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Coming January 2009
Champagne Books
Forever Faithful
Love is like a flame, some days it burns bright and others it dwindles. Faith is the forge upon which love is strengthened to steel.
For four years, Lucas and Gail Johnson have lived the idyllic life. He has his ranch and a loving wife whom he adores. She is an accountant with her eye on a partnership, and her husband is the love of her childhood dreams.
The one thing they want but don’t have is a child created from their love.
On a hot Texas day in June, a carcontaining two skeletons is pulled from nearby Possum Creek, both with bullet holes in their skulls. One is a salesman from Houstonwho disappeared over twenty years ago. The other is unidentified.
Gail attends a conference with her boss, Alex Guthrie whom Lucas despises. Distraught and depressed over her father’s illness, it’s easy for Alex to get her drunk and seduce her. Thus begins a series of events that shatters Lucas’s faith in Gail and drives the two apart.
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Coming soon from The Wild Rose Press
Book One of The Turquoise Legacy
My Heart Will Find Yours
Fated lovers suffer the agony of loss only to be reunited to fulfill a greater plan.
TEXANNA KEITH finds the man who is her fate when she’s thrust into a plot formed by Pearline Thompson, the elderly woman next door. The ninety-two-year-old woman claims to have traveled forward in time from 1876 to 1926. Now she’s discovered the secret to time travel and her antique locket is the key. The wife of ROYCE DYSON, Marshal of Waco, Texas, disappeared in 1876. Now, in 1880 she’s returned to wreak havoc on his life and heart. Is the beautiful woman his wife, or as she claims a look alike from the future sent to deliver a message? As he struggles to learn the truth, Texanna’s mission is to prevent him from being killed in a bank robbery—to change history. Set in the nineteenth century old West, the fate of two people collides to help fulfill a greater plan
Author comment: This tale swept me away. I immediately fell in love with Texanna and Royce and hated that their story ended. A+ for Linda LaRoque.
T. J. Killian
Book Two of The Turquoise Legacy
Flames On the Sky
The Anasazi Indians whispered of this evil. They also whispered of the woman who could defeat it
Madison Evans inherits the antique locket and immediately begins having dreams of fleeing from warriors in a desert. She travels to New Mexico and learns the piece of turquoise dates back to the Chacoan Anasazi around 1000 AD. When her motel room is ransacked, and she's attacked, parks ranger Lonan Stone concludes Madison's piece of turquoise is more than it seems. It's part of the revered Fallen Skystone, an egg size piece of turquoise on display at the Albuquerque Museum of Natural History. The ancient stone, with mystical powers, is missing two slivers, named the twins. One is in Madison's necklace, the whereabouts of the other is unknown. Through her dreams she learns she's the guardian of the necklace and must protect it against those who would use it for evil. The ancient people have given her the name, Hair of Flame. Thrown together, Madison and Lonan, an ancestor of the Chacoan people, learn they're part of a 1000 year old prophecy which must be fulfilled to save the Anasizi heritage in Chaco Canyon, a place of religious importance to all Native Americans in the Four Corners area. As they search for whoever is threatening Madison's life, as history had predicted, they fall in love. Thrust back in time, Madison and Lonan confront a witch, solve a murder, and help destroy a 1000 year old evil spirit bent on revenge against the Chacoan people but will their love be able to survive it's unusual beginnings and the differences in their two cultures?
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Wings ePress, Feb. 2007
Review:
Genre: Long Contemporary
[Inspirational]??
Title: WHEN THE OCOTILLO
BLOOM
Author: Linda LaRoque
Publisher: Wings ePress Inc
Release Date: 2/2007
EISBN - 1-59705-235-3
POD - ISBN - 1-59705-793-2
Review Company: Conger Books
Review
Review Rating: 5
Review Date: 11/18/2006
Reviewer: JoEllen Conger
Format: ebook and POD
Depressed school teacher, Lynn Devry, thought she was heading for a relaxing summer vacation. Wrong! She'd been duped by her own daughter. Ocotillo Ranch turned out to be a refuge for troubled youngsters, and she had signed an unread contract to be their Breakfast Bread Baker...and her duties didn't end there. She had to work with the socially deprived kids, swim laps in a coldwater pool, hike the mountainous desert ridges, and learn how to handle and ride a horse.
When Dr. Seth Williams first saw the rebellious city-breed baker hired for the summer, he had misgivings. He couldn't help but see she was one troubled lady. So, why was he smitten by her? He was still in love with his ex-wife, the mother of his three sons. Right? Or was he? They had all summer to figure it out.
Review:
This is a wonderfully warm story about trust, realizations, and revelations. Every page is wonderfully paced. The characters come alive through this writer's wonderful voice.
A Great Read.
T.J. Killian
Review:
WHEN THE OCOTILLO BLOOM by Linda LaRoque is a sweet relationship story set in west Texas where Lynn Devry goes to work at Seth Williams’s summer camp for troubled teens and finds a whole new way of life. In this sweet contemporary romance, the two learn to discover a love that heals the pains of their past relationships and vow to begin anew. I loved how Lynn thought she was going to work in a relaxed atmosphere at a Dude Ranch, but ends up having to deal with a stern taskmaster at a camp for troubled teens instead. Plenty of conflict and tension to keep the reader reading until the very end!
Terry Spear, Author of WINNING THE HIGHLANDER’S HEART & HEART OF THE WOLF
Review:
When the Ocotillo Bloom Linda LaRoque Contemporary romance Available from Wings ePress ISBN: 978-1-59705-235-3 January 2007
Lynn Devry was a divorced, middle-aged, overweight teacher who had just taken a job at a spa ranch where she would be employed 6 hours a day baking bread; the other hours were hers to do as she pleased. Or so she thought! Her daughter and friend, Dr. Art had helped her secure this position. What she did not know was that she was signed (as in contracted) to work at Ocotillo Ranch, a summer camp for troubled kids. Seth Williams, an adolescent psychologist, was fulfilling his life-long dream of running this camp for neglected children. His wife, Barbara, had divorced him seven years ago because she did not like the outback, rural area. To say Lynn was livid when she found out what kind of a camp she was at would be an understatement! She was furious that, not only did she have to live and work with these kids, ages 7 to teen, but she was required to get into shape, starting with water aerobics daily, including 10 laps after each day’s workout. She could hardly walk to the pool house, let alone swim! She refused to stay any longer than it took for Seth to find a replacement which he did not pursue for a long while. Linda LaRoque has done an exceptional job with this story! She shows how two people who start out at such diabolical ends of the spectrum can actually belong together. They each had thoughts on how to conduct themselves and Ms. LaRoque allowed their personalities to merge into a relationship which worked exceedingly well. The supporting characters were many and varied; each played a wonderful part in the overall plot of this book. The interactions with the many children helped mold many actions they found impossible to resist. I found that this unique story was so interesting that I read it straight through. I absolutely could not stop reading until the very end and then wanted to see it continue. I loved this book and recommend it highly! Overall rating: Sensuality rating: Sweet Reviewer: Brenda Talley
May 17, 2007 4 1/2 Hearts
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