Jun
19
2014

SURVIVE FOR MY LOVE Release #GIVEAWAY!!

SURVIVE FOR MY LOVE  is almost here!!! It is scheduled to release July 4th! Whoohoo! Check out this awesome cover and blurb!

Sara and Dane have been living in a hidden bunker together for two weeks after fleeing for safety when cruise ships came into port carrying a virus along with their passengers. Her family should have reached the bunker within the first seventy-two hours and since they haven’t, Sara’s convinced they are at their plan B location. Now she’s willing to risk it all to find her family before it’s too late.

Dane isn’t convinced leaving the bunker is a good idea when the world outside is falling to crisis and chaos, but he’ll do whatever it takes to protect the woman who saved his life and stole his heart. The virus isn’t the only thing to fear outside the bunker. When roaming scavengers threaten to take more than just their supplies, Sara and Dane are forced to fight for their lives if they want to survive long enough to find her family and a future together in a new and unpredictable world.

 

 

But before it gets here, I’d love to giveaway a few copies of ESCAPE TO MY ARMS. Escape is the book that started Sara and Dane’s story. It’s where the sh*t hits the fan and the world as they know it starts to crumble. It’s an exciting, action-packed adventure that will have your heart racing! After you devour the book, you’ll dying to find out how the story continues in SURVIVE all the way to it’s thrilling conclusion.

If you want a chance to win a copy of ESCAPE TO MY ARMS leave a comment! Contest closes Sunday night, June 22nd and I’ll send ebooks (Kindle or Nook only) to the winners on Monday!

**Please include your email address in your comment! 

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED! THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ENTERED. WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED!

Sara’s been preparing for this moment her whole life—she just never believed it would actually happen. With her bug-out bag and emergency food already in her truck, her only goal is to get to her family’s hidden bunker and wait out the pandemic that’s hit every major cruise ship port in the US. But her plan quickly falls apart. She’s out of gas, her route to the bunker is now a two-lane parking lot with no alternative in sight, and her only weapon is a pocketknife. For an experienced prepper, she’s made every rookie mistake.

Dane believes he’s safe in his cabin, off the beaten path and in the woods with his own source for water, electricity and an endless supply of food to hunt. After finding Sara stranded and alone, he’s suddenly not only providing for and protecting himself, but also the girl who wandered out of the woods and into his life. When looters come looking to take what he has, Sara and Dane’s only option is to make a run for their last hope—the bunker.

Can Sara and Dane find safety in each other’s arms and will they survive long enough to escape to a future together?

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Jun
18
2014

Deadline Dishes — Lemon Garlic Orzo Soup with Stephanie Haefner

Today for Deadline Dishes and Drinks I have a good friend and a FANTASTIC author! Stephanie and I met a couple of years ago online through the writing community and while we have yet to meet in person (One day!) we formed a fast friendship. She’s definitely someone I turn to for advice, support and definitely when I’m looking for a good book! So here she is!
Stephanie Haefner is a wife, mother of two, and contemporary romance novelist from Buffalo, NY. A member of Romance Writers of America and the Western New York Romance Writers subchapter, she loves creating sassy heroines and tossing them into sexy circumstances. When not writing, she celebrates her sassiness with dance and zumba classes, and her nerdiness with boybands and Disney World.
Summer is generally not the time of year people think “soup” but this one is pretty light and fresh and if summer had a signature soup, this might be it 😉 
Lemon Garlic Orzo Soup
 
