Sweet or Inspirational
A romance which contains no explicit or graphic content
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Read My Corfu Love Story by Effrosyni Moschoudi @FrostieMoss #RLFblog #romance
Spyri never forgot that old summer in Corfu when she met Markos. This year, she meets him again, at a time when both of them are trying to heal from past losses. Can love grant them happiness again? My Corfu Love Story by Effrosyni Moschoudi is a clean romance short read that will transport you effortlessly to a Greek summer paradise…
Effrosyni, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about My Corfu Love Story.
My Corfu Love Story by Effrosyni Moschoudi
Genre Clean summer romance short read
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): GSpyri forever lives in the past, haunted by old memories. This summer, she meets a man she once loved, and he is about to change everything…
Spyri, a half-Greek restauranteur in her early thirties, is back on the island of Corfu, staying in her grandmother’s village home for a few days to decompress from her busy life in London. Her nostalgia for the good old summer days hit her upon her return.
When she hears that Markos, the one she never forgot, is staying at the village, she becomes excited. Sparks begin to fly when they meet, but Markos has his own hurts of the past to deal with…
Where to buy My Corfu Love Story
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Effrosyni Moschoudi was born and raised in Athens, Greece. As a child, she loved to sit alone in her garden scribbling rhymes about flowers, butterflies and ants. Today, she writes books for the romantic at heart. She lives in a quaint seaside town near Athens with her husband, two cats, and a ridiculous amount of books and DVDs. Her little town is heavenly enough, yet her mind forever drifts to her beloved island of Corfu.
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Read for free: An Old Promise, a clean romance short-read by Effrosyni Moschoudi @FrostieMoss #RLFblog #FreeBook #ShortStory
Read it for free: An Old Promise, a clean romance short read by Effrosyni Moschoudi.
Effrosyni, happy to host you on Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Tell us how to get An Old Promise for free.
An Old Promise by Effrosyni Moschoudi
Genre Clean romance short-read
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): GJoanna boards a flight to Greece again after twenty years to find the man she never forgot. An Old Promise is a clean romance short read by Effrosyni Moschoudi that will transport you effortlessly to an idyllic Greek island. And you can read it for free by signing up for the author’s bimonthly newsletter. Effrosyni shares fun news from her life in Greece and a load of free kindle books in every issue. You will get An Old Promise and two more free books by Effrosyni when you join!
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Effrosyni Moschoudi was born and raised in Athens, Greece. As a child, she loved to sit alone in her garden scribbling rhymes about flowers, butterflies and ants. Today, she writes books for the romantic at heart. She lives in a quaint seaside town near Athens with her husband, two cats, and a ridiculous amount of books and DVDs. Her little town is heavenly enough, yet her mind forever drifts to her beloved island of Corfu.
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Meet Vida Li Sik Author of Remember Us #RLFblog #SweetRomance Second-chance romance
Groveling is the key to repairing relationships in Vida Li Sik’s new sweet second-chance romance, Remember Us. Can she get back what she lost?
Vida, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Remember Us.
Remember Us by Vida Li Sik
Genre Sweet second-chance romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): MildIs about a woman who put her career before her family and turned to alcohol when the going got tough. Now sober, she sifts through the wreckage of her broken relationships to win back her husband and daughter.
Broken hearts. Can she get back what she lost?
Alcohol never hurt her career, but it destroyed her family.
Now sober, Paula lives with regret at the havoc she caused her ex-husband and now-estranged daughter. They haven’t forgiven her. Paula knows that’s true when Emma plans to get married and neither she nor Jonah tells her. As she struggles to piece together the wreckage of her life, groveling might be her saving grace. But will it be enough?
Jonah carries emotional scars from his turbulent marriage. He returns home to South Africa after spending three years in Australia. All he wants is peace and to look for new career opportunities.
When circumstances force him to “play house” with Paula once more, unwanted feelings of love resurface.
Can he trust she’s changed, or will she break his heart once more?
Tell us about yourself as a person.
What makes you different from other people?
As a mixed-race woman I find it easy to relate to people from different backgrounds and can fit in everywhere because people think I’m “one of them”. I’ve had a couple of encounters where people addressed me in their language and were amazed to learn I’m not “one of them” when I responded in English.
What is your personality type?
What was your favorite childhood game?
What is your favorite subject to talk about?
Movies. I relived my childhood through my children and loved watching fairytales, and classic movies like The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the Star Wars Trilogy (not the ones added afterwards). We know the dialogue off by heart and often throw it into conversations around the house. I find movies an easy conversation starter; you are bound to find at least one you can discuss with someone.
