Saturday's Blurbs featuring Books by Mary Marvella #MFRWauthor #Suspense #Premonitions

https://www.amazon.com/Protective-Instincts-Protection-Romances-MARVELLA-ebook/dp/B00EGE93CC/

They met because he had premonitions - and she was in peril ... but you will never believe why they fell in love.

After mourning the loss of her husband, Brit Roberts manages to pick up her life as a teacher for a rural Georgia High school. Things are fine until anonymous phone calls turn creepy and her life is endangered. It's not until Sam Samuels, shows up to check on her that she finds a little peace, if not a slight attraction to the handsome yet meddling security specialist.

Sam Samuels isn't just the father of one of Ms. Robert's students, he's a man with premonitions so strong, they make him ill. So when he meets his son's teacher and pain kicks in, he knows something's awry but can't put his finger on it until he interrupts an attempt to kill the teacher. Sam makes it his personal goal to protect her, only he didn't count on falling for her.

Someone wants Brit and now Sam dead, too. Could the death of her ex husband be part of the reason? Can Brit and Sam navigate a relationship despite both of their headstrong natures?


https://www.amazon.com/Protecting-Melissa-Protection-Romances-MARVELLA-ebook/dp/B0173R0AQQ/ (Book 2)

Melissa isn't looking for a man in her life. Not after her husband’s murder revealed he was swindling local businesses and sleeping with half the married women in town. At this point, she just wants to forget the past, forget about men for a while, and focus on her work as a high school teacher.

Gabe isn’t looking for anyone either, not since his wife’s death. But as a former member of an elite military organization, he knows four slashed tires mean more than a high school prank, and his protective urge is aroused. He remembers when Melissa was just a kid following him around—but she's no kid any more. He finds himself wanting more from her than he should.

As menace grows around Melissa and Gabe, their relationship deepens despite their efforts to fight it. Gabe can’t just walk away now, because his trained instincts tell him she's in much more danger than she realizes. And he's right: while they've been focused on each other, the killer has formed a plan to force Melissa to reveal the whereabouts of his money—no matter what he has to do to make her talk..


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076FLTTHB/

The Cost of Deception is a romantic suspense. Tess is a widowed mother and a teacher. She has been so wrapped in in her role as a mother that she has forgotten how it feels to be a desirable woman. Attending her 20 year high school class reunion, the first she's ever attended, changes that when she meets Drew. She and Drew were the class loners and too involved in studying to feel the hormones that attack teens.
Drew is now an undercover cop in Atlanta, GA. During his years in the military he had no concerns about marriage and starting his own family. His life put him in danger and he liked things that way. He was no longer the nerd who had attended Georgia Tech. Seeing Tess at the class reunion made him rethink what he really wanted.
She loves her children more than anything else. He doesn't know how to make his career work with the things Tess and her kids make him want. 
Yes, there will be hot sex and danger will stalk her family. 

https://www.amazon.com/Protecting-Melissa-Protection-Romances-MARVELLA-ebook/dp/B0173R0AQQ/

Melissa isn't looking for a man in her life. Not after her husband’s murder revealed he was swindling local businesses and sleeping with half the married women in town. At this point, she just wants to forget the past, forget about men for a while, and focus on her work as a high school teacher. 

Gabe isn’t looking for anyone either, not since his wife’s death. But as a former member of an elite military organization, he knows four slashed tires mean more than a high school prank, and his protective urge is aroused. He remembers when Melissa was just a kid following him around—but she's no kid any more. He finds himself wanting more from her than he should.

As menace grows around Melissa and Gabe, their relationship deepens despite their efforts to fight it. Gabe can’t just walk away now, because his trained instincts tell him she's in much more danger than she realizes. And he's right: while they've been focused on each other, the killer has formed a plan to force Melissa to reveal the whereabouts of his money—no matter what he has to do to make her talk...

https://www.amazon.com/Protective-Instincts-Protection-Romances-MARVELLA-ebook/dp/B00EGE93CC/

Friday's Guest Mary Marvella #MFRWauthor #Interview Genres

.  What's your genre or do you write in more than one?
I write Romantic Suspense and Woman's Fiction/Romance and I have 1 romantic comedy. 

