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The A.B.C Award

My lovely yet crazy author friend Noelle Clark has bestowed upon me this award.  I can't decide if she is being nice or mean. The rules may be a simple as ABC but I'm not sure the answers will be.  Here are the rules:
1.    Display the logo and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2.    Nominate some other blogs.
3.    Work through the alphabet writing one word or phrase about yourself or things you like or associate with yourself, that begins A...B....C....  All 26 of them. So here goes:
A: Adventurous - yep that's me to a T. I love experiences that make me scream.
B: Books - not a day goes by when I don't read.
C: Cheese and Chocolate - not usually together.
D: Dean - my wonderful husband.
E: Explorer - I love a good adventure. Egypt - my favourite exotic holiday.
F: Family and friends - they mean everything to me.
G: Girlfriends - I'd be lost without my girlfriends. We share all our ups and downs usually over wine.
H: Happy - I'm a glass half full kinda girl. Actually if it's wine then fill it up baby.
I: Interesting - with the crazy life I lead, I like to think my friends and family find me interesting. 
J: Journey - because life is about the journey - not always the destination.
K: Kids - I'm so very proud of my two sons.
L: Love - I've been with my real life hero for 28 years and couldn't imagine life without him.
M: Madness - I'm an author and with all the characters running around my head I could be a little nuts
O: Opportunity - I don't like to let a chance go by.
P: Passion - 'cause that's how I roll.
Q: Quest for knowledge - the day I stop learning is the day I start fading.
R: Romance - I love it, so I write about it. I think I'm lucky to believe in it.
S: Sunset's - with my hubby, oh, and Sauv Blanc and Swiss cheese. 
T: Travel - I always have a holiday on the horizon. Europe here we come.
U: Uninterested in TV - Hardly ever watch TV, but love a great movie.
V: Visionary - I'm a goal setter. My bucket list has 101 things on it. I have 68 to go.
W: Wine and writing - sometimes at the same time.
X: X-rated movies are not my thing. Much prefer a great storyline.
Y: Youthful - sometimes I'm just a big kid.
Z: Zeal - That's how I approach my life. It's too short to waste even a day.

So now I bestow this award to:

1) The wonderful, fantabulous author Sarah Belle
2) The incredibly talented Juliet Madison 
3) The effervescent Tania Joyce
4) The exciting new author Darry Fraser
5) The stylish and sophisticated J'Aimee Brooker

And linking back to the person who nominated me:  Noelle Clark
Thank you

Hunky Hero - In Safe Arms

In Safe Arms
By Lee Christine
Nate Hunter is a detective with the Sydney Gang Squad. Tall, dark and handsome, he’s naturally athletic, buff in an unpumped kind of way—and he’s deep undercover with a Sydney bikie gang. Patient, strategic and with an innate sense of justice, he’s determined to  protect the community, get the drugs off the street and bring down the
‘overseer’, the Mr. Big of Sydney’s underworld. With the club name ‘Bolt’, Nate poses as a mechanic by day and lock picker by night, while covertly gathering information about the bikies’ money laundering activities, and the man behind it all.

Want to know more?
When the world believes you dead, who do you turn to?
 
Amidst the escalating violence of Sydney's underworld, legal secretary, Josephine Valenti,
witnesses the murder of a notorious bikie president on Skype. With her safety compromised, Josie flees, only to be kidnapped by Nate Hunter, a bikie, a man radically changed from the one she lusted after two years ago.
 
Drawn deeper into a conflict of warring bikies, drugs, money laundering and prostitution, Josie is forced to make choices she could never have imagined. Enveloped in a cauldron of corruption, she fights for survival, for the truth, and ultimately for the man who still has hold of her heart.

“In Safe Arms” is the second novel in Lee Christine’s Grace and Poole Lawyers series. Author Links:
Website:
www.leechristine.com.au Buy In Safe Arms here:
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Hunky Hero Tip #56 BARGAIN BUY

A bargain is something we simply can't resist regardless of the price.

Just agree.


I thought today's tip was appropriate given the craziness at the shops yesterday. Personally I hate shopping. I'm a mission shopper. I go with a list and rarely deviate from the plan. Pity I don't plot out my books with such precision, it'd save me loads of time.

