KIRK - BY CHARLENE RADDON

 By Caroline Clemmons

My friend, Charlene Raddon, is a prolific writer of heartwarming western historical romances and time travel. In addition, this very talented lady creates book covers at her Silver Sage Cover Designs, http://facebook.silversagecoverdesigns.com. I’m happy to announce that Charlene has a new book, KIRK, coming out on April 15^th, Book 3 in the sweet western historical Guns for Hire Series. By the way, Charlene created the series. Didn’t I tell you she’s talented?

 

 

Her book plots are always unique. She has the knack of taking the villain and turning him into a hero—with the help of a feisty and determined heroine. Her new book is one I can hardly wait to read. It’s available for preorder now so that it will magically pop up on your e-reader on release day.

Here’s the blurb for KIRK, Book 3 of 10, Guns for Hire Series:

Kirk Redick, a former preacher, is faced with either letting his brother be forced into the job of a hangman or accepting it himself. He chooses to take on the hated work until he finds the man who framed his brother.

Observing a hanging at Red River Crossing, Adina Kinnaird is touched as she overhears the hangman comforting the condemned man. When Kirk is shot, she helps him escape the gunman and the angry mob.

Traveling from town to town, Kirk and Adina search for the man who framed his brother and find themselves falling for each other. Kirk doesn’t want her living in the danger he faces every day.   

In a showdown with the outlaw, Adina is shot. Kirk’s heart stops. He doesn’t want to go on without her. Will capturing the gunman be enough to clear his brother’s name and give Kirk and Adina the freedom to live outside the shadow of the hangman’s noose?

 https://www.amazon.com/Kirk-Hire-Sweet-Western-Romance-ebook/dp/B0DT7R89N8/ 

Series books already released are CREEK and DUSTIN. Don't miss any of this exciting adventure romance series!

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Changing Lanes by Claire Yezbak Fadden

 

 

For fifty-something Roxy Adams, the days are drenched in sunshine and a passion for her boyfriend, Sam Reyes. That is until he turns up dead in the trunk of Roxy's limo and she's arrested for his murder.

Changing Lanes

A Roxy Adams Mystery Book 1

by Claire Yezbak Fadden

Genre: Humorous Cozy Mystery, Romantic Suspense

For fifty-something Roxy Adams, life is simple and beautiful. Her days are drenched in southern California sunshine and passion for Sam Reyes, the man she loves and shares a business with.

When Sam vanishes with their savings, leaving only a note behind, Roxy is faced with a harsh reality. Broke and confused, she learns they never owned the business. The actual owner will let her keep her job if she provides him with benefits.

Convinced there’s no knight in shining armor riding to her rescue, Roxy dusts off her chauffeur’s hat and returns to the career she trailblazed twenty years earlier.

With a steady income, new friends, and the possibility of romance, joy slowly replaces insecurity. Foxy Roxy is back. Life is wonderful and exciting once again. Until Sam turns up dead in the trunk of her limo. And Roxy is arrested for his murder.

 

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Roxy paced what might soon be her ex-living room, glad her last shift at the food truck was over. She’d never have to deal with Chuck again. That was the good news the bad news drowned out. With about five hundred dollars to her name, she needed a new job. And fast. Three weeks had passed while she waited and hoped to hear from Sam. A frantic call begging for her forgiveness. Telling her everything was a big mistake, that he was sorry, and he was coming home. But no call came. Sam had vanished completely, taking with him any sliver of love she had felt for the man. Taped to her front door that morning, Roxy found a handwritten note from Flora, the apartment manager, threatening a thirty-day eviction notice. She had crumpled the paper and thrown it near the empty television stand. Along with Sam, her sixty-five-inch wide-screen now lived somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Next to the wadded notification rested a balled-up bank statement. The account where she and Sam had regularly deposited their pay held a hundred-dollar balance. Once again, the reality invaded her. Sam was gone, cleaning out their bank account and leaving unpaid bills in his wake. Roxy gulped back a tear and coiled onto her secondhand couch, stained and lumpy. She was on her own. Not that she couldn’t survive. Roxy prided herself on being a strong, self-sufficient woman. Still, she hadn’t planned on moving into midlife alone and broke. Practically in the dead of night, Sam had sold his business and left for Tennessee. Apparently, turning sixty lit a fire under him to move closer to the wife he had abandoned long before Roxy had met him. Now that their children were grown and the responsibilities fewer, Sam had happily traded the hustle and chaos of Los Angeles for back-country fishing holes and lazy days with grandkids he’d never met. At fifty-three, Roxy understood the draw of reevaluating your life, accomplishing goals before getting too old to remember what they were. She and Sam had chased those dreams together. After all, he encouraged her to abandon her career as one of the few female limo drivers in California, probably in the country. Instead, he persuaded her to join him slinging hash from his food truck on a side street near the corner of Vine and Fountain in downtown LA. Roxy groaned at the thought. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. She’d given up pocketing hundreds of dollars in cash tips while meeting the area’s famous, wealthy, and colorful. Sam supplied everything she had missed during her early years—a steady life, a reliable partner, a consistent income. Things she never had growing up in Downey. A solidness she’d never find in the capricious chauffeuring world.

