Something Like Love By Monica James ♥ Cover Reveal

Book Info

Title: Something Like Love

Series: Something Like Normal, #3

Author: Monica James

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Limitless Publishing

Release Date: February 2015

Blurb

The secret’s out…

Fate has never been kind to Mia Lee, but her misfortune has driven her to seek redemption from a past filled with regret.

Mia’s future depends on uncovering her past, but sadly, the answers lay with her mother, a mother who abandoned Mia when she was only a child.

Now that Mia has finally found her kin, she’s determined to get the answers she so desperately seeks.

But those answers come with a price…

Mia’s blossoming relationship with Quinn Berkeley is the sole reason she carries on. But Quinn has a secret of his own. Will his secret destroy the one stable foundation in Mia’s life? And more importantly, what will Quinn’s secret do to him once he confesses the sins of his past?

Life for Mia and Quinn is about to explode in a way she never thought possible…

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Author Bio

Monica James spent her youth devouring the works of Anne Rice, William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson.

When she is not writing, Monica is busy running her own business, but she always finds a balance between the two.

She enjoys writing honest, heartfelt and turbulent stories, hoping to leave an imprint on her readers, and her inspiration comes from every day life. She is an Amazon best selling author in the US, UK, Canada and Australia.

Monica James resides in Melbourne, Australia, with her wonderful family, and menagerie of animals.

She is slightly obsessed with cats, chucks and lip gloss, and secretly wishes she was a ninja on the weekends.

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Natural Love By S.Celi ♥ Release Blitz

Title: Natural Love

Author: S. Celi

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: December 9, 2014

Design: Berto Designs

Synopsis

My whole life, I wanted one thing: to be the perfect son.

Growing up, I did everything my father required. Straight A’s in school. Perfect manners. I forced myself to live up to his standards–standards that pushed the Chadwick family name to the highest rungs of society.
Over the years, we climbed so high that my father hoped we’d never fall.

If only he’d been right. With each successful year, the Chadwick family skeletons grew bolder and darker. Each member of my family had something to hide. Every lie threatened to undo us.
The secret Avery Jackson and I shared was the worst one of all.

She was the one person I shouldn’t love–the one person I couldn’t love. But I did. I loved Avery Jackson. I wanted her, even though a romance with her threatened everything.
It all felt so natural.

And that was exactly the problem.

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Excerpt

“You look beautiful tonight,” I said.

“Thank you. I hoped you’d like this dress.”

We stopped walking just under the trellis, next to a corner of the
house. From here, we couldn’t see the rest of the party, but we
could hear everything. Hundreds of people stood just a few feet
away from us, and they’d come looking for us soon. We had
commitments and expectations to fulfill, but at that moment, my
eyes and my attention were on her.

Only her.

“Did you wear it just for me?” I said.

“Yes,” she said under her breath. “Just for you. I do everything
just for you –”

My mouth covered hers in a rough, intense kiss. I gripped her
face with one hand and the small of her back with the other,
crushing her to me in a split second of passion that didn’t have
any boundaries, a passion that broke every rule, and defied
everything that made sense in my life. My tongue twisted and
shoved against hers and she opened her body beneath me as
our kisses deepened. Before long, I forced us against the ivy wall
of the house, and there we were, locked together in a moment
that somehow we’d claimed as ours and ours alone.

I only broke the kiss when she moaned against my mouth.
Something about the sound made me remember where we were.
Who I was. What we were doing. How wrong it all was from the
standpoint of everything I had ever been taught.
No. We couldn’t do this. No. No. No.

Someone might see.

Above us, inside the house, a light in the study flipped on and I
heard two voices. Had they seen us already?

“I’m sorry,” I said as I forced our lips apart. I took an immediate
step away from her, but it did little to calm us both. Her breath
came out hard and fast, a series of quick pants, as if she hadn’t
wanted to breathe while we kissed.

And I don’t know what unsettled me more: the kissing or the look
of extreme pleasure she had on her face.

“I am . . . I’m . . . I should go.” I said.

Without another word, I turned and disappeared down the
pathway, leaving her alone against the ivy.

About The Author

Journalist. Novelist. Broadcaster. Blogger.

