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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My Aunt Lucy used to say, “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” She said many wise things I never heeded when she was alive. I want to be the woman that’s okay with hiding from what she fears and letting her big, strong man protect her. But that’s not me. I hate to be scared. I hate the feeling that there is an evil out there that could hurt me if it finds me. But mostly, I hate that so many before me lived in fear and died at the hands of evil. That is why I cannot find peace within. There is no peace for me while Healers suffer the atrocities of others. <br /><br />I know Rhett would protect me at all costs. He loves me. And that is why I must leave him behind. It’s impossible to justify hurting someone you love—or many you love—to do what you truly believe is right. Lucy also used to say, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I get what she was trying to tell me now. Hindsight is twenty/twenty. Sometimes we choose a path we think will lead us toward a noble cause, full of ambition and altruism, only to look back and see we’ve run over and crushed the ones we love most along the way. I can only pray that one day those I love will forgive me.<br /><br />I woke up and I left. I left Rhett, the man who saved me from myself. The man I love. I left my brothers—my best friends. <br /><br />I left.<br />But leaving led me to more. I found answers. I found others like me—who want what I want.<br /><br />But most importantly, I found myself. <br /><br />My name is Aldo Lawson.<br /><br />I’m awake. <br /><br />And I’m a Hybrid.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">B N Toler is a happily married, mother of three, and HEALER is her first self-published book. She has worked in several fields, including real estate and orthodontics, but writing has always been one of her passions. Though she has written many stories, HEALER is the first one she ever really fell in love with.<br /><br />Some of her other passions include reading and music. She enjoys most genres including fantasy, erotica, romance and supernatural. She loves to find a book she can't put down. Some of her favorite authors include Charlaine Harris (The Sookie Stackhouse Series), Karen Marie Moning (The Fever Series), Sylvia Day (The Bared to You series), and recently she's become a big fan of Samantha Young (On Dublin Street). <br /><br />B N Toler loves music and listens to pretty much anything. She's a big fan of blue grass, country, and anything old school. Some of her favorite singers and bands are Johnny Cash, Elvis, Eric Church, The Bootleggers, and old school hip-hop like Salt n Pepa.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Lost</i> by Layla Hagen<br />(Lost in Us #0.5)<br />Publication date:</b> March 2014<br /><b>Genres:</b> Contemporary, New Adult, Romance</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">**Lost is a prequel novella to Lost in Us and can be read before or after. **<br /><br />Whatever might help him forget his past and numb the pain, James has tried it all: booze, car races, fights, and then some. Especially women. College offers plenty of opportunities for everything. . . Especially when you have a trust fund to spend.<br /><br />Serena spirals deeper and deeper into a hurricane of pain. But no matter how far she falls, there’s no redemption from the overwhelming guilt.<br /><br />Two souls consumed by their pasts fight to learn how to survive. But all hope seems to be lost.<br />Until they meet each other.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My name is Layla Hagen and I am a New Adult Contemporary Romance author.<br />I fell in love with books when I was nine years old, and my love affair with stories continues even now, many years later.<br />I write romantic stories and can’t wait to share them with the world.<br />And I drink coffee. Lots of it, in case the photo didn’t make it obvious enough</span><br />
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<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A man whose lifestyle is so different from her own…</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nic Dalton’s cupcake bakery is thriving. She serves both rock stars and locals alike, content with her growing business. But one adventurous night out with her best friend, Bailey, turns her life upside down. She meets a handsome stranger who makes her skin sizzle and her heart race. Their one night together is explosive and unexpected, but when he has to suddenly leave without taking her phone number, Nic resigns herself to never seeing him again.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matt enjoys the way a woman looks wrapped up in his ropes, and makes no apologies for his preferences. When he meets Nic at a fetish festival, the small, beautiful woman catches his eye, drawing him to her. His one night with her was everything he’s ever looked for in a partner, but is cut short because of a family emergency. Even before he sees her again weeks later, he knows he’ll never get her out of his system.</span></div>
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<b><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Give in to this, Nic. Let me prove to you that I will be one of the best decisions you ever make.” –Matt Montgomery</i></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fuck, she has beautiful lips. Lips that look amazing wrapped around the head of my cock.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Oh, good!” She grins and joins me as I walk toward the smoothie bar, pull out a chair for her to drop into at one of the tiny two-person tables and sit opposite her. “I’m glad you enjoyed it.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Leo and Sam keep me in business, I swear.” She laughs, sending electricity down my spine. “They’re very good customers.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I like your shorter hair,” I murmur and reach out to brush the ends with my finger, enjoying the softness.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Born into one of the wealthiest families in Ireland, Siobhan Law has status, privilege, and a secret: The Greek gods of Olympus and their kingdom in the clouds are real, and her family acts as one of their agents on Earth.<br /><br />When the beautiful immortal celeste Liam Argyros shows up claiming to have come to Earth to deal in the affairs of the divine, Siobhan finds herself unable to resist his charms. New to the game of passion and seduction, she quickly ends up in over her head, sinking deeper with every attempt Liam makes to win her over.<br /><br />But Liam’s divine mission is far more complex than she ever imagined and nothing is truly as it seems. Because Liam has a secret of his own: He is Apollo, Olympian god of the Sun, and his mission will never be complete until he has claimed Siobhan’s heart forever.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Release Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> </span></span></span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">March 7,
2014 </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11.0pt;">I’m complicated. Not broken
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I thought my life couldn’t get any more tangled
in deceit and confusion. But I hadn’t met him. I hadn't realized how far I
could fall or what I'd do to get free.<br />
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He has a secret.<br />
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I’ve never pretended to be good or deserving. I
chase who I want, do what I want, act how I want.<br />
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I didn’t have time to lust after a woman I had
no right to lust after. I told myself to shut up and stay hidden. But then she
tried to run. I’d tasted what she could offer me and damned if I would let her
go.<br />
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One secret destroys them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Pepper Winters wears many roles. Some of
them include writer, reader, sometimes wife. She loves dark, taboo stories that
twist with your head. The more tortured the hero the better and she constantly
thinks up ways to break and fix her characters. Oh, and sex… her books have
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">She loves to travel and has an amazing,
fabulous hubby (who speaks French—hot!) who puts up with her love affair with
her book boyfriends. She loves to hear from her readers so hit her up at </span><span style="color: magenta;"><a href="mailto:pepperwinters@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">pepperwinters@gmail.com</span></a></span></div>
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stomach? A vital part of my anatomy isn’t useable unless you intend to teach me
how to dry hump a mattress.” I tried to joke, to dispel some of the tense
anxiety between us, but Zel’s lips only twitched. I’d mistaken any sense of
relief when she secured the padlock—she hadn’t relaxed at all, shaking with
tension. </span></span></div>
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marks and countless other scars hidden beneath the Ghost designs. --ROAN</span></span></div>
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bondage. It’s protection.”</span></span></b></span></div>
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into his eyes. “Protection? From what?”</span></span></b></span></div>
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of his throat, tightening his fingers. He glared, looking ready to murder me.
