Raine Balkera - Romance Author

Book One of Three Pages -  257 Publisher -  RoseScribe Media Inc. Published -  July 28, 2015 Sold by -   Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Barons of the Cinque Ports 1-3 Genre -  Historical Romance, Medieval Narrative -  3rd Person Sexual Content -  4/5 Language -  1/5 Nicholas Vaughn is Lord of New Romney and also a Baron of the Cinque Ports. He directs a fleet of ships that service the king 15 days a year in exchange for special privileges. When Muriel Draper causes havoc on his wharf, he realizes she is a spinster - a woman who spins wool for a living - from the town. Her late father has angered the Clothmaker's Guild and now Muriel and her brother have been excommunicated from the guild and also left with a debt to the baron that he insists Muriel repays. She can either give the baron her deceased mother's wedding ring - the only memory of her parents she has left - or she can live with him at his manor ...

However illusory the ideal may be, it is the one that, more than any other, drives the psyche of the Romantic poet forward. Wordsworth's Ideal Man Welcome back, friends, to Week 19 of the MFRW Author 52-Week Blog Challenge. This week, we're asked to describe The Ideal Romance Hero . I write AND read romance, but that doesn't mean I feel confident or sure about my response, and I needed to give this one some serious thought prior to setting fingers to keyboard. Alpha or Otherwise, Dark or Fair, Young or Old, Rich or Not, a Hero in any Romance novel needs to be a few things, and for me that mainly consists of MY idea of the Perfect Man. But, not entirely. Alpha's can be thrilling in a novel but downright boorish in real life. Next! I've always tended toward dark-haired men but have been known to freak out when spotting someone with blond hair, so... Sad though this might sound (and be in reality), I'd rather my man made good money than none ...

As promised, I'm going to share my latest haul from a Book Fair held semi-annually at an upscale mall in a city near mine. Their library (and ours) also do this twice a year, holding their versions of probably the largest book fair in my area. And, yes, I attend them all and buy as much as I can hold with my increasingly arthritic limbs. Which is kind of sad because the affliction also affects my ability to hold a traditional book for a length of time -- usually while lying on my side in bed prior to falling asleep. But, it will not prevent me from continuing to attend these fascinating and time-consuming endeavors. No, I don't like or really even notice the smell of a new or used book (unless it is musty, then I can't help but notice) and I don't make it a habit of sniffing them, either. However, READING them just thrills me to no end, and as long as I have eyes to use, I'll continue to buy traditional books along with all of the Kindle e-books...

Pages -  388 Publisher -  Christina Dodd Published -  March 19, 2014 Original -  2003 Sold by -   Amazon Digital Services LLC Genre -  Contemporary, Mystery & Suspense, Family Saga Series -  Lost Hearts 1 of 3 Language -  2/5 Sexual Content -  5/5 (smut) Hope Prescott lives in Boston, far from the warm, southern home she recalls. She works with one goal in mind--finding her long-lost siblings. Yet her job at the answering service and her own loving nature creates a family of friends, people she knows only by their voices. She especially likes Griswald, gruff old butler for wealthy Zack Givens. Meeting Griswald is a shock; he is neither gruff nor old, but a powerful, handsome man. In fact, he is Zack Givens, mysterious, cold, heartless--and charmed by the artless young woman who brings him chicken soup, treats him like a friend...and falls in love with the humble man she imagines him to be. Inevitably she will di...

A lot to cover today. WORK My extended Sub assignment ended on Tuesday, so after five weeks teaching First Grade, I took the last three days off 😜 Wasn't able to sleep IN any of those days, but I did make a few attempts to stay up later than normal, which just worked to make me very sleepy during the day. It was a fun assignment, the kids were adorable (for the most part), and it is the first elementary school in this district where I can honestly say I'd love to go back again some day! Not to go into a long dissertation on Public Schools and Everything that is Wrong with Them, but I know for a fact that the reason I enjoyed the work so much was because of the Principal, the staff, and the simple fact that everyone who works there is on board with the rules and guidelines set forth by the administrators. Instead of showing me to the classroom and then walking away, leaving me to feel alone, desperate, and tossed overboard without a life line, this school worke...