Parris Afton Bonds's Blog, page 4
November 26, 2018
~MY GIFT TO YOU THIS CHRISTMAS~
A CHRISTMAS STORY UNLIKE ANY YOU HAVE EVER READ !
WHEN CHRISTMAS WAS OUTLAWED ON THE COLONIES
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.
November 3, 2018
~ Wishing Each of You a Cornucopia of Blessings ~
THE...
~ Wishing Each of You a Cornucopia of Blessings ~
THE THREE T'S
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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.
October 29, 2018
NOT A TRICK BUT A TREAT
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My romantic thriller MONARCHS AND PAINTED LADIES
A crazy cross between SOMEWHERE IN TIME and INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE:
When Madness is Divine ~
When a Viet Nam Vet ~ run-amuck ~ joins forces with a roué of a priest and a nutsy nurse to find the Holy Grail ~
When Good and God are deceptive ~ and when myth dares to defy dogma.
September 28, 2018
FOR MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER ~ AND FOR YOU
My great-grandfather was an Indian scout under General Phil Sheridan, a cavalry hero of the Civil War. Later in life, my great-grandfather owned a blacksmith shop and a corral in Tucson near Fort Lowell, where he had been mustered out. Among his incredible adventures on the frontier was his rescue of two white girls who had been taken captive by the Indians one of whom later wrote a book about it, mentioning my grandfather as one of her two rescuers.
At ninety-two, with an arrow-straight back, he was still performing saber drills. My grandmother’s door is nicked from those performances. As children, my mother and her brothers and their friends would listen spellbound to my great-grandfather’s spine-tingling stories about the Indians.
This story, TAME THE WILDEST HEART, is for my great-grandfather, Albert ‘Kit’ McAllister ~ and TAME THE WILDEST HEART is for you for ONLY .99 CENTS on October 15th.
In the unforgiving Arizona Territory, Mattie McAlister desired only to be left alone so she could raise her half-breed son in peace. Then one day Gordon Halpern charged into her world and challenged it with an offer she couldn’t refuse. An offer that meant supreme surrender ~ and meant that Gordon Halpern was both her greatest hope and her greatest fear.
July 23, 2018
TO WED A SAVAGE ~ OR BURN AT THE STAKE?
Not much of a decision, is it? Unless the savage is Mad Dog Jones. The name says it all. The romance of Mad Dog and Modesty will burn in your heart forever!
From Parris With Love ~
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June 28, 2018
THE CLAN IS CALLING YOU!
THE CAPTIVE and THE CALLING OF THE CLAN's
only .99 cents July 17th.
Four generations ago, a woman emigrated to the United States from Scotland and raved to her neighbor about the beauty of the Afton River in the Scottish Lowlands. That neighbor, fascinated by the Afton River, named her daughter Afton. Her daughter named her daughter Afton, and so on.
Having five sons, I had no daughters to whom I could pass on the legacy of my Afton name. Running short on boys’ names by the time my last son was born, I bestowed on him the name Ted Afton. I hope you enjoy this continuation of the Afton legacy with my storIes of The Captive and The Calling of the Clan.
May 30, 2018
CAN STAR-CROSSED LOVERS DEFY DESTINY TO STAY TOGETHER?
Find out in my historical romance, INDIAN AFFAIRS ~ only .99 cents on June 14th.
Three times I visited the Taos Indian reservation in New Mexico, with its legendary sacred blue lake, to research a story inspired by the love affair — and marriage — of the Native American Tony Lujan and the New York socialite Mabel Dodge. I am trusting you will lose yourself as completely in reading my rendering of the story of the shaman Manuel Mandragon and Alessandra O'Quinn, as I did in researching it.
"The tale of star-crossed lovers from two different social strata has been done time and time again, yet in Bonds’ capable hands, the relationship is enchanting." ~ Kirkus Review
Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Washington socialite Alessandra O'Quinn and Indian shaman Manuel Mondragon, defy time and space and politics and families to come together in the sweeping canvas of the 1920's outpost of Taos, New Mexico. But can they defy Destiny to stay together?
April 15, 2018
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."
Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves
is .99 cents May 12th 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 19, 2018
NO FOOLING ~ THE EPIC, DUST DEVIL ~ only .99 cents, APRIL 2nd
Help keep me out of Fiji's Debtor's Prison ~ READ DUST DEVIL NOW
"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
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.
March 3, 2018
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AN IMPROBABLE, IMPOSSIBLE LOVE AFFAIR
Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Washington socialite Alessandra O'Quinn and Indian shaman Manuel Mondragon, defy time and space and politics and families to come together in the sweeping canvas of the 1920's outpost of Taos, New Mexico. But can they defy Destiny to stay together?
