tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31353687463763291052024-03-05T15:51:33.983-08:00Once Upon A WordAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16703677258513182786noreply@blogger.comBlogger236125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3135368746376329105.post-34633660411967717472020-08-24T17:01:00.002-07:002020-08-24T17:02:50.804-07:00KMN Books: New Release: Young Witchcraft 2020 @StephBurkhart ...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3ogWyBoKIY734qCVaRsg7ddP99QrmmY0lf9njKNpn7CXC21E5lSkj6SuSA6xRgf3WYP9hUKi-n4yuLy4fGf5-PECUHScsP0LjdrCGOS0qKleI_ZHYTyS_pF7epyFvBzpxXhuCIvTTA/s2048/Stephanie+Burkhart_Young+Witchcraft_artist-Katrina+Gillian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3ogWyBoKIY734qCVaRsg7ddP99QrmmY0lf9njKNpn7CXC21E5lSkj6SuSA6xRgf3WYP9hUKi-n4yuLy4fGf5-PECUHScsP0LjdrCGOS0qKleI_ZHYTyS_pF7epyFvBzpxXhuCIvTTA/s640/Stephanie+Burkhart_Young+Witchcraft_artist-Katrina+Gillian.jpg" /></a></div>Stop by KMN Books Blogspot and say hello to Stephanie Burkhart! <p></p><p>Grab your free recipe, too! It sounds delicious!<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #444950;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Angela:</span></b> I have to say I don’t have an all time favorite. It’s usually whatever I’m watching at the time, but I love the TV show of “The Magnificent Seven”, “Cheyenne”, “Whispering Smith”- with Audie Murphy, and “Tombstone Territory”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444950;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Angela:</span></b></span><span style="color: #444950;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;"></span></b></span><span style="color: #444950;"> If I was forced to chose, I would probably go with Joel McCrea. While he was brilliant in ‘Ride the High Country’ with another outstanding Western actor, Randolph Scott, my favorite of his films is ‘Four Faces West’.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444950; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Angela:</b></span> You can find me on the website <a href="http://angelaraines.net/">angelaraines.net</a> when construction on the site is finished. You can also contact me at angelarainesauthor at gmail dot com. My books are listed on my Amazon and Goodreads pages, along with additional information. <a href="https://amzn.to/2JydNf5" target="_blank">Amazon</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-field-code: "HYPERLINK \\h";"><span style="color: #444950; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span><span style="color: #444950; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">/ <a href="https://bit.ly/2PRvtUA" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></span><span style="color: #444950; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444950;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Karen: Thank you so much for sharing today. Readers enjoy a excerpt of Duty below. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grabbing hold of his fast rising temper, Dan looked the old man in the eye. One thing he disliked was people who judged others as less than themselves. Usually,</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="color: black;">they believed they owned the world, that everyone had to march to their orders. At the same time, Dan gave the old man the benefit of the doubt. He might just be obeying the orders of someone else. Dan could wait and see.</span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></h4>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Karen: <span style="color: black;">The readers are curious to know what you are working on now?</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"><b><span style="color: #0c343d;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;">Arlene Culiner:</span></b><span style="color: #34383f;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span></span><span style="color: #34383f; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">I’m continuing to write about Blake’s Folly, and at the moment I’m working on a story that takes place in the late 1940s. The heroine is Polina, a Russian woman, a war refugee who has ended up as a hat-check girl in Reno. The man who falls in love with her, Cal Hardy, owns one of the last saloons in Blake’s Folly. In 1944, Cal was in Europe as part of the</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and because of this experience, he can well imagine what Polina went through before coming to America.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #34383f; font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><b>J. Arlene Culiner: </b><span style="color: #0c343d;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">I thrive on ghost towns and I’ve seen many. One I often visited was an abandoned Hungarian manor lost in weedy fields. It was surrounded by the very many empty buildings where once overseers, servants, farm workers, serfs all formed a whole village. Now nothing was left but gaping windows and destroyed walls. Most of the destruction took place under the communists, just after WWI, and again after WWII.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">Other ghostly places were long abandoned Turkish caravanserai, once important stops for merchants of the silk trade; and the destroyed towns in the West Sahara, abandoned by the </span><span class="js-about-item-abstr"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Saharawi</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"> inhabitants during the Moroccan war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;">I had no idea what I would find when I went back out there in 2001 — the last time I had seen it was in around 1960. