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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

I don’t just write books!


Yes, a little secret I have been keeping from you. I love to create new recipes and blog them.
As the holiday season is approaching, I thought I would share with you my slow cooked pumpkin chutney.



Christmas would not be complete without my Pumpkin Chutney. Its glorious sweet, tangy flavour, complements the slight spice of the coriander seeds, cardamom pods and chilli. A perfect accompaniment with cheese and biscuits, livens up cheese sandwiches, as well as being great with cold meat or chicken. Easy to make



Pumpkin Chutney
800g pumpkin cut into 1cm cubes      400g granulated sugar     
300ml cider vinegar      2 onions finely chopped     
1 small red chilli deseeded and finely chopped      ½ tsp ginger and garlic paste
½ tsp turmeric     
1tbsp coriander seeds      5 cardamoms pods bruised
1 bay leaf       1/2tsp salt


1.      Set the slow cooker to high.   Add the sugar and cider vinegar into the pot. Heat for 30 minutes then stir until the sugar has dissolved.
2.      Add the rest of the ingredients and stir well.
3.      Cook for 5-6 hours stirring occasionally. After 5 hours, the chutney should be thick with not much liquid. If still runny, cook for another 1 hour with the lid off.
4.      Spoon the chutney into sterilized jars.

STORE IN A COOL DARK PLACE FOR 1 WEEK. USE WITHIN 1 YEAR.
Somehow, it never lasts more than a week in our house!!!  


More of my recipes, restaurant reviews, live music videos and travels can be found on www.authorjoannerawsongoaandbeyond.blogspot.com


New releases for Satin Romance



Three Days To Choose
Mag Mell Chronicles #2
Claire Lindner longs to be the kind of hard-nosed journalist who covers the stories that make a difference. The stories that demand justice. The stories that put the bad guys away for good. But Claire has never been able to break into the male-dominated newsroom. Instead, she writes a popular gossip to pay the bills, and all that misogyny and slimy gossip has taught her to never trust men. Claire has a secret though...at night she dreams of a kind, honorable, handsome gray-eyed man who wears funny, old-fashioned clothes.
Winemaker Beckett St. Jude has waited years for the woman of his dreams. When Claire is at the brink of death, he pulls her into his world – Mag Mell. Unfortunately, their first meeting is a disaster – Claire can’t stand him and she doesn’t trust him. On top of that, someone is working behind the scenes to bankrupt him and take over his family winery. How can he figure out who’s trying to ruin him, and more importantly, how does he court a woman who will barely talk to him?
Claire and Beckett have three days to build a friendship, three days to save the winery, and three days to expose the corruption that has become a cancer in Mag Mell. Claire though has an even bigger problem: dream career or dream lover? She has Three Days to Choose.
Genre: Fantasy / Historical Romance
A Pink Satin Romance Sensual
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Sleeping With the Enemy
Small town lawyer, Marita McCarren had grown “fat, sassy and gimpy” after a recent accident. She wanted to meet no one with a penis after her two failed marriages. As a favor to a friend, she goes on a blind date and meets that ideal and perfect—and dangerously sexy—man.
On their second date she meets Tony's “family” and has a strong impression that he is a very good looking, mafia hitman. She wants to end their relationship but with each kiss and each race to the bedroom, Marita decides to break it off later on. Their relationship grows, although she still wants to end it, when he takes her in his private jet for a vacation only a European princess could have, with a few “eliminations” in between.
Genre: Romantic Suspense / Erotica
A Red Satin Romance Hot






