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It’s the last day before vacation.  That’s the first whoop.  LOL  I’m looking forward to sandy beaches, blue waters, rest, relaxation, and lots of fun!

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The second whoop?  I just checked. THE WAGONMASTER is still Freya’s Bower #1 Bestseller at Fictionwise

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But even better– and you probably heard me squealing in delight — THE WAGONMASTER is also now the #1 Highest Rated book for Freya’s Bower!!!  WooHoo!  That one means an awful lot to me because there are some darn good books put out by FB.

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Counting down…

Only 3 more days till vacation!  Yay!  We leave Friday to drive to Ft. Lauderdale.  We’ll spend the night in a hotel on the beach there and drive into Miami on Saturday morning. We set sail on our cruise Saturday afternoon. 🙂 

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I think I have all the shopping done.  I still need to pack, but that shouldn’t take too long. I’ve got my base tan to help prevent a sunburn. And I’ve lost 31 pounds, so I’m in much better physical condition for all the activities. 🙂 

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THE WAGONMASTER is now available at Fictionwise Looking for Eric dvdrip . Yay! But even better… It’s #1 on Freya’s Bower Bestseller list at Fictionwise!  🙂 WooHoo!

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Please Welcome Laura Hogg

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For the Love of a Queen

Could a man allow the woman he loves to die in order to save everyone she loves?

This romance is set slightly in the future in a war-devastated world.  NAYDA JANAK is a woman of unusual talents.  She was recruited as a teenager by a secret government agency and trained as a spy.  Now she uses her various skills to help people who can’t help themselves, traveling the countryside with her small group of companions.  She comes across a village and changes the lives of the desperate people living there.  For her trouble, she is crowned queen, a warrior queen who trains her men to be soldiers.

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 JEFF LAWRENCE’S entire family is wiped out in the war, and he hits the road as a teenager with a bag of food and his sword.  One day he is stopped by CURN, the cruelest warlord roaming the streets.  Curn raises his sword to Jeff, and Jeff puts up a valiant fight.  Curn then discovers that Jeff is the nephew of a world-famous sword-fighter and was trained by him.  Jeff then has no choice but to accept this warrior’s offer and become initiated into his army of thugs.

Years pass.  Some of Nayda’s soldiers battle some of Curn’s and her people kill his.  For this, Curn seeks to execute her.  He sends in Jeff, his top general, as a spy to get information and bring back the queen for harsh punishment.  Jeff goes to her camp and asks to join her side, pretending to be a deflector from Curn’s army.  She accepts him with hesitation. 

Spending time with her brings Jeff to the realization that he has met his match.  He falls deeply in love with Nayda.  They get married, but Jeff is inwardly tormented, the threat of Curn constantly on his mind.

He doesn’t want to bring her back for execution, but if he doesn’t, her people will be slaughtered.  For love, he chooses to save those she cherishes.

He watches while she’s taken captive, not lifting his sword in her defense; watches her suffer punishment and in agony can do nothing about it.  This queen and her warrior will battle evil, but will the price be their love or their lives?

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Hello, Laura Hogg here. Thanks Nita, for letting me be on your blog! I write a variety of romance and some paranormal. For the Love of a Queen-think of the Middle Ages superimposed on the near future, and my time-travel, Romeo vs. Juliet-a wife chases her husband through different eras of history to stop him from killing people-are out with The Wild Rose Press, as well as a couple of vintage pieces set in the 1920s and an inspirational. Oh, Wings ePress has my historical romance, The 12th Kiss, set in the year 1820, and Aspen Mountain Press has my paranormal, Double Vision. With that one, I asked myself what exotic setting could I place a romance in, and thought of it-the astral plane. J I have a Western coming out with Eirelander Publishing next year.

 

Excerpt from For the Love of a Queen:

Curn’s arms crossed over his chest. “It’s been awhile. Too long.”

Jeff didn’t move. Angry skies rumbled in warning.

“Come back with me now.”

“I’m staying with my wife,” Jeff stated.

Curn lowered his arms, and fury darkened his features, but he seemed to get a grip on his stormy emotions. “Why do you defy me? You know what I’ll do if you don’t follow orders.”

