Mutts Giveaway!

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Please join me in the Mutts Giveaway where you have the chance to win a Mutts Nightshirt and a copy of Mutts Winter Diary!

Welcome to the Mutts Giveaway Event!

Hosted by: Southern Mom Loves

Sponsored by: Richard Leeds International and Mutts Comics

Everyone has seen Mutts in their local paper, a sweet and funny comic strip by Patrick McDonnell that features the lovable Mooch and Earl! To coincide with the release of the new book, The Mutts Winter Diaries, Richard Leeds International has designed a cozy nightshirt to give you the sweetest of dreams.

The Mutts nightshirt is available at Mutts.com and The Mutts Winter Diaries book is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Indie Bound. 

10 winners will each be sent a softbound copy of The Mutts Winter Diaries and a nightshirt in the Mutts design shown above in One Size Fits Most (will fit up to a Misses sz. XL.) ARV $300!

Enter below, the odds are fantastic!

Giveaway begins on 9/28/15 at 1:00 am CST and ends on 10/12/15 at 11:59 pm CST. Must be 18 years or older, open to residents of the US only.

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Disclaimer: The participating blogs were not compensated for this post. No purchase is necessary to enter. One entrant per household, per address. All entries will be verified. Void where prohibited by law. Winner will be contacted by email; Please add southernmomloves@gmail.com to your whitelist. Richard Leeds International will be responsible for prize delivery to the winner. This giveaway is in no way administered, sponsored, endorsed by, or associated with Facebook and/or Twitter, Google, Pinterest, or any other social media platform.

Contact Holly at southernmomloves@gmail.com if you have any additional questions or comments, or would like Southern Mom Loves to organize your next giveaway.

Derma Beautix Vitamin C Complex Giveaway 2 Winners!

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End 10/25
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Two Lucky winners will receive a bottle of Derma Beautix Vitamin C Complex Serum

I hope to see you there.

If you have any questions about this giveaway please email Amy at grovesamy81@gmail.com

Weeping Women Springs by Tamara Eaton Spotlight!

Book Description:

Tears of grief dilute magical Spring waters…

Hope Springs has a secret–the waters mysteriously uplift the spirits of whoever drinks them. When the town’s young men depart to fight in WWII, tragedy strikes. Grief dilutes the waters unique effects, and hiding the village away from the world may provide shelter from the pain—but at what cost? Preoccupied with honoring their loved ones’ memories, five shattered women struggle to gather strength to overcome their loss, and find hope again.

Liv Soderlund, at the precipice of adulthood, is safe within Hope Springs, but longs for change. When news of the war comes, she revels in the excitement of new possibilities. It all comes crashing down once reports of fallen servicemen reach them. Angry, she comes up with the idea which could protect the town from further hurt. At the promise of a new love, can she let the past go?

Maxine Fiekens, a young bride who has had to handle adult responsibilities too soon, sends her husband off to war while she remains behind tending the village store. She’s the first to get word from the battlefront. Can she go on in the throes of unending sorrow?

Ruth Ackerman refuses to have a rushed wedding to her fiancé so waves him good-bye at the train station and spends her days planning her dream occasion. When she also receives heartbreaking news, she rejects the notion of being stuck in a town filled with grieving women and heads off to California where she strives for her dreams.

Susie Bracht dreams of leaving the village to further her education, but when the Korean Conflict breaks out, her brother and her boyfriend run off to be heroes. Her life is put on hold as she waits.

Anna Frolander, a woman who already saw the devastation war can bring, sends two sons to the frontlines in WWII then another runs off to the Korean War. Sunk into a deep depression, will she climb out of the abyss?

Some battles of war are fought on the Homefront by those left behind.

Author Bio: 

Tamara Eaton is a "western woman." She divides her time between Nevada, New Mexico and South Dakota where she and her love spend their summers renovating an old school. Wide open spaces of the desert and prairie are often portrayed in her work. 

A former secondary English teacher, she grabbed the opportunity to create her stories after she left the classroom. When not writing, she works with other writers, editing and polishing their stories and poems. 

Weeping Women Springs is her first full length novel.

Social Media:

Website: http://tamaraeatonnovels.weebly.com/

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/TamaraEatonNovels

Twitter: @LiteraryTamara

Buy link Amazon

Special Release Pricing 99 cents or free on Kindle Unlimited. Also available in paperback.

