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<\/p>\nCeltic Connexions is thrilled to host Maggie Tideswell and her latest book, Haunted Bride.
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Moragh’s Ghost Book 1<\/p>\n
by Maggie Tideswell<\/p>\n
Genre: Paranormal Romance<\/p>\n
“Excellent read! Maggie Tideswell’s book is impossible to put down. This writer is skilled in evoking deep emotions in the reader. A pleasure to read.<\/em>” – Amazon Reviewer<\/p>\n A marriage of convenience – no strings attached – suited both Holly and Joshua just fine; a virgin marriage, so that they could both walk away\u2026\u00a0But they made a crucial mistake:<\/strong>\u00a0they didn’t take chemistry into account.<\/p>\n Holly<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 But having a \u2018husband\u2019 behind her would give her an edge she didn\u2019t have now. Donald, her ex, and his wife would have to revise their strategy of keeping her children away from her. That was an advantage worth taking a risk for.\u00a0But what kind of man was likely to respond to a tiny ad in the newspaper no one reads anymore?<\/strong><\/p>\n Joshua<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 From the moment Holly accepted Joshua\u2019s offer of marriage, strange things started happening to her, and the strangeness followed her to her new (temporary) home. She was going to have to unravel a decades-old mystery before anything else.<\/p>\n A ghost, a wronged fianc\u00e9e, and trouble with everyone around them. Will Holly and Joshua get what they\u2019ve set out to achieve?<\/strong><\/p>\n Windows rattled in the wind, threatening the glass in its frames. Smoke billowed down the chimney, filling the room, tendrils of which swirled around the lovers, heating and cooling them at the same time.<\/p>\n Then, silence. That was when Holly heard the owls again.<\/p>\n Who-o-o, ho-o-o<\/em>.<\/p>\n She imagined she heard their wings beating the air, but it was probably her blood slowing in her veins.<\/p>\n Who-o-o, ho-o-o<\/em>.<\/p>\n Reality hit unmercifully. She covered her face with her hands. What had she done? This wasn\u2019t supposed to have been a real marriage. How weak, needy, immoral\u2014or all of the above\u2014was she? She had only met the man a few hours ago.<\/p>\n Joshua raised himself onto his elbows propped on either side of her head and glanced about the room. \u201cWas it me, or did the earth move for you, too?\u201d When he kissed her, she felt his grin. \u201cThe owls approve. This can only predict good fortune for our plans.\u201d He rolled to his feet, swinging her up into his arms as he went. The door of the morning room crashed against the wall when he kicked open.<\/p>\n The passage was dark, the only light coming from a small window at the far end and from the open door behind them. The house creaked and sighed around them.<\/p>\n Every house has its own sounds<\/em>.<\/p>\n Holly snuggled into Joshua\u2019s shoulder, rubbing her nose against the hot skin of his throat. There was nothing to be scared of, yet she jerked in his arms when he kicked another door open and it rebounded against the wall.<\/p>\n He grinned down at her. \u201cSkittish, aren\u2019t you?\u201d he said, depositing her in the middle of the huge four-poster bed.<\/p>\n He didn\u2019t understand, and she wasn\u2019t about to enlighten him. What wouldn\u2019t he think if she were to tell him a ghost was following her around, scaring the daylights out of her?<\/p>\n The fire in the hearth cast long licks on the walls. When he met her eyes, she lifted her arms to him in welcome, her earlier remorse a thing of the past. She couldn\u2019t wait to be possessed again, this time to the chorus of the nocturnal hunters she could hear outside the window. She wouldn\u2019t fear them. If Joshua said their presence was a good omen, who was she to argue?<\/p>\n Drifting back down to earth with the pleasant weight of her new husband pressing her into the mattress, there was a flutter of wings in the absolute silence before an owl landed on the headboard. Its claws scratched the finish from the wood.<\/p>\n Holly flapped her hands, trying to shoo the creature into the air, but only when Joshua rolled off her, did it take flight. She watched him sit up on the edge of the bed to follow the owl\u2019s progress around the room. When it found the window and the night outside, he settled onto his pillows and pulled her head to his shoulder, lighting a cigarette.<\/p>\n Through the fog of sleep, she heard him say, \u201cWasn\u2019t that something? They\u2019ve never made their way inside before. It seems to be a time for firsts.