Autumn/Halloween Countdown Blitz Day Six: Blown Into Romance by Shanna Hatfield

USA Today bestselling author Shanna Hatfield is a farm girl who loves to write. Her sweet historical and contemporary romances are filled with sarcasm, humor, hope, and hunky heroes.

Shanna creates character-driven romances with realistic heroes and heroines. Her historical westerns have been described as ""reminiscent of the era captured by Bonanza and The Virginian"" while her contemporary works have been called ""laugh-out-loud funny, and a little heart-pumping sexy without being explicit in any way.""

 

When Shanna isn't dreaming up unforgettable characters, twisting plots, or covertly seeking dark, decadent chocolate, she hangs out with her beloved husband, Captain Cavedweller.

    

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Artist Brooke Roberts spent her life without roots, wandering from town to town. When she seeks refuge from a freak storm in the town of Romance, she decides to stay and open a blown glass studio. Determined to immerse herself in the community, she adopts a family of pigs. Brooke is unprepared for the chaos and comfort they bring to her world, or the dashing cowboy who rescues her heart.

 

Solid, dependable Blayne Grundy runs a busy ranch, volunteers on various committees, and takes in stray animals too large to stay at the local animal rescue. Then a chance encounter with a beautiful, beguiling woman leaves him so befuddled, he can barely remember his own name. His predictable organized life is about to be blown away by free-spirited Brooke.

 

A sweet, lighthearted novella, Blown Into Romance highlights the mighty power of love and letting go from USA Today Bestselling Author Shanna Hatfield 

    

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Frantic, out of patience, and uncertain what to do, she riffled through her junk drawer, desperate to find Blayne’s card. Finally locating it in a stack of junk mail she hadn’t opened, she dialed his number and waited. And waited. 

On the fourth ring, he answered. 

“Hello?” 

If she hadn’t been on the verge of hysteria about her pigs, that deep gravelly tone might have sent her into an entirely different sort of fit, one that would have turned her limbs languid and brain to mush. 

As it was, though, she had more important problems than the way her body and soul ached to react to his voice. 

 “Blayne?” she asked, completely aware she spoke to him. No one else could make her knees turn to a gelatinous mass just by uttering a simple greeting. 

“Yes,” he said, sounding cautious. 

“This is Brooke. Brooke Roberts. We met yesterday at the festival and you helped me bring home my pigs.” 

“How are the little oinkers?” he asked, a smile evident in his voice. 

“Horrible!” 

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Autumn/Halloween Countdown Blitz Day Four: The Temple of the Cyrstal Timekeeper by Fiona Ingram

I am a South African children’s author. Up until a few years ago, I was a journalist and editor. Something rather unexpected sparked my new career as an author—a family trip to Egypt with my mother and two young nephews. We had a great time and I thought I’d write them a short story as a different kind of souvenir…. Well, one book and a planned book series later, I had changed careers. I am now on Book 5 of The Chronicles of the Stone adventure series. I also teach online novel writing for aspiring authors and I find that very satisfying.

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Continuing the adventure that ended in Britain just a short while ago, cousins Adam and Justin Sinclair, with their friend Kim Maleka, are now hunting for the third Stone of Power, one of seven mysterious stones lost centuries ago. The third stone might be located in an ancient city, hidden in the depths of the Mexican jungle. When their small plane crashes in the jungle, Adam, Justin, Kim, and James are rescued by an uncontacted tribe. James, who is wounded, must stay behind as the kids, with only a young boy, Tukum, as their guide, make their way through the dense and dangerous jungle to find the city. River rafting on a crocodile-infested river and evading predators are just part of this hazardous task.

Of course, their old adversary Dr. Khalid is close behind as the kids press on in search of the lost city of stone gods. But he is not the worst of their problems. This time Adam will clash with a terrible enemy who adopts the persona of an evil Aztec god, Tezcatlipoca, and is keen to revive the ancient tradition of human sacrifice. Adam, Justin, and Tukum must play a dreadful ball game of life and death and maybe survive. Will they emerge alive from the jungle? Will Dr. Khalid find the third Stone of Power before they do?

  

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Kim let out a piercing scream as a small group of about ten people materialized out of the bushes. They must have been there all the time. Adam was amazed at how they had blended in with the environment. The tribesmen were not much taller than Justin, but they were muscular and looked strong. They wore loincloths and carried spears. Some carried bows. Black paint was daubed across their eye sockets, forming a mask. Tattoos and strange ritual scars ornamented their light-brown skin. Some wore armbands, and decorations around their ankles; a few wore elaborate necklaces of wooden beads. Thick plugs went through most of their earlobes. They all had longish black hair, cut so that the fringes came down to the top of their paint masks. Their dark eyes glittered as they stared back at the trio.

