Coming Soon: Wishing On A Star by Terri Osburn

Hello! Big thank you to Tracey for giving me the opportunity to visit here today. I appreciate the chance to talk about my forthcoming release, WISHING ON A STAR, which is the third installment in my Shooting Stars series and will release on Dec 11, 2018.

First off, if you haven’t read the first two books in the series, that’s no problem. These books are all written to stand alone. The only repeating elements are the setting—Nashville, Tennessee—and the fictitious Shooting Stars Records, the newest label in town run by the sexy and enigmatic Clay Benedict. So with that one sentence, you’re up to speed on the series.

WISHING ON A STAR is a slow burn romance (something I didn’t realize until well into the writing) that is a twist on the best friend’s younger sister trope. Or is it the older brother’s best friend trope? Either way, you get the idea, except there are complications with this one. Many years ago, the hero Ash Shepherd, the heroine Jesse Gold, and Jesse’s brother Tommy were involved in a car accident that took her brother’s life.

Ash was driving. They haven’t seen each other since.

As you can imagine, Jesse learning that the only producer willing to work on her debut album is the man who’d walked out of her life after that tragic night does not go over well. Jesse never had a crush on Ash, but he was her closest connection to Tommy, so him abandoning her meant she lost both of them at the same time. She’s resentful, angry, and hurt, and those are never a positive combination, especially for a fiery redhead.

For his part, Ash lives with constant guilt and his exit from Jesse’s life was not by choice. Being offered this opportunity to help make her dreams come true is a much-needed shot at making amends for something he can never undo or expect forgiveness. He promised Tommy that he’d watch over his impetuous and daring younger sister, but being forced to keep his distance has made that difficult.

After some tough conversations, they get to work, but neither is prepared for the sparks that ignite between them. Jesse is in a long-term relationship with someone else, and Ash is determined to maintain his role as her protector and nothing more. Until one stormy night when everything changes...

This is a story about two people forging a new relationship as adults, learning to forgive—both each other and themselves, and struggling to let go of the past in order to embrace a future that neither of them ever imagined. The stakes are high, both personally and professionally, as two wounded artists battle their own insecurities while making beautiful music together.

PS: That last line is super cheesy but I like it anyway. 😊

WISHING ON A STAR, Shooting Stars book 3, releases Dec 11, 2018 for Kindle and print (will be available through KU) and is up for preorder now!

Thanks again to Tracey for letting me hang out with her today. For fun, I’ll give a $5.00 Amazon gift card to one lucky commenter here. Just tell me what wish you would make on a star.

FINDING HOME, Roped by the Cowboy, 1 by USA Today & International Bestselling author J.C. Valentine

FINDING HOME

by J.C. Valentine

Roped by the Cowboy, #1

Publication Date: October 18, 2018

Cover Credits: J.C. Valentine

Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Cowboy, Duet

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SYNOPSIS

Life is unpredictable. Vivian learned that the hard way and did the only thing she could: she ran. But life isn’t about to let her off easy.

Nash is everything a woman wants and nothing Vivian could have planned for. Gorgeous with his sexy blue-eyed stare, toned body, and wearing a cowboy hat, he’s the perfect package and Vivian’s ideal rebound. Too bad he wants nothing to do with her. That’s fine. Vivian wasn’t looking for love anyway, but her meddling new roommate has other ideas.

Two people from different worlds shouldn’t make sense, but desire is an animal that won’t be denied. With secrets lurking on both sides of the fence, however, it’s just a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J.C. Valentine is the USA Today and International bestselling author of the Night Calls and Wayward Fighters Series and the Forbidden Trilogy. Her vivid imagination and love of words and romance had her penning her own romance stories from an early age, which, despite being poorly edited and written longhand, she forced friends and family members to read. No, she isn’t sorry.

Living in the Northwest, she has three amazing children and far too many pets. Among the many hats she wears, J.C. is an entrepreneur. Having graduated with honors, she holds a Bachelor’s in English and when she isn’t writing, you can find her editing for fellow authors.

