Of Love and Magic

Book Details
Authors: Amberlee Day, Cami Checketts, Lucy McConnell, Sherry Gammon, and Taylor Hart,
Release Date: February 2015
Publisher: Creative Prose Publishing
Genre: Romance

Five AMAZING authors
Five INTRIGUING romances 
All wrapped up in LOVE and MAGIC~

Angel in a Black Fedora, by Sherry Gammon
Ciel Björk died a tragic death...but she got over it. Now she works as an undercover angel, answering people's prayers. She's sent to the sleepy little town of Port Fare, New York to help turn Chloe's dreams into a reality. As secrets are revealed, Ciel soon learns that things are not as simple as they seem. What an amazingly fun story to start this book with! The humor on page one pulls you and and gloriously sets up the plot...and wait until you read how Ciel died...you will giggle over that for a long time :) Friendships are formed, good times are had, and a prayer is answered. SO GOOD!

A Wish in Her Hand, by Amberlee Day
Professor Miri Keeler's life is perfect, and she knows just the sort of man she wants to share it with. When she meets a genie who's willing to grant her a favor, she uses her wish to get the attention of her crush, poet Jamison Arbor. But has the genie's magic missed its target? Miri suddenly has the attention of not only Jamison, but also of Alex, an attractive maintenance man. How will she know which is the right match for her, or what's real and what's magic? Absolutely adored this one! LOVE how the magic is passed on :) She has two men after her and she is conscious of not wanting to look like being a player so she has to choose just one...but did she choose the right one?

Reality Ever After, by Cami Checketts
Pregnant at eighteen, Sydney Richland's happily ever after is in serious peril. Her grandmother's ghost can work miracles, but she also might ruin Sydney's chances with the man of her dreams. This book just continues to get better with each story! While the first two stories are lighthearted and fun this one is AMAZINGLY tender. A mistake was made...one that would change their future. But when all doesn't go as planned Sydney has second thoughts. Her guardian angel grandmother can't give her any answers, but she is close by and always brings with her a comfort that Sydney needs. A GREAT, GREAT, GREAT story!

Prom Diaries, by Taylor Hart
Sixteen-year-old Lacy O'Donnell discovers her best friend has cast a spell, putting everyone in a time loop, forcing them to relive the same four days before prom over and over. The good thing--Lacy doesn't remember the loop. The bad thing--Drake Davis, the guy she's been stalking, does. Only true love's kiss can break the spell, but true love's kiss has to happen at a precise moment. It's not exact science...it's exact magic. This box set has the BEST stories! In Prom Diaries you will read along and be so enjoying the story and then this FABULOUS twist hits and the creativeness endears you even more. You will be SO GLAD this didn't happen to you, but will SO ENJOY watching it happen to them :)

What If Wish, by Lucy McConnell
Morana is doomed to a life cataloging spells deep below the palace unless she can make her magic bloom. If her deepest wish comes true, it would open up all sorts of possibilities. The whispers that she was a fluke of nature would hush. The King would stop stalking her. Her parents would no longer live under a cloud of shame. And, Adam could look at her as more than a friend. Despite the promises magic holds, Morana will quickly learn that the thing she wishes for most, could quickly be her undoing. What a PERFECT way to end a series of love and magic than with this story about a fairy who is a late bloomer. You will be whisked away into a land of enchantment as Morana tries to figure out just what type of fairy she is. Wonderfully written! You will really enjoy this one!

This box set is WONDERFUL!
Fun, creative, fun, magical, fun stories!
I LOVED every one of them!
This is a must-read!

AMAZON | GOODREADS

About the Authors
Sherry Gammon
Sherry and her wonderfully supportive husband, currently call Upstate New York home, which is also the setting for her novels. It is where they are raising their family. Sherry has a degree in Legal Assisting, and served as a medical technician in the Air Force. She and her husband worked in foster care for a number of years, from which they adopted their youngest son. She has worked in the education system for a number of years, and is currently lucky enough to be teaching teenage girls, ages 12-18. She has lived in Michigan, California, Utah, Texas, Pennsylvania, and the beautiful, but over-taxed state of New York where she has spent the last eleven years, and now considers home. It is where she spends her nights writing instead of sleeping :}

Amberlee Day
Hi, I'm Amberlee Day. I love romantic novels and movies, but I don't need those steamy scenes. How do you keep a clean romance interesting? Make it fun! Romance and humor make an irresistible combination. Don't believe me? Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is both beautiful and hilarious, and I think she's the authority on romantic novels. The end. I live in an evergreen forest in Washington state, where I love roaming the woods and exploring the beaches. Many of my stories are set in the Pacific Northwest, because all this beauty sets my imagination flying. I love pizza more than I can say without slipping into Italian, or Elvish. I believe there will be chocolate and puppies in heaven. Also books, because what would heaven be without a library? My husband and I share our forest home with five kids, two dogs, and a carpet that we won't bother replacing until at least one of those numbers change.


