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― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don QuixoteSummShinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04036490670152724032noreply@blogger.comBlogger478125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7664399339333827419.post-23536892987613493852020-12-18T17:45:00.001+00:002020-12-18T17:45:10.781+00:00Winter Countdown Blitz Day 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_b2xo25QG3F6DXNPrvRQPMn2dy-THcXwIhV8b0U6BVje-Np9WSjyhjM2PE5gR3lAmXCShv2KoNa-RTAznZ0evx_HixJRxJMCHy7R-PAJ3bDryhT9PD0UGnPs-Zbn9TGosLN0qvebdQc/s475/CCB+banner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_b2xo25QG3F6DXNPrvRQPMn2dy-THcXwIhV8b0U6BVje-Np9WSjyhjM2PE5gR3lAmXCShv2KoNa-RTAznZ0evx_HixJRxJMCHy7R-PAJ3bDryhT9PD0UGnPs-Zbn9TGosLN0qvebdQc/s16000/CCB+banner.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_6tp2R6f4o4GS7VVW3fQP050nhiKRKAJ_xPTrS9jIGepa-9bppPGlPQGUGIuw7_xbDaERWIVSoEMqecj8QhaRGzfok5lookBeUbz2fMSZquTDT8fTiHeu5kV7kGeYOCd0_dfJCUYH08/s320/Day+10+CCB+Author.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn_6tp2R6f4o4GS7VVW3fQP050nhiKRKAJ_xPTrS9jIGepa-9bppPGlPQGUGIuw7_xbDaERWIVSoEMqecj8QhaRGzfok5lookBeUbz2fMSZquTDT8fTiHeu5kV7kGeYOCd0_dfJCUYH08/s0/Day+10+CCB+Author.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">When she was in Paris, Kimberley Montpetit spent all of her souvenir money at the La Patisserie shops with their gorgeous and delicious pastries. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">She grew up in the fabulous city of San Francisco, hides a stash of anything chocolate and caramel when she can get away with it, and now lives in a small town along the banks of the Rio Grande with her engineer husband and three sons. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 83.3000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18.0000pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 83.3pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b>What is your favorite Wintertime Activity?</b></span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Staying warm and reading! Baking lots of cookies plus lemon tarts from an old-fashioned recipe of my grandmother who emigrated from England. Holiday shopping, singing, and decorating with my kiddos. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 83.3pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b>How many unpublished / half-finished books do you have in progress?</b></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Hmm. I tend to finish books I begin (which is fortunate!), but I have lots of ideas and some outlines of book ideas and plots. I wrote a LOT of books which I call my “practice novels” that have never been published. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">What was the most surprising thing you learned when creating your book (in research or in yourself?)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">I’ve learned over the years how much I adore research and learning new things and new cultures and new places around the world, including intriguing people and historical events with mysteries. I like to read books about my subject, online articles and watch documentaries. For this new Christmas book it was all about the world of Faberge! The artistry and unique designs and craftsmanship are truly stunning. The man was a genius and craftsman bar none. Pair that with the end of the Victorian Era through WWI and the Russian Royal family and there are lots of stories to tell! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Tell us about the greatest Christmas gift you ever received. </b></span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">My first two sons were born in the f</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -18pt;">all and they were infants during their first Christmas and that was always so special thinking about Christ as a newborn baby and holding them and trying to imagine what it was like when Mary only had Joseph to help her during the difficult circumstances she was in for delivering her first child. I admire her so much for her faith and pure love. </span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Last year I had another great Christmas gift–my own life. I *died* 5 times (5 Code Blues with the defibrillator and went without oxygen for 10 minutes) and was in a coma for a week, but so many miracles happened to preserve my life that it still feels surreal to me that I’m still here. My gratitude is immense for wonderful doctors and the miracle that happened that terrible night, including God’s daily blessing of </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">life </span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">and my family! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-left: 47.25pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 14pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b>What inspired you to write this novel?</b></span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 14pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">I’m part of a writer’s group that helps one another and cheers each other on and last year we decided we’d all do a Fake Fiancé Christmas book in a series. I was excited to do one since I hadn’t ever written a fake fiancé romance before and had always wanted to try. We had our beautiful and snazzy covers designed for the series and then my very sudden health issue happened that landed me in the hospital for weeks and in recovery for months afterward which means my Christmas book never got finished or published. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">I actually forgot about the book during my rehab and recovery (no writing happened for about 8 months). When I finally began writing again, I finished another book for a series that just needed the final book – </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08FYZ2N9L/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i11"><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Mostly Perilous, The Women of Ambrose Estate.</span></u></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> It was finished in August and it’s one of my all-time favorites. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">A month later, I thought, “Hey, I have a cover for a Christmas romance that I forgot about – I need to write that!” And Her Secret Agent turned out SO much fun to write! I hope everyone has a great time reading it! </span></p>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">A graduate of Southern Utah University, Karlie received a B.A. in Creative Writing, with a minor in art. She is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, The International English Honor Society, SCBWI, as well as ANWA, the American Night Writers Association.</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Karlie is interested in all things magical and mysterious, especially elves and dragons. She is an avid fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">When not writing, Karlie can often be found drawing, baking, watching her favorite old school shows, or just spending time with her family.