I have four younger sisters. Yes, you read that correctly. There are eight years between us and it was sometimes the best of times growing up and sometimes the worst. 

I remember those good times very fondly. I didn't really need girlfriends because I always had my sisters. We would tell stories each night in bed or would share our days. 

But those times when we would fight... Let's just say that they are memorable too. You can't love someone without having squabbles and that includes family. 

It's one of the things I loved about Vanessa Garden's Submerged Sun series. She gets how sisters act. She knows that they would do things just to tick each other off, but eventually they are all the other has. 

You can find out for yourself in her upcoming release, Impulse.

Blurb:
In a glittering underwater world, where danger lurks behind beauty and power, seventeen-year-old Miranda Sun must decide between her freedom and the love her heart ultimately yearns for.

When Miranda Sun returns to Marin on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, this time of her own free will, she quickly learns that her worst fears have been realized. The glittering underwater city is not as she had left it, nor too is Marko, the young king who has dominated her thoughts and heart for the last twelve months.

To make matters worse, Miranda has not made the journey to Marin alone, and now must contend with not only Marko’s evil brother Damir, but more surprisingly her sister Lauren who has an agenda of her own.
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With Marko’s power beginning to wane, and with cracks beginning to show in the domed Utopian city, and veiled danger lurking everywhere, she quickly learns that in this dazzling city full of beautiful people she can trust no one but herself.
 

About the Author:
A bookseller and Young Adult author, Vanessa loves nothing more than immersing herself in the exciting world of books. When she is not sharing her favorite reads with customers, or mentally casting actors to play the characters in her next novel, she enjoys hanging out with those she loves most.
 
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Finding love is sometimes unexpected. I never thought to look twice at my husband. In fact, I was a little frightened of him. He intimidated me. He was a parent of one of my students. No-No number one. But once we took a moment to talk, we found how much we connected. 

Grea Warner tells the tale of another unexpected love story. Maya never thought she'd have a relationship again. But we can't always know what fate has in store for us.

If you love stories filled with emotion and love, Every Mile a Memory is a perfect read for you!

Available in Ebook and Print- Grab Your Own Copy Now!
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BLURB:
A chance encounter leads to a road never imagined and the possibility of dreams coming true.

Going on tour with a band was never on Maya Shriver’s radar. But then neither was being a widow in her mid-thirties. And finding happiness again? Well, that was out of the question.

When danger erupts, Maya is abruptly thrown together with Hawk Brannigan—a country singer’s right-hand man. And she finds out that, once again, life can change in an instant. Suddenly, Maya is not only in a new career but she’s also allowing herself to love again.

As Maya begins to unpack her grief and move on, a misunderstanding from the past may cause the couple to travel in different directions. 

Excerpt:
“Finn? What? What’s going on?” she answered and then gave him a chance to actually respond. “What! What? Are you okay?” She shot up from her seated position on the sofa.

​Her disposition instantly got my attention. I put my laptop down and repeated her query.

“What?”

“Yeah,” she said into the phone and took a big breath before repeating again, “Yeah. You’re sure?” She pressed the phone tighter to her cheek and, after listening again, talked in a way that I knew she was having trouble hearing. “Hawk?” She looked at me, now standing, too, and then listened some more. “Uh-huh. She’s right here.” Her eyes appeared a little bigger that time before she said, “Okay. Hold on.”

When she pulled the phone away from her face, I asked again, knowing there was definitely a cause for concern, “What?”

“There was an incident,” she said slowly. “Hawk got Finn out of the way, but in the process, Hawk was hurt.”

Oh. My. God. It was happening all over again. Jeff…Hawk…

“Is he dead?” I hardly heard my own words. They came out in a horrified whisper.

About the Author:
There really wasn’t any other path. Grea Warner knew from a young age that she wanted to write.  She was born to write.  First it was in diaries with little metal keys and in written tales that she slipped to friends in study hall.  School newspapers, a college television drama, and the soap opera world were next. After producing and writing a local show, she decided to delve into the world of the novelist. When her fingers aren’t tapping out her latest book filled with angst and romance, Grea can be found hiking the trails or jamming to her favorite country artists on the radio.
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Friends to lovers or opposites attract? Which is your love story?

I am a friends to lovers but there is somethings amazing about opposites. When you have someone who compliments you by being the strength where you are weak and you being the thing they are missing. 

Roxie and Aidan are not alike. She's a shy, quiet type and he's the center of a cyclone. But together they are perfect.

Blurb:
​An invitation to Cupid’s Café will change your life.

Former social worker Roxie Fisher believes she’s cursed to never find happiness and an invitation to Cupid’s Café isn’t going to change her situation. All the same, against her better judgment, she gives it a try. What else does she have to lose?

After the death of his wife, accountant-turned-firefighter Aidan Craig, can’t stop taking ridiculous risks and never turns down a dare. So an invitation to Cupid’s Café is an offer he can’t refuse. What he doesn’t expect is to meet the social worker who helped him through the darkest days of his life. Now she’s the one struggling, and he’s compelled to help.

