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<span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;">Korean-American author Jayci Lee delights with </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; line-height: 12px;">A Sweet Mess</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;">, a delicious and light-hearted romantic comedy that readers will devour and ask for more. </span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><br /></span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><br /></span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;">Aubrey Choi loves living in her small town nestled in the foothills of California, running her highly successful bakery away from the watch of her strict Korean parents. When a cake mix-up and a harsh review threaten all of her hard work and her livelihood, she never thought the jaded food critic would turn out to be her one-night stand. And she sure as hell never thought she’d see the gorgeous Korean hunk again. But when Landon Kim waltzes into her bakery trying to clean up the mess he had a huge hand in making, Aubrey is torn between throwing and hearing him out. </span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><br /></span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><br /></span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;">When she hears his plan to help save her business, Aubrey knows that spending three weeks in California wine country working with Landon is a sure recipe for disaster. Her head is telling her to take the chance to save her bakery while her heart—and her hormones—are at war on whether to give him a second chance. And it just so happens that Landon’s meddling friends want them to spend those three weeks as close as possible...by sharing a villa.</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><br /></span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"><br /></span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;">When things start heating up, both in and out of the kitchen, Aubrey will have to make a choice—to stick it out or risk her heart.</span></div>
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<span class="s7" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px;">JAYCI LEE</span><span class="s8" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;"> writes poignant, sexy, and laugh-out-loud romance every free second she can scavenge and is semi-retired from her fifteen-year career as a defense litigator. She loves food, wine, and travelling, and incidentally so do her characters. Jayci lives in sunny California with her tall-dark-and-handsome husband, two amazing boys with boundless energy, and a fluffy rescue whose cuteness is a major distraction. She is the author of</span><span class="s9" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; line-height: 12px;"> A Sweet Mess</span><span class="s8" style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px;">.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“How’s this?” He’d chosen a small table at the back corner. When Aubrey nodded, he pulled out her chair and took a seat across from her.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Their proximity and relative privacy made the air between them hum with electricity. Their knees brushed every time either of them shifted in their seat, sending bolts of desire through him. A sharp intake of breath and a parting of her lips revealed Aubrey wasn’t immune to their magnetic attraction.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Landon had dated his fair share of beautiful women. There was no reason to act like a gawky teenager, but his roaring heart and churning stomach said otherwise. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d felt nervous around a woman. Her hand was resting less than four inc</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hes away from his, but he broke </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">out in a cold sweat working up the nerve to brush his knuckles against it.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">He started when Aubrey traced her fingers across the back of his hand with a shy smile. “So, Landon from out of town, what’s your dream?”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">His blood had gone south at her touch, leaving nothing for his brain, but he was even more dumbstruck by her question. The woman threw him off balance on all fronts.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Not big on making small talk, are you?” He managed to keep his voice steady despite his spinning head and hardening body.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“If I’m going to have a chat with a complete stranger, I might as well have an interesting one.” A deep blush stained her cheeks, and her lashes fluttered to hide her eyes. “Besides, you’re leaving tomorrow. I was hoping we could pack a lot into tonight.”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Landon sucked in a sharp b</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">reath. Her shy and earnest dec</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">laration moved him, and he fought the urge to pull her across the table to kiss her senseless. Instead, he lifted Aubrey’s hand and brushed a kiss on her pale inner wrist. A wolfish grin spread across his face when she gasped at his touch.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“My dream was to open my own restaurant.” To his shock, the truth stumbled out of him. A truth he’d refused to face for the past decade. Maybe he was des</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">perate to give her an interest</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ing conversation. A memorable one. “Someplace spacious and comfortable where people can enjoy a delicious meal without pretense or a six-figure salary.”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“That sounds amazing. What kind of food are we talking about?”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Whatever inspiration strikes me. If I had to label it, New American–slash–Korean fusion will have to do.”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“I love Korean food. I would totally eat there.” Aubrey sat forward, her eyes round and sparkling. “So you’re Korean? I am, too.”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Yes, I’m Korean, and you would be more than welcome to eat at my restaurant.”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Are you a chef?”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“No, but I trained to be one. Have you heard of the CIA?” </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“The Central Intelligence </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Agency? You learned to cook for </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">undercover agents while dodging bullets and jumping out of airplanes?” She cocked her head to the side and gazed at him with solemn interest.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“I . . . um.” Landon was fairly certain she was messing with him, but insulting her wouldn’t be the best way to seduce her. “It’s . . .”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Aubrey’s pale skin turned from pink to crimson before she erupted into laughter, her fr</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ame trembling like a 6.8 earth</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">quake. She held up a finger, gripping her side, pantomiming she needed a minute. He crossed his arms over his chest and leveled her with a steely glare, wh</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ich wasn’t an easy feat consid</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ering her infectious mirth.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“I’m s-sorry, but you had to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">see your face. You couldn’t de</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">cide whether a small-town gi</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">rl like me knew about the Culi</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nary Institute of America or whether I was pulling your leg.”</span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Mischievous little fox</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. He needed to get her back for that. “Actually, that’s incorrect.” </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">He drew closer to her, his lips </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">close to her ear, and lowered his voice to a deep, gritty whisper. “I was debating whether or not I</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> should tell you the truth, be</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">cause if I did, I’d have to terminate you.”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Aubrey stared at him in silence for a second, and then a delighted grin spread across her face. “This is fun.”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Yeah, it is.” Landon was surprised to find he meant it. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d had </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">fun</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. He certainly had pleasant and interesting times, but fun times? No, this felt alien.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">His earlier hesitation forg</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">otten, he ran his knuckles down </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the side of her face, relishing the feel of her warm, silky skin. Aubrey leaned lightly into his hand, and her eyes slid shut. She was so responsive to his touch. Landon’s mouth went dry, and all he could think was </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">more</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. He wanted to make her laugh again. He ached to make her fall apart in his arms with her swollen lips calling out his name.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“You’re beautiful,” Landon murmured, unable to look away from her.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“So are you.” Aubrey’s lips curved into a barely there smile that squeezed his heart.