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Is It True: Mistletoe in the City by Amber Daulton @amberdaulton1 #RLFblog #NewAdult
Crafting romance with sugar and heat in Mistletoe in the City a novella by Amber Daulton.
Welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Let’s play Is It True with today’s guest, Amber Daulton, author of Mistletoe in the City, a New Adult Contemporary Romance. This is a game with yes and no questions. Writers can elaborate on answers as much as they choose.
Mistletoe in the City by Amber Daulton
Genre New Adult Contemporary Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG 13
Krista Hartley never expected the unrequited love of her life, the irresistible Derek Weston, to work as the groundskeeper at the apartment building she just moved into. They barely spoke in high school but now, three years after graduation, they tore at each other’s clothes and jumped into bed together at every opportunity. After all, how could a hot-blooded woman say no to a sexy man with an eyebrow ring, a dragon tattoo and a deadly swagger?
A Christmas miracle drew Krista back into Derek’s life. He kissed her for the first time under mistletoe, pampered her with romantic candlelight dinners and memorized every inch of her delectable body with his tongue. He refused to let his dream girl slip through his fingers again but then another woman threatened their whirlwind romance. Hurt once before, Krista broke off their relationship and then Derek made a drunken mistake that could destroy their love forever.
With just days to Christmas, he vowed to win back her heart and trust, and prove his innocence once and for all.
Is it true:
this is your first book?
No. Mistletoe in the City is my fourth book out of a dozen-plus now available.
this book is part of a series?
Yes! It’s book 3 in the Handmade for Christmas anthology. Authors Jennifer Conner and Natalie Nicole Bates also have stories in the antho. All the novellas are standalones.
you lost sleep while writing this book?
Not really. The plot and characters came together fairly easily, which is always a relief.
you did research for this book?
Of course. Research is a must, no matter the genre or type of story. I had a blast researching the artsy neighborhoods in Seattle, where the story takes place, and since Krista is into arts and crafts, I found a bunch of cool pictures and projects on Pinterest.
some characters in this book are not human? (pets for example)
Not true. No pets, shifters, aliens, sea monsters, etc make an appearance. Sorry, folks!
this book has more than one genre?
Yes. It’s a New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Christmas novella.
you speak more than one language?
Nope, but I wish I could.
you grew up where you live now?
Give or take twenty miles, yes.
you love to read?
Oh, yes. You can’t be a professional author without reading.
you are never late?
True. I’m usually early, which can be just as bad.
you love pizza?
I’m only human.
you love sushi?
No. Yuck. I’ve tried it, but I just can’t eat raw fish and seaweed.
you have a pet?
I have two wonderful kitties, Darby and Pepper. Both are 8 years old.
Where to buy Mistletoe in the City
Universal link https://books2read.com/u/4XKKD1
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Amber Daulton is the author of the romantic-suspense series Arresting Onyx and several standalone novellas. Her books are published through The Wild Rose Press and Books to Go Now, and are available in ebook, print on demand, audio, and foreign language formats.
She lives in North Carolina with her husband and demanding cats.
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Read the #SFR Carnal Fusion by Allie Ritch @AllieRitch #RLFblog #Romance #SciFi
An alien abduction turns into a steamy foursome in Allie Ritch’s new sci-fi romance, Carnal Fusion. With an alien consciousness in her body and two sexy men in one, Liz finds herself in an unusual ménage.
Allie, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about Carnal Fusion.
Carnal Fusion by Allie Ritch
Genre Hot Sci-Fi Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
When Liz is abducted by aliens, she doesn’t expect to wind up sharing her body with one. Fortunately for her, Zen presents himself as a man straight out of her fantasies, and he’s not alone. Cole is also a human sharing space with another consciousness—an alien named Voss. Zen, Cole, and Voss have been lovers for years, and they want Liz to join them. Can she really be part of this unusual foursome? Or will her inhibitions and human hang-ups get in the way?
Content: ménage, graphic love scenes, m/f romance, m/m/f/m romance, a little bit of m/m romance between a human and alien
Where to buy Carnal Fusion
Publisher https://allieritch.wordpress.com/bookstrailers/#CarnalFusion
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QJR1TQX
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Allie Ritch is a multi-published author of steamy sci-fi and paranormal romance. Her works include her bestselling Children of Nanook series, her popular Alien Sex Ed series, and other books that feature shifters, psychics, genetically engineered husbands, vampires, and other interesting characters.
She has an active imagination and enjoys entertaining others through storytelling. Allie lives in her own little world in the Southeastern United States, where she spends time appreciating the ocean and sunshine.
