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<b><i>Nowhere But Here (Thunder Road #1)</i></b></div>
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<i>by Katie McGarry</i></div>
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<b>Publication Date: May 26 2015</b></div>
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Oz wants one thing: to join the Reign of Terror. They're the good guys. They protect people. They're…family. And while Emily—the gorgeous and sheltered daughter of the club's most respected member—is in town, he's gonna prove it to her. So when her father asks him to keep her safe from a rival club with a score to settle, Oz knows it's his shot at his dream. What he doesn't count on is that Emily just might turn that dream upside down.
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<b>Katie McGarry is beyond one of my favorite authors and cannot wait to get my hand on this new series of hers!</b></div>
BookInHandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04661637437755650175noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515574961294772333.post-88058704706489792862014-06-12T18:52:00.002-07:002014-06-12T18:52:36.103-07:00Review (36): Six Months Later by Natalie Richards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Six Months Later<br />
by Natalie Richards<br />
Release Date: October 1st, 2013<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><strong>She has everything she's ever wanted. But not her memory...</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">When Chloe fell asleep in study hall, it was the middle of May. When she wakes up, snow is on the ground and she can't remember the last six months of her life.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Before, she'd been a mediocre student. Now, she's on track for valedictorian and being recruited by Ivy League schools. Before, she never had a chance with super jock Blake. Now he's her boyfriend. Before, she and Maggie were inseparable. Now her best friend won't speak to her.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><strong>What happened to her? Remembering the truth could be more dangerous than she knows..</strong></span></span></blockquote>
I've seen quite a few mixed reviews about this so I was a little apprehensive about reading it, but even though there were quite a few bad reviews for this book, I loved it. Some people say it wasn't mysterious, that the mystery was obvious from the beginning, but I was guessing up until the very end. I had no idea and I loved that about the book.<br />
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Chloe was such a great main character. I like Richards formed her well and made her into such a believable character. I felt all her pains and my heart was racing along with hers. And Adam, boy oh boy, was he dreamy. He was such a heartfelt character toward Chloe, and I loved him even after the plot twist. He was such a genuine person and was such an unselfish person. <br />
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<i>by Colina Brennan</i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When twenty-one-year-old Leah Carter’s latest one night stand burglarizes her apartment, her roommate forces her to attend therapy for sex addicts. Leah insists she isn’t a sex addict; she just doesn’t do relationships. After all, sooner or later, everyone lets you down.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At first, the group sessions are little more than an education on how to be promiscuous. Until she meets the newest addict—blue eyes, killer body, and a smile that tempts relapse.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Psychology student Will McLean is posing as a fellow addict while researching a case study on unusual addictions. But the more he learns about Leah, the more certain he is that his desire to break through her walls and unearth her secrets has nothing to do with his assignment.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As the uncertainties spike alongside the sexual tension, the only thing Leah knows for sure is that falling in love would be disastrous. Too bad love might be one addiction she can’t kick.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Or the next day when she’d been decorating cake pops with Helena, and suddenly she was remembering the way Blue Eyes had looked at her when he handed over her jacket. Not with the lust of a one night stand or the disgust of some of her classmates or even with the disregard of the other addicts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">She sensed him settle into the chair next to her, which made her stomach tighten with excitement. She should just get that apology out of the way, but she wasn’t very good at saying she was sorry. She’d probably screw it all up. So instead, she focused on the counselor as he walked in, maintaining her glare, and determined not to acknowledge the guy beside her. Even though the side of her body nearest to Blue Eyes burned with awareness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">He was close enough that she could lift her hand if she wanted and bridge the distance between them, feel the warmth of his skin against her fingertips. Her resolve weakening, she stole a quick glance in his direction. He looked just as good as she remembered. Better even. This time, his sleeves were short, and the way he stretched his arms back to lace his fingers behind his head made the thin cotton stretch across his chest and his biceps bulge. Her throat went dry. Her pulse quickened.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">His gaze shifted, met hers, stayed. There was a question in his eyes, the exact look she’d recalled during her wildebeest documentary, and she wanted to know what it meant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">She drew slow, deep breaths through her nose to steady her heart rate. Just faintly, she caught the scent of what must have been either his cologne or his soap. Fresh sea. Warm sun. Rich earth. It made her want to press her face into that tiny dip at the base of his neck and inhale deeply.</span></span></div>
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<i>by Cassandra Clare</i><br />
<b>Publication Date: March 27th, 2007</b><br />
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So, I know like everyone in the book blogging world has read this book but me. I could never bring myself to read this book. The synopsis was just so not me and honestly, the cover also deterred me. But, my boyfriend recently started reading this series because of the movie that came out Wednesday, so I decided to give it a chance to. And it was pretty good.<br />
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I really didn't get into the book until about half way through it. The beginning I thought was sort of slow and I found myself skipping parts and having to go back and reread what I thought I had already read. But from the half point of this book on was so fast paced and exhilarating that I couldn't stop reading!<br />
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I love Clary, she's snarky and so brave. She's like one of the best main characters I've read about. She changed so much throughout this book and I loved watching her change. And I loved Jace and Clary together. Jace and Clary just match perfectly. I love Jace's personality all around. There is like nothing I would change about him. I really liked Simon too, buttttttttt I have to pick Jace!<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Loving
Chris Henderson would be wrong. Diabolically disastrous. I mean, what is there
about him to love? He’s moody, bossy, brooding, a control freak, and that’s on
a good day … but there was one achingly obvious fact that haunted my every
thought, every minute of every day …<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">As the countdown to
the new millennium begins, there is one thing everyone agrees on: no one wants
to be in Onslow for New Year’s Eve.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">So that can only mean one thing: road trip!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">No longer the mousey, invisible, shy girl from years ago, Tammy
Maskala is finally making up for all those lost summers. A new year with new
friends, which astoundingly includes the bossy boy behind the bar, Chris
Henderson.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">She likes her new friends (at least most of them), so why does she
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">After chickening out on the trip, a last-minute change of heart sees
Tammy racing to the Onslow Hotel, fearing she’s missed her chance for a ride.
