Reading in Sarah's Corner: September 2014

Author: Lynette E. Creswell
Title: The Witching Hour

This 10 minute, lighthearted romance tells the story of Stella, a young woman who’s unlucky in love. One night she is invited to a Halloween party by her boss but the dreaded Delores, her spiteful co-worker has been invited too. Delores has her sights set on Harry Dunlop, Stella’s dream man but events are about to unfold that will teach Delores a valuable lesson and allow Stella to finally get to grips with far more than just her broomstick.

Rating: 4 of 5 Hearts

This short story is a delight to read. It will only take you 10-15 tops to read. It is a great lunch break or if you just need to escape from life for a few moments kind of story. I promise it will leave a smile on your face.

Author Lynette Creswell tells a story filled with humor and fun to get all of us in the mood for Halloween. Her lead character Stella has insecurities most woman deal with daily. I became an instant cheerleader while Stella worked past her comfort zone to go after what she wanted.

Stella knows what she wants she just never thought about pursuing her dream guy. Especially when her archenemy has staked claim that he will be hers. Luckily, for us fate helps her out.

I asked Lynette if she planned to continue this short story. She said anything is possible. I for one hope she does. I can see this story being a full-blown novel with many twists and turns. Maybe if enough of tell her we need more we will see more of Stella in the future.

Lynette was born in London, England, and from the tender age of five was raised by her grandmother and given books to help keep her quiet. Lynette found she had a passion for reading and subsequently started writing once she began school.

Years later, Lynette's husband was so impressed with her ability to capture children's imaginations with her short stories that he encouraged her love of writing by buying her a laptop in the hope she would write something more substantial. So with a little push in the right direction, Lynette decided to write a fantasy trilogy and the subject would be something that all children love to read about (and most adults too) - magic!

Lynette's inspiration came from childhood books written by Enid Blyton. The Enchanted Wood and The Faraway Tree were her first real taste of fantasy and later on Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Series captured her own vivid imagination.
Her first novel, Sinners of Magic was published in 2012 and is now receiving attention from both London and American film producers. Betrayers of Magic became the second book of the series followed by Defenders of Magic. Her new book, Clump, A Changeling's Story is due to be released by October 2014.

Lynette lives in North East Lincolnshire with her husband and two dogs. Her two small granddaughters, who both live locally, are the apple of her eye.

My Website and Blog: www.Lynetteecreswell.wordpress.com

My Biography: http://lynetteecreswell.wordpress.com/author-biography-2/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6464083.Lynette_E_Creswell

Universal Links for The Witching Hour: http://getbook.at/TheWitchingHour

The 'Magic' Trilogy

Universal Links:

Sinners of Magic, book 1: Http://Getbook.at/Sinners1 (This book is currently free at the moment)

Betrayers of Magic, book 2: Http://Getbook.at/Betrayers1

Defenders of Magic, book 3: Http://Getbook.at/Defenders1

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Author: Kristina sanchez
Title: One To Tell The Grandkids
Genre: |Romance |
Release Date: July 27, 2014

Since she was a teenager, Taryn Sato skirted the edge of disastrous decisions. When she found herself pregnant after a one night stand with a complete stranger, she knew she was giving her family an opportunity to say “I told you so.”

Caleb Ryder was more of a big brother than best friend to Slate McKenzie. When Slate found out he was going to be a father, Caleb promised to be there for him. Though Caleb was the type of man to learn from his mistakes, history threatened to repeat itself in the form of Slate’s baby’s mother, Taryn.

A story about finding love when you aren’t looking and finding your place when your family tree is really a forest.

Guest Review by Day_Zeee

I have been told this is one book you cannot miss reading. Ms. Dayzee loved this story!

Rating 5 of 5 Hearts

While I was reading Duplicity one of my friends began raving about this book titled "One to Tell The Grandkids". She said it was the "sweetest, realist, most romantic book EVER". I was intrigued.

So I asked who the author was. Turns out it was Kristina Sanchez, and since I was already reading one of her books and was completely enmeshed in it I knew this book would be fantastic and I was right!

Caleb Ryder was more of a big brother than best friend to Slate McKenzie. When Slate found out he was going to be a father, Caleb promised to be there for him. Though Caleb was the type of man to learn from his mistakes, history threatened to repeat itself in the form of Slate’s baby’s mother, Taryn.

A story about finding love when you aren’t looking and finding your place when your family tree is really a forest.

I fell completely in love with this story. Taryn is a strong lead female character who is known to make mistakes but she isn't the typical whiny female leads that fill so many novels these days. She owns up to her mistakes and tries her best to correct them. Slate is absolutely adorable, sweet, kind, understanding... well you get the picture.

