Phoenix's Ascent by Winter Austin - Book Tour - Book Review - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

Hey, lovelies!!  It gives me great pleasure today to host Winter Austin and her new book, “Phoenix’s Ascent,” here on FAB!!  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 end of this post to enter to win a $10 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!  Also, come back daily to interact with Winter and to increase your chances of winning!!

Thanks for stopping by!!  Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!

Phoenix’s Ascent

Hera Force Book Series

Book Two

by Winter Austin

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GENRE: Romantic Suspense / Military Thriller

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BLURB:

A maniac developing a fantastical drug wants one more thing to finalize the project—a test subject who fits all the parameters. But that test subject is as elusive as her namesake.

Ex-SAS operative Mitch Edwards has been on the run since the moment he was framed for treason by someone in the British government. But he’s never forgotten the flamboyant and seductive CIA operative with the tongue of a thousand languages. In a bar in Cancun, Mexico, Mitch comes face to face with her once more, and with her comes the full force of her enemies.

Reinstated Hera Force linguist and assassin, Nadia Roth, code named Phoenix, has no memory of Mitch Edwards, or of their affair before her team’s disastrous mission. Her traumatic brain injury is tricky that way. But something about this man sets her on fire and tickles the back of her mind. Her Hera teammates remember him, so why can’t she?

Mitch partners up with Hera, with the sole intent of locating those hell-bent on killing him and all who are associated with him. Yet more is at stake than their lives. A traitor hides among their ranks, one who has been revealing all their secrets to an enemy determined to procure this special drug and Nadia for his scheme.

Hera goes into operation mode, doing what they were created to do, but someone is watching, and the team finds themselves trapped behind enemy lines with no way out.

Will Nadia ever remember the man she once loved, or will they perish with the secret between them?

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EXCERPT THREE:

“What are you doing?”

“Shh.” Matías probed deeper. “Where is it?”

Mitch moved back to Nadia’s side. “Where is what?” He grabbed at the man’s arms. “Matías.”

Matías shook loose of Mitch. “There it is.” He parted her hair over her left ear and revealed a long, white scar disappearing into her hairline. “That’s what I was looking for.” Matías rolled back Nadia’s ear lobe. “Interesting tattoo.”

“Beside the point. What does that scar on her head mean?”

Matías let her hair fall in place and stood. “It means she’s had a serious head injury in her past. Just how far back do you know her?”

Far enough to remember if she had gotten a head injury. Whatever had caused it must have happened after he was branded a traitor by the British government.

“So what am I supposed to do?”

“What I told you to do in the first place—take her to a hospital. But I know you, stubborn mule.” Matías shook his head and walked over to a small cabinet at the end of the couch. He pulled out a blanket and handed it to Mitch. “Let her rest. If she doesn’t come out of it by morning, then we’re taking her to the hospital.”

Mitch unfurled the plush blanket and draped it over Nadia. “We’ll see.”

Muttering something about him being a donkey’s ass, Matías left the room, only to pause in the hallway entrance. He looked back at Mitch. “My family will be up early. I can’t promise they will be quiet.”

“No worries, mate.”

Matías disappeared. Seconds later a door clicked shut.

Mitch found the light switches and turned off all but one lone lamp. He sank into a well-loved chair next to the sofa and took vigil over the comatose woman.

After all these years, and all this time, Nadia just dropped out of the sky, right into his lap. In her typical grand fashion, no less. He’d seen her in action before. Hell, he’d even gone on missions with her and watched her and her fellow teammates perform their tasks with razor’s-edge precision. But what he’d witnessed today, this wasn’t the Nadia he remembered. There had been a sloppiness to her job, a hurried reaction. Nadia didn’t react, she acted. First to make a decision on what to do. And the first to make the move.

Attacking a target with witnesses was not her style. Find a secluded spot, do her thing, and slip away in the dark—that was Phoenix. For her to botch a mission was uncharacteristic.

Mitch sighed, sinking further into the seat. It appeared many things had changed with Nadia. Most disturbing, her lack of memory of him.

He closed his eyes and willed his body to relax. He’d worry about all those things in the morning. Right now, he needed sleep. Nadia wasn’t going anywhere for now. If she woke while he dozed, he’d hear her.

