SFR Brigade Showcase: A Contest and an Excerpt

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Happy holidays to one and all! This is my husband's favorite time of year, after Halloween and Thanksgiving, that is. We've put up our tree and we're getting ready to wrap up this year's crop of presents. I'm more of a Nightmare Before Christmas gal myself and love Halloween best of all holidays, but I do enjoy the good company and tasty food of the holiday season. I also like giving gifts that make people smile. So below I've got a few gifts for you just for stopping by. Then let me know what's the best gift you've ever given or received.

 ~ Holiday Contest ~
​Enter to win a Haunted Hollow Themed Pendant*
plus a copy of Before My World Turned Blue, book two in the Haunted Hollow series (ebook).
All you have to do to enter is join the mailing list for my monthly newsletter, The Life Romantic. I'll send periodic news about my latest books and adventures and you can unsubcribe at any time.

After that, keep scrolling down to read an excerpt from my current work in progress, Howling for You, book three of the Haunted Hollow .

*Pendant prize is open to US residents only. eBook prize is open worldwide.

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~ Excerpt ~
​A sneak peak at the Haunted Hollow Book III

Here's an excerpt from the first draft of my newest novel, HOWLING FOR YOU, book 3 in the Haunted Hollow series. It has not yet gone through editing, so please forgive any mistakes. Tell me what you think.

November 2147 —The Haunted Hollow, Old California

“Pinche cabron, they can’t take the surge of energy!” Ava heaved at the lever with all her might, trying to decrease the output from the omni-dimensional energy relay. With Cole’s recent illness and sudden miraculous recovery, the machines had been through hell, and so had Ava. Now, with Cole at his full powers again, his energy feed had overloaded the conduits and relays and sent the motors into overdrive. Up above, day was turning to night and back to day. Sun turned to rain turned to wind turned to sun. Thank the goddess most everyone was still inside the winery celebrating their incredible victory over the necro-virus and Scheherazade. The witch wasn’t dead, not yet, but they’d struck her a vicious blow. 

Ava wasn’t in there celebrating, though, because the machines had gone on high alert. She’d been on her way with Tempe to see Cole before Tempe went back in time on an important mission. Instead she was here, fighting with all her might to keep her machines from exploding. 

She shouted orders at the lackeys she’d been assigned a year or so ago, but they didn’t have the depth of knowledge she did regarding the machines. She knew every piece of scrap metal, every bolt and wire and fan blade. She knew how every motor came apart and went together. She could literally hear the parts talking to her. On a level only she could understand, the cooling unit for the seasonal regulator told her it was seconds from blowing. 

“You, take this lever and keep pulling. Do not let the relay switch back to full power, understand?” she shouted at the nearest lackey, Paul, Preston, something with a P, and then raced to the cooling unit over on the other side of the yard. 

But she was too late. Just as she reached it, the metal housing buckled and then blew apart into a million pieces of deadly shrapnel. It all registered in the split second before the blast wave hit her. 

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