An overactive imagination has always served Sara Celi well.
Starting from age 10, with an epic tale about a soldier during the
Civil War, Sara has made creating stories her life’s work.

After graduating cum laude from Western Kentucky University in
2004 with a degree in Broadcast News and History, Sara Celi
started her decade-long career in broadcast journalism at TV
stations in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Ohio.

Her love of the written word came to fruition with the publishing
of her first novel, The Undesirable, in 2013 and has since
published The Palms and Prince Charming.

Born in New Orleans and having lived all over the United States,
Sara Celi now calls the Greater Cincinnati area home. In her
spare time, she likes to read, shop, travel, run, volunteer with the
Junior League, serve on the board of Wesley Community
Services, and work with Cooperative for Education, a non-profit
providing educational opportunities for the children of
Guatemala.

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Unhidden By Dina M. Given ♥ Cover Reveal

Title: Unhidden (The Gatekeeper Chronicles, Book #1)

Release date: December 29, 2014

Book Genre: Adult Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance / Horror

Cover Designer: by Hang Le

Blurb

It’s not always easy to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys, especially when a trained killer may be falling in love with her evil hunter…

Emma Hayes, a former military Special Forces Operative turned mercenary-for-hire, finds her tightly controlled world turned upside down when she becomes the target of attacks by powerful supernatural creatures.

Emma must use every skill in her arsenal to stay alive as she tries to solve the mystery of why she has been targeted. Her list of enemies keeps growing – from Zane Shayde, an evil Mage, to a secret branch of the US government – and she doesn’t know if there is anyone left she can trust.

To complicate matters further, Emma is inexplicably drawn to Zane in a way she does not quite understand, even knowing her life is forfeit if captured. Who is he and why does he have this affect on her? How can she fight someone who calls to her, body and soul?

Emma is left haunted by questions, doubts and fears as to why she has been targeted, when they will come for her next, and how she will possibly survive against an enemy she doesn’t understand.

Excerpt

Claws, teeth, and a slavering black tongue rose over me as I lay prone on the floor. It could have easily ripped my throat out or killed me in a dozen hideous ways. It seemed to realize this, too. Its jaw cracked and popped, unhinging so wide it could make a meal of my head in one bite. Hot, putrid saliva dripped onto my face, leaking into my open wound and searing it like acid. I hissed at the sensation and turned away; however, I couldn’t escape its fetid breath.

It leaned in, eager and hungry, while I was frozen. I would meet death in the jaws of an inhuman beast. It would drink my blood, feast on my organs, and gnaw on my bones for dessert.

Darko’s hoarse voice called from down the hall. “Don’t kill her! We need her.”

The thing paused and let out a high-pitched wail of anger at being deprived of its dinner. The sound shattered my fear.

I threw up a knee, violently slamming it in the creature’s crotch. Thankfully, it was humanoid enough, that it had the same effect as any other male. He howled and rolled off me into the fetal position. I immediately scrambled backward, sliding along the marble floor. My left arm, screaming in pain, remained limp at my side.

With my right arm, I reached over my head to grab the gun. As my fingers wrapped around the grip, the familiar feeling was like coming home again.

I pointed the Glock down the length of my body, and without a moment’s hesitation, I pulled the trigger in three quick, precise squeezes. The head of the creature I had nut-cracked exploded in a spray of blood and gore.

Shifting the gun’s sight, I found the second creature barreling down the hall toward me. The first three shots hit him square in the chest, yet he hardly slowed. I lifted the gun slightly, took a deep breath and held it, then squeezed the trigger, putting a round straight through its eye and into its brain. That time, it stumbled yet still kept coming. I put four more rounds into its head, not missing a shot, before it finally crashed to the floor only inches shy of my feet.

Darko merely stood there, a sly, half-smile tugging at the corner of his mouth while I unsteadily got to my feet, pushing myself up with my gun hand. Despite the fact that Darko carried no weapon I could see, for a moment, I considered shooting him. He had set me up, kidnapped an innocent girl, and commanded those creatures. Even though he had stopped them from killing me, I was sure he wouldn’t hesitate if he got what he wanted from me.

With him only a few yards away, I had a clear shot. I pointed my weapon at him, and for the first time today, he reacted. The blood drained from his face, his eyes darting around, seeking escape. He quickly came to the same conclusion I had—there was no escape for him.