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me as if looking for an answer.</span></div>
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swiped his face with his other hand. His forehead furrowed while his expression
turned pissed and stormy. “You think I didn’t see you watching? You had your
eyes all over me. Answer me. Who the fuck are you?” His deep, accented voice
stiffened my nipples even as a thrill of fear jolted through me. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Transformed</i> by E.V. Fairfall<br />Publication date:</b> January 1st 2014<br /><b>Genres: </b>Paranormal, Romance</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since the beginning, two entities have had complete, unquestioned control over Thea: the Earth and God.<br /><br />But when Thea suddenly figures out that the Earth has trapped her within a forest, she discovers that the only way to set herself free is to break God’s one rule; she must forsake her animal form and become human.<br /><br />The result is nothing she could ever have expected. Lost within the torrent of human emotions, Thea starts to lose who she is and even begins to fall in love with the one thing she always hated: a hunter.<br /><br />As her act against God proves more problematic than anticipated, it is only a matter of time before her punishment may prove to be worse than Earth’s entrapment.</span></div>
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<span id="freeTextauthor4720363" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love to write just as much as I love to read. I try to read a book per week, which doesn't always work out, but it's the thought that counts. Aside from all that I am a huge animal person.<br /><br />Transformed is my first novel, but it isn't my first publication; I've had several short stories published over the last two years. My main goal as a writer is to explore humanity and to give people something fun to read.<br /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Falling From The Sky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6895711.Nikki_Godwin">Nikki Godwin</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">All stability in sixteen-year-old Ridge McCoy's life crashed and
burned in the plane crash that killed his dad. This summer-long basketball camp
is his chance to improve his skills and escape his problems back home. But his
summer plans take a turn in an unexpected direction when he meets Micah
Youngblood, the guy who runs the carousel at the local mall and has a
reputation for devouring straight boys' heterosexuality for breakfast,
alongside his chocolate chip pancakes.<br />
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Ridge needs a way to avoid the guys at camp, whose only quest for the summer is
to drown in beer and hook up with girls. So when Micah offers to explain how
the ten unique horses on the carousel are significant to his tribe, Ridge takes
him up on it. Still, Ridge can't decide if this is a bad thing or not. All he
knows is that he hasn't felt this alive since his dad fell from the sky, and as
the horse adventures come to an end, Ridge finds himself falling as well – for
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we’re at the candy stand, Terrence places his order while I scope out the
scenery. I keep a low profile until I see Micah. He leans against the edge of
the carousel booth and motions someone over to him. It’s a guy. He’s shorter
than me, about Micah’s height. Brunette. Thin but somewhat athletic. Then Micah
hugs him. </span></div>
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oh,” Terrence says, following my gaze. “You better go squash that now or
someone else will be playing your Xbox games.”</span></div>
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up,” I mumble. But he’s right. Micah is all too friendly with this guy. </span></div>
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physically stings. What the fuck is wrong with me? There’s no way I’m jealous.
I mean, yeah, if this dude showed up at his house and crashed an Xbox session,
I’d be pissed. But Micah is free to talk to whomever he damn well pleases. </span></div>
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tell Terrence that I’ll be back and make a beeline for the carousel. I slow
down once I’m a bit closer, shake my hair like an emo kid to look a little more
natural, and stand tall – because you know, male dominance and all that.
Whatever that other guy says is in one ear and out the other the moment Micah
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are you doing here?” he asks. He smiles, though, so obviously this isn’t an
awkward moment…unless he’s expecting an orgy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Terrence
had to bring something to his cousin, so I just tagged along,” I say as
nonchalantly as I can. “Busy night?”</span></div>
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shakes his head. “Nah, dead actually,” he says. “Oh, this is Tyler, Emilia’s
boyfriend. You remember my cousin Emilia, right? Pax’s sister?”</span></div>
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swear, something inside of me literally crumbles like a broken statue. I don’t
know if it’s my lungs or my heart or maybe my entire ribcage. I should have the
words ‘fucking idiot’ permanently inked into my forehead, branded like a
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reaches out to shake my hand, mumbles something about Emilia wasting too much
time looking at nail polish, and how he better get back and find her. I finally
catch a bubble of oxygen about the time he walks away. </span></div>
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having a cookout on the res, pretty huge,” Micah says. “And then we go down to
our side of the river for the fireworks show. It’s epic. You should come too.”</span></div>
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yeah,” Terrence says, nodding along like this is such a freaking brilliant idea.
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then, as quickly as he popped over here to seal the deal for my weekend,
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that he’ll wait for me at the sports store but “no rush.”</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eighteen-year-old Ally Watson arrives home from high school
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guardian and only surviving relative—didn’t even bother showing up. But instead
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with a monster. Argyle manages to kill the creature, and gives Ally a parcel
containing a destiny she never knew existed.<br />
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Ally, along with her best friends Michael, Jessica, and David, hurry to Georgia
to uncover the truth of Uncle Argyle’s secrets, and the meaning of the
mysterious marks that Ally bears. Are the marks related to the blacksmith
mythology of her ancestors? Who are these heavenly warriors who show up in the
oddest of places? And will an ancient gypsy curse destroy the very things Ally
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">By age 5, Sasha Hibbs'
favorite movie was Gone With the Wind. By age 12, she completed her 7th grade
book report on the sequel, Scarlett. By 18, she met and married her very own
Mr. Rhett Butler and as it turns out, she never had to worry about going back
to Tara to win the love of her life back. Fortunately, he stuck with her.
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">With a love of all
things paranormal, the ambiance of the South with its gigantic antebellum
mansions and canopies of Spanish moss, and a love for her husband’s rich
storytelling of blacksmiths and the mythology surrounding their origins, it
wasn’t long until the world of her debut novel, Black Amaranth, was born.</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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job as a nurse, you can find Sasha dreaming of her next beach trip, reading the
latest YA novel, and drinking more white chocolate mocha than she should.
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sasha lives in
mountainous West Virginia with her husband, Tim, and their two daughters,
Aeliza and Ava. She is currently hard at work on book two in The Vulcan
Legacies series.</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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girl.” Ally pointed her finger down at the porch. Miss Elma was obedient,
sliding her long muscled legs down, crossing them over top each other and
resting her head on her large paws. “Good girl.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ally
stepped in behind of Parthenia, leaving the rest to trail in after her. Ally
looked around in awe. She had never been in a bar before, and wasn’t too
disappointed by the one she was standing in now. Red booths lined the unevenly
cut board and batten walls, and a few were occupied by men and women who stared
directly at them. Round tables just big enough for two were scattered
throughout, leading up to a large empty dance floor. Strings of colored bulbs
hung down low from the walls, casting dim shadows that mixed in with smoky air.
