#Join   #AuthorChat  with #Author  @KarenAnnHopkins July 21 6pm ET. #Chat  and #Enter   #Giveaway   Karen Ann Hopkins resides in northern Kentucky with her family on a farm that boasts a menagerie of horses, goats, peacocks, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and cats. Karen’s main job is home schooling the kids, but she finds time to give riding lessons, coach a youth equestrian drill team, and of course, write. She was inspired to create her first book, Temptation, by the Amish community she lived in. The experiential knowledge she gained through her interactions with her neighbors drove her to create the story of the star-crossed lovers, Rose and Noah. Their story continues in Belonging, where their families and cultures threaten to tear them apart and concludes with Forever, where we find out once and for all if love is enough for them. Lamb to the Slaughter is Karen’s newest Amish endeavor, opening up the darker, grittier and more secretive lives of Amish society. It’s a story about the intertwining lives of three unlikely people in an Indiana Amish Community and the devastating results when a rebellious teenage girl is found shot to death in a corn field during the harvest. Serenity Adams is the newly elected young sheriff in the country town of Blood Rock and besides dealing with the threatening behavior of her predecessor, she now has a dead Amish girl on her plate. At first glance, the case seems obvious. The poor girl was probably accidently shot during hunting season, but when the elders of the Amish community and even the girl’s parents react with uncaring subdued behavior, Serenity becomes suspicious. As she delves deeper into the secretive community that she grew up beside, she discovers a gruesome crime from the past that may very well be related to the Amish girl’s shooting. Serenity enlists the help of the handsome bad-boy building contractor, Daniel Bachman, who left the Amish when he was nineteen and has his own dark reasons to help the spunky sheriff solve the crime that the family and friends who shunned him are trying desperately to cover up. Serenity’s persistence leads her to a stunning discovery that not only threatens to destroy her blossoming romance with Daniel, but may even take her life in the end.  Karen grew up about a mile from Lake Ontario in Upstate New York. She was bitten by the horse bug at the age of five, and after diligently taking riding lessons for several years, was rewarded with her first horse at the age of eleven. The feisty horse’s name was Lady, a Quarter Horse-Thoroughbred cross, who became Karen’s steadfast companion. Through the years, the constant force in her life was horses. Eventually, she found her place as a riding instructor herself. Before accepting her fate in the barnyard, she worked a short stint as a paralegal, traveled abroad, and guided tourists on horseback riding tours in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.  Karen is currently working on book two in the Serenity's Plain Secrets Amish mystery series, along with a paranormal young adult novel titled, EMBERS.  Karen Ann Hopkins Amish fiction titles are: TEMPTATION (book one in the Temptation series), released in 2012, and published by Harlequin Teen. It’s available where books are sold. BELONGING (book two in the Temptation series), released in 2013, and published by Harlequin Teen. Pick up a copy online or where books are sold.  FOREVER (book three in the Temptation series), released 2014, and published by Harlequin Teen. Also available anywhere books are sold. LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER, book 1 of Serenity's Plain Secrets, released March 2014 on Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook, and published by the author, Karen Ann Hopkins. THE TEMPTATION SERIES was optioned for TV/Cable/Film in June, 2014. EMBERS, book 1 of The Wings of War series, releases on October 21, 2014, on Amazon Kindle & Nook WHISPERS FROM THE DEAD, book 2 of Serenity's Plain Secrets, releases on December 16, 2014, on Amazon Kindle & Nook http://www.karenannhopkins.com/ https://www.facebook.com/temptationbook?ref=hl https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5386283.Karen_Ann_Hopkins https://plus.google.com/u/0/109827773735544404632/posts

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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