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author will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn
winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Check out my review of this book here.
Blurb
When
her abusive lover tries to take custody of her baby, Audra flees
where even he can’t follow: the aliens’ forbidden cities
underneath Kwadra Island.
But
can the safety she wants for her daughter survive a search party,
violent alien criminals—and the love of an emotionally damaged
Kwadran?
Excerpt
The
Kwadran let out a sigh before plopping to the damp ground beside her.
She cringed away from him.
“Frightened,
lost little cheechako. Look up there. Go ahead, look.”
No
matter how she stared, though, she didn’t see an eight-foot oval
ventilation shaft into the hillside. No illicit backdoor into a safe
haven in the now-abandoned underworld where Kwadrans had holed up
when the environment of their alternate Earth went bad.
“What
do you see?” he asked.
She
had no reason to play his game. Also no reason not to. “Okay, okay.
I see an overgrown granite cliff. A bunch of trees, half of them
dying—your forest isn’t adapting well to this Earth. Some bright
red berries. A bunch of bushes. And a guy I don’t trust.”
His
eyes twinkled. She was hard-pressed not to smile.
“Notice
anything about the bushes?” he asked.
“They’re,
you know…bushes, okay?” Stroking the downy blond hair atop
Roxie’s head, Audra looked again. “I have no idea what kind they
are, if that’s what you’re after.”
He
waited. Though this conversation was weird, it didn’t feel
threatening, so she looked uphill again.
And
after several seconds, she saw something.
Something
invisible.
A
hundred feet uphill, shrubs were bending to and fro as though in a
stiff breeze—yet she felt no wind. Feeling like Lewis and Clark
exploring the wilderness, she licked her forefinger and held it up in
all directions. No breeze.
“It’s
wind from the ventilation shaft’s fans!” She was inordinately
pleased with herself, even though she didn’t care what this guy
thought. Obviously.
The
twinkle spread from his eyes to his whole face, revealing a different
man underneath his impassive, unresponsive exterior. He was the
opposite of Kwadra Island. Its buried cities were old and abandoned,
but his buried features were young and full of life. For a
second—maybe two—she was so startled by the change that she
yearned to trust him.
About
the Author
Edward
Hoornaert is not only an author of science fiction, romance, and
non-fiction, he's also a certifiable Harlequin Hero; he inspired N.Y.
Times bestselling author Vicki Lewis Thompson to write her favorite
Harlequin Desire, Mr. Valentine, which was dedicated to him. In the
past, he wrote contemporary romances for Silhouette Books, but these
days he writes science fiction adventures—usually with elements of
romance. In addition to novelist, he has been a teacher, technical
writer, salesman, janitor, and symphonic oboist.
After
having 30 different addresses in his first 28 years, his rolling
stone slowed in the mountains of British Columbia and stopped in
Tucson, Arizona. His high school sweetheart has been his wife for
more years than he has fingers and toes to count. Ed and Judi have
three sons, a daughter, a mutt, and the Milky Way Galaxy's most
adorable grandsons.
Contact
info
email:
edhoornaert [at] yahoo [dot] com
Website:
https://eahoornaert.com/
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Buy
links
Smashwords
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/881160
Barnes
and Noble (Nook) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/alien-contact-for-runaway-moms-edward-hoornaert/1129141675?ean=2940155343998
3 comments:
Thanks for hosting!
Hi, Ed,
I hope the tour gets you the attention this book deserves!
With your help, it will get attention, Lisabet!
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