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January 15, 2014
Great Places to Read – A Cozy Chair
A cozy chair and a book. How I love to spend an afternoon.
Beach and a Book
Maybe it’s cold outside were you are. We can dream, can’t we?
A beach. A hammock. A sunset. A book. Ahh.
January 11, 2014
Free Kindle Download – Good Guys Love Dogs
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Amazon.com Reviews:
“One of the very best books I’ve ever read! Cooper knows how to keep you absorbed and wanting more. I didn’t want to put the book down. A definite must read! I can’t wait to read more from her.”
“What a wonderful ride and journey of characters. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I will definitely read more from this author.”
“This book was so beautiful that I couldn’t put it down. Read it out on the lounge in one read without interruptions. Throughly recommend. Am now searching for other books by this author.”
“Such a heart warming story right from the beginning until the end. It is about two people searching for that one thing that is missing in their life.”
Dog Rescue Changed My Life
Roscoe. Rescued 2005.
Dog rescue has been one of the major choices in my life that made me aware of things I never knew. It has shaped my heart and soul with awareness of what reaching out truly means. The choice to save a life comes with unimaginable rewards. Roscoe, a Walker Hound, left in a high-kill Virginia shelter, has given me more love than I could ever deserve. Anything I ever did for him has been repaid with a currency that cannot be measured in dollars. He loves me without reserve. Without judgment. Without regard to anything except that I have been kind to him, and he loves me for that. What more could I hope to be loved for?
January 8, 2014
Where Women Are Concerned
Excerpt from Jane Austen Girl
“Bobby Jack Randall! What are you doing here?” He heard the slur in the words and wondered exactly where she might’ve ended up tonight if he hadn’t stopped. Maybe it was a place she wanted to end up. Something in the thought bothered him for reasons he didn’t really want to look at. He leaned one elbow on the bar, hung his gaze onto her, and said, “Just stopping in for a beer.”
She made a sound of disbelief. “Are you checking up on me?”
The words hit a little too close to the truth for him to voice a denial, so he simply rolled his eyes and took his beer from the obviously disappointed bartender.
“Don’t you have better things to do?” she asked, a little roll at the end of each of the words.
“The question is, what are you doing here?” he asked.
“You don’t think I like places like this?”
“It’s not the worst place I could picture you in,” he said on a note of reason.
“Would you like to dance?” she said, alcohol no doubt letting the question slip out.
He shook his head. “You are going to regret this in the morning.”
“It’s not morning yet. It’s still night, and I’m not done.” She waved her hand to the bartender and called out, “Can I have another, please?”
The bartender said, “Sure thing,” reached for a glass, poured a splash of gin, added some tonic and lime, and slid it across the bar top.
“You sure you oughta do that?” Bobby Jack said.
“Who are you, my daddy?”
“So not your daddy,” he said with immediate conviction.
She pulled back and gave him a long, assessing look. “You sure aren’t.”
This brought another smile to his lips, despite the realization that he was playing with fire. The question was, which one of them was going to get burned?
The band cranked up another beat thumper. Grier took his hand and said, “You never gave me an answer, but come on, anyway.”
What made him slide off that stool and follow her had nothing to do with common sense or anything remotely related.
She led him out to the dance floor, her hips already finding the song’s groove and simultaneously drawing his eyes to their center.
Grier slipped her arms around his neck, and he looked down at her, feeling suddenly more than a little drunk on the look in her eyes.
“Grier,” he said, her name half protest, half plea.
“Anybody ever call you uptight?”
“A time or two.”
“For now, let’s go prove them wrong.” She led the way then, and he was helpless but to follow. It had been a very long time since he’d felt this kind of pull to any woman. The song ended, and another started up.
The crowd immediately picked up the increased tempo, so that the floor felt like a living sea of rhythm-drunk bodies.
Bobby Jack realized then that he didn’t need alcohol to get drunk on Grier McCallister. He could lose all hold on reason by the simple sway of her hips and the way her hair felt against his fingertips.
In fact, just then, he wanted to get hammered on the woman in his arms. Stone cold oblivious to anything else but the way she was staring at his mouth.
“What the hell is going on here?”
Bobby Jack heard his brother’s voice and started to turn just as a fist slammed into his jaw. The impact sent stars whirling out in front of him.
He heard a scream, and then Grier screaming, “Darryl Lee! What are you doing?”
Darryl Lee gave Bobby Jack a two-palmed shove into a no longer dancing couple, knocking him to the floor and scattering folks left and right while the band kept playing. “Get the hell up and fight back!” Darryl Lee snapped. “You two face son of a—”
Bobby Jack was up now and went at his brother, not giving himself a second to think about the consequences. He line-backed Darryl Lee straight across the dance floor to the main entrance where somebody held the door open, and they both staggered into the parking lot.
Darryl Lee started swinging like a kindergarten bully, and Bobby Jack put his right shoulder into his brother’s chest, flipping him once so that he landed on his back with a loud “umph!”.
Bobby Jack stood over him, breathing hard. “You had enough?”
“Hayyyle no!” he yelled, getting to his feet and aiming a tackle at Bobby Jack’s midsection. . .
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I love books! From my earliest memories, I loved being read to and then reading practically every book in my elementary school library. There’s something about taking a little trip into a wonderful story that is its own unique pleasure. Over the years, my favorite authors have provided me with glimpses into worlds I would never have known had I not picked up their books. From Beverley Cleary to Lavyrle Spencer to Jodi Piccoult to Anita Shreve and so many others, I am grateful they chose to become storytellers. A great story has the power to move, change and shape its readers. To me, that’s an honorable calling and a task I aspire to.
