Showing posts with label historical romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical romance. Show all posts

Friday, March 12, 2021

5+ Stars Book Review for My Novel ABSOLUTION

 

5+ stars for Absolution by @PLParker #pnr #paranormalromance #vampire #romance #bookreview



"...Absolution is a magnificent paranormal romance with originality woven throughout. Can a creature who needs blood to survive be pure?..."

https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/absolution-bookreview?postId=604a3d2ec647250015931c5e

Monday, February 1, 2021

N.N. Light's Book Heaven's February Be Mine Bookish Giveaway! #giveaway #Valentines #NNLight




Many people think of hearts and flowers when Valentine’s Day approaches. I say, give me books and I’ll be your forever sweetheart! I’ve teamed up with several authors to bring you the sweetest giveaway filled with all your favorite things: books, gift cards and bookish prizes. We’re giving away over 50 prizes including autographed print copies, e-books, audiobook codes, a box of chocolates, gift cards and swag. It’s heavy on the romance, but you’ll also find women’s fiction, suspense, thriller, literary fiction and more.  We want you to be our valentine. Say yes by entering to win below. Good luck! The list is long and personally, I’d love to win myself but alas, I can’t. So, I’ll just live vicariously through the lucky winners. If there’s a particular book or prize you’d like to win, be sure to say which prize you want when you enter via Rafflecopter. Enter below and good luck! 

Be Mine Bookish Giveaway: 

https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/92db775096

Literary Portal Giveaway: 

https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/literary-giveaway-portal

My time travel romance novel FIONA will be on the list of giveaways if you are interested. 




Thursday, July 9, 2020

What Would You Do If You Fell Through A Portal And Ended Up In 1847 St. Louis?

She fell through the portal and ended up in 1847 St. Louis and the start of the Oregon Trail. She had to get home to present day Seattle and the only way west was the wagon train and Jake Marshall her only option to join the train. A marriage of convenience, a long, treacherous journey and the prize, ultimately, home. But will Aimee succeed?  Find out.








Excerpt:  
“Jake!” she blurted.  “Take me with you!”
            He stopped, his gut clenching.  He hadn't seen that coming! 
            He waited for her next move, staring at her face, flushed beet red, amber eyes begging.
            “Please," she whispered. 
            The walls closed in, smothering him.  He didn't want to hear what he knew she was going to say.  He didn't need that kind of complication.
            "I have nowhere to go.  I don’t know anyone, and if you leave, I’ll lose the only person who has treated me with kindness since I’ve been here.” 
            She reached up and took off her diamond earrings.  “My parents paid three thousand for these as a graduation present.  I’ll give you one now and the other when we arrive in Seattle.”
            He rubbed a hand over his face, giving himself time to think.  She was so beautiful, standing there, looking lost and sad.  Damn it!
            He checked the hallway and then pushed her back, stepping into the room.   “Even if I wanted to, which I don’t know that I do, I can’t.”
            “Why?”  Her lips trembled.  Tears filled her pleading eyes. 
            His stomach plummeted.  He hated tears!  He didn't know how to deal with them.
            “Because this group of emigrants are pretty religious. They wouldn’t take kindly to an unchaperoned female traveling with me.”
            “Even if I’m paying you – like a business deal?”  She took his hand and placed one of the studs on his palm.  His fist closed instinctively around the gemstone.  Holding the gem to eye level, he scrutinized it.  Why was he even considering it?  But damn it!  He was tempted!
            “Pretty rock.”   He handed it back and looked away, feeling guilty.  He wasn't good at these kinds of things.  Taking care of another person didn't fit in his plans.  She didn't fit in his plans.  He liked being alone.
            “They’re perfect – my parents made sure of that.” She repeated her offer.  “One stone now and the other when we reach Oregon.”
            “And I repeat – these people won't allow you to go with me.”
            “What would it take to get you to take me?”  Tears spilled down her silken cheeks.  "I'll do anything."
            Instinct caused his hand to reach up and cup her face.  The texture of her skin felt like satin, soft and smooth.  His heart beat sped.  She got to him in ways he didn't understand.  His thumb stroked the soft contours.  “If it was up to me, I’d let you go,” he conceded.  “But they pay for my services.  Maybe if you found a man to marry you, we could figure out something.”
            “Get married!  To just anyone?”  Shocked, her eyes glimmered in the lamplight.
            His hand dropped.  “Best I can come up with.  If you’re married, they might let you go.”  The thought of her with another man tore at his gut! He wanted to kill the bastard!  He gritted his teeth.  She belonged to him!  No other man had the right to touch her!
            She drew in a deep breath, blurting out.  “Jake, listen to me.  I know this is sudden but I don't have any other option.  I don’t know any other men.  Will you marry me – in name only?  Once we’re in Oregon, I’ll give you a divorce, and it’ll be like it never happened.  You can go on with your life, and you’ll have my diamonds to help buy that property you mentioned.” 
Jake shook his head, heat boiling his guts. “You want me to marry you just so you can get to Oregon?”  He didn’t know why, but her suggestion sickened him.  He'd let her get to him with her tears and her sadness.  She'd almost convinced him she was special, but she wasn't.  She was just a whore, an expensive one, but a whore.  
            “I don’t have any other choice.  I have to get to there and this is my best chance.”   
            “So – you are willing to sell yourself - for the right price,” he growled, irritated that it bothered him so much.
            Her eyes shot amber sparks.  “Not selling myself – I’m buying you.  There’s a difference.”



