Spotlight – All I Need Is You

15 Thursday Oct 2015

Posted by romanticreadsandsuch in Blog Tour, Contest, Sneak Peek

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All I Need Is You, Loving You series, Wendy S. Marcus

All I Need Is You is already getting some great reviews (as did the first book in the series, Loving You Is Easy). If you are looking for a great military romance series, you’ll definitely want to give these a chance.

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All I Need Is You

Loving You #2

by Wendy S. Marcus

Releasing October 6, 2015

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Blurb:

Perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Robyn Carr, this sexy yet sweet military romance reunites a headstrong dancer and a rugged army soldier after one steamy encounter tears them apart.

As a dancer who creates mesmerizing visions onstage, Neve James is looking for the same kind of stability in her love life. Her pen pal, Rory McRoy, is on leave from deployment in Afghanistan, so she heads to Boston to surprise him. After corresponding for months as part of a “Support Our Troops” initiative—and exchanging dozens of “Read When You’re Alone” letters—Neve knows what Rory likes, and she intends to fulfill his every fantasy. But all they get are a few blissful moments together before they’re interrupted by a woman claiming to be Rory’s fiancée.

Rory has fallen hard for Neve’s letters. When he finally meets her in person, he has to have her, right then and there—until Neve takes off in a fit of anger. Forced to return to Afghanistan before he can fix things between them, Rory waits four agonizing months to prove that he’s not the man Neve thinks he is. But by the time he arrives in New York, she’s already made up her mind. Luckily, Rory never backs down from a challenge, and he’s prepared to put everything on the line for love.

Advance praise for All I Need Is You

“Wendy S. Marcus has penned a perfect romance in All I Need Is You, with a sexy dancer heroine, a hot military hero with a sense of humor, and a story you won’t want to end.”—New York Times bestselling author Claudia Connor

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Excerpt:

“I warned you not to come back here,” Nate snapped at Rory.

“And why are you sniffing around my sister when you have a fiancée?”

“I’m not sniffing around yaw sistah,” she heard Rory say in his thick Boston accent. “And I don’t have a fiancée. I’m not engaged and have nevah been engaged. I didn’t lie to you. . . . Damn it, Neve. We’re friends. Give me—”

“You’re no friend of mine,” she told Rory. Not anymore. Not after what happened when he’d come home on leave several months ago. She lifted her left arm halfway up, glanced back at Nate, and gave a dismissive wave. “Get rid of him.” Thank God she reached the kitchen milliseconds before a humiliating collapse to the floor and managed to land on her chair instead.

“I’m sorry you’re still upset,” Rory called out. “If you’d just let me explain. You wouldn’t answer my calls, didn’t respond to my emails, and sent all my lettahs back, unopened. Now that I’m home for good I’m not going anywhere until we talk.”

“We’ve been talking.” She removed the plastic container of warm soup from the bag and placed it on the table. “Now I’m done talking.” She looked at him. “Goodbye, Rory. Go home. Have a nice life.”

At that, Rory walked inside her messy condo.

Sheesh. Men. Why don’t they ever do as they’re told?

“Stop,” Nate said in his police voice.

“Arrest him,” Neve suggested while struggling to remove the lid, which seemed to be glued on. Suddenly the effort didn’t seem worth it. What little appetite she’d had was gone.

“He didn’t arrest me last time.” Rory crossed his arms over his chest. “Just drove me away, took me to the train station, and waited around for me to get on.”

Last time when he’d showed up, uninvited, two days before he needed to head back to Afghanistan, banging on her door, demanding to be let in, insisting she give him a chance to explain. Nope. Instead she’d called her brother. “What is the benefit of having a sibling who’s a cop if you won’t arrest people when I tell you to?”

Nate ignored her, as he often did. His full focus elsewhere, he leaned down to look Rory in the eyes. “I recall telling you if you came back around I’d arrest you for real.”

“For what?” Rory asked.

“Trespassing,” Nate answered.

“Harassment,” Neve added. The word had come out of her mouth, she’d felt the vibration of her vocal cords, and yet the voice didn’t sound like hers. A wave of hot, achy, nauseating weakness slammed into her. Her peripheral vision started to narrow. The room started to blur. She needed to get back to bed, to sleep this off, but when she tried to stand a horrific pain shot through her right hip into her lower back.

Then everything went black.

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Author Info:

Wendy S. Marcus is an award-winning author of contemporary romance. A nurse by trade, Wendy holds a Master of Science in Health Care Administration, a degree that does her absolutely no good as she now spends her days, nights, and weekends mucking around in her characters’ lives creating conflict, emotion, and, of course, a happily ever after. Wendy lives in the beautiful Hudson Valley region of New York. When she’s not writing, she enjoys spending time with her family, which includes her dog Buddy, and blogging/ emailing/ tweeting/ facebooking with her online friends.

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Giveaway:

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Craving Her Soldier’s Touch

29 Friday Mar 2013

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A little over a year ago, nurse Jaci Piermont took a chance and became intimately involved with her friend, Staff Sergeant Ian Eddelton. . . only to have him run away, heading back to war. Now he’s come home, wounded both physically and mentally, and just as sexy and irresistible. When Ian volunteers to help Jaci make calls to help low income patients in the aftermath of a tropical storm, she can’t say no. But neither of them counted on the emotions that being together again would stir up.

I really enjoyed Craving Her Soldier’s Touch because it has so much emotion and depth. Jaci comes from an abusive background and now spends her time helping those less fortunate. She spends some of her time as a traveling nurse and the rest running a shelter for abused women and their children. Ian has a serious case of PTSD and survivor’s guilt following a bomb that killed four of his friends and left him with a severely damaged leg. He was lucky not to have it amputated but, being the only one that survived the incident, he doesn’t feel very lucky. Both have a desire to help people and it almost makes me feel guilty for not doing more. They are strong but also have some issues that require therapy sessions. Jaci has some very definite, and understandable, ideas about her independence and Ian’s ingrained need to protect definitely rubs her the wrong way. They do a great job of coming to a compromise that works for both. Ian also agrees to go to therapy to address both his physical problems and his emotional ones. I always like it when fictional characters admit that they need professional help, that love doesn’t fix everything, and that sometimes their problems are too big to handle alone. It adds that touch of realism to a book. My only complaint is that Jaci’s issues aren’t addressed as completely. She’s started on the path but I would have liked to see a little more about that. There are a couple of other loose ends but this is part of a duet so the rest should be addressed in her sister’s book, Secrets of a Shy Socialite. Overall, though, I was very satisfied by the way everything was handled.

In Craving Her Soldier’s Touch, Wendy S. Marcus delivers a hard-hitting, heart-warming, sexy story about two people coming to terms with guilt over past actions and learning how to go forward together.