Once and Forever
by Mary
Blayney, Elaine Fox, Emelle Gamble,
Lavinia Kent and Evie Owens
This anthology put together different genres under the same cover.
That is a fantastic idea. The authors will be awarding an eBook
copy of "Once and Forever" to five randomly drawn commenters during
the tour, and a Grand Prize of a $25 Amazon GC to one randomly drawn commenter
during the tour.
BLURB:
Once and Forever - An
anthology
By Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Emelle Gamble, Lavinia Kent and
introducing Evie Owens
From five compelling authors, five original novellas which will
make you laugh and cry, and believe in a love that once found will last
forever. Meet a duke, a psychic, a bodyguard and a professor…and one
"guardian fairy" in absorbing stories ranging from regency and
contemporary romance to paranormal and women's fiction.
Playing
for Keeps by Mary Blayney
Actress Kendall Marshall is determined to get an autograph for her
sick sister from famous TV personality Mike O’Hara, the Oprah Winfrey of
sports. In the process she meets his brother, security consultant Steve
Marshall, lands a job on O’Hara’s show and gets in the way of a man set on
causing big trouble. As the stalkers attacks escalate, Steve and Kendall are
thrown together and find it impossible to ignore the chemistry between them.
The
Princess & the Pinot by Elaine Fox
When a beautiful woman shows up at the Vineyard Inn, wine manager
Kim is certain she’s been sent by fate for the inn’s owner, Cooper.
Self-effacing to a fault, Kim knows she can’t hold a candle to Principessa
Bella, who also seems to know even more about wine than Kim herself, but her
heart has belonged to Cooper since they shared one kiss as teenagers.
While Prin sweeps easily into the job of sommelier at the renowned
inn, Kim is afraid Prin will sweep just as surely into Cooper’s arms if she
doesn’t do something about it. Can she tell Cooper how she feels without losing
even his friendship?
Kim is willing to try except for one problem: she’s almost
certainly losing her mind. Or is that belching, swearing, smoking, farting
fairy – who claims to be trying to help her – real?
Duets
by Emelle Gamble
Duets offers alternating looks into the lives of two women who
would seem to have little or nothing in common.
Screen star Molly Harper is on the verge of marrying a man who has
swept her off her feet, thought perhaps hasn’t swept all her feelings for her
first love away. Anne Sullivan, happily married for twenty-five years, is
fighting to hold onto the man she loves, and hold off a confrontation that
could shatter her family’s image of what they are.
Duets confronts a past secret that ties these two women’s lives
together, just as chance events turn Molly and Anne’s worlds upside down.
Never
and Forever by Lavinia Kent
Never and Forever is the beginning of the love story of two people
who shouldn’t belong together. Molly,
Miss Wilkes, runs an employment agency helping women of quality find positions
perfected suited to their characters.
Although her father held the title of Earl for just over a week before
his death, Molly has never wanted to be a lady.
She knows her place in this world – and it is not at the center of
society.
The Duke of Radford also knows his place in this world – and it’s
above everybody else’s. He cannot
imagine a world without all the privilege and power that comes from being
Radford. He’s had foreign princesses and
heiresses dangled before him for years.
Why would he ever have interest in a simple woman who doesn’t even
understand that she should want to be a duchess?
Can these two overcome the obstacles of their own beliefs and
realize that love can make all things possible?
Never and forever are both a very long time. Where will their love fit?
The
Psychic Detective by Evie Owens
Psychic Martin Sterling doesn't trust cops--and the feeling is
mutual. Detective Erin Healy needs more than a ghost story to save her job and
reputation. Her partner is dead, a million dollars in drugs and money is
missing, and all the evidence points to her.
Can a sexy psychic and a by the book cop, trapped between the
living and the dead, unearth the truth? Or will a cold-blooded killer get away
with it all...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Excerpt:
(Contemporary Paranormal Romance –
Elaine Fox’s The Princess & the Pinot)
“All right,” I said carefully,
looking down at this tiny obnoxious man who called himself my fairy. “So what
does that get me, three wishes or something?”
I wondered why it had to be me who
went crazy. I mean, I already had enough problems.
“Naw, you don’t have to wish,
girly.” He scratched his belly with three fingers. “I know exactly what you
want. Hell, everybody here knows what you want. But the difference is – I can
get it for you. Or maybe I should say, I can get him for you.”
I started shaking my head. “No. I
don’t care if you are real and you can work magic. I don’t want him that way. I
don’t want something fake.”
“Oh puh-leeze, you’ll take him
however you can get him. And what is love but magic anyway? However it comes
about?”
His point might have struck me true
if he hadn’t just wriggled something out of his ear and stood examining
whatever it was on the end of his finger.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Mary Blayney:
NY
Times Best Selling author Mary Blayney’s first two romances were contemporaries
published by Silhouette Books. Since 2000 she has been writing regency set
historical novels and novellas for Kensington, Bantam and Berkley. Returning to
the contemporary market with her novella in ONCE AND FOREVER, Mary hopes to
continue to tell stories set in both the regency and the 21st century.
Married
to a retired Coast Guard officer, Mary has lived all over the US from Alaska to
Puerto Rico, but is now settled near Annapolis, Maryland within sight of the
Chesapeake Bay. Her life close to the Coast Guard and its mission to search and
rescue, has convinced her that life is best lived with joy, love and a generous
heart. Those convictions are what she most wantS to share with her readers.
Family will always play a strong part in her books since she believes that
family relationships are as fundamental as the love between a man and a woman.