Pennsylvania-native Claire Yezbak Fadden lives in Orange County, California with her husband and two spoiled dogs. She spends her spare time playing with her four grandchildren and immersing herself in the words of other authors.

 

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Broome Enigma by Meryl Brown Tobin

Broome Enigma

by Meryl Brown Tobin

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Blurb:

On a working holiday in Australia's cosmopolitan Outback town of Broome in 1986, Jodie, a young book designer and artist is open to romance and adventure. 

     At the holiday village where she is staying, she meets Joe, a young man who works there. Despite the strong attraction between them, the many unknowns about his earlier life keep them apart. To try to uncover his mysterious past, they travel to Perth and back to Broome and are drawn into not only bizarre but also dangerous situations. 

     Is Joe the person she thinks he is, or is he some alter ego? Can Jodie and Joe stop their relationship from developing until they have answers and know if he is free to love her? 

 Excerpt:

A big gust of wind rocked the van and flung Jodie 

hard against Joe. He pushed her off. 

“Joe, it’s me, Jodie! Wake up, wake up!” 

“Jodie, is that you?” He threw his arms around her 

and buried his head in her chest. 

She brushed his hair back from his sweating face. 

“Take it easy, Joe. Take deep breaths. It’s okay. It’s 

going to be okay.” 

He stopped shaking and pulled back from her. 

“What’s happening?” 

“It’s the cyclone. Don’t you remember?” 

Another huge gust shook the van and sent Jodie 

sprawling on Joe’s bunk and into the wall. “Ow, that 

hurt!” She picked herself up and rubbed her head. 

The van rocked violently again. Joe and Jodie 

grabbed for handholds. 

“Quick, come into my bed with me, Joe. It will be 

safer there.” Tripping and feeling their way along the 

wall, the two made their way to the double bed and 

clambered in. 

Her breathing coming in short spasms, she lay on 

her back and took deep breaths. The storm whined and 

screeched about her, and the roof creaked and scraped. 

“Oh, my god, the roof’s going to take off any minute!” 

Joe’s arms enveloped her. “Hush, everything will 

be all right. But will you be okay if we have to make a 

run for it?” 

“Yes.” She let out a sob. “But I like our chances 

better in here than out there.” 

Joe kissed her forehead. He pulled her closer and 

they lay locked against each other while the storm 

raged around them. 

Author Bio:

Meryl Brown Tobin is an Australian writer who has published 22 books, including a novel, travel book, educational puzzle books and poetry books, and hundreds of poems, puzzles, short stories, articles, cartoons and comic strips. A guest on Australia’s Ch7’s children’s TV program The Book Place, she and a presenter read her children’s picture storybook LEFTY. 

Apart from family and home, her interests include travel, bushwalking, conservation, current affairs and social justice issues. The Tasmanian Tiger fascinates her, and she’d love to prove it is not extinct.  

DUSTIN BY MARGARET TANNER

By Caroline Clemmons

 Last week I revealed the new sweet historical western romance series, Guns for Hire. Charlene Raddon conceived the series, and also created the covers via her Silver Sage Cover Designs. This past Sunday, March 28^th, Margaret Tanner released DUSTIN, Book 2 in the series.

Margaret’s western historical romances are very well-written. Learning she lives in Australia surprised me, because her westerns read as if she grew up in the Southwestern United States. She certainly is faithful to the history and landscape while she creates a great read.

Here’s the blurb for DUSTIN:

Dustin is a gun for hire, living in the shadows of black deeds from his past. He has long harbored feelings for Honey yet feels unworthy.

Honey knows Dustin is redeemable. Can she make him believe this so they can live their happily ever after?

https://www.amazon.com/Dustin-Hire-Sweet-Western-Romance-ebook/dp/B0DT87MCJL/

 Don’t forget my latest release, SIDNEY AND THE MAIL ORDER BRIDE, Book 6 of my Texas Hill Country Mail Order Brides series. By the way, Charlene Raddon designed the book covers for this series. You’ll find it on Amazon in e-book and paperback at:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNTP95FD

It's also enrolled in Kindle Unlimited.

 Please continue reading my books! I love to write romances with adventure in them. I also love to get the royalties to make up for the time I sit at the computer creating the books. Royalties are the only way I know you like my writing. (Plus, I need the money.)

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Cowboy Watch by Petie McCarty

 

 

Someone—or something—wants Kellen out of town . . .

