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Happy May Everyone!
Hiya all!
So this month, we celebrate two holidays, Mother's Day, and Memorial Day. It's also the time to celebrate Spring and blooming flowers. I LOVE a lilac bush and the sweet smell. How about you?
So this month, we celebrate two holidays, Mother's Day, and Memorial Day. It's also the time to celebrate Spring and blooming flowers. I LOVE a lilac bush and the sweet smell. How about you?
So what's up this month? Well, I have another snippet from Midnight Escape, which will be release this summer.
The Romance Gems blog will be featuring two activities related to Mother's Day and Memorial Day.
I'm featuring author, Bonnie Edwards this month in my newsletter swap.
I'm offering The Last Dig in the May Flowers Romance Ebook Giveaway. And, speaking of the May Flowers Romance Ebook Giveaway, below are this month's giveaways and the rafflecopter link.
I'm putting the finishing touches on my self-published book, The Haunted Love Affair, to be release this fall, The finishing touches on Love, A Second Time Around, and Operation Code Name: Desert Love. A military romance.
The Romance Gems blog will be featuring two activities related to Mother's Day and Memorial Day.
I'm featuring author, Bonnie Edwards this month in my newsletter swap.
I'm offering The Last Dig in the May Flowers Romance Ebook Giveaway. And, speaking of the May Flowers Romance Ebook Giveaway, below are this month's giveaways and the rafflecopter link.
I'm putting the finishing touches on my self-published book, The Haunted Love Affair, to be release this fall, The finishing touches on Love, A Second Time Around, and Operation Code Name: Desert Love. A military romance.
Midnight Escape
Suzanne is an R.N. at the local hospital, Jax is a commercial fisherman, in the hospital for eating poisonous seafood.
“Is there another entrance off to the east? My parents left my truck over there,” Jax asked as they got on the elevator. Something was going on with Suzanne. She got very nervous. Was she being stalked?
“Yeah. We can go that way instead of the main entrance.” She wheeled him from the elevators, past the food court and almost to the lobby when she turned to the left to go down the east hallway.
“My truck is over there.” Jax pointed to his new Chevy as Suzanne pushed the wheelchair out the east side door. He’d had Devereaux Seafood Company painted on the doors and saw the truck parked in the first row of parking spaces.
Popping noises erupted. Gunfire!
Jax jumped from the wheelchair and grabbed Suzanne’s arm. His heart was pumping like crazy as he dragged her across the road to his truck. “Get in,” he yelled. “Duck down under the dash.”
Bullets ricocheted off the grill as she did as she was told.
Terrified that one or both of them were about to be shot, Jax started the engine and jammed it into reverse. The tires squealed as he forced the gear into drive and sped out of the parking lot.
“Are you hurt?” Jax asked.
“I’m hit,” Suzanne said.
Damn, they nailed her. ‘They’ being the operative word. Who was shooting at her?
“We’ve got to go back to the emergency room.”
“No. Please. He’ll kill me.” Her voice was frantic. “Please, just take me someplace safe, where he can’t find me.”
“I have to make sure he’s not following us first.”
Jax whipped the truck around the curve and down a side street, he made a fast turn onto a bumpy alley and drove it to the other side. Some of the ruts were big and unavoidable and they bounced around like kids on a school bus. He turned onto another street, went up a block, and swerve onto another street. They arrived at a school zone and Jax slowed his truck down. After he got through the school zone, he gunned it again and went down another three streets before he looked into his rearview mirror. “I think we lost them.”
Suzanne came up from the floor and sat down in the seat.
“How’s your arm?”
“It looks like it grazed me. I can take care of it.”
“Do you have a safe place you want me to take you?”
Suzanne let out a sigh.
“I don’t know, really. I can’t go back to my place, he’s probably watching.”
“Who the hell are these guys? Why do they want you dead?”
Suzanne didn’t answer.
“I’ll take you to my place. They won’t find us, and you’ll be safe there.”
“Oh, no. Please. Just take me to the homeless shelter. I can hang out there for a few days while I decide what I’m going to do.”
