Win These Books! April 2014

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For Joey by Jaclyn M. Hawkes

Prize Format: eBook

Leggy, beautiful, and the best exotic sports car mechanic in the valley, Joey has lots of male admirers, but no one who actually makes her feel emotional fireworks—until New York banking tycoon, Michael Morgan, shows up.

Thinking he will lick his wounds alone and unknown out west, Michael is surprised when he’s cheerfully swallowed up into the huge Rockland family. Their world of homemade bread, anonymous acts of service, and unlocked doors is like a foreign country to him. Still, their slightly boisterous, yet always entertaining welcome is exactly what his thrashed spirit needs.

Now if he can just make Joey realize that he’s exactly what she needs as well.

Jaclyn M. Hawkes grew up in Utah with 6 sisters, 4 brothers and a large number of pets. She got a bachelor’s degree, had a career, and traveled extensively before settling down to her life’s work of being the mother of four magnificent and sometimes challenging children. She loves shellfish, the out of doors, the youth, and hearing her children laugh.

She and her fine husband, their family, and their sometimes very large pets, now live in a mountain valley in northern Utah, where it smells like heaven and kids still move sprinkler pipe. For Joey is Jaclyn’s tenth novel. You can read more about them at www.jaclynmhawkes.com.

 

I Am Strong! I Am Smart! by Fay Klingler

Prize Format: Print (U.S. only)

Luisa May, known to her family and friends as Lu, loves to play games with her Grandma. When she’s bullied at school, Grandma has a special puzzle for Lu to help her see how valuable she is—no matter what others say, or how much doubt she feels within herself.

Soon after, Grandma has to go to the hospital, and Lu finds out Grandma needs help recovering. Then it’s Lu’s turn to help Grandma see how valuable she is—no matter how much doubt she feels within herself. It’s a beautiful parallel for young and old alike, as each age learns from the other.

Written and illustrated with loving hands, this delightful children’s story offers a heartfelt message that unites and bonds generations. From the award-winning pen of Fay A. Klingler, I Am Strong! I Am Smart! provides to women of all ages a reminder of the tremendous gift of “girl power.”

Fay A. Klingler, author and illustrator, is an award-winning creative and technical writer, as well as a sought-after motivational speaker for women’s groups. Her expertise includes successful patterns for life, betrayal recovery, and effective grandparenting. Her previous publications include We Are Strong! Mothers and Daughters Stand Together; A Woman’s Power: Threads that Bind Us to God; Shattered: Six Steps from Betrayal to Recovery; Daughters of God, You Have What It Takes; The LDS Grandparents’ Idea Book; My Magnificent Mountain; The Complete Guide to Woman’s Time; Our New Baby; and A Mother’s Journal.

The Klinglers have twelve children and thirty-five grandchildren in their blended family. They reside in Draper, Utah. Visit Fay at www.fayklingler.com or www.facebook.com/FayKlingler.

 

Paris Cravings by Kimberley Montpetit

Prize Format: eBook

After The Worst Night of Her Life, Chloe Dillard escapes on her Senior Class trip to the swoon-worthy city of Paris which takes her mind off her troubles—temporarily. On the final leg of her dream trip, Chloe squeezes in one final run for a last-minute box of decadent pastries. Add a stuck door, subtract a broken four-inch heel from her cute strappy sandals, and Chloe ends up one stuck girl on the bakery shop floor with a sprained ankle.

Rescued by Jean-Paul, the shop owner’s dreamy son with chocolate-syrup eyes, the beautiful city of Paris suddenly becomes Chloe’s personal secret adventure. The police are tracking her down as a run-away, Mom’s having a nervous breakdown over her daughter’s “disappearance”, and Chloe’s just trying to have a Happily-Ever-After. Could being lost in the city of Paris be just what the doctor ordered?

Kimberley Montpetit once spent all her souvenir money at the La Patisserie shops when she was in Paris—on the arm of her adorable husband. The author grew up in San Francisco, another swoon-worthy city, loves all things Parisian and chocolate and lives in a small town along the Rio Grande with her family.

