ONCE AND FOREVER
ANTHOLOGY
BY
MARY BLAYNEY, ELAINE FOX, EMELLE GAMBLE
LAVINIA KENT AND EVIE OWENS
BLURB:
Once and Forever - An anthology
By Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Emelle Gamble, Lavinia Kent and introducing Evie Owens
From five compelling authors, five original novellas which will make you laugh and cry, and believe in a love that once found will last forever. Meet a duke, a psychic, a bodyguard and a professor…and one "guardian fairy" in absorbing stories ranging from regency and contemporary romance to paranormal and women's fiction.
Playing for Keeps by Mary Blayney
Actress Kendall Marshall is determined to get an autograph for her sick sister from famous TV personality Mike O’Hara, the Oprah Winfrey of sports. In the process she meets his brother, security consultant Steve Marshall, lands a job on O’Hara’s show and gets in the way of a man set on causing big trouble. As the stalkers attacks escalate, Steve and Kendall are thrown together and find it impossible to ignore the chemistry between them.
The Princess & the Pinot by Elaine Fox
When a beautiful woman shows up at the Vineyard Inn, wine manager Kim is certain she’s been sent by fate for the inn’s owner, Cooper. Self-effacing to a fault, Kim knows she can’t hold a candle to Principessa Bella, who also seems to know even more about wine than Kim herself, but her heart has belonged to Cooper since they shared one kiss as teenagers.
While Prin sweeps easily into the job of sommelier at the renowned inn, Kim is afraid Prin will sweep just as surely into Cooper’s arms if she doesn’t do something about it. Can she tell Cooper how she feels without losing even his friendship?
Kim is willing to try except for one problem: she’s almost certainly losing her mind. Or is that belching, swearing, smoking, farting fairy – who claims to be trying to help her – real?
Duets by Emelle Gamble
Duets offers alternating looks into the lives of two women who would seem to have little or nothing in common.
Screen star Molly Harper is on the verge of marrying a man who has swept her off her feet, thought perhaps hasn’t swept all her feelings for her first love away. Anne Sullivan, happily married for twenty-five years, is fighting to hold onto the man she loves, and hold off a confrontation that could shatter her family’s image of what they are.
Duets confronts a past secret that ties these two women’s lives together, just as chance events turn Molly and Anne’s worlds upside down.
Never and Forever by Lavinia Kent
Never and Forever is the beginning of the love story of two people who shouldn’t belong together. Molly, Miss Wilkes, runs an employment agency helping women of quality find positions perfected suited to their characters. Although her father held the title of Earl for just over a week before his death, Molly has never wanted to be a lady. She knows her place in this world – and it is not at the center of society.
The Duke of Radford also knows his place in this world – and it’s above everybody else’s. He cannot imagine a world without all the privilege and power that comes from being Radford. He’s had foreign princesses and heiresses dangled before him for years. Why would he ever have interest in a simple woman who doesn’t even understand that she should want to be a duchess?
Can these two overcome the obstacles of their own beliefs and realize that love can make all things possible?
Never and forever are both a very long time. Where will their love fit?
The Psychic Detective by Evie Owens
Psychic Martin Sterling doesn't trust cops--and the feeling is mutual. Detective Erin Healy needs more than a ghost story to save her job and reputation. Her partner is dead, a million dollars in drugs and money is missing, and all the evidence points to her.
Can a sexy psychic and a by the book cop, trapped between the living and the dead, unearth the truth? Or will a cold-blooded killer get away with it all...
Once and Forever - An anthology
By Mary Blayney, Elaine Fox, Emelle Gamble, Lavinia Kent and introducing Evie Owens
From five compelling authors, five original novellas which will make you laugh and cry, and believe in a love that once found will last forever. Meet a duke, a psychic, a bodyguard and a professor…and one "guardian fairy" in absorbing stories ranging from regency and contemporary romance to paranormal and women's fiction.
Playing for Keeps by Mary Blayney
Actress Kendall Marshall is determined to get an autograph for her sick sister from famous TV personality Mike O’Hara, the Oprah Winfrey of sports. In the process she meets his brother, security consultant Steve Marshall, lands a job on O’Hara’s show and gets in the way of a man set on causing big trouble. As the stalkers attacks escalate, Steve and Kendall are thrown together and find it impossible to ignore the chemistry between them.
The Princess & the Pinot by Elaine Fox
When a beautiful woman shows up at the Vineyard Inn, wine manager Kim is certain she’s been sent by fate for the inn’s owner, Cooper. Self-effacing to a fault, Kim knows she can’t hold a candle to Principessa Bella, who also seems to know even more about wine than Kim herself, but her heart has belonged to Cooper since they shared one kiss as teenagers.
