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Section Roads by Mike Murphey







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Coming
of Age / Mystery / Humor
Date
Published: June 8, 2019
Publisher:
Acorn Publishing

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When
attorney Cullen Molloy attends his fortieth high school reunion, he doesn’t
expect to be defending childhood friends against charges of murder… 

In
a small town on the high plains of Eastern New Mexico, life and culture are
shaped by the farm roads defining the 640-acre sections of land homesteaders
claimed at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Cullen and Shelby Blaine explore
first love along these section roads during the 1960’s, forging a life-long
emotional bond.
  
      As junior high school band nerds, Cullen
and Shelby fall under the protection of football player and loner, Buddy Boyd.
During their sophomore year of high school, Buddy is charged with killing a
classmate and is confined to a youth correctional facility. When he returns to
town facing the prospect of imprisonment as an adult, Cullen becomes Buddy’s
protector.


       The case haunts the three friends into
adulthood, and it isn’t until their fortieth reunion, that they’re forced to
revisit that horrible night. When a new killing takes place, Cullen, Shelby and
Buddy find themselves reliving the nightmare.

  

         Murder is an easy thing to hide along
old country section roads.




Advance
Praise

“An
ambitious, evocative small-town tale located somewhere between Peyton Place and
The Last Picture Show.” –Kirkus Review

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About
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Mike
Murphey is a native of eastern New Mexico and spent almost thirty years as an
award-winning newspaper journalist in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest.
Following his retirement from the newspaper business, he and his wife Nancy
entered in a seventeen-year partnership with the late Dave Henderson, all-star
centerfielder for the Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners.
Their company produces the A’s and Mariners adult baseball Fantasy Camps. They
also have a partnership with the Roy Hobbs adult baseball organization in Fort
Myers, Florida. They love baseball, fiction, cats and sailing. They split their
time between Spokane, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona. Mike enjoys life as a
writer and old-man baseball player.


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Game On by Joanne Rock






Title: Game On
Series: Texas Playmakers #2
Author: Joanne Rock

Publisher: Tule Publishing
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: August 8, 2019





Blurb

He’s home to recover ...and
rekindle a romance with his first love.

After a hitting
streak propels him onto a major league roster, Nate Ramsey lands on the injured list. The one bright spot in a
frustrating summer is returning home to Last Stand, Texas-- until he's tasked
with confronting Keely Harper, an
old flame whose business is running roughshod over his grandfather’s farm. Nate
accepted it when she ended things five years ago, but he won’t overlook a
slight to the rest of the Ramseys. What game is she playing?

Keely has always
carried the weight of responsibility for her dysfunctional family, so she can’t
regret the way she ended things with Nate. Cutting him loose to pursue his
dreams was the kindest thing she could have done for a man with talent to take
him far beyond Last Stand. Except now he’s back, and the fireworks between them
haven’t faded a bit. If she gives into the temptation of a kiss, will she be
able to let him go again once his injury heals and baseball wants him back?