The last thing she expected to meet was a less-than-happy Onslow Boy leaning
against his black panel van.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Now the countdown begins to reach the others at Point Shank before the
party is over and the new year has begun. Alone in a car with only the
infuriating Chris Henderson, Tammy can’t help but feel this is a disastrous
start to what could have been a great adventure. But when the awkward road trip
takes an unexpected turn, Tammy soon discovers that the way her traitorous heart
feels about Chris is the biggest disaster of all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Fogged up windows, moonlight swimming, bad karaoke and unearthed
secrets; after this one summer nothing will ever be the same again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">I met him at a carnival, of all corny places. The summer I turned eighteen, in that chaos of neon lights and cheap thrills, I met a man so sweet, so beautiful, he seemed to come from another world. We had one night: intense, scary, real. Then I ran, like I always do. Because I didn’t want to be abandoned again.<br />But I couldn’t run far enough.<br />I knew him as Evan that night. When I walked into his classroom, he became Mr. Wilke.<br />My teacher.<br />I don’t know if what we’re doing is wrong. The law says one thing; my heart says screw the law. I can’t let him lose his job. And I can’t lose him.<br />In the movies, this would have a happy ending. I grow up. I love, I lose, I learn. And I move on. But this is life, and there’s no script. You make it up as you go along.<br />And you don’t pray for a happy ending. You pray for it to never end.</span></blockquote>
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Gosh, this book was freaking fantastic. Beautiful. Delightful. Mesmerizing. There are so many words that could describe this book. We've all read about forbidden romances, with either teachers or for some other reasons. But Leah Raeder takes that forbidden romance to a whole new level.</div>
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I love the allure to forbidden love and that is what ultimately drove me to read this book. I've also had my own forbidden romance and I love reading about other peoples. There's just something so thrilling about it and irresistible that a lot of people want to or have had one.</div>
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Maise O'Malley made this whole book. Raeder captured her voice perfectly. I automatically just wanted to be her best friend. I wish I knew someone like her in real life. She is just utterly fantastic. So witty and brave and just perfect all around. Her life growing up may not have been perfect but that shaped her into the character she was in the book. Raeder's writing made Maise come alive and I felt like I was actually living this whole story out with her. </div>
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Evan wasn't too bad himself either. I wish I knew someone like him. Maybe a little younger then he was but he was so perfect. He cared so much for Maise and was just so captivating. The steamy scenes between him and Maise were to freaking die for!</div>
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I must must must say that I LOVE Raeder's writing. Everything about it was so captivation and poetic. I've never seen a writing style quite like hers and I WILL read anything else that she comes out with. </div>
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The quiet drone of a train’s chugging grew louder as it
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“I’m fine. Don’t fight me on this.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Blood pounded hot in my ears, my heart rate jumping and hair
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“Damn it, Skylla!” He dropped his head as he gasped for air.
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“Wanna go again?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You’re reckless. I can’t even look at you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You’re crushing me.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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His head lifted, those blue eyes settling on me as his
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My hand shifted and found his injured hip; my fingers brushed
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I helped push him backward to prop him against the wall,
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“I’m not letting you wander around these cars alone. Not
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<b><i>Nice Girl to Love</i></b></div>
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<i>by Violet Duke</i></div>
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<b>Publication Date: July 31st</b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">The • Nice • Girl n. 1. female of the species who never does anything or anyone bad: Hands-off, she’s a nice girl. 2. the woman that men take home to meet mom: Find my son a ‘nice girl to love.’ SEE ALSO: a good girl; girl scout; Abby Bartlett<br />This is the complete Nice Girl to Love serial romance collection, which contains: Resisting the Bad Boy (Book One), Falling for the Good Guy (Book Two), and Choosing the Right Man (Book Three).<br /><br />THE ONE SHE NEVER THOUGHT SHE COULD KEEP…<br />Abby Bartlett is the quintessential nice girl. Between teaching, volunteering, completing her PhD, and helping her best friend raise his daughter, Abby never gets the chance to be anything but nice. That is, until the all-wrong-for-her man she’s only ever known from afar starts daring her to simply take that chance for herself. His sage advice? Try something wild and fast. Preferably him.<br />An unbridled, hotshot attorney with a not-so-little black book, Connor Sullivan has earned himself quite the bad boy reputation. But in his defense, he’s a very conscientious one. He knows far too well that sometimes in life, love isn’t enough…or worse, not even a factor at all. To avoid that misery–and repel the drama–Connor has a firm ‘nothing over a month’ rule. Who knew a nice girl would be the one to make him want to break all his rules?<br /><br />THE ONE SHE NEVER HOPED SHE COULD HAVE…<br />Abby is well aware that everyone thinks she’s in love with her best friend Brian. He is, after all, the type of man a nice girl should be with—the polar opposite of the bad boy—the kind of guy who didn’t let his wife’s decade-long illness stop him from showering her with a lifetime of love every second until her dying day. But everyone’s wrong; she couldn’t possibly be in love with him. Because she’s never once allowed herself that option.<br />It’s taken a while but Brian has finally come to terms with surviving the woman he spent half his life loving, a third of it losing. Truth is though, he wouldn’t have ‘survived’ any of it really had it not been for Abby—sweet, incredible Abby—the woman he’s never once had to picture his life without, never realized he couldn’t truly live without. Until now. Now that he’s finally able to love her the way she deserves, the way he knows she wants to be loved…by his brother. Who’s giving him exactly one chance to speak now or forever hold his peace.<br /><br />A DECISION SHE NEVER DREAMED SHE’D HAVE TO MAKE…<br />And now it’s up to Abby to decide between the bad boy wanting to start a life with her and the good guy fighting for the life they’ve already built.</span></b></blockquote>
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<b> </b>Abby went mute as she felt Brian’s tongue lash across her skin,
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If he didn’t stop, there was a good chance she’d pull the towel he was
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“Do you want me to take it off?” he asked, his words tickling her skin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No,” she stammered, unable to take her eyes
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Ice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What ice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ow</i>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The burning of the ice at her ankle finally filtered through to her
brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Yes, actually, can you take it
off?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a wuss when it comes to icing
