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Amber Daultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082537233532702530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539247864404715266.post-41073590275536222662020-08-28T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-28T00:00:05.546-04:00#NewRelease #CharacterInterview - "The Story Between Us" by Darlene Deluca<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>What’s your name?</b><br />
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Hi, I’m Kristen Hanover, heroine of The Story Between Us<br />
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<b>What do you look like? </b><br />
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I’ve got brown hair with reddish highlights that falls a few inches below my shoulders. I tend to wear it down or in a single braid. I also have green eyes and a smattering of freckles across my cheeks that seem to explode in the summer.<br />
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<b>What time period does your story take place? </b><br />
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It’s a story of contemporary life. We could be friends today!<b> </b><br />
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<b>What conflicts are you facing?</b><br />
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To tell you the truth, they’re wearing me thin. I’m trying to focus on my career and really make the most of my recent success, but there’s so much going on to distract me. My brother is ready to sell the family farm following my mother’s death, so I’m facing the big cleanout and having to sell our horses – including my own pet, Star. It’s a tough, emotional time for me. Then I meet a really sweet kid and get a great story idea based on one of his heartwarming memories of his parents. I have visions of adorable illustrations and a treasured keepsake for this charming little boy who likes my books. I’m thinking of a dedication, maybe a scholarship fund from a portion of the sales. We’re both excited about the idea. Then his uncle/guardian accuses me of exploiting the boy – using him to make a couple of bucks. Whoa! Are you kidding me?<br />
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<b>What is your occupation? Are you any good at it? Do you like it?</b><br />
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I write children’s books, and I love it. My newest book shot up the charts and became a bestseller, so I’m now on tour visiting classrooms and bookstores and meeting my adorable young fans. Interacting with them is a blast. Kids are so funny, and I’m humbled to be an influence in their lives.<b> </b><br />
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<b>What skill do you have that you’re proud of? Why?</b><br />
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Besides writing, I have a couple of skills, or talents. I can handle a horse pretty well and love to ride. I also play guitar. Now that I think about it, it’s interesting that both of these things are activities that help me wind down, to clear my head and let my thoughts wander. They soothe my soul. And I’ve found that they can help others. In this story, I’m able to connect with a little kid, that’s Dylan, by playing my guitar in a private jam session. Music has a way of bringing people together. And because I have some horsemanship skills, I’m able to help Dylan overcome his fear of horses, which has caused some issues on his grandpa’s ranch. I’m definitely proud of that accomplishment!<b> </b><br />
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<b>What did you think the first time you saw Reed?</b><br />
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I noticed two things about Reed Armstrong right away. First, he was a fine speciman – good looking, nicely put together and kind of a hunk. But, second, I could tell he wasn’t thrilled about being dragged to a book signing that evening. He seemed bored and ready to get out of there. I caught that look of impatience in his otherwise gorgeous smoky blue eyes. So, while he sent my heart rate spiking, he also got my defenses up. After all, my book signing in a popular Dallas bookstore was a great place to be!<b> </b><br />
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<b>What do you wish your author had not told others about you?</b><br />
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Sigh. I don’t think it was necessary for her to tell everyone that I’d been warned, that I was headed for trouble and it was my own fault. Okay, yes, my agent had warned me about getting involved with fans. She said it was a bad idea – more than once. But Dylan is such a sweet kid, and I couldn’t turn away from him and his tragedy. His uncle…well, he needed help, too. They tugged at my heartstrings. Maybe I should’ve been more cautious, but come on, who wants to hear “I told you so?!”<br />
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<b>Book Tag: </b>When a children’s book author gets a story idea from a young fan who’s lost his parents in a tragic accident, she knows she’s hit gold. She sees a bestseller and heartwarming keepsake. But the boy’s guardian sees exploitation. </div>
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Her agent warned her not to get attached to a fan. But children's book author Kristen Hanover is about to break the rules. Kristen meets a young boy who is a victim of a tragic accident and is drawn into the heartbreaking situation.<br />
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Six years ago, Reed Armstrong never imagined he'd actually become guardian of his sister's boy. Now he is, and most days he's not sure he's up to the task.<br />
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When he and Dylan meet Kristen, Reed downplays his nephew's crush on the author. But as their lives become unexpectedly intertwined, he finds himself captivated as well. Trouble is, she sells stories for a living. Does she truly care about Dylan…and Reed, or is she using them for her own career advancement?<br />
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Reed pulled his keys out of his pocket. In the doorway, he folded his arms and leaned against the casing. “Can I ask you a question?”<br />
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Chest pounding, Kristen forced a smile. “Of course.” She took a couple of steps toward him and braced a hand against the back of the sofa.<br />
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“Is writing your only reason for being here?”<br />
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Heavy, charged air closed around her. How to answer that? Honestly, of course, but…how honestly? “Well, writing is my goal for sure. But—” She glanced around the room before looking at him again. “I’d love to ride my horse, er, Star, and spend some time with…with people I like, too.”<br />
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As he pushed off from the door, a slow grin spread across his face. “Sounds like an excellent plan.” He sauntered closer. About a foot away, he stopped. “You’re good with dinner at the main house tonight? Don’t let Dylan bully you. You decide.”<br />
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She gave a shaky laugh. That was the plan, right? She couldn’t remember for sure. Her brain was going fuzzy. “I’d love to,” she managed to say.<br />
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He leaned closer, his breath warm on her cheek. She braced herself for a friendly peck, but when her eyes fluttered shut, his lips grazed hers. Hovered there, and when she thought her legs might give out, Reed caught her arm and pulled her slightly toward him, his lips covering hers again.<br />
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Sparks exploded in her brain, and she grabbed hold of his arm. All of her senses came alive and responded to the unexpected deluge.<br />
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A long moment later, he pulled back and brushed a thumb across her cheek. “See you in about an hour.”<br />
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Kristen could only nod. As soon as the door closed behind him, she collapsed against the sofa. She ran a finger along her bottom lip. That kiss…Oh, man. The chances of her getting any writing done this weekend just dropped from unlikely to who-said-anything-about-writing?<br />
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Darlene Deluca writes contemporary romance and women’s fiction, and likes to explore relationships – what brings people together or keeps them apart. <br />
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Her intent is to bring to life interesting characters that readers can relate to in real-life situations that combine a little fun, plenty of drama (with perhaps a tear or two), and big helpings of friendship, love and self-discovery, and will leave readers either cheering or sighing with a satisfied smile as they turn the final page.<br />
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The Kansas City author enjoys getting lost in a good story with a glass of tea, a bit of dark chocolate and a warm, sunny beach.<b> </b><br />
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<span id="freeText13832575053196915232">Five years ago, a
boyhood dream came true when the prettiest girl I ever knew kissed me on
a dare and sent my world spinning. I've crushed on Shiloh Brookings for
five long years, the memory of that kiss making other girls come in a
distant second.<br /><br />Imagine my surprise when a friend drags me to a
strip club in a neighboring town and the dancer on the stage is none
other than Shiloh. AKA Miss Cherry Pie, the sweetest, hottest thing you
ever did see.<br /><br />My first instinct is to grab her down off that stage and hide her away from all those eyes.<br /><br />My second? Figure out WTH has her up there in the first place. That's not the Shiloh I remember.<br /><br />Shiloh's life is crazy-complicated, though.<br /><br />Her
present is burdened with baggage from her past, so she has no interest
in letting anyone get close. And she may be a stripper by night, but
I've just learned that she's teaching in my high school by day, which
makes her completely off-limits.<br />And now she's attracted the attention of a stalker, and the stakes are getting more desperate every day.<br /><br />Can I win her trust and break down her walls quickly enough to help her?</span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext;">In book one in the Reclaiming
Heaven series, high school teacher Shiloh Brookings moonlights as a stripper to
pay for a slew of bills, including her disabled brother’s rehab. If anyone
finds out about her after-hours activities, she would be fired from her
teaching job and publicly humiliated. Unfortunately for her, two of her
students are patrons of the strip club.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">High school senior Gunner
Ford has been crushing on Shiloh for years. She’s three years older than him,
and they attended high school together when he was a freshman and she a senior.
