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Romance...Out of Time
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Jaded and lost, he can't break free of a love that's left him far behind.
Eve
A fair-haired Doris Day-type, she's desperately chasing a once in a lifetime chance at love.
Romantic Times Magazine
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"Lonely Boy" Paul Anka (1959)
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"What in the World's Come Over You" Jack Scott (1960)
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"It's Now or Never" Elvis Presley (1960)
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On a desolate west Texas highway, a man at a crossroads in his life meets a beautiful woman, lost in more ways than any cardinal point on a map. Her pristine 1959 Thunderbird, her matronly dress and her optimism conspire to place her firmly out of touch with reality. In a race against the clock to reconnect with an old love, he discovers the captivating stranger has driven straight out of her own time and into the abandoned shell of his heart.
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Above the forgotten highway, where west Texas winds sculpted hot, liquid images against the baked asphalt, three vultures circled, emaciated and impatient. Their wings beat a clumsy rhythm, an impromptu death march punctuated by the occasional bottle-rocket cries of a nearby hawk. The three awaited the parched remains of Rye Dalton. Not yet dead in the physical sense—far from it—but in the truest sense of all that mattered.
Sweat plunged between Rye’s shoulder blades, seeking escape from his overheated skin in the cotton fibers of his t-shirt. For three miles he’d pushed his scrap-heap motorcycle past outdated mile posts and hollowed-out pump stations with empty promises of fuel. At mile marker 217, four hundred miles from his destination, the Silver Spur Gas-N-Go materialized from a shifting mirage. An enormous cowboy hat, large enough to take flight in a dust devil, perched atop the sagging roofline.
Rye heaved his bike the final stretch to a mecca of shade over the pumps and thrust the rusted kickstand hard enough to break it. He sagged against the crumbling brick storefront. A knat buzzed in the heat of his exhale and landed on his cheek, an unwelcome enemy snared in his flypaper skin.
He checked his watch. Damn it.
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Awards/Nominations
2008
1st Place Winner ~ Best Paranormal
"The Night Caller"
Great Expectations Contest
2008
2nd Place ~ Best Flash Fiction
"Home"
Western Pennsylvania Romance Writer's Contest
2007
RWA® Golden Heart Nominee
"Chasing Midnight"
Novel with Strong Romantic Elements
2006
1st Place Winner ~ Best Paranormal
"Chasing Midnight"
Southern Heat Contest
East Texas Chapter RWA®