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Autumn/Halloween Countdown Blitz Day Three: Fusion by TJ Amberson

 

TJ Amberson hails from the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her husband and nutty cocker spaniel. When she's not writing, TJ might be found enjoying a hot chocolate, pretending to know how to garden, riding her bike, playing the piano, or surfing the Internet for cheap plane tickets. With a love of many genres, TJ Amberson writes sweet romance for adults, and historical fantasy and contemporary sci-fi adventures for teen and mature tween readers. 

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Alexis Kendall has a pretty typical teenage life: a crush on a cute guy, a loathing of chemistry, and a tendency to stumble into embarrassing mishaps. But everything changes after an unexpected discovery in chemistry class gives Alexis incredible powers. 

With her powers rapidly growing beyond her control, Alexis races to her teacher, Mr. Haber, for help. A chilling twist of events leaves Mr. Haber and his young assistant, Noah Weston, no choice but to reveal to Alexis a secret. And suddenly, Alexis is faced with a decision that will change her life forever. 

 

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A man with thick glasses raised his hand. "So how does that tie in to what happened to Victor? And who was the girl? Was she involved with The Organization or not?"

Jackie glanced at Xander before she spoke. "Well, Peter, our theory is that Number 407 is . . . inside a human being. After seeing the video, we think It is within the girl, Alexis."

 I understand what 'deafening silence' means now, Xander thought, and one look at Jackie told him she was thinking the same thing.

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Autumn/Halloween Countdown Blitz Day Two: Two Masters by Jaclyn Weist

Jaclyn is an Idaho farm girl who grew up loving to read. She developed a love for writing at a young age and published her first book in 2013. She met her husband, Steve, at BYU, and they have six happy, crazy children who encourage her to keep writing. After owning a bookstore and running away to have adventures in Australia, they settled back down in their home in Utah. When Jaclyn isn’t herding her kids to various activities, she serves on the board for her local arts agency, runs a writing workshop, and stays up late writing books in various genres.

Jaclyn’s Young Adult books include The Luck Series, Lost in a Fairy Tale series, Magicians of the Deep, and Two Masters. 

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Gwen's family had only one rule—stay out of Grandma's garden. And if it wasn’t for her annoying cousin, she never would have broken it. Everything seems fine until she pulls an ancient book from the old well inside.

And pays for it.

A dark magic is unleashed from its prison, and Gwen becomes its new host. Now, not only does she have to learn to use her own magic, she must also keep the dark magic from taking over her soul. Some rules are made to be broken. But breaking this one may just destroy the world. 

    

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Outside, the wind had picked up and rain pelted my face as I tried to find him. Where had he gone so quickly? There. I caught movement from the back of the house. No.

“Josh, stop.” But my words were whipped away in the wind. I sprinted toward the garden where this whole mess had started. He was fast, but I was faster. “Josh. Come back to the house. Please.”

He whipped around and clenched his fists to his side, rain pouring down his face, soaking his clothes. His eyes flashed with a fury that made me jerk to a stop. He advanced on me. “Why couldn’t you just leave that book in the well?”

It took everything I had not to step backward. “It wasn’t my fault. I was trying to find that ball. You heard Craig. He wouldn’t leave me alone.”

The seconds felt like hours as we stood staring at each other, waiting for the other one to react. My tears mixed with rain as I took another step forward.

Josh suddenly dropped to his knees and held his head in his hands, sobbing hysterically. I’d never seen him lose his cool like this before. His body shook, and when he looked up at me, his eyes were red. “I just want the voices to go away.”

I crept forward. “Please. I want to help you. Can I do that?”

My heart broke for him, because I’d heard those voices he was talking about. Begging me to help them. Thanking me for freeing them. I’d wondered why I hadn’t heard them for a while. They were full of such … evil. I reached for his hand as Grandma and Mom yelled for me.

“Josh?” I took his hand in mine. “Please look at me.”

He jerked up, and his eyes weren’t right. They were almost completely black, and his smile was twisted into an ugly grin. “Hello, Gwendolyn. We told you we’d be back.”

“No!” I screamed in agony as a pulse of energy flowed from Josh’s hand to mine. It was like our hands had melded together, and I couldn’t let go.

I was thrown to the ground and pain shot through me. The sky went black—no, everything was black. The darkness was all-consuming as something took over my body. I tried to find Josh in the darkness as he laughed in a way I’d never heard before. My heart felt like it was beating through sludge, making it hard to breathe. The pain I’d known from my vision of Josh was nothing like this.

My screams filled my ears until I thought I would explode. And suddenly, it was gone. The pain, the darkness. I slowly uncurled and pushed up off the ground, shivering from the cold rain. It felt like I’d just run a marathon. Josh lay next to me on the ground, and Mom and Grandma stood over us chanting something while waving their hands.

  

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