“They won’t find us at my place.” He grimaced as he glanced over at her. She was shaking. Had her hands covering her face. She inhaled and exhaled repeatedly, as if she was trying not to panic.
She stared out the window. The look on her face told him she was thinking out her options.
“Look, I’m serious. My house is the only one on this seven-mile road going into the woods. No one will find us there, and it’ll be safe until we can at least figure something out. We got to get that arm taken care of and figure out the next move.”
She finally nodded. He headed out of the Bristol Bay area, into the mainland of Alaska.
“Is there another entrance off to the east? My parents left my truck over there,” Jax asked as they got on the elevator. Something was going on with Suzanne. She got very nervous. Was she being stalked?
“Yeah. We can go that way instead of the main entrance.” She wheeled him from the elevators, past the food court and almost to the lobby when she turned to the left to go down the east hallway.
“My truck is over there.” Jax pointed to his new Chevy as Suzanne pushed the wheelchair out the east side door. He’d had Devereaux Seafood Company painted on the doors and saw the truck parked in the first row of parking spaces.
Popping noises erupted. Gunfire!
Jax jumped from the wheelchair and grabbed Suzanne’s arm. His heart was pumping like crazy as he dragged her across the road to his truck. “Get in,” he yelled. “Duck down under the dash.”
Bullets ricocheted off the grill as she did as she was told.
Terrified that one or both of them were about to be shot, Jax started the engine and jammed it into reverse. The tires squealed as he forced the gear into drive and sped out of the parking lot.
“Are you hurt?” Jax asked.
“I’m hit,” Suzanne said.
Damn, they nailed her. ‘They’ being the operative word. Who was shooting at her?
“We’ve got to go back to the emergency room.”
“No. Please. He’ll kill me.” Her voice was frantic. “Please, just take me someplace safe, where he can’t find me.”
“I have to make sure he’s not following us first.”
Jax whipped the truck around the curve and down a side street, he made a fast turn onto a bumpy alley and drove it to the other side. Some of the ruts were big and unavoidable and they bounced around like kids on a school bus. He turned onto another street, went up a block, and swerve onto another street. They arrived at a school zone and Jax slowed his truck down. After he got through the school zone, he gunned it again and went down another three streets before he looked into his rearview mirror. “I think we lost them.”
Suzanne came up from the floor and sat down in the seat.
“How’s your arm?”
“It looks like it grazed me. I can take care of it.”
“Do you have a safe place you want me to take you?”
Suzanne let out a sigh.
“I don’t know, really. I can’t go back to my place, he’s probably watching.”
“Who the hell are these guys? Why do they want you dead?”
Suzanne didn’t answer.
“I’ll take you to my place. They won’t find us, and you’ll be safe there.”
“Oh, no. Please. Just take me to the homeless shelter. I can hang out there for a few days while I decide what I’m going to do.”
“They won’t find us at my place.” He grimaced as he glanced over at her. She was shaking. Had her hands covering her face. She inhaled and exhaled repeatedly, as if she was trying not to panic.
She stared out the window. The look on her face told him she was thinking out her options.
“Look, I’m serious. My house is the only one on this seven-mile road going into the woods. No one will find us there, and it’ll be safe until we can at least figure something out. We got to get that arm taken care of and figure out the next move.”
She finally nodded. He headed out of the Bristol Bay area, into the mainland of Alaska.
Author Spotlight
Interview with Bonnie
1. What’s my idea of a perfect vacation? Hitting the road whether it is in Europe on the great train system or by car in Canada or the US and staying where we end up for a few days seeing the sights. We’re wanderers, I think. We often don’t have much of a plan.
2. Have I written a book I love that I couldn’t get published? Yes, Love in a Pawn Shop. I had an editor tell me she LOVED the book only to have the marketing department say no because they couldn’t figure out how to sell it. It’s a family-first story set in a downtown neighborhood with a small-town feel and fun and funny characters dealing with real-life situations. Oh, and a lovable pit bull. Now that I’ve self-published it, my reviews are wonderful. Why? Because people love all the threads in the story.