Now, she’s his teacher and a new stripper at his friend’s dad’s club. He
pursues her—both in school and at the club. They
have a history, and despite the consequences, he’s determined to make her his.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">I’m not sure how to describe
this story. It’s a cross between YA and NA with erotica undertones, and I only
think of it as being YA because several characters are in high school and some scenes take place there. Otherwise, it’s NA due to the subject matter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Shiloh is an interesting
character. She’s tough and prepared to do anything and everything in order to
provide for her handicapped brother. She’s also desperate and vulnerable, and
she makes some mistakes that anyone who was thinking straight wouldn’t have
made—like starting a relationship with her student. Her flaws made her a
realistic person, and I felt bad for her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">I couldn’t connect with
Gunner. Even though he cares a great deal for Shiloh, he’s manipulative and
arrogant, which he freely admits. He pursues her against her wishes and doesn’t
seem to care that she will get into a lot of trouble if anyone finds out
they’re together. I had a very difficult time seeing him as an adult because of
this.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">About the villain/stalker, I
liked him. I don’t know who he is (it wasn’t mentioned), but I enjoyed his
scenes and the mania he’s going through in trying to get Shiloh to choose him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">There are some great
secondary characters: Shane, Sammy, and Dr. Adams add layers to the story. I’m not crazy about
Miles, Gunner’s best friend, though.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Shiloh is 21, and Gunner is
18/19. The age difference didn’t bother me—after all, what’s three years?—but
the situation was off-putting (a high school student and his teacher). I think
the story would’ve worked much better had Gunner been in college with Shiloh
as his professor, but that’s just my opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">The story
ends on a cliffhanger, so there are lots of questions that will be answered in
the next book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">I don’t read 1<sup>st</sup>
person narrative often, but for the most part, I wasn’t confused as to whose
perspective I was reading from. I like Ms. Whyte’s flowing writing style and
how she goes into deep POV with the characters’ emotions and thoughts. Overall,
I enjoyed the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I love chatting with authors, so I'm happy you've stopped by!<b> </b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>It’s a pleasure to visit you, Amber. I enjoy your book reviews and blog. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Aw. Thanks! :) Let's get started... We all need a little inspiration in our lives. What’s your favorite quote and why? </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can’t hit a homerun if you don’t swing the bat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This quote reminds me every day to be better, build on my skills, learn more, put myself out there, and swing for the fences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the time. Since I am mostly a pantser, I start a story with an idea or a loose outline. The characters then take my idea and run with it. It’s pretty much my favorite part about being a writer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sometimes the romance genre gets a bad reputation for being cliché and full of Fabios. How do you respond to that? </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clearly people who talk about Fabios haven’t read romance. Sometimes romance book covers can be a little ‘out there’ but so what? Once you read them, the creative skill of romance authors is evident, the quality of the writing equal to any fiction. The stories span from contemporary to historical to urban fantasy…you name it. As long as at the center of the story, there’s a growing romance between the main characters. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Romances celebrate the belief that we all want and need love, no matter who we are. Everyone deserves a happily ever after. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Write every day. Your voice is unique. Don’t let anyone stop you from telling your stories. Hard work pays off. My only regret is I didn’t start my writing career sooner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ugh, I was going to say reading & writing! My family is growing and I crave more time with them. I have fun playing board games, refinishing furniture, exploring new places, walking whether in the city or in nature. Transcendental meditation reduces stress and aids in creativity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>That's great! I wish I could figure out how to meditate. Thank you again for chatting with me! </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <br /><b>Author Bio</b><br /><br />Award winning Author Charlotte O’Shay was born in New York City into big family and then married into another big family.<br />Negotiating skills honed at the dinner table led her to a career in the law. <br />After four beautiful children joined the crowded family tree, Charlotte traded her legal career to write about happily ever afters in the City of Dreams.<br />Charlotte loves to challenge her heroines and heroes with a crisis and watch them figure out who they are while they fall in love.<br /><br /><b>Social Media Links:</b><br /><br /><a href="https://charlotteoshayauthor.com/">WEBSITE</a> & NEWSLETTER<br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/charlotte_oshay_author/">INSTAGRAM</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/charlotte_oshay">TWITTER</a><br /><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/coshayauthor/">PINTEREST</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/heainthecityofdreams/">FACEBOOK PAGE</a><br /><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/profile/charlotte-o-shay">BOOKBUB</a></span>Amber Daultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082537233532702530noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539247864404715266.post-76105526806692360872020-08-17T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-17T09:52:57.470-04:00#PreOrder - "Moonlight Kisses & MugShots" by Lorelei Confer <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>BIO of Donna Confer w/a Lorelei Confer</b><br /><br />Lorelei Confer lives on a peninsula in the mid-west coast of Florida with her high school sweetheart, now husband, and AJ, her longhaired Chihuahua.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the fourth grade, she wrote her first story—something about getting a shot at the doctors—that was produced by the teacher for parents and students in an assembly. When she was older, she spilled her guts in a journal every night and wrote long newsy love letters to Viet Nam.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /> Many thanks to Amber Daulton for hosting me on her lovely blog. <br /><br />I’m a newbie author, so squeaky new my book isn’t even out yet. Ten more days to go. August 26 is the release date. <br /><br />So why a book about a woman who starts over, moves from Paris, France to New Haven, CT, goes back to school, and online dates? <br /><br />My friends asked the same question. Since the book’s heroine, Sunny Chanel, is online dating, they sneak in a few questions when we’re enjoying a virtual happy hour. “How much is autobiographical?” “Was that a true story about the 300-pound man Sunny dated?” “Did you really go on six meets in one week?”<br /><br />Sure, there’s a bit of me in <i>Middle Ageish</i>, but making fiction, and turning experience into a belly laugh is much more fun than humans should have. And I’m having the time of my life, pumping my checkered past for “copy” as Nora Ephron (or was it her mother?) calls everything that’s story material. From a trip to Walmart where an old guy mistakes your shopping cart for his (Subtract twenty years and turn that into a Meet Cute scene?) to an online meet with a guy who’s got the sort of beard that catches in his zipper, my mind clicks and grinds, always on the chase for a story.<br /><br />And, yes, I used to hide my pocket journal in my overlarge (for a date) handbag and scribble notes in the ladies’ room midway through a date. Isn’t that why someone invented that cliché, <i>the devil’s in the details</i>? I sat through dozens of first-meets where guys talked about themselves for forty-five minutes straight and never asked me any questions, or somehow thought I’d be googly-eyed with mirth at their date-from-hell stories. <br /><br />So when I wrote about Sunny sneaking off to the restroom to jot down thoughts during her dates, well, yes, I did do that. Sometimes, I’d even call a friend for advice. From the toilet, I’m admitting it. Let’s call him Peter, and say he’s got world-class experience in the dating department. He’s real and he’s on my website. <br /><br />And I still have that little packed-with-memories journal. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><br /><b> <i>Middle Ageish </i>Blurb </b><br /><br /> Sunny Chanel's marriage is circling the drain when her husband marks his colonoscopy on the calendar and ignores their anniversary. With divorce papers instead of roses on the horizon, she says "au revoir" Paris and croissants, and "hello" cheap New Haven apartment and ramen noodles. <br />Encouraged by her friends, Sunny jumps into online dating, twenty-three years and twenty pounds after her last date. To her surprise she discovers dating might require a helmet, and occasionally armor to protect her heart, but after years of being ignored, her adventurous side craves fun and conversation. She's middle-aged not dead. Then suddenly, on the way to reinventing herself, life takes a left turn when the one man she can't forget calls with an unexpected request.<b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><b>Excerpt from <i>Middle Ageish </i></b><br /><br /> I slouched at my computer and peered at the screen. The letsclick.com dating site was becoming my best friend. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">The first email in the lineup was from Luke. Soulmate Guy, I called him, because he was the first who’d talked about the soulmate thing—even though there were 7,000 other guys online clamoring for a soulmate. <br /><br />Cute, too, with Jeff Bridges hair. Jeff still had hair, didn’t he?<br /><br />A popcorn sound startled me––newbie dater that I was––and a cartoon bubble appeared on the screen with Luke’s image. <i>Would you like to chat with Luke? </i><br /><br />Well, that was a dumb question. I hit the yes button. <i>Yes, yes I would.</i> Chat was the site’s version of texting and this was my first time. <br /><br />—Luke: Hey, got a few minutes? This messaging is friendlier than old school emails. How goes it? Back from vacation. Went to the island. So different there in the winter. Beautiful in a different way. Just came home from doing a little bar dancing. I stayed about an hour. Every once in a while, I do that on a tense night. This was my tense night. <br /><br />—Sunny: Tense, shmense. What’s wrong?<br /><br />—Luke: One of those old girlfriend things. We have a lot in common—biking, riding, skiing, and some total madness thrown in, but she doesn’t give me space. It’s complicated. <br /><br />— Sunny: What’s with the old girlfriend thing? If you’ll be so kind as to be my dating mentor, I have a question. Dating mentor, is it wise to redate old girl/boy friends? <br /><br />—Luke: Absolutely not, are you nuts? My prob is I don’t like being alone. I like sharing things with someone. <br /><br />—Sunny: So what is it you look for in a woman? Really, I’m not fooling around here. <br /><br />—Luke: I know you’re not. I’m taking your question seriously. Well, I’m past craving the 30 year olds with zero body fat and total flawless skin. That is a truly good thing since I’m 54 and they wouldn’t want me anyhow. But our bodies are important, the only one we have, so I can’t pretend I don’t care about the shape a woman is in. I like smiles, legs, arms, necks. You get the picture. Oh, can’t forget that erotic zone called the mind. That’s most of it. <br /><br />—Sunny: Wow! <br /><br />—Luke: I can’t stand it anymore. I’m signing off here so I can call you. Give me your phone number. Please. Now—</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">Shirley Goldberg is a writer, novelist, and former ESL and French teacher who’s lived in Paris, Crete, and Casablanca. She writes about men and women of a certain age starting over. Her website <a href="http://midagedating.com/">http://mida</a><a href="http://midagedating.com/">gedating.com</a> offers a humorous look into dating in mid life, and her friends like to guess which stories are true. Middle Ageish is her first book in the series Starting Over. Her character believes you should never leave home without your sense of humor and Shirley agrees.<br /><br /><b>MY SOCIALS: </b><br /><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/mylifeasadate">https://twitter.com/mylifeasadate</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/midagedating">https://www.facebook.com/midagedating</a><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/shirleygoldbergauthor/">https://www.instagram.com/shirleygoldbergauthor/</a> <br /><br />Visit my website for another excerpt from the book and grab a copy of Happy Hour, a short story about an online meet and a misunderstanding. <a href="https://midagedating.com/">https://midagedating.com/</a><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Something Writing Related: The Hallowed (and Harrowed) Pig Path to Publication</b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You know those people who were published the day they began marketing the book. Success was just as immediate. These lucky souls are the envy of the writing community…and a rarity.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not I. The road to publication was a long, harrowed journey into the farther reaches of the universe. I should have been put into crypto freeze and launched by NASA. It took me forever!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started writing in 1992. I was only two years old, mind you. I don’t want to drop any clues about my age. My first book was The Vampyre Effect, and it grew to over 1,000 pages because I loved the hero and followed him everywhere:- parties, performances, and would have followed him to the bathroom, but my vampires don’t use the ‘facilities’. The book evolved over the years, the first ever-evolving chapter winning a contest or two. Along the way, this mammoth masterpiece became Sinners’ Opera, which was finally chopped in two and published by Double Dragon Publishing. (In 2019, my rights reverted to me, and the book was re-released by The Wild Rose Press).