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Ambition to Savor
B.B.E. Gwyn
(The Lone Thorn Series)
Publication date: February 7th 2025
Genres: Adult, Adventure, Fantasy

When a quest for magical ingredients takes you from kitchen to adventure, you’d better save your appetite.

Dedicated and cautious restaurant owner Jonathan Tessier dreams of crafting legendary recipes—the fame and fortune that might follow is a pretty nice bonus. But it’s all he can do to keep his restaurant afloat. Stolen ingredients, a surprise visit from a food critic, and a damaged reputation put his business at risk.

Jonathan knows he needs to make a change. A big one. Before he loses it all.

He and his eager head chef, Elenora Kerras, soon set off to find the bizarre ingredients that might save his restaurant. This hunt takes them through towns and wilderness, where they encounter dangerous beasts and sly individuals. They face challenges more thrilling than even their busiest dinner shifts.

Each success brings Jonathan ever closer to his lofty goal—until he stumbles upon his most startling discovery yet.

Will his dreams be worth all their luster, or will the revelation shatter his culinary world?

A standalone fantasy adventure in the Lone Thorn series, Ambition to Savor is a fun and whimsical tale that explores a question you never thought you needed to ask—What if a restaurant owner had magical powers and a dream to find flavors from deep within a world of hidden quirks?

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EXCERPT:

Corruption. Mutiny. Absolute villainy was occurring within the walls of his beloved establishment.

Jonathan Tessier had little reason to complain of late. Profit margins were rising, his customer base was expanding, and the recent annual health inspection had wrapped up swimmingly with no findings. After years of fatiguing work and plowing through stress, things were supposed to be looking up for his pride and joy, the Taverne Tessier.

However, walking down the street on this early autumn morning, he was feeling neither proud nor joyous. He could see his restaurant across from him as he stood waiting at the intersection, its pristine exterior of royal blue and beige surrounded by trees of warm hues. When he first renovated the place, he had aimed for a clean and regal appearance inside and out, so even if he could not boast of its size, the feeling of elegance, class, and beauty would still be conveyed.

And now it was filthy. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

Author Bio:

B.B.E. Gwyn is an author who enjoys diving into realms of low fantasy adventure. She draws inspiration from tabletop role-playing games, yokai folklore, and all kinds of media featuring characters with fun, bizarre powers. Her novels focus on intricate plots and rich character development without any romance or spicy elements, using the full breadth of her pages to offer thrilling adventures in a mysterious world.

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Review and Spotlight of Ring of Rosen- A dynamis Novel Book 2by Nancy Golden (#Contests- Win A autographed Copy of the Book )

 

 

 

I would like to welcome Nancy Golden to Books R Us. Nancy is the author of the Dynamis Series. She is the author of the "Ring of Rosen" book 2 in the series. She is surfing the Blogosphere with Pump Up Your Book. Let me tell you a about the book and give you my thoughts about the book: Thanks For Stopping By.

Stop by tomorrow for my interview of the author.

Book Title: Ring of Rosin (A Dynamis Novel – Book Two)

Author: Nancy Golden

Publisher: Golden Cross Ranch LLC

Publication Date: September 2, 2024

Pages: 222

Genre: Fantasy

 

About the Book:

Many, many years ago, a wondrous bird flew into the mountains of Tolan. In its claws, it bore a giant stone, a stone of fire. The bird dropped the stone somewhere in the mountains, where it shattered. The one who finds its fragments shall have power beyond belief.

The Ring of Rosin has unexpectedly disappeared. Join King Rugal on his quest to recover the ring symbolizing his right to rule, forged from the stone of fire. A mysterious companion joins the young monarch on a perilous journey. Rugal’s shadowy ally leads him to the nomadic Kargoliths, who are locked in an ongoing dispute with the neighboring kingdom of Tolan. As destinies intertwine amidst the clashing cultures, the fates of Elayas, Tolan, and the Kargoliths hang in the balance.

Will the Ring of Rosin’s power on the Day of Questioning help Rugal defeat the foreign threat to Elayas, or will it be used to destroy him?


Follow King Rugal as he faces the greatest threat to his reign since his coronation. An exciting adventure of valor and unlikely friendships the whole family can enjoy!

 

 

MY THOUGHTS: 

The Ring of Rosen" is a book full of adventure, comradeship, and a mystical world. Although I have not read the first book in the series, "The Sword of Fate," I had no trouble following the storyline. The author did a fantastic job writing this fantasy novel, which included the protagonist, Rugal, and a group of leaders who worked together to embark on a quest to find the coveted Ring of Rosen. Throughout the story, the characters encountered obstacles that made their travels harder, but they all worked together to find the ring. The author did a great job developing the characters and the scenes that made this book exciting, easy to read, and engaging. If I needed clarification about the characters and the terminology, the author supplied a glossary in the book. That made the book easier to read.
I look forward to reading The Key of Power, the third book in the series, which is coming soon.


About the Author:

Nancy Golden wears a lot of different hats – She is a wife and mom, author, engineer, professor, horsewoman, and small business

owner. She is also the founder of a writing group – the Carrollton League of Writers. Nancy lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas and she loves to ride bicycles and horses. She is a member of the National Space Society, and she has been a Trekkie for as long as she can remember. Nancy Golden Books provides a great reader experience with well-crafted writing that will brighten your day.

