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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Tempting the Scoundrel by Tracy Sumner

House of Devon, Book 3

Historical Romance, Regency Romance

Release Date: September 23, 2020

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September 23-27

Below stairs is where the romance begins..

As the most distinguished watchmaker in England, Christian Bainbridge believes in accurate timepieces, not love. He secretly offered his heart years ago, and he’s never gotten it back. When Raine Mowbray stumbles into his life again, Christian realizes the woman he’s worshiped from afar is still the woman he desires above all others.

Raine Mowbray needs solitude and employment, not love. A housemaid forced to flee a loathsome earl’s grasp, the last thing she’s seeking is a man’s amorous attention. When she finds herself unexpectantly paired with a gorgeous watchmaker in need of an assistant, she’s unnerved by his wit, kindness—and clandestine devotion to her.

If you like spirited heroines who fight falling in love and charmingly arrogant heroes who think they know best, then this is the book for you! Snuggle up with Tempting the Scoundrel, a steamy second chance, love-at-first-sight Regency Romance!

This is a Downton Abbey-ish novella at 98 pages and 25K words!!

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About the Author

Award-winning author Tracy Sumner's storytelling career began when she picked up a historical romance on a college beach trip, and she fondly blames LaVyrle Spencer for her obsession with the genre. She's a recipient of the National Reader's Choice, and her novels have been translated into Dutch, German, Portuguese and Spanish. She lived in New York, Paris and Taipei before finding her way back to the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

When not writing sizzling love stories about feisty heroines and their temperamental-but-entirely-lovable heroes, Tracy enjoys reading, snowboarding, college football (Go Tigers!), yoga, and travel. She loves to hear from romance readers!

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September 23-27

Round of Applause Marilyn Barr

Strawberry Shifters Book 2: Round of Applause

Paranormal Romance

Date Published: 11/2020

Aurora Turner embarks on a post-graduate adventure to find her forever family only to be captured by the Sluagh, soul-sucking Fae exiles. While she is grateful to be rescued by the Strawberry shifters, her Prince Not-So-Charming is a little hasty when he starts picking out their wedding china.

Destiny gives James Martin a second chance at love. Aurora may prove to be more of a hazard to herself than the Sluagh ever were. He has the daunting task of keeping her away from sharp objects, and from ogling his best friend, Nate.

Nate Wagner is shocked when Aurora passes the prophesized shifter smell test identifying her as his mate. The beta male competes against the mature courtship skills of James with his own modern twist.

However, will his devotion to James keep her out of his arms or will they create their perfect family—one they never dreamed of?

About the Author

Marilyn Barr currently resides in the wilds of Kentucky with her husband, son, and rescue cats. When engaging with the real world, she is collecting characters, empty coffee cups, and unused homeschool curricula. Join her mailing list at www.marilynbarr.com/contact/ to receive her monthly newsletter, the Strawberry Rumor Mill, to hear the latest news from Strawberry KY, USA.

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Saving Kimi by Brooke Stanton

Saving Kimi
Brooke Stanton
(Forbidden Romance, #4)
Publication date: October 13th 2020
Genres: Adult, Historical Romance, Western

In 1906 Oklahoma, nineteen-year-old Kimimela Wallace has always been an outsider in her small town. With a white father and Indian mother, she’s never been fully accepted into either world. Her childhood friend Chayton—Soaring Falcon—sees only the beauty in Kimi, whom he’s pined for his entire life. But an unexpected turn of events pulls Kimi away from Chayton and towards her new boss, widower Alex Randall. Then tragedy strikes, and Kimi must risk everything to save two very different men. But will giving her heart to one of them mean stripping away the one thing she values most—her freedom?

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After her own misadventures in New York City, LA, and London, Brooke Stanton now lives in Dallas, Texas. She's the bestselling and award winning author of the Bloom Sisters and Forbidden Romance series. Visit her website brookestantonbooks.com.

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LinkIt 20 ounce tumbler

LinkIt 20 ounce tumbler
I am just amazed with the LinkIt tumblers. I love how cold they keep my drinks. I love that they do not leak out of the lids. I like that they come with two straws or straight one and about one. And they also come with a cleaning brush for the straws.

These are stainless steel tumblers. Stainless steel is kitchen grade 18/8. Their double-walled vacuum insulated. These are not dishwasher safe and you should use bleach or abrasive cleaners, and they should not be put in the freezer. Being stainless steel they should not be put in the microwave either.

