Wounded Warriors Project.
Introduction by
Julie Ann Walker
Four best friends struggle with decisions that
affect their lives, their hearts, and their futures. As sisters, they embrace
the Girl Code.
HOPE
Josephine "Joey" Lockhart escapes
her past, herself and her home town of Pearl, Ohio to Florida after high
school. Years later, she meets a man that refuses to let her hide behind her
camera lens and encourages her out of her shell. Will he be the one to push her
to feel for the first time?
LIVE
After seven years in drug hell, detoxing
Juliette "Juls" Carrington returns to her hometown Pearl to attend
her grandmother's burial. Once more rejected by her family, she has a swim in a
pond nearby when a mysterious camper, an ex-drunk, coaxes her to come to his
hut in the woods. Together they must fight their inner demons for a chance to
love...and live.
FAITH
Selena Bodine escaped into the United States
Air Force to leave behind a painful past and the one man who she refused to let
herself love. Years later, an urgent call from her father brings her back to
Pearl, Ohio and face to face with the man she still loves. But will the secret
that Cullen is investigating her threaten their second chance?
PERSISTENCE
Laydi Michaels has been running away from her
past and bad memories for years. Finding herself wasn’t an easy task, but she’s
managed to finally get to a point to where she wants to be. Only to wake up
married to her boss….who fired her the night before. Wrapped in a case that
puts her life in danger, and dealing with a grave situation back home in Pearl,
Laydi figures out she wasn’t close to finding herself, and now, she’s risked
everything.
5 star Goodreads review!
It's not often you read an anthology and truly love every story
in it but I really did. These four authors are amazing women who I'm sure will
continue to give us well written, heart warming, action packed, and steamy love
stories for years to come.
FAITH
Excerpt:
Selena filled her lungs with country
air and the aroma of honeysuckle. The scent blasted her over the edge of
nostalgia, to her sisters playing along the pond after a rainstorm. She stopped
on the sidewalk before crossing the road.
Joey had her hands buried in the
bank, making mud pies. The thought of dirt burrowing under Selena’s nails
irritated her as much as nails dragging across a chalkboard, but she’d jumped
right in so her new friend didn’t play alone. Juls and Laydi joined them. It
didn’t take long for brown-reddish splotches to cover them from head to toe.
They had laughed so hard. Life was rough, their home lives not worth talking
about, yet they giggled.
Nothing else meant as much to them
as each other. She smiled, remembering how they jumped into the pond to get
clean. Young, alone, and taking a bath in dirty water, she couldn’t have been
happier. That day, she realized, the girls would be in her life for the long
haul.
Shared Memories:
Joey, Juls, Selena, and Laydi
from the Girl Code stories sharing the
memories!
My friends and me
celebrating my big birthday in 2014.
Unfortunately,
a few of us were missing in this pic.
Cait Jarrod
"I
write what I love to read - Romantic Suspense/Mystery- I love writing and
creating the meet-cue (the point where the hero and heroine meet) to the
blossoming of the romance. Add a suspenseful plot or a good mystery to the
equation and the perfect book is born to curl up to and lose yourself in,
taking you away from reality, troubles."
As a child, I entertained myself for
hours playing pretend, but not with dolls and such. I created stories and
pictured them in my mind, sometimes even acted them out, my well preserved
secret until now. I spent years after leaving school trying to figure out my
niche. Not being a literary enthusiast, I never thought my childhood pastime
would lead in this direction.
In life, one door closes and another
opens, so I'm told. This was true for me. I lost my mother, my best friend, to
cancer. After a year without her, I picked up her favorite hobby...reading.
After one book, a romantic suspense, I was hooked. In the past, I'd fall asleep
after a few minutes of reading. Now, books rank up there with a good red wine.
It didn't take long for my childhood muse to come back in adult version urging
me to put the scenes in my head on paper.
I hope I have provided you with the escape similar to the
ones I conjured in childhood and rediscovered as an adult, and I hope you enjoy
reading my books as much as I have loved creating them.
Cait's debut novel, Kidnapped Hearts won awards in the
categories of Best Happily Ever After and Best Suspense. Cait lives in Virginia
with her husband and three daughters.
Cait’s Classy Chicks Street Team / Cait's Newsletter
D.C.
Stone
"I write romantic suspense because
I can connect with it, and love the thrill of kicking ass and being sexy while
you're at it."
D.C. Stone is an e-book author and
full-time fraud investigator when she isn’t diving into the world of Fiction.
After serving eight years of service with the United States Air Force, she went
on to transition into the world of Financial Crimes and became a lead
investigator for many years. When she isn’t trying to solve a new puzzle in the
world of fraud, she is engulfed with coffee, her laptop, and all those crazy
characters in her head. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, New
Jersey Romance Writers, Kiss of Death, and the Liberty State Fiction Writers.
Come stop by on Facebook, Twitter or her website and say hello!
Jessica
Jayne
"My writing interests vary much like my reading interests.
Though I mainly write romance type novels with a spicy twist, I have lived what
some might call a suspenseful life. As a survivor of stalking and sexual
assault, I learned the ins and outs of the legal system pretty quickly. It
helped to precipitate my interest in getting my law degree... that and the fact
that I grew up around attorneys. So adding suspense to my writing is no big
surprise to me or anyone that knows me."
I am a born and raised small town
Ohio girl, who moved to the Sunshine State after graduating from college. I
graduated with a bachelor's degree in English because I could not imagine doing
anything else but reading and writing. It is such a pleasure to be able to
share all the stories in my head!
In the journey of life, I got my law
degree (and license) and also became a wife and a mother of three children. So,
life is always an adventure.
I love to read and write...
obviously! I’m a huge sports fan, especially college football and the
Ohio State Buckeyes! Go Steelers! Go Rays! Go Lightning! I LOVE to travel...
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to travel. And I love sharing my love to travel with my
children. Did I say I love to travel? I love to drink coffee in the morning and
tea at night! I love a good glass of wine, especially if it comes from a bottle
made by the FOOLS wine club… yep, I’m a founding member of that crazy
group! J
I love hanging out with my family and my friends! Music makes me happy. I’m a mix between
country girl and city chic. But I love nothing more than putting on my jean
shorts, tank top, cowboy boots and hat and watching Tim McGraw or Eric Church
belt it out! I’m a sucker for a cowboy
hat!
Favorite quote: “If nothing ever changed, there would be no
butterflies.”
Lea
Bronsen
"I
love how well-chosen words can make your heart beat a little faster."
Lea Bronsen likes her reads fast,
hot, and edgy, and strives to give her own stories the same intensity. After
venturing into dirty inner-city crime drama with her debut novel Wild Hearted,
she divides her writing time between psychological thriller, romantic suspense,
and erotic contemporary romance.
She is signed with Evernight
Publishing, Decadent Publishing, and Insatiable Press.
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