Coryne recently acquired a substantial amount of money, but her life still lacks something important. Keith Patterson, the handsome hunk she hires to build her new home, is more enticing that she can stand, but she buries herself in her legal work while he and his crew work tirelessly to meet her set-in-stone deadline. It’s been a long time since she’s been intimate with a man, and her body yearns for fulfillment. Talk about vivid dreams.
Forever With You by L.J. Holmes raises questions from the beginning that keep you turning pages to find the answers. Where did Coryne’s sudden windfall come from? Why does she resist temptation from a willing and handsome man? Why is the timely completion of her new home so vital?
This is a fast read, but one that will surprise you in the end. L.J. Holmes delivers a warm fuzzy feeling you don’t see coming. Treat yourself to a copy of your own at Muse It Up Publishing. Muse It Hot…for sure.
Thanks lots for inviting me to be here today, Ginger.
It’s incredibly hard to decide what I’m most thankful for since the list shifts from month to month, year to year. But, health, mine and of those closest to me, will always be at the top. I’ve lived through many troubled years with my own health issues, or cared for loved ones who suffered. Fortunately, all those who I hold most dear are in good health. There is no greater blessing.
Beyond that, I’m thankful for new opportunities which have fallen my way in 2010. Trying my hand in the world of publishing has brought me many new friends who I’ll cherish for years to come. So many amazing authors I now count among my friends. Most I’ve met through writers’ organizations: RWA’s Fantasy, Futuristic & Paranormal Chapter; Savvy Authors; Writing.com; Florida Writers’ Association. But the group I’m most grateful for is the MuseItUp Publishing community. I can’t begin to express how much I’ve grown through that fellowship of authors under guidance of publisher Lea Schizas.
Thirdly, I’m grateful our house is now as my husband and I envisioned when we bought it a year and a half ago. After that much time enduring construction crews, we celebrated with our first vacation in three years—a week in the Florida Keys. Mind you that was not a major trip since we live in Tampa, but appreciated just as much as if we’d traveled across the country. This past month I’ve been thankful:
I subscribed to “Florida Travel + Life” magazine, so when we were finally set free, we knew the stops to make a fun trip;
that publication recommended a great fresh fish dive in Key Largo called The Fish House;
we were able to find our fav recipe from that restaurant online, Fish Matecumbe;
and my husband and I recreated the magic of our vacation in our own kitchen, which I’m happy to share today on Ginger’s blog. May it bring you a taste of the Keys and its happiness. I hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
1/2 Spanish onion, chopped
1 (8-ounce) jar capers
5 shallots, peeled and chopped
5 tomatoes, chopped
1/4 cup chopped basil leaves
1/2 tablespoon salt
1/2 tablespoon ground black pepper
2 lemons, juiced
1 cup olive oil
8 individual Mahi Mahi fillets
Salt and pepper
Serving suggestion: rice
To a medium bowl, add all ingredients except fish and stir to thoroughly combine. Refrigerate until ready to use; it is best to let flavors blend for at least 1 hour in the refrigerator.
Preheat the broiler and position the oven rack so that it is at least 4 inches from the broiler, but no more than 6 inches.
Place fish fillets on a baking sheet and then season fish with salt and pepper. Place under the broiler and cook until done on 1 side. Watch carefully, as it may only take a couple minutes, depending on the thickness of your fish fillets and the proximity to the broiler. Remove from broiler and turn each fish over. Top each fillet with about 1/2 cup sauce. Return to the broiler and cook until fish is done on the other side and fully cooked through in the middle. If you are unsure about doneness, cut into the center of 1 fillet; it should be opaque. (You can cover up the cut with the sauce.) Serve with rice, if desired.
Recipe from The Fish House
Key Largo
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Howdy Ginger. Thanks for telling Kat Holmes you wanted to let one of her characters come on over to your blog and yak a bit. Kat asked me if I would mind popping in and telling you a bit about me and well, my island. Hope that’s okay.
I am the sheriff of Star Island, Maine. Have been since my Dad decided to retire when Kelly Westmont fell to her death not that long ago, reminding Dad just how short life really is. He and Mom are world hopping now and loving every minute of it. Before Dad left I was just one of his deputies, as was my sister Paulette, though we call her Pauley. Now that Dad’s gone, I’m the Sheriff, Pauley’s one of my deputies and I also have a nice guy Ryan Siders, who used to be from New York.
Ours is a small force, but then we’re not exactly a huge island, and crime on our island consists of little more than kids playing tricks, most of the time, although we do get the occasional summertime crime when the island becomes packed with tourists. Still it’s a really great place to live.
The biggest attraction is that lighthouse. I mean you can see that sucker from miles and miles away. Like the island, it’s filled with local lore. A Westmont has been the lighthouse keeper since the very beginning. When Kelly fell to her death there was a lot of talk. None of us knew if there were any Westmont’s left out there beyond the crashing Atlantic waters. Kelly’s brother, a nasty, self-centered piece of work had left the island without looking back ages ago, and for all any of us knew, could be like Kelly, gone…so it came as a surprise, and offered up a lot to the local gossisp when an heir, Kelly’s niece, by the name of Rachel Westmont was not only located, but willing to come to our island and take up the cause…keeping the lighthouse bulb burning.
As you can guess, there aren’t a lot of “regular” people living on the island, and those that are natives, I’ve known since I was a boy. I left the island for a spell. Thought I’d seek greener pastures out there in the great big world, but found I really do like it better here on my island where I am part of a pretty neat whole.
But now that we knew Kelly Westmont’s niece was on her way, the Native’s began speculating. What was she like? When would she arrive? Would she adapt to the isolation…the ferry runs only twice a day between StarIsland and the mainland, and come winter, that can be a pretty brutal crossing. How would she like having to be up all night tending to the vital lifeblood for the seafarers by trudging up and down those winding stone steps several times throughout the night to make certain the light remained burning bright? It was a lot to ask of a landlubber. What would she be like as a person? Shy and somewhat reclusive like her aunt, stuck up and self absorbed like her father?
There were wagers about when she would arrive and how long she would remain. No one truly believed she would, stay. She was, they learned after all, from CALIFORINA…and they’d heard about THOSE people. Still some held onto the hope that deep down she was still a Westmont and the legacy burning in her DNA would surface. The islanders wouldn’t admit it, they were a proud, hardy stock, but they really needed her and they wanted to believe that a part of her needed them to.
As for me…the minute I saw Rachel Westmont for the first time, I needed her to want to stay way beyond any legacy dealing with the Lighthouse. Now all I have to do is convince her StarIsland has everything she would ever need; mainly me, for the rest of her life.
THE LIGHTHOUSE by KAT HOLMES is due for release from MUSE IT HOT PUBLISHING on JANUARY 1, 2011. Celebrate the new year on Star Island where ghosts play a pivotal role in the lives of the islanders and Rachel Westmont learns just how strong she truly is.