This tumbler keeps my drink cold all day, with ice still left at the end of the day. It's also great for hot drinks. These tumblers come in several colors pink, black, and green that I'm sure of.

LinkIt has a whole line of tumblers in different sizes and colors. This is not my first link it tumbler and won't be my last. To me these are better than the name brand tumblers.

The only issue I have with these are the slide at the top that opens and closes the cup. When I'm washing it it gets soap in there and I have to pop that center section out to get it out. I'm afraid that it will wear out popping it off and on. So far the ones that I have have not, nor are they showing signs of wear.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

thought catapulter

The thought catapulter is a packet of cards a nice little pouch and a very strong magnet. With these items you can change the way you think about things you want, your goals, even your mental state.

You pick your packet of cards that deal with your situation. Whether it be financial aspirations, emotional affirmations, even weight loss. They have a card packet for you. You may not use every card on the sheet that you get but by picking and choosing you get what you need personally. You also get a blank sheet for adding your own affirmations.

This is a 90 day affirmation routine. You pick your cards and you put them in your pouch. Then you simply wear it on your body. I keep mine in my pocket. This does come with a long piece of elastic that can wrap around your arm or your leg to affix the pouch to you. Even if you just carry it in your purse as long as it's close to you it will help. I personally pulled the cards out I've chose and read them when I need a pick me up.

The set comes with a primary abundance affirmation sheet. Regardless of what you choose to focus on you should also use these cards as well. They will help shift the flow of good energy to you instead of away from you.

The magnet that is with this is extremely strong neodymium in magnet. If you have a pacemaker or other electronic body implants do not use this. And keep it far far away from your cell phone. It will demagnetized the cell phone really quickly. Check out the thought catapults or website for more details on exactly what this is and how to use it.

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Sleeping With the Enemy by Jackie Barbosa

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When Mrs. Laura Farnsworth discovers the blood-stained body of a man wearing the distinctive red coat of the British army, her first instinct is to let dead dogs lie. It has, after all, been just two days since the Battle of Plattsburgh, and the disposition of enemy corpses is hardly her purview. But then the man proves himself to be very much alive by grabbing her ankle and mumbling incoherently.

After almost twenty-five years in His Majesty’s service, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Langston never expected to wake up in heaven, much less being tended by an angel. But when he regains consciousness in the presence of a beautiful, dark-haired woman and with no memory of how he came to be there, what else can he think? Except it’s rather odd for an angel to have an American accent.

As the long-widowed Laura nurses the wounded Geoffrey back to health, the attraction between them heats from a simmer to a boil. Bound by his oath to the British crown, Geoffrey should be working to find his way back to his regiment and from the, to England. Instead, he’s sleeping with the enemy…and thereby committing the crime of desertion if not treason. But then, who’s going to find out?

If only Geoffrey didn’t have a family back home who refuse to take “missing in action” for an answer.

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Well, that had been entirely inappropriate!

Flustered and overheated, Laura grabbed the empty wicker bread basket from the center of the heavy oak dining table and flopped into one of the nearby chairs, waving the basket in front of her face as a makeshift fan.

What on earth had come over her in there? One moment she had been engaged in the innocuous—although admittedly intimate—chore of giving a man a shave, and the next she had been seconds from lifting her skirts and riding him like a hobby horse.

Oh, very well, not quite like a hobby horse.

For heaven’s sake, she was a respectable widow with a nearly adult son, not a reckless girl in the first flush of infatuation. The last time she’d felt anything like this mad rush of desire, she had been nineteen and newly introduced to Samuel Farnsworth, the handsomest man she had ever met. Back then, she had not fully grasped the significance of the sensations that flooded her whenever she was with Samuel, just that she wanted more of them. Only after he introduced her to the pleasures of the marital bed did she appreciate how clever her body had been in recognizing her mate. Her only mate. Or so she had believed.

But now the handsomest man she had ever met slept in the bed she’d once shared with her husband, wearing nothing but a nightshirt, and she knew what she was missing. Truly understood the signals her body was sending her.

She wanted Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Langston.

About the Author:

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a writer when I grew up, but there were plenty of times when I wasn’t sure I ever would be. As it turns out, it just took me about twenty years longer to grow up than I expected!

