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Hi, readers! I'm so excited to announce new releases to you. SLAY BELLS RING, my seventh Caprice De Luca Home Staging mystery is a holiday cozy. It will be released October 31. I hope I have captured the warmth of the holidays and multi-faceted characters, as well as sentiments of the season. The Santa cabin in the book is based on the cabin in Hanover, PA where both my husband and son visited Santa when they were children.
Join me for my Facebook launch party on October 31 from 7 to 9 P.M. EDT. There will be chat, prizes and details about SLAY BELLS RING. Click on this link
(https://www.facebook.com/KarenRoseSmithBooks/?ref=settings)
to my KarenRoseSmithBooks author page for the party.
Here is a preview of the book:
Christopher and Sara Merriweather have the perfect life. They are selling their beautiful historic home that Caprice De Luca stages with the theme Christmas Delight. They plan to downsize. Their grown children are in the vicinity and their craft shop is doing well. Blitz, the white Malamute Chris rescued, is always by his side. A Vietnam veteran, Chris has come to terms with his PTSD and even plays Santa Claus. When he is murdered at the sleigh on Santa Lane not far from Santa's cabin, everyone is shocked. (Blitz may have seen the murderer.) As Caprice delves into the Merriweathers' lives, she discovers more than one secret. The main one—Chris was dying from a brain tumor and had told no one.
Caprice meets with Chris's Vietnam buddies to see if she can gather clues and ferrets out secrets and complex connections that seem difficult to unravel. Blitz, whom her dad has adopted, becomes a vital part of solving the murder when Caprice realizes there is something hidden inside the dog's collar that gives her clues. A meeting at Santa Lane with one of the suspects is risky, but Caprice feels she has no choice. With Blitz and her dad nearby, she finally discovers who the murderer is. Her dad comes to the rescue and Blitz saves her life.
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I always enjoy being part of the Montana Mavericks series for Harlequin's Special Edition. My heroine, Hadley is a veterinarian and my hero Eli is a rancher. What better way to begin their romance than watching a foal being born! Add a blizzard and being snowbound and a love story is born too.
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I have exciting news besides my new book releases. A dream of mine has come true. A VERY COUNTRY CHRISTMAS, a movie made from my book HIS COUNTRY CINDERELLA will be aired on the UP Network on Thanksgiving Day. It will also be available in DVD format at WalMart on November 28.
It was amazing to watch my characters, Zane and Jeanette, come alive. I hope you enjoy this warm family romance with a touch of Christmas magic and meaning.
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