my injuries.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brian quickly pulled off the ice and rewrapped her ankle before resuming
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things you wanted me to take off,” he teased.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Okay, seriously?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a really
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into butter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You’re impossible,” she complained thickly, though it came out more
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She blinked slowly at him and started wondering idly what was so wrong
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“Damn, you’re going to fall asleep on me aren’t you?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brian’s voice floated over her hair softly as
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</span>“Go ahead and rest, sweetheart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Shame.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He was heartbreakingly handsome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Always had been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But ever since
he’d gone back to coaching afterschool to supplement his teaching income, he’d
gotten even burlier from the added lifting sessions before practice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was almost unfair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Superhuman, really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His build was now more impressive than the
average underwear model’s physique—a standard issue Sullivan trait it
seemed—though every other aspect of him remained far gentler and way more
mellow than Connor.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She’d never thought of mellow as being the new sexy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it so was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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And nice was the new hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With
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Hearing Brian’s soft chuckles echoing in the room, she realized she must
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“I think you’re ‘nice with two T’s’ too, Abby,” he whispered before
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<b><i>Waiting for the Storm</i></b></div>
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<i>by Marie Landry</i></div>
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<b>Publication Date:April 9th, 2013</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Charlotte O’Dell knows this summer is going to suck. Her beloved mother just died, her sister hates her, and her dad has completely checked out. Fulfilling her mother’s final wish, the family heads to Angel Island for the summer to stay in a beach house her mother once loved.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After a year of being shut away taking care of her mother, Charlotte is numb and practically afraid of her own shadow; she hopes going to the island will give her the time and space she needs to begin healing, and an opportunity to bring her family back together. When she meets her mysterious neighbor, Ezra, it doesn’t take long for Charlotte to confess the issues she’s developed. Ezra begins giving Charlotte assignments to get over her fears, and although she accepts his tasks, all she really wants is to be with him. When she’s with Ezra, she’s able to forget the hollow ache in her heart and the fact that her family is falling apart. But Ezra has secrets…</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Can Charlotte pull what’s left of her family together, mend her broken heart, and allow herself to fall for Ezra? Or is it all just a storm waiting to happen?</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Oh, Charlotte,
there you are.” Dad walked into the kitchen and looked at me as if he hadn’t
seen me in ages. “That boy who’s working on the porch…what <i>is</i> his name,
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Ezra,” I prompted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Ezra!” Dad said,
snapping his fingers. “Ezra asked me to tell you he had to leave early today to
check on a project he’s doing for someone else. Said he’ll see you soon,
though. He seems like a nice boy.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Yeah, he does,” I
agreed. The old Dad—as in pre-Zombie Dad—would have prodded me for information
about whether I liked Ezra. He would have jabbed me lightly in the ribs and
teased me until I told him everything he wanted to know. I waited a minute,
hoping he might ask, but he didn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“He’s a fast
worker, too,” he commented instead. “I thought it would take ages to get that
porch down, but he’s almost done.” I just nodded, unsure how to respond. After
a few seconds, he said, “Anyway, I was going to head into town, check things
out. I thought you and Ella might like to come along, but she just left. You up
for it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Absolutely,” I
said without hesitation. I thought for sure it would be days before I’d get a
chance to go anywhere, and I was eager to see what else the island had to
offer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“Great.” Dad gave
me a small smile and stepped closer, running his hand down my long braid and
tugging lightly on the end. “I know this isn’t easy,” he said quietly. “I know
you and Mom were close…and I know I’ve been…” He waved a hand around, as if
hoping to grasp the right words from thin air. Finally he shrugged helplessly,
searching my face for understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“I know, Dad.” My
throat was so thick I could only whisper the words. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">He leaned his
forehead against mine and closed his eyes. I closed mine too, and felt tears
slip down my cheeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“I’m so angry, Charlotte,”
he whispered. “So angry at her for leaving us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I jerked back and
looked at him in shock. His eyes were wide, and he looked like he desperately
wished he could take back his words. The guilt in his expression made the
hollow ache around my heart return. He started to back toward the door, but I
grabbed his wrist, stopping him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“I’m mad too.” My
voice was a barely audible whisper now, and I prayed that wherever Mom was she
hadn’t heard me. I hadn’t let myself acknowledge that particular emotion
because it felt like I was betraying Mom. She hadn’t asked to get sick, and she
sure as hell hadn’t asked to die, but it didn’t stop the anger. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I had made up my
mind it was one thing I would never share with another living soul. My sadness,
my pain, my inability to understand how life could be so unfair sometimes—that
was one thing—but the anger was something I was ashamed of. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Until now. Until I
realized I wasn’t alone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Dad just stared at
me. He looked like he wanted to believe me, but he wasn’t quite sure if I was
just saying the words or if they were true. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“I’ve been angry
for so long,” he told me, his voice quiet as if he were confessing his sins and
hoping to be absolved. “It’s not fair. She was so…so young and beautiful and
vibrant, with such an amazing life ahead. But it was ripped away from her. She
was ripped away from <i>us</i>. I know it happens all the time, but it’s just
so wrong.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“I know.” I was
still holding his wrist, and I could feel his pulse fluttering under his skin
like a trapped butterfly. “I know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">“But…” He shrugged
and wiped at his red eyes. “That’s life. Being angry doesn’t bring her back. It
doesn’t change a damn thing, does it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I shook my head.
Without a word, he pulled his arm from my grasp, turned, and walked toward the
sliding doors in the living room. “I’ll be waiting in the car,” he called.