ONE
MORE KISS:
“Mary
Blayney’s newest Regency romance is a genuine pleasure to read”(NY Journal of
Books)
“One
More Kiss is a delightful combination of social comedy, slight mystery, and
sweet romance. It’s a thoroughly charming novel, well worth a read.” . . .(NY
Journal of Books)
MIRROR
MIRROR anthology, “If Wishes Were Horses”
Debut
at #3 New York Times Mass Market List October 2013
“Blayney's
wish-granting coin entwines a pair of lonely adventure seekers in romance
beyond their lives as a servant and a sergeant in her charming 1816 fantasy, If
Wishes Were Horses. . . .” (Publishers Weekley, October 2013)
Links:
Elaine Fox
NY
Times Best Selling author Elaine Fox began her career writing time-travel
romances, such as Rita-finalist Traveler, and Impostor (both now available as
e-books on Amazon and Barnes & Noble), then added historicals to the mix.
After six books with Leisure Books, she moved to Avon to begin writing
contemporary romances. Her first, Maybe Baby, hit the USA Today Bestseller list
and eight more novels and four novellas followed, with several of them also
reaching the USA Today list.
Most
recently she participated in the anthology Mirror, Mirror from Berkley
Publishers, which debuted at #3 on the New York Times Bestseller list.
Elaine
lives just outside of Washington, D.C., with a small Cuban dog and a lovely
Argentinean man. Elaine is trying to learn Spanish.
Review
Quotes:
Praise
for Beauty, Sleeping, in the anthology MIRROR, MIRROR:
“Fox
introduces a charming ghostly television reporter to the woman who buys his
haunted house in Beauty, Sleeping, a clever, turned-on-its-head version of
Sleeping Beauty.” Publishers Weekly
Praise
for HELLO, DOGGY!:
“HELLO,
DOGGY! by Elaine Fox is a laugh-out-loud, character-driven story that will
captivate readers from their first introduction to the lovable pooch and her
dreamy owner.” Fresh Fiction
Praise
for BEWARE OF DOUG:
“A
must read.” Fresh Fiction
Links:
Email:
authorelainefox@aol.com
Emelle Gamble
Emelle
Gamble was a writer at an early age, bursting with the requisite childhood
stories of introspection. These evolved into bad teen poetry and worse short
stories. She took her first stab at full length fiction in an adult education
writing class when her kids were in bed.
As M.L. Gamble, she published several romantic suspense novels with
Harlequin. She has contracted with Soul Mate Publishing for Secret Sister,
published in the summer of 2013, and Dating Cary Grant, a Spring 2014 release.
Molly
Harper will be released by Posh Publishing in December, 2013.
Emelle
lives in suburban Washington D.C. with her husband, ‘Phil-the-fist’, her hero
of thirty years, and two orange cats,
Lucy and Bella. These girls, like all good villains, have their reasons for
misbehaving. Her daughter, Olivia, and son, Allen, are happily launched on
their own and contributing great things to society, their mother’s fondest
wish.
Review
Quotes:
Praise
for Secret Sister
“Along
with being a very unique and captivating plot, SECRET SISTER offers a shocking
turn of the paranormal kind. So if you are the type of person that wants
ordinary romance in a book, you won't find that here. This is a story of
friendship, family, and most of all, true love and what those things can mean.
I cannot recommend SECRET SISTER strongly enough… “ Fresh Fiction, Fresh
Reviews
"If
you're looking for a typical women's fiction/romance, don't look here... this
story has a twist of the paranormal that will have you willingly stretching
your belief in order to enjoy the plot. Emelle Gamble has created a story that
will tear your heart out." Long and
Short Reviews
Links:
Email:
emellegamble@aol.com
Evie Owens
Evie
Owens was born in Japan, but grew up on a dairy farm in Upper Michigan. She's
waited tables and tended bar, which makes her a very good tipper, but writing
is her passion. She's thrilled to be included in this anthology with some of
her favorite authors.
These
days, Evie lives in Maryland while her two fabulous daughters and one glorious
granddaughter live too far away. Leaving her no alternative but to turn to a
life of crazy cat ladyness (except for the "cat" and the
"ladyness" parts).
Review
Quotes:
The
Psychic Detective is Evie’s first published novella.
Links:
FaceBook: Author Evie Owens
Goodreads:
Evie Owens
Lavinia Kent
Lavinia
Kent never knew that most people don’t make up stories in their heads to pass
the time. She still has a hard time understanding how those who don’t survive
the doctor’s waiting room or a grocery store line without another world to
escape into.
Growing
up in New York state and Wisconsin, Lavinia graduated from Wellesley College
and, for reasons that are still not quite clear, also holds an MBA from
Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown University. Lavinia has remained in Washington
ever since.
She
lives under the gracious (and usually benign) rule of Erzsebet, the cat, along
with her husband, three children, one cockatiel, two rats, and Erzsebet’s
younger, subordinate tomcat, otherwise known as The Golden Snitch.
As
the mother of three, Lavinia finds “leisure time” to be ever-elusive, but when
she is not reading romance novels, she watches far too much HBO and reality
television. It must also be noted that she has an encyclopedic knowledge of all
things Buffy and Doctor Who.
Lavinia
was a two-term president of the Washington Romance Writers and is proud to be a
four-time Romance Writers of America Golden Heart nominee.
She
was excited (and humbled and thrilled and over the moon) about the publication
of her first historical Romance, A Talent for Sin, in June 2009. Her second
book, Bound by Temptation,was released in February 2010. Her third book, Taken by Desire, is available
in December 2010.
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