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Spread the word and share the love!

Dayna — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:44:37 +0000

WILD IRISH by Jennifer Saints is free from July 11-13th. 50% of the proceeds through Sept 30th from the whole Weldon Series (WILD IRISH, SMOOTH IRISH, HARD IRISH) goes to Rising Phoenix Charitable Foundation to help women, children, and their pets escape abuse.

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A Great Review For Hard Irish Luck!

Dayna — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:32:44 +0000

Dear Readers and friends!

I have been Busy trying to get ready for Christmas, working and buying impractical but fun things for Christmas. Will share more when I have a moment to breathe, but wanted to let you know about a review that brought a smile to my face. Merry Christmas and LOL ebooks make great presents.

Book Review: Hard Irish Luck by Jennifer Saints

This book was reviewed for Night Owl Reviews

Hard Irish
by Jennifer Saints
Series: Weldon Brothers, Book Three
Release Date: September, 2012
Publisher: SP
Source: Author
Age Group: Adult
Category: Contemporary, Romance, Suspense
Pages: 275 pages in Print format
Available Formats:
Kindle

My Rating:
4.5 Stars
NOR TOP PICK

Back of the Book:

Hard hat in hand, Jared Weldon goes undercover, but the answers he finds at McKenna Construction leaves him drowning in passion — and hard up against a killer…

Teaser:

Hoping against hope, he crept up the spiral stairs and reached the center of the rotunda of the captain’s walk. The sun was a pink-purple haze in the distance and the day had yet to shift from the gray shades of the night. Shadows filled her roof-top oasis and honeysuckle scented the air, but Rocky wasn’t there. He moved to the edges and started scanning the perimeter of her yard. Within seconds, he found her-dark silhouette swimming beneath the surface of the pool.

He didn’t know whether to shout in anger or cry in relief as he went back inside and excited through the downstairs French doors. All he did know is his body shook. He reached the poolside about the time she surfaced for a breath. Going to his knees he got as close to her as he could.

“Bang. Bang. You’re dead.” His voice was rough and harsh.

She gaped and swung around to look at him. “Jared?”

“No. It’s Ted Bundy or whoever the hell it is who’s after you. You promised you wouldn’t go outside.”

First Line:

“We’re screwed.” Bleary eyed and muttering, Jared Weldon stumbled across the spacious living room, giving the bottle of Macallan 18 on the coffee table a wide berth.

My Review:

Jennifer Saints has done it again! The Weldon brothers are back and with a new danger that could put them all at risk of losing more than they have ever bargained against.

Hard Irish starts off with a bang— no pun intended—maybe! We meet the hero, Jared Weldon, while he’s living up his bachelorhood to the nth degree alongside his identical twin brother, James Weldon. One bad choice after another has led them to the verge of losing their construction company. Before the doors close for good though they have one last chance to redeem themselves, only that opportunity is quickly lost when they are out bid by another local contracting company. Determined to find out what makes the other company better than theirs, Jared strikes out on his own to do a little background digging that leads him directly into the path of a his competitor, one sexy Irish woman that takes his breath away with a single kiss, and one unforgiving killer that will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Rocky McKenna fought tooth and nail to raise her father’s construction company from the ruins it was almost fated to land in. Her hard Irish determination, skill, and a little luck is the only thing that turned everything around for her. But her hard earned success is in danger from a past she knows nothing of and anyone with a clue is being killed off.

Family history can be deadly especially when dealing with lost diamonds and murders never solved. Ms. Saints has brought it all to the table in a sizzling romantic suspense as one event after another brings together two lives all the while unraveling a mystery better left unsolved. With each clue a new unthinkable discovery falls into Rocky’s lap. She won’t go in it alone though. She has one hard Irishman with her and dead set on sticking close by through it all to make sure no harm comes to her while they solve who is out to kill her. Yet, to do so Jared will have to tell his own pack of lies that add another layer of deceit he can only hope won’t ruin any chance he has at a new life full of meaning and love.

Jennifer Saints is on my must-read list. Her ability to weave together a suspenseful plot rich in history with a romance that steals my heart has me coming back for more with each new release. With action packed drama and intense dialogue her stories keep the pages turning and the imaginations soaring. Hard Irish met all my expectations and has me wanting more of the Weldon brothers alrea

Thank you Talina and Night Owl Reviews.

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Hard Irish Luck is available now!

Dayna — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:10:50 +0000

Well, the Dog-days of summer bit my rear-end hard with health issues and all of my good intentions to have Hard Irish done by June 30th landed in the dust. The good news is that it is here now! As of Today you can get Book Three of the Weldon Brothers Series on Amazon Kindle. To celebrate this event, I am giving Wild Irish Ride, Book One in the series, away free in the Free-Fall Free Partay giveaway from September 19 through the 20th. So, I hope you will take advantage of this sizzling hot offer. Go to Freepartay.com to see all of the great books you can get for free. LOL I made a pledge to write a little more frequently about my life’s events always ends up in my procrastination pile. I often ask myself, Does someone really want to hear this? I always feel as if I have to write something hugely interesting and worthwhile. But then, maybe I am making mountains out of anthills. So, I’m just going to plunge in head first and tell you what’s up, what my plans are, and share my writing dreams with you. And we’ll see how that goes, because surely.even after a ten hour workday, I should be able to say…something, if only just a query on the best foot massage machine out there.

