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Happy February & Valentine's Day
I'm excited this month for several reasons. The long awaited book, Elkhorn In The Moonlight, will be released February 18, 2019. I have dedicated this book to all my friends back in Basin, Montana. Join me as I circulate the globe in my blog tour. Here are some of the dates.
Secondly, I've joined an author's group, Romance Gems, a group of wonderful authors who work together to bring great romance books to you. To kick-start the new project, we are having a rafflecopter for the month of February. Be sure to check out the website here, and join in the rafflecopter.
Be sure to check out the author spotlight and the Love Forever Romance Ebook Giveaway below!
Secondly, I've joined an author's group, Romance Gems, a group of wonderful authors who work together to bring great romance books to you. To kick-start the new project, we are having a rafflecopter for the month of February. Be sure to check out the website here, and join in the rafflecopter.
Be sure to check out the author spotlight and the Love Forever Romance Ebook Giveaway below!
The search for stolen Sacred Arrows leads to much more.
Marcus Blackhawk is on a mission to locate the Sacred Arrows that were stolen from the Cheyenne Nation. When he learns that someone has seen the arrows he leaves immediately to track the person down and get more information.
Nicole Lancaster ekes out a living in a small town by helping her brother run a motel and working part-time in a restaurant. Her mundane life suddenly becomes more exciting when Marcus arrives in town asking about some arrows that she came upon years ago while hiking in the Elkhorn Mountains. The gorgeous man makes her heart beat fast, but she knows he’d never be interested in a Plain Jane like herself.
When Marcus offers Nicole a large sum of cash to lead him to the cave where she saw the arrows, she takes him up on the offer. After a three-day hiking trip through the mountains they locate the cave, but then the unthinkable happens, and they find themselves trapped inside. As they wait, hopeful they’ll be rescued, they give into the passion that’s been simmering between them.
Will help arrive in time to save them? And if so, can their night of passion ever be anything more? Marcus has no interest in an actual relationship, and Nicole wants the whole nine yards.
Marcus Blackhawk is on a mission to locate the Sacred Arrows that were stolen from the Cheyenne Nation. When he learns that someone has seen the arrows he leaves immediately to track the person down and get more information.
Nicole Lancaster ekes out a living in a small town by helping her brother run a motel and working part-time in a restaurant. Her mundane life suddenly becomes more exciting when Marcus arrives in town asking about some arrows that she came upon years ago while hiking in the Elkhorn Mountains. The gorgeous man makes her heart beat fast, but she knows he’d never be interested in a Plain Jane like herself.
When Marcus offers Nicole a large sum of cash to lead him to the cave where she saw the arrows, she takes him up on the offer. After a three-day hiking trip through the mountains they locate the cave, but then the unthinkable happens, and they find themselves trapped inside. As they wait, hopeful they’ll be rescued, they give into the passion that’s been simmering between them.
Will help arrive in time to save them? And if so, can their night of passion ever be anything more? Marcus has no interest in an actual relationship, and Nicole wants the whole nine yards.
Grand Opening Giveaway
On February 1, 2019, Friday, 23 popular authors including NY Times and USA Today bestselling authors, open the doors on ROMANCE GEMS, a wonderful new group blog where the focus is on Readers. Look for conversations about Life, Love, Books, Romance, Sex, Kids, and all the other really important things in your world. Some chuckles and some good times await you so drop by and check out ROMANCE GEMS at http://RomanceGems.blogspot.com.
Be sure and enter the Rafflecopter (http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/21df08a221/) for a Kindle Fire and ebook Gift Bundles. Every week, there will be a "Comment & Win" Random Draw for an Amazon Gift Card. Read and comment with your email address written out on the daily posts. The more comments you make; the greater your chance of winning. Enter the Rafflecopter and the "Comment & Win" Random Draw as often as you wish. The more you enter, the greater your chances of winning.
If you've been looking for a Gem of an Author and/or a Gem of a Romance, look no further. You'll find both at ROMANCE GEMS.
Be sure and enter the Rafflecopter (http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/21df08a221/) for a Kindle Fire and ebook Gift Bundles. Every week, there will be a "Comment & Win" Random Draw for an Amazon Gift Card. Read and comment with your email address written out on the daily posts. The more comments you make; the greater your chance of winning. Enter the Rafflecopter and the "Comment & Win" Random Draw as often as you wish. The more you enter, the greater your chances of winning.
If you've been looking for a Gem of an Author and/or a Gem of a Romance, look no further. You'll find both at ROMANCE GEMS.
Spotlight On Ana E. Ross
How did you choose the genre you write in? I began reading romances around age fourteen—mainly Mills & Boons, Silhouette, Harlequin, and Historical novels—the books available in the library on my native Caribbean island of Nevis. I totally enjoyed the drama, the falling in love, the breakups, and then the reconciliation and Happy Ever After of each story. However, as I got older and continued reading my favorite white authors, I realized that there weren’t any romances written by or about black people. I mean, we fall in love and fight and have makeup sex, too. I had a deep desire to rectify that lack of cultural and ethnic diversity in the romance genre.