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The red brick farmhouse at the entry was now derelict; the gravel lane leading into the colony was overgrown; vandals had burnt down some of the cottages, destroyed the interiors of the others, and decorated all with bullet holes and obscenities.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Garamond;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sadly, the colony was destroyed two years ago. A developer bought the land, ripped out all the trees, flattened the hills, smashed down the cottages, dug up the lanes, and built ticky-tacky rows of identical houses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Karen:</b></span> How heartbreaking that the place is gone, but it is wonderful you have photos of this place in history. Thank you, J. Arlene Culiner, for sharing with us today. </span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds.feedburner.com/PbrjvWtb</div>Karen Michelle Nutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04083893569523248900noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3135368746376329105.post-68850303558205621022019-07-24T00:00:00.000-07:002019-07-24T14:08:20.549-07:00Let's Get to Know Kaye Spencer #hotwesternnights @kayespencer @PrairieRosePub @KMNbooks<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Let's go behind the scenes and find out more about Kaye Spencer and what she's working on after writing Give My Love To Rose.<i><br /></i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Karen: </span></b>What hidden talent do you possess outside of writing…something you do for fun, but are good at?<br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75;">Karen: </span></b>A hero for feral cats. I love it. I call that a hidden special talent. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Kaye: </span></b>I’m nearly finished with a historical romantic suspense novel that begins with the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre—February 14, 1929. The title is ‘Chicago Lightning’.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Kaye: </span></b>I’ve been to several ghost towns. I must have chosen ho-hum ghost towns to visit, because reading the history of the town was the most interesting part. However, my favorite place to visit, which I don’t get to do as often as I’d like because of the distance, is the open-air museum in Fairplay, Colorado. This museum is a ghost town visitor’s dream come true.</div>
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This museum in Fairplay is called ‘South Park City’. It was started in 1959 as a way to preserve the memories of the boom towns and camps of the gold rush years in the South Park valley (8900 square miles). Gold was discovered in South Park in 1859. When the rush was over, the people moved on and all that remained were remnants of what had been.</div>
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South Park City is a collection of buildings and artifacts from those early mining towns. Other than the seven buildings that stand where they were built on the street of the museum, all of the other buildings were brought in from the ghost towns and abandoned camps in the valley and restored to their original form.</div>
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There are exhibits and buildings with the historic contents displayed inside: doctor’s office, stage stop, livery, blacksmith, a homestead, depot with narrow gauge train, court house, cabin, brewery, laundry, newspaper office, bank, saloon, residential home, morgue and carpenter building, transportation shed, a trapper’s cabin, general store, ranger station, barber shop, assay office, and a school house.</div>
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<span style="color: #272625;">Native Coloradoan Kaye Spencer lives in a small, rural town located in the heart of the infamous Dust Bowl area of the 1930s. While drawn to cowboys and the Old West, all genres and time periods are within her st<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>ory-creating realm. Reading Louis L’Amour’s westerns, listening to Marty Robbins’ gunfighter ballads, watching the classic television westerns, and growing up on a cattle ranch all inspired her love of the American Old West—truths and myths alike. Kaye retired from a career in education, which allows her the time to write full-time and as well as spend time with her grandchildren. </span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds.feedburner.com/PbrjvWtb</div>Karen Michelle Nutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04083893569523248900noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3135368746376329105.post-81007544269138108322019-07-23T00:00:00.000-07:002019-07-23T13:24:37.697-07:00Julie Lence's Favorite Western Revealed #hotwesternnights @JulieLence @PrairieRosePub<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #0b5394;">Julie:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I working on the Landry, the 2<sup>nd</sup> book in my Jackson Creek series. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">Karen: Have your ever been to a ghost town? If you haven't, which one would you like to visit?