Bar stools surrounded the long slab bar, while behind it a large, intimidating
man eyed them up as he casually wiped his hands off on a white towel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Hello,
Lou,” Parthenia said. “Denaulda around?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
jerked his head in the direction of the stage, Parthenia following the line of
his gaze, sighed softly and said, “Great.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Remember
me just saying that Gypsies were gifted with a particular talent? Strong
magic?” Parthenia whispered close to Ally’s ear. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Uh-huh,”
Ally said, looking straight ahead to the empty stage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Well,
you’re about to find out what Denaulda’s is,” Parthenia said, sitting on a
barstool and turning to face the stage. “Might as well have a seat and try to
stay there.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Michael
and Dave eased down into an empty booth, leaving the opposite side open for the
girls. Eli and Brandi opted to sit with Parthenia on barstools.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At
the corner of the wooden stage, men were pulling out and tuning guitars and
harmonicas. As a slow sultry rhythm played out of their instruments, a petite,
dark-haired woman emerged from behind beaded curtains onto the stage. She
slinked her way up to the microphone stand like a snake closing in on its prey.
She curled her slender fingers around the mic as she cocked her head to the
side, looking at her audience with thoughtful, heavy-lidded eyes. Ally’s arms
erupted in goose bumps, a surefire warning that something otherworldly was
about to happen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She
began to sing, sound floating dreamingly out of her mouth, weaving in and
around the crowd like an invisible serpent, creeping up around their heels,
sliding up and into their souls.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Michael
and Dave twisted around, their heads following the direction of the eerie tune
as Jessica mechanically stood up from the bench.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What
are you doing?” Ally whispered between her teeth while tugging on Jessica’s
sleeve.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Just
one…dance.” Jessica didn’t look down at Ally; she walked slowly onto the dance
floor as though the melody willed her to do so. Problem was, Jessica was a
wallflower, or at least when they went to the prom Ally couldn’t peel her away
from </span></div>
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wall if her life depended on it.</span></div>
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looked around wondering if Denaulda’s music was having the same effect on
everyone else. Brandi smiled naughtily which told Ally there must have been
some part of her that expected this. Beside her, Eli watched Jessica through
burning eyes. A few patrons joined Jessica on the dance floor, swaying back and
forth to the beat, their bodies sweeping in and out in circular motions.</span></div>
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the wall, a steely gaze followed Jessica. A boy with a shock of blond hair
materialized from the shadows and inched his way towards the dance floor. He
didn’t look much older than they did but he carried himself like a prowling
marauder. His arms encircled Jessica’s waist as he closed the distance between
them. To Ally’s surprise, Jessica welcomed him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Denaulda’s
lips curled up into a wicked smile. The tune hung in the air, like a poisonous
gas. Ally couldn’t ignore the soothing, rich words.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">you reached in deep, and pierced my
heart with a knife.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The night cries out, sweet and high,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">weeping for her children with a
gentle sigh.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Young nights, young nights, where
did you go?</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I can smell the night air, and how
the moonlight glowed.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Young nights, young nights, come
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Where’s
Lucy?” Dave kept his eyes fixed on Denaulda. “I think I should…” Dave’s words
drifted off into the chorus.</span></div>
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reached her hands up and tangled her fingers into the thick blond hair of the
boy she’d glued herself to. They appeared to only have eyes for each other as
though no one else existed in the room. Ally was ready to get up and separate
the two when another wave of lyrics poured out from Denaulda, nailing Ally to
her seat.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have loved you tender and loved
you long,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">but you were caught in the
crossfire, we got it all wrong.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Can we ever go back to the way it
used to be?</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Young nights under the Spanish moss,
just you and me.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I can smell the night air, and how
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Young nights, young nights, come
back to the home we both know.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ally
couldn’t budge. “Michael?” She looked up, knowing he would fix this, but when
she met his eyes, her breath caught in the back of her throat. Heat spread up
through her face as his blue eyes bored into hers. The Michael staring at her
now wasn’t looking at her as friends look at one another, but as something much
different: as a man who looks, really looks, at a woman. Without Denaulda’s
enchanting music, Ally wondered if his penetrating gaze would have bothered her
or not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eli
crossed the floor in long strides, catching Ally’s attention. She sat there
unable to move, nervous, knowing that the direction Eli was currently going in
wasn’t a good one. Eli’d had a chip on his shoulder since they all met, but
more so towards Jessica than the rest of them. Ally just didn’t know why,
though.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Enough.”
Ally could barely hear what Eli was saying to Jessica over the music. Denaulda
looked entertained by what was transpiring on the dance floor. Jessica paid no
attention to him, moving in closer to her partner, so close you couldn’t wedge
a piece of paper between them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eli’s
lips twisted into a snarl as he grabbed Jessica’s wrist. The next few moments
happened before Ally could fully register what she was seeing. The blond boy
swung at Eli, whose hand cupped the boy’s fist, holding him there effortlessly.
He jerked Jessica to the side, causing her to rock on her heels, attempting to
balance herself. He flung the boy’s fist down in disgust. “You’re done here,”
Eli said to the boy through clenched teeth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Oh,
no we’re not,” Jessica said, seething and stepping away from Eli, going back
into the arms of her dance partner.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eli
growled as he grabbed her arm. Jessica spun around and slapped Eli across the
face, sending an echo throughout the bar.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Do
not ever touch me again!” Jessica’s face reddened, almost matching the color of
her hair. “Do you understand me?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eli
stood there blinking in disbelief, raising a hand up to where hers had just
been.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Okay,
boys.” Denaulda motioned for the band behind her to stop. “I think it’s time
for a break.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">by </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/103615.Allison_Rushby" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Allison Rushby</a></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fifteen-year-old Thea Wallis was born to entertain. Her mother, Oscar winning actress Cassie Hartley, thinks differently and has kept her daughter out of the spotlight since day one. Coming from showbiz royalty, it hasn't been easy to go unnoticed, but mismatched surnames, a family home in Tasmania and a low-key scriptwriter father has made this possible.</span></i><br />
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plane at LAX, not with a dream, or a cardigan, but with a hoodie and a mother
who's dragging her feet, lagging way behind her peeps (aka Deb and Anna and
me).</span></div>
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long corridor toward immigration, my mom texts Dad to tell him we've arrived,
then pulls a Hermes scarf out of her purse and ties it around her head, leaving
only a few trademark blonde curls peeking out the front.</span></div>
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steps, other first class passengers passing by and taking in her airport outfit
modification. "You know they never let you keep it on," I tell her,
shaking my head. Honestly, I don't know why she bothers. She used to get away
with it years ago, but immigration is way stricter now. She hasn't been allowed
to keep a scarf on since I don't know when. I've told her—if she really wants
to fly under the radar, she'd be better off borrowing one of my hoodies, flying
coach, and ditching her fancy luggage, her in-flight pashmina, SK-II beauty
regimen, Hermes passport holder, her staff, all that stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In front of the immigration
officer, it all goes exactly the way we both knew it would. "Remove your
scarf, please, ma'am," the guy says, and Mom complies. He looks down at
her passport, then up again with a slight frown. Then down again, then up again
with a wide smile. "Lovely to see you home, Ms. Hartley."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Next to me, I feel my mom
tense. "Well…" is her reply as she reties her scarf, angling to get
moving again. Thankfully, she doesn't stop to point out that "home"
is now in Tasmania. She finishes off with a jaunty knot and a "Thank
you." My mom prides herself on being one of those stars who values her
privacy, but who also signs autographs when asked and who doesn't actually
throw things at the paparazzi. (But to be fair, she did once beat one half to
death with a rolled-up magazine when his camera flash woke me up from my
toddler nap in my stroller and he snapped one of those three photos I
mentioned, but everyone thought that was totally justified and he dropped the
charges because his mom made him.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Of course, by the time the rest
of us have been processed, with our luggage collected from the conveyer belt
and our group passed through customs, the fact that Cassie Hartley is in the
terminal is practically old news. By this point, there's an airport security
guy assigned to us, and as we head out of arrivals, there are already about
thirty paparazzi waiting for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"The car's waiting."
