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Breathtaking: Boxed Set by Seven Bestselling Authors for only $.99

Breathtaking: Seven Bestselling Novels of Love and Suspense

Boxed set is only $.99 March 24th through March 29th. 









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Unbelievable by Sherry Gammon

Deliah Dreser's in town to take care of family business. They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but there's more to Lilah than meets the eye. Cole's in danger of losing his heart when this firestorm throws sparks his way. Is she simply playing him for the fool in order to exact revenge for her brother's murders?

Bestselling author Sherry Gammon's reviewers exclaim; "She has a gift for touching her readers with beautiful, gripping stories that you can’t put down."









Home Before Dark by Christy Barritt

Nothing good ever happens after dark. Those were the words country singer Daleigh McDermott’s father always repeated.

Now her father is dead, and Daleigh finds a hidden journal hinting that his death was no accident. Small town mechanic Ryan Shields is the only one who seems to believe Daleigh. As the two work to unravel the mystery, it becomes obvious that someone wants them dead. They must rely on each other—and on God—if they hope to make it home before the darkness swallows them whole.

Award-Winning Suspense Novelist and Bestselling Amazon Author, touted as "scary, funny, passionate, and quirky" by USA Today.



Baggage Claim by Amanda Tru

Rachel Saunders is looking forward to her all-expense paid weekend trip to New York. But, when her luggage is lost and she is accosted by an infuriating Homeland Security agent, events take a dangerous turn.

Amanda Tru, Bestselling Amazon Author of Romance and Suspense. Discover the author who, as an Amazon reviewer raves, “continues to impress me and dominate my time with a book I can’t put down even after it’s ended.”





Cassie's Cowboy Crave by Kimberly Krey

In a moment of weakness, Shane steals a kiss.

In return, Cassie steals his heart…

When Cassie is forced to join the witness protection program, she fears her life is over… but then she meets Shane Emerson — the hunky cowboy posing as her husband. Will this sham marriage turn into the real thing, or will a hidden danger put it all at risk?

Kimberly Krey writes romance that’s clean without losing the steam. What’s Beyond Forks calls this Best-selling Western Romance author “the master of romantic tension.”







A Perfect Fit by Heather Tullis

Cami DiCarlo is not happy when her father forces her into heading up guest services at his newest five-star hotel and unveils the existence of four half-sisters at the same time, insisting they live together while they launch the new resort.

When she meets Vince, the sweet, sexy landscaper her father would never have approved of, Cami can’t say no. If only she could be sure she is on the right track—and that they will be able to stop the person who is trying to destroy everything.



You Belong with Me by Shannon Guymon 

Layla Kendall is a burned out social worker one step away from a major depression. When she and her sisters inherit their grandmother's bakery, she doesn't know if she can trust her good fortune or not. But the chance to be with her sisters and get away from the heartache and pain she's faced day in and day out is a chance she's going to take. With Layla's new life, come new friendships, including Michael Bender, a single dad. She doesn't trust men but Michael's little girl grabs her by the heart and won't let go.

Shannon Guymon is an Amazon Bestselling Author of lighthearted and clean romance who according to her many fans, has the ability to paint pictures of her characters so real that readers would know them if they saw them walking down the street.



Blog This by Cami Checketts

Devastated by the loss of her brother, Natasha Senecot exposes the dangers of Matthew Chrysler's violent video games, bankrupting and humiliating him. Chrysler sends a hit man after her. In a race against time, can Natasha expose Chrysler before his assassin murders her family and shatters her world?

Bestselling author Cami Checketts has been touted as, "A genius! She writes about topics that aren't widely discussed, and she does such a brilliant job of crafting these things into wonderful stories that touch your heart and remain with you for days afterwards."






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Clean Romance Author List

I'm always searching for clean romance novels. I decided to compile a list of my favorites to save all of you the headache of Google searches and combing through Amazon lists.

Click on the author's name to see a complete list of their novels or their book title to read more or purchase.

