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Because, as we all know, the world is square. For only a square world has corners.Rita Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15705211010768041660noreply@blogger.comBlogger450125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7109148405669867264.post-65957600904524288922014-02-05T00:00:00.000-08:002014-02-05T00:00:10.218-08:00Kindle Freebies featuring James Crawford and Nova Sparks<div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px;">
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Every High School has their social outcasts. The band nerds, the math geeks, the chess club, the girl that chews her hair, but at Butler High, even the creepy nose picker in the chess club is more popular than Caleo Anima. No matter what he did, his pale skin, snow white hair, and piercing blue eyes always made him an easy target. He used to think that the only way things could get worse would be if someone found out that he was gay, but that isn't even the tip of the iceberg of problems after a mysterious stranger shows up and changes Caleo’s life forever.<br />
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Hidden amongst our society, a secret and magical race of people known as ‘Leeches’, have been engaging in civil war for decades. Both sides are desperately searching for a weapon with unlimited power that will give them the advantage they need to rule their world. This wouldn’t mean anything to Caleo, except for one problem...He is that weapon!<br />
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Forget making it through High School. Caleo has bigger problems! As the search for him goes on, the world is quickly crumbling around him. He's now fighting for his life and the life of what little family he has left. With the help of new friends, he has little time to try and master his newly found powers as he tries to figure out who he can trust, who is trying to use him, and who just wants him dead. One wrong step and being the awkward pale outcast will be the least of his worries.</div>
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What if you knew the exact date and time the world will end, what would you do?<br />
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Sam Tucker was faced with that dilemma when he began getting visions of the Earth's demise. Luckily for him, he was able to save his family and as many people as he could before the tragic event occurred, and he did so with the help of unknown visitors. With Earth now destroyed, Sam, his family, and thousands of other lucky survivors must live the rest of their lives on a faraway planet in a Dome that simulates life on Earth. But Sam's mind can't seem to rest as a few questions arise. Why did the aliens save them? How did they know about Earth's sure fate? And exactly what are they hiding?<br />
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Emma Tucker begged for an escape from her boring life but never in a million years did she think it would come at the destruction of Earth. Living on a new planet and finding it difficult to get rid of her rebellious habits, Emma finds herself making friends with a member of the alien race and it soon develops into an unexplainable love; a love that is more dangerous than she could ever imagine. While her father is searching for his own truths, she has no idea that she is stumbling on a truth of her own.<br />
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Hell hath no fury like a southern woman scorned....</div>
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Krischa had her future all planned out- graduate high school, attend a great college and live a happily ever after life with her high school sweet heart, Josh. Though she never expected her plans to come crashing down after being betrayed by the one person she loved the most.</div>
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Heartbroken, she finds comfort in the tall, dark haired, blue eyed stranger that walks into the bar one night, filling her with lust.</div>
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Leaving her small town, family and heart ache Josh behind she realizes she may have made a grave mistake and married the devil himself.</div>
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Regret has filled Josh's heart for 10 years after hurting the only person he'd ever loved. With no word on where she is, he aches to see her face again. Though he knows Krischa belongs to another, he can't help the want to get her back. When his phone rings out of the blue one day and he hears her voice he knows he will run through hell to bring her home.</div>
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Love and revenge at it's finest.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Genre: YA Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Mystery<br />Expected Release Date: March 31, 2014<br />Designed by: <a href="http://www.alchemybookcovers.com/">http://www.alchemybookcovers.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Because of one ugly rumor, Chira lives as an outcast at her school. Which is fine with her, because she works better alone. Always has, always will. And at least she has her one and only true friend, Tasha. When Tasha insists that they join a group to visit a possibly haunted abandoned old schoolhouse, she's wary, but joins her friend. Because of that decision, their lives are in jeopardy as a malevolent spirit targets the group. Tragedies and accidents pick them off one by one, and Chira finds herself drawn to the one person who can see the truth. But can he protect her?</span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Goodreads link</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20618864-first-impression" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20618864-first-impression</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">In simple language, Pauline Creeden creates worlds that are both familiar and strange, often pulling the veil between dimensions. She becomes the main character in each of her stories, and because she has ADD, she will get bored if she pretends to be one person for too long. Pauline is a horse trainer from Virginia, but writing is her therapy. Her books have hit #1 on the Amazon Bestseller List and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Armored Hearts</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> won the 2013 Book Junkie’s Choice Award in Historical Fiction.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>First Impression: A Shadow Maven</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Paranormal</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> is her first mystery. It’s a dark urban fantasy and will be released<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj">March 31, 2014</span>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I glance up at him again, and his eyes meet mine. My breath hitches. Something in his intense gaze makes me feel like he’s measuring me. And there’s something strange about his eyes. They’re brown, but I can tell he has colored contacts. Why would anyone color their eyes brown?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">“706.” He has a slight accent and his voice is deeper than I expect. I suppress a shiver at the jolt that the musical timbre of his voice sends through my body. I’m resonating like a tuning fork. I really want him to speak again with every fiber of my being. What’s with me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Mr. Scott sets down the Mountain Dew he was drinking and offers Ben a wide grin. He puts a hand out for him to shake. Ben hesitates but takes the hand in what looks like a firm grip. Mr. Scott shakes his hand afterward. “That’s some grip you’ve got there.” He laughs and leans down to the bottom drawer of his desk and hands Ben a Geography text book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">I shake my head at her. “You are one big hormone, you know that? Sure, he’s cute, but is there any guy in the room you don’t consider a hottie?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Tasha scans the room, considering for a moment with her hand on her chin and a very serious expression on her face. Her hair is in the typical pigtail braids she usually uses to play up the uniform. She has on no sweater, and her shirt is one size too small, causing the buttons at the front to bow and expose part of her red bra. Finally she returns her gaze to me. “There’s only one guy in here that doesn’t rank hottie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Author: Laura Howard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Laura Howard lives in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">New Hampshire</st1:state></st1:place> with her husband and four children. Her obsession with books began at the age of 6 when she got her first library card. Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High and other girly novels were routinely devoured in single sittings. Books took a backseat to diapers when she had her first child. It wasn’t until the release of a little novel called Twilight, 8 years later, that she rediscovered her love of fiction. Soon after, her own characters began to make themselves known. The Forgotten Ones is her first published novel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Sean jogged over with the bat and held it out for me, grinning. “Pick your pitcher, Allie-O.”<br /><br />The smirk on Ethan's face was a challenge, and I couldn't resist. “Ethan has the ball, he can pitch to me.”<br /><br />He made a big show of stretching and winding up before he finally tossed the ball at me.<br /><br />I smacked the ball over the pool house, and Sean started shouting and cheering, making me smile. Ethan shook his head, but he was smiling. He clearly thought I would be an easy out.