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Guest Post by William A. Liggett author of Panic Peak (Spotlight and #Contest- Win a signed copy)

I want to introduce you to William A. Liggett. William is the author of Watermellon Snow and Panic Peak. Panic Peak is the second novel in the series. William has written a guest post just for my readers. Enter below to win a  signed copy of both books Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

 

 

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Book Details:
Book Title:  Panic Peak by William A. Liggett
Category: Adult Fiction (18+), 254 pages
Genre: Cli-Fi Thriller 
Publisher: Consilience Press LLC
Publication Date: February, 2024
Content Rating: PG-13: Very occasional f-word and sh*t in dialog

 

Book Description:

How can a single glacier grow dramatically while hundreds are shrinking around the world?

This paradox confronts a young glaciologist Kate Landry as she looks down at her research site buried under shocking mounds of new snow. Little does she know that Mount Olympus is in the bulls-eye for a sophisticated geoengineering experiment being conducted by a scientist who has convinced a secretive international oil cartel to fund his dubious climate modification techniques. While Kate struggles to understand why the glacier is growing and begins to unravel the entire nefarious scheme, she also struggles to avoid the unraveling of her developing relationship with social psychologist Grant Poole. The more Kate uncovers on the glacier, the more her own life is at risk. Can she expose the unethical and dangerous geoengineering operation without being caught before she’s stopped? And at what risk to her life?

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Meet the Author:

Bill Liggett writes fiction that blends behavioral and earth sciences in the recent cli-fi (climate fiction) literary genre. His goal is to paint a hopeful future based on solutions to global warming.

He holds a BS in geology and an MA in education, both from Stanford University, and a PhD in applied social psychology from New York University. Among the many positions he has held over the years, he taught in high school and college, conducted behavioral science studies for IBM, and consulted with health care and educational organizations.

Wherever he lives, he loves being outdoors. Home for him has included the West Coast, East Coast, Alaska, and now Colorado, the state of his childhood. He and his wife, Cathy, live in Niwot, Colorado.
Guest Post:

The Blue Glacier is Both a Setting and a Character

What is a better place for conveying danger with every step than a mountaintop glacier? What is better to demonstrate the effects of global warming than an alpine glacier as it melts? I situated my two novels in my Warming World Adventure Series on a glacier where I lived and worked for three months as a young man. I stayed in a small research station about the size of a two-car garage (see photo) located about a thousand feet below the summit of Mount Olympus west of Seattle, Washington.

 

Blue Glacier is a perfect setting for an adventure because it is isolated without roads or any features of civilization. It is also near the center of a national park with no commercial or private buildings nearby. My characters are flown to and from the research station in small aircraft (ski-plane and helicopter).

When, in my first novel Watermelon Snow, a deadly illness infects the crew and a violent “bomb cyclone” storm hits at the same time, the two main characters, Kate and Grant, are trapped. No aircraft could safely navigate the mountains through the violent wind gusts. Their desperate hike out to safety is only the beginning of their adventure, but ironically it plants the seeds for their ultimate romance.

In the sequel, Panic Peak, Kate finds herself alone on the glacier trying to document and understand the extreme snow buildup and unusual weather conditions, while Grant tries to

support her from a distance. Soon she learns that the glacier has been the target of an illegal geoengineering operation that puts her life in danger. The theme of danger from nature compounded by human actions creates an ominous and unpredictable setting for the story.

Normally characters in a novel are people with distinct histories and personalities. I wanted Blue Glacier to have such a pervasive influence on the thoughts and actions of the human characters to be equivalent to being a character itself.

When I tried to describe concisely the personality of the glacier, I realized that it varied widely depending on the conditions at the time and the mood of the character who was interacting with it. For example, when Kate was feeling anxious and vulnerable, the once-familiar features of the glacier became ominous and foreboding. When she was looking at a gorgeous sunset from the research station, her warm feelings reminded her of the time that she had watched the sun sink into the Pacific Ocean from that very spot the year before while holding Grant’s hand. No matter the mood the glacier remains powerful. It tends to reflect and amplify the experience of the human characters in dramatic ways.

When the helicopter ices up and nearly crashes while Kate flies to the glacier, she learns that ice can form whenever the conditions are right regardless the time of year. A glacier creates its own micro-climate. The snow storms on the glacier over the previous winter dumped a deep enough layer that Kate concludes that the melting trend was replaced by growth when most glaciers around the world are shrinking.

Glaciers by their very nature present risks to travel on foot. My characters must avoid falling into the deep cracks in the ice—the crevasses. Often such falls are fatal without the proper precautions and equipment. Similarly, the huge icefall on the Blue Glacier, is much like a slow-motion waterfall where car-sized blocks of ice break free and fall thunderously hundreds of feet. My characters must know to stand clear when these are happening. Wind-blown snow can produce cornices, overhanging structures, that create a danger of breaking off and falling if someone unwittingly stands on one as does one of my characters.

At the same time that the glacier presents risks, it allows my characters to witness pristine beauty and spectacular sunsets creating feelings bordering on the spiritual, as the clouds catch the brilliant reds and oranges of the setting sun. This combination of danger and natural beauty leaves indelible memories in all of my characters who encounter them. I could not think of a better setting for a cli-fi adventure and thriller.

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