Tuesday, September 20, 2022

~ BLOG TOUR HIS SMALL TOWN DREAM ~

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--  'HIS SMALL TOWN DREAM'  --
AUTHOR TARA RANDEL
~Post Includes:  Book Spotlight + Excerpt,
Author Bio, 5-Star Review & Giveaway~
 
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His Small Town Dream JustRead Blog + Review Tour 

 

Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for His Small Town Dream by Tara Randel, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

 

His Small Town Dream Title:   His Small Town Dream 
Series:   The Golden Matchmakers Club #3 
Author:   Tara Randel 
Publisher:   Harlequin Heartwarming 
Release Date:   August 23, 2022 
Genre: Contemporary Romance (Sweet/Clean)

This city girl…

Could be his perfect match! 
 
Adam Wright is ready to stop nursing his broken heart and give in to his family’s matchmaking. He knows lively marketing exec Carrie Mitchell wants to return to New York, but he’s showing her all small-town Golden has to offer…including himself. When his ex-fiancΓ©e arrives, it could scare Carrie away, or it may be a chance to heal past hurts…and share his small-town dream with her!
 
EXCERPT:

“The only way to get over your fear is to meet it.”

He brought her to Maggie, hoping Carrie would remember the animal.

She pushed her sunglasses on top of her head as she started walking again. “I’m not afraid. I just don’t know what to expect.”

“Hold on.” Adam strode to the office and reemerged with his hands full. When he got closer, he let her take a peek.

“Baby carrots and cut-up apples?”

“Treats.”

He dropped a few carrots in her hand. “Just let the horse smell them and she’ll take it from there.”

“I don’t know.”

He held out the apple pieces for the horse. When Maggie devoured them, he turned toward Carrie. “Like I said, Maggie knows what to do.”

A bit tentatively, Carrie approached, holding out her hand. Adam stood close, hoping to give her some confidence. Maggie did the rest.

Carrie pulled her hand back. “Oh, wow, that tickles.”

“Not so bad, huh?”

She smiled at him and his chest constricted.

“Can I try it again?”

He handed her a few more carrots. Again, she approached the horse and laughed when Maggie took the snack.

“Before you know it, you’ll be a pro,” he predicted.

“I’m really not sure small-town life is for me...”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 
Tara Randel

Tara Randel is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author. Family values, a bit of mystery and, of course, love and romance, are her favorite themes, because she believes love is the greatest gift of all. She writes for multiple genres, including romance, mystery and Women’s fiction.

Connect with Tara by visiting tararandel.com to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates. 
 
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MY REVIEW:

A story about navigating through past mistakes and regrets to discover a bright future where it was least expected . . .

Adam Wright is a brilliant, successful financial executive who has returned to his small hometown of Golden, Georgia, to run his family's adventure business after living in New York for several years.

Carrie Mitchell is an outgoing, energetic marketing executive who moved to Golden, Georgia, to work for their Chamber of Commerce. She grew up in New York City, so the slow pace and friendly atmosphere of Golden is quite an adjustment for her. Her roommate is her college friend, Serena.

Adam and Carrie are introduced by mutual friends at a gathering. They begin meeting each morning when they are in line for coffee at their favorite shop. Engaging quiet, reserved Adam in conversation is a challenge for the extroverted, bubbly Carrie.

As time goes by their friendship grows, and they begin to communicate on a deeper level. Once they get past formalities and begin feeling more comfortable around each other, it's apparent that they could have something special together if they can just move past their core issues and the traumatic events in their pasts.

One of the themes that drew me into this story was the respect and kindness Adam shows toward Carrie and the other people in his life. He is essentially a stand-up guy who is dealing with heartache and disappointment. It turns out he has a great sense of humor and a heart of gold. He becomes Carrie's encourager, and with his support she takes risks and tries things she was previously fearful of attempting such as horseback riding.

Carrie is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to promoting the town of Golden as a vacation destination along creating new events in Golden. She is a self-proclaimed workaholic and overachiever. Personally, she is recovering from a bad situation in New York which damaged her self-esteem and positive attitude about her future.

When Adam and Carrie are ambushed by individuals from their respective pasts, they join together to heal. In the process, they find what they've been looking for all along—true, unconditional love, and a dream for a brighter tomorrow.

This is one of my favorite clean, wholesome romance reads of this year! The story is completely clean in language and content. Highly recommended!

I received a copy of this book from the author through JustRead Publicity Tours. All of my thoughts and opinions shared here are solely my own.

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(1) winner will receive an autographed print copy of Stealing Her Best Friend’s Heart and Her Christmastime Family, a festive fall mug and towel, and a $25 Amazon Gift Card. (1) additional winner will receive a $10 Amazon e-Gift Card.