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">She currently resides in Dallas, Texas with her husband and a cat named Kally. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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But, now that I live in the south, it's just walking in the snow, if we ever have any, then drinking hot cocoa with my hubby.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 47.3000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">How many unpublished / half-finished books do you have in progress?</span><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="background: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Oh gosh. Um... more than I can remember off hand. I do have two childrens' books waiting for me to illustrate them, a few short stories, an adult novel, a drawer full of various partial drafts of who knows how many stories, and a few new projects on the back burner.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 47.3000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What was the most surprising thing you learned when creating your book (in research or in yourself?)</span><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="background: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I think the most surprising thing was how much I relate to the main character, especially at that time in my life when I wrote it. Like her, I've grown a lot over the years.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 47.3000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">4. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Tell us about the greatest Christmas gift you ever received.</span><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="background: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I honestly couldn't tell you what kind of gifts I've received over the years because it's not the gifts that stand out to me, but I can tell you the most memorable Christmas was when Santa visited my childhood home. We didn't expect him and he just came out of nowhere, though I seem to remember seeing what might have been a limo parked down the street. He came in, looking as legit as can be, gave us pre-filled stockings, visited for a bit, and then left. 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(Such as a cut scene or an idea that just wouldn't fit?)</span><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="background: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I actually didn't edit anything out. It's rather the reverse. I actually added a lot to it. 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Then coming home to hot chocolate and a good book. I love winter and Christmas!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: -21.2500pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">How many unpublishes / half-finished books do you have in progress?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 42.0000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; text-indent: -21.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I have an unfinished work in progress. A time travel/murder mystery Regency romance, if such a mash-up is possible! 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Oh, you said ACTIVITY. I like to drive in the mountains and take pictures of snowy scenes for my blogs, memes, and book cover backgrounds. (See my book cover, bottom photo taken in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">2.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">How many unpublished / half-finished books do you have in progress? </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">I have several chapters I originally wrote for my first book I self-published under my real name (Robyn Echols). They go with my time-travel Aurora Rescue series. After I developed the scene and characters, I decided they better fit the modern character I planned for a later book, one which I have not yet written. Will I ever get the later book written and use those chapters? I hope so.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">3.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What was the most surprising thing you learned when creating your book (in research or in yourself?) </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">This story has been rumbling around in my head for over a year. I knew just what I wanted to write. I intended it to be a short book—almost a post-epilogue. I thought I could sit down and get it written within a week or so. That did not happen.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">4.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Tell us about the greatest Christmas gift you ever received. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">My current husband and I were married six days before Christmas because I wanted him living in my home on Christmas that year. It’s been a great thirty-one years.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">5.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What did you edit out of your book? 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllajQ79tviRM3Opdz6zUAI3mRyMf1S0RNMd0yqXchrBDhKDqCZqRG3nMhsCoVycaEuK90ZJ4kdL3f0FIPW-Tn5LgVq3850K-PI10JxKmqwRTnZvrAqwjHWiwqqIL03vrGiy5iFAIceck/s320/Author.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhllajQ79tviRM3Opdz6zUAI3mRyMf1S0RNMd0yqXchrBDhKDqCZqRG3nMhsCoVycaEuK90ZJ4kdL3f0FIPW-Tn5LgVq3850K-PI10JxKmqwRTnZvrAqwjHWiwqqIL03vrGiy5iFAIceck/s0/Author.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;"> Rachel Rossano is a happily married mother of three children. She spends her days teaching, mothering, and keeping the chaos at bay. After the little ones are in bed, she immerses herself in the fantasy worlds of her books. Tales of romance, adventure, and virtue set in a medieval fantasy world are her preference, but she also writes speculative fantasy and a bit of science fiction.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div>
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It is very impractical sounding now.)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="15" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt;">9) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Bluebeard (Yeah, this is a strange one, but somehow it always fascinated me.)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="15" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt;">10) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Thisbe and Pyramus (There is something appealing about falling in love with a person’s soul instead of their exterior. 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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: start;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What is your favorite Wintertime Activity?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I love listening to Christmas music and buying presents for my loved ones! Especially my babies. All five of them. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">How many unpublished / half-finished books do you have in progress?