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Win Free Copies of Paranormal Romance Books!

March 6, 2015 by Alyssa Leave a Comment

Adobe Photoshop PDF Register now to win free copies of paranormal romance books on Goodreads.com ! !

Sign up here (or click the link below) and you might win 1 of 20 free copies of The Fine Art of Deception, Undoing Time

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/129407-the-fine-art-of-deception-undoing-time

Good luck Paranormal Romance Lovers!

I hope you win!!

Alyssa oxox

 

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Paranormal Romance Book Giveaway

March 6, 2015 by Alyssa Leave a Comment

Adobe Photoshop PDF Mornin’ Paranormal Romance Book Lovers! Tonight at 12 a.m. — Midnight on the Dot — Goodreads.com is doing a giveaway of The Fine Art of Deception, Undoing Time.

Register and you could win one of 20 free copies!!

Yah!

The sign-up link should appear on my Goodreads.com page tonight at midnight, EST.

https://www.goodreads.com/AlyssaRichards
You’ll also be able to find the sign up link here on my blog and on my social media pages.
Good luck Paranormal Romance Lovers, I hope you win!
Happy Reading!! oxox
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Paranormal Romance Book Valentine’s Day Gift

February 14, 2015 by Alyssa Leave a Comment

Adobe Photoshop PDF Paranormal Romance books make the best Valentine’s Day read! Hope you’ll find a new favorite to enjoy today!

Paranormal Romance Books have long been my favorite to read. Fortunately there are lots of good reviewers out there who feel the same way!

Reviews for the paranormal romance book The Fine Art of Deception:

Book Nook Nuts: 5 STARS “Wow, this book was great. Very well written paranormal romance book.” http://booknooknuts.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-review-5-stars-fine-art-of-deception.html

Jeannie Zelos Book Review: 5 STARS “Seems as though this is Alyssa’s debut book – and what a fantastic start. I love romance that has something extra, and though the genre selection didn’t suggest anything other than straight romance, it’s far more IMO, a beautiful romance with elements of paranormal and suspense. … I really enjoyed this read, full of sensuality, beautiful settings and stories, and people that felt real. When the dangers heated up they felt genuine, and like Addie I wasn’t sure who was to be trusted and what was the truth. Its a great novel, one I really enjoyed and I’d happily read anything Alyssa writes next.
Stars: Five, a great read.   https://jeanniezelos.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/the-fine-art-of-deception-undoing-time-alyssa-richards/

Book-Lover Book Blog 4.5 STARS Romance with a side of Psychic & Mystery  Alyssa Richards is a new author for me and I am kinda picky about paranormal reads. Learning about how Addie had to deal with ghosts all her life and how it affected her, was very interesting...you will really enjoy it. https://www.facebook.com/BookLoverBlog2014/photos/a.1487986851449366.1073741828.1487984991449552/1551906585057392/?type=1&theater

 

Here are a few of the reviews for The Fine Art of Deception on Amazon.com 

5.0 out of 5 stars Hope there’s a sequel or more from Addie- loved this book!, February 6, 2015  By Nora2983 – See all my reviews
This review is from: The Fine Art of Deception: Undoing Time (Kindle Edition)
I finished this book last night and I’m already sad it’s over. I want more from Addie! From page one, I was hooked, sucked into Addie’s world (both the present, the past and the ghost world). This book is an engaging read and I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys paranormal story lines with romance added in. If you can’t suspend your belief of reality, then this book isn’t for you but if you believe in ghosts, psychics, past loves that can be come present loves, reincarnation and mystery (because yes, this book has that, too! Addie is trying to figure out what happened to her grandfather and father) then pick this book up. I promise you won’t want to put it down until you have finished it. The Fine Art of Deception: Undoing Time by Alyssa Richards is worth the read. Here’s hoping there’s a sequel or more from Richards soon!
I received a copy of this book for the purposes of my review. All opinions are my own.
5.0 out of 5 stars Romance and paranormal; a very good combination., February 14, 2015
By Bonnie P. – See all my reviews
This review is from: The Fine Art of Deception: Undoing Time (Kindle Edition)
Addie has the ability to read people and the people involved with objects when she touches people or objects. After Addie’s boyfriend leaves Addie and takes up with her best friend, Addie is heartbroken and tries to pick up the pieces. She finds a job working for an art dealer who, unknown to Addie, knows of Addie’s gift. His intent is to use Addie for deceiving his clients by substituting original artwork for forgeries. Along the way Addie meets Blake. Is Blake part of the boss’ plan to deceive, or really in love with Addie, as he says he is? This book has lots of twists and turns. It was one of those books where I had to keep reading to find out what happens. Highly recommended!
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
5.0 out of 5 stars a psychic whose love of art takes her on an unexpected journey of …, February 12, 2015 By Reesa S. – See all my reviews
This review is from: The Fine Art of Deception: Undoing Time (Kindle Edition)
The author of this book tells an intriguing story which inserted me into the world of Adeline, a psychic whose love of art takes her on an unexpected journey of forgery and theft. The never ending love of a past life rejoins her in this life to guide her through the dungeons of deceit by the people she trusted. A fabulous book, I did not want it to end. Longing for the next chapters… I received an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
Stay tuned for upcoming news: In the next few weeks goodreads.com will feature a giveaway contest for The Fine Art of Deception. You can register to win a free copy! Details to follow soon…
Happy Heart-Day Reading!!
Alyssa oxox
PS You can enjoy The Fine Art of Deception on Kindle Unlimited!