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Fated Hearts, A Love After All Retelling of the Scottish Play by Alina K Field @AlinaKField #RLFblog #NewRelease #ReadaRegency
A Scottish soldier plagued by visions returns from war in Alina K Field’s new Regency romance, Fated Hearts, A Love After All Retelling of the Scottish Play. When he meets the wife he spurned, an old enemy resurfaces and threatens her. Can he reach the woman he never stopped loving in time to save her?
Alina, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about your book.
Fated Hearts, A Love After All Retelling of the Scottish Play by Alina K Field
Genre: Regency Romantic Suspense
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
Plagued by hellish memories and rattling visions of battle to come, a Scottish Baron returning from two decades at war meets the daughter he denied was his, and the wife he divorced, and learns that everything he’d believed to be true was a lie. What he can’t deny is that she’s the only woman he’s ever loved. They’re not the young lovers they once were, but when passion flares, it burns more hotly than ever it did in their youth.
They soon discover, it wasn’t fate that drove them apart, but a jealous enemy, who played on his youthful arrogance and her vulnerability. Now that old enemy has resurfaced, more treacherous than ever. When his lady falls into a trap, can he reach her in time to rescue this love that never died?
Why did you write this book?
Fated Hearts is part of the Tragic Characters in Classic Lit project, wherein a group of Regency romance authors are taking tragic characters and with complete artistic license, setting them in Georgian era England and giving them a happily-ever-after. I couldn’t resist the challenge of retelling Macbeth’s story.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Historical romance, and historical mystery
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
Rupert Carsington, from Loretta Chase’s Mr. Impossible
What are you working on at the moment?
A Christmas novella for 2021 release.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
In April, my novella The Comtesse of Midnight will appear in the Storm & Shelter Anthology.
Where to buy Fated Hearts, A Love After All Retelling of the Scottish Play
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08NYWR3KH
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Google Play Books: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Alina_K_Field_Fated_Hearts?id=YcMKEAAAQBAJAlina K Field Social Media
Award winning and USA Today bestselling author Alina K Field earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and German literature, but prefers the much happier world of romance fiction. Though her roots are in the Midwestern U.S., after six very, very, very cold years in Chicago, she moved to Southern California, where she shares a midcentury home with her husband and a spunky, blond rescued terrier. She is the author of several Regency romances, including the 2014 Book Buyer’s Best winner, Rosalyn’s Ring. Though hard at work on her next series of romantic adventures, she loves to hear from readers!
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Linda O’Connor author of Behind the Bench (In the Game Hockey Romance Series) shares a #TechTip for improving security @LindaOConnor98 #RLFblog
The new coach of the professional hockey team is stirring things up, and the team doctor is not immune. When they get caught up in a drug scandal affecting the team, they have to work together. Sparks fly and ice melts in Linda O’Connor’s medical hockey romance, Behind the Bench.
Linda O’Connor, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! We want to hear your tech tip, but first, please tell us about Behind the Bench.
Behind the Bench by Linda O’Connor
Genre Sports Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG13
Dr. Danni Angelo is the team physician for the Clarington Quakes hockey team. She’s worked hard to earn the players’ respect, but the new coach, Trey Mason, is stirring things up, and Danni’s worried her job may be in jeopardy.
Trey finds Danni…distracting. Beauty, brains, and sexy moves on the ice have him uncomfortably attracted. He’s the new guy on the block. He has a reputation to build and a standard to set. The last thing he needs is a complication.
When the team spirals out of control and Danni and Trey get caught up in a drug scandal, things heat up on and off the ice. It’s a whole new game plan…Behind the Bench.
Tech Tip
Keeping your home and computer safe from hackers starts by keeping your WiFi router secure. If you’ve never changed the default settings on your router – both the username and password – now’s the time to consider doing so.
If a hacker can figure out the model of your router, chances are they can crack your password if you haven’t changed it from the factory setting. Routers often share common default settings and a determined hacker can take advantage of weak points in a particular model’s security or sneak in using the default passwords.
Change your router’s username so that it doesn’t identify your service provider or your address. This makes it more challenging for a hacker to determine the type of router you’re using. The default password should also be changed. Annoying as it is to have a long password incorporating uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, it gives you an extra layer of protection since it’s harder to guess. For added security, the password should be changed regularly – when you change the clocks for daylight savings time, change your router password, too!
Here’s an additional tip: place your router in the middle of your home. Not only will it provide equal access to the WiFi signal throughout your home, it keeps the signal from spilling too widely outside the perimeter of your property, where it could be more vulnerable to attack.
Where to buy Behind the Bench
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FTWRR9N
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Award-winning author Linda O’Connor started writing romantic comedies when she needed a creative outlet other than subtly rearranging the displays at a local home décor store. Her books have enjoyed bestseller status. When not writing, she’s a physician at an Urgent Care Clinic. She shares her medical knowledge in fast-paced, well-written, sexy romances – with an unexpected twist. Her favourite prescription to write? Laugh every day. Love every minute.
