicy gossip.” Mercy was a Hollywood success story. Everyone knew it.

Sybil crossed her arms and leaned forward. “She came home with boxes. Lots of boxes.” Sybil’s husband, Bud, worked at the bus depot and shared all the comings and goings of Welcome’s population.

Clay leaned in to glean every nuance of meaning from Sybil’s face. “Out with it,” he repeated.

She licked her lips as if each morsel of gossip was filet mignon. “When Bud asked if he could call her a cab, she said no, she couldn’t afford it.” She hefted a disbelieving sigh and muttered, “Of all the nonsense. So”—she stretched out the word because Sybil loved telling a good story—“Bud called Nate, who showed up half an hour later. Nate didn’t say a word, which, of course, is just like him, and tossed all the boxes into his pickup. Mercy didn’t explain a thing, just looked miserable, Bud said.”

He nodded, at a loss. It still came as a surprise that he was related, if only by marriage, to Mercy Talbot. Welcome High’s golden girl: the blond, beautiful, leggy, and untouchable Mercy Talbot. The Talbot daughter who’d made a real success of her life, unlike the one who’d ruined her life by marrying him, the town hell raiser.

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Seriously? Return to Welcome? She’d rather chew rusty nails…

Mercy Talbot left Welcome on a high—a golden-girl beauty queen who stepped confidently into a bright, exciting future. But that was a long time ago and that girl is far, far, away. She’s failed in her career, failed in love, failed her family—and she’s dead broke.

All Mercy wants is to forget her failures and move forward into a new life with a fresh set of dreams—and get out of Welcome before it sucks her back in for good. But one look at her precocious niece who desperately needs her sends Mercy on a journey into her past that will change everyone’s future.

Clay Foster used to be Welcome’s bad boy, but marriage and his daughter Dilly transformed him into a devoted father. Widowed now and struggling to be the daddy his child needs, Clay fights his sudden and unexpected attraction to Mercy. But, tempted as he is, Clay can’t afford to be taken in by a golden girl. Beautiful, talented women like Mercy always have an exit strategy and when her career beckons, Clay knows she’ll leave him and Dilly flat. His daughter has already lost her mother and he won’t put his little girl’s heart on the line.

When Mercy learns her tattered dreams and dead career have been reborn, will she leave the man and child who need her? Will Clay believe in their future and accept that Mercy has found there’s no place like home?


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Tuesday, August 7, 2018 | By: Lynn

Love, Forever @lcrandallwriter



I just finished working with a wonderful group of talented authors on a project. That project, Love, Forever,  a sampler book of first chapters in books written by eleven writers, just released.  What better way to find a new author or a new book by a favorite one? And it's free!

The project took time and effort. Writers are busy people juggling deadlines and life just like everyone else. But writers truly care about their readers. These authors are no exception. We pooled our best efforts to bring readers a sampler of wonderful romances in a variety of genres.

Here are the blurbs:

This sampler collection of romance first chapters by established, award-winning, and bestselling romance authors is guaranteed to whet your happily-ever-after appetite and send you running back to Amazon to download the full novels to your hearts' content! This eclectic mix of sweet to steamy reads has you traveling from the past to the future, with historical, time travel, paranormal, contemporary, western, and futuristic romance beginnings. And we hope you will not stop at the beginning--and that you download and enjoy every one! 

Here is a sneak peek at the stories in Love, Forever: 

HEAT LIGHTNING (Book 1, Outlaw Ridge, Texas) by Joan Reeves 
Contemporary Romance. Amnesia stole her memory--her life! What Tessa doesn't remember may be the death of her. 

BREDE, (Rodeo Romance, Book 2) by Connie Vines 
Romantic Suspense. Trouble is something hard-edged rancher, Brede Kristensen, knows all about. A widower with a rambunctious young daughter, a ranch to run and an ornery cook who has just runoff, Brede doesn't need another problem. Yet in the midst of a violent storm, he finds an injured woman with no memory of her past--or the man who tried to kill her! 

FINDING MERCY (Return to Welcome #1) by Bonnie Edwards 
Contemporary Romance. Mercy Talbot left Welcome on a high, but she's returned a broke failure. She's messed up her career, love, and family ties. Now, she's found love and a new family. When her career is reborn, will she leave the man and child who've opened their hearts to her? 

TIME AND AGAIN by Nancy Fraser 
Time Travel/Romantic Suspense. Will Kate and Matt's accidental trip to the future bring them back together? Or, tear them even farther apart? 

THE GINGERBREAD HEART by Liz Flaherty 
Sweet Romance. Widowed Cass Logan has done her time as a caregiver. But when her boss, mystery-writer Eli Welcome, needs surgery, Cass is faced with following her heart...or walking away. 

ALL OF MY HEART by Sophie Jacobs, Book 1, A Harbor Falls Romance 
Contemporary Romance. Happy-go-lucky Suzie Hart has a perfect life and a secret. All goes well in her small town world until that secret rides up to her doorstep on a badass Harley and tosses her not-so-perfect world into some kind of big, bad tumble. 

KENTUCKY BLUE BLOODS by Jan Scarbrough 
Contemporary Romance. It's up to Reggie to save what's left of her family homestead and her proud Kentucky heritage. But when Parker shows up to collect his horses, all bets are off. Reggie's never been a gambler and Parker despises losing. But when Kentucky blue blood tangles with British blue blood, are they willing to take a gamble on love? 

ANORA'S PRIDE by Kathleen Lawless 
Western Historical romance. Anora King didn't plan to pretend she was married, but her new neighbors in Boulder Springs jumped to that conclusion. Jesse Quantrill is shocked to find himself lusting after a married woman. And wouldn't a romance between them be the town's biggest scandal ever? 

TWO DAYS UNTIL MIDNIGHT by Lynn Crandall 
Paranormal romance. A bird-shifter. A reclusive billionaire. A project that brings them together. A deadly curse that threatens to separate them forever. 

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE SEXY KIND by Karen Kelley 
Romantic Comedy. Mala didn't plan to crash land on Earth. She only wanted to sneak in for a few days and maybe find a man--a real one, but she encounters more than she bargained for with the town sheriff. 

NIGHT KISS by Maddie James 
Time Travel/Paranormal Romance. Claire Winslow vacations on an East Coast barrier island, content with her life and her potential future--until the illusion of a man walking the misty shore haunts her. Then one kiss--a beautiful, soulful, stolen kiss in the night--and her life changes forever.

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