A RIVER TO CROSS by Yvonne Harris ISBN 978-0-7642-0805-8 Bethany House Publishers   Set in The Rio Grande, Texas, 1886 when Mexico and the United States was at odds, Elizabeth Evan’s travels to visit her brother who is the owner/operator of the Grande Examiner, El Paso’s leading newspaper. Elizabeth’s brother pays the ultimate price as editor when he prints articles exposing the dangers along the U.S.-Mexican border.  Determined to take up his cause, she’s targeted and kidnapped by a rogue general – Manuel Diego. It’s now the job of Texas Ranger Jake Nelson to protect the border against rustlers and [...]

  Bittersweet Obsessions By Annie Rayburn http://annierayburn.com/ Red Sage Publishing  ASIN: B0059VHT9K    In a culture where it’s believed each person has only one life-mate, what happens when yours is beyond your reach? Teriza feels the mating call to a man married to a Human. Unwilling to be the cause of infidelity, Teriza distances herself from her mate after an intense pheromone-charged encounter that leaves her in precarious health. She requires treatment and is sent to a clinic in Switzerland, where sexual surrogates are employed to heal such conditions. After Paul Craddock’s life-mate died, he turned to surrogacy to ease [...]

by Darcy Crowder – Admittedly, our lives are dictated by some kind of deadline, whether it be work, school or household related.  Most of my deadlines lately have been all organizational related.  As the Maggie Chair, our Georgia Romance Writers annual contest, I’ve been reaching one deadline after the next facilitating the whole process, from seeking judges to announcements to handling entrants, and so on.  Then there are my weekly responsibilities here at Petit Fours and Hot Tamales, scheduling and posting our Guest Chef’s on Wednesdays, supporting my blog sisters daily, and seeing that my own post is up on [...]

I think my coworkers are trying to domesticate me. It would make sense. I hit three months on Monday. The honeymoon period is over. My tendency to blow dry my hair via my car’s heater turned to full blast has gone from charming to…well, let’s be honest, it was never charming, but it did get the job done. Still, there’s nothing quite like looking over to see your boss (perfectly groomed at 6:15 in the morning, cruising in her immaculate BMW) while you’re driving with your knees, draped over your dash, your 1997 Toyota belching black smoke to let you [...]

Please join us in welcoming today’s Guest Chef, Beverely Kendall, as she interviews the hero from her latest novella, All’s Fair in Love and Seduction. She hopes to gain his affections For Miss Elizabeth Smith, sharing her first kiss with the charming Lord Derek Creswell is nothing short of a dream come true…that is, until she is spotted by one of the most influential gossips of the ton. With scandal nipping at her heels, to avoid total social ruin, Elizabeth must present a fiancé by the end of the Season. But when the viscount proves reluctant, Elizabeth is forced to employ [...]

By: Susan Carlisle Last month I took my daughter and niece to New York City. My mother tagged along making a good foursome. My daughter had been asking for years to go and I owed my niece a graduation trip, so we made the most of a couple of days before the Romance Writers of America’s National conference. My niece asked before we left, “Will we see any famous people?”  “Sure, we have tickets to see Regis and Kelly and the play that Jim Belushi is staring in.” That would be an easy three. Sunday afternoon we saw Born Yesterday, [...]

by Carol Burnside I’m here to attest to the fact that Mother Nature waits on no one, least of all me, and my word count is suffering as a result. I don’t see that changing for the next few weeks because she’s rather mischievous. I can just see her now, a circlet of flowers woven into her long, flowing hair as she glides through my garden sprinkling growth hormones on some plants, robbing others of their fruits. Of course, she does this at daybreak, a time when I’m almost never awake (unless I haven’t yet made it to bed by [...]