What is your favorite book?
What is your favorite meal?
Pizza. It’s an easy meal that can be as healthy or unhealthy as you like. My current favorite is one made with a cauliflower base, and toppings that include bacon, chicken, avocado and sweet piquant peppers. Yummy!
Tell us about yourself as a writer.
What made you want to be a writer?
I have a very active imagination and can easily think of the beginning and end of a story. As a child, I used to write school stuff from the front of the book and draw and write my own stuff from the back. As you can imagine that habit didn’t make me popular with my teachers. My language teachers encouraged me to write essays, and the rest is history.
What are your favorite books for writing advice?
It’s not a book, but Janice Hardy’s website—The Fiction University.
What are your favorite reference books?
The Emotion Thesaurus and The Negative Trait Thesaurus by Becca Puglisi and Angela Ackerman. These books should be in any writer’s arsenal no matter your level of experience.
When you go to a convention, what kinds of things do you take along?
What’s your best advice for a new writer?
Make time to write whenever and wherever you can. Even 20 minutes on your phone during your lunch break can help you reach your writing goal. I used the following quote by Doris Lessing, “Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible” as a motivator to finish my first book.
What are your writing goals for the next year or so?
I’m planning a small-town series with ordinary men and women from diverse cultural backgrounds who will all get a second chance at love (this is one of my favorite tropes).
Where to buy Remember Us
Publisher Vida Li Sik
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Remember-Us-Sweet-Second-chance-Romance-ebook/dp/B0BNJK48KM
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Vida Li Sik is a wife, mother, award-winning journalist and multi-genre author. She grew up in a small town, Nigel, in sunny South Africa, and now lives with her family in Johannesburg, the City of Gold. She has no pets and has yet to find a weird and wonderful hobby. In the meantime, she loves to write about people, real ones and imagined.
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Take time for Heartsong Hills the new #SweetRomance by Wendy Rich Stetson @StetsonRiches #RLFblog #Amish
In Wendy Rich Stetson’s sweet romance, Heartsong Hills, Amish widow Nora Beiler discovers that sometimes to follow her heart, she has to break the rules. Coming October 19, 2022!
Wendy, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Heartsong Hills.
Heartsong Hills by Wendy Rich Stetson
Genre Sweet Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG
Amish girls don’t dance. Dancing is against the rules, and Nora Beiler always follows the rules…until a runaway logging truck shatters her world forever. Desperate to heal from the accident, she enrolls in Shuffle off to Fitness, an exercise class at the local senior center. She never dreamed it involved tap-dancing…or just how much she’d love to dance.
Exiled from Nashville, country music star Tucker McClure has no one to blame but himself. Weekly gigs at the local farmers’ market keep the demons at bay. The last thing he expects is to find himself in an old folks’ fitness class…dancing with a girl who makes him question everything he ever thought he wanted.
Will the past drive Nora and Tucker apart? Or can love bridge the gap between hearts and worlds?
Why did you write this book? After finishing Hometown, book 1 in my series, I knew I had to write Nora’s story next. If Hometown has a villain, it’s Nora. But no villain thinks of herself as a villain. She says what she says and does what she does out of love—and in Nora’s case, out of deep hurt caused by a tragedy in her past. After watching her brother Jonas find happiness, Nora deserved her own happily ever after, and she gets it in the most unexpected and delightful way.
What is your favorite genre to read? Do I have to choose??? I love romance of course, but I also love middle readers, YA, historical fiction, and romcoms!
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)? Lately, I’m obsessed with the audiobooks of Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant “Outlander” series. Davina Porter’s narration is brilliant, and I love Claire Fraser! I love her smarts and her resourcefulness and her spunk!
What are you working on at the moment? Shooting Sunshine, book 3 of the Hearts of the Ridge series is in the early stages. As with the other two, it will feature a romance between one Amish and one “English” character. I’m also in the editing phase of a middle reader ghost story which is lots of fun!
What books will we see from you in coming months? Look for Shooting Sunshine, next! I’m also working on a Hearts of the Ridge novella which I’ll give away free to my newsletter subscribers. In Heartsong Hills, readers get to know Amish pretzel maker Annie Amos. I think her rebellious youth and tempestuous love story will give fans of the series a big smile.