At least he hoped so.

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MY BOOK REVIEW:

This book is an exciting, intriguing, thrilling read filled with heart pounding action that will keep you quickly turning the pages!!

This book is a gripping follow-up to the successful Hera Force Book Series!!

It was great teaming back up with Nadia AKA Phoenix and following her lead on another suspenseful operation. However, with her traumatic brain injury keeping her from remembering the team's latest partner, EX-SAS operative Mitch Edwards, things tend to get a bit tricky especially with their extensive and complicated past.

This book is full of action, adventure, and kick-butt entertainment and a dash or two of rekindled romance.

This book is Book Two in the Hera Force Book Series.

All in all, I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it!! I think all romantic suspense readers and military thriller fans will like this book too!! So, add it to your TBR List and get to reading - you won't be disappointed!!

**Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book and have voluntarily provided an honest, and unbiased review in accordance with FTC regulations**

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AUTHOR BIO:

Winter Austin perpetually answers the question: “were you born in the winter?” with a flat “nope,” but believe her, there is a story behind her name.

A lifelong Mid-West gal with strong ties to the agriculture world, Winter grew up listening to the captivating stories told by relatives around a table or a campfire. As a published author, she learned her glass half-empty personality makes for a perfect suspense/thriller writer. Taking her ability to verbally spin a vivid and detailed story, Winter translated that into writing deadly romantic suspense, mysteries, and thrillers.

When she’s not slaving away at the computer, you can find Winter supporting her daughter in cattle shows, seeing her three sons off into the wide-wide world, loving on her fur babies, prodding her teacher husband, and nagging at her flock of hens to stay in the coop or the dogs will get them.

She is the author of ten novels, with more on the way.

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CONNECT WITH WINTER:

Website:

https://www.winteraustin.com

Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/author.winteraustin

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/WinterAustin_

Pinterest:

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Instagram:

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Tirgearr Publishing Author Page:

http://tirgearrpublishing.com/authors/Austin_Winter/index.htm

 BookBub Author Page:

https://www.bookbub.com/authors/winter-austin

BookBub Book Page:

https://www.bookbub.com/books/phoenix-s-ascent-hera-force-series-2-by-winter-austin

Goodreads Author Page:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6880807.Winter_Austin

Goodreads Book Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60387209-phoenix-s-ascent

Amazon Author Page:

https://amzn.to/3EYJbNZ

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BOOK BUY LINKS:

Amazon US Kindle eBook:

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Amazon CA Kindle eBook:

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Amazon UK Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenixs-Ascent-Hera-Force-2-ebook/dp/B09S7CZ4LD

Amazon AU Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Phoenixs-Ascent-Hera-Force-2-ebook/dp/B09S7CZ4LD

Barnes and Noble NOOK eBook:

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Kobo US eBook:

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Kobo CA eBook:

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Tirgearr Publishing eBook:

http://tirgearrpublishing.com/authors/Austin_Winter/phoenixs-ascent.htm

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GIVEAWAY INFO:

Winter will be awarding a $10 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card (Winner’s Choice!!!) to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small commission to help support this blog.  This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those fabulous community outreach projects and awesome giveaways on here**

This contest is sponsored by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish Promotions.  Prizes are given away by the sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.

The Time Traveling Matchmaker by Janie Emaus - Book Tour - Guest Post - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

Hello, lovelies!!  It gives me great pleasure today to host Janie Emaus and her new book, “The Time Traveling Matchmaker,” here on FAB!!  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 end of this post to enter to win a $50 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!!  Also, come back daily to interact with Janie and to increase your chances of winning!!

Thanks for stopping by!!  Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!

The Time Traveling Matchmaker

by Janie Emaus

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GENRE:   Time Travel Romance

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BLURB:

In The Time Traveling Matchmaker, love takes on a new meaning when soul mates are brought together through time and space.

Like every goal-oriented twenty-something, Jessica Singleton, an aspiring filmmaker, is obsessed with finding her future as quickly as possible. What she doesn't know is that the future is obsessed with finding her, too. Renn Porter, an agent with Time Traveling Matchmaker's Inc, blasts back in time - and into her life- in order to transport Jessica to the soul mate who has paid for this service...in the future. But things turn dangerous when it's revealed that Renn has been sent after his own soul mate.

