Mimi has a wonderful new series release and a great contest going which sounds like a lot of fun. I'll let her tell you all about them :)
Thank
you LaVerne for letting me visit your blog today and for your support in
helping me spread the news about my new series called "Vegas"
This is release day for the new romantic suspense
Vegas Series by Mimi Barbour
Riveting
and fast-paced, this short blockbuster will introduce you to Aurora Morelli and
Kai Lawson, the characters who are the stars of the Vegas Series.
In
this novel, Aurora is forced to accept one very difficult fact—she's lonesome
for her partner Debbie. An attack by a maniac put paid to their working
together and Aurora is pissed. She's out to get the madman who hurt her friend
and God help anyone who gets in her way.
Therefore when a new partner is forced on her, a bloody hotshot no less,
the kind of dude she always stays as far away from as possible, she's even more
pissed.
This
action–packed short is humorous and will sweep you into the lives of these Las
Vegas Detectives.
So this is what missing
someone feels like. Kind of sad and lonely mashed together, eating away at you
all day long. Aurora had never felt this way before; wouldn’t have given
herself permission. This time the annoying ache refused to stop
She seldom allowed gloomy
thoughts to grab hold and mess with her head. But looking around the small
office assigned to her and another, seeing the empty desk, sorrow gnawed away
until she gave in. Her old partner Deb left behind a hollow emptiness, a
sensation she wouldn’t ever admit to anyone else. What did you expect?
She chastised herself. Not having the person you trust more than anyone else in
the world backing you up sucked big time.
Two weeks ago, life had been
normal. She’d gone to get a cup of the sludge they called coffee and left
Debbie working on their backlog of case files. Returning to their office,
Lieutenant Cory Ashton had caught up with her and they’d stepped into the room
together, both coming to a dead stop. Debbie, who’d lately taken to the layered
look with sloppy clothes, had bent over to pick something up from the floor and
everything had draped open— her pregnant belly had been revealed for all to
see.
“You shot me!” Aurora is
incensed. Her new partner shrugs and answers. “I saved your life.” From the
very first page of this riveting story, these two battle for supremacy in
trying to catch the serial rapist who ripped both their lives apart. With all
her might, she fights the attraction to his baby blues that tease and start her
internal warning devices humming. After all, her job is her life and
determination has always been her lifeline.
Kai has a mission of honor
to undertake. The man who’d raped his sister can’t be allowed to live. After
all, she hadn’t! Revenge fills his soul while visions of his new partner fills
his heart. The sassy woman rattles his calm, and he can’t keep his hands to
himself. Doesn’t mean she has the power to stop him from doing what has to be
done.
“You
shot me!"
“You
told me to.”
“Dumb
shit!” Aurora pushed her new partner from hovering over her so she could sit
up. “I didn't mean it. I just wanted you to scare Rhondo.” She felt blood
poring from the wound on her arm and purposely kept her head turned away.
“Shooting
you did scare him. He let you go, didn't he?”
Aurora
frowned at him. Why did his voice have to sound so damn reasonable?
“What-ever!”
She hoped her scorn would get to him.
“Hey!
I saw his eyes, you didn’t. He had every
intention of using that knife. You know, the sharp one he had pressed against
your throat. If I’d shot him instead of you…” He shrugged.
Aurora
shuddered, fighting off nausea. She didn’t want to listen to reason. Being
angry made the situation a whole lot easier to deal with. Sarcasm, the best
weapon she had in a macho man's environment, replaced whining.
She
glared at him and saw his shapely eyebrows rise. The light of the bulb hanging
from the ceiling of the cruddy apartment haloed his head making the bare skin
shine. “Just my frigging luck to end up
with a partner who thinks and looks like Bruce Willis."
Kai
chuckled. Her glower put a quick end to his merriment. He tried changing the
subject with sweet talk. "I've been told I have a nicely shaped head for
being bald."
"Sure
and it goes swell with your baby-blue eyes." She sneered on purpose. No
way would she admit he did look good.
His
response was a grunt of displeasure. “Are you always this crabby?”
Disbelief
shone in her amazed expression. “Not at all…” She said, disdain evident. “…only
when I’ve been shot.”
"Vegas"
Contest Rules
(Sept 15 – Sept 30th)
1. Read the book called "Roll the
Dice".
2. Write an honest review for Amazon.
3. Send a copy of Amazon's notice to
mimibarbour@hotmail.com
Then…
you'll have a chance at being the lucky
winner of a
$50 Amazon Gift Certificate
I've purposely set the price of the book
down to $.99 for this contest and on Sept 19 & 20 it will be promoted in
the
and will be …
…you guessed it!
FREE!!!
Good Luck!!!
You can find Mimi on the web here:
Website, Twitter, Blog, Facebook
Thay are fantastically vibrant covers, Mimi! The excerpts are great, too, launching straight in. Best wishes!
ReplyDeleteThanks Nancy.
ReplyDeleteThe genuis who did my covers is called Steven Novak and he's wonderful!
The genius who wrote the books is me...exhausted but really happy this day has finally come! LOL