Posts Tagged ‘book promotions’

  • June 16, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Hollywood Strip Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Shamron Moore, author of the chick lit, Hollywood Strip, as she tours the blogosphere July 1 – 26 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!   ABOUT HOLLYWOOD STRIP A young Midwestern girl moves to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune only to find success is more than she bargained for. Callie is a plucky young woman who knows exactly what she wants: fame, fortune, and a fabulous career as a Hollywood actress. A starring role in an unlikely hit movie and a romance with a sexy, chart-topping singer brings her instant notoriety. But in the City of Angels, overnight success is a breeding
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  • June 15, 2013
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{Cover Reveal} Pump Up Your Book Presents Romancing the Million $$$ Ghost Cover Reveal – Win Amazon Gift Cards & Ghostie Swag!

Join Heide AW Kaminski, Pam Ryan and Dorothy Thompson, authors of the paranormal romance, Romancing the Million $$$ Ghost, as they tour the blogosphere September 2 – 27 on their first cover reveal with Pump Up Your Book! Heide, Pam and Dorothy will be giving away a ghostie swag to one lucky reader!  To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below and good luck! *** Contest is over!*** Congratulations to the following winners! Angela Kramer – Halloween Party Pack Anna Granberg – $25 Amazon Gift Card Amy Gettys – $25 Amazon Gift Card Valerie Rhodes – psychic phone reading from Pam Ryan Ali Lie –
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  • June 13, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Keeper of the Black Stones Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join PT McHugh, author of the YA fantasy/time travel, Keeper of the Black Stones, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – August 30 2013 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————-   ABOUT PT MCHUGH PT McHugh didn’t start out as a storyteller. He was, however, born into a family of that encouraged imagination. He became a fan of history in school and then went to college to become a construction engineer, to build a world of straight lines, angles, and equations. He was just as surprised as everyone else when he realized that he believed in magic, and might just know the
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Aberration Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lisa Regan, author of the crime thriller, Aberration, as she tours the blogosphere July 1 – 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ABERRATION FBI analyst Kassidy Bishop is assigned to the “For You” killer’s task force after a series of sadistic murders bearing the same signature arise in different parts of the country. The homicides are both calculated and savage, occurring in different states, but bearing the same signature: the words “for you” scribbled at each crime scene. The case chills Kassidy, bringing back memories of her own encounter with a violent criminal five years earlier. Kassidy’s mentor, legendary agent
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{New Thriller Novel for Review} The Alchemist Agenda by Marty Weiss

Marty Weiss will be touring July 1 – September 27 with his thriller novel, The Alchemist Agenda. We are looking for reviews, guest post spots, interviews, first chapter reveals, book trailer reveals, character guest posts and book excerpt/spotlights. When Charlie Rocklin and his company Gold Diggers Exploration set out to recover a 17th century shipwreck, they discover an undocumented Nazi submarine with enigmatic symbols. Ariel Ellis, a femme fatale historian with a mysterious past, proves that the U-boat contains the key to a formula more valuable than any sunken treasure, and more deadly than any weapon that has ever existed. In this globetrotting international adventure, Charlie and Ariel uncover an accelerating
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  • June 10, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Alchemist Agenda Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Marty Weiss, author of the thriller novel, The Alchemist Agenda, as he tours the blogosphere  July 1 – September 27, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE ALCHEMIST AGENDA When Charlie Rocklin and his company Gold Diggers Exploration set out to recover a 17th century shipwreck, they discover an undocumented Nazi submarine with enigmatic symbols. Ariel Ellis, a femme fatale historian with a mysterious past, proves that the U-boat contains the key to a formula more valuable than any sunken treasure, and more deadly than any weapon that has ever existed. In this globetrotting international adventure, Charlie and Ariel uncover an
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  • June 4, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents A Voice in the Night Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Ernestine Dail, author of the children’s mystery, A Voice in the Night, as she tours the blogosphere July 1 – 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT A VOICE IN THE NIGHT Brian, Josh, and Thomas arrived at Blackstone Cabin with great expectations of fishing and having fun. Now in the midst of a raging storm, and a hooded stranger frantically knocking at their door, the boys desperately wished for Josh’s father, Mr.Joplin, to return to the cabin. Will he return in time to save the boys from danger, or will the boys open the door to the frantic knocking of
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  • June 3, 2013
  • Book Blasts, Featured
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{Book Blast} Pump Up Your Book Presents Michelle Manning’s Siding with Plato Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash

Join Michelle Manning, author of the Adult YA, Siding with Plato, as she tours the blogosphere July 1 – 26 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Michelle will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below and good luck! If you would like to host Michelle, please email Dorothy at thewriterslife (at) gmail.com. ABOUT SIDING WITH PLATO Brooke Aarons can’t get to college fast enough. Leaving behind her small town life, she intends to transform herself into a brilliant psychologist with no distractions along the way. But when she
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{First Chapter} The Fulton Incident by Jordan Ekeroth

Title of Book: THE FULTON INCIDENT Genre: Suspense Author: Jordan Ekeroth Website: www.jordanekeroth.com Publisher: Amazon Digital Services PURCHASE THE FULTON INCIDENT HERE SUMMARY: International intrigue rooted in a secret history. Mysterious and unlikely allies. The memory of a lost love. A race against time. Josh Fulton is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame after catching a charismatic leader in an act of infidelity. But when he finds himself alone and hunted through the dark streets of a foreign city, he is forced to face the truth that he has found himself embroiled in a far deeper conspiracy than he’d ever imagined. As his search for truth takes him across
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First Chapters: San Francisco Secrets by Greg Messel

Title: San Francisco Secrets Author: Greg Messel Format: Paperback, ebook Length: 405 pages Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Noted novelist and newspaper editor Edgar Watson Howe once said. “A man who can keep a secret may be wise but he is not half as wise as a man with no secrets to keep” As the spring of 1958 arrives in San Francisco, it seems that baseball player turned private eye, Sam Slater and his fiancée, TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan, are surrounded by people who have secrets. A prominent doctor, John O’Dell is being blackmailed by someone who has discovered a dark secret from his past. When the private investigator trying to
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  • May 25, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Ancient Guardians: The Legacy of the Key Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join S.L. Morgan, author of the YA fantasy, Ancient Guardians: The Legacy of the Key (Book 1 in the Ancient Guardian series), as she tours the blogosphere July 1 – 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ANCIENT GUARDIANS: THE LEGACY OF THE KEY No matter where you are, facing your reality with passion and purpose will always lead down the path you were intended to go. While Reece Bryant is making her way through this world on her own, she is suddenly confronted with the truth of her existence, and the reality of her future. It is when she encounters two
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Traveling for Love: Searching for Self, Hoping for Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Becky Due, author of the women’s fiction, Traveling for Love: Searching for Self, Hoping for Love, as she tours the blogosphere July 1 – 26 2013 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT TRAVELING FOR LOVE: SEARCHING FOR SELF, HOPING FOR LOVE Amanda’s life is suddenly turned upside down when her husband tells her he wants a divorce. She realizes she no longer knows who she is – her life revolved around her husband. At age 40, she finds herself divorced, childless, living in an apartment with a roommate, with little education and no career path. Can Amanda heal her pain and find
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  • May 15, 2013
  • Book Blasts, Featured
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{Book Blast} Pump Up Your Book Presents Colin M. Drysdale’s For Those in Peril on the Sea Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash

Join Colin M. Drysdale, author of the post-apocalyptic thriller, For Those in Peril on the Sea, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – 5 on his first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Colin will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below July 1 – 5 and good luck!  If you would like to host Colin, please leave a comment below or email Dorothy at thewriterslife (at) gmail.com. ABOUT FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA After a six week voyage across the Atlantic, they couldn’t wait to get to
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Virtual Book Tour with Pump Up Your Book: The Wonderful Adventures of Godfrey and Chucky Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Daitoku Daiichi, author of the adult drama novel, The Wonderful Adventures of Godfrey and Chucky: Hot Spring, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – July 26, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF GODFREY AND CHUCKY Godfrey is young, wealthy and able-bodied. He has all the women you can imagine, and unbelievably deep pockets. But Godfrey wants more. His Great Greatness wants to rid the world of a menacing scourge, and restore what is truly superior to an elevated position. Why would anyone stop him? Who could possibly stop him? Chucky arrives as the new assistant, and
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  • May 15, 2013
  • Author Interviews
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Harris Gray, authors of Vampire Vic

