Athens Ambuscade

Do you like a little comic relief mixed in with your tales? 

Then you gotta check out this book. My new author-friend, Kristen Joy Wilks is visiting today. And oh boy, you're in for some comic relief! 

I'm currently reading Athens Ambuscade and loving it!

Welcome to you, Kristen. 

Kristen Joy Wilks lives in the beautiful Cascade Mountains with her camp director husband, three fierce sons, and a large and slobbery Newfoundland dog. She has blow-dried a chicken, fought epic Nerf battles instead of washing dishes, transported a gallon bag of cooked bacon inside her purse to nibble in the movie theater, and discovered a stealthily smuggled gardener snake in her sons’ bubble bath. Her stories and articles have appeared in Nature Friend, Clubhouse, Thriving Family, Splickety, and Havok Magazines. She writes novella length romantic comedies for Pelican Book Group, including Copenhagen Cozenage, The Volk Advent, and Athens Ambuscade. Kristen loves to write about the humor and Grace that can be found amidst the detritus of life. Much like the shiny quarter one member of their household swallowed and then found in the pot five days later. If God is good enough to grant us these gems, she figures that someone should be putting them to the page. Kristen can be found tucked under a tattered quilt in an overstuffed chair at 4:00am writing a wide variety of implausible tales, or at www.kristenjoywilks.com. If you would rather enjoy photos of charging bison, Newfoundland dogs, and attacking squid then by all means visit her “What I’m Writing About” board on Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/kristenjwilks7/what-im-writing-about/

Blog

http://www.kristenjoywilks.com/blog/

Why did you write Athens Ambuscade?

I love fun and funny books. Books that rush you away to another place. Books that make you laugh. Books that make you think as well, but I prefer to laugh and think at the same time. I'd just written a romance that contained several of our family's funny dog stories and thought I should shake things up and write a book with a cat. Then I watched this crazy pet taxidermy show with my Grandma in law and I was hooked. My hero would be a taxidermist. What kind of heroine would clash beautifully with a taxidermist? A bridal designer of course. Add in some of my hazardous cat experiences and cat-thieving villains and I was on my way. Can one glean spiritual truths from a story about a frozen cat? You would be surprised. Just as those glassy eyes of a stuffed animal give one a shiver and the realization that something is definitely missing from that lovingly preserved pet, something is missing in each of us when we focus on outward appearance and neglect being real within. God wants more than a finely preserved exterior. He wants the real thing.

An up-and-coming bridal designer must fly a Montana taxidermist to Greece to stuff her grandmother’s deceased cat. If the cat isn’t preserved in two days time, she will lose her inheritance. But will she survive the next 48 hours when the taxidermist ignores her pointed request and shows up wearing flannel?

Buy Links

http://pelicanbookgroup.com/ec/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=37_46&products_id=795

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/athens-ambuscade-kristen-joy-wilks/1124240072?ean=9781611169942

https://www.amazon.com/Athens-Ambuscade-Passport-Romance-Kristen-ebook/dp/B01JBB5Y7C/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1485564416&sr=8-3&keywords=Kristen+Joy+Wilks

Like to see a book trailer to entice you further? Check these out:

https://youtu.be/8pxgdimJrNI

https://youtu.be/OscLIqmgdr0

https://youtu.be/6Ql_F3nPtiQ

Are you intrigued? Are you ready to hunt these down and jump into the adventure and antics? 

Anybody else relate to the comic relief that can crop up in your life like Kristen speaks of? Oh my, how often have I said, "This could only happen to me!" LOL

Thanks for sharing with us, Kristen!