Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Release Blitz - - The Siege: A Novel by Marilyn Baron




The Siege: A Novel
By Marilyn Baron
Genre: Contemporary, Women's Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Mystery, Historical
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Released: January 8, 2018

A journey of self-discovery leads to love and passion in the search for a family's hidden past...

Artist Theia Constas receives a tour of Italy from her grandmother as a college graduation present. Before she departs, her ya-ya's deathbed revelation of a cache of WWII photographs and love letters extends Theia's itinerary to Crete in search of her unknown grandfather, a promising artist who studied under Chagall but didn't survive the war. 

Wade Bingham, an actuary who always follows the rules and calculates the odds, finds himself alone on his honeymoon trip, wondering why his fiancee jilted him at the last minute.

In the wrong place at the wrong time when their hotel in Florence, Italy is besieged by terrorists, the two strangers find themselves thrust together in Wade's honeymoon suite. Immediately attracted to each other, Wade conducts a siege of his own to win Theia's heart.  




Excerpt
The Siege
“Go back to your room,” the American tour director ordered, shouting at the woman.

“I can’t get the door to open,” Theia protested, thrusting her key card at him in frustration.

The tour director hurriedly took the proffered card in sweaty hands and tried the lock, which didn’t click.  He jammed the key card into the slot again, to no avail.

A man opened the door and stuck his head out of the room. “What’s wrong? Is this some kind of a fire drill?”

“It’s no drill. Get back in your room and shelter in place until I give the all-clear. Don’t open the door to anyone.”

The tour director returned Theia’s card. “Get back in your room with your husband.”

“This is my room, but he’s not my husband,” Theia insisted.

“There must be some kind of mistake,” the man in the room announced. “This is my room.”

The tour director grabbed the woman’s key card again and examined the key holder. He shook his head, rolled his eyes, and looked at Theia like she was a recalcitrant child. “You’re on the wrong floor, miss. This is Room 515. You’re in Room 415.”

“I’m sorry.” Theia blew out a breath and turned to leave. The tour director blocked her way.

“Excuse me, but I need to get back to my room.”  Tears of exhaustion pooled in her eyes. She wanted to scream.

“I’m afraid you can’t go anywhere. We’ve disabled the elevators for your safety, and hotel security is blocking the stairs, for now.” He ushered her into Room 515 and pushed her into the arms of the man standing at the door.


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In The Siege, Theia makes a pilgrimage to Crete to search for information about her grandfather and other Jews on the island who perished during WWII. 

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Marilyn Baron writes in a variety of genres, from women’s fiction to historical romantic thrillers and romantic suspense to paranormal/fantasy. Her latest book, The Siege: A Novel, a mainstream women’s fiction set in Italy and Greece, released January 8, 2018, is her 14th novel with The Wild Rose Press, Inc. and her 23rd work of fiction. AmazonEncore republished her psychic suspense novel Sixth Sense in 2015. She is also one of six authors of Love Around the Table, a short story anthology published November 1, 2017. She’s published five short stories with TWB Press.

She’s received writing awards in Single Title, Suspense Romance, Novel With Strong Romantic Elements and Paranormal//Fantasy Romance. She is The 2017 Finalist for the Georgia Author of the Year Awards in the Romance Category for Stumble Stones: A Novel.

A public relations consultant in Atlanta, Marilyn graduated with a BS in Journalism (Public Relations) and a minor in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Florida. She worked in Public Relations for AT&T in Atlanta for 13 years before starting her own PR firm.

She serves on the 2017-2018 Roswell Reads Steering Committee and the Atlanta Authors committee and she presented on an Atlanta Writers Club panel at the 2017 AJC-Decatur Book Festival.

Read more about Marilyn’s books, short stories, and other works of fiction at http://www.marilynbaron.com.




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31 comments:

  1. Always lovely to discover a new Marilyn Baron book.

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    1. I agree, Mary. I've enjoyed many of her books.

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  2. Mary, thank you very much and thank you, PJ, for featuring my new novel on your blog.
    Marilyn Baron

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  3. I recently took a river cruise on the Danube and one of the cities I visited, Budapest, was the birthplace of my grandmother. And I did visit Crete, where the book is set.
    Marilyn Baron

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    1. I would have guessed that you had either visited Crete or done an extensive amount of research. I felt as though I was walking her streets with Theia.

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    2. I visited the island of Rhodes in Greece at the same time and the story was really a combination of the two islands. For my Italy setting, I always write about Florence, because I studied there in college and it's one of my favorite places.
      Marilyn

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  4. I have not read this author yet. Sounds like a book I would like.

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    1. Check out her website for a back list, Patoct. She has several books published in a variety of sub-genres.

