Tour: Return to Wylder by Maria Imbalzano

                                      

It's a blog tour for Maria Imbalzano's book, Return to Wylder. You'll want to stick around because this is a great looking book! You could also win prizes. Like? Maria Imbalzano will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Want more chances to win? Then follow the tour. You can do that here: https://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2022/05/excerpt-tour-return-to-wylder-by-maria.html

Return to Wylder
by Maria Imbalzano

The untimely death of EJ Hampton’s father kills her dream of practicing law with him in her hometown of Wylder. Heartbroken, she now has two weeks to organize the practice for sale. When she meets her father’s millionaire client Dylan Addison, he is demanding and entitled—yet his charisma captivates her.

Dylan is under pressure to renovate the Wylder Hotel before his father pulls the plug on his project. He needs EJ’s expertise, but she is bent on returning to her life in San Francisco despite the fireworks between them.

EJ walks a tightrope trying to balance Dylan’s needs against her own, but doing so is far more complicated when emotions get in the way.

Now for an EXCLUSIVE Excerpt:

“What do you know about Dylan Addison’s case?” I was meeting with Bryce first thing Wednesday morning, with the goal of reviewing every case in the office to see which ones needed immediate attention. My secondary reason was to start evaluating the worth of those cases for a potential sale. Bryce groaned. “He needs the construction permits. He paid your father a huge retainer to do all the legal work necessary to get the Wylder Hotel up and running again.”

“We hit a bump. Dylan received a letter from the permit department that the permits are being held up until he applies for a variance for the storage area he’s adding on.”

“That’s not good. Your father told him his application would go through without a variance.”

Of course he did. “My father knew all the players at the municipal building, and apparently, he was able to deal with them because of his personal relationships. I went down there yesterday to try to push it through, and Adam Colton, the permit officer, initially said the rules are the rules and we need a variance. When I pressed him, he said he’d think about it and let me know on Friday. Do you know Adam?”

“A little. From around town. Seems like a nice guy. Real estate is not my area of expertise, so I’ve never dealt with him in an official capacity.”

“Maybe I should have sent you down there to talk to him instead of me. He’s still holding a grudge against me from our high school years.” Adam’s memory of my shortcomings was a little too long and his attitude retaliative. “He said I’m not nice like my father was. Can you believe it?”

Bryce laughed, the corners of his eyes crinkling. “From what I understand, none of the local government officials give out-of-town lawyers a break on anything.”

“But I’m Hank’s daughter. Working for his clients.”

He shrugged. “Doesn’t matter. You now have two black marks against you. Outsider and not nice.”

About the Author:

Maria Imbalzano is an award-winning contemporary author who writes about strong, independent women and the men who fall in love with them. She recently retired from the practice of law, but legal issues have a way of showing up in many of her novels. When not writing, she loves to travel both abroad and in the states. Maria lives in central New Jersey with her husband--not far from her two daughters and granddaughters. For more information about her books, please visit her website at http://mariaimbalzano.com where you can also sign up for her newsletter.

Find the Author on Social Media: 

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/mariaimbalzanoauthor

Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/mariaimbalzano
@mariaimbalzano

Instagram - Mariaimbalzano_author

Blog Link - http://www.mariaimbalzano.com/category/blog/

Website Link - http://www.mariaimbalzano.com

Goodreads Author Page - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7276749.Maria_Imbalzano

Book Bub Profile page - https://www.bookbub.com/profile/maria-imbalzano

Mailing List Sign Up form - https://mariaimbalzano.com/sign-up-for-my-newsletter/

Amazon Author Page - https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00FG9RI5K

Get Your Copy here: 
Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Return-Wylder-West-Maria-Imbalzano-ebook/dp/B09VZTB93D/ref=sr_1_7

Barnes and Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/return-to-wylder-maria-imbalzano/1141265290

Universal Link - https://books2read.com/u/4ELWkz

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Book Blast ~ Like a Lily Among Thorns by Karen S. Bell

                                       

Today I'm hosting the tour for Like a Lily Among Thorns by Karen S. Bell. You'll want to keep reading because this is a fascinating story. You could also win prizes. Like? The author will award a copy of the book to a randomly chosen winner. How cool is that? Want more chances to win? Then follow the tour. You can do that here: 

https://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2022/06/book-blast-like-lily-among-thorns-by.html

Like a Lily Among the Thorns

by Karen S. Bell

There are those who are born into loving families and then there are the less fortunate who must forge their own families through strong friendships. At a local small library in New York City, one such family was born. And just like so many capricious happenstances in life, this family unit embraced newcomers and grew exponentially. But this clan was also charged with far more than spreading love and joy and a sense of belonging. This clan was formed by divine Providence to help save the planet.

