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Monday, March 8, 2021

PRE BOOK BIRTHDAY BUZZ: An Invincible Summer by Mariah Stewart - SPOTLIGHT!

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're spreading some PRE BOOK BIRTHDAY BUZZ about a NEW Women's Fiction title set to release May 1st, 2021 via Montlake. It's the first book in author Mariah Stewart's new Wyndham Beach series, and from the sound of things, will be a MUST READ for fans of second chance love, and new beginnings. Ladies and gents, get your wish list ready because here comes today's title in the spotlight...

An Invincible Summer

Wyndham Beach, Book 1

Mariah Stewart

Montlake

About the book...

An endearing novel of friendship, forgiveness, and second chances by New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart.

It was a lifetime ago that recently widowed Maggie Flynn was in Wyndham Beach. Now, on the occasion of her fortieth high school reunion, she returns to her hometown on the Massachusetts coast, picking up right where she left off with dear friends Lydia and Emma. But seeing Brett Crawford again stirs other emotions. Once, they were the town’s golden couple destined for one another. He shared Maggie’s dreams―and eventually, a shattering secret that drove them apart.

Buying her old family home and resettling in Wyndham Beach means a chance to start over for Maggie and her two daughters, but it also means facing her rekindled feelings for her first love and finally confronting―and embracing―the past in ways she never thought possible. Maggie won’t be alone. With her family and friends around her, she can weather this stormy turning point in her life and open her heart to the future. As for that dream shared and lost years ago? If Maggie can forgive herself, it still might come true.

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About the author...

Mariah Stewart is the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestselling author of several series, including The Chesapeake Diaries and The Hudson Sisters, as well as stand-alone novels, novellas, and short stories. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband and two rambunctious rescue dogs amid the rolling hills of Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she savors country life, tends her gardens, and works on her next novel. She’s the proud mama of two fabulous daughters who―along with her equally fabulous sons-in-law―have gifted her with six adorable (and yes, fabulous) granddarlings. For more information visit www.mariahstewart.com.

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Special thanks to Ashley at Amazon Publishing for the chance to bring this spotlight to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, or the publisher, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is set to release THIS MAY via Montlake, so mark your calendar, or pre order your copy today! Stay tuned for more as the release date approaches...

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!

Thursday, May 17, 2018

S&S BLOG TOUR: The Sugarhouse Blues by Mariah Stewart - SPOTLIGHT + EXCERPT!

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're joining Simon & Schuster to shine a spotlight on the latest release from author Mariah Stewart. It's the second title in The Hudson Sisters series and if the first was anything to go by, this one is going on your MUST READ list, stat! For those that haven't experienced the magic of this series from the start, I highly recommend checking out the first book, The Last Chance Matinee (or click over to my review for a tease), to get to know these three sisters trying to make a go of things. In the mean time, I give you today's title in the spotlight and recent BOOK BIRTHDAY celebrant...

The Sugarhouse Blues

The Hudson Sisters series, Book 2

Mariah Stewart

9781501144929

Gallery Books

About the book...

Allie, Des, and Cara, each having her own reasons for wanting a share of their father's estate, meet in the grand Victorian home in which he grew up, only to be greeted by another secret he purposely hid from them: his sister Bonnie. The women reluctantly band together to take on Fritz's challenge, working with a local contractor to begin the renovations financed by an account Fritz had set up for the task. While the restoration appears to go smoothly at first, it soon becomes apparent that the work will be more extensive than originally thought, and Des, elected to handle the money, needs to find ways to stretch out the remaining savings while searching for new sources of funding.

As strangers linked only by their DNA try to become a family, the Hudson sisters also try to come to terms with the father they only thought they knew. In the process, each woman discovers her own capacity for understanding, forgiveness, love, and the true meaning of family.

