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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
(Regency -
Lavinia Kent’s Never and Forever)
“I do
believe that we have actually circled back to my point,” the Duke of Radford
replied. “Why would a man choose to
marry a not quite suitable woman? Why would he willingly walk into such a trap?
You say love. I wondered if there might be something else involved — if there
might be some skill your women know, are taught, that renders a man insensible.
I wanted to find out for myself.”
Molly had not thought it was possible for him to move closer, but now he did. Their bodies did not touch, but she doubted it would be possible to move a sheet of tissue between them. “I do not understand.”
“I spoke of
seduction. I will be more frank. I wanted to find out if you — and your ladies
— had knowledge of some sexual secret that would drive men from sanity. What
man would not be curious? You do look as if you’ve been up all night. It does
make a man wonder. Perhaps I should make you my mistress.”
Her mind
went blank. It could not comprehend what he was saying. His words made no
sense. Sexual? She knew the meaning of the word, but could not remember ever
hearing it spoken.
Secrets?
Mistress?
She was
still trying to find the words to answer, even a single word, when she felt the
air shift, felt him close that breath of space between them, felt his lips
settle on to hers.
About the authors
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.
“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:
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:
Secret Sister http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Sister-ebook/dp/B00DUL4LQA
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
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.
Once and Forever sounds like an amazing anthology!
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