Feature and Giveaway: Snow Falling on Bluegrass by Molly Harper

Parks & Recreation meets The Blue Collar Comedy Tour in this third ebook in Molly Harper’s Bluegrass series of contemporary romances: A love triangle of colleagues heats up the winter lodge where they get snowed in for a week.

Kentucky Tourism Commission employee and executive assistant extraordinaire Kelsey is known around the office for having everything under control. So it’s not surprising that she and her boss, Sadie, have everything planned to the second for the office winter retreat. But there are things even Kelsey can’t micromanage.

An unprecedented snowstorm smothers half of Kentucky and knocks out the power, closes the roads, and generally shuts down the state. Luckily, the lodge has working fireplaces and enough food to keep the staff from turning on each other like something out of The Shining. Kelsey wouldn’t mind being stuck inside if it wasn’t for the tension with her not-so-secret crush, Charlie, the office’s statistician. But handsome Ranger Luke, the lodge’s only employee on hand, is there to take Kelsey’s mind off her discomfort.

Even though this weekend is supposed to be a planning session for KTC, Kelsey can’t help her mind from wandering and finds herself conflicted over Luke and Charlie. Someone’s love will keep her warm, but whose will it be?

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ARC Review: Better Homes and Hauntings by Molly Harper

Nina Linden is sailing to an island to work on the long abandoned Whitney mansion called Crane’s Nest, in a make or break mode for her landscaping business, Demeter Designs. Demeter is the Goddess of the Harvest and there are quite a few Greek mythology references sprinkled throughout the story. Tales of women stuck in loveless marriages and women who sought revenge. The question is which category would the late Catherine Whitney be placed? Her late husband, Gerald, built the glorious mansion more than one hundred years ago. Rumor has it Gerald murdered the cheating Catherine and now she haunts the house. Her descendant, Deacon, wants to reclaim the house and his family’s legacy. They have known nothing but disappointment and hardship since Gerald’s death. Are the Whitneys cursed? Deacon’s cousin, Dotty, thinks so and is planning to write a book. Cindy Ellis owns a cleaning service and joins Nina in Deacon’s quest to restore the home. His best friend, Jake, dated Cindy briefly, but doesn’t remember her. This small group, joined by construction and cleaning crews, will make Crane’s Nest shine again. Unless the ghosts interfere or try to kill someone. Nina and Deacon have dreams about the night Catherine died. Someone strangled her and dumped her body into the sea. The original architect, Jack Donovan, disappeared around the same time as the murder. Were he and Catherine planning to run away and were caught by the jealous Gerald? Speaking of jealous, Nina’s old business partner and present stalker, Rick, has found his way to the island. His plan is to destroy whatever he can of Nina’s reputation and steal this contract from her. He hears voices urging to find long lost jewelry and kill Nina. Everyone is having scary visions and frightening visits from the ghosts. Time to find out the truth about Catherine’s murder and stop the madness. Hopefully the ghosts will fill them in or leave journals for them to find. In the midst of the chaos, Nina and Deacon fall in love.

Nina and Deacon are the quiet nerdy types. Dotty points out it’s like watching an experiment where the most antisocial people meet in the wild. They both need the calm and comfort the other offers. Jake and Cindy pair up too. Jake forgetting all about her, then not understanding why she doesn’t like him makes for some funny scenes.

The author had me at the Scooby Doo references. I could see the bus breaking down in front of an abandoned mansion and the kids going in to investigate. The dialogue between the women is hilarious, especially when they discuss men. They tend to hit them in the head with whatever is available like clipboards or pillows to make a point. It works every time.

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Guest Post with Molly Harper and Giveaway

Meet Molly Harper, author of Better Homes and Hauntings.

Molly Harper worked for six years as a reporter and humor columnist for The Paducah Sun. Her reporting duties included covering courts, school board meetings, quilt shows, and once, the arrest of a Florida man who faked his suicide by shark attack and spent the next few months tossing pies at a local pizzeria. Molly lives in western Kentucky with her family.

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Guest Post with Author Molly Harper and Giveaway

Meet Molly Harper, author of Rhythm and Bluegrass.

When Molly Harper was eight years old, she set up a “writing office” in her parents’ living room, complete with an old manual typewriter and a toy phone. And she (very slowly) pecked out the story of her third-grade class taking a trip around the world and losing a kid in each city. She had a dark sense of humor even then.

When Molly was considerably older, she headed for Western Kentucky University, where she majored in print journalism. After graduation, she landed a job with The Paducah Sun and married her high school sweetheart, David, a local police officer. After six years at the newspaper, Molly took a more family-friendly secretarial position at a local church office.

Her husband worked nights and Molly was alone with their small child in the “The Apartment of Lost Souls.” A big fan of vampire movies and TV shows, she decided to write a vampire romance novel. Molly created Jane Jameson, a bit of an accidental loser. Jane is single, almost 30, and a librarian working in Half-Moon Hollow, Ky. She has become a permanent fixture on her Mama’s prayer list. And despite the fact that she’s pretty good at her job, she just got canned so her boss could replace her with someone who occasionally starts workplace fires. Jane drowns her sorrows at the local faux nostalgia-themed sports bar. On her way home, she’s mistaken for a deer and shot by a drunk hunter. And then she wakes up as a vampire. The three-book Jane Jameson series–which includes Nice Girls Don’t Have Fangs,Nice Girls Don’t Date Dead Men and Nice Girls Don’t Live Forever—was released in 2009. A fourth and final installment, Nice Girls Don’t Bite Their Neighbors, was released in 2012.

Molly continues stories in the Jane Jameson universe through her Half-Moon Hollow series,Driving Mr. Dead, The Care and Feeding of Stray Vampires, Undead Sublet, and A Witch’s Handbook of Kisses and Curses. Undead Sublet is a short story in The Undead in My Bedanthology. A Witch’s Handbook of Kisses and Curses will be released in June 2013.

Molly will update her popular Naked Werewolf romance series in 2013. How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf, was released in February 2011, quickly followed by The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf.

Molly will launch her first-ever contemporary romance series with My Bluegrass Baby in December 2012.

Molly’s books are published by Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. They are available in print, as e-books and audio books at major book stores and on Amazon. Molly is a native of Kentucky. She lives in Paducah with her husband and children.

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