Please share your own favorites in the comment section and I will add them to the clean romance author page. Thanks, Cami



Cindy Anderson - Discovering Sophie



Rachel Renee Anderson - Working it Out



Christy Barritt - The Good Girl



Julie Bellon - Pocket Full of Posies



Rachel Branton - Your Eyes Don't Lie



Cami Checketts - The Colony



Daniel Coleman - Gifts and Consequences



Julianne Donaldson - Edenbrooke



Sarah Eden - As You Are



Stephanie Fowers - With a Kiss



Sherry Gammon- Unbelievable



Shannon Guymon - You Belong with Me



Marie Higgins - Love Lost in Time



Kathleen Marks - To Sleep No More



Dorothy Keddington - Hearth Fires



Christine Kersey - Second Chances



Kimberly Krey - Jade's Cowboy Crush



Lucy McConnell - A New Dance



Jordan McCollum - I, Spy



Heather B. Moore - Fortune Cafe 



Andrea Pearson - Samara: A Kilenya Romance



Theresa Sneed - No Angel Series



Rebecca Talley - Imperfect Love



E. M. Tippetts - Someone Else's Fairytale



Amanda Tru - The Choice



Heather Tullis - The Last Bride



G.G. Vandagriff - The Baron and the Bluestocking

Imperfect Love by Rebecca Talley

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Imperfect Love

Lauren Wilson is well on her way to her happily-ever-after. She has a career she loves, a husband she adores and a baby on the way, but a devastating diagnosis changes everything. The life she's built suddenly crumbles around her when her husband insists she choose—the baby or him.

Returning to her small hometown to rebuild her shattered life, Lauren crosses paths with Ethan Campbell, the man who stole her teenage heart. The old attraction is still there, but Lauren won't admit it to anyone—least of all herself. Her only priority is providing a life for her child, and she can't afford to get it wrong. Ethan is confusing everything, including stirring up feelings she’s not prepared to face. Will she spend her life raising her baby alone or is the family she's always wanted finally within her reach?

 



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Author Rebecca Lynn Talley

Rebecca Lynn Talley grew up in the gorgeous seaside city of Santa Barbara, CA. She met, and married, her husband, Del, while attending Brigham Young University. She graduated from BYU with a degree in Communications. She currently lives in rural Colorado on a small ranch with a dog, too many cats to count, and a herd of goats. She and Del are the proud parents of ten wildly-creative, multi-talented children.

Rebecca is the author of a children’s picture book, Grasshopper Pie (WindRiver 2003), a children’s chapter book, Gabby’s Secret (DuBon Publishing 2011), four novels, Heaven Scent (CFI 2008), Altared Plans (CFI 2009), The Upside of Down (CFI 2011), and Aura (DuBon Publishing 2012). She has also authored numerous children’s stories and articles for both print and online magazines.

When she isn’t writing, Rebecca loves to date her husband, play with her kids, swim in the ocean, and dance to disco music while she cleans the house. She has folded at least one million loads of laundry, baked hundreds of batches of chocolate chip cookies, and eaten 5,478 gallons of ice cream.



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Excerpt 




The next morning, Lauren awoke to the sound of the garage
door closing. It was only six fifteen but Paul had already left for work. He didn’t even say goodbye. Did he
really have to work so much? Was it her imagination or did he seem to be
working more lately?




She pulled the covers up to her chin while thoughts circled
her mind. Certainly, Paul wasn’t deliberately avoiding her, but if she had to
hang onto this secret much longer, she’d explode. This was way too exciting to
hold in. For a moment, she considered calling her mom and telling her, but
decided Paul deserved to know before anyone else. Even her mom.




Lauren rose from bed and gazed out the window. Morning was
just beginning to break, and the neighborhood was bathed in a serene, purple
haze. She loved the early morning when so many possibilities lay ahead. And
today those possibilities were almost intoxicating. Once Paul knew she was
pregnant, he’d be so ecstatic. They’d spend more time together, and Lauren
would finally have her perfect life—just as she had imagined it.




Pulling on her robe, Lauren headed toward the kitchen. After
school she’d drive over to Paul’s office and kidnap him. She’d take him to a
nearby park and after walking around, hand-in-hand, she’d present him with the
baby bottle. The vision of his excitement was so real it almost felt as if his
arms were already around her.




Today would be a good day.






A day that would change everything.


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The Fortune Cafe Book Blast and Giveaway

 





The Fortune Café

a novel in three parts
MIS-FORTUNE: Emma, a waitress at The Fortune Café will do anything to avoid opening a fortune cookie. Each fortune is rumored to somehow magically come true. Being a girl grounded in reality, she doesn’t have time for that kind of nonsense. But when trying to prevent a food fight at the café, Emma accidently cracks open a fortune cookie: “Look around, love is trying to catch you.” If there is one thing that Harrison, her former best friend in high school is good at, it’s catching her unaware.