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Guarded by a Seal by Julie Morgan Re-Release

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Andria Huffton led a quiet life in Virginia Beach. No worries. No baggage. No problems. She left all of that, and her past, behind in Colorado. Enjoying her life with her sister, Suzy, close by, everything calmed down and she could finally feel what it meant to be free. At least until she received a letter from the corrections facility where her past had been locked up, broke out.

Jax Masters finished his commitment to the military and the SEALs, but he knew he was not done with the fight. He found GAPS and joined their team. His first assignment was an attractive brunette who fought death, and survived.

When Jax met Andria, what he loved became a complicated mess with what he knew was right.

Andria’s worst fear was facing her past. Jax will protect her, no matter what. When protection may not be enough, Andria will be forced to find a strength inside herself she never knew she had.

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Keep Me Close by Cynthia P. O'Neill

***KEEP ME CLOSE ***


I’ve always been driven to succeed at everything I’ve tried. I graduated secondary school at age thirteen, earned a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at sixteen, and finished my medical residency at twenty-two. My focus as Dr. Galen Hunter Christensen has been traveling the world to give medical care to people in remote villages…until now.

Sierra Jade Evans has pulled me into her orbit. This last year I’ve been preoccupied with finding ways to talk with her, wanting to know everything about her. Our likes and dislikes are almost identical, and the differences only complement our personalities, but we do have two problems: Her ability to trust has been shaken, and she’s hung up on being six years my senior.

Fate finally led us to spend one night exploring what could be, before sending us separate directions. But now I’m back.

I have an unquenchable thirst for Sierra—the only woman to ever fill the void in my life and not object to my dominance and kinky desires. I know I’ll have to work a miracle to gain her trust, but I’ll do anything to keep her close and make her mine.

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**NOTE** This book is a standalone with a HEA. Intended for mature audiences, age 18+, due to strong language and sexual content. Unlikely romance, steamy, a little kink, and I can't stay away from chaos and suspense. There's also an introduction to a new series coming next year. Also, did I mention Galen has a sexy British accent?

Sugar Ink Serenade (Hot Wired Book #4)

By Gracen Miller

What happens in Vegas… Slinging ink is what Harriet “Sugar” Malone is famous for. She’s riding a one-way ticket to the top. As the youngest winner of Tattoo Guru, she’s rocketed to the spots reserved only for the elites in the artistic field. She’s finally rubbing elbows with the tattooists she admires the most and has no time for a man distracting her focus. A chance meeting with a hot guy in line to bungee jump is about to rock her world. …stays in Vegas, right? Derringer “Derr” Ramos is the bass guitarist for the hottest band around, Hot Wired. Fame isn’t new to him and neither is getting the women he desires the most. He’s watched all of his band family marry and start families and he’s happy for them. Derr is content as a bachelor, focused solely on his family and his career… until one night in Las Vegas shifts his thinking. When you’re a celebrity, nothing remains secret… Rumors, attorneys, and agents battling it out are a typical day in the life of a celebrity. Derr and Sugar feel duped and cheated, they’re thrust together and tasked with resolving the scandal brewing. Before time runs out, will they realize that one drunken night in Las Vegas was the start of something even bigger? And scandals introduce you to your newest lover.

Author Bio: Gracen is a hopeless daydreamer masquerading as a "normal" person in southern society. When not writing, she's a full-time mom for her two sons and a devoted wife to her real-life hero-husband. She has an unusual relationship with her muse, Dom, but credits all her creative success to his brilliant mind. She's addicted to writing, paranormal romance novels and movies, Alabama football and coffee...addictions are not necessarily in order of priority. She's convinced coffee is nectar from the gods and when blending coffee and writing together it generates the perfect creative merger. Many of her creative worlds are spawned from coffee highs and Dom's aggressive demands. To learn more about Gracen or to leave her a comment, visit her website at www.gracen-miller.com. https://www.facebook.com/gracen.miller https://twitter.com/GracenMiller

2017 in Review

Holy cow, guys! I had 3 new books come out in the last 2 months of 2017! 
If I had to narrow my writing down to 3 genres, I would have hit them all. 
I had a Paranormal MF romance

, a MM Christmas story

, and a Lesbian Contemporary story

Thank you to all of you who buy and read my books. I wish you all peace and love in 2018. 

