Oh, Baby, Have I Got a Book For You! SANTA BABY, from Romance Gem Author Peggy Jaeger!

We've made it to Friday which means we get a little treat, a peek at my friend and fellow Romance Gem author Peggy Jaeger's Christmas in July release, SANTA BABY!

Blurb ~

It’s Christmas Eve morning in the tiny New England town of Dickens.

Santa’s arrival is imminent, and a hint of snow is in the air.

Amy Dorrit is just about to open her popular diner for the breakfast rush when she discovers an abandoned baby on her back doorstep.

Amy knows she should call the authorities and turn the infant over to them, but she just can’t. Thoughts of her own abandonment as a baby flood through her and she wants to keep the little one out of the hands of the authorities until the mother – hopefully –returns.

But will the mom come back? And if she doesn’t, what is Amy prepared to do about the baby who has, already, claimed her heart?

 

Excerpt ~

“What in the name of all that’s holy are you holding, Amy Dorrit?”

Willie Jackson stood at her office door, a lit cigarette dangling from a corner of his mouth, his leather jacket hanging open and his eyes as big and round as his county-famous blueberry pancakes.

“What does it look like?” Amy dug around in the carrier searching for a bottle, pacifier, something, to soothe the baby’s cries. “Lose the cigarette. It’s a baby and I’m pretty sure it’s hungry.”

He lifted those shocked eyes to Amy’s face. “Girl, you been keeping secrets from ol’ Willie?”

“Oh for Pete’s sake. Are you nuts, William Jefferson Jackson? It’s not my baby. I found it at the back door when I came downstairs.”

“Whose is it?”

“No idea.”

“What is it?” Holding the small bundle like a football in one arm, she shoved the piece of paper she’d found at him. “Same answer. I haven’t looked yet. Here, read this. I found it tucked inside the blanket.” Once he had it, Amy placed her pinky finger over the baby’s lips. It immediately rooted, then latched on to suck.

“I knew it. It’s starving.”

“ ‘I’m sorry,” he read aloud, ‘but I can’t take care of her—’ well, we know it’s a girl –‘I have no job and no way to hold on to one with a baby. Please forgive me for leaving her like this, but I saw how kind you were yesterday and I know you’ll take care of her like I can’t.’” Willie scratched his head. “Well, shit. We got us a real abandoned baby, here, Ames ol’ girl.”

“Don’t curse in front of her.” She shot him an annoyed glare, her left eyebrow inching up her forehead to her hairline.

“It ain’t like she can understand me. She’s a baby, fer Chri-” Her other eyebrow followed its twin. “Er, pity’s sake.”

“I need something to feed her with.” She glanced around her office. “Can you get me one of the cake decorating bottles? The ones with the plastic tip? I think that’ll work.”

“What’a’ya gonna feed her? Frosting? You ain’t got no mother’s milk and you can’t feed her coffee creamer.”

“Dam-I mean, drat. You’re right. I can give her a little water to hold her over until I can run out and get her some formula.”

“Shouldn’t you call the police? I mean, she’s been abandoned, ain’t she? You can’t just keep her.”

You can buy SANTA BABY here:

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Bio ~

Peggy Jaeger is a contemporary romance writer who writes Romantic Comedies about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them. If she can make you cry on one page and bring you out of tears rolling with laughter the next, she’s done her job as a writer!

Family and food play huge roles in Peggy’s stories because she believes there is nothing that holds a family structure together like sharing a meal…or two…or ten. Dotted with humor and characters that are as real as they are loving, she brings all topics of daily life into her stories: life, death, sibling rivalry, illness and the desire for everyone to find their own happily ever after. Growing up the only child of divorced parents she longed for sisters, brothers and a family that vowed to stick together no matter what came their way. Through her books, she’s created the families she wanted as that lonely child.

When she’s not writing Peggy is usually painting, crafting, scrapbooking or decoupaging old steamer trunks she finds at rummage stores and garage sales.

