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December 8, 2019
FLASH ~ THE MAIDENHEAD ~ .99 cents
Just popping in to let my readers know The Maidenhead is .99 cents on December 19th. Trusting this is a Merry Christmas for one and all ~ and to all a good year!
From Parris, with love ~
November 28, 2019
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR YOU
Did you know that Christmas was outlawed in the American Colonies ?
AT FIRST SIGHT is unlike any Christmas story you have read.
December 1st only
New Sweden, American colonies (when Christmas was outlawed) ~
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.
September 8, 2019
9-11 ~ Lest We Forget
For years now, my son, Jason Bonds, Battalion Chief of his city’s fire department, has climbed 110 stories in full fireman’s gear and wearing the photo and name of one of the New York City’s 343 firemen who died on 9/11.
This year, on 9/11, I am donating the proceeds from the sale (.99 cents) of my Monarchs and Painted Ladies to the Sons of the Flag, which provides support to veterans and first-responders, and their families.
August 8, 2019
MY MIDSUMMER MADNESS BOX SET ~ FREE
MY MIDSUMMER MADNESS BOX SET
will fulfill your heart’s yearning for romance
FREE Friday, August 16th only
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 Hamilton
MADNESS! 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.
June 7, 2019
DREAM BIG ~ DREAM DISCOUNT ~ DREAM TIME
From Parris With Love ~
Get ready to lay back this Fourth of July
on your pool mat or your porch hammock or just your comfy couch
and escape to another place, another time.
Only .99 cents July 1st ~ GRAB IT HERE
P.S. ~ I will be presenting the Parris Award at the MSWA/SWW Conference in Albuquerque, September 12-15th, and would lovehttps://is.gd/AZiyEF to connect with you who love reading, writing, or simply la querencia that is New Mexico for me.
Australia was the land of the Aborigines’ Dream Time. For Amber Briscoll, exiled there as a convict, Australia was her nightmare. But she vowed to survive for one reason only ~ revenge against the man who had sealed her fate . . . even as her body continued to yearn for his touch.
For Amaris Wilmot, Australia was her Dream Time. And an ex-convict named Sin was her nightmare ~ because she loved him and couldn’t have him.
Fall in love with Australian history on a grand scale ~ from the mind-boggling Outback to the heart-ravaging passions of Amber, Amaris, and Annie ~ and Miles, Sin, and Ryan.
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
May 3, 2019
ONLY FOR THE RECKLESS AT HEART
From Parris With Love ~
The musical Camelot is one of my favorite ~ and its song The Lusty Month of May:
“It’s May, it’s May, that gorgeous holiday
When every maiden prays that her lad will be a cad
It’s mad, it’s gay, a libelous display
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks
Everyone makes divine mistakes, the lusty month of May.”
Free May 10th 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. Of course, she doesn’t believe in card reading, fortune telling, palmistry and fated events like destined soul mates and such bloody rot.
In addition, she is having monumental trouble with a handsome but slick, silver-tongued Jewish attorney and a no-quarter-given Texas saddle tramp. 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.
March 24, 2019
NO APRIL FOOLING ~ My historical romance sage DEEP PURPLE is FREE
To thank you for being a part of my website’s Freebies and Frostings, DEEP PURPLE is FREE April 1st only.
As a child, a young girl with coltish legs and dusky skin, I spent many anxious hours prowling the low desert and the craggy foothills of southeastern Arizona’s Huachuca Mountains— anxious hours not just because I was trespassing on the forbidden Cristo Rey land grant but also because I was searching among the rocks and cactus-stubbled dunes for the Ghost Lady, hoping and praying I could get a glimpse of her and at the same time scared to death that I really would.Some say she haunted that area of Cristo Rey because she was a tormented wraith looking for the lover denied her in life. And others say she rode the area, its barren deserts and rock-clad mountains and lush, grassy valleys, because her soul was condemned to wander Cristo Rey until the fifty thousand acres—and the Stronghold—were at last returned to her heirs.
Of course, I preferred to believe the latter . . . perhaps because at that young age my childish mind could not conceive of a love so great that it would transcend time and space. I had yet to taste of love’s binding passion. But in all likelihood I chose to believe that version of the tale because even then I knew, like my Ghost Lady, my soul would know no peace until I possessed what rightfully belonged to me . . . Cristo Rey.
February 17, 2019
MARCH WINDS BLOW HOT DUST DEVILS
I write for the reckless of heart. Not surprising, I identify with my characters, both the protagonists AND antagonists. I suffer with their angsts and bewilderments and rejoice in their joys and triumphs. And I believe that if we heroically hold fast to our own vision for ourselves in the face of our journey’s confrontations, then Life WILL manifest our dreams and goals and visions, as it does for my characters in my novels.
We have some things in common ~ that we believe good overcomes evil; that love triumphs over everything, even death; that we love a tension-packed story; and that we feel the best books sweeten our lives.
I hope to sweeten your life this months with my novel Dust Devil.
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“Overwhelmed ~ By this breathtaking novel.
Dust Devil is an American Classic by Parris Afton Bonds, who continues to write in the tradition of James Michener and James Clavell. Brilliant, simply Brilliant.”
Amazon Reviewer, Jan Baldocchi
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In the fierce and untamed Territory of New Mexico, the most fierce and most untamed made love and history.
From Rosemary, the willful Irish lass who harbored a forbidden love and ruled the Cambria empire as hers, to Lario, the handsome Navajo, who claimed revenge on Rosemary and then claimed her for his own.
From Stephanie, beautiful heiress of the Cambria empire, who loved wildly and paid for that love wildly, to Chase the Wind, destined to rule the white man’s world and every woman’s heart.
January 2, 2019
May Your Heart’s Fondest Desires Be Fulfilled in 2019
The Calling of the Clan will fulfill your heart’s yearning for romance ~
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From somewhere among the colony of North Carolina’s Gaelic gentry, twenty-five-year-old backwoodsman Jacob Dare is determined to find a young woman to recreate the home that his father’s Dare Castle must have been. She would have to be well bred, well read, and gifted with the ability to turn the primitive into the palatial. If she Is favorable to look upon and sweetly dispositioned, that would be even better. That she could ever come to love him is irrelevant.
The Lady Catriona Kilcairn is desperately seeking to save her familial colonial home from 1776’s bloodthirsty insurrectionists, demanding she take the American Oath of Allegiance. Marriage with the backwoods oaf Jacob Dare is her only immediate option, and a most objectionable one, given that her love and loyalty belong to the Sassenach of her youth, the aristocratic Barrett Fairfax.
Yet, as the famous Scotsman Sir Walter Scott warned, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!”
December 17, 2018
CUDDLE UP THIS CHRISTMAS EVE
These wintry holidays stay warm with:
a cup of hot chocolate or Baileys,the flickering flames of your fireplace,a cuddly blanket,
And a sizzling BLUE MOON
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