Roses Where Thorns Grow
Megan Viets, a mystery writer and an instructor at a small community college in the Los Angeles area, lost her young husband two years ago when he crashed his small plane in a severe sandstorm in North-Africa. Since then, she has not been seeing anyone, but then she meets Chris, a handsome contractor who lives in a popular resort town in the San Bernardino Mountains, where Megan has a cabin. She’s immediately attracted to him, but Chris has a secret past, which Megan uncovers bit by bit. Tensions build as the two explore each other’s world to find common ground.
Filled with suspense, passion, and deceit, this contemporary love story takes the reader on a fast-paced journey through many twists and turns toward a dramatic ending.
“It’s a real page turner that will keep you engaged,” says Matthew Nadelson, MFA, author of American Spirit and Counting Wayward Sheep.
Genre: Contemporary
Pink Satin Romance Sweet
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Pride, Prejudice & New Adventures Vol. 2
Fortune and Misfortune:
A Pride & Prejudice Reimagining
It’s a fact, universally accepted,
that a gentleman and a lady,
when on the road to marriage and true
happiness, by their will or not, find themselves to be the center of attention
and news—both the good and the bad.
Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are on the road to love and domestic tranquility. Yet of course, there must be something that bars the way of the happy couple, and that is Lady Catherine De Bourgh. Bitter at her nephew’s behavior to Anne, Lady Catherine is insistent on making Darcy remain loyal to the oath that he made. Wishing to make peace with her before he continues his nuptials, Darcy, along with the help of Mr. Bingley and Colonel Fitzwilliam, began to move forward with a plan to solve the dilemma.
However, even if they achieve peace with Lady Catherine, there is more of the Darcy family to encounter. In the state of Pennsylvania, Mr. Darcy’s American cousins are looking to reconnect with their English relatives. They invite Mr. Darcy and his new bride to Philadelphia, for a holiday. In hopes of gaining an ally to strengthen Elizabeth’s introduction into the family, they all journey to the United States, allowing Jane, Kitty, Mr. Bingley and Georgiana to journey with them. However, what first begins as a pleasant journey, leads to much emotional and political tension.
Follow the second part of ‘Pride, Prejudice, and New Adventures’, where we see that it’s not simply about obtaining a happily ever after, but finding what happens after it!
Genre: Historical | Regency
A Pink Satin Romance Sensual
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No Fool
A screwball romantic comedy in the spirit of Bringing Up Baby.
After sixteen years serving and protecting the citizens of River Falls, ruggedly handsome Sheriff Henry Clark is pretty sure life holds no more surprises and is starting to think about hanging up his hat.
But then a gang of thieves busts the safe at the local resort and makes off with the jewels, and Clark finds himself playing catch-me-if-you-can, chasing a sexy female con artist with an affection for marsupials and ceramic oddities who stirs feelings in him he thought he’d never have again.
Genre: Contemporary
A Pink Satin Romance Sensual
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New releases for Melange Books



Killer Soul Mate
Jane Larson is back, and trouble abounds on New York’s Upper East Side! A new client, Jasmine, hires Jane to undo the terms of a matrimonial agreement with her ex-husband, the owner of a prosperous hedge fund who does not like to lose. At the same time, Jane’s landlord is working to evict her from the storefront law office where her mother had practiced for many years, and Jane is forced to fight to save her mother’s legacy. However, it seems there is no way she can win.
All too soon, the bodies begin to pile up and Jane has to figure out who is responsible before she becomes one of the victims. Meanwhile, a guy named Gary is trying to worm his way into her life, and, even though she thinks he is much too young for her, she starts to fall for him. The problem is that he has a habit of showing up where the murders occur. Can she trust him?
Genres
Mystery Thriller
Heat Level: 3 flames
Boiling Sensual, yet more explicit love scenes, and the language may be more graphic and direct.
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The Rise of Chloe

A Cavazutti Crime Novel #2
Mikhail Brozovitch has come up through the ranks of Spetsnaz, KGB and the FSB. Now the highly trained operator has turned arms dealer to the worst of the worst all over the world with the blessings of his Kremlin masters. But he makes one fatal step making a multi tens of million dollar deal with one of Mother Russia’s sworn enemies, the Chechens. He is forced to flee with his beloved Marisha who is also the mistress of President Grigori Chekov. Not only are they pursued by the FSB but also one very deadly female assassin known as Gina and her protégé Chloe.
Gina, Chloe and the FSB chase Mikhail all through Eastern Europe, Italy and Sicily before they can corner him in a secreted mountain hideaway in the hills near Catania which is overshadowed by Mount Etna. Two distinct Mafia clans control the area through which they must pass, and both clans demand their tribute. After all, deals must be brokered. But who survives to the end?
Genres
Crime Thriller
Heat Level: 4 flames
Bloody Hot
Frequent, explicit love scenes described using graphic and direct language.
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Sunday, December 1, 2019