Aimee's Locket, now available in audio book form as well.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Aimees-Locket-P-L-Parker-ebook/dp/B002TG4NJC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Travel Back 40,000 Years - The Riley's Journey Trilogy

They stepped through the portal and traveled back 40,000 years. The Riley's Journey Trilogy: Riley's Journey, Into the Savage Dawn and Beyond Tomorrow. Each just $.99 on Amazon.


Riley's Journey Blurb:  The research project was only for an "extended period." No one said anything about forever! Deceived and betrayed, Riley is sent back 40,000 years to be the mate of a man she’d never before met. Her journey will take her into a world fraught with dangers—a world made more treacherous by savage beasts, primitive Neanderthals, and the incursion of the aggressive Cro-Magnon man.

Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005SV26KS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0



Into the Savage Dawn Blurb: Sent back 40,000 years to the ends of the last great Ice Age, the time travelers embark on a journey of survival and discovery. The brutal and cannibalistic Cro-Magnons discover the small band and attack. Forced to flee from their high mountain encampment, the tribe heads into the dawn, towards the Pacific Ocean and their dream of ultimately reaching North America. Geena and Micah are left behind to lead the Cros away from the escaping tribe. When he is killed, she finds herself terribly alone. Severely injured and without hope or resources, she nonetheless is determined to survive and find the people. Survival of the fittest - that is the law of primordial earth.

Buy Link:  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VY5Y4T6?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_0&storeType=ebooks




Beyond Tomorrow Blurb:  The vicious and predatory Cros are amassing in ever growing numbers in the foothills above the travelers’ temporary encampment. Facing inevitable attack, the tribe hastens to prepare for the last leg of their journey—the perilous voyage across the Bering Strait to the shores of the Americas. But time is in short supply.
Kidnapped by a band of marauding Cros, Rachel’s fate as a slave is preordained. Females are few, the tribeswomen the ultimate prize and better off dead the reality. But fate is capricious and unsettled. When the savage warrior, Hawk, overpowers her captors and takes her for his own, Rachel’s destiny takes a new direction.



Leave a comment and be entered to win e-copies of all three books!

Be safe!

Patsy

Friday, May 1, 2020

All She Wanted Was to Return to the Future - Aimee's Locket - Time Travel Romance


What would you do if one day you were swept through a portal and ended up somewhere in the past? Would you try anything possible to return home?  I know I would.

Aimee is a modern young woman who's one sole passion is collecting antique lockets and that's how the adventure started. One minute she was in modern day Seattle and the next in 1847 St. Louis, alone, scared and without the means to survive.