</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But my first book wasn’t my first to be released.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During this time, I bred, trained, and showed the magnificent Andalusian horse. Breed magazines published various of my articles, but my real love was fiction. A friend who was a new author with The Wild Rose Press urged me to submit a romance to them. Problem. There was only one romance in my stable of books, and it wasn’t complete—was never meant to be finished.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found two naked parts of a short story in my computer. Like Victor Frankenstein, I sewed them together. <i>Voila</i>, a romance to submit.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, my first fiction publication was Black Swan in 2009. I scraped my courage and ego off the floor (lots of rejections will do that) and sent it to an editor I’d met at a convention in San Antonio. When Callie Lynn Wolfe at The Wild Rose Press accepted Black Swan, I danced, then broke open a bottle of champagne with my recent ex, and he danced, too. (Maybe, he wasn’t such a bad ex after all.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the time, The Wild Rose Press accepted only romance. After Black Swan, a vampire short story by the way, I was again at a loss with my dark fantasies. Another author friend in Nebraska of all places told me Double Dragon Publishing in Canada was open for submissions. I sent a book I thought would never, ever get published to DDP. In 2 weeks, they actually sent me a contract for Gemini Rising. GR’s theme, though it’s explained at the end, is taboo to most publishers; controversial at best. DDP published the book in 2012. My first published novel! YAY! I was on my way. Move over (insert name of famous author here.)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back to the future. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eight books later, Callie is still my editor, and my latest release, Life for Sale, is dedicated to her for all her help and guidance over the years. Life for Sale is the second book in the Tomorrow’s Angels series. Love For Sale is the beginning of March and Christian’s tale.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Love For Sale began life as a short story and won first place from the Houston Writers Guild in that category. One day, I happened upon it in my computer, poured a glass of wine (it was after five somewhere) and began to write. Love For Sale wasn’t the easiest novel I’ve ever written, perhaps because I thought of it as a short story. After almost a year of nitpicking, I turned it into a novel, sent it to Callie, and it was published in 2015. Love is available at: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XCZ6EVY?pf_rd_r=RMGMHRY09DG32M35H8RQ&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XCZ6EVY?pf_rd_r=RMGMHRY09DG32M35H8RQ&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee</a> and is on sale on Amazon for only 99-cents!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the series Tomorrow’s Angels, Christian is a sentient android, indistinguishable from human—an intelligent being with emotions. March, his owner, saw a small ad in a women’s journal advertising “love for sale”. When she flew to England to Mayfair Electronics, she found her dream man, and at an extremely high price in terms of dollars-and-cents, made him hers. However, her past and his future soon endanger their happiness—indeed their lives.</span></span></span><br />
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</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Life for Sale</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.0pt;">Genre:</span></b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> </b>
</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Sci-fi Romance</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The Wild Rose Press</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">978-1-5092-3215-4 Paperback </span><br />
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">978-1-5092-3216-1 Digital </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">262 pages</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">August 24, 2020</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A sentient, humanlike android and his
owner race to stop an insane robot before someone else dies</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Sci-fi Romance, murder mysteries,
romantic suspense, fantasy Romance, contemporary romance, New Releases, The
Wild Rose Press, sentient androids, robots, humanlike androids, Linda
Nightingale, Life for Sale, Love for Sale, book series, Love For Sale sequel,
Tomorrow’s Angels series.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>BLURB:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mayfair Electronics has created life.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But four of their Special Editions—sentient androids indistinguishable from human—have escaped. Rebel, Christian Aguillard and his owner, 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. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Trapped on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic, March and Christian must stop the insane robot before someone else dies. All the evidence points to March being the killer's next victim.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>EXCERPT:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Why are you here? To spout more nonsense?” Spitting mad, Monica reared up in her enemy’s face.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Not at all.” March’s hand flashed, almost too rapidly for Monica to see, and came down hard below her nose in a Judo-like attack.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shocked and in pain, she stumbled back, switching modes as she pushed off the bed. “That’s it, whore. You’re a dead woman.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I don’t think so,” her rival gritted out, hands braced on her hips, her expression as cold and hard as her mediocre brown eyes. She shook her head. “Look, Monica, I know you’re aware of your actions. I’m going to give you a chance. You must deactivate until we can safely transport you to Dr. Cross for testing. Surely, you know something is wrong.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“As they say in the films, you and whose army?” She squared her shoulders, preparing to strike without notice. “I didn’t do anything to that bloody dog. I didn’t do anything to you, fool.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“You didn’t mention Anne.” The other woman seized Monica’s arm. “What did you do to Anne?”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Claws out, Monica lunged. March darted beneath her guard, stabbing at a spot beneath her left earlobe. Monica shoved her back. “Looking for my off switch, fool? It’s well hidden, like where Ms. Goodie Two Shoes wouldn’t even think about going.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her insane human rival stood at the locked door, her stance as much as saying to leave Monica would have to get past her. No prob. She stalked toward her rival, murder in her eyes. March didn’t move. When Monica threw a punch at her eye, she moved by the gods.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The American bitch lurched back, crossing her arms across her face, anticipating Monica’s next attack. Forearm struck forearm. A human bone should break, but March stood her ground, her limb intact. She recovered too quickly, dealing Monica a hard blow beneath her cheekbone, barely missing her eye, slamming her back against the wall.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I don’t know what you are, March Morgan,” she sneered. “But it’s not going to save your butt.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“No, but I am.” Looking like an avenging angel, Christian—in a Houston t-shirt and khaki shorts, his long hair disheveled—had somehow appeared behind March without either of them hearing.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>PEOPLE ARE SAYING:</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">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</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span id="freeText15098893805710861179"><i>Dark Crime</i> by Christine Feehan<br />Blaze
knows who killed her father and she has merciless plans for payback.
Until a phone call from a seductive stranger pleads with her to wait.
Retribution is in his blood, too. Now, he and Blaze will be united in
the blood of the guilty. Tonight, vengeance is theirs.<br /><br /><i>Dead by Twilight</i> by Maggie Shayne<br />Bloodsuckers
may be an accepted minority but one of them is getting away with
murder. Until a female vamp teams with a mortal detective to end the
killing spree. Now the night belongs to them—and so does every pleasure
and danger lurking in the shadows.<br /><br /><i>Cimarron Spirit </i>by Lori Herter<br />While
excavating an Anasazi ruin, archeologist Annie Carmichael uncovers the
resting place of a centuries-old vampire who finds in Annie the
liberating mate he has longed for. But how much is Annie expected—or
willing—to surrender for the man she now desires?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">In book 23.5 of the
Dark/Carpathian series, Blaze McGuire is full of rage and grief. Two rival mob
factions have moved into her city, which is unnamed, and one of the groups—the
Hallahan brothers—murdered her father. Blaze intends to kill the murderers and
suspects she’ll die in the process. Signing over the rights to her family’s
business to the rival gang, she expects them to carry out her mission to
destroy the Hallahan brothers if she fails, but she never expected the mobster
she spoke with on the phone to race down to the bar and save her life.</span></span></div>
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Carpathian warrior Tariq are presenting themselves as mobsters and even opened
a nightclub, but their main focus is hunting down vampires in the city. They
haven’t realized, however, how deeply the vampires have integrated themselves
into human society. Maksim knows Blaze is his lifemate as soon as he hears her
voice. She’s a warrior, like him, trained to protect the ones she loves. She
dead-set on revenge, and Maksim can do no other but help her achieve her goal.</span></span></div>
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relationship develops fast. They’re likable characters. He’s understanding of
her warrior spirit and she’s accepting of his protective nature. As always in
this series, each heroine is more gorgeous than the last. Since repetition and
multiple sex scenes stretch out the word count, this novella is the longest in
the anthology. Head hopping and a few inconsistencies took me out of the story,
but I liked the gritty urban setting and the overall narrative.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">In this Wings in the Night:
Reborn novella, book 3.5, city cop and vampire Chloe Madison is hunting down a
powerful vampire that’s killing innocent human men. Believing she’s finally
found the bloodsucker, she follows the lady vamp and her sexy victim to a
graveyard. Turns out, the bloodsucker is just a human playing dress up and the
vic is actually a state inspector who’s seriously pissed at Chloe for blowing
his cover.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Inspector Shepard Daniels
doesn’t want to team up with Chloe after his boss forms the new Vampire Crimes
Unit, but he can’t deny her skill and knowledge when it comes to all-things
vampire. Two years earlier, the world found out that vampires are real, but
Shep doesn’t believe vamps and humans can co-exist. While investigating the
murders, they check out a vampire-themed D/s club and the sexual tension
between them soon ignites.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Chloe and Shep are awesome!
She’s feisty and pretends to be human, he’s protective and bigoted against
vampires, but they work great together. They have a HFN ending, but it’s easy
to see the HEA coming up.</span></span></div>
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person POV, from Chloe’s perspective only, but I really would’ve liked some
scenes from Shep. Still, I loved this novella. It’s my favorite in the antho.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Archaeologist and professor
Annie Carmichael is dating Brent, a wealthy cattle rancher, and excavating
Anasazi ruins on his property. Though she feels comfortable with Brent and can
see an easy future with him and his daughter, she secretly longs for passion
and adventure.</span></span></div>
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de la Vega believes the ruins belong to him. After years of loneliness, he
needs someone in his life, but his previous relationships with women ended
badly. While trying to scare off the invading archaeologist, he realizes Annie
is his soul mate and sets out to seduce her. </span></span></div>
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interesting characters. The story is told predominately from Annie’s
perspective, but there are a few scenes in Rafael’s POV. Their relationship
bloomed fast and there was insta-love on his part.</span></span></div>
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questions. Will Annie be able to continue excavating the ruins since she chose
Rafael over Brent? Will Rafael still have access to the kiva (an Anasazi
ceremonial chamber <i>and</i> his preferred resting place) after the excavation
team takes over?</span></span></div>
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story and would like to read more of Ms. Herter’s work.</span></span></div>
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because each author changes the vampire mythos with new twists, but keeps the
basic facts the same. I definitely recommend this anthology.</span></span><br />
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with a drifter ten years earlier. After he disappeared without a word of
goodbyes on the night they had planned to run away together, she casts aside
her foolish notions of happily ever after and works hard on her family’s ranch.</span></span></div>
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sizable bank account that took blood, prayers, and tears to fund. The cowboy
disrupts Melody’s peaceful life with stolen kisses and a promise for more.