Caught between two times, Jessica and Renn must struggle to stay alive. Falling in love is the biggest risk either of them has ever taken - because, as they are destined to learn, the very existence of Time Traveling Matchmakers, Inc. rests in Jessica's hands.

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EXCERPT ONE:

Renn was coming toward me now and our eyes met. Fireworks went off inside my chest. He wasn’t avoiding me this time. This time I would learn the truth.

I raised my hand in a small wave.

“Watch out!” A bicyclist shouted as he sped down the sidewalk, completely out of control.

He clipped Renn’s shoulder, pushing him up against me. Renn’s coat got caught on the buckle of my purse. I heard a rip. No, more than that - I felt a rip down the center of my body, jagged like a piece of broken glass. Beneath my feet, the sidewalk tilted, and I lost my balance.

A strong a wind kept me from falling. Once steady, I turned to find Renn.

This all happened in a less than a second. And in that second Renn was gone. Vanished. Just like that. All that was left was his lemony scent. And the memory of his hand on my arm.

I didn’t see him in either direction. My head throbbed as if something heavy kept knocking into it.

A minute later a mother with her little girl walked past me. I knew before she stopped, that the little girl was going to bend down to tie her shoe. Time was going to repeat itself. Again.

She giggled, just like before. “Thanks, Mommy,” she said. “Tomorrow I can do it myself.”

I held on to the desire I had seen in Renn’s eyes, wondering about my tomorrow.

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GUEST POST:

My Office

The design of my office could be considered “Organized Chaos.” I, and I alone, know where everything is located.

In fact, years ago, my grandson was scolded by his father for messing up my office. The truth was, I had piles of manuscripts gathered on my floor and I knew where every word was located.

I can’t always find the words in my head, but once on paper, I keep track of every syllable.

My office is located in the far corner of our 1300 sq foot mansion, with one window looking out to the fruit trees in our backyard and one looking at the neighbor’s basketball net.

I work on a laptop that sits on an old desk. To my left is my grandmother’s piano. There is also bed and bookshelf.  The room is currently being occupied my by nineteen-year-old granddaughter who is visiting from New York.  I believe her style is simply chaos!

Granted, it’s a small room, but big projects have been conceived within its walls. Of course, big projects come with big failures, and I’ve cried buckets of tears in that tiny space. I like to think of those tears as watering my will to never give up. Which I haven’t.

On the windowsill I have a plague saying PERSEVERANCE given to me by my daughter.

Next to that sits my college graduation photo. That young girl stares at me wishing she’d had my confidence. I tell her I wouldn’t be who am I today with her insecurities and doubts.

There is a photo of my best friend who passed away a few years ago. I often hear her voice as I write my next “masterpiece” or hit delete.

I have books written by my friends on the top shelf of my bookcase and photos of my family dispersed throughout the room.

Each morning, when I open the door, I inhale the positive vibrations and I know all is right with the world.

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AUTHOR BIO:

Janie Emaus believes when the world is falling apart, we’re just one laugh away from putting it together again. The Time Traveling Matchmaker is her debut adult novel. She is also the author of the blended holiday picture books, Latkes for Santa Claus, and the forthcoming Matzo Balls & Easter Eggs. Her essays, stories and articles have been published in numerous magazines, anthologies, and websites. In 2016 she won an honorary mention in the Erma Bombeck Writing competition. To learn more about Janie visit her at www.janieemaus.com.

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CONNECT WITH JANIE:

Website:

https://www.janieemaus.com

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/janie.emaus

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Janie_Emaus

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/janieemaus

Medium:

https://janieemaus.medium.com

BookBub Author Page:

https://www.bookbub.com/authors/janie-emaus

BookBub Book Page:

https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-time-traveling-matchmaker-by-janie-emaus

Goodreads Author Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6456174.Janie_Emaus

Goodreads Book Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61124553-the-time-traveling-matchmaker

Amazon Author Page:

https://amzn.to/3b5558H

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BOOK BUY LINKS:

Amazon US Kindle eBook:

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Amazon CA Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.ca/Time-Traveling-Matchmaker-Matchmakers-Book-ebook/dp/B09YZWD4ZR

