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New Book Release – Women’s Fiction – Change of Heart

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Emerson “Em” Jordan always wanted a Valentine’s Day wedding. But after being dumped by her boyfriend, she spends the holiday at Seashell Cottage on the Gulf Coast of Florida with Devin Gerard, a family friend who has no interest in her or any other woman and is instead concentrating on his pediatric medical practice and continuing medical missions in Costa Rica.

Em, who’s always wanted a large family, doesn’t mind his disinterest. At thirty-two, she’s decided she doesn’t need a husband to have a child or to adopt one. First, she’s going to fulfill her dream of setting up her own landscape design business in upstate New York and has promised to continue to help run her grandmother’s flower shop.

It isn’t until Em and Devin become friends that Em realizes she might want more than friendship from him. But with his work in Miami and Costa Rica and her busy life in New York, it’s out of the question until something happens that changes everything, even a couple of hearts.

Reader Reviews

“I love how so many of Judith’s books are set at the seaside, as it always gives me a holiday feel about them. Its time to return to the Seashell Cottage for another wonderful and emotional story of love and happiness. This is a very sweet and moving story of broken dreams, friendship, family, dreams, inspiration, determination and most of all love. I enjoyed the book but did feel that the story was a little bit slow in the middle and some paragraphs were filled up with un-necessary topics to lengthen the time frame during the book. But in saying all that I did like the fact that the relationship between the two main characters was a natural one that formed over a longer time frame than most books gives us. There were so many other great and wonderful characters in this book from Em Grandmother to the gardener at Seashell Cottage that all had in some way helped in their own way to give the need help and advice to Em.“ – ReadingfortheLoveofBooks

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A hybrid author who both has a publisher and who self-publishes, Ms. Keim writes heart-warming stories of strong women who face challenges and find love and happiness along the way. Her books are based, in part, on many of the places she’s lived or visited and on the interesting people she’s met, creating believable characters and realistic settings her many, loyal readers love.

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Vicious A Complete Standalone and a Part of the Sinners of Saint Series

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Emilia

They say love and hate are the same feelings experienced under different circumstances, and it’s true.
The man who comes to me in my dreams also haunts me in my nightmares.
He is a brilliant lawyer.
A skilled criminal.
A beautiful liar.
A bully and a savior, a monster and a lover.
Ten years ago, he made me run away from the small town where we lived. Now, he came for me in New York, and he isn’t leaving until he takes me with him.

Vicious

She is a starving artist.
Pretty and evasive like cherry blossom.
Ten years ago, she barged into my life unannounced and turned everything upside down.
She paid the price.
Emilia LeBlanc is completely off-limits, my best friend’s ex-girlfriend. The woman who knows my darkest secret, and the daughter of the cheap Help we hired to take care of our estate.
That should deter me from chasing her, but it doesn’t.
So she hates me. Big fucking deal.
She better get used to me.

Vicious a complete standalone and a part of the Sinners of Saint series

Reader Reviews

An epic deliciously wicked must read that will blow your mind and leave you with a massive book hangover.- Books and Boys BookBlog.

This book totally lived up tothe hype and so much more. It’s one of those books that as soon as you’ve finished you want to start it again. It’s that good. – Kristina, For The Love of Books.

WhatTheFuckityFuck this book was absolutely Alphatastic!!! Five stars really isn’t enough for this one. L.J. Shen blew me away with this one. –Book Smacked.

LJ Shen has done it again.Taken an absolutely HORRIBLE character and made him into a swoony motherfucker. Still a complete asshole, but a swoony one. – Mel’s View.

I absolutely have no idea where to start. This is probably the first book I’ve ever read that has left me speechless. And I’m not even lying. Literally no words are being formed in my head to describe how much I love this book. – Togan Book Lover.

It was amazing and thought provoking, staying with me long after the last word was read.- Rosa Sharon,iScream Books.

Eeek, I can’t believe it! One of the most anticipated books of the year – heck, ever – and I totally devoured it in one sitting. What is it if not love at first read? Jesus, what will I do afterthat? I just simply can’t get over this mind-blowing story. – Rebecca, Little Red Reading Hood.

This book right here blew my FUCKING MIND!! Just wow. I loved Sparrow, Tyed, and Blood to Dust, but Vicious……. he became my one and only! – Julia, The Romance Rebels.

He’s a Bona-fide, “take your heart and crush it under his foot”,”Ruin your life” badass. He puts all the other Bad Boys to shame.- Shabby Arora, BookBistro Blog.

