Hi everyone.
Well, the sun is shining, the temperature is forecast to be in the mid-upper 70s, and I'm chipper. Guess winter is finally a thing of the past.
It's also that time of year when I get the urge to read new authors. I'm always on the lookout for a good summer read and love seeing new blood enter the writing world. Unfortunately, sometimes I come away with a flat feeling. Something just didn't click. Maybe the plot was predictable or contrived. Occasionally, the hero or the heroine aren't logical with their actions. But more often than not, the problem lies with secondary characters.
Now unless your main characters are on a desert island or in the middle of the Sahara or the wilderness of the Northwest Territories, they have to have other characters with which to interact. There are three types of characters in a book--the hero and heroine, individuals the aforementioned talk with on a regular basis, and what I call walk-ons--people like waiters, bartenders, and the like that show up once and are then gone.
The hero and the heroine need backstory, but so do the secondary characters. They need personalities, goals, motivation, and conflict, too. And of course, they must appear frequently in the story. Their lot in life could be anything from a best friend to a sibling or other family member to a person the main character trusts. Since I write romantic suspense, my secondary characters are often villains and villainesses. In my first book, Along Came Quinn, I had four secondary characters--a couple of guides the MCs interacted with on a daily basis, and a villain and villainess who don't do that until the end of the story. However, their previous actions formed the inciting incident that threw the hero and the heroine into the story. Am I making sense?
However, authors must make sure the secondary character remains secondary. Don't give them so much personality or too big a role in the story that they take over the book. I experienced that in The Reunion. I loved my secondary character, Suzanne. She was a total be-yotch. Snarky, sarcastic, and defensive. Yet in the end, she learned humility.
Not only did she have backstory that set the stage for what happens in the book, I gave her a strong personality to go along with it. She dominated. It got to the point where she was more interesting than the heroine, which allowed the romance angle to also get lost. With so much Suzanne, there wasn't a good way to let Meghan and Zach's relationship grow.
So, I had to do what every writer hates. Edit. A lot. I cut whole scenes and tons of dialogue that featured Suzanne. I toned down her personality and her bitchiness, which seemed to work. The book got some very good reviews and I had a few people suggest I give her a shot at being the heroine in another book. Haven't gotten around to doing that yet.
Actually, I love writing secondary characters. In my Snoop Group series I have a critique group that solves mysteries. My main character is level-headed and a leader. But I have so much fun with the rest of the women. I tried to make them realistic to my friends' personalities, so one of them is a bit sarcastic and impatient. She doesn't suffer fools gladly and speaks her mind. Another is on the ditzy side, but somehow comes up with solutions to problems through her rambling conversations, and still another is constantly frazzled trying to raise five kids under the age of eight, do household chores, and write erotic romance. Sound familiar? Who doesn't know people like that?
So the next time you pick up a book, pay attention to the secondary characters. Do they make you laugh? Do they supply an important flip-side, so to speak, to the heroine or hero? Does the logical heroine learn something from her ditzy friend? Something she hadn't thought about with all her focus on logic? Ask the same questions of these characters as you write if you are an author.
Hope you enjoyed this today and have come away with some insight into characterizations. I've been a member of this blog for two years and love writing for it. So until next month, have a nice Spring.
Suzanne
Monday, April 30, 2018
Saturday, April 28, 2018
No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb
"It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!" ~Mark Twain
(Flowering crabapple)
While much of the country is still buried under winter, those of us fortunate enough to dwell in the Shenandoah Valley, or 'The Shire' as I call it, are blessed with spring loveliness. Not that the weather doesn't waffle here, because it has and does, dipping back into frigid temps after luring everything into bloom. But most plants are hardy enough to withstand this whimsy. We are well accustomed to the annual dance. I cover my gullible lilies and pray for the blossoming trees.
(Tulips in front of our old farm house)
A new project has opened up in my gardening world with the redoing of our farm pond--digging out years of accumulating silt--and the expansion of the surrounding fence. This gives us much more room to grow our dreams, safe from munching cows, and a lot of tree planting has ensued. Yesterday, daughter Elise and I planted thirty additional trees and bushes on the pond banks, after a long planting session this past Saturday with the enthusiastic help of my three oldest grandsons. While we labored, we were surrounded by birdsong from meadowlarks, red-winged black birds, the song sparrow, killdeer, cardinals... It's hard work, but the pond will be glorious. Our aim is to plant for the birds, water fowl, fish, pollinators, and people. I'm envisioning magic.