<br /><br />I made it all the way to the final round, kicking Sean and Jeff out of the game. I'd played softball and run track all through school to pad my transcripts.<br /><br />“You gonna let her win, E?” Jeff called, winking at me from the picnic table where he sat drinking a beer.<br /><br />Ethan chuckled, showing off those damn dimples. He looked down at the ball in his hands and back up at me with a grin. “If I do, will you let me take you out?”<br /><br />I snorted, trying to look braver than I felt. “Not a chance.”<br /><br />“Wait a sec. I like this. Let's make a wager,” he said.<br /><br />The guys were all hooting and hollering at me, my face was no doubt crimson.<br /><br />“What do I get if I win?” I bit my lip, feeling all their eyes on me.<br /><br />“I'm thinking, hang on,” He held up his finger, his brow furrowed in thought. His eyes widened with excitement, and I knew I would regret whatever he had to say.<br /><br />“If I win, I get a kiss.” If it was possible, my cheeks grew even redder. They were all laughing and making cat calls now.<br /><br />“And, if I win?” I looked up at his face.<br /><br />He looked at me for a second, considering. “If you win, I won't ever ask you out again.”<br /><br />This earned a chorus of “Yeah, right” and “No way” from the guys.<br /><br />My mouth fell open, I had not been expecting that, but his face was sober. The laughing around us fell away for a second, and I could only stare at him feeling the color drain from my face. His expression remained solemn, and he met my gaze head on.<br /><br />I nodded stiffly, and swallowed. “All right.”<br /><br />His grin came back in full force. “Oh, and Al?”<br /><br />I raised my eyebrows at him.<br /><br />“I won't lose.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Rochelle grew up dreaming up stories. When she entered high school, she tucked away her creative side and jumped head-first into academics, work, and service projects. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Political Science and Communication when she was twenty years old. After years away from her writing, Rochelle picked up a pen and started fleshing out a character sketch that she outlined when she was twelve. That sketch was the start of the Ashes and Ice story. Rochelle lives in the DC metro area with her husband and daughter. Fire and Shadows is her second novel.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Americana BT","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Author: Airicka Phoenix<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Melanie Karsak’s “Chasing the Star Garden” takes the reader on an exciting adventure from the gritty opium dens of gaslamp London to the gem colored waters of the ancient world, introducing us to Lily Stargazer, a loveable but reckless airship racer with a famous lover and a shattered past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lily Stargazer is having a bad day. She just lost the London leg of the 1823 Airship Grand Prix. To top it off, a harlequin fleeing from constables shoved a kaleidoscope down her pants, told her to fly to Venice, then threw himself from her airship tower. What’s a girl to do? For Lily, the answer is easy: drink absinthe and smoke opium. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lily’s lover, Lord Byron, encourages her to make the trip to Venice. Lily soon finds herself at the heart of an ancient mystery which has her running from her past and chasing true love and the stars along the way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Melanie Karsak grew up in rural northwestern Pennsylvania where there wasn’t much to do but read books and go for hikes. She wrote her first novel, a gripping piece about a 1920s stage actress, when she was 12. Today, Melanie, a steampunk connoisseur, white elephant collector, and caffeine junkie, lives in Florida with her husband and two children. She is an Instructor of English at Eastern Florida State College.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was going to lose-again. I gripped the brass handles on the wheel and turned the airship sharply port. The tiller vibrated in protest making the wheel shake and my wrist bones ache. Bracing my knees against the spokes, I tore off my brown leather gloves to get a better feel. The metal handgrips were smooth and cold. My fingers tingled from the chill. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Easy,” I whispered to the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. I looked up from my position at the wheelstand, past the ropes, burner basket, and balloon, toward the clouds. They were drifting slowly left in a periwinkle blue sky. There’d be an updraft as we passed over the green-brown waters of the canal near Buckingham House. I locked the wheel and jumped from the wheelstand onto the deck of the gondola and looked over the rail. The canal waters were a hundred feet away. I ran back to the wheel and steadied the ship. If I caught the updraft, it would propel me up and forward and give me an edge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Cutter caught it, Lily,” Jessup yelled down from the burner basket below the balloon opening. “Up he goes,” he added, looking out through his spyglass. The gold polish on the spyglass reflected the fire from the burner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Dammit!” I snapped down my binocular lense. I saw Hank Cutter’s red-and-white striped balloon rise upward. At the top, he pitched forward with great momentum, catching a horizontal wind. I could just make out Cutter at the wheel. His blond hair blew wildly around him. He turned and waved to me. Wanker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was not as lucky. Just as the bow of the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> reached the water, a stray wind came in and blew us leeward. The balloon jiggled violently in the turbulent air. I missed the air pocket altogether.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No! No, no, no!” I cursed and steadied the ship. I had chased Cutter from Edinburgh across the Scottish and English countryside. He had been off his game all day. I’d had him by half a mile the entire race. With the bottom feeders lingering somewhere in the distance behind us, I’d thought the London leg of the 1823 Airship Grand Prix would be mine. That was until St. Albans, where Cutter caught a random breeze that pushed him slightly in front of me. Cutter had a knack for catching favorable winds; it was not a talent I shared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We’re coming up on Westminster,” Jessup yelled down from the basket. “Lily, drop altitude. Cutter is too high. Come in low and fast, and you might overtake him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The airship towers sat at the pier near the Palace of Westminster along the Thames. A carnival atmosphere had overtaken the city as it always does on race day. Colorful tents were set up everywhere. Vendors hawked their wares to excited Londoners and international visitors. I could hear the merchants barking from their tents even from this far above. I fancied I could smell roasted peanuts in the wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I jumped down from the wheelstand, ran across the deck, and pulled the valve cord, opening the flap at the top of the balloon. Hot air released with a hiss. I kept one eye on the balloon and another eye on Tinkers’ Tower. At this time of day, the heat coming off of the Palace of Westminster and Tinkers’ Tower would give us a bump. I looked up. Cutter had started preparing his descent. It would be close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Angus, I need more speed,” I yelled down to the gear galley, rapping on the wooden hatch that led to the rods, belts, and propeller parts below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angus slapped open the hatch and stuck out his bald head. His face was covered in grease, and his blue-lense monocle glimmered in the sunlight. He looked up at the clouds and back at me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He laughed wildly. “That’s my lassie,” he yelled and dropped back down, pulling the wood hatch closed with a clap. I heard the gears grind, and the propeller, which had been turning nice and steady, began to hum loudly. The ship pitched forward. Within moments, we were coming up on Tinkers’ Tower. The airship towers were just a stone’s throw away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I aimed the ship directly toward Tinkers’ Tower. Just as the bowsprit neared the clock, I yanked the wheel. The warm air caught us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A mix of warm air and propulsion gave us some go, and seconds later we were slingshotting around Tinkers’ Tower toward the airship platforms. Gliding in on warm air and momentum, we flew fast and low. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cutter had kept it high, but now he was dropping like a stone toward his own tower. Damned American. I didn’t blame him; I would have used the same move. His balloon was releasing so much air that I wondered if he would be able to slow down in time, not that I would have minded seeing him smash to the ground in a million pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It’s going to be close,” Jessup yelled as he adjusted the heat pan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I guided the helm. The </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was temperamental, but we understood one another. A shake of the wheel warned me I was pushing too hard. “Almost there,” I whispered to the ship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Grand Prix Marshalls were standing on the platform. Cutter and I had the end towers. I was going to make it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Cut propulsion,” I yelled toward the gear galley. On the floor near the wheelstand, a rope led to a bell in the galley. I rang it twice. The propeller switched off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A soft, sweet wind blew in from the port side. It ruffled my hair around my shoulders. I closed my eyes and turned the wheel slightly starboard, guiding the ship in. Moments later, I heard a jubilant cheer erupt from the American side and an explosion from the firework cannon signaling the winner had been declared. My eyes popped open. I tore off my goggles and looked starboard. Cutter’s balloon was docked. I threw the goggles onto the deck and set my forehead against the wheel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> settled into her dock. Jessup set the balloon on hover and, grabbing a rope, swung down to the deck. He then threw the lead lines and anchors onto the platform. The beautifully dressed crowd, gentlemen in suits and top hats and fancy ladies in a rainbow of satin gowns carrying parasols, rushed toward the American end of the platform to congratulate the winner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was, once again, a national disgrace. Lily the loser. Lily second place. Perhaps I would never be anything more than a ferrywoman, a cheap air jockey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Good job, Lily. Second place!” Jessup said joining me. He patted me on the shoulder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I sighed deeply and unbuttoned my vest. The tension had me sweating; I could feel it dripping down from my neck, between my breasts, into my corset. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You did great,” I told Jessup. “Sorry I let you down.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ah, Lily,” he sighed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angus emerged from below wiping sweat from his head with a greasy rag. He pulled off his monocle. He frowned toward the American side. “Well, we beat the French,” he said with a shrug and kissed me on the cheek, smearing grease on me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Good job, Angus. Thank you,” I said, taking him by the chin and giving him a little shake as I wrinkled my nose and smiled at him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angus laughed and dropped his arm around Jessup’s shoulders. They grinned happily at one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You stink, brother,” Jessup told him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It’s a wee bit toasty down there. Besides, I pedaled this ship across the entire fucking country while you were up here looking at the birds. That, my friend, is the smell of success.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I laughed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You pedaled the ship?” Jessup asked mockingly. “Like Lil and I were just up here playing cards? If I didn’t keep the balloon aloft, your ass would be kissing the ground.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Now wait a minute. Are you saying your job is more important that mine?” Angus retorted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could see where this was going. “Gents.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“More important? Now why would I say that? Just because I’m the one . . .” Jessup started and then his mouth ran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Gents.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“ . . . and another thing . . .” Jessup went on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Gentlemen! Our audience awaits,” I said cutting them both off, motioning to the well-shod crowd who waited for us on the loading platform outside the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I grinned at my crew. “Come on. Let’s go.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I patted the rail of the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. “Thanks,” I whispered to her, and we exited onto the platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A reporter from the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">London Times</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and several race officials stood waiting for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Well done, Lily! Well done!” the British race official congratulated me with a pat on the back. “Second place! King George will be so proud. One of these days you’ll have it, by God.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was pretty sure that the last thing I needed was the attention of George IV, the extravagant, unpopular lush. But I bit my tongue and smiled politely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Lily, how did Cutter beat you? You led the entire race,” the reporter asked. She was a round woman wearing a very thick black lace collar that looked like it was choking her. Her heavy purple walking dress looked hot under the late afternoon summer sun, and the brim of her black satin cap barely shaded her nose. I noticed, however, that she had a small clockwork fan pin attached to her chest. The fan wagged cool air toward her face. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I pulled off my cap, mopped my forehead, and thought about the question. “Luck,” I replied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Lily, that was some move around Tinkers’ Tower. How did you learn to do that?” another reporter asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“My father,” I lied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Make way, make way,” one of the race officials called, ushering a Marshall forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Marshall looked like someone who lingered an hour too long at supper. The gold buttons on his satin, marigold colored vest would take an eye out if they popped. His overly tall top hat was adorned with a ring of flowers that matched his striking orange colored dress coat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Miss Stargazer, congratulations,” he said, shaking my hand. “The Spanish airship is coming in now. Will you please join Mr. Cutter at the winners’ podium?” he asked politely as he guided me forward by the hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From below there was a commotion. A man dressed in an unusual costume rushed up the stairs. The London constables, a full squadron of the Bow Street Runners, chased him. When he got to the loading platform, the man pushed through a crowd of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen, many of whom were gentry. It was then I could see he was dressed as a harlequin. He wore the traditional red and black checked outfit and a black mask. He scanned the towers until he caught sight of me. He jumped, landing on the tower railing, and ran toward me. A woman in the crowd screamed. Moments later the constables appeared on the platform. The race Marshalls pointed toward the harlequin who was making a beeline for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I let go of the Marshall’s hand and stepped back toward the ship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Lily,” Jessup warned, moving protectively toward me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Angus reached over the deck of the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and grabbed a very large wrench.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Was it an assassin? Christ, would someone murder me for winning second place? I turned and ran toward the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. A moment later, the harlequin flipped from the rail, grabbed one of the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer’s</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ropes, and swinging over the others, landed on the platform directly in front of me. Any second now, I would be dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He panted and muttered “Lily?” from behind the mask.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Stop that man! Stop him!” a constable yelled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Get out of my way!” Angus roared at the crowd that had thronged in between us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The masked man grabbed me, tugged on the front of my trousers, and leaned into my ear. The long nose of the mask tickled the side of my face. “Go to Venice,” he whispered as he stuffed something down the front of my pants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We got you now,” a constable said, grabbing him, raising his club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The man shook him off, took two steps backward, and with a jump, leapt off the tower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Several people in the crowd screamed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I rushed to the side of the tower to see the harlequin lying at its base. His body was twisted, and his arms and legs bent oddly, contorted into three distinct points. Blood began pooling around him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Miss Stargazer, are you all right?” a constable asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A man just killed himself in front of me. No, I am not all right.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I mean, are you harmed? Did he hurt you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I shook my head and looked down at the mangled body which lay in the shape of a three-sided triskelion. It was the same symbol that was painted on the balloon of the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stargazer</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Title: Playing Hooky</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Author: Rita Webb</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Series: Paranoraml Investigations</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">BLURB:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sirens and love potions, witches and elves, and Valentine kisses.