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I have about thirty books sitting on my desktop either finished, roughly finished, or begging to be finished. They are in about thirty different genres, too! </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What was the most surprising thing you learned when creating your book (in research or in yourself?)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent);"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">When I wrote Rebekah's Quilt, I actually learned that a branch of my family tree sprouted from Lancaster County, PA. In learning this, I completed my book, then learned the true origins of my family in Amish Country . . . </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Tell us about the greatest Christmas gift you ever received.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Each year being blessed to celebrate another Christmas is gift enough! Material things fade, lose their luster, etc. However being able to celebrate Jesus's birth each year with my loved ones . . . that is a gift to top all gifts. Last year, I was able to afford a Sonic ice maker for my husband -- that was my favorite gift to have ever given. He was so surprised! </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What did you edit out of your book? (Such as a cut scene or an idea that just wouldn't fit?)</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I did not edit out any major scenes. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd;"><span style="background: transparent; color: #500050; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What inspired you to write this novel?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">This novel was inspired by my ancestry. 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What is your favorite Wintertime Activity?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Drinking a hot chocolate while reading a good book. Though, to be honest, those two don't usually go together anymore. I do most of my reading anymore by audiobook. I'm a huge fan. That's why all my books are available as </span></i><a href="#search/donnakweaver%40gmail.com/_blank"><i><u><span class="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">audiobooks</span></u></i></a><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2. How many unpublishes / half-finished books do you have in progress?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I tend to be a finisher. In the Keirsey Personality Sorter (that one with classifications like ESFJ), I'm an "SJ." We tend to start a project and finish it before starting another. I'm getting better though and can frequently work on more than one project at a time. But leaving one hanging is like having a pebble in my shoe. The only undone project that's hung around for any length of time has been my fantasy duology, now in the hands of my editor. That took so long because it's the hardest thing I've ever done.</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">3. What was the most surprising thing you learned when creating your book (in research or in yourself?)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The male love interest is a widower who lost his wife in an avalanche. As part of his grieving, he's been working on a design for a wider-ranging transceiver. While I don't go into a great deal of detail about it, I still needed to understand how avalanche transceivers and beacons work. I watched a lot of videos. It can be scary stuff.</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">4. Tell us about the greatest Christmas gift you ever received.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I actually have two, though one of them wasn't a gift to me but to my grandmother. Like Merry in the book, my mother's birthday was on Christmas Day. The other gift was my second son who was born enough before Christmas that I was feeling good enough to enjoy the holiday holding a sweet new baby.</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">5. </span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What did you edit out of your book? (Such as a cut scene or an idea that just wouldn't fit?)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The only real change was to the epilogue. For spoiler reasons, I can go into details. :)</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">6. </span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What inspired you to write this novel?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-left: 0.0000pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: 0.0000pt;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Last year I noticed some Christmas books that were written as part of a multi-author project. I thought it'd be fun to have a group of us write in the same fictional town. I mentioned it to some friends--and Huckleberry Falls, Wyoming was born. This year our stories are inspired by Christmas songs. Next year might be different. </span></i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">We've already fallen in love with the town and the people. S</span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ince they're "Huckleberry Falls Holiday Romances," they won't all be set during Christmas.</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Now, my favorite thing is to cozy up by the fire with a good book and a cup of tea. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 47.3000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 47.3pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--></b><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><b>How many unpublishes / half-finished books do you have in progress?</b> I have one I'm working on right now. Once I start I book, I have to finish it! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 47.3000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 47.3pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--></b><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><b>What was the most surprising thing you learned when creating your book (in research or in yourself?)</b> For </span><i><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Roping Christmas</span></i><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, the heroine has to complete a bunch of challenges to earn the business of a billionaire tycoon. The hero helps her with the tasks. One of the challenges was to make her own pair of boots. It was fascinating to research what goes into making a pair of boots and the time involved to create them.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 47.3000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 47.3pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">4. </span><!--[endif]--></b><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><b>Tell us about the greatest Christmas gift you ever received.</b> That one is easy - my husband! We met on a blind date the day after Christmas and we married a year later, a week before Christmas. He is by far the best gift I've ever received. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 47.3000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 47.3pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">5. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">What did you edit out of your book? (Such as a cut scene or an idea that just wouldn't fit?) </span><i><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Roping Christmas </span></i><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">features many laugh-out-loud scenes. I could have added a dozen more because I was just having so much fun with the story. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 47.3000pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 47.3pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">6. </span><!--[endif]--></b><span style="background: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><b>What inspired you to write this novel? </b>Every holiday season I run a campaign called Read a Book, Help A Cowboy. 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<h2><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Hadrian</span></i></h2><p class="15" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Hadrian!”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">My mulling of Zez’s latest letter dissipated in an instant. I turned toward the voice and discovered not just one, but four men studying me expectantly from the far sides of the map-strewn table. The light of the single lantern burned steadily on the hand-drawn spires of the goddess’ city. The meager light didn’t make it to the outer reaches of the tent walls around us.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I am sorry. I must have—”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Fallen asleep?” Clovis supplied. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Dozed off?” Plantonio offered.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“—missed the question.” I finished my statement while facing the two military men before me. “I have not been sleeping at night.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“That is evident, Hadrian.” Cayphis sighed softly and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “However, I would appreciate it if you would focus long enough to answer the question.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Will you lead the western assault?</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” Renato calmly sent me the question.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Yes.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” I scanned the map spread across the table between the five of us.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“That is your answer?” Cayphis asked.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Yes,” I met his gaze. “I will lead the western assault while you and Clovis attempt to take the gates. Plantonio will spearhead the eastern front and Selwyn’s men will cover any escape attempts to the south. We have Ilar and Sabine surrounded.” </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It had taken three months of hard chase, driving the joint forces of Ilar and Sabine before us and fighting off ambushes and sabotage, to get to this point. Standing beneath the wall of the goddess’ city, it was hard to know if we were winning or losing the war. We still struggled with insurrection in the ranks and supplying our ragtag army, but at least the end was in sight. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Odds?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” Renato asked.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Even,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” Clovis replied.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I studied their faces each in turn. Brotherly similarities were obvious despite their differences in physical size. Clovis loomed over Renato’s slighter frame, but they both met my scrutiny with a steady gaze that reminded me so of Zezilia.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Shaking my head to dispel the vision of her gray eyes, I turned to my friend instead. “So we are well matched?”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Almost one-to-one.” Clovis growled slightly in frustration. “Every one of those roaming bandit gangs we were chasing are accounted for. Father called everyone here for a final stand.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I don’t like it,” Cayphis muttered. “Something isn’t right. This isn’t normal behavior for Sabine, or Ilar either. They like stacked decks; no offense Clovis or Renato.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“None taken. We know how our father works.” Clovis stared at the map. “Is there anyone else we could call on for help and skew the numbers our way?” </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 21.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Talent and non-talent alike had taken sides. Families split. Brother would eye brother across the battle lines in the morn. My stomach twisted at the thought. My family was one of the few who stood together on one side.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 21.25pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What is your favorite Wintertime Activity?</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 42pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: times;">a) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: times; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">My favorite Wintertime activity is playing in the snow. We don't have much snowfall in Scottsdale, Arizona, but I can drive just two hours north and see plenty!!</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 21.25pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">How many unpublished / half-finished books do you have in progress?</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 42pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: times;">a) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: times; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">There are 7 unpublished/half-written novels stored on my computer. Someday, maybe, they'll see the light of day!</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 21.25pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What was the most surprising thing you learned when creating your book (in research or in yourself?)</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 42pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: times;">a) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: times; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Christmas at Thorncliff Towers is mainly about the Roma people...Gypsies. During my research of their culture, I learned a great deal about their fascinating superstitions and strong family bonds.</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 21.25pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">4. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Tell us about the greatest Christmas gift you ever received.</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 42pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: times;">a) </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: times; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The greatest Christmas gifts I ever received were actually 2 gifts: my daughters. My eldest was born 4 days after Christmas and my youngest 1 day after.