KIMMIE'S FAVORITES HOLIDAY BLOG BASH WITH BJ DANIELS

WOW! WE HAVE MADE IT TO CHRISTMAS EVE, WHICH IS THE DAY THAT MY FAMILY BEGINS THE CELEBRATION. I EVEN ALLOW THEM TO OPEN UP THEIR GIFTS.

IN JUNE OF 2011 I ATTENDED MY FIRST RWA SIGNING IN NYC. IT WAS ONE OF THE CRAZIEST DAYS EVER. THE LINE TO GET INTO THE SIGNING BEGAN IN A BREEZEWAY OF THE HOTEL AND NEEDLESS TO SAY THERE WAS NO BREEZE AND IT WAS UNCOMFORTABLY HOT. HOURS AFTER MY AWESOME BOOK OBSESSED CHICKS LINED UP WE WERE FINALLY BEING ALLOWED IN TO THE HOTEL BALLROOM 50 AT A TIME. THE BALLROOM WAS EVEN HOTTER THAN OUTSIDE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THE AUTHORS WEREN'T FAINTING. THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF AUTHOR AT THIS SIGNING AND IN THE HEAT OF IT ALL I WANDERED AIMLESSLY AROUND FOR A BIT UNTIL I CAME UP TO BJ DANIELS' TABLE, WHERE SHE LOOKED BEAUTIFUL AND EAGERLY AWAITED READERS. NOW ALL OF MY LADIES KNOW THAT I AM NO SHRINKING VIOLET AND WHEN I SAW BJ I SHOUTED "I LOVE YOU!"  I WAS SO HONORED TO MEET HER, AS WELL AS SO MANY OTHER AMAZING AUTHORS THAT PIVOTAL DAY, WHICH INSPIRED ME TO PROMOTE WHAT I LOVE, AUTHORS I ADORE AND THEIR FABULOUS BOOKS.

I ADMIRE BJ DANIELS. WHEN I READ HER STORIES I BECOME IMMERSED IN HER MYSTERY AND ROMANCE. SHE HAS ME SECOND GUESSING MYSELF ALL THE TIME WHEN IT COMES TO SOLVING WHATEVER CRIME THE BOOK CONTAINS. I AM SIMPLY IN AWE OF HER AND I COUNT THE DAYS FOR HER BOOKS TO BE RELEASED.

PLEASE WELCOME BJ DANIELS TO THE BLOG. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

CHRISTMAS AT CARDWELL RANCH is the fourth book in the Cardwell Ranch series and it is teeming with action and romance. I recently reviewed it.. Here is my 5 Moon review!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Big Sky, Montana until murder happens, and not just one but several. When Tag Cardwell returns to Montana after a long sojourn, he finds he isn't exactly welcomed home by his father, but cousin Dana insists that he stay for a Cardwell Christmas. She wants family together. Trying to get things back to normal after an insane woman posing as her cousin wreaked havoc in her home.

Lily McCabe is filling in at her brother Ace McCabe's bar for the holidays. The pretty young math genius enjoys her solitude though, especially after being jilted at the alter six months prior. When one of the waitresses winds up missing a whole lot of trouble starts to happen over a flash drive with gibberish on it that mysteriously winds up in Tag's pocket.  Is it gibberish or a mathematical code? When Tag and Lily find they may have to put their heads together to solve the mystery, a lot more may happen than finding answers. Maybe a little kissing under the mistletoe? When Lily's proper ex-fiance appears on her doorstep she suddenly doesn't know what direction to take her life. The safe and quiet one? Or the one that could lead to passion and excitement.

Marshall Hud Savage has been second guessing himself since he allowed imposter Camilla Northland, who posed as Dana's long lost cousin, into his home to terrorize his family. How could he have let someone that unstable near his precious family? How could he have been so blind? These thoughts go through his mind constantly nowadays and he worries that his days as Marshall are numbered. Even though she is apparently tucked away in prison, Camilla Northland plots her revenge on Hud and Dana. Is her arm long enough to reach Cardwell Ranch?

