Sandy and Rafe: Second Place Heart Review

Sandy & Rafe: Second Place Heart

(Echoes of the Heart Book 2)

By: Jean Joachim

Length: 90 pages

Rating: 5 STARS 

Review: Sandy is on a show to find the man she is going to marry. She is torn between Lyle and Rafe. Decisions have always been had for her. She chooses Lyle and so their life begins. Not all things are a bed of roses. When issues arise Sandy is found she is back to square one. Is Rafe her true !ove? Will she find happiness? Sometimes the second chance at love is truly your first chance.

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Torn between two men proposing marriage, Sandy accepted Lyle, and moves in with him. After months of watching their love slip away, she thinks things couldn’t get worse. Wrong. Sliding from heartbreak to humiliation on national television, Sandy becomes gossip fodder from coast-to-coast. Deserted by family and friends, she suffers the consequences of her mistake alone. After all, life doesn’t offer up second chances, does it? 

Devastated when Sandy turned him down, Rafe couldn’t stop thinking about her. Witnessing her hideous public spectacle, his heart aches. How he wishes she had selected him. But it’s too late, now. He’s heading for a job in England in a few weeks. There’s no time for a second chance. And, as everyone knows, wishes don’t come true, do they? 

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Heather & Mike: The One that Got Away Review

Heather & Mike: The One that Got Away
(Echoes of the Heart Book 1)

By: Jean Joachim

Length: 64 pages

Rating: 5 STARS 

Review: OMG, what can I say. This is a wonderful love story. Jean has taken two characters and brought them to life in ways I never knew could happen. I laughed, cried and got angry. Her words written gave me hope that true love is not just a fantasy or fairytale. It's real and with Mike and Heather all you wanted to do was have them together. Two people that never gave up on finding one another. Mike and Heather have a history but past transgressions have kept them apart for 5 years. Both have moved on and are soon to be engaged to others. Does true love conquer all? Will Mike and Heather find each other before its too late? Will they both go their separate ways and never find out if what they felt all those years ago was TRUE LOVE?

BLURB: 
Mike Sullivan’s dating Amy, the perfect woman. Everyone says so, even his best friend, Bill. Amy urges him to move in. 

To Mike, living together means getting engaged. He’d picked out the ring and was ready to pop the question, or was he? 


If Amy was the one why couldn’t Mike forget Heather? He’d spent a magical ten days with her on Fire Island, ten days that changed his life. Then he’d screwed it up. As quickly as she entered his life, Heather disappeared, blocking his calls, and leaving him bereft. 


That was five years ago. Why couldn’t he accept that fact that he’d never see her again and move on? On the verge of taking the big step, Mike gets a second chance. Will he take it?

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Montana Cowboy Series

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Red Rock, Montana. Where the cowboy's are hot, love hard, and play harder with the women they love.

Read along with the Weston's and the Dunn's as they find love where they least expect it and work through the issues they have to fall in love. Nothing prepares them for the trials and tribulations of relationships in whatever form they choose to take.

Love Me Once, Love Me Twice = MFM menage.

Before the Night is Over - MF

Two for the Price of One - MFM menage

Difficult Choices - MMF menage with MM action

Doctor Me Up - MF

***The set contains multiple pairings including MF, MFM, and MMF as well as BDSM elements***

***This box set was sold individually as Montana Cowboy's Series***

****I have ONLY read book one!****

Love Me Once, Love Me Twice Review:

I love cowboys in every form or fashion. Love Me Once, Love Me Twice is no exception. Natalie is such a sweet girl to come back home to help her grandmother. Her Gram is a pistol. Some of the things that come outta that ladies mouth reminds me of what my grandma use to tell me. I connected w/Natalie & Gram. I would do everything for my grandma. She taught me a lot & I felt like Natalie needed & got the same from hers. Gram was by far my favorite character. I also love any man's name that is Cade. Kale added to the mixed of that had me needing cold showers. I love the story & how Sandy made the characters flow within the pages. I feel like I am part of the family when I read Sandy's books. I wanna live all the lives of her characters. LOL Unfortunately that isn't reality. It should be. LMAO 

Favorite line of the entire book: "Natalie, yes Gram. Make sure to pack you condoms in your purse."

