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Broken Bits:
As for the broken bits, at the beginning of the month Mike and I were on a short vacation having a blast, scouting for elk, lake hopping, fishing with our daughter and her boyfriend. On the very last day, I took a spill backward over a boulder and landed on my wrist. There we were, out in the middle of nowhere and I decide to have my very first uncontrolled fall and my very first broken bone. I must say, though, if you ever find yourself in northern Arizona with a broken bone, Flagstaff Medical Center is the place to go. They were wonderful.
Prior to breaking my wrist, I was a pretty good typist. I had been clocked in the past at 90 words a minute. After breaking my wrist. I found that I can type approximately 10 words a minute with my index finger. Being an author myself, I found that 10 words a minute was not only frustrating but completely inadequate. So I broke down and bought myself The Dragon. This blog post is the very first time that I've used The Dragon to post anything public. I'm finding that currently I have a love/hate relationship with The Dragon. While I'm learning how to operate it, it is learning how to understand my voice. I'll keep you posted on the learning curve.
News:
Maggie Mae book blurb:
Maggie Mae is a steamy contemporary romance with a ghostly paranormal twist. This book contains adult sexual content.
July 4th 2005, Maggie's wedding day was the happiest day of her life, the most painful day of her life and the day she died three times.
Maggie lives as a recluse in the home that she and her dead husband, Jimmy, built together. It's all she has left of him. She has her friends, but has turned her back on the world and any possibility of spending her life with another man.
Five years after Jimmy's tragic death, Maggie's world is once again turned upside down when the last hold she has to her husband, their home, is destroyed. Maggie is thrown into the path of a man, the only man, that can bring her back to life. Elk Bend Chief of Police Michael Rogers is there to help her pick up the pieces and move on.
Rafferty, a close friend, has loved Maggie for years. He has been waiting for her to get over the loss of her husband and knows that in time she will be with him.
Rafferty has inserted himself into Maggie's life so deeply that she doesn't see his obsessive behavior. She doesn't realize that she has been stalked by Rafferty even before the death of her husband or the danger that Rafferty represents to her. Maggie is his and he will do whatever he has to in order to keep her.
Will Maggie be able to start a new life with Michael? Or will she be so consumed with the fear of losing him that she is paralyzed to move forward with her new life?
Will Rafferty have the power over Maggie to extinguish any feelings she has for Michael? Or will he destroy her trying to wrestle her away from her fate with another man?
This book will make the readers weep uncontrollably when they read about the tragic murder of Maggie's husband, Jimmy, and laugh with the interactions of Maggie and her friends. They will take a journey into the life of the characters that will make them escape and feel the wonder of love transcending death.
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Justice For Emily book blurb:
The Paranormal Romance Guild nominated Justice For Emily as one of 2011's best reads. Justice For Emily is a steamy romance/suspense with a ghostly paranormal twist. This book contains adult sexual content and violence.
Rachael Merchant is on a cross country trip running from the tragic images of her last case that are embedded deep in her soul. She is a City of Phoenix Homicide Detective that is trying to deal with the freak show her life has become.
Three days ago, she was sitting in a hospital room with a man that had just murdered his three small children because he was angry his wife had left him. After making the arrest, she let the perpetrator know that when he got out of prison she was coming after him. He would not be able to hide from her. She left the hospital, went back to work and quit on the spot.
After a great deal of persuading, her captain convinced her that an indefinite leave of absence was in order instead of quitting. She went home, packed her bags and jumped in the car. With no destination in mind, she just drove.
Rachael found herself on the side of the road, unsure of where she was and on the phone with her partner. All she wanted to do was run as fast and as far as she could from the image of those three small babies with bullets in their bodies.
Officer Patrick Sheehan pulls in front of Rachael while she is bent over the hood of her car looking at a map. He overhears the conversation between Rachael and her partner and thanks fate for dropping a homicide detective right in his lap. His good friend, Emily, was murdered just days ago and Patrick knows who killed her, her husband and his boss, the Chief of Police of Brownwood, Texas.
Boyd Campbell has taken extreme measures to cover up his wife's murder but Patrick is going to do everything in his power to put this monster away. He doesn't care what he has to do or say to get this cop to stay and work this case. He needs her help and she is just going to have to deal with it. She could just blame fate for bringing her here when he needed her expertise. After all, the only important thing at the moment is getting Justice For Emily.
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I've got an awesome giveaway today! My youngest daughter, Pilar, makes all kinds of cool handmade gifts. I picked up three heirloom crocheted bookmarks from her and I will be giving away one bookmark to three lucky people that comment. All you have to do to win one of these beautiful heirloom bookmarks is leave a comment on this blog post. You must be a US resident to be eligible for the giveaway. I will be using random.org to choose a winner on August 29th. I will contact the winners via e-mail for their mailing addresses.
If you are looking for some creative, fun gifts, check out Pilar's website, Made To Order Handmade Crafts. She never ceases to amaze me at how creative she is.