</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ryan thundered down the stairs and onto the boardwalk, urgency to find his wife propelling him to run. He dodged men and women, rounded a corner and dashed up the next street, skidded to a halt at the ticket counter. “H-h-has my wife b-b-been here?” he panted to the bespectacled man on the other side of the glass.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Blonde, wearing a blue dress.” Crying. Because of me.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Obliged.” Ryan took off for the cars headed to Coyote. Rushing past the caboose, he slowed his steps and searched the windows for Amy’s blonde hair. Didn’t see her and shoved off to the next car.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“No, sir. She went to St. Louis.”</span></span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjTHBe5uae35AO2yFKMkAZDuMQbY-MY-xcNRfDeUHhiy7jXdq3eM5LQwYDMr5y4_Et74ZueBUrqfDwcIGW17Q5jo6yWF6pSbp_fqBBGVUf2KNbj-cBt9jqrDZ8PxKtAKQ9ADuzj9rtFg/s1600/from+phil-2_Julie+Lence.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="332" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjTHBe5uae35AO2yFKMkAZDuMQbY-MY-xcNRfDeUHhiy7jXdq3eM5LQwYDMr5y4_Et74ZueBUrqfDwcIGW17Q5jo6yWF6pSbp_fqBBGVUf2KNbj-cBt9jqrDZ8PxKtAKQ9ADuzj9rtFg/s320/from+phil-2_Julie+Lence.jpg" width="281" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Julie was born and raised in upstate New York. She married her high school sweetheart and accompanied him on his twenty-year career with the United States Air Force. Presently, she resides in the Pikes Peak region, where she’s a stay-at-home mom enjoying a career writing western historical romance. </span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Elizabeth:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I would say gardening. I’m not a great gardener like my mom was, but I love flowers and love to see the bees and butterflies flitting from blossom to blossom and the birds fly to the fountain for a sip or a dip.</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Elizabeth: </span>Thank you for asking. I’m doing the final proofread of the third book of my trilogy, Beneath A Desperado Moon. All three books are set in the area of the Cypress Hills, but this one moves south into northern Montana to an outlaw hideout in the Porcupine Hills.</h4>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Karen:</span> That would be really interesting. Maybe one day you'll tell us all about it. Now, let's find out where the readers can find you on the internet.</h4>
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<br /> <span style="color: #0b5394;">Elizabeth:</span> I am on Facebook and have author pages on Amazon and Goodreads where my books have been reviewed. I’d love for you to visit my website that my son designed for me. All the beautiful photographs (with the exception of the covers) were taken by Nick Clements when we took a day trip to the Cypress Hills and Fort Walsh. Only a fraction of the 600-plus photos are featured on my <a href="http://www.elizabethclements.com/">website.</a></h4>
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There’s a guy from church... His name is Bryce. He’s a lawyer, a good guy. He helps run Doud’s, the family orchard about five miles the opposite way from where we live. What a cool place it is, with jams and jellies and…have you ever had an apple cider slushie? Heaven!</div>
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My husband sits on a stool when he plays in public places. I love his hands…his fingers on the strings…the emotion that fills his music and my heart. I can see him in a coffee shop. Oh, a coffee shop…in the round barn…at the orchard…what if…</div>
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Home. I use Cole Porter song titles in this series. In the annual Cole Porter festival, someone always sing “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To.” I named the work-in-progress <i>So Nice to Come Home To.</i> Most of it stuck.</div>
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Two Worlds Collided (Rock Star Romance)</h2>
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<b>Print: </b>$10.98<b> </b> <b>Ebook:</b> $2.99<br />
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<b>About Two Worlds Collided: </b>
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Evie Reid on a whim agrees to travel back in time to 1997 to change
bad boy Bellamy Lovel's path of destruction. She's smart with a college
degree, but she is still fan-girl crazy for the rock band, Civilized
Heathens. Evie knows despite all Bellamy's smiles and enthusiasm on the
stage, he's destined to end it all on one lonely night in a hotel room
unless she can change his path.<br />
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Bellamy isn't keen on having Evie as his personal assistant, hired by
his band mates to watch over him, and keep him on schedule. However,
there is something about the woman that sparks his interest, despite his
best to ignore her. When darkness threatens to consume him, he realizes
she may be the only light that will chase the shadows away.<br />