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Dad was the late Franklin—Fritz—Hudson, Hollywood agent and father to Des and her sister, Allie, via their mother, Honora—Nora—Hudson, the actress, who’d died four years earlier. Unbeknownst to them until recently, he’d also been father to Cara, whose mother, Susa, may or may not have been Fritz’s legal wife. Things were a bit fuzzy where his marriages were concerned. Had he divorced Nora before marrying Susa? The paper trail was spotty, and Fritz’s best friend and attorney, Pete Wheeler, hadn’t been able to shed any light on the situation when it came time to sort out the legalities. After Fritz died, it had fallen to Pete to introduce Des, Allie, and Cara to each other, and to break the news to all three daughters about their father’s dual families. Once the shock had begun to subside, Pete’d dropped the other shoe: To inherit Fritz’s estate, the three women had to live together in their father’s family home in Hidden Falls, Pennsylvania, until they completed the restoration of the family’s boarded up, run-down theater. If any one of the three refused or left before the restoration was complete, the entire estate would be donated to a charity of Pete’s choice. Since Fritz’s daughters each had her own reason for needing the money, they’d agreed to the absurd terms.

But it turned out that Fritz had kept other secrets.

There was that little matter of Fritz’s sister, Bonnie—known to everyone in Hidden Falls as Barney—who’d been living in the Hudson family home. While Fritz’d never told his daughters about her, Barney had known all about them and the terms of her late brother’s will, and was waiting for them with open arms when they arrived. It had been impossible not to love Barney, and they’d all taken to her immediately. Barney was not only smart, she was wise, loving, and had a heart of gold. She’d cheerfully filled in her nieces on the family history their father had neglected to share. Des knew her life was so much richer for having Barney in it.

And the more Des got to know Cara, the more she cared about this half sister who was down-to-earth and fun, and had been blessed with common sense, a logical mind, and an abundance of heart. She and Des even looked a little alike, both having the same curly auburn hair and heart-shaped face. Together they’d studied the family portraits displayed in Barney’s front hall, trying to figure out which ancestor they resembled.

Cara was easy to get along with, certainly more so than Allie, who was the oldest of the three, and the tallest. She was slim, and her blond hair was long and straight. She had cheek bones that a model would envy, and features that guaranteed that more often than not, she’d be the most beautiful woman in the room. Allie had an innate sense of style that Des admittedly lacked. And while as a child Des had been the star of her own TV show, Des Does It All, she’d always felt invisible when Allie was around.

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About the author...

Mariah Stewart is the award-winning New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of numerous novels and several novellas and short stories. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband and two rambunctious rescue dogs amid the rolling hills of Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she savors country life and tends her gardens while she works on her next novel.

Visit her website at MariahStewart.com, like her on Facebook at Facebook.com/AuthorMariahStewart, and follow her on Instagram @Mariah_Stewart_Books.

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Special thanks to Hannah at Simon & Schuster for the chance to bring this tour to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the series, the author, or the publisher, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title just celebrated its BOOK BIRTHDAY 05/15/18 via Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, so be on the lookout for it on a bookstore shelf or virtual retailer of your choosing. Stay tuned here for my review of this fabulous looking title COMING SOON!

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

S&S BLOG TOUR: The Chesapeake Bride by Mariah Stewart - REVIEW + GIVEAWAY!

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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.

Today, we're joining a blog tour already in progress starring the latest addition to The Chesapeake Diaries from author Mariah Stewart. I was introduced to this series by Melissa at Simon & Schuster and continue to be amazed by each new installment as it releases. It's that engrossing, that moving, that wonderful, that each and every time, it's like coming home. So, if you're ready, please join me for a look at my latest reading escapade as we welcome today's book of choice...

The Chesapeake Bride

The Chesapeake Diaries, Book 11

Mariah Stewart

9781501154355

Pocket Books

About the book...

New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart returns to the cherished Maryland shores of St. Dennis with THE CHESAPEAKE BRIDE (Pocket Books; August 29, 2017; $7.99), the charming story of a jaded architect who meets the one man who could finally melt her heart—if she’s willing to let him in.

Cassidy Logan has sworn off good-looking adventurers, having just divorced the one she’d married. Now working with her father’s construction company to build ecologically friendly, historically accurate homes on the Chesapeake Bay, she’s designing them for Cannonball Island. Knowing there’s been no new construction on the island in almost one hundred years, Cass is sensitive to the heritage and history of the sparsely populated island, and has come up with plans so perfect she’s determined to buy one for herself to live in. Even the fact that Owen Parker—whom she dismisses as a lightweight and a player— seems to be everywhere she goes isn’t enough to deter her from building her dream house.