“Take your time.”</span></div>
BookInHandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04661637437755650175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515574961294772333.post-10079508229405139072013-07-31T00:00:00.000-07:002013-07-31T00:00:01.416-07:00BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY: Vigilante Nights by Erin Richards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Vigilante Nights</i></b><br />
<i>by Erin Richards</i><br />
<b>Publication Date: July 18th, 2013</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A "good boy" will do anything for vengeance when a gang rite kills his twin sister. Will Lucas win, or follow his sister Silver into the darkness?</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After a hideous car wreck, Lucas wakes from a coma to find that his world is gutted. Not only is his beloved twin sister, Silver, gone forever, but Lucas is broken in body and spirit. He will never be a college athlete, and is robbed of what he now realizes was the most important bond of his life. Although they weren't identical twins, Lucas and Silver shared a bond so fierce it defied reason, and was nearly supernatural.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After her death, that bond seems to endure when Lucas sees Silver everywhere he turns. Either he's crazy, or Silver is trying to tell him something about the California gang initiation they stumbled into that cost Silver her life. Lucas is bent on revenge, turning on Raymond, Silver's former boyfriend; the one Lucas never wanted her to date. He forms a posse of vigilantes to take out the gangsters responsible for Silver's death, but he risks not only his own life, but the love of the new girl on his block, who knows more about Lucas and Silver than can be accounted for by mere chance</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>I leaped at him, my fist hitting his face full force. I felt his nose fracture against my knuckles and the scathing chaser up my hand. He roared and shot an arm toward my gut. Lashing gusts forced us backward, and we rolled down the side of the cliff onto a narrow stony landing. The last firm footing before we tumbled into hell. That’s when I noticed the ripping burn in my middle. Stunned, I felt the warmth of blood mushroom across my stomach beneath my cold, clammy shirt. He’d stuck me with the knife, buried so deep it appeared his fingers were digging inside my gut. My hands circled his neck. As I began to squeeze, a mountainous wave blasted the rocks and slammed us flat. Water sloshed over the ledge, dragging at us like an undertow.<br /><br />He lost his hold on the knife. Pulling on my arms, he tried to loosen my grip on his neck. I dug for his jugular. Blinded by blood lust, I lost notice of everything except the sneering face pissing on my car, the lustful eyes staring at Silver, the gaping mouths when the two hotrods approached the intersection.<br /><br />Another wave smashed into us, knocking us apart. He toppled backward, tumbled into the receding water. I fell forward on my hands and knees, gripping a sharp edge of rock.<br /><br />“I’m gonna kill you.” Pisser sprang up bowed over, prepping to gore me again.<br /><br />I rolled out of the way, tripping him. He fell onto another flat boulder. I managed to push to my feet, the dark, tempestuous sea behind me an ominous threat. Pisser lunged for me, barreling us both onto the jagged rocks along the edge. He thudded on top. I rolled, flipped him on his side, my hand fisted on his jacket sleeve. His body thumped on another ledge of rocks.<br /><br />Another wave towered up. Too late. It crashed down, a bludgeoning, suffocating weight pinning me to the boulders. Hanging on for what sketchy life remained, I waited for the wave to recede. It didn’t. Another followed and a third. A triple threat.<br /><br />I heard screaming. Tara or Alyssa? Strange thoughts of death flashed through my mind. A white beam lit the rocks lending their dark death a momentary glimpse of rebirth. If I died, am I supposed to limp into the light or some stupid thing? Did Silver ever go into the light? Where’d she go? She seemed to disappear when I didn’t think of her. My mind rambled.<br /><br />A hoarse, terrified voice spiraled above the storm. “Help me, man. You want another death on your hands?”<br /><br />Water flowed, ebbed, and I lay half over the cliff, my right leg stuck between two rocks. Frozen fingers slid over my hand. I tightened my tenuous hold, reaching forward to grab Pisser’s arm with my other hand. He dangled from the cliff, dead weight in my faltering grip. Without my help, he’d bite it hard. In one split second, I contemplated letting go, prying his fingers off the rock one by one, hearing his body plop to its death on the boulders below.</strong></span></div>
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<b><i>Bittersweet Junction</i></b><br />
<i>by Ivy Sinclair</i><br />
<b>Publication Date: 2013</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Best friends once, lovers never, yet an attraction that can’t be ignored.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Five years ago, Julia Bell walked away from her life the moment her high school diploma was in her hand. She left her family and friends behind to start over and escape the chokehold of small town life in Benton Hill. But an urgent call from her little sister brings Julia back to her hometown wholly unprepared for what awaits her.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ben Miller was always the nice guy. Just before high school graduation, he stepped out of that role hoping to capture the heart of the woman he loved. Instead, in quick succession he lost the girl, and the future he worked so hard to achieve.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Even though Julia and Ben are drawn to each other, echoes of the past block them at every turn. Secrets are exposed, and reality needs to be dealt with if they can ever hope to move past the bittersweet junction that ripped them apart.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Describe<a href="" name="GoBack"></a> Bittersweet Junction in one sentence. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Fate gives two former best friends a second
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bittersweet Junction picks up with the main
characters, Julia Belle and Ben Miller, five years after high school
graduation. Julia left the small town of Benton Hill right after graduation
because she was faced with some grown-up kind of decisions that she couldn’t
make. Ben, one of Julia’s childhood best friends, was left confused and hurt
after her departure. Julia’s sister Clary lures Julia back to Benton Hill under
false pretenses, and that’s when Julia realizes it’s impossible to outrun the
past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I think what readers will enjoy most about this
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path to have a shot at their happy ending. I found it very satisfying to write,
and I believe that will resonate with readers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’ve had several ideas for stories that revolve
around the idea of a five year high school reunion. The idea for Bittersweet
Junction started there, although in the end, there is no actual high school
reunion in the book. That wouldn’t have been a good enough reason to drag Julia
back to Benton Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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main characters?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’ve thought a lot about this. I could see Emma
Roberts playing Julia and Chris Pine, with his gorgeous blue eyes, would make
the perfect Ben. Emily Browning would play Julia’s little sister Clary, and <span style="color: #252a2a;">Max Thieriot would round out the
casting as Mike.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">About
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When did
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I started writing the summer between sixth and
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When did
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My senior year of high school I won a state
newspaper award for a piece of hard hitting journalism in the school paper. It
was an article on how a teacher in a local junior high had gotten in trouble
for showing an R-rated movie in the classroom. The day I received my award, I
knew that writing was part of my life’s journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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going on in the publishing industry today so that you can make informed
decisions about your writing destiny. The landscape of publishing is changing
faster than anyone could have imagined, and it affects all of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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color?</i> I am digging orange right
now. I have an orange purse, loads of orange tops, and even my toenails are
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Sweet?</i> I am 50/50 on that. My
favorite snack right now is a handful almonds mixed with a handful of dark
chocolate chips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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author?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stephen King. I can’t think of another author
out there who has influenced me and my writing as much as he has, and I have
