This week’s hop question is: What is the one thing that immediately sends you back to childhood? Is it a food, a scent, a swing set?

I grew up in Central New Jersey. If you’re not from the area, you may think that’s all city, but New Jersey is the Garden State and had lots of farmland when I was a kid. A lot of that is suburbs now, but it’s still very pretty place to grow up with lots of green, mountains, and beach.

As a teen I worked on a horse farm. I loved it. For cleaning stalls we got to ride for free. I met some of the best people and think of them and those times on the farm often, especially when I’m near horses.

“There’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.” ~ Winston Churchill

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Keep on Hopping for Jill Haymaker!

Colorado Sunset

Come home to Peakview, Colorado where everyone has a chance at love

After June Meyers’ devastating divorce six years ago, she remained devoted to her children and their home in Ohio. Now her youngest child is off to college, and June faces her future with a mix of anxiety and excitement.
The Walker Horse Ranch in isolated Peakview, Colorado, provides the perfect setting for Jeff Walker to hide from the pain of losing his wife to cancer eight years ago. He’s raised his sons and now his ranch and horses are his life. It’s just simpler that way.

Avoiding making any long tern decisions about her life, June embarks on a cross country road trip to visit her son and grandchildren in California. After car trouble strands her in the beautiful Rocky Mountains, she lands at the Walker Ranch, where she encounters the handsome, rugged rancher, Jeff. While neither is looking for a relationship, they can’t deny the chemistry that draws them together.
Can they drop their barriers and take a second chance at love?

Its never too late to find love. Baby boomers will love this book about finding love even after you given up. The first in a series about the wonderful residents of a small Colorado town. You will fall in love with Peakview Colorado and look forward to returning soon to find out who is next to find their perfect match.

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Don’t forget that today is release day for Changing Lanes!

BEN
The heart attack I thought I had turned out to be an anxiety attack. My doctor’s orders—take a month off from being Mayor of Roseville. Bulldozed by my large but tightknit family, I agree to a yoga and meditation retreat in Southern California. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined the woman who owns the place would turn my world upside-down. Portia is too young for me. Geographically, too far away from me. She’s also everything I never knew I wanted.

PORTIA
When my friend asks me to help her cousin-in-law manage his stress, I agree immediately. I’d do anything for a friend. She told me he’s the mayor of her town, so I’m expecting some old guy. Far from it. Ben Lane is six-feet-two inches of I-want-to-strip-you-naked-and-take-you-to-bed man. I’m turned on the minute I see him. How I could go from someone who’s never been infatuated to I-can’t-live-without-you is some kind of miracle. I’m pretty sure the miracle is Ben.