After a lifetime of running, mistakes and regrets, he vows to reclaim the only
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> “You were eighteen, fresh out of high school. The year we spent together was wonderful, but we were fools to think it would last forever.” Max tunneled his fingers through his short hair. “The only life you knew was what your father wanted you to know. I left because I loved you, and you’ve led a good, safe life without me in it.”<br />What a crappy excuse. “You stole my choice. Hardships and problems are part of every relationship. I wanted to work through them with you.”<br /> “Please, darlin’, see this from my point-of-view. I didn’t want the woman I planned to marry to hitchhike, to sleep under bridges, or to rely on strangers for her next meal. I didn’t want you to beg or degrade yourself to get by. I would’ve tried to protect you from all that, and I would’ve failed.” He held his arms open as though in a plea for her to understand. “I couldn’t be a failure in your eyes. You probably would’ve headed back home to Willow Creek after a few months or a few years, and I wouldn’t have blamed you if you did.”<br />He left without a word of goodbye to protect her from the world—a rough, cruel place he had to survive in on his own? She hated and loved him for it. Who knows what would’ve happened back then if he’d explained his fears to her when they were making their plans to run off. She likely would have promised him anything to appease him. At the time, she would’ve meant it. Now, older and wiser, she wouldn’t deny the truth in his words—she might’ve left him. That shamed her, but she <i>never </i>would have deemed him a failure.<br />She rubbed tears from her cheeks. “Thank you for telling me. That’s actually better than I expected.”<br />“You thought I never loved you, that I used you, right?”<br /> “Yes.” Her chest throbbed from her pounding heart. “How could I not?”</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She scheduled two dates for the same night at her favorite seafood restaurant, and she owed her shocked boyfriends an explanation. To her surprise, Nathan Risley and Sam Tomlin handled the awkward situation like pros and happily agreed to her ultimate fantasy: a ménage à trois.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Calla rolled to
her stomach as a tickling sensation crawled up her backside. The air in her
lungs sharpened, and her eyelids fluttered. The cloak of sleep threatened to
drag her back under. Daylight seeped through the thick blanket over her head,
and she pinched her eyes shut. “Stop that.” She scissor-kicked her legs,
inching away from the annoying graze. Then she remembered what she’d done the
previous night. Calla popped her eyes open, her exhaustion vanishing, and she
peered over at the handsome man who stroked his fingers down her spine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Morning,
darling.” Nathan kissed her forehead. “I didn’t mean to wake you, but you’re
too delectable not to touch.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I like your
hands on my body, so I’m not complaining. Well, not much.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">He grinned, the
dimples in his cheeks deepening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“I could stare
into your chocolate-brown irises all day and never tire of them. I don’t think
I’ve ever told you that before.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“Nope, you
haven’t. I would’ve remembered it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Calla snuggled
close to his chest and teased her fingers through his thick chest hair. His abs
twitched, his breathing raspy, and she pressed a soft kiss on the scar above
his nipple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nathan tightened
his arm around her back, pinning her to him as though he never wanted to let
her go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">His heartbeat
drummed a fast rhythm under her ear, and she longed to fall back to sleep, but
she couldn’t postpone the inevitable conversation they needed to have. “I’m
surprised you’re still here,” Calla whispered, a little hesitant. “I expected
to wake up alone and tidy the patio by myself.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nathan and Sam
always left before dawn when they spent the night at her apartment, and she
likewise left their homes before they woke up in the morning. Though she usually
wanted to shower and share breakfast with them, she expected companionship on
“the morning after” would scare the men away, so she hit the road before they
asked her to leave. Now at a rental beach house, she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> Nathan had overslept, but she didn’t feel Sam beside her. Calla
sighed. <i>Sam probably already made his exit like a bandit in the night.</i></span></div>
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<b>Thank you for chatting with me today, Barbara. Let's get started!</b></div>
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<b>Do any of your characters take over and write the book themselves sometimes? Who?</b><br />
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Oh my god! Wouldn’t that be wonderful? If any of my characters would like to take over the actual writing process I’m willing to hand over the keyboard in a Manitoba minute. I’ll lie on the couch drinking cocktails and eating bonbons.<br />
Having said that I do have characters with decided opinions about where their story line should be heading that sometimes differ from my own. I don’t want to rat them out by naming names. Generally speaking they’re usually quite right, so unless I really need them to do something else I let them have their own way.<br />
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<b>What do you prefer: ebook or print? Why?</b><br />
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As a general principle I prefer print. I grew up with print; all the walls of my house are lined with (overflowing) book cases; books have a sensory appeal that pixels on a screen can’t even begin to evoke; book stores have to be amongst the best places in the world to lose (or find) yourself -surely I’m not the only one who planned my visit to Shakespeare and Co as carefully as to the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame the first time I visited Paris; there are few more joyous experiences than entrusting a friend with the loan of a physical copy of a book you’ve really enjoyed – and then getting it back again!; a physical book is a journey through space as well as experience as you slowly turn the pages and have a real sense of how far along you’ve come and how far you have yet to go; print books exit in time and space – before my husband and I both had kobos I always knew what he was reading because it would be lying there on the table, but now I just see an uninformative black leather case, making it a whole lot more difficult to casually discuss what we’re reading; very importantly for a writer, the author’s name is constantly before you (as is the lovely cover) – with ebooks I often don’t know who’s written the book I just finished. But I have to admit that ereaders are great for travel and for lying in bed reading without disturbing your sleeping partner.<br />
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<b>Sometimes the romance genre gets a bad reputation for being cliché and full of Fabios. How do you respond to that?</b><br />
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With a bit of embarrassment and reluctant agreement. There are lots and lots of romances that do fit that description. It would be disingenuous to deny it. Perfect male specimens and happily ever afters are pretty worthy goals to aspire to, after all. And, though we may deny it, there is a formula. When I submitted Counterfeit Viscountess to my editor she insisted I change the beginning because my hero and heroine had to meet in the first three pages, which forced me to abandon a chapter I still think was very important to the development of the story.<br />
Having said that, though, good writing is good writing. Yes, there’s some schock where the really bad writing allows the cliches to stand out, but that’s true in every genre, romance, mystery, scifi, you name it. In fact, I believe there’s lots of bad literary fiction, but most of us don’t feel confident enough to call it out – kind of an Emperor’s new clothing thing. There are lots of fantastic romance writers and romance novels. Romance gets picked on because it’s popular, because everyone thinks they’re an expert on love and therefore can judge it and, quite frankly, because it’s mostly meant to appeal to women and so is historically devalued.<br />
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<b>We all need a little inspiration in our lives. What’s your favorite quote and why?</b><br />
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Suck it up, buttercup. Because things could always be worse and there are so many good things in life we ignore.<br />
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<b>Besides writing and reading, what are some of your hobbies?</b><br />
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Drinking red wine and eating pizza. What? Those aren’t hobbies? Uh oh.<br />
I’m an incessant knitter. I can’t watch TV without something on my needles and as a consequence I have an ever increasing stash of hats and toques that I make when I’m between larger projects. They’ll get stealthily dropped off outside a homeless shelter when the weather starts to turn.<br />
I’m madly addicted to cryptic crosswords. My daily paper doesn’t carry one and I don’t like doing them online so the last time I was in Dublin I went to the bookstore (naturally) and picked up 12 Telegraph and Times collections. That’s been keeping me going for the last couple of years, but if the pandemic doesn’t break soon…<br />
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<b>What’s your most bizarre life experience?</b><br />
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Really nothing could be more bizarre than life itself. <b><br /></b><br />
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Practical Caroline Saxon must travel to London for the season, when all she really wants is to stay in Ireland and breed horses. But a carriage accident leaves her unchaperoned at a posting inn.<br />
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Dashing Christopher Hawking just wants a bed for the night. He didn't expect to find it occupied by a beautiful woman or to be caught sneaking out of her room. In the light of day, a London-bound member of the ton finds them together. <br />
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Attraction flares between the two in spite of themselves. But how will they save Caroline's reputation and calm the storm of the ton's gossip?<br />
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The first thing Christopher noticed as Caroline descended the stairs toward him were her toes in the open silver slippers she wore on her feet.<br />
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Their nails were red. Really red. The kind of red that would have driven Cleopatra Nile green with envy. The kind of red that kept sane men from their sleep at night.<br />
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As the toes got closer, Christopher forced himself to look higher. He immediately recognized his mistake.<br />
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He hadn’t thought Caroline knew how to undulate. That was a misconception on his part. He wrenched his gaze higher.<br />
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Dear God, her décolletage. How did that dress stay up? Newton’s laws be damned. Gravity had just been given its walking papers.<br />
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“Good evening, Christopher,” Caroline said coolly. “I’m sorry. Have I been keeping you waiting?”<br />
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In an attempt to breathe and talk at the same time while maintaining eye contact, Christopher’s voice came out like stone. “Not at all.” He cleared this throat and tried again. “You look very fine,” he managed.<br />
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Barbara Burke’s peripatetic life means she’s lived everywhere from a suburban house in a small town to a funky apartment in a big city, and from an architecturally designed estate deep in the forest to a cedar shack on the edge of the ocean. Everywhere she’s gone she’s been accompanied by her husband, her animals and her books. For the last ten years she’s worked as a freelance journalist and has won several awards. She was a fan of Jane Austen long before that lady was discovered by revisionists and zombie lovers and thinks Georgette Heyer was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. She lives by the philosophy that one should never turn down the opportunity to get on a plane no matter where it’s going, but deep down inside wishes she could travel everywhere by train. Ironically she now lives on an island that doesn’t have any trains at all.<br />
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Hunter was an elite warrior, a dark-blood dealer of death to rogue
Lycans who preyed on mankind. He was a loner, never given to personal
attachments, and damned fierce at his job. But Zev begins to question
his past and his purpose when he awakens in the darkness of the sacred
cave of warriors—and is soothed back to consciousness by the sensuously
familiar voice of one woman, the woman who has haunted his fantasies for
centuries. She was Branislava, member of the Dragonseeker clan…<br /><br /><i>Mother Earth called the ancients to witness your rebirth…</i><br /><br />For
this half-mage, half-Carpathian temptress, the ritual of awakening Zev
to the council of warriors was the only way to save him. Locked away for
his own protection, the time has now come for his rebirth, for his
blood to stir with that of the ancient warriors before him. He has been
assured by Branislava that their fates are entwined, that their spirits
are woven together for eternity and that his new purpose in life is
beyond imagining.<br /><br />Now, with a blood-sworn vow of honor, mercy and
endurance, and under the influence of a siren as bewitching as
Branislava, Zev begins to wonder what his purpose is, what it means for
the future of the Carpathians and what it is about his rebirth that he
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the Dark/Carpathian series, Branislava Dragonseeker has tied her soul to an
injured Lycan warrior on the verge of death. The connection between her and Zev
is earth shattering, and she can’t live without him. He’s her lifemate, but she
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Zev Hunter has guarded and advised the Lycan council for centuries, and now
he’s acting as their liaison with the Carpathians. He and his pack often kill
rogue werewolves and sometimes the rare <i>Sanga rau</i> (mixed-blooded
werewolves and vampires). Lycans believe all mixed bloods should be
exterminated, but Zev is siding with the Carpathians over the <i>Guardians</i>
(mixed-blooded Lycans and Carpathians). After he’s terribly injured protecting
a Lycan council member, he’s fed Carpathian blood and put to ground to heal.