Being gluten free SUCKS!

****First this is not bashing anyone that has celiac disease or who is gluten free. I have the gluten & wheat allergy.****

I want to inform people on how I have coped in a society where being gluten free & wheat free is hard. I can't even imagine having celiac disease. I live in the South. So you can only imagine. 

What is celiac disease? a disease in which the small intestine is hypersensitive to gluten, leading to difficulty in digesting food. It varies from person to person. 

What is a gluten/wheat allergy? eating anything that does not contain gluten or wheat. 

Common Gluten-Free Foods:
Meat, fruit, vegetables, eggs, nuts, legumes, dairy products including milk, fats and oils. 

Naturally gluten free grains such as rice, corn, millet and sorghum. 

Pseudo cereals like amaranth, buckwheat and quinoa. 

This is to name a few things. I want to talk more about how I became Gluten Free and my struggles. 

My personal journey of living a gluten free life:

     It all started after one of my thyroid cancer battles 5 years ago. I noticed that I was getting sick after eating anything that contained wheat or gluten. Didn't know what caused it. Seriously thought it was nerves after doing treatments to treat the cancer and my body needed time to adjust. Days turned to weeks and then weeks to months. So I decided to see a gastro-intestinologist. He ran the celiac disease test and it came back positive for gluten and wheat allergy. I didn't have celiac disease which attacks the small intestines. That being said, if I digest gluten or wheat it does make me sick until it exits my system. Usually within 2o minutes of eating it. Wheat and gluten is in everything we eat. I do mean everything. 
     So now on top of fighting thyroid cancer I now was diagnosed with what I called the "pigeon food diet." My luck just got worse and worse. I mean I was fine all my life until this drastic event changed me for the rest of my life. For one I live in the south. We love our fried chicken, dumplings, steak, bread, potatoes and the list could go on and on. It wasn't fair that I had to battle cancer and now this too. Life truly sucked for me and I hated it. 
     As I past the one year mark I still was getting really sick and I was eating the best I could gluten/wheat free. Its hard when no stores have the stuff. Wal-Mart, Bi-Lo (at the time) and Dollar Store was all the was in my area. Whole Foods was around but I couldn't afford it. So what did I do. I cheated and ate gluten/wheat products. My symptoms became worse. So bad I ended up in the ER one night. I thought it was my appendix. Nope, my gall bladder had a stone blocking anything from digesting. So I went through yet another surgery and had it removed. My gastro doctor thought well this could be the problem all along. I had mild pains with my gall bladder but I always assumed it was when I ate the gluten/wheat. It wasn't. So he retested me. Still have the gluten/wheat allergy. So after I healed I thought ok. I have to do this and pay for the stuff at Whole Foods. I can't keep doing this and making myself sick. 
     Anyone that has celiac disease or just gluten/wheat allergy knows that none of our things cost under $3.99 a piece. Yes you heard me right. We get less product for more money. My grocery bill alone went from $150 every two weeks to over $300. My food alone cost almost $400 a month. Guess what coupons... yeah those are few and far between. When people can buy a full loaf of bread for .88 (off brand) we pay $5.99 for half loaf. Something is seriously wrong with that. Everything I love like cookies, ice cream, cupcakes, pies, pizza, mexican food and so on. Those are also hard to find unless you make everything from scratch. That takes a lot of time and money too. Eating out. Well you can forget that. Everything is cross contaminated. I had to read every label to make sure just because it doesn't contain gluten doesn't mean it doesn't have wheat. It was a nightmare. 
    But as year two rolled around in this journey it began getting easier to find the gluten/wheat free products. Food City who purchased Bi-Lo was the first store other than Whole Foods to carry things. The prices are still anywhere from $3.99-$8.99 for things but you are able to find them. Which was a good thing. Wal-Mart super center has yet to catch on but Wal-Mart food market does carry it. Publix is another store that has carried gluten/wheat free products. 
   Years 3-5 have been easy but also hard. I travel for work and its hard to eat on the road when people look at you weird when you ask for your food to be cooked separately. They are like oh you can eat this and this and you'll be fine. No it doesn't work that way. If anything gets cross containment we get sick. Eating out has been the biggest struggle. I did start seeing restaurants in my area do the gluten free thing. Red Robin, Dos Bros, Japanese places and Dominos have gluten free options. There is always a chance of cross contamination but so far eating at these places I have not suffered. You just have to take precautions and hope it doesn't get cross contaminated. 
     I feel better each and every day with being gluten/wheat free. It has been hard but I hope this helps anyone that is new to being diagnosed. I know its hard and it takes a drastic change in what your used too. There are tons of us out there and we all need to help others. 

