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June 26, 2021
I AM ANSWERING THE NEXT CALL TO ADVENTURE!
From Parris With Love ~
With the wrap-up of my 50th novel, I decided it was time to answer the next call to adventure. At summer’s end I am moving to Queretaro, Mexico. Fifty years ago, I moved to Mexico City, where two of my five sons were born. Three years later, we moved back to the States. How synchronous life is, coming full circle, fifty years later.
In celebration of this huge, life-changing decision, I am reducing on July 1st only my latest novel, the ebook version of THE BETRAYERS, from $4.99 to .99 cents.
Nothing can keep a Paladin from the woman he loves ~ not even a world war.
THE TEXICANS saga, about a founding family of Texas ~ the Paladins, begins in 1835 with Sam Houston and the epic battle of San Jacinto and continues through thus far to 1963 with Lyndon B. Johnson and the Kennedy assassination. Follow the Paladins as they love and battle across the legendary panorama that is Texas.
The five volumes in THE TEXICANS series are: The Brigands, The Barons, The Bravados, The Betrayers, and The Banshees (available in ebook, hardback, paperback, and soon audio)
Love and hate combine to endanger the Paladíns and all they hold dear.
In the penultimate volume of her riveting Texicans saga, New York Times bestselling author Parris Afton Bonds weaves the threads of loyalty, class, power, and politics into a single captivating tale of one family’s struggle to survive the fires of war and The Great Depression. Written with the authenticity of an historian, the color of a painter, and the grace of a choreographer, The Betrayers is Bonds at her finest.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
May 19, 2021
HOORAY, HOT-DIGGITY-DOG, AND HALLELUJAH!
From Parris With Love ~
Hooray, hot-diggity-dog, and hallelujah ~ Vol. IV in the THE TEXICANS series, THE BETRAYERS is available in hardback, paperback, and ebook, which is only $4.99 right now!
THE TEXICANS saga, about a founding family of Texas ~ the Paladins, begins in 1835 with Sam Houston and the epic battle of San Jacinto and continues through thus far to 1963 with Lyndon B. Johnson and the Kennedy assassination. Follow the Paladins as they love and battle across the legendary panorama that is Texas.
The five volumes in THE TEXICANS series are: The Brigands, The Barons, The Bravados, The Betrayers, and The Banshees (available in ebook, hardback, paperback, and soon audio)
Love and hate combine to endanger the Paladíns and all they hold dear.
WHEN A LONGTIME family friend is wrongly accused of involvement in a Houston riot and mutiny, Drake Paladín vows to get the best attorney money can buy. That lawyer is none other than Roger Clarendon, known not only for his legal prowess but his insufferable arrogance as well. When the drunken attorney makes an aggressive pass at Drake’s wife, Angel, Drake breaks Roger open like a shotgun. The violent scuffle results in Roger’s father—the Honorable Brighton Clarendon, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court—delivering a none-to-subtle message to the Paladíns: politics is dirty business.
From hereon, the Paladíns are under the gun, suffering failures and even outright sabotage across their many business ventures. Eventually, even The Barony itself, the sprawling South Texas ranch the family fought and won the right to at the Battle of San Jacinto, is put in peril. Rallying together to save their ancestral home, the Paladíns finally put niceties and tolerance behind them. This is war.
But this battle to exterminate the Clarendons takes Preston Paladín all the way to the bowels of pre-war Nazi Germany—and the disarming charms of the beautiful Fabienne Allaman. But on whose side is she really? And dare he risk The Barony and the fate of his entire family for the love of a resistance fighter with nothing to lose?
In the penultimate volume of her riveting Texicans saga, New York Times bestselling author Parris Afton Bonds weaves the threads of loyalty, class, power, and politics into a single captivating tale of one family’s struggle to survive the fires of war and The Great Depression. Written with the authenticity of an historian, the color of a painter, and the grace of a choreographer, The Betrayers is Bonds at her finest.
THE TEXICANS saga, about a founding family of Texas ~ the Paladins, begins in 1835 with Sam Houston and the epic battle of San Jacinto and continues through thus far to 1963 with Lyndon B. Johnson and the Kennedy assassination. Follow the Paladins as they love and battle across the legendary panorama that is Texas.
