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Author Feature Teresa Cruz

It’s my pleasure to spotlight up and coming author Teresa Cruz and her new release Sally’s Heart.

Title: Sally’s Heart
Author: Teresa Cruz
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Rom-Com
Release Date: February 6, 2023

Sally 

Oh. My. God!  
How is this my life?  
How does a flat tire on the way to an awesome weekend vacation with my girlfriends lead to me meeting the man of my dreams?  
Literally, I’ve dreamed of him. 
He’s only been staring in the movies inside my head and on the silver screen since I was in my early twenties. 
Keno Rivera, action star and from what I’ve heard, all-around good guy, stopped to help us with our tire.  
And now I find myself in a continuous texting conversation with an actual movie star! But my usual confident self is taking a bit of a hit, because he could be with anyone, but for some reason, he’s chosen me. 
A 46-year-old administrative assistant by day, writer of romance novels by night. 
I’ve lived the single life for a while. 
I don’t need to be needed by a man, but I sure would love to be wanted. 
And it seems Keno Rivera wants me! 

But will I let him have my heart? 

Will I get past my own stupid insecurities and let him in?

Keno 

I’ve heard that pulling over to help someone with a flat tire is good Karma.  
Especially if it’s in the middle of nowhere.  
But what I didn’t expect was meeting Sally Ames.  
I’ve fallen in love once before, but that was over twenty years ago.  
Now I can’t get Sally out of my mind.  
Meeting her felt like fate. 
Because of my fame, I get followed by the paparazzi a lot. 
The gossip shows love to put me together with the latest Hollywood ‘It’ girl. Even if that ‘It” girl is twenty years younger. 
I’m so tired of the show business rat race. 
I guess I’m getting old, because all I want is the quiet of my horse ranch.

But will she be able to get past the gossip and see the truth? 

To see the real me?  

Will a long-distance relationship work? 

Will Sally open her heart to me?

Author’s Note: This is a Hollywood/anti-Hollywood story with its own guaranteed HEA. There is a karaoke scene that leads to a sex scene in a bar bathroom, which ends in a bar fight, and all done with low angst.

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Renley, Somnolence, WIP Wednesday

The Uncomfortable Sistering WIP

I’m sick again! Woot!

It seems once a book I catch the plague and screw up my deadline. Like, for instance, the deadline for this draft is Friday, and I’ve been sick 10 days and the book is 19% done on beta. Oh yeah, we are clearly screwed there.

So, let’s talk about the book. It’s a little done. I am fattening it up like the feted calf. I always love the be characters more than my main characters and nothing is different in this book. Jazzie is so fun to write. I am about to rearrange my calendar, so my writing goal isn’t an unreachable 7500 words a day, while I’m ill.

And about this teaser… Shelby must have an unusual relationship with his coffee… or I made it uncomfortable the way I wrote it. And it was supposed to be SIPS.

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Featuring Ella Maven

I’m tickled pink to spotlight Ella Maven, and her new book The Guest With Claws!

Title: The Guest With Claws (Monster Hotel #1)
Author: Ella Maven
Genre:
Release Date: February 24, 2023

I’ve never met him before… so why do I feel as if I’ve known him all my life?

Scoring a job at the exclusive and secretive Hotel Castle Verna is exactly what I need to pay off my debt and avoid a punishment I might not survive. The guests are a little eccentric, but they are great tippers. All I have to do is ignore the strange sights, smells, and sounds coming from the guest rooms, and I can remain gainfully employed. Simple, right?

Except there’s one guest at the hotel who’s always watching me with his mismatched black and white eyes. Half his face is covered with a black mask, and his stare sets my skin on fire. I don’t know him… and yet I feel known with every stolen glance.

Strange happenings are going on at the hotel, and each day, I fall deeper into a world I never knew existed. And the guest who’s watching me? He isn’t who I thought he was… but then again, neither am I.

The Guest With Claws is a monster romance with an obsessed hero, heats, reincarnation, fated mates, and a very, very odd hotel. This is a standalone romance with an overarching plot across the series. Check in to this high heat series from USA Today Bestselling Author Ella Maven.