Finding Mercy Return to Welcome Book 1:
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?
My Book Finding Mercy Return to Welcome Book 1 is an Amazon exclusive and is on sale for only
99c: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0784ZWRL7
For more info: http://www.bonnieedwards.com/
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2. Have I written a book I love that I couldn’t get published? Yes, Love in a Pawn Shop. I had an editor tell me she LOVED the book only to have the marketing department say no because they couldn’t figure out how to sell it. It’s a family-first story set in a downtown neighborhood with a small-town feel and fun and funny characters dealing with real-life situations. Oh, and a lovable pit bull. Now that I’ve self-published it, my reviews are wonderful. Why? Because people love all the threads in the story.
Finding Mercy Return to Welcome Book 1:
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?
My Book Finding Mercy Return to Welcome Book 1 is an Amazon exclusive and is on sale for only
99c: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0784ZWRL7
For more info: http://www.bonnieedwards.com/
To follow her on Amazon: http://www.amzn.com/Bonnie-Edwards/e/B001IO9UTO
BookBub Author Page: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/bonnie-edwards
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BonnieEdwards
Like her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bonnie.Edwards.Author
To subscribe to her newsletter: Bonnie's Newsy Bits
Romance Gems Blog
MAY PROMOTION is SHEROES and HEROES, giveaway on the Romance Gems blog. The ebooks features a Mom, Soldier, or First Responder. Stop by and sign up for this giveaway! Click on the graphics to go to the blog post and giveaway!
May Romance Ebook Giveaway
Full Girlfriend Experience by Dana
Ross
When DC Madam Faith Crawley receives a call from former client, Senator William Drummond, it's the answer to her prayers. The money the dirty politician offers her to smear his rival Finn Billings will save Faith's business, her lifestyle, and her girls.
Raised in the shadow of a political magnate, Finn Billings has the credentials to get the job done, but he lacks confidence and wonders if politics is truly the life he desires.
Using the façade of her front business, a PR firm, Faith turns Finn into a political powerhouse while obtaining the evidence Drummond needs to destroy Finn's political chances. But Faith didn't plan on falling in love with her mark.
Now she has the toughest decision ever—give the sleazy senator incriminating photos of Finn to save her business or give up everything for the sake of love.
Raised in the shadow of a political magnate, Finn Billings has the credentials to get the job done, but he lacks confidence and wonders if politics is truly the life he desires.
Using the façade of her front business, a PR firm, Faith turns Finn into a political powerhouse while obtaining the evidence Drummond needs to destroy Finn's political chances. But Faith didn't plan on falling in love with her mark.
Now she has the toughest decision ever—give the sleazy senator incriminating photos of Finn to save her business or give up everything for the sake of love.
Finding Mercy by Bonnie Edwards
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?
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?
The Last Dig by Constance Bretes
Caroline Priest, a paleontologist, finds a dead body at her dig site. When she calls it in to the sheriff’s department, her former boyfriend, Rand Callahan, comes out to investigate. Soon, the evidence starts to point to Caroline being the killer, and Rand has no choice but to arrest her.
It’s clear to Caroline that she’s been set up, but by who and for what reason? While Caroline is out on bail, Rand rekindles his relationship with her, as they try solve the mystery before it’s too late.
It’s clear to Caroline that she’s been set up, but by who and for what reason? While Caroline is out on bail, Rand rekindles his relationship with her, as they try solve the mystery before it’s too late.
Alien Bonds by Carmen Webster-
Buxton
A story of two very different people from two very different cultures, a sort of AVATAR combined with PRIDE & PREJUDICE. In ALIEN BONDS, two lives are changed in an instant. Industrial chemist Dina Bellaire travels all the way to the planet Wakanreo to advance her career. Her carefully planned life goes up in flames the second she meets Kuaron Du, a Wakanrean who makes his living singing ancient songs in a dead language. Both of them know they can’t go back to the way they were before they met. They just have to convince the rest of the universe that what happened to them is real.