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Nothing will be the same for Emma again.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Valentine’s Day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And Emma's 21st birthday.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Just another college day full of classes and more homework than is humanly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">possible.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">…until Jason, her best-friend-since-</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">kindergarten, shows up to take her out</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for the day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Like old times: the two of them on a wacky adventure, playing hooky from</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">real life. With his lopsided grin and tickets to a circus full of misfits</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and monsters, he introduces her to a whole new world—<b>one full of magic</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and mystery</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Leaving the house to go to school, I had schoolbooks spilling out of one</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hand, the other holding my place in a Nancy Drew novel, and bunny slippers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">still on my feet. My mom was a wee bit upset.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I haven't changed much. Still always have a book (or two) in my hand or</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">creating stories in my head, and although I don't have any bunny slippers,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I love writing in my jammies and snuggly slipper socks.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">With my husband TJ (my own cuddly werewolf), I home-school our three</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">girls, who keep us busy with art, science projects, books to read, dance</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">classes, and walks about the park.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">CONTACT:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">TJandRita.com</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Facebook.com/TJandRita</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Twitter.com/TJandRita</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Author: E.L. Loraine <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Genre: Mystery, Urban, Contemporary Romance<br />Release Date: January 16<sup>th</sup>, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Olivia is determined to be successful. She’s smart, beautiful and driven. While working her way up the corporate ranks in her first job out of Grad School at Dolby Incorporated, Olivia finally has a chance to prove just how talented she is. The client she’s been given is Matasuki International, but when she starts reading through the files on the company she finds something disturbing. There are convenient deaths associated with their acquisitions division. The man behind this company is Isamu Matasuki, a powerful and ruthless chairman. Yet there seems to be only generic press release type information on him. When she asks her longtime friend and co-worker in the legal department to get her more information from his former job at the FBI, he disappears and Olivia knows it’s because of Matasuki and his shadowy companion.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Determined to find out what happened to her friend Paul, and keep her boss, Tyson Grant and Dolby protected, she enlists the help of new neighbor and lover, corporate security specialist, and private investigator, Brian. Olivia knows she can use Matasuki’s interest in Dolby and her to get close enough to stop him, but is the risk worth it? Even if she saves Dolby, he’ll just move on to the next, and that company is Dolby’s chief rival, Stein Brothers. Can she just sit back and let that happen or is Olivia willing to lose everyone and everything she loves in order to take Matasuki down?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">E.L. Loraine’s Corporate Ties, is a sizzling hot, mystery romance set among the concrete and steel jungle of New York City and the corporate ties that bind it. Another multi-level plot keeps you turning pages as Olivia finds she’s caught right in the very middle of this world of love, lust, and greed as the players fight for power on the corporate battle field.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decorating custom homes for years. After loving every kind of vampire book, movie and series I decided that I wanted to know more. I can write a book I thought, how hard can that be? Well.... But I stuck to it and finished my first book Royal Blood Chronicles Book One in August 2009. I now have six books in the series and am about to release book two of my new series Phantom Lives. My parents always told me that I could do anything that I wanted, work hard, study and do it right. I believe that and live that way every day.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">your</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> greatest fear? For Aislin, it is the fear of being alone. She grew up in and out of foster care along with her brother, Declan. When he is killed by an IED blast while serving in Afghanistan, she leans on her brother's best friend, Gabriel. The two become inseparable.<br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" />When she catches her fiancée in bed with another girl? She isn’t even that upset. Mad as hell? Yes. As angry as she should be? No. That's the moment she realizes that she isn't </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> love with her fiancée. She is in love with her best friend, Gabriel. The only problem is that Gabe doesn't think he should cross the boundary between friend and lover with his dead best friend's sister. He wants her. He just doesn't want to want her. And, therein lies the problem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After Aislin is attacked by a man she tried to love with her head in an attempt to heal her heart from rejection, she and Gabriel have one night of bliss together. Only one though. Gabriel gets spooked and runs. He is afraid. Afraid that Aislin will hate him for taking advantage of her vulnerability. Three years and nine months later, Gabe comes home to find Aislin with a dark-haired wanna-be rock star and a three year old little girl with familiar blue eyes. Seeing her with Jude, makes his blood boil. But does Gabriel deserve her? No. Does he want her? With every fiber of his being. He will do anything it takes to win her heart. He wants a place in her life and in the life of her daughter. What is in the cards for Gabriel and Aislin? Can love survive without trust? Welcome to Devil Creek. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journey is a prequel to the Secrets Saga books, Hidden Secrets and Deadly Secrets. In this novella you learn some of the life history of Rose, Cortne and Aj. We also see a glimpse of the beginning of their friendship. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rose </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do you explain to a family that you lost their dead loved one? Especially, when said family is standing right behind you? To all the patients at work, she appears to have everything going for her. Beauty and brains, should make for an easy life right. Well they would never guess the strong confident nurse they have taking care of them is abused every day at home. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patients predicting their own death and foretelling a future she doesn’t want to believe. Does she stay or let the predicted future come to life. Why does she leave her family? Why doesn’t she tell anyone what she is when she finds out? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cortne and Aj </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What have they seen that make them accept the things that come to pass? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Three of Them </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What trials have they gone through that bind them? What have they seen that make them accept all that happens to each of them. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We take a glance back at snapshots of their lives to see if it can help us understand them any better.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At nine that night, I carried the sleeping boy to his bed and headed towards mine. It had been a long week, I may just sleep all night and day. I crawled into my bed, and turned the lamp off. The darkness of the room made me uncomfortable for some reason. I dozed off anyway, at some point in the night something woke me up.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To this day, I don’t know what. My room was glowing red. All the curtains were closed and lights were off. Even the door was closed. The air felt heavy, I felt threatened. My heart raced, my breathing was labored; I had broken out in a sweat. What was this? I spoke out loud, following my gut. “This is my house and you are not welcome here. Leave here and leave all in this place alone,” I said through closed eyes, afraid of what I may see in the red glow. The heaviness slowly lifted but I didn’t open my eyes until the next morning. Josh didn’t mention it to me and I damn sure wasn’t going to scare him.