Hi, My name is Kadian Tracey and I also write under the pen name, Kendra Mei Chailyn.
First, thanks to Francis for letting me crash her digs. I really do appreciate it. And Happy New Year to everyone! I am hoping this year brings you joy and happiness.
What should I blog about today? Well, I stewed over the that and finally came up with second chances. Many of you, who've been reading my stuff since my first release, know Destiny's Cowboy. It was my first everything lol. Once the contract was up--well a couple of years after the contract was up, I got the rights back from my publisher and was going to just give up on it. Then you guys wrote asking if I was going to re-release it and well...voila! The brand spanking new cover done by my cover guru and new edits--it's now available for your Kindle. If you wish for paperback copies then I can make that available for you as well. The re-release for Destiny's Cowboy is the second chance--a chance to have new eyes see the work. I am so excited with that because, everything and everyone deserves a second chance. The cover makes me smile every time I look at it.
Ok, so here's the Blurb:
The last thing, ex-football player Gage Everette wanted to do was go back to Montana and the Cold Blazes Ranch. But one can only run from their lives and themselves for so long. When he is forced to return to the Cold Blazes Ranch, he simply wish to do what is expected and leave again. But fate has a strange way of sticking it's nose in where it doesn't belong.
Jasmine Cole is running with her daughter Kleo. She is hurt, afraid and alone. Meeting the sexy cowboy with the icy blue eyes wasn't in her plans but when both her and her daughter begin falling for him she must now learn to trust him too and she was making progress--that is until an old flame turns up, turns her life upsided down and her baby goes missing. All the progress she's made with Gage goes out the window and things go downhill from there.
Jasmine Cole is running with her daughter Kleo. She is hurt, afraid and alone. Meeting the sexy cowboy with the icy blue eyes wasn't in her plans but when both her and her daughter begin falling for him she must now learn to trust him too and she was making progress--that is until an old flame turns up, turns her life upsided down and her baby goes missing. All the progress she's made with Gage goes out the window and things go downhill from there.
The buy link is: http://www.amazon.com/Destinys-Cowboy-ebook/dp/B00515LRYW/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1324745354&sr=1-3
Broken Wings was never with a publishing house. There was a reason for that. I wanted it to be personal--something from me. A part of the story is my life story and a part of it is fiction. I wanted it to come across a certain way and I didn't want all the language and accents and attitude and darkness to be edited out of it. It's not easy to put this story in a genre...it is romance with inspirational and general fiction attributes. I took great pains into writing this tale--It took me almost three years from inception to actually sit down and began putting it on paper as they say. I wasn't sure I wanted to do it but since I got the idea in church, I felt it would be kind of horrid not to actually use the inspiration I was given.
Blurb: When Monique Winston’s world collapsed with the death of her mother she knows now that she has to stand on her own two feet. But before her mother left this world, she taught Monique two important things. One, Monique should Never trust a black man. Two, Monique will never be good enough for any man. And if Devaughn Cole think he’s just going to waltz in and murky her life more he has another thing coming.Devaughn Cole is laid back, handsome and stinking rich. He is the latest brotha to leave the hood and make it big in the music industry. Afraid of loosing who he was, he returned to the hood to build a house. After his latest tour, he just wants to go home and relax. But when he meets Monique Winston, he finds that there's more to this full figured beauty than meets the eyes but she is broken, mind, body and soul.
Will he be able to fight her demon past? And can she open up herself to a whole new world of possibilities.
The Buy Link: http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Wings-ebook/dp/B006H4FZUS/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1324745856&sr=1-2
Made to Bend Not Break this story is one of my pride and joys. It's about a woman who loses everything--or think she did and what she had to do, the journey she had to take in order to pull herself and everything back together. It shows that second chances may not come when you think its time or when society dictates it should. I wrote this story--well more like the story tumbled from me while I was in university, hearing of so many divorces and break ups.
I recieved so many reviews for this. Majority of them are positive with room for improvement, some are just horrid. Well one was particularly bad because the woman who reviewed it bought the story without reading the description. Her one and only complaint--or valid complainted was that there was no sex until the end...I'm sorry but if that's your beef with my work, I'm cool with that. Anywho, I recieved one review from the ARE cafe that made my cry - in a good way. It was thorough and carefully written. The reviewer really saw what I was trying to put out there andw as appreciative of that.
Blurb: Macy Hines has the perfect marriage, a beautiful, Manga drawing teenage daughter and she lives in a town filled the perfect stepford wives--that is until her life takes on a dramatic turn. Her husbands leaves her for a younger woman, her daughter hates her, she becomes best friends with vodka, and the community she had been so involved with suddenly turns their backs on her. After trying desperately to put her life back together and failing miserably, Macy decides to take her best friend's offer of an all expense paid trip to Italy for all three of them in order to breathe and work out her issues. At this rate, it feels like it will take a miracle to save her.Draco De Luca is at that age where he's looking for a woman to spend the rest of his life with and so far, he hasn't been having much luck. That is until he visits his mother's house for a dinner and meets the ebony goddess with the sad brown eyes. But her past demons are getting in the way--she has been damage and now he has to decide if he has to let her go to be whole again or should he help.