Amazon CA Paperback:

https://www.amazon.ca/Time-Traveling-Matchmaker-Matchmakers/dp/1509241019

Barnes and Noble NOOK eBook:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-time-traveling-matchmaker-janie-emaus/1141389591?ean=2940160745596

Barnes and Noble Paperback:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-time-traveling-matchmaker-janie-emaus/1141389591?ean=9781509241019

Bookshop Paperback:

https://bookshop.org/books/the-time-traveling-matchmaker/9781509241019

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GIVEAWAY INFO:

Janie will be awarding a $50 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card (Winner’s Choice!!!) to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small commission to help support this blog.  This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those fabulous community outreach projects and awesome giveaways on here**

This contest is sponsored by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish Promotions.  Prizes are given away by the sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.

Last Star Standing by Spaulding Taylor - Book Tour - Book Trailer - Book Sale - Guest Post - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

Hi, lovelies!!  It gives me great pleasure today to host Spaulding Taylor AKA Alice McVeigh and her new book, “Last Star Standing,” here on FAB!!  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 end of this post to enter to win a $50 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!!  Also, come back daily to interact with Spaulding AKA Alice and to increase your chances of winning!!

This eBook is on SALE for ONLY $0.99 during the book tour!!!  See below for more details.

Thanks for stopping by!!  Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!

Last Star Standing

by Spaulding Taylor

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GENRE:  Thriller (Speculative)

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BLURB:

Aiden has always felt like an outsider. After the rebel assassin is captured and imprisoned by the world’s galactic overlords, he awaits execution. Then a mole working for the occupying regime alerts him to a plot that could destroy the entire resistance...

Engineering a daring escape, Aiden’s growing feud with the new rebel leader leaves him out in the cold and smouldering with resentment. Faced with deceit and betrayals on every side, he recruits a group of overlooked outcasts and stakes everything on one last mission.

Can the restless, reckless Aiden take a stand long enough to save humanity from enslavement?

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BOOK TRAILER:

Check out the exciting new book trailer for “Last Star Standing,” below:

@alicemcveigh0

Last Star Standing: awardwinning action/adventure

♬ original sound - alicemcveigh0

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EXCERPT ONE:

Lips parted, the woman pressed eagerly forward. The target smiled at her but instead selected a pudgy lad of about six. He passed a skinny guy – who looked, the poor sap, practically broken-hearted. He was almost upon us. My heart sped until it seemed ready to jerk straight out of my chest. Choose me. Choose me. CHOOSE ME.

The Enlightened One seemed – or was it only my imagination? – to be gazing directly at me. Pushing swiftly past Petra I extended my hand. He turned, made a strange gesture, almost of benediction, then wired the back of my hand with that thick blackened stump. An instant surge of heat pulsed up my arm and throughout my torso. Then a wild swirl of fuchsia-slashed-with-orange flashed beneath my eyelids, as if the same stars, fiery and spot-lit against the black, had been injected into my brain. My every corpuscle felt fired, an almost intoxicating sensation, especially after the chill of the poison. I half-stumbled, almost squashing a smallish alien, and only saved myself from falling at the last second.

Through a haze – my eyeballs felt as if they were swimming in flaming waterfalls – I saw Petra and moved towards her. Of course. She couldn’t risk being stamped, in case the creature died too fast. As we walked the ornate brand began to swell on my hand – a warming, tightening feeling. The sense of strangeness accelerated, though this might have been from my borrowed DNA, the chilled poison in my blood, or the fiery stamp. But nothing could dent my happiness, because – I’d done it. I’d assassinated The Enlightened One.

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GUEST POST:

On Balancing Life and Writing

This is a tough topic to get right, and I doubt many writers succeed with it. Personally, though I longed to write, I spent years chasing around the world– no, I don’t want to think about my carbon footprint either – with various London orchestras, messing around with the cello. My work-life balance was so lousy – we were also trying to have an IVF baby – that, on one occasion, I drove to Heathrow airport, injected myself in the thigh with the IVF stuff and left the booth in the ladies’, the syringe still clutched in my hand.

 Have never forgotten the looks I got (“Is it heroin?”... “Is she crazy or is she OK?!?”)

In fact, I was more than OK. That IVF worked, and our kid is now 25.

