Congratulations to Angela for winning Anne Greene’s Holly Garden, PI, Red Is For Rookie, to Connie for winning Cindy K. Green’s Andrea and the 5-Day Challenge, and to Melanie for winning Kristen Ethridge’s Second Chance Sweethearts!
This week I’m hosting Davalynn Spencer with Old West Summer Brides (exclusive print version US and Canada only), Kay Lyons Stockham with Not by Sight (US only), and Lisa Belcastro with A Dream for Love (print US only, Kindle worldwide). If you want to enter the drawings for the books, please leave a comment on your post with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (July 19th) evening.
Bio of Davalynn Spencer:
Davalynn Spencer writes inspirational Western romance complete with rugged cowboys, their challenges, and their loves. Her work has finaled for the Will Rogers Medallion, Inspirational Reader’s Choice Award, the Selah Award, and the Holt Medallion. Davalynn teaches writing at Pueblo Community College and at writing workshops. She and her own handsome cowboy make their home on Colorado’s Front Range with a Queensland heeler named Blue. Connect with Davalynn online at www.davalynnspencer.com and www.facebook.com/AuthorDavalynnSpencer
Blurb for Old West Summer Brides by Davalynn Spencer:
Old West Summer Brides comes July 14, 2015 to select Walmart stores nationwide as book 4 in The 12 Brides of Summer historical novella collection. Davalynn Spencer’s story, “The Columbine Bride” picks up where “The Snowbound Bride” left off last year. Nate Horne’s uncle Buck was full of wrangler wisdom when it came to Nate courting Ara Taube. Now Buck is fixing to head out on his own—until he runs into the Widow Powell’s two young’uns’ at the mercantile.
Lucy Powell is determined to get her neglected homestead up and running again after a winter filling in as the school marm in town. But can she keep neighboring rancher, Buck Reiter from helping her when he seems just as determined to work his way into the lives of her children as well as her heart?
Check out the ebook for Old West Summer Brides, The 12 Brides of Summer on Amazon
Bio of Kay Lyons Stockham:
Kay Lyons Stockham always wanted to be a writer, ever since the age of seven or eight when she copied the pictures out of a Charlie Brown book and rewrote the story because she didn’t like the plot. Through the years her stories have changed but one characteristic stayed true—they were all romances. Each and every one of her manuscripts included a love story.
Published in 2005 with Harlequin Enterprises, Kay’s first secular romance hit #7 on the bestseller list. Kay has also been a HOLT Medallion, Book Buyers Best and RITA Award nominee with approximately twenty books published in the general fiction market.
In 2014, Kay lost her beloved father—true hero material—at the age of 85. In the months before and after his death life continued to throw some pretty radical curve balls, leaving Kay struggling to find her creativity and relying heavily on her faith to see her through the valleys. Reading the Bible brought comfort and in the fall of 2014, Kay rededicated her life to Christ. Her goals changed and her desire to be a source of light and encouragement to her family, her church, and her readers, stirred the creativity within her to use her God-given talent to spread His word.
To distinguish her secular books from her inspirational novels, Kay took on her maiden name in honor of her father and the inspiration he was as a loving husband of 60 years, a dedicated father, and most importantly, a man of faith.
Look for more inspirational books from Kay Lyons Stockham in the future. For more information regarding her work, please visit Kay’s website at www.kaystockham.com, “like” her Kay Lyons Stockham AUTHOR Page on Facebook, or follow on Pinterest and Twitter.
Blurb for Not by Sight by Kay Lyons Stockham:
“Not By Sight gripped me from the first page. It was well written, heartwarming, and evocative-everything I’ve come to expect from novel by Kay Lyons Stockham.” ~New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Shelley Shepard Gray
Can you love someone and still be free?
Emma Wyatt agrees to tutor a recently blinded, embittered soldier because of the $50,000 paycheck his brother offers. The job is an answer to many prayers. Blind herself, Emma dreams of independence and freedom away from her overprotective family. Tutoring Ian in all things “blind” isn’t easy, especially when the biggest challenge is helping him walk by faith.
Protect someone you cannot see?
Good soldiers show no weakness. Ian MacGregor holds his battle with claustrophobia close to his chest, unsuccessfully trying to cope on his own, too angry with God to seek comfort. Ian knows duty, honor, serving his country. So why is he being punished with this very personalized hell?
As Ian struggles to strong-arm his phobia and let go of his anger, his growing feelings for Emma are overshadowed by the danger lurking around them. Emma would be better off with someone else. Someone sighted.
Someone able to protect her from the person determined to keep them apart…
Check out Not by Sight on Amazon
Bio of Lisa Belcastro:
Lisa Belcastro lives with her family on island of Martha’s Vineyard. She writes inspirational romances set on the Island and the surrounding waters. She loves chocolate, reading, writing, running, working in her gardens, including weeding, and almost all outdoor activities — as long as the temperature is above sixty degrees! Being on or near the water is pure joy for her, and she is counting the days until the warmer weather arrives once again.
Lisa is an Ambassador for TEAM 413 (www.TEAM413.org), and has run a full marathon in all fifty states.
When she’s not at her desk working on her next novel or writing the cuisine column for Vineyard Style Magazine, Lisa is volunteering at her daughter’s school, serving in her church community, gardening, training for the 4-day Dopey Challenge at Walt Disney World in January 2016, or walking the beach looking for sea glass.
Visit her online at lisabelcastro.com
Blurb for A Dream for Love by Lisa Belcastro
“Sold!”
When the gavel hit the wooden block at the Possible Dreams Auction, Laurel Simmons sat in stunned silence. Her sister had lost her mind, purchasing a week’s vacation stay for two at actor Ryan Crandall’s beach house on Martha’s Vineyard. And then Tammy announced that she was giving the “dream” to Laurel as an early birthday present.
A month later, Laurel and her four-year-old daughter Gracie arrive at the luxurious house on Squibnocket Beach ready to swim, play, picnic and enjoy the peace and solitude together.
Laurel’s dream vacation quickly turns into a nightmare when Hollywood bad boy Ryan Crandall shows up to escape his latest tabloid headlines. Ryan wants the woman and her child gone. Laurel wants him gone. Fate will bring them together for reasons neither one of them expected, but fate will also drive them apart.
Laurel has a past she needs to keep hidden. Her life and Gracie’s depend on it. Ryan has a past, and present, that’s been food for public consumption for over a decade. Will the past deprive them of a future? Or will they dare to dream a dream for love?