Excerpt: The breeze off the sea travelled upward and brushed over my face. I lifted my face and closed my eyes. I was so far into the simple pleasure of it all that when he walked up behind me I did not sense him.
“Buonasera.”
I gasped and swirled around. There he was. This time, however, he wore more than a speedo-esque bathing suit. He was dressed in a pair of jeans, a graphic t-shirt that I couldn’t really see well in the dim light, and a suit jacket. His hair was finger-raked backward and he hadn’t shaved. Draco De Luca cleaned up very well. I glanced around him, then up into his eyes. He was so tall. “Draco? What are you doing here?”
“My mother is this party’s hostess,” he explained.
“Your mother? Who’s your mother?”
“Capri.”
That rang false to me for Tricia never recognized him on the beach, yet she was such good friends with Capri. Of the five years Tricia had been visiting Camogli, had Capri not spoken about her son? That would seem strange, considering.
“You do not believe me. I can see it in your eyes. May I sit here?”
I nodded feebly and shuffled over so he could sit and I could face him. I did not know if I liked a man who could read me so readily. It was quite unnerving knowing someone knew what you were thinking before you voiced it. It was as though he was snooping around in my head and I suddenly felt invaded. If it was anything I prised above all else, was the sanctity of my thoughts. Those were things that could not be taken from me no matter what else was stolen.
“I met Tricia the first time tonight. For the first few years my mother spoke about this woman, Tricia Mantle, I was living in England. For the past couple of years, I started a business in Paris. Besides, I travel a great deal at the moment. This would be the first time that I am here the same time she is.”
“Oh.” I felt like a fool. “I’m sorry. It’s just that on the beach she didn’t know who you were and I figured she would know you since her and Capri seemed such close friends.”
“No need to be sorry. Even if my mother had spoken about me, she probably introduced me as Dragon.” He spoke so softly it was almost like a breath.
My gaze fell to his lips and I found myself wondering what would happen should I just reach in and brush those luscious lips with my own. I jerked away when I caught myself and rubbed a hand over my face.
“I do not bite, Macy. I promise. I only seek conversation.”
“It’s not that.” I lied. “What would you like to talk about?”
He smirked.
My breath caught in my throat.
“I am going to go out on a limb and say that talking about why I see fear in your eyes each time you look at me is off limits. How about you tell me a little about yourself?”
“There isn’t much to tell.” I turned from him. “I’m a mother.”
“A wife, I assume?”
“Not any more,” I whispered. There—I said it. It was out in the universe and no matter how much I wanted to take it back, I couldn’t. It felt like saying that I was no longer Kevin’s wife made it true. The admission felt like I was speaking something dirty and it left a bad taste in my mouth. I wasn’t sure if we were divorced yet for I had a chance to give Martin a call. It was pretty much a done deal since Kevin wanted Sharon and me gone. I took a deep breath and lifted my eyes to the dark spot where the ocean should be and stared.
“This may sound harsh, but I am happy you’re no longer married,” he said.
I felt his breath against my ear and I shivered. I didn’t jerk away, though for it felt so good. A little intimacy after so long felt like heaven. “Why is that?” I managed.
“I have travelled a lot, Macy, and I have met more women than I can count. But I have never met anyone like you.”
“I bet you say that to all the girls.”
“No. I do not speak just to hear myself or because I love the sound of my voice. I speak the truth. There is something so exotic and breathtaking about you…the way the moon glows off your dark skin, the look in your eyes when you are wondering should you kiss me or not.”
“Egotistic, much?”
“I saw the way your eyes trailed over my lips, Macy. Do you deny it?”
What could I say? I could lie. He was so close, I could scarcely think. Each time I turned to him and inhaled his scent being carried on the air, filling my body, it drove me to dizziness. I couldn’t deny it and on the same breathe I would never admit it. I couldn’t. I refused to go there again with Kevin or Draco. My heart was on the mend and I could not risk it getting broken again.
“I fear I must let my intentions known,” Draco said. He moved mouth from side to side so that his breath caressed my ear, my neck and behind my ear. “I have every intention of having you by my side, in my arms—in my bed.”
“You’re full of yourself.” I drew away reluctantly.
“No—just determined.”
The Buy Link: http://www.amazon.com/Made-to-Bend-Not-Break-ebook/dp/B003TU24KM/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1324746078&sr=1-4
So those are my stories about second chances. I hope you see something you liked. My website is at http://trueloveiscolourblind.yolasite.com and please join my blog is at http://kadiantracey.blogspot.com you can aslo follow me on twitter @kendramechailyn
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Kendra Mei Chailyn/Kadian Tracey