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">He’d gone to the brewery for a pint to wash away the bitter taste of his sorry day, but he’d discovered something far more intoxicating—something potent enough to tip him off-balance. Aubrey made his blood sing and his rational thoughts melt away. The floor seemed to grow solid and strong, and his body settled heavily into his seat like he’d dropped anchor across from her—as though she had a gravitational pull all her own and he was helpless against it.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">He’d led a nomadic life for a decade. He didn’t know how to stay still for long. The smart thing to do would be to run the hell away from this woman, w</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hose mere proximity made it un</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">imaginable to even leave the table.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">But </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">smart</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> wasn’t part of his vocabulary at the moment. Greedy, feral, and desperate passion overwhelmed all else. He stood abruptly from his seat, an</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">d Aubrey’s mouth parted in sur</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">prise. Then he grasped her hand and raised her to her feet.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Do you want to get out of here?” His eyes bored into hers, his desire and urgency displayed for her to see.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The Grotto Police Department has sixteen sworn officers that includes the chief, two lieutenants, a K-9 patrol officer, nine patrol officers, a school resource officer and two detectives. I'm detective number two.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">I grew up in Grotto, a small river town of about ten thousand that sits among a circuitous cave system known as Grotto Caves State Park, the most extensive in Iowa. Besides being a favorite destination spot for families, hikers and spelunkers, Grotto is known for its high number of family owned farms – a dying breed. My husband Shaun and I are part of that breed – we own an apple orchard and tree farm.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> "Pretty soon we're going to have to roll you in," an irritatingly familiar voice calls out from behind me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">I don't bother turning around. "Francis, that wasn't funny the first fifty times you said it and it still isn't," I say as I scan my key card to let us in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Behind me, Pete Francis, rookie officer and all-around caveman grabs the door handle and in a rare show of chivalry opens it so I can step through. "You know I'm just joking," Francis says giving me the grin that all the young ladies in Grotto seem to find irresistible but just gives me another reason to roll my eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">"With the wrong person, those kinds of jokes will land you in sensitivity training," I remind him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">"Yeah, but you're not the wrong person, right?" he says seriously, "You're cool with it?"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">I wave to Peg behind the reception desk and stop at the elevator and punch the number two button. The police department only has two levels but I'm in no mood to climb up even one flight of stairs today. "Do I look like I'm okay with it?" I ask him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Francis scans me up and down. He takes in my brown hair pulled back in a low bun, wayward curls springing out from all directions, my eyes red from lack of sleep, my untucked shirt, the fabric stretched tight against my round stomach, my sturdy shoes that I think are tied, but I can't know for sure because I can't see over my boulder-sized belly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">"Sorry," he says appropriately contrite and wisely decides to take the stairs rather than ride the elevator with me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">"You’re forgiven," I call after him. As I step on the elevator to head up to my desk, I check my watch. My appointment with the chief is at eight and though he didn't tell me what the exact reason is for this meeting I think I can make a pretty good guess.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">It can't be dictated as to when I have to go on light duty, seven months into my pregnancy, but it's probably time. I'm guessing that Chief Digby wants to talk with me about when I want to begin desk duty or take my maternity leave. I get it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">It's time I start to take it easy. I’ve either been the daughter of a cop or a cop my entire life but I’m more than ready to set it aside for a while and give my attention, twenty-four-seven to the little being inhabiting my uterus.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Shaun and I have been trying for a baby for a long, long time. And thousands of dollars and dozens of procedures later, when we finally found out we were pregnant, Shaun started calling her peanut because the only thing I could eat for the first nine weeks without throwing up was peanut butter sandwiches. The name stuck.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">This baby is what we want more than anything in the world but I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I'm a little bit scared. I’m used to toting around a sidearm not an infant.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The elevator door opens to a dark paneled hallway lined with ten by sixteen framed photos of all the men who served as police chief of Grotto over the years. I pass by eleven photos before I reach the portrait of my father. </span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">Henry William Kennedy, 1995 - 2019, </span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">the plaque reads.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">While the other chiefs stare out from behind the glass with serious expressions, my dad smiles showing his straight, white teeth. He was so proud when he was named chief of police. We were all proud, except maybe my older brother, Colin. God knows what Colin thought of it. As a teenager he was pretty self-absorbed, but I guess I was too, especially after my best friend died. I went off the rails for a while but here I am now. A Grotto PD detective, following in my dad’s footsteps. I think he’s proud of me too. At least when he remembers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Last time I brought my dad back here to visit, we walked down this long corridor and paused at his photo. For a minute I thought he might make a joke, say something like, </span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">Hey, who's that good looking guy?</span><span style="color: #353535; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> But he didn't say anything. Finding the right words is hard for him now. Occasionally, his frustration bubbles over and he yells and sometimes even throws things which is hard to watch. My father has always been a very gentle man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Excerpted from This is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf, Copyright </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt;">©</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2020 by Heather Gudenkauf </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">THIS IS HOW I LIED</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Author: Heather Gudenkauf</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Publication Date: May 12, 2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Heather Gudenkauf</span> is the<span style="font-style: italic;"> New York Times</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">USA Today </span>bestselling author of many books, including <span style="font-style: italic;">The Weight of Silence</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">These Things Hidden</span>. Heather graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in elementary education, has spent her career working with students of all ages. She lives in Iowa with her husband, three children, and a very spoiled German Shorthaired Pointer named Lolo. In her free time, Heather enjoys spending time with her family, reading, hiking, and running. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">With the eccentricity of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic;">Fargo </span><span style="background-color: white;">and the intensity of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-style: italic;">Sadie</span><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">THIS IS HOW I LIED</span><span style="background-color: white;"> by Heather Gudenkauf (Park Row Books; May 12, 2020; $17.99) is a timely and gripping thriller about careless violence we can inflict on those we love, and the lengths we will go to make it right, even 25 years later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: 700;">Heather Graham</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> is </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">The New York Times</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> and </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">USA Today </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">best-selling author sold her first book, </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">When Next We Love</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">, in 1982 and since then, she has written over two hundred novels and novellas with about</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: 700;"> 60 million books </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">in print in categories of romantic suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas holiday fare. Graham earned high praise for her</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;"> New York Confidential</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> series, including a starred review from </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;">Library Journal </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">which called it, “Intricate, fast-paced, and intense, this riveting thriller blends romance and suspense in perfect combination and keeps readers guessing and the tension taut until the very end.” For more information, visit her at TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 10.5pt;">Witness the thrilling conclusion to the beloved New York Confidential series, in </span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: 700;">THE FINAL DECEPTION</span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (MIRA Books; March 31, 2020; $26.99). Kieran and Craig are about to take on their most chilling case yet as they hunt for a deranged serial killer who has escaped from prison to satisfy his need to kill again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 10.5pt;">When criminal psychologist Kieran Finnegan was released fro</span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">m her responsibility of counseling the brutal serial killer known as The Fireman, once he was incarcerated, she was relieved to escape the tendrils of his twisted inner world. The chill she received from her sessions with him has stayed with her despite trying to leave him in the past. However, some demons refuse to remain behind bars. When her FBI agent boyfriend Craig is called to a gruesome crime scene that matches The Fireman’s MO, news begins to spread that he’s escaped from prison.