It’s February and in my world that means romance which is why I’m joining Bookhounds and their awesome giveaway hop! My gift for the hop will be a $10 gift card for Amazon AND a copy of book #1 in my latest romantic adventure/mystery series, Not Without You, to 3 lucky winners. That’s right — I will have 3 lucky winners!!

Grad student, Lisa Richardson, scours the high country in search of her beloved boreal toad. The amphibian is in danger of extinction, a fate she is determined to change. Single-minded in her focus, Lisa doesn’t realize that she’s being followed by a mysterious stranger.

Enter McIntyre Walsh. Ex-marine with a heart of gold, this man lives and breathes duty. Protection. Content with his self-exile on a mountaintop in Colorado, he inadvertently witnesses a female hiker in danger, a situation he cannot ignore yet is unable to rectify. When their paths cross, Lisa and Walsh refuse to stray from their avowed goals and carry on–despite the other.

It isn’t until a killer ramps up his game that both are forced to relent. Battling the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains and an undeniable attraction between them, Lisa and Walsh must work together against the odds if they intend to get off the mountain alive.

And it’s easy to enter. Simply choose from one of the Rafflecopter options below and your name will be added to the mix.

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Now get hopping — you have a bunch more sites to see and enter to win! Good luck!!

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St. Patrick’s Day is coming up and you know what that means…get ready for the pinching!  Fingers on your fanny, your arm, where ever those pesky leprechauns can get you, they will.  Me?  I don’t mind a pinch now and again.  In fact, this month is the 17th anniversary of when I met my husband.  Single, minding my own business and NOT looking for love at all (at that moment ;)), there he was, in a warm cozy bar tucked away in a ski resort.  *sigh* I do enjoy spring skiing.

It’s my friend’s fault.  As any good matchmaking friend, she was trying to set me up with someone else, an effort to which I was uninterested.  As she was describing this fabulous man she knew, my husband-to-be leaned over the bar to order a beer and I pointed, “Does your friend look like him?  Because that guy right there–that one’s my type.”

It was history from there.  She sought him out, made up a story and got the two of us talking.  We’ve been married 14 years this June and it was my lucky day in March, to be sure.

To celebrate, let’s say we giveaway a copy of my upcoming release ~ You can be the first to read Ladd Springs!

Delaney Wilkins finds herself at odds with hotel developer Nick Harris over a deathbed promise and a mysterious find in the forest.  Both are after title to Ladd Springs, a mecca of natural springs, streams and trails in the eastern Tennessee mountains, a tract of land worth millions.  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…

Next up will be Ladd Fortune, set for release this June with three more before the end of the year!  So get your hands on this one early — you won’t want to miss a single installment.  To enter, all you need to do is leave a comment!

Follow on Facebook for an added chance to win AND the opportunity to join my upcoming Release Party where I’ll be dishing out the scoop behind the novel, giving away prizes and doing so for a week!  It all begins April 10th in conjunction with my Authors in Bloom Blog Hop.

Virginia!  Congratulations on winning my garden-inspired giveaway ~~ the sure-fire way to get you fired-up for the garden season. :)  And thanks to all who entered.  I appreciate you stopping by!  And the grand prize winner…

YJ!!  Woohoo ~~  the eReader and $25 gift card are yours!  And just in time for the summer vacation.  You’ll be kicked back and relaxed as you read from your slim and trim, sleek new tablet.  Ahhh…  Don’t let the waves hit it!

And congratulations to ALL who won across the 70 author sites.  Not only did you gain a bounty of gardening tips, fab new recipes and wonderful new authors, many of you won prizes along the way!  For a full list of winners, head on over to A Cozy Reader’s Corner where Tiffany will post the entire list of prizes and winners.

Thanks again to one and all for making this First Annual Authors in Bloom Spring Blog Hop a HUGE success (yes, you read that right  — there will be more to follow!).  Without energetic readers like you, we authors would be nowhere.  Okay, crazy ones like me would still be writing, forcing their daughter to read, baby, read!  But honestly, without loyal readers? Authors go nowhere fast.  Hopefully you all enjoyed your “hop” and will join us again next year. :)

Can’t wait.  Until then, happy spring and wishing you the discovery of many wonderful new books and new authors.  It’s an addiction, I know.  One I can’t seem to kick!