Deb nods at Mom, cell to her ear. "We can go now." She turns to the
security guy. "It's a black Mercedes SUV. Right out front."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"We're waiting on security
at the other end," the guy says, but then he gets a call on his radio.
After he answers it, he points forward. "He's there, so we're good to go.
Straight through. I'll lead the way. I'm sure you know the drill by now, Ms.
Hartley."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mom turns to Deb, Anna, and me.
"Like I told you. No stopping. Not for anything. And try to keep Thea
between you two."</span></div>
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"I'm not a baby anymore."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"And no arguments!"
she snaps at me. We've only just landed in LA and she's already had enough.</span></div>
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I say.</span></div>
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guy first, then Deb with a luggage cart, then Mom, me and Anna bringing up the
rear with another cart. The flashes start almost instantly, bright and
blinding, the voices yelling over the top of each other to get Mom's attention.
I'd been feeling okay before, but now, with all the confusion, I'm suddenly a
bit woozy from the long flight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Cassie! Over here! Here!
Cassie!" they call out, and Mom's hand grips mine tighter, pulling me
toward her. "Cassie! Hey! Oh my god, I can't believe it! It's my lucky
day—it's her daughter!" I hear as we keep walking. "Cleo! Over
here!" someone else calls out. "It's not Cleo, it's Tia. No, Thea,
that's it! Lose the hood, kid! Hey, Thea! Show us the hair!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When she hears my name, Mom
pulls my hand again, and I jerk forward, losing the hood on my head that she
made me pull up seconds before we hit arrivals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And there it is, in all its
glory. The Hartley hair. The paparazzi go absolutely wild. The yelling gets
louder and the flashes flash faster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Thea! Thea! Hey, kid!
Over here!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But it's too late. In a second
we're outside, and I'm being shoved unceremoniously into the back of the SUV.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As my mom sits down beside me
and buckles up, she glances at my unhooded head and doesn't look one bit
impressed. "Not. My. Fault." I point one finger at her. "You
pulled me forward and it fell down."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She leans back into the tan
leather seat with a sigh and stares out the window, not even putting up a fight
or pointing out that after my hood fell down, I didn't exactly rush to pull it
back up again. "Ugh, I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hate</i>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As for me? Well, as my mom is
dealing with the fact that my hair and I are about to be seen by millions of
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">So I have a TON of books that I've either been given as gifts, won in giveaways, given just because, or ARCs I've either traded for or received from Goodreads that are simply taking up space on my bookshelves. I wanted to do a giveaway for one of these books, but then I realized everybody has different tastes and it would be silly for me to try to pick one book that everyone would want. So I picked out 14 books for the winner to choose from. Some are ARCs, a few are signed, and some are just regular paperbacks or hardbacks. A few have been read, but most are brand new. I will post the link to the book's goodreads page and the condition of the book under each picture. This is open internationally and the winner will choose one book from the list. </span>I am also throwing in a BCC swag pack with the book and a second winner will win a swag pack as well!</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">This is round 2!! The first winner chose the signed copy of Anna Banks's 'Of Poseidon' so that book is no longer in the list, but the rest are all there! Now that I'm in the middle of moving I'm even more excited to get my bookshelf cleaned out!! <3</span> </b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mae never asked to be craft-born. She never wanted that burden.<br /><br />The realm needs magic again, and the the King of Aegunlund has been waiting for the first craft-born girl to marry his son, Prince Casimir.<br /><br />In Mae’s town of Halts-Walden, the ambitious miller claims his daughter Ellen is craft-born. Mae knows this is a load of hogwash, but she’s glad Ellen will have the unfortunate pleasure of becoming queen instead of her. All she has to do is sit back and wait until Casimir and Ellen are married, then she will finally be free of the threat of her fate. But on that day an event so shocking and terrible occurs that Mae finds herself entering the neighbouring cursed forest on a quest she never thought she’d have to follow.<br /><br />Join Mae as she rides her white stag through the Waerg Woods with a pampered prince at her heels. She’s out for revenge and nothing, no one, will get in her way.</span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Father and I live on the edge of the gloomy forest; close enough to smell the leaves, hear the rustle of animals, and sense the dangers within. Darkness hangs below the knotted canopy of branches. I stand and watch in awe, following Anta’s hoof-prints. It’s late. The sun sets. The grey of dusk descends over Halts-Walden with the threat of rain in the dark underbelly of clouds. The prince may well be greeted with mud and rain in the morning. The thought makes me feel rather gleeful. I imagine some pampered, puffy prince on the back of a regal horse, riding into the village in search of the red hair of maidens, quaint flowers, and those who bend the knee to him.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Come in for stew, Mae,” Father says. “You should have a bath, too, if the prince is arriving.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I thought the whole point was to make sure the prince wouldn’t want me,” I reply, shooting him a glance.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Father sighs. “That’s true. But this is still a momentous occasion for the village, and you should look the part, or you’ll attract attention. Do you know the last time we had a royal come here?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">“Well, it was before my time. Your grand-papa talked of it sometimes. King </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">Aldrych</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> the First came when he was still a prince. He thought we were enchanted, because of where we live. I suppose the kings always do.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">We’re under </span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15">Aldrych</span></span><span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15"> the Second’s rule, now, a man I know little about because of how isolated we are. His reputation is one of greed. The only thing I know is that he wants his precious Red Palace to make his gems. Apparently the craft is needed for that. I don’t know how it works. Part of me would love to see the castle, to discover what makes it so special.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Well, Ellen is craft-born, after all.” I snort. She’s got about as much craft in her as the muck in Farmer Black’s pigpen.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The butterfly leaves my nose sharply, as though in a huff. The others follow, flapping their tiny wings, disappearing back amongst the flowers.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You shouldn’t call them whenever you feel like it,” Father warns. “Nature doesn’t exist to serve you and your every whim.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Sit down and eat your meal.” Father points to the table, laid out with a bowl of food. It’s barely enough for the two of us. “Tomorrow will be a big day. We’ll see the prince, and when he takes Ellen away, we’ll never have to worry again about you being sent to the Red Palace.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I like the sound of that. As I shovel down the rabbit stew, my shoulders lighten. For years we’ve worried about my powers. We know little about craft and the craft-born, except that the magic within me seems to allow me to call on nature. I don’t know why it makes me powerful or how it would benefit the realm, I just know that I don’t want to be a princess and I never have. I can’t think of anything worse than flouncing about in fancy dresses, cooped up in the Red Palace forever, forced into marrying someone I don’t even know. I certainly don’t want to use my powers to help the king become even richer.</span></span></div>