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Sunday, September 18, 2022

~ BLOG TOUR STOP ABBY'S PONY LOVE ~

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--  'ABBY'S PONY LOVE'  --
A Middle-Grade Novel
AUTHOR SUSAN COUNT
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Abby's Pony Love by Susan Count

 

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About Abby's Pony Love

 

Abby's Pony Love  

Hastings Creations Group (September 19, 2022)  

Middle-Grade Ages 8-12 Print length ‏ : ‎ 113 pages  

Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B7VXQSX5

 

 

When a girl falls in pony-love, she wants it to be forever.

Desperate to be near horses, a hopeful girl with no horse experience begs for a job at a stable. Then she falls in love with a beautiful but mischievous pony, only to have it bought by another family. Abby’s heart aches when her barn job becomes helping the new owner learn to ride the best pony ever. Can her faithful heart let go of what never belonged to her?

 

About Susan Count

 

 Susan Count writes for the joy and entertainment of young readers. She is a best-selling, award-winning author of the Dream Horse Adventures Series, Dream Pony Riders Series, and Texas Boys Adventures. She prefers to create stories in a quiet zone. Out her window, her mind wanders through the forest and keeps her in a grateful, contented state of being. She writes at a fabulous antique desk that has secret compartments filled with memories, mysteries, and story ideas. As a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and American Christian Fiction Writers, Susan takes studying the craft of writing seriously. Susan confesses to being overly fond of brownies and horseback riding on forest trails. She is a lifelong equestrian and is owned by a Rocky Mountain Horse. You are invited to saddle up and ride along. www. susancount.com 
 
E-mail a comment: susancountauthor@yahoo.com 
Hearing from readers is a great delight and encourages me to keep writing.  
Please like Susan Count at:  https://www.facebook.com/susancount where I post only horse-related videos. 
 
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Thursday, September 15, 2022

~ FRIDAY FICTION FEATURE FORGED BLOG TOUR ~

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AUTHOR SARA DAVISON
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Forged JustRead Blog + Review Tour 

Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for Forged by Sara Davison, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

 

Forged Title:   Forged 
Series:   The Night Guardians Series #4 
Author:   Sara Davison 
Publisher:   Mountain Brook Ink 
Release Date:   September 5, 2022 
Genre:   Christian, Romantic Suspense

The one missing person he can’t find

is the one who matters the most. 

Private Investigator Jax Rodriguez has been searching for his brother, Diego, for twenty years. When he stumbles upon another lead, he makes an agonizing decision—he will follow this last trail until it grows cold, and then he will marry the woman he loves and abandon his quest once and for all. 

Artist Mikayla Grant is terrified of losing another person close to her, but she has to let Jax go after his brother. Given the secrecy surrounding Diego’s disappearance, clearly Jax is heading into danger. When all contact with him is abruptly cut off, can Mikayla trust that God’s promise to never leave or forsake Jax will be enough to bring him safely home, or does she need to take matters into her own hands? 

As Jax attempts to survive the dangerous streets of Caracus, Venezuela and then face the myriad of unknown threats in the El Yunque Rainforest in Puerto Rico, he is not the only one following his brother’s trail. 

A ruthless drug lord bent on revenge is using all his resources to discover the truth about what happened to Diego. If Jax can't stay one step ahead of his pursuer, then he, like his brother, could disappear and never be heard from again.
 

EXCERPT:

The phone rang four times before Mikayla answered with a breathless, “Jax?”

Her voice, even that one word, wrapped around him like a winter jacket he’d pulled on to ward off the cold night. “Hola, preciosa.”

“Hola. ¿CΓ³moestΓ‘s?”

Where did he even begin? “I just came from Diego’s grave.”

“Oh, Jax. I’m so sorry.”

The compassion in her voice nearly undid him. Unutterable weariness swept over him. The only thing he wanted was to drop onto a couch, pull Mikayla to him, her head resting on his chest, and fall asleep with his cheek pressed to her silky hair.

Through the line, she drew in a shuddering breath. “I wish I could hold you.”

Jax managed a wry grin. “You are reading my thoughts.”

“Will you come home?”

He hesitated. Now, listening to her in the stillness of the car, the lights of Puerto Rico streaming past his windows, coming home to her sounded like the only good idea in the world. This quest still tangled him up like that fly in the spider web, though. Why? Diego was dead. As the blond man had reminded him, he could do nothing for his brother now. So why couldn’t he wipe away the cobwebs of this case as easily as he had swiped the bits of web off on his jeans earlier? All he knew was that he couldn’t.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sara Davison

Sara Davison is the author of four romantic suspense series—The Seven Trilogy, The Night Guardians, The Rose Tattoo Trilogy, and two sparrows for a penny, as well as the standalone, The Watcher. A finalist for more than a dozen national writing awards, she is a Word, Cascade, and Carol Award winner. She currently resides in Ontario with her husband, Michael, and their three mostly grown kids. Like every good Canadian, she loves coffee, hockey, poutine, and apologizing for no particular reason.

Connect with Sara by visiting saradavison.org to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates.
 
 

I never actually made the conscious decision to write suspense/romantic suspense, but when I started seriously writing stories, that’s what came out. Not surprising, since romantic suspense has always been my favourite genre to read.