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Sassy in the Snow Release Day

Escape into Milly Taiden's Sassy Ever After Kindle World. A new release by Tracey Steinbach

Blurb:

Jolene Todd has been patiently waiting for the completion of her bar remodel. Finding herself in need of something to occupy her time, Jolene agrees to house sit for a friend. The peace and quiet is a nice change from the rowdy atmosphere of her bar, but soon the calm comes to a crashing halt when Jolene finds herself face to face with a dashing shifter.
Ryker Stevens prides himself on being the town Sheriff and an enforcer of the pack. While tracking a rouge wolf, Ryker happens upon a home and meets a woman who just may be the missing piece of his heart.
Follow Ryker and Jolene as they overcome a mix-up and tread the waters of romance in Sassy in the Snow by Tracey Steinbach.

 

A special thank you to Taylor Dawn for the beautiful cover and help with my blurb. 

 

This launch the Sassy Ever After Kindle World authors have a special surprise for you. Barbara Wolfe has a message but to find it.... Well you have to visit each author's FB page or website and find the "hidden word" on their release day post.
The word(s) could be on a teaser, all caps, in italics, a different color.. etc. It just stands out in some way.
When you put all the words together to make a statement, Email it to Jennifer @ Carpediem5366@gmail.com

One person will be picked to win a kindle!

Authors are listed in random order:
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http://aidyaward.com/books/dragons-love-curves/
www.elianneadams.com
https://www.facebook.com/AliyahBurkeAuthor/
www.facebook.com/EMarieBooks
https://www.facebook.com/RobbieCoxAuthor/
https://www.facebook.com/CodiGarysBooks/
https://www.facebook.com/ChristinaBenjaminAuthor/
https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTaylorDawn/

A special treat for you: We all uploaded the first chapter of our books to Instafreebie.  It will be live for one month. https://www.instafreebie.com/gg/V2hIUh7St3sBeSLKhPgF

 

 

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Timeless Surrender Cover Reveal

Timeless Surrender, Book 3 of New Camelot 

Blurb: 

History branded him a coward. Prophecy labeled her his destruction. Some legends are born of lies. Others begin when the lies end. And not everything remains myth...

If you could live forever, what would you choose to live for? I chose power.

Born of darkness and raised on revenge, Mordred Lothian spent an eternity fighting for the honor of a woman who had none. Free of her hatred, his only goal is to pick up the pieces of betrayal and attempt to forge a new life in a world that never wanted him. Raised by one of Hollywood's most scandalous actresses, Jenalyn Rhodes knows true illusion begins when the end credits roll. Damaged by the one person who should have protected her most, she is determined to have no master and only one mistress: Herself. Thrown together to stop an ancient evil hell bent on vengeance, can the sacrifice of one be the salvation of the other? 

You've loved through the Night. You've burned with Desire. This summer, prepare to Surrender. 

 

 

Torie James

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The Ghost of Secret's Gate

The Ghost of Secret's Gate

Genre: Paranormal/Contemporary Romance

Series: Loch Ness Legends #1

He wanted a home...

1861. Estranged from his family for a shocking betrayal, Highlander Lachlan MacQueen is a man who lives by his rules and no other. Reckless and rootless, he roams the border towns between Scotland and England, a mercenary for hire with an unspoken determination to regain all he's lost. By any means necessary.

When he inadvertently saves the life of Queen Victoria, she rewards him with a royal boon, the deed to a small manse nestled along the shores of Loch Ness called Secret's Gate and a stipend to ensure his outlaw days are over. But past sins demand payment and when the price becomes too high, Lachlan's untimely death becomes another skeletal ghost in an unopened closet.

She wanted to heal...

2017. Verity Harper's memories of Secret's Gate are hazy at best. Two months spent in Scotland 25 years ago echo with remnants of a mysterious, hasty departure home to America and fresh beginnings with her mother, Pamela and new stepfather, Archibald MacQueen.

