Waking Tamara - Book Tour and Giveaway

 The apocalypse has been and gone.
Generations have passed.
The old world wakes up to a future they never imagined.
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Waking Tamara
A Dragon’s Fated Heart Book 4
by Beverly Ovalle
Genre: Paranormal Romance  

 The apocalypse has been and gone.
Generations have passed.
The old world wakes up to a future they never imagined.

Indra answers a mating call and is plunged into his future. He’s drawn to a beauty frozen in the
past. He wants more than a kiss when he wakes her. But he has to have patience.

Gazing into Indra’s eyes, Mara is instantly smitten. One surprise after another has her believing
in fairy tales. But there are no princes in her story, only dragons.

Believing in dragons isn’t the hard part. Even becoming a dragon brings her more pleasure than
she’d ever dreamed. But being told she’s becoming a parent without her consent.

Nope.

Indra has some groveling to do.


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​ Indra was magnificent in the daylight. His dark scales shimmered with different shades of green and brown. If you didn’t know he was there, he blended into the earth and surroundings. She licked her lips. If she didn’t know it was Indra, she’d be wet-her-pants scared right now. “Now what?” As a dragon, he was a bit intimidating.
“Now this.” Mischief sparkled in his eyes. He leaped and grabbed her. Then set her in the IBC container. His talons hooked through the metal grating surrounding what was left of the white plastic tank. He soared up and Mara’s feet slid.
She quickly sank down to sit against the container wall. She used Indra’s pants to cushion her bottom. From the shape it was in, she would have to agree that plastic didn’t degrade. She doubted anyone was still producing them. Which meant this container was close to a couple hundred years old. Maybe. The date stamped into the plastic bottom was 2007. Ironically, a number five recycling symbol was also pressed into the bottom, yet it was still around. Her race had done their best to destroy their world without even trying. Hopefully, they would do better this time around.
She really wished she had a way of telling how much time had passed. Nine generations would indicate a minimum time of around one hundred eighty years. If you counted twenty years as a generation. Her brain hurt thinking about it.
Mara laughed to herself. It didn’t even matter in the scheme of things. It wasn’t like the waking up of a few hundred people from before the apocalypse would rebuild the world.
She felt it would be a huge culture shock for the majority of those they were waking. Then, once they met shifters, their world would be turned on edge. The dragons had no intention of going back into hiding. It didn’t seem like the wolves would either. She had to wonder where the population percentages stood.
The basket stopped moving and jarred her slightly as it hit the ground. She threw Indra’s pants out of the basket and stood.
Indra shifted and lifted her out and dressed. “Thanks. Let’s get the corn in the basket.”
They leaned over and started tossing the ears in the plastic container. It was tedious. Mara and Indra groaned and stretched out their backs.
Indra pulled her in for a hug and tugged her off the ground with a bit of a shake.
“Oh.” Her back cracked. Mara dropped her head forward onto Indra’s chest. “Thank you.”
“We should get back. Hopefully, they found your dad or your brother.” He squeezed her, then tilted her face toward him. “Or we could stay here for a while.” His lips descended on hers.
Her knees wobbled, and she leaned against him to keep from falling. “That sounds nice.”
“Just nice?” He chuckled against her lips. “I must not be doing it right.”
“Are you done yet?” Randy’s voice pulled a groan from Indra. “I came to help, but I see nothing I can help with.” He wrapped his arms around both of them.
Indra shrugged him off, baring his teeth.
Randy just laughed.
“We might as well go.” Mara climbed over the container wall and wiggled down among the corn.
Indra tossed his pants at Randy and shifted, stirring up the dirt and chaff in the area.
“Dammit, Indy.” Randy ran and leaped into the container just as Indra lifted it into the air. “Fly, Indy, fly!” He whooped and burrowed next to Mara.
She chuckled and shook her head.
“So, are you boning my cousin?” He wagged his eyebrows. “Tell me all.”
Indra growled above them and Randy snorted.
Mara dropped her head into her hands. This flight couldn’t land soon enough.
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 Beverly Ovalle dabbled with writing on and off for years when her best friend finally dared her to submit a story to a writing contest. Beverly decided she had nothing to lose and since she'd always wanted to be an author sent it in and agonized for months waiting to hear back. Contract in hand she has never looked back.

Beverly Ovalle has been obsessed with dragons and romance since she was a young girl, collecting dragon books and reading everything she could find on them even down to the care of real-life dragons. She's always been slightly panicked that the world as we know it will end, so has prepped for it, haunting survivalist pages and prepper projects she felt she needed in the event SHTF (shit hit the fan).

An avid fan of all romance, Beverly's goal is to share her love of the written word and write the spicy romances that she enjoys. She writes what she loves to read and it was only a matter of time before her obsessions crept into her writing for her to share. She hopes you enjoy her tales as much as she loves writing them.