My finger tightened on the trigger, but before I could get off the shot, a monstrous animal bounded from the shadows behind him. It leapt past Darko, springing at me on all fours. It was the size of a bear with dry, scaly skin, and a mouth full of sharp teeth. Two tusks extended from the roof of its mouth, past its jaw. It bellowed like a foghorn as it charged me.

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Dina Given lives in rural New Jersey – home of farms, horses and the largest hot air balloon festival in North America – with her husband, two crazy kids, and one rescue dog. She is an exercise enthusiast and avid lover of food and wine (hence the need to exercise). Dina also works full time for one of the largest healthcare companies in the world. She attributes her ability to juggle family, work and writing to her obsessive, hyper-focused, Type A personality.

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Fragments By M.R. Field ♥ Release Blitz

Title: Fragments (Running on Empty, #1)

Author: M.R. Field

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: December 8, 2014

Synopsis

Trice

Under the lights, amongst the jazz shoes, blistered feet and caked faces of the dance troupe, you

pretend you’re someone else. The melody begins and your body responds. You allow it to weave into

your skin until it’s made itself home in your soul. It is that dance that drives you. It is that dance that will

continue to save you. It is that dance that will release you.

Until him.

Until your heart can no longer shut him out, even after he’s pushed you

away.

You can’t let him in again, can you? There’s only so much of your heart

left to give.

Alex

She is the reason I can’t stay. The reason that the covered bruises, the

lies and the hurt are too much. I am no good for her. But when I see her again, I can’t stay away. Like

Dante said, “The path to paradise begins in hell.”

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Excerpt

Trice-

“What’s got your chuckling over there, Bea-Bea?”

I inwardly sigh at my nickname. “Ah … nothing. It’s just me

being silly.”

“Hmm …” he muses. “Sure … care to share?”

My face heats up. I don’t feel so brave anymore.

“No, it’s okay, really.” I cover my cheeks in

embarrassment.

He notices instantly and starts pecking at me. “C’mon,

Bea-Bea! You can tell me … pweeease?”

I lower my hands and give him a look. Should I? Shouldn’t

I? His lips pucker in a duck face and I can’t help but laugh. You’ve asked for it. “Well, seeing as it’s such a

shock for you to see me in my dance clothes, I contemplated wearing little outfits around the house just

to watch you stumble and perhaps crash into something.”

I can’t help but grin; it feels nice having the upper hand in

teasing for a change. Winding up the window, I notice that for once he hasn’t replied. I’m in my element,

so I keep on going. “You know, just walk around and vacuum or answer the door, daily activities that I

don’t care for, but just so you can act like a fool … Geez, Alex, never thought of you being shy. How

times have changed.”

For a moment, I think I’ve embarrassed him, then as I tilt

my head over my shoulder to see him, he’s not looking embarrassed. In fact, he’s looking … a whole lot

tense. Narrowing my eyes at him, I challenge him with, “Um … care to explain why you’re clutching the

steering wheel? Are you mad?”

He tilts his chin to the left and I follow its track, seeing the

dance studio is in front of us. Oh, that was a quick trip, albeit a little weird just now.

“Oh. Well, thanks for the lift. I should be finished by four

or five. I’ll tram back, no need to chauffeur.”

He pulls over as I’m collecting my tote from my feet,

“Thanks again.” I smile, clearly trying to brighten up the tension I’ve caused. I grab the door handle, but

am stopped when his large arm comes across my chest, essentially blocking me in. Our gazes

lock.

“Bea,” he says softly, “I like that red underwear you

own.”

“I … ah … am wearing it… today,” Releasing his arm from

the door handle, he gently holds my face while staring intently into my eyes. “I especially like it when

you wear your nightgown. That blue one you have on the clothesline? Try putting that one on and

seeing what I’ll do.”

My breath hitches as I stare back into his eyes, my

breathing suddenly coming in fast but

shallow breaths. He isn’t joking with me. His eyes have

darkened, and his chest is rising rapidly also.

“See you tonight,” he whispers, and his hand cups my

cheek. Please, please, please kiss me. Before my impatience takes over and I can move forward to kiss

him, he’s leaning back and fastening his seat beat.