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Nate spotted a couple he knew stepping out of the dance hall
for some fresh air and he took Keely’s hand to avoid having to talk to anyone
else. He wanted her all to himself a little while longer. “Want to walk down by
the creek?”
“Sure.” Nodding, she followed him out of the back of the
parking lot toward the long slope that led to the water.
The path was dark away from the white lights so Nate took
his time picking their way down the hill.
“And to be clear, I am grateful for the chances I’ve had to
show what I can do this summer. I just resent getting hurt when it finally felt
like I might be making an impression.” Stepping around a sharp-edged rock, he
reached back to make sure Keely navigated it too. “But I didn’t ask you out to
dinner so I could grouse about what’s going on with me.”
“You didn’t?” He could hear the smile in her voice even
though he couldn’t see her expression anymore as the darkness expanded around
them.
“Definitely not.” He tugged her toward a clearing between
the tree branches where a patch of moonlight shone on the creek bank.
Some summers the water dried up completely, but it still ran
now, making a soft gurgle as it spilled over a span of muddy sticks and leaves.
“Well if you’re trying to glean tips on tomato planting,
you’ve come to the wrong place because I know exactly nothing about growing
vegetables.” She joined him on the soft earth above the creek, her sandals
glimmering in the pale glow of the moon.
“Somehow I doubt that.” He remembered that she had a vegetable
garden outside the farmhouse kitchen when they were still in high school, a
task that had made her seem light years older than him at the time. But no
doubt she’d only done it to ensure she and Alexis got fed on the days her
father was too compromised to work or shop. “But I wasn’t expecting you to be
my agricultural resource either.”
He still held her hand from when he’d helped her down the
bank. He folded it in his now and felt his pulse quicken from being next to
her. Alone. The perfect distraction from his concerns about the future, a
chance to resolve their past.
“No?” She peered at him sideways, her shoulder just an inch
or two from his while the frogs and crickets made their own night music.
Turning, he faced her. Above them, the sounds of a well-loved
bluegrass song made the crowd shout in appreciation. His eyes had adjusted
enough to the dim light that he could see Keely now, her dark eyes searching
his.
Her lips temptingly close.
“No.” He cupped her chin in his good hand, savoring the
softness of her skin. The light floral scent of her hair. “I asked you here
because I can’t get that kiss out of my mind.”
Breath catching, her lashes fluttered. “Neither can I,” she
admitted, her voice a whisper of sound that still managed to reverberate through
him as if she’d shouted.
He swiped his thumb back and forth along her cheek, then
trailed it down to the fullness of her lower lip, wanting her so much he ached.
Because he remembered how good it could be between them? Or
because that kiss had felt like a new beginning? A first time all over again?
He shut down his thoughts and let himself feel, slanting his
lips over hers to take a slow, thorough taste. The sweetness hit his veins
harder than any whiskey shot, firing through his nerve endings and sizzling
over his skin.
Sensation rocked him. He deepened the kiss, wrapping his arm
around her to pull her fully against him. The feel of her breasts through the
gauzy top would be enough to rattle any man’s thinking, and he had to suppress
a growl of primal hunger that he had no business feeling during a simple kiss.
But damn.
He could lose himself here, in this woman. In this hot night
and hotter kiss. Just for one more minute, he let the tantalizing feel of her
narrow hips in a frayed denim skirt wreak havoc on him, ratcheting up the
temperature between them to something that would singe the eyelashes if they
didn’t break apart soon.
Pulling back, he broke the kiss abruptly, ripping away like
a bandage since he couldn’t have worked up the resolve to part from her
otherwise. Now, breathing in gulps of the humid night air, he clenched and
unclenched the fingers of his good hand where he’d wound up clutching the back
of her blouse. Realizing it, he let go completely, willing the hunger for her
back into submission.
Barely.
“This is crazy,” she whispered, but she sounded perplexed by
it more than upset.
Thank goodness.
He didn’t know what he would have done if he was alone in
this firestorm of sensations.
“Maybe. Maybe not.” He stepped back an inch and blinked to
clear his vision of her blond waves turned white in the moonlight.
Between the tousled curls and pale, flawless skin surrounded
by the dark leaves and twisting branches of old live oaks, she looked like a
storybook princess.
“It makes no sense.” She shook her head slowly as she tipped
a shoulder against the rough bark of the tree closest to her. “We’ve done this
before, and the aftermath was too painful for us to make the same mistakes.”
“Who says we would be? Making the same mistakes, that is?”
He reached overhead to rest his splint on a low-hanging branch. “Last time, it
all fell apart because I got drafted a year earlier than we thought it would
happen.”
She wrapped her arms around herself as she shuffled a foot
around a tree root. “No, it fell apart when you broke your promise to graduate
college first.”
He frowned, wondering how she could see it that way. Even
five years later. “You know that getting drafted is like getting called up—I
have no control over when those things happen,” he reminded her. “I had to be
ready to go when the opportunity came.”
And so did she, if she wanted to go with him. But she’d been
adamant about breaking things off instead of trying to make it work while
living apart for that last year when her sister was still in school.
At the top of the hill, the band finished another song and
the crowd whistled and applauded. But down here by the water, the sound of the
crickets and katydids was louder, wrapping him and Keely in a world of their
own. A breeze rustled the leaves.
“And you were.” Her tone gentled, her arms relaxing at her
sides. “You were ready then, and you’ll be prepared to go again when your hand
is recovered. Maybe this crazy thing happening between us is just a delayed
goodbye. We were both so upset five years ago that things ended too abruptly.
We didn’t get closure.”
“It doesn’t feel like goodbye to me.”






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Author Bio


Four-time RITA
nominee Joanne Rock has never met a romance sub-genre she didn't like. The author
of over eighty books enjoys writing a wide range of stories, most recently
focusing on sexy contemporaries and small town family sagas. An optimist by
nature and perpetual seeker of silver linings, Joanne finds romance fits her
life outlook perfectly--love is worth fighting for. A frequent speaker at
regional and national writing conferences she enjoys giving back to the writing
community that nurtured and inspired her early career. She has a Masters degree
in Literature from the University of Louisville but credits her fiction writing
skills to her intensive study with friend and fellow author Catherine Mann.
When she's not writing, Joanne enjoys travel, especially to see her favorite
sports teams play with her former sports editor husband and three athletic-minded
sons.


