May 30th, 2025

It’s almost officially summer! As a summer baby, I love the beach, carnival rides, and of course being outside with my children, both human and canine variety. Since I’m often the one packing for our adventures, I always toss in a couple books or my Kindle, home to lots of books and my comics.

For car rides, I put on Audible books. Family friendly adventure books work out if I play them on the speakers in the car, or I can go with spicier books if I use my Beats headphones.

Since my hands are often busy with tasks, I’ve found that I can use my Kindle for narration for books I don’t have a chance to page turn. Knowing that lots of readers prefer to have an audible version of books available, I have gone ahead and listed my books available for Audible download through Amazon. We used an ai voice instead of a human voice so we could get it out to you sooner. That being said it may have some of the more comical ai pronunciation mishaps I’ve heard in other books, so if you catch and error please message me and I’ll try and get it corrected. If you have a prime account on Amazon, you may even be able to get these books free-just click the links and check. I’m hoping to have the next book in the Help Wanted Romance Series available in late June and the next book in the All Tied Up In Knots series should be coming out in time for Halloween, edits, edits, edits…

Remember these books are all stand alone books, so you can read just one or all of them. I just didn’t want readers that missed a book to feel overwhelmed when the next one comes out and they feel like they have two to read or need to read them in a specific order. I despise cliffhangers. As a reader, waiting for that next book to drop while I’m stuck on a cliffhanger ending just kills me, so you get a complete story in every book.

Please, also check out your local authors. The only thing holding them back from reaching bigger audiences may be your five (5) star review. Ah, algorithms!

Since this is a Liquid Friday listing, I am also including today’s drink.

Ready for Summer Iced Tea-(serves 4)

What you need:

Tea pot (to brew the tea)

Pot to boil the water (it’s ok if you boil the water in a glass pot and add the loose tea in that, however you make tea works)

4 Glasses

6 cups water

2-3 Tablespoons loose assam tea in a tea ball or 2-3 of your favorite teabags(you can get creative and mix and match flavored teas or go for high antioxidant teas for your health)

Sliced lemon or other fruit

Ice

Flavored alcohol/spirits (optional- I’m going without so I can hydrate today)

How to:

1. Bring the water to a boil and carefully pour over tea leaves in a pot/carafe… whatever heat safe container you have. Nothing stings like a burn, so be careful here and if you’re using glass make sure its heat safe borosilicate glass with no defects or cracks.
2. Steep the tea. I like bitter so I do 5 minutes or omit the tea ball completely and just leave the loose tea to settle and continue to steep. You can do 2-3 minutes if you like a more mild taste.
3. Let the tea cool before you add the fruit, so you get some vitamin c
4. Add lemon slices, fruit, herbs… to reach the right flavor profile. I’ve done everything from cranberries to grapefruit and mint, so good.
5. Optional: Add 3 to 6 ounces of flavored alcohol to the carafe for guests over 21 (should be .75 ounce to 1.5 ounce per serving). I like Peach Schnapps or Blackberry Brandy, but I’ve heard Lemonade Flavored Vodka is great, too. It’s always a good idea to list the ingredients for your guests, since lots of people have allergies or choose to opt out of alcohol. Serve teas with alcohol exclusively to adults and get juice boxes or water bottles to younger guests so there are no mix ups.
6. Serve and enjoy

Now, onto the books. I have links below to the books, just select the audible versions. If you have an Audible Premium Plus account, they should be free, otherwise they are the low price of $3.99 plus tax.

Here are the links:

My monster series, ’cause every good girl loves things that go bump in the night.

Desperately Seeking Vampire, Book 1: Help Wanted Romance Series

https://www.amazon.com/Desperately-Seeking-Vampire-Wanted-Romance/dp/B0F9BD4LGZ

Desperately Seeking Vampire Hunter, Book 2: Help Wanted Romance Series

https://www.amazon.com/Desperately-Seeking-Vampire-Hunter-Romance/dp/B0F9BBV3NQ

All Tied Up In Knots Series, spicy fun reads

Knot An Actress

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F9B91Q66

Knot A Criminal

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F9B8H8RW

Knot A Geek (short read)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F3GVRPRH

Knot His Superior (short read)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F4NP6T8L

Knot Daddy’s Girl (short read)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DNGG5KZL

Knot A Photographer

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F9BBG7TH

Knot A Bunny

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DZDCCWQ6

Knot A Princess

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F9BBSKFG

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Don’t forget your purchases support our crazy Chinese Crested puppies. Mooshu is still fighting his blood disorder like a champion and Butler is giving him all the love a big brother can.

Thanks so much! Have a fun summer!