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-size: 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Amid a citywide manhunt, Kieran and Craig need to untangle a web of deceit, privilege, and greed. They suspect that those closest to the killer have been drawn into his evil, or else someone is using another man’s madness and cruelty to disguise their crimes. When their investigation brings the danger right to the doorstep to the once safe haven of Finnegan’s Pub, Kieran and Craig will have to be smarter and bolder than ever before, because this time it’s personal, and they have everything to lose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">CRAIG FRASIER BREATHED IT IN BEFORE HE COULD STOP </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">himself; the bloodcurdling scent of burning flesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Flames still skittered over the body—an accelerant had been used. As he stood there in the small dark alley, he heard others rushing in: Mike Dalton, his partner, and patrol officers. He heard the sirens; the fire department was coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">But there was no saving this victim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Craig was already tamping the fire out; an extinguisher would make the work of the medical examiner more difficult.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The victim had been strangled, then the tongue had been cut out. And then the eyes had been gouged out. Death had occurred, mercifully, before the fire had been set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The corpses haunted his dreams. Burned shells, some flesh and soft tissue remaining, charred and clinging to the bones, mummy-like. The mouth in the blackened skull was agape, and those empty, soulless eye sockets seemed to be staring up, as if they could still see, as if they stared at him in reproach…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Why hadn’t they caught the killer sooner?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">He heard a rustling sound. Looking across the alley, Craig saw a shadow moving. Leaving the corpse to others, he took off like a bullet. He pursued the moving shadow at a run…running and running for blocks. The city was a blur around him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">He reached apartments on Madison, with a coffee shop and a dress store on the first floor, just as the gate at the street entry to the residential units above was closing. He caught the gate, and he reached the elevator in time to see what floor it stopped on. He followed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">And again, as he arrived, a door was just closing; he didn’t let it close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">And there he was: the Fireman, still smelling faintly of gasoline, ready to sit down to a lovely dinner with his family. About to say a prayer before the meal…just a husband and a father, and a man who looked at Craig and calmly said, “So, my work is over. But I have obeyed the commandments given me, and I will go with you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Why did you take so long?</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> The corpse again! In Craig’s dreams, the corpse was back, animated, flying at him like a ghostly banshee, issuing a silent scream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Craig opened his eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn’t awake screaming or startled—he didn’t jerk up. It was almost as if he always knew it was a dream, reliving the day the Fireman had gone down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">He’d had the dream several times before. But, now, it seemed as though it had been a long time. Weeks. He’d thought he’d ceased experiencing it altogether. He’d been doing all the right things: quietly seeing a Bureau shrink a few times, following their advice. He hadn’t told Kieran Finnegan, his fiancée, about his recurring nightmare, and while she was a criminal psychologist working with two of the city’s finest criminal psychiatrists, he’d made a point of not telling her or her bosses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">He’d thought he’d settled it on his own. It was a little strange and sometimes intimidating being in love with someone who studied the human psyche, and he hadn’t wanted Kieran worried about him or trying to analyze him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Why the hell had the dream come back?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">He felt Kieran shift against him. He pulled her into his arms and she rolled, crystal eyes opening wide when she realized that he was awake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">And aroused. Kieran’s tangle of auburn hair was a wild mass around her face, emphasizing her eyes and the quick smile that came to her lips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ah!” she murmured, feeling his arousal against her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">“Your fault,” he accused.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">“Well, thankfully. What time is it?” she asked with a soft whisper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">He laughed. “Quickie time, or time for a quickie,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Her smile deepened, and there was something so sensual about it that it never failed to increase whatever he had begun to feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">In her arms, in the liquid burn of kisses here and there strategically placed, in the swift—and intense—blaze of arching and writhing and thrusting, all else faded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">After, Craig headed for the shower. He was an FBI agent in the Criminal Division of New York City’s branch of the FBI. He could be satisfied in having brought down several killers. But there would be more; a sad fact of the world and humanity. He was blessed to have his job, his vocation, and it was time to go to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">He shoved the dream into the back of his mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Whatever his day held, he’d already seen the worst that this world could offer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Little did he know.</span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">A former CEO, cancer survivor, avid collector of vintage muumuus, and self-professed bad dancer (and helluva bartender), like most people, Katherine Kayne “adulted for more years than I could count.” But through it all, somewhere deep insid</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">e of her, the childhood voice </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> brimming with love for horses and poetry and magic and happily-ever-afters </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> remained.</span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Nowadays, in her “so-called retirement,” Kayne is reclaiming that voice and following the dream of her heart, culminating in the release</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> of her debut novel </span><span class="s10" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Bound in Flame</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">:</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> Book One in the </span><span class="s10" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Hawaiian Ladies’ Riding Society </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">series [Passionflower Press, October 28, 2019</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">].</span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">With the </span><span class="s10" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Hawaiian Ladies</span><span class="s10" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">’</span><span class="s10" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> Riding Society</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, Kayne </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> who counts herself fortunate to live</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> on</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Hawaii </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Island</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">part of</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> each year, </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">and ot</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">herwise resides on another magical island in Puget Sound </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> is writing the romances she only dreamed of reading as a girl. Her manifesto?</span></div>
