The Ghost In The Machine

by Jane Senese
Paranormal Romance, 354 pages
Cover art by Erin Roberts
Blurb:
For two years, widowed photographer Naddy Lewison has lived with her husband's ghost. Now she finds herself drawn to a living man. Marshal Bill Crawford is handsome and cynical, yet beneath his bluff exterior Naddy sees a kind heart, and a loneliness to match her own.

But her jealous husband has no intention of letting her go…

Excerpt:
Nadia Lewison awoke to the warmth of the morning sun on her face. She moaned softly and pressed her face against her pillow. Not yet. When she felt a pair of fingers playfully walk across her bare shoulder, she gave a groan of annoyance.

"Time to get up," a voice purred against her hair.

"Don't want to." Groggily, she reached around behind her and took his hand. "Stay here," she begged, as she pulled his arm snug about her waist.

His warm breath teased at the nape of her neck. "But I have to go."

She felt him slowly disengage his hand from hers. She rolled over to stop him before he could rise. "Walter..." she mumbled, hearing the childish whine in her voice and hating herself for it. After ten years of gentle rebukes, her only excuse was that she would never be a morning person.

He was. He was made for the mornings. The same sunbeams that burned her eyes and set the dust motes dancing seemed to electrify him. The light turned his dark blond hair golden; his skin took on a youthful flush, the fine lines under his blue eyes seemed to melt away. He was handsome in all lights, her Walter, but never so radiant as at dawn.

She was seized by a need to tell him so, an irrational fear that this would be her last chance. But sleep had drugged her tongue, and she was only able to manage a slurred string of sounds she hoped he could decipher as "You're beautiful."

He grinned, wide enough to crinkle his eyes, and flash his crooked right incisor. For some reason she thought back to their early courtship, when he had been so reluctant to smile.
"Sleepyhead." He bent his head to kiss her brow.

She snuggled against him gratefully, closing her eyes against a rain of feather kisses as he tried to coax her out of sleep. Their old morning ritual, from half-forgotten newlywed days.

She felt his touch withdraw. "Don't go..."

"But, Naddy, it's time to wake up."

February Flight of Dreams

February 2011

Wings ePress New Releases

Wings celebrates ten years as a publisher of electronic books this year. Much has changed in this past decade in the electronic publishing industry, but enjoyment of a good story never changes. To help celebrate, each newsletter will offer a fun contest. Remember to visit the Wings site for exerpts, and while there, check out the free short stories, and the sister publisher, Crimson Moth, for spicier romance stories.

A Ghost Town Vampire by Jane Senese

Paranormal Romance

Cover art by Erin Roberts

Poverty has driven Charlotte “Charlie” Gardiner to a dusty mining town in the Sierra Nevada, but she soon finds herself drawn to the local deputy. Connor Franklin is handsome, charming, and not a little mysterious. But when she agrees to a hasty marriage Charlie soon learns that her new husband’s many secrets include a taste for her blood…

Another Part of the Forest by Dorothy Bodoin

Cozy Mystery

Cover by Pat Evans

A hot air balloon, lost children in the woods, and a collie litter with a supposed curse on it draw Jennet Ferguson into a deadly confrontation.

When the passengers in a crashed hot air balloon disappear, Jennet Ferguson tries to find two missing children who were kidnapped by the mysterious Johnston Holliday. Soon afterward, a young girl begs Jennet to find the runaway collie puppy she won in a raffle; and a novice collie breeder asks Jennet to help extricate her from a serious puppy mix-up.

Brink by Richard Whitten Barnes

Mystery

Cover art by Richard Stroud

Ben Posner is at the top of his scientific career when a change in CEOs drastically affects his lifestyle.  Before anyone realizes, Ben is using alcohol to cope with his problems. This downward spiral finds him homeless and eventually rescued by the woman he has secretly loved. Together they begin to patch his life back together, only to face a charge of murder.

Death of the Apocalypse by Joel Goulet

Paranormal

Cover art by Richard Stroud

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse make a disturbing appearance in New York City. The Horseman Death breaks away and unleashes havoc on the city. A police lieutenant and sergeant work to track down Death, while not completely sure of what it is they are looking for. Death leaves a gruesome trail of headless corpses. The three remaining Horsemen pay a not-so-friendly late night visit to a writer and order him to return Death to their company. There’s one small problem for the writer. If he returns Death, the writer may have to die...again. 

Fairytale by Therese Kinkaide

Suspese/Thriller

Cover by Pat Evans, Photo by: Jim Broemmer

Caroline Wolfe is in a race against time to remember who she is, the accident that left her in a coma and the people who claim they want to help her.

With the help of a woman who claims she was her college roommate, Caroline must find the past she is certain was taken from her before her future is taken too.

The Castle of Chadwick by Corine MacIntosh

Young Adult

Cover art by Pat Evans

Ernie Chadwick is a bookish sixteen year old and not the adventurous type. He was named after a 16^th century uncle, King Ernest Chadwick. Legend spoke that the King never really died after a gypsy foretold his doom. A night of celebration ended with the King’s youngest son murdering his elder brother, to claim the title as heir to the throne. Hence! The King vowed to live forever, thus denying his younger son the throne.

Whilst Chadwick sleeps in the sixteenth century, unaware to Ernie in the present world, he is the one born into the Chadwick bloodline with the flame-red hair. Only he can turn back time and break the Chadwick curse as his destiny in life is to slay the dragon. But the timid teen cannot kill a mouse, let alone a dragon. Can Ernie reverse history? And can one princess’s love for him convince him to honor his duty to the Chadwick family, past and present?

Tomorrow Never Comes by Vera Berry Burrows

Historical

Cover art by Trisha FitzGerald

Marriage, a new home and a new baby, Joel Thomas, all make up a perfect life for Nell Winston until suddenly her husband is no longer there and she turns into a woman possessed of compulsion to rule her son. Her strength is drawn from her unwavering sense to control until the young Joel decides to make a stand against her. Her domineering, self-absorption, along with egotistical stubbornness, takes her into a life that becomes her worst nightmare.

Joel’s apparently selfish show of independence leads him along an extremely rocky road to eventual success in the Swinging 60’s and with a complete reversal of roles, he takes charge of his mother’s life. Will the new start in a different country bring the fulfillment they are both seeking?

Last Month’s contest: Sue H won a copy of Jeannine Van Epren’s Gigilo. Jeannine has very graciously donated a download copy. Check out her web page.

THIS MONTH’S CONTEST. Prize: Your choice of any ebook listed on Wings.

Which one of the authors showcased this month has the most books placed with Wings ePress? Email me at rhobinlee at yahoo.com with the answer and the ebook you would like to win.

Enrich your life with a good story!

Rhobin