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Jada McLean is about to get married in nine days, when she walks in on her fiancé in a little more than a compromising position. Days later, she’s on a trip that she intends to be relaxing and a prelude to her fresh start, when she runs into the rude, obnoxious, but gorgeous Jonathan Kole.<br />
Jonathan Kole is San Francisco’s newest District Attorney. When he finds himself deeply attracted to a stunning beauty, he has no idea that she’s about to get into BIG trouble with the law—and he’ll be the one presiding over her trial. To make matters worse, his father is the lawyer representing her in the high-profile case.<br />
When a series of events force them together over New Year’s weekend, Jonathan’s feelings and ethics will come into question, while Jada comes to terms with the fact that she is falling for the man that will be responsible for attempting to put her behind bars… Little do they know, they're both about to fall into a whirlwind so deep, it will send both their lives spiraling out of control.<br />
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Rebecca Rohman is a wife and designer currently living in the Northeastern United States. She was a Sales Manager for a tourist magazine, and for many years prior, she was involved in marketing for a jewelry company, and later for a fine wine distributor.<br />
About fifteen years ago, she started writing her first romance novel, Uncorked, just to purely entertain herself. It was not until early in 2012 when she decided to complete it and share it with the world. The story was published in February of 2013. Love, Lies & The D.A. is her second novel.<br />
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The pretty, young host escorts me to a table for two near a window with panoramic water vistas. Within minutes, a server takes my order. As my café latté arrives, I can’t help but overhear a rude exchange between a man and his leggy blonde with the host that escorted me to my seat.<br />
“Look, I reserved that exact seat yesterday,” he says.<br />
“I apologize sir, but that seat is not available,” the host replies.<br />
“Well, if you were doing your job in the first place, it would be available to me, wouldn’t it?”<br />
“Sir, I’m sorry for the error, but it wasn’t written here. If you like, you can wait at the bar where I’ll be happy to serve you a complimentary beverage of your choice while you wait, or I can accommodate you at an available table now.”<br />
I can’t help but look to see who this asshole is.<br />
Everything about him smells of money. From the designer jeans that hug his ass, all the way to the Jaeger Reverso watch that graces his wrist. He’s hot—probably in his mid to late thirties, tall, broad shoulders, piercing grey eyes, and a head of black hair like I’ve never seen.<br />
Ordinarily, I might have found him attractive, if only he would just shut up.<br />
Everything he says to that poor young girl, who has tried so hard to rectify someone else’s mistake, pisses me off. He’s been nothing but rude and condescending. As I look up, my eyes land straight on his. Then I realize they’re all looking my way. I turn around to look behind me, but there is no one. Then it dawns on me that he’s arguing with the host about my seat.<br />
My meal arrives. I mind my business, and I proceed to enjoy it. Before I know it, I see him approaching my table. I pretend not to notice and focus all my attention on my lemon ricotta pancakes before me, but within seconds, he stands beside me.<br />
“Excuse me, my name is Jonathan Kole. Would you mind terribly if you were seated elsewhere?”<br />
My eyes travel across my pancakes to his broad thighs, to his crotch, and to what I suspect is an extremely trimmed stomach beyond his black ribbed sweater. Then I stare into his grey eyes in silence.<br />
“You see, my girlfriend and I met right here at this table a year ago, and I wanted to propose to her.<br />
Here. Today.”<br />
“Actually, Jonathan, I do mind. Seeing that I’m enjoying my meal, surely you wouldn’t mind waiting until I’m done. Or perhaps you can let that polite host, who has done everything possible to accommodate you, have you seated elsewhere.”<br />
“Do you have any idea who I am?” he asks.<br />
Asshole! Your name might sound familiar but who cares…<br />
“No. You could be the king of England and I wouldn’t give a damn.”<br />
“Who the hell do you think you are?”<br />
“You really want to know?” I ask quietly.<br />
He lowers his head slightly, as if he’s seriously interested.<br />
“I am a woman who walked in on her fiancé screwing her best friend one week before her wedding, so forgive me if I’m not in a sentimental mood.”<br />
His mouth drops open at my response.<br />
“Now, if you’ll excuse me, Mr. Kole, I’d really like to enjoy my brunch.”<br />
His piercing grey eyes are glaring into mine. I know he’s angry. His temple pulsates as he stares at me. He walks away completely flushed.<br />
I don’t care. Perhaps if he had been nicer to that host I would have considered his request. However, because he comes from money doesn’t give him the right to speak to people any which way he wishes.<br />
I continue to enjoy my meal and notice him walking hand in hand to the bar with Malibu Barbie. Half an hour later, I ask for the check then purposely make him wait an additional five minutes before I leave.<br />
On the way out, the host looks at me bright-eyed. “No one ever speaks to Mr. Kole that way, Miss McLean.”<br />
“Well, it’s time someone taught him some manners,” I reply. I hand her a healthy tip, and I’m on my way. <br />
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<b>My Rating: </b>5/5 Stars</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the fall of 1947, Will Shakespeare saw the world collapse around him. Shakespeare, a secret soldier for the Knights Templar, barely escapes the slaughter of his entire knighthood at the hands of a rogue militant arm of the Vatican in a small Montreal church. With orders to escort Templar business associate Dorothy Wilkinson back to her home in Bermuda, Will must locate and rescue the most important secret treasure in human history before it is devoured by a hurricane in the watery caves beneath her father's property. The spiraling quest sends Will and Dorothy into uncovering dark secrets that make up the origins of the knighthood as they confront the traps and puzzles that masterfully protect the world's most coveted treasure.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Grey’s fascination with the secret world began when he was sixteen after a chance meeting with a conspiracy theorist in a coffee shop sometime in the 1990s. The conversation with this man led Grey on a lifelong scholarly endeavor to learn about secret societies and the occult from a skeptical and secular point of view.</span></div>
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This book was crazy! I don't even know where to begin really. I'll start out by making it abundantly clear this book was AMAZING. It's so unlike what I normally read and I was a little hesitant going into it not really knowing what to expect, but within the first couple of pages I knew I was in for a wild ride. I was seriously hooked from the get go and could NOT put this book down until the end. It was suspenseful, exciting, and<b></b> riveting.<br />
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Will Shakespeare is a soldier for the top secret order of the Knights Templar. In 1947 he is the lone survivor of his entire order when they are murdered by a crazed group of the Vatican. He has been ordered to help his associate, Dorothy, back to her home in Bermuda and he must track down and protect an incredibly important and top secret treasure before it is destroyed in a hurricane. The two end up on a crazy adventure together uncovering deeply buried secrets of the Knights Templar. They must also go through many trials, tests, and tribulations in order to track down their treasure.<br />