It takes all of these people involved to try to solve the murder mystery plaguing Big Sky and the clock is ticking. The question is, can all be solved before time runs out?

Lord, do I love picking up a B.J. Daniels book. I always know I am in for a good time. B.J. gets the reader's mind a flutter with all the facts and the possible resolutions. She is a master at telling more than one story at a time with incredible ease and sucking in the reader until the very end. It is so nice to be back in Big Sky, Montana and with the Cardwell Clan and its extended family especially at Christmas time. Watching the evolution of these awesome characters is always part of the charm mixed in with all the mystery and suspense. I loved B.J. Daniels' CHRISTMAS AT CARDWELL RANCH  and I know you will as well.

BJ in one of my Book Obsessed Chicks t-shirts!!!

We just love FLAT COWBOY TAG!!! 

MESSAGE FROM BJ DANIELS TO YOU ALL!

I'd just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and 

the 

happiest of new years!!

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KIMMIE'S FAVORITES HOLIDAY BLOG BASH WITH CAROLYN BROWN

HOLLA TO ALL OF MY AWESOME BOOK OBSESSED CHICKS FOLLOWERS! I HOPE YOU ARE ALL HAVING AS GREAT A TIME AS I AM WITH THIS BLOG BASH!!! TODAY WE HAVE AN ICON HERE ON THE BLOG.. SOMEONE I GO GIDDY JUST THINKING ABOUT... PLEASE WELCOME MIZ CAROLYN BROWN!!!

WHEN THIS AWESOME LADY STOOD NEXT TO ME WHILE MY LADIES WERE SIFTING THROUGH THE BARGAIN TABLE AT EAST BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY'S B&N, I LOOKED AT HER WITH WARY EYES... THIS LADY LOOKED LIKE CAROLYN BROWN, BUT CAROLYN BROWN JUST COULD NOT BE IN NJ COULD SHE? NO, I THOUGHT, MIZ CAROLYN HAS TO BE IN OKLAHOMA... BUT WHEN SHE ASKED ME IN HER ADORABLE TWANG " DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?", MY EYES ALMOST BOBBED OUT OF MY HEAD. "CAROLYN?" I ASKED AND SHE SAID YES... AFTER I BASICALLY ACCOSTED HER WITH HUGS AND KISSES, THE REST IS ALL HISTORY. I JUST LOVE HER. SHE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL.

THE LOVELY CAROLYN BROWN HAS WRITTEN OVER 70 BOOKS, SHE IS DEFINITELY A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH!

AIN'T SHE CUTE?

WELL MIZ CAROLYN BROWN HAS A FABULOUS CHRISTMAS TALE OUT NOW, 
THE COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS BABY

I LOVED THIS BOOK. CAROLYN WANTED TO SHARE SOME WORDS WITH YOU ALL SO HERE GOES!

Merry Cowboy Christmas everyone! May your holidays be wonderful and your days be filled with good food, good friends and good family time.

Thank you, Miz Kim, for inviting me to stop by here today. I’m so excited that right here at Christmas I get to add my book to the list of these great authors who have been a part of this wonderful holiday blog bash. This is my fourth cowboy Christmas book and I’m finding that more and more I look forward to writing about what happens when a little mistletoe, an old honky tonk, some gypsy magic or in the case of The Cowboy’s Christmas Baby— a miracle in the form of a little baby boy named Joshua is a part of it!

Sometimes fate throws a few hurdles into the pathway of life to make it interesting. Such was the story with Lucas and Natalie. They had been cyber-dating for several months and they were getting along great…until he found out about the baby. She didn’t plan on him coming home two days early but there he was on that cold Texas night….and so begins the story of what happened next. ‘Twas the season to be jolly…or was it! Here’s a little taste for your holiday pleasure about the way that Natalie and Lucas’s Christmas story began.

EXCERPT: There she stood with a dead coyote at her feet, a pink pistol in her right hand, three blue tick hound pups cowering behind her, and cradling a baby in her left arm.

