A Good-Lookin' Man by Marica Lynn McClure ~ Blog Tour & $50 GIVEAWAY

I have a Clean Romance to introduce you to today.  It is by author Marcia Lynn McClure.  She has written this novella of a "love at first sight" type situation.  I have not read this book personally but the tour host has said it is a good clean read.  From the title, I'm suspecting it is good for women readers, lol

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 A Good-Lookin' Man by Marcia Lynn McClure (novella)

However, in an instant—in less than a breath or the bat of an eyelid—the elusive pepper spray hiding somewhere in her purse was all but forgotten. For standing before her—right there before her, not three feet away—was the best-looking, most gorgeous, handsomest man she had ever seen in all her life!


“No, seriously,” she thought out loud with lingering bewilderment at how perfectly stunning the man standing before her was, wearing a worn pair of Levi’s, dusty cowboy boots, and a short-sleeved, plaid-print, snap-up shirt that hung open, revealing a bronzed, perfectly sculpted torso that was simply a mass of muscles. She was so unsettled by the man’s appearance that she wasn’t sure whether she was whispering aloud to herself or her car.


Either way, the man asked,

“Beg your pardon, ma’am?”


“Oh…oh, nothing,” Fairlee said as she began rummaging in her purse again. But the man’s presence and appearance had entirely rattled her. As her awe-inspired brain obviously quit sending out instructions to the rest of her body, Fairlee felt her purse slip from her hands—watched in humiliated dismay as its contents tumbled out and scattered over the shoulder of the road.

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Author Marcia Lynn McClure 

Marcia Lynn McClure’s intoxicating succession of novels, novellas, and e-books, has established her as one of the most favored and engaging authors of true romance. Her unprecedented forte in weaving captivating stories of western, medieval, regency, and contemporary amour void of brusque intimacy has earned her the title “The Queen of Kissing.”


Marcia, who was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has spent her life intrigued with people, history, love, and romance. A wife, mother, grandmother, family historian, poet, and author, Marcia Lynn McClure spins her tales of splendor for the sake of offering respite through the beauty, mirth, and delight of a worthwhile and wonderful story.

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Keeper of Reign Book Excerpt & Giveaway on Mom Loves 2 Read

Welcome to Mom Loves 2 Read - today I have a great book to spotlight for you. - I have not yet read it myself, but it sounds like an interesting fantasy adventure - check it out then feel free to enter the author sponsored giveaway!

Keeper of Reign

 


Books written in blood. Most are lost, their Keepers with them. A curse that befell a people. A Kingdom with no King. Life couldn’t get more harrowing for the Elfies, a blend of Elves and Fairies. Or for sixteen-year-old Jules Blaze. Or could it?
For Jules, the heir of a Keeper, no less, suspects his family hides a forgotten secret. It was bad enough that his people, the Elfies of Reign, triggered a curse which reduced the entire inhabitants to a mere inch centuries ago. All because of one Keeper who failed his purpose. Even the King’s Ancient Books, did not help ward off that anathema.
Now, Gehzurolle, the evil lord, and his armies of Scorpents, seem bent on destroying Jules and his family. Why? Gehzurolle’s agents hunt for Jules as he journeys into enemy land to find the truth. Truth that could save him and his family, and possibly even reverse the age-long curse. Provided Jules doesn't get himself killed first.


 

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Excerpt:

THE WARNING GRANDPA gave had
frightened Jules then, as it did now.

“Jules, the days are coming,”
Grandpa Leroy had said, that bleak day as they sat before the fireplace. “One
day, Gehzurolle will intensify his efforts against us. Beware of that day.”

Picking up his Ancient Book,
Grandpa read, “Suspecting the lives of the now insignificant Fairy Elves will
be restored to the former glories they once enjoyed, the Scorpents and their
leader, Gehzurolle, the Lord of Shadows, will be driven to distraction. After
many failed attempts to annihilate the Race throughout the centuries,
Gehzurolle will scheme to extinguish every inhabitant of the land because
finally a Keeper has invited him into our Kingdom. He will spare no Elfie. Not
even those who work for him.’”

“But which Keeper would do
something like that?”

“One who’s desperate. When you
see the signs, Jules, you must flee. You and everyone in our family.
Immediately!”

“But why, Grandpa?”

“Because it means he’s close to
succeeding. He will seek us Keeper families first because without the Keepers
and our Books our Kingdom cannot survive. I entrust this knowledge to you for
you will take over from your mother as Keeper of the Book, just as she’d taken
over from me.” His grandfather’s gentle blue eyes locked with Jules’s own green
ones.