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Christopher Grey has created an incredibly intricate story that unravels perfectly. He manages to give just enough information to keep you hooked and yet it is still impossible to guess not just the ending, but what's going to happen on the next page. The story is so meaty and full of depth, but also eloquent and beautifully told. Grey has a rare gift of telling a complicated and complex story that isn't weighed down or too much to take in at once. Sometimes when I read a story with an extremely complex plot it almost begins to feel like work just getting through it, but this complex story was a joy to read.<br />
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I also love that Grey manages to tie in actual historical events into the novel without trying to change or ruin the history. The characters are perfectly written and as the story goes on they have more and more depth to them. This isn't a book that throws a bunch of facts and information about the plot or characters at you right at the get go, but rather ties the plot, the information you need, and the characters' stories in throughout the story. The book is perfectly paced. Pacing is something I write about a lot because for me it can really make or break a book, but Grey nailed the pacing in this novel.<br />
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This story was so unique and engrossing. I cannot think of one thing bad to say about it which is amazing considering it isn't the type of book I would necessarily pick up on my own to read. I'm so glad I did read it though. The plot is like a perfectly woven tapestry and the characters, history, and secrets are all the threads of that tapestry. I know that's a pretty cheesy analogy, but every time I try to think of how to explain this book the words tapestry and woven keep coming to mind. This book gets a solid 5 out of 5 stars from me. I cannot recommend it enough. Even if this isn't a genre you'd typically read I highly suggest giving it a go. This book has something in it for everyone, and the perfectly crafted story and characters, and eloquent writing really make it impossible not to fall in love with.</div>
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<b></b><b>Every touch has its price</b>
Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life—no easy task for a seventeen-year-old who’s pretty sure things can’t get worse. Her impossibly gorgeous best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to the mysterious powers of her soul-stealing kiss. The Warden clan that has always protected her is suddenly keeping dangerous secrets. And she can barely think about Roth, the wickedly hot demon prince who understood her in ways no one else could.
But sometimes rock bottom is only the beginning. Because suddenly Layla’s powers begin to evolve, and she’s offered a tantalizing taste of what has always been forbidden. Then, when she least expects it, Roth returns, bringing news that could change her world forever. She’s finally getting what she always wanted, but with hell literally breaking loose and the body count adding up, the price may be higher than Layla is willing to pay…
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One kiss could be the last.
Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses.
Raised among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe—Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon-worthy, incredibly gorgeous and completely off-limits Warden she's crushed on since forever.
Then she meets Roth—a tattooed, sinfully hot demon who claims to know all her secrets. Layla knows she should stay away, but she's not sure she wants to—especially when that whole no-kissing thing isn't an issue, considering Roth has no soul.
But when Layla discovers she's the reason for the violent demon uprising, trusting Roth could not only ruin her chances with Zayne…it could brand her a traitor to her family. Worse yet, it could become a one-way ticket to the end of the world.
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# 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki.
Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned for TV.
She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kind hearted and naive, Paige Jacobs wants what every girl craves…to be loved. She uses this need to make excuses when her current boyfriend goes from being a tad jealous and slightly overprotective to stalker-ish. She isn’t that girl and Craig isn’t one of those guys. Things are fine. Perfectly fine. Until the moment a dark-haired, tattooed hottie with a snarky mouth walks into her life and tells her she deserves better.<br /><br />Confident and boldly spoken, Cameron Green has always been the guy bad girls can’t get enough of and all the good girls want to tame. He’s lived a lavish lifestyle filled with drugs, women, and alcohol up until his destructive path finally caught up with him. Now Cameron isn’t sure what to do with himself or how to dampen the longing for something more festering inside of him since coming out of his drug-induced haze. But when he meets a doe-eyed girl who gets past his walls like no other, everything about him clicks into place.<br /><br />Together the two learn there are emotions that hold within them all the power to control you…</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jennifer Snyder lives in North Carolina were she spends most of her time writing new adult and young adult fiction, reading, and struggling to stay on top of housework. She is a tea lover with an obsession for Post-it notes and smooth writing pens. Jennifer lives with her husband and two children, who endure listening to songs that spur inspiration on repeat and tolerate her love for all paranormal, teenage-targeted TV shows.<br /><b><br />Find out more about her latest novel by visiting her blog:</b><br /><a href="http://jennifersnydersblog.blogspot.com/">http://jennifersnydersblog.blogspot.com</a><br /><b><br />Other ways to connect with Jennifer:</b><br /><b>Email:</b> Jennifersnyder04(at)gmail(dot)com<br /><b>Facebook:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/authorjennifersnyder">https://www.facebook.com/authorjennifersnyder</a><br /><b>Twitter:</b><a href="http://twitter.com/jennsnyder04"> http://twitter.com/jennsnyder04</a></span></div>
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<span class="s3"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Stretchy, right, and that makes them seem to fit better? Some women need to realize that just because an article of clothing is made of stretchy material it doesn’t necessarily make them look good in it.” I picked the jeans back up and held them out to her. “Here, go try these on and let me make sure you don’t fall into that category.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Four. My life has been shaped by four people. Four men, to be more specific. My father, my stepfather, my best friend, and my boyfriend. The first two shaped it in horrible ways, but what I am, who I am, is all because of four men.”<br /><br />Alana Reardon has secrets. Some of them are too dark to tell, but everyone already thinks they know anyhow. At 20, she takes too many pills, hides the parts of her that she hates, and willingly becomes the person that they think she is. A slut. A whore. Trash.<br />There have only been two guys who ever saw Alana as more: Jack, the guy she can’t get over, and Dave, the one who never got over her.<br /><br />With the help of therapy, facing her past, and the inevitable ways that life changes without your permission, can Alana learn to stop blaming herself? Can she allow love into her life? Is she ready to move on?<br /><br />Warning: This book deals with topics of abuse and may trigger reactions in people who have experienced those things in their own lives.<i><br /></i></span><br />
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<i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Later that day, at lunch, I had just found a seat by the window when he sat across from me. I was used to sitting alone. He didn’t say anything, and he had nothing to eat. He looked up at me, though, after a few minutes, and his eyes did it again. I hated my body, hated the way I looked, hated that somehow I owed my body and my looks to everyone else. But when Jack looked at me, I wanted to let someone touch me. I wanted him to hold me. He felt like safety.</i></div>