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later that day I took my horse out for a ride through the woods. The sun was so damn bright my sunglasses just weren’t helping. My eyes felt like someone had lit a match and thrown into each of them. Hence, the ride in the woods, it was shadier.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After about an hour of riding straight into the depths of the forest, I turned my horse around and began making my way out. I had ridden in these woods for most of my childhood. I knew every inch of them. I rounded the big oak to see a man standing there. He startled me, I almost yelled but remained calm. “Hi, are you lost?”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The wedding was supposed to stop the endless stream of death threats. It seems someone didn’t get the message. As the family struggles to find the person or persons sending the threats, they face problem after problem. Rose is developing new powers so fast she's having a difficult time keeping up with them. New family members have been discovered that were erased from the family history. There is even possibly a betrayal from within their own family. Whom can Rose and Caleb trust? Who is out to kill them? Will they figure it out in time to save themselves and their family? Or will they discover the truth too late to save everyone they love?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The books went to flying off the shelves all around my library. Furniture began floating. The fireplace was erupting with flames all the while my little sister-in-law was still crouched looking down at the floor. Books that were flying off the shelves finally took on an ordered chaos as they were circling around and over me. Trying to get out of the room, I found I was fixed in place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The fireplace calmed down, the furniture sat back on the floor. I was still fixed in place unable to move and books still circled around and over me. Looking at Rose she was still crouched, never looking up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When she did what I saw startled me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Standing slowly, she walked to me. Caleb was beating on the metal door that stood between him and his wife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As she approached me I guess the fear in my eyes made Rose smile. “You see now I’m no child for you to mess with. You ever kidnap me again, it won’t matter who you’re related to. I’ll kill you and won’t tell them you’re a good guy.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Why are your eye’s…That’s not normal.” My voice quivered with the fear, no terror I felt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It doesn’t matter. All that does matter is you realize that those people behind that door are mine. I love each and every one of them. If you do anything to harm them, I won’t show you mercy. Vampire or not I can kill you. You may have gotten the drop on me once and drugged me. That was the only time it will ever happen. You better be truthful in all dealing with us or you will see what all isn’t normal about me.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waving her hand, the entire room returned to perfection. I shook my head half in shock but completely terrified of her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Open that door for me, if you don’t mind.” Rose all but ordered it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Sure thing Rose.” I did so as fast as I could. I didn’t want to be in a room with her alone any longer than I had to. As the door opened, her family rushed out all speaking at once.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What happened? What was all that noise? Is everything okay?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smiling at her beloved family then turning to look at me before she spoke, “Everything is just fine. Isn’t it Collin?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It’s great.” I gave my best smile, even though I was scared at the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m past ready. I hope the bed is a soft one, after being on that hard silver table for a few days.” Rose said as she walked down the hall towards the bedrooms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Cool tats!” I almost yelled when I saw the tats on the upper portions of both of Rose’s arms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The eclipses on each of your arms, they are mirror images of each other.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“They marked me…” I heard Rose whisper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m already on it. I called while you were still in bed. We have a meeting at four this afternoon. That gives you two hours to get your shit together. Whatever happened earlier you need to get your mind wrapped around it.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I really needed to talk about this with someone, but Rose had too much on her plate now. She would be pissed when she found out I’ve been keeping this from her. I called Aj. Her voice filled with laughter as she answered the phone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was born in Houston, Texas in 1977, to an interesting family. My mother and father separated when I was young. I lived with my mother who later remarried a wonderful man, who had a huge impact on me as I grew up. I have always had a love of reading, mostly paranormal. As a child, I would sneak up at late night, when my mom thought I was sleeping, to read. We moved around a lot, eventually settling in Deep East Texas. I married at a young age and eventually divorced. I have raised my now 16 year old son alone. I work full time as a pre-hospital nurse and sometimes see things that would make the rest of you have nightmares. On other days, I'm blessed to see miracles. These things are what drive me to write. </span></div>
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Title: Mabe's Burden<br />
Author: Kelly Abell<br />
Genre: Contemporary Romance<br />
Blitz Host:<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://ambersupernaturalandya.blogspot.com/p/lady-amber-tours.html">Lady Amber's Tours</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hot tempered, Mabe O'Banyon will do whatever it takes to keep the family's Irish pub, Shenanigans, out of the mob's dirty hands. She quickly learns, though, their attorney and the bank will offer no help. So, she calls in the reinforcements--Mara and Meg. She hasn't seen her two sisters for years, but her desperate message brings them running.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Commercial real estate developer, Aaron Shaw has a secret. He arrives in Monticello, FL, expecting to purchase a quaint Irish pub and move on to his next conquest. But the transaction doesn't take place as planned--in fact, it doesn't take place at all. The hardheaded owner--a stunning redhead with curves that don't quit--isn't selling. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With time running out and the mob on their heels, Aaron wants nothing more than to save the woman he's fallen for from impending danger. Mabe is torn between a man she loves but can't trust and the need to hold on to her family's pub. Their choices lead them down a path neither could have guessed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While being threatened by the mob, a hot-headed barkeep goes toe-to-toe with a real estate developer who wants to save her and falls head-over-heels...until she learns he's been keeping a horrible secret.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The door to the pub swung open for a tall, ebony haired man wearing an expensive tan suit. Mabe straightened. Riveted, she stared at his strikingly angular face. His chin, grooved by a slight dimple, struck her as sexy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His gaze roamed the bar, settling on her. Warmth radiated through her entire body. Never had she felt such an intense attraction to a man. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who the hell is he?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> She didn’t recall ever seeing him in the pub. Her nerves tingled. Resembling a panther, he wove his way through the crowd. Slightly ashamed of her attraction to a strange man at her father’s wake, she turned her back, resuming her position behind the bar. She spoke to several patrons, mentally noting their drink orders on her way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No one could pull a pint like your da,” an old grizzled man at the end of the mahogany counter stated. “Smooth like silk he was.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mabe smiled. “He was, Angus. We’ll miss him.” She handed a frothy mug to the man. “Here you go. Enjoy that.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I will,” Angus declared, raising his glass to her. “To many years.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She picked up a glass of Coke, clinked it against Angus’s mug. “And to you.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’ll have one of those if you don’t mind,” a deep voice spoke from behind her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Turning, ready with a flirty response on her tongue, she came face to face with her handsome stranger. His eyes matched the deep rich mahogany of the bar. His smile, while slightly crooked, seemed genuine and swept the words right out of her brain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Uh…sure. Name your poison.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mabe nodded, pulled the beer, scraping the foam from the top. “I’ve never seen you here before. What’s your name, and how did you know my dad?