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Featuring Author C.Y. Croc

Title: Loved By 3 Aliens
Author: C.Y. Croc
Genre: Sci-Fi Romance
Release Date: January 16, 2023

Ignored all her life by the opposite sex.
Odessa can’t understand why the 3 hot new male employees ignore her stunning co-workers and make a beeline for her.
Extremely tall and lithe, with minimal curves and skin wrecked from her teenage years, Odessa is stunned by their interest in her.
Starved for attention, she foolishly makes the most of it before they tire of her.
But playing with fire can get you burnt, and Odessa finds herself in a precarious predicament.
She’s pregnant, and she doesn’t know which one of the 3 is the father.
What’s worse, none of them know she has been sleeping with the other.
On a team-building weekend, she picks up the courage to single them out and fess up.
But she’s the one who gets the surprise when they reveal a secret far worse than what she’s been keeping from them.

This story was formally in Loved by the Alien anthology titled as, Why Choose.
It has been updated and changed slightly.

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Renley, Somnolence, WIP Wednesday, Writing

The Mother Abuse WIP

So much has happened in only a week.

I am irritated, frustated and some other –tateds. I’ve been having some trouble with my dominant hand for a while. Swelling, numbness and other bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Friday, I woke up and it was swollen and felt like I had fire ants under my skin. I went to urgent care and was like… ‘I think I have shitty arthritis.’ They came back to me and were like, ‘No, you are wrong.’ They couldn’t tell me more than that but put a rush appointment in for me with my GP, who saw me first thing Monday morning.

I was like… ‘You sure this ain’t arthritis?’ And she was like, ‘No, you have De Quervain tenosynovitis and carpal tunnel.’ At which time I looked her in the eye and said, ‘I don’t have time for that.’ She laughed and laughed and gave me steroids, wrist braces and a follow-up appointment for 6 weeks. Because this bullshit, bullshit, bullshit has all the time in the world for me.

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Featuring Author Tera Lyn Cortez

I’m very excited to share this spotlight with Tera Lyn Cortez!

Title: Crescent Marked (StarHaven Sanctuary #1)
Author: Tera Lyn Cortez
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy
Release Date: May 28, 2021

StarHaven Sanctuary is full of secrets, and some of them are deadly.

Strange books fill the attic. The crumbling temple hides a darkness clamoring to be released. Even the wolves the sanctuary was created to protect are far more than meets the eye.

Leah must discover the cause of her aunts death before she suffers the same fate, all while coming to terms with her own newly-discovered magic. As she races to learn all that is hidden within the sanctuary boundaries she stumbles upon some dangerous enemies, but also meets some new friends…

Together, can they beat back the evil waiting to consume them all?

Download this engaging story now to find out.

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Renley, Somnolence, WIP Wednesday, Writing

The Garden Wednesday WIP

I’m almost done with RENLEY–well, the first draft. I still have to do the hard work and the rework of it and do it in a tight deadline because I’m going to Las Vegas with my bestie for a few days on a girls’ weekend. I’ll be starting the rewrite on Saturday, watching the Superbowl on Sunday… so any writing I get done that day will be done EARLY… very early, since I get up at 0400-0500. It shouldn’t be a problem. Yes, I use twenty-four hour time. Hey, my husband used to do international travel for work, and it was the easiest way for us to sync up since most countries in Europe use it too. We never stopped using it. I also tend to write dates in European standard and use Celsius.

I suck like that, and Bri is generally correcting my date usage, and ignoring my Celsius claims.

So, here is my typo of the week. It would seem there is a sneaky camera in their gardening equipment. My characters are bizarre and do weird things. Why wouldn’t they put surveillance equipment in a hoe?

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Featuring Author Julia Bennet

Celebrating Author Julia Bennet’s new release The Worst Woman in London!

Title: The Worst Woman in London
Author: Julia Bennet
Genre: Adult, Historical, Historical Romance
Release Date: February 2, 2023

A defiant Victorian wife fights to escape a bad marriage but her love for a forbidden man jeopardizes her chance at freedom.

James Standish knows how to play society’s game. He’ll follow the rules, marry a virginal debutante, and inherit a massive fortune. At least, that’s the plan until he meets Francesca Thorne. She’s not the sort of woman a respectable gentleman like James could ever marry—not least because, strictly speaking, she’s married already.

Francesca is determined to flout convention and divorce her philandering husband. When James sweet talks his way into her life tasked with convincing her to abandon her dream of freedom, she’s unprepared for the passion that flares between them.

Torn apart by conflicting desires, James and Francesca must choose whether to keep chasing the lives they’ve always wanted or take a chance on a new and forbidden love.

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