Blog Tour: The Lady and the Barrister

 

Blurb

After two failed London Seasons the fussy heiress doesn’t have a suitor. Her close friend, a

newly minted duke cannot keep the mothers with single daughters away. They make a pact to pretend to

court while they find each other the perfect mate. When will they realize, they don’t have to look very

far. 

Excerpt:

(Copyright © 2023 Timeless Scribes Publishing LLC)

“Lady Anna. Lord Castleton. Welcome to the Tea Room.” Tanya took off her apron and set off a

small cloud of flour as she put the pinnie down on the counter. Anna glanced around the dining room. An older couple sat at the only other occupied table.

Castleton helped her into her chair as Tanya made her way to the front of the tearoom. He turned

to her with his irresistibly devastating grin.

Anna busied herself by removing her gloves and putting them into her reticule, then placing it on

her lap all to avoid his gaze. When she could no longer stall, she raised her head and found him sitting

across from her and still staring.

What should she say? It was as if she didn’t know this man when they had been friends most of

their lives. Well, she certainly didn’t know him as a military man, a barrister, a duke, and especially not as

someone courting her. All she knew was the boy with whom she grew up and in a moment of panic, she

wanted to leave.

“I didn’t intend to embarrass you. I can’t help the way I look at you.” His elbow was on the table

with his chin in his hand. “One glance and I find myself smiling.”

He removed his hand and struck a more proper attitude, opened his serviette, and draped it on his

lap.

Was he playing his part? She glanced at the couple at the other table and concluded he was

courting her for their sake. Perhaps she could play the game as well.

“You flatter me, Fraser,” she gracefully placed her hand to her throat. “Or should I say you flatter

yourself if you think I’m embarrassed.” She sat up straighter and looked down her nose following

propriety. For two Seasons she observed and learned as girls struck that position.

“Oh?” He dared to struggle to hide his chuckle.

“Ginger biscuits, really, Fraser. I would have thought you’d had your fill as a boy and moved on

to other more tempting morsels.”

He leaned closer toward her. His eyes were even more passionate than they had been moments

before. He took her hand and her breath caught.

“Oh, but I am moved by a more temping… morsel. Much more tempting. Would you like me to

elaborate?” With that he raised her hand to his lips.

RUTH A. CASIE is a USA Today bestselling author of historical swashbuckling action-

adventures and contemporary romance with enough action to keep you turning pages. Her stories

feature strong women and the men who deserve them, endearing flaws and all. She lives in New

Jersey with her hero, three empty bedrooms and a growing number of incomplete counted cross-

stitch projects. Before she found her voice, she was a speech therapist (pun intended), client

liaison for a corrugated manufacturer, and vice president at an international bank where she was

a product/marketing manager, but her favorite job is the one she’s doing now-writing romance.

She hopes her stories become your favorite adventures.

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Book Blast:The Efficiency Journal

 

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This journal, created by renowned coach and psychotherapist Misha Saidov, will help you become the hero of your own life. It was created to assist you in setting important goals, reaching them, and winning. It will support you along the way, especially when you find yourself lost or confused. The Efficiency Journal will help you stay on track.

You don't need to schedule your day by the minute. If you want to succeed, you only need to complete three key daily tasks, set goals that fit into 12-week sprints, and honestly reflect on your results once a week.

You will learn to manage your energy and analyze your actions, achievements, and experiences.

What's inside?

– Weekly and daily planning sheets
– Space for summarizing weekly results and for reflection
– Wise thoughts and tips along the way

Any goal reduced to daily tasks will be achieved, no matter what.

FOR WHOM IS THIS JOURNAL?

For those who want to succeed in business, improve themselves, move forward, maintain their motivation and eliminate distractions.

Many of us have meaningful ideas that could change the world. Without embodiment, they will remain just a dream. A dream about the future.

Read an Excerpt

In 1910, in the center of Paris at Sorbonne, the president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, gave a speech.

One of the passages of the speech became known as “The Man in the Arena”:

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does />
actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Do you ever find yourself asking: “Who am I? The one in the arena, or a spectator?”

About the Author:

Misha Saidov, a life performance coach and author, is the founder of IMCP (Institute of Metacognitive Programming) and Think Meta, a coaching company that conducts 4000+ client sessions per month.

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**𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚**

𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙗.

I’m head of the London branch of Carlson Publishing and if I can organize the hell out of my three older step brothers, I can handle one difficult best-selling author.

If that requires me to drive half a day to a remote Cornish cottage to get his contract signed, then that’s what I’ll do. 

 

But when the author turns out to be the tall, gorgeous man who made me weak in the knees during our one-night stand two months before, a publishing contract is the last thing on my mind.

I try to shake off my attraction and remind myself that he’s a charming player. But Drew’s mellow, throaty Scottish accent sends vibrations of pleasure shooting through my body with every word he utters.

𝙃𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛. 

𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙄’𝙢 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣.

**𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙬**

The first time I met 𝙆𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣, we stumbled into her hotel suite without a clue who the other was. 𝘼𝙣 𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙚-𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙… Until I spotted her ID and realized she was about to be my boss.

I should have never left the way I did, and fate certainly had a way of ramming home that mistake. Now I’m left trying to pick up the broken pieces of my life, one painful day at a time.