As a lifelong diarist, she caught the blogging bug early on, and you can visit her at peggyjaeger.com where she blogs daily about life, writing, and stuff that makes her go "What??!"


You can find Peggy here:

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Thank you for joining us today, Peggy and for bringing along your baby, SANTA BABY!

DEATH RACE, It'll Get Your Heart Beating In More Than One Way ~ Kari Lemor #RomanceGem Author

Happy Feature Friday, all! Today I have Romance Gem author Kari Lemor with me and she's brought along her hero and heroine from her new release coming to us this Saturday, DEATH RACE, Book Five in her LOVE ON THE LINE series. Meet my friend Kari and Keith Cho and Samantha Bates. 

Let's start with Keith...

Tell me about yourself? What is your occupation? Why? What are your strengths & weaknesses?

I’m Officer Keith Cho, Boston Police Department. I bring criminals to justice. I don’t think it’s a good idea to publicize any weaknesses. Not in my job.

How did you and Samantha meet? What was your first impression of her?

I met Samantha when her brother, Paul and I became partners in the Boston PD. She was still a teenager at the time. I always enjoyed the time all three of us spent together, though she was far too young for me to think of in any romantic way. I still shouldn’t because Paul made me promise to take care of her. I don’t go back on my word.

What do you like about the Samantha?

There’s lots to like about Sammi. But I’d have to say her best quality is she doesn’t play games. What you see is what you get. She’s truthful no matter what. Even if it hurts your feelings.


Has life handed you any major disappointments?

Sure, everyone has disappointments. My biggest is not being able to save Paul when a scum thief killed him.

If you had an unexpected free day, what would you do with it?

Due to this bullet wound in my shoulder, I’ve got about a month of free days. I’d planned on taking a cross country trip to visit my family. Now that Sammi’s with me, I guess the trip won’t be so boring.

Now it's Samantha's turn...

Tell me about yourself? What is your occupation? Strengths, weaknesses?

I’m Samantha Ann Bates. Sammi to my family. Well, it was. They’re all gone now. I’m a mechanic. I’m good at fixing cars. And saying things maybe I shouldn’t. It doesn’t always go over too well. So I guess that makes it a weakness.


Describe Keith. What was your first impression of him and did it change over time?

Keith Cho has this façade that he presents to the world. Cold, emotionless, business-like. I was kind of intimidated by him when we first met. Thought he was super cute, too. But Paul told me to forget any crush on Keith. But my brother insisted Keith has a sense of humor in there somewhere. Now that we’re on this cross-country trip together, guess I’ll have time to look for it.

Is there anything about Keith that you would consider a flaw?

Sure. The fact he’s a cop. Don’t get me wrong, being a police officer is a noble and courageous career. I have the utmost respect for what they do. Unfortunately, both my father and brother died in the line of duty. I can’t lose someone else that way.

What is it that you want out of life?

See this black eye and these bruises? Yeah, how about not getting punched in the face or kicked by your supposed boyfriend. Cause that really sucks. Is that too much to ask, to be treated well?

I would think not! Has life handed you any major disappointments?

Well, the punching boyfriend was definitely a major disappointment. But before that absolutely. My dad died in the line of duty when I was fourteen. My mom died last year from cancer. Then a month after Mom died, my brother Paul was killed in the line of duty. Not sure I could handle anything bigger than that.

What CD is in your CD player right now?

Well, since I hightailed it out of town so the jerk boyfriend wouldn’t come after me, I don’t have my car or the CD player. But Keith’s nice big truck has all the latest gadgets. Unfortunately, he prefers classic rock. Don’t get me wrong, rock is great, but I need some twanging country boys telling me all their woes so mine don’t seem quite so bad.

Hmm. Not a bad idea.

Now here's more about DEATH RACE...

Blurb ~

The road to happiness is paved with danger...

Recovering from a gunshot wound is the easy part. Boston cop, Keith Cho, discovers coming to grips with his partner’s death requires a different sort of medicine. He’ll start a cross country road trip with seeing his partner’s sister, Samantha Bates.

