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Tatia’s Tattoo by Linda Brendle @LindaBrendle #RLFblog #NewRelease #LegalThriller
Linda Brendle, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.Tatia’s Tattoo by Linda Brendle
Genre Legal Thriller
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG
As a successful D.C. lawyer, Tatia’s mission in life was to destroy the sex trafficking trade in small-town America. She knew where to find it. She’d been there. With only apathetic foster parents to protect her, she fell prey to the local pimp. Trapped in the sordid underbelly of a small Texas town, she survived by sheer will. Her friendship with her fellow victim Cindy was the only light of humanity in the darkness until she saw a familiar face. Would Mrs. G, a mama bear of an attorney, still think she had strength and potential? Would Jesse, the young Christian tattoo artist and biker, still look at her with a twinkle in his eyes? Or would they both see only the mark of shame Eric had etched onto her forearm?
Why did you write this book?
I live in a tiny town in East Texas that feels isolated and safe from the world. Several years ago I was shocked when a couple gave a presentation at our church about their organization, one that fights the sex-trafficking trade in a slightly larger town about fifty miles from where I live. The name of the organization is For the Silent, and it is my hope that Tatia’s Tattoo will help give a voice to the exploited children and youth who cannot speak for themselves.
What is your favorite genre to read?
I’ve been a mystery fan since I discovered Agatha Christie when I was in the fifth grade.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
There are many, but the first one that comes to mind is Spenser, the main character in Robert B Parker’s Spenser Series.
What are you working on at the moment?
I’m beginning edits on the rough draft of Fallen Angel Salvage, a sequel in which we visit Tatia and her family ten years later.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
I have a second memoir that is due to come out shortly after Tatia’s Tattoo, but I don’t have a release date yet. It is called Mom’s Long Good-Bye and is the “rest of the story” after my first memoir, A Long and Winding Road.Where to buy Tatia’s Tattoo
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Tatias-Tattoo-Linda-Brendle/dp/1945455829
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Linda first began to write during her years as a caregiver. After two memoirs, A Long and Winding Road and Mom’s Long Good-Bye, she ventured into the world of fiction. Tatia’s Tattoo will be followed soon by Fallen Angel Salvage, the continuing story of Tatia, her family, and Eric ten years later.
In semi-retirement from the business world, Linda holds a part-time job as secretary for her church and an on-line position as an accounting specialist for BookPros. She also writes a column for the weekly newspaper in the tiny East Texas town where she and her husband David live with their feral cat Kitty.
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Sweet Beginnings by Melissa McClone @melissamcclone #RLFblog #NewRelease #sweetromance
Melissa McClone, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.Sweet Beginnings by Melissa McClone
Genre Sweet contemporary romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): G
A little hope changes everything…
Artist Hope Ryan dreams of seeing her artwork displayed in top galleries again, but a devastating betrayal left her unable to paint as she once did. Instead, she settles for creating unique items for tourists and wedding couples in her hometown. Although Hope longs for more, she refuses to venture outside her comfort zone, fearing the heartbreak and disappointment of failing again.
Highly paid sportscaster Josh Cooper never overcame his bitterness after an injury on the football field sidelined him for good. Finding his solace in alcohol and women only made matters worse until he finally hit rock bottom. Now, he’s looking for redemption. When he’s asked to fly a wedding gown across the country for one of the victims of his wrongs, he doesn’t hesitate.
Arriving in Indigo Bay, Josh finds himself captivated by the artist creating the wedding favors. He knows exactly what he wants—Hope—even though she deserves someone better. Can Josh prove he’s more than a broken has-been? Or will he not only lose Hope but also lose himself?
Why did you write this book?
While I was writing another book Jenny, part of the Beach Brides series, I couldn’t stop thinking about Josh Cooper, a secondary character who had a really bad first date with Jenny. Although that’s only mentioned briefly, I wanted to know more about Josh and his struggles. When I was given the opportunity to write for the Indigo Bay Sweet Romance series, Josh popped back into my head. I wanted to tell his story and knew Indigo Bay was the perfect world to do that.
What is your favorite genre to read?