Inglath
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January 7, 2014
The White Horse Thing
“A prince rarely arrives on a white horse. You’ll recognize him all the same.”
Excerpt from Jane Austen Girl
. . .Grier never wanted to move. It made absolutely no sense, but not once in her life had she ever found herself in a place that felt like it was the only place she’d ever been meant to be. Here in the circle of Bobby Jack Randall’s arms.
Her hand lay pressed to the center of his chest even though she had no memory of putting it there. She only knew she didn’t want to move it. He rubbed his thumb across the top of her shoulder. Something about the simplicity of his gesture broke down the wall of need inside her, and she lifted her face to his. “Would you please kiss me, Bobby Jack?”
“Grier. We both know this isn’t a good idea.” His voice was rough at the edges, as if it wasn’t easy to say what he’d just said.
“Would you do it anyway?”
He hesitated for a second during which she thought he would simply say no. But then he made a low sound of defeat and sank his mouth onto hers.
The kiss was unlike any she had ever known. Grier thought maybe this was what the princess in all those fairy tales felt like when the prince finally kissed her and brought her back to life.
Because that’s what Bobby Jack’s kiss did for her. Filled her with helium-like happiness so that she turned into him and looped her arms around the back of his neck, seeking any way at all to get closer to him.
He made another sound of defeat and slipped his hands under her arms, lifting her quickly, deliberately, onto his lap. They kissed like that for minutes on end. Two people who hadn’t realized their thirst for one another until now. . . .
Buy contemporary romance Jane Austen Girl here.
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I love books! From my earliest memories, I loved being read to and then reading practically every book in my elementary school library. There’s something about taking a little trip into a wonderful story that is its own unique pleasure. Over the years, my favorite authors have provided me with glimpses into worlds I would never have known had I not picked up their books. From Beverley Cleary to Lavyrle Spencer to Jodi Piccoult to Anita Shreve and so many others, I am grateful they chose to become storytellers. A great story has the power to move, change and shape its readers. To me, that’s an honorable calling and a task I aspire to.
Inglath
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Reviews for Jane Austen Girl
Thank you so much to these wonderful readers for taking the time to leave a comment on Amazon.com for Jane Austen Girl. Reader reviews matter so much to the success of a book, and I am extremely grateful for the time you take out of your day to post a review!
Jane Austen Girl is a contemporary romance set in Virginia.
The very last thing on Grier McAllister’s Someday List is going back to Timbell Creek, Virginia, the town where she grew up. Timbell Creek holds too many bad memories for her, memories finally put to rest with a successful image consultant business in New York City and a hefty therapy bill. When an opportunity to choose a “Jane Austen Girl” for a visiting duke falls in her lap, the only catch that she must be from Grier’s hometown, Grier tells herself she’ll do what she needs to do and then leave it all behind for good. But Grier doesn’t count on finding that her mother is no longer the person she used to be. She certainly doesn’t plan on falling for an old boyfriend’s really hot brother! And it isn’t long before she begins to realize Timbell Creek is not only a part of who she was, but might be a part of who she is as well.
If you love small town romance with characters you might want to know in real life, I hope you’ll give Jane Austen Girl a try!
January 6, 2014
Reader Comments are Gold
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January 5, 2014
Download Free eBooks – Try Before You Buy
If you’re a reader looking to download free ebooks as a way to sample an author you’ve never read before, it’s a great way to try before you buy! Perfume companies know we need to sample the fragrance before we can decide it’s right for us. And since readers have different tastes in books, I think the same principle applies!
So, if you think the best romance novels take you away for a bit to a place you might actually want to visit, I hope you’ll give Good Guys Love Dogs a try. Here are some reader reviews:
5 Stars – Two Paws Up - Sweet love story filled with adorable dogs and a lucky calf. Just the perfect book to get caught up in, a quick read that will make you want to read more books by this talented author. - Amazon.com Reviewer
5 Stars – Amazing Book! - This is one of the very best books I’ve ever read! Cooper knows how to keep you absorbed and wanting more. I didn’t want to put the book down. A definite must read! I can’t wait to read more from her. – Amazon.com Reviewer
5 Stars – Read it in One Day - This book was so beautiful that I couldn’t put it down. read it out on the lounge in the one read without interruptions. Throughly recommend. Am now searching for other books by this author. Thank you Book Rooster for allowing me the chance to read this. Good Guys Love Dogs. Excellent! - Amazon.com Reviewer
5 Stars – Great Read! Good Guys Love Dogs is such a heart warming story right from the beginning until the end. It is about two people searching for that one thing that is missing in their life. For one it is simple he put work before anything and everything else. For one she has secrets and when they are exposed she will have to live with the consequences. For me I loved this book because it showed that through it all love has a place and love can heal all wounds.
Ian and his teenage son has a very rocky relationship. Ian has been an absentee father for his son Luke. He has put everything first from work to a new engagement. When Luke starts acting out and getting in trouble with the law Ian decides it is time for him to move to a small place and focus on his son and his needs.This decision is not made lightly as Ian is leaving his safety of work and his fiance but he knows it needs to be done.
Colby Williams is a single mother of a teenage daughter. Her daughter and her come to heads when her daughter finds out she has been keeping a secret about her father. When the secret is revealed Colby will have to do damage control but can she because a secret that big can destroy a person. If matters could not get worse Colby wants to buy a ranch so she can make her dreams come true by having a place for animals to go but there is only one thing the ranch she wants to buy Ian has bought.
When Ian and Colby come together in this story it felt like I was right there watching a real life scene. This book is a great Saturday or Sunday read. Sit by the fireplace and read because this one will melt your heart! - Amazon.com Reviewer
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