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Sunday, July 31, 2022

Sunday's Book features Divided Dreams #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #romance #Author #Doctor #nurse practitioner #shared custody

Rob Grantlan has given up medicine to become an author. As a Gemini, having two careers seems just right. His quiet days are overturned by the death of his wayward sister and his taking guardianship of his two month old niece. When he learns the father of the infant is his old flame Andi Sherman’s brother a plan unfolds. Years ago, he hurt her. He still loves her and he wants to regenerate that love. Andi Sherman is now a nurse practitioner in Pediatrics. She has vowed never to return to Fern Lake. The offer of a partnership in a friend’s practice is tempting. She refuses until she learns Rob has given up the practice of medicine. She believes he will leave town. On the day after her July birthday, she returns and comes upon the accident, finds the dying woman and the baby. When she learns the little girl is her niece and Rob hasn’t left town she is conflicted. She still loves him but she can’t trust him. News from her brother brings a threat. Will Tammy’s presence in their lives find a way to allow them to love and trust again?

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Thursday's Characters from Murder and Sweet Tea #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Cozy mystery #murder #author

Katherine is now married to Lars and they are living in a house at the edge of the Hudson River.

Robespierre is there and often is accompanied by a small version of himself Rose Prarie belonging to Lars granddaughter, Megan, a delightful five year old.

Don is Lars' son. He's a freelance artist and preparing for a one man show. He also does book covers for a publisher.

Sabrina Gates is Katherine's new neighbor. She is a writer and a successful one writing romantic suspense.

Brenda is Sabrina's former agent and wants commissions she isn't entitle to since she never sold the books.

Beverly Good - a blogger who writes about authors and manages to subtly put them down. She is after Sabrina to be a guest again.

Brian - Sabrina's former husband.

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Thursday's Opening Sceen from Divided Dreams #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Romance #Author #nurse practitioner

You can’t go home again. Andi Sherman repeated the words she’d said hundreds of times. Yet, here she was on the road to Fern Lake.

Her stomach roiled. As the car sped along the highway leading to the town she’d left eleven years ago, she gripped the steering wheel. She gulped a breath. Yesterday she’d celebrated her twenty-ninth birthday and she still yearned for a faded dream.

She spotted the sign for County Road 178. On an impulse she turned. Fifteen or twenty minutes, instead of ten, would see her in her old home town.

The July sun shone bright in a near cloudless sky. A few wispy clouds called ‘mares’ tails’ streaked the brilliant blue. She rolled down the window and inhaled the scents of summer, dust, wild roses, mown hay and other aromas different from those of the city. The winding road would take her past the house where she’d spent her childhood, a house that no longer existed. The property, lost to greed, slovenliness and criminal activities, had been taken for back taxes. She had escaped long before that day.

Dead. All her family members, except a younger brother, had died when the meth lab burned like an inferno. Dan Sherman, two years her junior, hadn’t been home the day of the disaster. Neither had she, but she’d seen pictures of the fire on television.

Andi sighed. The day she’d graduated from high school she’d left Fern Lake to begin a slow climb to success. She knew nothing about her brother’s whereabouts and she had no desire to learn.

Pressing her foot to the gas she sped past haunted memories and focused on the future. Now a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, she was on her way to join two doctors who had offered her a partnership in their practice.

Her thoughts drifted to her new partners. Josh had settled in Fern Lake five years ago. Grace joined him two years later. Andi had always wondered why they hadn’t become a couple. They liked the same food, movies and books. Maybe she would find a way to open Josh’s eyes to the possibilities.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Murder and Sweet Tea #MFRWHooks #BWLAuthor #cozy mystery #Robespierre #author

Join the authors at #MFRWHooks here http://mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com for some intriguing excerpts. Mine is from Murder and Sweet Tea Katherine's last murder

Lars is her new husband. He loves Katherine but doesn’t understand why she’s always trying to protect her near and dear. Even though she saved his life while visiting him in Santa Fe, he often questions her involvement in other people’ lives.

Into their lives arrives a new neighbor, Sabrina Gates. Sabrina bought the house next door. She has had a phenomenal success as a new author but moes from her past and present threaten her peace and ability to write. There is the blogger who posts snide and not so nice posts about other authors. Sabrina’s former agent wants a share of the huge amount of money Sabrina has received for a trilogy. And there is her ex-husband, a needy greedy coward who wants money.

Above all there is Robespierre who makes his presence known.

EXCERPT:

I had taken a basket from the pantry and placed it on the counter. “Making a welcome basket for our new neighbor.”

“Can I come, too?”

“Yes.” I pulled a frozen loaf of banana bread from the freezer and filled a tin with an assortment of cookies. A half dozen small jars featuring a variety of mint teas finished filling the area. Each of the jars had a ribbon with an attached card telling about the tea.

I joined Megan for lunch. Mine was slices of tomato and the rest of the crab salad. After delivering the basket, Megan and I would drive to a local farm to replenish my stock of fresh vegetables.

The moment we finished lunch, Megan wiped away her chocolate moustache. She ran to the door. “We go now.”

“Not so fast.” I checked to see if she had spilled anything on her clothes. I looked for the cats and found the pair shared Robespierre’s bed.

“Rose Prairie com?”

“Not today. We don’t know our new neighbor. Cats might make her cough and sneeze.”

“Oh.”

I lifted the basket. Megan opened the door and walked beside me to the gate in the privet hedge between the yards. We reached the porch of the Dutch Colonial and I rang the bell.

My new neighbor opened the door. She was beautiful. Instead of blue eyes, hers were green. “Hello. I’m Katherine Claybourne from next door. This is Megan. We would like to welcome you to the neighborhood.”

“Thank you. I’m Sabrina Gates. What a wonderful thing to do. Reminds me of home. Would you like to come in? I’m ready for a break.”

Megan followed us inside. “Grandma Kate make some really good cookies and tea with mint.’

Sabrina clasped the child’s hand. “Would you like some of those really good cookies?”

Megan looked at me and I nodded. “Yes, thank you. I’m four going on five. How old are you? Do you have any children?”

“I don’t but I do like children.”

“My daddy like them, tool”

I hid a grin. Was the child match-making?

Sabrina led us to the kitchen and placed the basket on the table. “Would you like some milk to go with your cookie?’

Megan shook her head. “Tea.”

Sabrina’s Southern accent enchanted me. I’m a sucker for accents.

We entered the kitchen where Sabrina set the basket on a table and unpacked the contents. She read each label on the jars of dried tea. “Let me brew a pot of this one.” She selected the pekoe and wintergreen. “I just made sugar syrup for sweet tea.”

“Sweet tea?” I asked.

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