The Sweetest Match by Abby Tyler

The Sweetest Match
Abby Tyler
Publication date: March 7th 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

She hid secret messages in frosting, thinking no one would notice.

Abby Tyler welcomes you to the witty, well-meaning busybodies of Applebottom, Missouri, where the community takes its pies — and its matchmaking — very seriously.

When Sandy Miller emerges from her shack on the edge of town after eighteen years, she finds a job making tea cakes for a little shop on Town Square.

But then everyone starts spotting secret words of love and longing on her cakes.

Andrew McCallister is the first to admit that he never got over Sandy Miller when she dropped out of high school and disappeared. But now she’s back.

He just has to get the guts to talk to her.

When the town summons the pair to a meeting to plan the school’s centennial bash, Andrew and Sandy discover they are the only two members of the committee. As they attempt to rekindle the long-lost flame, they realize the community must come together for more than an anniversary party. For their new relationship to flourish, the old guard must learn to support their most vulnerable members even when times get hard.

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Abby Tyler loves puppy dogs, pie, and small towns (she grew up in one!) Her Applebottom Matchmaker Society books combine the sweet and wholesome style of romance she loves with the funny, sometimes a-little-too-truthful characters she remembers from growing up in a place where everyone knew everybody’s business.

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Storm & Fury by Gail Z. Martin

Author: Gail Z. Martin, Larry N. Martin

Narrator: Neil Hellegers

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Series: Storm & Fury Adventures

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Released: Oct. 30, 2018

Genre: Steampunk, Fantasy

New Pittsburgh, 1898 - A crucible of invention and intrigue. Born from the ashes of devastating fire, flood, and earthquake, the city is ruled by the shadow government of The Oligarchy. In the swarming streets, people of a hundred nations drudge to feed the engines of progress. The Department of Supernatural Investigation was set up to take care of those things that live below, that go bump in the night...those odd cases that go beyond 'standard' investigation. Nicknamed 'Storm and Fury', Mitch Storm and Jacob Drangosavich are two of the more creative agents working in New Pittsburgh and obeying the rules - when they have to.

A collection of short stories and novellas set in the world of the Iron & Blood novels and the related Storm and Fury Adventures.

Gail Z. Martin writes urban fantasy, epic fantasy and steampunk for Solaris Books, Orbit Books, Falstaff Books, SOL Publishing and Darkwind Press. Urban fantasy series include Deadly Curiosities and the Night Vigil (Sons of Darkness). Epic fantasy series include Darkhurst, the Chronicles Of The Necromancer, the Fallen Kings Cycle, the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, and the Assassins of Landria. Together with Larry N. Martin, she is the co-author of Iron & Blood, Storm & Fury (both Steampunk/alternate history), and the Spells Salt and Steel comedic horror series. Newest titles include Tangled Web, Vengeance, The Dark Road, and Assassin’s Honor. As Morgan Brice, she writes urban fantasy MM paranormal romance, with her Witchbane and Badlands series

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Larry N. Martin is the author of the new sci-fi adventure novel Salvage Rat. He is the co-author (with Gail Z. Martin) of the Spells, Salt, and Steel/New Templars series; the Steampunk series Iron & Blood; and a collection of short stories and novellas: The Storm & Fury Adventures set in the Iron & Blood universe. He is also the co-author of the upcoming Wasteland Marshals series and the Joe Mack Cauldron/Secret Council series.

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Neil hails from the green hills and not-so-busy streets of River Vale, NJ, where he divided his time between theatre, literature, percussion, and policy debate. He is happy to note that he has managed to maintain this balance for the entirety of his adult life.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA, with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and a Minor in Psychology, Neil acquired a M.F.A in Acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory, in Providence, RI. He returned to NYC in 2003, and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theatre education, and audiobook narration, and is currently living in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, rambunctious son, and their mutt!

