WEBBWEAVER posted a fantastic 5-spider! review for A Perfect Gem on their site! They also posted an interview with me and they’re giving away two hard-bound signed copies of A Perfect Gem! Please come and join in the fun.

Here’s the Book Review and Book Giveaway: WebbWeaver – Books Movies & Music Reviewed

Here’s the link to the Author Interview

Date: July 25 – July 31, 2011
Cost: FREE
Dress: Casual

See you there!

I found this on Amazon today:

“I found “A Perfect Gem” the perfect reading experience for a lazy Tuesday afternoon in the sun. Drawn into the story immediately, I connected with the short sayings about the powers of stones, a lot of which I happen to own. Getting farther into the book, I realized I was in for a wild ride as everything in the heroine’s life dropped from her as though she fell off a cliff. She lost her husband, she lost her home and, given no other possibilities, she returned home to the father she despised and the boy with whom she had fallen in love when young.

Life never guarantees success in relationships and trying to hold onto fleeting emotions can be exhausting. Crista was blessed with a friend named Joon Ting, the lady who wrote a book about stones, who was also the only one able to restore her balance. May times throughout this book, Crista sought out Joon for friendship, help and the explanations of why life is so difficult for some and yet how easy it is for others to maintain the balance so many of us cannot. These people took the time to study life, not just live it…

As for the normal things people like to know about a book such as were the characters well described? Definitely. Was the scenery such that you could see it and feel it? Definitely. Italia!! Oh, so scrumptious. You could feel it around you. Was the plot a good one? Definitely. All the twists and turns you could possibly want.

Winslow Eliot entertained me today and I appreciate it. I read some very interesting tidbits about her on the back cover and just may take her up on some of her talents and her willingness to share them.”

Carol Piner, author of Evidence of Insanity

New review posted on Precisely Mine!

Angie writes: “You’ll love most of the characters, especially Gareth, who is every woman’s dream, and Joon, who’d make an awesome BFF.”

She also says: “There is the perfect amount of suspense, romance, and mystery and just when you think you have it all figured out, you don’t, right to the very end.”

A PERFECT GEM is a lovely, romantic, suspenseful, light, beautifully written, springtime read – maybe your mom would enjoy it!

You can buy it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble or order it from your favorite independent bookstore.

Angie is offering a book giveaway of A PERFECT GEM on her lovely site: Precisely Mine.

All you have to do to win a free copy is write a comment on her post! Good luck.

My latest romantic suspense novel – A PERFECT GEM – is available in e-book format! Here’s what it’s about:

“Bad things happen to other people. Not to us.”

This is Crista’s husband’s mantra – something he says often, right up to the day his car goes off the cliff, killing him. Crista doesn’t think her life can get any worse.

But it can. She finds out he was married to someone else. Leaving her not only heartbroken, but destitute.

She’s fired from her job and evicted from her apartment. She and her two children make the hard move to Tahton, a small New England town she fled twenty-five years earlier, vowing never, ever to return.

There she encounters the man she thought she would never see again: her childhood love, Gareth. Old feelings begin to resurface. But just as Crista believes she is finally recovering from the shock of her dead husband’s betrayal, his ‘real’ wife contacts her… looking for something very valuable…. that Crista doesn’t even know she has.

You can buy the print versions on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or order it from your favorite bookstore. The ebook version is also available on Smashwords.

If you’d like a review copy, please let me know. Reader reviewers welcome!