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<span class="s11" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; line-height: 12px;">You never outgrow a love for horses. </span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Set in turn of the century Hawaii, Kayne’s literary debut is centered on the stories of the fearless horsewomen of the islands’ ranches (“</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Because who doesn’</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">t love a suffragist on </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">horseback? With a bullwhip? Wearing flowers?”) and sees her take great care with cultural sensitivity and bring a sharp eye to historical detail. </span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“By the turn of the twentieth century Hawaii was a study in contras</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ts,” she shares. “</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Cowboys and kahunas, wi</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ld pigs and steamships, hula dancers and rickshaws, land barons and mail-order brides made up the stuff and substance of the islands’ colorful history. The rise of the sugar industry gave great fortunes to a few and</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> bypassed the many</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">. Hawaiians today still</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> fight to right the wrongs of that era. Yet despite it all, those times evoke a great nostalgia.”</span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“It is during these times that my stories begin,</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">”</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> Kayne continues. “Although these tales are pure fiction, I found i</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">nspiration in many</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> wonderful pieces of Ha</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">waiian history. Just as the colors are deeper, the smells sharper, and the sun brighter in Hawaii, the </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">stories of the people carry richness beyond imagining.”</span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">To promote the October 2019 release of </span><span class="s10" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Bound in Fla</span><span class="s10" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">me</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, Katherine Kayn</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">e </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> who will be </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">attendi</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ng</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> the Romance Writers of America Conference in New York City from July 24-27 </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> has select availability for interviews, and can speak to a range of profound, inspiring, and incredibly fun topics, includi</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ng but not limited to:</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">● </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The uniqueness, beauty, and complexity of </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Hawaii</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">(which is so, so much more than just tiki drinks)</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">● </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">W</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">riting about Hawaiian culture and</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> history as a white woman, and her experience in</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> working with the Hawaiian community and a group of sensitivity readers</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, her </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">story trust</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">”</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">● </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The suffragist movement in the early twentieth century (2020 will mark 100 years since women won the</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> right to vote in the United States)</span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Katherine Kayne writes the sort of</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> romantic fantasy she has alw</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ays wanted to read in her own beach chair. With horses and hula and magic and flowers and happily ever after… with heroines to cheer for and heroes strong enough to follow their heroine’s le</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ad. Pure aloha.</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">She lives in Seattle </span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">and counts herself fortunate </span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">to live in Hawaii a part of each year.</span></div>
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-30384705309749511772019-11-10T08:00:00.000-05:002019-11-10T08:00:02.344-05:00The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland <div class="s4" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">For fans of Josie Silver's </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">One Day in December,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">is a wholly original, charismatic, and uplifting novel that no reader will soon forget.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ailsa Rae is learning how to live. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">She’s only a few months past the heart transplant that—just in time—saved her life. Now, finally, she can be a normal twenty-eight-year-old. She can climb a mountain. Dance. Wait in line all day for tickets to Wimbledon.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">But first, she has to put one foot in front of the other. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">So far, things are as bloody complicated as ever. Her relationship with her mother is at a breaking point and she wants to find her father. Then there's Lennox, whom Ailsa loved and lost. Will she ever find love again?</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Her new heart is a bold heart. She just needs to learn to listen to it. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">From the hospital to her childhood home, on social media and IRL, Ailsa will embark on a journey about what it means to be, and feel, alive. How do we learn to be brave, to accept defeat, to dare to dream?</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">From Stephanie Butland, author of </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Lost for Words Bookshop</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">will warm you from the inside out.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">STEPHANIE BUTLAND lives with her family near the sea in the North East of England. She writes in a studio at the bottom of her garden, and when she's not writing, she trains people to think more creatively. For fun, she reads, knits, sews, bakes, and spins. She is an occasional performance poet and the author of </span><span class="s5" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Lost for Words Bookshop</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></div>
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-7655113278422805162019-11-10T07:00:00.000-05:002019-11-10T07:00:11.124-05:00Bound in Flame by Katherine Kayne<div class="s2" style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span class="s9" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">The Hawaiian Ladies’ Riding Society Series, Book #1</span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">By </span><span class="s9" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Katherine Kayne</span></div>
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<span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">For lov</span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ers of horses and hula and magic and fearless heroines and happy-ever-afters… </span></div>
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<span class="s12" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">TAKE AN UNFORGETTABLE TRIP TO TURN OF THE CENTURY HAWAII IN THE MUST-READ ROMANTIC FANTASY DEBUT OF FALL 2019</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Just as the colors are deeper, the smells sharper, and the sun bri</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ghter in Hawaii, the </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">stories of its people carry richness beyond imagination. </span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">An epic historical adventure meets sweep-you-off-your-feet romantic fantasy set in Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century, it is with a bolt of inspiration from and de</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ep ro</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ots in Hawaii’s wonderfully fascinating history that </span><span class="s15" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Bound in Flame </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">[Passionflower Press]</span><span class="s15" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> the debut novel from Katherine Kayne, set for release on October 28, 2019 </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> sets off at a galloping pace.</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The first book in Kayne’s </span><span class="s16" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Hawaiian Ladies’ Riding Soc</span><span class="s16" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">iety </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">series, </span><span class="s15" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Bound in Flame</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> centers on Letty Liliuokalani Lang, a suffragist of the most fearless kind with a bullwhip, big dreams, and ancient powers she doesn’t yet understand.