Kimberley has won many awards for her work, including the Southwest Book Award, the Whitney Award, the Arizona/New Mexico Book Award, is a Crystal Kite Finalist (SCBWI) and included in the Bank Street College Best Books of the Year. Visit her at www.kimberleymontpetit.com or visit her alter-ego at www.kimberleygriffithslittle.com.

 

Sweet Confections by Danyelle Ferguson

Prize Format: eBook

According to Rachel Marconi chocolate heals all wounds. That and throwing darts at pictures of her ex-boyfriend. Burned by yet another bad relationship, Rachel decides to reprioritize her life, putting her dream to compete on a Food Network Challenge on the top of her list and dating at the bottom crossed out in red sharpie. But what’s a girl to do when a certain sexy guy keeps asking her out?

Cue in Graydon Green, a former pro hockey player turned restaurant owner. After a lot of persistent and humorous teasing, he finally convinces Rachel to commit to a date. Just when things begin to warm up, threatening notes directed at Rachel arrive. When her bakery is vandalized, Graydon’s protective streak goes on red alert. Is it her obsessive ex-boyfriend stalking her? Or maybe a challenger trying to sabotage the competition?

Either way, Rachel is definitely going to need more chocolate – perhaps drizzled over ice cream and devil’s food cake.

Danyelle Ferguson discovered her love for the written word in elementary school. Her first article was published when she was in 6th grade. Since then, she’s won several awards and her work has been published world-wide in newspapers, magazines and books.

Danyelle grew up surrounded by Pennsylvania’s beautiful Allegheny Mountains. Then she lived for ten years among the majestic Wasatch Mountains. She is currently experiencing mountain-withdrawal while living in Kansas with her husband and family. She enjoys reading, writing, dancing and singing in the kitchen, and the occasional long bubble bath to relax from the everyday stress of being “Mommy.”

Visit Danyelle at www.danyelleferguson.com, Facebook or Twitter.

 

Tulips & Treason by Tristi Pinkston

Prize Format: Print (U.S. only)

Meet Jack and Molly, a team of FBI agents sent to Utah to infiltrate a Mafia headquarters based out of Omni. While they may be cracker-jack agents, this small Mormon community has them flummoxed, until Ida Mae and her friends (from the Secret Sisters series) step in to give them Mormon lessons so they won’t blow their covers.

Molly has to give up her coffee addiction and learn how to arrange flowers. Jack learns that he’ll be posing as an assassin for the mob. What they absolutely don’t expect is to find a dead body in the cooler at the floral shop.

Tulips and Treason is book #1 in the Omni Orchids Mystery series.

Tristi Pinkston is a a stay-at-home mom, a home schooler, a media reviewer, an editor, a regular presenter at the LDStorymakers’ writers conference, the owner of Trifecta Books (a new publishing company), and an author of 26 books—which range from historical novels, to mysteries and suspense, to Young Adult, plus some non-fiction and a cookbook, as well.

You can see what she’s got coming next at her website, www.tristipinkston.com.

 

Twist of Luck by Jaclyn Weist

Prize Format: Print (U.S. only) or eBook

Megan finally has her luck back and hopes that life will return to normal. Unfortunately, the magical world has other plans.

Suddenly, she finds she has fairies follow her to provide security, dragons become a constant threat, and an imp tracks her every move.

As if that wasn’t enough, her luck begins to manifest itself in ways she could never imagine.

Book 2 in the Luck series.

 

Jaclyn Weist is an Idaho farm girl who grew up loving to read. She developed a love for writing as a senior in high school, when her dad jokingly said she was the next Dr. Seuss (not even close but very sweet). She met her husband, Steve at BYU and they have six happy, crazy children that encourage her writing.

After owning a bookstore and running away to have adventures in Australia, they settled back down in their home in Utah. Jaclyn now spends her days herding her kids to various activities and trying to remember what she was supposed to do next. Visit Jaclyn at www.jaclynweist.blogspot.com.

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