Ingredients
  • 1 T olive oil
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 carrot, roughly grated (I usually add 3-4 and julienne them on my mandolin)
  • 6 C chicken broth
  • ½ C orzo
  • ½ lemon, zest and juice
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¼ tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp dried basil
Instructions
  1. In a large pot heat olive oil.
  2. Add in garlic and onion. Sauté until translucent.
  3. Add in carrot. Sauté for just a few minutes.
  4. Pour in chicken broth. Season with salt and pepper.
  5. Add orzo. Cook until tender with a slight bite.
  6. Squeeze in juice of half lemon and add zest.
  7. Season with basil.
  8. Serve.
I also add one cooked and shredded chicken breast to make it a little heartier.
Are you looking for something great to read? Then you REALLY need to check out Try Me on for Size. I’ve already read it and it was so, so good. Funny, sexy, sassy, and 100% enjoyable. 
A sexy, laugh-out-loud love story about a woman trying to save her failing lingerie business with a new product—“personal massagers” made to the specs of the spokesman of her choice! But when she falls for the first model she meets, how can she prove she’s his perfect fit?

With their business in trouble, Mia and Bryn must pull out all the stops to save their shop. Things get sticky when Mia, owner of Classy ‘n’ Sassy Lingerie, has to go on five blind “dates” to find the right model for the big marketing plan that will save the store. But they aren’t your ordinary blind dates. Mia has to test out the “goods” to find the perfect spokespenis—the model for Classy ‘n’ Sassy’s newest line of lifelike dildos. 

Not realizing Mia is on a mission, Oliver Christensen approaches her in a bar and Mia mistakes him for model #1. Oliver decides to play along. But just how far is he willing to take this charade in order to get closer to Mia? And what happens if Mia’s Blind Date #1 turns out to be The One?
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May
21
2014

Deadline Dishes — Garden Chicken Salad with Lynn Crandall

 

Today I have fellow Crimson Romance author Lynn Crandall here to share one of her delicious recipes! And just in time for summer picnics too. Yum. Thanks for being here, Lynn!

Lynn Crandall lives in the Midwest and writes in the company of her two cats. She has been a reader and a writer all her life. Her background is in journalism, but whether writing a magazine or newspaper story or creating a romance, she loves the power stories hold to transport, inspire, and uplift. In her romances, she focuses on vulnerable, embraceable characters who don’t back down. She hopes that readers discover, over and over, stories of ordinary people who face ordinary life challenges and are transformed by extraordinary love.

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This salad makes a perfect main course dish for warm weather, served with fruit and bread. But it’s also a great side. The dish has gone with me to many potlucks and been a main attraction for family meals. My family tries to eat healthy. I’m not sure if this salad qualifies as healthy, but it’s light and has vegetables in it!

Garden Chicken Pasta Salad

 

  • 3 cups rotini pasta, cooked and drained
  • 2 cups broccoli flowerets, raw or cooked
  • 1 ½ cups ranch dressing
  • 2 cups (or more if you like) cooked chicken breast, cubed
  • Dash of Mrs. Dash onion and herb

Toss all ingredients and refrigerate. Serve cold.

Get creative and add a variety of ingredients to your liking. Try chopped pepper, slivered onion, sliced purple grapes, diced apple.

 

The presence of a ghost in her life doesn’t alarm Lacy Aegar, in fact it makes her happy. Two and a half years ago when her dead husband Nicholas reappeared in her life as a full-bodied spirit, she questioned her sanity. But with Nicholas’ explanation that there are things about life that are not as she’s always believed, she settled into a pleasant routine of working with her sister at their private investigation business and enjoying home life with her now 10-year-old son – with Nicholas never very far away.

Lacey’s complacency and sense of stability is sent topsy-turvy when she runs into Jackson Carter, the son of powerful and influential business tycoon, William Carter. Typical of the Carter reputation, Jackson’s slick new private investigating business is siphoning off clients from the Aegar sisters’ business, creating financial difficulty. It’s a recurring nightmare for Lacey, who has already seen damage done by the Carter family, and when she encounters Jackson, she wants nothing to do with him.

But things are not what they seem when it comes to Jackson Carter, either. Unbeknownst to Lacey and her sister, Jackson is fighting a battle to preserve his business, too, and his integrity. For him, it’s a fight for his soul, and he enlists Lacey’s help because of her unique investigative skills and open heart. When she uncovers a mole in his business, she also discovers that one of his clients’ drug trials has been given the green light to go to the next phase based on falsified data. As they work together to save both their businesses, Jackson and Lacey not only face death, they must come to grips with their feelings about love and life.