FYI: All gluten free products have to be refrigerated or frozen until use or it will go bad. We don't have the binder of gluten or wheat to keep it fresh sitting on the counter. 


Foods I purchase to stay gluten free/wheat free:

Glutino products: Available at Wal-Mart Market & Food City (variety will vary by store).

Katz products: Available at Amazon & Whole Foods (variety will vary by store).

Schar products: Available at Food City (variety will vary by store).

Mission GF tortillas: Food City & Publix

Good Girl GF Cookies: Wal-Mart Market & Publix (variety will vary by store).

Udis products: Wal-Mart Market, Publix & Food City (in frozen section) (variety will vary by store). 

Canyon Bakehouse products: Publix & Wal-Mart Market

Barilla has pasta that is gluten free NOW

Zatarain's Rice has gluten free options. Spices make our stomach sick and wheat is often in them. So look for Dirty Rice, Jambalaya or Cajun flavored. 

Aidells Andouille Sausages: Costco bulk, Publix and Food City.

Freschetta GF Pizza: Wal-Mart Market and Food City.

Johnsonville Andouille Sausages: Publix, Food City, Wal-Mart Market. (variety will vary by story).

Reece Cups are gluten free. They have the GF label. 

I buy all organic meats organic fruits, vegetables and organic dairy products. I don't cut corners on anything. Its hard not to stray and sometimes I do and suffer for it. Hopefully in the future we will catch up and have all the things I love in gluten free/wheat free form.

This is to name a few things. Feel free to comment on what you've found. I am always looking for new things to try. 

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A religious man. A scarred woman. Both have their faith tested.

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When Chaplain Linkin Garland, receives a phone call to help a woman who was raped, beaten, and stabbed, he can’t help but say “yes.” There is something about her that draws him in. There is a spiritual connection but also a chemistry that he can’t explain.

Pain...Fear...Mistrust...

Words that sum up Sophia Rhinehart’s life.

Having survived a horrific abuse from her military boyfriend who she thought loved her more than life, she needs to learn to live again.

With each passing day the nightmares get worse. Sophia wants help but refuses to let anyone in. Until 

Chaplain Linkin shows up “at her mother’s home.”

Slowly, Linkin gets her to trust him, but will his secret destroy her frail progress?

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The Child (The Tribe #5) is available for pre-order!!

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Velli knows things are too good to be true. She finally has almost everything. A mate that’s soon to be her husband, children, her best friend Reed, and a good relationship with her parents. Only one thing is missing—her daughter, Morgan.

Kane is ready to finally have Velli as his partner in every way. He knows how skittish she gets though, and is on edge as a series of events predict disaster in the most superstitious of ways.

When Velli goes missing minutes before the wedding, the race is on to find her. They find her easily but no one, not even Velli, can explain what happened to her during that time. They push through with the wedding anyway, but sinister forces are working to rip their family apart.

Forces much closer than any of them realize.

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Love. The emotion of fools.

Riding high on the success of his band, Iron Rogue, Noah King doesn’t need anyone much less a nosey reporter from Rock Band News, sticking her gorgeous body where it doesn’t belong. His privacy is one of the most important things in his life, and something he protects with an iron fist. How did his most guarded secret manage to be front page news?

Tori Richmond needed a story. If she broke the silence on the lyrics of Dare to Love, she’d be set and her career would be in the bag. The sexy as sin, tight lipped leader of Iron Rogue wasn’t about to give her any information, no matter what she promised him. Giving into the sexual chemistry seething between them was the wrong thing to do. She’d be just another woman in the long list of women who’d been between the sheets with Noah King, but nothing was more important than the story. 

Nothing.

***Contains hot rock stars, a reporter who takes no crap, and two people finding love in the most unlikely place***

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