The Donne Deal Cover Reveal

Right on the heels of The Depths of Time release, I’m here with more exciting news! The second book in the Unexpected Mergers series is here!

If you’ve kept up with me on my author and Amazon page, you would have already seen this (I’m a little behind). But, for those of you who are new to the party, I’m proud to announce The Donne Deal, book two in Unexpected Mergers!

The Donne Deal

Preorder October 12, General Release November 23

Home is where the heart is…

Kindall Armstead was content with her life in the heart of Manhattan. She had a successful career and a welcome lack of romance to muddle things up. So, when Texas cowboy Clint Donne walks into her life, it’s more than her client’s wedding that he crashes. Before she knows it, her one-time fling has turned into something far more dangerous, and Kindall now finds herself skipping a tropical vacation in favor of a heated Texas ranch in need of serious help.

With family drama, deep secrets and a suspicious local creating trouble for her, Kindall barely has time to plan the Donne's’ annual family festival, much less think about the complicated, messy feelings she has for a smooth cowboy with a crooked grin.

With much more at stake than just her heart, can this city girl go back to her roots—or will she shake the dust from her designer shoes and turn her back on the only place that is starting to feel like home?

I’m very excited for this release! It was by far the hardest book I’ve ever had to write, as contemporary and western romance is out of my comfort zone, but I think I made something amazing (if I do say so myself!). I hope you stick around to learn more, as I have some cool stuff planned for this one!

I know I said that last time, but between the new day job and moving into my forever home, life has really gotten away from me! But, thank you to everyone who’s stuck around through it all. I’m so lucky to have you all supporting me.

Love always,

Lori

The Depths of Time Cover Reveal

And now the moment we’ve been waiting for…

The team over at Pride Publishing really outdid themselves with this one! 

It’s surreal seeing this cover, knowing that this book is about to be released to the world. I never dreamed that I would be here, sharing something so important and special to me. I know I harped on about it in a previous post, but for those who weren’t there, I’ll say it again. Titanic is a subject near and dear to my heart. I’ve been obsessed with the ship and the tragedy for as long as I can remember (and the movie is my all-time favorite, the best ever made!) and have always wanted to tell a version of the story that was completely my own.

I did my best to get this one right and include characters you wouldn’t expect (and some you would).

Here’s the blurb:

Obsessed with Titanic from a young age, Lucas Thompson has spent his life studying the shipwreck and turning his passion into a career in marine archeology. But, on the one hundred year anniversary of the voyage, he’s drawn to the ship’s resting place by a strange sonar ripple that hurtles him back in time. Luke wakes in the year 1912 as a passenger on the grandest ship in the world.

It’s there that he meets Quinton Hawthorne, the man who sacrificed himself to save passengers during the sinking, including Luke’s great-grandmother. He also comes face-to-face with Lucinda Hughes, the very woman who raised him on her stories of the ship. With his inside knowledge of the impending disaster, Luke feels a responsibility to save everyone and develops a plan to save the doomed ship.

Things quickly fall apart as Luke begins to fall for Quinton, knowing that it can only end in heartbreak. Though he’s determined to save Quinton, he’s also faced with a dilemma – should he save the ship or allow destiny to play out on its own?

 

I couldn’t be prouder to have this book out there for you all to read and I hope you all fall in love with Quinton and Luke the way that I have! I’m going to be doing a lot of fun promo for this book, some live events and such, that I hope to see you attend, so keep an eye out for those dates. Thank you all for reading!

The Depths of Time will be available for preorder on July 27th and general release will be September 7th.

 

Quitting MillWordY

Hello, lovelies. This is a hard blog post to write and one that I’ve been thinking about for some time. In case you haven’t noticed, I am officially stopping MillWordY. For now.

When I first started, it was exciting. The prospect of somehow writing one million words in a year was an achievement that I wanted to claim. It progressed and I realized I would have to do a half MillWordY – disappointing, but not impossible, I thought.

But here’s what I’ve learned: Life doesn’t care about what you want to achieve. Life will get in the way and throw struggles at you until you’re sobbing because you haven’t had sleep in a week and you’re starting to hallucinate.

This is not to say that you should give up, not at all. But it is to say that you should learn your limits, push those limits, but not to the point that you break yourself in the process. I have learned that I don’t have the time or energy to write as much as I wanted to. Yes, that’s sad, but I still have time to write and that’s what’s important.

I’m going to keep writing, but I’m also going to make time for my family and friends and drawing and reading. I myself cannot handle the pressures that come with participating in MillWordY. This is me being very real with you all. And it is so difficult to post something like this that makes it seem like I give up easily.

In the future, I would love to give this another try. One day, when I’m more capable of handling it. As of this time, I’m not mentally or creatively where I need to be to do such a daunting challenge. I hope I haven’t disappointed anyone who was doing this challenge along with me.

And for those of you still trying for a million words, keep going! I’m here to cheer you on and I want each and every one of you to succeed! Let me know if you’re still going, where you’re at, and what it means to you. Everyone experiences this differently. I know one of my personal friends participating and she is blowing it out of the water!

Until next time, lovelies, keep writing.

Love always,

Lori Fayre