\u201d<\/p>\n Holly\u2019s eyes fluttered. She\u2019d take his word for it; she was far too sated to worry about birds. About to succumb to slumber, he said from somewhere above her head, \u201cI presume you are on the pill?\u201d<\/p>\n His voice was low in the still of the night, but her eyes flew open, and her head came off his shoulder quicker than he could have said \u2018gotcha\u2019.<\/p>\n Sitting on her ankles in the middle of the bed, she clasped both hands to her mouth. She hadn\u2019t worried about birth control for so long, it had completely slipped her mind.<\/p>\n What if she got pregnant?<\/p>\n They had done it twice<\/em> without protection.<\/p>\n This could turn into a complication that would most surely foil his <\/em>plans, although it would help her own cause tremendously.<\/p>\n Joshua had been stubbing his cigarette out, but when he turned back and saw her face, he, too, shot up from the pillows. \u201cYou\u2019re not on the pill,\u201d he stated as he swung his legs from the bed. With a vicious curse that had her ears burning, he pulled a pair of jeans and a shirt from the closet, and slammed the bedroom door behind his naked self.<\/p>\n Tears welled in her eyes and spilled over unchecked. Okay, this was nothing new. She knew he wanted children, but the kiddies had to be born from Nicole to satisfy Joshua\u2019s sensibilities. In so many words, he had told her he\u2019d amuse himself with her while they were married, but it would be no more than part of the act.<\/p>\n How easily she had fallen for him?<\/p>\n This was not what she had planned to do.<\/p>\n Would he ever believe she hadn\u2019t meant to trap him?<\/p>\n Who-o-o, ho-o-o<\/em>.<\/p>\n Goodreads<\/strong><\/a> * <\/strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/58862192-haunted-bride<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B09DBLGF74<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maggie Tideswell, internationally acclaimed bestselling South African author, has a passion for romance. All over the world people are falling in love, making it love, not money, that makes the world go round. Website<\/strong><\/a> * <\/strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a> * <\/strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a> * <\/strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/a> * <\/strong>Bookbub<\/strong><\/a> * <\/strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/a> * <\/strong>Goodreads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Website:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.ghostly.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n Facebook: <\/strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MustLoveParanormalRomance<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter:<\/strong> https:\/\/twitter.com\/LunaMags<\/a><\/p>\n Instagram:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mtideswell<\/a><\/p>\n Bookbub:<\/strong>\u00a0 https:\/\/www.bookbub.com\/authors\/maggie-tideswell<\/a><\/p>\n Amazon:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Maggie-Tideswell\/e\/B005GJ3DG8<\/a><\/p>\n Goodreads:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/5187717.Maggie_Tideswell<\/a><\/p>\n $15 Amazon giftcard,<\/p>\n ebook of Find My Love by Maggie Tideswell<\/p>\n – 1 winner each!<\/p>\n Follow the tour <\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> for special content and a giveaway!<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSeriously? They actually advertised for a husband for her without telling her?
\nShe was going to have to kill them, stone dead.<\/p>\n
\nNicole had to marry him now or let him go.\u00a0He was done waiting,<\/strong>\u00a0but he did not know what else he could do to persuade her to his way of thinking. Until he saw the little ad in the paper. A plan fell into his head as if he’d snapped his fingers. This woman who audaciously advertised herself as available would do perfectly. Married to another woman would make him irresistibly attractive to Nicole \u2013 as was the case with everything she wanted and couldn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hauntedbride-excerpt.png\")
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\nGhosts just can’t seem to leave her alone and she combines things that can’t be explained, sweaty bodies and rumpled beds in a way that will make your toes curl and your hair stand on end.
\nMaggie just can’t do without perfume, coffee and the internet. She is nearly as passionate about food as she is about creating alpha heroes every woman will fall in love with, just as she does, every time.
\nThe strangest thing is that cats have never played any kind of role in her stories, as she is owned by three of them.
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