“Natalie?” He raised an eyebrow and blinked sleet from his eyelashes. Yesterday he had awakened to overbearing heat in Kuwait, and today Texas was colder than a mother-in-law’s kiss on the North Pole. Maybe he was seeing things due to the abrupt change in weather. She looked like the woman he’d been talking to via the Internet for the past eleven months, but he hadn’t expected her to be so tall, and he damn sure had not expected her to be holding a baby or a pistol.

She whipped around and raised the gun until it was aimed straight at his chest. “Who the hell… oh, my God… you are early, Lucas. Surprise!” she said.

“Yes, ma’am,” he drawled. “I guess I am, but you aren’t supposed to be here for two more days.”

“We were working on a big surprise for your homecoming. Hazel was going to make your favorite foods and we had a banner made and I heard a noise and the coyote had the puppies cornered and…” She stopped and stared at him as if she expected him to disappear.

She caught her breath and went on. “Why in the hell didn’t you tell us you were coming home early? You’ve ruined everything.”

“It’s my ranch. It’s my house and I can come home when I damn well please,” he said.

He looked from the baby to the dead coyote, to the puppies, finally meeting Natalie’s big blue eyes staring at him across the six feet separating them. There’d been more warmth in her face when there were oceans and deserts separating them than he felt with only six feet between them.

The whole scenario he’d played out in his mind was shot to hell and back. She wouldn’t take two steps forward, hug him, and then share an intimate, passionate kiss that said that yes, they had become more than Internet friends.

A whimper came from the blue bundle and she looked down at it. “I know you are hungry, son. We’ll go inside in just a second.”

Dammit!

He’d thought he’d found the right woman. Hell, he’d even entertained notions that she was the one. He’d been right all along: people were crazy to believe what they saw on the Net or to trust anyone they met on there, either.

“Joshua is hungry. Can you put these pups back in the pen? Sorry little critters dug out from under the fence and the coyote cornered them up by the porch,” she said.

She damn sure looked different in real life with curves and legs that went from earth all the way to heaven. She was stunning in those snug-fitting jeans, red flannel shirt, and thick brown hair floating in gentle waves down past her shoulders. How could he have not known she was pregnant?

Because you only saw her from the waist up and in pictures that she posted. Man, you got duped real good this time. Sucker!

“Well?” She shoved the pistol into the waistband of her jeans, shifted the baby to a more comfortable position, and headed toward the porch.

He dropped his canvas duffel on the icy ground. “I’ll take care of the coyote and the pups. Then we’ve got some serious talking to do. Where are Grady and Gramps and Dad?”

“Grady took Henry home after supper. You hungry?”

Yes, he was hungry. He’d foregone supper until he got home because he couldn’t wait to have Hazel’s home-cooked food. But the way his stomach was churning around he wouldn’t be able to swallow. A baby boy, for God’s sake! And she never mentioned him one time.

“Hazel in the house?” he asked stiffly.

She stopped and turned. “No, she is not. I’ve got to get Joshua inside, though. He’s cold. Just take care of those pups.”

“Don’t boss me, Natalie,” he barked.

“I’m going inside. You can stay out here and freeze to death if you want, Lucas. The way you are acting, I don’t reckon it’ll be much warmer in the house when you get there anyway,” she said.

He folded his arms across his chest. “And that is supposed to mean what?”

“Figure it out for yourself.”

“Shit!” he mumbled under his breath.

He gathered up three wiggling blue tick hound pups and stomped toward the dog pens. What in the hell did she expect—a big old passionate kiss with a pistol and a baby between them?

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SQUEEEEEEEE.... A FEW MORE OF MY FAVORITE LADIES HAVE JOINED IN MY BLOG BASH AND I AM SOOOOO EXCITED.... There may be a few more surprises.... We shall see!!!!

