I’m joining “Bookhounds” and  “I Am A Reader Not A Writer” for the Independence Day Freedom Hop Giveaway, giving a print copy of Ladd Springs & recipe swag to 3 lucky winners!! All you have to do is enter via the rafflecopter giveaway box below and you’re IN. You have 5 ways to win ~ GOOD LUCK and Happy Fourth of July!!

“Once you start reading this series of books, you can’t wait to read the next book. There are so many twist and turns, you never know what is going to happen. I would recommend these books to everyone.” ~ Amazon review

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Delaney Wilkins finds herself at odds with hotel developer Nick Harris over a deathbed promise and a mysterious find in the Tennessee forest. Both are after title to Ladd Springs, But Ernie Ladd, current owner of the property and uncle to Delaney, is adamantly opposed to them both.

Felicity Wilkins, Delaney’s daughter, deserves to inherit her family’s legacy, but neighbor Clem Sweeney is working against her, ingratiating himself with Ernie Ladd.  Clem is also harboring a secret that will make him a very wealthy man—unless the others stop him before he can bring it to fruition.

Complicating matters is Annie Owens.  Ex-girlfriend to Jeremiah Ladd, Ernie’s estranged son living in Atlanta, she declares her daughter Casey is Jeremiah’s, making Casey every bit as entitled to the property as Felicity—only Annie hasn’t proven this claim. Yet.

All are fighting to get the property, but only one will walk away with the gold. Which will it be? Find out in the first installment of Ladd Springs…

Keep Hopping!!

I’m joining “BookHounds” and “I Am A Reader Not A Writer” for the Independence Day Freedom Hop Giveaway, giving a print copy of Ladd Springs & recipe swag to 3 lucky winners!! All you have to do is enter via the rafflecopter giveaway box below and you’re IN. You have 5 ways to win ~ GOOD LUCK and Happy Fourth of July!!

“Once you start reading this series of books, you can’t wait to read the next book. There are so many twist and turns, you never know what is going to happen. I would recommend these books to everyone.” ~ Amazon review

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Delaney Wilkins finds herself at odds with hotel developer Nick Harris over a deathbed promise and a mysterious find in the Tennessee forest.Both are after title to Ladd Springs. But Ernie Ladd, current owner of the property and uncle to Delaney, is adamantly opposed to them both.

Felicity Wilkins, Delaney’s daughter, deserves to inherit her family’s legacy, but neighbor Clem Sweeney is working against her, ingratiating himself with Ernie Ladd. Clem is also harboring a secret that will make him a very wealthy man—unless the others stop him before he can bring it to fruition. Complicating matters is Annie Owens. Ex-girlfriend to Jeremiah Ladd, Ernie’s estranged son living in Atlanta, she declares her daughter Casey is Jeremiah’s, making Casey every bit as entitled to the property as Felicity—only Annie hasn’t proven this claim.

Yet. All are fighting to get the property, but only one will walk away with the gold. Which will it be?

Find out in the first installment of Ladd Springs…

Keep Hopping!

Talk about bad the alpha men in history…

This weekend, the family watched the history channel and we all learned something new.  Something old, and something new. Do you know the origins of the names of our current day calendar months?

I didn’t. My daughter knew a few, thanks to a great, Montessori-based education, but me? I knew nada. Maybe I learned it once but with no recall to speak of, I was swimming through fresh rain water.

Fine. I live in the twenty-first century where a world of information is literally at my fingertips.

Originally, there were ten months. Makes sense when you consider the names were logically based on the numerical system and rooted in Latin. Sept = seven, Oct = eight, Nov = nine, Dec = ten. Basically, December was the tenth month, November the ninth month, October the eight and so on. It wasn’t until circa 700 BC that Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome decided to add two more months, January and February. (Just because they were the dead months of agriculture doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have names, right? I mean, gee whiz, gardeners need a break, too. When else am I going to make snow angels with the family?!?!?!)

However, what you might not know, is that July was originally called Quintilis and August, Sextilis. Remember, in a ten month calendar, these used to be five and six, not seven and eight, ie. Quin = five and Sex = six. (sex as in the Latin root, not the romantic alternative, though I like the way you think!)

Enter alpha men. Julius Caesar decided he wanted a month named after him and voila–Quintilis became Julius or July. Not to be undone, Julius’ successor Augustus wanted the same—“a month, in my honor, I command you!”

Hence, August was born. Men. Can’t live with ’em, can’t get a month in edgewise.

Disclaimer: April, May, and June were named for goddesses…as they should be. ;)