</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-left: 21.25pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">5. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What did you edit out of your book? 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<br /><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><i>1.What is your favorite Wintertime Activity?</i></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Driving around to see Christmas lights because, as a child, my dad drove my brother and I to see the lights. It brings back good memories. I also love opening the windows at night and wearing my warm pajamas. Other than that, I enjoy family get-togethers and peppermint ice cream</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><i>2.How many unpublished / half-finished books do you have in progress?</i></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">I have at least 6 partly written books. One of those 6 is actually planned as a trilogy. I have one fully written one that’s time has passed and I have no plans to publish. Some of the others and even some that are merely an idea, I hope to publish.</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><i>3.What was the most surprising thing you learned when creating your book (in research or in yourself?)</i></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">I learned about Las Posadas from a friend, and after researching it, I loved the idea and celebration. I feel that it is a perfect Christmas touch to Millie’s Christmas Spirit.</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">Also, the first thing I did in the planning stage was to research Arizona outlaws. It was a perfect coincidence to discover Bronco Bill and his connection to Solomon.</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><i>4.Tell us about the greatest Christmas gift you ever received.</i></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">To me, the greatest gifts at Christmastime are the feelings of love and family. Gifts purchased with money are incidental. I hope that one thing readers get from reading Millie’s Christmas Spirit is that their greatest gift and the miracle they desired, was the gift of each other. Love and family are the greatest gifts we can receive.</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><i>5.What did you edit out of your book? (Such as a cut scene or an idea that just wouldn't fit?) </i></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">I had Len Begay take Millie to his home to feed his “hens.” Being from the small town of Solomon, she knew they were roosters. It was another clue to the reader that Len was up to something. In the end, the more important scene was letting Len meet the ghost.</span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><i>6.What inspired you to write this novel?</i></span></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 28.8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;">I watched the made for TV movie, The Spirit of Christmas, and knew I just had to write my own Christmas ghost story. I adore that movie, and if you get a chance, you should watch it.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhBZU3zH5kMlaCn9sGtyV_4bgzese9Qg_gF9GlJ2XRRRzokIdP9VEsLyFpbenZbeWovX7NIelsbCC6dmVZyrVm2Ilq0SEcd5R3-pqbRnsSSi4Dypcm28EhWV4hQebWQdVe4U5xhCcYvGc/s537/Author.PNG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="304" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhBZU3zH5kMlaCn9sGtyV_4bgzese9Qg_gF9GlJ2XRRRzokIdP9VEsLyFpbenZbeWovX7NIelsbCC6dmVZyrVm2Ilq0SEcd5R3-pqbRnsSSi4Dypcm28EhWV4hQebWQdVe4U5xhCcYvGc/s320/Author.PNG" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Leah Moyes is from Arizona but experienced many parts of the world in thanks to a career in the airlines. Now most of her time, aside from writing, is spent with her family, reading Historical Fiction novels or studying ancient cultures as a student of Archaeology.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">She always believed she was born in the wrong time period, but since she doesn’t have access to a time machine she must write and read intriguing stories of the past.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17px;"> </span></p>
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<br /><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Second Survivor is told in the perspective of 4 different people- Isabel, Miguel, Thomas, and Francisco. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><b>(Francisco)</b></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I must be off. I have several families to visit.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Well, I’m sure you have time to say hi to Maria before you go.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Maria . . . that’s right. With all the work at the ranch, I had nearly forgotten her plight.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“She would be delighted to see you.” Anita winked and pointed inside.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Senyora Contreras . . . ” I gave her a stern brow.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“What?” She threw her hands up, feigning innocence. “Just come say hello,” she huffed.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“She doesn’t know me, Anita, and don’t be conjuring up any tricks.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Yet, she somehow remembers you.” Anita’s mouth twisted up in satisfaction as she led me through the front door.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Of course, I will say hi. It would be rude of me not to.” I entered the kitchen. A young woman sat near the stove with her back toward me. It was nice to see she was no longer bound to her bed. She must be recovering well.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Hello, Maria.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">She swung around and faced me, although her tiny nose pulled into a wrinkle. “Ugghh.” She groaned loudly, her fingers fighting the long-pointed tips of knitting needles. Yarn lay tangled in her lap while strings wound all through her fingers. The ball rolled off her knees and thumped to the floor. I chuckled, but when she glanced up, my mouth fell open.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Her eyebrows bent in anger. “Are you laughing at me?” Her tone came sharp, but I barely heard her. My mind whirled at the transformation before me. Images of the swollen, bruised, and broken woman I’d seen a month ago vanished into something else. I couldn’t form words. The large cut on her forehead was now a faint, jagged line, pink tinged her cheeks, and her blond waves flowed easily and cleanly down her back. She wore a simple oversized dress that most likely had been Anita’s at one time, and a torn shawl around her shoulders, but she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen.</span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“No,” I choked apologetically, “I’m not laughing . . . I know nothing of knitting.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Her face softened. “I have no idea why I even try it myself. I’m awful.