In the early nineties, I began writing A Mother For Precious. It later became The Doctor’s Secret Bride – Book One in my Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls series. I shopped it around the traditional way, and although several of the Big Six editors loved the story, there was no market for it. Then in 1995, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling African-American Author, Brenda Jackson, arrived on the scene and published the first black romance novel, Tonight and Forever. I devoured that book in one sitting. It encouraged and inspired me to follow my heart and my passion to write black romances. It also helped that I was in an interracial marriage at the time, so it wasn’t only about black romance but multicultural and interracial, as well.
What inspired you to write your first book? I’m a character-driven writer and I see people interacting in my head before I know the plot. A story may come to me in a dream or it might be triggered when I see people doing or hear them saying something out of the ordinary, or something quite simple. My inspiration for Erik, the hero in The Doctor’s Secret Bride, came about when I was driving by a cemetery and witnessed a burial in progress. I saw this tall, sad, handsome, young man standing beside a coffin covered with wreaths. He was holding a little girl’s hand, and I thought, You poor, poor man. What happened to you? My then precocious five-year-old daughter inspired the character of the little girl, Precious. Michelle, the heroine, just fell from the sky like an angel. She turned out to be an angel for both Erik and Precious.
Do you have any advice to give to aspiring writers? Listen to your heart, and don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t make it as an author. There’s a saying that the difference between an unpublished and published author is perseverance. So persevere! Never give up on your dreams. Surround yourselves with people who support you and who can help you realize your dreams. Walk away from the naysayers.
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Author Bio
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Ana E Ross, was born and raised in the Caribbean where she began indulging in romance novels at a very early age.
A former Writing and English Literature teacher, Ana now writes steamy contemporary romances featuring sexy, alpha heroes and strong, beautiful heroines who fight and love with equal passion.
Her published works include three short stories, five books in her bestselling series, Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls, and three books in the spinoff series, Beyond Granite Falls. She is presently working on her Billionaire Island Brides series, featuring—once again—sexy alpha males and strong beautiful women.
Ana lives in the northeast, and loves traveling, tennis, yoga, meditation, everything Italian, and spending valuable time with her daughter.
Website and Blog
Website: https://www.anaeross.com
Blog Link: http://www.anaeross.com/category/blog/
Excerpt
The Doctor’s Secret Bride Buy Link: https://anaeross.com/the-doctors-secret-bride/
Michelle Carter has been down on her luck since the day she was born. So it comes as no surprise when through a series of unfortunate events, she finds herself jobless, penniless, and practically homeless. In a desperate attempt to get back on her feet, Michelle accepts a job as a nanny and finds it absolutely impossible to resist her handsome, sexy billionaire boss—but resist she must for as long as she could, especially since she’s keeping secrets from him.
Believing that his late wife betrayed him with another man, falling in love again is the last thing Dr. Erik LaCrosse wants to do. But fall, he does, and so hard, he secretly marries the alluring nanny from the wrong side of the tracks. However, when he unearths a disturbing secret from Michelle’s past, Erik must choose between his loyalty to a dead woman and the love burning in his heart for one who is very much alive.
(NOTE: To my subscribers, I've read this book and I loved it. Connie)
In the early nineties, I began writing A Mother For Precious. It later became The Doctor’s Secret Bride – Book One in my Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls series. I shopped it around the traditional way, and although several of the Big Six editors loved the story, there was no market for it. Then in 1995, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling African-American Author, Brenda Jackson, arrived on the scene and published the first black romance novel, Tonight and Forever. I devoured that book in one sitting. It encouraged and inspired me to follow my heart and my passion to write black romances. It also helped that I was in an interracial marriage at the time, so it wasn’t only about black romance but multicultural and interracial, as well.
What inspired you to write your first book? I’m a character-driven writer and I see people interacting in my head before I know the plot. A story may come to me in a dream or it might be triggered when I see people doing or hear them saying something out of the ordinary, or something quite simple. My inspiration for Erik, the hero in The Doctor’s Secret Bride, came about when I was driving by a cemetery and witnessed a burial in progress. I saw this tall, sad, handsome, young man standing beside a coffin covered with wreaths. He was holding a little girl’s hand, and I thought, You poor, poor man. What happened to you? My then precocious five-year-old daughter inspired the character of the little girl, Precious. Michelle, the heroine, just fell from the sky like an angel. She turned out to be an angel for both Erik and Precious.
Do you have any advice to give to aspiring writers? Listen to your heart, and don’t ever let anyone tell you that you can’t make it as an author. There’s a saying that the difference between an unpublished and published author is perseverance. So persevere! Never give up on your dreams. Surround yourselves with people who support you and who can help you realize your dreams. Walk away from the naysayers.
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BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ana-e-ross
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/AnaERoss
Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+AnaERoss
Author Bio
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Ana E Ross, was born and raised in the Caribbean where she began indulging in romance novels at a very early age.