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Cowboy Up by Stacy Finz







Title: Cowboy Up

Series: Dry Creek Ranch #1
Author: Stacy Finz

Publishers: Lyrical Shine/Kensington/

Penguin Random House
Genre: Contemporary Cowboy Romance
Release Date: July 23, 2019




Blurb


Cash, Jace,
and Sawyer: Three cousins sharing an inheritance of five hundred acres of prime
California ranch land—and a whole lot of surprises . . .

Cash Dalton
is no rancher. He’s an FBI agent—or at least he was, until he left a haunting
case behind him and a load of guilt in front of him. Now it turns out he’s also
a father—to a twelve-year-old girl he didn’t know he had. Clearly, it’s no time
for a new romance, especially not with Aubrey McAlister, who’s renting the
cottage on Dry Creek Ranch. She doesn’t even seem to like him. Still, there’s
nothing wrong with looking . . .

After
calling off her wedding, Aubrey is trying to focus on her interior design
career and avoid the fact that she’s the center of small-town gossip. Clearly,
it’s no time for a new romance, especially not with brooding Cash. Though she
does find him sexy as hell. And he has softened since his daughter
arrived—enough for Aubrey to help decorate her room—and even try to get Cash to
open up about the chip on his shoulder. Once he does, both their hearts might
just follow—but will their futures sync up as well? . . .






Stacy Finz is a New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author of contemporary romance. After more than twenty years
covering notorious serial killers, naked-tractor-driving farmers, fanatical
foodies, aging rock stars and weird Western towns as a newspaper reporter, she
figured she finally had enough material to launch a career writing fiction. She
is the author of the Nugget Romance series, the Garner Brothers series,
and the upcoming Dry Creek Ranch series. She lives in Northern California
with her husband.


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Ticket To Ride by Sarah Hegger






Title: Ticket To Ride

Series: Passing Through #2
Author: Sarah Hegger
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: June 19, 2019





Blurb


Everybody know Claire Winters is …*ahem*… not a nice person.
She struts into town in her designer heels only when she wants money from her
estranged father.

Except for retired special-forces straight talker, Finn
Williams, who came to Twin Elks searching for the peace and contentment missing
in his life. Finn likes Claire just fine and is not shy to show it.

Irresistibly drawn to each, will mistrust, lies and deceit
destroy Claire and Finn’s happily ever after before it begins?








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Born
British and raised in South Africa, Sarah Hegger suffers from an incurable case
of wanderlust. Her match? A hot Canadian engineer, whose marriage proposal she
accepted six short weeks after they first met. Together they’ve made homes in
seven different cities across three different continents (and back again once
or twice). If only it made her multilingual, but the best she can manage is
idiosyncratic English, fluent Afrikaans, conversant Russian, pigeon Portuguese,
even worse Zulu and enough French to get herself into trouble.


Mimicking
her globe trotting adventures, Sarah’s career path began as a gainfully
employed actress, drifted into public relations, settled a moment in
advertising, and eventually took root in the fertile soil of her first love,
writing. She also moonlights as a wife and mother.


She
currently lives in Colorado with her teenage daughters, two retrievers and
aforementioned husband. Part footloose buccaneer, part quixotic observer of
life, Sarah’s restless heart is most content when reading or writing books.
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The Nanny Rules by Melynda Price


The Nanny Rules
Melynda Price
Published by: Entangled: Brazen
Publication date: August 12th 2019
Genres: Adult, Romance, Sports

Don’t touch the nanny. It’s one rule I’m most certainly going to break.

Since becoming a single father, I have two things that keep me sane—my daughter Lily and playing football for the NFL. But when my meddling sister hires a nanny without my knowledge, I’m not thrilled to come home and find the woman has taken over my house. Our instant attraction is one more complication I don’t need in my life.

But my daughter loves Amelia, and I will do anything for that tiny munchkin. Even if it means walking around with blue balls most of the time. Why does the nanny have to be so sweet—and drop dead gorgeous? She’s driving me crazy. Never in my life have I wanted a woman more.

I just need to make it through this season. I can do that. Hands free, of course. But then there’s that moment, and I know she’s thinking what I’m thinking and, well, yeah. Screw the rules…

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Author Bio:

Melynda Price is a bestselling and award-winning author of contemporary romance. Her novels have finaled in and or won many awards such as the RONE, USA Today BBA, Golden Quill, National Readers’ Choice, Write Touch, and New England Readers’ Choice.

What Price enjoys most about writing is the chance to make her readers fall in love, over and over again. She cites the greatest challenge of writing is making the unbelievable believable, while taking her characters to the limit with stories full of passion and unique twists and turns. Salting stories with undertones of history whenever possible, Price adds immeasurable depth to her well-crafted books. She currently lives in Northern Minnesota with her husband and two children where she has plenty of snow-filled days to curl up in front of the fireplace with her Chihuahua and a hot cup of coffee to write.