What just happened?

About The Author

M R Field is an author from Rural Victoria and has completed a Bachelor’s

degree with Honours from Latrobe University, Melbourne. After growing up with the river at her front

door, she returned back to her hometown after many years of living in the city. She now lives a tranquil

lifestyle with her husband and two young children.

M R Field has always held a love for writing, filling journals as a child

which progressed to more eloquent pieces as an adult. After ten years of creative instruction, she

decided to turn these ideas into manuscripts. She adores creating new story lines and is a big fan of a

happily ever after, but believes strongly in making her characters work for it.

She has recently decided to join the independent publishing world with

her debut novel, Fragments, due for release on December 8th, 2014.

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Ice ( Regulators, MC) By Chelsea Camaron & Jessie Lane ♥ Release Blitz

Title: ICE (Regulators MC, #1)

Authors: Chelsea Camaron and Jessie Lane

Release Date: December 8, 2014

Blurb

She’s an investment banker.

He’s an outlaw biker.

A little bit of heaven is about to meet a whole lot of hell.

Morgan Powell was raised to be perfect, to set an

example for her sisters to follow. Her life has been dedicated to making something of

her career, so she wouldn’t know what to do with a man even if you gave her an instruction manual.

Brett ‘Ice’ Grady spends his days trying to keep up

with his teenage daughter, his nights consumed in Regulators’ MC business. He has

no time for anything more than a casual hookup. Two worlds collide when the dangers of his life crash into the calm of hers.

Can she go beyond her own boundaries and chip her way through to the man known to be as cold as ice?

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Excerpt

~Morgan~

Looking at my phone screen, I smile at the text in

front of me.

I’m off 2nite. Movie @ ur house or

mine?

Texting back, I tell my best friend I will be at her

house after work with takeout. It is not often she gets a Friday night off. Working in

a bank, I have every weekend off. Casey’s career path is far different than mine,

though, and it is one that requires weekend time.

My day drags on as I review current investment

portfolios and market changes. I have the best job ever. I get paid to spend other

people’s money as an investment broker here in South Beach. My life is sun, sand,

and dollar bills.

Before going to Casey’s, I stop by my condo and

change clothes. The down side to my job is the stuffy suits I have to wear:

reasonable, past knee-length skirts; reasonable women’s dress pants; and

reasonable button up shirts. I might hate them, yet in a sad way, the dress code fits

my life—reasonable.

It’s not long into girl’s night before the difference in

our lifestyle’s show.

“Damn, we’re not even halfway through the first

movie, and you’re ready for bed? What the hell? Grandparents stay up later than

you,” my best friend wakes me out of my doze.

“Sorry, some of us keep normal business hours,” I

joke back.

“Yeah, your hours scream forty-two, not twenty-

four, as does everything else in your life.”

“I’m not that bad,” I protest half-heartedly. However,

that voice of doubt says “maybe I am.” Maybe my stiff upbringing has rubbed off on

me more than I care to admit.

My parents raised me to be an example. As the

oldest of three, I had to be the light to guide my younger sisters, Madyson and

Mallory. Everything with my parents was about fitting the mold, keeping up

appearances. Their brainwashing worked to some degree. Going away to college did

nothing for me in my attempt to escape my overbearing parents, either. No, they live

in my head, every rule engraved into my brain matter. Too bad no one warned me

there is no cure and no escape once they get those rules engrained into your very

being.

I am a twenty-four-year-old virgin. A college

educated, suit wearing, have my shit together prude. Yep, that’s me. I wouldn’t know

what to do with a penis if it was given to me gift wrapped in Christmas paper, and

topped with a bow.

Morgan Ann Powell: pathetic, stiff, and borderline

pseudo-old lady—that is me. I am, quite possibly, the only woman in her twenties

who can count on one hand how many guys she has kissed. I am not cut out for

parties, guys, or any wild times, either. My destiny is to be the old lady who lives

alone, feeding all the stray cats in the neighborhood.

About the Authors

Jessie Lane is the best selling author of The Star

Series, Big Bad Bite Series and the Ex Ops Series.

