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More from my Garden

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Things are still popping in my garden. This flower is known as phlox, also called Sweet William. It grows wild where I live, but is a wonderful contribution to my garden. I let a lot of the stalks stay until they dry, then I shake them out over the ground to ensure a nice crop of volunteers the next year. The thing is, it blooms after the rhodos and azaleas, and before the dahlias, so is a great contribution.

Here is a beautiful swallowtail butterfly feeding on the phlox flowers.

I will announce the winners of the book Dead Wrong very soon.

Book contest

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Dead Wrong by Sylvie Grayson

This month I have a contest for you. To enter send me an email at sylviegraysonauthor@gmail.com with the subject ‘Best thing about Spring”. I’ll pick two winners to win an ebook version of Dead Wrong —

Blurb –  Shelley Blake is a nine-year-old child prodigy in a sixth-grade classroom when she first meets Chris Wright. He’s the big boy in the desk behind who takes her under his protective wing.

But soon she leaves him behind to attend a different school and skip another grade. When she begins university, her classmates observe her extreme youth and walk a wide berth around her. Lonely, she meets charming Billy Zach, but new love soon turns sour. Then Billy disappears.

Years later, Chris appears again in Shelley’s life and she wonders if she can trust her growing attraction to him. She’s already dealing with her father’s worsening emphysema, her sister’s secrets, and the demands of her still fledgling business, When the police return, asking questions about Billy Zach, and more evidence is uncovered, Shelley realizes none of it will matter if she’s heading to prison for a murder she didn’t commit.

See more at https://www.amazon.com/Sylvie-Grayson/e/B00OEIVODG/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1

or https://www.bookbub.com/profile/sylvie-grayson

Garden in bloom

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My garden has gone crazy this spring. Don’t know if it is the weather or my green thumb!

Here are the Japanese tree peonies – I thought they only came in one colour but apparently not. These come in several different shades.

There is also a white one with huge petals that I didn’t get a photo of, it only lasted a few days.

Then there are the azalias, several different colours,

Lastly the wisteria, growing on the railing of my deck. The perfume is stunning, makes me want to linger out there, beside the great vine. It has roots in the rocks below, I don’t know what feeds it, but it is so strong it pulled the railing out of alignment.

The other plant is called rose geranium. I’ve never been fond of geraniums since my grade 6 teacher put one in a pot on the window sill beside my seat and I caught what I thought of as the ‘stink’ of the plant for the rest of the spring. But these smell wonderful. The flower isn’t huge, but the leaves have a lot of oil in them and I dry them and use for potpourri in the winter.

How is your garden growing?

 

Happy Valentine’s – win a book, buy a book

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More snow, ice and wind, glad I’m not going out today. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY to all you readers out there. Stay warm, stay dry, keep reading! Follow me on BookBub here— https://www.bookbub.com/profile/sylvie-grayson

Book giveaway contest –see below! Suspended Animation

Suspended Animation by Sylvie Grayson

The story is about a hockey player. To enter the contest, email me at sylviegrayson@gmail.com with the subject line Hockey Player, and send me your best hockey story. I’ll choose 5 entries as winners of the book.

Back blub — Be careful who you trust!

Katy Dalton worked hard to save her money. And having her friend Bruno invest it seemed like a safe bet. But her job disappears and she needs her money back, everything Bruno has already loaned to Rome Trucking. When Katy insists he return it, Bruno stops answering his phone and bad things start to happen.

Brett Rome is frustrated. The last thing he wants to do is leave a promising career in hockey to come home and run his ailing father’s trucking company. What he discovers is not the successful business that he remembers, but one that is teetering on the very edge of bankruptcy and a young woman demanding the return of the money she invested.

With the company in chaos, Brett hires her. But danger lurks in the form of Bruno’s dubious associates. What secret are they hiding and why are they willing to kill Katy? Can Brett put this broken picture back together, and is Katy part of the solution or the problem?

A thrilling roller coaster of a story…

Sylvie Grayson has found her niche, you’ll love this book…

Here’s the link –  On sale for 99 cents until Feb 14th, 2019

Amazon —

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NCCESMO/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i13

Kobo — https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/suspended-animation-8

Barnes and Noble— https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/suspended-animation-sylvie-grayson/1120907445?ean=2940152675931

ITunes — https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1044872722

Remember– sale ends Feb 14th

What readers say about Suspended Animation–

5 Stars- Like watching a movie- Ms. Grayson writes so well that I feel like I am watching everyone as the action takes place! The scenes are detailed and the characters are so descriptive that I almost feel like I know these people and have shared time with them. There is some great action and romance to warm everyone up while enjoying this read on a cold day. I have read several books by Ms. Grayson , from romance and mystery through science fiction in the Khandarken Last War series, and have loved them all. I so look forward to reading her next books as she writes from the wonderful West coast.