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Marlie by Anneli Purchase ~ new release

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It’s a pleasure to welcome my friend, author Anneli Purchase to talk about her newest release, Marlie. Anneli taught elementary school on the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) for several years and had the opportunity to see much of the islands’ beauty by boat. She must be a true islander as she still lives on an island, having simply exchanged Haida Gwaii for Vancouver Island as her residence.

Here’s Anneli with a peek into the pages of Marlie, a heartfelt romance of love and loss and love again.

Who among us has never made a bad decision? Marlie, in her mid-twenties, is young, pretty, and smart. But already her life is messed up.

Here she is on the cover, taken from a painting by Jan Brown.


Running away from her troubles, she takes a teaching job in Masset on the mystical Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). The small town is rougher than she anticipated. People relate to each other in a much more personal way, and get to know each other well. Masset is on an island—no one is going anywhere. Couples may trade around. Everyone knows everyone else’s business.

Marlie meets an artist who pays her a lot of attention. He seems like a gentleman … but is he?

The fisherman who has befriended her takes her on wonderful boating trips. Sparks are flying. Life is looking better every day.

But Marlie has made a serious error in judgement.

That one bad decision will rattle her nerves for months. Being new to the islands, she has no one to rely on but herself. All the beauty of the islands can’t take away her pain.

 

 

Devastated, at the downward turn her life has taken, Marlie’s confidence is shaken. She throws herself into her schoolwork and concentrates on her students, but she wonders if she was ever meant to find happiness.

For a raw adventure in the lonely northern islands of Haida Gwaii, read Marlie and see how she deals with being single and newly arrived in this remote place. Find out if she can outrun the bad decision she has made.

Anneli loves photographing and writing about nature, and the west coast of British Columbia is ideal for this. You can find more of her excellent nature photography and entertaining anecdotes on her website.

YOU CAN PURCHASE MARLIE FOR KINDLE AND IN PAPERBACK FROM:

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.ca

FOR E-BOOKS OTHER THAN KINDLE GO TO:

Smashwords.com

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ANNELI PURCHASE AND HER OTHER BOOKS VISIT:

https://wordsfromanneli.com/

www.anneli-purchase.com

FOLLOW ANNELI ON TWITTER:

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@anneli33

 

Orion’s Gift by Anneli Purchase

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New Cover Reveal

Canadian author Anneli Purchase explains her reasons for giving this excellent story a cover facelift.

I had a good photo of a Baja beach for my original cover of Orion’s Gift, but somehow the romance was missing. An enticing beach is all very nice, but if you have no one to share it with, it doesn’t leave room for more than solitude. Orion’s Gift is not about solitude. It’s about old love gone bad and new love too hot to handle.

Designer Anita B. Carroll said the old cover made her think the book was a travel guide. That thought upset me, knowing the novel is full of romance and suspense. I needed to let potential readers know that Orion’s Gift is a love story with twists and turns that would keep them turning pages. Anita assured me she could help.

She suggested several stock photos for me to look at and then took my choice and turned it into something much more in tune with the storyline. She tweaked the photo and played with pleasing fonts. I love the cover she came up with.

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Sylvia, our California girl, is walking away (from her old life), but she looks enticing enough for Kevin, her new love interest, to follow her. Actually, he did say he’d follow her anywhere—and he does.

But will it be enough? Does our California girl trust him? Can she ever trust anyone again after what she’s been through? Can he convince her that they can make it together?

But neither of them know that characters from their old life are catching up with them, and their pursuers have less than noble intentions.

Orion’s Gift will keep you turning pages. Thanks to Anita B. Carroll’s design skills, you can now judge a book by its cover.

Author Bio: Anneli Purchase has moreAnneli Purchase hobbies and projects than she can pursue in one lifetime, but of them all, writing takes priority. Traveling, camping, fishing, gardening, mushroom picking, and birdwatching are her preferred pastimes when she is not writing. Anneli has lived on Vancouver Island, Canada, for most of her life. The island provides everything she needs for the activities she enjoys.

You can buy Orion’s Gift from

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Smashwords.com

To find out more about Anneli Purchase and her books visit –

Twitter: @anneli33

Website: http://www.anneli-purchase.com

I know book covers make a definite difference to me when I’m looking at picking up something new. Do you feel the same way?Does a book cover entice you to take a second look?

FREE ~ The Wind Weeps

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Anneli Purchase has a special promotion at the moment.eBOOK [1]

A FREE NOVEL !

If you haven’t read The Wind Weeps, here’s an offer you can’t refuse!

Now you can download your free digital copy on amazon or on smash words.

Click on one of those links and you can get started reading this suspenseful story!

If you’ve read the book, send this post to a friend or two or three! They’ll be thrilled you sent them a free book!

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Then, follow it up with the conclusion to Andrea’s story in Reckoning Tide.

The links to order your copy are at the bottom of this post.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is an excerpt from Chapter One.

