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Sunday, July 2, 2023

Home Caring - New Release is featured as Sunday's Book #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #medical #romance #doctor #nurse

Abby Reid feels she’s been playing whack-a-problem for months. Her ex is behind on child support payments. Her angry teenage daughter. Her new business, a home care agency. All these areas vie for her attention. She believes she has solved the last major problem with the agency by firing her clinical supervisor, but this adds to her chores. Hoping the new patient, a private pay one will boost her spirits and bring success, she agrees to work the weekend day shift rather than call another agency and find the case being stolen. Will the new patient provide a break in the negative events in her life?

Doctor Jeff Grayson is the in-coming patient. He has been in town and working with his friend for a month. Jeff is a master of many things. At fifteen he started college and has degrees in English, Architecture and Computers. All this before medical school. He and his Harley met with a car and came out the losers. He’s a patient with casts on both legs and one on his left arm. Though his doctor recommends rehab, Jeff has a different idea. He is going home. Abby’s home health care agency is recommended. During their initial meeting, Jeff is snowed by pain medication and he falls in love with her voice. He has no idea of her appearance but he can dream and Abby is the object. When he wakes and meets her, will his dreams change?

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Friday, May 19, 2023

Adriana Kraft is Visiting and Talking about Heroes, Heroines and Villains #MFRWAuthor #Writing #Heroes #Heroines #Vilains

1. Heroes, Heroines, Villains. Which are your favorite to write?

At our house, this is a trick question – my husband and I co-author our books under our pen name, Adriana Kraft. He loves writing about women and often takes the lead, especially in terms of their character, their quirks. I often fill in some of their inner world and thoughts, but for a guy, he’s amazingly good at that, too.

Heroes? I suspect we’ve never written a hero who doesn’t bear at least a smidgen of resemblance to my husband. Hence I’m in love with all of them and find them easy to write and edit. It might go without saying that we don’t write what might be called heavy duty alpha males – our men are all tender and sensitive, but still fully capable of many alpha qualities when the situation calls for it.

Villains – oh, we both have such fun creating villains. I will say it took us a while to create a truly evil one – and especially, to take the step of offing a villain as part of the book finale.

2. Heroes. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or plain imagination create the man you want every reader to love? Do they come before the plot or after you have the idea for the story?

LOL, I gave away part of that answer above! We typically fasten on our heroine first and work from there – who will fit for this woman? What will draw her to him, what will stand in the way? What occupation, what personality. Looks come later, and yes, sometimes photos or famous people. For one of the books I’m featuring tomorrow, a younger Richard Gere (think Pretty Woman) would be the perfect image for the 40-something hero in the May-September romance.

3. Heroines. How do you find them? Do pictures, real life or imagination create the woman you want the reader to root for? Do they appear before the plot or after you have the idea for the story?

Anything can trigger a heroine. We definitely use photos here, and my husband often scours the web and comes up with several options from which we select one, not only for her looks, but for the expression in her pose. Photos help anchor not only our physical descriptions but also our hero’s responses. In tomorrow’s featured books, we once met a female racehorse trainer who is the model for one of the heroines, and a female lawyer we knew served as the basis for another one.

4. Villains or villainesses or an antagonist, since they don’t always have to be the bad guy or girl. They can be a person opposed to the hero’s or heroine’s obtaining their goal. How do you choose one? How do you make them human?

For the most part, it’s only our romantic suspense books that possess an actual villain, always engaged in some kind of criminal activity. Though we both had ample opportunity to work with such persons in our professional careers, we’ve never based a villain on any specific person. But my husband is a trained criminologist, and his expertise on the inner workings of the criminal mind definitely informs our depiction of our villains and what drives them.

5. What is your favorite book?

Two answers. For me, any of the Jane Austen novels, which I (like my college English professor) re-read every so often. Among those, Emma tops my list, chiefly for the scene towards the end in which she finds the courage to make an about face and own her feelings.

For him – he doesn’t have a favorite book and could never count up all the books he’s read and loved. Also, he never goes back and re-reads a book. As a kid, he loved Johnny Tremain and the Zane Grey books. His current favorites are historical fiction grounded in real people and events, especially those focused on Celtic beliefs and practices.

