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Looking good, Jimmy Thomas!

As if being one handsome and sexy dude isn't enough, look what internationally famous romance novel cover model Jimmy Thomas has done now! He has created a brand new website, Romance Novel Center, to help out all of us in  the romance novel industry.

As Jimmy says at the site:

RomanceNovelCenter.com is a networking resource center specifically for the romance novel community. A place where authors, editors, cover artists, reviewers, web designers, publishers and romance novel events, conventions, workshops, etc. can advertise their business, profession, abilities, work and artwork. Social networking websites, and your own personal websites, are not going to get you noticed/found by your target audience, but only to those you ask to view those pages. RomanceNovelCenter.com (RNC) not only attracts those needing/wanting your services, but also those needing stock images, and those wanting to purchase romance novels.

In RNC's navigation bar is a link to RNC's stock image website RomanceNovelCovers.com, as well as RNC's romance novel online store RomanceNovelStore.com. So heavy traffic for all three websites are all seeing the same networking website, RomanceNovelCenter.com. Having a profile on RNC not only increases your exposure to the entire romance novel community, but also to fans, readers, subscribers and those aspiring to get involved in the romance novel industry.

I am proud to say that I took Jimmy up on his invitation to join in on this new site. Look me up. Here is my PAGE at the brand new Romance Novel Center.

And here is the brand new cover for my western romance novel, Second Chances: Love Lost, Love Found. Of course Jimmy is on the cover!

Second Chances: Love Lost, Love Found by Kristie Leigh Maguire
Western Romance
Published by KLM Books
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Jane Porter's world is turned upside down when her 'almost fiancé' Mike Farley goes off the deep end and marries the beautiful and fiery Samantha Jo Smith, a girl he met just a few short weeks earlier at the Wild Horse Saloon in Casper, Wyoming. Jane goes into a deep depression but in her heart-of-hearts she can't deny that she still loves Mike.

Samantha soon realizes that her hasty marriage to Mike was a mistake. She can't forget her dreams of becoming a country and western superstar. Mike can't forget about Jane.

Through it all, Mike's mother Liz and Jane's father Jim come closer together as they struggle with the mess their children have made of their lives and the day-to-day struggle of running their neighboring ranches.

What will Samantha do? What will happen to Mike? Will Jane have a second chance at love? Will Jim and Liz realize it is never too late for love?

Find out in Kristie Leigh Maguire's Second Chances: Love Lost, Love Found. Set in rural Wyoming, Second Chances is a sweet contemporary western romance that will warm your heart. One reader stated, "I read it through in an evening, and felt as if I had spent that evening with 'salt of the earth' folk." Another reader said, "I loved the double, no triple, second chance. It was a very sweet ending."

From Readers:
...a sad story of broken promises, betrayal, regrets, forgiveness, and loved rekindled. Lots of emotions worth reading. - Sarah
...a heart-warming story of love, betrayal and forgiveness. The story is told from several viewpoints, detailing each character’s motivations and emotions and was very well written. - Stacy
...Most of the characters in this book were really flawed, and I have to tell you that half way through the read I couldn't imagine how this would work out. But this is one skilled author and this was a really satisfying book. I can't wait to read more books by this talented author. - Luscious
...The story was captivating and the characters so engaging, I wanted to know what happened to them. This, combined with the Wyoming setting made for a very enjoyable read. Kristie introduces the reader to sympathetic people you end up caring about and you finish the story with a satisfying sigh, which ticks all the boxes when it comes to this kind of romance. - Susanne

Bitter-sweet love story

From Amazon Reviewer (L. Mihay) - 4 stars

Mike & Jane have grown up, together, on neighboring ranches, kissed & declared their love for one another at 13 & 12. It's always been assumed that they would marry, but suddenly Mike goes off the deep end, marrying a total stranger he met 2 weeks before. Is Jane upset. You BET!!!! This is a story of love rocked to the core by betrayal. Do the characters react like you think they should? Not a chance...BUT they react like real people (some, at least) do.

In the background is Jane's widower Father, and Mike's widowed Mother, who finally admit that they don't think of each other as Brother & Sister any more. Second chances do happen, and watching this undercurrent develop is endearing.

This is a clean book, of heartbreak, love and second chances.

Download to your Kindle for Amazon's discounted price of only 99 cents.

Move over Peyton Place!

What can I say? I lived in a trailer park for about three years and the comings and going of the many individuals weren't quite as spicy as the characters Kristie and Mark developed, but they were close. I could see the old football hero Billy Ray Nixon and his buddies hanging out at the Amtrack catching a brew each evening after work an discussing events of no substance. Reminded me of "Married with Children." Al and Peg Bundy make a comeback.

Billy Ray's wife Beth Anne decides it is time to get out of her everyday life and buys a PC. She is bound and determined to right a best seller so she can get out of her rut of cutting hair and being the main contributor (not by choice) to the Grapevine Gazette. The writer for the Gazette has a true axe to grind with Beth Anne and takes every opportunity to embarrass her at every turn. Well, Beth Anne is taking it no more and enters the world of cyberspace. Billy Ray thinks its an old Star Trek re-run.

What she doesn't realize is she is starting journey that will not only shake-up the entire town of Grapevine, Ky and the coming and goings of most of the residents, her research and writing is really going to spice up her marriage in ways neither of them even imagined in high school. They just thought they were having fun.

WARNING! This book is not PG rated. It is hot and steamy with more sex (at times) then the law allows. Not only to Billy Ray and Beth Anne re-ignite passion in their relationship, after Billy Ray sneaks a chapter out of the trailer (Beth Anne warned him to stay away from HER computer) and reads some excerpts to his buddies down at the Amtrack ( on a dare), Beth Anne's writings have a profound effect on them and their wives.

If you like a book filled with sex (Linda Lovelace would have a "hard' time keeping up), revenge, espionage (trailer park style), gossip (move over Barbera Eden-Harper Valley), feuding neighbors (yeah, Hatfields and McCoys), I guarantee, you will not be disappointed.

Think that sums it. Need to take a cold shower now.

Amazon review from Jeff Dawson.

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Second Chances: Love Lost, Love Found gets a new look!

I am happy to announce that my novel Second Chances: Love Lost, Love Found has a brand new cover. The handsome model on the cover is the internationally famous romance novel cover model Jimmy Thomas! I don't know about you but I sure would give him a SECOND CHANCE!

Book Blurb:
Jane Porter's world is turned upside down when her 'almost fiancé' Mike Farley goes off the deep end and marries the beautiful and fiery Samantha Jo Smith, a girl he met just a few short weeks earlier at the Wild Horse Saloon in Casper, Wyoming. Jane goes into a deep depression but in her heart-of-hearts she can't deny that she still loves Mike.
Samantha soon realizes that her hasty marriage to Mike was a mistake. She can't forget her dreams of becoming a country and western superstar. Mike can't forget about Jane.

Through it all, Mike's mother Liz and Jane's father Jim come closer together as they struggle with the mess their children have made of their lives and the day-to-day struggle of running their neighboring ranches.

What will Samantha do? What will happen to Mike? Will Jane have a second chance at love? Will Jim and Liz realize it is never too late for love?
Find out in Kristie Leigh Maguire's Second Chances: Love Lost, Love Found. Set in rural Wyoming, Second Chances is a sweet contemporary western romance that will warm your heart. One reader stated, "I read it through in an evening, and felt as if I had spent that evening with 'salt of the earth' folk." Another reader said, "I loved the double, no triple, second chance. It was a very sweet ending."
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