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Read a #Romance – Climbing Ivy Covered Walls the new #WomensFiction by Fran Thomas @FrancesOThomas #RLFblog
Three best friends navigate their opposites attract relationships and campus politics in a small Western Pennsylvania town.Fran, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Climbing Ivy Covered Walls.
Climbing Ivy Covered Walls by Fran Thomas
Genre Women’s Fiction with strong Romantic Element
Heat rating (based on movie ratings): GTeamwork makes the dream work.
Three women with the same goal.Tomasina, aka Tommy, Lombardi has spent her life trying to be the son her dad always wanted. As the special teams coach of the Bolton College Bulldogs football team, she hoped to make him proud when her team won the division championship. Then her head coach assigned her to work with the neurologist from the town’s hospital on his grant-funded study of concussions. She can’t avoid handsome but infuriating Dr. Wu, but she can’t allow him to derail her career.
Tommy’s not the only woman on staff with man troubles. Motorcycle-riding Sandrina Tutko interned at the library at Stratford-upon-Avon, yet it’s a stuffy English professor who was chosen to head the study abroad program, not her. He may be an expert on Shakespeare, but he’s never even been to Great Britain.
Nichelle Washington is the first African American woman Dean of Students at the college. Opposing the town’s popular fast-food hangout isn’t winning her points with its charismatic owner, but she refuses to allow her students to risk the obesity she faced as a child before she became a vegan.
When Tommy discovers Sandrina and Nichelle, whom she hadn’t seen since high school, are now her colleagues, they join forces to navigate the halls of academe. Maybe it’s not a man’s world after all.
Why did you write this book?
I once worked at a local college, so that setting was something I knew about. My dedication gives a clue about a major plot line. I dedicated the book to the memory of the late, great Mike Webster, and to Dr. Bennet Omalu. I am a lifelong fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, so I was familiar with the sad story of Mike Webster, the team’s legendary center, who sustained permanent brain damage and died far too soon as a result of the many concussions he suffered. When Dr. Omalu performed Webster’s autopsy, he discovered a disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, one that hadn’t been connected to football players previously. When he published his findings, he was vilified by the NFL. It took them years to institute better concussion protocols. The movie Concussion told Omalu’s story.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Romance because I can’t deal with unhappy endings.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
I’ve always loved Scarlett O’Hara. I wish I had her self-confidence and determination.
What are you working on at the moment?
I am brainstorming my next series.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
The series will be set in a fictitious small Florida town. Many of its residents are practitioners of occult sciences. The main character in the first book in the series is a burned out journalist who inherits a house in the town. Her love interest is the contractor who remodels her house.
Where to buy Climbing Ivy Covered Walls
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TLC47H1
Fran Thomas Social Media
Fran Thomas lives with her husband on a small island in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. She writes about strong women, friendship, and community.
Website https://FranThomasAuthor.com
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Read Climbing Ivy Covered Walls the new #WomensFiction by Fran Thomas @FrancesOThomas #RLFblog #Romance
Three best friends navigate their opposites attract relationships and campus politics in a small Western Pennsylvania town.Fran, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Climbing Ivy Covered Walls.
Climbing Ivy Covered Walls by Fran Thomas
Genre Women’s Fiction with strong Romantic Element
Heat rating (based on movie ratings): GTeamwork makes the dream work.
Three women with the same goal.Tomasina, aka Tommy, Lombardi has spent her life trying to be the son her dad always wanted. As the special teams coach of the Bolton College Bulldogs football team, she hoped to make him proud when her team won the division championship. Then her head coach assigned her to work with the neurologist from the town’s hospital on his grant-funded study of concussions. She can’t avoid handsome but infuriating Dr. Wu, but she can’t allow him to derail her career.
Tommy’s not the only woman on staff with man troubles. Motorcycle-riding Sandrina Tutko interned at the library at Stratford-upon-Avon, yet it’s a stuffy English professor who was chosen to head the study abroad program, not her. He may be an expert on Shakespeare, but he’s never even been to Great Britain.
Nichelle Washington is the first African American woman Dean of Students at the college. Opposing the town’s popular fast-food hangout isn’t winning her points with its charismatic owner, but she refuses to allow her students to risk the obesity she faced as a child before she became a vegan.
When Tommy discovers Sandrina and Nichelle, whom she hadn’t seen since high school, are now her colleagues, they join forces to navigate the halls of academe. Maybe it’s not a man’s world after all.
Why did you write this book?
I once worked at a local college, so that setting was something I knew about. My dedication gives a clue about a major plot line. I dedicated the book to the memory of the late, great Mike Webster, and to Dr. Bennet Omalu. I am a lifelong fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers, so I was familiar with the sad story of Mike Webster, the team’s legendary center, who sustained permanent brain damage and died far too soon as a result of the many concussions he suffered. When Dr. Omalu performed Webster’s autopsy, he discovered a disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, one that hadn’t been connected to football players previously. When he published his findings, he was vilified by the NFL. It took them years to institute better concussion protocols. The movie Concussion told Omalu’s story.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Romance because I can’t deal with unhappy endings.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
I’ve always loved Scarlett O’Hara. I wish I had her self-confidence and determination.