While Prin sweeps easily into the job of sommelier at the renowned inn, Kim is afraid Prin will sweep just as surely into Cooper’s arms if she doesn’t do something about it. Can she tell Cooper how she feels without losing even his friendship?
Kim is willing to try except for one problem: she’s almost certainly losing her mind. Or is that belching, swearing, smoking, farting fairy – who claims to be trying to help her – real?
Duets by Emelle Gamble
Duets offers alternating looks into the lives of two women who would seem to have little or nothing in common.
Screen star Molly Harper is on the verge of marrying a man who has swept her off her feet, thought perhaps hasn’t swept all her feelings for her first love away. Anne Sullivan, happily married for twenty-five years, is fighting to hold onto the man she loves, and hold off a confrontation that could shatter her family’s image of what they are.
Duets confronts a past secret that ties these two women’s lives together, just as chance events turn Molly and Anne’s worlds upside down.
Never and Forever by Lavinia Kent
Never and Forever is the beginning of the love story of two people who shouldn’t belong together. Molly, Miss Wilkes, runs an employment agency helping women of quality find positions perfected suited to their characters. Although her father held the title of Earl for just over a week before his death, Molly has never wanted to be a lady. She knows her place in this world – and it is not at the center of society.
The Duke of Radford also knows his place in this world – and it’s above everybody else’s. He cannot imagine a world without all the privilege and power that comes from being Radford. He’s had foreign princesses and heiresses dangled before him for years. Why would he ever have interest in a simple woman who doesn’t even understand that she should want to be a duchess?
Can these two overcome the obstacles of their own beliefs and realize that love can make all things possible?
Never and forever are both a very long time. Where will their love fit?
The Psychic Detective by Evie Owens
Psychic Martin Sterling doesn't trust cops--and the feeling is mutual. Detective Erin Healy needs more than a ghost story to save her job and reputation. Her partner is dead, a million dollars in drugs and money is missing, and all the evidence points to her.
Can a sexy psychic and a by the book cop, trapped between the living and the dead, unearth the truth? Or will a cold-blooded killer get away with it all...
Excerpt:
(Contemporary Paranormal Romance – Elaine Fox’s The Princess & the Pinot)
(Contemporary Paranormal Romance – Elaine Fox’s The Princess & the Pinot)
“All right,” I said carefully, looking down at this tiny obnoxious man who called himself my fairy. “So what does that get me, three wishes or something?”
I wondered why it had to be me who went crazy. I mean, I already had enough problems.
“Naw, you don’t have to wish, girly.” He scratched his belly with three fingers. “I know exactly what you want. Hell, everybody here knows what you want. But the difference is – I can get it for you. Or maybe I should say, I can get him for you.”
I started shaking my head. “No. I don’t care if you are real and you can work magic. I don’t want him that way. I don’t want something fake.”
“Oh puh-leeze, you’ll take him however you can get him. And what is love but magic anyway? However it comes about?”
His point might have struck me true if he hadn’t just wriggled something out of his ear and stood examining whatever it was on the end of his finger.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Mary Blayney:
NY Times Best
Selling author Mary Blayney’s first two romances were contemporaries published
by Silhouette Books. Since 2000 she has been writing regency set historical
novels and novellas for Kensington, Bantam and Berkley. Returning to the
contemporary market with her novella in ONCE AND FOREVER, Mary hopes to
continue to tell stories set in both the regency and the 21st century.
Married to a
retired Coast Guard officer, Mary has lived all over the US from Alaska to
Puerto Rico, but is now settled near Annapolis, Maryland within sight of the
Chesapeake Bay. Her life close to the Coast Guard and its mission to search and
rescue, has convinced her that life is best lived with joy, love and a generous
heart. Those convictions are what she most wantS to share with her readers.
Family will always play a strong part in her books since she believes that
family relationships are as fundamental as the love between a man and a woman.
ONE MORE
KISS:
“Mary
Blayney’s newest Regency romance is a genuine pleasure to read”(NY Journal of
Books)
“One More
Kiss is a delightful combination of social comedy, slight mystery, and sweet
romance. It’s a thoroughly charming novel, well worth a read.” . . .(NY Journal
of Books)
MIRROR MIRROR
anthology, “If Wishes Were Horses”
Debut at #3
New York Times Mass Market List October 2013
“Blayney's
wish-granting coin entwines a pair of lonely adventure seekers in romance
beyond their lives as a servant and a sergeant in her charming 1816 fantasy, If
Wishes Were Horses. . . .” (Publishers Weekley, October 2013)
Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mary.blayney
Elaine Fox
NY Times Best
Selling author Elaine Fox began her career writing time-travel romances, such
as Rita-finalist Traveler, and Impostor (both now available as e-books on
Amazon and Barnes & Noble), then added historicals to the mix. After six
books with Leisure Books, she moved to Avon to begin writing contemporary romances.