</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Banished to a San Francisco boarding school to tame her wild temper, the stor</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">y</span><span class="s15" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">beg</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ins with Letty returning home to Hawaii, bringing her devotion to animals with her. She’ll be among the first female veterinarians in history </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> remarkable in 1909 when women still cannot vote.</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">With one mad leap into the ocean to save a horse, Letty </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">a des</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">cendant of Hawaii’s </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">aristocracy</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">and goddaughter of Princess Kehokulani,</span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">the former heir to the throne </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> sets another destiny in motion. She is a</span><span class="s16" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> mākāhā</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, a Gate to the healing fires of the land, her beloved </span><span class="s16" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">‘aina</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">. Letty must l</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">earn to harn</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ess the ancient pow</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">er that lives within her, fueled by her connection to the islands. </span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">But the price is steep. Her inner flame burns hot </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">–</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> hot enough that her kisses can kill, a precarious inconvenience since the horse’s owner, Timothy Rowley, </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">lights anoth</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">er kind of fire.</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Ca</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">n Letty learn to command her power in pursuit of her passion, or is the danger of love too great?</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“By the turn of the twentieth century, Hawaii was a study in contrasts,” shares Kayne, who counts herself fortunate to live </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">on Hawaii Island </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">for</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> part of each </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">year. “Cowboys and kahunas, wild pigs and steamships, hula dancers and rickshaws, land barons and mail-order brides made up the stuff and substance of the islands’ colorful history.”</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Although </span><span class="s15" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Bound in Flame </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">is pu</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">re fiction, I created the wor</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ld of the </span><span class="s16" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Hawa</span><span class="s16" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">iian Ladies</span><span class="s16" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">’</span><span class="s16" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> Riding Society</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> to tell the stories of the fearless horsewomen of the islands’ ranches,” she continues. “If you come along for the ride, be prepared for almost anything to happen. I can promise you fier</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">y kisses, charming cowboys, w</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">omen who ride</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> like the rainbow to save the day, and that rarest of beasts: handsome men who like to dance.”</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">With great care to cultural sensitivity, a sharp handle on historical detail, and a cast of characters readers won’t be</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> able to help but fall in lov</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">e with, </span><span class="s15" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Bound</span><span class="s15" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> in Flame </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">is a must-read for anyone who loves horses,</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> prefers the feisty heroine, craves hunky heroes with a sense of humor, and wants to believe there may yet be magic in this world.</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Among the topics and th</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">emes </span><span class="s15" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Bound in Flame</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> explores </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">include:</span></div>
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<span class="s17" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">● </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The uniquen</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ess, beauty, and complexity of Hawaiian </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">history</span></div>
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<span class="s17" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">● </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The suffragist movement in the early twentieth century (2020 will mark 100 years since women won the right to vote in the United States)</span></div>
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<span class="s17" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">● </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The white-washi</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ng of history, and the end of the ki</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ngdom of Hawaii afte</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">r it was annexed by the United States in 1898 </span></div>
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<span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Katherine Kayne writes the sort of romantic fantasy s</span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">he has always wanted to read in her </span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">own beach chair. Wit</span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">h horses and hula and magic and flowers and happily ever after… with heroines to cheer for and heroes strong enough to follow their heroine’s lead. Pure aloha.</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"></span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">She lives in Seattle and counts herself </span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">fortunate to live in Hawaii </span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">a</span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> part o</span><span class="s11" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">f each year.</span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Last Day of Winter</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> – Shari Low </span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Shari Low is the No1 best-selling author of over 20 novels, including </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">With Or Without You</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Another Day In Winter</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">One Day In December</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">A Life Without </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">You</span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">,</span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> This Is Me</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> and </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The Story Of Our Life. </span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">And because she likes to over-share toe-curling moments and hapless disasters, she is also the shameless mother behind a collection of parenthood memories called </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Because</span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> Mummy Said </span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">So.</span><span class="s6" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Once upon a time she met a guy, got engaged after a week, and twenty-something years later she lives near Glasgow with her husband, a </span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">labradoodle</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, and two teenagers who think she's fairly embarrassing except when they need a lift. </span></div>
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<span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Abby Williams is the pseudonym for Fiona Ford, writer of romantic up-lit and historical fiction. Fiona started out as a freelance journalist for titles such as </span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Grazia</span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, Sunday Mirror and Stylist before realising her passion lay in novels. Now she spends her days immersed in made-up worlds and reckons she has the very best job in the world. When she's not writing, Fiona is a gym nut, but only so it means she can eat lots of cake and drink lots of wine - not necessarily in that order. She lives in Berkshire with her husband and two cats </span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">who</span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> she sometimes thinks she might love just a little bit more than all the humans she knows. </span><span class="s9" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The Time of Our Lives</span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> is her first romantic novel and she is now busy scribbling away her second. </span></div>