The two experience an immediate attraction, but Aidan swore to never become involved in another relationship, and Roxie can’t imagine daredevil Aidan being interested in a boring, cat-rescuer like her.

Can Roxie find the simple joy of taking a risk? Is Aidan willing to risk his heart? Or will they both lose out on a chance at true love?
 

Be Sure to Grab them All!!

​Welcome to Cupid's Café, a place where missed connections meet. How the invitations find them, no one knows…except for the mysterious owner, Mr. Heart.

This multi-author series focuses on protagonists struggling with real-life issues that often get swept under the rug. With Cupid’s Café, these issues find representation in the characters struggling to conquer their own problems while trying to carve a future for themselves.

From cops to artists, or social workers to photographers, Mr. Heart ensures these lost souls who believe themselves undeserving of love reconnect with their fated match.

Each couple embarks on their journey at Cupid’s Cafe, but the rest is up to them: whether damage wins or they find true love in the end.
 
READ THEM ALL
Painting for Keeps (Cupid's Cafe #1) by Landra Graf
Exactly Like You (Cupid's Cafe #2) by Lori Sizemore
Captured Memories (Cupid's Cafe #3) by Katherine McIntyre
True Colors (Cupid's Cafe #4) by Landra Graf

About the Author:
Lori Sizemore writes sexy and snarky romance. She adores all things story and geeks out about craft books, writing classes, and how-to blog posts daily.

When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with her family, playing video games, or crocheting. Sometimes all three at once, as she’s a master multi-tasker.
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She loves to read a good book, in any genre, but her favorite is romance. Find her online blogging or on social media through her website, lorisizemore.com.
 
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Two flawed individuals who find love, sums up Painting for Keeps, a new release at Inkspell Publishing. 

If you are a perfect person, raise your hand. No hands go up, because we are all flawed in some ways. Depression is a big part of who I am. I didn't understand how much until I was finally ready to recognize it. When you are trying to hide the daily issues, you can be blind to what is really going on. 

Author Landra Graf tells a heartwarming tale of a man who is dealing with his own issues and a woman who feels like she has no value. Together they are able to support each other and find that they are perfect together.

Blurb:
An invitation to Cupid’s Café will change your life.

Agatha Kakos is one brownie bite away from losing her dinner when an invitation to Cupid’s Café shows up on her doorstep. Fighting bulimia and her mother’s constant verbal abuse has never been easy. An offer to meet a secret admirer is more a morale booster, if anything.

Following a break-in and the destruction of his paintings, starving artist Murphy O’Shea finds himself at wits end. Not only does he need to prepare ten more paintings, but in the midst of another manic/depressive episode, the challenge seems impossible. He’s got two months or he’ll have to cancel his first show. The Cupid’s Café invite offers him a chance to find his muse. He doesn’t expect it to be the woman he’s mirrored every previous painting on, nor does he plan on being able to offer Aggie the help she needs.

Aggie finds saving grace by renting an apartment from Murph in exchange for posing for paintings. She’s fully invested in the man, his art, and exploring the sexual attraction between them. But Murph sees Aggie as his savior, the only one keeping his disorder from becoming worse. When both are faced with their worst fears, the only solution is for them to be apart. It’s going to take them saving themselves before a future together is possible.
Can they find a way to conquer their inner demons or will they succumb to the idea they aren’t worth a happily ever after?

Excerpt:
Moisture welled in her eyes and she heard Murph’s chair squeak as the legs slid sharply against the linoleum floor. Before she could object, or even answer his question, he hauled her to her feet and wrapped her in a hug. The way their bodies aligned, in some perfect way, like two puzzle pieces joining together, hit her straight in the chest and a knot formed there.

This hug touched her emotional center more than the first one. She could easily blame it on all the memories she’d stirred, coupled with this display of affection. Jordan had heard her cry about her family before and always told her to forget them, live in the now with him. Murph did the opposite.

“They were assholes, and I know it hurts. But this hug is a good memory. One you can draw on when the bad ones surface, which they always do even when we don’t want them. I’m not leaving you.”

She squeezed him back, loving how his muscled parts fit against her soft ones. She was incredibly softer than him, but it worked. He held her tighter and smelled of pine and paint, a refreshing scent. When they finally pulled apart, more like their upper halves loosening the hold on one another, he kept his arms and hands entangled with hers. They’d shared something, a common respect for both of them being a bit damaged, a bit not-quite-right.

They locked eyes and for a moment, Aggie believed he’d kiss her. She wanted him to. Just once, to know what the experience of kissing someone who got her was like.

Instead, he said, “Let me paint you.”

Welcome to Cupid's Café, a place where missed connections meet. How the invitations find them, no one knows…except for the mysterious owner, Mr. Heart.

This multi-author series focuses on protagonists struggling with real-life issues that often get swept under the rug. With Cupid’s Café, these issues find representation in the characters struggling to conquer their own problems while trying to carve a future for themselves.

From cops to artists, or social workers to photographers, Mr. Heart ensures these lost souls who believe themselves undeserving of love reconnect with their fated match.
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Each couple embarks on their journey at Cupid’s Cafe, but the rest is up to them: whether damage wins or they find true love in the end.
 