What are you working on at the moment?
I am brainstorming my next series.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
The series will be set in a fictitious small Florida town. Many of its residents are practitioners of occult sciences. The main character in the first book in the series is a burned out journalist who inherits a house in the town. Her love interest is the contractor who remodels her house.
Where to buy Climbing Ivy Covered Walls
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TLC47H1
Fran Thomas Social Media
Fran Thomas lives with her husband on a small island in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. She writes about strong women, friendship, and community.
Website https://FranThomasAuthor.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/FrancesOThomas
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FranThomasAuthor
Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/FrancesOThomas/_saved/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/francesothomas/
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7212820.Frances_O_Thomas
BookBub https://www.bookbub.com/profile/fran-thomas
Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B07NPXFSDR
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Read Free on KU: Mack the Wife by Debby Conrad @ConradDebby #FreeBookFriday #RLFblog #Read
It’s #FreeBook Friday on RLFblog! Join us for a collection of free reads and downloads. All genres and heat levels. This week’s featured book is Mack the Wife by Debby Conrad. Bookmark this site so you don’t miss a thing.Welcome to FreeBook Friday
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Mack the Wife by Debby Conrad
Mackenzie O’Brien believes the only way her overprotective brothers will stay out of her life and find loves of their own is if she is married and settled. When an old love returns to town, Mackenzie is anxious to see if she and Grady Sullivan can pick up where they left off.
Grady tries to fight his attraction to Mackenzie. He wants nothing to do with the spoiled little rich girl who broke his heart years ago or her ridiculous marriage scheme. He’s a cop, living on a cop’s salary and she is way out of his league. And besides, her brothers hate him.
But Mackenzie won’t take no for an answer—until Grady suspects one or more of her brothers may be guilty of murder. Then she has no choice but to reconsider her plans. Because when it comes to family, the O’Briens stick together, even if it means giving up on love.
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A Knight’s Vengeance by Catherine Kean
Geoffrey de Lanceau will never believe his father was a traitor. Back from Crusade, Geoffrey has vowed to avenge his sire’s killing and reclaim the de Lanceau lands. When Geoffrey rescues a headstrong damsel from a near-accident and learns she’s the daughter of his enemy, Geoffrey knows just how he will exact his revenge.
Lady Elizabeth Brackendale dreamed of marrying for love, but is promised to a lecherous old baron. Then she is abducted and held for ransom by a scarred, tormented rogue. He’s the hero who saved her life. He’s also the knight who intends to slay her father.
Elizabeth is determined to escape and undermine Geoffrey’s plans for revenge, but the threads of deception sewn eighteen years ago bind the past and the present. When her father declares war, she’s torn between her loyalty to him and her feelings for Geoffrey. Only by Geoffrey and Elizabeth championing their forbidden love can the truth at last be revealed about a knight’s vengeance.
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Free on KindleUnlimitedIsland Dream by Fran Thomas
Zumba teacher Isabella Ramos moved from Miami to quirky, small town Calusa to open a restaurant. Luc Girard arrives on the Florida island to become a painter, or so he says. The attraction is instant. But the secret he’s keeping threatens to deflate their relationship like a fallen soufflé. It takes the right mixture of ingredients for dreams to come true.
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At the Mercy of Her Pleasure by Kayelle Allen
On the verge of freeing his brother from a cruel master, Senth, an all party-fun-and-games thief, must take on the hardest assignment of his life: stealing from the Empress. To make matters worse, he has no choice about working with a by-the-book rebel captain, a genetically advanced woman whose addictive pheromones could enhance his mission or crumble it into dust with a single siren kiss. When the unthinkable happens and the Empress kidnaps his brother, Senth must put aside his love of play and buckle down or his brother will end up with a far worse master, Senth will be guilty of treason, and he’ll lose the love of his life — forever…
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A hurricane…
Category 3 Hurricane Nell, powerful, deadly, life-changing, slams into the Florida Gulf Coast
A man on the run…
FBI Special Agent Michael Alvarez, falsely accused of fraud and murder, is determined to clear his name and survive attempts on his life, even if it means depending on the woman who rejected him…
Society girl Blair Davenport refused Michael’s marriage proposal six years ago, knowing she couldn’t cope with the secrets and dangers of his career. Now she has a chance to make it up to him, but passion still blazes between them…
Despite the past, they’re tempted more than ever, and there’s a relentless pursuer…
Blair’s brother, FBI Special Agent Drew Davenport, hot on Michael’s trail, won’t let a hurricane stop him. Is he simply doing his job? Or is he behind the attempts on Michael’s life?
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