New Releases for Satin Romance



Aftermath
Awakened by Terror #2
I survived, physically. Leaving five bodies behind, I escaped the desert. With three more dead before it was over, Bell one of them, they were all dead. The other survivor didn’t matter. Bunny’s mind was gone. She’d never be able to tell what I’d done. I didn’t need any reminders of those days of terror, not of what I’d done, or the deaths I caused, not with the nightmares and blackouts in the aftermath.
Pratters, the only one who suspected the truth, used my fear of exposure against me. Months after I thought it was all over, he showed up with a brain damaged, crippled man. Dumping Michael on me, he told me I was the only one he could trust that those he worked with wouldn’t suspect. Making me the one to hide and help Michael, Pratters swore he’d altered records. No one would know where Michael had gone, both of us would be safe. None of the promises eased the new fears. What of Michael? Oh, my God, I wanted him. Did that make me the whore Bell called me?
Genre: Romantic Suspense
A Red Satin Romance Hot
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The Rotation
Katie Gills knows how to compartmentalize. She has a plan in place and although she has physical needs, those can be met by a simple set of rules created, in her mind, to save her from the ultimate distraction. Love. Limiting herself to a single sexual partner could lead to attachment and that would be breaking rule number one. Instead Katie maintains a rotation of perfectly distant and secretive lovers.
Augustus ‘Tuck’ Tuckman hadn’t been on campus long enough to get the feel of the place. The junior transfer had played his way into a football scholarship and he was using it for its intended purpose. Get a degree and get out. Life came after a career was established.
The crash of a beautiful girl into Tuck’s arms had feelings sparking in all parts of his brain, but she had a wall in place that made a future questionable. Can he play the game by her rules and still win? Or will he need to show her every thing is legal between the whistles? Even love.
Genre: Contemporary  New Adult  Interracial Romance
 Pink Satin Romance Sensual
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Flipping Rich Bastards
An Eleanor Albright Edwardian P. I. Mystery
A book that the Dowager Countess of Grantham would love.
Lady Eleanor Albright has left her, 'brothel-loving, girl-seducing, entitlement-inflated husband with whom she can't believe she ever had sex,’ and is—again—living with her Irish mother, Lady Adele Albright. With her daughter’s marital woes unacceptable, Lady Adele schemes to end Eleanor’s “problems” one of which is her daughter’s attachment to a man seven years her junior, a barrister, Lord Henry Faraday. To add insult to injury, Henry has included Eleanor, as an expert chemist (and purveyor of women’s creams), in the death of the sanctimonious Baron of Tweedmouth. To help her friend, the cherubic Baron’s son, Eleanor must defy family, society, even the man she loves. Louis may well have cracked under the pressure of his harsh, bullying father.
Genre: Historical Romance  Mystery
A Pink Satin Romance Sensual
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Romancing My Lady
One Magical Night
Marcus Calhoun returns home after divorcing his unfaithful wife. He renews his friendship with spinster, Anne Prentice. Marcus soon discovers his friendship with Anne has changed to love. Due to an imperfection, Anne can't believe Marcus loves her, until Marcus manages to prove his feelings.
Courting the Nanny
Helen Jameson turned away from the man she loved when rumors spread that he had betrayed her with another woman. Years have passed, and Helen finds herself having to serve the man she once and still loves as nanny to his twin boys, as a way to pay off her brother’s gambling debts to him. Elliott Falconer has wanted to marry Helen for as long as he can remember. He forgave her for not trusting him and believing a lie. Now that he has her in his home, he hopes to rekindle the romance and make his long-time dream come true.
To Love a Music Master
Piano virtuoso, Jasper Hughes, once found his piano student Annabelle Watkins undisciplined. Seven years have passed since their tumultuous parting. Now she’s back on his doorstep, asking Hughes to teach her again. He reluctantly agrees, and finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him.
Night Magic
In Depression-era Minnesota, Eleanor Swenson inherits her deceased parents’ dream resort—six cabins in need of repair near the Canadian border. Lumberjack Riley Flaherty has recently lost his job. When Eleanor offers him a job as her “handyman” he gladly accepts, smitten by her beauty. When wild animals in the northern Minnesota woods threaten them into leaving, they don’t give in, but discover true love beneath the northern lights.
Genre: Historical Romance Anthology
A PINK SATIN ROMANCE Sensual
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