READ THEM ALL
Painting for Keeps (Cupid's Cafe #1) by Landra Graf
Exactly Like You (Cupid's Cafe #2) by Lori Sizemore
Captured Memories (Cupid's Cafe #3) by Katherine McIntyre
True Colors (Cupid's Cafe #4) by Landra Graf
 

About the Author:
Landra Graf consumes at least one book a day, and has always been a sucker for stories where true love conquers all. She believes in the power of the written word, and the joy such words can bring. In between spending time with her family and having book adventures, she writes romance with the goal of giving everyone, fictional or not, their own happily ever after.
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Blurb
Five hundred years from now, the necessity of population control and a preference for male children has resulted in a shortage of women. Down from the Appalachian Mountains, comes Tory White, an unusually tall and muscular young woman. Unable to read, she is deceived into signing a lifelong contract as a concubine. Entirely unsuitable for the position, she soon finds herself slotted for the ‘beds,’ where few girls live beyond a month. Yet, her honest and forthright manner charms the head of security into saving her and sets her upon a path in which she becomes the ‘heart’ of the world and the savior of man’s future.
 
Excerpt 
 
As Tory entered the dreary grey building, she asked the man guarding the door where she could find Miss Dunbery. He pointed to the first door down the dark hall.
She knocked on the door and waited until she heard someone call out ‘enter’. She had barely passed through the door when a young woman seated at a desk, with a weird black beehive hairdo, screamed upon sight of her. That wasn’t the first time it had happened since she’d come down the mountain, but she thought it damn rude, and wished city people had better manners.
“I was told to see a Miss Dunbery. Would that be you?” She hoped it wasn’t. The girl didn’t look old enough to be in charge of nothing. But her narrow face was pinched, and her body tensed, like Mrs. Mayfair would get every year when she planned the canning schedule, so Tory wasn’t sure.
The woman shook her head, giving Tory a moment of relief. Then she ruined it by saying, “Jack must be on the bottle again, hiring the likes of this.” Frantically patting her beehive, she stood up and her eyes widened in horror, as she had to look up a good foot to meet Tory’s eyes. “Dear God, what a disaster.” She stormed from the room and then stopped. “Well, come along! I haven’t got all day.”
Miss Dunbery showed Tory to her assigned bed. It was the third bunk on a rack, only two feet beneath the ceiling. The mattress looked to be only five-feet long and two-feet wide.
“You’re kidding right?” Tory asked the prune-faced young woman.
“That’s your assigned bed. It’s not my fault if you don’t fit it. And I hope you have your own clothes, because I’ve nothing in giant size.”
“I’ve got my own clothes,” Tory snapped. “And I’ll find my own place to sleep.”
The woman laughed with scorn. “You think any of the band or security is going to take you on?”
Tory was ready to take her on. “Don’t worry about me. I can take care of myself.” She pulled the blanket from the bed. Noticing she had no pillow, but all the other beds had one, except for the first bed, which had two, she reached down, took one of the two, and headed outside.
“Where are you going?” Miss Dunbery demanded. She followed behind Tory, yapping at her heels like a shrill mouse-dog. “There’s a curfew you know. You have to be in your bed at curfew or I’ll report you and then you’ll be in trouble.”
Tory turned and yelled. “Don’t have to wait ‘til curfew. Report me now, because there is no way I’m sleeping in that bed.”
“You don’t have a choice in this matter!”
“You’re right, I don’t, because it’s not possible for me to get in that bed.”
“Is there a problem?” Link Taylor asked, suddenly appearing beside her.
“This new girl is the problem,” Miss Dunbery said in a less shrill voice, all the while patting her silly beehive. “She hasn’t been here five minutes, and she thinks that she’s too good to sleep in the dorm rooms. Her! As if she’ll receive offers to sleep elsewhere.”
Taylor turned to Tory to hear her side of the story.
“The bed isn’t going to work for me. I’m too big. So, I’ll just sleep outside somewhere.”
“No,” Taylor replied with a stern tone. He took her arm and escorted her into the dorm room. “Which is her bed?”
When he saw where Miss Dunbery intended her to sleep, he remained quiet for several minutes.
At first, Tory thought he was angry, for his body was tense and he turned his face to the wall. But then as his shoulders jerked up and down, she realized he was laughing. Laughing!
“If you think it’s so damn funny, why don’t you climb up there and show me how it’s done,” Tory suggested.
Miss Dunbery’s gasp of horror alerted her to the possibility that maybe Mr. Taylor was an important man, and she’d just made a dangerous enemy.
Her comment stopped his laughter and he nailed her with a very impressive ‘don’t give me any shit’ glare. She thought it more frightening than even her Pa’s.
“Forgive my rudeness,” she said and bowed her head.
She sensed by his silence that her apology had surprised him. Daring a peek, she was relieved he wasn’t glaring at her anymore.
 
 
 
 
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About the Author
Liza O’Connor
Liza O’Connor lives in Denville, NJ with her dog Jess. They hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an adventurous nature, she learned to fly small Cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. She’s an avid gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through her entire life, her first love has and always will be writing novels.
 
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