The Gazillionaire & the Virgin
by Lisabet Sarai
Trust can’t be bought—it has to be earned.
When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rachel Zelinsky meets reclusive genius Theo Moore, she finds him strangely compelling. Theo is both arrogant and socially awkward, but he has an aura of power that speaks to Rachel’s carefully-hidden submissive side. Disturbed and aroused, she tries to focus on her original objective—a deal to incorporate his Artificial Intelligence software into her company’s popular virtual world. Rachel’s not a woman who lets pleasure interfere with business, but for some reason, she can’t resist Theo’s geeky appeal.
Theo Moore can’t be bought. His past battles with poverty make him deeply suspicious of the billionaire CEO. Still, with her voluptuous curves and brilliant mind, Rachel embodies his ultimate sexual fantasy. Too bad his knowledge about sex derives from extensive research and a stash of kinky porn rather than real-world experience.
That doesn’t bother Rachel, however. In his bed—in his arms—in his bonds—she discovers the bliss of total surrender. Rachel may be Theo’s first lover, but Theo is Rachel’s first true Master—and the first man to truly touch her heart. It seems that love may harmonize their differing goals and values, until Rachel’s unwitting violation of Theo’s trust threatens to tear them apart forever.
When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rachel Zelinsky meets reclusive genius Theo Moore, she finds him strangely compelling. Theo is both arrogant and socially awkward, but he has an aura of power that speaks to Rachel’s carefully-hidden submissive side. Disturbed and aroused, she tries to focus on her original objective—a deal to incorporate his Artificial Intelligence software into her company’s popular virtual world. Rachel’s not a woman who lets pleasure interfere with business, but for some reason, she can’t resist Theo’s geeky appeal.
Theo Moore can’t be bought. His past battles with poverty make him deeply suspicious of the billionaire CEO. Still, with her voluptuous curves and brilliant mind, Rachel embodies his ultimate sexual fantasy. Too bad his knowledge about sex derives from extensive research and a stash of kinky porn rather than real-world experience.
That doesn’t bother Rachel, however. In his bed—in his arms—in his bonds—she discovers the bliss of total surrender. Rachel may be Theo’s first lover, but Theo is Rachel’s first true Master—and the first man to truly touch her heart. It seems that love may harmonize their differing goals and values, until Rachel’s unwitting violation of Theo’s trust threatens to tear them apart forever.
Murder & Treats by Lyncee
Shillard
Lila Maxwell is coaxed into attending All Treats, a Halloween speed dating event by her best friend. Instead of the soul mate promised one Halloween ghoul after another appears at her door until Cowboy Bill.
Jax Carlson has spent the last year focusing all of his attention on starting his own business. Hiring Lila Maxell over the Internet as his project manager was the final piece to his prefect plan. Set to open for business in three days, Jax plans on spending a couple of days on his boat relaxing. However, his friend Erik has a different idea – a speed dating Halloween party.
Jax has spent the night plotting the best revenge possible for Erik until Sally opens the door. The woman dressed in the pale lavender Harem costume ignites a fire that Jax thought was impossible without the aid of his formulated dating list.
After a night of mind blowing sex, Lila sneaks out before they exchange real names believing it was no more than a one-night stand.
Lila's first day is full of surprises, the biggest being Cowboy Bill is actually her new boss, Jax Carlson. She thinks keeping her hormones in check while convincing Jax that love doesn't follow a formula is complication enough until she learns the participants of the All Treats speed dating event are being killed.
Jax Carlson has spent the last year focusing all of his attention on starting his own business. Hiring Lila Maxell over the Internet as his project manager was the final piece to his prefect plan. Set to open for business in three days, Jax plans on spending a couple of days on his boat relaxing. However, his friend Erik has a different idea – a speed dating Halloween party.
Jax has spent the night plotting the best revenge possible for Erik until Sally opens the door. The woman dressed in the pale lavender Harem costume ignites a fire that Jax thought was impossible without the aid of his formulated dating list.