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  5. This novel sounds captivating, unforgettable, memorable and profound. The locale and the era interest me greatly. I am Jewish and know my background, Eastern European Askenazi, since my parents and grandparents are all from Poland. This year for my 70th birthday my son gave me the gift of learning about this in an Ancestry profile which is interesting. Wishing Marilyn happiness, continued success and more beautiful books.

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    1. How thoughtful of your son to gift you with that knowledge, traveler. One of my cousins has done extensive research about our ancestry. I've loved discovering my family's history.

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    2. Traveler,
      Thank you for your kind words. What a great gift from your son. It sounds wonderful. You may also be interested in my novel, Stumble Stones, which is set in contemporary Berlin but goes back to WW II to two women's Holocaust stories. I've been doing a lot of research on stumble stones, an actual Holocaust commemorative project in Europe, and have been making speeches around town about them. If you haven't heard of stumble stones you'll find them very interesting. Thank you for visiting.

      Marilyn

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  6. All my ancestors came from Sicily. We did have a distant cousin research it and we were to get a copy but it never happened. According to him he traced it back to royalty :) I've never been and would love to by my niece and her husband and 7 kids did visit and loved it. I think my nephew is planning a trip this year.

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    1. catslady, I love Italy and have been to many cities in that country but unfortunately, never got to Sicily, but I understand it's a great trip. Some of my favorite places are Florence, Venice and the Amalfi Coast, but a few years ago we went to Cinque Terre and that was amazing too. I don't think you can take a bad trip to Italy.
      Marilyn

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    2. I agree with Marilyn, catslady. I think it's almost impossible to take a bad trip to Italy. ;-)

      I hope that one of these days will see you in Sicily!

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  7. I traced my maternal grandfather's line from his being orphaned by 6 years old in Indian Territory to the Eastern colonies in the 1600s, and from there to Cheshire, England. Various relatives in that line did Y-DNA studies so that we learned we descend further back from the Danes who settled in north and middle England around 450 AD (the Anglo-Saxon migration)--which fits nicely with Danelaw and my family's later Cheshire location.

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    1. That's fascinating. I love that you found out all that about your ancestry. Thanks for visiting.
      Marilyn

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  8. New author for me. I loved the excerpt that was posted and can't wait to read this book.

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    1. Thank you so much, Pamela.
      Marilyn

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  9. A new to me author. This books sounds really interesting. A portion of my family came here before the Revolutionary War. I even have the name and unit number for an ancestor who fought for the revolutionaries.

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    1. Annette, thank you and thanks for commenting. The story of your family sounds interesting.
      Marilyn

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  10. Thank you for hanging out with us today, Marilyn. Wishing you all the best with your book!

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    1. Thank you so much for having me, PJ. I really enjoyed it.
      Marilyn

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  11. My brother has become an expert genealogist. He is teaching classes and publishing books. He has done several on our family lines that are most interesting. More research needs to be done in Ireland and France. I have not yet been able to travel to these countries, but have been to Canada where both sides of the family initially settled when they came over from Europe. A trip to Ireland is in the future. I just need him to teach me how to do the research.

    The Siege sounds like a good suspense novel.

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    1. Thank you Patricia. I think that's so interesting that your brother is doing that. I hope you get to visit the other countries, especially Ireland, which is beautiful.
      Marilyn

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  12. It is my dream to visit the places my ancestors came from - Poland & Russia. We actually had one of grandfather's relatives (from Moscow via Poland) visit my Chicago family and one of my aunts, on that side, has done a lot of genealogy. My husband & I have been talking about doing one of those ancestry tests for verification of what we know.

    This book sounds really interesting and I'm adding it to my tbr list.

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    1. Eileen, thanks for adding The Siege to your TBR list. My husband's ancestry is Polish and Russian too but we haven't done any of the ancestry tests yet. Thanks for commenting.
      Marilyn

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  13. Wonderful excerpt Suspenseful and very intriguing. Mary is a new Author for me or was :). I look forward to reading this. My daughter did some research on our ancestry and someone from Ancestry.com actually helped her and dated the records for my maternal side back to the 1700's. I've never been to Italy or Ireland but my daughter got to go to Ireland and said it was beautiful. I'm working on going to Italy. Have been for several years. lol I won't give up. :)
    Carol Luciano
    Lucky4750 (at) aol (dot) com

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    1. Just to let you know that the Book Unleashed subscription sign up has a problem and isn't accepting subscribers at this time.

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    2. Carol, don't give up on going to Italy. You will LOVE it. And you're right, Ireland is beautiful. I love to travel and set stories in places I've visited. I love meeting new people and learning new things about the world. And I find history so fascinating.
      Marilyn

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  14. Carol,thanks for letting me know. I've passed this on to Book Unleashed.
    Marilyn

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