“But how will I know when this
will happen?”

“The Ancient Book says thieves
will come to steal—so beware. But these are no ordinary burglars, Jules. They
will destroy everything in their path. Whatever happens they mustn’t get our
Book.”

 










Author Emma Right



Emma Right is a happy wife and homeschool mother of five living in the Pacific West Coast of the USA. Besides running a busy home, and looking after their five pets, which includes two cats, two bunnies and a Long-haired dachshund, she also writes stories for her children. She loves the Lord and His Word deeply, and when she doesn't have her nose in a book, she is telling her kids to get theirs in one.


Right worked as a copywriter for two major advertising agencies and won several awards, including the prestigious Clio Award for her ads, before she settled down to have children. 

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Helda out of the Hedgelands Book Tour & $25 Giveaway

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Helga: Out of the Hedgelands



Twelve-year-old Helga has more danger in her life than most beasts her age—Wrackshee slavers after her, a vicious attack by bandits that nearly kills her, a race against dragons pursuing her, and leading a daring rebellion to save her life and rescue friends and family from the insidious WooZan. And that is just the beginning. But what do you expect when you are a young beast who just can’t see the stupid rules of the world making any sense? Helga can’t accept things as they are and ends up taking on not just one, but two all-powerful, supreme tyrants in two different realms. 



Helga never intended to lead a revolution. It just sort of happened because she wouldn’t go along with the “rules of normal” that keep tyrants in power and entire societies enslaved. Beginning on a dangerous quest to solve some mysteries in her own past, Helga leads her quirky comrades on a journey that will not only forever change them, but upset ancient civilizations. 





As an author, I’m drawn to eccentric, unexpected characters: those who surprise because they hear a distant galaxy, see a different music, create their own fragrance rather than get hooked on a soundtrack; the child who has her own ideas about how the emperor is dressed; the lunatics and rebels who tell stories on the boundaries. Helga’s unusual story will take readers to worlds they never imagined—definitely a whole new ride. 



Time and again, the unconventional heroine and her eccentric comrades overcome ominous tyrants and black-hearted slavers, not by battling to the last beast standing, but by being the first beast to think differently. 



Helga: Out of Hedgelands is divided into three books which introduce the epic saga of the Wood Cow clan and their role in overturning centuries of slavery and tyranny. This story will continue in additional volumes of the Wood Cow Chronicles now in development. Over the series of current and future volumes, the entire history of the Wood Cow clan, the fall of Maev Astuté, and the coming of Lord Farseeker to the Outer Rings, will be told.


 





Excerpt:



Suddenly the kayaks slowed, pausing about twenty yards away—close enough that
the Wrackshees’ awful stench covered the area with a suffocating blanket. Using
only hand signals to communicate, the slavers silently peered here and there for
any sign of their prey. The razor-sharp tips of dozens of small throwing lances,
carried on bandoliers slung over the Wrackshees’ shoulders, shone red in the
moonlight. Helbara knew that terrible things happened to beasts hit by those
poisoned tips—going mad with thirst, eyes bugging, bleeding the color of grass.
Each time the gaze of a Wrackshee seemed to fix on the spot where they were
concealed, Helbara trembled on the edge of panicked flight. To do so, however,
would mean certain capture or death. They were trapped. With every ounce of
inner strength, Helbara held her panic in check.

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Author Rick Johnson 

I am a native of the Great Plains, having grown up on a farm in the Platte River Valley of western Nebraska. I love the wild beauty of the Plains and nearby Rocky Mountains--the too hot, too cold, too empty, too full of life extremes. Typically, the awesomely diverse and the awesomely stark are much the same, even as they are different. Although I have lived in Michigan, North Carolina, and British Columbia, the western plains, mountains, and desert are in my heart. 



As my day job, for over thirty years I have been a faculty member and administrator in higher education. Teaching broadly in the liberal arts, including creative writing, my professional publications include educational materials, poems, and 28 stories for young readers. During my spare hours, I have also collected and carefully studied the records of former times upon which the Wood Cow Chronicles are based. It is my privilege to bring this astonishing saga to light. 



The Wood Cow Chronicles have been researched and written with the irreplaceable assistance of Barbara, my beloved wife of more than thirty-five years, and our children. Indeed, the essential research into the history of the Wood Cows has been conducted during the odd hours of family reading and storytelling "around the campfire" as we say--even when there is no campfire! This research continues and grows richer as our family expands across generations and continents.


  

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