As for my writing, admittedly it has sagged as planting and gardening take priority, but I have a new story idea buzzing around in my head. Outside time gives me the opportunity to ponder my emerging plot. How can I not be inspired while enveloped in all this spring beauty?
(Part of our pond)
(The boys, Elise, and me after a long tree planting day)
"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day." ~W. Earl Hall
"April is a promise that May is bound to keep." ~Hal Borland
"The naked earth is warm with Spring,
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun’s kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze."
~Julian Grenfell
And with green grass and bursting trees
Leans to the sun’s kiss glorying,
And quivers in the sunny breeze."
~Julian Grenfell
(Virginia Bluebells)
"In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours." ~Mark Twain
The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost
You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke
***Images by Elise
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Finding an Everlasting Love by Vonnie Davis
L
LOVE is a single syllable with infinite emotion. As authors, we write about it. As readers, you enjoy turning the pages until the characters find it. And as human beings, we desire it for ourselves.
I'd been single for 12 years before I ventured into the dating scene again. Oh boy, was I ever nervous. What if I found another cheating, lying man? Or worse, what if the guy turned out to be married and I'd be too dumb to see the signs. Nope. I wanted no parts of setting myself for another pain-filled relationship.
Then I met Calvin. We'd both majored in English and he taught it for 40 years We both wrote books. We were both sentimental. We were a strange matched set. He was dark; I was light. He was tall; I was short. He spoke with a deep southern accent; I was more nasal North in accent. He had a fabulous singing voice, while I sounded like a moose in heat. He was thin; I was fluffy. But we clicked.
My Calvin passed away on Saturday night...at least I think it was Saturday...I have no clue what day it really is. You see, Calvin had a heart of gold, a soft mental. In the end, it was his heart, operating at 10% and a stroke that caused his death.
Even in his weakened state where he could barely form words, he slowly spoke "I ,,, Love ... You."
We had him transported home, so I ould care for him and he'd be more content. Three days later, I held his hand as he crossed over, sending him off with words of love. He was the best husband and on May 2nd we would have been married for fifteen years.
If my post is not the greatest or written in a herky-jerky way, forgive me. My eyes are pretty puffy from the crying. So, hug your loved ones hard and make your love everlasting. Next month, I'll be more together.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
CREATIVITY HAS DISAPPOINTMENTS
By Judy Ann Davis
Musicians, writers, painters, scientists, and many more people share a skill that many call creativity. Where does it come from besides the activated frontal lobe of the brain? It’s a tough question that has been explored for years and has often been linked with mood disorders. Many artists, when their brains or hands are busy, have learned to channel depression into some type of creation.
Musicians, writers, painters, scientists, and many more people share a skill that many call creativity. Where does it come from besides the activated frontal lobe of the brain? It’s a tough question that has been explored for years and has often been linked with mood disorders. Many artists, when their brains or hands are busy, have learned to channel depression into some type of creation.
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| First Steps |
March 30, 1953, was the birthday of well-known painter, Vincent Van Gogh,
who lived to be only 37 years old. At the age of 27, he abandoned his
unsuccessful careers as an art dealer and a missionary and concentrated on his
painting and drawing. When he began painting, he used peasants and farmers as
models and then flowers, landscapes and himself because he was too poor to pay
his subjects.
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| Noon Rest |
In less than ten years of his life, he painted
almost 900 paintings. One of his best known works, Starry Night, was painted in in an asylum at
Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France where he voluntarily admitted himself there to
recover from his 1888 nervous breakdown and his ear-cutting incident. The
painting depicts the view from his bedroom window.
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| The Pink Peach Tree |
Ironically, he sold only one painting in his life time. The Red Vineyard which
went for 400 francs in Belgium seven months before his death. His most
expensive painting Portrait
of Dr. Gachet was sold for $148.6 million in 1990.
Why Vincent Van Gogh?