6. Who are your favorite authors?

Far too many to list them all, both within and outside the romance genre. Erotic romance? Authors Lisabet Sarai and Kymmie Carlton, especially. Currently my Rom Com favorite is Emily Henry, for her witty characters and for turning romance tropes on their heads with her plots. Mainstream? Anything Geraldine Brooks writes, and that goes for both me and my husband; also C.W. Gortner and T. J. Klune. Historical romance? Both of us would list Cathie Dunn, Melanie Karsak, Nancy Jardine, Helen Hollick, Annie Whitehead, Gemma Lawrence, and Elizabeth St. John, among others.

7. What is your latest release? Who is the hero, heroine and or the villain?

I’m going to cop to one of the books we’re promoting tomorrow, since it’s on sale now. Detour Ahead, set in the world of thoroughbred racing, features a high powered lawyer grieving the death of her father. Her best friend sends her to a California time share both to rest and to have a new case to solve – someone’s been threatening the racehorses at the time share wrangler’s ranch. A rape victim in her early teens, Tracy has never recovered, never permitted herself intimacy with a man, always kept her deepest feelings hidden. Our hero is based on the wrangler we met on our own trip to a time share in the foothills north of San Diego where we spent two weeks, got inspired for this story, and started writing. The villain? I don’t dare share a spoiler, so I’ll just say he’s in financial trouble and being blackmailed by probably the true villain of the story.

8. What are you working on now?

We have a number of irons in the fire. Several finished manuscripts have been on a back burner for a while, and we’re gradually picking them up and thoroughly editing them for release. At the top of the list is catching up with the married pair who are the stars of Swinging Games, our erotic romance series set in the swing lifestyle. We’re crafting a road trip for them and having a great time picking out favorite spots to send them. Which leads me to say we’ve never set a book in a place we haven’t spent time in personally Well, except for our newest release, set in Roman occupied Wales and then Rome. More on that next month!

9. How can people find you?

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Sunday, May 8, 2022

New Release - Committee of Angels #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #medical #suspense #hospital #doctors #nurses

The article passed around the table on a hot August night. “Five to ten percent of the nation’s doctors are so impaired or incompetent they cannot or should not practice medicine.” The nurses at Bradley Memorial thought they had them all. That night they formed a group they called The Committee of Angels.

Nearly a year has passed and Laura Bancroft wonders why little has been done to change things. She also wonders about some of the nurses fitting the pattern. Laura has three doctors on her list of incompetents. She seldom meets with the other members and several of the others are upset with her. When her ex-husband joins the medical staff, she realizes she still has feelings for him. One of her list of doctors dies after emergency surgery and Laura finds her suspected since she was assigned to the doctor. She must deal with suspicions, her feelings for her ex. Then a second on her list commits suicide and speaks of blackmail.

Can Laura learn the truth of who is responsible before she faces arrest?

Released the end of April

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Saturday, April 30, 2022

Saturday's Blurbs New Release and Two Free Books #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Romantic Suspense #fantasy #medical suspense

Nearly a year has passed and Laura Bancroft wonders why little has been done to change things. She also wonders about some of the nurses fitting the pattern. Laura has three doctors on her list of incompetents. She seldom meets with the other members and several of the others are upset with her. When her ex-husband joins the medical staff, she realizes she still has feelings for him. One of her list of doctors dies after emergency surgery and Laura finds her suspected since she was assigned to the doctor. She must deal with suspicions, her feelings for her ex. Then a second on her list commits suicide and speaks of blackmail.

Can Laura learn the truth of who is responsible before she faces arrest?

Two sets of halfling twins, Ashlea, Brandien, Jaydren and Kylandra sent away from their home by their parents to protect them from trouble, search for mentors to teach them how to use their affinities.

During the escape, they face many problems forcing them to use their affinities by trial and error. They also meet Alizand, the son of the ruling prince of Wesren. Zand has an affinity for Fire and this will keep him from gaining the rule.

Dom Senet, an advisor to his father, and once a friend of the quartet’s parents suspects Zand’s affinity. He wishes to corrupt the teen and use him to gain control of the four princedoms of the land and of the highlands. The evil dom has all four affinities. The four must reach a secret place and find teachers before the evil man discovers them

Jenessa is Aries, a nurse, union advocate and likes a good fight.

Eric is Libra, Director of Nursing, and believes in compromise.