This story isn't your typical romance where boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after. Real life gets complicated, and sometimes the chemistry just doesn't work for some while it practically bursts into flames for others. I found myself having to "put this book in the freezer" (Friends TV show reference) because my ship was not sailing!

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If you love realistic love stories, mixed with some humor, romance, and tons of feels this is exactly the book for you. Well written, never lost my interest, and overall just a fantastic book! This author is going to the top of my radar, everything I've read from her is absolutely STELLAR.

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Kristina M. Sanchez is an Orange County California native. She currently resides down the street from Disneyland and is the mother of two pain in the behind cats.

My Website: http://kristinamsanchez.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lyricalkris

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/krismsanchez

One To Tell The Grandkids: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M6HZ6EU

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DYOB6IO

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Coming: October 23, 2014

The innocent girl with a delinquent heart has to live with her bad choices. Secret hope and hurt feel like falling while she learns how to breathe again, but there's still freedom in trouble.

The runaway with blacked-out eyes is losing his grip. Crushing two hearts in one fist, his addiction bends rules and breaks deals, but the boy born for bliss isn't going anywhere without a fight.

Love is knowing they should stay away, but love is illogical at best.

She's afraid to let go.

He won't let her.

This is how silliness and foolishness grow up.

Here, forever is a lie.

I stand silent, breathing in through my nose and out my mouth. Tonight’s argument is years of frustration stacked and hidden, too tall to push away anymore. A little trigger is all it takes, and we end up like this, saying things we don’t mean, taking our aggravation out on each other.

My heart pumps misguided love.

“This isn’t how it’s supposed to be,” it beats. “But that’s your boy—aimless and crazy for you.”

Knowing that I had a role on his spiral to the bottom kills me. As his parents continue to fail him, I should be the one that steps forward and says, “This is wrong.”

But to do so at this point in his madness would be betrayal, and I have to handle his trust with care.

Inhaling an uneven breath, I watch him under the moon’s glow washing out his already pale complexion. Icy wind blows my boy’s white tee against his slender body under his unzipped hoodie, and his hands shake at his sides.

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Mary Elizabeth is an up and coming author who finds words in chaos, writing stories about the skeletons hanging in your closets. Known as The Realist, she is one half of The Elizabeths--a duo brave enough to never hide the truth.

Mary was born and raised in Southern California. She is a wife, mother of four beautiful children, and dog tamer to one enthusiastic Pit Bull and a prissy Chihuahua. She's a hairstylist by day but contemporary fiction, new adult author by night. Mary can often be found finger twirling her hair and chewing on a stick of licorice while writing and rewriting a sentence over and over until it's perfect. She discovered her talent for tale-telling accidentally, but literature is in her chokehold. And she's not letting go until every story is told.

"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure."--Jeremiah 17:9

A soft spoken revolutionary, love's listener was born on Bastille Day. she dance-walks under the stars and prefers to write while the sun wakes up. her blood marks State Avenue. her roots are darker than trouble's eyes, and her favorite colour is The 1975.

Sarah Elizabeth is the author of Innocents, Delinquents, Don't Let Me Go, and various other projects under various other pen names. for more information, visit:

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After years of living in the darkness of his past, Andrew Wise, a young attorney working for his family’s law firm in Sarasota, Florida, has finally broken free of the demons that haunt him. Wealth, success, happiness, and true love; everything a man could ever dream of, was right at his fingertips. Or so he thought. But in the blink of an eye, all of that changed. Upon discovering that his ex-girlfriend, Olivia Hamilton, was pregnant, Drew fell back into some old habits, which led to him losing the one person that mattered the most in his life - McKenzie Evans.

When McKenzie left him and returned to Texas, Drew was beside himself. The night before she left, he made an agreement with her best friend Jared Christopher, that he would give her time and space to come to grips with the fact that he’d fathered her best friend’s child. Now, two months later, he feels as though he held up his end of the bargain, Drew can’t take their separation any longer. With his brother’s wedding mere weeks away, Drew devises a plan to win McKenzie back.

Under the guise of a bachelor getaway for Gavin, Drew, along with his brother and Jared, jets off on an adventure to the panhandle of Texas. There, he will learn what made McKenzie who she is and will find strength within himself that he never realized existed.

In this charming sequel to The Truth in Lies, Drew and McKenzie discover that not everything is as it seems, forgiveness is a matter of acceptance, and true love really can conquer all.

My mouth dropped. For a moment, I was speechless. That was a rare occurrence. No one, especially little old women, have ever been able to get the best of me. Yet, this old woman had stunned me into silence. However, I regained my composure quickly and fired off the first witty thing that popped into my mind. “Sweetheart, you’re a beautiful woman, but you couldn’t handle me. I’m afraid I’d break you.”