Because he’s just one of scores of visual artists, writers, musicians
and other creative people, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Mark Rothko, Sylvia
Plath, T.S. Eliot, Irving Berlin, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway, who are
known or believed to have suffered from mental illness. He was a
prolific artist—not recognized until after his death. Yet, his paintings are
marvelous. I particularly like many of his lesser known works.
I have chosen some pictures by Vincent Van Gogh that are my favorites. Enjoy!
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
3 Surprising Reasons Why You Overeat
By Josie Riviera
Have you noticed that everywhere we go, we are surrounded by food? Here's 3 reasons why you may be overeating, and how you can curb yourself. Please add to the list and share your comments below.
1. Is your favorite activity going out to eat? (Mine is!) Instead of going out to dinner with friends, consider a physical activity--perhaps bowling or roller skating.
2. Are you eating the correct amount? Read the serving size on the label. You may be surprised to learn you're eating twice the recommended serving size.
3. Are you eating enough fat? Fat-free foods don't control your appetite. Consider eating more healthy fats like olives, nuts, avocados, and salmon.
Rest and relaxation is important. At the end of the day, grab a cup of tea and curl up with a good book. A perfect read for April, The Seeking Series Box Set is a set of my 3 Christian and Historical Romances. Free on KU!
*Five Star Amazon Reader Reviews are saying:
"I loved this series. I have always enjoyed books featuring the Romany. Each selection is well written with a good plot and and believable characters. I thoroughly enjoy this author’s writing. If you enjoy historical fiction I recommend this set."
Enjoy your copy of The Seeking Series today and Happy Reading!
Have you noticed that everywhere we go, we are surrounded by food? Here's 3 reasons why you may be overeating, and how you can curb yourself. Please add to the list and share your comments below.
1. Is your favorite activity going out to eat? (Mine is!) Instead of going out to dinner with friends, consider a physical activity--perhaps bowling or roller skating.
2. Are you eating the correct amount? Read the serving size on the label. You may be surprised to learn you're eating twice the recommended serving size.
3. Are you eating enough fat? Fat-free foods don't control your appetite. Consider eating more healthy fats like olives, nuts, avocados, and salmon.
Rest and relaxation is important. At the end of the day, grab a cup of tea and curl up with a good book. A perfect read for April, The Seeking Series Box Set is a set of my 3 Christian and Historical Romances. Free on KU!
*Five Star Amazon Reader Reviews are saying:
"I loved this series. I have always enjoyed books featuring the Romany. Each selection is well written with a good plot and and believable characters. I thoroughly enjoy this author’s writing. If you enjoy historical fiction I recommend this set."
Enjoy your copy of The Seeking Series today and Happy Reading!
Friday, April 20, 2018
From A Cornfield To A Carnival -- by Laurean Brooks
What does the last week of April mean to you? To many in my hometown, it means a trip to Paris, Tennessee to the “World's Biggest Fish Fry.” Along with huge vats of perfectly-fried golden catfish, it also means a colorful parade and carnival rides.
We didn't give the fish a second thought. Just take me to the carnival. One particular year, my sister's friend Rosalynn, spent the last Friday night in April at our house. We hoped she could persuade our dad to take us to the carnival the next day. Jewell and I had tried, to no avail.
Early the next morning we nudged Rosalynn toward our dad. “Ask him,” I whispered.
Rosalynn, notorious for talking with her hands, dramatically flung them up and out as she began in her sing-song voice. “Mr. Tims, could you possibly find time to take us to the carnival? We would very much appreciate it.”
Daddy grinned and nodded. “Tell you what, girls; I got an acre of corn that needs plantin' in that bottom field.” He pointed through the kitchen window. “If you will plant that field, I'll drive you to the carnival.”
It was all the encouragement we needed. Jewell, Rosalynn and I grabbed hoes and headed down to the already-plowed field. Daddy followed with a heavy sack of corn on one shoulder and set it on the ground at the end of the middle row. “Remember what I told you. Take one short step, drop two grains, take another and drop two more grains. Keep the corn evenly spaced. When the field is planted, I will drive you girls to the Fish Fry.”
Eagerly nodding our understanding, we filled our coffee cans with corn seed. Jewell, Rosalynn and I began stepping off our selected rows, dropping the corn, and covering it with a hoe. Daddy left for the house. I took a deep breath and inhaled the scent of freshly-turned earth. Ah-h... country living.