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Paranormal Romance Playlist on Spotify

January 7, 2015 by Alyssa Leave a Comment

Addie & Blake's Playlist

Addie’s Favorite Music

Click above to listen to the free playlist for The Fine Art of Deception as listed on Spotify. These songs really capture the mood and give voice to the themes of this Paranormal Romance Book. Plus, it’s just fun to listen to!!

You’ll enjoy such artists as Bryan Ferry, Alex Clare, The Fray, Snow Patrol, Cyndi Lauper and more. 18 of your favorite songs in one fine art of a place. (See what I did just here? 🙂

Start a nice fire, pour yourself a glass of French wine, hit PLAY on Addie’s Favorite Music and enjoy !!  See if you can guess what the themes to the book are going to be, just by listening to these songs …

Have fun!!

Alyssa ox

PS Need a recommendation for a good wine?  Try the Chateau Cambon La Pelouse Bordeaux http://www.cambon-la-pelouse.com/en/

It’s not expensive, it’s French and it doesn’t have any sulfites! Voila!

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Austen’s life is at the heart of her romance novels

July 13, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

IMG_4479Somehow it doesn’t feel right to call Jane Austen’s literature – romance novels. Though I think perhaps they are the first true romance novels. And maybe the best in that their popularity has lasted almost 200 years. I’ve read each one of her books and often wondered where her inspiration came from. Today, as I held her ring in my hands, I was learning the answer to that question firsthand. Literally.

Traveling on the energy trapped in her ring, I had danced from ball to ball, and had taken long walks with the man she called Thomas. As I looked through her eyes and felt her feelings, it was clear, at least to me, that both of them had found their soul mate. Each found within the other both a mirror and an understanding for who they were. Something they wanted to embrace for the rest of their lives.

Jane began to feel so bold about her connection to Thomas that she often threw caution to the wind, thumbed her proverbial nose at society’s rules and perceptions. They sat close to one another at gatherings, playing cards and touching one another in ways that were considered intimate to the society of that time.

I watched Jane as she sat at a small, round, wooden table, just large enough to hold paper and quill. She penned letters to her sister Cassandra telling her in all confidence and happiness that she would receive a proposal from Thomas any day now. I watched her read letters from Cassandra who cautioned her to be careful. Warned her to reign in her behavior.

But Jane didn’t listen. She knew what she felt in her heart and she knew what she and Thomas shared. Of course this would be her future. Thomas loved her.

I walked as Jane as she and Thomas strolled along a grassy path in the light of day. When Jane watched a flicker of disappointment skitter across Thomas’ features, and Jane’s heart seized in response, I knew the end of their love affair was near.

 

“Addie,” I heard Thomas say as he looked into Jane’s eyes. He caressed her face with his hand and I felt her draw back in fear.

“Addie -”

“What?” I asked.

Thomas’s face slowly melted into Henri’s features. “I’ve been calling you,” he said.