Everything changed for me that night, and I’ve tried to erase it from my memory, but her beautiful face has taken up residence in my head. I know I should stay away, but the moment I see her again, I know I can’t. Not until I can apologize and make things right with her.

𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩’𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣 … 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙.

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Ok

Cate loves books and beaches, even better when she can combine these favorite things.

Living in Sydney, Australia with her husband and three children, she is lucky to be able to spend plenty of time on beautiful beaches reading books or dreaming up new stories.

Introduced as a teenager to romance novels by an aunt, she is now an avid reader of all kinds of fiction. She particularly loves a steamy sexy romance especially one with a billionaire or military backdrop. She also loves the challenge to the mind and nerves of an exciting suspenseful murder mystery.

She has recently ticked off a bucket list item to write her own sexy romantic stories about billionaire former military alphas finding their HEA with strong sassy women. She has even managed to weave lots of steamy romantic beach scenes into those stories.

This is her second interconnected trilogy.

 

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Sunday Post #93: Mindful Souls March 2023

Hello All ! As this is one of my favorite subscription boxes, I thought I would share this month's Mindful Souls items.

Purple Agate Slice Coaster

It looks to small to be a coaster but I'll use it.

 Chakra Necklace

Can anyone explain what chakra is?

 Obsidian Stone Oil Roller

 I'm thinking I'll put rosemary oil in it.

 Selenite Cleansing Wand

It's too bad its not an actual wand.

Golden Obsidian Bracelet

It's not the bracelet I wanted but I'll wear it.

Meditation Incense

Is someone trying to tell me something?

Post Rewind 

📌 Feb. 7th = TMST #21: Different Genre, Same Author 

📌 Mar. 1st = WWBC #26: First Site and Favorite Subject 

📌 2nd = VBT: Moon Life

Goodreads

📚 Free Agent (by: Catherine Gayle) = moved to "read" shelf

📚 Sin Bin (by: Maria Luis) = moved to "read" shelf

📚 More With You (by: Erin Spencer) = moved to "read" shelf

📚 Courting Miss Lancaster (by: Sarah M. Eden) = moved to "read" shelf

Currently Reading 

📖 Power Play (by: Catherine Gayle) = page 79

Currently Listening

🎧  Romancing Daphne (by: Sarah M. Eden)

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VBT: Moon Life

by Marlene Fabian Stiles and Hank Fabian

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GENRE: Science Fiction

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 BLURB:

It is the year 2051 and the International Space Institute has just sent two rival astrobiologists to

search for extraterrestrial life on Europa, the mysterious ice moon of Jupiter. What they

encounter could not only revolutionize science, it might make one of them the most famous

person on Earth. Or does the Universe have other plans? 

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EXCERPT:

Charlie was right, the phenomenon was curious. If these holes had been created by gas

bubbles, why were they uniform and spaced so evenly? Dismissing the peculiarity, she began a

photographic assessment of the tunnel wall.

At one point, she discovered a fissure wide enough to squeeze through and marked her location

on MySpeak’s guidance system so she could retrace her steps. Then she crawled into the

fissure on her hands and knees. As her light relaxed the shadows’ grip, she stared in

amazement at the spacious chamber before her. Her headlamp revealed a domed ceiling

interlaced with natural archways reminiscent of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Shimmering bulbs

of water the size of walnuts hung from the arches like crystal ornaments. One by one they broke

loose and fell in a reluctant rain, delicately splashing into a shallow pool cradled on the rocky

floor.

A translucent brilliance caught her eye, and she centered her light on a glimmering mineral

cluster that resembled a cache of rare gemstones. Pale green crystals seemed to come alive as

her light danced across their facets. This is what he saw, it must be. Now she was grateful for

her hammer. Striking the crystal as hard as she could multiple times, she finally broke off a

small sample.

The raw beauty of this chamber invoked an overwhelming sense of awe as well as a realization

that nothing could live on this barren moon; her mother had nothing to fear. Ming Yue conceded

that she was relieved as well.

She took one final picture, then closed her eyes and spoke a silent prayer. Please let Pleiades

find us so my brother can see these. A sobering possibility crept over her: she was the first

human to see this fantastic grotto, and she might also be the last.
 

AUTHOR :

The family that writes together stays together, so siblings Marlene Fabian Stiles and Hank

Fabian co-authored a science fiction adventure that explores Jupiter’s moon Europa as two rival

astrobiologists race to be the first to find extraterrestrial life. This discovery should ensure the

winner fame and fortune, but the Universe has other plans.

Hank is the guy walking around with a long lens camera and binoculars, a tourist of the world

fascinated by every creature that moves and every plant that grows. He teaches biology and

helped devise a college genetics program. As a scientist he likes to work with facts, so there's a

possibility that the creatures he’s created actually exist!

Marlene is the president of a nonprofit, The I Will Projects, dedicated to advancing educational

venues that include a middle school aquaponics program in partnership with the Boys and Girls

Club which received a NASA grant. She writes in multiple genres and also has published

“Elderchild,” an Alzheimer’s narrative written in the first person. She shares Hank’s love of the

natural world and is dazzled by the interconnectivity of all living things.

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