A former Writing and English Literature teacher, Ana now writes steamy contemporary romances featuring sexy, alpha heroes and strong, beautiful heroines who fight and love with equal passion.
Her published works include three short stories, five books in her bestselling series, Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls, and three books in the spinoff series, Beyond Granite Falls. She is presently working on her Billionaire Island Brides series, featuring—once again—sexy alpha males and strong beautiful women.
Ana lives in the northeast, and loves traveling, tennis, yoga, meditation, everything Italian, and spending valuable time with her daughter.
Website and Blog
Website: https://www.anaeross.com
Blog Link: http://www.anaeross.com/category/blog/
Excerpt
The Doctor’s Secret Bride Buy Link: https://anaeross.com/the-doctors-secret-bride/
Michelle Carter has been down on her luck since the day she was born. So it comes as no surprise when through a series of unfortunate events, she finds herself jobless, penniless, and practically homeless. In a desperate attempt to get back on her feet, Michelle accepts a job as a nanny and finds it absolutely impossible to resist her handsome, sexy billionaire boss—but resist she must for as long as she could, especially since she’s keeping secrets from him.
Believing that his late wife betrayed him with another man, falling in love again is the last thing Dr. Erik LaCrosse wants to do. But fall, he does, and so hard, he secretly marries the alluring nanny from the wrong side of the tracks. However, when he unearths a disturbing secret from Michelle’s past, Erik must choose between his loyalty to a dead woman and the love burning in his heart for one who is very much alive.
(NOTE: To my subscribers, I've read this book and I loved it. Connie)
Love Forever Romance Ebook
Giveaway
The Doctor's Secret Bride
Michelle Carter has been down on her luck since the day she was born. So it comes as no surprise when through a series of unfortunate events, she finds herself jobless, penniless, and practically homeless. In a desperate attempt to get back on her feet, Michelle accepts a job as a nanny and finds it absolutely impossible to resist her handsome, sexy billionaire boss—but resist she must for as long as she could, especially since she’s keeping secrets from him.
Believing that his late wife betrayed him with another man, falling in love again is the last thing Dr. Erik LaCrosse wants to do. But fall, he does, and so hard, he secretly marries the alluring nanny from the wrong side of the tracks. However, when he unearths a disturbing secret from Michelle’s past, Erik must choose between his loyalty to a dead woman and the love burning in his heart for one who is very much alive.
Believing that his late wife betrayed him with another man, falling in love again is the last thing Dr. Erik LaCrosse wants to do. But fall, he does, and so hard, he secretly marries the alluring nanny from the wrong side of the tracks. However, when he unearths a disturbing secret from Michelle’s past, Erik must choose between his loyalty to a dead woman and the love burning in his heart for one who is very much alive.
Dulcina
Left widowed following a Utah mining disaster, Dulcina Crass faces running a saloon on her own when her previous contribution was solely as the singer. She struggles to learn the necessary tasks but her heart isn’t in being a saloon keeper. All she ever wanted was to be a famous singer. Will asking Gabriel Magnus, a neighbor from her New Mexico hometown, bring the help she needs or a new kind of trouble?
Gabriel Magnus isn’t fulfilled by his role as ranch hand on the family’s New Mexico sheep ranch. What he wants is the chance to prove his boot making skills are good enough to start his own business. When he receives a letter from recent widow Dulcina offering a partnership in the Last Chance Saloon, he recognizes the chance to come to the rescue of the vivacious girl he wanted to court a decade earlier. Upon his arrival, he presents her with a demand--her answer could decide both of their fates.
Gabriel Magnus isn’t fulfilled by his role as ranch hand on the family’s New Mexico sheep ranch. What he wants is the chance to prove his boot making skills are good enough to start his own business. When he receives a letter from recent widow Dulcina offering a partnership in the Last Chance Saloon, he recognizes the chance to come to the rescue of the vivacious girl he wanted to court a decade earlier. Upon his arrival, he presents her with a demand--her answer could decide both of their fates.
Love in Season
Anytime is the perfect time for love.
In this anthology, author Pamela S Thibodeaux brings together eight of her most beloved romance stories—one for each season plus four holidays that revolve around love and family.
Includes two brand new stories!
In this anthology, author Pamela S Thibodeaux brings together eight of her most beloved romance stories—one for each season plus four holidays that revolve around love and family.
Includes two brand new stories!
3 Wishes
Valentine’s Day is chocolatier Chloe San Valentino’s favorite day of the year. Not only is it the busiest day in her candy shop, Caramelle de Chloe, but it’s also her birthday. Chloe’s got a birthday wish list for the perfect man she pulls out every year: he’d fall in love with her in a heartbeat, he’d be someone who cares about people, and he’d have one blue eye and one green eye, just like her. So far, Chloe’s fantasy man hasn’t materialized, despite the matchmaking efforts of her big, close-knit Italian family. But this year for her big 3-0 birthday, she just might get her three wishes.