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KIMMIE'S FAVORITES HOLIDAY BLOG BASH WITH CAT JOHNSON

WORDS CANNOT ENTIRELY EXPRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE CAT JOHNSON. SHE IS TALENTED AND SO SAVVY IT'S SCARY AND SHE IS A MINI TORNADO. NEVER HAVE I SEEN THIS LADY WITHOUT A SMILE. SHE LOVES MEETING HER READERS AND SHE IS SO GENEROUS. IT FIGURES THAT SHE AND I ARE BOTH LEOS. PART OF THE REASON IS LOVE HER SO MUCH, SHE ALSO IS A FELLOW NEW YORKER/INNER COUNTRY GIRL.

I ASKED CAT A FEW QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HOLIDAY SEASON AND THIS IS WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY!

Could you tell us what kind of Christmas and New Year traditions do you and your family partake of?

We have dinner Christmas Eve at my family's house, and dinner Christmas Day at his family's house. And after all that family time, I'm happy to report that New Years Eve is family free! We head to a friend's house for a big bash with incredible food, lots of booze and a professional Karaoke DJ!

What was your favorite Christmas gift?

One year my husband got me a limo for the day that took my friends and I all around NY City to shop, see the decorations and have lunch and dinner.

Do you have any favorite Christmas songs? 

I LOVE "Baby, it's Cold Outside". That could be because it's a kind of romance. Okay, maybe it's more of a seduction story. :)

If you could have anything in the world, what would it be?

This would have to be a gift from that big Mega Millions winner because it's pretty big, but I want a house on a lake or a river so I can look out and see water while I work.

What was the inspiration for your Christmas story, A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS?

A single sentence in an email from the editor at the publisher who'd requested it. It was this... "How 'bout the story of a woman, who as a little girl, always asked for a cowboy for Christmas (some doll) and this time she gets her wish?" That was all it took. I was inspired. I turned on the Hallmark/Lifetime TV Channels' Countdown to Christmas movies as background while I worked and whipped out over 50,000 words in under a month.

What do you have in store for the New Year? For Readers? Conferences? Holidays? 

Some exciting stuff! I'm booked for March 22nd to sign at Turn the Page in Boonsboro, MD with (excuse me while I drop this name) Nora Roberts! So that is exciting.  I'll also be definitely at the RWA conference/signing in NJ in March, the RT Booklovers Con in NOLA in May, and Authors After Dark in Charlotte in August. Maybe a couple more so stay tuned...

As for releases, I'm excited there will be a new Oklahoma Nights release in March, Book 3 Three Weeks with a Bull Rider, and a new Studs in Spurs release in May, Thrown.

Any message you would like to share with my followers?

Besides wishing everyone the very best in 2014, I'd like to send out a plea on behalf of all authors and ask readers to Resolve to Review in 2014.  If you liked a book, please leave a review on Amazon or BN, as well as on Goodreads. Even if you can't afford a book, or don't have time to read your TBR list as it is, but you want to support an author, add their book to your Amazon Wish List, which prompts Amazon to promote the book to their customers. It's a huge help and authors truly appreciate it.

Wishing everyone hot books, and hotter heroes, to keep you warm this winter!

IN DECEMBER OF 2011 I OPENED MY KINDLE TO BEGIN READING A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS BY CAT JOHNSON AND FOUND THAT THERE WAS A DEDICATION IN THAT BOOK. IT WAS ONE OF MY VERY FIRST DEDICATIONS AND I WAS ALL GIDDY AND THANKFUL. A COWBOY FOR CHRISTMAS IS AN AMAZING STORY AND I HOPE YOU ALL GRAB THIS STORY UP!

Sexy, independent, corporate executive Casey Harrington's life and career were shaped by a childhood Christmas wish left unfulfilled. Now, twenty years later on a Colorado cattle ranch, she finally gets everything she's always wanted-both a hot cowboy and a dream job.

But Bonner "Blue" Boyd is a rancher and Casey is a New Yorker, and even if the sex between them is hot enough to start a prairie fire, they both know that city and country might mix for a week, but it can't work for a lifetime. Or can it?

When a dramatic turn of events reunite Bonner and Casey, this time on her turf in her city, she has to prove to her displaced cowboy he belongs with her, no matter where they end up. Luckily Casey knows the quickest way to a man's heart is slightly lower than his stomach.