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 120%; margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0000pt; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 120%; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“At least you are trying. I couldn’t even get that far.” I kneeled and picked up the wayward ball. 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<div style="text-align: left;"><h2><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Zezilia</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></h2><h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; text-indent: 21.6pt;">I resumed my work, half fearing I had done something wrong. However, by the time my shift was finished, I had convinced myself otherwise. No one had told me not to speak with patients.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When I presented myself before Madame Arnata’s desk, I held myself tall, ready to present an account of myself.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sit, Defender Ilar.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” She waved to a seat off to the side.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Once I was seated, she pinned me with an evaluating look.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“When I told Master Silas that I had pressed you into service in the wards, he informed me that it would be a waste of your skills.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I am not above menial tasks.” I felt good, unlike what I had been feeling of late. My teaching sessions with Ariana were long and dreary exercises in frustration for both of us. Lotus hadn’t returned. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Madame Arnata continued. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“We have some difficult cases of mind-trauma. Puzzles that require someone skilled in mind-work to unravel.” She sighed and folded her hands before her. “All of our mind-trained healers have been called out to support the troops at the front. Don’t tell anyone this, but the Elitists are still out there, or at least their techniques are still being used. Between the sato cases and the strippings, we are struggling to keep up with the needs. Some of our best healers have returned babbling incomprehensibly or dead. The saboteurs and assassins are working their way through our ranks.” She shivered.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“That man in the small room?” I asked.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“He was one of our best healers.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“And the name he called?”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">She grew pale. “His daughter. They lost her to the Elitists. She is still missing.” She took a deep breath. “He had finally decided that she must be dead right before he left for the front. Now he spends his days calling her name.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“How can I help?”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Madame Arnata visibly gathered herself before answering. “Comfort them. See if you can help them. Communicate with them if you can.” She frowned. “To be honest, I am not completely sure how you can help them, not being defender-trained as you are, but I would like you to try.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I am not trained in mind-healing.” I could trigger a sato, which would cause a patient to harm others or himself. Or worse, I could harm someone without intending to.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Madame nodded. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I know. But you have an advantage above us all. You have training. You can speak to them with your mind. None of us can do that and none of the Talents remaining in the compound are willing to risk touching thoughts with one who has been in contact with an Elitist.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 21.6000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Unease stirred in my gut. “I need to speak to Master Silas.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p></h2></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;">This book was a fun and sweet read. It brought back memories of my own children trying to cook eggs by themselves and two dozen eggs ended up cracked open all over the kitchen floor. My past experience made this book very realistic and luckily humorous. But it does not encourage the behaviour, so you don't need to worry about your children trying to replicate the story. I no longer have small children to share this book with but I personally loved the story and the pictures were fun, bold and cute. </div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">I would definitely recommend this book as a great story for children and adults alike (and I know how important it is to enjoy a book you are reading to your child).</span></div>
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It seldom snows in the Gila Valley although December’s lows can get below freezing.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">2. Bronco Bill was an actual bank robber.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">3. It is said that Bronco Bill stashed his last haul from Wells Fargo somewhere around Solomon, Arizona</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">4. Bronco Bill went to jail for his crimes. When he got out, he became a law-abiding citizen.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">5. Although it’s against the law, people still participate in cockfighting in Arizona.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">6. I was inspired to write this book because of the TV movie, The Spirit of Christmas. After watching it, I really wanted to write my own Christmas ghost story.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">7. The author’s family once got a ticket between towns for driving five miles over the speed limit.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">8. There were several homes in the Gila Valley that, as a child, the author thought were actually haunted.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">9. The cowboy poets are popular in the Gila Valley and throughout rural Arizona.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 21.2500pt; margin-right: 0.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 21.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">10. In the 2010 census, Solomon, Arizona had a population of 426.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-para-margin-left: 0.0000gd; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Twenty-one-year-old Neka is a bit of an introvert, she also happens to be stunningly beautiful. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">When she discovers her friend James is about to be dumped, she sees the perfect opportunity to escape from her quiet life. Can she summon the courage to leave it all behind?</span><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVf4zwkAWh3YOwRyn8UadFsgww0WUs-1TBts41KRxYToik8qnnvhHRrCKpiskV_UMaMx-x1ieLgdvjn_W8sMGWfYZlp5_vETQreYj75AS66gUsLWacTpNqnKecB-7W2pY2q-hw_SZwndA/s500/A+Gateway+to+Hope.