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After Gardens by Katharine Coldiron


About the Book

 

Title: After Gardens

Author: Katharine Coldiron

Genre: Women’s Fiction

Maya, a weekend at a hot springs with her boisterous friend Rhondey is just what she needs to move forward after her divorce. For Rhondey, it’s an opportunity to help Maya cut loose a little, shed some of her inhibitions. Maya doesn’t see the need to shed anything, and she’s not looking for a teacher. But the more Maya clings to her privacy, the more difficult it is for her to recognize her true teachers…and the right moment to step free.


Author Bio

 
Katharine Coldiron’s work has appeared in Ms., the Times Literary Supplement, the Rumpus, the Manifest-Station, horoscope.com, and many other places.

Find Katharine at kcoldiron.com or on Twitter @ferrifrigida.


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My Solace by Alanea Alder



My Solace
Bewitched and Bewildered
Book 11
Alanea Alder

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Sacred Forest Publishing

Date of Publication: May

ISBN: 978-1-941315-25-5
ASIN: B07P9BG7VC

Number of pages: 282
Word Count: 71,00

Cover Artist: Kim Killion

Tagline: She’s been Bewitched, he’s Bewildered

Book Description:

For thousands of years Oron Vi’Eirson has lived each day trying to keep the pain and devastation caused by his family from hurting his precious baby brother. But despite his best efforts his past has come back to haunt him, placing not only Darian and Amelia in harm’s way, but also his newly found mate.

Isabelle Campbell, or as she likes to be called, Izzy, is a mess. She knows this. It’s never intentional, but somehow her curiosity always seems to run away from her. When her latest gaffe lands her homeless and fired from her favorite barista job she is left little choice but to accept the kindness of some of her favorite customers, little did she know that by doing so, she would find herself starting the biggest adventure of her life!

With kindred spirit Meryn at her side, Izzy takes on the entire fae city to protect the heart of the kindest man she has ever met. If the golden fae think they can get away with hurting her mate, they are sorely mistaken. After all, her new friend likes to electrocute people.

When facing your greatest fear means facing your family, is there any escape? Can Izzy help Oron stand against all odds?



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Excerpt

Law wiped at his eyes from silent laughter. “She does this to me every damn time,” he complained, barely able to breathe. Two of the other warriors around the room had buried their face in their hands to hide their own laughter.
Pierce looked over at Aiden. “Seriously though, what did she learn about butts in Noctem Falls?”
Law inhaled as he leaned back slightly and fell off his chair. To see a man that size laughing on the floor was all it took to set everyone off.
“Serenity, I don’t think he’s breathing,” Micah commented watching Law wrap his arms around his mid-section as he gasped.
“If he can laugh, he can breathe,” she said, shaking her head at Meryn’s shenanigans.
“See, I told you Izzy, this is a nice place.” A warrior commented, coming up behind them from the direction of the front door.
“I don’t know, it’s mostly men and they look kinda drunk to me. Maybe this is like a bar or sex dungeon. Like a drunken, gay, sex dungeon,” a piping female replied.
“Oh gods above, I can’t breathe!” Law called from the floor. Oron shook his head at the man’s plight.
Micah’s eyes bugged out. “A drunken, gay, sex dungeon?”
Meryn nodded. “They’re all a bunch a mannequins.”
“They like the rough stuff huh?” the sweet voice asked.
“No! What?” Aiden looked from one female to the other then paused. “How did you know she meant masochist?”
“We were talking about sex dungeons, I kinda extrapolated that the misused random word that began with the letter ‘m’ was a term that more accurately fit the conversation. It wasn’t that hard actually.”
“She meant masochist?” Micah asked.
Serenity stood over Law now looking concerned. “Okay, my earlier assessment may have been off, I don’t think he’s getting any oxygen.” She placed her hands on his chest and eased his laughter.
Law gasped for air. “Gods Meryn, you can’t keep doing this to me!” he managed to croak out.
“So, not a sex dungeon?”
Chuckling Oron turned in his chair and suddenly he couldn’t breathe for reasons of his own, the petite auburn haired beauty that had understood nutty Meryn perfectly was his mate!




About the Author:

USA Today Best Selling Author, Alanea loves reading almost as much as she loves writing. She began writing at a very young age, some of her first scribblings are treasured in a keepsake box and written in green marker. She started when she was still in grade school and continued on through college.

She believes that love truly conquers all and that everyone no matter what, deserves a chance at that love and a place they can call home. She absolutely loves to hear from her readers so don’t hesitate to reach out to her. As always, her promise to her readers remains, “If you keep reading, I’ll keep writing!”

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