She lives in Kentucky with her two little Rock Chicks

in the making and her over protective alpha husband. She has a passionate love for

reading and writing naughty romance, cliff hanging suspense, and out-of-this-world

characters that demand your attention, or threaten to slap you around until you do

pay attention to them.

Jessie writes Adult Paranormal and Contemporary

Romance & Upper YA Fantasy/Paranormal Romance.

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Chelsea Camaron was born and raised in Coastal

North Carolina. She currently resides in Southern Louisiana with her husband and

two children but her heart is always Carolina day dreaming.

Chelsea always wanted to be a writer, but like most

of us, let fear of the unknown grab a hold of her dream; she realized that if she was

going to tell her daughter to go for her dreams, that it was time to follow her own advice.

Chelsea grew up turning wrenches alongside her

father, and from that grew her love for old muscle cars and Harley Davidson

motorcycles, which just so happened to inspired her ‘Daddy’s Girls’ series. Her love

for reading has sparked a new love for writing and she currently has a few more

projects in the works.

When she is not spending her days writing you can

find her playing with her kids, attending car shows, going on motorcycle rides on the

back of her husband’s Harley, snuggling down with her new favorite book or

watching any movie that Vin Diesel might happen to be in.

She hates being serious and is still a big kid at heart.

She is a small town country girl enjoying life and, Chelsea hopes that her readers

remember not to take life too seriously and to embrace your inner five year old,

because five year olds know how to enjoy the simple things in life and how to

always have fun.

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Casual Encounter Vol. IV By M.S. Parker ♥ Release Blitz

When my attempt at a date ended disastrously and Cade has come

to my rescue again, I wondered if, maybe there was something more

between us than business. Or was it just wishful thinking?

Bree Gamble is following the directions from her teacher, Cade Shepard,

but things don’t go exactly as planned. Cade’s rescue leads revelations

about his past, things that make Bree fear their arrangement is about to

end because of rule number one. She can’t deny the attraction she has

beyond physical and, now, she believes there’s a possibility that Cade

feels the same way. Will they trust each other enough to confess their true

feelings, and if they do, will it all end with them each going their separate

ways?

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Chasing Perfection. Living in Southern California, she enjoys sitting by the pool with her laptop writing on her next spicy romance. Growing up all she wanted to be was a dancer, actor or author. So far only the latter has come true but M. S. Parker hasn’t retired her dancing shoes just yet. She is still waiting for the call for her to appear on Dancing With The Stars.

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Club Prive : French Connection By M.S. Parker ♥ Blog Tour

The past year should have been everything I’d ever dreamed. Why, then, did I feel like something was missing?

Things have been quiet for Carrie Summers and her boyfriend, Gavin Manning, since they took down Gavin’s business partner for kidnapping and sex trafficking, among other things. Carrie is working as a pro bono lawyer, fighting for abused and exploited people, and Gavin has been hard at work changing Club Privé into a dance club. In all their hard work, however, they’ve lost the spark between them. Could a trip to the French Rivera be just what they need to bring the life back into their relationship…and their club?

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Living in Southern California, she enjoys sitting by the pool with her laptop writing on her next spicy romance.

Growing up all she wanted to be was a dancer, actor or author. So far only the latter has come true but M. S. Parker hasn’t retired her dancing shoes just yet. She is still waiting for the call for her to appear on Dancing With The Stars.

When M. S. isn’t writing, she can usually be found reading- oops, scratch that! She is always writing.

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December Rain (August Fog Trilogy) By A.L. Goulden ♥ Blog Tour

Title: December Rain

Genre: Erotic Contemporary Romance

Author: A.L Goulden

Release Date: November 25, 2014

Synopsis:

Monica and Alex Waters have spent that last few months working to repair a broken marriage and rekindle their passion. Just as they start finding their spark, Quinn Matthews and his escalating career resurfaces, but this time Alex makes the decision to let Monica go.

The devastation of losing her high school sweetheart, her home, and even her dog twists Monica down a destructive path that alienates her from her closest friends and lands her on Quinn’s couch. Despite her efforts to resist jumping into his arms again, the spark between them reignites and sweeps her away on a whirlwind holiday adventure. She finds that falling in love with Quinn’s family and lifestyle is as easy as falling for his ocean colored eyes. The problem is that it’s all too easy, and when she sees that Quinn’s reinvented life has completely shifted towards her dreams, she starts to question whether he’s too good to be true.