Can these two find a way to uncover the underhanded events at the hospital? They’re on opposite sides but the attraction between them is strong. She’s a widow who fought to save her husband’s life during a code. She feels guilty because the love she and her husband shared had died before his death. He assisted at the code but he feels guilty since he was the one who was responsible for the short staffing the night her husband died.

Now they face falling in love and trying to solve the problems between the nurse’s union and the president of the hospital’s Board who wants a take over of the hospital by his hospital group. Is their connection strong enough to survive?

Saturday, January 1, 2022

New Release - Incal Book 4 of Moon Rising Series #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #Fantasy #Sword and Sorcery

Just released today. Great way to start a new year.

Return to the world where Midra and Midran rule. The god and goddess have two faces. Midra is Mistress of the Moon and also Mistress of the Dark Moon. Midran is Lord of lLght and Lord of shadows.

In Incal, the priests of Midran have formed three branches. The Voice of Midran in Incal rules over the mall. In the archived he has read of a tale predicting Three will come to return Midra to the rulership. He sends his acknowledged son to find the three and bring them to him.

Many years ago triplet girls were born in a remote mountain town. When they were five, their dying mother sent them to be fostered by three different women. Though they had wed to find each other, their developing talents caused them to forget until twenty ears later each one of them felt the need to find her sisters.

Would the Voice of Midran in Incal learn where they were?

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Wednesday Tangled Dreams #MFRWHooks @BWLAuthor #Romance #Lawyer #Child psychology

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BLURB:
Two reasons bring Cancer heroine Janine Rhodes to Fern Lake. The first is the Masters and Doctors program at the nearby university. The second is a letter from a dying woman. Since the courses she takes are weekend ones, she finds a job for the Grantlans a writer and a nurse practitioner caring for their toddler niece they recently adopted. While here, she is able to observe the son she gave up for adoption eight years ago and his attorney father. She is content just to watch until tragedy strikes.

When Virgo Nate Quinn learns about his son’s medical condition, he can barely hold on. Just a year ago, he lost his wife to cancer. His adopted son has become his entire family. When the doctor asks him about the child’s birth parents, he has no idea. He agreed to the adoption but only signed papers and took no other part in the process. Now he needs to locate two people.

Then he learns the identity of his son’s birth mother and knows she has been in the periphery of life. He acts rashly and then must find a way to make amends, especially when he learns more about her.

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EXCERPT:

. Before she had a chance to check the monitor, the loud rapping sounded again. She opened the door.

A tall man she recognized brushed past her. “Mr. Quinn, is something wrong?”

“Where’s Rob?”

“In his office. I’ll let him know you’re here.” Her employer’s attorney’s green eyes flashed. Anger or fear? His hair looked as if someone had run fingers through the thick dark hair.

“Don’t bother.” He strode toward the bedroom wing.

Janine watched him rush away. Was there trouble at the movie studio?

Tammy rubbed her face on Janine’s shoulder. She patted the child’s back. “To bed.” She entered the hall.

She heard Nate shouting. Janine sighed. Though from the first time she’d seen Nate Quinn, she’d felt an attraction but she knew there was no chance for any relationship. He still grieved for his wife who had died a year ago. An impossible dream. There were too many tangled threads to unravel.

Tammy popped her thumb into her mouth. “Bear.” Janine entered the bedroom wing.

Rob’s office door stood open. Nate Quinn’s near shouts flowed into the hall. “What am I going to do? I can’t lose him to that damned disease.”

Though she shouldn’t remain and eavesdrop, Janine froze in place. Curiosity gripped like an iron glove. Did he mean his eight year old son was ill?

Her arms tightened around Tammy. She should leave but she had to know what made him sound angry and defeated.

“He’s been tired lately so two days ago, I took him to see Andi. She ran some tests and called me around noon, wanted Davey admitted to the hospital. She asked Dr. Chou to see him.”

“Did you?” Rob asked.

“Yah. I just left him there and fled in a panic. I can’t endure anything going wrong.”

Janine edged along the all and stared at the open door. Nate Quinn looked ready to collapse or cry.

“Dr. Chou is excellent,” Rob said.

“That’s what Andi said.”

“What’s the diagnosis?”

“Leukemia.”