A Time for Everything by Mysti Parker Spotlight!

The war might be over, but their battle has just begun.

Set in 1866 Lebanon, Tennessee, this historical romance presents an unvarnished look into the complexities of the Reconstruction era. Take a step back in time to witness a poignant love story inspired by real-life accounts, novels such as Widow of the South and the classic Jane Eyre.

Publishing Date: 7/7/15

Print Length: 335 pages

Publisher: esKape Press

ASIN: B00ZFUKEC4

After losing her husband and only child to the ravages of the Civil War, twenty-five-year-old Portia McAllister is drowning in grief. When she sees an ad for a live-in tutor in another town, she leaves everything behind in hopes of making a fresh start. But as a Confederate widow in a Union household, she is met with resentment from her new charge and her employer, war veteran Beau Stanford. 

Despite their differences, she and Beau find common ground and the stirrings of a second chance at love—until his late wife’s cousin, Lydia, arrives with her sights set on him. Burdened with a farm on the brink of bankruptcy, Beau is tempted by Lydia’s hefty dowry, though Portia has captured his heart. 

In another time and another place, his choice would be easy. But love seems impossible amid the simmering chaos of Reconstruction that could boil over at any moment into an all-out battle for survival. Will Beau and Portia find their way into each other’s arms, or will they be swept away by raging forces beyond their control? 

 Buy Links:

http://amzn.to/1Se5TXS

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/554586

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-time-for-everything-mysti-parker/1122264090

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-time-for-everything/id1014131141

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25729135-a-time-for-everything

 Excerpt:

He reached over and picked up a lock of her hair, running his fingers gently along its length. “I wish…”

Her heart raced — he was so close, just a breath away. “You wish what?”

“That I could have kissed you just once.” He slowly let go of her hair and watched it fall over her shoulder.

Her cheeks flamed, hidden only by the dimness of night. She knew kissing Beau Stanford was beyond a bad idea. It could only tear her heart into a million more pieces, but he was everything she admired in a man. Kind, honest… vulnerable. He had no reason to love her. She could bring nothing to their marriage. Yet there he was, confessing his love in the most tender, innocent way he could. For once in her life, she didn’t want to weigh and measure every decision in her path. She wanted to follow her heart.

“If no one’s watching, then no one can care,” she whispered, letting go of her knees until her feet rested on the next step.

Beau drew closer and lifted his hand to her chin, gently tilting it upward. Portia held her breath and closed her eyes as his lips gently met hers. She reached up and caressed his face, needing to feel his skin, his stubble, the strong jaw and square chin she’d come to love so much. The kiss was time-stopping and heartbreaking at the same time, like those she had once read about in fairy tales, like those she had once shared with Jake.

Author Bio:

Mysti Parker is a wife, mother, and shameless chocoholic. While her first love is romance, including five published books and an award-winning historical, she enjoys writing flash fiction and children's stories. When she's not writing, Mysti works as a freelance editor, serves as a mentor in a 7-week writing course (F2K) and reviews books for SQ Mag, an online speculative fiction magazine. She resides in Buckner, KY with her husband, three children and too many pets.

http://www.mystiparker.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mysti-Parker/103786449704221

https://twitter.com/MystiParker

Tastee Apples Giveaway! #TasteeAppleInc

Tastee Apples Giveaway #TasteeAppleInc
9/27 to 10/18
Open to US 

Sponsored by: Tastee Apple
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One Lucky Winner will receive a Tastee Apples Package including: 
2 Fantasy Gourmet Apples 
2 Super Premium Apples 

This is a great package for anyone, perfect to start your Fall Snack Stash. You can see 
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New Releases From Karin Slaughter!

A beautiful young girl was walking down the street―when suddenly…

Julia Carroll knows that too many stories start that way. Beautiful, intelligent, a nineteen-year-old college freshman, she should be carefree. But instead she is frightened. Because girls are disappearing. A fellow student, Beatrice Oliver, is missing. A homeless woman called Mona-No-Name is missing. Both taken off the street. Both gone without a trace. Julia is determined to find out the reasons behind their disappearances. And she doesn't want to be next…

About KARIN SLAUGHTER:

Karin Slaughter is the #1 internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including the Will Trent and Grant County series and the instant New York Times bestseller Cop Town. There are more than 35 million copies of her books in print around the world. http://www.karinslaughter.com/ 
Karin’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorKarinSlaughter

Release date of Pretty Girls: September 29th, 2015

#1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives.

Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed.

The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.

Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful thriller from one of the finest suspense writers working today.

Praise for PRETTY GIRLS:

“A stunning family tragedy and a hold-your-breath pedal-to-the-metal thriller magically blended by Karin Slaughter’s trademark passion, intensity, and humanity.  Certain to be a book of the year.” —Lee Child

READ AN EXCERPT FROM PRETTY GIRLS HERE

A Knight for Kallen by Lauren Linwood Spotlight!

Blurb:

Kallen de Mangeron grew up in a convent, her noble family never knowing of her birth. When a new Mother Superior informs them of her existence, they send trusted knight Griffith Sommersby to escort her home.

Griffith’s heart broke when he lost his wife and infant son during childbirth, and he’s kept his feelings locked away from the world—until he meets Kallen. He soon learns her dark secret—that she sees auras around people—which allows her insight into their actions and personalities.

Now Quentin, bastard brother to the king, decides to harness Kallen’s gift in a plot to win the throne. Will Quentin successfully use a kidnapped Kallen as his political pawn, or will Griffith be able to stop him before Kallen changes the course of England’s history?

Buy Link:  http://amzn.com/B015JB79KI

Bio:

Lauren Linwood became a teacher who wrote on the side to maintain her sanity in a sea of teenage hormones. Her historical romances use history as a backdrop to place her characters in extraordinary circumstances, where their intense desire for one another grows into the treasured gift of love. Her romantic suspense novels feature strong heroes and heroines who unite to defeat a clever antagonist and discover a deep, abiding love during their journey.

A native Texan, Lauren lives in a Dallas suburb with her family. An avid reader, moviegoer, and sports fan, she manages stress by alternating yoga with long walks. She plans to start a support group for House Hunters addicts—as soon as she finishes her next piece of dark chocolate.

Social Media Links:

Website     Facebook      Twitter     Blog     Amazon Author Page    Goodreads Author Page

Other Books by Lauren Linwood:

Music For My Soul    Outlaw Muse A Game of Chance    Written in the Cards

A Bit of Heaven on Earth           Ballad Beauty        Leave Yesterday Behind

Summer at Hideaway Key by Barbara Davis Review Including Giveaway!

Book Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: NAL (August 4, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451474589
• ISBN-13: 978-0451474582
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Pragmatic, independent Lily St. Claire has never been a beachgoer. But when her late father leaves her a small house on Hideaway Key—one neither her mother nor she knew he owned—she’s determined to visit the sleepy spit of land along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Expecting a quaint cottage, Lily instead finds a bungalow with peeling shutters and mountains of memorabilia. She also catches a glimpse of the architect who lives down the beach….

 But it’s the carton of old journals in the front room that she finds most intriguing. The journals were written by her mother’s sister, an infamous beauty whose name has long been banned from the St. Claire home. The journals tell a family tale Lily has never heard, of her mother and her aunt as young girls in Tennessee and the secrets that followed them into adulthood. As she reads, Lily gains a new understanding: about her family and about herself. And she begins to open her heart—to this place, these people, and the man next door. But can she ever truly learn to trust, to believe that love is not a trap but a harbor? And is it true that hearts, even broken ones, can be forged anew?

Barbara was born in New Jersey and grew up in south Florida. Eventually, work led her north, to the Carolinas where she lived in Charleston for two years and then Raleigh for ten. After twelve years in the jewelry industry, she finally surrendered to the muse, leaving the business world in order to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. She now lives in Dover, New Hampshire with the love her of life, Tom, and their ginger cat, Simon, where she continues to write tales set in the gorgeous south. 

When she isn't writing she is an avid reader and lover of music, a football fanatic, and a devoted Florida Gator fan. She also enjoys travel with her sweetheart, Tom, who over the years has learned much more about the craft of writing than he ever wanted to know.  

Barbara is currently working on her fourth novel, set in charming, historic Charleston, South Carolina. It is anticipated in Summer of 2016.