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His gaze caught hers, sympathy reflected in his eyes. She tried to look away, but she couldn’t. The man was a god.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I’m sorry for your loss.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Thanks. He will be missed for sure.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I just realized…this is his wake, isn’t it? A private party?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She nodded. “It is.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The man smiled gently. “I’m sorry. I’m afraid I’m intruding. I should go.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> She set the beer in front of him. “Nah, we’re all friends here. It is a private party, but stay if you’d like.” She gestured. “Those are my sisters Meg and Mara. We own the place now.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It’ll be hard to run it without your father, won’t it?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mabe sighed, leaning on her elbows. “It won’t be the same, for sure, but we’ll do okay. It’ll take some work….” She glanced lovingly around the pub with all its Irish paraphernalia adorning he walls. “Da, loved this place. I grew up here. It’s our place. We’ll make it work.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She shivered, feeling his intense stare. Her skin burned under the laser scan of his eyes. Her pulse jumped. If the room were empty except for the two of them, he’d be in some serious trouble. He took a sip of the Guinness, still staring at her over the mug.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She licked her lips then broke the gaze. She swiped at the glossy mahogany top with a rag. “What brings you to town?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Business,” was his response.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Ooh, cryptic, are we?” She flirted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Suits me for now.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A man at the end of the counter signaled for her. She held up a finger then approached her guest. She served a few more beers, all the while being extremely aware of his gaze. His allure was more powerful than any she’d ever experienced. Monticello wasn’t full of dashing men in expensive suits, but it had its fair share of good lookers. Lord knew she’d flirted with some from time to time, even dated a few, but none of them stirred in her what this man did.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No longer needed, she returned to him, eyeing his empty mug. “Another?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He nodded, offered her a smile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her knees weakened. She steadied herself by grasping the smooth wood. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What the hell is wrong with me?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> She pulled his beer, but before she handed it to him she asked, “What did you say your name was?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She set the mug down in front of him. “Oh, come on. You’re not going to waltz into my pub during my daddy’s wake and not tell me who you are. It’s not polite.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One dark eyebrow rose. “Not polite, huh?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Not at all,” she declared, leaning on the bar, offering him her most dazzling smile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He held out his hand. Mabe reached out, taking his warm palm in hers. The air between them practically crackled with tension. “Aaron Shaw.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her previously heated blood froze. In one swift moment, all the allure she’d experienced earlier evaporated. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the shark trying to buy my pub. The nerve of this man, waltzing in here, flirting with me, when all the while he’s casing the joint for a future purchase.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> She grabbed his beer unceremoniously dumping it on his head. The dark brew dripped from his hair all over his tan suit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Title: That One Summer (Summer, #3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Release Day: December 17th, 2013</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blitz Host: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://ambersupernaturalandya.blogspot.com/p/lady-amber-tours.html">Lady Amber's Tours</a></span></span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMy6hTMVAx_cAbsD_zYAjiokxhJhHmbjDdnld-Ob9oPtgrI2DM6yn1YCA7boqxjDf80RCjyfSpQKLn3i5WQHox9Xa4Y-MdplxZKrWQlB2m7FmNurRzxdA0aAKjOwl22IenDFfnfhEYObx/s1600/CJ+Duggan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMy6hTMVAx_cAbsD_zYAjiokxhJhHmbjDdnld-Ob9oPtgrI2DM6yn1YCA7boqxjDf80RCjyfSpQKLn3i5WQHox9Xa4Y-MdplxZKrWQlB2m7FmNurRzxdA0aAKjOwl22IenDFfnfhEYObx/s200/CJ+Duggan.jpg" width="109" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17px;">C.J Duggan is an Australian author who lives with her husband in a rural border town of New South Wales, Australia.<br />The Boys of Summer is Book One in her Mature Young Adult Romance Series.<br />For more on C.J and ‘The Summer Series’, visit <a href="http://www.cjdugganbooks.com/" target="_blank">www.cjdugganbooks.com</a><br /><br /><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Title: </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Backward Compatible</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Author: Sarah Daltry and Pete Clark</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Genre: Geek Romance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not too long ago,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in a town that,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">depending on your current location,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is either not super far </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">or actually quite close…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is a time of chaotic hormones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two nerdy gents </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">home for winter break</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">have discovered a female gamer </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at a midnight release.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During the break,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a hidden enemy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with enough power to destroy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anything in its path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pursued by other gamers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">who want to be the first</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to beat this boss,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George and Katie race to level up,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and, in so doing, restore decency </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and sexual activity to their personal galaxy…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Buy Links:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No links yet!! December 2013 release</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Link:</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSnT64VC6DE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://hypster.com/create/playlist?playlist_id=6805166" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://hypster.com/create/playlist?playlist_id=6805166</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Link:</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSnT64VC6DE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-0qwqxUYTw" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-0qwqxUYTw</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“These graphics suck,” George says and I look back at the screen. We’re standing in the middle of the Estate, colorful orbs quivering ahead of us. We each have to choose our starting advantage. Waterfalls shimmer in the distance and the sunlight streams over multicolored stones in the courtyard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Amateurs,” Lanyon concurs. “I mean, they couldn’t have </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">five </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">waterfalls?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Your ironic wit is mind blowing, but choose your damn orbs,” I tell them. I consider. Magic, defense, offense, stealth, and charisma. I always go for magic as a black mage, but I wonder if a druid needs something else. Screw it. I need charisma in real life, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Charisma?” Lanyon asks. “No one ever picks charisma.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We’re a party of a thief, druid, and a bard. We’re screwed regardless.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You two underestimate the mighty power of my lute,” George argues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Did </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">you </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">start with charisma?” Lanyon asks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hell, no. I have charisma in spades. I started with stealth.