I’m thrilled to be a part of this event. My book, Darby: Ghost Mountain Ranch, will be featured on January 4.  I even talk about my resolutions/goals for 2024. You won’t want to miss it.

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Open internationally. 

Runs January 1 – 31, 2024

Drawing will be held on February 1, 2024. 

As a multi-published author said in the very first class I took on how to write romance: start the book with a life-threatening situation. Well, that first class was years ago. Did I learn my lesson?

Here are the opening sentences of some of my books I’ve written over the years. What do you think?

Kentucky Woman

Times were good and that scared her.

Alexis Marsden shifted in her saddle and stared into the February predawn darkness between the pricked ears of an anxious two-year-old Thoroughbred.

Kentucky Cowboy

“That’s one rank sonofabitch. Good draw you got, Romeo.”

Perched on top of a six-foot deep metal chute, a leather bull rope clutched in his right hand, Judd Romeo nodded, acknowledging the flank man. “Yep, he’s a mean ’un.”

Kentucky Blue Bloods

Bloody hell?

Parker Stuart cast a disbelieving gaze at the woman who’d met him at the airport.

Kentucky Flame

A cold, black dread gripped Melody O’Shea. Hands tight on the steering wheel, she scarcely breathed. In the distance, a thin plume of smoke floated from a window of Royalty Farm’s main show barn.

Brody

He was home.

Brody Caldera’s heart quickened as he turned the key to the door of his high-rise apartment on North Sheridan Road.

Mercer

Drake Hawkins’ heart surged. Damn! He loved this sport.

Liz

Charles Martin Kingston pulled off the main road into the parking space beside his half-brother’s twenty-five-million-dollar beach house.

But here is a better opening from later in the first chapter:

Something was wrong. He’d known it all week, but he’d tried to ignore the gut feeling. Now it punched him hard in his stomach. What would he do if anything happened to his baby brother?

Tangled Memories

His eyes were gray. I had never noticed before. They weren’t the color of slate but smoky and mysterious.

Timeless

My life changed on a dreary day in December. Oh, the day started out as usual.

My Lord Raven

“Let me pass!”

Lady Catrin Fitzalan, chest heaving from her haste, glared at the tall, imposing knight who barred her way.