“Oh,” I said. “I guess I was concentrating. Lost in my own world,  – or something like that.” I looked down and still saw Jane’s dress on my body. A cream colored empire waisted dress with a blue sash tied in the back. I took a deep breath as Henri took the ring from my fingers.

“You’re crying,” he said as he wiped a tear from my cheek.

I felt the wetness on my cheek as Thomas’s news trickled through me. He had just been telling Jane as I was pulled from her life – his family was insistent that he marry another. A wealthy woman in another town. He had to. For his family.

“I’m fine,” I said as Jane’s sadness consumed me. “Just – her life was such a sad story in many ways.”

Henri pulled me into his arms, and though it was less than professional, I welcomed the distraction and the comfort. I needed something to pull me back into today.

“How did it go with your girlfriend?” I asked as I pulled back a little from the man I knew to be a confirmed bachelor.

He sighed and stepped away, the scent of his cologne staying with me. “Ah well, perhaps not as well as I would have liked.”

“Oh?” I asked.

“She has always wanted marriage.”

“And you?”

Henri shrugged. “Why mess up a good thing with marriage?”

“Ah,” I said as the room became more real around me.

“I never promised her marriage,” Henri said as gathered his notes together from the table. “She just said she knew from the beginning that I was the one.”

“And you?” I asked again.

“I think marriage is about more than love,” he said as he glanced up at me. “And I don’t know if I’m ‘the one’ for anyone.”

“Huh,” I said as I smiled. I watched Henri pull on his white gloves again and inspect Jane’s ring. I didn’t think I could touch it again any time soon. I thought about Jane and Thomas, the love they shared, the life they wanted, the books she wrote and the painful source of her creativity.

“She said she was certain,” Henri said distractedly as he turned the ring in the light.

“Sometimes there’s nothing as careless as certainty,” I said. A phone rang in the distance and its reality pulled me further into today.

“You’re very wise, Addie.” he said. “For as much as we search for the guarantee, certainty stops the seeking, a level of continuing awareness that we need.”

And that’s what I felt from Jane Austen as I stepped into her young life for a few moments. The extraordinary confidence that those precious few moments, their friendship, would last forever. Unfortunately that young naivete turned out to be the breeding ground for heartbreak. And many of the world’s most famous romance novels.

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The love and romance of Jane Austen’s courtship

July 10, 2014 by Alyssa Leave a Comment

BecomingJane

The love and romance of Jane Austen’s courtship continues to pull me through time as I ride the energy held in Jane Austen’s 200 year old ring. With seamless transition I land in her young life and find myself strolling arm and arm through the cool, damp evening with her dance partner. The scent of roses and pine wraps around us on the gentle summer breeze, seducing and guiding us further into the isolated courtyard.

His elegant demeanor has charmed her and now and then I can hear his Irish brogue as he and Jane secretly confide their deeper thoughts to one another. To Jane it was nothing less than a stroll through heaven. To spend any amount of time with a caring man who is not intimidated by her intelligence, but rather impressed by a creative woman whose thoughts and ideas are well beyond her time. It was her dream come true.

Looking away from his face I turn and realize he’s led me along the garden path and into the near dark shadows of the rich evergreens that line the garden paths. I look back to his face and find his ready gaze rooted in endless time, a trance that only lovers share. The delicate touch of his fingers against Jane’s face is enough to close my eyes on contact. And the feel of his soft lips against my own makes Jane forget the world around her as well as her past, and send her dreaming about a future she only now feels brave enough dream.

It is the kind of kiss that awakens something within you, breathing life into a part of you that had previously lay dormant, existing only in quiet, isolated moments. It was a kiss that reached inside, touching this place in your soul, birthing with it this part of yourself that could never be ignored again.

As I wandered through the depths of his eyes as warm as cinnamon spice, I realized that this was the man that had changed Jane from girl to woman, had helped establish the seeds of love and romance in the writer to come. And given the depths of their connection, changed her perhaps in a way no one else could.

I felt the bonds of their love, the way they connected so uniquely, so powerfully as to embolden Jane. He understood her, bolstered her confidence and helped birth the strength of an identity that had previously been quiet and unwelcome in other circles.

With one look into his eyes she recognized his soul. Knew the purpose of their meeting, and leapt into his arms with the trust and confidence of new love meant to be.

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tune in tomorrow for the next scene…

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