——————————————————————– ABOUT VAMPIRE VIC Would you give up donuts…for blood? Fat, balding accountant Victor Thetherson hoped becoming a vampire would turn his life around. But Victor can’t stomach confrontation and gets queasy at the sight of blood. Instead he gets it from the blood bank, diluted in bloody Bloody Marys. The result: a vampire who doesn’t bite, and a man who gets no respect. Victor’s slacking staff mockingly calls him Vampire Vic. Victor’s boss amuses his wife by intimidating Victor on video. His ex makes him stay out late while she entertains boyfriends in the house she insists they continue to share. One night it finally boils over, and
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  • May 11, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents OCD, the Dude & Me Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lauren Roedy Vaughn, author of the contemporary humorous young adult, OCD, the Dude & Me, as she tours the blogosphere June 3 – July 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT OCD, THE DUDE & ME Seventeen-year-old Danielle Levine is your typical high school teenager – if you count having OCD and ADHD as typical. Danielle’s “special” conditions lead her to a school for students with learning disabilities, and, even here, she struggles to fit in. How Danielle navigates her status as a “learning-challenged” teen pariah is told, with equal parts pain and hilarity, in Lauren Roedy Vaughn’s debut Young Adult
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Seeds of Beauty: Defining Your Beauty From the Inside Out Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lakeysha-Marie Green, author of the fashion/self-help book, The Seeds of Beauty:Defining Your Beauty From the Inside Out, as she tours the blogosphere June 17 – September 13, 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ——————————————————————– ABOUT THE SEEDS OF BEAUTY What’s the real secret to radiant beauty? It may come as no surprise that how we look on the outside is directly connected to the beauty deep inside us. What’s more, when we are burdened with the weight of low self-esteem, it’s all-too-visible in our physical appearance. That’s why a truly successful makeover begins by reconnecting with who we are at our very
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  • May 4, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Forever Friends Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Peggy Webb, author of the romantic comedies,  Can’t Stop Loving You, Only His Touch, Bringing Up Baxter, and Angels on Zebras, as she tours the blogosphere June 3 – June 28, 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT CAN’T STOP LOVING YOU Brick and Helen Sullivan had been a team, onstage and off. When she walked out of their marriage without an explanation, he swore he’d never play another role with her, in the bedroom or otherwise. But Fate brings them together to reprise their roles in The Taming of the Shrew, and the sparks begin to fly. Laugh – and cry
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Gold Star Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Josh Evans, author of the rock and roll/coming of age novella, Gold Star, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – June 28, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT GOLD STAR Star leaves the city for nowhere, she just needed to get out. Along the way she found a new circus to join, a collective of rock n roll royalty, the coolest music scene in the world up there in the Joshua Tree…. Purchase your copy at AMAZON   ABOUT JOSH EVANS ‘The Daily Press’s Kevin Thomas called Inside the Goldmine, in which Evans starred in 1994, a “meaningful look at
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Pump Up Your Book Presents San Francisco Secrets Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Greg Messel, author of the mystery/historical romance, San Francisco Secrets, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – July 26 2013 on his fifth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO SECRETS Noted novelist and newspaper editor Edgar Watson Howe once said. “A man who can keep a secret may be wise but he is not half as wise as a man with no secrets to keep” As the spring of 1958 arrives in San Francisco, it seems that baseball player turned private eye, Sam Slater and his fiancée, TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan, are surrounded by people who have secrets. A prominent doctor, John
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Fulton Incident Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Jordan Ekeroth, author of the suspense, The Fulton Incident, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – 28 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE FULTON INCIDENT International intrigue rooted in a secret history. Mysterious and unlikely allies. The memory of a lost love. A race against time. Josh Fulton is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame after catching a charismatic leader in an act of infidelity. But when he finds himself alone and hunted through the dark streets of a foreign city, he is forced to face the truth that he has found himself embroiled in a far deeper conspiracy
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Birr Elixir Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Jo Sparkes, author of the fantasy, The Birr Elixir, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – 28 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE BIRR ELIXIR Marra had never heard of Birr Elixir. But when Drail of the Hand of Victory saw the words in an old book, she found herself agreeing to make it. Even lacking the right ingredient. And after drinking it, the Hand of Victory defeated a Skullan team, something no one had ever done before. Now Drail walked the path his grandsire had walked, and Marra was offered a place as Brista, his potions mistress. She
