Book Tour: Engaging the Enemy by Heather Boyd

Engaging the Enemy

Book 1 - The Wild Randalls

Release Date: February 14, 2012

Every great family has a few secrets best left unspoken. The wild Randall’s of Hampshire excel at them.

A duchess should be regal, aloof and the image of calm elegance. But those words have never applied to Mercy Randall, Duchess of Romsey. A widow and mother of a young duke, Mercy is lonely and floundering to keep the estate afloat. When she discovers the existence of Leopold Randall, her husband’s estranged cousin, Mercy commits to help him locate his missing siblings if he’ll return the estate to order. Although cautioned against trusting a man who would inherit everything should her son die, she impetuously hands over the estate to Leopold’s care in the hope of keeping him near.

Leopold Randall, heir to the young duke, has returned to Hampshire to demand information regarding the fate of his missing siblings. Unfortunately, the Duchess of Romsey is clueless about them, yet her struggle to maintain the estate tugs at Leopold’s sense of duty. At her insistence, he steps in to bring order to chaos while searching for hints to his family’s whereabouts amongst the old duke’s papers. Yet the duchess tempts him in ways best unspoken. He fights to hide his weakness for her and a shameful past that could see him banished again. But when Leopold discovers a threat against the duchess and young duke’s life, he must join forces with the temptress to protect his last known relative.

 

About Heather

Heather Boyd is the author of erotic romance with an historical bent. A fan of regency England settings, she writes m/f and m/m stories that push the boundaries of propriety and even break the laws of that time. Brimming with new ideas, she frequently wishes she could type as fast as she can conjure up new storylines. Heather lives with her testosterone-fuelled family north of Sydney.

Her published work include: The Distinguished Rogues (Chills, Broken & Charity), The Hunt Club Chronicles (Almost an Equal, Barely a Master & Hardly a Stranger) and short erotic romance One Wicked Night, In the Widow's Bed, Love Me Tender, Wicked Mourning and The Almack’s Alternative.

Links

Website: www.heather-boyd.com

Email: heather@heather-boyd.com

http://twitter.com/Heather_Boyd

http://facebook.com/HeatherBoydRomanceAuthor

Amazon Author Page: https://amazon.com/author/heatherboyd

Smashwords Author Page: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/heatherboyd

Book Tour: Journey in Time by Chris Karlsen

This blurb caught my attention immediately – it sounds like such an awesome read, that I have requested a review copy.  Look out for my review coming soon.

Journey in Time
BY Chris Karlsen
Blurb:
TRAPPED IN TIME
London attorney, Shakira Constantine, finally agrees to spend the day with her handsome client, Alex Lancaster. While riding in the countryside, the couple finds themselves caught in a time warp and transported back to the 14th Century, and an England preparing for war. Everyone believes Alex is the Baron Guy Guiscard...a baron who died in the upcoming battle.
If they can’t find a way to return to the 21st Century, Alex will have to sail with the army to certain death. Shakira will be left alone to survive in the alien and terrifying medieval world.

Author bio:

Chris Karlsen is a retired police detective who spent twenty-five years in law enforcement with two different agencies. Her father was a history professor and her mother an avid reader. She grew up with a love of history and books.
She has always loved traveling and has traveled extensively throughout Europe, the Near East (especially Turkey and the Greek Islands), the Caribbean, and North Africa.
Born and raised in Chicago, Chris has also lived in Paris, Los Angeles, and currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and four rescue dogs.
You can contact her via: Books to Go Now, P.O. Box 1283, Poulsbo, WA 98370
Or on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chriskarlsenwriter

Writing Contest–Open Worldwide!!

 

 

Ruby Lioness Press is having a writing contest! All authors who submit manuscripts of at least 40,000 words between June 1st and July 31st, 2012 will be entered for a chance at having their book published and receiving an advance royalty.

1st Prize – $100 USD Advance Royalty
2nd Prize – $50 USD Advance Royalty
3rd Prize – $25 USD Advance Royalty

Requirements: Submit your 40k+ novel to Ruby Lioness Press following the submission guidelines between June 1st and July 31st. The novel must not have been under contract or published before. This contest is open to participants worldwide, but the work must be in English.

This contest is open to all genres, including submissions for the Clearwater series.

The winners will be chosen in early August. All authors who submit manuscripts during the contest time frame will be notified of their status after that time. Any author who wishes not to participate should state as such in their submission.

The advance will be paid at the end of the accounting period following the release of the book.