 

LOVE, NOT LUCK: Lucy has always been lucky . . . until her parents meet her fiancé’s parents at a disastrous lunch at The Fortune Café, and she breaks her lucky jade necklace. Even worse, her fortune cookie reveals that “True love is for the brave, not the lucky.” How is she supposed to read that? She’s always considered it lucky how she met her fiancé. But after breaking her necklace, Lucy’s luck takes a dive. And when her fiancé dumps her, the only person she can turn to is Carter, the unluckiest guy she knows.

 

TAKEOUT: Stella is content in her new life of taking over her mom’s jewelry shop. No more boyfriend to worry about, and as long as she stays busy, she doesn’t have to dwell on her non-existent love life. When Evan comes into the shop with his young daughter, Stella is charmed. But she is reluctant to complicate her straightforward life, so when she reads her fortune after ordering takeout from The Fortune Café, she completely ignores it. After all, how can a fortune as vague as “Do the thing you fear and love is certain,” apply to her?



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About the Authors

Julie Wright started her first book when she was fifteen. She’s written over a dozen books since then, is a Whitney Award winner, and feels she’s finally getting the hang of this writing gig. She enjoys speaking to writing groups, youth groups, and schools. She loves reading, eating writing, hiking, playing on the beach with her kids, and snuggling with her husband to watch movies. Julie’s favorite thing to do is watch her husband make dinner. She hates mayonnaise, but has a healthy respect for ice cream.



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Melanie Bennett Jacobson is an avid reader, amateur cook, and champion shopper. She consumes astonishing amounts of chocolate, chick flicks, and romance novels. After meeting her husband online, she is now living happily married in Southern California with her growing family and a series of doomed houseplants. Melanie is a former English teacher and a sometime blogger who loves to laugh and make others laugh. In her down time (ha!), she writes romantic comedies and pines after beautiful shoes.



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Heather B. Moore is a USA Today bestselling author. She writes historical thrillers under the pen name H.B. Moore, her latest is Finding Sheba. Under Heather B. Moore she writes romance and women’s fiction. She’s the co-author of The Newport Ladies Book Club series. Other women’s novels include Heart of the Ocean, The Fortune Café, the Aliso Creek Series, and the Amazon bestselling Timeless Romance Anthology Series.



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Spring break is coming

Things have been busy with all the work to release and promote the Breathtaking boxed set and the editing and cover production of The Fourth of July. We're also full-swing into lacrosse season for our three oldest. I absolutely love that but spend most of my afternoons and evenings driving to practices or cheering at games.

I shouldn't do this but I keep focusing on spring break and dreaming of no schedules or demands and nonstop time with my husband and children in the sun and the sand.

Do you ever find yourself wishing away your days? I know all the sayings about savoring the moment and finding joy in the here and now but it's like going a day without chocolate - easy to plan on, hard to execute.

How do you slow down and enjoy when life is crazy?

Do you have anything fun you're looking forward to?

Home Matters by Julie N. Ford

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Home Matters by Julie N. Ford

According to her mother, Olivia Pembroke was born to be a star. But how is she supposed to be famous when she can't even get a decent acting gig? Her lucky break comes when she lands an audition for a wildly popular home improvement show. Even though she has no design training and has never even held a power tool, she refuses to let that stop her. She's confident that her destiny is finally within reach.

When her affections are torn between her heartthrob co-host and the irritating, yet somehow endearing lead contractor, does she continue to reach for the stars? Or does she design a new happily ever after? One that leads not to the fading lights of fame and fortune, but to a love that will burn forever.



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Author Julie N. Ford

Julie is a forty-something, dangerously close to becoming a fifty-something, graduate from San Diego State University with a BA in Political Science. In addition, she has a Masters in Social Work from the University of Alabama, which has only made her better able to recognize the unhealthy, codependent relationship she has with writing. Professionally, she has worked in teaching and as a marriage and family counselor. She is the author of four women’s fiction novels, including Count Down to Love, a 2011 Whitney Award finalist. When she’s not writing, she entertains delusions of being a master gardener, that is, when she’s not killing the unsuspecting plants in her yard with her good intentions. She lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, two daughters, a Betta named Bob, and a Scottish fold kitten, Ardweal.