Kellen Brand’s inheritance comes as a monumental shock—

a rundown farm she doesn’t want and one paroled Watcher all her own.

Cowboy Watch

The Watchers Book 1

by Petie McCarty

Genre: Paranormal Small-Town Romantic Suspense

The Watchers Series—

Fallen angels cast out of heaven by the archangel Michael for coercing with Satan to gain control. Some of these turncoats—duped late in the game by Satan's lies—doubled back to seek redemption for their unwitting betrayal.  Offered parole in exchange for penance, these Watchers are given the toughest bodyguard missions with little leeway for success.
One last chance.
These are their stories . . .
 
  

Someone—or something—wants Kellen out of town . . .
 
 Kellen Brand's inheritance comes as a monumental shock—a rundown farm she doesn't want and one paroled Watcher all her own. Kellen's eccentric mother believed Watchers to be fallen angels seeking penance by guarding individuals who had lost their way. Seriously? A Watcher?
Only her mother  . . . 
 
Since Kellen vows no sane woman would choose to live in Riverside, she's on a mission to dump the old farm fast and to the first buyer who comes along. Unfortunately for her, the only buyer is a resort developer, spurned by a townful of objectors and one handsome cowboy—her neighbor, Luke Thornton. Luke must block Kellen's farm sale or risk exposure of his own family's secrets. He can ill afford his immediate and compelling attraction to his new neighbor.
 
Someone is watching Kellen, but not who she thinks. Someone deadly and intent on scaring her out of town. Or worse. Luke has a hellish choice to make—step in and rescue Kellen from her threats, or to protect his family, stand by and watch . . .

 

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“Vera tells me she told you about the haunted cemetery,” Gerald called to her, as the front door jingled again. “She did,” Kellen called back and placed a few candles in her basket. “Don’t worry. I’ll protect you,” said a familiar voice from behind her. If it was possible for a voice to leer, this one did. She slowly turned. “I don’t need any protection, Sheriff.” Reilly maneuvered way too close for her liking and cornered her between the last two rows of shelves. “You never know what to expect here in West Virginia, right?” His voice dripped with sarcasm, and his rat eyes glittered like two black aggies. A wave of apprehension chilled her skin. The evil eyes of the mean boy who threw dirt clods had changed to the leering eyes of a much larger and quite fearsome man. The mean boy was now the sheriff. If he threw dirt clods, who would she call? He edged closer. She stepped back and bumped into the last row of shelves. She felt just like the jackrabbit her dog once cornered in the barn. “I can look out for you while you’re here, Kellen. Special-like.” The way he said her name sent a shiver down her spine. She could feel the lower shelf jabbing into the back of her calves. He took one more step. His sour breath invaded her space and she wanted to gag. Like David, she let this man get to her. “Real special.” She could hear Gerald talking to a customer. No help there. Reilly reached a hand toward her face, and a fist snagged the sheriff’s wrist. “She doesn’t need any protection,” a deep voice growled. “She has plenty.” Luke Thornton had an iron grip on Reilly’s wrist, his knuckles white with the effort. Reilly tried to glare him into submission, but the steel-like glint in Thornton’s eyes forced the sheriff to blink. Thornton tossed off the wrist but stood his ground, edging a shoulder between Kellen and her assailant. For a brief instant, Kellen forgot how maddening Thornton was. She wanted to grab him and kiss him for saving her from the foul-breathed sheriff. “Watch yourself, Thornton,” Reilly growled. “I run this county.” “Not all of it, you don’t.” Kellen took deep breaths to slow her racing heart. She blinked, and the sheriff was gone. Luke stood so close she could feel the heat radiating from his body, and that certainly didn’t quiet her pulse. She stared into his dark-chocolate eyes and held on to the breath she’d been so desperate to suck down only moments before. “Are you all right?” Was that worry in his eyes? For her? Oh, good heavens—she was still staring. He was asking her something. What was it? Oh yeah, was she all right? She nodded. Words were too much at the moment. Too many emotions. Panic at Reilly accosting her again after all these years and then discovering her knight in shining armor. Luke’s focused gaze had her heart fluttering and from more than fear. She couldn’t manage to release the air in her lungs.

Petie spent a large part of her career working at Walt Disney World—"The  Most Magical Place on Earth"—where she enjoyed working in the land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night, including her new series, The Cinderella Romances. She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job to write her stories full-time. 

These days Petie spends her time writing new Cinderella series tales, her new The Watchers series, sequels to her regency time-travel series, Lords in Time, and more contemporary romance standalones to go along with her two previous releases—Any Fin For Love and Ambush in the Everglades.

Petie shares her home on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee with her horticulturist husband and an opinionated Nanday conure named Sassy who will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming Book 2 of The Watchers series, Christmas Watch. 

 

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