A Day At The Beach

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Living minutes from the beach, my natural inclination is to escape the heat and head for cool coastal breezes. I live on the central coast of California, exactly half way between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It's beautiful here, and the beaches are pristine.

However, there's one little problem with visiting the idyllic beach on Independence Day. 

It becomes a volatile warzone!

Not a place for a family picnic, eh?

Most beaches in California won't get this crazy on July 4^th, only the ones that allow fireworks or have pyrotechnic displays of awesomeness. 

We usually trek to a small, sleepy beach community, population 3,100.

On a clear night, we can see the firework show happening farther down the coast, where the partiers are launching cherry bombs and bottle rockets at each other. But this is a family beach where aromas of charcoal briquettes and bbq mix with the sounds of crashing surf and laughing children.

What are your plans for Independence Day? I'd like to hear about them!

Remedy Maker – coming July 27, 2012, from Ruby Lioness Press.

Blurb:  

Man by day, Centaur by night, Rhycious is a remedy maker who needs his own healing.

He's the royal physician, famous for his cures. War and posttraumatic stress disorder has broken his spirit, preventing him from finding true happiness. Then a direct order from the queen to investigate an uprising forces him out of his secluded cabin at the edge of the forest.

Patience is an optimistic, good-natured Wood Nymph who works as a mediator to ensure harmony within the Nymph sector.

Environmental pollution in the aquifer stream that feeds the taproot tree of her heart is slowly killing her. Resigned to the fact she will not live long, she sets out to discover the mysterious disappearance of her sister. Experience has taught her to deny herself the love of a male, but the gruff Centaur is different. He doesn't push his expectations on her, only his healing nature.

When Rhycious loses his grip on reality, he believes his inability to control his disorder will drive Patience away. Nevertheless, desire flares, and Patience draws him close. Kidnapping and betrayal turn their mythic joint venture into a deadly bout.

Will their love endure when survival hinges on trusting each other?