Category: Book Brief

Book Brief: Hot in the Saddle

Hot in the Saddle by Ciana StoneHot in the Saddle
by Ciana Stone
Genre: Romance/Western
165,668 words

Four ranchers as hot as the Arizona desert – men more than willing for a night of loving, but who all think that love is not in their cards. Four men, four stories.

Chase’n’Ana: Chase Hawks had a good handle on life. Then fate intervened. He ran over a woman. Literally. Hit her with his truck. So, what what happens when a down-to-earth rancher hooks up with a quirky new age witch who likes to dance naked under the moon?

Molding Clay: Clay Russell had plans, big plans. But his family had other plans. They roped him into taking on the job of getting a struggling ranch back on its feet. He didn’t expect it to be something beyond his ability. He also didn’t expect Rusty Blackhawk to be a woman. Or a witch.

Scout’n’Cole: Cole had no trouble attracting women. He just wasn’t expecting to find love. Then he’s teamed up with Scout Windrider and everything changes. Faced with a murderous madman, Scout and Cole take a leap and discover something relegated to myth and legend is not only true, but will change them forever.

Conn’n’Caleb: Single and loving it! That’s Caleb. Life’s good — although a little predictable. Until a woman drops out of the sky and into his kayak, nearly drowning him in the process. But getting wet is the least of his problems because Conn isn’t like any woman he’s ever known.

Hot in the Saddle is available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK.

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Book Brief: Murder She Typed

Murder She TypedMurder She Typed
by Sylvia Selfman
Genre: Cozy Mystery

Izzy Greene, a widow of a certain age, joins a writing group in an attempt to actually finish one of her stories. She gets more than she bargained for, however, when her nemesis, sexy blonde bombshell Sondra Sockerman, disappears under suspicious circumstances. Izzy soon realizes that she has a natural detecting ability as she and her friend, Flo, set out to find the killer…who is now after them.

Murder She Typed is available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK.

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Book Brief: The Spider and the Stone

Spider and the Stone by Glen CraneyThe Spider and the Stone:
A Novel of Scotland’s Black Douglas
by Glen Craney
Genre: Historical Fiction
120.000 words

As the 14th century dawns, Scotland’s survival hangs by a spider’s thread. While the clans scrap over their empty throne, the brutal Edward Longshanks of England invades the weakened northern kingdom, scheming to annex it to his powerful realm.

But one frail lad stands in the Plantagenet monarch’s path.

The beleaguered Scots cherish James Douglas as their “Good Sir James.” Yet in England, his slashing raids deep into Yorkshire wreak such terror that he is branded the Black Douglas with a reward placed on his head.

As a boy, James falls in love with the ravishing Isabelle MacDuff, whose clan has long inaugurated Scottish monarchs on the hallowed Stone of Destiny. But James’s world is upturned when he befriends Robert Bruce, a bitter enemy of the MacDuffs. Forced to choose between love and clan loyalty, he and Isabelle must make fateful decisions that will draw the opposing armies to the bloody field of Bannockburn.

Here is the story of Scotland’s War of Independence and the remarkable events that followed the execution of William Wallace, whose legend was portrayed in the movie Braveheart. This thrilling epic leads the reader to the miraculous Stone of Destiny, to the famous Spider in the Cave, to the excommunicated Knights Templar, to the suppressed Culdee Church, and to the Declaration of Arbroath, the stirring oath document that inspired the American Declaration of Independence four hundred years later.

The Spider and the Stone: A Novel of Scotland’s Black Douglas is available at Amazon.com, Smashwords, Amazon UK, and most online booksellers.

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Book Brief: Deranged Seating

Deranged-Seating by Carole FowkesDeranged Seating
by Carole Fowkes
Genre: Science Fiction/Mystery
19,700 words

In James’s fantasy life, he’s a hard-boiled private detective whose internal monologue sounds like a Mickey Spillane movie. In the actual world, he is a bright young man, bored and stifled by his job as a society page reporter. That is, until his assignment at a high-society fitness party gets him involved with massage therapist Courtney, a good-looking dame with a tough problem. A healthy man dies in her massage chair and she can’t explain it. Despite warnings to leave it alone, James starts to investigate. This leads him to Lester, a wisecracking old-timer who recalls a friend who died in a similar way. Others die and the bodies are piling up. But there’s no explanation, at least not if you’re from this Earth.

Deranged Seating is available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon UK.

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