Cami Checketts

Cami Checketts is married and the proud mother of four future WWF champions. Sometimes between being a human horse, cleaning up magic potions, and reading Bernstein Bears, she gets the chance to write fiction. Cami graduated from Utah State University with a degree in Exercise Science. She teaches strength training at her local rec and shares health and fitness articles at http://fitnessformom.blogspot.com. Cami and her family live in the beautiful Cache Valley of Northern Utah. During the two months of the year it isn't snowing, she enjoys swimming, biking, running, and water-skiing.

Taylor Hart

Taylor Hart has always been drawn to a good love triangle, hot chocolate and long conversations with new friends. Writing has always been a passion that has consumed her daydreams and forced her to sit in a trance for long hours, completely obsessed with people that don't really exist. Taylor would have been a country star if she could have carried a tune--maybe in the next life.

Lucy McConnell

Lucy McConnell is an Amazon Best Selling Contemporary Romance Author.
She started out as an editor at an advertising agency before moving on to teach in the marketing department of the local community college. She loved teaching and often misses the academic environment. After her third child was born, Lucy retired from teaching and began to write. She has been published in national magazines, newspapers, short story compilations, and she writes cookbooks under the name Christina Dymock. Lucy has a handsome husband and four amazing children. She works as a Recreation Specialist, marketing copywriter, and author. If she's not at the computer, you can find her on the ski slopes, in a boat, in the kitchen, or in the stands watching one of her children bat, dribble, or play goalie.

Of Love & Magic

Five intriguing romances wrapped in love and magic 

Angel in a Black Fedora, by Sherry Gammon
Ciel Björk died a tragic death...but she got over it. Now she works as an undercover angel, answering people's prayers. She's sent to the sleepy little town of Port Fare, New York to help turn Chloe's dreams into a reality. As secrets are revealed, Ciel soon learns that things are not as simple as they seem.

A Wish in Her Hand, by Amberlee Day
Professor Miri Keeler's life is perfect, and she knows just the sort of man she wants to share it with. When she meets a genie who's willing to grant her a favor, she uses her wish to get the attention of her crush, poet Jamison Arbor. But has the genie's magic missed its target? Miri suddenly has the attention of not only Jamison, but also of Alex, an attractive maintenance man. How will she know which is the right match for her, or what's real and what's magic?

Reality Ever After, by Cami Checketts
Pregnant at eighteen, Sydney Richland's happily ever after is in serious peril. Her grandmother's ghost can work miracles, but she also might ruin Sydney's chances with the man of her dreams.

Prom Diaries, by Taylor Hart
Sixteen-year-old Lacy O'Donnell discovers her best friend has cast a spell, putting everyone in a time loop, forcing them to relive the same four days before prom over and over. The good thing--Lacy doesn't remember the loop. The bad thing--Drake Davis, the guy she's been stalking, does. Only true love's kiss can break the spell, but true love's kiss has to happen at a precise moment. It's not exact science...it's exact magic.

What If Wish, by Lucy McConnell
Morana is doomed to a life cataloging spells deep below the palace unless she can make her magic bloom. If her deepest wish comes true, it would open up all sorts of possibilities. The whispers that she was a fluke of nature would hush. The King would stop stalking her. Her parents would no longer live under a cloud of shame. And, Adam could look at her as more than a friend. Despite the promises magic holds, Morana will quickly learn that the thing she wishes for most, could quickly be her undoing.

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In honor of the angels in Of Love & Magic, Christina Dymock with Hungry Family has created an amazing chocolate angel cake recipe. 

Ingredients
1 1/2 cup egg whites (10-12 large eggs)
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 cup flour
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 ounces milk chocolate, shredded
2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions
Place the egg whites and cream of tartar in a metal mixing bowl. Beat until stiff peaks form and the whites are glossy. Add the vanilla and beat well.

In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, powdered sugar, cocoa, baking soda, salt, and shredded chocolate. Fold 1/2 cup of the powdered mixture into the egg whites. Repeat until all the flour mixture is incorporated into the eggs.

Pour batter into a non-stick angel food cake or bunt cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 -35 minutes or until cake springs back. Run a knife around the edge of the pan and invert the pan onto a funnel or cup and allow to cool for 2 hours. Remove the cake from the pan and serve with fresh whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

A Fantasy Christmas

Book Details
Authors: Stephanie Fowers, Cindy C, Bennett, Sherry Gammon
Release Date: October 2013
Publisher: Prose by Design
Genre: Christmas

3 ROMANTIC TALES OF LOVE AND MAGIC

in 1 FANTASTIC book!