Plans

I will soon be meeting with some highly creative ladies with huge hearts and a daring vision for the charity I am involved with. Rising Phoenix Charitable Foundation currently supports The Shade Tree in Las Vegas Nevada and Angels Of East Africa. So if you have a spare prayer or two, please ask God to financially bless these needy causes.

On a lighter note and to make a long story short, due to a suitcase mix-up, I had the opportunity to visit a movie set a while back and will be going to the TV set of a popular show this fall, so I am looking forward to that. Will post a picture or two if I can!

My current writing dreams are ambitious, but as I always say, shoot for the stars in the universe and you may end up with the moon! Things you can look forward to are:

Aerik the Enternal:Point of No Return by Jennifer St. Giles Book One of the Crimson Thorn Series.

Unleash the Past by Jennifer St. Giles Book One of the Blackshadow Bodyguards Series

Cocktail Cove by Jennifer Saints Book One of the Southern Steam Series

Bewitching the Wolf, Book Five of the Shadowmen Series.

And a the first in the Covenant Conspiracies, a Steampunk Series.

The only way any book gets written in one day at a time, one page at a time, so wish me well, I am so eager to finish all of these stories.

Now for an excerpt from Hard Irish Luck

The world wouldn’t end if he kissed her again. Tonight. All she had to do was walk down the stairs…

Rocky didn’t give herself time to question. She put her feet in motion and tip-toed downstairs, though marching would have fit her mood better. She was still sane enough to consider that he might have taken pain medication and might be asleep. Rounding the corner into the living room, she found the couch empty and searched the shadows for Jared, then gasped.

He stood at the French doors, looking at the backyard. He wore only a pair of form fitting boxer briefs and the hard-shelled boot strapped to his leg. His crutches were back at the couch, so he’d already gone against his brother’s advice to keep weight off of his injury. Somehow that didn’t surprise her.

What did take her breath away was the sight of him. Every lean inch of him was honed and tanned to perfection. He dropped the curtain and turned to face her. His broad shoulders and rippled abs made her weak in the knees, but it was the want in his gaze that did her in. It was as raw and edgy as her need, only sharper.

The hungry predator had found his juicy prey. Had she actually thought she could share another roll-on-the-floor rock-her-world kiss and escape unscathed?

Rethink time. “I came to see if you’re all right.” She moved over to the couch and picked up his crutches, planning to take them to him. “You should be using these.”

He didn’t wait, but moved her way—faster than she thought possible. He reached her. “They’d only be in the way of this.”

She didn’t have a chance to breathe before he caught her in his arms and planted his mouth on hers, instantly hot and demanding. She opened to him, meeting the thrust of his tongue with hers, groaning deep from within as her starving senses found succor for her every want. His tongue tangled with hers, leading her in a seductive dance unlike any other.

He wrapped his arms around her, pulling her tight against his supple heat and burning erection. She pressed her palms to his chest, half thinking to stem the flooding tide, but then went crazy in a quest to feel and know his every contour. His muscles rippled as he shuddered at her touch.

Happy Reading!

Jennifer St. Giles/Jennifer Saints/ JL Saint

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Hard Irish Luck is Arriving in June!

Dayna — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:23:59 +0000

At Last!

I said it! Gulp. Now I need to make it all come together despite my sometimes insane life. Book Three of the Weldon Brothers Series, HARD IRISH LUCK, will be out this month even if it takes me to the eleventh hour of the last day of the month. I am going to get it done. The kids may starve and the dog may languish. I might get fired from my day job because I’ll be percolating hot steamy scenes all day and burning the midnight oil to get them written, but I vow to get the job done. Now enough about me.

Let’s talk about Jared Weldon. This hunky brother and identical twin is up next. He’s been living the life of a hardcore bachelor but is about to get a knockout punch from Rocky McKenna. It’s going to take more than good looks and a hard body to send this hard Irish woman over the edge. Add in steamy nights, ragged emotions, heart-wrenching drama, and a killer and you’ll get what it takes for an explosive free fall into love.

Before we get to the excerpt I have another announcement that I hope will be great news to all. The response to the Weldon Brothers Series has been so good that I’m asking myself why should it all end? Once James’s book, HOT IRISH LASS, comes out, there are no more Weldon brothers of age and I’m not quite ready to bring the second generation into adulthood yet. But I am more than ready to write about some sexy southern men. So coming in December 2012 I will start my Southern Steam Series. You won’t want to miss COCKTAIL COVE and YOU MUST see THE MAN who has agreed to be on the cover. Tim Parrish who will be in NBC’s LOVE IN THE WILD Season Two Premiering this Tuesday Night, June 5th. Tune in to watch and follow him on Twitter @timboparrish or facebook.com/timfparrish. Tomorrow I will have an interview with him and debut the cover!

