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Walker
Revenge – Book 5
by Bernadette Marie
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GENRE:
Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
Russell Walker’s life
was spared when his truck veered off the road and flipped. When he wakes after
surgery, he can only assume the medicines are making him see things, because
the woman he loved—who broke his heart—is taking his vitals.
Chelsea Quinn has spent the past four years keeping clear of Russell Walker after she married another man and had a baby. Now she is thrust back into his life as his caretaker, and living with his family when her ex-husband is let out of prison.
Some heartbreaks are too severe to recover from, and Russell is fighting every feeling he has as not to get his heart broken again. But sometimes the pull of love is just too strong, especially when the lives of those you love are threatened, and someone is looking for revenge.
Chelsea Quinn has spent the past four years keeping clear of Russell Walker after she married another man and had a baby. Now she is thrust back into his life as his caretaker, and living with his family when her ex-husband is let out of prison.
Some heartbreaks are too severe to recover from, and Russell is fighting every feeling he has as not to get his heart broken again. But sometimes the pull of love is just too strong, especially when the lives of those you love are threatened, and someone is looking for revenge.
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EXCERPT TWO:
Russell
reached for her and she quickly glanced out the window used for observation.
“What can I do for you, Mr. Walker?”
“Stay for
a little bit. I’d like to talk.”
“I have
rounds to make. I can’t spend any time in here talking. If you’d be more
comfortable, I could ask to be transferred to another unit.”
His world
was fuzzy again, but he wasn’t done. “No, I don’t want that at all. I owe you
an apology. I want to give that to you.”
She
turned to the computer at his bedside, scanned her ID tag, and then entered
something with her back turned to the window.
“Russ, I
hate to see you in here like this, but something tells me you deserved it.”
“That’s a
horrible thing to say.”
She gave
him a grunt. “You got in a fight at a bar before you flipped your truck because
you’d been drinking.”
“I wasn’t
drunk,” he defended.
“Maybe
not, but your mouth was getting you in trouble, which says to me, nothing has
changed.” She tucked one of those loose strands of blonde hair behind her ear,
a sign that she was nervous. “If you’re sincere about talking, I’ll come back
when my shift is over.”
“I’d like
that,” he said, but his tongue felt as though it filled his mouth and didn’t
sound right. “I’m sorry,” he said slurring his words.
“They
gave you something to manage your pain. You will probably sleep a lot.”
His eye
lids grew heavy again, but he forced them back open. “I love you, Chelsea,” he
managed before he couldn’t open them again.
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GUEST POST:
ADDING PERSONAL TRAITS TO CHARACTERS – IT’S A FUN GAME
One of the first questions authors are always asked is,
“Do you write anyone you know into your books.” For the longest time, I
wouldn’t do it. No one had a name of anyone I knew, and certainly nothing
traceable. Then it happened. One day, one of my characters threw his water
bottle in the backseat of his rental car, and I laughed for a long time. This
was the first trait of someone I’d put into a book, and it belonged to my
husband.
In time, it became a game to write in familiar to me
things. Of course, those close to me would start to find those little Easter
Eggs. My mother laughs when my father’s favorite pizza toppings show up in
restaurants that depict places we used to eat. A karate instructor used to beg
to be in a book, his habit of looking elsewhere while he was talking to you
ended up being the trait of an ex-husband. Grandma’s recipes, cars, houses,
clothes, and music show up in all my books now. But the funny part is, much
like going through someone’s mail or trash, if you pay close attention to
author’s books, you can pick out their personal things too. It becomes a game
on both sides.
Hmmmm, can you figure out my two favorite singers by
reading my books? I dare you.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Bestselling Author Bernadette Marie is known for
building families readers want to be part of. Her series The Keller Family has
graced bestseller charts since its release in 2011, along with her other series
and single title books. The married mother of five sons promises Happily Ever
After always…and says she can write it, because she lives it.
When not writing, Bernadette Marie is shuffling
her sons to their many events—mostly hockey—and enjoying the beautiful views of
the Colorado Rocky Mountains from her front step. She is also an accomplished
martial artist with a second degree black belt in Tang Soo Do.
A chronic entrepreneur, Bernadette Marie opened
her own publishing house in 2011, 5 Prince Publishing, so that she could
publish the books she liked to write and help make the dreams of other aspiring
authors come true too. Bernadette Marie is also the CEO of Illumination Author
Events.
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CONNECT WITH BERNABETTE:
Website: www.bernadettemarie.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/authorbernadettemarie
Twitter: @writesromance
Amazon Author Page: http://amzn.to/2beDlMb
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