For me, work/life balance improved – strangely enough – with Covid. One minute I was wondering how to get out of various orchestras in order to write… the next minute – to be specific, on March 7, 2020 – I simultaneously got an awful case of Covid and lost almost all of the rest of that year’s orchestral work.

In health terms – asthmatic, before any vaccine had even been developed – I felt lousy. But in baseball terms – I was secretly thrilled to have been benched.

Seizing my chance, I got three books – one speculative thriller and two Austenesque novels – out within a calendar year. (To read about why this was, marketing-wise, a tough ask, see my Medium article here:  https://astmcveigh.medium.com/on-releasing-three-novels-in-one-calendar-year-and-why-i-wish-i-hadnt-bc7c5f31af27)

Still, my work/life balance is SO MUCH BETTER!

I’m now sneaking back into a little professional playing, but on my terms, and without feeling as if the sky will fall if it doesn’t happen.

So yeah, oddly enough: Covid was good for me.

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AUTHOR BIO:

Alice (Spaulding Taylor) McVeigh has been published by Orion/Hachette in contemporary fiction, by Unbound Publishing in action/adventure and by Warleigh Hall Press in Austenesque fiction. Her novels have won Gold Medal/First Place is the Global, eLit and Pencraft Book Awards, been runner-up in the Independent Press Awards, finalists in the Eric Hoffer, Rone and Wishing Shelf Book Awards and selected by Shelf Unbound as one of the "top indies" of 2021. Two of her novels are currently finalists in the CIBA Book Awards (the Cygnus and Goethe Awards). Her most recent novel (Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation) was just selected as Editors’ Pick “outstanding” on Publishers Weekly.

A professional London cellist, Alice lives in London and Crete with her professor husband: their only child is completing her Masters in Chinese Literature. They also share two miniature long-haired dachshunds and an incurable addiction to tennis.

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CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR:

Website:

https://alicemcveigh.com

Facebook Fan Page:

https://www.facebook.com/alicemcveighauthor

Facebook Personal Page:

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Twitter:

https://twitter.com/astmcveigh1

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/astmcveigh

Instagram:

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Linked in:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-mcveigh-59ab1718

TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@alicemcveigh0

LinkTree:

https://linktr.ee/ASTMcVeigh

Goodreads Author Page – Spalding Taylor:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21170683.Spaulding_Taylor

Goodreads Author Page – Alice McVeigh:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1108881.Alice_McVeigh

Goodreads Book Page:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57011486-last-star-standing

Amazon Author Page:

https://amzn.to/3PORBwO

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AMAZON BOOK BUY LINKS & BOOK SALE INFO:

**The Last Star Standing eBook is on SALE for ONLY $0.99 during the book tour!!!**

Amazon US Kindle eBook:

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Amazon US Paperback:

https://amzn.to/3B9VBDW

Amazon CA Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.ca/Last-Star-Standing-Spaulding-Taylor-ebook/dp/B08PF4ZTZF

Amazon CA Paperback:

https://www.amazon.ca/Last-Star-Standing-Spaulding-Taylor/dp/1789650976

Amazon UK Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Star-Standing-Spaulding-Taylor-ebook/dp/B08PF4ZTZF

Amazon UK Paperback:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Last-Star-Standing-Spaulding-Taylor/dp/1789650976

Amazon AU Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Last-Star-Standing-Spaulding-Taylor-ebook/dp/B08PF4ZTZF

Amazon AU Paperback:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Last-Star-Standing-Spaulding-Taylor/dp/1789650976

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GIVEAWAY INFO:

Spaulding AKA Alice will be awarding a $50 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card (Winner’s Choice!!!) to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a purchase is made, I may receive a small commission to help support this blog.  This does not cost you anything, it just helps pay for all those fabulous community outreach projects and awesome giveaways on here**

This contest is sponsored by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish Promotions.  Prizes are given away by the sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.

The Chronicles of Antecede: Lost and Found by C.M. Sage - Book Tour - Guest Post - Giveaway - Enter Daily!

Hi, lovelies!!  It gives me great pleasure today to host C.M. Sage and her new book, “The Chronicles of Antecede: Lost and Found,” here on FAB!!  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 end of this post to enter to win a $50 Amazon OR Barnes and Noble Gift Card!!!  Also, come back daily to interact with C.M. Sage and to increase your chances of winning!!