Starting his professional acting career working at festivals and and international tours performing Shakespeare opened his mind to the sweeping potential of theatre in performance to inspire and delight, a sensibility he has carried into contemporary theatre, new play workshops, film, TV and commercial work, and audiobook narration. Neil also has sought and developed educational opportunities, considering teaching as a means of advancing the craft of both student and teacher, and also a vehicle for social and political change. Neil has played drums in a wide variety of bands and musical groups, from punk, to prog, to jazz, to folk, and in theatrical performance, most notably for the Philly-based-90s-progressive-instrumental-rock-band, Lexicon.

As an audiobook narrator, Neil specializes in fiction, genre and non. A voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy, Neil strives to bring the same thrill of the possible to the actual, with non-fiction ranging from self-help both spiritual and practical, history, and cultural studies. Recording at home from a Studiobricks One Plus, he is an Audible Approved Producer, and has worked for numerous publishers, including Tantor Media, Penguin Random House Audio, Blackstone Audio, Audible Studios, Deyan Audio, Spoken Realms, and more. He is a proud member of SAG AFTRA.

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Q&A with Mitch Storm, protagonist of Storm & Fury

• What made you decide to become an agent with the Department of Supernatural Investigation?
  • I like finding out answers to things I’m not supposed to know. And when there are monsters in the shadows, Jacob and I are the guys who take them out.
• What do you like best about working with your partner, Jacob Drangosavich?
  • Jacob and I balance each other out. We’ve been friends a long time, since our Army days, and we’ve lived through a lot of bad stuff. I can be reckless, and Jacob does his best to slow me down long enough to think things through. I don’t always listen, and he’s not always right, but we work well together. I give him a lot of grief, but he’s really a decent fellow.
• You have a reputation for causing a lot of explosions...
  • And that’s totally exaggerated! Okay, maybe not totally. Somewhat. All right, maybe it’s more true than not. It’s just...we go up against some really bad people and crazy monsters, and sometimes the easiest way to deal with it is with dynamite.
• Inventor Adam Farber lets you and Jacob try out his latest experimental gadgets and prototype weapons. Do you have any favorites?
  • I’m not supposed to talk about those...but hypothetically, if someone could create a death ray kind of thing from a Tesla coil....it would be really amazing, until it blew up. Theoretically speaking, of course.
• You and Jacob have gone up against all kinds of monsters. Is there any type of supernatural threat you particularly dislike?
  • Necromancers. Because they’re messy. They dig up graves, get people all upset, and then they try to raise the dead, or turn them into clockwork zombies, or get them to tell their secrets from the Great Beyond. And when it all goes to hell in a handbasket and Jacob and I have to move in and shut them down, you know what we’re left with? Body parts and corpses, and it’s not pretty. Especially not in the summer. Which is why, generally speaking, you’re better off fire-bombing them, because it makes the whole thing easier to clean up. You’re not going to quote me on this, are you?

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1. Lots of explosions—our promise to you!
2. Mad scientists and sexy-nerd inventors
3. Fearless secret agents from the Department of Supernatural Investigation
4. Cool experimental gadgets and weapons that don’t always work the way they’re supposed to!
5. Airship battles
6. Clockwork monsters
7. Handsome heroes with a taste for adventure
8. Ghosts, werewolves, witches, vampires and monsters....in Victorian Pittsburgh
9. Curses, absinthe magic, haunted places
10. Two daring agents who aren’t afraid to break the rules to save Pittsburgh—and the world—from supernatural threats!

Q&A with Neil Hellegers, Narrator of Storm & Fury

• When did you know you wanted to be an audiobook narrator?
  • I have always been an inveterate reader, like, absurdly. Putting aside the irony that now that my job is reading books I have little to zero time to read for pleasure, I knew I wanted to be an audiobook reader when I realized that my experience and training, combined with my love of books, made it a rather obvious choice. Or, put another way, it was like: duh.
• How did you wind up narrating audiobooks? Was it always your goal or was it something you stumbled into by chance?
  • In the process of starting a family, I came to see that my vagabond, stage-actor life was unsustainable. In focusing on other options with my skill-set, I managed some more local work, particularly a fair number of on-camera commercials, at a time where the ‘goofy dad’ archetype was very prevalent. And while I had some success there, it wasn’t scratching the deeper itches creatively, and was also, in many ways, just as transient.
    I had been pushing into commercial VO a bit as well, with not as much success, but it occured to me that I maybe wasn’t matching the specific demands of Comm VO as well as I would have liked. Yet I had always listened to audiobooks, especially on lots of long drives between Providence, RI and the New York area in the summers I was working at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. It slowly dawned on me that narration could be a much better fit. There wasn’t like a flash of inspiration, more like a slow dawning, then I was like, oh it’s sunny!