Before Jewell and I dropped corn halfway down our first rows, Rosalynn reached the far end of hers. She waited for us then started again. Two rows later she had to refill her can.
What was she doing with all that corn? My sister and I looked at each other with a question, but we decided not to vocalize our concerns. A couple of hours later, Jewell and I had refilled our cans. Rosalynn had already refilled hers for the sixth time. With only three unplanted rows remaining, she rushed up to us with her empty can. “ Y'all got any more corn? The sack's empty.”
The sack is empty? Must have been 25 pounds of seed in it.
“We don't have much left,” I warned. “We need to make sure it's enough to finish.” Rosalynn nodded as Jewell and I divided the remainder of our grain with her. Soon we had finished the entire field.
We washed up and changed into fresh clothes before approaching Daddy. He stood up from his easy chair. “You girls ready?”
After girlish squeals, we raced out to the truck, letting the screen door slap to behind us.
True to his word, Daddy climbed behind the wheel of our rickety old Chevrolet pickup while we hopped up in the truck bed and got comfortable.
At the carnival, he gave each of us money for the rides and instructed, “I'll be back in a couple of hours. Meet me at the front gate.”
We rode the Tilt-a-Whirl, Scrambler, Ferris Wheel, and every other thrilling ride we could find. Some of them twice.
When our time was up and our money gone, Jewell, Rosalynn and I trudged to the gate where Daddy waited. Exhausted from a long day, we climbed into the bed of the truck and relaxed. I leaned back and relaxed, relishing the cool air on my face during the twenty-mile drive home.
I think it was six weeks later when Daddy and I stood in the backyard facing the bottom field. He pulled a pouch of Country Gentleman from his pocket and began to roll a cigarette. When the cigarette was rolled, he stuck it in his mouth and took a puff. His gaze drifting over the cornfield, he pointed. “I'll bet I can tell you every row Rosalynn planted.”
Scanning the corn rows, I smothered a giggle. Every third row was as crooked as the 21-curves on Highway 190 to Latham, and grew as thick as Johnson grass. In a hurry to get through and get on the road to the carnival, Rosalynn had generously strewn corn by the handfuls in the furrows.
Daddy was not smiling as he took another deep draw off his cigarette./
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Something For Your Sweet Tooth
Hi, everyone. I don't know if it's because I'm trying to eat healthier due to my PMR (polymyalgia rheumatica) or what, but I've been craving sweets. Grrr So to keep me from baking and eating some of my faves, I thought I'd share a favorite family recipe with you.
My Grandfather, John Garland Carr, was, among other things, an engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad. He started at Santa Fe during the depression and retired about 1965. His hours were anything but routine depending on the runs he made. He loved his black coffee and my grandmother's pound cake, which she made before every trip. She packed slices in his lunches and he would grab a slice on his way out the kitchen door. In addition to the cake, there was always a pot of coffee sitting on the stove, and he would always stop and take a swig of hot coffee straight from the spout of the pot. I remember watching and wondering how he kept from burning his mouth! Yikes!
The name of the recipe is Crisco Cake, but we all called it John Cake. I hope you'll try the recipe and love it as much as our family does.
My Grandfather, John Garland Carr, was, among other things, an engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad. He started at Santa Fe during the depression and retired about 1965. His hours were anything but routine depending on the runs he made. He loved his black coffee and my grandmother's pound cake, which she made before every trip. She packed slices in his lunches and he would grab a slice on his way out the kitchen door. In addition to the cake, there was always a pot of coffee sitting on the stove, and he would always stop and take a swig of hot coffee straight from the spout of the pot. I remember watching and wondering how he kept from burning his mouth! Yikes!
The name of the recipe is Crisco Cake, but we all called it John Cake. I hope you'll try the recipe and love it as much as our family does.
John Cake aka Crisco Cake
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1 3/4 cup sugar
2 cups flour
1 cup Crisco shortening
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5 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
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Procedure
1
Cream sugar and shortening
2
add eggs one at a time, beating well, to make
batter fluffier
3
add vanilla
4
Mix salt into sifted flour and add to creamed
sugar, shortening and egg mixture
5
Bake one hour at 350 degrees in greased and
floured tube pan
Servings:
12
Now it's your turn to share with all of us. What's your fave recipe?