Those words brought a rush of tears to Janine’s eyes. Tammy wiggled. Before the little girl cried, Janine loosened her hold and stepped into the child’s bedroom. Janine’s knees buckled. She drew deep breaths to calm her raging thoughts. She bit her lip and focused on her charge.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Wednesday Lines of Fire Challenged New Release #MFRWHooks #BWLAuthor #Fantasy #Sword and Sorcery

Lines of Fire Challenged (The Guild House – Defender’s Hall)

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Blurb:
Angry her father, who has ordered her to bond with a man with tainted lines.Lasara plans to escape. Her ability to read the lines of fire makes her a talented duelist. Friends aid her escape. They tell her to seek the Desert Riders and a man called Jens. The meeting is different than she plans. They duel for hours and end in both collapsing. While she recovers she hears about the kidnapping of girls with strong lines of fire, she decides to act to free them. Then she learns about a strange man who has joined her enemy. The Defenders need to know.

Ever since his duel with a Defender Jens wonders if this man could really be his brother. Traveling to the Defender’s Hall doesn’t suit him. He like his life as a Desert Rider. His band of Riders travels to a village on the edge of the desert. A challenge to see who has the trading advantage is called for. The duel ends in a tie. He is on his way back to the desert when a man from a different troop speaks of young girls being kidnapped. Learning and freeing them becomes his goal. Lasara joins him during the quest.
Somehow, they must face the renegades and rescue the young women.

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Excerpt: A bit of the villains

The man Jens believed was their quarry bellowed an order. An older woman scurried toward what Jens believed was the barn. Moments later she dragged a young woman into the opening. The girl twisted and turned trying to escape. Two men grabbed her and half-carried her forward. Jens’ hands clenched as he fought to control the urge to help.

Petan grasped the young woman’s arms. Her scarlet lines faded. When his released his grip she slumped on the ground.

Jens’ stomach lurched. He fought the urge to spew the contents of his gut.

One of the older woman knelt beside the fallen. “She lives.”

“Return her to the barn and feed her,” Petan ordered. “She must be ready to serve me in three days.”

Jens’ eyes widened. Petan’s lines had lost much of their darkness. He edged away and halted covering his mouth to hide a gasp. The air shimmered. A tall, slender man with hip-length pale hair appeared. The men and women near the fires lay face down on the ground. Petan knelt at the stranger’s feet.

“Greetings, Master,” Petan said.

The alien placed his hands on Petan’s shoulders. Petan screamed. Jens’ mouth gaped. Petan’s brightened lines of fire grew darker and thicker. The stranger drew his minion to his feet.” Well done, my faithful slave. Continue to gather fire for me. With enough power others of my kin will join me and reap the harvest.”

Jens shuddered. How could such a man as this stranger be defeated? He felt powerless. Would destroying Petan save the people of the land?

Slowly he crawled to where Lasara waited at the foot of the tree. They made their way back to the steeds, mounted and raced back to camp.

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Friday, May 10, 2019

Friday Frank Talabar is visiting and talking about his latest release #MFRWauthor #BWLPublishing, #Ghosts #Victoria BC

1. Tell me about your latest release? Genre?

The Joining, Book one in the Ainsworth Chronicles. Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Thriller.

Basically you've got ghosts, hunky FBI agents, ancient curses, the mob, and a crazy old psychic lady claiming you've invited her, before young boys begin disappearing and weird things begin happening to the spirits and the druggies trapped in the sewers. Welcome to Victoria, BC and Carol's first day undercover at the Fairmount Empress Hotel in the most haunted city in North America.

PS. They serve great tea and the scones are to die for. Literally.

2. Where did the idea arise?

Well, from my son Rory, actually. He's a chef at the Boom and Batten restaurant in Victoria and was working at Nautical Nellies before that. When I looked into Victoria I found out it was the most haunted city in North America. So it twigged my interest. I found out where he worked had a haunted kitchen. Which he didn't seem to mind, "yes dad, pots sometimes swing on the walls and go sliding across the counter when I'm there alone." I'd have quit in an instant.

But I also found out that there's a time vortex in Victoria, on Shelbourne and Hillside for those interested. Now my muse is talking to me and asking the main question that twigs my writers mind. What If?

I also found a few claims of ghosts in the Fairmont Empress Hotel and chatted with the staff. I'm a big one for asking questions and both staff said they had ghost experiences by people staying there. The strangest one is this: the doorman said one couple told him that they had a ghost in their locked room when they were gone and the wife's clothes had been taken out and ghost clothing put in her suitcase.