I love reading sweet contemporary romance. I think that’s why I love to write it.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
The Stand by Stephen King is my favorite novel so I’d have to say Nick Andros, with a couple other characters from that story coming in a close second and third.
What are you working on at the moment?
I’m working on a Christmas story that will be out in mid-October. It’s not part of any of my series so it’s been fun creating a new town and introducing the residents who live there.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
The Wedding Lullaby will be out in late September. That’s the second book in my new One Night to Forever series. The Christmas book will be out in October. The third book in my new series will be out in November. Still working on a title for that one.Where to buy Sweet Beginnings
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CTFB7QN
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sweet-beginnings-melissa-mcclone/1128590577?ean=2940155629528
iBooks https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/sweet-beginnings/id1363186300?mt=11
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/sweet-beginnings-2Melissa McClone Social Media
USA Today bestselling author, Melissa McClone has published over forty-five novels and been nominated for Romance Writers of America’s RITA® award. When she isn’t writing, you can usually find her driving her minivan to/from her children’s swim practices and other activities. Melissa lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, three children, two spoiled Norwegian Elkhounds, and cats who think they rule the house. They do!
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The President’s Wife by Seelie Kay @SeelieKay #RLFblog #thriller #conspiracy
Seelie Kay, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.The President’s Wife by Seelie Kay
Genre: erotic, contemporary romance, mystery, thriller
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
What happens when one of your best friends, the First Lady of the newly democratic Republic of Lodatia, appears to be an imposter? If you’re criminal defense attorney Julianna Constant, you pursue the truth like a rabid dog, then wage a battle to save your friend’s life.
When criminal defense attorney Julianna Constant travels to Washington, D.C. to join her former college roommate, Marella de la Aerelli, in celebrating her husband’s election as the first president of the newly democratic Republic of Lodatia, she is met with an unpleasant surprise. Her friend of almost 30 years not only looks unwell, she is cold and distant. After Julianna becomes convinced the woman is really an imposter, she attempts to expose the faux Marella by using a secret only she, Marella, and the sitting U.S. President share. In the process, Julianna helps to uncover an international conspiracy to seize control of the new country, using the president’s wife as a pawn in a dangerous and potentially deadly game. Will Marella be rescued before a coup takes place? Or will she become collateral damage in one tiny nation’s fight to be free?
Why did you write this book?
All the news stories about Russia’s alleged interference in America’s presidential elections brought me back to a time in the not so distant past, when other countries fought hard for freedom, trying to break out from under the iron fist of communism. My relatives—who lived in Eastern Europe—were among them. That lead to a whole lot of speculation about how a newly free nation might be compromised and forced to surrender that freedom. The President’s Wife was the result.
What is your favorite genre to read?
I love crime thrillers, like the J.D. Robb series, but I am also partial to erotic romance. In fact, I got through law school by reading steamy romance!
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
Lt. Eve Dallas from J.D. Robb’s books. (Nora Roberts is J.D. Robb.) That woman is fierce, a true avenging angel, someone who fights for truth, justice, and the American way–in the future.
What are you working on at the moment?
I am about to begin working on a book about four former law school classmates who get dumped by their husbands, but band together to fight back, as well as a book tentatively titled That Thing Called Love, which is a guide to love in the 21st Century. It includes all the advice I have given to my millennial son and his friends. Then it’s back to the sixth book in the Kinky Briefs series.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
All of the books I am currently working on should be out before the end of the year.Where to buy The President’s Wife
Release date: June 4, 2018
Publisher: http://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-1795-6-the-presidents-wife/
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FM4S9L8/The President’s Wife will be available from all other major booksellers soon.
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Seelie Kay writes about lawyers in love, with a dash of kink.
Writing under a nom de plume, the former lawyer and journalist draws her stories from more than 30 years in the legal world. Seelie’s wicked pen has resulted in seven works of fiction, including Kinky Briefs, Kinky Briefs, Too, The Garage Dweller, Kinky Briefs, Thrice, A Touchdown to Remember, Kinky Briefs, Quatro, and Kinky Briefs, Cinque, as well as the romance anthology, Pieces of Us.