Owen is and always has been sinfully handsome and wickedly clever, a magnet for mischief as well as the girls in St. Dennis. He’s also a rolling stone, going and doing whatever appeals to him, from flying a mail plane in Alaska to working on a cattle ranch in Australia and a shrimp boat in Louisiana, to surfing and diving in Costa Rica. When an old friend offers him a job salvaging a sunken ship in the Chesapeake, Owen gladly accepts. Something’s been telling him it’s about time to head home to Cannonball Island, and a job is as good an excuse as any. He’s totally smitten with the pretty architect, but it seems he’s finally met a woman who’s immune to his charms. Sooner or later, Owen will have to face the reason why he always runs, because this time, leaving just might be harder than staying.

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Owen Parker has been a man of the world for most of his life. He finds adventure wherever the wind takes him, but something has been telling him to head to more familiar waters for some time now, and when the opportunity presents itself, he can ignore it no longer. Good thing too because as it seems, there's another that's been a bit unsettled herself and yet is finding it harder and harder to look at Cannonball Island as simply a new work project....one, Cass Logan. She's a smart gal with a bright future but in her mind, that doesn't include a pit-stop for matters of the heart. Hers was trampled once upon a time and she's in no hurry to repeat the process. Too bad...I mean, they seem to rub each other the wrong way most of the time, but sometimes a little friction goes a long way. What begins to have potential written all over it is exponentially complicated by some unexpected news. Will the promise of what might be turn out to be strong enough to conquer what has been? Well if anyone knows, Ruby Carter would, but getting her to spill news that isn't hers to share would be worse than cracking a coconut with your bare hands....

This is one of my favorite Contemporary Romance series. Though lighter on the steam, it is ginormous on the amount of heart poured into each story. Every time I get the chance to indulge in another installment, I am once again whisked away to the shores of Chesapeake Bay, welcomed back to a community all its own, and wrapped in the attentions and affections of those who call it home. As you read further into the series, they become like your own extended family. From the movie stars to the innkeepers, business owners to prodigal sons, and everyone in-between, each has a part to play on the island, each carries a part of it with them wherever they go, and each can't help but heed the call of island life when it beckons. Not even Owen Parker...

In the end, it was a wonderful, heart filled story about two people trying to make their way in life sans another, but fate having a bit more to say about it than they would like. There's ups and downs, and everything in-between, but after all is said and done, the heart wants what it wants, and if we only listen to what its saying, we'll find out path to true happiness...just like the characters here do. Also, the addition of "Dear Diary" pages penned by Grace add a magical touch...for we fans know that both she and Ruby Carter have "the eye", both a gift and a burden at times. Recommended for fans of the series as well as those of the genre. You can't go wrong when you dive in the Chesapeake Bay series....

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About the author...

Mariah Stewart is the award-winning New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of numerous novels and several novellas and short stories. A native of Hightstown, New Jersey, she lives with her husband and two rambunctious rescue dogs amid the rolling hills of Chester County, Pennsylvania, where she savors country life and tends her gardens.

Visit her website at mariahstewart.com, like her on Facebook at AuthorMariahStewart, and follow her on Instagram at mariah_stewart_books.

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BEFORE WE BID YOU FAREWELL...
DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!

Up for grabs, book TEN in The Chesapeake Diaries series, Driftwood Point! Trust me, even if you've never picked up a book in this series, you're gonna fall in love, and while they do love company (as in the more you read, the deeper you'll fall), they still work great as stand alone titles. So, what are you waiting for? ONE copy of this title is waiting for ONE lucky winner and all you have to do is ENTER!

**Entries accepted through midnight CST September 19th, 2017. Winner will be emailed and have 48 hours to respond with their full mailing information which I will send to the publisher for prize send out. US residents only, no P.O. Boxes please.**

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Special thanks to Melissa at Simon & Schuster for the copy for review as well as the chance to bring this tour to you. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the series, the author, or the publisher, feel free to click through the links provided above. To catch more reviews, excerpts, contests, and more starring this release, check out the rest of the blog tour going on now...

AUGUST 28

USA TODAY’S HAPPY EVER AFTER - EXCERPT

HEROES AND HEARTBREAKERS – WOMEN’S FICTION BEST BET FOR AUGUST 2017

AUGUST 29

A MIDLIFE WIFE

ROMANCING THE READERS

AUGUST 30

THE LIBRARIAN TALKS – Q&A

BOOK BITCH

ABIGAIL BOOKS ADDICTION

MY NOVELESQUE LIFE

AUGUST 31