On the road to publication, I took a few detours, including a stint in academia (I hold an MA in Classics from the University of Chicago and was a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities) and many years as a technical writer/instructional designer for a data processing company. I still hold my day job, but my true vocation has always been writing fiction and romance in particular.

I’m a firm believer that love is the most powerful force in the world, which that makes romance the most powerful genre in the world. Don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise!

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Guest Post for Bound in Flame by Katherine Kayne

ROMANCE ON HORSEBACK

Could it be that the first cowgirls were…..Hawaiian? And princesses too? The answer is yes and yes. And it could not be more glorious. Of course I decided to write about it.

I myself grew up on a cattle ranch. Like many girls I had my own aspirations of cowgirl-hood; that is until life intervened and I had to put the dreams aside. Little did I know that later in life those dreams might gallop right back into my life! In Hawaii of all places!

As a girl, I never heard about Hawaii’s long ranching history, or the special love of Hawaiian women for their horses. But nearly 50 years later, watching a parade in downtown Kona, I saw my first pa‘u princess and I knew I’d found my dream. Flowing skirts? Dancing horses? Gorgeous flowers? Handsome men riding in attendance? Now that is romantic!

A little history is helpful here. In the early 1800s both horses and cattle arrived on the Hawaiian Islands. As gifts from British mariners to the Hawaiian king, the cattle were allowed to roam free, multiplying rapidly. By the 1820s wild cattle terrorized farms and villages. The King had a cattle problem on his hands.

To handle these troublesome beasts King Kamehameha III brought Mexican vaqueros to the islands. At the king’s behest these hardy souls arrived in the 1830s to teach the Hawaiian people and the Hawaiian paniolo was born. Both men and women took up herding duties. In fact, the first major cattle ranching operation, Parker Ranch was already in full swing in the 1850s, while the big ranches in Texas came later, after the Civil War.

Hawaiian women became and remain famously good equestriennes and even developed a special way of wrapping their long skirts to ride astride through the dense brush. This technique, called pa‘u (overskirt in the Hawaiian language) could protect clothing on long rides to social events too. A skilled wrapping could have a woman arrive at a distant dance with her fancy gown relatively unscathed.

In the 1900s, with the advent of the horseless carriage the need for these wrapping waned. Still Hawaiian women formed societies to keep the tradition of the pa‘u alive. Parades and festivals offered an opportunity for the ladies to flaunt their skill. The women rode as princesses representing each island with traditional color and flowers. This tradition is still followed today. An amazing early video from Edison films, probably dating from 1906, shows it all: https://youtu.be/iwMoTrneIII

It’s not just about pretty colors and flowers. The modern Hawaiian woman who rides pa‘u embraces her cultural heritage and island values. The cowgirl traditions run deep. Most of these women have ridden their whole lives, many have competed in rodeo. Their riding was not recreational, it was work. While all-terrain vehicles have taken up much of the rancher’s burden, there are still areas in Hawaii’s mountainous ranches that can best be worked on horseback.

No wonder these women takes their parade role so seriously. Each pa‘u princess forms what is called a unit, of which she is the leader. With attendants and outriders and the ever-essential pooper-scooper. And as is the tradition of leadership in Hawaii it is the princess’ role to guide, protect and serve her unit.

Even the so called “Princess Wave” is better in Hawaii. Rather than an elbow lifted in a stiff wave, it is a flat hand reaching out from the rider’s heart to the crowd with the offer of aloha. The very essence of the generous spirit of Hawaii.

Thankfully a core of women remain committed to keeping the tradition alive. Since fewer families actually work the ranches less women have the opportunity to ride with the level of skill that parade pa‘u requires. Think about it. A woman draped in 12 yards of billowing fabric atop a thousand-pound animal. Enthusiastic crowds - mostly kids - on all sides. What could go wrong?

Once Hawaii opens again I hope you will go. If you do, turn away from the beach for the moment and look up hill or mauka as they say. You just might see a cowgirl riding over the hill.

Katherine Kayne is the author of Bound in Flame, the first in a series about hard-riding Hawaiian suffragettes at the turn of the twentieth century. Her next installment, a prequel novella, Pistols in Paradise will be out this fall! You can check her out and join her newsletter at katherinekayne.com. Yes, there are cocktail recipes!