Into every life a little rain must fall. Sometimes it’s a sprinkle, and sometimes it’s a deluge. This is the wetter one. Drew Keen is not a People-person. No surprise, she’s lived in the Northwoods for the last decade, living simply and working freelance photography jobs for National Geographic. Finally, the loneliness persuades her to attend her college reunion, intent on reconnecting with the one that got away. Amber Richards has gone to every class reunion, hoping to see Drew, who fell off the grid after their graduation led to an …Continue reading →
Excerpt from Run the Risk #WIP After the death of her estranged father, a beleaguered attorney named Sierra Kipling returns to her hometown of Shamrock Cove, Rhode Island, having inherited his bar, The Risk. A much-younger town doctor, Kelsi Belmar, doesn’t know quite what to think of this 50-year-old prodigal daughter, but she intends to find out. 2} Kelsi The door had been left open to let in an Atlantic breeze. Welcomed, in the bar that had no air conditioning. The low-riding sunlight dimmed, and I turned. The light had been cut by the shadow in the doorway. As she …Continue reading →
Box Sets Jobeth O’Brien awakens on the floor of her kitchen, her battered face and the memory of an angry visitor tells her that she is close to something important in her investigation. In between this surveillance and delivering newspapers, her beloved ‘62 Falcon is the scene of middle-of-the-night romps with a lonely socialite, who gives her more than she bargained for. Her quest for the truth pits her against errant husbands, a modern-day madam with a taste for blood, a horny landlady, a vicious attack dog, and the lies she tells herself. Amid these challenges, Jobeth stakes out her …Continue reading →
Separate Books India doesn’t write romance. There’s none of that confusing touchy-feely stuff in her science fiction novels. Hell, she doesn’t even read romance; and as for the lesbian aspect, she’s not sure how to define her sexuality, but if she’s a lesbian, then she’s far enough in the closet to be considered a hanger. Tegan is thrilled to have the opportunity to write alongside another author in a quaint cabin in the mountains, though it’s a challenge to be with the awkward and socially-inept India. Not that Tegan views herself as anyone’s …Continue reading →
EXCERPT: Meeting My Maker & Other Kitchen Disasters The Krups KM-7000. It ground its own beans. It made perfectly calibrated coffee. It was, without question the best Christmas present she’d ever received. Bless Tegan. Bless her cute little blonde head full of wonderful gift ideas. India stood in front of the divine contraption, having added distilled water to the reservoir, loaded the organic cone filter, poured in the Costa Rica Peaberry beans, and listened to the machine create the freshly pulverized, aromatic grounds, begin the brewing cycle. Her nostrils flared with hedonistic satisfaction at the scent, …Continue reading →
150 million years ago. The Jurassic. 400 thousand dinosaurs. Dr. Veronica Hill just found a strange stone artifact in her recent dig at Pitfall Cave in New Zealand. Just as she’s about to examine it in the basement of the museum where she works, the janitor, Jonna Clarke, touches the wrong thing on it and both of them are zapped into the past. The very, very distant past. The kind with Dinosaurs. And Jonna and Veronica are face that face with them. Although Veronica’s not finding them all that scary. A paleontologist, she’s used to looking at …Continue reading →
EXCERPT: The entire morning consisted of class instruction, a great deal of hand-out materials, and questions and answers. By the mid-day hour, things shifted to hands-on training, and that’s when the instructor brought out George, the resuscitation dummy. All class members were expected to demonstrate their understanding of mouth to mouth and chest compression techniques. She had read the materials, and had paid attention while the instructor showed them the proper procedure. Then she watched them all present their skills in varying degrees of precision. Mostly, demonstrating the lack thereof, she thought. Her hubris was challenged …Continue reading →
“I’ve enjoyed each installment and #5 is no exception! Great characters, some chuckles, a bit of intrigue and simply wonderful evolution of the relationships new and old! Waiting none to patiently for book #6!” ~LaBerntsen EXCERPT ~7~ Bears Don’t Walk Like That With no particular destination, we strolled toward the forest, and I took her hand. She seemed pleased, so I again congratulated myself on a job well-done. “It feels good to have nothing we have to do…and just to walk and hold hands with you again.” Phoebe glanced at me. “I’ve missed this,” she said. “Me too.” We continued …Continue reading →
EXCERPTS “The parking lot was just around the building, and in it, my Escalade. The trip to freedom was interrupted by a powerful odor and the sensation of someone’s arms around me. It wasn’t a hug.” When I woke up in the abandoned factory, I was of course unaware that it was an abandoned factory because I couldn’t see through the tarp that had cocooned me, as I dangled in the air by my feet. What would Jim Rockford do? I don’t think my fictional TV idol had ever been hung upside down with a tarp around him. So …Continue reading →
Michele reviewed Rain Falls (Rain Falls series #1): (A Romantic Dramedy) First book by Baeli and it won’t be my last April 20, 2017 This was the first book that I read by Jae Baeli and I was instantly hooked. The author delivers engaging characters, witty humor, a cat named Quasar, many obstacles for the characters to overcome, and sexual tension. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and will be reading many more by this author. In the gorgeous cabin on the outskirts of the small tourist town of Rain Falls, Colorado, the two women find themselves struggling with temptation and …Continue reading →
“In a unique departure from the conventions of most serial fiction, this novel depicts the events of the previous book, Also Known as Syzygy, from the point of view of the women of The AKA Investigations team” This book is the same storyline, during the same period of time, as the one in Also Known as Syzygy, except it’s from the point of view of the primary characters in the AKA Investigations team. It was the only way I felt I could tell this story, since Syzygy seemed to have a life of its own with the …Continue reading →