• What are your favorite aspects of the Alternate History sub-genre?
  • I have long been a fan, and was so excited to dig into the Storm & Fury/Iron & Blood Universe. What most interests me about Alt or Counterfactual history is that it makes good on the promise of Quantum Mechanics, much in the way that Time Travel books do: Every turning point, or any decision, is the starting point to a different world. With New Pittsburg as the center of a very different world of culture and technological advancement, you have the freedom to root your choices in the world you know, but then bend them to this new reality. And with the introduction and prevalence of magic and the preternatural, presented here so seamlessly, the possibilities really are endless. I do think it’s a little unfair, however, how in so many alternate timelines, Nikola Tesla comes to pre-eminence, but we, of course, got stuck in the one timeline where he didn’t…!

• What type of training have you undergone?
  • I have a BA in Theater Arts (acting, directing, and design) from The University of Pennsylvania with a minor in Psychology (also helpful), with some time spent abroad in a London conservatory, and an MFA in Acting from Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence RI. Add to that various acting classes and coaching, both in acting and narration, and that’s my foundation. The work itself is the training built on top of that.

• Are you an audiobook listener? What about the audiobook format appeals to you?
  • I certainly am! I have to be? But I would be anyway. What I like about it is the pleasure of the narrator’s creativity in synthesis with the author. If the story is good, it can only get better. And if the narrator is good, then the story can be great.

• What is your favorite part of narrating an audiobook?
  • You mean aside from getting to read books for a living, i.e. being paid to immerse myself into new and classic sci-fi, cutting edge urban fantasy, mind-bending time travel and alternate realities, lyrical contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking and vital non-fiction? Along with utilizing every last bit of my training and education, and ending each day with the satisfaction of having just actually crafted art that might inspire, entertain, or illuminate the listener? Not to mention being a part of a wonderful, enriching, supportive community of fellow narrators and publishers? Well...the health insurance is pretty good…!

• Did you find it difficult to “break into” audiobook narration? What skill/tool helped you the most when getting started?
  • Ha, have I broken in? I’m like 40% joking; “imposter syndrome” seems to dwell heavily in more than a few narrators, including this one. But, procedurally: One thing to note is that the audiobook industry is considerably smaller than most other major entertainment industries. So after years of Film and TV meet-and-greets and Equity open-calls and the like, finding a far more intimate and immediate set-up was a pleasant surprise. There were also meet-and-greets and conventions, but the relationships were direct with the publishers and producers, so just by being present you could start meeting them, so when one was ready with the appropriate skills, it’s possible to move forward, bit by bit. As mentioned, I had thorough theater training, but there is narration-specific technique to learn, coaches to work with, and workshops to take. Not to mention, since I was starting by working at home, producing audiobooks independently, there were some technical hurdles to leap. Thank goodness everything is on the internet.
  • I should also note here that the narration community is tremendously generous, and from the first friend I asked to “pick your brain about narration” (which I now fully understand how kind and helpful she was by permitting this, as it is something narrators get asked quite a bit) to the FB members willing to answer any questions, we all really have each others’ backs. It’s a lovely aspect of this job, but also very helpful in getting started.

