Elegant. Outstanding. A Cut Above the Rest. Bess McBride has Done it Again.

I hope everyone is doing well. Forgive me for being off the radar for quite a while. The holidays kept me very busy. Nonetheless, something has come to my attention that I wanted to share. A scrumptious bit that no Scottish time travel romance reader will want to miss. 

Did you know Bess McBride has pre-released book two in her ‘My Laird’s Castle’ series? That’s right, My Laird’s Love is available for preorder now! So if you love sweeping Scottish romance as much as I do, check this out…

Maggie Scott, having recently lost her fiancé to a terminal illness, travels to the Highlands of Scotland for a brief respite—from the arduous months of caring for a sick loved one, from the grief that now engulfs her. 

But instead of finding solace, she finds herself transported back in time to 1747, the year following Culloden, a year that saw the Highlands suffer in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion. 

James Livingstone, laird of Castle Stonie, survived Culloden, and by a miracle, he survived the purge of the lairds who participated in the rebellion. When Maggie comes into his lonely life, it seems as if another miracle has occurred—that of love. 

But tragedy strikes just as James and Maggie find each other, and Maggie races against the clock to save the man she loves. Can James truly ask for one more miracle?  

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Will Travel for Romance! The Best of Bess McBride.

Today it's my pleasure to feature Bess McBride's amazing new boxed set which includes FIVE books for the price of ONE!

If you’re not familiar with her other works I encourage you to take a peek at Moonlight Wishes in Time for a taste of her style. Also, be sure to check out her A Train Through Time series.

Here’s a glimpse of what her boxed set is all about…

The Will Travel for Romance Boxed Set Books 1-5 is a collection of the majority of my contemporary romance books currently available for sale as single titles, however, the boxed set is discounted. The books included in the Will Travel for Romance Boxed Set Books 1-5 are not a series but share several common themes of travel and romance. These stories are for all of us who want to travel but just can’t get away or can’t afford it or...life gets in the way. The stories are sweet to sensual. Happy travels!

A Penny for Your Thoughts (contemporary/romantic suspense): Michigan mental health therapist Penny
Brown runs to the sugary sands of the Alabama Gulf Coast in search of solace following the devastating suicide of one of her clients. But the healing and peace she seeks elude her as a stalker begins to make threatening phone calls from Michigan. She turns to the local authorities only to discover that the Chief of Police is none other than Matt Williams, the man she loved and left fifteen years before...a man she never stopped loving. Matt is ready to fall in love all over again if Penny is finally ready to settle down. But neither of them realize that a killer is much closer than they think. Rekindling their love could cost Penny her life.

A Trail of Love (contemporary/romantic suspense): Kerrie is on the run from a painful past, and she hides in plain sight as a summer employee in the majestic setting of Glacier National Park. When handsome bear ranger, Dace Mitchell, rescues Kerrie from her own foolish behavior...more than once, she finds herself drawn to him against her will...until she discovers he’s already involved with someone else. When Kerrie begins to get mysterious silent phone calls, it seems likely that the past has caught up to her. Can Dace save her from a violent man who will stop at nothing to have her?

A Shy Woman in Love (contemporary romance): Shy Cassie, recovering from
a failed relationship, throws caution to the winds and embarks on a fast-paced group tour of Europe. Although she's in no mood for men, she can't help but fall under the spell of the only single man on the tour, handsome attorney Jay, along with all the other ladies. Jay has eyes only for Cassie, if Cassie would just give him a chance. Through the romantic cities of Rome, Florence, Venice, Lucerne, Paris and London, Jay attempts to pursue the shy woman, with the help of the matchmaking tour members. Until her "failed relationship" shows up, that is, begging her to take him back.

A Sigh of Love (contemporary romance): Abbie is on her way to Anchorage, Alaska to meet George whom she has been corresponding by telephone for the past three months, but when she calls George to let him know she’s coming, he backs out. With nonrefundable plane tickets, Abbie heads off to Alaska anyway, only to meet a tall, handsome anthropology professor who happens to be half Native Alaskan and half Caucasian. By flight's end, Abbie is completely enamored of the stranger, and she doubts her judgment, perhaps even her sanity, as she finds herself falling again for yet another Alaskan male...until George shows up, that is.

On a Warm Sea of Love (contemporary/lovelorn ghosty romance): Hailey Saunders accompanies her beloved matchmaking sister, Megan, on a cruise to the beautiful and exotic Caribbean...something she’s avoided for a long time...ever since her young husband, Zach, was lost off a fishing trawler in the Bering Sea during a storm. But Hailey doesn’t cry for her lost husband. Because Zach returned to her...or at least, his ghost did. A flirtatious but ineligible Scots ship's officer, Alan Campbell, has his eye on Hailey as does the handsome and mysterious European, Karl de Groot. Megan is ready to make a match for her sister, but Zach finds it hard to let his wife go...or is it Hailey who refuses to say goodbye? Three men want her...only one can have her!

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Phenomenal Time-Travel Romance! A Train Through Time by Bess McBride

Today it’s my pleasure to feature Bess McBride’s best-selling novel, A Train Through Time. I 'met' Bess over five years ago when we signed on with the same publisher. In that we both pen time-travel  romance it was inevitable that we’d get along well.

A Train Through Time is an exceptional book. I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed it. As you can read in the excerpt below, Bess truly has an engaging style of writing.

GIVEAWAY:  I'm at Amazon for the next few days and would love to gift Bess's book to a few lucky commenters with a Kindle.  How can you win? Leave a comment telling us why you'd read a time-travel romance. Don't forget to leave your email  addy. Three winners chosen! Contest ends Saturday, March 2nd, 6 PM EST.

About A Train Through Time...

College teacher Ellie Standish thinks she's on a sleek modern train heading to a conference on women's studies in Seattle, but she awakens from a night's doze to find herself on a bizarre historical train full of late Victorian era reenactors who refuse to come out of character. When the leader of the group—one handsome, green-eyed Robert Chamberlain—finally convinces her the date is indeed 1901, a skeptical Ellie decries any eccentric theories of time travel and presumes she is smack dab in the middle of a very interesting historical dream. She turns the directorial reins of her dream over to one smitten and willing Robert, only to realize that dreams cannot last forever. Someday, she must wake up to reality, though Ellie no longer has any idea what reality is. She only knows that Robert must play an important part in her future. But how can he...if he's only a figment of her imagination or worse yet...a man who belongs to an era long past?

Excerpt…

“Are you kidding? This is huge.”

Though the rocking motion of the train car eased once they were out of the connector, Ellie leaned against the nearest wall for support. She turned to stare at Robert as he entered and quietly shut the door.

Robert cocked his head with a puzzled look. With a glance over her head, he surveyed the room and nodded.

“It is a rather large dining car, isn’t it? We usually take our meal in our carriage.”

Ellie shook her head. “No, I mean your group. This Victorian thing. The train. I assume you all hooked your cars up to the train at some point because I didn’t see them when we left. How do you all do this? It must cost quite a bit.”

With a slight shrug of his elegant shoulders, he searched her face with an expression not unlike a laboratory researcher studying his specimen. His lips twitched. “You say the strangest things, Miss Standish. I am not sure what you are asking.”

She shot him a dark look and stomped her foot...just a bit. “Oh, stop this silly act, Bobby. Y’all are driving me nuts. I feel like I’ve landed in a madhouse.” Apparently unimpressed by her righteous rage, he chuckled and murmured in a low voice. “I am beginning to feel the same way, Miss Standish.”

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