Author: Candace Sams
A Favorite Autumn Treat: Hot Buttered Rum – heavy on the rum!!!
Featured Book: Galactic Hearts
Blurb Galactic Hearts — Men of Austoura:
As a pragmatic cop, Kerry Blaine doesn’t believe in aliens from outer space. When she’s told they exist, and that she’s to work with one to save the planet from total annihilation, her worst nightmares become reality.
Using an Earth moniker, Regin Adams wants nothing more than to make a home for his parents, siblings, and his entire race. If he can’t block deadly gamma radiation in Earth’s atmosphere, there’ll be no life left at all; no home for anyone.
Despite Kerry’s fears, Regin means to do all he has promised. He vows to not only forge a home for his space-weary people, but win the heart of a very skeptical police officer—a woman he’s come to love more than anything in the universe. All it takes is an alignment of faith, hearts, and minds. Harder than saving humanity is the quest to win Kerry’s love.
Excerpt from Galactic Hearts — Men of Austoura
The open vee of his shirt displayed tanned amounts of flesh synonymous with exposure to a lot of sun. Muscles protruded from every visible aspect. She’d been in a gym enough to know somebody who was training safely. This guy looked like a walking ad for steroid abuse. She could almost hear a TV public service announcer saying ‘don’t look like this…remember, steroids kill’.
When he slowly walked toward her, Kerry held her stance. To be realistic, where could she go? Somebody had thought so little of her—even with her beloved uncle near—to lock her in this room with a towering, pissed-off looking column of flesh.
The mythical god-like man stopped several feet from her and insolently looked her up and down. When the perusal went on too long, Kerry’s Irish ancestry emerged. She lifted her chin and stared back at him, moving closer as a way of showing her mettle. If she was going to die—or at least get the crap beat out of her—she’d do it with her own brand of dignity.
Suddenly, a light of admiration shimmered in the big man’s eyes and he slowly, ever so slowly, smiled. His full lips and perfectly white grin, were disarming. Not to mention enticing. The change was so sudden she stood there blinking in shock.
“You have courage, I’ll give you that,” he admitted.
For a long moment, she didn’t answer. Finally, curiosity overcame amazement. “Who are you and why am I locked in here?”
“I can’t say why those agents locked the doors. As to the other part of your question…my name is Region.”
“That’s it? Nothing else?”
“That’s the name you may use.” He walked slowly around her and stopped in front of her again. “You’re far more intriguing in person.”
“What’s that supposed to mean? And what accent is that? Are you Dutch…German?” she asked as a way of throwing him off balance.
“Let’s say I’m not from around here and leave it at that,” he glibly replied before backing up and sitting on a tabletop. “So…it begins.”
“What begins?”
“Ah…your government friends didn’t have the nerve to explain. They probably thought I’d think twice about communicating if you became hysterical.”
Kerry lowered her head and gazed at the floor for a minute. When she raised her eyes again, she fought to keep her temper. A silent count to ten hadn’t worked. “Look…Region…or whoever you are…I don’t like games. I got a call from my supervisor to show up here. But if there’s no emergency, my time is bein’ wasted. So…either somebody tells me what the hell is going on or I’m walkin’!”
Region grinned. “You are exactly as I imagined.” He looked her over again. “You’ll do.”
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Author Bio
Candace Sams (aka C.S. Chatterly) graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in Agriculture, worked as a police officer with the State of Texas, did a brief stint with the Texas Department of Public Safety Undercover Narcotics Task Force, and was also with the San Diego Police Department. She taught for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and worked in law enforcement in Alabama.
She currently trains as the senior woman on the US Kung Fu Team (working on her fourth black belt), and has been awarded the Medal of Putien from China and the Statue of Tao for her work in martial arts. She is the holder of several international martial arts titles. In 2000, she was one of a fifteen-member team – authorized by act of Senate – to represent this country as a martial art’s ambassador to mainland China. Experiences in law enforcement, martial arts (Shaolin Kung Fu) are frequently used in her career as an author – she is known for writing fight scenes into her fictional works. As an added note, Ms. Sams is also a Master Gardener and loves working outdoors.
After publishing sixty titles in the fantasy, science fiction, paranormal and action-adventure genres, she’s received more than thirty awards from various organizations, including five National Readers’ Choice Awards and a USA Today Best Book nomination. She is now movie optioned.
Hailing from Texas, Candace loves the country life. She and her husband live in a rural area of the US. A plethora of dogs and cats have adopted them. She loves to hear from readers and can be contacted through her website at www.candacesams.com. Candace also writes erotica as C.S. Chatterly and can be contacted from www.cschatterly.com.
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Sounds like a great story. I think I shall try hot buttered rum. I nver have.