• How did you decide how each character should sound in this title?
  • Well, first, Gail and Larry provide so much detail about how their characters sound that they make one part of my job very easy. Especially as New Pittsburgh's cultural history has drawn specific immigrant populations that make up the fabric of the city and the book. Polish accents abounding, Irish accents, Creole in New Orleans, to name a few. Also the main characters have such a clear feel to them, that it wasn’t hard to “cast” those voices, regardless of dialect. As always, with a big cast, the main task is to make them distinctive from each other, but so much of that is also driven by what each character is feeling, and what they need in the scene. Closely following all those details and dramatic elements is how so many of those choices get made.Probably my favorite task was settling on Jacob Drangosavich’s voice, described as a “slight [Polish] accent”. Such a key direction, but only mentioned once, and yet so vital. Deciding on what degree of accent says so much about the character, his history, his disposition, and how he represents the position of this new world in balance with the old. I tried to craft a voice that was still distinctly American, but with a flavor on the edges of his native Polish. I had to be sure to keep it going, even though, in truth, such pidgin dialects do naturally fluctuate. So then I had to chose the times when the Polish aspect might thicken, or diminish. For this audiobook narrator, these kinds of details is the stuff.

• How closely do you prefer to work with authors?
  • Really, as close as time and schedules allow. Coming out of theater, I embrace the value of collaboration; basically, more brains are always better than one. And while the synthesis of text and narration is automatically a collaboration, I like to continue the process by discussing themes, characters, world-building, and whatever else the author ideally wants the reader/listener to walk away with. Ultimately, I’m going to have to get in there myself and make the book work, but the more material I have to work with, the better the results will hopefully be.

• How do you manage to avoid burn-out? What do you do to maintain your enthusiasm for narrating?
  • Well, the books always change, so that helps. And, in a given day, I always try to find the thing about the book that excites me, or is a valuable social lesson to convey, or is fun. At this point, though the hours are long, I’m so grateful to be doing what I’m doing, that if I start to feel weary, I slap myself in the face and get the heck back in the game. Aside from that, I try to sleep well, get some exercise, and drinks lots and lots and lots and lots of water.

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Breathing Wisteria by Amali Rose

Title: Breathing Wisteria

Series: Fleurs d'amour #4

Author: Amali Rose

Genre: Contemporary Romance/New Adult

Cover Design: Judi Perkins,

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Release Date: March 8, 2019

Blurb

True love can kiss Wyatt Monroe’s ass.

Life turned her into a realist years ago when she lost
everything she truly loved.

Wyatt knows there is no happily ever after for her. No white
knight coming to her rescue and that’s perfectly fine. She is more than capable
of saving herself.

Enter Flynn Maguire. He’s been running from his demons for a
decade, hiding in plain sight and determined to forget. No longer able to live
the lie, he hunts down the woman he destroyed in a misguided effort to save
her.

Wyatt is determined never to repeat the past. Flynn is
determined to reclaim the life that should have been his. But determination
will only get you so far, and when the glare of public opinion viciously shines
on their past, they can either stand united or fall divided.

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PROLOGUE

Wyatt

Ten Years Earlier

Smoke.

My nostrils twitch as the subtle acrid smell hits them and a
sliver of unease curls itself around my consciousness.

The club is crowded, and I’m jostled carelessly between a
sea of sweaty bodies. My hand instinctively finds my belly and I internally
curse Flynn for convincing me to come tonight.

I crane my neck, searching for the source of the putrid
smell, but I can barely see past the people surrounding me. Their clammy skin
pressing against my own combined with their loud voices ringing in my ear, the
atmosphere practically suffocates me.

My breathing begins to quicken. Short, shallow breaths that
I have to fight to get into my lungs, heighten my anxiety and the mild
apprehension I was feeling morphs quickly into full-blown dread that thrashes
violently through my veins.

Closing my eyes, I try to block out the crowd around me and
concentrate on Flynn’s voice, which floats above the cheers and catcalls. My
vision is blocked from my position over here, along the side of the room where
I, wrongly, assumed I could avoid the crush of the congested dance floor.

That’s when it happens.

With my eyes squeezed shut, one hand pressed against my
hammering chest and the other curled protectively over my stomach. My brain
shuts down, focusing only on the voice of the man I love, singing the song he
wrote about us. About cherry Chapstick and cheap beer.

The moment my life was forever changed.

One word screamed.