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My Review




I really enjoyed this story. It was cute and clean romance. I loved the charity angle with the hero and that the heroine grew into herself and found the way she could make a difference and be happy instead of just being another pretty face. She was spunky and the book was really fun. I'd recommend it.





The Ripple Effect Romance Novella Series

Enjoy this exciting new series of clean novellas by six critically-acclaimed authors.

"Like a pebble tossed into calm water, a simple act can ripple outward and have a far-reaching effect on those we meet, perhaps setting a life on a different course—one filled with excitement, adventure, and sometimes even love."

Book 1: Home Matters by Julie N. Ford

Book 2: Silver Linings by Kaylee Baldwin

Book 3: Righting A Wrong by Rachael Anderson

Book 4: Lost and Found by Karey White

Book 5: Second Chances 101 by Donna K. Weaver

Book 6: Immersed by Jennifer Griffith





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Breathtaking Boxed Set: Seven Bestselling Novels of Love and Suspense

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Only $.99 March 24-29








I'm so thrilled to be part of this boxed set of bestselling love and suspense novels. The official release date is March 24th and the entire set will be only $.99 until March 29th. I calculated a savings of $34.93. So cool. These are amazing authors. I've read each of their books and they are truly some of my favorites. The boxed set will be available at many ebook retailers on the 24th. 



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One Little Match by Thomas S. Monson

Thomas S. Monson loved spending summers at his family's cabin in Utah's Vivian Park. One summer day, he and his best friend, Danny, decided to clear a field so they could gather with their friends and have a campfire that night. The tall, stubborn weeds would not pull out easily. So Tommy had the idea to burn them up instead.



He knew he shouldn't use matches without permission from his parents. But he ignored the feeling that warned him of the danger and raided the matchbox in the cabin. Back in the field, he lit one little match and prepared to set the parched June grass abaze...



Readers of all ages will resonate with this wonderful true story that demonstrates the blessings of obedience and "the dangers that can come from something as small as one little match."



My Review



We adore this book! I read it to all four of my boys and they were engrossed. Now I catch my 7yo reading it to himself or his little brother almost daily. He thinks it's so cool that our prophet played with matches and almost burned a mountain down. My little pyromaniacs think President Monson is the greatest and this book made them think that even more.



About the Authors

PRESIDENT THOMAS S. MONSON has served as the sixteenth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 2008. He was called as an Apostle in 1963 at the age of thirty-six. After serving as second counselor to President Ezra Taft Benson and then President Howard W. Hunter, he served as first counselor to President Gordon B. Hinckley from 1995 to 2008.



Thomas Spencer Monson was born to G. Spencer and Gladys Condie Monson on August 21, 1927, in Salt Lake City. Following his service in the U.S. Navy near the close of World War II, he graduated cum laude from the University of Utah and earned an MBA from Brigham Young University. He had a distinguished career in the publishing industry.



He served as president of the Canadian Mission from 1959 to 1962 and was a member of several general Church committees before becoming an Apostle.



He married Frances Beverly Johnson in the Salt Lake Temple in 1948. They are the parents of two sons and one daughter. They have eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.



DAN BURR earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from Utah State University and a master’s degree in illustration from Syracuse University. He and his wife, Patti, are raising their two children and numerous farm animals on twelve acres of river-bottom land in Tetonia, Idaho. Dan is a well-known Christian illustrator who also specializes in wildlife renderings. A few of the books Dan has illustrated are The Miracle of the Wooden Shoes, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, and The Mansion.

A sequel to The Fourth of July

I was able to get a reversal of rights for The Fourth of July and have been working hard at editing the book and getting it back on the market. I can hardly wait for the new cover and release!

As I fell in love with the characters all over again I realized the book needs a sequel. I started plotting it out and haven't slept for a couple of nights. It will be the story of Alexis' (heroine of The Fourth of July) sister, Brittany and Detective Scott Bentley (from Blog This) will have a huge role in the book. I'm so excited to see their story unfold.

I'll keep you updated on The Fourth of July re-release.

Hugs,

Cami

Dead Running audio

Dead Running is available as an audio book. Christy Crevier did an unreal job as the narrator. Click here to listen to a preview. If you've already bought the ebook you can get the audio for really cheap.