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="331" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVf4zwkAWh3YOwRyn8UadFsgww0WUs-1TBts41KRxYToik8qnnvhHRrCKpiskV_UMaMx-x1ieLgdvjn_W8sMGWfYZlp5_vETQreYj75AS66gUsLWacTpNqnKecB-7W2pY2q-hw_SZwndA/w265-h400/A+Gateway+to+Hope.jpg" width="265" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">James Copley comes from a ruthless family. It’s rubbed off. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Years ago, he disengaged from his brother’s smear campaign, but now his father has offered him an ultimatum, “Get married or lose your seat at the table.” </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Plotting to stamp his design on the family business, he proposes to a woman, even though he doesn’t love her. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">But his carefully laid plans start to unravel when she leaves him on the day she’s due to meet his family. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Could years of planning his comeback vanish with her departure?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A possible solution comes in an unexpected form: Neka. She’s not only a friend, but the daughter of his benefactor. And she’s right there, offering to support him. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">But will her support stretch to marriage?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He attempts to win her over to his plan but collides with her powerful father who wants to leverage the situation for his own gain. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">In their fight for survival and love, they are forced to face some uncomfortable truths. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Can they overcome thwarted dreams and missed chances to find true love, or does forcing destiny’s hand only lead to misery?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17px;"> </span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Is there hope for this love between friends?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">Pamela Hayes is a smart, successful business owner with a supportive family and a thriving bakery. She should be the happiest girl in the world. But she can’t shake the melancholy that accompanies every conversation she has with her best friend, Mark. Pamela doesn’t know how much longer she can hide her true feelings.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Why can’t Mark see how perfect they would be together? She would make a much better girlfriend than the one he currently has. Pamela prays he’ll come to his senses soon and realize he’s with the wrong girl. But when her dream comes true, it isn’t the fantasy she had envisioned.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">There is trouble in paradise from the start, and all the red flags she’s been ignoring are starting to threaten her confidence…and her relationship with Mark. She’ll have to rely on family and her faith in God to help her secure the hope she so desperately needs.</span></p>
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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;">1. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;">Remember when you see a man at the top of the mountain, he didn’t fall there.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The heart that loves is always young.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Even the greatest was a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">4. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">No matter the physical characteristics of any person, true beauty shines when actions show compassion, love, and spirit.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">5. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">You don’t marry someone you can live with – you marry someone you cannot live without.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">6. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">7. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One of the best feelings in the world is knowing that your presence and absence both mean something to someone.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">8. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Love doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to be true.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">9. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Love is not about how much you say “I love you” but how much you prove that it’s true.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.25pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -21.25pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">10. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Note to self: every time you were convinced you couldn’t go on, you did.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9_GDDxhGCg84AqPsRBHLWKWypp4m28cHB1xgvMB0XBVRMzp_PD2iLn5oigHDbcE71FFXQouhm7-lHEO7B6G5kbpVdQdHHkrWhRUvA4Jhyphenhyphen7g9DnG_gJXvhjOxH2ksqGkRlJ9D_Yg79OA/s1600/Author.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="660" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig9_GDDxhGCg84AqPsRBHLWKWypp4m28cHB1xgvMB0XBVRMzp_PD2iLn5oigHDbcE71FFXQouhm7-lHEO7B6G5kbpVdQdHHkrWhRUvA4Jhyphenhyphen7g9DnG_gJXvhjOxH2ksqGkRlJ9D_Yg79OA/s320/Author.jpg" width="220" /></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Clarissa Kae is a preeminent voice whose professional career began as a freelance editor in 2007. She's the former president of her local California Writers Club after spending several years as the Critique Director.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Donna Hatch is the author of the best-selling “Rogue Hearts
Series,” and a winner of writing awards such as The Golden Quill and the
International Digital Award. A hopeless romantic and adventurer at heart, she
discovered her writing passion at the tender age of 8 and has been listening to
those voices ever since. She has become a sought-after workshop presenter, and
also juggles freelance editing, multiple volunteer positions, and most of all,
her six children (seven, counting her husband). A native of Arizona who
recently transplanted to the Pacific Northwest, she and her husband of over
twenty years are living proof that there really is a happily ever after.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The last thing Hannah Palmer wants to
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gentleman, matching him wit for wit. When the glorious evening culminates in a
kiss, and the two remove their masks, Hannah is horrified to discover the man
she’s been flirting with all night is her most despised neighbor, the Duke of