You’re mine!

To have,

To hold,

No matter how hard.

 

You’re mine!

Give me honour,

Obey,

And do as you’re told.

 

You’re mine!

In sickness,

My sickness,

Comes hell.

 

You’re mine!

This day forward,

’Til death,

Do us part.

 

Chapter 1

“Nurse!” I screamed. “Nurse, come back!” Robert’s smile vanished. He advanced and tossed the three orchids onto the foot of my bed.

I twisted around grasping for the cord with the call button. “Get away from me!” I hit the button frantically.

Robert lunged at me. “No, Andrea. Don’t!” He ripped the cord away from me. I pulled my fist back to punch him, but he was quick and caught my wrist in an iron grip. His eyes narrowed into slits.

“Nurse!” I yelled again. He clamped a hand over my mouth. Flashbacks of what that hard hand had done to me went through my mind. I bit down on his fingers, my terror lending me extra strength.

“Arrrgh! You bitch!” Robert’s eyes grew wide. He stared at me with a glassy look that I remembered too well. He drew his arm across his chest to backhand me, but dropped it when the nurse appeared.

“What’s going on here?” the nurse demanded. Margaret was a hefty woman. She filled most of the doorway as she stood with her hands on her hips. “Sir! Come away from the bed.”

“She bit me!” he said, unable to keep the whine out of his voice. “I brought her flowers—orchids, her favourite kind—and she bit me!”

I gasped at his outrageous boldfaced ploy, twisting the truth. “He tried to kill me. Don’t let him near me. He’s the one I told you about.”

“Now, Andrea.” Robert’s voice, silky smooth, sent ripples of terror up my spine. “You know that’s not true.” He turned to the nurse and slowly shook his head. “I’m her husband. You see, she’s had quite a shock. We had an argument and she set fire to our cabin and ran away when she thought I had died in the fire. I guess she’s surprised to see that I’m still alive.”

The nerve of him! I tried to get out of bed. “No! No-no-no!” I had to get the nurse to believe me. “He’s twisting it all around. He tried to kill me.”

The nurse was quick to put her hand out. “Stay in bed, Andrea.” She looked flustered and tried to calm us both. But no wonder she was confused. The whole situation was so bizarre. She looked from Robert to me and back to Robert again.

Would she side with Robert?

“Sir,” she said, “would you mind going to the waiting room down the hall? I’m sure the RCMP would like to speak with you, too. They’ll be here soon to interview Andrea.”

Robert raised his chin and gave me a smirk. “That was fast,” he said. “We’ll soon get to the bottom of the situation then.”

The nurse escorted him out the door. “We called them this morning when she woke up,” I heard her say as they walked down the hall.

The nurse had explained to me earlier that the police have to make a report in cases where there has been violence, especially since a gun was found in my fanny pack. The gun I pointed at him last week. Should have pulled the damn trigger.

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You will find paperback and digital versions of Reckoning Tide on amazon outlets and on smashwords.com (for e-readers other than Kindle). Just click on the links:

Anneli PurchaseAmazon.com

Smashwords.com

 

For more about Anneli Purchase and her books, visit her at http://anneli-purchase.com/

The Wind Weeps cover reveal!

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Author Anneli Purchase went shopping, Anneli Purchase found a designer she liked, and bought a new outfit. Now she has a new image. It’s not for her, but for her novel, The Wind Weeps.

Here’s Anneli herself to tell you more about this exciting change!

The Wind Weeps has so many tangible elements that I could have focused on any number of them for a cover image. The story involves boats, the BC coast, commercial fishing, handsome men, beautiful women, and the isolation of the coast. But my designer, Anita B. Carroll of http://race-point.com , suggested that since the book has so much emotion in it, why not go with a cover that reflects it.

Remember the terror Julia Roberts felt in the movie Sleeping with the Enemy? That’s the kind of terror Andrea feels about her husband, Robert. But in her case it isn’t so easy to escape him. He has taken her to live in a remote cabin on the coast, all communication unavailable to her.

We have love, anticipation, happiness, hope, desperation, indecision, ambivalence, frustration, fear and joy, just to name a few of the emotions found in The Wind Weeps.

Andrea once loved orchids, but Robert has turned them into a symbol of his control over her. The orchid on the cover seems to be weeping. The sky is blood red, the sea is dark and rough. And yet Andrea is determined to survive and get back to the man she wishes she had married, the one who has never stopped loving her.

For more than just a romance, why not click on the link to download The Wind Weeps. You won’t sleep until you finish it.

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Amazon.com

Or if you are in the UK:

Amazon.co.uk

For those with e-readers other than Kindle, go to Smashwords.com

AUTHOR BIO

Anneli Purchase is an author and freelance copy-editor. She writes for the Loveahappyending Lifestyle Magazine, which she also helps to edit. Anneli lives on her little acre of paradise on Vancouver Island with her husband and two spaniels. She has published three novels and is working on her fourth.