About Linda
After 14 years in Texas, Linda returned home to her roots in the South Carolina red clay. She has eight published novels, four of which are available in audio from Audible.com. For many years, she bred, trained, and showed the magnificent Andalusian horses. So, she’s seen a lot of this country from the windshield of a pickup truck pulling a horse trailer. Several writing awards have come her way, including the Georgia Romance Writers’ Magnolia Award for Excellence, the Raven Award, and the SARA Merritt. In real life, she was a legal assistant. She loves to dress up, use the good china and crystal, and host formal dinner parties. She has a fondness for sports cars like her current ride, Zippy Z.
About LIFE FOR SALE
Here's a catchy tagline: A sentient, humanlike android and his owner race to stop an insane robot before someone else dies.
Mayfair Electronics has created life.
In Love for Sale, the high-tech electronics company, in black and white, offers "love for sale". Mayfair has engineered sentient androids indistinguishable from humans. March Morgan flies to England and meets the man she has been searching for her entire life. Christian requires no programming to love March at first sight, but her past and his future soon threaten their happiness--and their lives.
In the sequel, Life for Sale, four of the Special Editions have escaped. Rebel, Christian and March are on the run, but they have a bigger problem than his creator's plan to destroy him. They've discovered that one of the renegades has suffered a dangerous malfunction, threatening them with more than just exposure. March and Christian must stop the insane robot before someone else dies. All the evidence points to March being the killer's next victim.
Christian
Excerpt:
March shivered again,
rested her face on his chest. “Hold me until I stop trembling.” Tears she
didn’t want him to see welled in her eyes. The whole ghastly business had to be
hard on a man encoded to protect not harm humans.
Her AI angel stroked
her hair, and a sob broke through her control. She squeezed her eyes shut,
battling tears.
“Shush, dear. It’s over
now,” but he didn’t sound confident. The thing buried in the backyard could
tear them apart or worse. Any slight
misstep, and they both faced Death in all his chilling glory.
“I love you,” she
whispered.
He brushed a kiss to
her lips and pulled held her closer.
For some time, they
stood. taking comfort from holding each other and simply being, then, hand-in-hand, they walked, when they wanted to run, to
the house. Christian had switched on the overhead light in the anteroom. In the
brilliance, it was possible to pretend the past few minutes hadn’t occurred.
Again the tears threatened, and he held her until she’d regained control. She
straightened, gazing into his eyes. Battered emotions stained them darker blue.
Mayfair hadn’t missed even that small detail. He cradled her face between his
hands and kissed her tenderly, his lips soft and his body close. In a lifetime
of searching, she’d never have found anyone like him. If she were to lose
him…she couldn’t imagine living without him.
Once, Mayfair had taken
him away. They could do it again—and
there was absolutely nothing she could do about it. The golden ring on the
third finger of his left hand should protect Christian from Mayfair, but who’d
investigate a missing robot, or even believe her in the first place?
With almost religious
fervor, she and Christian had adhered to Mayfair’s first commandment. Above
all, the company demanded secrecy. The Special Editions passed for human, and
no one was ever to know that Mayfair had engendered life, but at any moment Aguillard,
the wild card for whom the Christian line was named, might renege on the
freedom he’d grudgingly bestowed.
Her cell rang, ending
their moment of respite.
People are saying:
Linda Nightingale’s Life for Sale takes the characters from Love for Sale and sets them on a dangerous adventure for these androids posing as human. After fleeing at the end of the first book, they are trying to hide from the watchful eye of Mayfair, but decide a reunion is in order. One of the four, however, is suffering a murderous malfunction. The resulting story is not so much a murder mystery as it is a study of a chaotic mind, albeit lab created, yet eerily human in its madness. Nightingale has seamlessly made the unbelievable believable for the reader with a totally unexpected, but thoroughly satisfying ending to this duet. Imaginative premise, well developed characters and an insight into a mind gone wrong make this a great read…S. Hutchinson
A Note From Linda
My lovely hostess asked me to describe five reasons why you should buy my new release, Life for Sale. My hand flew to my mouth, my poor brain scrambling. How could I ask another person to buy my book?! What was I to say? I’m an introvert with a half*ss extrovert rising (translate to Capricorn with Aquarius rising), and the thought alarmed me. While I’m thinking about it, does anyone mention sun signs anymore or is that the 80s? My mind is a time machine. Many of you are writers, too, and your stories travel the past and future, right? Time machine.
So, here goes. You’ll hear this as I type it. I dare not edit it or the begging might bleed in. Kidding, sort of. I hold the mic in my trembling hand, and I say,
1. In Life for Sale and Love for Sale, the two books in my Tomorrow’s Angels series, imagination has leaped ahead of robot technology to tomorrow when we have androids like Data on the Star Trek: The New Generation. Androids with true consciousness: Knowing they are a part of the world around them, learning, feeling, looking totally like humans. Can you imagine talking with someone like Data with a computer for a brain and a central processor for a heart? Speaking of a heart, the androids in Tomorrow’s Angels fall in love, more particularly are programmed to love their purchaser. Wouldn’t you wonder what such a person would be like? That’s the #1 reason: Curiosity.
Since Amazon has once again—they can’t make up their rabbit-butt minds—pulled the free codes, you can’t get a really good narrator on Royalty Share on a bet. And. Audible prices it’s books at the price of a filet mignon, read. Grab an eBook.
Reason #2: Cheap at only $4.99.
A reviewer who has already reviewed 270 books this year, gave Life for Sale 5-stars. Listen to S. Hutchinson: “Nightingale has seamlessly made the unbelievable believable for the reader with a totally unexpected, but thoroughly satisfying ending to this duet. Imaginative premise, well developed characters and an insight into a mind gone wrong make this a great read.”
Reason #3: - Good Book
4. I need the validation. I’m in a writing funk, can’t seem to get a book finished, and have an approved proposal in my hand.
Reason #4: Help an Author.
Characters are nice folks, except for one, maybe two if you count Mayfair, the androids’ creator. Christian and March are super. Well, he’s super being an android. She’s a very nice human. If you meet him on the street, you can’t tell he’s a machine stronger and smarter than most male creatures (handsomer, too. That’s why you stopped in your tracks to look). Together, they are a force to be reckoned with. Their problem is a Special Edition like Christian has suffered a serious malfunction and become a serial killer…on a cruise ship. Of course, there’s a reason.
Reason #5: Boy and Girl Next Door Romance w/mingling of Romantic Suspense and Sci-fi in the middle of the Atlantic.
There are more reasons than I thought. Maybe I’ll buy the book. Say, would you buy a Special Edition at a cost of roughly an Aston Martin? Remember he or she is beautiful and programmed to love only you.
Thank you for letting me ramble on your stage, Diana.
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Diana, the postlooks great. Again, thanks for hosting me today.
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