A United States Navy Veteran, Beverly has traveled around the world and the United States enabling her to bring her settings to life. Reading romances since the fourth grade she's followed as the genre changed and spread into the vast cornucopia of romance offered today.

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Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?
I’ve been writing my whole life. I didn’t realize that, but my mom gave me some truly awful poetry I’d written when I was in grade school. LOL. I’d written and been in the Creative Writing Club in high school and never really stopped. Usually, I’d toss whatever I wrote out so there is no evidence. I thought! Then my BFF challenged me to enter a writing contest. I actually had a completed story, so I thought, why not? Neither of us won the contest, but the publisher, Boroughs Publishing Group, wanted our stories and we got contracts. I still have two books with them, Dragons’ Mate and Touched by the Sandman.

What is something unique/quirky about you?
I’m a serial hobbyist. I don’t ever drop them unless it’s a painful hobby (glass blowing) but I usually do one at a time.

What are some of your pet peeves?
My worst one, is having someone talk to me on the phone and chewing. Bubble gum or food. I have been known to hang up without warning as everyone in the family knows this.

Where were you born/grew up at?
I was born in Oak Park IL. I grew up moving around. We lived in Illinois, Indiana and Florida growing up. Once I was an adult. I lived in California and Wisconsin.

If you knew you'd die tomorrow, how would you spend your last day?
I would spend it with my family. Do a quick cruise to Illinois to see my parents, brother, SIL and niece and nephew. Dragging my husband of course. Then I’d finish the rest of the day with my children and granddaughter. I would want them to know I loved them (they do know!) and not to grieve. I’ve had a good life.

What kind of world ruler would you be?
I’d be the worst kind of despot. My way or off with your head! People annoy me.

What are you passionate about these days?
Prepping and preserving food. I love to can and dehydrate food.

What do you do to unwind and relax?
I love to cook, unfortunately that means I have to clean also and am not fond of that part. I love to travel in my RV. Sew, and play board games. My kids and I get together every few weeks and play games all evening.

When did you first consider yourself a writer?
I’ve always been a writer, but considered myself an author when my first book was published. Then I bragged, lol.

Do you have a favorite movie?
The Day After Tomorrow.

Which of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?
I’d love to see Stealing Hope made into a movie, but I always say it would probably end up in a sticky floored theater!

As a writer, what would you choose as your mascot/avatar/spirit animal?
A dragon, could be a book worm too!

What inspired you to write this book?
I hadn’t planned on writing this book! Indra was a side character in Saving Grace, but he caught my imagination. I couldn’t not give him his story. I was trying to write Hark’s book, but Indra kept stepping in the way. So, in a six-book series, Indra makes it seven.

What can we expect from you in the future?
More Dragons of course! I’m working on Hark’s book and Juevetorj’s book. Which order they’ll come in, I’m not sure, but I’ll see which one I finish first.

Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in Waking Tamara?
Indra is an Earth Dragon and he used to be work for the National Parks before the apocalypse. He’s wandered the earth since it happened, helping humans to survive and searching for his family. Tamara is a doctor that assisted in cryonically freezing humans to survive in the future after the apocalypse. She hadn’t expected to wake up 200 years later.

How did you come up with the concept and characters for the book?
I’m a closet prepper, lol. I can’t not add possibilities to my stories just in case an apocalypse happens.

Where did you come up with the names in the story?
Pure imagination for the most part! Tamara happens to be the name of my BFF that passed a few years ago. She’s the one that encouraged me to try to publish my stories.

What did you enjoy most about writing this book?
It just seemed to flow. Finally. I started it two years ago, but when I went back to it, I didn’t stop until it was done.

How did you come up with the title of your first novel?
Dragons’ Mate. Just like it sounds, lol. It is a dragon shifter menage story.

Who designed your book covers?
AAP did Waking Tamara. But I’ve had a multitude of designers. Most of my covers are from different artists. I just find covers I like and use them. A few are from my publishers.

If you had to do it all over again, would you change anything in your latest book?
I could add so much! Most of it unnecessary according to my editor, lol. But I love information in my books.

Did you learn anything during the writing of your recent book?
I’m wordy!

Anything specific you want to tell your readers?
I hope you come back for more!

What is your favorite part of this book and why?
All the talents the dragons have. I’d love to be able to change rock into anything I want with the power of my mind!

Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
The characters are all from my imagination. My contemporary stories may, might, possibly steal personalities of people I know *shhh!* but not my paranormal romances.

Do your characters seem to hijack the story or do you feel like you have the reigns of the story?
This book was definitely a hijack. I’d never planned to write it.

Have you written any other books that are not published?
I have outlines and stories and tidbits, and a few that were in anthologies that I plan on expanding, but nothing in romance yet. I am almost done with a “self help” book on purchasing an RV, and it should be out in a couple of months, but I’m still tweaking it.

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