Hundreds of bodies pushing, fighting each other, chased by
the cruel heat and wicked burn.

I’m shoved forcefully up against the wall as people lose all
sense of decency in their own fight for safety. My eyes flicker to my left and
I see the orange flames dancing with the plumes of black smoke above the stage.
My heart sinks and I unconsciously begin fighting against the crowd. Sweat
prickles along every inch of my skin and I fight every instinct in me as I try
to make my way toward Flynn.

A tall guy stops right in front of me, his face is panicked,
and I can see a fear in his eyes that I know is echoed in my own. He bends down
and grabs my shoulders, his fingertips digging in painfully. “Go the other
way!” he screams in my face, his spit coating me. Shaking my head, I push past
him and hear him mutter, “Stupid bitch.”

The pungent smoke has filled the room and as my lungs
struggle to cope, screaming for fresh air, I become disoriented. I spin around,
my eyes burning while I attempt to gather my wits. But when a stray elbow
connects with my already aching temple, I lose my balance, falling to the
ground. And in a moment that I know will forever be imprinted on me, amidst the
cacophony of terrified screams, flailing bodies, and heart-wrenching terror, I
lose everything that I love.

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Amali Rose is an Australian author, and former blogger, who
released her debut novella in 2017.



A self confessed bookworm, her love affair with the written word began as a
child, with The Magic Faraway Tree. Her tastes have grown and evolved
over the years, and after stumbling into the indie community a few years ago,
she discovered her passion for romance with a side of smut.



When not reading or writing Amali enjoys baking, yoga, cheesy pop music &
netflix marathons; and believes strongly that pink, puppies and chocolate make
the world a better place!

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Baking with a Rockstar by Jasmin Miller

Title: Baking with a Rockstar

Series: Brooksville #1

Author: Jasmin Miller

Genre: Contemporary/New Adult Romance

Cover Design: Alyssa Garcia, Uplifting Designs

Release Date: February 28, 2019

Blurb

When a rockstar and a single mom become roommates, delicious sparks are
bound to fly.

Rockstar Hudson Mitchell is over the glitz and
spotlight of the music industry. Desperate for a break from the fast-paced life
of fame, he retreats to the one place that has always been home.



Brooksville, California.



It's the same place where Charlie has taken refuge, trying to build a life for
herself and her young daughter. The quiet, small-town atmosphere and her new
bakery venture are exactly what she needs to pick up the pieces of her
shattered past.

As they spend more time together, neither of them
is prepared for the effect Charlie has on Hudson, and how important she would
become for his career.

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“Charlie, where
do you want me next?” Hudson’s voice sounds from behind me, making me jump.

The hairs on the
back of my neck rise at the sound of his rich voice—the deep timbre almost
echoing across the room—as I spin around to face him. “Gosh, Hudson, can you
please stop sneaking up on me like that?”

I slap his
shoulder lightly, leaving a nice flour mark on his black T-shirt.

Good. Serves him right.

Today is our
second day together at “work,” and I still have to get used to him being
around. Thankfully, I barely saw him yesterday, since he was helping one of the
contractors fix a few things outside the building while I hid in my office,
hunched over a pile of papers to make sure everything’s going according to
plan. I wonder if Hudson stayed away from me on purpose, giving me some time to
get used to him. I’m almost certain he knows how easily some people get
overwhelmed by his presence.

He grimaces, but
the mischief is clearly displayed in the way his eyes sparkle. “Sorry, I didn’t
mean to, but you were so absorbed in your work. There could be a meteor coming
your way, and you wouldn’t know it until it hit you.”

Well, he’s got me
there. When I focus on something, it’s easy for me to zone out. “Very funny.”

I glare at him
playfully and study him for a moment, taking him in, from his black T-shirt all
the way to his dark gray jeans that are paired with black boots. His whole
outfit is covered in dust, dirt, and a few specks of paint. He looks every bit
the busy worker bee he’s been, and since I’m not blind—and my hormones
practically demand it—I have to admit, he couldn’t look sexier.