Starting off with Halfing by Cindy C Bennett~

Half-elf, half-fairy, banished from the south, now working at the North Pole.

It's Christmas time and Kara has once again been assigned to the Department of Early Production. She had worked her way to Upper Fabrication in the South, but now she was starting over...literally.

For you see Kara has to keep her secret safely guarded.

Can she do it while working with Seb..."the most gorgeous elf she's ever seen ~ and the orneriest."

FUN, FUN Christmas tale!

Up next is Aphrodite by Stephanie Fowers

A wonderful regency romance made even more mesmerizing by the addition of a Greek mythology twist!

Aphrodite's daughter (Affry) is seeking love at the annual Christmas ball.

And she dances the night away with the one who shows her great affection even to the possible scandal of the ton.

But now the "furies of the underworld...are after her."

Revenge will be taken as "all is fair in love and war."

Can love be a weapon?

This one will leave you smiling :)

And then a GREAT ending with Loving Marigold by Sherry Gammon

Marigold is not like the others and they seem to find delight in calling her a witch.

She is also madly in love with Jack Mahoney.

But it is 9th grade and things like this are normal...and Jack moves away...

9 years...and a lifetime of choices later...Jack and Marigold find themselves back in their hometown.

As they re-connect and work together to rid a bad influence in the town they have to wonder...

"Is it LOVE or MAGIC?"

I LOVED this story!
I really LOVED LOVED LOVED this whole book!
Get in the holiday spirit with this MUST READ for romance and Christmas magic!

About the Authors

Stephanie Fowers
I'm from a family of ten kids and I tie for middle, but I don't have middle kid syndrome because we're basically ALL show-offs. To be perfectly honest, being the middle kid is awesome because I can be best friends with the oldest siblings and the youngest. There never is a dull moment. Life for me is a Little Women andLittle Rascals blend.

I've always had stories in my head. As soon as I learned to write, my pen took over the paper. When I read my stories out loud in second grade, my goal was to get my teacher to laugh so hard she'd fall off her chair. And it worked

I soon moved on to more mischievous times, and got my associates at BYU Idaho in English and (besides the below freezing temperatures), I loved the small town atmosphere complete with garage bands and pizza joints. Then I served an LDS mission in the Philippines. The people there have an intense past and culture that I want to write about someday. Their war heroes (and heroines) are amazing, and their people are so full of life.

After I got my bachelors at BYU (Provo) in English and communications, I almost went into advertising (I won enough Burger King crowns in my advertising class to encourage me)...but I decided to take the starving artist route instead. And now, here I am!

Cindy C. Bennett

I write contemporary YA, though I have a few books which dip a tiny toe into the paranormal. I have four amazing kids - two boys, two girls, and two great daughters-in-law. I'm married to a man who makes it possible for me to pursue this crazy dream. I live in Utah, have my whole life, and can't imagine living anywhere else.

I started writing a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away . . . no, wait, that's Star Wars' intro, not mine. I did start writing a long time ago, that part is true. I can't remember when I started making up stories and putting them down on paper, it seems I always have. Then, in high school, I had an amazing English teacher, Mr. Bickmore, who really expanded my passion for writing. Every day as we came into class, he had a "ten-minute writing" assignment, which is exactly what it sounds like. I looked forward to that ten minutes each day like you can't believe. He taught me a love of pure, creative writing, and a love of great literature. (Who knew Romeo and Juliet begins with two pages of dirty jokes?)

Then at some point, YA became a popular genre, and, having two teen daughters, I found my house inundated with it. So I read many of the books, and fell in love with them. I mean seriously, who doesn't have a crystal clear remembrance of that time in your life: the awkwardness, the insecurity and drama - the flush of new love. A few years ago, I began writing Heart on a Chain, (the story of why can be read here, so I won't reiterate). And I found my niche.

Sherry Gammon

I began writing in the sixth grade, simple little Roses are red, Violets are blue type poems inspired by Highlights Magazine. Remember those from your childhood?

In seventh grade we studied poems and my love for writing bloomed. We were required to make a book of poems, some of which could be our own work. A few of my classmates saw my poems and asked me to write poems for their books. I not only enjoyed doing it, I discovered writing helped to clear my head.

Fast forward to college. I was thumbing though a roommate's high school yearbook and found a full page photo of a boy. I also noted that the yearbook had been dedicated to him. When I asked her what had happened, she told me that he'd committed suicide earlier that year. Needless to say, the story haunted me. I took a writing class in college the next semester and for one of my assignments I decided to write this boy's story. I had to create a story around what little I knew of him. Not only did my teacher love the story, writing it helped me come to terms with this random stranger's death. It also fed the fire in me to write, and I've been writing ever since.

(A review copy was provided for this review. However, all reviews are of my own opinion :)