When he rises, he’s more than just Lycan—he’s Carpathian. Unbeknownst to him
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in this book, and apparently, the Dark Blood line is much stronger and more
revered than the Dragonseekers, the Dubrinskys, and the Daratranzanoffs. Also,
the Dark Bloods can walk in sunlight and the women were allowed to fight with
their men, which doesn’t align with the established history and genetic make-up
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She was trapped with her sister Tatijana in the ice caves for countless
centuries, but she learned all sorts of dark magic from her evil father,
Xavier, and from his vicious brothers. Zev was rougher and more controlling
than Fen and Dimitri (the heroes from the previous two books), but he still
respected Branislava as a woman and a warrior, even though his possessive inner
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Gregori, but I didn’t see many similarities. Sure, Zev is demanding and bossy,
but he’s not a male chauvinist like Gregori. Now, don’t get me wrong. I like
Gregori a lot—he’s a kickass secondary character—but in his own book, Dark
Magic, he was way too controlling of his lifemate Savannah. Luckily, Gregori
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trilogy within the overall series. Multiple sex scenes, drawn out fight scenes,
repeated information, and detailed chants and rituals affected the pacing. After reading so many books in this series, those types
of scenes just blur together in my mind since they’re all very similar.</span></span></div>
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understand why Natalya wasn’t there. She’s a powerful Dragonseeker and
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and Tatijana, Dimitri and Skyler, and Razvan and Ivory returned and added a lot
of humor, emotion, and depth to the story. The best thing about this series is
the cast of </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">secondary </span></span>characters. I’ve read several reviews for this story and
even though some of those readers weren’t happy with Ms. Feehan’s choice of
villains, I actually liked that Xavier was a triplet and his two evil brothers
masterminded the plot to pit the Carpathian and Lycan races against one
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Elijah Burleigh. Plain and simple. She’s watched him from afar for months, her
friends call her “his own personal stalker,” and then she makes a wish on a
magic pendant for a full-body makeover. Transformed into the gorgeous knockout
she’s always wanted to be, she asks Elijah out on a date and wears a haute
couture gown straight from Paris to his friend’s wedding.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span><br />
<span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">With just twenty-four hours on the clock, her
enchanted night fades into the morning hours and everything crashes down around
her. Annalise harbors a shameful secret and Elijah demands the truth with the
veil of magic gone.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I’m so happy
you came by today.” Elijah’s hot breath teased the sensitive hollow of her
throat. His lips trailed across her shoulder blade, down her bare arm, and
Annalise almost melted. Then he firmly grasped her waist with his palms and
stared deep into her eyes. “I promised myself I would ask you out the next time
you came in. If I’d known you worked across the street, I would’ve made time
and stopped by to see you.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I should’ve put
my insecurities aside months ago and just asked you.” Annalise felt vulnerable
under his keen gaze. “I don’t ever wear haute couture clothes—this is the first
time in my life that I’ve ever worn a dress like this—and I don’t want you to
get the wrong idea. I’m not sexy. I’m not a little badass who wears safety pins
and skulls on her clothes all the time. I’m just…Plain.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He cupped her
cheek in his palm. “I disagree. I remember the first time I saw you. My nerves
were through the roof, I hated using cue cards for my first tour since I hadn’t
memorized the information or studied the artwork on my own yet, and there you
were at the back of my group. A blue scarf covered your curly hair—it rained
that day and I could tell you were self-conscious about your hair because you
kept patting it—and a white and blue striped dress hugged your body. You also
wore a bulky denim jacket over it.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I bought the
dress on a whim but I didn’t wear it until my friends dared me to. I felt
uncomfortable in it, hence the jacket, so I later donated the dress to a thrift
store.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He sighed.
“That’s too bad. Memories of you in that dress keep me awake at night.” </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Agent Cowboy by Shanna Handel</b>: When I became an FBI agent, I didn’t
anticipate becoming a cowboy. Now I’ve fallen into the ways of the West, but
can I rein in the woman I’ve fallen for?</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Badgering the Cowboy by Golden Angel</b>: This shifter rodeo rider is about
to rope himself a honey badger.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Badlands by Delta James</b>: They say great warriors return as great horses.
The very best of them retain their humanity and can shift between worlds.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Cassandra's Cowboy by Kallista Dane</b>: When Kane drags Cass into the
wilderness, saying her life is in danger, she knows darn well she shouldn't
trust him. But the stern cowboy is determined to keep her safe - no matter what
it takes.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Charlie’s Girl by Kate Richards</b>: Her breakdown was his opportunity to
save a damsel in distress.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Come Sundown by Stevie MacFarlane</b>: His patience was wearing thin. She
was either going to say yes soon, or her sweet little behind was going to pay
for leading him on.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>The Cowboy’s Little Girl by Meredith O’Reilly</b>: Rule number one on the
Benson Ranch: Daddy is always in charge.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>The Cowboy's Replacement Bride by Sue Lyndon</b>: Ingrid isn't the mail
order bride Everett ordered--and she's hoping he never finds out. What will the
strict rancher do when he discovers his new bride has been keeping secrets?</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Dangerous Ride by Piper Stone</b>: Where I come from, a lawman has full
control, especially with bad girls in need of discipline.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>The Getaway Ranch by Tessa Carr</b>: He brought her to the ranch knowing she
was alone, penniless and terrified. What he didn't know was, her problems - and
his - had just begun.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Halfway Home by Maddie Taylor</b>: After secretly loving him for a lifetime,
can this shy farm girl corral her cowboy once and for all?</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</b></span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>His Little Cowgirl by Laylah Roberts</b>: She moved halfway around the world
to be his little cowgirl but is it everything she dreamed it would be?</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>In Deep Waters by Alyssa Bailey</b>: She didn't care for cowboys but when
danger comes calling, she finds she may have misjudged one.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Kidnapped by the Cowboy by Sierra Cartwright</b>: He was supposed to protect
her, not fall in love with her.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Knockin’ the Boots by Peyton Banks</b>: She was his best friend’s sister and
should have been off-limits.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Marrying the Murderer by Vanessa Brooks</b>: Caught between a rock and a hard
place, what choice did she have?</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Meri’s Man by Laura Garland</b>: Lost in the middle of the Nevada desert the
only saving grace that lassos all my problems together and turns my frown
upside down – a sexy guy on a horse.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Mountain Blue by Alta Hensley</b>: Their icy beginning soon turns to a
passion hot enough to melt the blizzard outside.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>The Painted Lady by Raisa Greywood</b>: People say strong fences make good
neighbors. No amount of barbed wire is going to make a Sidhe and a cougar
shifter get along. But fate has other plans.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Rescued by Her Cowboys by Isabella Laase</b>: When lonely Rosie Meyers finds
herself in trouble with the local bullies, two stern cowboys take her into
their home, but can all three of them find a future together?</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>River's Edge by Maggie Ryan</b>: The tomboy next door had grown up to be a
woman of sass and fire that set this cowboy aflame.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</b></span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Rogue Cowboy by Linzi Basset</b>: She bought a date with the notorious
cowboy on a welfare auction... only she wasn't prepared for the kind of date he
had in mind.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Rogue’s Return by Desiree Holt</b>: She's in trouble, he's supposed to
protect her, but what about the heat that's lasted twelve years?</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Runaway Cowboy by Abby Aaron</b>: Kyle Sanchez returns home to save his
former lover's ranch. Only she doesn't need saving, and he left her with more
responsibilities than he realized.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Stark White by Yolanda Olson</b>: Some demons never manage to stay buried.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Trusting Her Cowboy by BJ Wane</b>: Gavin McCullough knew his family
obligations prevented him from accepting a human mate, but one look into Aislyn
Lankford's golden eyes and he couldn't resist making her his.</span><span style="color: #1d2129;"><br />
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</span><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #1d2129;"><b>Wait for Me, Cowboy by Mary Wehr</b>: Her childish crush blossomed into
love, but will he still see her as a spoiled brat in need of a spanking?</span></span></span>Amber Daultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082537233532702530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539247864404715266.post-65334662256976309842020-08-03T00:00:00.000-04:002020-08-03T00:00:00.316-04:00#GuestPost from Sydney Winward<br />
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<b>Authors Who Have Influenced My Writing</b></div>
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I first started writing more seriously when I was fifteen years old, when I decided that this was what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a writer! As a fifteen year old, I idolized Christopher Paolini and taped quotes from him all over my walls. Here are a few of them:<br />
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“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”<br />
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“If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.”<br />
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“I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.”<br />
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“If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.”<br />
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Other authors who have influenced my writing:<br />
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-Brandon Sanderson with his incredible world building.<br />
-Sarah J. Maas with her talent for getting her fans to really care about and obsess over her characters.<br />
-Sarah Eden with her depth of characters. She can get me to love a character so much that I’ll actually cry when something awful happens to them.<br />
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<b>Here’s a little bit about my new release, <i>Bloodbond</i>, the second book in the Bloodborn Series, which can be read as a standalone.</b></div>
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<b>Blurb</b>:<br />
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Zachariah Degore spent ten years locked under ground as a feral vampire. Now he has to redefine what it means to be healthy and whole. With his human life behind him, he starts anew in the vampire city of Ichor Knell with the vampire shah as his kin. He must prove he is worthy of his place in this new world. <br />
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Laurel Covaci is vampire elite, she would never court a feral vampire. After two hundred years she has yet to find a mate who meets with her satisfaction. She hides the pain of past hurt and abandonment behind a cold façade. Zach is confident that Laurel is the vampire for him, but can he break through her icy walls and convince her he's the mate she's been waiting for?<br />
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<b>Book Trailer</b>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvqlfMc19Is">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvqlfMc19Is</a></div>
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<b>Buy Links</b>: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bloodbond-Bloodborn-Book-Sydney-Winward-ebook/dp/B08B7MXLPK/">Amazon</a> ~ <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bloodbond-sydney-winward/1137214841?ean=9781509231959">Barnes and Noble</a> ~ <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/bloodbond/id1521899622">Applebooks</a> </div>
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<b>Excerpt</b>:<br />
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She stared at him. And stared. Until it became uncomfortable. <br />
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So he stood and started to pack up his things, but she glared at him and pointed to his seat. <br />
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“Sit.” He did. Who could disobey a tone like that? “You can’t kill?” she asked incredulously. “You only recently came out of being feral, correct?” He nodded. “And you can’t kill? Human blood doesn’t send you into a rage. You refused to drink from the goblet at the service.” <br />
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“Have you been spying on me?” <br />
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She ignored his comment, and her mouth puckered slightly as if in deep concentration. He couldn’t help but stare. He’d never seen her do it before. Another endearing quality he added to the lengthy list of what made Laurel Covaci absolutely perfect. <br />
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“I have searched high and low, but I simply cannot find any answers to this particular conundrum,” she finally said. Heat rose to his ears. She’d been thinking about him? <br />
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He grinned. “Well, well, Lady Covaci. I didn’t realize I was filling up your thoughts.” <br />
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She blushed prettily, and he almost expected her to get up from the table and leave, regretting she even sat down in the first place. But she stayed put. In fact, she stared right back as if challenging him. He enjoyed the eye contact. Her eyes were so blue. So beautiful. They took him back to green fields of his childhood, of staring back at the blue sky as clouds lazily drifted past. <br />
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Sydney Winward was born with an artistic brain and a love of discovery for new talents. From drawing to sewing to music, she has loved to explore every opportunity that comes her way. At a young age, Sydney discovered her love of writing, and she hasn’t been able to stop writing since. Her active imagination and artistic mind take her away to different worlds and time periods, making every new story a fantastic adventure. When she is not writing (or fawning over animals in the neighborhood) she spends time with her husband and children at home in Utah.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What’s your name?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colton Stone. Colt for short <br /><br /><b> What do you look like?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’m 6’7, 265 pounds, I’m an athlete, so I stay pretty fit. My hair’s pretty red and people think my eyes are the color of fire whiskey, whatever that means. <br /><br /><b> What time period does your story take place?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s summer of 2020 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>I’m a football player. A Seattle Warrior
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Are
you any good at it? </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>I’m fucking awesome at it.
