Head Or Heart With Angel Payne and Victoria Blue

7 April 2017

We’re back for another visit with the awesome readers of Female First. We are the authors of the hot, sexy book series, The Secrets of Stone. This month we’re excited to bring you another book in the series called No Lucky Number.

No Lucky Number

In this book, our heroine, Talia Periskova, must make a life changing decision. Will she keep her two, sexy, alpha-male bosses at a professional arm’s length, or will she give into her desire and invite them into her bed?

We won’t spoil the plot by telling you which option she takes, (we bet you can guess though!) but we will share with you a quick story from each of us that involves life changing decisions that we’ve made personally.

We all have them, right? Those moments you must decide to listen to your heart, or listen to your head.

Here are ours:

Angel

Perhaps one of the craziest things I ever decided to do was an event called the California AIDS Ride. These days, it's called the California Lifecycle, but back in the olden days, that was what they called it. I was a beginner-level bicyclist who wanted to do something in honor of the friends I'd had to bury due to AIDS. This felt significant to me. The event begins in San Francisco and ends 7 days later in Los Angeles — nearly 700 miles away.

The training was brutal—but it didn't compare to something someone said to me, when I shared what I was attempting to do in honor of my friends. I'll never forget their words. "Why would you ride in support of such a moral choice?" They truly thought AIDS wasn't really a physical disease, just a justification for behavior they didn't approve of. I realized that I had to love that person despite what they didn't know...and maintain with my goal despite someone trying to convince me it was wrong.

Along the ride route, I met people of all ages, shapes, colors, and sizes who were HIV Positive—all so thankful for the awareness the riders were giving to a previously stigmatized disease. To this day, I've kept the decorations the children on the route made for my helmet, and the notes of thanks from so many who benefited from the fundraising.

Victoria

I was a young lady, just 22 years old. I was serving time in the United States Navy and had already traveled to places most people don’t see in their entire life. I was happy for the most part, but missing a certain piece to my puzzle.

Then I met a man. Yes, at only 22, I had found the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. My mother always told me, when I would ask her “how do you know you’ve found the right man?” She simply would answer, “You’ll just know.”

So when I called her to tell her we were engaged, after only knowing each other for six months, she pretty much lost her shit. I reminded her that she told me I would just know, and darn it, I was certain he was “my person.”

In July we will be married 23 years. I had to follow my heart, and it didn’t steer me wrong. We have two beautiful children, four cats, and an amazing life together. Have there been hard times? Of course. That’s just called living though.

I would still choose him today. <3

We hope you will check out the Secrets of Stone books, available at all your favorite retailers! Our stories come from our hearts, and from all the crazy things we’ve experienced so far in our lives.

Of course, we would be thrilled to hear from you personally, too. Check out our social media links below, and don’t be afraid to reach out with a big hello!

Victoria:

Website: http://www.victoriablue.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/victoria.blue.3994

TW: https://twitter.com/MissVictoriaBlu

IG: https://www.instagram.com/missvictoriablu/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Victoria-Blue/e/B00KJN7SOO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1480965664&sr=8-1

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8198798.Victoria_Blue?from_search=true

Angel:

Website: www.angelpayne.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/authorangelpayne/

TW: https://twitter.com/AngelPayneWrtr

IG: https://www.instagram.com/angelpaynewriter/