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New Release – Welcome Home, Captain Harding

Posted in Uncategorized on September 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The latest in the series of Captain Harding novels has just been released!

Welcome Home, Captain Harding by Elliott Mackle

Returning to California after eighteen terrifying months in Vietnam, Captain Joe Harding is assigned a trio of duties: assisting his fatherly former commander at base operations, spying on misbehaving bomber pilots and organizing an air show designed to counter the anti-war fever sweeping the state. Meanwhile, his much younger tennis partner has enrolled at Cal Berkeley, enmeshed himself in pacifist politics and resumed his role as Joe’s lover. When a playmate from Wheelus, a one-time fighter pilot now flying for TWA, shows up at Joe’s house in Merced, the three men must navigate the joys and difficulties inherent in creating their own sort of ‘welcome home.’

Continuing the adventures and misadventures begun in Elliott Mackle’s award-winning Captain Harding’s Six-Day War and Captain Harding and his Men, Joe and his fellow officers and men are up against a hot-dogging, risk-taking aircraft commander, a pair of drug-abusing co-pilots and a married administrator with a taste for sexual blackmail. When a Broadway show causes a death in the family, a test flight goes terribly wrong and Joe’s honor and patriotism are questioned, he must fight to clear his name and rebuild his imperiled career.

A terrific addition to the story of Joe Harding and his men. I enjoyed it very much.

Available from all the usual places including Amazon and ARe

 

 

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Humpday Hook

Posted in Excerpt on September 4, 2013| 5 Comments »

Me again after a very long break! In fact my last HDH post was back in June.

So long ago that I think an explanation is in order. Hump Day Hook is a sort of blog hop where bits of story are posted – these can be anything from erotic romance to sci fi – and we all bop around the blogosphere reading each others work. Just click on the kissy-face graphic below to go to the list of participating authors.

 

Since the graphic for HDH is het I decided to post bits of an old Regency romance that I started to write over 25 years ago. In the story well meaning but foolish Sir Aubrey loses an IOU promising his sister’s hand in marriage to a friend, who loses it to someone else. Lady Cicely is horrified to read in the paper next morning an announcement of her engagement to Sir Patrick Fitzroy, son and heir of the Earl of Innisidhe. Now Aubrey and Cicely are squabbling about the best way to deal with the situation.

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“He’s a handsome devil, though,” Aubrey admitted, “which makes him even more eligible despite his faults. There are going to be a lot of disappointed young ladies and furious mamas reading the paper this morning.”

Cicely gaped at him. “You mean to say that he’s a – a catch! Mad Pat FitzRoy?”

“Mad Pat FitzRoy has got more money than he knows what to do with. There’s many a girl, as you well know, who would give her eyeteeth to be a Countess with a fortune not dependent upon a few hundred acres in Derbyshire. They are going to be green with envy.” Aubrey suddenly grinned. “They’ll be cutting you dead in the streets.”

Cicely also saw the funny side and began to giggle. “Are you sure,” she demanded, “that he’ll be as upset about this as I am?”

“Mad Pat? With a wife? He’ll be frantic!”

“Good.”  Cicely’s smile was not very nice. “Let’s teach him a lesson. I want you to write a letter to my betrothed, Aubrey. Let’s see if we can make the worm squirm before we let him off the hook.”
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Author’s Note: In those days, once the announcement had been made in the paper it was pretty much a done deal. A man could be sued for breach of promise if he went back on an engagement and the girl had to think hard about whether she wanted request an end to the engagement and risk being branded a flirt and a jilt. To post a retraction, stating that the announcement had been made accidentally would cause a scandal. So Cicely’s situation is rather more serious that it first appears to be.

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New Release – a free read from Chris Quinton

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on September 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

All formats available from Smashwords.

The Renfrew Files #1 – The Carpenter’s Tale.

It should have been a bit of a break for Mark Renfrew, attending an archaeological conference with Jack Faulkner, his lover. No ghosts, no drama beyond the academic. But it didn’t work out that way. The modern Five Star hotel held a dark secret, and Mark knew he had to uncover it before more people were hurt.

Download from All Romance eBooks HERE
And from Smashwords HERE incuding .mobi files for Kindle users.

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