I asked, "Ghost clothing?"

"Yes," he said, "really old clothing." True Story.

So, my muse has gone off on a tangent, "what if there's a ghost walking around today?"

3. How much research was involved? Did you stay on point or be distracted by wanting to look at just one more thing?

A lot, the more I researched, the more ghost stories I came across. Yes, it was easy to be distracted, but that usually lead to more questions. Like why is there a Wall of Wonders down in the sewers and claims of Satanic cults?

Usually the research leads me to more and more questions and ideas.

4. How long did you take to write the book?

About eight months. Unfortunately I also manage an automotive shop and work full time, which interferes with how much I can write. So once I begin writing I can really crank out a lot and I usually will write whole plot lines out and then switch to another plot line after that.

5. Now a bit about you. How long have you been writing? What is your Sun Sign?

I'm a Cancer, born on June 21st, the cusp as well. Some refer me to Gemini. What I know is that I find the moon calling me to write as it ascends in the night. I have been writing since high school. Took a creative writing course that really trained me to write subconsciously.

6. Do you write in a number of genres of stick to one?

No, my publisher would like me to stick to one, but I write in several. As I find my muse doesn't like to be confined. I've done, romance, comedy, fantasy, erotica, science fiction and literary to name a few.

7. Where can you be found?

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Also I'm on Linked In and Twitter. Oh, I shouldn't forget GoodReads as well.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Wednesday The Virgo Pisces Connection #MFRWHooks #BWLPublishing #Medical #Romance #Virgo #Pisces

The Virgo Pisces Connection (Opposites in Love Book 6) Kindle Edition

Join the authors here http://mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com in a blog hop for some great excerpts Mine is my new release The Virgo Pisces Connection. The third death in a week sends nurse, Megan into flight and an accident during a snow storm brings Dave, a traveling doctor into her life.

BLURB:
Pisces Megan experiences burnout. Her third witnessed death on the Oncology Unit in a week is too much for her to handle. Going to her apartment and being alone isn't to her taste. Of all the Grantley Gang, she is the only one not married. She tries to resign from the hospital and is persuaded to take a month of her accumulated vacation time first. Avoiding her five friends, Megan rushes from town, not knowing or caring where she is going. Escaping the ghosts of the dead is her primary goal. During a blinding snowstorm, she crashes into the life of Dave Malloy MD.

Dave is a Virgo a traveling doctor going from assignment to assignment over the country. He's decided two things. One is to settle and gather moss. The other is to find his sister lost years ago when they were sent to two different foster homes. He has found her and vows to rescue her from an abusive situation. When Megan lands against a tree at the house where he is staying, he finds her very attractive. But can he act on this attraction when he must care for her after the accident and his decision she is a patient?

Together, they must find his sister and hope they aren't too late.

EXCERPT:

Megan groaned. Her head throbbed and her body ached. Had the immovable object stepped into her path? What had happened? She sought to gather the fragmented memories and failed.

Large hands clasped hers. A deep voice called her miss. Was she? A thought converged. She was the only one not married. The voice called for her to wake up. Why? She feared opening her eyes to find the man wasn’t real.

She freed her hands and ran them along arms that seemed real. So did the shoulders. As she tried to sit up, she pulled him toward her. Her lips touched his. He was real. Was he hers?

His kiss synched with hers. His tongue slid over her opened mouth. Tongues touched, tangled and explored. Her body vibrated with sensations both familiar and new. Had she found her destiny? He pulled back.

Megan found her voice. “Are you my Valentine?”

He eased her back onto soft pillows. “Just your rescuer. I’m sorry the motion sensor light caused you to lose control of the car.”

Megan gingerly touched the sore spot on her head and found a hematoma. “Accident?”

His dark eyes held concern. “You chose a bad day to travel. The snow came fast and heavy. I think you were pulling into the driveway. The light flashed. You lost control and plowed into an oak. I pulled you from the wreck.”

Her mind refused to focus on what he said. She really wanted to know who he was. She stared at her dream come true. Dark hair, dark eyes and muscles. The ache in her head cried for relief. “Concussion?”

“Yes.”

“How long was I out?”

“Twenty minutes.”

“Do you think there’s a skull fracture? Do I need medical help?”

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