If you haven’t heard of me, you live on Pluto. </span></span></span></div>
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I love it. I am thirty-six though, so it might be time to move on soon.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She
was incredible. You should’ve seen her. She’s like what, 5’3 and a hundred
pounds soaking wet, but she got so pissed at us for hitting her friend with a
football. It didn’t matter that it was an accident. She was all hellfire and
yappy, like a Chihuahua. I’m not gonna lie, she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve
ever met. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My mother died when I graduated from high school. My old
man’s a knob. He got hurt when he was in high school. You know the story, the
All-American that has a promising career ahead of him, then he gets hurt and
becomes bitter. Andrew Stone…my dad. Since mom died, he has a way of using her
to hurt me, sayin’ shit like she’d be disappointed in my choices. I actually
became what he wanted to be himself and he can’t stand it. Anyway, I don’t see
a lot of him. Usually he calls when he doesn’t like how I played in a game, and
shows up only when he wants to impart useless bit of wisdom.</span></span></div>
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bad habit I guess, but it’s my temper. I can always tell when I’ve scared the
shit outta the player opposite me on the line. They like shrink somehow. One
guy even told the paper that my eyes actually lit on fire. What a tool. I guess
you can say my temper’s gotten me in some trouble from time to time. All you
got to know is play me straight and I’ll play you the same. Say shit that isn’t
true, don’t work hard on the field or generally piss me off, and we’re gonna
have a problem. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span>I guess my
life has been pretty different from most people’s reality. I’ve worked hard to
be here and I think she recognizes I’m ready to make some changes in my life. I
can’t deny how Jeny see’s me. I can’t pretend that my way’s the best way
anymore. I’m hoping that Lilly can help me with that. Lilly and the kids, the
little shits. I’m glad Jeny’s told my story, our story. I think people will
like it. What happened to us, to me, well you just can’t make that shit up.</span></span></span></span></div>
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thank Amber and all of you for this amazing opportunity to share Colt with you.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colton
Stone is a newly traded tight end whose reputation is as battered as his
football helmet. When he receives a vacation invitation from his new teammates,
he accepts. There he collides with Dr. Lillian Morgan, a pediatric
cardiovascular surgeon, and doesn't know what to think.
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widow with two children, Lilly is looking forward to her friends' wedding. When
she meets Colton Stone, his arrogant attitude only makes her long for the love
she took for granted. Lilly struggles between letting go of her perfect past
for an uncertain future.
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events occur, out of the realm of normal consciousness. When black energy
touches their world Colt and Lilly become the pawns of the immortal Greek gods.
Is the love developing between them natural, or part of a larger prophecy?</span></span><br />
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small goose egg already formed just above her right temple. A tiny cut opened
in her eyebrow, from her broken sunglasses now laying in the sand, causing a small
bead of blood to well up.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“What
in the hell...” she bellowed, turning around and smacking her face into the
sweaty muscular chest of a massive redhead. Refusing to let the fourteen-inch
height difference and the hundred and sixty pounds of additional weight
intimidate her, Lilly balled her small fists on her hips, shifted her gaze up,
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“What
in the hell is the matter with you? You’re on a crowded beach with a bunch of
young children and families. You’re a grown-ass man. Can’t you catch a
football?” When he stared down at her in fascinated disbelief, she continued.
“There is a wide-open park just over there,” she said, stabbing her finger in
the general vicinity. “Maybe you and your little friends”— she looked over at
all the massive men in his group, but continued undaunted—“should go over there
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author, Jeny Heckman, was born in Bellingham, Washington, and was the youngest
of two daughters. She met her husband, Jeff, in August 1992, and eloped three
months later, at Magen’s Bay, on St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.
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wrote her first book, <i>the Catch</i>, in a
few short months but took several years before she gained the courage to
self-publish it at her son’s urging, and her love for writing began.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In
2018, Jeny knew her next project would be a series that showed adults could
have adventures in the paranormal-fantasy genre too. So, she created <i>the Heaven & Earth series</i>, a story
of doomed Greek gods and their only salvation, their modern-day descendants.
Her first book of the series, <i>the Sea
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;"><span id="freeText10494159731692500180">Skyler Daratrazanoff
always recognized the miracle that was Dimitri Tirunul, a man beyond any
dream that had ever engaged her nights. But she was human. Vulnerable.
He was Carpathian. Nearly immortal. She was nineteen. He was an ancient.
Yet she held half his soul, the light to his darkness. Without her, he
would not survive. Caught between the two warring species, Dimitri has
spent centuries hunting the undead to keep his people free, and humans
safe. He had survived honorably when others had chosen to give up their
souls. But now, marked for extermination by the Lycans, Dimitri found
himself alone, and fearing for his life. But salvation was coming…<br /><br />No
Lycan would ever suspect someone like Skyler to dare mount a secret
rescue operation. A teenage girl. A human of untested abilities. But she
had something no one else had. She was predestined for Dimitri—as he
was for her. And there was nothing stronger for Skyler than her desire
to see her life-dream come true. Whatever the risk.</span> </span></span></div>
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the Dark/Carpathian series, Skyler Daratranzanoff enlists her two best friends,
Josef and Paul, to help her track down and rescue her missing lifemate,
Dimitri. The Lycans captured him two weeks earlier, and no one—not her adopted
parents or the prince of the Carpathian people—are keeping her informed of the
situation. Desperate to save him, she and her friends go to Russia and run
afoul of a dangerous military-trained Lycan pack.</span></span></div>
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just an ancient Carpathian warrior. After centuries of sharing blood with his
half-Lycan/half-Carpathian brother Fen, he now has Lycan blood running through
his body. The Lycan species calls mixed bloods <i>Sange rau</i> and the
fanatics want to kill them all, so they kidnapped and tortured Dimitri. Meanwhile,
the Lycan council is visiting Mikhail, the prince, in hopes of establishing an
alliance between the two species.</span></span></div>
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I’ve been looking forward to this story for years, ever since Dark Celebration
came out. Dimitri and Skyler have been lifemates for the past three years, but
he hasn’t claimed her in the way of his people. After all, she was only 16 when
they met, but she’s grown up a lot in the past few years. She had suffered much
physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as a child, so she wasn’t ready for a
relationship with a man. Dimitri understood that and gave her time, all the
while getting to know her and becoming friends. Even though he risked his life
and soul to give her time, he remained honorable and put her needs before his
own, as all Carpathian males should do with their lifemates. </span></span></div>
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and respects Skyler for who she is. He’s not controlling, insanely jealous, or
demanding as some other heroes are in this series. He accepts her male friends and
considers them his friends, which few Carpathian warriors are capable of doing
for their women.</span></span></div>
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trauma, but feels she’ll never be strong enough or good enough for Dimitri.