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Great. A stealthy bard,” I sigh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“She’s right,” Lanyon concedes. “We’re screwed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, it actually isn’t bad at all at first. We power through the Estate and make it to the Yobanaria Dale with no resurrections and all at level ten. I’m impressed. George hasn’t actually </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fought </span><span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">anything, but he has some pretty awe-inspiring charm mastery already. I think I might have a serious crush. He seals the deal when he buffs my hailstorm spell without even being asked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Can you guys watch El Thiefelo? My mom wants me to eat supper,” Lanyon says. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Yeah, we’ve got it,” I tell him. “The first boss is in the elven ruins anyway, so we should grind a bit. I think he’s a twelve.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">George and I explore the Dale, taking out bats and Joba spores. It’s fairly quiet, except for when we combo with his charms and my spells and he yells out, “Eat lute, bitch,” but it’s nice. We work well, almost inherently understanding each other. I’ve never been able to play this effectively with anyone. I try not to think about his eyes. Stupid boys, being cute and stuff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By the time Lanyon comes back, we’re all at level 12, although Lanyon leveled up just by standing by a door while we played. Still, we are ready to take on Balsa the Proud. As a black mage, it took me about nine seconds. Trees don’t like fire. However, druids don’t have the same level of black magic and all elemental magic is weakened by the need to draw from the elements nearby. Sadly, trees seem to avoid storing fire runes in their villages. I expect this to be a little more challenging. It might even take fifteen seconds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“First boss. Also known as the freebie bitch to sucker the young folks into a false sense of security,” Lanyon announces as he runs into the center of Balsa’s lair. The cinema plays and then, in a moment of pure absurdity, El Thiefelo is squished as Balsa steps on him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Can someone revive me?” Lanyon whines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the Authors:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah Daltry:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah Daltry writes about the regular people who populate our lives. She's written works in various genres - romance, erotica, fantasy, horror. Genre isn't as important as telling a story about people and how their lives unfold. Sarah tends to focus on YA/NA characters but she's been known to shake it up. Most of her stories are about relationships - romantic, familial, friendly - because love and empathy are the foundation of life. It doesn't matter if the story is set in contemporary NY, historical Britain, or a fantasy world in the future - human beings are most interesting in the ways they interact with others. This is the principle behind all of Sarah's stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah has spent most of her life in school, from her BA and MA in English and writing to teaching both at the high school and college level. She also loves studying art history and really anything because learning is fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Sarah isn't writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out the window. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has written several books, most notably </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bitter Fruits</span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, an urban fantasy in the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eden’s Fall </span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">series, and the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flowering </span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">series, including </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forget Me Not, Lily of the Valley, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Star of Bethlehem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pete Clark:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pete Clark likes writing, animals, potato chips, and cheese. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Midnight Riders</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is his first published novel, although he can also proudly say he finally finished </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Helix Crashing</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the fantasy novel he has been working on for over a decade. In addition, he has written </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Across the Barren Landscape</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a collection of linked Western short stories. He also writes plays, both dramatic and comedic. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When he is not writing, Pete tends to ignore everyone around him and obsess over sports.</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah’s Website: </span><a href="http://sarahdaltry.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://sarahdaltry.com</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pete’s Website: </span><a href="http://punchmyselfintheface.wordpress.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://punchmyselfintheface.wordpress.com</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah’s Facebook: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/SarahDaltryAuthor" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.facebook.com/SarahDaltryAuthor</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pete’s Facebook: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/PeteClarkAuthor" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.facebook.com/PeteClarkAuthor</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah’s Twitter: </span><a href="http://twitter.com/SarahDaltry" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://twitter.com/SarahDaltry</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pete’s Twitter: </span><a href="http://twitter.com/PeteClarkBooks" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://twitter.com/PeteClarkBooks</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Top More than Ten:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah’s Favorite Video Games:</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Borderlands 1 and 2</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fallout 3</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Persona series</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eternal Darkness</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Silent Hill series</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Final Fantasy series</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Skyrim</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dragon Age series</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass Effect series</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fable series</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bioshock series</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magic: The Gathering</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perfect Dark</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heavy Rain</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LA Noire</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parasite Eve</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Catherine</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zuma</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bioshock</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resident Evil 4</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uncharted 2</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eternal Darkness</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goldeneye</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. Pac Man</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">God of War III</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dead Space</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Silent Hill 2</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Infamous 2</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Portal</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Defender</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Super Metroid</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mass Effect</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Castlevania</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Call of Duty 4</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dragon Warrior</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Title: Riley by TJ and Rita Webb</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Expected Release Date: Summer 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Synopsis:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Operative:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Riley, a.k.a. The Doppelganger</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her Target:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> a half-dragon bodyguard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Her Mission:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to infiltrate a group of sorcerers in South Dakota</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Forget the fact Riley doesn’t have a soul or even a real body. As a magical construct, she is damn useful: she can take any humanoid shape, she’s immune to magical fear, and nobody can read her mind. Perfect when her target is a telepathic half-dragon guarding an elite base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But Dare isn’t the easy target she expected. He’s fierce. Loyal. Smart. And Stubborn. Facing off against one of the Usurper’s most trusted soldiers might be more than she bargained for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Especially when her heart and her fate hang in the balance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About Rita & TJ Webb</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our adventure started with a camping trip and a bottle of whiskey. Apparently Rita is a scary monster, and TJ needed liquid courage to give her that first kiss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When not fighting over who gets to read our favorite books first, we’re swapping kisses and movie quotes in the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Together, we home-school our three girls, who keep us busy with art, science projects, books to read, dance classes, and walks about the park. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook.com/TJandRita</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">goodreads.com/RitaWebb</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">#1. Howl's Moving Castle</span></strong><br />