Hard Irish Luck

“I’m warning you now that you’ll be on your own for a bit, bro. Before I leave here tonight, I’m getting that woman’s number or my name isn’t Weldon,” Jared said.

James raised a brow, looking more like his usual self than he had all day. “Maybe I’d better take a second look at her. I haven’t seen you this determined in a long time.”

“Look is all you can do. She’s mine,” Jared muttered. There was one negative to having an identical twin. If a woman was attracted to one then odds were she’d be equally attracted to the other. It always left a little doubt.

They’d lost their premium seat at the bar, much to Jared’s frustration and had to settle for a table across the room, which put a kink in his brow and had him grumbling at James over it.

“If you remember, the reason we’re here has nothing to do with picking up chicks for the night. We’re supposed to be scouting out McKenna’s crew.”

“I said I was getting her number. I didn’t say I was…have you even looked at her,” Jared glared at James. “She’s so not that type.”

James spewed his beer mid-sip. “You haven’t even spoken to her yet and you already know what type she is? Come on, what’s gotten into you? Do you hear yourself?”

Jared opened his mouth then shut it. There wasn’t anything he could say. There wasn’t any ration or reason to the vibe he got from her. It just was and it bothered him James couldn’t see it. Alan Jackson was crooning over the sound system about being in love with a woman whose name he didn’t even know.

“I will warn you that you aren’t the only guy in the room focused on her,” James added.

“No dah. There are ten staring at her play pool.”

“Not them. That guy back there.”

Glancing over his shoulder, Jared’s hackles rose. A man in the back corner was staring daggers at the woman. It was more than obvious that he had a bone of ill content to pick with her.

“He’s looking like possession is the law and that he has every right to possess her.” James said. “I don’t need any Beam-me-up-Scotty’s premonition to predict that. Bad news is about to happen.”

The guy downed his drink and staggered to his feet. Jared braced himself and turned his gaze on the woman. He had to know what this guy meant to her and he had his answer the moment she caught sight of the guy heading her way. Terror and anger. She was afraid of the man approaching, but not too afraid to turn her back on him.

Jared watched as the woman tossed the cue onto the pool table and pointed her finger at the men around her, clearly accusing them of something. They all stood, shaking their heads in denial. Two of them moved toward the approaching man, who promptly shoved them aside.

Jared stood and James grabbed his arm. “This isn’t your business. Men get shot for sticking their nose where it doesn’t belong. Sit down. She’s not alone.”

Two more men split from the group and went to head the guy off. “Go home, Roan. You weren’t invited and Rocky doesn’t want you here.”

“Stay out of it, Mack. This is between me and her.”

“Afraid not.” Mack moved to block the guy and that’s when the fight broke out. The guy threw a punch, the Mack guy ducked, and the punch caught some biker dude upside the head. It spread like wildfire.

“Shit.” James grabbed Jared’s arm again. “Let’s get out of here.”

Jared pulled free. “Not yet. Cut off by the fray, he saw the woman backing into a corner and headed her way. People shoved and hollered. Beer bottles flew along with bar stools. Women yelled and men shouted. He knew she was tall but hadn’t quite realized how tall until he got closer. Six foot at least. She had her gaze focused on one man. The man who’d started the fight. The man who still looked bent on getting to her, but was happy to knock a few others out on the way first.

“Watch out!” Jared dove her way. Wrapping his arms around her, he brought her crashing down with his best offensive tackle as a flying bar stool smashed into the wall where she’d been standing. He grabbed the heart-shaped ass he so admired and twisted to take the brunt of the fall. Splintered pieces of wood rained down on them.

Jared’s pulse kicked up about ten notches. Just an adrenaline rush. It had nothing to do with the scorching feel of her long, lean but curved just-right body plastered to him or the thick-lashed, narrowed green eyes the color of spring clover staring at him. Her curtain of dark hair fell about them, framing her face that could only be described as beautifully determined. Sun-kissed skin glowed like warm honey and an even sweeter-looking, lush mouth softened her dominant nose, chin, and brow. She smelled of citrus and coconuts, making him want to lick just to see if she tasted that way, too.

The fear was still in her eyes, along with surprise.

He gave her a reassuring smile. “I don’t know who that jerk coming after you is, but I do know two things. He doesn’t deserve to be in any universe you’re in. And I’d do just about anything to take that fear out of your eyes.” He slid his hands up from her delectable bottom to pull her tighter to his chest. “Please tell me he isn’t your husband.”

She blinked at him a moment before she exhaled and whispered. “Ex. He’s my ex.”

He brushed back a wave of hair that had fallen across her face, it was like heavy silk. “Best news I’ve heard all day. I’ve half a mind to kiss you and show him you’ve moved on to bigger and better things.”

She arched a skeptical brow. “I’ve lost my mind, because I’ve half a mind to let you.”

“Two halves make a whole,” Jared whispered. He leaned up slowly, giving her plenty of time to back off before he claimed her full mouth.

Until tomorrow, Happy Reading and remember every day to DREAM, BELIEVE, CREATE, INSPIRE, LOVE, HEAL, and then you will know you have truly SUCCEEDED in life!

Love Jenni

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