Where to buy Heartsong Hills
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Wendy Rich Stetson is a New York City girl who still considers the Central Pennsylvania countryside to be her home. She grew up road tripping in a 1979 VW camper van, and she keeps a running list of favorite roadside attractions from coast to coast. Now an author of sweet, small-town romance, Wendy is no stranger to storytelling. She’s a Broadway and television actress, an audiobook narrator, and a mom who likes nothing more than collaborating on children’s books with her artistic teenage daughter. Wendy lives in Upper Manhattan with her family of three and rambunctious Maine Coon kitty. Follow Wendy’s journey at www.wendyrichstetson.com
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Read the #SecondChance romance Maybe I’m the One by Cheryl St John @_cherylstjohn_ #RLFblog #SweetRomance
Nashville meets Virgin River when a beloved country singer returns to her roots and encounters the cowboy whose song she unknowingly stole. This new release is a sweet romance by USAToday Bestselling author, Cheryl St John.
Cheryl, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Maybe I’m the One.
Maybe I’m the One by Cheryl St John
Genre sweet romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG
Nashville fans will enjoy this story of a beloved country singer who returns to her roots and encounters the cowboy whose song she unknowingly stole.
Audrey Knox sacrificed to make a successful career in Nashville, but the bigger her star shines, the smaller her world has become. After an eye–opening incident on tour, she wants her daughter to experience small-town life as she knew it, so she takes a break from touring to reconnect with her roots and introduce the eight-year-old to life on Big Pines Ranch. Facing the past might be her biggest challenge yet.
Jericho Tanner has loved Audrey since they were children on adjoining ranches, their families entwined. He fills the void of intimacy, love and belonging with ranch work and his deputy position in Rockwell County, with aspirations of taking over as sheriff. Emotional vulnerability is frightening, and his walls are sturdy and tall. When Audrey and her young daughter show up in Spencer, he’s forced to see his wounds in a new light.
Sweet romance from a USAToday award-winning author.
Where to buy Maybe I’m the One
Publisher: Aspen Gold Books
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Cheryl is the author of more than fifty historical and contemporary romances. Her stories have earned numerous awards and are published in over a dozen languages. In describing her stories of second chances and redemption, readers and reviewers use words like, “emotional punch, hometown feel, core values, believable characters and real-life situations.” Her bestselling non-fiction books, Writing With Emotion, Tension & Conflict and Write Smart, Write Happy by Writers Digest Books are available in print and digital.
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It’s Christmas at the Cat Cafe in this sweet #romance by @Kris_Bock Meet mature characters and cats in this #SweetRomance #RLFblog
Can a widow make some cozy new holiday traditions? Find out in Christmas Cookies at The Cat Café, by Kris Bock, a mature sweet romance.
Kris, 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.
Christmas Cookies at the Cat Cafe: a Furrever Friends Sweet Romance by Kris Bock
Genre sweet romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): G
Christmas isn’t the same since Diane’s kids grew up and her husband died – so when her high school sweetheart comes back to town, maybe it’s time for some cozy new holiday traditions.
Diane had a great marriage and a wonderful life. Now she’s a widow at 53, and her grown children are encouraging her to slow down and do less – but she wants more. She starts planning for a new career by arranging a photo shoot at the cat café her daughters run. Unfortunately, the cats won’t cooperate.
Rick loved Diane in high school, but he chose to travel the world while she settled down with another man. Now he’s back for a visit, but he’s not planning to stay – even if Diane still tugs at him. He’ll help her get what she wants from life, and then he’ll say goodbye.
Rick temps Diane to quit her job, sell her house, and travel. But she can’t leave the people she loves so dearly, the family that might still need her just a little bit. Diane tempts Rick to end his wandering ways, but he can’t simply step into the hole left by her husband’s death. As the weeks pass from Thanksgiving to Christmas, the holiday season brings out complicated emotions.
Can Diane and Rick find a way to make a new life together while holding onto the best parts of the past? They’ll need more than attraction and affection. They might even need a Christmas miracle.
The Furrever Friends Cat Café helps people find furry forever friends – and just might lead to romantic true love too. If you enjoy friends to lovers and mature romance, check out Cupcakes and Confessions at the Cat Café. You’ll also find rescue cats with plenty of personality and their own ideas about what love is.
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Where to buy Christmas Cookies at the Cat Café
Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series page on Amazon US https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084GRN7CC
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Kris Bock writes novels of romance, mystery, and suspense. In her Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series, watch the employees and customers at a cat café fall in love with each other and with shelter cats. Kris also writes romantic suspense set in the Southwestern U.S. If you love Mary Stewart or Barbara Michaels, try Kris Bock’s stories of treasure hunting, archaeology, and intrigue in the Southwest.
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