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Jeff touched the hilt of the sword strapped at his side. The first drops of rain moistened his face and hands.

“Uh, uh, uh!” Curn wagged his finger.

Jeff’s hand hovered over his weapon. “Fight me, Curn, no armies involved. There’s no need to bring the others into this.”

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Curn stepped close, and Jeff inched his weapon out of its scabbard. Curn dropped his hand on top of Jeff’s and squeezed it.

He spoke in a whispered hiss against Jeff’s ear. “I have three hundred men circling her village from a distance, unseen. Cooperate with me, or I’ll send a man to give the word to kill them all. I warn you, do not tell your wife when she’s captured that you didn’t know about this. Never, never! Defy me again.”

Curn moved back and whistled, and several large warriors stepped out of the trees and stood behind him, glaring. Rain pelted down.

“Jeff, I…” Nayda’s voice dropped off as she turned the corner around the boulder.  She froze on the spot.

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Please welcome Beth Trissel

Mysterious old homes, shrouded mountains and valleys hidden between misty ridges; the lure of Eastern Woodland Indians and Scots-Irish settlers in colonial American…this is what I know, what I love.  But I spread out from my Virginia home base to journey into the Carolinas at the height of the Revolution.   Enemy of the King God on Trial ipod is my version of The Patriot. Zathura: A Space Adventure divx

buy Pueblo Pluto Step into the graceful parlor of Pleasant Grove, an eighteenth century Georgian plantation built high on the bluff above the Santee River.  Admire the elegant lines of this gracious brick home and its exquisite décor. Stroll out into the expansive garden between fragrant borders of lavender and rosemary. Bask beneath the moss-hung branches of an enormous live oak, then saunter back indoors to dress for a candlelight dinner in the sumptuous dining room. But don’t plan on a lengthy stay, you’re about to be snatched away for a wild ride into Carolina backcountry.

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Pleasant Grove, the home featured in Enemy of the King, was drawn from Drayton Hall, the oldest preserved plantation in America that’s open to the public, located outside of Charleston, SC: http://www.draytonhall.org/

chapel_hillsmscaled_picI also incorporated elements of my Virginia ancestral home, circa 1816, located outside the historic town of Staunton.  Called Chapel Hill, this Georgian style brick house has been in the family for going on eight generations.  The old kitchen, or summer kitchen, a separate building from the main house, is no longer standing but I remember it from my childhood. The smokehouse, stable and some other outbuildings still remain.  The house itself is filled with a wonderful collection of heirlooms.

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The ‘snake thing’ in Chapter One of Enemy of the King is drawn from an incident that happened to me at Chapel Hill when I was a girl.  Back in my contest circuit days, more than one judge told me a snake couldn’t possibly get into a house and wind around the antlers of a buck mounted up on the wall.  They can and one did; a rather horrifying discovery for a child to make in the wee hours on her way to the bathroom.   And then there’s the fact that I always suspected the house was haunted…not sure by whom.

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1780, South Carolina: While Loyalist Meriwether Steele recovers from illness in the stately home of her beloved guardian, Jeremiah Jordan, she senses the haunting presence of his late wife. When she learns that Jeremiah is a Patriot spy and shoots Captain Vaughan, the British officer sent to arrest him, she is caught up on a wild ride into Carolina back country, pursued both by the impassioned captain and the vindictive ghost. Will she remain loyal to her king and Tory twin brother or risk a traitor’s death fighting for Jeremiah? If Captain Vaughan snatches her away, he won’t give her a choice.

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year is 1780, one of the bloodiest of the American Revolution. The entire Southern garrison has been captured and Lord Cornwallis is marching his forces deep into South Carolina. ‘Bloody Ban’ Lieutenant Major Banestre Tarleton and his infamous Legion are sweeping through the countryside. Revenge is the order of the day on both sides and rugged bands of militia are all that stand between crown forces and utter defeat.

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Icy Snow Blackstone was born in1802, in northern Georgia where her father, the Reverend John Blackstone, an English emigre, was prominent in local politics.  She married a minister, raised at least seven children, one of whom also became a minister, and lived there all her life.  There are no photographs of her available because cameras were not invented at that time. Two hundred and five years later, her great-great-great-great-granddaughter began using her name as a pseudonym for her romance novels. There are no photographs of her because her image has  been known to break cameras!  The present Icy Snow Blackstone lives far from her Southern roots in Orange County, California, where she continues to write romances and is associated with the South Coast Writer’s Association. 

