Book Blitz and #GIVEAWAY: Driven to Matrimony and Wanted: Vampire

Driven to Matrimony


Dina Maitland spends almost as much time extricating her movie star mother from personal messes as she invests in her forensic accounting job. So much time, she may no longer have a job once she cleans up her mother's latest fiasco, her engagement to a twenty-something film student. Vowing it's the last time she puts herself on clean-up duty, Dina sets off for South Carolina to stop the pending nuptials, and along the way, almost literally, runs into the father of the groom. 

Ben Cutler has troubles of his own with his business under attack from competitors and a government audit looming. Not one to trust women, he must team up with Dina to balance his books as well as stop the wedding.

Though unwillingly thrown together Dina and Ben are surprised to find their interest and passion for each other growing. Can they face their pasts in order to create a union of their own?


About Barbara

I changed my college major from Anthropology to American History when I discovered that field work didn’t include air-conditioned hotel rooms with Diet Coke in the fridge. But American History didn’t offer many career paths; you either made it or taught it, and since the latter required I also coach athletics, which wasn’t in my skill bank, I was out of luck there too. So I hitched my wagon to the wheels of government, and, like “the man who came to dinner,” stayed on for several years.

Cutting-edge legislation, essential public services, policy development. Those weren’t me.  No, I wound up in human resources analyzing jobs. And I loved it. Behind the usual complaints about their bosses, most people take pride in how they earn a living. Ask them a few basic questions about what they do, and you find yourself taking page after page of notes. And more times than not, somewhere in that exchange, they tell you how unique their job is from all the others.

At the time, my job was to see the similarities in jobs so I could match individual positions with other jobs that were essentially the same. But in my writing, it’s the distinctions in what people do for a living that fascinate me and infiltrate my plots to the point of my main characters’ occupations almost becoming secondary characters.

The HR professional inside me demands I mention the potential complications of love in the workplace, so be forewarned. Those tricky situations, however, are the very essence of a romance author’s plotting grounds. Even I, though, tend to stay away from “falling in love with the boss” scenarios.  My readers will see how “romance works” in tales about love between co-workers or people whose jobs throw them together.

On the personal front, I am married to the man I met in sensitivity training when we were both dormitory floor advisers at the University of Iowa.  We have two grown children and six grandchildren. I am now a resident of Florida, where I live in the shadow of the Mouse. Part of the year, I also live in my home state of Iowa.


Contact info:

http://barbarabarrettbooks.com/ 

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Wanted: Vampire: (Free Blood)


Three years ago, death blew out the candle in Alexis Hall's life and left her devastated. Nothing could replace what she'd lost, not even the sexy stranger she awoke married to. Still, she finds it hard to ignore the dangerous sparks he triggers within her. She knows Bradley Cox took advantage of her. What she doesn't know is he holds a secret that will change everything.

But Bradley isn't her only concern. In a moment of desperation to somehow reclaim what she had lost, Alexis made an offer to a vampire--free blood. Her blood. 

In a story of heartbreak and obsession, a simple ad changed Alexis' life forever and on one fateful night her dreams and her nightmares will collide. Can she trust Bradley? Or is he her worst mistake? Can she retract her offer to the vampire? Or will she fall under his deceptive spell?


About Lisa

Lisa Rayns' first novel, Wanted: Vampire - Free Blood, was contracted by The Wild Rose Press in August 2011. After its release, it was nominated for Best Vampire Book in the Sizzling Award Nominations.

While she waited for that novel to get through the publishing processes, she released an Urban Fantasy novella, Curse of the Egyptian Goddess, a short story in the Cupid Painted Blind anthology, and another full length paranormal romance titled, A Destined Death.

In February, she released the second book in the Wanted: Vampire Trilogy, Wanted: Vampire - Bad Blood, and hopes to have the third book, Wanted: Vampire - Written in Blood, ready for release by August 2013. Estimated release date for the final book is December 2013.

She lives in South Dakota with her sons, a lynx point siamese, and three dogs she's babysitting.

Contact info:

http://www.lisarayns.com/ 

Buy links:

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