June 2020

Happy June to you all! The cold, rainy weather postponed the planting of our garden this year, but it’s taken off now! Soon, I’ll be busy canning and freezing lots of fruits and veggies! We’ve already been getting lots of strawberries from our little patch and I’ve been making Strawberry Sundae Topping and freezing some of that for wintertime enjoyment! Nothing like strawberries in the cold weather. It’s really easy to make and is so beautiful in the jar! Here’s the recipe (not a low calorie treat, that’s for sure)! Strawberry Sundae Topping 2 cups hulled strawberries 1 cup granulated sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 3TBS cornstarch A few grains of salt (optional) 1/3 cup water (you may not need as much as this) Place clean, hulled strawberries in a thick sauce pot and add cornstarch. Use potato masher to crush berries and incorporate the cornstarch. Add sugar and stir well. Heat on medium-high heat until thick and bubbly. If too thick add water. Boil for one minute stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and salt, if desired. Let cool and store in the fridge or freeze for a few months at most. If freezing, thaw in the fridge before stirring well. It may be thinner due to the strawberries breaking down during the freeze/thaw cycle. You can cool this down and add fresh berries to make a gorgeous Strawberry Pie (can’t be kept overnight since the fresh strawberries weep and cause the crust to soften). Just chill for a few hours before cutting the pie. Now on to book news!

Books

A new Book Funnel .99 cent sale is going on this month! It’s the 99 cent Contemporary Romances going on from June 10 -15! I have two books in this event. Click Here

Mine, Psy-Bond Series Book One As a thirteen-year-old runaway, Mason "Mace" Adams learned at an early age to always look out for himself and trust no one. His father was an abusive alcoholic, his brother left to join the military and his best friend abandoned him. When he's abducted by aliens in 2017 to take part in "copulation studies", he tries to keep the shy, sweet woman he's paired with at arm's length. In 1982, Abby McMillion was getting her life back on track after leaving her hometown with a broken heart. She's captured by aliens, put in stasis and forced to endure long periods of time alone. When she is returned to her dark cell to find a strange man, she's happy to have human interaction again. She can't let herself fall for him, no matter how protective and sexy he is. Together Mace and Abby learn to rely on each other and along the way form a mythical psy-bond, but an accident returns Abby to her time, thirty-five years in the past. Alone and needing his mate, Mace begins a journey to rescue the one woman who completed his broken soul. Now he must find a way to bring Abby back to 2017 and save his sanity and end his pain. Mine ends in a soft cliffhanger that will continue in the next book, "Ours" but rest assured an HEA is going to happen! This book contains a couple with trust issues who learn to love and trust each other. There are hot love scenes and this book is intended for adults 18+.

Aoki, The Watchers Book One Aoki, shamed by his brother's treachery comes to Earth to participate in a program designed to bring three races together. He finds love and hidden danger on Earth... Aoki Uisneach is an esteemed Hunter from Otron who has chased dangerous criminals throughout the Universe, but he faces the one thing that almost does him in; his brother's murderous rage against a human and Aoki's own family. He volunteers to participate in an educational program on Earth that brings Otronians, Beings, and Humans together. Once at the Exchange House, he meets the one woman who is his mate. Can Aoki learn to trust again and share his painful past with his housemates to let love heal his broken heart? Charley Aldridge is a self-described ‘ordinary, chubby eighth-grade history teacher’ who has been burned in love before. When her roommate encourages her to participate in the Exchange House Program, she puts her foot down in a definite 'no' but her roommate has other plans. Because of her name, she's been mistaken as a man and put at the Exchange House with two gorgeous male aliens. Charley soon falls for both men but can she overcome her insecurities to allow them to love her in return? Flynn is a Being Scientist who's just finished his emotion restoring injections. With his new emotions, the brilliant Doctor finds his attraction to his female housemate almost more than he can bear. Feeling things he's never expected, he knows the other man in the Exchange House has more than friendship in mind for their female housemate. Can he learn to trust his new feelings and share Charley's love with Aoki and not allow jealousy to ruin his chance at love? This story contains true love that must overcome many obstacles, a wolf who wants his mate, a scientist new to emotions and a hidden danger that threatens a hot ménage relationship. Aoki is a m/f/m romance.

Birthday Swag Giveaway Congratulations to P. Harris and L. Ladeira for winning the May Birthday Swag giveaway! I’ll be puttting up the post for June’s Giveaway soon at www.facebook.com/MDStewartAuthor. If you have a birthday in June, go to my pinned post, leave the date of your birthday in the comments! That’s it. I’ll pick a random winner and post it on my page July 1 st. I’ll DM you for your address and get your Swag to you ASAP!

Until next time, be good to one another.

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