 Here in New England, winter brings frosty mornings. Life slows and is often foggy. We wait for snow, winter's crowning glory. And we know the winter rules: keep an ice scraper, a jump-starter, and blanket in the car. Also pull up your windshield wipers if you're expecting snow. Makes scraping much easier. Result is that our car looks like a giant bug with antennas high! Wintering is a process. After the brilliant colors of autumn and the rustle of Thanksgiving, winter is pale, quiet and peaceful. Trees are bare and reveal all that they hide year round. Colorful villages, silver ponds, even cemeteries covering a hill. We are anticipating our first snowfall when our world becomes pure, untouched beauty. Everything is quiet, glistening, waiting. Hibernating. Movement is halted, slowed, as if Nature is meditating and telling us to slow down and wait for the roses. Wintering. Time to take deep breaths, go inside myself, reassess my intentions and listen to my inner voice. Breathe in the cold, clean air with a sense of gratefulness. Bask in the tranquility and imagine… peace, joy, and love. This is a good time to curl up and read my Christmas story, OUR TIME TO LOVE. And you might want to grab TEXAS SIZZLE, a fun love story set in Texas. Both are on sale for $1.99. And please leave a review. Enjoy your wintering. Have a wonderful, peaceful holiday season and into the new year. with love, Mary Tate
  My Irish Hearts Series started with Embraceable You, a story with an irresponsible mother and an ultra responsible daughter. Sienna goes to a small Maine town and meets Claire, an Irish woman. Just as I was wondering how Claire got to Maine from Ireland, she proceeds to tell her story. One thing leads to another and… Claire's story steps back in time to Ireland, when her dying father decides to arrange a marriage in order to save his darling daughter. She is definitely not pleased with that! So Claire's Embrace becomes Book 1 in the series. Embraceable You is now Book 2. It develops into a story about women helping other women, one of my favorite themes. For Book 3 Brianna, Claire's youngest daughter, goes to Ireland and falls for two brothers in Secret Embrace. Very risky business! (This one has a new cover and formatting for easier reading.) Not to be outdone, Claire's oldest daughter, Danika, tells her unique time-travel story set in Mystique, a not-so-typical small New England town. One thing leads to another and… she falls head over heels for a British soldier from the Revolutionary War. More complications! And so Mystique becomes Book 4 in the Irish Hearts Series. One thing leads to another and… Danika insists on her own happy ending so, Embracing Mystique is in the works. Most unsettling to the locals is that this sweet little town has ties to Revolutionary times in America. So we'll just have to wait and see what our headstrong characters do with these circumstances. No one ever said that writing a series is easy or that this is the way to do it - from historical to arranged marriage to contemporary to time-travel to - what next! That's a little bit for just about everyone. But you've probably heard writers say, "I just follow my characters and let them tell their stories." Well, this is what sometimes happens. Disorganization. Competition. And mayhem. But always, happily in the end. Hope you enjoy my unruly Irish Hearts Series, which are on sale now for .99 each. Just click on the cover below to purchase and please remember to leave a review. Happy Summer reading, Mary Tate
 Introducing Mysti, a Spring edition to our family! She loves to play with pens so I'm sure she'll be writing her own stories soon! Even with snow and cold rain in the forecast, we know that Spring is right around the corner. After a winter of endless rains, dreary days and a few inches of snow, I’m thinking Green, please!
In honor of Spring, I am getting new covers and re-formatting some of my vintage ebooks starting with : UNDER THE DESERT SKY and UNDER THE DESERT MOON! On sale now for only 0.99 each. Read. Enjoy. Review,
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