Despite her doubts, she’s a powerful healer and psychic, and the perfect match
for her mate.</span></span></div>
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Skyler, Josef, and Paul. Even though they goof off and play, and the elder
Carpathians consider them children, they’re really adults and powerful in their
own right. Josef is especially wonderful, but feels unwanted, expendable, and a
burden to his family. Luckily, he realizes how wrong he is.</span></span></div>
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scenes with Skyler and her birth father Razvan. She’s kept her distance from
him, but she’s finally reaching out, wanting to get to know him.</span></span></div>
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inconsistencies. Skyler and Razvan are Xavier’s great granddaughter and
grandson respectively, but twice throughout the book they are called his
granddaughter and son. Also, Paul’s last name is Chevez (his father’s name),
not Jansen (his mother’s maiden name), so why is Paul suddenly going by his
mom’s name?</span></span></div>
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had to reread parts of it to figure out what was going on and who was talking
or thinking because of all the head hopping. The narrative is repetitive and
there are lots of lengthy chants and rituals, which I skimmed over. Zev and
Bronnie’s story is next, so stay tuned for that review.</span></span></div>
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After Julie crashes her helicopter in the Louisiana swamp, she finds help from a sexy scientist—who happens to be her ex! Too bad Seth is the all-work-and-no-play type. How will she convince him to set aside his work and take a chance on her? Or is a second shot at love too much to hope for?</div>
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Sultry Summer Sizzle brings you 17 torrid and taboo tales of sin, seduction and sweet scandal. Featuring hot stuff by: Liv Honeywell, Ava Night, Viv Velvet, Kerry Killeen, River Steele, N.J. Adel, Charlotte Storm, Lily Wickes, Layla Piper, Fern Fraser, Amber Daulton, Kaia Bell, Adele Morè, Geneva Maunder, A.K. Lilith, Carmen Webb, and Steph Brothers.<br />
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She flattened her palms on his chest to push him away, but then she gripped his shirt. Heat radiated around him and flushed her skin. Her mouth dried. “We shouldn’t do this.”<br />
“Why not? The rest of the world is gone, at least for now. The storm has made sure of it.” He feathered his fingertips down her neck. “I’ve missed you. Have you missed me?”<br />
“More than I can say.” One more time—a summer fling amidst a storm—wouldn’t hurt. Right? Her heart leapt as he kissed her. She moaned and swept her tongue along his teeth. His taste tantalized her. Yummy. His stubble teased her skin. She clutched his back, squeezed his firm muscles, and yanked up his T-shirt.<br />
He pulled back, jerked the garment over his head, and swooped her into his arms.<br />
She gasped, then giggled. How long had it been since that feminine sound escaped her mouth? She skimmed her fingers through his coarse chest hair as he strode to the other room. The full-sized bed welcomed her, and she gripped the standard bluish-gray blanket.<br />
Seth flipped the light switch by the door, sinking the room into shadows, and turned on the bedside lamp. The yellow glow sharpened the planes of his face. He jerked off his remaining clothes and pumped his erection. A drop of pre-cum seeped from the slit. His broad shoulders and toned chest tapered into a narrow waist and a pair of long legs.<br />
Thank God for good physical genetics. Most geeks weren’t so cut. She stripped nude, then reclined and spread her legs. For some reason, she’d made sure to shave her legs, bikini area, and beneath her arms before leaving home. Was it intuition?<br />
“You’re so beautiful.” He knelt between her bent knees and slid his fingers along the inner curve of her thigh.<br />
“Oh, my.” His heated touch trailed higher and enflamed the fleshy folds of her pussy. Her clitoris swelled. She gripped the blanket for leverage and arched her back.<br />
“Squirt for me, Julie. Let me taste you.”<br />
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Released 13 June 2020 <br />
Historical erotic romance, Highland romance <br />
Approximately 74,000 words <br />
HEA ending <br />
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Sassenach Bride is a stand-alone sequel to The Laird and the Sassenach. <br />
#eroticromance #ashebarker #discipline #dominance #spanking #Scottishromance #Highlanders #historicalromance #meninkilts <br />
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An unwanted bride, a vengeful monarch and a formidable northern lord </div>
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James McGregor would never have imagined himself taking an Englishwoman
as a wife, let alone a disgraced lady-in-waiting, but when he is ordered
by the king to marry twenty-two-year-old Eleanor Falconer he is left
with little choice. His reluctance is quickly overcome by his bride's
beauty and grace, but he soon realizes that she will still require
firm-handed correction.<br />
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Even with her cheeks blushing and her
well-punished bottom burning, Eleanor cannot hide her body's response to
James' stern dominance, and their wedding night leaves her sore, spent,
and shamefully satisfied. But when the king seeks to use her as a pawn
in his scheming against her new husband, can Eleanor trust James with
the truth even with everything she loves in jeopardy?<br />
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<b>Publisher's Note:</b> <i>Sassenach Bride</i> is a stand-alone sequel to <i>The Laird and the Sassenach</i>. It includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book.<br />
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<b>Buy Link </b>- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sassenach-Bride-Ashe-Barker-ebook/dp/B08B4TCH75">https://www.amazon.com/Sassenach-Bride-Ashe-Barker-ebook/dp/B08B4TCH75</a> </div>
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Amber Daultonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10082537233532702530noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5539247864404715266.post-42666409068252741332020-07-25T00:00:00.000-04:002020-07-25T00:00:06.751-04:00#AuthorInterview #NewRelease - "Touch Me" by Nancy Fraser <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Thank you, Nancy, for stopping by my blog. I can't wait to learn more about you.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What kind of research did you do for Trust Me?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had sex. Well, not recently, but my imagination is healthy.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Did you travel, use the Internet, speak with experts on a topic, etc?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I did, at one point, take a trip down memory lane. It’s very long and dusty road.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What process did you go through when you picked your characters’ names for Trust Me?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have a few favorites. Or, I’ll hear a name on television and think, “that’s nice”. Most often, I just calculate the year my hero or heroine was born and look up popular names for that year. Just as an aside... “Nancy” is never there.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Are your characters based on anyone you know? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I wish. I’d be nabbing my hero, Aaron Blake, for myself.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Do any of your characters take over and write the book themselves sometimes? Who?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most often it’s the hero that speaks to me. Or, at least, he’s the one whispering the dirty words.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What do you prefer: ebook or print? Why?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love a good print book on a rainy day. There’s something comforting about a big chair, a hot cup of coffee, and a great book. However, I’m usually too busy to sit and read, so I grab my e-reader for convenience sake.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>How long have you been writing? When did you decide to become an author?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I’ve been writing romance since the mid-1990s and published my first book in 1996. I knew from a young age (probably middle school) that I wanted to write. Thankfully, I had a number of great English teachers who prompted me to do just that.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What did you do when you received your first Acceptance Letter?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was at work when the late, and wonderful, Kate Duffy called me from Kensington in New York. One of my best friends had sold to them a few days before. Once I hung up from talking to Kate, I called my friend and told her we’d be sharing shelf space in November. I think we both deafened our co-workers with our excited screams. It was kind of weird that I was less excited talking to Kate but it really hit me when I share the news.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>All writers suffer from writer’s block at least once in their career. What’s your go-to cure?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Simple. Jealousy. I move on to another project and then, all of a sudden, my heroine is begging me to come back and my hero is taunting me with his grins and those sexy swear words. It usually only takes a day for them to figure out I’ve left them behind.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Sometimes the romance genre gets a bad reputation for being cliché and full of Fabios. How do you respond to that?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I usually don’t. Those that bash romance are never going to read one, so I don’t think it’s productive to waste my valuable time arguing with them and trying to convince them otherwise. It’s their loss that they can’t accept the wonderful values and love that we share in our books.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>We all need a little inspiration in our lives. What’s your favorite quote and why?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“If the sex scene doesn't make you want to do it - whatever it is they're doing - it hasn't been written right.” - Sloan Wilson. This should be the credo of every author who writes steamy romance. It’s honest, it’s to the point, and he’s right.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Any advice for the aspiring authors out there? Particularly those who are feeling a little discouraged?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, two pieces of advice. First, don’t let your mother, or sister, or cousin read your manuscript as a means to judge the quality. They’re going to tell you it’s great, even when it needs a good polish. Second, a solid career is built on perseverance and hard work. Don’t let the nay-sayers cramp your ambition or gloss over your goals. Make a wish list for where you want to be in one year, two, five, and work toward getting there.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>How do you market your books? What do you find more effective?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well, first of all, I own real estate on social media, especially Facebook and Twitter which is where my target audience resides. I have Instagram but I find it a bit “young” for me. I’m a big fan of using online sites like Red Roses and The Fussy Librarian to get a one-day promo boost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For my longer books, I also venture into BookBub and Amazon advertising. It also helps to have my own author services company, because I create my own media advertising and trailers.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What is your favorite book? Favorite author?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My favorite book is a real oldie but goodie. Chain Lightning by the absolutely fabulous Elizabeth Lowell. I have a dog-eared signed copy from 1986 that I read twice a year—on my birthday and on New Years.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Besides writing and reading, what are some of your hobbies?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writers are allowed to have hobbies? Great! Something else to add to my schedule. Just kidding, of course. I love to travel and I’m really missing it this year. I’d planned to take my three granddaughters to Paris this summer. So much for that idea!<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>What’s your most bizarre life experience?</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That’s easy. Millenia ago, I worked at a medical center in a very large city. One night as I was leaving work, I stopped at the stop light and a man stepped out in front of my car. I thought to myself, if he pulls a gun, I’m going to run him down. I had one foot on the brake and the other hovering over the gas pedal and my car was a big boat of a car, so I figured I’d get him in one fell swoop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He stuck his hands in his pockets and thought, this is it. He jerked open his coat and he was stark naked. I couldn’t help it, I started laughing. Hard. He got offended, closed his coat and walked away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That bizarre incident became the opening for the very first book I sold, way back in 1996.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>If you change places with any other writer, living or dead, who would it be?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That’s easy. H.G. Wells. I’ve published two time-travel romances and both were well received but neither was as great as those written by the master!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Length: Short Story (35 pages)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Release Date: July 20, 2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Touch Me is available for the very enticing price of 99¢!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tax consultant Katherine Weller isn't ready for a relationship after a divorce that left her empty. But when her best friend suggests she set up a sex-only date through Lusty Liaisons, a unique and exclusive dating service, she's uncertain but intrigued.