Don't get me wrong - I love a bargain. It's rare for me to buy clothes or shoes where I can't brag about my savings. But yesterday, the crowds were like a swarm of locusts hell bent on annihilating the bargains. It was nuts. The queue's were enormous, customers had a crazy glint in their eyes and the staff looked like the walking dead.

Despite the mayhem, hubby and I had a successful mission. We went for 6 things, got the bargain of the year and went home with 6 things. How's that for the perfect shop?

What kind of shopper are you?

Feel free to spread my words of wisdom, maybe your husband will see it. I pop out my Hunky Hero Tips  from time to time. These are subtle and sometimes not so subtle tips that my  girlfriends and I make up for the men in our lives ... wine is usually  involved.

Did you read last weeks Hunky Hero Tip #25 - something about getting your man to cook for you.

Or how about  Hunky Hero Tip #43  - It was a good one too. My advise on gift giving (For that special man in your life).

Have you got a hunky hero tip you want to share?  I'd love to hear it. You can use my contact form, or shoot me an email: kendall@universe.com.au

Here's to an adventurous and healthy 2014 for you all.
Cheers
Kendall Talbot

Hunky Hero Tip #25 COOK UP A STORM

Confucius say man who can cook has better chance of eating muffin.

Haha, get your minds out of the gutter, I'm thinking blueberry. Well I laughed.  Actually my husband loves to cook, but boy does he make a mess.  I think his mission when he cooks, is to use as many pots and pans as he can. Oh, and then there's the herbs and spices. He raids the herb garden and throws everything into the dish without any thought as to whether the flavors will work. I love it though. If my man's going to cook for me then 'I No Complain'.

One of our favorite things to do on a Saturday night, when the kids aren't home is to whip up something special in the kitchen. We cook with the fancy ingredients too: lamb rack, prawns, crab. Yummy. Usually, by the time we actually sit down to eat we've polished off a good bottle of wine and had lots of laughs too.

So... Who's the chef in your house? 

Feel free to spread my words of wisdom, maybe your husband will see it. I
pop out my Hunky Hero Tips from time to time.  These are subtle and sometimes not so subtle tips that my girlfriends and I make up for the men in our lives ... wine is usually  involved.

Did you read last weeks Hunky Hero Tip #43 - It was a good one too. My advise to the men in your life on gift giving.

Or how about my Hunky Hero Tip that compared men to a good glass of wine? Hunky Hero Tip #45

Have you got a hunky tip you want to share?  I'd love to hear it. You can use my contact form, or shoot me an email: kendall@universe.com.au

 Come on... send me your tips for the men in our lives.

Hunky Hero: My Brother-But-One

My Brother-But-One
By T.M. Clark
2 hunky hero’s for the price of 1...
Scott is a typical white Southern-African protective male, tall, dark haired and is pure blue-eyed sex appeal. His muscle honed tight by the work on his ranch, and tanned brown by the African sun. Oh so alpha male. Protector of everything he owns on his private game reserve, including the people who live on his land. Women-shy Scott knows what he is doing in the veld, and can track the smallest brown mouse to the largest elephant.  

Trying to keep abreast of a changing political climate, Scott tries hard not to fall in love with Ashley, but life has another plan for him where his heart is concerned…

Zol is black and beautiful. He is the slightly older, strongest best friend Scott could ever ask for, the
one who walks beside him and doesn’t let him down. Zol has been with the Decker family since before Scott was born, so he considers Scott family… and he will do whatever necessary to protect that family. Rugged and wise beyond his years, Zol’s natural affinity for the African bush has been tested through out his life, his years as a child soldier, his years in the Rhodesia Bush war, and lately, just trying to keep the animals and people on his ranch safe. 
 
Together, these two hunky hero’s fight for the people they love, and for the African animals they try to
keep from annihilation and extinction.

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Scott Decker and Zol Ndhlovu are partners in a private game ranch in Zimbabwe. They have a friendship borne from Africa — a brotherhood that endures the generation gap — and crosses the colour barrier.
 
Australian Ashley Twine is a thirty-something dynamic achiever and a confident businesswoman. When a gender mix-up secures her a position on a volunteer program in the Hwange National Park, Ashley gets a chance to take stock of her life and reassess her situation. But the chauvinistic Scott — who runs the operation — is adamant she isn’t cut out for the job.
 
