Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015
No Accounting for Love by LM Gonzalez #25daysofbooks
This year I'm counting down the days 'til Christmas with books and other fun things readers enjoy! I love the Holiday Season so I'm sharing ideas for you to fill your holiday stocking!
No Accounting For Love
by L.M. Gonzalez
Laura Cortez, a single mom, works full-time and takes classes toward an accounting degree for a better income for her family. She meets her dream man on a blind date set up by their siblings but thinks she should have stayed home. When he asks her to his company’s Christmas party, she agrees against her better judgment; she’s attracted to him despite all the reasons she shouldn’t be.
Tony Alvarado has spent his life, ever since his marriage, building his accounting firm because his ex-wife nagged him constantly about money. When she divorced him, claiming he was always working, she took half his money, and his son. Now he believes women only date him because he’s rich. His reactions to Laura puzzle him, but he continues to see her because he can’t figure her out.
Will the holiday season help them forget the liabilities and balance out the miracle of love in adding together two lonely hearts?
Excerpt:
“Where are you going?” Laura asked and admired a house whose whole front yard was a Christmas wonderland of lights, complete with Santa Claus and reindeer in the front yard. “Oh, isn’t that pretty?”
“To Dallas.” What was it with her and Christmas lights?
“Ummm…I hope you don’t get caught in a snowstorm.”
“Yes, that’s another worry.”
“I would love a white Christmas,” she said, “if I could stay home.” She giggled. “I don’t want to be driving in it. What are you going to do in Dallas?”
“I’m going to see a potential client. It would be an asset to my company to acquire him. I won’t return until Saturday morning.”
Laura knew that was the day of his Christmas party. She watched as Anthony maneuvered the car up her driveway.
“Have a good trip, then. And thanks again for dinner.” Laura opened the car door as he shut off the car’s engine.
“Thanks for going.”
“I wouldn’t have missed it.” Laura climbed out of the car. She watched as Anthony also got out. She didn’t want him to walk her to the door. She’d had enough awkwardness for one night. But she didn’t say anything.
He walked with her. Her heels beat a fast clickety-click on the sidewalk, and she unlocked the door quickly.
“Goodnight,” Laura said and looked up at Anthony. He was so close she felt the warmth from his body. She caught the scent of his cologne again—that mix of woodsy with mint.
“Goodnight,” he said—and touched her shoulder and bent his head.
Heat rushed from his touch through her entire body, as it had in the restaurant. “Don’t,” she said, even though she longed to lean into him and find out how his lips would feel against hers.
“Why not?” He still leaned toward her.
“Because we’re not going to see each other again, and…” What if I can’t forget you? She looked down and opened the door, said, “Goodnight,” and stepped inside her house.
Anthony stared at her and asked, “You really don’t want me to kiss you?”
Oh, yes! But you don’t. You’re just doing it because that’s what you do at the end of a date.
“It’s better this way,” she said.
Anthony seemed to want to pursue the issue, but then he only said, “Goodnight.”
Laura heard the car door shut and the engine start as she shut her door and leaned back against it. She heard Anthony drive away.
What a night! She looked toward the mirror against the far right wall. Stepping in front of it, she scrutinized herself. To her eyes, she looked fine. But she wasn’t Anthony’s type, that’s all. She smoothed some loose hairs away from her forehead. She took the barrette off.
I wish I were his type. As Laura walked to her lonely bedroom, tears filled her eyes. I’m such an idiot!
Happy Holidays!
Tricia
Friday, December 4, 2015
White Christmas Reunion by Susan Edwards #25daysofbooks
This year I’m counting down the days ‘til Christmas with books and other fun
things readers enjoy! I love the Holiday Season so I’m sharing ideas for you to
fill your holiday stocking!
She won’t go home…he can’t stay.
Bodil Quinn is a struggling rancher about to lose his land to a corrupt banker. His godfather offers to pay off the bank. The catch? Marry the man’s granddaughter who's been raised by the Lakota since she was six years old. He only remembers her as the little girl who followed him everywhere and finds himself unprepared when he meets the woman she's become.
Beth Ann was captured by the Crow when her family headed West. Rescued by the Sioux, she was adopted into their tribe. She is happy with her Lakota family and has no intention of returning to her grandfather's world. Not even for Bo, the boy next door she'd once adored.
Can Bo convince Beth Ann to put her past resentments and anger aside for a new future with him? Join him and the rest of the White family for a heartwarming reunion.
Excerpt:
Bo stared down at Beth, captivated by how the moonlight turned her blue eyes into a silvery sheen and her blonde hair nearly white. He let his gaze roam over each delicate feature, as though committing them to memory. She sighed, her lips parting. Mesmerized, he leaned forward, but instead of kissing her, he drew her close, slipping both hands around her narrow waist and rested his chin on the top of her head.
To his delight, she leaned in, wrapped her arms around his neck, her head tucked into the hollow of his throat. The night shadows wrapped them in the magic of music and night. From somewhere in his childhood, the words to the music came back to him, and he realized the Jones brothers were playing a ballad that had been one of his mother’s favorites. Their deep voices blended and added magic to the evening, and somewhere off in the distance, he heard the soft strains of a mouth organ.
Bo hummed along for a moment, setting the tune in his mind. Then he let his voice join theirs. He sang, low and soft, words of love and longing.
