Weekend Reads - Author Tina Susedik




It's about the pitch ~
Can they survive storms, heat, buffaloes, bad guys, and find love on the Oregon Trail?








The legend of the soul mate tree:


I am old, I am ancient, my purpose is clear
To give those who are needy a treasure so dear.
They who come to my roots, touch my bark, stroke my leaves
Find the soul of their lives if they but believe.
When I call and you listen, your prize will be great
If your heart remains open and you don’t hesitate.
Do you yearn? Be you lonely? Is your time yet at hand?
Reach for me and I’ll give to you. I’m yours to command.
For your trust, for your faith, keep my secrets untold
And I’ll gift you forever, to have and to hold.


An ancient legend spanning eras, continents, and worlds. To some, it’s nothing more than a dream. To others, a pretty fairy tale handed down through the generations.



For those in critical need of their own happy ending, a gift.


          Jack Billabard, mourning the loss of his wife and baby in childbirth, vows to never to love again. After their funeral at Fort Laramie, he rides into the Wyoming hills beyond the ranch he built for his wife. Through his grieving tears, an ancient tree appears, giving him the hope he doesn't believe is possible. For the next four years, he acts as a guide on the Oregon Trail, taking families to a new life while his looms lonely and stagnant. 
         The night before her abusive husband’s death, an ancient tree appears in Sarah Nickelson's yard as she agonizes over how to survive her marriage. The tree gives her hope she can’t help but reject. After all, a tree doesn't just appear out of nowhere. After her husband 's death, and with no options as a widow in Independence, Missouri, Sarah decides to travel to Oregon City as a Mail Order Bride.
         During their trek west on the Oregon Trail, Jack and Sarah encounter one another, each afraid of being hurt again. Can they survive dogs and puppies, wind and rainstorms, Indians and unfavorable fellow passengers, while their love blossoms? Will the tree fulfill its promise?




About Tina!

Tina Susedik is a multi-published author with books in both fiction and non-fiction, including history, children’s, and military books. Her favorite is writing romance stories where her characters live happily ever after. She lives in Northwestern Wisconsin and is a member of Romance Writers of American, Wisconsin Romance Writers of America, and Published Authors Network.

Connect with Tina!

Twitter: @tinasusedik



 


Weekend Reads - Author Belle Ami

It's all about the pitch ~

A Mossad agent falls for a kidnapped American girl. He’s ordered to blow his cover and escape from Iran with her. If he fails—his orders are to kill her.






Escape received 4 -1/2 stars & a Gold Crown review from InD’Tale Magazine and is up for a RONE Award!


Blurb!
Escape, a sexy romantic thriller with a focus on the dangers of a nuclearized Middle East.
When Harvard student, Layla Rose Wallace and her Saudi boyfriend are kidnapped in Dubai and taken to Iran, a deep-cover Mossad agent is activated and given a mission. He must either get Layla out of Iran, or kill her.
            Cyrus Hassani is an assistant to the deputy director of Oghab2, Iran’s secretive intel organization with authority over their nuclear ambitions; he is a Mossad mole, gorgeous, sexy, and dangerous.
            Fiery, auburn-haired, Layla Wallace is an art history doctoral candidate at Harvard when she and her Saudi boyfriend are kidnapped in Dubai and taken to Tehran. As the daughter of a renowned nuclear physicist, she is a perfect target for blackmail. Layla’s kidnapping is about to create an international incident and blow Cyrus’s carefully constructed cover to smithereens.
            When Cyrus first lays eyes on the feisty redhead he knows he’s in trouble. When they are running for their lives, he’s fighting not only a powerful adversary who’s vowed to destroy him for his treason, but an impossible attraction to a woman he’s struggling to resist.
Their escape from Iran seems impossible as all routes close, with their hunters in hot pursuit.             
Cyrus must overcome not only deadly assassins, but the passions that have lain dormant within his cold heart from years of living under a false identity.
            Can Cyrus and Layla survive and escape from Iran? Can a spy and a student find love? Time is running out.
  

Connect with Belle & Buy Links!
Amazon buy link: http://bookshow.me/TheOne
Twitter:  @BelleAmi5
Website:   http://belleami.us


Meet Belle!
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Tema Merback writing as Belle Ami believes “Dreams do come true”.  As a mother and wife, she dedicated herself to her family and loved every minute of it. One day, like Sleeping Beauty, she
awoke to find gourmet cooking and being a classical pianist wasn’t enough, she needed to reinvent herself. So, she brushed away the cobwebs and locked herself in a room and spent a year writing a historical novel which, low and behold, was a Finalist for a national book award. Her first author incarnation was born.
When she read Fifty Shades of Grey, her world tilted. Like a laser beam focusing on a target, she had found her passion: Sexy, steamy, romantic suspense. Hence came a second incarnation and a fitting nom de plume, Belle Ami. A quote that Belle considers her mantra is by Wilferd Peterson, “Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
She is a Kathryn McBride scholar of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She lives in California with her husband, two children, three dogs, and horse.
She is the author of The Only One series, The One (#1), and The One & More (#2). Her third in the series titled One More Time is Not Enough, was published July 13th, 2016. She was honored to be included in the RWA LARA Christmas Anthology Holiday Ever After featuring her short story The Christmas Encounter. Her next series entitled The Tip of the Spear begins with Escape, published January 10, 2017. The sequel to Escape, entitled Vengeance, is being edited now and will be released in 2017.

Weekend Reads By: Claire Harris

It's All About the Pitch~

 


He was her sworn enemy, but her heart had other plans . . .





About the Book ~

The pagan Vikings pillage the shores of Anglo-Saxon England, striking fear in the hearts of the people. Fighting alongside the men, Finna Vidisdóttir is all too happy to participate in their destruction, until a near-fatal defeat lands her in the hands of the enemy.
Ealdorman Colby de Beaufou is the man responsible for her downfall. Shocked to find a woman on the battlefield, he holds Finna captive while he barters with her people. Though she is a sworn enemy, Colby cannot deny his growing desire for the headstrong prisoner.
Finna intends to hate him, but finds Colby far more honorable and handsome than she ever expected . . .
A deep, heated passion ignites between them, testing the bounds of their loyalty and love. Will Finna surrender her heart or remain true to her blood ties?


About Claire ~

Claire Harris has been an avid reader from a young age. As a child she spent hours lying in the grass, absorbed in the tales and characters of a story. After many years of reading the books penned by others, she finally decided to start writing her own.

When Claire is not writing, she enjoys traveling and teaching. One of her favorite places to visit is the United Kingdom. The landscape and the castles are majestic and each has a rich history that inspires the imagination. Aside from writing, a large portion of her day is spent teaching biology classes at a local college as she holds both a masters and doctorate degree in biological science. She is passionate about education and getting students interested in science. She is a true southern girl, raised in Florida and currently lives in Tallahassee with her family.
 
Connect with Claire~
Amazon Author Page: www.amazon.com/Claire-Harris/e/B01MQW3MUB
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