‘The Hero Sandwich’ by Karyn Gerrard and Gayl Taylor

BOOK BLURB:  A wild night of meaningless sex is all best friends Connie Hollingsway and Nicci Sullivan have in mind when they approach a beyond handsome, younger man in the Cougar Cave bar. They soon realize they have taken on more than they bargained for.

Barrett Michaels just found out he was cut from the Double A baseball team he played for. To drown his sorrows and ease his pain, he goes to the Cougar Cave looking for a one-night stand with an experienced, older woman. Imagine his surprise when not one, but two women suggest a night of mind-blowing sensual pleasure with no strings attached.
Can three lonely people keep pain, bitterness, and grief at bay or will emotional fireworks tear down the walls surrounding their hearts?

EXCERPT:

“As far as Connie Hollingsway was concerned, she’d just found the meat filling for her hero sandwich. She cast a quick glance to her best friend, Nicole Sullivan, and amended her statement to our hero sandwich.

Bass from inane techno music reverberated off the wood-paneled walls of the club called the Cougar Cave that she and Nicci were at tonight. Connie’s gaze slid back to the man sitting alone in a booth directly across from them and further down the wall. The man, in a word, was perfect. Ascertaining his age was difficult under the flashing strobe lights, plus he sat directly underneath a neon sign for Budweiser, which cast a reddish glow over a stunningly rugged, handsome face. The layered and tousled hair looked as if he had just rolled out of bed. Milk chocolate would be the way she’d describe the color. Like all young guys, he had a scruff of facial hair, but Connie’s keen eye could make out the sexy cleft in his perfectly shaped chin. There were six empty beer bottles in front of him, and he’d just waved his arm to the waiter for more. A sly smile curved about Connie’s mouth. If man-meat was drunk enough, he may be open and willing to consider her suggestion. Leaning toward Nicci to talk about her idea, the words died in her throat when man-meat stood, shook off his leather jacket, and hung it on the coat rack attached to the back of the bench seat. He was taller than she first imagined, a few inches over six feet to be sure. A skin tight black T-shirt hugged every valley and plane of his powerful physique. Man-meat was cut, chiseled, honed, and sharpened into hardened precision, enough to rival those marble statues of Greek gods. The T-shirt, tucked into a pair of incredibly tight blue jeans, showed his torso to sculpted perfection. Fabric strained across rock hard thighs, a muscular ass and—Connie’s held breath whooshed out in a moan—showed off his impressive package to perfection.

She had to get a closer look.

While his build and his aura evoked a certain maturity, there were no telltale lines fanning out from the eyes to show he may be in his thirties, nor were there heavily cut lines around his mouth. Damn, how young was he? Who cared? He was getting drunk at the Cougar Cave so naturally the man would be interested in an older woman.

Wonder how he would feel about two women?”

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TIME TRAVEL IN MOVIES with Karyn Gerrard

I have always loved the time travel concept in either books, television or movies. There are so many variables and directions you can go story wise with Time Travel. It is fantasy all the way, you have to suspend your disbelief and go with it. Scientists will say on paper the concept of time travel is feasible, but in reality? No.

But think of the possibilities! I asked at a few other blog visits if a stunning hunk of Regency virile masculinity asked you to go back to 1821, would you go? Most said ‘no way’. They couldn’t give up the creature comforts, or the more important things, like a flush toilet. Some said they would if they could travel back and forth.

So when crunch time comes in this fantasy, and it always does, what is the time traveler to do? Stay in the time he is in? Or if he can, go back to the time period he is from? The heroine in my novella, “TIMELESS LOVE” has this same conundrum. The heroine is also faced with a decision, does she stay with the hero, or beg him to come with her?

So that got me thinking about some of my favorite time travel movies, I will only touch on a few.

Time After Time was released in 1979, with Malcolm McDowell and David Warner. Malcolm plays H.G. Wells himself, and the plot cleverly works in ‘Jack the Ripper’ (as played by one of my fav underrated Brit actors, Warner) Jack steals the time machine and lands in 1979 San Fransisco and continues with his killings. H.G. Wells is hot on his heels, and enlists a spunky banker (Mary Steenburgen) to assist him. Like any good Time Travel, this has suspense, drama, adventure, and yes, romance. Does Amy the bank teller go back to Victorian England with H.G Wells? I won’t give it away.

Another favorite is the three-hankie weeper, ‘Somewhere In Time’. I just have to hear the lush music score from John Barry and I choke up.

It was panned by critics when it was released in
1980. This is an unabashed love story first, with Fantasy and drama thrown in. There is no time machine used here, Richard Collier (The late Christopher Reeve) travels through time using hypnosis. When he meets actress Elsie McKenna (Jane Seymor) A heartbreaking romance unfolds that has ever been put to screen. The film’s message, that love is such a powerful force it can punch a hole through time, resonates. The ending here? Get the Kleenex.