The five volumes in THE TEXICANS series are: The Brigands, The Barons, The Bravados, The Betrayers, and The Banshees (available in ebook, hardback, paperback, and soon audio)
Love and hate combine to endanger the Paladíns and all they hold dear.
WHEN A LONGTIME family friend is wrongly accused of involvement in a Houston riot and mutiny, Drake Paladín vows to get the best attorney money can buy. That lawyer is none other than Roger Clarendon, known not only for his legal prowess but his insufferable arrogance as well. When the drunken attorney makes an aggressive pass at Drake’s wife, Angel, Drake breaks Roger open like a shotgun. The violent scuffle results in Roger’s father—the Honorable Brighton Clarendon, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court—delivering a none-to-subtle message to the Paladíns: politics is dirty business.
From hereon, the Paladíns are under the gun, suffering failures and even outright sabotage across their many business ventures. Eventually, even The Barony itself, the sprawling South Texas ranch the family fought and won the right to at the Battle of San Jacinto, is put in peril. Rallying together to save their ancestral home, the Paladíns finally put niceties and tolerance behind them. This is war.
But this battle to exterminate the Clarendons takes Preston Paladín all the way to the bowels of pre-war Nazi Germany—and the disarming charms of the beautiful Fabienne Allaman. But on whose side is she really? And dare he risk The Barony and the fate of his entire family for the love of a resistance fighter with nothing to lose?
In the penultimate volume of her riveting Texicans saga, New York Times bestselling author Parris Afton Bonds weaves the threads of loyalty, class, power, and politics into a single captivating tale of one family’s struggle to survive the fires of war and The Great Depression. Written with the authenticity of an historian, the color of a painter, and the grace of a choreographer, The Betrayers is Bonds at her finest.
THE TEXICANS saga, about a founding family of Texas ~ the Paladins, begins in 1835 with Sam Houston and the epic battle of San Jacinto and continues through thus far to 1963 with Lyndon B. Johnson and the Kennedy assassination. Follow the Paladins as they love and battle across the legendary panorama that is Texas.
The five volumes in THE TEXICANS series are: The Brigands, The Barons, The Bravados, The Betrayers, and The Banshees (available in ebook, hardback, paperback, and soon audio)
Love and hate combine to endanger the Paladíns and all they hold dear.
WHEN A LONGTIME family friend is wrongly accused of involvement in a Houston riot and mutiny, Drake Paladín vows to get the best attorney money can buy. That lawyer is none other than Roger Clarendon, known not only for his legal prowess but his insufferable arrogance as well. When the drunken attorney makes an aggressive pass at Drake’s wife, Angel, Drake breaks Roger open like a shotgun. The violent scuffle results in Roger’s father—the Honorable Brighton Clarendon, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court—delivering a none-to-subtle message to the Paladíns: politics is dirty business.
From hereon, the Paladíns are under the gun, suffering failures and even outright sabotage across their many business ventures. Eventually, even The Barony itself, the sprawling South Texas ranch the family fought and won the right to at the Battle of San Jacinto, is put in peril. Rallying together to save their ancestral home, the Paladíns finally put niceties and tolerance behind them. This is war.
But this battle to exterminate the Clarendons takes Preston Paladín all the way to the bowels of pre-war Nazi Germany—and the disarming charms of the beautiful Fabienne Allaman. But on whose side is she really? And dare he risk The Barony and the fate of his entire family for the love of a resistance fighter with nothing to lose?
In the penultimate volume of her riveting Texicans saga, New York Times bestselling author Parris Afton Bonds weaves the threads of loyalty, class, power, and politics into a single captivating tale of one family’s struggle to survive the fires of war and The Great Depression. Written with the authenticity of an historian, the color of a painter, and the grace of a choreographer, The Betrayers is Bonds at her finest.