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book?</i> I still remember
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<b><i>Speak Easy</i></b><br />
<i>by Melanie Harlow</i><br />
<b>Publication Date: July 22nd, 2013</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The seventeen cases barely fit into the boat, which sat frighteningly low in the water. “Come on, hurry,” Joey said. “The rain’s starting again.” He was veering out to the lake before I could even sit down. Halfway across, he stiffened and sat up tall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“What?” My pulse quickened.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Come here,” he said quietly, slowing the boat and shutting off the engine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Joey, it’s raining! Turn the motor back on and get us back!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Just come here,” he said, more insistent this time. He thumped the space next to him on the bench. As we drifted on the swells, I carefully stepped between the sacks to sit beside him. He put his hands on my shoulders and looked me in the eye. “Kiss me.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">My stomach cartwheeled. “Are you nuts?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“Kiss me,” he said again, but he didn’t wait for me to do it. He squeezed my upper arms and pressed his mouth to mine. His fingers dug into my skin as my heart careened out of control. <i>What the hell is going on? He picks </i>this<i>moment to get romantic?</i> He took his lips off mine and buried his face in my hair by my ear. “Inspectors,” he whispered. “Now act like you love me.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">My eyes darted around the lake, and sure enough, what looked like a Prohibition Navy boat was passing us about ten yards off. I saw men in rain slickers lining the deck, guns at their sides. With my pulse roaring in my ears, I threw my arms around Joey and kissed him as if we were just a couple out for a romantic boat ride in the rain. But fear had me frozen stiff; it must have been like kissing a statue. “Relax,” murmured Joey against my closed lips. “I’ve got you.” His low voice loosened my limbs and my inhibitions, and when he pulled me onto his lap, I went willingly. His mouth was hot, and his soft lips teased mine open. The rock and sway of the boat lulled us into a rhythm, and I melted into it, into him. One of his hands began kneading my hip, and the other inched up the side of my ribcage, his thumb nearly grazing my breast. My nipples tightened, and I wanted his hands on them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>Oh my God, I’m kissing Joey</i>. <i>And I like it.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The inspectors had to be past us by now, but I didn’t want to stop. Raindrops splashed our faces and mingled with our kiss, but they did nothing to cool me down. Without thinking, I slipped my tongue between Joey’s lips, and he sucked it gently before stroking it with his own. Picturing his familiar lush mouth, I held his head in my hands and plucked softly at his top lip, then his bottom lip, and then I pulled away slightly to rub my lips back and forth against his. His breath was hot on my mouth, and coming faster. A pleasant ache began between my legs and I arched my back, moving my hips a little. For a moment his arm tightened and I felt his flesh stirring beneath me—but in the next second he pulled away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“They’re gone.” He set me beside him and turned on the motor.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">I sat still, breathing heavily and trying to recover my senses. My whole body shook.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">“You OK?” Joey asked. I was irritated to see a smile on his lips.</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">“No.” I stumbled over the whisky back to the other bench seat. “I can’t believe you did that.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>I can’t believe how much I liked it. </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Had he been pretending the whole time?</span><br />
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<b><i>Breaking Josephine</i></b><br />
<i>by Marie Stewart</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
his eyes found mine I saw an instant of recognition and joy, lighting his face
and eyes with an unmatched splendor. But as quickly as it appeared, it was
gone, replaced by hot, searing anger. He strode across the house, ignoring
hellos, offers of champagne, and curious glances. Every step he took closer to
me sent a new wave of simmering rage in my direction, his eyes never leaving my
face. He came through the open french doors and out onto the balcony as I
instinctively backed up, teetering in Macy’s too-tall heels, my back crushing
into the railing. He stopped inches from my face, his eyes alive with a burning
intensity of passion and naked hostility. He grabbed my arms and held them in
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Who
are you?” he snarled, inches from my face. I was still shorter than Dex, and
although I felt tall and ungainly before, now the urge to cower and disappear
under his intense stare was stifling. But I refused to let him know my
feelings, putting my hands on his chest and shoving him back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
want to hear you say it,” he said, still gripping me with ferocious intensity
and staring at me with a pained and pleading look. I saw the confusion and fear
in his eyes and wanted to do anything to take it away. He might have been
scaring me at the moment, but the look on his face made my heart ache for him,
and for any pain I’d somehow caused him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Jo Sinclair,” I answered. “I’m the woman who
dropped her groceries all over the sidewalk, the woman you kissed in the forest
…” I paused, lowering my voice to a barely audible whisper, “and the woman who
broke into your mansion and broke her promise. That’s who I am.” I let out a
trapped breath and forced air into my lungs. My heart pounded in my chest and
my lungs heaved as if they would burst. We continued to stare at each other for
what felt like ages, him scanning my face for some sign, and me imploring him
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heat where his fingers had been. Before I could blink, he’d turned on his heels
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night. I stood there, dumbfounded and staring after him, unable to move, unable
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<b><i>Charmed </i></b></div>
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<i>by Cambria Hebert</i></div>
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<b>Publication Date: July 22nd, 2013</b></div>
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<b><i>Some Quiet Place</i></b><br />
<i>by Kelsey Sutton</i><br />
<b>Publication Date: July 8th, 2013</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>“I had my first psychic dream when I was nine. Psychic implied power, and powerful wasn’t a word I’d use to describe myself. I couldn’t foretell the future or conjure visions at will, but I couldn’t think of a more fitting word to describe what I sometimes saw in my dreams.” </i></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For 23-year-old Mackenzie Hill, tossing her life down the garbage disposal is easy after a painful incident shatters her life. Her heart is bleeding, and moving to Watcher’s Point is a chance to start anew, only she isn’t prepared for the guy who walks out of her dreams and into the flesh. Literally . . . because she’s been dreaming about this sexy stranger for years. </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mackenzie is even less prepared to face the dark nature of her dreams. They’ve turned disturbingly gruesome, full of blood and murder, and when they begin to coincide with the media’s headlines, she and Aidan realize her visions might be the key to stopping a madman from killing again.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Only Aidan has painful secrets of his own, and perhaps the biggest danger of all is falling for him.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<i><b>An Endless Summer (Summer #2)</b></i></div>
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<i>by CJ Duggan</i></div>
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<b>Publication Date: July 17th, 2013</b></div>
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looked out over the lake, squinting against the sunlight. He turned to me, his
expression sobering as his eyes flicked over my face in a silent study.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>“Come on Amy, I saved you once, I’ll save you again.”</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>
I met his stare unflinchingly. “I don’t need saving.”</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>
A wicked grin formed slowly. “Don’t you?”</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
After a rebellious summer night that almost claimed her life, Amy Henderson –
the Onslow publican’s only daughter – is sent away to suffer a fate far worse
than any other punishment:</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Boarding School.</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Three years on, a now nineteen-year-old Amy returns to Onslow for the summer.
