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Freebie Friday for Romance Fans!

If you like billionaire romance, Lorin Grace's book, Mending Fences, is free today! I haven't read this author before, but this sounds like a good weekend read. 
Get your free copy HERE 
Here's the back copy:
The fence that brought them together now keeps them apart.

All Mandy wanted was a couple of photos. Instead, she has a broken foot, a bodyguard, and a crush on one of the most eligible businessmen in the country. Memories of a summer long past complicate her resolve to forget about her handsome childhood friend Danny.

Daniel Crawford isn’t sure what to do with his grandfather’s Indiana estate and is tired of high-pressure tactics from potential buyers. When he discovers a woman scaling the fence camera in hand, he determines to keep her off his land. He is surprised to discover his trespasser is the little girl who climbed the fence two decades ago to become his friend.

Struggling to find common ground, neither one can deny growing attraction. But with the paparazzi following every move and bloggers anxiously spreading rumors, can Daniel and Mandy mend the fences that have come between them?

The New Authors Off the Page is Out!

Do you have a best friend? If you could be friends with a celebrity, who would you choose? Those are just a few of the things we talked about on the new Authors Off the Page podcast this month. Come laugh with us! (Find us wherever you get your podcasts!)
Or you can listen to it HERE

Freebie Friday for Romance Fans!

If you need a romance with lots of emotion and heart, Worth the Risk, is free today!

Get your free copy here

Here's the back copy:

When Alicia's former crush Jeff comes into work, he's never looked better. But he already broke her heart once . . .

When Alicia moves back to Pine Valley to help her mom through a serious addiction, the last person she wants to see is her teenage crush, Jeff Finch, who destroyed their friendship in one single disastrous night. Alicia is determined to not let anything about Jeff affect her, especially since she hasn’t seen him in ten years. All she knows is that he’s living a successful and charmed life, and she is more than happy to keep anything between them in the past. But when he shows up with a date at the restaurant where she works, Alicia realizes she’s still not over her feelings, and Jeff is definitely looking at her in a way he never has before. 

Our Guest Author for May Is . . .

 

I'm so excited to be welcoming Heather B. Moore to Book Chat Book Club in May! She is an amazing author, writes in multi-genres, and weaves stories that I can't put down until I turned the last page. We'll be discussing her new romance, Just Add Romance, and asking her all about her secret to success. I hope you'll save the date and join me!

You can join the Book Chat Book Club on Facebook HERE

A Spring Paperback Sale You Won't Want to Miss!

Are there any bargain hunters out there? There is a spring sale going on right now on some of my paperbacks, with 50%-70% off retail price!
If you've been waiting to introduce a friend to my books or are missing a paperback from your collection, now you can get them for a steal! There are just so many good deals, I had to pass them along.
Click HERE for All Fall Down
Click HERE for Ring Around the Rosie
Click HERE for Ribbon of Darkness
Click HERE for Love's Broken Road
Click HERE for On the Edge
Click HERE for Truth or Dare
Click HERE for The Captain's Christmas Promise

A Monday Funny

 

I saw this on my timeline today and it made me laugh. I mean, if it actually happened I wouldn't be laughing, but yeah . . . maybe because it's Monday, it's really funny right now!

Free Book for Romantic Suspense Fans!

Romantic suspense fans, if you need a book to read this weekend, Forget What You've Heard, by Rachelle Christensen is free today! 

Get your free copy HERE

A cryptic phone call overheard by a pregnant woman makes her the next target for murder. Can Aubree protect herself, her unborn child, and her heart?

I Won An Award!

I am so excited to share that my children's book, A Métis Christmas: Thelma's Gift, has won the Best of State medal for Children's Books! 
As you all know, this was a project very close to my heart and to have it honored with this award is absolutely amazing!

Could You Vote for Me?

My romantic suspense book, Second Chance, is up for a RONE award and I need your vote to be able to move on to the next round! Voting is only open until SUNDAY. The books with the most votes will move on to the judges' round and I would love to see Second Chance move on!
If you have a moment, could you vote today?

In order to vote, you can click HERE  to log in or create an account. (It's free) They want to make sure everything is fair. If you are creating a new account they will send you an email to verify that you are really you. You must click that in order to vote.

Then once you are logged in, you can click HERE  to vote.

Thank you SO much!

A Red-Letter Day for Me!

Well, the day I wasn't sure would ever come is finally here. After over seven months, my pulmonologist says my lungs have healed enough that I can go off supplemental oxygen completely! I still have work to do in strengthening my lungs, (I won't be running marathons anytime soon.) but they are working well enough on their own. Yay! 
To tell you the truth, though, it's a little scary for me to not have oxygen in my house anymore. When I mentioned that fear to the pulmonologist, he said that feeling is normal when your lungs have felt oxygen hunger. It's something like PTSD in the way that your body doesn't forget what being starved for oxygen felt like. So, being worried about not having oxygen readily available after what I've been through is normal. Which is reassuring, in a way. It's funny, when I first got the oxygen concentrator to help me breathe, it was so loud and sounded a bit like Darth Vader in my room. I didn't know how I'd ever sleep through the noise. But after seven months, that sound has become so comforting to me, and it will be so strange not to have it anymore. But I just need to remind myself that I'm strong enough to breathe without it. I can do this.

It's been quite the journey for me these last seven months. I won't ever be the same as I was, but things are slowly returning to normal for me and I am so, so grateful.

One step at a time.