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May
18
2014

Meadow Ridge Romances are ON SALE!

The entire Meadow Ridge Romance series is on sale for only $0.99 each!! Available on both Nook and Kindle!

Julia’s just a normal girl trying—and failing—to fit in. In Meadow Ridge, an upper-crust society where designer labels rule, the only thing that matters more than money, is status. Julia’s got neither.

Chase has it all—born and bred in The Meadow, he’s the most eligible bachelor and the object of every woman’s attention. And he wants nothing to do with any of them… until he meets Julia.

Struggling just to make ends meet long enough to finish her degree, Julia needs her new job as a stock girl at Bloom’s Books. When her new boss turns out to be her steamy fling from the bar a few nights before, Julia’s not sure she’ll be able to stick around to collect her first check. Now Julia’s stuck in a tough spot—stay and resist her feelings for Chase so she can get the paycheck she desperately needs, or give into desire and risk her job, future and probably her heart.

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Tali’s always had everything a girl from The Meadow could want: fancy cars, designer labels, and a last name that carries some serious clout. Too bad it’s not enough to keep her boyfriend—ex-boyfriend!—from cheating on her. Now Tali’s on a mission to make herself feel better, starting with a spontaneous trip to Paris for some much needed retail therapy.

Gavin could think of a million things he’d rather do than fly a rich girl from The Meadow to Paris. Now he’s stuck with her for a week, acting like her personal assistant, and it just might be the most frustrating time of his life… and strangely the most enjoyable too. There’s just something about Tali he can’t ignore.

When Tali’s forced to choose between her family’s expectations and Gavin’s belief that she should stand up for herself and what she really wants, she’s not sure she’s strong enough for either option. If she chooses wrong, does she risk losing the other forever?

AMAZON                     NOOK

 

Rebecca’s never been a “normal” Meadow Ridge girl. The daughter of a chauffeur and transplant into the gated community, she’s always felt like an outsider. Now her father’s retired, she’s been forced into an over-priced apartment she can’t afford, and she’s running out of things to sell to pay her rent. If something doesn’t change soon, Rebecca stands to lose everything.

Finn can’t stand the girls from The Meadow. Materialistic, lazy and self-centered, he wants nothing to do with them. Until he almost hits Rebecca with his motorcycle. Now he can’t stop thinking about her or how different she seems to be from everyone else.

Rebecca’s last hope to save the life she’s always known is Reid, her high school sweetheart and the man she hoped to marry one day, but that was before she met Finn. Now she must choose between the life of luxury she’s always wanted in The Meadow and the man she fears she can’t live without—Finn.

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May
08
2014

Brenda Novak’s Auction for Diabetes Research

This year I’ve had an offering in the Brenda Novak Auction for Diabetes Research and I’m so excited! The auction is for WRITERS AND READERS of all varieties! There’s so many book bundles, gift baskets, ereaders and one-time experiences, that I just can’t list them all. So head over and check it out!

While you’re there, check out the book bundle that FALLING FOR YOU is a part of. You get 5 contemporary romances and a $10 gift card too!!! The current highest bid is only $8.00!!! Now come on! We can do better than that!! $8 for all these great books is just, well, sad. It’s made me sad. (Have I guilted you sufficiently yet?)

“But I’ve already read Falling for You.” 🙂 Well, thanks! I appreciate that! But if you go bid on my auction bundle, you’ll still get to enjoy 4 other books from really awesome authors. And you’ll get a gift card to buy even more books! So really, it’s still winning for you.

5 awesome contemporary romances!!

$10 gift card. 

Need I say more?!?!

Go bid. For me. Because you love me. Or at least because you are bored and looking for new reading material. Make me proud and do something awesome for diabetes research! Ok, go on. What are you waiting for?! 😉

Check out the auction and bid HERE!!

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