Shared Whispers

Shared Whispers, an anthology of fifteen stories by fifteen writers is going to be re-released on September 2.
While the stories encompass a wide range of genres, from historical, to science fiction, to contemporary, to fantasy, they all have one thing in common--at their core they are stories about the importance of love.

Coming to Champagne Books September 2

• Beyond Forever, M.W. Davis (contemporary romance)
• Special Delivery, Linda Rettstatt (contemporary romance)
• The Journey Home, Linda LaRoque (western romance)
• The Setup, Victoria Roder (contemporary romance)
• Going to the Wall for Love, Julie Eberhart Painter (historical romance)
• Colours, C.J. Fenge (contemporary romance)
• Solitude, R.J. Hore (romantic sci-fi)
• Heart of a Rebel, Dani Collins (fantasy)
• Gods and Zombies, January Bain (fantasy)
• Life at Full Speed, Ute Carbone (contemporary romance)
• After the Tears, Angelica Hart and Zi (contemporary romance)
• Nimue’s Daughter, Rita Bay (fantasy)
• Cymru Am Byth (Wales Forever), Jude Johnson (historical romance)
• Frozen Section, Jane Toombs (contemporary romance)
• Heaven, Elizabeth Fountain (fantasy)

#8Sunday: Schroedinger's Cake

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This week marks the release of The Wedding Collection. I'm proud to have my story, Schroedinger's Cake, included an this lovely anthology.

In honor of the release, I'd love to share a bit of Schroedinger's Cake with you.

Evan Dunne’s first thought, as he’d watched the compact brunette get out of the Bennetto’s bakery van, was that she was not what he expected. When he’d hit the van, he imagined a big burly delivery guy would get out and read him the riot act. His second thought was gratitude that he’d avoided major damage to either vehicle or, horrible thought, to the compact brunette.
As he pulled his SUV in the spot next to hers, it occurred to him that she wasn’t about to read him anything. In fact, she seemed not to notice him there at all. She disappeared around the side of the van with such purpose that, when he got out of the SUV and followed, he was surprised to find her sitting on the van’s bumper as though all her determination had drained to the blacktop.
He’d been mistaken. As soon as he’d spoken, voicing his concern, compact brunette’s resolve came tearing back.



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Sweet Saturday Samplers: Schoedinger's Cake

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Hi Sweet Samplers! It's nice to be back on Sweet Saturday. This week, I got the galleys for The Wedding Collection. My short story, Schoedinger's Cake, is one of eight stories in this anthology  about weddings. It's so great to have a galley at hand.

 A wedding cake features front and center in the story.  The amazing cake at the top of the page is the work of Toba Garret. It was the inspiration for this story.   For more about Toba Garret and her cake designs, click HERE or on the cake image at the top of the page. For more Sweet Saturday Samples click HERE


The opening of Schoedinger's Cake:

As the van thumped forward, nearly sending her head through the dashboard, Gina Bennetto’s first thought was that the cake was ruined. Her second thought was more of a plea: please, please, let the cake be okay. The van was solid as an armored truck. Sure, it was older than Fort Knox itself, the odometer had clocked 120 thousand miles before retiring, but it was solid. The crash, though. The crash could not be denied. There had been, following the thump that had sent her body back then forward, a distinctive crash and clatter from the back.

“It’s going to be fine,” Gina told herself again as she pulled the Van into the parking spot at the In-N- Out next to the intersection where she’d been waiting for the light to change. “It’s fine. It’s nothing.” To believe otherwise would be to court disaster. The cake in the back, a four-tier wedding cake done in a replica of the bride’s dress, had taken her a week to create. Eight prototypes had come and gone before she’d managed to get it just right. And it had been just right. It had been perfect. The kind of perfect that made for advertising no money could buy.

If the cake was ruined, her reputation would be ruined along with it. Bonnie DuPont would sue her for ruining the wedding of the century. Because the DuPont-Edison wedding was the biggest thing Hancock Falls, New Hampshire had seen since, well, since forever. Four hundred guests had been invited to the gala affair. The guest list included the governor of the state.

Gina got out of the driver’s seat and walked resolutely to the back of the van. She took a deep breath and curled her fingers around the back door handle. Another deep breath came and went. Then another.

The Wedding Collection is coming to Turquoise Morning Press in June.