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<i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It didn’t even make sense. He was just a broken kid, like me. He always wore the same threadbare hoodie. Most days, it covered his head. He was cute, but awkward. His hair was too long and usually greasy. His Chucks were a little too big, so they looked a little like clown shoes. Yet those gorgeous eyes were all I cared about. I hadn’t considered guys at all. I didn’t find them attractive, and I certainly couldn’t see the appeal of sex or of intimacy. With Jack, though, the thought of him near me didn’t make me nauseous.</i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sarah Daltry writes about the regular people who populate our lives. She's written works in various genres - romance, erotica, fantasy, horror. Genre isn't as important as telling a story about people and how their lives unfold. Sarah tends to focus on YA/NA characters but she's been known to shake it up. Most of her stories are about relationships - romantic, familial, friendly - because love and empathy are the foundation of life. It doesn't matter if the story is set in contemporary NY, historical Britain, or a fantasy world in the future - human beings are most interesting in the ways they interact with others. This is the principle behind all of Sarah's stories.<br /><br />Sarah has spent most of her life in school, from her BA and MA in English and writing to teaching both at the high school and college level. She also loves studying art history and really anything because learning is fun.<br /><br />When Sarah isn't writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out the window. </span></center>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Remember Our Song: A Billionaire Romance</i> by Emma South<br />(Our Song #2)<br />Publication date: </b>December 22nd 2013<br /><b>Genres:</b> Contemporary, New Adult, Romance</span><br />
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<span id="freeTextauthor7304575" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’m in my thirties and living in New Zealand. A little over a year ago I lost somebody very close to me. I was lucky in a way, I was given enough time to make a promise. My promise was that I would never forget our young and innocent love, and it’s a promise I intend to keep.<br /><br />My writing is a way to help me keep that promise. I’ve always enjoyed writing but was forced into being ‘prudent’ and giving myself over to soul-crushing office work for the sake of a steady salary. Recent events forced me to re-evaluate my priorities and I decided to take a chance. I like to put little pieces of ‘us’ into my writing, from funny conversations we had, to apocalyptic arguments, to that special feeling you get when you hop into bed fully aware that your feet are freezing but your partner doesn’t kick you away.<br /><br />Even though these things are set in fictional worlds and attached to fictional characters, in a way it feels like I’m doing something that will make our love live forever. If somebody reads one of my stories and likes a joke or sheds a tear, then our love has lived on, and I thank any readers I might have for that.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s7">I traded my death for love. I wasn’t given a choice. His decision has caught up with us, so now I am a living, breathing catalyst to war between Heaven and Hell.</span><span class="s7"><br /></span><span class="s7">The violations he committed saved my life. Since the collision, he’s appeared everywhere. In my hospital room, my school, even my house. He shows up in my paintings, my drawings, in all of my art projects. I can’t stop thinking about him.</span><span class="s7"><br /></span><span class="s7">He says his name is Gabriel, and he doesn’t understand what’s happening to him. He doesn’t know how I can see him or why he wants me in ways that should be impossible for a Celestial.</span><span class="s7"><br /></span><span class="s7">My obsession grows. I need him to hold me, kiss me—give all of himself. For every day he protects me, the consequences loom darker and taller. Soon, they’ll crash down on us.</span><span class="s7"><br /></span><span class="s7">The war is about to begin.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s7" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I moved from Norway to the United States in 2001, and the first awesome five years I spent in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. Then I read “The Book”, aka, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which prompted me to drag my family and our menagerie of animals cross country to beautiful Savannah, Georgia.</span></div>
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<span class="s7" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm currently on my seventh year in the Deep South, where I enjoy the heat and the humidity. Besides writing, I spend time with the “petting zoo,” as in an opinionated parrot, cats that are experts on keyboard shortcuts, and puppies that … uh, bark.</span></div>
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<span class="s7" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hold a Master's degree in languages, with concentrations within literature and linguistics. For ten years, I taught at university level, before settling in as a graduate adviser at the Savannah College of Art and Design.</span></div>
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<span class="s7" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Writing is my passion, my joy—my addiction. SHATTERING HALOS is my debut novel, released by The Wild Rose Press, and when I'm not writing, I read. Tons.</span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Like in an old, silent film, his movements fast-forwarded several frames. Without warning, he stood so close that the sleeve of his shirt skimmed my arm.</span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His eyes pinned mine, and I couldn’t break away. I stared back, a chemical reaction taking place in me as I plunged further and further into his gaze.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15">She’d been with Van for two years. At thirty years old, with her own home and a solid job, Natalie had even considered taking the next step with him, moving in together. How could he do that to her? And how could he do </span></span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">that</span></span><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15"> with some horrible woman dressed head to toe in skintight leather?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Natalie shuddered to think of her own body packed into all that leather. But the worst was the noises he’d made, the sighs, the moans, the cries, the groans of pleasure. He’d never sounded like that with Natalie, never gone utterly wild when she touched him. Not even in the beginning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15">He rounded the end of his desk and paced behind her in a semicircle. She didn’t dare turn her head to look at him despite the itch along her spine. You never wanted Mr. Masters at your back when he was pissed at you. Though when he was on </span></span><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">your</span></span><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15"> side, there was no greater ally.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m very displeased, Miss Beaumonde, and, quite frankly, shocked.” His breath was at her ear. “This isn’t like you.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“So…” Coming to rest beside her, he lowered his voice to an almost seductive pitch. With his tall form only in her peripheral vision, feeling him next to her rather than seeing him clearly enhanced the effect. His tone was like warm maple syrup drizzled down her spine and licked all the way back up. “You have a decision, my dear,” he finished softly.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She suppressed the urge to shiver. It wasn’t the thing to get turned on by your boss’s voice, especially when you were on the rebound from catching your boyfriend with another woman. “Yes, sir,” she whispered. “I’ll do whatever I can to make it up to you.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You most certainly will, Miss Beaumonde.” Facing her, he leaned back against his desk, crossing his arms over his chest. “Now here’s your choice.” He cocked an eyebrow. “You can tell me what issue has put your job second on your list of priorities.” After a pause, he added, “In detail.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s7" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="bumpedFont15">Oh no no no.</span></span><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15"> She stared at the desktop rather than meet his gaze. Even now, remembering Van’s wild abandon and his total pleasure at the hands of another woman was demoralizing. Natalie had suddenly had it slammed in her face that she wasn’t woman enough for him. And she certainly couldn’t describe what she’d seen.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Head Above Water </i>by Amber Garza<br />Publication date:</b> <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">February 28th 2014</a><br /><b>Genres:</b> Contemporary, New Adult, Romance</span></div>