Gabrielle Bernstein, the MC of Like a Lily Among the Thorns, is a woman in her twenties and has started her career as a librarian at a NYC public library. Abandoned by her father as a young girl and now orphaned by her deranged mother, Gabby longs for a family connection. Coincidentally, she finds this connection at the same time she inherits a B&B in Vermont from her estranged and now deceased father. This enchanted inn is under the watchful eye of goddesses of myth and legend who have been tasked to save mankind from destroying itself and this planet. These goddesses will use their powers to try and stall the onslaught of the effects of droughts, floods, and rising temperatures. But as a safety net they have collected human saviors all over the planet to erect safe havens at high altitudes away from flood waters and blistering temperatures.

This one group of saviors are ordinary people who have some extraordinary abilities and enjoy a higher consciousness. They are brought together to join forces in Vermont to create one such refuge. Along the way there is romance, misunderstandings, conflict, and internal growth. Locations are Manhattan, London, Brooklyn, and Rutland, Vermont. Woven through this tale is Gabrielle’s inherent understanding that she must be grateful, mindful, and present in this journey called “life.”

The impending devastation that will be brought about by the effects of global climate change is the underpinning of this Cli-Fi/speculative fiction novel. Like a Lily Among the Thorns focuses on how this potential disaster will have dire consequences for us all and is currently becoming more top of mind as people are waking up to strange weather events such as the scorching temperatures that have gripped the Northwestern states and torrential rains in the Northeast.


Now for an Excerpt:

Sometimes a major change in one’s life comes on the heels of ordinary events. A dinner invitation and cab ride can be more than transportation from here to there for food. The Countess would become a very important addition in Gabby’s life but as of right now, none of them knew that, particularly, the Countess. Frozen in place while staring at the luxury townhouse, Gabby was caught up short. Reality had suddenly become fluid, become a changeling, a stranger in the night. The hours she had spent imagining the Countess’s life as a Hollywood starlet or Gatsby character now converged with the truth of her circumstances. It was hard to digest this shift in perspective when everyone at the library remained unenlightened and still believed the Countess was a brave woman struggling to make ends meet just to get by. The bombardment of the truth was too much to absorb right now, especially when her own life was in such flux. She also did not want to think of how this information revealed the Countess’s damning deception, her disingenuousness to everyone. It was a mind-numbing disappointment, a gut punch that made her feel off balance.

Everything was suddenly out of step and off-kilter. Too much random noise was being thrown at her by the cosmos, a shock to the senses. In just one day, today, to be exact, she had been notified that her apartment building was being demolished, her friends at the coffee shop, albeit not close, would be summarily swallowed up by the cavernous city as they dispersed, and now this…this unexpected truth of the Countess’s financial situation.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

About the Author:

All my work is inspired by social issues to which we all can relate. Work/ life stresses, the loss of a spouse and how marriage can sometimes swallow a woman’s identity, and the prevalence of greed in modern society.

Walking with Elephants is my first novel, although I am not new to writing. I was a theater critic and celebrity interviewer for a weekly tabloid in Jacksonville, Fl and I earned a Master’s in Mass Communication from Oklahoma State University. For 15 years I worked in Corporate America as a technical editor/editor/writer. I experienced first hand the politics and intrigue that goes with that territory and the balancing act that comes with being a working mother. I salute all those mothers who are the glue that holds their families together while pursuing the nine to five brass ring and were the inspiration for this work. Audible book is available and narrated by me.

With my second novel, Sunspots, I continue to be in awe of the magical and wondrous phenomenon called life. As an observer and obvious participant in feminine values and approach to our human challenges, I bring this perspective to my work. Fascinated by the mysteries of the unseen forces that perhaps play a role in guiding our choices, I search for answers in the mundane as well as in the cosmic forces that surround us.

Alexa’s pact with the Devil in When a Stranger Comes…is an allegory for the evil lurking in our midst. The social decay of modern society with its excessive greed, the ignorance of our political leaders, and our indifference toward the survival of all species from the effects of climate change, among other environmental pressures, are perhaps brought forth by the darkest forces of human nature. The audible book narrated by me is in production.

The genre of magical realism appeals to me and all my work has elements woven in. My current project is focused on a Bed and Breakfast that becomes a safe haven from the effects of climate change while celebrating the Feminine Divine and is set squarely in that realm.

I am working on my next novel in Ponte Vedra, Fl. where I live with my husband and our two furry kids. Our human kids have flown the nest and are scattered far and wide, alas.

https://karensbell.com

https://twitter.com/karensuebell

https://www.facebook.com/ksbwwe

Buy the Book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V3FNTCT

~~~~~~~~~~~~~a Rafflecopter giveaway