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KIMMIE'S FAVORITES HOLIDAY BLOG BASH WITH AMANDA MCINTYRE

SO THERE'S THIS LADY I MET A FEW YEARS BACK AT MY FIRST LORA LEIGH'S RAW NAMED AMANDA MCINTYRE WHO WELCOMED ME AND TREATED ME LIKE A TRUE FRIEND FROM THE FIRST MINUTE.THE ENERGY THIS LADY HAS IS UNBELIEVABLE AND THAT ENERGY MAKES ITS WAY INTO HER WRITING.  I FOUND THAT SHE WROTE SOME PRETTY DARK AND SULTRY BOOKS AND THEY WERE FASCINATING. THEN MISS AMANDA CAME UP WITH HER WESTERN CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE, RUGGED HEARTS AND I FOUND A TRIO OF COWBOYS THAT I WANTED TO KNOW BETTER! PLEASE WELCOME MY FRIEND, AMANDA MCINTYRE TO BOOK OBSESSED CHICKS ONCE AGAIN. SHE IS A GOOD FRIEND NOT ONLY TO THE BLOG, BUT ALSO TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY GROUP THAT HAS EVER MET HER AND FOR THAT I ADORE HER.

Rugged, quiet, hardworking, Wyatt takes his position as head of the Kinnison family seriously. But the scars of betrayal by the women to whom he once trusted his heart now prompt his stark, simple game plan, and no one in hell is going to convince him any differently. What matters most, besides the welfare of his brothers, is to manage the ranch left to him and never risk his heart again to something as foolish as love—but after meeting Aimee, Wyatt begins to realize that a man should never say never to a determined second grade teacher.

When vivacious, resilient Aimee Worth loses her twin sister in a tragic accident, she makes the choice to live out her sister’s dream of teaching in the small mountain community called End of the Line, Montana, never suspecting she’d meet her Mr. Right in the middle of nowhere—he just doesn’t know it yet. Used to challenges, her spirit shatters the perceptions that have kept him isolated from living life beyond the ranch, proving to him that when it comes to love, the greatest risk is not taking one.

Here's what our friend Margie had to say about Rugged Hearts by Amanda McIntyre>

I’ve lost my heart to Wyatt Kinnison.  The man just flat-out tugged at my heart strings and then filled my heart with joy.  I guess I share these sentiments with Aimee Worth, second grade teacher in End of the Line, Montana.  She and I were sisters of the heart throughout the entire soul awakening events for Wyatt Kinnison.  Aimee Worth is the quintessential heroine who definitely goes above and beyond the call of duty.  Aimee has experienced a major loss in her life but it’s not keeping her down and her positive attitude rubs off on the reclusive Wyatt.  There’s no stopping Aimee once she sets her mind to shattering the walls around Wyatt’s heart.

Amanda McIntyre has written a very insightful look into the way “Love conquers all.”  She uses a strong heroine who has perfect backup in her second grade students to make the conquest and win the day.  Ms. McIntyre always produces excellently written books with intriguing characters and heartwarming stories.  I highly recommend this book, Rugged Hearts and look forward to more stories in the Kinnison Legacy series.

~MARGIE~

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KIMMIE'S FAVORITES HOLIDAY BLOG BASH WITH BIRTHDAY GIRL ~ CYNTHIA D'ALBA

HI ALL AND TGIF.. TODAY IS A VERY SPECIAL LADY'S BIRTHDAY! I WANT TO WISH CYNTHIA D'ALBA A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROM ALL OF MY BOOK OBSESSED CHICKS AND FROM CYNTHIA'S AMAZING STREET TEAM, D'ALBA'S DIAMONDS. I HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING CYNTHIA AT MY VERY FIRST RT CONFERENCE IN MAY IN KANSAS CITY AT THE SIGNING. SO MUCH WAS GOING ON AT RT THAT I WASN'T ABLE TO CHAT WITH CYNTHIA AS MUCH AS I WOULD HAVE LIKED. HOPING TO SEE HER AT THE NEXT RT