Granny released my chin and patted my cheek. “Boy, you don’t know how wrong you are.” She reached around and pinched my backside. “Firm. Nice.” I about died right there. Not only did this woman make me speechless, but she made me blush. This was a record. One of which, I was certain Gavin was making note of for future reference.

“Mother!” Bill scolded her. “Mind your manners. You don’t want to scare the boy to death.”

Granny cocked her head to the side, glaring at her son. “He’s no boy, Billy. Drew here is all man.”

Jared and Gavin practically keeled over in laughter. “How is it that you know my name, but I don’t know yours?” I asked.

She patted my ass and grinned, exposing her oversized dentures. “I’m Glenda,” she stated, “but everyone calls me Granny.”

“May I call you Glenda?”

Her thick tongue washed over her teeth. “Only if you’re screaming it.”

McKenzie whipped around, her gorgeous eyes wide. “Jesus, Granny!” She covered her face, hiding her embarrassment.

“You can do better than him,” a snarling voice interrupted our banter.

I jerked my head around to find Gage entering the room near the kitchen table. He opened the refrigerator and retrieved a beer. He’d cleaned up from work, now wearing faded jeans and a tshirt that exposed the quarter sleeve of tattoos on his right arm. The voice in my head screamed to ram my fist into his ugly mug. The arrogant prick had no business being in this house or conversation as far as I was concerned.

Not a soul responded to him, not even McKenzie paid him a glance. I didn’t mind. He could disappear into thin air for as far as I was concerned. Fucking prick.

“What?” Glenda protested. “You’re over there, hiding in your stove. I’m taking advantage of the situation.”

“Go for it, Granny!” Cody hollered in laughter. “It’s about time you took interest in someone new.”

McKenzie stood still, not uttering a single word. Her body language screamed, “Get away from him!” She clenched her teeth and clutched the wooden spoon tight in her hand. It was a faceoff between age and youth. Youth finally won out.

“Fine. He’s all yours,” Glenda announced. She shoved me away and turned to Gavin, waggling her eyebrows. “I’ll take this one instead.” Gavin’s eyes widened and his face turned the color of a beet. “What’s your name, cutie?”

“Ga-avin,” he stuttered.

“Oh, don’t be afraid of me. I don’t bite,” she paused, “at first.” She patted his cheek, turning around to everyone. “He sits by me at the table. This one’s a little shy, but I like a challenge.”

My gut hurt from laughing so hard. Gavin had that deer in the headlights look. It had been okay when I was in her sights, but now that it was his turn, he was lost. “I’m engaged,” he countered.

“I don’t want to marry you, cutie.” Glenda grabbed his left hand, twisting his ring finger between her wrinkled fingers. “Long fingers. You’re going to be so much fun.”

“Help!” Gavin whimpered.

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This story gets four and a half hearts from me. I adored this book so much!

Oh, my lord! Author Jeanne McDonald second installment of The Truth in Lies saga is in Drew Wise’s pov! I may have squealed with excitement. I was dying to get inside Drew’s head after that first book. And let me tell you Jeanne did not let us down! You have no idea how much I enjoyed this book! I was crying with laughter most of the book. Jeanne does let us in on Drew’s secret and I won’t lie. I was crying like a baby when I found out.

Where should I start, how about how much our boy Drew needed to get his girl back. He has finally pulled himself together and realized he needs his girl! He hops on a plane with his brother Gavin and Jared. Yes, Jared. The banter and absolute guy bonding while on this trip had me in stitches. It is scary how well Jeanne can write a males point of view!

These three guys set off to drag Mickie home where she belongs! I don’t think they realized how many walls a girl can build up over two months. Especially our girl Mickie! She holds her ground and lets Drew know he messed up. She cannot handle her heart being shattered like that again. Who can blame her?

Drew also has to fight with his inner demons while on this little trip to Amarillo, Texas while trying to win his girl back. And his inner demons are strong. I loved finding out what made Drew Wise the way he was. Even if it caused me to sniffle like a baby.

I have to give a shout out to Glenda aka granny. This woman is an absolute hoot! I LOVED her! You cannot read this book and keep a straight face when it comes to Glenda!

Jeanne McDonald began telling stories at the ripe young age of five, when her mother considered the truth to be a lie due to her extensive embellishment to the retelling of an event. She wrote her first short story when she was twelve years old, and at the age of sixteen she tried her hand at poetry. She reconnected with her love for writing in 2010 thanks to the encouragement of a dear friend.

Her passions include a "mild" Starbucks addiction, music, reading, quotes, movies, and romance. When she's not spending time with her family, she can be found reading, writing, chatting with her friends or diligently working toward her bachelor's degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology. A proud Texan, Jeanne currently resides in the Dallas/Fort Worth area with her family.