Hugs and Love to all y'all!
Carra
Monday, April 16, 2018
Do You Want Romance? by @JoanReeves
It's the I WANT ROMANCE GIVEAWAY.
There are such great prizes that I'm trying to get everyone to enter. Plus, there's a Book Fair with romance novels, of course.
I mean, who couldn’t use a little more romance right about now considering you've probably all been working on income tax returns this past week--if you live in the U.S.? I thought I'd never get mine done!
Prizes: Hurray for Rafflecopter
* Kindle Fire 7 Tablet
* Marc Jacobs Leather Zip Phone Wristlet ($155 retail value)
* $25 worth of ebooks from Amazon (winner's choice, up to 5 total books)
* $20 worth of ebooks from Amazon (winner's choice, up to 4 total books)
* $15 worth of ebooks from Amazon (winner's choice, up to 3 total books - 2 of these prize packs will be awarded)
* $10 Amazon gift card (2 will be awarded)
Just visit the Giveaway page on I WANT ROMANCE GIVEAWAY and click "Read More." The page will open with pictures of the great prizes, the Rafflecopter entry form, and more.
Then there's the Book Fair filled with amazing novels where you can shop. Choose from books in genres from contemporary romance to romantic suspense to PNR for $2.99 or less.
You’ll even find a bonus giveaway so be looking for it!
The Giveaway ends April 22 so enter today and tell your friends too. You could be one of 8 lucky winners to add new ‘romance’ to their lives!Sponsoring Authors
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This event is a great one, Readers. Enter the I WANT ROMANCE GIVEAWAY today, and Party Hearty!
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Fun project for a great cause! by Paty Jager
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| My story in the anthology |
Once we arrived there were fun events hosted by authors spread out over the weekend with a booksigning One of the events I sponsored was the PBR rodeo.This year they have taken the whole rodeo event to a higher level of entertainment. The VIP rodeo event package starts on Saturday with a bus picking up the people who purchased the package at the hotel at 4:45 pm. It takes everyone to the rodeo grounds were they are taken on a behind the chutes tour of running a bull into the chutes and cowboys will show us how they prepare to make the ride. There will be the announcer and the bull fighters to answer our questions. Everyone receives an official Deadwood t-shirt and swag bag. A dinner prepared by Number 10 Saloon will be served in a special VIP tent on the rodeo grounds. After dinner we'll take our VIP seats to watch the action. The bus that brought everyone to the rodeo grounds will take us to Number 10 Saloon to party with the PBR cowboys afterwards.
Most of the authors who are hosting the Rodeo VIP package are also featured authors in the Wild Deadwood Tales Anthology.
Proceeds from this limited edition
collection go to benefit the Western Sports Foundation, an organization
providing critical assistance to athletes competing in Western lifestyle
sports. Whether they need help recuperating from an injury or planning for the
future, WSF is there for them.
The book is available for preorder now and will be publish May st, and you can purchase autographed print copies at the PBR
Rodeo in Deadwood, SD on June 8th and 9th.
CASH’S CLAIM
Zoe Blake
She was his...and it was past time he staked
his claim.
Jessamine Cooper was determined to stay
independent and run her late uncle's ranch on her own. When she shows up in
Deadwood with an ill-advised plan to win the money she needs playing poker,
Cash decides it is past time for him to stake his claim.
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UNEXPECTED CALAMITY
E.E. Burke
A friendship that never died.
Calamity Jane is drawn back to Deadwood by a
force more powerful than death, and becomes an unexpected savior in the midst
of an epidemic.
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SAVING DALLIE
Paty Jager
Everyone deserves a chance.
When a miner tosses his daughter into the pot
at a poker game and the winner is a brothel owner, Beau Gentry is determined to
keep the young woman out of the man’s hands.
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THE GAMBLER AND THE PREACHER’S DAUGHTER
Teresa Keefer
Can a preacher's daughter play poker with a
gambler and win?
Leticia Chasteen was always getting dragged
into situations she didn't want to be in. Rusty McGraw the gambler was always
coming to her rescue. Who will end up with the winning hand?
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A RISKY PROPOSAL
Megan Kelly
He loves her. She loves him. A proposal should
be good news, right?