 Now, she returns to claim the legacy left to her by Archie; the very manor of her erstwhile childhood summer. But the free spirited, fun loving child that roamed the grounds with innocent glee has been replaced by a heartbroken woman full of remorse and shattered by regret.

And now, she's beginning to question her sanity when an alluringly familiar voice in her head opens the floodgates to a piece of her past long forgotten.

Can a lie that destroyed one life give another the truth it needs to be whole?

Author's Note:

One of my all-time favorite movies is The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison. Once a year, my mother and I watch it together, it's our "thing".

I've always wanted to write my own ghostly love story but they can be tricky in various ways. I finally bit the bullet though and began work on "The Ghost of Secret's Gate". It ended up turning into a much larger story than originally intended but I am so happy with the end result!

It's got a few of my favorite things: Scotland, Hot Ghost Dude and did I mention Scotland?

So, meet my new friend Verity, a woman tottering on the brink of defeat....

Excerpt:

Ah, she couldn't get enough of Clare's raspberry cranachan trifle. Clearly by the feel of her skirt's tightening waistline.

Voices, however, she'd had enough of and reached for one of the six pill bottles on the nightstand, deftly plucking one from the rest. Her auditory hallucinations weren't a result of a psychosis, so there was no actual medicine to treat her. She refused to take anti-psychotics, scared it would do irreparable damage to her already battered brain. She noticed it only flared when she grew irritated or anxious, thus she had grudgingly accepted the doctor's recommendation of Halcion, in its lowest doseage. Sedating her brain activity afforded pockets of relief from hearing things. Thinking things.

What's happened to you, sweetheart?

Uncapping the bottle, she shook out a pill, popped it into her mouth and took a swig from the glass of water Clare had brought her earlier. Well, thank you for asking, Voice in My Head. Let's see. Life. Life happened. I grew up, got a job, made a career, married, divorced. Nearly got crushed by a train while working on location. Spent a lot of time in physical therapy for my back while alternately falling in love with painkillers. Lost my mind and my job after that. Lot of fuzzy time in between in which I did some pretty shameless things to keep my fix going. Woke up one day, decided this was my story and since I was holding the pen, it was time for a rewrite. Got clean, got a new job and got engaged. But instead of planning a wedding, I ended up missing a funeral after I killed my parents. That about sums it up. Oh, and my fiancé dumped me because my face is no longer pleasing to the eye. Anything I left out can be found in the brochure. Grab one on your way out. I'm here all week, try the veal!

Release Date: 2/16/2017

Will be available on:

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Author Bio:

Born on the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous,Torie is the illegitimate love child of Han Solo and Daenerys Targaryen. Rescued by Gandalf shortly before her home planet was destroyed in the last days of the Clone Wars, she was raised in relative obscurity by her foster parents, Severus Snape and Pippi Longstocking. At the tender age of 113, she inherited the best little whorehouse in Texas and is rumored to be bringing Sexy Back. A self confessed chocoholic, she’s been engaged to Willy Wonka despite gossip surrounding a lifelong affair with Bruce Wayne.

And clearly, she practices delusion on a daily basis.

The truth is, I’m just an overgrown kid with a vivid imagination who loves to write and share my crazy with the world. My future plans include, hopefully, buying a lovely Scottish castle and convincing Queen Elizabeth I that I’d make a fab addition to the Royal Family.

Four years ago, I finally got my ‘brave’ on and submitted a wee story about true love, honor, friendship and the magic within us all. That story was Timeless Night, the first book in a five book series I’ve named New Camelot. Since then, I’ve been lucky enough to have published Timeless Desire (Book 2 of New Camelot), Beauty and The Feast (A New Camelot Thanksgiving Novella) Ties That Bind (The Cloie Chronicles I), Fractured Fantasies (Valentine’s Venom), Fractured Fantasies (Volume 1-6) and slew of short stories.

I live in Southern California, a stone’s throw from Disneyland, with my family and the most ridiculously spoiled pets anyone could imagine. I wake everyday with the determination to make this life as random, quirky and beautiful as it can be.

If I haven't scared you off yet, feel free to track me down at any of the following!

You can find/follow Torie at:

Blog and Website: https://toriejames.wordpress.com/

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