Aloha to Willa Blair and HIS HIGHLAND BRIDE - Release Day Blitz

 

We are 48 hours away from St. Andrew's Day on Thursday, November 30. Enter Willa Blair and her new release, HIS HIGHLAND BRIDE (Book 3 in His Highland Heart series) ...

A Dutiful Daughter No More

When Mary Elizabeth Rose’s father marries a much younger lass in hopes of siring a male heir, Mary sees her chance to escape her role as his chatelaine, but fears his next step will be to betroth her to a stranger. She has a different future in mind—with a sometimes charming, sometimes difficult and arrogant wounded Highlander.

He Owes Her His Life

Cameron Sutherland is not too delirious to recognize Mary Rose is the first woman he could seriously consider taking as his bride. He’d like nothing better than to spend years repaying the debt he owes his angel of mercy for taking him in and saving his life. First, he must convince her to defy her father one last time.

Will They Put Love Before Duty?

For Mary, Cameron has become the man whose every smile has the power to bring her to her knees. But he is as duty-bound as she is, and responsibility calls him back to Sutherland, where she fears he will stay, forgetting her and all they’ve shared. With another powerful clan’s interests at stake, Cameron’s return sets events in motion that will have life-changing consequences for the woman he can’t forget.

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Willa Blair is an Award-winning Amazon and Barnes & Noble #1 Bestselling author of Scottish Historical, light Paranormal, and Contemporary romance. She has been featured on and contributes to USAToday’s Happy Ever After romance blog, Savvy Authors, Romance University, and more.

Her books have won numerous honors, including the Marlene, the Merritt, National Readers’ Choice Award Finalist, The Reader’s Crown finalist, Historical Romance finalist and Honorable Mention in InD’Tale Magazine’s prestigious RONE Award, NightOwl Reviews Top Pick, and InD’tale Review’s Crowned Heart.

A life-long student and reader, she has been a stained glass artist and instructor, a foreign language teacher, a computer scientist, an analyst, a manager and an executive. She has visited five continents and can get by in several languages. She loves scouting new settings for books, and thinks being an author is the best job she’s ever had.

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I am giving away "Scottish Swag" to one randomly selected commenter.  To enter the giveaway,

1. Leave a comment about Scotland - do you have a favorite food, drink, place, and/or person from Alba?

I adore shortbread cookies.  I didn't meet a crumbling castle I didn't love.  I admire Eric Liddell:

Eric Liddell (1902 – 1945) was a Scottish Olympic champion at 400 m and a famous Christian missionary; his inspirational life was captured in the film ‘Chariots of Fire‘

2. Comments are open through Sunday, December 31, 2017.  

3. I'll post the winner on Monday, January 1, 2017.

Mahalo,

Kim in Baltimore

Aloha Spirit in Charm City

Fàilte St. Andrew's Day, Monica McCarty, and The Striker

Triùir a thig gun iarraidh – gaol, eud is eagal.
Three that come unbidden – love, jealousy and fear.

Just in time for St. Andrew's Day on November 30, Monica McCarty's THE STRIKER, Book 10 in the celebrated Highland Guard series ...

Six years ago, Eoin "Striker” MacLean endured the greatest betrayal of his life, a disaster that led Robert the Bruce to a crushing defeat and left Eoin without the spirited woman who ruled his heart. Eoin knew that falling in love with his sworn enemy’s daughter was risky, dividing him between a possessive desire for beautiful Margaret MacDowell and an undying loyalty to his king. He promised Bruce that he would keep his fiery bride in the dark about the elite Highland Guard, but he could not predict the dire consequences his secret would have on his young marriage. Nor could he foresee how surrendering to temptation could cripple Bruce’s cause, forcing Eoin to blame his wife—and himself for trusting her.

Now, as Bruce prepares to challenge the resistance’s remaining strongholds, Eoin finally has his chance for revenge against the woman he once loved so fiercely and her entire clan. But when ferociously independent Margaret reveals a surprise that unites her with Eoin, neither of them will let their love go down without a fight.

What do you get when you mix a legal career, a baseball career, motherhood, and a love of history with a voracious reader? In my case, a Historical Romance Author.  Find out more from Monica's website, monicamccarty.com.

I am giving away a print copy of THE STRIKER to one randomly selected commenter.  To enter the giveaway,

1.  Leave a comment about Alba - Scotland.  It was my favorite place to visit ... until I moved to Hawaii.  Yet both Alba and Hawaii share the same sense of spirituality in the culture and land.

2.  Comments are open through Saturday, December 5, 10 pm in Baltimore.

3.  I'll post the winner on Sunday, December 6.

Mahalo,

Kim in Baltimore

Aloha Spirit in Charm City

Aloha to St. Andrew's Day with Cathy Maxwell and Scottish Romances

From the lone shielding of the misty island 

Mountains divide us and the waste of seas – 

Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, 

And we in dreams behold the Hebrides! 

John Galt 1779-1839 Scottish writer 

Today the Scots celebrate their country's patron Saint, Saint Andrew. They will proudly wave the Saltire - the blue flag with a white cross that represents Scotland's independence.  I have been blessed to visit Alba twice ... and I visited Alba after reading my first romance novel, Cathy Maxwell's A MARRIAGE CONTRACT. Cathy is my go-to-author for Regency Scottish Romance ... she always delivers heartwarming moments and humor laced dialogue.

Cathy is sponsoring a special giveaway at Fresh Fiction (link),

I am so grateful for my readers and for the chance to do what I do, I want to celebrate this Season of Gratitude with a special contest.

THREE lucky readers can win an autographed copy of one of my books plus a set of heart shaped measuring spoons. This will make your holiday baking special because we all know love can only be measured by what we put into it, no?

I'll also include a set of bookmarks for my TWO new books THE BRIDE SAYS NO and THE BRIDE SAYS MAYBE. They'll be out on the shelves this coming February and March.

And to everyone--

May your holidays be full of the joy of love!

All my best,

Cathy

Plus Cathy is giving away the same prize here at SOS Aloha! To enter the giveaway,

1.  Leave a comment about Scotland ... if you could visit one place, what would it be?  A castle?  A city?  A distillery?

2.  This giveaway is open to all readers.

3.  Comments are open through Saturday, December 7, 10 pm in Baltimore.   I'll post the winner on Sunday, December 8.

Mahalo,

Kim in Baltimore

Aloha Spirit in Charm City

To learn more about Cathy and her books, check out her website at cathymaxwell.com.

To learn more about St. Andrew's, check out this link.

Coming in 2014