{"id":4005,"date":"2025-03-29T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=4005"},"modified":"2025-03-31T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T05:03:49","slug":"charity-sunday-ok-kids-korral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/29\/charity-sunday-ok-kids-korral\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Sunday: OK Kids Korral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How Charity Sunday works: for every comment made on this blog post, I will donate money to the charity named. The same promise is made for every blog site listed in the group–click the Linky Links link at the bottom of this post to see the list of participants and read\/comment on any of them to see a donation go to that blogger’s charity. We’re all different! Thanks for your help and your participation!<\/p>\n\n\n

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I would like to give a helping hand to the OK Kids Korral<\/a> in Oklahoma City. The OK Kids Korral provides support and housing for families of children in the area receiving treatment for cancer. It\u2019s part of the Toby Keith Foundation<\/a>. Families needing the OK Kids Korral will find rooms for the whole family to stay or day rooms, kitchens, and indoor and outdoor play areas, plus specific areas for those children with low immunity due to treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this isn\u2019t a charity available in a widespread area, it\u2019s wonderful for those who can reach the OK City region. My donation is a small return for the many years of enjoyment Toby Keith\u2019s music gave us. Thanks for your comments!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Blurb:<\/strong>
Winner! Coffee Pot Book Club awarded Burning Bridges the Gold Medal for Best Romance 2020!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not your typical \u201csecret baby\u201d book! This Southern romance packs in the emotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Letters delivered decades late send shock waves through Sara Richards\u2019s world. Nothing is the same, especially her memories of Paul, a man to whom she’d given her heart years before. Now, sharing her secrets and mending her mistakes of the past means putting her life back together while crossing burning bridges. It will be the hardest thing Sara\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy link:<\/strong>
Kindle Unlimited <\/a>https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Burning-Bridges-Anne-Krist-ebook\/dp\/B083HN3ZG2\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Excerpt:
<\/strong>Sara stared at the letters arranged before her in numerical order. The moment in time she and Paul <\/a>shared was long ago, yet her dream had conjured his presence as though she\u2019d just seen him. In her mind, his blue eyes darkened with passion before his lips captured hers, and he moaned his appreciation when their tongues met. She tasted his sweetness and knew the steel of his arms as he held her. How many nights had she put herself through hell reliving those memories? Too damn many.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the concert, they\u2019d met clandestinely on weekends, mostly at Sandbridge, where they could walk and talk undisturbed. With each meeting, stirrings built deep in Sara that pushed her to want more, but Paul insisted they restrain themselves because of her age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the weekend before he shipped out, she’d planned a surprise and her life changed forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kettle screeched, bringing her back to the present. Sara prepared a cup of tea and then picked up the envelope marked twenty-eight<\/em>. At one time, she would have given her right arm to hold this letter. Now, curiosity and the desire for a brief escape drove her more than the passion of youth. Blind love had faded when she\u2019d had no word to bolster her during the long weeks after the ship left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First had come the waiting. No letters arrived, even though she wrote him daily. There were no phone calls, no notes, no anything, for days that dragged into weeks then crept into months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anticipation morphed into anxiety. She worried he was sick or hurt and unable to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day she admitted that Paul must be afraid to write for some reason, and she feared what he would say if she did <\/em>receive a letter. That their time together had been a mistake, that she was too young to be in love. That he really loved someone else and Sara had been only a stand-in while he was in Virginia. Perversely, she began to sigh with relief when she arrived home and found no word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, knowing why she hadn\u2019t received mail, what would she feel if she opened this letter and her old fears proved to be true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNothing,\u201d she murmured. \u201cPaul\u2019s dead. He can\u2019t hurt me anymore.\u201d At the very least, his letters might allow her to put his ghost to rest. For that reason alone, she had to read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She slid her thumb under the flap and ripped the envelope open. A single sheet held his hurried scrawl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author Dee S. Knight:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, Dee S. Knight began writing, making getting up in the morning fun. During the day, her characters killed people, fell in love, became drunk with power, or sober with responsibility. And they had sex, lots of sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a while, Dee split her personality into thirds. She writes as Anne Krist for sweeter romances, and Jenna Stewart for m\u00e9nage and shifter stories. All three of her personas are found on the Nomad Authors website (www.nomadauthors.com). Fortunately, Dee\u2019s high school sweetheart is the love of her life and husband to all three ladies! On the last Sunday of the month, look for Dee\u2019s Charity Sunday blog posts, where your comment can support a selected charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author links:<\/a>
<\/a><\/strong>Website: https:\/\/nomadauthors.com<\/a>
Blog: http:\/\/nomadauthors.com\/blog<\/a>
Twitter: http:\/\/twitter.com\/DeeSKnight<\/a>
Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DeeSKnight2018<\/a>
Goodreads: https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/265222.Dee_S_Knight<\/a>
Amazon Author Page: <\/a>http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/e\/B079BGZNDN<\/a>
LinkedIn: http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/dee-s-knight-0500749<\/a>
Sweet \u2018n Sassy Divas http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ChWN3K<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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