Hi lovelies! It gives me
great pleasure today to host SS Hampton Sr and his new book, “Sharing Rachel”! For other stops on his 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
end of this post to enter to win a $15 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift
Card! Also, come back daily to interact
with SS Hampton Sr and to increase your chances of winning!
This book is on SALE during
the book tour for ONLY $0.99!! See below
for more details.
Thanks for stopping
by! Wishing you lots of luck in this
fabulous giveaway!
Sharing Rachel
by SS Hampton Sr
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GENRE: Erotic Romance
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BLURB:
Burt
and Rachel Markham are ordinary small business owners of a seed & feed
store in a small Kansas farming and ranching community. Many years before, as
young university graduates eagerly anticipating exciting overseas employment, a
lifetime in Kansas was the furthest thing from their minds, particularly Rachel
who was raised overseas and dreamed of going back. By July 2013 their twin
18-year old daughters, having graduated high school several months before, go
east to attend a university. Burt and Rachel settle into their new life of an
empty house and a predictable and unchanging routine that threatens to stretch
far into the future. One summer evening Burt has an idea—but will Rachel accept
the idea? If she does, will the idea add new excitement to their marriage, or
destroy it?
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EXCERPT ONE:
A
song of reserved exuberance began; the feminine voice rolled the sound of many
of the French words. Rachel tilted her head to listen to the music.
“Edith
Piaf, France’s premier singer back in the ‘60s,” she announced fondly. “She
died of cancer. This song, it’s “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” or “No, I Regret
Nothing.” It’s one of her most famous.”
She
put her elbows on the table, folded her hands and rested her chin on them. She
looked at Burt.
He
listened. Maybe it was the title—the voice and music had a slow almost
melancholy, and yet proud and defiant feel to it. The music and words added an
authentic touch to the dim bistrot. If he closed his eyes for a moment he might
be able to imagine a rainy night in Paris, sitting in a French bistrot with his
wife in the shadow of Notre Dame Cathedral, overlooking the Seine River. Paris
was a city he always wanted to visit; he knew Rachel and her parents had
visited when stationed overseas.
“I’m
not really hungry yet,” he said.
She
nodded. “Like I said, after.”
Burt
looked at the empty foyer. There was “After” again…
The
waitress returned with their drinks.
“There’s
not a wide variety of food because we follow the old European tradition of few
selections, but each one is of loving preparation and excellent taste. Would
you like to order something?...”
“Perhaps
a little later,” Rachel answered. “We’re waiting on someone.”
Burt
took a drink of his beer and glanced at the TVs. Sports and news. She took his
hand in hers, tilted her head and continued smiling at him.
Maybe
GentlemanNate wouldn’t show...
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AUTHOR BIO:
Stan Hampton, Sr. is a
full-blood Choctaw of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a divorced grandfather to
13 grandchildren, and a published author, photographer and photojournalist. He
retired in 2013 from the Nevada Army National Guard with the rank of Sergeant
First Class; he previously served in the active duty Army, and the Army
Individual Ready Reserve (mobilized for the Persian Gulf War). He enlisted in
the Nevada Army National Guard in October 2004, after which he was mobilized
for Federal active duty for almost three years. Hampton is a veteran of
Operations Noble Eagle and Iraqi Freedom, with deployment to northern Kuwait
and several convoy security missions into Iraq.
He
has had two solo photographic exhibitions and curated a multi-media exhibit.
His writings have appeared as stand-alone stories and in anthologies from Dark
Opus Press, Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy, Melange Books, Musa Publishing,
MuseItUp Publishing, Ravenous Romance, and in Horror Bound Magazine, The
Harrow, and River Walk Journal, among others.
As of
April 2014, after being in a 2-year Veterans Administration program for
Homeless Veterans, Hampton is officially no longer a homeless Iraq War veteran.
In
May 2014 he graduated from the College of Southern Nevada with an Associate of
Applied Science Degree in Photography – Commercial Photography Emphasis. He has
been studying at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with in a double major in Art
and English. However, he is presently spending a cold, rainy Spring 2017
semester studying at a university in southwestern France in the shadow of the
Pyrenees Mountains.
But,
after 16 years of brown desert in the Southwest and overseas, he misses the
Rocky Mountains, yellow aspens in the fall, running rivers, and a warm
fireplace during snowy winters.
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CONNECT WITH SS
HAMPTON SR:
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Goodreads Author Page:
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Amazon US Author Page:
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BOOK BUY LINKS
& SALE INFO:
**Sharing Rachel is on SALE during the book tour for ONLY $0.99!!!**
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
SS Hampton Sr will be awarding a $15
Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)
ReplyDeleteAlly,
ReplyDeleteGood morning! I hope all is well with you and yours. Thank you for this opportunity, I appreciate it. I will be checking in from time to time today when I have a chance; I am completing my travel to return home after studying in France and spending a couple of weeks with family in Colorado.
Stan
Thanks for the excerpt and giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway; I like the excerpt. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments everyone. And I hope you enjoy the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteStan
This sounds awesome, I can't wait to check it out. Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the excerpt thank you.
ReplyDeleteHello! I am here once again to thank you for the chance at winning. I appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteNo problem. I appreciate your interest.
DeleteStan