Hi, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Maggie
Mae Gallagher and her new book, “The Promise Kept”! For other stops on her Goddess Fish
Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in
this post.
Be sure to make it to the
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and to increase your chances of winning!
The eBook of Book One in the Echo
Springs Book Series, “The Fixer Upper,” is on SALE from 08/15 to
09/15 for ONLY $0.99!!! See below
for more details.
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by! Wishing you lots of luck in this
fabulous giveaway!
The Promise
Kept
by Maggie Mae Gallagher
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy
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BLURB:
Cybil
Roe gave her heart away thirteen years ago only to have it wind up shattered.
With painstaking determination, she has rebuilt her life into something to be
proud of today. Yet all her future plans are upended when the only man she has
ever loved returns to Echo Springs. Nor does it help that he seems bound and
determined to draw her back into his life. Cybil vows to stay away from him, no
matter what seeing him all the time does to her resolve.
Miles
Keaton wiped the dust of his hometown off his shoes years ago, never expecting
that life would lead him back to the place where he had begun. Coming home to
Echo Springs, to Cybil, to start a new law practice and a new life is a risk he
never thought he'd take. She hates him – with good reason. Years ago, he walked
away when she needed him the most. But now is he back, and intends to argue the
case of his life, one more important than any he has debated in a courtroom,
because she is the one woman he cannot live without.
Can Miles convince Cybil to take a second chance on him, or will
a secret she has kept all these years destroy any future they might have?
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EXCERPT TWO:
Echo
Springs had grown a bit throughout the years Cybil had lived there. There were
new fast food restaurants offering burgers and tacos, and new shops along Main
Street with an eye toward luring tourists. New homes and subdivisions had been
built as the township expanded, and another bank had opened off Main Street.
But there was also a persistent resistance to change here in Echo Springs. It
took time for anything new to take hold, if it took hold at all.
It
was part of the town’s charm that she had grown to love over the years.
Once
upon a time, she’d hated how stagnant—and, at times, how archaic—this town
could be, with its entrenched traditions and beliefs. Families had lived here
for generations. The biggest source of revenue were the tourism dollars. Most
of the businesses that had developed and thrived catered more to out of town
guests just passing through than to yearlong residents—with exceptions of
course, like Fitzgerald’s Grocery Store and the post office. Many of the
festivals and events had been designed with the intent of skimming some of the
tourists’ cash before they made it to their final vacation destinations at the
ski resorts, or camping in one of the nearby national parks.
But
Cybil no longer considered Echo Springs as a mere stopover in her life. It was
home. She might want to visit all fifty states, tour Europe, stand on the Great
Wall in China, and touch the sky at Machu Picchu, but this was the place where
she would always return. Now, as she neared her thirty-first birthday, she saw
her hometown as a steady comfort instead of a prison.
Wrapping
her arms in front of her chest to ward off the cold, she trudged the short
distance from her duplex to her yoga studio.
A
bright yellow school bus rumbled down the street, making its rounds to pick up
kids and ferry them to class. She loved the sounds of the world waking up: the
birds chirping as they scouted their morning meals; a dog barking from behind a
privacy fence she passed. Lights were on in the windows of the Victorian style
homes as people started their day.
She
yawned and muttered a curse under her breath. Today was going to be a long day.
She had picked up an extra shift at Smitty’s last night, and had worked until
one. Smitty’s Bar and Grill was one of the local hotspots for the
over-twenty-one crowd. They had a thriving business, mainly because most people
didn’t like to drink alone. The job paid well in tips, even though the
occasional dumbass tried to cop a feel on occasion. After being a waitress at
Smitty’s for almost a decade, Cybil knew how to handle men who figured it was
their god given right to grab things that didn’t belong to them. She had
attended high school with the current owner, Burke Smitt, who’d inherited the
bar and grill from his uncle Tim a few years back when he’d passed. Burke was a
good boss. They were friends and had even dated for a time, until they realized
they were better friends than anything else.
If
there was anything wrong with Echo Springs, it was the lack of available,
eligible dating material. Hence her fantasy man, Pablo with the great hands.
Rarely did anyone new move to Echo Springs. Not on purpose, at least—with the
exception of her newest friend, Abby, who had recently moved here from New
Jersey and wound up falling madly in love with the town’s sexy sheriff, Nate
Barnes. Pure circumstance had brought Abby to their town, as her great-aunt,
Evie Callier, had willed her big old Victorian house to Abby. Falling for her
neighbor, the town sheriff, had been a stroke of luck.
Cybil
was thrilled for Abby, really, she was, but it had been longer than she cared
to admit since she’d gotten horizontal—or anything else—with a guy. Her girly
bits felt sorely neglected and downright testy lately. It was probably because
Cybil knew Abby was getting all the sex—nightly, judging by the satisfied
glimmer that seemed to glow from her friend, stating quite clearly for all and
sundry to see that she was enjoying every blessed minute with Sheriff Stud
Muffin.
Cybil
wasn’t jealous—at least, not very.
The
tiny smattering of jealousy made her feel a wee bit bitchy, as well as a side
heaping of self-pity that there was no one special in her life who looked at
her the way the sheriff did Abby.
Cybil’s
pity party, table for one, could be the reason why she had lost her effing mind
and signed herself up for the hottest new dating website, Matchmakers.com, a
week ago. She was bound and determined to find someone to date. She missed male
companionship, and sex. Maybe she wouldn’t find the love of her life or a keeper,
but it would be nice to get taken out to meal she didn’t have to buy herself.
And perhaps, if she was really lucky, she might experience a few good orgasms
that weren’t of the solo-expedition variety.
She
wasn’t desperate, by any means, but there were times, like now, when she felt
lonely. When she would love to have someone to lean on, and not have to worry
about every blessed thing, all the damn time.
After
week one, the dating app hadn’t produced any winners—not that she’d expected a
crown prince when she’d made the decision to join after a night of wine and a
pint of her favorite ice cream, but she had hoped to find at least one guy with
a little substance whose profile picture didn’t resemble a mugshot. She might
be crazy but she didn’t think finding a halfway decent guy who was appealing to
the eyes, gainfully employed, not an asshole, and didn’t live with his mother
should be on the same level as the quest for the Holy Grail.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Born
in St. Louis, Missouri, Maggie grew
up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything she could get her hands
on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of
books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore,
she’d have been a doctor. While Maggie never did get that doctorate, she
graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in
History.
Maggie
is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres.
She also writes erotic romance under the name Anya Summers
(http://www.anyasummers.com). A total geek at her core, when she is not
writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or spending time with her
family. She currently lives in the United States Midwest with her two furry
felines.
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BOOK BUY LINKS –
THE PROMISE KEPT – BOOK TWO:
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THE FIXER UPPER
– BOOK ONE:
Be sure to also check out Book One of the Echo Springs Book
Series, “The Fixer Upper,” available now at most major bookstores. Plus, right now the eBook is on SALE for ONLY
$0.99!!! Check it out below.
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BOOK BUY LINKS
& BOOK SALE INFO – THE FIXER UPPER – BOOK ONE:
**The Fixer Upper eBook is on SALE from 08/15 to 09/15 for ONLY
$0.99!!!**
Amazon Kindle eBook:
Amazon Paperback:
Amazon Audio CD:
Amazon Audiobook:
Apple iBook eBook:
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Maggie will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC
to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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Maggie ~ Good morning! Welcome back! It is always a pleasure to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteP.S. ~ Your furbabies are just the cutest!! Hope they are doing well!! And I am loving the new book cover with that darling furball!! So sweet!!
Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great book.
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