Carmen DeSousa

Each week I use readers’ suggestions and write exactly five hundred words based on their feedback. And just to make this interesting, I offer up one of my novels free to the commenter whose suggestion I use. Okay…let’s write a story. (If you haven't read the first scenes, please click on the link. Otherwise, the story won't make sense. Don’t worry; there's a link, which will bring you right back.) 500 and Counting Scenes 1 through 7 Scene 8 He recognized the man’s face immediately. But the strange thing was…Smitty wasn’t looking at the camera. The scraggly looking teen was looking off to the left, toward a few girls standing in a loose circle. Gino stood up and walked toward the single overhead light bulb on the roof. He held the picture up to the light. Yep! He knew one of the young girls looked familiar. Even stranger, his grandmother was also not looking at the cheerleaders in front of her, but her eyes were looking to the ri...

Tina Wainscott, aka Jaime Rush, is one of those authors who once you read her novels, you will hunt down her others and read all of them until the bookstore runs out of them. Thank goodness for Kindle because that is exactly what happened. Both bookstores nearby closed, so I tracked down her books in pre-owned book stores, and when they ran out, I contacted her and asked why she wasn’t available on Kindle. To my delight, she was working on it. I loved her books so much that when they came available, I downloaded them again. Yep, I’m an addict, but you already knew that if you read my blog. So, here is my short and to the point review, since I talked Tina into giving us an excerpt from Unforgivable to share. I loved the characters, the intrigue, the tension. The paranormal was good without being over the top. The author's description of the town and the people made you feel as if you were really there. Excerpt from Unforgivable : Silas turned to The ...

This is just a teaser. If you missed the first few excerpts of Entangled Dreams , you can read the first three chapters here . Don't worry; there's a link, which will bring you right back. If you've been keeping up with Entangled Dreams , you know that our female protagonist, Alexandra Nicole "Nicky", has lost both of her parents and is in a worthless relationship. But she's trying…if she could just stop making mistakes!  Alexandra felt tears well up in her eyes. She did love her father. Despite the years of neglect, she still loved him. Tiny gasps emanated from her throat, and she was hard-pressed to control them. If Jonathan really cared, he would hold her, but she knew he didn’t. They had just been together forever and neither knew how to end it. She didn’t love him; actually, she didn’t know that she’d ever loved him. She just didn’t know how to handle life without him. They had been together for so long that she simply didn’t know how...

Curtis Keller is a lucky man. He has the love and support of a family like no other. But he's never fallen in love with a woman. He likes to play the field, have a good time, and enjoyed friends with benefits. But when wild child Simone Pierpont comes into his life, for the first time, he considers settling down—until she abandons him. Simone Pierpont fell in love. She hadn't meant to, but her best friend's brother-in-law had treated her, the Parisian oil heiress, with more compassion than she'd ever known.   What was she to do? So she left him stranded on a yacht in the French Rivera.   Now, cut off from her father's fortune, pregnant, and desperate to win Curtis's heart; Simone must prove to everyone she can hold down a job and take care of herself.   Curtis isn't sure the spoiled princess can change, but because of his caring nature, he has a hard time turning her away.   However, all efforts might be for not when he learns about her ...

This is just a teaser. If you missed the first few excerpts of Entangled Dreams , you can read the first three chapters here . If you've been keeping up with Entangled Dreams , you know that our female protagonist, Alexandra Nicole "Nicky", has lost both of her parents and is in a worthless relationship. But she's trying…if she could just stop making mistakes! Excerpt: She looked out the window and shook her head. “Maybe I’ll just catch a ride home with that new bartender I told you about. He seems to really like me.” He frowned at her. “I thought you said he was a player.” She shrugged. “Isn’t that what all guys are, Joe?” “Nah. There are some good men out there, Nicky. You just gotta find them. Unfortunately, most of them aren’t hanging out in bars.” Alexandra thought about Cameron again. She’d met him in a bar and he seemed like a nice guy. He wasn’t even drinking. Joe pulled up in front of her work. She held t...

  Each week I use readers’ suggestions and write exactly five hundred words based on their feedback. And just to make this interesting, I offer up one of my novels free to the commenter whose suggestion I use. Okay…let’s write a story. (If you haven't read the first scenes, please click on the link. Otherwise, the story won't make sense. Don’t worry; there's a link, which will bring you right back.) 500 and Counting Scenes 1 through 6 Chapter 2 ~ Scene 7 Gino pushed the food around on his plate. His mind kept returning to the pictures of his grandfather. “Ouch!” He looked across the table at his wife. Sheila smiled. “I’m sorry, was that your leg? I didn’t know you were here. I thought I was eating alone.” “Funny.” He looked back down at his food. “What’s up? You haven’t said a word since you walked in the house. Well, unless you count the grunt you uttered.” She rested her hand on his arm. “Talk to me. Is that dream still bot...