What once was a cauldron of activity with live bands, hot meals and cold beers,
the Onslow Hotel now lies dark, deserted and depressing. All fond childhood
memories of loitering on the hotel stairs and eavesdropping on customers’
colourful conversations are in the distant past.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
How had her dad let it come to this?</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
With the new threat of putting the Onslow up for sale, Amy reluctantly turns to
a local tradesman for help: Sean Murphy, the very same Onslow boy who saved her
life all those years ago. With his help and that of some old friends, the task
is clear: spend the summer building the hotel back up to its former glory or
lose it for good.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
In an endless summer, Amy soon realises that sometimes in order to save your
future, you have to face your past, even if it’s in the form of a smug,
gorgeous Onslow boy.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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I am completely and utterly in love with this season. I loved the first book, Boys of Summer, and this one definitely did not disappoint. If anything, I thought this one was better!! Sean and Amy were great main characters.<br />
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Lets start off with the Onslow. I so wish this was a real place where I live. The town just sounds fantastic and the hotel sounds like a fantastic place to hand out. It sounds so outrageously beautiful and it only makes me wish more and more that it was real. <br />
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I found myself completely rooting for Amy throughout the whole book. She goes through some tough trials in this book and even though she may be pigheaded and stubborn, she manages to pull through each of them. I was also rooting for Amy and Sean's relationship and just wanting them to get their act together and get together already! They were completely perfect for each other.<br />
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Sean is just freaking fantastic. I wish every single girl had a guy like Sean. He's witty, good looking, sarcastic sometimes, but just utterly perfect. He's the sweetest guy and did absolutely anything that Amy needed, and she needed a heck of a lot!<br />
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I cannot wait for the last installment in this series. Duggan is a fantastic author and makes every reader feel like they are experiencing exactly what the characters are. It's wonderful!<br />
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<b><i>Wuther</i></b></div>
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<i>by VJ Chambers</i></div>
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<b>Publication Date: July 2013</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>his new adult retelling of Wuthering Heights is intended for mature readers due to explicit sexual content and coarse language.</b></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></i></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i style="font-weight: normal;">Instead of storms tearing through Yorkshire moors, the sounds of '90s grunge rock whisper through backwoods American cornfields...</i></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></i></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i style="font-weight: normal;">And give new life to the Bronte characters you love to hate.</i></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">A gypsy orphan, Heath Galloway adores Cathy Earnshaw, his childhood sweetheart. He would do anything to protect her from her drunken, abusive father--even push the man down a flight of stairs to stop him hitting her.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">But with her father dead, Cathy's older brother Matt runs the Earnshaw farm and both of their lives. And Matt despises Heath. Forced to drop out of school and work the fields, Heath is separated from Cathy and the two begin to drift apart. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">When Cathy meets the rich, blond, and suave Eli Linton, she finds herself torn between Eli's charm and Heath's brute potency.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Fiercely proud and stubborn, Heath doesn't take well to being brushed aside. He'll get what he wants, or he'll get revenge. No matter how long it takes.</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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novel trope, the arc for the bad boy hero is archetypal. Like Enkidu in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Gilgamesh</i>, he goes from uncivilized
brute to acceptable mate through the course of falling in love with the
heroine. The heroine’s love tames the bad boy, makes him palatable. Now that he
is in love, he will swear off all of his bad habits, commit to the heroine, be
faithful to her for the rest of his days, and they will live happily ever
after.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I like this trope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who wouldn’t? It’s the ultimate
female fantasy, that love can solve all problems and can soften the harshest of
men. And I don’t think there’s a thing wrong with indulging it from time to
time. (Okay, or in a novel a day, every day, for months on end.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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But I have to admit that I’ve
always found something delicious about the idea of a boy you just couldn’t
change.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s not a trope that’s seen
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everyone likes. But I do. Oh, boy, do I ever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first place I ever ran into
it (and probably the best executed place) was in Emily Bronte’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wuthering Heights</i>. It was the messiest
little story I’d ever read. Cathy Earnshaw was arrogant and shallow. Heathcliff
was uneducated and forceful. But it was also the most powerful love I ever
encountered in fiction. Heathcliff wasn’t tamed. He didn’t turn into the kind
of man who doted over his newborn babies and stayed home to help with the
chores. He was a force of nature, a wild, passionate storm, ready to rip up
everything in his path. But one thing was steady for him. One. Thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cathy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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He didn’t have any problem
hurting other people—physically, emotionally, financially. Not as long as it
got him closer to having her. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m not going to lie. Heathcliff
unsettled me quite a bit. That kind of bad boy unsettles me. But then… I like
to play a little fast and loose with my fiction. I like to take risks. I like
to be in the path of the storm.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unrepentant Bad Boys (html for
blog posts)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
In typical the typical romance
novel trope, the arc for the bad boy hero is archetypal. Like Enkidu in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><em>Gilgamesh</em></i>, he goes
from uncivilized brute to acceptable mate through the course of falling in love
with the heroine. The heroine’s love tames the bad boy, makes him palatable.
Now that he is in love, he will swear off all of his bad habits, commit to the
heroine, be faithful to her for the rest of his days, and they will live
happily ever after.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
I like this trope.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
Who wouldn’t? It’s the ultimate
female fantasy, that love can solve all problems and can soften the harshest of
men. And I don’t think there’s a thing wrong with indulging it from time to
time. (Okay, or in a novel a day, every day, for months on end.)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
But I have to admit that I’ve
always found something delicious about the idea of a boy you just couldn’t
change.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
Sure, maybe he fell in love, and
sure maybe he was devoted to the heroine. But maybe he was still a bad boy,
deep down. Maybe he was untamable. Maybe he was a little bit frightening, but
maybe that fear was also tinged with excitement and passion. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
It’s not a trope that’s seen
nearly as often in stories. I think it’s an acquired taste. Something that not
everyone likes. But I do. Oh, boy, do I ever.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
The first place I ever ran into
it (and probably the best executed place) was in Emily Bronte’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><em>Wuthering Heights</em></i>.