2Did you choose your genre or did it choose you?
They chose me. My characters tell me their stories and I go with them.

3.  Is there any genre you'd like to try?  Or is there one you wouldn't?I am trying a demon series(Not romance) and 1 mainstream novel. I don't want to write Inspirational or Historical fiction

4.  What fiction do you read for pleasure?

Romance and Woman's Fiction or the book I pick up. 

5.  Tell me a bit about yourself and how long you've been writing,I started writing fiction in 1991. Since then I have published 9 novels and 8 anthologies. I taught language arts for 15 years and helped my Ex photograph weddings for 25 years. Now I edit and tutor. I am a Georgia girl and southern through and through. My books tend to have southern flavor.

6.  Which of your characters is your favorite?Probably Edna Mae. She is the 40 year old virgin in The Gift. She has the most to overcome and the most to gain.

7.  Are there villains in your books and how were they created?

Oh, yes! My villains come to me when I start a novel. Each provides the thing my other characters need the least. They not cookie cutter! They could hide in plain sight and usually do.

8.  What are you working on now?
I have a stripper book I am preparing to publish. When a woman learns her husband in involved in illegal activities, she goes back into stripping to get the goods on him. 

9.  What's your latest release and how did the idea arrive?
The Cost of Deception. (Book 3 in the Protection Series)The hero is the brother of one of my other characters. He wanted a book and after years I paired him with a former classmate. They attend their 20 year class reunion. 

Saturday's Blurbs - Featuring Books by Mary Marvella

Day 2

List 3 of your books and the blurbs and buy marks

Protective Instincts,
http://www.amazon.com/Protective-Instincts-Protection-Romances-MARVELLA-ebook/dp/B00EGE93CC/

They met because he had premonitions - and she was in peril ... but you will never believe why they fell in love.  Paranormal romance at its best!

After mourning the loss of her husband, Brit Roberts manages to pick up her life as a teacher for a rural Georgia High school. Things are fine until anonymous phone calls turn creepy and her life is endangered. It's not until Sam Samuels, shows up to check on her that she finds a little peace and an attraction to the handsome yet meddling security specialist.

Sam Samuels isn't just the father of one of Ms. Robert's students, he's a man with premonitions so strong, they make him ill. So when he meets his son's teacher and pain kicks in, he knows something's awry but can't put his finger on it until he interrupts an attempt to kill the teacher. Sam makes it his personal goal to protect her, only he didn't count on falling for her.

Someone wants Brit, and now Sam, dead too. Could the death of her ex husband be part of the reason? Can Brit and Sam navigate a relationship despite both of their headstrong natures?

Blurb for  Protecting Melissa

http://www.amazon.com/Protecting-Melissa-Protection-Romances-MARVELLA-ebook/dp/B0173R0AQQ/

Melissa sees herself as a woman well-rid of a jerk, rather than as a widow. Since she learned the distressing news that her philandering husband swindled her neighbors and friends before an irate husband killed him in bed with his wife, she figures nothing can shock her. Right! She wants a quiet world, a safe world where she can teach and never think about the problems her husband caused.

Gabe has a lot to make up for, since he left his son and wife stateside while he served as a career Marine. In his defense, she had insisted she wanted to stay near her parents instead of traveling all over the world.  Time and distance worked their magic, and he and his wife drifted apart, just as he and his son did. The years he nursed her and tried to be a better father weren't enough to make up for not being there for her when she learned she had cancer.

Of all the things Melissa would have expected, seeing her old crush standing in her classroom door hadn't made the list. Having him hang around and flirt outrageously would have been wonderful when she trailed around him and her brother.  Now it didn't make her happy. 

Gabe's need to protect his best friend's baby  sister kicks in when they leave a high school basketball game to find someone has slashed the tires on her vintage Mustang.  Emails sending photos of her nude or looking way too sexy scare her so much he knows he can't leave her until he finds who is responsible and who wants to harm her.  

Cheerleader Dad

www.amazon.com/Cheerleader-Dad-Mary-Marvella-ebook/dp/B013OND3I0/

A sweet contemporary romance reminiscent of the Parent Trap movies. Single parents raising eleven year old daughters must try to resist the ploys their children use to push them together as well as the growing attraction that sparks between

them.

