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A New Quilt! (Finally!) My Cousin’s Baby Quilt

I finished a new quilt–just in time for the baby shower (yesterday) and before graduate school starts up again (tomorrow)! Most of the patterned rectangles are from pre-cut 2 1/2″ strips, and a very few (five fabrics, I think? No more than that, definitely) were from actual yardage or fat quarters. 2 1/2″ strips are commonly sold in collections of 40 strips each (usually an entire fabric collection’s worth) and are called jelly rolls. I love collecting them (so pretty! so many new fabrics all at once!), but am very slow to use them up. I have a tendency to…

New Release and Giveaway! STING by Sandra Brown

Sting Sandra Brown Published by: Grand Central Publication date: August 16th 2016 Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense When Shaw Kinnard encounters the incongruously elegant Jordie Bennet in a seen-better-days bayou bar, it’s not love at first sight. He’s there to kill her. Instead, he abducts her, eager to get hold of the $30 Million her brother has pocketed from his badly bent boss. Now they are on the run from said boss—and the FBI.   Excerpt: CHAPTER 1 Three days earlier, Shaw had been sunning himself beside a sapphire-blue swimming pool, watching two topless girls cavort in the shallow end, catching…

New Release Review and Giveaway! FRICTION by Sandra Brown

A new Sandra Brown romantic suspense–yessss! Friction by Sandra Brown Published by: Grand Central Publication date: August 18th 2015 Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense Synopsis: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes a gripping story of family ties and forbidden attraction. A Texas Ranger, relegated to deskwork due to past recklessness, petitions to regain custody of his five-year-old daughter, and his case is assigned to a family court judge who is as attractive as she is ambitious. When a masked gunman barges in during the custody hearing with his sights on the judge, the Ranger reacts instinctually and goes after him. But authorities…

New Release Review and Giveaway! MEAN STREAK by Sandra Brown

I think I’ve found a new author to binge read! Mean Streak by Sandra Brown Published by: Grand Central Publication date: August 19th 2014 Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense Synopsis: Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Carolina. By the time her husband Jeff, miffed over a recent argument, reports her missing, the trail has grown cold. Literally. Fog and ice encapsulate the mountainous wilderness and paralyze the search for her. While police suspect Jeff of “instant divorce,” Emory, suffering from an unexplained head injury, regains consciousness and finds herself the captive of a man whose violent past…