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Ebook: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M5ENGMO/">Amazon </a>/<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01M5ENGMO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477142002&sr=8-1&keywords=two+worlds+collided"> Amazon UK </a>/ <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/two-worlds-collided/id1168839051">iTunes</a> / <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/674647">Smashwords</a> /<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/two-worlds-collided-karen-michelle-nutt/1124998621">Nook</a> /<a href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/two-worlds-collided"><b> Kobo</b></a><br />
<b>In Print: </b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1539707121/">Amazon /</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Worlds-Collided-Karen-Michelle-Nutt/dp/1539707121/">Amazon UK</a> / <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1124998621">Barnes and Noble</a> /<a href="https://www.createspace.com/6667590">Createspace</a> / <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Two-Worlds-Collided-Karen-Michelle-Nutt/9781539707127">Book Depository</a><br />
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<b>End of the Road (Rock Star Romance)<br />
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Lars Gunner, the frontman for Silent
Plaids, died 23 years ago and his death was ruled an unfortunate
accident. Despite the fact he can't recall what happened to him in his
last moments of life, he is convinced he was murdered. He has been
trapped in limbo until his daughter, Cecilia, unearths his journal and
is able to see him. She seeks help from Kaleb, a psychic, but as they
resurrect the past, the secrets and lies surrounding Lars' rock and roll
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style";">Karen Michelle Nutt resides in
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It’s never been a secret that I had a bout with clinical
depression quite a while ago. It was one of those textbook case things where my
doctor and I talked, he gave me a prescription (and monitored my use of it and
its success), and all went well. Although there’s a little spot inside of me
that is reserved for terror that it will come back, the truth is that life went
on. I’ve been blessed. Oh, boy howdy, have I been blessed. Because it’s not
that way for everyone.</div>
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I didn’t mean, when I started to write <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Happiness Pact,</i> for Libby’s story to be about anxiety. Or
clinical depression. If I were assigning a trope to the book, I would have said
it was an ugly duckling. Libby, after all, has freckles and a few extra pounds
and a messy brown braid and is a poster child for average. Ordinary. She is the
one who says, “Do you know I’ve stopped wearing brown because I’m afraid I’ll
stand up against a tree trunk and disappear because that’s how monochromatic I
am? Do you know what people say when they look at our high school yearbook?
They say, ‘Who’s the girl standing between Tucker and Arlie? She looks familiar,
but I can’t place her.’ That’s why I’m good at hospitality—because I am so much
a brown part of the background.”</div>
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I was good with that. Good with Libby the way she was. But
the plain, the ordinary, the average, the brown—they were all on the surface. Libby
is everybody’s best friend. She wrote the book on nice. She’s not
beautiful—she’s so average she never wears brown because she’s afraid she’ll
get lost in the background. Among friends of many talents, she probably doesn’t
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What she has is a secret. Even from Tucker Llewellyn, her
best friend since they shared the hospital nursery the night they were born
(and from me, I might add.) No one knows that clinical depression and anxiety
disorder are the monsters under her bed.</div>
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The story of Libby and Tucker’s journey was fun to
write—Tucker is the most lovable of klutzes. It was also excruciatingly
difficult. I’m so grateful to Jim Cangany for helping me through the murky
waters of Libby’s painful illness.</div>
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Tucker Llewellyn and Libby Worth—strictly platonic!—realize
they’re each at a crossroads. Tucker is successful, but he wants a wife and
kids: the whole package. Libby knows that small-town life has her set in her
ways; the tearoom owner needs to get out more.</div>
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So they form a pact: Libby will play matchmaker and Tucker
will lead her on the adventure she desperately needs. But the electricity Libby
feels when they shake on it should be a warning sign. Soon the matchmaking
mishaps pile up, and a personal crisis tests Libby’s limits. Will Tucker be
there for her as a best friend…or something more?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Liz Flaherty thinks one
of the things that keeps you young when you quite obviously aren’t anymore is
the constant chances you have to reinvent yourself. Her latest professional
incarnation is as a Harlequin Heartwarming author and she is enjoying every
minute! <span style="color: #222222;">She’d love to hear from you at </span></span><a href="mailto:lizkflaherty@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">lizkflaherty@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> or please come and see her at </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/lizkflaherty"><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial";">http://www.facebook.com/lizkflaherty</span></a></div>
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