During
her virtual book tour, Bernadette will be awarding autographed
copies of all three Walker series books (US ONLY) to a randomly drawn winner,
and one e-copy of one of her backlisted books to another randomly drawn winner.
To be entered for a chance to win, use the form below. To increase your
chances of winning, feel free to visit her other tour stops and enter there,
too!
A little
bit about Walker Bride:
Always the
bridal consultant, never the bride. That was former bad girl gone business
professional, Pearl Walker's life until she put her hands on Tyson Morgan while
measuring him for a tux.
Tyson was happy being a miserable
man, taking care of his family's land, and not involved with a woman. However,
even he can't resist the pull of attraction to the beautiful, and off limits,
Pearl?
The feud between the Walkers and the
Morgans had torn apart friends and families for generations. What might happen
when Pearl Walker and Tyson Morgan become business partners—and more?
Excerpt
from Walker Bride:
It had been worth inviting herself to tag along just to see
Tyson’s expression, Pearl thought. Okay, she might have made his experience
getting fitted for a tux a little too intimate. He didn’t know it wasn’t the
norm and in no way did she violate him at all. She was just having some fun.
Tyson Morgan had always been a mystery to her. Of course, he
was the older brother of her friend Lydia and he was off limits to any Walker
to get to know. That feud between her father, grandfather and uncle with his
grandfather had simply been ego—or pride. Pearl couldn’t have been more
surprised when it came out that Tyson was, actually, her cousin Eric’s
half-brother. That only made him more intriguing--shrouded in mystery and Pearl
liked a mystery.
She also liked tall, muscular men who wore boots and ball caps.
It didn’t hurt anything that he was twelve years older too. She liked them a
little more seasoned than herself though she was no prude.
Pearl gave herself one last look in the mirror that hung
over the sink in the back room. Fetching her lipstick out of her purse, she
slid it over her lips, then pressed them together. She looked like a million
bucks, she thought. Oh, she’d come a long way from the heavy eyeliner, ear
piercings, and black hair. She had her mother’s blonde hair. Desecrating it
with jet black color had made her skin so pale she nearly looked dead had
pissed her parents off. Of course, that had been the point.
Heavy metal had
blared from her stereo, and there was always a stash of stolen alcohol in the
bottom of her closet. Not to mention she’d spent all of her money on fancy
clove cigarettes.
That made her laugh. Now she drank champagne and nibbled on
chocolate-covered strawberries with clients. The salon had a standing
appointment for her hair and nails. Over the years, she’d become a fashionable
and significant member of society.
Still, there was a little deviousness inside of her, and it
had come out when that sexy Tyson Morgan walked in her door and she’d draped
the measuring tape across his broad shoulders. Work had taken over her life
lately. Especially now with so many people in her family getting married. It
was time to let her hair down and have some fun. And it seemed as though her
body was itching to have fun with Tyson. All she had to do was make her move
and make him hers.
Bernadette
Marie has been an avid writer since the early age of 13, when she’d fill
notebook after notebook with stories that she’d share with her friends. Her
journey into novel writing started the summer before eighth grade when her
father gave her an old typewriter. At all times of the day and night you would
find her on the back porch penning her first work, which she would continue to
write for the next 22 years.
In 2007 –
after marriage, filling her chronic entrepreneurial needs, and having five
children – Bernadette began to write seriously with the goal of being
published. That year she wrote 12 books. In 2009, she was contracted for her
first trilogy and the published author was born. In 2011, she (being the
entrepreneur that she is) opened her own publishing house, 5 Prince Publishing,
and has released contemporary titles and has begun the process of taking on
other authors in other genres.
Bernadette
spends most of her free time driving her kids to their many events. She is also
an accomplished martial artist, working her way to her second degree black belt
in Tang Soo Do. An avid reader she loves to meet readers who enjoy reading
contemporary romances and she always promises Happily Ever After.
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