Linda O'Connor

Author: Linda

  • Happy Easter!

    Happy Easter, Happy Spring, and Happy April Fools’ Day!!

    I’m not one much for practical jokes on April Fools’ Day, but I think prank food that fools the eyes (but not the taste buds) is pretty clever! My favs are:

    crispy treats and fruit roll-up “sushi”, mashed potato “vanilla ice cream” and gravy “caramel sauce” sundae, grilled cheese made from pound cake “bread” and melted chocolate “cheese”, and a baked potato shaped out of chocolate ice cream, covered in cocoa powder, topped with whipped cream “sour cream”, green sprinkle “chives”, yellow sprinkle “grated cheddar cheese”, and a melted Starburst “pad of butter”.

    And here’s one for Easter – change out the chocolate eggs for grapes and re-wrap them in the foil. It’ll make for a healthy Easter egg hunt!

    Have fun today with food that’s not what it seems. And if you’d like to read a romance with a twist of mistaken identity, you’ll enjoy Perfectly Honest. It’s the first book in the Perfectly Series and a fun romantic comedy about two doctors and a little white lie that spirals out of control.

     

    Perfectly Honest (The Perfectly Series, Book 1)

    You never know where your words will take you…

    When Mikaela Finn agreed to be Sam’s ‘fiancée’ for a weekend, she probably should have told him that she’s a doctor. Sam O’Brien, aka ‘Dr. Eye Candy’, is trying to shed his playboy reputation and convince a small town hospital that he’s ready to settle down. But when his ‘fiancée’ helps deliver a baby in the middle of the meet and greet, it’s a bit of a shock. If he’d known the whole truth, he might have done things a little differently because somehow his ‘fiancée’ ends up stealing his job and his heart. Not exactly the change he wanted.

    Lies and deceit – it’s a match made in heaven!

     

     

  • Visiting The Roses of Prose

    I’m excited to be the guest blogger for The Roses of Prose! I’m sharing an excerpt from Behind the Bench and fun facts about hockey. Guess what pucks used to be made of? It’s HERE

  • Spotlight on Author Muffy Wilson

    I’d like to welcome awesome author Muffy Wilson and introduce her hot medical romance The Butterfly Healer, part of the Coming in Hot 2: Rescue Me medical romance collection!

    Featuring *brand new & exclusive* books from USA Today bestselling and award winning authors, we’re Coming In Hot, again! More of the sizzling medical romance stories you love: doctors, nurses, firemen, shifters, werewolves, witches, and paramedics turn up the heat in this paranormal and contemporary medical romance collection.

     

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    The Butterfly Healer by Muffy Wilson

    Can strangers hide in secret, as dark things, to be loved between the shadow and the soul?

    Oliver Brainard, an insurance actuary, is a man who has experienced love from only one woman—his mother. He has never loved, nor lived, outside the confines of his brownstone. He, as a middle-aged man, is the man few people see and fewer people even acknowledge. He is the quiet one who, bound by his deformity, always finishes last.

    New to the neighborhood and curious by nature, Victoria Blakely is an avid collector. She has been watching Oliver for weeks from her upstairs window. She witnessed a crippled man, crushed by time and denial, resigned to his physical plight who is apparently content with his circumstances. Never touched by kindness or love, his life has never been lived.

    He is perfect.
    Can Victoria awaken the freedom in Oliver to escape his self-imposed shackles
    for the bondage of love? Or will his painful fear deny her the pleasures of
    unfurling his life poised above the precipice of pleasure?

    This is the story of how strangers become healers, knitting lives together with love and trust, restoring hope and discovering passion through a timeless and sometimes perilous innocent freedom—the freedom of butterflies. Dangerous Bliss!

    About Muffy Wilson ~ Muffy, likened in style to one of the Bronte sisters and Anne Rice, is a USA Today, Amazon and Award-Winning Bestselling Author of provocative romance about love, sex, hope and passion. An American author of the popular Shadow Seduction Series (a paranormal love story) and the Ribbons of Moonlight Series (a contemporary romance), she has penned dozens of other books and anthology collections.
    Muffy was born in Texas to traditional parents. With two older brothers, she was the youngest, the family “princess,” indulged and pampered. Her father was a career Colonel and pilot in the U.S. Air Force which required the family to travel extensively. Muffy spent her formative years in Europe and ‘came of age’ in France which forged her joie de vivre and love for books and writing. Married and living in the tropical paradise of SW Florida along the Gulf Coast, Muffy writes and enjoys life in the sun with her husband and wee Havanese pups, Buddy and CoCo Chanel.
    Join Muffy’s mailing list to get the scoop on her new releases and special promotions at www.MuffyWilson.com. Muffy also blogs daily here: https://muffywilson.blogspot.com    ~ Live, Laugh, Love with Passion

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  • Visiting Author Constance Bretes!

    I’m visiting author Constance Bretes with a story behind the story. This characteristic of mine crept into Behind the Bench! Read the deets HERE . 😀

    Dr. Danni Angelo is the team physician for the Clarington Quakes hockey team. She’s worked hard to earn the players’ respect, but the new coach, Trey Mason, is stirring things up, and Danni’s worried her job may be in jeopardy.

    Trey finds Danni…distracting. Beauty, brains, and sexy moves on the ice have him uncomfortably attracted. He’s the new guy on the block. He has a reputation to build and a standard to set. The last thing he needs is a complication.