Her first, Maybe Baby, hit the USA Today Bestseller list and eight more novels
and four novellas followed, with several of them also reaching the USA Today
list.
Most recently
she participated in the anthology Mirror, Mirror from Berkley Publishers, which
debuted at #3 on the New York Times Bestseller list.
Elaine lives
just outside of Washington, D.C., with a small Cuban dog and a lovely
Argentinean man. Elaine is trying to learn Spanish.
Review
Quotes:
Praise for
Beauty, Sleeping, in the anthology MIRROR, MIRROR:
“Fox
introduces a charming ghostly television reporter to the woman who buys his
haunted house in Beauty, Sleeping, a clever, turned-on-its-head version of
Sleeping Beauty.” Publishers Weekly
Praise for
HELLO, DOGGY!:
“HELLO,
DOGGY! by Elaine Fox is a laugh-out-loud, character-driven story that will
captivate readers from their first introduction to the lovable pooch and her
dreamy owner.” Fresh Fiction
Praise for
BEWARE OF DOUG:
“A must
read.” Fresh Fiction
Links:
Email:
authorelainefox@aol.com
Website: http://www.elainefox.com
Emelle Gamble
Emelle Gamble
was a writer at an early age, bursting with the requisite childhood stories of
introspection. These evolved into bad teen poetry and worse short stories. She
took her first stab at full length fiction in an adult education writing class
when her kids were in bed. As M.L.
Gamble, she published several romantic suspense novels with Harlequin. She has
contracted with Soul Mate Publishing for Secret Sister, published in the summer
of 2013, and Dating Cary Grant, a Spring 2014 release.
Molly Harper
will be released by Posh Publishing in December, 2013.
Emelle lives
in suburban Washington D.C. with her husband, ‘Phil-the-fist’, her hero of
thirty years, and two orange cats, Lucy
and Bella. These girls, like all good villains, have their reasons for
misbehaving. Her daughter, Olivia, and son, Allen, are happily launched on
their own and contributing great things to society, their mother’s fondest
wish.
Review
Quotes:
Praise for
Secret Sister
“Along with
being a very unique and captivating plot, SECRET SISTER offers a shocking turn
of the paranormal kind. So if you are the type of person that wants ordinary
romance in a book, you won't find that here. This is a story of friendship,
family, and most of all, true love and what those things can mean. I cannot
recommend SECRET SISTER strongly enough… “ Fresh Fiction, Fresh Reviews
"If
you're looking for a typical women's fiction/romance, don't look here... this
story has a twist of the paranormal that will have you willingly stretching
your belief in order to enjoy the plot. Emelle Gamble has created a story that
will tear your heart out." Long and
Short Reviews
Links:
Email:
emellegamble@aol.com
Website: http://www.EmelleGamble.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmelleGamble
Secret
Sister http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Sister-ebook/dp/B00DUL4LQA
Evie Owens
Evie Owens
was born in Japan, but grew up on a dairy farm in Upper Michigan. She's waited
tables and tended bar, which makes her a very good tipper, but writing is her
passion. She's thrilled to be included in this anthology with some of her
favorite authors.
These days,
Evie lives in Maryland while her two fabulous daughters and one glorious
granddaughter live too far away. Leaving her no alternative but to turn to a
life of crazy cat ladyness (except for the "cat" and the
"ladyness" parts).
Review
Quotes:
The Psychic
Detective is Evie’s first published novella.
Links:
Email:
author.evie@gmail.com
Website: http://www.evieowens.com
FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/evie.owens.37?fref=ts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EV_Owens
Goodreads:
Evie Owens
Buy Links:
Lavinia Kent
Lavinia Kent
never knew that most people don’t make up stories in their heads to pass the
time. She still has a hard time understanding how those who don’t survive the
doctor’s waiting room or a grocery store line without another world to escape
into.
Growing up in
New York state and Wisconsin, Lavinia graduated from Wellesley College and, for
reasons that are still not quite clear, also holds an MBA from Washington,
D.C.’s Georgetown University. Lavinia has remained in Washington ever since.
She lives
under the gracious (and usually benign) rule of Erzsebet, the cat, along with
her husband, three children, one cockatiel, two rats, and Erzsebet’s younger,
subordinate tomcat, otherwise known as The Golden Snitch.
As the mother
of three, Lavinia finds “leisure time” to be ever-elusive, but when she is not
reading romance novels, she watches far too much HBO and reality television. It
must also be noted that she has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Buffy
and Doctor Who.
Lavinia was a
two-term president of the Washington Romance Writers and is proud to be a
four-time Romance Writers of America Golden Heart nominee.
She was
excited (and humbled and thrilled and over the moon) about the publication of
her first historical Romance, A Talent for Sin, in June 2009. Her second book,
Bound by Temptation,was released in February 2010. Her third book, Taken by Desire, is available
in December 2010.
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