 

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Hi ya’ll, Icy Snow Blackstone here.  I’d like to thank Nita for so graciously allowing me to give an excerpt from my newest novel, Jericho Road.  It’s set in the Georgia during the Vietnam Era and I’ll warn you right off–it deals with some pretty controversial subjects and has some fairly strong language in spots!  I also have a paranormal novel, The Irish Lady’s Spanish Lover, which is available as an ebook and large print edition from Double Dragon Publishers, and a futuristic romance, Three Moon Station, released by The Wild Rose Press.  Two other futuristic romances from Lyrical Press, Earthman’s Bride and When the Condor Returns, are scheduled for this summer.

 

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Past and present conflict for returning Vietnam veteran Wade Conyers as the scars of war and his past relationship with an African-American soldier in his platoon threaten his marriage to a South Carolina socialite.

Wade’s views of racial equality have already caused a rift with his father but it is his sister’s love for a part-Mohawk doctor which becomes the catalyst that reveals secret lives, adultery and ultimately murder..  WARNING:  contains subject matter some readers may find objectionable:  racial bigotry, profanity, homosexualty, graphic sex. Playboy: Celebrity Photographers movie download

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EDITED EXCERPT:

 

Lindsey looked up at him.  “Is it true that your mother’s folks don’t speak to her just because she married an Indian?”

The Changeling move             “Of course not, and it’s Native American,” he corrected gently, “not Indian.”

            “What’s the difference?”  She frowned slightly and he thought it the most endearing little expression he’d ever seen.

            “A lot!  Indians are from India.  The people of the Six Nations aren’t!”

            “The Six Nations.  Is that what they call themselves?”

            “That’s what we call ourselves.  We’re the Kanienhehaka.”

            He expected her to make some other comment, about his siding himself with just one people when he was part of both but she didn’t. 

            Instead, she shrugged and looked at the photo again and said, “Well, I think it would be a stupid way to act!  Why, I’d be proud if someone in my family married an Ind–a Native American!  Or if I were mar–“

            She stopped and looked up at him and blushed slightly, “I mean–” and stopped again.

            Neither of them said anything, just stood there, looking at each other.

            He was standing too close to her, ought to move away.  He could see the quick rise and fall of the tiny breasts, realized that one hand was brushing her hip.  He looked down at her, thinking how utterly small and innocent she looked.

            And white.

            “Well?” Lindsey said softly.  “Aren’t you going to kiss me?”

            Logan didn’t move.

            “You’ve been wanting to do it for about three hours now, haven’t you?”

            He shook his head.  “Four.”

            He put his arms around her, pulling her slight body against his, almost lifting her off the floor.  He felt her rise onto tiptoe and waver toward him before she regained her balance and then the slender arms were around his neck and she was pressing against him, mouth touching his in a very childish, very chaste closed-lip kiss.

            He pulled away long enough to mutter, “Lindsey, maybe we’d better–” and she touched his cheek and whispered, “Shh–” and he kissed her again, thrusting his tongue against her lips, feeling them part and welcome his invasion eagerly.

            One hand moved to touch one tiny breast, feeling the nipple quiver into tautness against his fingers.  She made a little protesting sound and raised her hand to push against his wrist but as it met resistance let it drop again.  Gently, Logan’s fingers encircled the soft little mound.

            He couldn’t know what she was thinking, that abruptly, Lindsey realized that here was a man and not one of those silly awkward boys who were all gropings and heavy breathing.  Here was someone who knew exactly what he was doing and what he wanted and frighteningly, he wanted her.  She knew she ought to stop him–she could stop him with one word–but his hands felt so good touching her, making hot little shivers generate inside her in places she’d never felt them before.

            Just a little longer, she thought.  I’ll let him touch me just a little longer and then I’ll tell him to stop..  But she never said the words, not even when Logan picked her up and without taking his mouth from hers, carried her into the bedroom.

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