After Ashley witnesses firsthand the devastation left behind by poachers, Scott finds himself torn between wanting to protect Ashley or force her to leave Africa for her own safety…and his sanity. However, nothing can prepare her for being ambushed and held captive by the psychopathic Rodney — an old enemy of Zol’s — from a war fought years ago. But now that their world has been threatened,
circumstances take hold of their lives and begin to shape and change them forever.

Set against a magnificent backdrop of Africa across the decades, T.M. Clark explores and challenges the traditions between the white and black families of rural Africa.

But wait there's more: Author Links:
Website: www.tmclark.com.au Purchase: My Brother-But-One here:
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Hunky Hero Tip #43 - PRESENT TENSE

Warning: A present is NOT something I clean or iron with.

No. No. NO. These are necessities, not gifts. A gift is something I want to cherish. Something that I will remember came from you, and something that you have put a lot of thought into.

Believe me if that beautifully wrapped box contains an iron or a vacuum cleaner then I just may show you what you can do with it.  HAHA, I'm only kidding...not.

For me, and I don't know about the rest of you ladies out there, a present doesn't always have to be tangible. I mean a picnic, or fancy dinner, tickets to my favorite band, a weekend away, a holiday to Tuscany... these are presents I'll cherish, even though I can't hand them down to my grandkids one day. I love surprises and getting a gift that my husband has put a lot of thought into is always better. After all with 28 years together, he should know what I like by now.

Actually I am lucky, my hubby did surprise me with a holiday to Tuscany for our 20th anniversary.  It was truly magical (I think I'll do a little blog about that next week.) So other than the occasional faux pas he usually gets it right. 

How does your hubby rate in the present stakes?  I'd love to hear your uppers and downers.

Feel free to spread my words of wisdom, maybe your husband will see it. I pop out my Hunky Hero Tips from time to time.  These are subtle and sometimes not so subtle tips that my girlfriends and I make up for the men in our lives ... wine is usually  involved.

Did you see my last Hunky Hero Tip #34  I shared a quick bit advice to the men in your world about shoes, and why us ladies love them.

Or how about my Hunky Hero Tip that compared men to a good glass of wine? Hunky Hero Tip #45

Have you got a hunky tip you want to share?  I'd love to hear it. 

You can use my contact form, or shoot me an email: kendall@universe.com.au

Hunky Hero - This Forever Game

This Forever Game
by Darry Fraser
Jarrad Scott is looking for someone to fire his blood, someone he instantly knows will be his Forever woman. 
 
He’s young, ambitious, and country. He has a sense of self that no difference of opinion is going to change. He knows who he is, he knows what he wants and he knows he got time to get it.

He’s physically strong. Men like him, women like him – and he likes women - and he’s not afraid to oppose the way some men treat women. He loves romance, love closeness, and fires burning at the home hearth. He loves kids, and he wants his own.

And that might be his only problem with this Forever woman.

What to know more?
Meg Donovan is the proprietor of a B&B along with her husband, Martin, but their relationship is – as far as Meg’s concerned – dead. Into her life walks, or rather strides ... bounds ... leaps Jarrad
Scott, a younger man who bursts on to the scene with a fire in his belly and a big love in his heart. No big deal that you're older - that's not gonna stop him - but he’s got no kids ... so what do you do if the clock’s ticking and it’s not your clock?

But wait there's more: Author Links:
Website:
www.darryfraser.com Purchase This Forever Game here:
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Amazon
All Romance Books But wait there's more: Click here for more details  on how you too can have a blog spot. Want to read more about my Hunky Hero - Mackenzie?
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Hunky Hero Tip #34. IRON MAN

Find me a man who can iron and I'll happily give him the shirt off my back.

I hope you like today's tip for the men in your life. I wish mine took notice of this one. 

These subtle and sometimes not so subtle tips are just a little bit of quirky fun. Wine may have been involved. Feel free to spread my words of wisdom.

Did you see my last Hunky Hero Tip I shared a quick bit advice to the men in your world about shoes, and why us ladies love them.