After a night of mind blowing sex, Lila sneaks out before they exchange real names believing it was no more than a one-night stand.
Lila's first day is full of surprises, the biggest being Cowboy Bill is actually her new boss, Jax Carlson. She thinks keeping her hormones in check while convincing Jax that love doesn't follow a formula is complication enough until she learns the participants of the All Treats speed dating event are being killed.
Riley's Journey by P.L. Parker
The research project was only for an "extended period." No one said anything about forever! Deceived and betrayed, Riley is sent back 40,000 years to be the mate of a man she’d never before met. Her journey will take her into a world fraught with dangers—a world made more treacherous by savage beasts, primitive Neanderthals, and the incursion of the aggressive Cro-Magnon man.
Surviving alone for five years in this vast wilderness, Nathan, along with his enormous dog, Demon, carve out a life in the perilous environment. Though thrown together by forces beyond their control, Riley and Nathan nevertheless find love—but can these two lost souls survive against such overwhelming odds?
Surviving alone for five years in this vast wilderness, Nathan, along with his enormous dog, Demon, carve out a life in the perilous environment. Though thrown together by forces beyond their control, Riley and Nathan nevertheless find love—but can these two lost souls survive against such overwhelming odds?
A Taste of Humanity by Shiela
Stewart
One night of passion could be lethal!
Wanting some excitement in her life, Penny Parker heads to Vegas. She’s hoping the guy
Madame Evangeline has set her up with will give her more than a thrill.
Cade O’Donnell is a virgin…of sorts. Wanting something he’s never had before, he signs up for the 1NightStand service.
Deciding to meet his match in Vegas seems the right setting for his tryst. What better place to have a fling than in Sin City.
Thrills are abundant when Penny and Cade get together.
But will it be more than she bargained for?
Has Cade bitten off more than he can chew?
Wanting some excitement in her life, Penny Parker heads to Vegas. She’s hoping the guy
Madame Evangeline has set her up with will give her more than a thrill.
Cade O’Donnell is a virgin…of sorts. Wanting something he’s never had before, he signs up for the 1NightStand service.
Deciding to meet his match in Vegas seems the right setting for his tryst. What better place to have a fling than in Sin City.
Thrills are abundant when Penny and Cade get together.
But will it be more than she bargained for?
Has Cade bitten off more than he can chew?
Submission by Tina Donahue
Three tempting men will assure her submission…
Surrender is the lifestyle club where powerful women seek alpha males to dominate and pleasure them. A concept Bree envisioned from the moment she fled her impoverished past. However, dreams don’t come easy. To fund her wanton Malibu club, she needs partners.
Enter Lucius, Tav, and Cody, three wealthy and imposing males who know what they want and that’s Bree, stripped and submissive to their will. Bad boy Lucius has billions but what’s money when the right woman isn’t at his side to pleasure him sexually, while he uses her in the most provocative ways. Laid-back Tav isn’t so easy-going between the sheets, his dominance irresistible. Cody’s an adrenaline junkie, enjoying extreme sports in and out of bed.
Spanking, fetishism, BDSM, and voyeurism are on the sexual menu, pulling Bree deeper into a shameless fantasy that can’t possibly last. Until and unless she’s willing to yield her heart.
Surrender is the lifestyle club where powerful women seek alpha males to dominate and pleasure them. A concept Bree envisioned from the moment she fled her impoverished past. However, dreams don’t come easy. To fund her wanton Malibu club, she needs partners.
Enter Lucius, Tav, and Cody, three wealthy and imposing males who know what they want and that’s Bree, stripped and submissive to their will. Bad boy Lucius has billions but what’s money when the right woman isn’t at his side to pleasure him sexually, while he uses her in the most provocative ways. Laid-back Tav isn’t so easy-going between the sheets, his dominance irresistible. Cody’s an adrenaline junkie, enjoying extreme sports in and out of bed.
Spanking, fetishism, BDSM, and voyeurism are on the sexual menu, pulling Bree deeper into a shameless fantasy that can’t possibly last. Until and unless she’s willing to yield her heart.