It’s official. L.J. Shen is a witch. How else could the woman possibly crawl inside my mind and create a story that seriously felt custom written for me? -Lana, Dirty Girl Romance.

I couldn’t have wished to have had a better initiation into Ms Shen’s storytelling, too. The editing and proofreading which I give a lot of importance to was faultless. Bravo ma’am – Sharon, KKF Forever.

LJ Shen has created an addictive story line with characters that will frustrate you to no end. – Lina’s Reviews Book Blog.

L.J. Shen pulled off a fucktastic slow burning story of alpha dominance and pain! Which can only describe Vicious! – Heather, QueenZany.

Vicious is everything. Cover, story, sexiness, characters, heat level. Everything was just perfection. – The Romantic Book Angel.

Enemies to lovers at it’s very best it’s also a second chance with a twist. – Lisa’s Bookluscious Blog.

I was completely bowled over by this book, the story flowed really well and the writing was as close to flawless as it could be. – Confessions of a Book Geek.

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About the Author:

L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.

Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.

She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.

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Going Home – A Beautiful Story About Friends And Family

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In 1970, Violet Hawkins’ only wish at eighteen is to escape her life in the Dayton, Ohio, foster-care system and make her way to the west coast to enjoy a mellow life and find the love she’s been missing all her life. She makes it to San Francisco, but soon learns she needs a job if she’s to live properly. A kind, young man named Kenton Chandler offers her a sandwich and a job at his father’s inn and vineyards. With nothing to lose, Lettie takes him up on his offer and begins a whole new life in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. She immediately falls in love with the land and is fascinated with the idea of growing grapes in order to make wines. She, Kenton, and Rafe Lopez become friends as she learns about running the small inn on the property.

At the same time she marries Kenton, a stroke kills his father. And then before she can tell Kenton she’s pregnant, he dies in an automobile accident. Heartbroken and burdened with the gift of the Chandler Hill Inn and Winery, she’s left with the task of making them a success. Struggling to raise a child alone while working to grow the business, Lettie makes a shocking discovery that changes everything.

Reader Reviews

“Going Home by Judith Keim is a beautiful story about friends, family, and overcoming struggles while building a beautiful life. Author Judith Keim does an amazing job making you fall in love with Violet (Letti) Hawkins. This is an amazing book!” – Jamie Onderisin, Reviewer

“Author, Judith Keim, pulls us to a story spanning the 1970’s, 80’s, 90’s and very early 2000’s with all the background of what was going on at that time. The central character, Lettie Hawkins, a young woman finds herself in a world she could only have imagined. She spent her life in foster care and has no confidence and is very naïve about a lot of things. Lettie is a wonderfully imaginative, honest person and catches the eye of a young man who happens to be the son of a very famous man with great ambitions for his land and life. A first immature but wonderful love gives way to stability and marriage with another. She finds herself growing up and becomes a stronger individual once taken under their wings.

Lettie’s romantic relationships may be naïve, but her natural instincts for the land the Chandlers want to turn into a winery and Inn are mature. In the years staying and working at the Inn, she will know many joys and gain self-confidence. The price is great sorrow, though, and we are taken through times of the Vietnam war, PTSD, losing family and friends to cancer and accident, but gaining a beautiful daughter in the process and hard won success at the Inn and in the fields.

This is much more than a romance and tells of successful women who build, create, and love in equal parts and strength. I look forward to the second book in the series by Judith Keim.” – Pam McCarthy – Reviewer

“Going Home is truly about the heroine and main character of the story, a green girl trying to find her way in the world. Quickly becoming disillusioned with life in California, Lettie meets what she hopes is a nice guy and agrees, on a whim to travel with him to Oregon for a job. She winds up accepting the job and her life truly changes in a very short time. This novel allows the reader to watch Lettie grow up into the woman she is meant to be. Tangled love interests, secrets that come to light, wine making by day, love making by night. and frustrated relationships between mother and daughter keep this book moving when it could have slowed down. I would say the book goes down easy enough but has a tender bite to it that needs to be explored.

Lettie’s joy and innocence and the way she connected with the land and the people around her really touched my heart. I also felt like she was real enough not some virtuous woman that only belongs on a pedestal. Well done, Judith Keim…. Going Home is about what home is and who we choose to make a place in our heart for along the way. I can’t wait to read the next one!!!!!” – Tonya Pennington, Reviewer

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About the Author:

Growing up, books were always present being read, ready to go back to the library, or about to be discovered. Information from the books was shared in general conversation, giving all of us in the family a wealth of knowledge and a lot of imagination. Perhaps that is why I was drawn to the idea of writing stories early on. I particularly love to write novels about women who face unexpected challenges and meet them with strength. A hybrid author who both has a publisher and who self-publishes, Ms. Keim writes heart-warming stories of strong women who face challenges and find love and happiness along the way. Her books are based, in part, on many of the places she’s lived or visited and on the interesting people she’s met, creating believable characters and realistic settings her many, loyal readers love.

