For
The Love Of Our Furry Friends Christmas Blog Tour
November
20th-30th
Best-selling authors Sharon Kleve and Jennifer Conner
adore animals. That's why they collaborated on this blog tour together. To
showcase their Christmas stories celebrating our beloved pets. They hope you
enjoy reading them as much as they did writing them.
Book Title: Halo's Wish (Book
one in the Dreams Come True Series)
Author: Sharon Kleve
Publisher: Books to Go Now
Genre: Contemporary Christmas Romance
Release Date: 9.13.2013
Length: 50 pages
Heat Rating: Sweet
Book Blurb:
Halo
Ann Carlyle wishes for a home, family, and a boat-load of pets. What she gets
is a bruised hip, a lump on the head, a broken ankle, and her new yellow Honda
Civic is demolished.
Rich
McFarland, a sexy veterinarian, keeps showing up in the most unexpected places,
promising everything she's ever wanted.
Halo
believes she only has time to pursue her career as a pet detective and must
ignore her growing attraction to achieve her dreams.
Will
Halo trust her heart, and find a way to get both for Christmas?
Excerpt:
She'd
just placed another call through to Pemsky's office, which went straight to his
voicemail, when the office door opened. Halo smiled and looked up into dreamy,
gold-flecked green eyes, short sandy brown hair, a slight cleft chin, and full
lips set in a hard line. Even with the stern look he had on his face, my
hormones jumped into overdrive.
Mr.
Dreamy cleared his throat—she must've been staring. In her most professional
voice she said, "Good morning. How may I help you?"
He
removed a piece of paper from his shirt pocket and unfolded the sheet.
"I
was parked in front of the Beacon Hill Ale House and my driver's side mirror
was sideswiped by one of Pemsky's Security's SUV's Friday night."
Halo
loved the Beacon Hill Ale House. Every Saturday night the Ale House allowed
local bands to jam together. That's where she'd met her last loser boyfriend. She'd had a lot of
loser boyfriends. She's currently on a hiatus from dating, but she wouldn't
mind jumping back into the dating game for this dream-boat.
He
handed her the piece of paper.
"I
wasn't able to get a look at the driver, but I got the license plate number of
the vehicle that hit my car and drove
away."
He
emphasized the last part.
"I'm
very sorry about your car. I'm sure Mr. Pemsky will be happy to cover the
damage." Halo checked the company log and Pemsky's name popped up as the
driver—she gulped.
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Book Title: Brenda’s
Christmas Desire (Book two in the Dreams Come True Series)
Author: Sharon Kleve
Publisher: Books to Go Now
Genre: Contemporary Christmas Romance
Release Date: 11.20.2013
Length: 50 pages
Heat Rating: Sweet
Book Blurb:
Like
any child Brenda Howser loved Christmas until her parents were killed by a
drunk driver during their annual shopping trip.
Brenda
went to live with her aunt, who blamed their death on everything that
represented Christmas; the gifts, the tree, and all the decorations.
The
festivities' Brenda once cherished became something she dreaded under the
shadow of her parents death. She lived in fear of something happening to the
people she loved during Christmas.
Christmas
approaches and Brenda has to decide if she’s going to let the past hold her
prisoner for another year or if she can finally enjoy what Christmas used to
mean to her—love.
DEA
agent, John Smith knows the significance of December fifteenth to Brenda, but
when the head of the Nuevo Cartel escapes federal prison he's forced to let her
face the day without him, but not quite alone.
Can
Daisy, a golden Labrador puppy, a huge sale on decorations at the hardware
store, and a gift from her aunt restore her love of Christmas?
Excerpt:
December 2013
The
weather forecast for the Western Washington area, specifically North Seattle,
predicted a good five-to-six inches of snow. Brenda Houser watched the flakes
float like cotton balls from the sky as she dipped a tortilla chip into a bowl
of thick and chunky salsa and popped the morsel into her mouth.
Her
boss, Corny Myers, tapped her pencil on Brenda's reception desk to the beat of The Little Drummer Boy, which streamed
from the Green Hornet Investigations Bose speakers.
"Hey,
Brenda. I have bad eating habits but I've never started the day with chips and
salsa. What's up?" Corny asked.
"You
know how I feel about all the holiday hoopla. I'd rather stick my head in the
sand and pull it back out in January."
"Do
you really think Mexican food is going to make you feel better?"
"Probably
not, but a couple margaritas might help."
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Author
Bio:
Sharon Kleve was born and
raised in Washington and currently lives on the Olympic Peninsula with her
husband.
Sharon is a writer of
paranormal and contemporary romance. She loves romance. She loves reading
romance, living romance, and especially loves writing about romance. She gets
no greater feeling than watching her characters come alive in each other's
arms. Most of all, she loves giving her characters the happily ever after they
deserve—with a few bumps and bruises along the way.
One of her favorite things to
do is picking up a new book and sinking into the story, immersing herself in
the emotions between the characters. She hopes to inspire her readers the same
way her favorite authors have inspired her.