March 22, 2021
NO APRIL FOOLIN’ ~
BOX SET
(It will fulfill your heart’s yearning for romance)
FREE today only
AND ALSO
FREE the audio book, BLUE MOON
with proof of purchase
of
THE CALLING OF THE CLAN
(simply take a snapshot of your proof of purchase
and email it to parris@parrisaftonbonds.com)
MADNESS! All three novels ~ Midsummer Midnight, Man For Hire, and Wanted Woman in one boxed set.MADNESS! That time of Midsummer-Midnight when all is revelry and debauchery in Macedonia. That unbelievable moment when Damon Demetrios kidnaps Helena HamiltonMADNESS! That time when Khalid, the Lion of the Desert, an urbane British-educated sheikh, consents to the lovely Alyx Langford’s desperate proposition in order to add her to his possessions.
MADNESS! That time when fourteeen-years-older Lady Philippa falls for former British Secret Service agent Giles Hayes-David, despite the undermining suspicion of both patriotic and personal betrayal as rampant as the chemistry sparking between them.
January 30, 2021
SHUT OUT THE WORLD ~ INVITE THE PALADINS IN
From Parris With Love ~
I am thrilled my publisher Lagan Press is featuring the first in the 5-book THE TEXICANS series, THE BRIGANDS e-book, for .99 cents ~ February 8th only.
THE TEXICANS saga, featuring a founding family of Texas, the Paladins, begins in 1835 with Sam Houston and the epic battle of San Jacinto and continues through thus far to 1963 and Lyndon B. Johnson and the Kennedy assassination. Follow the Paladins as they love and battle across the legendary panorama that is Texas.
The other four volumes in THE TEXICANS series are: The Barons, The Bravados, The Betrayers, and The Banshees (available in ebook, hardback, paperback, and soon audio)
Before there was New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, or Utah, there was Texas. Molded by Old Mexico and a new rough and ready breed of hearty settlers from around the world, The Lone Star Republic was the thing of dreams—land, riches, liberty, home. For the Paladín family, it is all of those things and so much more.
English-born Lord Paladín and Irish traveler Niall Gorman are both deeply involved in the Texican campaign for independence, although neither out of purely patriotic fervor. Niall, a master horseman and crack sharpshooter from Kentucky, sees the Mexican province of Tejas merely as a means to an end—revenge. Alex Paladín, on the other hand, is a shrewd second son, despite his proclivity for extravagence. He sees an independent Texas as the salvation of his family estates—to say nothing of himself.
Seeking funds, Alex barters his baron’s title for the dowry of young Rafaela Carrera, beautiful daughter of a wealthy Spanish rum trader. Rafaela wants no part of the marriage, but finds herself shipped to the New World anyway, a prisoner of the roguish Paladín. On her journey she meets Fiona Flanigan, an Irish immigrant late of New York City’s crime-infested slums. Lured by the prospects of independence and prosperity, the fiery young lass is dead set to carve out her stake—or die trying.
With the first volume of her highly addictive Texicans saga, New York Times bestselling author Parris Afton Bonds brings us the riveting tale of four wayward souls colliding on the eve of Revolution. From the shadow of the Alamo to the bloody fields of San Jacinto, their lives and loves, hopes and allegiances, will be tested in ways none of them could ever imagine. Fast-paced and tightly-plotted, The Brigands is a triumph of historical romantic fiction that will leave you breathless.
December 13, 2020
MY CHRISTMAST GIFT TO YOU
~ Wishing Each of You
the Merriest Christmas yet ~
Did you know that Christmas was outlawed in the American Colonies?
AT FIRST SIGHT is unlike any Christmas story you have read.
Five years before, in 1649, the heads of Lady Evangeline Bradshaw’s father and brother rolled on Cromwell’s chopping block, along with those of King Charles’s and others. Not waiting to see if her head was next, she fled England with the family’s remaining gold and silver crowns, putting a vast ocean between herself and peril.
Even here, in this remotest place on earth one could imagine, Evangeline still does not feel safe. And especially not now, this Christmas Eve, when she opens her Virgin Queen Tavern’s door to admit the midnight traveler Nathan Sutcliff, who is most devilishly handsome ~ and most determined to carry out Cromwell’s order.
August 24, 2020
FREE ~ SEPTEMBER 1ST ONLY
From Parris With Love ~
Just to thank my readers. I know money is scarce right now. Also, I appreciate your emails and for those who have inquired when my next novel will be out ~ THE BRAVADOS , Volume III in The Texicans series, will be out this November.
Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
~ For the truly reckless at heart ~
Free September 1st only
“Happy is the Gypsy girl, with feet dirty from dancing
and a heart reckless from romancing.”
Rapscallion Irish Traveller, Romy Sonnenschein, may bamboozle the gullible with her fortune telling and other tricks of the trade, but she doesn’t really believe in fortune telling, card reading, palmistry and fated events like destined soul mates and such bloody rot.
So, why is she irrevocably attracted to both a no-quarter-given Texas saddle tramp and a handsome but slick, silver-tongued attorney? Both she has flim-flammed with her supposed matchmaking skills and more. And both would do whatever it takes to rid themselves of this capricious thorn who has burrowed beneath their skins ~ or, conversely, give their lives to keep her.
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July 6, 2020
May 6, 2020
THE POWER OF THE WORD
THE POWER OF THE WORD
“In the beginning was the Word,” quotes the Christian’s Holy Bible. The Buddhist religion proclaims spiritual power comes from intoning the simple and sacred monosyllable, “Om”, which stands for Absolute Reality. In school, we learn the pen is mightier than the sword. When Woodward and Bernstein’s Watergate exposé toppled a supposedly omnipotent American president, we were shown the power of the press,. Freedom of speech is considered by many to be the most important of an American’s constitutional rights. Hitler demonstrated the power of the word to sway the feelings of the masses. The most powerful sentence? Perhaps it is the reply when Moses asked the burning bush to identify itself: “I am that I am.”
Realizing the powerful feelings words can invoke, I requested female inmates to whom I teach creative writing to write non-stop for fifteen minutes. During that time, they cannot edit, scratch out, nor lift pen from paper. Every sentence must begin with, “I am . . . .” After 15 minutes of furious scribbling or laborious hen scratching, each woman was asked if she would mind standing and sharing what she has written. The standing is an important part of this creative process. It is the announcement of one’s presence, the pronouncement of one’s creation.
I distinctly remember one eighteen-year-old black woman. She was very attractive and intelligent but beaten down by life. She had been raped at nine by a family member. At ten, she had been told one Saturday night that her mother was going out to get pizza for the family. Her mother never returned. With little education, this child had been snared by the numbness offered by drugs and by thirteen was on the streets, prostituting. As she stood to read, she mumbled. Almost inaudible, anguished utterances. Her head was bowed. Her paper covered her face. “I am a woman. I am black. I am a prisoner. I am eighteen. I am sad. I am afraid. I am angry. I am out of hope. I am searching for a way to make my life better. I am unsure.” I am…I am…I am that I am
By the time she finished reading aloud her two-and-a half pages, her words were enunciated, and she was almost shouting. Her head was high, her expression one of newfound dignity. Cheering mixed with tears erupted in the classroom. Toilet tissue was passed around to staunch those tears. I knew a miracle had taken place. During that fifteen-minute writing drill, designed to break through to the subconscious, she had found the power of herself through the power of the word.
– Parris Afton Bonds
February 27, 2020
MERMAIDS DO EXIST
Mermaids possess magic. You can find this one in the Grand Caymans. Amphitrite is the name of this 9 feet tall, 600-pound bronze mermaid statue by Simon Morris, placed in fifty feet of water off the beach at Sunset House and visible from the surface or by snorkling or scuba diving.
If you can’t make it to the Grand Caymans, you can read my latest novel, DOORWAY TO THE MOON for .99 cents through 2/28. https://amzn.to/3a1Udm5
January 22, 2020
IT’S 3:00 AM AND I NEED TO SLEEP I TELL MYSELF ~ AS I TURN THE PAGE
FROM PARRIS WITH LOVE ~
Trespass and Temptation
FREE Friday, 1/31 only
In Kingdom Come, Texas, all manner of mayhem and magic can occur at a cattle ranch for derelicts and the daring-do ~ for Anjanette Adams, the Hollywood convict consigned to Ted Cooper, the give-no-quarter rancher; for Samantha Cooper, the cowgirl who thinks passion is a place; and for Matt Kratowski, the Hollywood hunk who teaches her differently.