Visit Barbara at Goodreads
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and at her website: http://www.barbaradavis-author.com

My Thoughts
The summer at Hideaway Key starts out with two little girls being dropped off at a poor house, Mt.Zion, by their mother. The girls are terrified, but they believe that their mother will come back for them once she can support them again. This is a time, 1953 when times are tough for a single mother to make it on her own let alone with two little girls. The poorhouse is run by a couple, a not very nice woman by the name of Sister Ruby and her husband preacher Brother Zell. The girls are set to work at different tasks in the kitchen and laundry. Lily had been told by her mother to look out for Caroline, which she tries to do. Brother Zell notices Lily of course and wants her to help him in his office. Well, of course, there is an ulterior motive to his wants. Before Lily knows it she has been molested by Brother Zell. By this time she knows that her mother is never coming back for her and Caroline and is determined that she is going to take her sister and leave. She has not figured out how to do this yet but when Brother Zell sets his sights on Caroline she knows that it is time to leave. She tells her sister to pack and that their mother will meet them. Lily steals some money and Brother Zell's truck and they run off. 

Lily St.Claire is a young woman who is a clothing designer and will be accepting a dream job at a top fashion house in Milan. She has recently come from Paris, after the death of her father, Roland, and at the reading of the will, she is totally surprised that her father has left her a property in Hideaway Key, Florida. Her mother Caroline is not only equally surprised but actually quite upset about it. Lily doesn't want to be tied down to a property but can't figure out why her mother is so upset. Lily has never gotten along with Caroline as Caroline is a cold demanding woman who really has shown any love to Lily. All the love and affection Lily received from her father.

Cottage at Hideaway Key was a property that had been owned by Roland, passed on to him on the death of Caroline's sister and Lily's aunt,  Lily-Mae whom Lily never knew existed. Apparently Caroline and her sister had a falling out and haven't spoken in years. So inheriting the cottage is very mysterious to Lily. Upon arriving at the cottage she finds it in disrepair and loaded with boxes. She is to report to her new job in Milan within a month so she reluctantly starts making some sort of order to what she needs to do with the cottage and its contents. She comes across some journals and is instantly swept away in the life of her aunt. While she is in Hideaway Key she meets some people and actually comes to like it there. 

Told in alternating voices, Lily's and her aunt Lily-Mae's, the reader learns more about each of these women and the people they meet along the way. Women with love and relationship issues, definitely flawed. Will finding out more about her aunt finally give her the reason why her mother is so cold and distant? Can she find peace with herself? Summer at Hideaway Key had me turning the pages in anticipation that each of the Lily's lives would be happy ones. Doesn't always happen that way though. This is definitely one of those stories that stays with you long after you have put the book aside, a book to share with your bestie. 5 stars for sure. 

Giveaway
Barbara has graciously offered for giveaway an autographed copy of Summer at Hideaway Key (US only please). Just leave an email address so that you can be contacted if you win!! That's it! Good Luck!

I received a copy of the book for review and was not monetarily compensated for my thoughts. 

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Pink Charms & Bracelets To Support Breast Cancer Pink October 2015 by Glamulet!

Did you know that breast cancer is the 2nd deadliest cause of death for women around the world? Today, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women. 

More than 200 000 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected in 2015. Thousands of women will die of breast cancer, but groundbreaking research for the cure needs to be funded. 

Even though the number of breast cancer deaths have decreased over the years due to increased awareness and that by 2050 no woman should die of breast cancer, there is still more work to be done to increase awareness. 

The October Campaign to make this a reality is being launched by Glamulet during Pink October.

The Charms brand Glamulet was launched in 2014 to offer to every woman a new range of trendy and elegant quality jewelry at an affordable price. 

They believe that every woman should be allowed to express herself and to feel pretty. They design glamorous Charms and bracelets and use quality materials to manufacture them. 

Each woman can mix and match the Charms to create her own Bracelet. Glamulet empowers women by giving them affordable accessories to state their fashion sense, commemorate an event or symbolize a special meaning. 

Two years after its launch, Glamulet is working hard to spread this vision worldwide and to better the life of every woman.

Pink Limited Edition Charms were created to support the Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign. For every set of charms added to the cart, 50% is donated to a charity organization.

Please take a look at the Glamulet website here , I have looked at the charms and they are just beautiful/ I think that they are perfect for yourself or any woman that you know for gifts or just because you love them. 

Please join me in spreading awareness for breast cancer during Pink October.

Thank you!

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