Sam can’t hide the injuries or the backpack she’s hauling as she hikes away from town. Fleeing from her abusive ex-boyfriend is key. When she and Keith reconnect on a back country road, he insists she come with him.

Keith is good company but needs to stay firmly in the friend category. Being with a cop can only lead to heartache, something Sam can’t handle again. As they travel, frequent accidents seem far too convenient. Are these incidents connected to them or a mystery someone wants silenced? It’s a race against death and someone’s going to lose.

HERE'S WHERE YOU CAN BUY DEATH RACE:

Amazon US https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091NDNYBV

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B&N https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/death-race-kari-lemor/1139173843?ean=2940162252054

iBooks https://books.apple.com/us/book/death-race-love-on-the-line-book-5/id1561506890

Google https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Kari_Lemor_Death_Race_Love_on_the_Line_book_5?id=qKcKEAAAQBAJ&hl=en&gl=US

Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/death-race-love-on-the-line-book-5

Books2Read https://books2read.com/u/31lKAn

HERE'S WHERE YOU CAN FIND KARI:

Website: https://www.karilemor.com/

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Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Kari-Lemor/e/B00ON2YDI6/

Thanks for being my guests today, Kari, Keith, and Samantha!

~ A Good Read is Just a STONE FALL Away! ~

Please welcome Min Edwards with her romantic suspense, STONE FALL...

BLURB ~

She’s running for her life. He’s vowed to save her, whether she wants him to or not.

Sandra Hastings has just lost the case of her career. Mob boss Silvestre Buonovenura is exonerated and now out to get her. And if that’s not enough, the New York DA’s office has politely asked her to take some time off... maybe a lot of time... maybe forever.

Nick McCullough is a little bored with tiny Stone Bay, Maine, and his new job as Chief of Police. He’s hopeful though that a weekend camping with the lovely Sandra Hastings might just be the answer to his prayers, get him back on track, lift his spirits. Now he has to make sure that the mob boss who’s put a hit out on her doesn’t get the chance to complete his plans. Maybe his little weekend away won’t be as restful as Nick had planned.

EXCERPT ~


With her face in the dirt, Sandra was almost to the point of giving up when she heard something from the jungle across the clearing. A rustling but not accompanied by the distinctive chatter of the small monkeys who had kept her awake during the past two nights. In fact, there was no other sound. It was as if the jungle creatures had turned to stone in fear. And the thought of what could instill that in them had her slowly easing her head up from the dirt.

At first, she saw nothing in the dim moments before the sun’s rays could angle directly into the clearing, but she still heard rustling in the bushes at a point directly across from her shed. Something was there, something big.

Then from the corner of her eye, she saw movement. At first just a dark boxy shape peeking out of the leaves. Perhaps one of those monkeys.

Nope. In the next instant, the square black shape became something long... and slithery.

At first, it came into the now illuminated clearing slowly, sinuously. She knew the head looked big from her vantage point in the dirt, but as she pushed her body up with her arms, she realized that big wasn’t a... big enough word for the creature. It slithered out into the early morning light and slithered and then slithered some more until in the center of the clearing the thing began coiling and stacking its body until it looked like a turban for a giant.

Sandra knew she should do something. But nothing much came to mind except to stare. She was still caught with her butt wedged under the shed door. If that thing started toward her, she wouldn’t have a chance of pushing herself back under the door to the safety of her cell. And she’d dug a damn hole as a welcoming entrance for the beast. Come on inside and have a meal... of tasty, plump American woman. Nick, where are you? I need you to come and kill this thing right now.

Since contorting her body back under the door probably was impossible, the alternative was to push onward—without disturbing the turban-beast. So as quietly as she could, with her eyes glued to the snake in front of her, she wiggled, pushed with her toes, shimmied her hips until her butt popped free. Of course, the popping came with an added bonus... a big rip in the seat of her pants.

lINKS ~

You can buy STONE FALL here:

https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Fall-High-Tide-Suspense-ebook/dp/B01BX85YXU/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500825473&sr=1-9&keywords=min+edwards



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