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<span class="s7" style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I was born and raised in </span><span class="s7" style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Wednesbury</span><span class="s7" style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, West Midlands. I am married with two children and three grandchildren. I now live in the Shropshire countryside with my husband and Labrador. Typing up the manuscripts for my mother (Meg Hutchinson) rekindled my love of story telling and it seems I am destined to follow in her footsteps. Retired now, I continue to teach an evening dance class. I love to read, I enjoy photography, as well as socialising with friends. I also lo</span><span class="s7" style="font-family: "times new roman"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ve to holiday in exotic places.</span></div>
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<span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Abby Williams is the pseudonym for Fiona Ford, writer of romantic up-lit and historical fiction. Fiona started out as a freelance journalist for titles such as </span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Grazia</span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, Sunday Mirror and Stylist before realising her passion lay in novels. Now she spends her days immersed in made-up worlds and reckons she has the very best job in the world. When she's not writing, Fiona is a gym nut, but only so it means she can eat lots of cake and drink lots of wine - not necessarily in that order. She lives in Berkshire with her husband and two cats </span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">who</span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> she sometimes thinks she might love just a little bit more than all the humans she knows. </span><span class="s9" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The Time of Our Lives</span><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 11px; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> is her first romantic novel and she is now busy scribbling away her second. </span></div>
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-39031540017369898122019-07-30T09:21:00.000-04:002019-07-30T09:21:58.418-04:00The Beach at Doonshean by Penny Feeny<div class="s2" style="font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-64498517710794604532018-08-23T22:00:00.001-04:002018-08-23T22:00:54.821-04:00All That Doesn't by Tracy Krimmer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>By Tracy Krimmer</b><br />
<b>Genre:</b> Contemporary Romance/ Women’s Fiction<br />
<b>Age category:</b> Adult<br />
<b>Release Date:</b> August 20, 2018<br />
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After a devastating end to her marriage, Dory Walker has rebuilt her life in her hometown of Sycamore Bay. She’s left her music career behind and is only looking forward to her future with her rekindled love, Harris Malone.<br />
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Single dad Harris is doing his best to guide his young daughter and take the reins of his soon to be retired dad’s hardware store. With Dory by his side, he can do anything.<br />
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<b>First book in this series</b><br />
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“A has-been country music star. A divorced dad from a small town. Almost a decade of bottled up passion...”<br />
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Tracy Krimmer loves coffee, popcorn, Drew Barrymore, and the movie <i>Saving Silverman</i>. She enjoys reading great books (of course) and writing realistic characters for you to enjoy. When she listens to music she prefers the 80s and 90s music she grew up on. In a typical day you’ll find her writing at one of her favorite spots--on the couch, at the kitchen table, or at her favorite hometown coffee shop. <br />
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-62930857933457785422018-07-12T11:34:00.002-04:002018-07-12T11:34:40.763-04:00The Brightest Stars by Anna Todd<h1 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Brightest Stars, a beautiful and gripping novel from</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and #1 internationally bestselling author Anna Todd, is coming September 18th!</span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Karina knows the harsh realities of military life. And like anyone who has grown up around an army base, she knows the background noise that follows a soldier home from war. That's why she's forging her own quiet life in her own little house. But she hasn't turned her back on her family. She's the glue that holds them together--when her father is deployed, when her brother, Austin, has another brush with the law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Karina knows that she has to look after herself, that she can't always fix what's broken. But when Austin's behavior worsens and her father's reactions grow more extreme, Karina feels her own edges beginning to fray. That's when she meets </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">him--</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">a closed book she's desperate to open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">At just twenty, Kael is a handsome, brooding soldier struggling with the aftermath of two tours in Afghanistan. He's emotionally damaged and closed off. Quiet doesn't begin to describe him. But as Karina gets used to his stable presence, she finds it hard to ignore the way he makes her feel. In their time together, she finds the stillness she has always wanted and never found. She lets down her guard. And she lets herself fill in the blanks about this mysterious man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">But illusions quickly made are quickly shattered. That's when Karina has to find her own courage--to untangle the truth from the lies, and decide what she's going to do about it.</span></div>
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<b>A riveting story about love and lies, THE BRIGHTEST STARS will stay with you long after the last page has been turned.</b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;"> About Anna: </span></div>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Anna Todd is the</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and #1 internationally bestselling author of the After series. An avid reader, Anna began writing stories on her phone on Wattpad, the reading and writing multi platform for original stories, with After becoming the most read series on the platform with over 1.5 billion reads. The print edition published in 2014. AFTER has been published in over 30 languages, with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, and is a #1 bestseller in Italy, Germany, France and Spain. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The film adaptation of AFTER, which Anna is co-producing, is set to be released in early 2019. Anna and her husband currently live in Los Angeles. </span>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Find her at AnnaTodd.com, on Twitter at @imaginator1d, on Instagram at @imaginator1d, and on Wattpad as Imaginator1D.</span>
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-50379432452895580392018-05-23T08:00:00.000-04:002018-05-23T08:00:03.364-04:00Road Trip by Andie M Long and Laura Barnard<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Romantic comedy authors Andie M Long and Laura Barnard have teamed together to bring you the hilarious Road Trip! Out NOW! #oneclick #romcom #chicklit #lovehate</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">After the end of a car crash relationship can Katy find true love?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">After catching her sister in bed with her fiancé, school teacher Katy Cornish enlists playboy colleague Felix Montague to help her save face. What she doesn’t bargain on is them both losing their jobs in the process.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">With finances running out, Katy must endure the rude and arrogant Felix while they embark on a road trip around the country in hopes of securing a new job. But there’s just one problem... they’re up for the same posts. This road trip is going to be unlike any other, with them doing whatever they can to sabotage the other.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Can they see past themselves and their egos to each other? Or will their desperation to continue their careers drive them apart?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.andiemlongwriter.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">☆ </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/andiemlongwriter/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">☆</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/AndieMichelle" target="_blank">Twitter</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">☆</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/andiemlongwriter/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">☆</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/andiemlong/?eq=andie%20m%20long&etslf=3442" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">☆</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6895418.Andie_M_Long?from_search=true" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></span><br />
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-80723954324138093732018-05-01T08:00:00.002-04:002018-05-01T08:00:08.138-04:00Road Trip by Andie M Long and Laura Barnard<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Romantic comedy authors Andie M Long and Laura Barnard have teamed together to bring you the hilarious Road Trip! Out on 23rd May, get your one click fingers ready ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">After the end of a car crash relationship can Katy find true love?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">After catching her sister in bed with her fiancé, school teacher Katy Cornish enlists playboy colleague Felix Montague to help her save face. What she doesn’t bargain on is them both losing their jobs in the process.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">With finances running out, Katy must endure the rude and arrogant Felix while they embark on a road trip around the country in hopes of securing a new job. But there’s just one problem... they’re up for the same posts. This road trip is going to be unlike any other, with them doing whatever they can to sabotage the other.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Can they see past themselves and their egos to each other? Or will their desperation to continue their careers drive them apart?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The book will be available to read for FREE via Kindle Unlimited from 23rd May.</span><br />
