“It’s a hearts and bows and a kitten snuggling kind of day,” Dona
Penza Tattle decrees as she waltzes into the office wearing her
Valentine’s Day finery, including heart shaped candy box poised like a
corsage on her wrist.
Looking as if about to attend a wedding, top hat and tails included,
Wrye proclaims, “It is also a Love of Literature Leap day, m’esteemed
colleague. Shall we?”
Tattle takes his arm and the two jump.
“Is this a war zone?” Tattle contemplates as she watches Raith Malloy,
a hunky yuuummmmy cop, and Willow DeVane, an easy on the libido
sizzling lawyer battle it out in front of the Dexter County courthouse.
“Nada, m’inquisitive comrade. We’re in the contemporary romance
(Champagne Books) THE RIGHT TO REMAIN MINE by LINDA
KAGE, and these two strong willed adversaries can’t stop the
fireworks every time their sexy selves run into each other, and we’re
not just talking about the constant quarreling but the smoldering
attraction, and the com-n-git-me body language.” Wrye’s brows
adopt a wiggle dance. “Hubba bubba!”
“I see…” Tattle says dragging the word out as she pops a cream filled
chocolate into her mouth. “They are both too strong-willed for their
own good.”
Wrye attempts to snare a candy while the box is still open, but Tattle
smacks the top shut nearly catching his fingers. He frowns,
remembers his own stash of candy kisses and contentedly peruses the
story. “But like frothy cream the truth rises to the surface, they are
obviously smitten with each other, can’t help it, the chemistry is as
volatile as plutonium spontaneously ignited.”
“Yup, yup, yup, and just as hotly explosive,” Tattle agrees. “The
attraction becomes even more obvious after Raith insists she take
self-defense training after one of her clients attacks her. Of course,
he does the training, and they both end up steamy and not just from
the work-out.”
Wyre produces a mischievous chuckle and takes a poetic
Shakespearean stance. “Over hill, over dale, through bush, through
briar…from the training mat to lover’s ultimate flames and fire.”
“Huh?”
“In other words, they whisk each other off to bed.”
“Ahhh, true love awakens.”
“Sadly they refuse to see it; they both have wounded hearts and try
to keep everything just physical…just physical, ma’am.”
While adjusting Wrye’s boutonniere, Tattle adds a lollipop heart to his
lapel, and a chocolate from her own little box in retribution for her
earlier selfishness. “However, they can’t keep their emotions out of
the mix especially when he realizes Willow has a stalker, and that her
very life was in danger.”
“So can Willow overcome her own battered heart to reveal her love
and accept his? Or will the stalker have his way, and rather than
happily ever-after, love gives way to tragedy? Only Wrye, Tattle and
every tenacious reader will know!
With a whoosh and shimmer the two vanish then reappear in the
historical (Champagne Books) THIRD TIME’S A CHARM by STACEY
COVERSTONE.
“It’s wild. It’s dusty. It’s rural. It’s the untamed Colorado Territory,
and just where widow Sabra Bennett is traveling with a trio of males,
fifteen-year-old Rusty Paladin, a daring and gallant young lad who
eagerly befriends her. There is also the whiskey guzzling Irishman,
Noah Tucker, who reminds her of a place she no longer wishes to visit,
and the wealthy rancher Jason Lord, who has that look of a safe
harbor.”
Wrye flicks out the lollipop from his lapel and chomps down on it,
crackles interspersing his speech, “Still, it’s Noah who sends her heart
a fluttering.”
“Yessss,” Tattle says with that lisp of dispute in her tone, “but Jason is
looking for a wife, offers materialistic stability and a safe, tranquil life,
or so she thinks.”
Wrye lifts his hands as if balancing fragile items, lifting one higher for
a second, and then the other. “Heat and flames…warmth and calm....
Ahh, an impossible choice, poor dear.”
Having devoured her own Valentine treats, Tattle deftly worms a bit of
candy from Wrye’s pocket and indulges. “Meanwhile, Noah, having
been a carefree seaman is used to enjoying a variety of women from
port to port and sees Sabra as a suitable mistress until he begins to
realize she has secrets.”
“Secrets indeed!” Wrye proclaims in an excited tone, striking a match
against his booted heel and lighting a candle as if shedding
illumination on said secret. “Sabra had run from society into this
rough and tough wilderness for a reason, and she is not about to
divulge that reason to anyone.”
“I know…I know…she fears being caught!” Tattle exclaims with an Iknow-
something-you-don’t-know dance.
“Caught? Is she a criminal? A wayward ward? A victim? What?
How? Who? Why?”
“Let’s find out.” With an impish grin, Tattle winks at y’all as they
continue to read, closing the book cover behind them.join us next month when we snoop around CC KAUFMAN’s THE INVITATION, and THE DRAGON HOUSE SERIES, BOOK 1, TAKEN
IN by JANE TOOMBS.
Happy Valentine’s Month! May your month brim with love, flowers and all your hearts’ desires, as well as many CBG books!
Dona Penza Rutabaga Tattle, Esq.
and Associate Wrye Balderdash
of Blather City, Wannachat
Created and written by
Angelica Hart and Zi
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