SINCE IT'S HER BIRTHDAY TODAY I PRETTY MUCH LET CYNTHIA DO WHATEVER SHE WANTED BECAUSE WHO AM I TO DENY A BIRTHDAY GIRL?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CYNTHIA!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               

Yep! Today is my birthday! And I’m so thrilled to be sharing it with y’all. We won’t be discussing which birthday this is. We’ll just say I’m old enough to drink booze legally and I’m young enough to not have pre-planned funeral arrangements! J

Most of the time my favorite present is the one I give myself. This year, I gave me a Babylock Ellegante 3. Isn’t she beautiful?

Mostly I do embroidery on it but it does sew. The problem is…I don’t sew! Ha ha. But everybody in the family got embroidered shirts this year. I’m working on surprises for my street team but shhh. Don’t tell.

I started to post a couple of pictures of sexy guys that should take me out to a birthday dinner but WOW. There were just too many choices. Do I go with the standards, like George Clooney or Tim McGraw? Or do I stretch my imagination and find that new guy that makes the other women swoon? Then I thought…shoot! It’s MY birthday. I’ll let y’all find me the perfect sexy date.

So who is he? Who do you think is sexy enough to take me to dinner?

And, given though it’s my birthday, I’m giving presents to you! J

Every person who leaves a comment with a sexy man suggestion will be entered in a drawing for a $10.00 gift card to the online store of the winner’s choice! Amazon? No problem. Barnes and Nobles? No problem. Bed, Bath and Beyond? No problem. Kim’s Store of Whips and Chains? Problem. No account there!

But that’s not all! If you send me a message to cynthia@cynthiadalba.com and tell me you read this post, I’ll send you a digital short story, Texas Two Step: The Prequel . If you request a short story, be sure to tell me which digital format you need. Kindle. Nook. Epub. Etc.

Remember, to be entered in the drawing for the $10, you must leave me a sexy man!

Now, pass me my birthday cake so I can blow out the candles and we can get this party started. 

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KIMMIE'S FAVORITES HOLIDAY BLOG BASH WITH C.H. ADMIRAND

GOOD MORNING ALL AND WELCOME ONE OF MY VERY FAVORITE LADIES EVER, C.H. ADMIRAND. I CAN HONESTLY SAY, I TRULY LOVE THIS LADY. SHE IS NOT ONLY A BRILLIANT WRITER, I AM ALSO PROUD TO CALL HER MY FRIEND. SHE HAS BEEN SOMEONE I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO VENT TO AND SHE HAS GIVEN ME MUCH APPRECIATED ADVICE. 

IT ALL BEGAN WITH HER SECRET LIFE OF COWBOYS AND A BOOK CALLED TYLER FOR ME. COLLEEN WAS PROBABLY THE FIRST AUTHOR I REALLY EVER APPROACHED ABOUT A BOOK I LOVED. EVEN FROM THE FIRST EMAIL I LOVED HER DEDICATION AND HER WARMTH AND I KNEW WE WOULD BE FRIENDS. WHEN I VENTURED OFF TO MY VERY FIRST OFFICIAL CONFERENCE , RWA2011 IN NYC WITH MY BOC LADIES IN TOW, COLLEEN WAS THE FIRST AUTHOR I SOUGHT OUT AND WHEN I FIRST GOT TO HUG HER, IT BEGAN OUR FRIENDSHIP THAT I WILL TREASURE FOREVER.

C.H. ADMIRAND ( COLLEEN)  and I last night at B&N in NJ

I asked Colleen to tell us about one of her favorite books that she has written, and this is what she said!

One of my favorite books to write was A GIFT FROM HOME, the fourth book in my Historical Irish Western series. It begins over in Ireland and when I was writing the opening, I could see the verdant rolling hills, the fairy forts and hillocks...and the Little People. What a contrast when Jessi Fahy steps down off that stagecoach on a dry-as-dust day in Emerson, Colorado.