When not spinning her kinky tales, Seelie ghostwrites nonfiction for lawyers and other professionals. Currently she resides in a bucolic exurb outside Milwaukee, WI, where she shares a home with her son and enjoys opera, the Green Bay Packers, gourmet cooking, organic gardening, and an occasional bottle of red wine.
Seelie is an MS warrior and ruthlessly battles the disease on a daily basis. Her message to those diagnosed with MS: Never give up. You define MS, it does not define you!
Website: www.seeliekay.com
Blog: www.seeliekay.blogspot.com
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Argen’s Mate by Clarissa Lake @ clarissalake1 #RLFblog #NewRelease #SciFi #Romance
Clarissa Lake, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.Argen’s Mate by Clarissa Lake
Genre Science Fiction Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
Argen Trematu was home on leave at Farseek Brigade when the Sargan’s attacked his home world. With Farseek in ruins, Argen was captured and sold into slavery. Lieutenant Commander Trematu didn’t make such a good slave and landed him on the Julconi prison planet fighting in the pit. He thinks his life is over until he learns the Farseek Mercenaries were on the way to the rescue. Argen never thought landing on the prison world would be his lucky break.
Then me meets her on the rescue ship.
Zoey Addison was kidnapped from Earth and rescued by the Farseek Mercenaries. She joined the Mercenaries with her three friends because she had nowhere else to go. Her friends all found their soul mates among the crew and Zoey was feeling left out.
Until, dressed in rags and so dirty she could barely discern what color he was, Argen walks up to her table and takes her hand. The attraction between them all most crackles.
Why did you write this book?
This book is the culmination of the Farseek Mercenary Series: Commander’s Mate, Lieutenant’s Mate, Sahvin’s Mate, and Argen’s Mate. Then as a sampler of the series I added Faigon’s Mate as a freebie. I needed another series to keep readers interested after the Narovian Mates series. I wanted to create a little different twist on alien abduction romance and I started with the opening lines of Commander’s Mate.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Science fiction romance space opera.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
It’s usually the hero of the book I am reading at any given time. I really have a soft spot for cyborg heroes.
What are you working on at the moment?
A mail order bride romance with a cyborg. It’s the second entry in my Narovian Interstellar Matchmaker series.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
I’m planning more steamy scifi romance set in the Narovian/Farseek UniverseWhere to buy Argen’s Mate
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Farseek-Argen-Alien-Romance-Mercenary-ebook/dp/B07DNLGQL6
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Clarissa Lake grew up watching Star Trek and reading Marvel Comics. She attended science fiction and fantasy conventions where she met many well-known science fiction authors and attended their readings and discussion panels. They included scifi greats Anne McCaffery, CJ Cherry, George RR Martin, Ben Bova, Timothy Zahn, Frederik Pohl, Orson Scot Card. While she loves scifi, she always thought there should be more romance so she started writing it hot and steamy.
Blog http://clarissalake1.blogspot.com
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Her Cyborg Champion by Anne Kane @annekane #RLFblog #NewRelease #SciFi
Anne Kane, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.Her Cyborg Champion by Anne Kane
Genre SciFi Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
An intergalactic game of hide and seek, with a sexy human female as the prize.
Zoe is five feet, six inches of green-eyed, red-haired militant activist. A deeply ingrained need to help those who can’t help themselves — human and otherwise — motivates her every move. She snuck into the Mailin ton research facility to investigate rumors of experiments being conducted on a rare and highly intelligent species of sentient mammals. Now she finds herself in need of help to rescue one very sick little battle rat.
Greyson is six and a half feet of ruggedly muscular cyborg with a penchant for violence. He loves to fight, and he fights to win. What he hates is being sent to the Mailon research facility on a petty errand. When he catches a glimpse of a former lover flitting around the facility like an impossibly sexy cat burglar, he is intrigued. What is the saucy little wench up to, and why is she stalking him through the corridors of the alien laboratory?
Why did you write this book?
This is the fourth book in my Cyborg series, Terras Five. Each story in the series inspires me to continue the saga. In this case, the appearance of a little creature known as a “Battle Rat” in the third book made me wonder about other creaures just like him. Sure enough, Book four gave me further insight into the Battle Rats.