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maybe a hot romp with a sexy, younger man is exactly what she needs to take that confident first step into her new life as a single woman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Monday came and went. Tuesday...nothing. By Wednesday, Katherine wanted nothing more than to bury herself beneath a mound of blankets and stay there until her death. Or her eightieth birthday, whichever came first. By then, she’d be over the embarrassment of not being chosen for a night of uncomplicated, albeit hot, sex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lillie’s daily request for a progress report wasn’t helping matters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Katherine’s cell dinged—a sure sign Lillie was sending her another message of encouragement. After pouring herself a second glass of <i>Cakebread </i>Chardonnay, Katherine picked up her phone, ran her fingertips across the lock screen, and stabbed the blinking icon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Katherine double checked the sender’s name. <i>Lusty Liaisons.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Damn! Hands shaking, she opened the email.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>You’ve made a sexy match!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>A request for contact was received from Aaron Blake. Mr. Blake is offering a fun-filled night at the Hudson Inn, Somerville, for this coming Saturday beginning at eight in the evening. If you decide to accept, please respond to this email. We will make the arrangements and confirm within twenty-four hours.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Click the link below to read Aaron’s profile.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She re-read the email twice before finally clicking on the profile link.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Aaron Blake, age thirty-two. Six-foot-two, two-hundred ten pounds. Occupation: government contractor. Sexual preferences: almost anything goes, although not into bondage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Her gaze shot back to the top of the profile as it had at least a dozen times. Aaron Blake’s photo stared back at her. His crooked smile taunted her, as if daring her to ignore him. A thin scar ran from the corner of his right eye and down the side of his face, yet it wasn’t disfiguring in the least. If anything, it drew her attention to his deep-set, brown eyes and long lashes. His dark hair was peppered with a touch of gray. A hint of stubble shadowed his square jaw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All-in-all, he was gorgeous. And no doubt able to get any woman he wanted. What could he possibly want with a woman ten years his senior?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before she could lose her nerve, she pressed the reply key, checked the box that said “accept,” and hit the send button.</span><br />
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prison of ice, Tatijana of the Dragonseekers was freed. Awakened in
human form, Tatijana yearns to explore the modern world—one with more
mysteries than she is prepared for.<br /> <br /> Fenris Dalka has returned
to the Carpathian Mountains, scarred by battle. Though the reason for
his return could prove fatal if found out, he is drawn to the beautiful
stranger who carries the scent of fresh earth, of forest, of the night
itself.<br /> <br /> In time, Tatijana and Fenris will discover all that
unites them—their secrets and pasts, their predators, and the hot flush
of passion that stirs their souls. Yet just as surely, they’ll also
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">In the twenty-first book of
the Dark/Carpathian series, Tatijana Dragonseeker has been healing in the earth
for the past two years, alongside her sister Branislava, but she’s growing
restless and wants to explore the modern world. After centuries of starvation,
torture, and enslavement, she needs time to find out who she is and what she
wants. Secretly rising on her own to explore the nearby human village, she
feels inexplicably drawn to a rough-and-tumble tavern in the forest.</span></span></div>
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Dalka hasn’t traveled through his homeland in centuries, but he’s in the
Carpathian Mountains to track down a rogue werewolf pack that’s been murdering
Lycans and humans alike. While hunting down the pack, he finds Tatijana, his
brother Dimitri, and befriends Zev, an elite Lycan in charge of the Lycan pack
that’s also hunting down the rogues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Wow. I haven’t liked a
Dark/Carpathian book as much as I do this one in a long time. Fen and Tatijana
are wonderful, strong, likeminded characters. Though she didn’t want a
lifemate, she didn’t expect her heart to need Fen or that he would be so
understanding and kind to her. Likewise, Fen didn’t want to bind her to him
because doing so would put her in danger from the Lycans.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: windowtext;">You see, Fenris isn’t like
most Carpathian males. Years earlier, he and a Lycan friend shared blood on
several occasions, and they both transformed into the other species. Fen is now
part Carpathian and part Lycan with the abilities and weaknesses of both
species, and he’s physically stronger than both of them combined. The Lycans
call mixed breeds like him <i>Sange rau</i> and they always kill the ones they
find, so Fen hides his true nature from them and pretends to be fully Lycan.
The Carpathians, however, have no prejudices against mixed breeds, and Mikhail,
the prince, wants the Lycans as their allies.</span></span></div>
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Fen is considerate and respects his woman’s wishes and feelings. Being part
Lycan has helped him keep the darkness at bay, so he’s not that close to
turning into a vampire. He’s also not controlling or a chauvinist, so he
doesn’t mind if Tatijana is around other men or if those men talk to her and
touch her in friendship. He’s one of my favorite heroes in the entire series.</span></span></div>
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conflict between the H/h, which made for easy reading. The problems they faced
came from outside forces, and I loved the way Fen and Tatijana worked together
as equals. After all, she’s a Dragonseeker and very knowledgeable when it comes
to fighting and performing mage spells. She’s an asset in a battle, not a
hindrance, and Fen recognized that.</span></span></div>
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sex scenes in this story, and one of them was fairly short. That’s basically
unheard of in Ms Feehan’s books. Even though I found the number of sex scenes
refreshing, the H/h still make love in a natural pond, which typically happens
in almost every book in the series. </span></span></div>
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society was pretty interesting, and their hatred toward the <i>Sange rau</i> is
understandable but still wrong and horrible. I’m not too sure what the
difference between Lycans and werewolves are, other than one being the good
guys and the others bad, but hopefully I’ll figure that out in the next book.</span></span></div>
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strong and skilled as Gregori, but I don’t think he’s as domineering.
Branislava is going to need a gentle man to help her overcome her past trauma,
and I’m really looking forward to their story.</span></span></div>
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celebration showing all the children and how the Carpathian race is beginning
to grow. That was just fun and definitely needed for longtime readers of the
series.</span></span></div>
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characters, but sometimes I found myself skimming because the writing is wordy
and repetitive. The story ends with a HEA for Fen and Tatijana, but it ends on
a cliffhanger with Dimitri. I’m so anxious to read his story and find out
what’s going to happen next.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once you’re in a prison gang, you’re in it for life. That’s what Mason Harding thought until the boss accepted his resignation. After the State releases him on parole, a sexy divorcée behind the wheel of a car almost ends his life quicker than a shank. His chance encounter with Mia Eddison results in a night of passion, but her brother—his parole officer—catches them together and doesn’t approve. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mia falls hard for the cocky ex-con, but not because of his chiseled body. She vows to break through his walls and discover his secrets, but never expects those secrets to threaten her life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When members of an organized crime ring kidnap Mia to force Mason’s return to the gang, he goes up against an old friend to save the woman he loves. Will his sacrifice be enough or will everything fall apart in a blaze of gunfire? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their chance encounter resulted in a steamy affair, but will his former gang and a parole officer tear them apart? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mason joined her in the tub,
closed the door behind him, and hot water pelted his back in a rough caress.
Tension eased from his shoulders, and he glanced at Mia as she gently rubbed a
sudsy body puff over his pecs. Several bruises still marred his chest and stomach,
and she looked ready to cry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The bruises look worse than they
feel.” He clasped her cheek. “I’m a fast healer, and I’ve been through worse
than what you witnessed on Saturday. When I say I’m fine, I mean it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She kissed the hollow of his
throat and rubbed slightly harder. Tempted to jerk her against him and prove he
could handle it rough, he gripped his hands in his hair to let her go at her
own pace. Her soft, reverent touch eased his aches, burned through his hard
shell, and pierced his dirty soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He’d done so many bad things in
his life, and he didn’t know why she accepted him.</span></div>
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Cassie continues to live life to the fullest, from wheeling around in her new sports car to mastering the art of riding a motor scooter with no hands, she manages to keep Tom on his toes. The fly in the ointment is that Tom’s firm wants him back for a project and Cassie wants him all to herself. When Tom takes the job, Cassie is left lonely and bored – never a good combination for her.<br />
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Left to her own devices Cassie makes some poor decisions, frightening Sue and causing Tom to lower the boom. Tom's new schedule for Cassie, including her getting a job, leaves her little time to get herself in trouble – yet she still manages. <br />
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<b>Author’s note </b>– This series of books looks into a loving look into a domestic discipline marriage. You’ll find that they have an active sex life, though you may have to use your imagination for the details. And you’ll find enough spanking to satisfy most anyone! But you’ll also find strong men and feisty women with fiercely loyal friendships and a love story that many would envy.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times";">I soon discovered the best part of having
a broken hand was the baths. With the ridiculous bandage on my hand, a shower
was impossible. I loved baths, but I had to have help. I’d had a trying day,
perhaps too many visitors, my head hurt, my hand hurt, and trying to eat with
my left hand was so awkward. Being fed by your loving husband may sound
romantic, but only if it’s rare. I found myself in frustrated tears. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times";">Tom helped me to the veranda to watch the
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times";">Tom returned in about fifteen minutes.
Helping me to my feet, he said, “Come with me.” Tom led me to the bedroom and
silently began undressing me. I hated to protest, but I just wasn’t in the
mood. I said nothing and soon I stood before him, nude. With a grin, Tom opened
the door into our bathroom.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times";">Oh, my stars and garters!</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times";"> Tom must have lit every candle we own.
What an amazing sight it was, candles reflecting off the mirrors and even the
bubbles of the wonderful bath he’d drawn. My romantic devil eased me down into
the water. The scent and the sensation were overwhelming. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times";">“Tom this is incredible. I can’t beli –”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times";">“Shh, don’t talk, just relax,” he cooed
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times";">I did as he said. I lay my head back on
the towel he’d positioned for that purpose and gave in to the luxury of the
bath… Oh my, that man knew how to give a bath. He began by massaging my face
and neck with his hands as he washed. He gave each and <i>every</i> part of my
body his full attention. I felt so peaceful that I feared I would slip right
down the drain. Finally helping me stand, he wrapped me in a huge soft towel
and dried me silently, and then guided me to the bed. I remember him tucking me
in and kissing me softly, but I remembered nothing else until morning. I wanted
my hand back in working order, but until then, I was prepared to enjoy the
perks.</span><b> </b><br />
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After spending thirty-six years in two careers I liked just fine, I’ve finally found my dream career as a writer. I’ve been happily married for thirty-six-years and my sweet husband has gotten used to the unique experience of living with a writer. He is very encouraging and an excellent editor when he’s pressed into service. <br />
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I’ve been intrigued by spanking stories since before I first saw Ricky spank Lucy. Stories of this nature were hard to come by before the Internet and the ones I found were a little harsh on discipline and very much lacking in love. So, I made up my own stories and enjoyed these in my head for years. I finally began writing them down. Although the lovely women in my stories are spanked often, the love between them and their men takes top priority. <br />
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My Cassie’s Space series shows a mature couple who are deeply in love. Despite loving Cassie’s free-spirited ways, Tom is determined to keep her safe, even if it takes a trip over his knee. And with her friend Sue by her side and all they get into, a trip over his knee is very likely. My Cal’s Law series, is about a younger couple. Though they come from very different backgrounds, love and discipline draw them together. <br />
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I love my husband, my kids, my cats, reading, writing and hearing from my readers. You can contact me at <a href="mailto:pk.corey@yahoo.com">pk.corey@yahoo.com</a> <br />
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