In general, Christian romantic suspense tends to follow a rough formula, although the guidelines are not as rigid as they are with straight suspense. Typically, the hero (or, more often now, the heroine) is either a cop, private eye, or current or former military. The heroine (or, more often now, the hero) is in some kind of danger and needs protection. Despite all precautions, the bad guy/girl usually manages to get to the one in danger and the hero or heroine must rescue them. Of course there is romantic tension simmering throughout as well.

My books rarely follow even that loose formula closely. While most, if not all, would still clearly be classified as romantic suspense simply by virtue of that fact that, even if they don’t always follow that outline, they contain roughly equal suspense and romance elements, a number of them could also be assigned another sub-genre. Written in Ink, for example, could probably best be described as romantic-suspense-women’s fiction, which, unfortunately for me, isn’t a genre that exists. The Watcher is speculative romantic suspense while The Seven Trilogy would be considered dystopian romantic suspense. And since every book doesn’t end with the hero and heroine together (because the story arc takes place over the whole series) those ones can’t even be categorized as romance, as one of the stipulations of that genre is that there is a HEA for the main couple.

All of which makes it tricky for publishers and readers to know exactly what to do with me and my work. That’s one of the reasons I am now a hybrid author. While I love my two publishing houses, am deeply grateful for their support and the many ways they have made my work better, and have had nothing but good experiences with them, as an indie author there is more freedom to write the way the stories naturally flow out of me.

Most of my readers are those who typically read Christian suspense and romantic suspense. Thankfully, the fact that my books are often different than those that normally fall into those categories doesn’t seem to be a deterrent for them. Hopefully, the fact that it isn’t always as easy to figure out where the journey is going to take them will actually draw them to my stories. As an author, while it can be a lot easier to follow a more rigid formula, it is far more interesting to not worry too much about that and to just let the story and the characters take me where they will.

However readers feel about my books, I pray that they will take from them the underlying theme of each one – that whatever we are going through (and my poor characters go through plenty!!) we are never alone. God is always with us and has promised to never leave us or forsake us, even when we can’t predict where the road (or the story) will take us. 

 


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Tuesday, September 13, 2022

~ BLOG TOUR STOP PHOTO FINISHED ~

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--  'PHOTO FINISHED'  --
AUTHOR LORI ROBERTS HERBST
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Author Bio & Giveaway~
 
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Photo Finished (Callie Cassidy Mysteries) by Lori Roberts Herbst

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About Photo Finished

 

 

Cozy Mystery 4th in Series Setting - Colorado 
Independently Published (September 13, 2022)  
Number of Pages: 310 Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B6DDSK75 
 

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When a visit to a Colorado dude ranch turns deadly, it's up to photographer Callie Cassidy to corral the killer...

As maid of honor (aka grande dame) in her best friend's upcoming wedding, Callie wants to plan the perfect bridal shower. And what could be better than a girls' trip with their posse of friends?

The women jump at the idea and suggest a destination—Moonglow Ranch, a serenity retreat-slash-dude ranch owned by one friend's aunt and uncle.

When they arrive, Callie is less than enthusiastic. Serenity doesn't come easily to a former investigative photojournalist. Plus, her horse is stubborn as...well, a mule. She's warned to be on the lookout for snakes. Worst of all—gasp!—Moonglow only serves healthy food. Still, her friends are having a great time, and even Callie's golden retriever Woody and tabby cat Carl seem right at home on the ranch. For their sake, she tries to tap into her inner Zen.

Then the conniving wife of the town's most powerful man interrupts the party and threatens the ranch's proprietors. Callie worries the trip is destined for disaster.

Later, Callie finds the woman's body in the stable, apparently trampled by a horse. Or did she die from a snakebite? Or—as Callie suspects—could something even more sinister be at work?

Answers are as difficult to find as a needle in the haystack. And when the police chief accuses the ranch owners of murder, Callie realizes she'll need to lasso the real outlaw—before the wrong people end up in the pokey.

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About Lori Roberts Herbst

Lori Roberts Herbst, who writes the Callie Cassidy Mystery series, spent much of her life writing, editing, and psychoanalyzing. Through thirty years of teaching journalism, advising newspaper and yearbook staff, instructing budding photographers, and counseling teenagers, she still managed to hang on to a modicum of sanity. Her books have earned first-place CIBA awards in the Murder and Mayhem division. She currently serves as secretary of the Sisters in Crime North Dallas chapter and is a member of the Sisters in Crime Guppies and the Mystery Writers of America.

Author Links: Website:https://www.lorirobertsherbst.com Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/lorirobertsherbst GoodReads:https://www.goodreads.com/LoriRobertsHerbst  

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lorirobertsherbst/  

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September 12 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW, GIVEAWAY September 12 – My Reading Journeys – REVIEW  
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September 16 – Novels Alive – SPOTLIGHT  
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September 17 – Sapphyria's Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT  
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