Raine Balkera - Romance Author

The cover is all that is enjoyable about this book. Pages -  335  Publisher -  Oliver-Heber Books; 9 edition Published -  January 15, 2014 Sold by -  Amazon Digital Services LLC Series -  Guardians of the Stone Book 2 of 5 Genre -  Historical Romance Narrative -  3rd Person Sexual Content -  1/5 Language -  1/5 The year is 1123. Scotland's King David seeks an alliance with the fierce mountain Scot, Aidan dun Scoti. But only one woman will tempt Aidan--the accursed beauty whose father once betrayed his clan ... Offered in marriage by David of Scotland as a guise for peace and cursed by Aidan's people for the sins of her father, Lìleas MacLaren is the one woman Aidan believes he is immune to. Alas, she is also the one woman who might bring the fierce chieftain to his knees. I had a very difficult time engaging with this one. And, I'm guessing this was likely written for the Middle S...

http://mfrw52week.blogspot.com/ Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 2018 Edition of MFRW Author Blog 52-Week Challenge. Our First Challenge is: Favorite Thing I've Written, and Why And right off the bat, we have another tough challenge to deal with today. Personally, I choose ALL THE THINGS I write as my Favorite . 😁 Which is why I write. Because writing is my Favorite thing to do. All of my ideas, my characters, their personality issues, and the road I've paved ahead for them are Favorites . My very Favorite of all is that my stories involve ROMANCE and LOVE. But, to be fair, I'll narrow them all down (published and non) to one story for this post. My Favorite 'Thing' and WHY it is my Favorite: Awhile back I wrote a Blog Post about this story, but here is an abridged version for this Challenge. This is a Fantasy Romance I'm still working on (rough draft) that refuses to leave me alone even though I'm currently working on the ...

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”  ― Eleanor Roosevelt A lot has happened to me over the past few weeks, and none of it involves my writing, sad to report. Until last night, that is. Before I shut my eyes and went to sleep last night, and for weeks prior, life came at me in all directions -- with zero good intentions. I finally started back to work as a substitute teacher and Para-Pro after sinking a ton of money into my car only to have said car die on me again. Well, it isn't dead, just brake trouble. But, the real trouble with the brakes is that I sunk a majority of money into having them fixed the first time, so why all of a sudden is there a line leak? It says so right on the work order: check lines for leaks. New pads, new rotors, checked for leaks. Whatever. The guy who did the initial work gave me that smug, "It ain't me!" look and then proceeded to claim it would cost about $2,000 to fix because ...