Quinn has a secret that was never meant to be kept this long, but will Monica be able to trust another man who’s lied? And now that Quinn’s got his happily ever after in sight, he’s not about to let her go or share her with another man

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The outdoor style shopping mall is bustling with tourist and local art lovers. Rows of art galleries surround the courtyard where a stage welcomes a local reggae band. Monica settles into a groove and starts dancing with the crowd. Alex tries to hang in for a couple of songs before he starts feeling claustrophobic and looks to the galleries and shops around them.

“Go ahead,” she says with a loving smile. “I’ll meet you down there… after one more song.”

He gives her a little kiss on the cheek and glides his hand across her behind before making his way out of the crowd. His attention is pulled by various pieces in windows along the way. There’s a large glass sea turtle in shades of green and gold followed by a painting of an autumn forest with heavy texture. He stands there daydreaming for a minute until he’s distracted by a reflection passing in the glass. It’s so brief he’s sure it’s his imagination. He barely catches a glimpse down the mall as the backside of the man disappears into another gallery.

Alex follows the ghost, dodging through happy couples and pushy salespeople trying to get his attention. Before he can see inside a painting that’s prominently displayed on a front wall stops him. A cold washes over as he stands there staring at it. He slowly moves inside, mesmerized by the familiar vibrant paint strokes until he sees a few people gathered in the back. A man talking to two smiling women stills himself as Alex’s eyes freeze on the back of his shaved head. No words were needed as the tropical air takes a chill. Even the women sense a showdown and step back to give Quinn room.

Quinn turns. What do I say? Fuck! I thought that was him. I hoped it wasn’t. Quinn moves very slowly towards Alex. Is he gonna hit me? I do deserve it. Might as well get it over with. “Hey.” Quinn pauses near the center of the room waiting.

Alex swallows hard, his nostrils flaring and fist clenched. His jaw flexes as his breathing grows heavier, but the emotions just start to turn to mush. His eyes fill as thoughts of his new friend’s betrayal wash over and the painting draws his eyes again.

“I’m sorry Alex,” Quinn says quietly.

Monica nearly passes the gallery on her way to see their friends when Alex’s shirt first catches her eye. She halts and shifts backwards until she sees the painting and stops. It’s a female figure bent forward reaching for her toes. The abstract form of her body in swirls of orange and reds is cradled by a man swathed in blues and purple. Oh my God! That’s me. That’s us, stretching. It can’t be. He’s…

She struggles for air as the tears swell, and she can already feel him. As she stands there, not crossing the threshold, the two men watch her. When her eyes finally land on Quinn, electricity fills the room. She can only see him and the deep tan that backdrops the pale oceany eyes reaching for her. A warm drop gently slides down her cheekbone as her breathing syncs with his. His lips move slightly hinting at words that he can’t find while she struggles not to run into his arms.

Alex’s discomfort is audible as he clears his clogged throat to rattle her attention to his worried eyes. She steps in and touches his hand briefly. “I’ll be outside,” she says, turning without another glance at Quinn.Her feet move quick as her thoughts try to keep up. What are they doing? Alex is gonna hit him. I can’t believe he’s here. What are the odds? Did he know we’d be here? No. Maybe he moved here. That painting was him and I together. Would Alex know that? It’s pretty abstract. Fuck! This can’t be happening. Before she knows it, she’s at the other end of the mall near the parking lot. She settles on a bench to wait for the world to stop crumbling around her.

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I’m a designer, author, wife and dog-lover living in the South Pasadena area of California. I got my BFA in Film Production from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, but my love of a good story came way before college. I remember writing my first full story in fifth grade on a typewriter. I cut and pasted it into a book, complete with cardboard cover and taped binding. Things have changed a lot since then. With the magnificent digital age I can produce books and give them to the world without a sticky mess.

In college numerous instructors and peers praised my dialogue pushed me to hone my storytelling skills. Of course the need to cut and paste was still there, so I went into the world of Production Design and Art Direction for films and television. It gave me the ability to connect design to storytelling in a way that no other career can. The past 18 years have spun a unique perspective on visually emotional tales of relationships and the thread that ties all things together. Now I’m shifting focus on the driving force that brought me here… stories. I hope that I can share a unique perspective on life, love and the pursuit in all of the above.