What is she to do? She wants nothing more than to go home and the only way to get to Seattle, even in 1847, is by wagon train. She has no money, lone women are not usually allowed to travel so what is her recourse? Marry the wagon scout of course.  Jake Marshal is her ticket home!  Find out what happens!

Book video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Sw3wnMyXM&t=42s

Buy Link:  https://www.amazon.com/Aimees-Locket-P-L-Parker-ebook/dp/B002TG4NJC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=




Now in audiobook form as well, narrated by the awesome Dawson McBride:  https://www.amazon.com/Aimees-Locket-dp-B07FTV2P7X/dp/B07FTV2P7X/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Time Travel - Would You Go If You Could?

My answer  "Yes." but only if I could come back! Perfection would be the ability to go in like a tour bus, watch what is going on and then return home.  If I had to name my first destination, it would be to find Jesus, see him watch some of his miracles. Affirmation I suspect.  

Time travel movies have always fascinated me - travel to the past or the future in the blink of an eye. I think that's why when I took up writing, my first novels were time travel.  Fiona, Riley's Journey (and sequels), Aimee's Locket, Heart of the Sorcerer. In later writings, when I entered the scifi genre, I wrote The Chalice (and sequels) about 1,000 women who awake in the future, captives to an alien race.  


I am contemplating doing a sequel to Aimee's Locket, about her  younger sister Sarah.  We shall see where my mind takes me when the time comes!

Happy Reading!

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Summertime - No Rest for the Weary

Summertime used to be the most waited time of the year when I was young.  School was out and the list of much-anticipated adventures were just over the horizon.

Now, in my second year of retirement, I find myself busier than ever.  Besides the yard work (mowing, weeding, etc.) and taking care of my husband who had a stroke in mid-February (he is doing very well by the way), I am smack-dab in the middle of reviewing the audio chapters for Aimee's Locket! I have to admit! I am enjoying it.  How fun to go back and listen to a book that was published in 2008 I believe.  Aimee's Locket,a time-travel novel, was one of my first books published and the only book I have written about the Old West. I wrote it because my husband wanted a story about the Oregon Trail.  He has been listening right along with me and we are both enjoying the forgotten scenes.

Dawson McBride is the narrator and he has the most amazing westerny sounding voice, I just love listening to him.  Might be interested in checking out his site: http://dawsonmcbride.com/

Look for Aimee's Locket soon in audio book.

Link to Amazon for e-book, print copies: 
https://www.amazon.com/Aimees-Locket-P-L-Parker-ebook/dp/B002TG4NJC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1530980702&sr=8-1&keywords=aimee%27s+locket+by+p.l.+parker

Patsy
P.L. Parker

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

So the Season is On!


Well, I did my best to avoid the season, but the flu snuck in and attacked me.  I'm one of those holdouts for the flu shots. The only year I had one, I ended up with the worst flu I've ever had so I usually avoid them against all my family members' encouragement and warnings.

But my senior citizen mind might just be changing.  If this session lasts too long, I suspect I just might.

Here's hoping if your flu season happens, it is a short one.

Patsy




Saturday, December 30, 2017

How About Some Free Reads to End 2017?

The following two short free reads were originally published by The Wild Rose Press.  TWRP has since closed the Free Reads program and returned the authors' rights.  I had two Free Reads with them: Prophecy's Bride and Songbird and have since set them up for easy access. (The covers were my efforts but as you can see, I am not a cover artest.)


Prophecy's Bride is about a young woman forced to wed a prophet from a neighboring tribe, but she prefers a life of freedom.

Link: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/60a3ae5d-7ba7-4d4c-abc6-7e6cbf86a797






Songbird is a western romance about a young woman who flees from a life she finds too hard to bear.

Link for Songbird:  https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/c2d7ea27-3dba-4cd3-8417-23a51774c0cc


I hope you enjoy!

Patsy
P.L. Parker
www.plparker.com