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Heartbreak Ranch<o:p></o:p><br />
by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7257287.Anastasia_Ryan">Anastasia Ryan</a><o:p></o:p><br />
Release Date: 10/15/13<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i>Recent college graduate, Graysen Beaufort, resigns herself to two weeks of boredom at a dude ranch honoring her parents’ wishes for one last family vacation.<br /><br />She doesn't plan on meeting Colt McCord, an irresistible cowboy who threatens to bring disorder to Graysen's ordinarily ordered life.<br /><br />Dodging an overprotective family, an unwelcome suitor, and certain heartbreak, Graysen struggles to break free of her limitations and submit her heart to Colt’s love. But learning to let go isn't easy, even with a man like Colt.<br /><br />Colt McCord, White Pine Ranch’s head horse trainer, loves the busy, back-breaking work of a cattle ranch.<br /><br />But when he meets a beautiful and spirited woman from Iowa, she makes him forget everything he'd known before, and he risks everything to be with her.<br /><br />Colt is accustomed to breaking horses, but can he tame Graysen’s wild heart before it is too late?</i></div>
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Anastasia Ryan is a native New Yorker, but lives in Iowa with her family. She loves the beautiful chaos of raising six children. She is her husband’s girlfriend, but is also quite smitten with the written word. As the daughter of teachers, she has had a love of both great literature and writing in her blood since she was a baby. At a very early age, you would have found her perched on her father’s lap as he typed out his Master’s thesis for English. She is addicted to great books she can get lost in, finds cooking relaxing, is a sometimes web geek, and loves spending time with family and friends. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in Creative Writing.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><i>Accidental Sex Goddess</i> by Lexi Ryan<br />Publication date:</b> January 14th 2013<br /><b>Genres:</b> Adult, Contemporary, Romance</span></div>
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<span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Promotions director Reese Regan isn’t a sex goddess and doesn’t want to be. But when she's offered a job with Sex Goddess, Inc., she must complete the company's wildly popular Sex Goddess 101 program. Trying only to avoid the unemployment line, not to become Chicago’s next seductress, she never expected the infamous “steps” might work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15">Reese’s sexy, off-limits best friend Ben Hawk helps her “fake</span></span><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15">” her way through lingerie shopp</span></span><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15">ing, phone sex, and seduction lessons. The passion that flares between them might be hotter than their friendship can withstand. </span></span><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15">And the idea that he only wants the “new” her?</span></span><span class="s5"><span class="bumpedFont15"> That's definitely more than her heart can stand.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="s9"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not for the first time, Ben imagined she wasn’t joining him fresh from her car but that she was joining him from his bed. She wouldn’t be wearing workout clothes but maybe one of his old t-shirts. She’d pad toward him in bare feet, cotton brushing the tops of her thighs, and she’d wrap her arms around his neck with the smile of a recently satisfied woman. He would slide his hands under her shirt and cup an ass cheek in each hand as he put his mouth on hers. Then they’d get a whole different kind of workout.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s9"><span class="bumpedFont15">A dangerous fantasy.</span></span><span class="s9"><span class="bumpedFont15"> In the real world, Reese smacked a kiss to his cheek like she was greeting her little brother. To add insult to injury, she stole his mug out of his hands and took a gulp of his coffee. The soft moan of pleasure that escaped her lips played all too well into the images flashing through his mind. So did the way she closed her eyes and tilted her head back, pleasure running across her face.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Drake isn’t just someone I love, he’s the one I love the most in this world. He’s my best friend, my breath, my everything. I realize in this moment that the true reason I’m on this journey to find Drake is not just because I miss him and want him back, I’m also missing a huge part of me. Until we’re together again, my life isn’t complete. Without him I’m not whole.”-Morgan<br /><br />“… I’m so sorry I couldn’t go to you. It was nearly impossible not to but Morgan we wouldn’t be standing here right now if I had. You found me Baby. When you met me on your first day at Baylor what seems like a lifetime ago you found me. Only this time I’m not letting you go.”-Drake<br /><br />Struggling to get her life back on track after being left suddenly and inexplicably by (secret) boyfriend –not- boyfriend and boss Drake Baylor Jr., Morgan Lane searches the globe to find Drake knowing that the only way to truly live the life she’s worked so hard for is with him by her side.<br /><br />Banished to Zurich, Switzerland by his father after being caught Breaking the Rules, Drake has nine months to get the European Division of Baylor Industries back on track. Again, he must obey the rules so that he can hopefully return to his life with Morgan and take the helm of Baylor Industries.<br /><br />Everything is going according to plan as usual for Adrian Thompson who has just gotten Drake banished to Switzerland as part of his plan to get Morgan (his college sweetheart and hopefully future trophy wife) back in his life for good. With a little help from Lana Lane, Morgan’s mother, Adrian is hoping to have Morgan wearing his ring by New Year’s Eve.<br /><br />After a few months of being wooed by old flame and now boss Adrian, and without so much as a word from Drake, Morgan hesitantly accepts Adrian’s invitation to join him for New Year’s Eve in St.Moritz Switzerland. Foiling Adrian’s plan, a “chance encounter” finds Morgan back in Drake’s arms.<br /><br />Will Drake and Morgan be able to overcome the distance and time that is now between them along with a few of the hurdles that life has thrown their way? Morgan and Drake are once again faced with figuring out how to start their new future together- this time not Breaking the Rules, only Bending them.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LK Lewis lives in Northern Michigan with her Husband and 3 year old son.<br />Born and raised in Michigan, LK spent her early twenties chasing the man of her dreams (now husband of 8 years) around the country, residing in both New York, and Portland, Oregon. While living in Portland, LK attended East West College of the Healing Arts, and is now a Massage Therapist, Makeup Artist, and Spa/ Boutique Owner.<br /><br />When LK isn’t working, writing, or chasing her son around, she enjoys boat days, playing in the sunshine, and giggling with her husband. You may also find her on twitter most days, especially live tweeting when The Bachelor/Bachelorette, Sons of Anarchy or The Walking Dead is on. Check her out, you may enjoy her colorful commentary!</span><br />
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