Or how about my Hunky Hero Tip that compared men to a good glass of wine? Hunky Hero Tip #45

Have you got a hunky tip you want to share?  I'd love to hear it. You can use my contact form, or shoot me an email: Kendall@universe.com.au

Hunky Hero - Moonstone Obsession

Moonstone Obsession
By Elizabeth Ellen Carter

Sir James Mitchell, Lord Penventen is a man on a mission.

The death of his father brings him home to England to a society he no longer cares for, but keeping him there is a personal promise he made to no lesser person than the Prime Minister of England, William Pitt the Younger.

As a spy for the Crown he enlists the aid of a merchant fleet captain but James immediately captivated by the man’s independently minded sister, Selina, much to the ire of Lady Abigail,  James’ one-time lover.

What makes James a hunky hero is his wit, intelligence and his sense of duty. He may have done questionable things in the past but he is determined to chart a new course in his life, inspired by the unjaded honesty of Selina.

There is a vulnerability about him that he is not afraid to acknowledge. He heart was severely bruised by Lady Abigail and his attitude to marriage jaded by the poor example set by his own parents, yet he is willing to take the risk that Selina understands the man he really is.

Want to know more?
Secrets, scandal, and passion…

Selina Rosewall had given up on love, but while helping her brother further his merchant fleet business, she meets Sir James Mitchell, Lord of Penventen. Their attraction is mutual, but what James wants from the relationship goes further—much further—than Selina could have expected. And she learns that in the world of the Ton, scandal and deceit are commonplace.

For Sir James Mitchell, Lord of Penventen, it’s hard to say which is more dangerous: being a spy or being considered husband material by the Ladies of the Ton. With political machinations threatening to draw England into the violent wake of the French Revolution, the last thing James expected was to fall in love with Selina Rosewall, daughter of an untitled seafaring family. But when James’  investigation stirs up a hornet’s nest, can he protect Selena from danger that threatens her very life?

But wait there's more: Author Links:

Website:  www.eecarter.com Purchase Moonstone Obsession here:
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Ebooks
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Hunky Hero - Money for Blood

Money for Blood
By Darry Fraser
Joseph is still a country boy at heart, though one
with multi millions of dollars now under his belt. Returning to Australis Island trying to find the solace in home, he only sees sadness and strife and he questions the wisdom of his decision. He has compassion and empathy for those closest to him and when he needs something from the woman he has set his sights
on, he is determined to succeed. He doesn’t need the money he’s won – it can’t do much more for him than he’d already done anyway – and she has made it clear
it’s the last thing she wants from him.

He’s generous, he’s strong physically and emotionally, comfortable in himself and in his relationships with others. He has maintained the ‘boy from the bush’ persona which surfaces in the pub, or with  his brother, or rescuing damsels in distress. His is a presence which quietly commands attention, and his vulnerability is as attractive as is his handsome
face, his big body and the dark-eyed captivating gaze.  

He knows when to retreat, and when to advance and pursue at a later time. He protects those who are loved by him and even those who don’t know they are loved by him. But don’t mess with him.

 (Of course he is complete fantasy on his creator’s part, but she is totally in love with him, too)

Want to Know more?
Joseph McInerney returns to his place of birth. He's a self made business man who just happened to win a large amount of money to add to his woes.

There doesn't seem to be an awful lot more to do - he's a little aimless. His sibling's family are all he has left and they're not exactly ... altogether.  Money can't seem to help that situation and so he feels
 there's nothing to strive for until he sees Cloudy Bannon in the local grocery store, someone from his distant past.
 
She has built her life here, made it work for her. Unfortunately Cloudy has her own demons to tackle and having anything to do with Joseph would only complicate things even more for her. It just isn't going to work.

Throw in a lively, determined cousin of Cloudy's, spectacular countryside, the need to grow and rise above the difficulties and the discomforts, unexplained deaths and lots of wine and ... well, welcome to Australis Island and Money For Blood.

But wait there's more: Author Links:
Website: www.darryfraser.com Buy Money For Blood here:
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All Romance Books
Amazon Do you have a Hunky Hero you want to share with the world? Click here for more details  on how you too can have a blog
spot.
Want to read more about my Hunky Hero - Mackenzie? Click here  

Or for a  bit of a laugh, check out my Hunky Hero tips.