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#Holiday Romance, and #Recipe Exchange
Today's Featured Book and Author:
A #Holiday
#Recipe from romantic suspense author @Kris_Bock
Crock Pot Cheese Fondue Dip
This is a
wonderful treat for a holiday party!
1 (10.75 oz) can cheddar cheese soup
2 cups grated cheddar cheese
1 cup milk
1/4 cup or more green chiles (these can often be found canned in the Mexican section of the grocery store)
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup or more green chiles (these can often be found canned in the Mexican section of the grocery store)
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp.
chives
1 Tbsp. garlic
1 Tbsp. garlic
Serve with
corn chips, celery sticks, cauliflower, etc.
- Combine all ingredients in a fondue pot or small
crock pot.
- Heat on medium, stirring frequently, until smooth
and well blended.
- Adjust heat to warm and serve in the pot, with chips
or veggies on the side. If it starts to get too thick, stir in a little
more milk.
See “the dead man’s treasure bonus material” in the left-hand column of Kris Bock’s
website for more New Mexico recipes.
The Mad Monk’s Treasure
Erin isn’t
sure she can trust Drew with her heart, but she’ll need his help to track down
the treasure. She heads into the New Mexico wilderness with her brainy best
friend Camie and a feisty orange cat. The wilderness holds its own dangers,
from wild animals to sudden storms. Plus, the sinister men hunting Erin are
determined to follow her all the way to the treasure, no matter where the
twisted trail leads. Erin won’t give up an important historical find without a
fight, but is she ready to risk her life—and her heart?
“The story
has it all - action, romance, danger, intrigue, lost treasure, not to mention a
sizzling relationship....”
“Great
balance of history, romance, and adventure. Smart romance with an “Indiana
Jones” feel.”
Well-written with an attention to detail that
allowed me to picture exactly in my head how a scene looked and played out.”
Excerpt:
Among all the legends, all the fact
and fiction, one story stood out. The Victorio Peak legend had it all. A
Franciscan priest and a swindler. Torture, murder, a government cover-up. Where
was the truth, among all the stories? Erin wanted to find out. Over time, and
with Camie’s encouragement, she’d started to take the treasure hunt more
seriously. It wasn’t so much for the treasure itself—that would most likely
belong to the government or the landowners. But it would make her reputation,
open up new job opportunities—change her life in ways she hardly dared dream.
She touched the book gently. The pages
were falling out; she didn’t want to risk carrying it around. Instead, Erin
snapped a picture of the petroglyphs with her phone. That would be enough to
show Camie for now.
The timing was perfect; she just had
to turn in grades and field a few tearful last-minute requests for extensions,
and she’d be done for the semester. What better way to spend the summer, than
hunting for buried treasure?
Erin shook her head. Who would’ve
thought that she, the quiet, studious girl who’d spent her entire adult life in
academia in one way or another, would be planning such an adventure?
Erin wheeled the bike around the front of her
house and mounted. At the corner, she paused and looked both ways. The long
frontage road was dangerously narrow, with a cement wall on one side and a
ditch on the other. Fortunately, traffic was normally light, and at this time
of day the road lay empty. Erin pushed off, still grinning from her find. She
rode on the right side, by the ditch, instead of facing traffic, because it was
just too frightening to ride alongside the wall when a car passed.
She’d gone a block when she heard the
hum of a car engine as it pulled out from a side street behind her. She rode
along the very edge of the pavement, even though the car would have plenty of
room to pass her without oncoming traffic.
Erin glanced over her shoulder. The
black SUV 20 feet behind her hadn’t bothered to pull out into the road at all. Jerk.
When would drivers learn to share the road with bicyclists? Erin pulled onto
the two-foot wide gravel strip between the pavement and the ditch. She couldn’t
stop without risking a skid, but she slowed so the SUV could pass.
The engine roared. Erin glanced back
again.
Black metal bore down on her. Her
heart lurched and the bike wobbled. This guy was crazy! She whipped her gaze
forward, rose up in the seat, and pumped the pedals with all her power,
skimming along inches from the ditch. He was just trying to scare her. She’d
get his license plate and—
She felt the bumper hit her back tire.
The bike seemed to leap into the air, and she went flying. The dried mud and
weeds of the ditch seemed to rise up to meet her.
She didn’t
even have time to scream.
Kris Bock writes novels of suspense and romance
with outdoor adventures and Southwestern landscapes. The Mad Monk’s Treasure follows the hunt for a long-lost treasure
in the New Mexico desert. In The Dead Man’s
Treasure, estranged relatives compete to reach a buried treasure by
following a series of complex clues. In The
Skeleton Canyon Treasure, sparks fly when reader favorites Camie and Tiger
help a mysterious man track down his missing uncle. Whispers in the Dark features archaeology and intrigue among
ancient Southwest ruins. What We Found
is a mystery with strong romantic elements about a young woman who finds a
murder victim in the woods. In Counterfeits,
stolen Rembrandt paintings bring danger to a small New Mexico town.
Read excerpts
at www.krisbock.com or visit her Amazon page.
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