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1. I not only like to design things like homes, gardens, and interiors, I like to build them too. I built the redwood decks in our backyard when our carpenter backed out at the last minute. Since I was off work for a few weeks, I went for it. The best part was the neighbor’s reaction to me out there every day with power tools and very long planks of wood. I think working with your hands gives you an immediate sense of accomplishment.

2. I’m a reluctant morning lover, which means I love getting things get done early while it’s quiet and calm, but my attitude when I first roll out of bed is sour.

3. I’ve practiced bonsai for many years and have a garden with 10 trees on display.

4. I love board games and try to organize game nights with friends as often as possible. My family was always very competitive and had a regular Sunday night usually filled with Yahtzee or UNO battles.

5. My favorite book as a kid was Pride and Prejudice, but I was very Dyslexic so I hated reading. Eventually I got into an assistance program that worked me through the difficulties and turned me into a bookworm.

6. I’m a hardcore Oakland A’s fan. Baseball is the only sport I follow.

7. We moved from Oklahoma when I was twelve to Las Vegas. It was so completely twisted and unique to living anywhere else in the world, especially in the early 90s when things were booming. I got a well-rounded education on what I didn’t want out of life by living there. I don’t visit unless I’m dragged there.

8. I have an English Setter and German Shorthair Pointer that keep me on my toes.

9. I love road trips, but have to be the driver. I’m a terrible passenger.

10. My husband and I are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in 2015, but we’ve known each other since the summer of 1993 in high school.

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This novella is intended for those 18+ of age and contains strong language, sexual content, and adult situations.

Jay and Lils’ epic tale of true love has unfolded, first in ‘A Lil’ Less Broken’, followed by ‘A Lil’ Less Lost’, and now concludes in the third installment of Tara Oakes’ thrilling Kingsmen MC saga.

Jay has proven his loyalty over and over… that he is willing to do whatever necessary for his one true love, his Lil’ one, Julia. She just so happens to have an uncanny ability to find herself in need of that loyalty time and again.

What happens when the tables turn and it is Lil’s who must risk it all to save her ol’ man? To prove once and for all, to him, and to the MC they call family that she is no longer the little girl they’ve known. But instead, is a fierce ol’ lady determined not to stand idly by as everything she has worked so hard to regain is threatened.

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Genre: Paranormal Erotica

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Royce Bellamy was over one thousand years old. He was a vampire who now was one of New York’s finest. He’s faced with a dilemma, his current lover is pushing him to turn her, she’s one of the cities’ ADA’s.

Royce already has three vampire beauties running around the city who owed their immortality to him, did he need another?

His current human lover, Beth Ann has taken hold of him in a way he never expected. Vampires weren’t supposed to fall in love. Was it love? He’d find out soon enough.

Meet Lucinda, Magenta and Dahlia his three children. Royce will release them; it is after all the twenty-first century. One will fall in love with a warlock, one a jackal and one with a shape-shifter. Will any of them find redemption? Or will their desire always be of blood?

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Royce tried to fight his need to fuck her, but he couldn’t. He was on her and inside her in seconds. He rammed his hard cock into her repeatedly. He’d never fucked anyone so hard. Her screams of pleasure goaded him on, pushed him further and then she grabbed his neck and bit down. Her fangs felt amazing as she took his blood.

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I’ve been writing since I was a kid. I love creating and tried my hand at art, not bad but not good enough. A guy’s gotta eat. Through high school I wrote erotic stories, kept them in a notebook, let a few of my girlfriends read them. Yeah, played football, baseball, but my brain never stopped thinking of sex. I guess we think about it all the time. Been on face book for a while never did anything interesting when I was on until I started to see all the writers and then some poets posting their erotic prose. Men who were writing erotic romance and stories, I knew it was my time to get out the old note book and throw on some poems. Some are old and some are new, the ones about BDSM are newer. In high school or college I wasn’t on that train of thought. I see a picture it sets me off. A see an attractive women it sets me off. The jiggle of a full ass or heavy breasts, gets me going. Yeah, my mind always is on a beautiful face or body.

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