The magical moment brought tears to Beth Ann’s eyes. The richness of his voice vibrated through every inch of her body, drawing longing to the surface with the same skill of those creating magic with a strum of their fingers over strings.
Bo’s voice, his warmth, his scent wrapped her in a cloak of wonder. Her parents had danced like this for as long as she could remember and she’d danced with her father, but this was the first real dance with a man who wanted her, and she let the romance of it lead her. Tonight, she followed her feelings and gave in to the need to be held and to hold, to need and be needed.
When Bo’s voice faded away, she glanced up. “You have a beautiful voice,” she said, her fingers moving across his shoulders.
“Inspired by your beauty, Bethy.” He lowered his head.
Beth Ann rose onto her toes and pulled his head to her, meeting him. With no shyness, she kissed Bo. There was no dancing, no teasing, just hot, burning need. He pulled her closer, one leg pushing between her legs, one hand at the small of her back, the other behind her neck.
ISBN Digital: 9781509205646
ISBN Print: 9781509205639
Page Count: 348
Word Count: 89877
Rating: Spicy
Happy Holidays!
~Tricia
Friday, November 27, 2015
Celebrate the Holidays Sale! #booklovers #ebooks
Celebrate the Holidays with The Wild Rose Press!
From Thanksgiving Day thru Cyber Monday take advantage of a mega sale with
40% off the Entire Digital Catalog!
That's November 26th to 30th! Don't miss it!
While you're there, you'll want to give these books a try!
$4.99
Sale: $2.99
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Social worker Tam Kerish can’t keep her cool professionalism when steamy client Mr. Burns kindles a desire for more than a client-therapist relationship—so she drops him. However, they discover she’s the talisman to which Burns, an immortal djinn, has been bound since the days of King Solomon…and that makes it difficult.
Ethical guidelines are unequivocal when it comes to personal relationships with clients. However, the djinn has a thawing effect on the usually non-emotive Tam, who begins to feel true emotion whenever he is near. Tam has to make a difficult choice: to stay on the outside, forever looking in…or to turn her back on her entire world, just for the chance to finally experience what it means to fall in love.
(Pages 314) Sensual
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With a long and bitter divorce behind her, Julia Stone is barely back on her feet when she's suddenly swept off them again by a hot young executive with a healthy appetite for sexual dominance. But after years of emotional submission to a controlling ex, will she choose to submit?
Workaholic Dalton Fairchild has slaved night and day to build his own computer technology company. All work and no play makes Dalton a boring boy. However, a chance encounter with Julia challenges the dom in him, and he must convince her that, though she's At His Command, submission is the ultimate power.
This title contains: explicit language, older woman/younger man theme, anal sex, and BDSM.
Miniature Rose (139 pages)
And my books are on sale, too!
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Lord Jeremy North's curse is to become a werewolf during every full moon, turning into a bloodthirsty monster that kills with no remorse. When he finds a woman nearly frozen upon his doorstep, his sense of honor compels him to help her, even at the risk he might kill her himself.
Lillian Merriweather hadn't planned to get caught in a blizzard while traveling the English countryside. Nor had she planned on finding refuge in a house full of secrets. But Lillian has secrets of her own. And what she's running from is not far behind...
(Pages 73) Spicy
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Melora Merriweather is searching for a fellow witch to protect her
from a scheming uncle with plans of marriage. When her carriage
overturns on her journey, she is rescued by a mysterious man whom she
learns is the very person she seeks. But, he’s not the witch she thought
he was…Sebastian Collins should have left for London days ago. Now a snowstorm has trapped him with a woman who has come seeking protection, a woman who intrigues him like no other. And with each passing hour, his hunger for her grows…hunger for her kiss, her caress, and her blood.
(Pages 170) Sensual
word count: 28000
$3.99
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To save her sister’s life, Julia Grey seeks a spell hidden somewhere
within Merriweather Manor. Her position as a lady's companion affords
her the freedom to search the house. But time is running out. The
necromancer she's bargained with is growing impatient. And an unexpected
appearance of a man from her past makes matters worse in an already
complicated situation.Basil Merriweather returns to England after ten years abroad to discover his childhood sweetheart living in his home. But, he's no longer the carefree man of his youth and she's hiding something--deadly secrets Basil vows to uncover even as he hides a dark secret of his own.
While neither Basil nor Julia will trust in the other, their hearts speak a truer language. In a grand attempt to save Julia's sister and Basil's life, the two must finally confess sinister truths. Will their admissions help or hinder any future they may have together? Or will the necromancer destroy all in a vile attempt at revenge.
Rating: Spicy
Page Count: 194
Word Count: 47573
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Marianne Grey is a ghost. But, she's not dead. Cursed by a necromancer, Marianne searches for the elusive spell needed to merge her spirit with her physical body. She's not alone in her search. Her neighbor and best friend, Sage Merriweather, has vowed to help her break the curse.
Sage suffers from his own demons. Literally. After surviving a horrific attack, a demon has bonded with him, mutating Sage's magic so he can only conjure fire. Until he can break the bond, he is a danger to everyone near him, including those he loves.
From the glittering ballrooms of London to eerily dark graveyards, Marianne and Sage battle forces of evil destined to claim their souls for eternity. Though their newfound love for each other may be the toughest battle of all.
Page Count: 208Word Count: 49640Rating: Spicy
Happy Holidays!
~Tricia
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