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Read Get Off Your High Horse by Cynthia Terelst @cynthiaterelst #RLFblog #romance
Cynthia Terelst pens Get Off Your High Horse, a contemporary romance with horses, polo, a country-girl heroine, and a hero who longs for freedom.
Get Off Your High Horse by Cynthia Terelst
Love Down Under Book 3
Genre: Contemporary Royal Romance
When two opposites collide, will their differences ignite a spark or send them into turmoil?
Frankie and Sebastian live totally different lives. Lives that are entwined through polo, the sport of kings.
Frankie’s a country girl, working hard toward her dream of turning the family farm around. She needs to endure one more polo season to make that happen. She has no interest in high society or the rich, arrogant riders she has to deal with, especially Sebastian. Her heart may be softening to his charm, openness and love of working with horses, but her brain won’t be convinced. She looks forward to her summer break on the farm, away from him, until her parents decide to invite Sebastian to stay.
Sebastian descends from royalty. Rich and arrogant come with his family title. But that status is something he’d rather avoid, just like he avoids returning home to a life he doesn’t want. Sebastian sees a freedom in Frankie he wishes he had. Her life is full of love, family and horses; something he can only dream of. And her, he can dream of her. But a dream is all it will be, seeing as Frankie does her best to avoid him.
If only he can convince her to look past his title, and see that his hopes and dreams aren’t so different from hers.
Where to buy Get Off Your High Horse
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56239045-get-off-your-high-horse
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Get-Off-Your-High-Horse-ebook/dp/B089Y1NDN9/
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Cynthia Terelst is a project officer by day and a writer by night. She is a contemporary romance writer who likes to share a little bit of history, some Australian scenery and a whole lotta love. Cynthia does not shy away from difficult topics, as she feels that they should not be ignored.
She lives in Queensland, Australia, where the sun shines at least 283 days a year.
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A Stroke at Midnight by Lyndell Williams @laylawriteslove #RLFblog #NewRelease #romance
Tied down by guilt and separated by quarantine, Mateo and Deja decide to free themselves with a New Year’s Eve night of passion. But will it destroy their family and friendship?
Lyndell Williams, welcome to Romance Lives Forever. I’m Kayelle Allen, author and owner of this blog. Happy to have you here! Please tell us about A Stroke at Midnight.
A Stroke at Midnight by Lyndell Williams
Genre BDSM Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): NC-17
He will have her before the year is out!
Mateo spent too many years craving the taste and touch of Deja’s body. He restrained from taking his brother’s widow to bed. Now the sinner in him is winning the battle. He is through imagining all the naughty things he can do with her. Time to put all his kinky plans into action.
He assembles his toys, determined to stroke Deja by the time the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve.
Deja knew it was wrong to lust after her dead husband’s brother. She tells herself that Mateo only wants to help raise her son, but she can’t keep ignoring the way he looks at her and how it makes her tingle with desire. She can’t resist the call of his hot body, and she does not want to.
Tied down by guilt and separated by quarantine, Mateo and Deja decide to free themselves with a New Year’s Eve night of passion. But will it destroy their family and friendship?
A Stroke at Midnight is a BDSM holiday short with an alpha male into kink. **NO abuse, NO cliffhanger, guaranteed HEA!**
Why did you write this book?
A Stroke at Midnight is my first venture into BDSM romance. I am ready to provide readers with more erotic stories, and Mateo and Deja are some hot characters.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Romance
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
I don’t have one. I like to connect with an expanse of characters for different reasons. Â
What are you working on at the moment?
I am finishing the third book in the exciting Open to Love novella series, published by After Hours Publications.
My new story will feature Rahmah and Baaz Hamid, a steamy Muslim couple who must struggle against people trying to tear them apart.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
Be on the lookout for the books The Trouble with That Sistah, book three in the Open to Love series and Drowning in Shallow Waters, book three in the Brothers in Law series. I am also planning some short, hot reads for people who want to enjoy some lunchtime reads. I am really looking forward to an exciting 2021 with readers! Let’s do this!
Where to buy A Stroke at Midnight
Amazon https://amz.run/4ATY
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A bestselling author and award-winning writer, Lyndell Williams (Layla Abdullah-Poulos) holds a B.A. in Historical Studies and Literature, M.A. in Liberal Studies, and an AC in Women and Gender Studies. She is an adjunct instructor as well as an anti-racism and gender equity advocate. She is the senior New York trainer for the Muslim Anti-Racism collaborative.
Williams is a cultural critic with a background in literary criticism specializing in romance. She has been published in peer-review journals and presented at national conferences about Muslim and interracial romance fiction as well as racism, sexism and the Black Muslim experience.
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