Callie Jones never wanted to date a bull
rider. Now she’s fallen in love with Rome Anderson, who’s intent on winning the
PBR Championship buckle. When he asks her to marry him, she has to decide: Does
she break his heart with a no or doom her future with a yes?
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LOVE ACROSS TIME
Sylvia McDaniel
Is it possible to love someone in another
time? Are dreams real?
Sadie Mae Miller is hanging up her barrel
racing crown and beginning a new life. But when her grandmother asks her to
sleep under a new wedding ring quilt with promises of visions of the love of
her life, she doesn’t quite believe her. Until she falls asleep. Only problem
is, he lived in 1880. Does time separate the lovers?
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ONCE UPON A DEADWOOD DREAM
Amanda McIntyre
Sometimes to find your future you must face
the past.
Past and present meld together in Deadwood
when a woman who discovers true love must fight to escape a deadly twist of
fate.
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THE BROTHERHOOD
Peggy McKenzie
Sometimes, love is hiding in the most peculiar
places.
Major Lucas Hamilton, widower and father of
four boys, insists on the disciplined order of a regimented household. But when
a bumbling young woman falls at his feet, will he take a chance on her or send
her packing before she burns his house down to the ground.
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MAVERICK SEDUCTION
Angi Morgan
Teenage crush or true love. You decide.
Sean Maverick is on a charity auction block
until a beautiful woman from his past buys him for the night. Em Stone believed
in love at first sight even if she had to lasso and knock Sean off his feet.
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TIMING IS EVERYTHING
Nancy Naigle
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride? Never say
never.
Kendra is fine with being a bridesmaid. She
hung up her wedding hopes and dreams eight years ago when her cowboy chose the
rodeo over her, but when these two cross paths in Deadwood it looks like the
timing just might be right for a reconciliation.
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RESCUING RAVEN
Jacqui Nelson
In a gold rush storm, can an unlikely pair
rescue each other?
Raven wants to save one person. Charlie wants
to save the world. Their warring nations thrust them together but duty pulled
them apart—until their paths crossed again in Deadwood for a fight for love.
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AFTER THE FALL
Terri Osburn
When it comes to love, sometimes falling is
the easy part.
Aspyn Fielding blames Tucker Stargill for not
talking her brother, Colt, out of riding bulls. When Colt is gravely injured
during a ride, Aspyn is hopeful Tucker will finally see things her way, but
Aspyn is the one who has a change of heart.
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BEST RESULTS
Ginger Ring
Finding the perfect results from one simple
test.
Orphaned at a young age, both Adam and River
yearn to find a living relative from either of their families. After finally
deciding to put down roots in Deadwood, a simple DNA test brings a result that
is more than they ever expected.
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A GIFT OF GOLD
Maggie Ryan
There may be gold in the Black Hills, but
Bennett had his eyes on a far more valuable prize.
Not one to be deterred by the dictates of
society, Lorelai Samuels had a dream to open a restaurant in the bustling new
town of Deadwood and no one was going to stand in her way, especially not the
infuriatingly handsome and stubborn Bennett Redding.
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GOTTA HAVE FAITH
Lizbeth Selvig
Win or lose, she’s about to take on the big
boys.
Faith “Rabbit” Redmond forms an extreme plan
at the Deadwood rodeo to convince a champion bull rider that women can excel at
the dangerous sport. If she wins his respect, she might also win his love. .
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THE SCHOOL MARM
Tina Susedik
Can a schoolmarm with dreams of a better life,
fall for a disreputable man?
Suzanna Lindstrom travels as a schoolmarm in
fledgling Deadwood. Having left her parents’ struggling farm, she dreams of a better
life in Deadwood with a man who’s struck it rich in the gold fields. Fresh off
the stagecoach, she meets Kingston Winson, whom she disregards as disreputable.
Is he who she thinks he is? What lesson will she learn?
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TRICKS
A.C. Wilson
Tricks inspire courage and new love while
daring others to dream.
Pushed to choose a direction for her life,
Tandi discovers that some crossroads are necessary. Surprisingly, each marker
leads her to an arena of spectators with her talented horse and a handsome guy
who gives her hope to do the impossible.
Here are the links to the book to
prerorder at the various retailers. It is available May 1st.
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