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The duke passed a brief glance over Hannah. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Cole made a loose gesture. “You remember my wife’s sister, Hannah Palmer, of course.”</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The duke blinked. “Yes, of course. Good afternoon.” He might as well have said, “No, I’m sure we’ve never met”; it would have been truthful.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In a single graceful motion, he swept off his hat, revealing midnight hair and that distinctive patch of blond on the left side that apparently marked members of his family for generations. He appeared to be proud of the unusual birthmark judging by the way he parted his hair in the middle of it. Briefly, he dipped his chin in a ducal version of a bow when greeting someone of low consequence. </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Seething at his arrogance, Hannah sank into a very proper curtsy. In an act of uncommon boldness, fueled by ire, she offered a mischievous smile. “Delighted to see you again, Your Grace. I’m happy you’ve recovered from the strawberry incident.” There. She’d made her point without revealing any hint of annoyance that he’d failed to remember her, and she’d even spoken without stammering.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">His gray-green eyes opened wider, and his head jerked back ever so slightly in carefully controlled surprise. Was that a touch of blush on his finely chiseled cheekbones? Surely not. The Paragon would do anything so boyish as blush.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Strawberries. Yes. I’m careful not to give them the upper hand.” His smooth baritone voice contained exactly the right amount of humor and arrogant </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;">savoir faire</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">She might have been charmed by the almost chagrined smile now curving his beautifully formed lips if she weren’t chewing on his admission that he refused to allow anyone, or anything, to best him. Not to mention that he still gave no hint of remembering her despite them meeting four times—yes, she counted. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Saucily she tossed her head. “I wish you success in your endeavors to submit all strawberries to your whim.” </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The duke’s gaze flicked over her face, still showing no sign of recognition, but every sign of unconcern, although he did seem to study her more closely. “Yes, well, a pleasure to see you . . . again.” He turned away from her dismissively.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 36.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hannah marched to the parlor. 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Azrael must choose his side and prove his loyalty once and for all.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style="border: 5px ridge; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 620.341px;"><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.lovingthebook.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="81" data-original-width="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDv8m26j7XNmKS8aB_tV84yICocBI43KDliRltzFGT0PwOY-cxysi75a1iqO1dF7rDdRGf8p5ngFxf9kjcm2GiOzZ3hhoB7LXJLSSckD4B9FjQdRkhnNzfIJ_J8s_WM7k-OVQmRkhGlG0/s200/but+now+trial.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: start;"><div style="font-size: 17px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://geni.us/N4GLMIU" style="font-size: 25px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">~ Book 4 on Amazon ~ </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: 25px;"><b style="text-align: center;"></b></span></span></div></b></div></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBu8YnPB8ecszXGekLYyajiHIrDqxkj8iInWmwV7fjdiCkKmMXKnGKSSKElxCDvqnIxoXt5UKvGhbvE5ojtR4Y1vTqeyhoKoUhDGvnWuG7JAkh-8Mne-AxCdic77_WXgY0QDD7XhriFAM/s2048/Day+8+ACB+Cover+2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1470" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBu8YnPB8ecszXGekLYyajiHIrDqxkj8iInWmwV7fjdiCkKmMXKnGKSSKElxCDvqnIxoXt5UKvGhbvE5ojtR4Y1vTqeyhoKoUhDGvnWuG7JAkh-8Mne-AxCdic77_WXgY0QDD7XhriFAM/s320/Day+8+ACB+Cover+2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Auriella and Azrael are about to face their greatest battle as all the Watchers of the Earth gather to the Eastern Sanctuary to face Erebus and his army. In her first mass warfare, Auriella leads her Watcher kin against invading hordes, human trafficking pirates, Shadow Queens, Shadow Lords and their wolves, and even Erebus himself. Between war plans and raids, Auriella balances wedding plans and brides maids. With old friends and new friends, and each Watcher with their own mystical gifts and unique personalities, Auriella prepares intricate battles against supernatural foes. Auriella and Azrael will soon learn that their forbidden marriage will risk more than just the safety of Starfire.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p></div></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border: 5px ridge; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 5px; width: 620.341px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.lovingthebook.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="81" data-original-width="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDv8m26j7XNmKS8aB_tV84yICocBI43KDliRltzFGT0PwOY-cxysi75a1iqO1dF7rDdRGf8p5ngFxf9kjcm2GiOzZ3hhoB7LXJLSSckD4B9FjQdRkhnNzfIJ_J8s_WM7k-OVQmRkhGlG0/s200/but+now+trial.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: start;"><div style="font-size: 17px; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://geni.us/BnXq " style="font-size: 25px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">~ Book 5 on Amazon ~ </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: 25px;"><b style="text-align: center;"></b></span></span></div></b></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtJeARKivXGw_y-japiH1bQ8XUA6gqEeFDkdkLZfogxkbAYgkiea4EXiRsE6q0STrzEjiPKPS289VfEttmyWwY21T3IoyPekWn5LG0v0ENAfK-qU7DhKbE8A6Hi_B7r96imOhD-B3BAY0/s346/Day+8+ACB+Cover+3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="255" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtJeARKivXGw_y-japiH1bQ8XUA6gqEeFDkdkLZfogxkbAYgkiea4EXiRsE6q0STrzEjiPKPS289VfEttmyWwY21T3IoyPekWn5LG0v0ENAfK-qU7DhKbE8A6Hi_B7r96imOhD-B3BAY0/s320/Day+8+ACB+Cover+3.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Auriella and Azrael must travel across Asia and Europe to reach the Inner Sanctuary, the only place they will be safe from the legions who hunt them. Auriella keeps a journal and records stories from the lives of the Watchers who are charged with guarding her to safe passage. Traveling to the legendary land of Ophir, they retrieve the golden wedge of Ophir which is a key to open the portal of the Inner Sanctuary.Betrayed by a Watcher who was sent to protect her, Auriella is captured and comes face to face with the Shadow Queen Hazella. After being tortured by the Legion, Auriella must choose her own death. Unbeknownst to King Erebus, the Shadow Queen, Hazella, offers Auriella a quick, but painful death which will ultimately keep Starfire out of the hands of the Legion.With time running out, Auriella realizes she must be her own hero, and without her powers, find hidden strength from within to save more than just herself.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;"> </span></p></span></div></span></div><div>
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