What is your favorite genre to read?
It depends on what mood I’m in, but it’s usually paranormal, fantasy or science fiction romance.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
Malcolm (Mal) Reynolds, the captain of the spaceship Serenity in the Firefly series is definitely my favorite fictional character. Need I say more? If you don’t understand, then you need to watch the series and the movie.
What are you working on at the moment?
Right now I’m working on a fantasy romance about a druid and a selkie, as well as the first book in a new urban fantasy series – The Hellhound Detective Agency
What books will we see from you in coming months?
I am hoping to have a revamped version of Selkie’s Seduction, which made a brief appearance at a publisher site that promptly folded. (Hopefully not because of my book) available in September. I’m also working on an Urban fantasy series where the hellhounds are the good guys, and possibly another Cyborg novella.Where to buy Her Cyborg Champion
Publisher http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=2739
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Cyborg-Champion-Terras-Five-Book-ebook/dp/B07DVRK8VF
Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/her-cyborg-champion-anne-kane/1128934034
iBooks https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/her-cyborg-champion/id1400497195
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/her-cyborg-championAnne Kane Social Media
Anne Kane lives in the beautiful Okanagan Valley with a bouncy little rescue dog who’s breed defies description, a cantankerous Himalayan cat, and too many fish to count. She spent many years trying to fit in and act normal, but finally gave up the effort. She started writing romance in 2008, and her fate was sealed when she won a publishing contract with Red Sage Publishing and just a month later Changeling Press accepted her first submission. Since then she had published more than thirty stories in a variety of sub-genres, all with a happily ever after.
Her hobbies, when she’s not playing with the characters in her head, include kayaking, hiking, swimming, playing guitar, singing and of course, reading.
Website http://www.AnneKane.com
Blog http://annekane.wordpress.com
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Fire Storm by Marlow Kelly @want2write #RLFblog #NewRelease #RomanticSuspense
Marlow Kelly welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.Fire Storm (The Gathering Storm #2) by Marlow Kelly
Genre Romantic Suspense
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
Local hermit, Ben North, is found murdered in his cabin at the top of Molly’s Mountain. Shot when he was already dead, the only clue is a white powder found on his face by responding officer, Dana Hayden.
Dana has just moved back to her hometown, Hopefalls, Montana, a place she fled at thirteen when a prank played by Tim Morgan resulted in the death of her aunt.
But nothing can prepare her for the bone-deep physical attraction she feels every time he’s near.
Ex-US Army Ranger Tim Morgan wants nothing more than to be left alone to care for his sick father, but he cannot escape the false allegations that have haunted him since he was fifteen. Now, after being accused of killing Ben, he realizes there is no place for him in Hopefalls, and there’s no chance of a future with the woman who haunts his dreams, Dana Hayden.
As Dana investigates, she realizes nothing is as it seems. Can she sort through the lies from the past, and suppress her growing attraction for Tim, to find the truth?
Why did you write this book?
Yes
What is your favorite genre to read?
Romantic Suspense
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
Emma Sharp from Carla Neggers Sharp and Donovan series
What are you working on at the moment?
Wind Storm, which is Book 3 in The Gathering Storm Series. I’m also working on a romantic suspense novella for one of the secondary characters from The Gathering Storm Series.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
I’m expecting to publish Wind Storm in Spring of 2019 and I’m publishing a novella in February 2019 as part of a boxed set.
As of yet the novella is untitled. I’ve asked my newsletter subscribers to name it for me.Where to buy Fire Storm
Publisher Viceroy Press
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CW6FCXFMarlow Kelly Social Media
After being thrown out of England for refusing to drink tea, Marlow Kelly made her way to Canada where she found love, a home and a pug named Max. She also discovered her love of storytelling. Encouraged by her husband, children and let’s not forget Max, she started putting her ideas to paper. Her need to write about strong women in crisis drives her stories. Marlow is an award-winning author, and a member of the Romance Writers of America.
Website http://www.marlowkelly.com
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