John Reilly captured my attention in the first book in that series, THE MARSHAL'S DESTINY, and just wouldn't stop bugging me. I thought he'd be the man for Bridget O'Toole, but her heart belonged to James Ryan (aka Seamus Flaherty). Then I thought he'd be perfect for Pearl Lloyd, but once she shot the hat off Davidson Smythe's head, I knew there could never be another man for her.

Finally, I began to see what John's problem was, he'd broken two hearts when he'd boarded that ship to come to America--his mother's and little Jessi Fahy. Ah, but his mother has a plan, and since her hard-headed son hadn't met and married yet, that just confirmed her suspicion that what he needed was a girl from back home. And that's when she and Jessi hatch a plan.

John Reilly is expecting a package from home, something light as a feather and twice as sweet. Little does he realize the package isn’t the baked goods he’s been dreaming of but a grown-up version of the thirteen-year-old girl who used to follow him everywhere.

When John Reilly doesn’t return to County Cork, Ireland, Jessi Fahy boards a ship and tracks him down. She arrives in Emerson, Colorado, hot, tired, and dusty, but he doesn’t recognize her. Five and a half years of waiting in vain, combined with a horrendous voyage and the realization that John doesn’t remember her, have Jessi fisting her hand and testing Mrs. Reilly’s secret weapon. With a wicked right cross, big John Reilly goes down like a stone.

HERE IS COLLEENS LATEST AMAZING READ. IT IS THE THIRD AND LAST BOOK IN HER APPLE GROVE SERIES AND IT IS MY FAVORITE.

WELCOME BACK TO APPLE GROVE by C.H. ADMIRAND

So Grace Mulcahy has been living large in the big city of Cleveland, Ohio since she left her small town of Apple Grove about a year ago. Grace left the family fold and the small family home repair business for a company with over a hundred employees and she even got a promotion. Once she left Apple Grove, she also broke up with her cheating boyfriend.  Is Grace Mulcahy happy though? Good question. Her family and friends seem to think NOT, especially after she chops off her hair while a tad tipsy. Yes, it was for an awesome charitable cause, but the underlying reasons bring Grace back to Apple Grove.

Former FDNY, Patrick Garahan has been happily working in semi-small town Ohio at a local firehouse. He seems content, but there's something missing from his life and he's about to figure out what when he re-connects with Grace Mulcahy. This is not the Grace he met before, this a a sultry and curvaceous Grace that attracts Patrick in a flash.

Unbeknownst to Patrick and Grace, the meddling forces that be surrounding them both are trying to do some serious matchmaking, and evidently, neither party seems to mind once they become reacquainted. Grace wasn't planning on staying in Apple Grove, it would defeat the purpose of her leaving, but Patrick is determined to make it worth her while. Patrick wants to take things to the next level, but he has a devil on his shoulder preventing him from it and Grace wants to know what it is if she's going to be involved with this man.

Ok so here goes....I LOVE this book. It made me laugh  and cry, all within paragraphs of each event. Those who have read the Apple Grove series by the ever-talented C.H. Admirand know Grace pretty well. We all know she is very happy that her sisters have found true love. Grace has always felt a little on the outside since she never wanted to actually work in the family business. Her forte was the office and she did it amazingly well, but there was always a little voice inside her that told her the big city was where she should be.  Red-headed, Irish boy, Patrick Garahan left New York behind after a tragedy happened while he was on the job and his move to Ohio didn't completely assuage his nightmares. This handsome firefighter's demeanor gets under your skin immediately. He is so lovable! Yes, he is a ginger with freckles! A hot ginger to boot, I certainly don't have issues with it. I embrace it and and you should too.

C.H Admirand tugs at your heart-strings with her emotion-filled story. We have come a long way since A Wedding In Apple Grove and I so have loved the journey. I especially love the way that C.H. has incorporated characters from The Secret Life of Cowboys series. It's like a super happy and dysfunctional family reunion. Perfection. C.H. now that all the Mulcahy girls are happy, how about taking us to Brooklyn?

~ KIMBERLY~ 

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