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Untimed Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Andy Gavin, author of the Young Adult Time Travel/Adventure novel, Untimed, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – July 26, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT UNTIMED Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, his own mother can’t remember his name. So when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole into 1725 London, Charlie realizes even the laws of time don’t take him seriously. Still, this isn’t all bad. Who needs school when you can learn about history first hand, like from Ben Franklin himself. And
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Revived by Grace Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Emma Clay, author of the Christian memoir, Revived by Grace, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – June 28 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SURVIVED BY GRACE Emma Clay lived a life of rebellion, led astray by her own desires and her attraction to an indulgent life and a difficult man. This book is her memoir, telling the powerful story of her downward decline and the way God brought her back to himself through his love. Moving between personal storytelling, Biblical reflection, and political application, Revived by Grace is a book that speaks to the wounded place in all
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  • April 16, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A List of Offences Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Dilruba Z. Ara, author of the women’s fiction, A List of Offences, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – July 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT A LIST OF OFFENCES Daria, the heroine of the book is born under unusual circumstances that cause the people of her small village to gossip; yet as she grows she becomes an intelligent, sensitive and spiritual beauty that one feels is destined for a perfect life. After a flood, a boy is found on the bank of her river. Daria’s parents adopt the boy, and Daria befriends him. As they grow Daria begins
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  • April 14, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents When the Morning Glory Blooms Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Cynthia Ruchti, author of the Christian fiction, When the Morning Glory Blooms, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT WHEN THE MORNING GLORY BLOOMS Becky rocks a baby that rocked her world. Sixty years earlier, with her fiancé Drew in the middle of the Korean Conflict, Ivy throws herself into her work at a nursing home to keep her sanity and provide for the child Drew doesn’t know is coming. Ivy cares for Anna, an elderly patient who taxes Ivy’s listening ear until the day she suspects Anna’s tall tales are not just
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Magic’s Daughter & Dancing in the Flame Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Ann Gimpel, author of the spicy paranormal romances, Magic’s Daughter and Dancing in the Flame, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT MAGIC’S DAUGHTER Destined to be surrounded by magic yet have none of her own, Cassie walks a thin line between love and danger. Her mother is dying and her boyfriend has turned into something which terrifies her. By the time she wakes up to the danger she’s in, it’s nearly too late. Cassie’s friend Jeremy warns her about her scumbag boyfriend, but she’s not listening. Deeply disturbing events unfold. Her life hangs
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  • April 12, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Narcotic Nation Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Scarlett Savage, author of the fantasy, Narcotic Nation, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT NARCOTIC NATION It’s present-day America, but in which all Narcotics were legalized fifteen years ago with the advent of the Freedman Bill (the formal name for the Legalization). While there is finally plenty of money to pay police, teachers, firemen, and other public workers, and no one in the country is without food, shelter, or insurance, the government now utilizes methods designed to keep usage within a safe parameter…violating many Constitutional rights in the process. The country is torn
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Knights of Galaria: The Crystals of Power Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join O.S. Gill, author of the sci-fi fantasy, The Knights of Galaria: The Crystals of Power, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE KNIGHTS OF GALARIA: THE CRYSTALS OF POWER For Kaz Silverwynd, graduation from the Galarian Knight Academy begins normally, but an the attempt on the life of Xul Xandu, the newly-appointed head of the Confederation of Nations, pushes Kaz and his team into an epic and dangerous adventure. The action ranges from the floating city of Civitas to the underwater empire of Aequoria to the moon colony of Ourea. Kaz leads his
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  • April 9, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Heart Stone Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Sherry Kyle, author of the Christian fiction, The Heart Stone, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE HEART STONE When the biological father of Jessica MacAllister’s son decides to break their custody agreement, Jessica and her son visit her Uncle George for advice and refuge… Following a year of grief, Evelyn Sweeney is finally ready to move on. Pondering her new path in life, her mind drifts to her first love, George MacAllister… When the lives of these two women cross, they discover that one heart-shaped ring binds their stories together. But
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