This Week's FREE Read: Scent of the Roses

So, I'm doing a weird Christmas in July type of event this month. Each week I'll be offering a different book for free. Mostly they'll be Christmas books, but this week the book I've chosen to feature is Scent of the Roses, which is very much NOT a Christmas book. 

But it is a 4th of July adjacent book, and I don't think I've offered it for FREE for quite some time. So...enjoy!

Scent of the Roses

Oberon Book 1.0

For years, Scout Patterson has tried to run from the mistakes in her past.  Now, she's coming home--to face the ghosts she's never laid to rest, and the love she thought she'd lost forever.  Reawakening that love would be a dream come true.  Unfortunately, love is not the only emotion that can last forever. 

Memories and dreams are the only things that have gotten Nick Greco through the past twenty years.  Memories of the girl he loved and lost, and dreams of what his life would be like, if he could only find her again.   And if he can bring himself to believe that anything she tells him is true.

 Can the star-crossed lovers put aside the hurt and distrust they still harbor toward each other?  Or will the evil which already nearly destroyed them once, triumph yet again?

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Musical Monday: The Night We Met (Lord Huron)

   

So, in Nice Day for a Wine Wedding, one of the things Allegra wants for her wedding is to return to the night she and Clay met. But better. 

Does she succeed? Well, you'll have to read the book to find out! But I loved writing this book, and I feel like I succeeded in telling the story I wanted to tell...even if that meant writing a book that was many times longer than what we'd originally discussed. 

Oops.

Nice Day for a Wine Wedding: A Pour Decisions Romance 

PG Forte

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There are a lot of reasons people choose to elope. We’ve already figured out most of them.

 Clay

How hard could it be to plan a simple wedding? If recent experience has taught me anything, the answer is very. Once Legs’ Uncle Geno got involved things started spiraling out of control. We really should’ve eloped.

 Allegra

I’m not saying Clay’s wrong about Geno, but it was his family who turned our rehearsal dinner into a circus. But we’re not eloping. We’re going to work out the problems and have the wedding of our dreams. Assuming we both show up for it.

New POUR DECISIONS Release! Nice Day for a Wine Wedding!

Nice Day for a Wine Wedding: A Pour Decisions Romance 

PG Forte

books2read.com/WineWedding

There are a lot of reasons people choose to elope. We’ve already figured out most of them.

 Clay

How hard could it be to plan a simple wedding? If recent experience has taught me anything, the answer is very. Once Legs’ Uncle Geno got involved things started spiraling out of control. We really should’ve eloped.

 Allegra

I’m not saying Clay’s wrong about Geno, but it was his family who turned our rehearsal dinner into a circus. But we’re not eloping. We’re going to work out the problems and have the wedding of our dreams. Assuming we both show up for it.

Musical Monday: If You Love Her (Forest Blakk)

 

This song screams Clay and Allegra to me. I love these characters so much! And now that their (second) book is out I hope you'll love them, too. 

Nice Day for a Wine Wedding: A Pour Decisions Romance 

PG Forte

books2read.com/WineWedding

There are a lot of reasons people choose to elope. We’ve already figured out most of them.

 Clay

How hard could it be to plan a simple wedding? If recent experience has taught me anything, the answer is very. Once Legs’ Uncle Geno got involved things started spiraling out of control. We really should’ve eloped.

 Allegra

I’m not saying Clay’s wrong about Geno, but it was his family who turned our rehearsal dinner into a circus. But we’re not eloping. We’re going to work out the problems and have the wedding of our dreams. Assuming we both show up for it.

This Week's FREE Read: Going to the Chapel

Nice Day for a Wine Wedding released this week and I'm in a wedding-y mood. So, I've decided to offer Going to the Chapel for FREE! For five days only starting today! Enjoy!

Going To The Chapel

Oberon/LA Love Lessons Crossover Book 1.0

In Waiting For The Big One, Gabby and Derek went from being friends to being lovers. Now, they're waiting for their "big day". But will it be the wedding of their dreams? Or a bride's worst nightmare?

A quick trip to Gabby's hometown turns into the wedding from hell when Gabby and Derek are plagued by hailstorms, lost reservations, voracious goats, angry bees and enough family drama to fill a barn.

Guess it's true what they say, "The course of true love never did run smooth." But can the happy couple hold it all together, or will their Big Day turn into a Big Mess?

***A different version of this book was previously released as part of the Sapphire Falls Kindle World program.***

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Wine Wednesday: Grape Creek 2022 Mosaic

 

So, yay for another meritage! I included one in the book I just finished, so it's perfect timing. A year ago I wrote about the 2021 Mosaic and you can find that post here:  https://rhymeswithforeplay.blogspot.com/2025/03/wine-wednesday-grape-creek-vineyards.html

Based on what I wrote then, the '22 Mosaic seems a little different than the '21.  It's still a garnet color...I guess? A little darker and more purply than I would normally associate with that particular stone. I do not smell anything like Cherry blossoms in this vintage--or violet either, for that matter. And I'd say the nose has straight up hints of chocolate rather than cocoa powder. But blackberries, for sure. There are still no legs to speak of. The cocoa softens into more of a milk chocolate flavor on the palate, with hints of nutmeg, cinnamon and raspberry ice. 

It's a nice, refreshing red wine. I'd love to see this made into a frozen sangria/frose kind of dessert. 

I enjoyed this with pizza and a garden salad with blackberry balsamic dressing. And once again, I ended up with two bottles.  Yay, me!

Please check out Nice Day for a Wine Wedding, coming soon!

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Nice Day for a Wine Wedding: A Pour Decisions Romance 

PG Forte

books2read.com/rl/Pour Decisions

There are a lot of reasons people choose to elope. We’ve already figured out most of them.

 Clay

How hard could it be to plan a simple wedding? If recent experience has taught me anything, the answer is very. Once Legs’ Uncle Geno got involved things started spiraling out of control. We really should’ve eloped.

 Allegra

I’m not saying Clay’s wrong about Geno, but it was his family who turned our rehearsal dinner into a circus. But we’re not eloping. We’re going to work out the problems and have the wedding of our dreams. Assuming we both show up for it.

Musical Monday: Here On Out (Dave Matthews)

   

Another song from Kate Davies' My Wine and Only playlist. (yes, my commentary gets really sparse when I'm on deadline and rushing to finish my own book!)

My Wine and Only

Kate Davies

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Rosa and Jake are getting married–again! 

Jake

 

Rosa and I have been married for twelve years, but it seems like just yesterday we got together. 

 

Okay, that could be because just days after our quickie, teenage elopement to Vegas we separated and didn’t see each other for a decade. But now that we’ve reconnected, it feels like the perfect time to renew our vows, right? Have that do-over wedding of our dreams, one that includes family and friends and all the trappings of a wedding we didn’t get the first time around. But Rosa’s avoiding anything to do with planning for our do-over wedding, and I’m worried that maybe she doesn’t actually want to do this. 

 

So I’ve got six weeks to figure out what’s really going on with Rosa, kick-start the vow renewal planning, and ensure that whatever we do, it’s exactly the way we want it.

 

Easy peasy, right? 

 

Please send wine.