I love the ‘Back To the Future’ Movies. (1985-1990) The three of them are so different, the first was light-hearted fun, the second, much darker, and the third, I really like. The ‘Old West’ back drop works, it can incorporate the adventure and suspense aspect, and also throw in a romance. The love story between Doc Brown and the school marm Clara was sweet and touching.
The ending ties the three films together and it was entertaining and fun.

Also will include one of Mel’s favorites, THE TIME MACHINE 1960 with hunky Aussie Rod Taylor!

Based on H. G. Wells 1895 book of the same name. This film won an Oscar for its amazing  time-lapse photographic effects. It is a scene that is fantastic by today’s standards. As H.G. travels forward in time, we see outside the window the rapid changes of a store front as the decades click by.

This movie was remade with another hunky Aussie, Guy Pearce in 2002, but as with most remakes, doesn’t hold a candle to the original.

Just a snippet of a few of my favorites.

Do you have any favorite time travel movies, or books, or television shows?

Or if you like, answer that question above, about the  Regency hunk asking you to go with him to 1821, can you do it? (go with the fantasy here, you’re young, unattached!) Or is flush toilets, running water and penicillin just too hard to give up?

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TIMELESS LOVE from Evernight Publishing!

To learn more about Karyn Gerrard please visit her website here.

‘Timeless Love’ by Karyn Gerrard

STORY: 1969—Underworld enforcer Joey Indelli didn’t expect an English Regency Era carriage to appear before his very eyes in a thunderbolt of light. Inside he discovers a disoriented beauty, the honorable and delectable Catherine Worthington.

Catherine finds herself immediately attracted to her rough and very masculine rescuer but is determined to return to her home in 1821 Cornwall, England.

Seeing the carriage appear in front of him, Indelli believes her story but is convinced she has no choice but to stay in 1969.

Will the love that develops between them fade with their parting or somehow keep them together and prove…timeless?

REVIEW: This is my third book from Karyn Gerrard and let me tell you: I am now a full-fledged fan!

The above blurb is just a perfect bait to hook you to this story, but the story in itself is so well told that will have you laughing one moment, and wiping tears the next.

Ms. Gerrard is so good at giving us a hero that is rough and tough, yet tender, understanding and loving.

And as for the heroine, her innocence and beauty were so adorable that our hero had no chance!

This is a sequel to ‘Timeless Heart’ but you don’t have to read the first to follow the second, BUT you’d be missing on another fun and entertaining read if you don’t.

I really liked everything about this story. It was well written, character driven and fast paced.

This is an author that can weave an erotic AND sweet love story so well that will have you panting and sighing at the same time. If I were to give out stars, this would without a doubt be a FIVE star read! Way to go, Ms. Gerrard. I hope you tell us a couple of more stories from the carriage…like what happened to Baron Aidan Ashwood and Mr. Daniel McCubbin? And a driver Mr. Jonas Cook? I would love to find out their stories…

Terri Brisbin’s ‘Hook-a-Book’ is…’Stealing Heaven’!

Terri here. One of my most favorite historical romances is from Madeline Hunter and it’s her RITA-winning book, STEALING HEAVEN. The story is set in the turbulent Middle Ages in Wales and pits England against Wales and Scotland and the hero and heroine are caught up in betrayal and machinations of those who would control it all. These are two people who should not be together, but Madeline, with her superb storytelling, brings them together and keeps them together, regardless of all those out to break them apart. The historical accuracy is fabulous, the characters are compelling and the romance is breathtaking – I reread it yearly because it still stands the test of time and is just as wonderful now as when I first read it in 2002.

I highly recommend STEALING HEAVEN by Madeline Hunter – and giving a copy away!

Melanie here. I have to be honest and let you all know that I’ve never read any of Terri Brisbin’s work, but I had so much fun browsing her Website and this book caught my eye and it’s now on my TBR! It is ‘A Love Through Time’ and you should look it up. I love Time Travel Romances and this one sounds so very, very good!

Here is a bit more about Terri from her website: When not living the glamorous life of a romance author in the southern NJ suburbs, Terri spends her time being a married mom of three boys (now young men!) and one daughter-in-law as well as a dental hygienist of hundreds. Active in several RWA local chapters, Terri currently serves on the Board of Directors of Romance Writers of America and she speaks at local and regional conferences across the US.

A three-time RWA RITA® finalist, Terri has been writing romance fiction since 1995 and has had 18 historical and paranormal romances published since then. She’s now working on more romance novels, novellas and short stories for release in 2009, 2010 and 2011 from Harlequin Historical Romances and Kensington Brava.

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