More info here:  http://rubylionesspress.com/press-news/2012-rlp-writing-contest/

Book Tour: Let us Pray by Jamie Lee Scott

 

Let us Pray - Book 1, Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries

By Jamie Lee Scott

Mimi Capurro has been hired to protect New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Silke, who was recently assaulted in the bathroom at a paranormal conference. Though Mimi is hired to act as bodyguard for Lauren’s upcoming book tour, plans change when Lauren's assistant is murdered and the slaying is a replica of a scene from Lauren’s newest novel. A novel that hit bookstores the same day as the killing.

Now instead of playing bodyguard, Mimi is cracking computer code, and chasing down vampires. These vampires come alive on the streets of Santa Cruz, as part of a live-role-playing game. Mimi must find the connection between the vampires and the author to track down the killer. This would be much easier if Detective Nick Christianson wanted her investigating the case.

Nick, Mimi’s old college fling, is the lead homicide investigator.

Though he wants her off the case, he also wants to pump her for information. Nick may have used her in the past, but this time she’ll use him to try to catch the murderer first.

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About Jamie Lee Scott

Jamie was born on the Central Coast of California, where she spent her entire childhood entertaining. She wrote plays and charged admission to her backyard stage so her friends and family could enjoy the performances. She wrote her first novel at the age of 10, for her 5th grade class project. The novel was called Cindy.

Busy with horses and school, Jamie rarely wrote through her teens and twenties, she was living a life most dreamed of (well, she dreamed of anyway), competing at barrel races, hanging out with cowboys, and traveling in rodeo circles with her friends. Money was tight, but life was good. Then Jamie met the man of her dreams. And low and behold he was not a cowboy, but a farm boy. They married and he swept her away to her little piece of heaven in Iowa.

Well, then Iowa didn't turn out to be such heaven, Jamie again turned to fiction. This time she wrote to relieve the stress of living so far from her family, and from running a business with her husband. Funny how she now found it cathartic to kill people, only on paper of course.

Before she finished her first full length novel, Jamie was contracted to write the book, Hiking Iowa for Falcon publishing. In a year, she hiked 75 trails in the state of Iowa and mapped the trails, landmarks and distances. And this was before GPS. It was tough work for the measly advance, but it was a writing credit. So now, Jamie writes the mystery series featuring the Gotcha Detective Agency.

Jamie has written three novels, Let Us Prey, the soon to be released Death of a Sales Rep, and Give a Dog a Bone. She is currently writing screenplays. She is co-founder of Scriptchat on Twitter www.scriptchat.com & TWWriterChat www.tvwriterchat.com, and is the former president of RWA’s screenwriting chapter, Script Scene.

Jamie still lives in Iowa (though she visits California as often as possible) with her husband, 2 dogs, 2 cats and 2 horses. She writes with a few from her 6 acre farm.

http://www.jamieleescott.com/

https://twitter.com/#!/jamie_ld

http://www.facebook.com/jamielee.scott2

Jamie Lee FAVORITES

ON iPOD: Lilly Allen, John Mayer, Rob Thomas, Train, George Strait, Kenye West, Lifehouse, Uncle Kracker

CURRENTLY READING: Mediabistro.com Presents Small Screen, Big Picture: A Writer's Guide to the TV Business, The Adweek Copywriting Handbook, The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential...in Business and in Life

COLOR: Chocolate brown

CITY: Las Vegas, Chicago, Los Angeles, oh, and my hometown of Salinas, CA.

VACATION: A great hotel near the ocean, with no phones and no computers. Great food.

ACTIVITY: Working with my horses, reading, Twitter

BOOK: Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley

TV SHOW: Modern Family, Burn Notice, Castle, Community, Mike & Molly

MOVIE: Black Swan

SONG: Colder Weather by Zac Brown Band, Good to be Me by Uncle Kracker, Stronger by Kenye West

SINGER: Rob Thomas, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker

BAND: Matchbox 20, Zac Brown,

ACTOR: Benecio Del Toro (swoon)

ACTRESS: Uma Thurman

PET PEEVE: People who use cell phones in public, like at a drive-thru

MOST LIKE TO MEET: Dominic (a man I used to talk to when I was a produce broker, I never got to meet him)

Bob DeRosa - Because he's seems so cool.

**answers subject to change ;-)

Missing in Action

I just want to apologize for being away from my blog for the last few weeks.  You would have noticed that I am only posting Book Tours that I have already committed to. 
As many of you know I was retrenched last year and have been looking for a job.  And that is a problem (as in most countries these days).
In the last few weeks I was lucky to have been given a recon project for a company.  This project is very urgent to them and I have been working on it 24/7 – almost no free time for books, blogging or reading.  But I am enjoying it as I love searching for problems and errors.
I hope to be back to blogging again at the end of the month – as soon as I am able. 

I miss you guys :)