Holidays, a Great Review, and a Snippet

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Fight For Me, Five Star Reviews, Holidays, Live For Me, review, Satin Sheets Romance, The Everetts of Tyler

You’d think after 15 years in retail I would be used to this, but every year I think I’ll be able to, I dunno, DO something, or see people, or pretend I have a life outside of the store, but every year I am wrong.  Oh well, it is what it is, right?  Supporting my family is the most important thing, and thank God for Amazon and Etsy– without them, no one would get anything for Christmas!

That said, I AM still working on LIVE FOR ME, and it is coming together.  This has been a very hard book to write, and I really hope it doesn’t suck after all this time.  I am still holding out hope for getting it to you before this year is out, but please don’t kill me if I’m wrong!

Speaking of the Everetts of Tyler, FIGHT FOR ME got a great review over at Satin Sheets Romance today!  5 Pillows and 2 Flames!

 

Aaaaaand…. since it’s been forever (or 5 weeks, whatever), a snippet from Live For Me!

Haleigh stood transfixed, the woman in the mirror unfamiliar. She’d spent the better part of two hours in Robin’s stylist chair, lotions and potions and whatnot applied to her hair and face, and now she… She was downright sultry. Added to the clothes her friend had finagled her into wearing, she felt like someone else, someone confident, someone sexy. She smiled, her teeth white behind her painted lips. She knew better than to think she could jump in with both feet, but she had ensured Georgia could spend the night with the Sinclairs anyway. If she was going to look like this, she wasn’t wasting it—Caleb was going to see her in all her glory. The thought sent butterflies skittering through her stomach. Maybe not all her glory, but he was definitely seeing this.

“You look spectacular,” Robin said from behind her.

“I look like someone else.”

Robin’s eyes narrowed in her reflection. “You asked for that.”

“I did, it’s just hard to get used to. I’m not this woman.” She had never dreamed she could be this woman, and she was still unsure whether she liked it. She didn’t look cheap by any means, but she looked untouchable, and that wasn’t her goal. Robin had done an amazing job, but underneath the paint she was still the same broken down house.

“You can be,” Robin said quietly. “You don’t always have to be therapist and mommy. Sometimes you can be a woman.”

“I don’t know how,” she admitted, the idiocy of her words ringing in her head.

Great Reviews!

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#amwriting, #wip, 4 stars, 4.5 Stars, Chris Delmonico, Kindles and Wine, Live For Me, review, snippet, TBQ, The Book Queen, The Everetts of Tyler

Um, I am REALLY late in writing this post, but I hope you forgive me.  Fight For Me was featured on Kindles and Wine with a 4.5 star review AND on TBQ’s Book Palace with a 4 star review last weekend (see, I told you I was late!)  Hopefully, the tweeting and facebooking (yeah, that’s totally a word), sent you over there, but in case you missed them, here are the links:

I have also been working too much, and not writing enough this week, so today’s snippet is a short one.  Chris Delmonico’s POV showed up in this book, too (gotta love a persistent man, dontcha?), and we learn a little more about his family and his past in this book.  (For all you Chris lovers out there (I’m looking at you, Heather), I promise his book is coming this year, but BURN is necessary first, I swear).

Chris Delmonico brushed graham cracker crumbs from his jeans. When he’d pushed for this assignment, he hadn’t really thought it through beyond catching the asshole preying on preschoolers, but after being snotted on, painted, whined at, and bitten, he was ready for a break.

“Mister Chris?” a little redheaded girl he was fairly certain was named Ainsley asked while tugging on his hand. “I hafta go potty.”

Yeah, being a detective was awesome. Everything he ever wanted. “Okay, sweetie, let’s go.” He stood up to walk her to the kid sized bathroom inside the classroom, praying she was as well potty-trained as she was supposed to be. He knew one day he might want kids of his own, and he liked them—really, he did—but a room full of other people’s children, not related to him in any way, grated on his nerves.

Thursday is *Almost* Wednesday, Right?

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Carly Phillips, destiny, karma, kismet, review, Serendipity

And, it’s late on Thursday, too.  Work sure does get in the way of other, more fun endeavors, doesn’t it?  Soooo… What did I promise?  Ah, yes, yet another series I am loving, Carly Phillips’ Serendipity Series.  

  First in the series, SERENDIPITY finds Faith Harrington back in Serendipity shortly after her divorce from an unfaithful user, while her father is headed to prison for running a Ponzi scheme and bilking the majority of the town out of their life savings.  To add insult to injury, town bad boy Ethan Barron bought the mansion she grew up in, and has hired her to redecorate it.  Determined to pull herself up the by bootstraps so-to-speak, Faith throws herself into her work, finding Ethan might not be the bad boy she thought along the way.

This is not a boring, predictable romance.  Along with the sparks between Faith and Ethan, there is a TON of family angst and baggage, not to mention a teenage half-sister.  Tess, a fourteen year-old sister no one had any clue about, forces Ethan and his brothers Nash and Dare together, and man, does that make for some heart wrenching reading.  I love that Faith is stronger than she thinks, I love that Ethan is trying so hard to make up for the past and take care of everyone, I love that Tess is written as a snarky teenager dealing with everything.  Such a great beginning to the series!  Go ahead, click the cover, it’s so totally worth it.

    KISMET is the tie-in novella that focuses on Faith’s frenemy Lissa and her high school sweetheart, Trevor.  I don’t want to tell you too much because it would spoil SERENDIPITY, but KISMET is a sweet story of love reunited.

   I just finished DESTINY on Sunday.  This one starts off at Faith and  Ethan’s wedding (c’mon, that is sooo not a spoiler, you totally knew that would happen in a romance!) and finds Nash Barron kissing Kelly Moss.  Now, that wouldn’t be a problem if Kelly weren’t Tess’s half-sister.  Of course, Kelly isn’t in any way blood related to Nash, and, well, he can’t seem to help the attraction.  The sparks are mutual, and while they try to fight them, it’s just not possible.  Now, I don’t want to give you too much (you know how I feel about spoilers and recaps), but I’ll tell you that in SERENDIPITY I wanted to smack Nash for his rigid, black and white view of the world with Ethan, and here in DESTINY I grew to love and understand him right along with Kelly.

There’s a great little side story with Kelly’s friend Annie, more family drama–although not all Barron drama–and revelations about the past that shake everyone up.  I loved this book and wanted to keep reading the story!

  Sadly, KARMA, third brother Dare’s story, isn’t scheduled for release until May 1!  But, but, but, I want it now! *pout*  I’d have it pre-ordered, but it’s not available for Kindle pre-orders yet, so I’ll have to wait, but I can promise I’m not letting this series go unfinished.

I love Carly Phillips, and have read a bunch of her other books, too.  If you haven’t, you should.  Here’s a link to her backlist: http://www.carlyphillips.com/bookshelf/

And, that, my friends, is the latest in my series addiction.  Well, the newest addition at least.  Right now I need to go start LOTHAIRE, twelfth in Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark series.  All fear the Enemy of Old.

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