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Blue Fire is BACK!

December 1, 2015 by Z.A. Maxfield

BlueFireRe-release of 2009 novella – Fire cost Jared Kenny his home and all his memories of the man he’d loved for over half his life. But it also brought him firefighter Adam Collins and the purest blue eyes Jared had ever seen.

Despite the best efforts of his department, Adam had to watch with Jared while Jared’s house burned to the ground. Something about the man touched Adam and made him want to follow up and protect him. Later, when the two of them gave in to their passion, it burnt and bared them both.

So Jared ran…from Adam, from his past, and from everything their future together could hold. He tried to start a new life, taking only his newfound passion for glass and his obsession for a finding a particular shade of blue, the blue of the heart of a flame. It took a near-tragedy to teach him that the blue he sought, he’d had all along…in his firefighter’s eyes.

I wrote this book back in 2009, and I haven’t changed it, except for the cover. It remains a favorite of mine, because…FIREFIGHTER! *Sighs*.

This story was partially inspired by a terrible brush fire we had that year, one in which some of my children’s classmates lost their homes. One of the pump stations burned and the result was that some areas were without water to fight the fire.

This book is .99 at Amazon, and is also available to read on Kindle Unlimited.

Secret LightIn other holiday news, both Secret Light, my Hanukkah story and What Child Is This? A Crossing Borders Christmas Story will be ON SALE for .99  from 12/3 – 12/10. You can snap those right up from Amazon, here and here. (This is my first time trying a sale like this, if it doesn’t work, let me know and I’ll see what I did wrong… LOL)

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Filed Under: Blog, New Release, Secret Light, What Child Is This?

No Brunch Today… Iz sad.

April 6, 2014 by Z.A. Maxfield

Juggling Venus

So sorry, due to some slight technical difficulties, I don’t have brunch guests today. Which mostly means I’ve been incommunicado working toward my deadlines and I haven’t been paying attention.

Last weeks brunch winners will be announced next week. There’s still time to comment if you want to!

I got a great cover for Home The Hard Way. I’m sure I shared it here, but in case I didn’t, prepare to sigh with longing!

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Isn’t that GORGEOUS??? I love that. It’s from cover artist Amber Shah and I can tell you how deftly she nailed the book. LOVE this. Get ready for Finn and Dare:

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I do have some fun news. First off, I got the rights to two of my holiday stories, Secret Light, and What Child Is This?, way back in December… I know I should have just put those back out, but I needed beautiful covers and some formatting. At first I was going to wait until the holiday season again, but then a couple of readers wrote to ask me what happened to those, so I put them back out again.

For a limited time, they’ll be available exclusively at Amazon. This means that I’ve entered into the devil’s bargain that is Kindle Select, which has some royalty benefits for me and some benefits for Amazon Prime members, who will be able to read them for free. Both books are in the lending library there so please take advantage of that. If you were on the fence about those, borrow them for free and see what you were missing!

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Rafe Colman’s likes his life. He has a nice home, a good job, and a wonderful dog. But he’s exhausted by living a lie. When his home is vandalized because of his perceived German ancestry, he can’t even share the irony with friends.

Officer Ben Morgan falls for Rafe’s dog first, but it isn’t long before he’s giving her owner the eye. He thinks they have more in common than the search for Rafe’s vandals, and he’s willing to take a chance and find out.

If life in 1955 is tough on a cop in the closet, it’s even tougher on a refugee who’s desperate to hide his roots and fit in. Rafe knows from tragic experience how vicious prejudice can be. Every second with Ben is stolen, every kiss fraught with danger.

When Ben’s partner threatens to ruin everything, Rafe and Ben have to fight to protect what they have, in Secret Light…

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WhatChildIsThis_200Michael and Tristan are finally taking that much needed weekend away for Christmas. They’ve been working so hard at their respective careers there hasn’t been time for a breather, much less a chance to reconnect and see if they’ve been working toward what they both want.

Like always, Michael’s well-laid plan is derailed by a phone call from Apple House. Three of their charges have gone missing and while Michael is worried, it’s not unusual for the young adults who stay at the shelter for homeless LGBT teens to come and go.

But when one of them calls Michael and asks if – hypothetically speaking – it’s considered kidnapping to keep a baby who’s been abandoned, Michael and Tristan head home with all speed to sort things out.

Two couples need answers in a heartwarming holiday tale of taking stock, reaffirming commitments, and catching the perfect wave in What Child Is This? A Crossing Borders Christmas Story.

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Filed Under: about me, Books, Breaking News!, Secret Light, What Child Is This?

And The Winner Is…

December 23, 2011 by Z.A. Maxfield

Congratulations to the winner of my newsletter contest:

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I’ll be sending you an email to ask what format you would like your copy of Secret Light to be, and to get your address for that something I acquired in New Orleans.

Thank you again to everyone who participated in the event, to those of you who subscribed to my newsletter, and to those of you who have been buying and reading my books.

 

Warmest wishes for the happiest of holidays!

 

Filed Under: Breaking News!, Contests, Secret Light Tagged With: contest winner

Holiday Reads And A Major Mea Culpa ~

December 21, 2011 by Z.A. Maxfield

I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very  happy holiday season. Hanukkah has begun and Christmas is only days away. Kwanzaa begins on the 26th! Unbelievable! I won’t even bother to say how fast the year went for me, I’m sure it went as fast or faster for everyone.

My Hanukkah themed holiday novella, Secret Light released yesterday, on the twentieth.

It’s the story of Rafe Coleman, who has lost faith and isolated himself in a cocoon of fine things and success but longs for companionship and Ben Morgan, who sees how lonely he is and wants to do something about it.

I’m so happy with that story, but I need to issue a sincere apology. If you purchased it before around 3:00 A.M. on the 21st it contained what I considered to be a pretty glaring error. I think my heart stopped when I realize that I’d inadvertently typed the name Nick Chance (referring to Dashiell Hammett’s famously hard-drinking detective) instead of Nick Charles.

I know Hammett and my über author girlcrush Lillian Hellman (and maybe even William Powell) are rolling around in their graves right now. I can’t tell you how much I love the Nick and Nora Charles characters, and I can’t believe I did that. Moreover, I can’t believe someone didn’t squash me like a bug for doing it before now, or that the whole of civilization as we know it didn’t collapse. I have an awful feeling that sometimes people just trust me to know what I’m talking about. Which is probably not a good thing. Or like me, they just see what they believe should be there, and not what’s actually on the page.

The most important lesson we can take away from this is I need new glasses at the very least, or a much younger brain.

BUT… All is not lost. Due to the magic of eBooks, anyone can have the corrected copy by downloading the file from Loose Id again, with my sincerest apologies.

Mea Culpa for my inexcusable lapse. Download it again, or buy it for the first time…HERE

 

 

 

Filed Under: New Release, Secret Light Tagged With: mea culpa, new release, Secret Light

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