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-26966476147016824942018-05-01T08:00:00.001-04:002018-05-01T08:00:01.580-04:00Follow Your Arrow by A.M. Willard<img alt="" class="wp-image-2016 aligncenter" src="http://nellsprmarketing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Follow-Your-Arrow-eBook-663x1024.jpg" height="618" width="400" />
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">All I wanted to do was run my bookstore, forget my failed marriage, and escape my past. But life on a tiny island makes that tough, especially when rumors are swirling that Justin Albott, famous mystery writer and my first love, is returning to the island. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I've watched his career. Stocked my bookstore with hardcovers that bear his glossy photo. There seems to be two sides to his personality. The online persona, who smiles when prompted, and the one that I remember—the thief of hearts. The one who just walked into my store and crooked that familiar grin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We’ve both changed over the years. I'm no longer married, and he's no longer the boy who left me behind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I’d give anything to know why he's really come back and if that kiss between us was real.</span></div>
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Running my hands through my hair, I look up toward the sky like I’m asking someone for a story. Someone to give me the words to write. Right as I look back down, I see her walking down the shoreline. Her hair is blowing in the light breeze, while her arms are wrapped around her waist. I study the way Leslie is lost in thought. I can’t help but think she’s trying to figure out our little exchange today. Or is she wishing she never had to see me again? Carefully, I watch her like I’m taking notes on a private moment. One that I’m not invited to know about. A part of my chest hurts, and I don’t know why. I’m unsteady when it comes to her. The mixture of protection, lust, and mystery hangs from the aura of Leslie Owens- Powell.</div>
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Bestselling Author, A.M. Willard resides in Savannah, Georgia. She joined the Peach State many years ago after leaving the crystal blue waters and sugary white sand behind from the Panhandle of Florida. She's also known for being a wife, mother, and caretaker for her farm animals. A.M. loves anything sassy, glittery, and is a sucker for the Hallmark Channel. That last one might be the reason she believes in soulmates or it could be because she married her high school sweetheart for twenty years ago.
After releasing her first novella series back in 2014, A.M. set out on a new goal to bring her readers a broad range of romantic stories from her desk. This includes Romantic Comedy, Contemporary Romance, and from time to time some Sexy Romance.
A.M. is an active member of RWA (Romance Writers of America).
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Born in Brisbane, Australia, Carol Jones taught English and Drama at secondary schools before working as an editor of children’s magazines. She is the author of several young adult novels as well as children’s non-fiction.</span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Four generations later, her great-grandson, Nick, will return to Malaysia, looking for the truth behind the facade of a house cursed by the unhappy past. Nothing can prepare him for what he will find. </span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">This exquisitely rich novel brings to life a vanished world – a world of abandoned ghost houses, inquisitive monkeys, smoky temples and a panoply of gods and demons. A world where a poor girl can be sold to fulfil a rich man’s dream. But though he can buy her body, he can never capture her soul, nor quench her spirit.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I first visited Malaysia, the setting for </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Concubine’s Child</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, on my honeymoon in 1991. It was my first trip to Asia, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the first time I stepped inside a Chinese temple, or witnessed </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">people</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> making offerings to the gods. Hailing from Queensland originally, the tropical weather was nothing new to me but I was accustomed to backyard wildlife </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">such as</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> possums, lorikeets or the occasional duck in the swimming pool, not monkeys sitting on walls watching me hang out the washing.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Everything about that first visit to Kuala Lumpur was strange and exotic but having returned every year </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">since </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to stay with my husband’s family, the exotic has became familiar. So much so that I have wanted to write a novel set there for some time, saving up impressions and experiences, collecting memoirs and historical references. But it was a chance remark that my mother-in-law didn’t attend school in the 1930s, instead learning to read and write (Chinese) at her local clan house, which gave me my beginning. The first chapter of </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Concubine’s Child</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> introduces Yu </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lan</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, a sixteen year old girl whose father doesn’t think it worth while sending her to school but </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">finally allows</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> her to attend </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">lessons at the Chan Clan house.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Chan See </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Shue</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Yuen</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> is</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a real place, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the stunning hall and lineage temple of the Chan clan society</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> in Kuala Lumpur</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. It has typical Chinese temple architecture and shines with brilliant turquoise tiles. It and many other temples and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">shophouses</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> in </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">old Chinatown </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">area </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">were built in the mid- to late-nineteenth century. It is an area I love to return to for all its </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">colour</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and history</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and it is where the first few chapters of my novel are set.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It was a visit to another temple, this ti</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">me </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in China, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">which</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">inspi</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">red the antagonist in the novel.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Madam Chan is </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the childless wife of</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the wealthy tin miner who </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">buys Yu </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lan</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from her </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">apothecary </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">father. She has a tricky relation</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ship with the gods. She argues </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and blames them for her troubles, and she is based upon an elderly woman I witnessed tossing moon blocks at a temple in </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Quanzhou</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Moon blocks are a divining tool and this woman wasn’t at all happy wi</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">th the answer</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> she was receiving. H</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ence she was complaining and arguing with the gods</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> who </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">expected to be far more obliging</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> after all the offerings she had made</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">On my earlier trips to Kuala Lumpur I noticed a nearby house had been empty and abandoned for years. It was a perfectly good house but was going to rack and ruin in the tropical climate. When I asked my sisters-in-law why it was empty, they replied nonchalantly that it was a ghost house. As if that </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">were</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> self-</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">evident</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. I soon discovered that ghost houses are quite common in Malaysia, where people of many faiths believe in ghosts. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In fact, when I began researching the phenomenon on the Internet I discovered dozens of websites devoted to the topic, and hundreds of photos of abandoned buil</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">dings and reputed ghost houses.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">To this day it’s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> not unusual to read newspaper articles about </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">schoolgirls becoming hysterical after seeing ghosts, or </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pawangs</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">(traditional Malay healers </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and shamans) being </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">called in to help bring rain, or find something that has been lost. The </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pawangs</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> were called in to help locate missing flight MH370. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">They were far less expensive than the costly undersea exploration carried out by Australia. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Of course, neither found very much. Nevertheless, i</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">n the 1930s, when much of my novel is set, </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pawangs</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">reputedly </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8571458169540040201" name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">helped miners locate tin, fishermen catch more fish, and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">they </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">blessed </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">just about anything.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Monkeys feature several times in </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Concubine’s Child</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, inspired in part by my encounters with macaques. The macaque</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s near my in-law’s house live</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> in a narrow strip of remnant jungle and roam backyards and local park</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">searching for food. They live in family groups</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, usually with at least one large male and several babies. Years ago, I was bailed up by a very large monkey while hanging out washing. He was hissing and snarling at me and his teeth didn’t look at all </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pleasant</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. My elderly father-in-law saved me by runn</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ing out shouting and throwing </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">slipper</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> at it. On another occasion, I came downstairs to find a young macaque sitting on the family altar, snacking on the offerings to the gods. It had snuck in between the window bars.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Twenty-five years of impressions and experiences have gone into the writing of </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Concubine’s Child</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, coupled with thousands of pages of research into the history and culture of</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the Chinese people in Malaysia, and not a little reminiscing from family.</span></div>
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-1147905203123107122018-03-11T16:35:00.000-04:002018-03-11T16:35:01.244-04:00Scandal by Sasha Morgan<br />
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Sasha lives in a rural, coastal village in Lancashire with her husband and Labrador dog. She has always written stories from a very young age and finds her fictional world so much more exciting than the real one.</span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">For all fans of </span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Jilly</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Cooper and Tilly </span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Bagshawe</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Sex, scandal, horses and aristocrats, the perfect recipe for the perfect escapist read...</span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">As the new custodian of the ancestral home, </span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Treweham</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Hall, Tobias Cavendish-Blake soon discovers exactly what he's inherited. Instant financial action is needed if the Hall is to survive the mounting debts it's racking up. Adding insult to injury the family is forced to sell the Gate House on the estate to lottery winners Gary and Tracy Belcher – not the kind of neighbours Tobias was hoping for.</span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Megan Taylor inherits her grandmother's country cottage in the village of </span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Treweham</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and decides to make a fresh start there, taking a job at the local country pub.</span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">When Megan meets Tobias, the attraction is clear, but she is determined to resist his charms, put off by his reputation and that of his best friends – the rakish Seamus</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Fox, son of a millionaire race</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">horse trainer and dastardly jockey Dylan Delany. But Tobias is a hard man to resist...</span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Scandal is the perfect rip-roaring, bonk-busting horsey escapist read for fans of </span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Jilly</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Cooper and Tilly </span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Bagshawe</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: "calibri"; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></div>
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Granny Loves to Readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11631128916501869136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8571458169540040201.post-82787064645842542622018-02-14T08:00:00.000-05:002018-02-14T08:00:04.411-05:00Something Just Like This by Tracy Krimmer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is my stop during the book blitz for Something Just Like This by Tracy Krimmer. This book blitz is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. The book blitz runs from 14 till 15 February. Read on for more information about the book, a teaser image and a giveaway for an Amazon gift card! See the tour schedule <a href="http://www.lolasblogtours.net/book-blitz-something-just-like-this-by-tracy-krimmer" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36424492-something-just-like-this" rel="noopener" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Something Just Like This" class="alignleft" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9NXaJw6i76eznc4zy7LdT6CuJxwYsa_bFnn7lmGVE0XFiw-fLiex5VjFkuTKibOc4nNfLoBoLvfztzj0krZ8GijdjYgLivEfA4QfpO-bDaHZabY9WChNiQ9-WL8WSLMp4yfQPMB_tQs_C/s1600/Something-Just-Like-This.jpg" /></a><b>Something Just Like This</b><br />
<b>By Tracy Krimmer</b><br />
<b>Genre:</b> Romantic Comedy<br />
<b>Age category:</b> Adult<br />
<b>Release Date:</b> February 14, 2018<br />
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Love? Second chances? That crap is for romantics, not realists like Juliette. She has a bad attitude about love and an even worse one when it comes to second chances. And she may dress like an elf for a few weeks out of the year, but that doesn’t mean she loves Christmas. <br />
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Stability? Purpose? Landon is surfing a pleasant wave of both until he's fired. Devastating news from his sister certainly doesn’t help. At least he has the holidays to look forward to.<br />
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When Landon shows up at the mall and Juliette prevents a disaster, he can’t stop thinking about that sweet elf. Juliette doesn’t believe in the spirit of Christmas, but she can’t help but wonder why Landon was in her line that day. Could Landon deserve one of those second chances she's so unwilling to give?</blockquote>
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You can find Something Just Like This on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36424492-something-just-like-this" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> <br />
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You can buy Something Just Like This on <a href="http://smarturl.it/SJLTAmazon" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Amazon</a> for only $2.99 through February 15. <br />
It is available to read with Kindle Unlimited.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tracykrimmer.com/" rel="noopener" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="Tracy Krimmer" class="alignright" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibfKUYmRWuwZbY1q3VR-d3krDEuRj0y-2FdqR9YlOCYMxFaBleSvhygdb8N5rOZD2l9egdW1Rgh1UM_vrj41gTN0o1AK4pP-4H57L_yS_5juXHkvFYWsJTrz5QPlbXsHsHZJFY-dP90NVN/s1600/Tracy-Krimmer.jpg" /></a><b>About the Author:</b><br />
Tracy Krimmer loves coffee, popcorn, Drew Barrymore, and the movie <i>Saving Silverman</i>. She enjoys reading great books (of course) and writing realistic characters for you to enjoy. When she listens to music she prefers the 80s and 90s music she grew up on. In a typical day you’ll find her writing at one of her favorite spots--on the couch, at the kitchen table, or at her favorite hometown coffee shop.<br />
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You can find and contact Tracy here:<br />
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