I'm recuperating from hip replacement surgery, so I've decided to turn my blog over to my chapter mates in December. We're a prolific group of authors, featuring three Golden Heart finalists in the past two years alone. And we've been published in a variety of ways–from traditional houses to self-publishing to small presses. One thing our books have in common is that they're the results of active imaginations that run the gamut–historical, erotica, contemporary, paranormal, romantic suspense. I'm sure every visitor to the blog this month will find something to load onto a Kindle for a gift, or add it to your own.
Contemporary--Pulling Home, by Mary Campisi
It’s all about that second chance…
Sometimes we’re lucky enough to get that second chance—in
life and in love. That Second Chance Series are stories of strong women who
battle heartache and loss with courage and determination to find new paths and
true love. These books are standalones and are NOT related. Therefore, the
characters from one story will not appear in another. What ties them together?
A common theme—belief in the beauty of that second chance.
Pulling Home is Book One in That Second Chance Series.
She'll risk anything to save her child…even the truth
It’s taken nine years and a cross-country move, but Audra
Valentine Wheyton has kept her secrets safe. She’s created the perfect life—a
husband who loves her, a daughter she adores, and a position as head writer for
an award-winning daytime soap. When her husband dies suddenly, Audra returns to
her hometown for the funeral and faces a community that has not forgotten her
meager beginnings and a man who has never forgiven her for marrying his brother.
Jack Wheyton is a successful pediatric neurosurgeon who is
about to become engaged when Audra walks back into his life with her daughter.
He forgave his brother long ago for taking something that had been his,
something he hadn’t even realized he wanted until it was gone. But forgiving
Audra is another story…and forgetting her? Near impossible.
When a shattering illness strikes Audra’s daughter, she
turns to Jack to save her child and risks exposing a secret that will change
their lives forever.
That Second Chance Series
Book One: Pulling Home - She'll risk anything to save her
child...even the truth
Book Two: The Way They Were - Tragedy tore them apart,
destiny will bring them back together
Book Three: Simple Riches - What is real weath?
Book Four: Paradise Found - How does one see truly? With the
heart or with the eyes?
Book Five: Not Your Everyday Housewife
Book Six: The Butterfly Garden
BONUS MATERIAL: Included in this book is 2 Chapters from The
Way They Were: That Second Chance, Book 2
Historical Romance--It Takes A Spy, by Sheridan Jeane
In 1851, Cecilia Paring has serious reservations about marrying her fiancé, Devin Montlake. Gone is the boy who could capture her heart with a word or a glance and in his place is a man who has made it clear that to be a proper barrister's wife, the exciting and impulsive Cecilia must change as well.
Although Devin Montlake loves his orderly life as a barrister, he's determined to follow his roadmap to achieve his goal of becoming a judge. His biggest obstacle seems to be convincing his headstrong fiancée to fulfill her social obligations with a modicum of propriety. But when the jewelry collection belonging to Cecilia's family is stolen the night before it is to be auctioned off and Devin is framed for the crime, he discovers that following his much-loved rules won't solve this particular problem. He'll need the inventiveness of his irrepressible fiancée to catch the thief.
Erotica--All Of You, by Jacqueline Anne
Alayna Taylor is a dedicated wife, loving mother, and opened her dream business. A tragic accident overturns her perfect life. Pushing through, she finds strength to move on as a mother and business owner. Then she looks for what she wants as a woman and pursues the man of her erotic dreams, her children’s doctor.
Adam Bryant is a caring, gentle man, the perfect pediatrician. He has dedicated his life to caring for others and always followed the “everything happens for a reason” motto. A text from his patients’ mother has him ringing her doorbell.
Alayna is clear that she is a package deal and protects her heart and kids. Adam discovers a hungry sexual side that only she brings out of him with her strength and seductive ways. He is determined to show Alayna how much he cares about all of her with his thoughtful, mind blowing surprises.
Both Alayna and Adam find themselves wanting a whole lot more.
Contemporary Romance--The Bodyguard's Baby (Billionaire Bodyguard Series), by Kristi Avalon
Will one precious bundle change everything?
Used to guarding tycoons and government officials, former Navy SEAL Slone Rowan assumes playing live-in bodyguard to a second grade teacher will be easy. But Lindsey Graham becomes a temptation he never expected. Every day with her weakens his resolve to stay detached so she doesn’t discover the guilt he carries with him from his dark past.
Still on edge after a traumatic kidnapping, Lindsey’s lifelong dream comes into sharp focus – to have a baby of her own. However, doctors warn a childhood illness impacts her chances of conceiving. While exploring fertility treatments, she realizes her most alluring option is only a bedroom away…
Can Slone’s desire for Lindsey and the promise of the family he’s denied himself breach his defenses and heal his battle-scarred heart?
http://www.amazon.com/Bodyguards-Baby-Billionaire-Bodyguard-ebook/dp/B00KHFEFQI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412203214&sr=8-1&keywords=the+bodyguard%27s+baby
Contemporary Romance--The Road To Comfort, by Becky Lower
Juliette St.James has only done two impetuous things in her
life, and the first resulted in her becoming a single parent at age 18. Now,
she’s embarking on a cross-country trip to celebrate becoming an empty-nester.
Not sure of what she will do now that she’s flying solo, she comes face-to-face
with her worst nightmare—a cowboy.
Cyclone Kelley is a former rodeo cowboy who has broken one
too many body parts to continue on the rodeo circuit. But the one body part
that can’t be fixed by putting it into a cast is his heart, which was broken
when his wife died. He wasn’t home to save her, and feels he’s unworthy for any
kind of lasting relationship with a woman, so his life has been a meaningless
string of one-nighters.
One broken car and an equally broken cowboy later, they are
forced to decide if love is worth gambling on what could be. Or if tornadoes,
and Cyclones, are better left alone.
Buy Link:
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Paranormal/Urban Fantasy--Shifter Wars, by AE Jones
Why did the demon cross the road? Apparently to escape from
Kyle McKinley. Which is more than fine with her.
The last thing she wants is to be dragged into another
supernatural crisis, but the Fates have something more interesting in store for
her. Since the tricky wenches love to mess with people, Kyle isn’t really surprised.
And once she learns Trina, the young shifter girl whose memory she erased, is
being stalked again, Kyle will do whatever it takes to protect her.
Normally a secretive group, the shifters reluctantly agree
to allow Kyle and her vampire and demon teammates to investigate. Are the
poachers who kidnapped Trina back for revenge?
But when other shifters are also targeted, Kyle becomes convinced there
is more to the attacks than vengeance. And when the violence escalates and
Griffin, the enigmatic leader of the shifters, ends up in the crosshairs, the
team braces for a bloodbath.
Scrambling to identify the mysterious group bent on
destroying the shifters, and why, Kyle is also haunted by dreams and painful
flashes from the prophesied Key of Knowledge which has taken up residence in
her brain. In typical Kyle fashion, she decides to ignore it, but the more she
ignores it, the more it digs its claws into her consciousness. If she can’t
learn to embrace the Key and ask for help from those closest to her, she could
lose her sanity before she’s able to prevent a shifter civil war.