It was the messiest little story I’d ever read. Cathy Earnshaw was arrogant and
shallow. Heathcliff was uneducated and forceful. But it was also the most
powerful love I ever encountered in fiction. Heathcliff wasn’t tamed. He didn’t
turn into the kind of man who doted over his newborn babies and stayed home to
help with the chores. He was a force of nature, a wild, passionate storm, ready
to rip up everything in his path. But one thing was steady for him. One. Thing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
Cathy.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
He didn’t have any problem
hurting other people—physically, emotionally, financially. Not as long as it
got him closer to having her. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
I’m not going to lie. Heathcliff
unsettled me quite a bit. That kind of bad boy unsettles me. But then… I like
to play a little fast and loose with my fiction. I like to take risks. I like
to be in the path of the storm. </div>
BookInHandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04661637437755650175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515574961294772333.post-90970441195032986312013-07-15T13:03:00.004-07:002013-07-15T13:03:54.026-07:00COVER REVEAL: Homecoming by Cecilia Robert<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><i>Homecoming (Short Story)</i></b></div>
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<i>by Cecilia Robert</i></div>
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<b>Expected Publication: October 2013</b></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Five years ago, twenty-three-year-old panther shifter Sera Czedar left her home and her newly mated groom in a humiliating position after a mating ceremony gone wrong. She built a new life for herself in Varselles, the City of Outcasts where shifters exiled from their clans in the Seven Kingdoms can go for sanctuary.<br /><br />Five years ago, panther shifter Levian Grayson was abandoned on the bonding bed by his bride, Sera. After years of tracking her, he arrives in Varselles, intent on staking his claim on her once and for all, even if it means hauling his slippery woman over his shoulder just to make sure that happens.<br /><br />Sera has always known her homecoming would eventually catch up with her one day. The one thing she can’t bear to do is hurt Levian, which will happen as soon as he finds out the reason she left him. Is she ready to take that path? Most of all, will Levian still want her when the truth comes out?</span></b></div>
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<b><i>Lost</i></b></div>
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<i>by M Lathan</i></div>
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<b>Publication Date: June 20th, 2013</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’d thought I hated Sienna Martin. That
was nothing, a childish grudge. I used to hate Remi until my heart started
bleeding for her. That was nothing too. Hate was what I felt for Kamon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’d give anything to know what he was
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Did he know who and what I was?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I welcomed the energy that rushed over
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He was in New Orleans. I knew it for a
fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I faintly heard when Nate turned off the
TV. I didn’t open my eyes, too wrapped up in the buzzing, in the power I
pretended I didn’t have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Behind my eyelids, I saw a blurry
picture of my New Orleans backyard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kamon chuckled, circling Lydia Shaw
near the pool. “<i>Where is she?</i>” he asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<i>That’s not your business, and stay
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<i>She is very much so my business. A
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time I saw her. I knew then</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My muscles quivered. Lydia and Kamon
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<i>Me either. I have big plans. I’ve
been working on my new title. What do you think of Emperor Kamon? Too much</i>?”
He laughed. “<i>There’s finally a date after your dash. I guess I’m lucky
Leah’s so unstable. I know you’re terrified. It’s getting so close. July 4</i><i><sup>th</sup></i><i>.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lydia spun around, and Remi wiggled her
fingers at her, a taunting wave. Her jet-black hair dangled to her waist now. <i>My
Master, My Lord</i>, in a fancy, ancient script, was permanently inked on her
stomach, right above her low-cutting leather pants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“<i>Remi is one of the best things to
ever happen to me. Her first offering brought my nemesis barging through the
doors. In time, she’ll bring me Leah. I’ve seen July 4</i><i><sup>th</sup></i><i>, Lydia.
It is your pet’s destiny, and I’m going to help her fulfill it.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My backyard trembled like an earthquake
was ravishing New Orleans, and someone screamed, “Emma, hold her head!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Wake up, Chris,” Emma said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I opened my eyes. Nate and Em were
shaking me and swatting at my cheeks. Blood was everywhere – on Nate’s hands,
his chest, my pillow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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still having a fit, shaking and bleeding and buzzing. Em’s thoughts were
frantic and in fluent French. But understandable. I had a feeling she could
speak Chinese, and I would understand it right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">She snapped and disappeared, leaving me
alone with Nate. His face vibrated as I shook, and he braced me against his
chest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> After a moment, his body tensed
against mine, and he drew his arms away, no longer holding me. My nails were in
his sides, and they didn’t want to let go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Embers blew around us, and found their
way to his head, circling and sparkling, crowning him with fire. I coughed from
the smoke tickling my throat. He didn’t seem to see them at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A deep voice I’d never heard screamed,
“<i>Dali</i>!” It echoed several times after. With each repeat, Nate clutched
his head tighter, in pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All day I had been questioning where I
belonged. Now I knew. I belonged in a cage, not allowed to roam freely around
my enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I didn’t want to hurt him. Or myself. I
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<b><i>Drawn to you</i></b></div>
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<i>by Robin Shaw</i></div>
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<b>Expected Publication: August 2013</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">First book in the Paloma's Edge companion novel series.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bethany Pruitt has been judged for her mother's actions ever since she could remember. When she returns from college in Miami to Frankin Parks, her hometown, for the summer, she doesn't expect to find the only home she's known to be motherless and empty. By another turn of events, she decides to accept an invitation from her uncle to stay at Paloma's Edge, Florida.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Chase Lovell lives for the present and doesn't think about much else. When he goes to see his coach for a meeting, a female standing at the end of a long bus line at his college sparks his interest and earns his respect. Intent on approaching her, he misses his chance, and assumes that he'll never see her again. When Pierce, his best friend, asks him to pick up his cousin, Bethany, from Franklin Parks and drive her to Paloma's Edge, he can't deny that she is the person he's been drawn to.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But will Chase do whatever it takes to keep the girl he's found again?</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I thought that I’d heard
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no one had been there. I must have been disoriented from not getting a good
night’s sleep for the past few days. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I jolted at the soft knock
and movement the doorknob on my door. I couldn’t have been going crazy this
time. When I opened the door, Chase was standing in front of me in a white
t-shirt and pressed black pants and shoes. It didn’t occur to me that we should
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and it scared me a little. Anticipation coiled low in my belly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Chase’s hands landed on my
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open smile, his features smoothed out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“I knocked on your door
last night.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">At the party last night,
Cassidy had asked me if I’d be fine if Rylan drove me here. Since I hadn’t
wanted to ruin her night, I’d told her that it was cool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“By the time I got up, I
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sighing deeply, I watched
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my breasts and back to my face hungrily. I never wanted that look to go away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“I knocked for twenty minutes.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Shaking my head “no”, I
moved away from the door and sank down on the bottom of my bed. He joined me, his
arm touching mine. The scent of soap and a light aftershave washed over me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Did anything happen last
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I frowned at his question.