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Coming in February: The Victory Garden

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From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman’s love and sacrifice during the First World War.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage.

When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified—and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married, she adopts the charade of a war widow.

As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a path to her destiny.

Reader Reviews

“Interesting story from England during WWI. Emily Bryce is about to be 21 and really needs to feel more like an adult. She has two very protective parents who because they already have lost a son to the war are very wary of letting Emily become the grown-up she desires to be.

Everything begins to change when she visits a recovery center with her very restrictive mother. She meets a young man, Robbie Kerr, from Australia who was shot down in his plane. Emily feels a real warmth with Robbie and they look to become a couple . But when Robbie heals, he will be back off to the war.Emily realizes that it is time to break away from her restrictive parents and so she first volunteers at a recuperative center but they don’t have a place for her. And so she voluhteers as a ‘land girl’ …..someone who will work at a farm . There are many places for women doing farm work because so many men are away fighting the war. And this will turn out to be the turning point in her life.

Per usual Bowen will draw you into a fascinating story and you can ‘almost ‘ feel like you are actually there.” – Dr. Stephen M. Bank

“This is the first non-mystery book by Rhys Bowen I have read. I am a huge fan of her mysteries because I love the accessible style, her capable ability to render a historical setting and world to life and her characters. Such memorable characters.

The Victory Garden proves that Bowen can write with easy elasticity in any genre. While I found the book lacked a certain emotional depth; it was still a worthy snapshot of one woman’s experience during a time when women were seen to have much more agency ( while the men were at war) and yet little ability to decide their own fate at all. It is in the crux of this double standard we find Emily, a 21 year old who works as a land girl and back breakingly does her bit for the war effort even while mourning the soldier she loved and lost.

It is the female friendships and sphere that rounded out Bowen’s usual talent for character and I was impressed by how quickly I fell into their world, their quirks and dialogue.

This is not so much a romance between a woman and a man; rather a woman and possibilities when all seems hopeless and uncertain and the makeshift community she becomes a part of.” – Rachel McMillan, Reviewer

“It’s May of 1918 in Devonshire, England, WWI has been raging for almost 4 years and Emily Bryce is about to celebrate her twenty-first birthday. She is also about to celebrate her independence and become her own person. Her family has suffered the hardships of war, having lost their only son and brother to Emily, Freddie. Now with only one child, both parents have sheltered and over protected their daughter, her mother only wanting to have Emily marry “well.” Yet in one instant moment, that is all about to change and Emily’s life will never be the same again.

Bored with the tedium of life that is her everyday existence and wanting to do her part for England, Emily signs up to become a land girl, working on farms that no longer have the man power necessary to harvest and supply food for the country. Yet that is not all that she encounters, as she has fallen in love with a “fly boy” from Australia, a young man that captures her heart.

This book is well written, it shares the value of friendship when the world is being torn apart. As you follow along, you see the rise of independent women, those who now can stand on their own two feet, not only because they have no choice, but with the end of WWI times had changed, values that were once “tried and true” were no longer being adhered to.

With heartwarming and memorable characters, “The Victory Garden” was an enjoyable read. I read this book in one day, because once I started I had to finish it, I couldn’t put it down. I only wish this would be book one as part of a series.” – Artisan Writing Blog

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About the Author:

Rhys Bowen is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Royal Spyness Series, Molly Murphy Mysteries, and Constable Evans. She has won the Agatha Best Novel Award and has been nominated for the Edgar Best Novel. Rhys’s titles have received rave reviews around the globe.

On March 1, 2017, Rhys is excited to announce the publication of her first big stand-alone thriller, In Farleigh Field, set in World War Two at an English stately home. It has already received stellar reviews.

Rhys currently writes two mystery series, the atmospheric Molly Murphy novels, about a feisty Irish immigrant in 1900s New York City, and the funny and sexy Royal Spyness mysteries, about a penniless minor royal in 1930s Britain. Her books have made bestseller lists, garnered many awards, nominations, and starred reviews. She was born in England and married into a family with historic royal connections. She now divides her time between California and Arizona.

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