When not writing, she can
usually be found either curled up in her recliner with her cat and a good book,
or in the kitchen baking sourdough bread or bagels.
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Book Title: Central
Bark At Christmas (Book one in the Dog Tails Series)
Author: Jennifer Conner
Publisher: Books
to Go Now
Genre: Sweet Contemporary Christmas
Romance
Release Date: 11.09.2013
Length: 50 pages
Heat Rating: Sweet
Book Blurb:
When
Tennyson’s boyfriend left her for her best friend from high-school, all
Tennyson received in the break up was her dog. She’s sworn off men and now is
rebuilding her life. The only thing Par does is work. He barely has time to do
anything he wants for himself other than take his dog to the dog park. When Par
and Tennyson find an abandoned dog at the park named Duke. Will they find room
in their hearts to take him in? And can this Christmas season weave some
special magic for the two of them?
Book Excerpt:
“I’m happy this wasn’t your worst date ever, because I
had a great time.” He lifted her chin with the tips of his finger. Slowly he
lowered his head until she thought she would die of anticipation. He clamped
his hands to her waist and gazed into her eyes. “You’re so beautiful…” There
was depth and sincerity in the tone of his voice. She felt special. Desired. He
dropped his head and kissed her.
Gentle at first and then deep. She couldn’t breathe. He’d sucked
all the air from her lungs, but there was no way she wanted him to stop. As she
brushed his firm lips to hers, she relished the feel of her blood simmering in
her veins. Par slid his fingers through her long hair to cradle and position
her head to kiss her even more thoroughly.
His lips pulled away from hers and he stepped back. She reached
for the roof of the car to steady herself. Oh. My. God… could this man kiss.
“Not bad for a first date,” he whispered and then kissed her
gently again.
Okay… so it was a date. After
that kiss it turned into an ‘official date’ and she had no regrets at all.
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Book Title:
Christmas Gift That Keeps Wagging (Book two in the Dog Tails Series)
Author: Jennifer Conner
Publisher: Books
to Go Now
Genre: Sweet Contemporary Christmas
Romance
Release Date: 11.06.2013
Length: 50 pages
Heat Rating: Sweet
Book Blurb:
Julian Barrows has his
hands full working full time and being a single dad to his kindergarten,
special needs son, Gabe. Gabe’s teacher convinces Julian he doesn’t need to do
everything on his own and introduces him to a seizure dog trainer, Hanna Acker.
Hanna and her sister grew up without any ‘Christmas Cheer’. She’s trying to get
her sister through college and doesn’t have time to let anyone too close,
especially the handsome single dad with a kid.
But, Christmas has a way of changing what we thought we wanted… especially when
Santa and an adorable four-legged ‘elf’ are involved.
Book Excerpt:
“What’s this?” Hanna
asked, as she ran a hand over the grocery bag wrapping paper. Julian took her
coat and hung it by the door so she could follow Gabe into the living room.
“Daddy saw this in a
store window and said that we had to get it for you. Open it!” Gabe said. “I
wrapped it myself,” he added proudly.
“But it’s not
Christmas.”
“No. This is a before
Christmas gift. You have to open it now.”
She pulled off a
half-pound of scotch tape and finally the paper fell away. Hanna stared at the
gift in disbelief. “A Christmas sock… with my name on it.”
Julian came up behind
her and wrapped his arms around her waist. “You told me that you’d never had a
Christmas stocking of your own when you were growing up. Gabe knew Santa wouldn’t know where you were if you
didn’t have you sock hung somewhere.” He winked. “So you needed it.”
“You can take it to your
home or you can hang it here!” Gabe shouted almost tripping over Cody.
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Author Bio:
Jennifer Conner is a
best-selling Northwest author who has over thirty short stories on ebook and
three full-length books in print. She writes in Contemporary Romance, Paranormal
Romance, Historical Romance, and Erotica.
Shot in the Dark hit Amazon at
#1 in Romantic Suspense and Christmas Chaos was #2 in the Romance
category.
Her novel Shot in the Dark was
a finalist in the Emerald City Opener, Cleveland, and Toronto RWA contests.
Jennifer is an Associate
Publisher for the indie e-book company Books to Go Now that resides in the
Seattle area. Books to Go Now offers professional editing, cover design,
multiple book format file creation, and most important--publicity. Their staff
works to help make our author books a success one book at a time.
She lives in a hundred year old
house that she grew up in. Her semi- small town holds an interesting mix of
resident hillbillies, yuppies and Navy Seals. And of course Seattle, only a few
miles away, is the birthplace of Starbucks so coffee is always on the check
list. She blows glass beads with a blow torch, (which relieves a lot of stress
and people don't bother you).
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Prize info.
- (1) Winner will receive a $25 gift card to a book seller of
their choice
- One (1) Winner will receive Sharon Kleve’s Book one and two of the
Dreams Come True Series.
- One (1) Winner will receive Jennifer Conner’s Book one and two of
the Dog Tails Series.
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