Thanks for stopping by!!  Wishing you all lots of good luck in this fabulous giveaway!!

The Chronicles of Antecede:

Lost and Found

by C.M. Sage

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GENRE: Fantasy

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BLURB:

Sometimes things are lost for a very long time...and then they are found.

Take Gracie for example, a woman who lost everything, her life, her family, even her name, but now she is a Cathalian warrior of Antecede blessed with powers, which aren't yet fully realized.  Her elder and nemesis, Donavan, finally granted the former professor an opportunity to train a new warrior.  Her joy turns to shock when she meets her great, great, great, great grandson, Henry, accompanied by his wisecracking best friend, Milo.  Henry recognizes his long dead ancestor right away, and it doesn't take the Cathalians long to realize that this meeting was no accident.

Gracie and the warriors of Antecede soon discover that they aren't the only ones laying a claim on their new charges.  Menacing enemies from the South and their hired mercenary assassin, Revilan, the Bowman, have also taken an interest.  Come along with Gracie, Donavan, and their fellow warriors on a perilous quest to protect all that is good and right from the evil that threatens it, and along the way discover what else was lost.

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EXCERPT ONE:

Gracie tapped his shoulder, “Milo, did you notice anything unusual before I arrived to meet you? Did you see anyone on the shore, even from a far distance?” Milo reached down to ruffle Rosie’s ears before he answered, which was fortunate because at that exact moment a vicious arrow barely missed grazing his ear before flying by into the tall grass.

Gracie heard a sound like a muffled curse far off in the distance. The language wasn’t one she recognized. She knocked Milo flat to the ground, so that he was no longer a target and signaled for her little ones to stay down. Several more arrows flew in quick succession from the same direction. Gracie managed to pull a long dagger from under her coat before she also went down. Blue fell onto her back next to Gracie, a knife in each hand. Gracie looked at Obi, who knew what to do. He crawled away to search for and retrieve an arrow.

In the interim Blue and Gracie rose to their knees, keeping their heads down, and signaling for Milo to stay down. He nodded, and muttered in a shaky voice, “You don’t have to tell me twice. I may never get up!”

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GUEST POST:

If I’d Never Heard of Me, Would I Read My Book?

That is a great question!  I got a little anxious for a minute when I thought about it.  I am “me”, so I really have to shove a lot of that out of the way like a big, heavy trunk to write an honest answer.  You know what?  Yes…if I read the blurb on the back of the book or a synopsis, I would read it.  I love fantasy, adventure romances, so Lost and Found is right up my alley.

I love my cover, and I am so grateful to Stephanie Mooney who was so patient with me.  She knew what I wanted more than I did.  How she somehow figured that out from my emails which are more complicated than the hardest Wordle still amazes me.  I think the cover makes me want to read my own book again 😊

Of course, I have read the book probably a couple of hundred times at this point.  I can honestly say, I love the characters and the story.  I even think the villains are worthy of the story.  I don’t like them, but they do their jobs really well.  I love the plot and twists.  Enough said on that.

Finally I think the story makes me want to know what’s next for the Cathalians of Antecede… I love when a story makes me care about the future and well-being of a character(s) who have become a friend or part of the fabric of the reader’s life.

So after careful consideration I can honestly say that I like my story, and yup…I would read Lost and Found 😊

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AUTHOR BIO:

Lost and Found is author C.M. Sage’s first book in the Chronicles of Antecede fantasy adventure trilogy.  She loves writing, reading, and traveling.  Most of all she loves spending time with her beloved family and friends...and yes, that includes her furry friends.  Life would have been much less sunny without them.

Visit the author’s website and subscribe to her newsletter at: https://cmsage.com.

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CONNECT WITH C.M. SAGE:

Website:

https://cmsage.com

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/cmsage

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/authorcmsage

Amazon Author Page:

https://amzn.to/3RSB10N

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AMAZON BOOK BUY LINKS:

Amazon US Kindle eBook:

https://amzn.to/3aYa5vX

Amazon CA Kindle eBook:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0B4KN4TFF

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GIVEAWAY INFO:

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