 

You will laugh a lot and maybe cry a little!

Saturday's Excerpt from Instincts by Mary Marvella #MFRWauthor

Sam Samuels rubbed his stiff neck. He’d removed his tie and unbuttoned the top button on his dress shirt. He’d left his sports coat in his truck, but he still felt over-dressed. By now he should have shed his business attire for worn jeans and a tee shirt.

He’d put in a long day. His notebook page was full of ways the school security system needed to be improved. It had taken years to get the board to agree to look at a plan and proposal for his company to do the job. Small town-folks in Georgia weren’t into change, but recent violence in so many schools, even small-town ones, pointed to the need for caution everywhere.

Sam had waited until after his regular calls to begin this part of his plan. His son was a student here and he’d make it a safe place for Sean, even if he had to cut his price to the bone, past cost. This wouldn’t be the first time he’d cut his price to put a good security system where it was needed. The one at his parents’ church and the community center had been donations, pure and simple. Nothing was more important than taking care of family.

Sam’s mobile phone startled him.

“Samuels, here.”

“Samuels, here, too, Dad. Coach said to remind you I need my physical exam papers and your permission slip by next Wednesday or I can’t start Spring practice.”

“Well, Samuels, your doctor’s appointment is Friday at four and I’ve already signed the permission slip.”

“Oh, yeah. Got a library stop after supper with Bill and his parents, then some of the guys wanted to ...”

“Don’t be late.”

“But I don’t have school tomorrow.”

“Not one minute after eleven, you know the rules.”

Sam grinned as he broke the connection. Sean always made curfew at the last minute. One mess-up, one speeding ticket, or even one bad grade and he’d lose the Corvette his mother bought him. He’d lose the car and football. For a traffic offense he’d surrender his driver’s license, his mother’s rule. Shared custody had worked well, especially with her traveling on business a lot since the divorce.

He rubbed his five o’clock stubble, then started on his second page of meticulous notes. His cramped handwriting made his eyes hurt. He shouldn’t have left his reading glasses in the truck.

Clicking heels on wood distracted him. The wearer sounded small but business-like, in a hurry. He glanced in the direction of the feminine sound. The lady wore navy hose and a navy skirt. He smiled and nodded at Ms. Roberts as she passed him on her way to the parking lot. “Good evening,” he said to her back as she barely slowed her exit, leaving a light floral scent to wrap around him.

Her impersonal nod toward him could have been meant for anyone.  “And a good evening to you, too,” he

muttered to the closing door. Typical for her. She wasn’t the friendliest woman he’d ever met. Most women at least gave him a smile when he spoke to them. Suddenly his gut cramped. He glanced around the deserted hall. Familiar pressure built in his head. A premonition attack was coming on. Why now? Why when his son’s teacher had passed by? He didn’t need an attack now. He hurried to the school parking lot to catch up with the cause of his discomfort. He’d finish his figures later.

Friday's How She Does It featuring Mary Marvella

I usually start with a character. What if a man or woman heard or saw...?
I try to find the thing that character least needs or wants and slam that character into that difficult situation.

I might envision a situation and ask myself who would hate that situation the most. Guess who gets to work around that situation?

In Haunting Refrain William, a psychologist, doesn't believe in love or magic or ghosts. So I make him realize he loves his next door neighbor as more than a friend and she thinks she has ghosts in her attic and that he was her husband in another life. AND, to be mean, I give him memories of his life as her husband and on battlefields during the War of Northern Agression. (The US Civil war! )

 In Protective Instincts I have a widow who is beginning to get back into like as she deals with her grief. What if someone is threatening her? What of someone wants to kill her? What if a man insists he needs to protect her?

Characters dive my plots, since I toss them into difficult situations. If a character is not ready for love, I make that person fall in love. I don't plot, but I know where each story begins and where I want it to end. Getting to the end is an adventure for me and for my characters. I write about the South and characters who believe the way I do, so I know what drives them.
Behavior which is normal and acceptable for a retired Marine would shock most other folks. So what if that Marine had to behave in a manner totally not his style? We love the "fish out of water" stories.