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“This story was
fun and an easy read with fun-loving characters. I instantly fell in love with
Hudson and the immediate bond he had with Mira. The love story between Hudson
and Charlie is beautiful and just about proves that good things happen to good
people.” - Drippin_inmelanin, Goodreads

“Well butter my
butt and call me a biscuit, this was so cute. If you're looking for something
light to read on a lazy afternoon, this is pretty perfect. It's just a really
great "make-you-feel-good" kind of book.” - Dylan, Goodreads

“The story was
unexpected, cheerful, heartbreaking, and made me feel all things at once!”
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Jasmin Miller is
a professional lover of books and cake (preferably together) as well as a
fangirl extraordinaire. She loves to read and write kissing books and never
misses a chance to swoon over characters. Originally from Germany, she now
lives in the western US with her husband and three little humans that keep her
busy day and night.

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Still Breathing by Gene Fournier

Women’s Fiction

Date Published:  November 17, 2018

Designer: Damonza

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

Newly widowed and on the threshold of seventy, Lizzie Warton questions the value of her remaining years. Uncharacteristically, she decides for the first time in her life to do what she wants, instead of what everyone expects.

Against the wishes of family and friends, she sets out for Africa to work at a Ugandan middle school. When she lands at night in the Entebbe airport, her hosts are not there to meet her. Near panic, she hires a local taxi. The driver drugs her, steals everything, and dumps her limp body in a slum. Waking in the dark, she feels someone tugging off her shoes.

Without money, a passport, clothes, or medications, Lizzie is forced to start over and find a way to survive.

Soon she learns that nothing in Africa is as it appears. The grind of daily life in the third-world is beyond anything Lizzie imagined. Nevertheless, encouraged by budding friendships in surprising places, and against every sensible instinct she’s ever developed, Lizzie’s own personal search for meaning becomes the grand adventure of a lifetime.

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Originally from South Minneapolis, Gene Fournier earned a BA in Philosophy & Literature from St. Louis University followed by a Masters in Film from USC. Gene is a member of the Writers Guild of America West (WGA) and worked as a screenwriter and editor in Hollywood, but sadly, he never got that big break.

Seeking a return to his roots after twelve years in California, he accepted a Director of Media position with a multinational company headquartered in the Midwest. For thirty years he wrote, directed, edited and distributed corporate video programs around the world, managed live presentations, and orchestrated the creative elements for national and international meetings.

Retired now, with his seven children grown, and a dozen grandchildren to distract him, Gene is finally able to write down the stories he’s been carrying in his head all these years.

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Pleasure Cove by Kristina Luckey

Title: Pleasure Cove

Author: Kristina Luckey

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Design: Murphy Rae

Release Date: March 7, 2019

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After the death of her husband, Keely Mack walks away from the wild rush
of the pro-surfing world to raise her daughter. Two years later the sea still
calls out to her, but she’s not the same reckless girl she once was.

Until the first man to break her heart walks back into her life.

Pro surfer Brett Garrett suffered a career-ending injury. He used his name
and winnings to invest in a professional surf team, and he needs one rider for
the ultimate team. The one woman he’s ever loved. The one woman who has every
reason to hate him. Brett is convinced Keely is the key to everything—surfing
and his heart—if only he can get her back on a board.

Keely’s memories of both her husband and Brett scream for her to stay
away. Giving Brett and surfing a second chance might ignite the spark she lost,
or she could lose everything she’s ever loved.

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Kristina writes multi-layered stories with characters that
stay with readers long after the words The End. Her first work of women’s
fiction A Forgiving Heart received honorable mention for a
novel excerpt in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition sponsored by the
National League of American Pen Women. Her contemporary romance novels Pleasure
Cove and Pacific Blue promise the same emotional
read, stunning California settings, along with strong, sassy heroines and
heroes who will steal your heart.

A California native, Kristina shares her love of the Golden
State with readers through setting and culture in a series of contemporary
romance novels. When she isn’t writing, she is exploring her state, traveling,
looking for the best eats (she’s a major foodie), and spending time with her
family. 

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