“Not at all.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">He blew out a sigh of
relief. “Take out your cell phone and put in your password.” His tone was
gentle and commanding at the same time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I retrieved my phone from
the side pocket of my nightgown and handed it to him after I unlocked it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Smiling, I watched as he
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called himself from my phone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Nice ringtone.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“Don’t worry. You’re gonna
have a better ringtone than that.” He chuckled and stood up. “We need to be
able to get ahold of each other. I forgot to exchange numbers with you
yesterday. I put in Pierce’s and Nancy’s numbers too.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i>The Book</i></b><br />
<i>by Jessica Bell</i><br />
<b>Publication Date: January 18th, 2013</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This book is not The Book. The Book is in this book. And The Book in this book is both the goodie and the baddie.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bonnie is five. She wants to bury The Book because it is a demon that should go to hell. Penny, Bonnie’s mother, does bury The Book, but every day she digs it up and writes in it. John, Bonnie’s father, doesn’t live with them anymore. But he still likes to write in it from time to time. Ted, Bonnie’s stepfather, would like to write in The Book, but Penny won’t allow it.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To Bonnie, The Book is sadness. </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To Penny, The Book is liberation. </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To John, The Book is forgiveness. </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To Ted, The Book is envy.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But The Book in this book isn’t what it seems at all.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If there was one thing in this world you wished you could hold in your hand, what would it be? The world bets it would be The Book.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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wrote in an illustrated journal by Michael Green called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Hobbit’s Travels: being the hitherto unpublished Travel Sketches of
Sam Gamgee</i>. This journal is the inspiration for </span><span lang="EL"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B31EQ28"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Book</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since
reading this journal, and realizing how different my parents sounded in the
entries compared to how I know them in real life, I often thought about writing
a book which explored how differently parents and children perceive and respond
to identical situations. Now, I know this concept isn’t ‘new’. But I certainly
felt I had a unique bent to add to it. I hoped by using journal entries and
therapy transcripts, in conjunction with a 1<sup>st</sup> person point of view
of a five-year-old girl, it would make the story a little more intimate, make
readers feel like they are peeking into the lives of real people. This way,
it’s like you are reading memoir rather than fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the late 1970s, early 1980s, Bonnie, the five-year-old protagonist, was born
prematurely. I hint, through the journal entries of her mother, Penny, and the
transcripts of Bonnie and Dr. Wright, her therapist, that due to her premature
birth, she has trouble learning and significant behavioral problems. However, I
try to juxtapose this through Bonnie’s point of view. The reader is able to see
how differently she perceives things in contrast to the adults in her life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is very smart. And she understands so much more than she chooses to let the
adults see. So, at what point does one draw the line when it comes to defining poor
mental health? Can anyone really see what is going on in a child’s mind? What
right does one have to assume a prematurely born child is going to have difficulty
learning or mental instabilities? What signs does one have to show to prove
they are having difficulties at all? The Book raises these sorts of questions,
hopefully offering readers a lot of food for thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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properly. No matter how many times I was told, I still spelled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">father</i> as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">farther</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">friend</i> as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">freind</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finally</i> as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finnaly</i>. To
this day I still have to look up the different conjugations of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lie </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> lay</i>. For some reason they just don’t stick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What’s
that say about me? Could that mean I am dyslexic? Have a learning disability?
Perhaps I’m just being selective with what I feel is important to store in my
long-term memory. I’m sure there are lots of reasons one could come up with. But
when it comes to mental health, I don’t believe there are any definitive
answers. This is one of the themes I explore in The Book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you think define stable mental health? And is there really such a thing?</span></i></b></div>
BookInHandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04661637437755650175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7515574961294772333.post-55076460734253709392013-07-08T14:49:00.001-07:002013-07-08T14:49:14.964-07:00BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY: Dirty Little Secret by Jennifer Echols<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>Dirty Little Secret</i></b><br />
<i>by Jennifer Echols</i><br />
<b>Publication Date: July 16th, 2013</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>From the author of the “real page-turner” (<em>Seventeen</em>) <em>Such a Rush</em> comes an unforgettable new drama that follows friends-turned-lovers as they navigate the passions, heartbreaks, and intrigue of country music fame.</strong></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Bailey wasn’t always a wild child and the black sheep of her family. She used to play fiddle and tour the music circuit with her sister, Julie, who sang and played guitar. That ended when country music execs swooped in and signed Julie to a solo deal. Never mind that Julie and Bailey were a duet, or that Bailey was their songwriter. The music scouts wanted only Julie, and their parents were content to sit by and let her fulfill her dreams while Bailey’s were hushed away.</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Bailey has tried to numb the pain and disappointment over what could have been. And as Julie’s debut album is set to hit the charts, her parents get fed up with Bailey’s antics and ship her off to granddad’s house in Nashville. Playing fiddle in washed-up tribute groups at the mall, Bailey meets Sam, a handsome and oh-so-persuasive guitarist with his own band. He knows Bailey’s fiddle playing is just the thing his band needs to break into the industry. But this life has broken Bailey’s heart once before. She isn’t sure she’s ready to let Sam take her there again…</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<b><i>So Many Reasons Why</i></b></div>
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<i>by Missy Johnson</i></div>
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<b>Publication Date: February 29th, 2013</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Twenty year old Emma hasn’t left the house since she was attacked as a child. Now, with the impending release of her attacker from prison, Emma knows it’s more important than ever for her to regain control of her life. From her unrelenting nightmares, to her strained relationships, to her crippling agoraphobia, Emma feels as though her life is spiraling out of control.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When her professor, Simon Anderson enters her life, Emma must deal with feelings she has never experienced before. </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though both she and Simon know their relationship is bordering on inappropriate, neither of them are able to ignore the intense chemistry that is quickly developing between them.</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What was supposed to keep her mind off the attack has left her more confused than ever. When there are so many reasons why you shouldn’t be together, is simply being in love really enough?</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is book one in a two book series.</span></span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%;">You know Emma, the internet is the way to
go nowadays,” Gran addressed me with all seriousness as she spooned a heap of
cream onto her scone, “I’ve met up with four lovely men in the past week
alone.” </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%;">Gran!” I exclaimed, unable to keep the
smile off my face. Gran was widowed and ninety-six. Not only was she on
Facebook and Twitter, she had discovered the online dating scene a few weeks
ago. I now knew more about Mix and Mate, Perfect Match and Adult Fun than I had
ever cared to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%;">I'd learned two very disturbing things off
Gran. The first was the libido of the over eighty age group was insane. They
made prostitutes look like church going virgins and the number of men under the
age of sixty who were into a 'mature' woman was astounding. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%;">There is nothing wrong with shopping
around Emma. How am I supposed to milk the cow?” Gran shrugged her shoulders
unapologetically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%;">I coughed mid swallow, sending bits of
scone across the table Mom shrugged at me helplessly, looking rather
embarrassed. Again. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%;">So long as you’re happy, Gran.” It was all
I could say. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%;">Should I be embarrassed that my great grandmother
was getting more action than <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 150%;">me? Probably. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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