    When the team spirals out of control and Danni and Trey get caught up in a drug scandal, things heat up on and off the ice. It’s a whole new game plan…Behind the Bench.

     

     

  • Spotlight on Author Holly Cortelyou

    Welcome Holly  Cortelyou, author of TEMPTING DOCTOR FOREVER (Barrett Ridge #2) exclusive to the Coming in Hot 2: Rescue Me Romance Collection!!

    An old crush. A hot doctor. And one tempting night with consequences. 

    Samantha Barrett’s got it all under control…if wrangling a classroom of rowdy ninth-graders, chasing a delinquent dog, or living with your grandmother don’t count against you. As if that wasn’t enough, her brother’s best friend, Dr. Ethan Cordero, is back in Barrett Ridge and living next door…and boom, she’s reliving every single one of her silly schoolgirl fantasies about the delicious doctor.

    Now, Ethan’s eyes may spark with attraction when he sees her, but his cool, professional demeanor demands she keep her distance. After a string of ill-starred romances, Sam’s sure that common sense will rule the day, right? Of course, she barely notices Ethan’s sizzling-hot, hard abs, broad shoulders or his heart-melting dedication to his teen son.

    Dr. Ethan Cordero has it all mapped out for his fresh start in Barret Ridge. Only two things count — get his son, Mateo, through high school and grow his medical practice. That’s all good until Samantha Barrett charges into his backyard, gets under his skin, and lifts that shadow lurking over his heart. But his best friend’s little sister keeps mixing up his well-laid plans with that curvy little backside of hers, her joyful laugh, and her surprising bond with Mateo.

    Between a con artist canine, a confused grandma, a backstabbing stepmother, and one decadent chocolate cake, Ethan finds that every path winds right back into the arms of the oh-so-enticing girl next door, Sam.

    Coming in Hot 2: Rescue Me 

    Featuring *brand new & exclusive* books from USA Today
    bestselling and award winning authors, we’re Coming In Hot, again!     More of the sizzling medical romance stories you love. Doctors, nurses, firemen, shifters, werewolves, witches, and paramedics turn up the heat in this paranormal and contemporary medical romance collection.

     

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  • Spotlight on Author Liz Crowe

    I’m so pleased to introduce author Liz Crowe! It’s Not You will be included in Coming in Hot 2: Rescue Me Romance Collection. 

      
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    bestselling and award winning authors, we’re Coming In Hot, again!     More of the sizzling medical romance stories you love. Doctors, nurses, firemen, shifters, werewolves, witches, and paramedics turn up the heat in this paranormal and contemporary medical romance collection.
      
      It’s Not You by Liz Crowe
    Lillian Zane chose to practice emergency medicine for the
    rush, the thrill, and because she’d really rather deal with traumas than actual people. When she walks into the chaotic aftermath of a bus accident one morning
    at her ER, she knows exactly how to handle it. What she can’t handle is coming face-to-face with the father of one of the injured victims.
    Ian Summerfield has spent years putting the tattered remnants of his once-high powered medical practice–along with his marriage and family–behind him. When he discovers the ER staff dealing with his hysterical ex-wife the day of the bus accident, he’s shocked to find himself more than a little intrigued by the smart, somewhat brittle, much younger Doctor Zane.
      
    What starts out smoking hot quickly turns into something serious, something that terrifies Lillian so much she keeps a crucial secret,which jeopardizes their budding relationship beyond repair — almost.
    About the Author:
      
    Amazon best-selling author, mom of three, Realtor, beer
    blogger, brewery marketing expert, and soccer fan, Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Louisville currently living in Ann
    Arbor. She has decades of experience in sales and fund raising, plus an eight-year stint as a three-continent, ex-pat trailing spouse.
    Her early forays into the publishing world led to a
    groundbreaking fiction subgenre, “Romance for Real Life,” which has gained thousands of fans and followers interested less in the “HEA” and more in the
    “WHA” (“What Happens After?”).
    With stories set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries,
    on the soccer pitch, in successful real estate offices and at times in exotic
    locales like Istanbul, Turkey, her books are unique and told with a fresh
    voice. The Liz Crowe backlist has something for any reader seeking complex
    storylines with humor and complete casts of characters that will delight,
    frustrate and linger in the imagination long after the book is finished.     
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  • March iBooks Giveaway!

    Enter to win one of three iTunes $25 Gift Cards and check out some great bargooooons on iBooks! Coming in Hot 2: Rescue Me is only 99cents! It’s HERE 

  • Visiting Delilah Devlin!

    I’m visiting author Delilah Devlin with a special look at writing Behind the Bench (In the Game Hockey Romance, Book 2)! There’s an excerpt, too! Check it out HERE.

  • Monday Muse

    I’m visiting author Brenda Whiteside with a Monday Muse about Between the Pipes. Join me for an excerpt and a behind-the-scenes look at writing the first book of the In the Game Hockey Romance series! It’s HERE

  • Visiting Carly Jordynn!

    I’m visiting author Carly Jordynn today with a sneak peek at Behind the Bench – Book 2 of the In the Game Hockey Romance series that will be a part of the Coming in Hot: Rescue Me medical romance collection! And there’s a recipe for a gluten-free pizza crust. Yum!! It’s HERE