"If you are looking for a series that keeps you on the edge, wondering what will happen next, wondering how an author created a jaw-dropping, heart-stopping book. Then look no further. Genie has created that with this series." --Bunnies Review

Saturday, August 8, 2015

EXPLOSIVE EMOTIONS AS A TOWN EXPLODES


CHALLENGING THE LEGACY
Book 5 of the Halo Legacy Series

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The sound of cars coming up the driveway registered at the back of Pierce's brain, and he waffled between irritation and gratitude. Irritation because he wanted to sort out Ruby's story, and gratitude because he figured this was going to be the kind of emotional bloodbath he tried to avoid at all costs. 

"Were you expecting someone?" Pierce asked. 

Glancing at the grandfather clock standing in the hallway, Tallie pushed up from the couch with a frown. "It's too early--" 

But a disturbance at the door interrupted her as a young woman with streaming red-gold hair pushed inside and hustled straight toward Tallie. "We need the safe room. Halo is exploding." 
…
As Pierce's normally agile brain struggled to make sense of who all these people were and what was going on, Tallie transformed from stunned woman who had fainted into his arms to warrior woman in charge of a town of evacuees. 

"Alright, let's get everyone in the basement. Marly, help me get the weapons passed out in case he comes here." 

Pierce followed Tallie and the young woman called Marly--his daughter, he realized. 

She was beautiful. Just a few inches over five feet. However, Marly didn't seem small, perhaps because she so expertly loaded the small arsenal of weapons from a gun safe and handed them off to people lined up and waiting, as if they had done this many times before. 
...
Mostly women and a few teenagers, Pierce noted. Where were the men? What had he stumbled into? 

(EXCERPT from Challenging the Legacy, copyright Genene Valleau, writing as Genie Gabriel)

Friday, August 7, 2015

AN OLD LOVER FINDS TALLIE


CHALLENGING THE LEGACY
Book 5 of the Halo Legacy Series

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Tallie looked out the peephole. Her heart dropped to her stomach as she blinked and looked again. 

The man on her porch didn't disappear. He simply stood casually with one hand in his pocket, surveying the house and surrounding property as if appraising a potential purchase. 

Tallie stood in front of the elevator doors, clasping a massive arrangement of sunflowers in front of her. The florist shop where she worked part-time had been busy that afternoon. After she delivered these flowers to the third floor, several other arrangements were waiting for her back at the shop. 

The doors opened with a ping and a man charged out. Tallie tried to step aside, but he plowed into her before she had a chance to move. The vase slipped from her hands, scattering yellow flowers and shards of glass as it shattered on the marble floor. 

The physical contact reverberated through her body and settled in her belly as a primal longing. 

The same longing now unfurling at the core of her being. 

The door swung open, surely from Tallie turning the knob. But her brain was no longer connected to any of her actions as she stared at the man she once thought would love her forever. 

His gaze shifted to her, surveying her much as he had the house, from the well-worn slacks she had donned that morning for spit-shining the house to the strawberry blonde hair escaping from a casual chignon at the back of her head.

"So I've found you at last." Pierce Stratford stepped inside…

(Excerpt from Challenging the Legacy, copyright Genene Valleau, writing as Genie Gabriel) 

Thursday, August 6, 2015

RUBY COMES TO STAY

CHALLENGING THE LEGACY
Book 5 of the Halo Legacy Series

Marly's bio mom becomes
an unlikely ally for Tallie.


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The next time Tallie heard from Marly was via a reluctant phone call from Dawson sitting in his SUV outside a hospital in Boise, Idaho. He explained Marly had decided to look for her birth mother and found her at the hospital. "The doctors say Ruby has cancer and only a few months to live." 

In spite of resenting Ruby for years, Tallie also owed the woman a huge debt for giving her one of the most treasured gifts she had ever received: her daughter. "I'll be there as soon as I can." 

"Marly is determined to take care of Ruby." 

In a heartbeat, Tallie made another decision. "Then I guess I'd better prepare a space for Ruby." 

(Excerpt from Challenging the Legacy, copyright by Genene Valleau, writing as Genie Gabriel)

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

THE FOUNDATION OF TALLIE'S LIFE CRUMBLES


CHALLENGING THE LEGACY
Book 5 of the Halo Legacy Series

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Tallie focuses on family, until a secret revealed in a moment of despair shakes the foundation of everything she holds dear.

"You're not Bernie." Collin blew out a breath as his shoulders slumped. "None of us are. We're all just kids he saved from the streets. Even you." 
"I wasn't a street kid." Marly stared at Collin for a moment, then she turned toward Tallie. "Mom?" 
Stunned, Tallie simply stared back, as the world she had built over the last twenty-eight years began crumbling beneath her feet. How did Collin know? 

(Excerpt from Challenging the Legacy, copyright Genene Valleau, writing as Genie Gabriel)

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

LOOK FOR THE LETTER…


CHALLENGING THE LEGACY
Book 5 of the Halo Legacy Series

When her policeman husband is gunned down, Tallie doesn't think it is an accident. Their eight adopted children are determined to continue the legacy, but Tallie retreats from public events, haunted by Bernie's last message, "Look for the letter...if something happens to me, look for the letter." 

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Monday, August 3, 2015

A LEGACY IN SMALL TOWN HALO, OREGON


CHALLENGING THE LEGACY
Book 5 of the Halo Legacy Series

Tallie and Bernie O'Shea built a legacy of compassion and justice in small town Halo, Oregon.

"They don't have anywhere else to turn, Tallie. We're their last hope." How many times had Bernie said those words when a knock came in the middle of the night? How could she turn away these desperate souls when she had once been one of them? 

"Look at all the good you've done and stop beating yourself up for the mistakes you made when you were young. You didn't have to agree to Bernie's proposal. You didn't have to take on eight kids you didn't give birth to. You didn't have to lend a hand to every down and out soul in five counties." Ruby paused. "But you did. You didn't wait until you were dying to make things right. You lived to make things right." 

(Excerpts from Challenging the Legacy, copyright Genene Valleau, writing as Genie Gabriel)


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Saturday, August 1, 2015

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When her policeman husband is gunned down, Tallie O'Shea doesn't think it's an accident. Then a former lover shows up and secrets from her past are exposed. As danger explodes around her, can Tallie set things right before everything she loves is destroyed?

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