Caridad Pineiro® Romance Author
NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
Wishing all my friends in the United States a very happy 4th of July. Also wish to thank all our military men, women and families for the sacrifices they make to keep us safe and free. God Bless You and God Bless America!
“Statue of Liberty 7” by Elcobbola – Own work. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
This Throwback Thursday is a photo from RWA 2012 in Anaheim! My wonderful friends and fellow authors KM Fawcett and Cathy Tully came by to wish me well at the book signing. KM and Cathy are awesome ladies and they have a fabulous new release out – Beauty and the Curse.
We had a fabulous time together down in New Orleans as well and I’m looking forward to spending more time with them this year in San Antonio! Thank you for your friendship and support, KM and Cathy!
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Since I’m busing working on ONE SPECIAL NIGHT, the follow-up to JUST ONE NIGHT, you may wonder what inspires a series like the Take a Chance series.
For me, it’s the secondary characters. Oftentimes when I start, I don’t really know which of the secondary characters will call to me the most, but then BAM! 🙂 I fall in love with one of them and know that I have to explore their story.
That’s what happened with Tommy, Nickie’s brother and Jase’s best friend, from JUST ONE NIGHT.
I saw a really good guy who definitely needed to find the right woman. I knew from JUST ONE NIGHT that Tommy was honorable and lots of fun. I knew he would have what it would take to help someone heal their wounds and find happiness.
I’m almost done with ONE SPECIAL NIGHT and I hope you’ll fall in love with Tommy the way I did and the way the heroine, Navy Corpsman Jasmine Reyes, does by the end of the story! ONE SPECIAL NIGHT will be available in late July.
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends. Happy July 1 to everyone else! It’s hard to believe it’s a new month already. It seems to me the summer is flying by and yet it only just got started.
Today I’ve got for you a teaser from Just One Night, my new release. I’m almost done with the next book in the series, One Special Night. That’s Tommy’s story and I’m really having a lot of fun writing it. One Special Night will be available in late July.
If you can’t see the excerpt of Just One Night just click here to read it!
Warning, this is for mature audiences only!
JUST ONE NIGHT, #NALit #Erotic #Romance novella by Caridad Pineiro
Sorry, U.S. team for picking German Mats Hummels, but his dark good looks grabbed my eye. Actually, as I’m busy picturing Tommy from my upcoming late July release, ONE SPECIAL NIGHT, I can kind of see him looking like Mats, except with a very boyish and sexy grin on his face. I’m finding that Tommy is full of life and love, just what wounded Jasmine needs to be whole again.
Anyway, here is Mats! Totally hero material, right?
“FIFA WC-qualification 2014 – Austria vs. Germany 2012-09-11 – Mats Hummels 01” by Michael Kranewitter – Own work. Licensed under CC-BY-3.0-at via Wikimedia Commons.
We’ve had an odyssey of sorts with some feral cats in our yard. Well over a year ago, we had a small cat come up and we felt so bad for it, we started feeding it. That kept up for several months and then it left, but came back with a little kitten. It was so so cute. These cats were all black and one of them had extra toes on its front paws.
Well, we started feeding the kitten and the larger cat stopped coming by. Then there was a gap and then the former kitten brought two more little black kittens with it. You could tell they were all related by the coloring and again, one of them had more toes.
We vowed to take them in for spaying and didn’t realize how quickly cats could breed. About two months ago, an air conditioner repairman warned that there were some feral kittens by the air conditioner and that they didn’t look too good. Sadly, there were 5, including one solid grey cat. By the time we got there, two were gone and sadly the other two passed that night even as we tried to take care of them.
It was a very sad and sobering moment. As for the grey one, it was larger than the four that passed and the mommy cat came and took it away.
Little did we know there were two other kittens as well. Over the weeks we’ve continued to feed the mommy cat and her sibling. About two weeks ago, the sibling brought up the grey kitten and left it at our door, much like cats do as a gift. We were baffled by that behavior and did our best to protect the little one by placing it in a cat bed where it curled up to sleep.
Luckily, mommy cat came about half an hour later and took the kitten back home.
We knew that if we had any chance of domesticating these kittens, we could not wait long to capture them and get them to the right people/shelter. Also, we do want to get the older cats spayed so as to avoid more feral animals.
Last night, the entire family was playing and hanging out on the deck, but as I passed by later that night, I noticed the grey one all alone and curled up in a pot.
I went over and it was sleeping, so I thought, time to see if it’s okay and if so, bring it in.
Well, it is okay and adapting to being held, etc. It could be that the kittens see us petting and taking care of the older ones. They started coming to the door to feed yesterday and have been spending a lot of time on the deck.
We’ll have to figure out what to do with them later. For right now, we’ve got a new kitten that we’re getting adapted to indoor life and we’ll have to take him to the vet. It is a him which will be new for me. I’ve always had female cats.
So far he has no name. We’ll have to decide on one later! Any suggestions? He’s all grey and the runt of the litter for sure. In the second picture, you can see that he fell asleep trying to climb back into the bed.
One of my fav singers is Gloria Estefan. This is a picture of my daughter and me getting ready to go see Gloria at a concert! Can you tell we were excited to go?