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I'm just so in love with this movie and it is no longer available for streaming on Netflix. Thus I want to own it.<br />
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When I watch this movie, I always feel like magic is real and that I could actually do anything if I set my mind to it. But mostly I love how Sophie broke her own curse. I really do believe in the power of words.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">#2. My Neighbor Totoro</span></strong><br />
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The girls laugh and laugh whenever they watch this movie. There's something beautiful in a laughter that is born out of pure delight, and what I love most about Totoro is that I can be a kid for a moment alongside my own girls.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>#3. Kung Fu Panda 2</strong></span><br />
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A household favorite! But even though we all love Panda, for us it was the soothsayer goat who stole the show.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">#4. Avengers</span></strong><br />
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TJ and I are doing our best to raise 3 little girls who love all things geeky as much as we do. Now that they are getting older, we're exposing them to all our favorite books and movies. Superheroes is an important part of our indoctrination process. They will definitely follow in our footsteps as they grow older.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17px;">Haunting memories.<br />Terrifying dreams.<br />Crippling lies.<br /><br />Trapped in a world of deception, my sanity rests with the love of Ryder Arteres and our renegade friends. Six months of scouring the ocean floor in a rebel ship fleeing our homeland, delivers us to a possible alliance with the opportunistic European Council. Our only hope is to utilize our forbidden gifts to free our people from slavery, proving our worth. But when a trusted ally turns traitor and a new breed of the queen’s weaponry is revealed, I’m forced to face the terror of my past to save our crumbling future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLDkZL2grxBwmfUNgJlmJZpGpfYQ7KkNyTLPOHytx057NU3PLMA1potrjFoYnceJsAC_ULuxs-OM-vMGi8VZzd0M9E-853he-XaAxCgTfnE9T8TVt7i2cGPjxWqyBdDU-Hya5K3fw9qOm/s1600/Ciara+Knight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLDkZL2grxBwmfUNgJlmJZpGpfYQ7KkNyTLPOHytx057NU3PLMA1potrjFoYnceJsAC_ULuxs-OM-vMGi8VZzd0M9E-853he-XaAxCgTfnE9T8TVt7i2cGPjxWqyBdDU-Hya5K3fw9qOm/s200/Ciara+Knight.jpg" width="180" /></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17px;">Ciara Knight began her writing career in 2008. She writes to ‘Defy the Dark’ with her fantasy, paranormal, and dystopian books. Her first Young Adult Series, Battle for Souls, will be published by Turquoise Morning press, with her prequel novella, Love’s Long Shadow, releasing in October 2011. Followed by Rise From Darkness (Book I) in March 2012, Fall From Grace (Book II), and Ascension of Evil (Book III).<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17px;"><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Also in 2012, her adult fantasy, Curse of Gremdon will be published by Crescent Moon Press.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When not writing, she enjoys reading all types of fiction. Some great literary influences in her life include Edgar Allen Poe, Shakespeare, Francine Rivers and J K Rowling.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Her first love, besides her family, reading, and writing, is travel. She's backpacked through Europe, visited orphanages in China, and landed in a helicopter on a glacier in Alaska.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ryder tipped my chin up and pressed a kiss to my forehead. At feeling his suppressed desire and longing, I nuzzled his neck, seeking more, wanting to touch him, not through his uniform but his bare skin.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Shh. You need sleep. Nightmares have been keeping you up. You’re exhausted. Wish I could be there to hold you through them, but we should arrive at the ENR base soon. It’s been too long.” His hand slipped to the nape of my neck. “Once we reach land, no one will keep us apart.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Heat surged to my face and I leaned into his hands. “Nightmares? How did you…oh, your sister. Great. Guess Raeth can’t keep a secret.” I knew Raeth only told her brother out of concern, but I’d still chastise my best friend when I got back to my room.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“She just confirmed what I’d felt through our bond.” Ryder drew a circle around the tip of my nose with his. “What you been dreaming’ about?”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">His closeness weakened my resolve to keep it from him. He’d think I was crazy.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Tell me,” he urged, brushing his lips across mine in a feather-light touch.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My breath hitched and the memories of beatings and torture faded when his thumb glided down my cheek. “It doesn’t matter. Kiss me.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">His lips claimed mine with a too long-suppressed urgency. He needed and wanted me as much as I did him. If we didn’t make it to land soon, they’d have mutiny on their hands.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I inhaled his scent, absorbing it into my soul. Even after all this time beneath the sea, a hint of Earth remained and I savored the aroma. He’d always smell the same to me. A musky, earthy smell, with a hint of freedom. The aroma wrapped around my body like a shield of strength.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Steps thumped down the corridor and he broke the kiss. “Tell me. Before we have to go.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I panted and shook my head. From the moment we’d met, he twisted me up inside until I’d share whatever he wanted to know. “Images mostly. My mother, my father. I never see his face, but I see hers.” I suppressed a shudder. “None of it makes sense. It’s almost like I feel physical pain, but I can’t see the memory.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ryder’s eyes narrowed. “What’s Gordon been doing to you during those <i>sessions?</i>”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Gordon? Nothing. He’s been helping me remember things. He says I’ve been reprogrammed. He’s trained in opening the mind back up and he thinks I could remember something that would help the rebellion.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ryder glanced down the hall. “Maybe so, but I don’t like you suffering. Mighty easy for him to push you into helping. But you need to know when to back off. You been training so much and been working with Captain Gordon, you haven’t gotten any rest.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Maybe that’s because I don’t want to.” I stared up at him. “I’m frightened, Ryder. Terrified my mother’s programmed me into being some kind of weapon.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I won’t let that happen.” He kissed me again then rested his forehead against mine. “We, just the two of us, need to find some time alone.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I struggled to stay calm, to not let my frustration and jealousy out. I failed. “The last time I tried to take some time off, you were busy with Mart and her <i>training</i>. Can’t you train with someone else, like me? Why does it always have to be her?”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Jealous?” The side of his lip quirked up into a teasing grin.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yes</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">! “No! No more than you are of Gordon.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">He straightened, his hand moving down from my neck to my lower back. “Let’s not do this. It’s late. I don’t want to argue.” Hugging me, he lifted me into the air until I was at eye level then he nuzzled my neck. “Rather do other things with you than fight.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Love that sound.” Ryder nipped my earlobe.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“You happy. Someday, we’ll go to that Resort Territory of yours,” Ryder slid his nose down the side of my neck, “where we can laugh all day.” His tongue traced the path his nose had just made. “Swim naked in that lake of yours.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Title: Breaking Angelina<br />Author: Rita & TJ Webb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFUGNhNYAno1gaQMd9wlwAsoNWsA8kt-OaCMoFib6hc01P16QJxqwfFrIWjBu0GmGQ99U0HuX8ZomxA1LNTUZ8znIQe9Vq3ZvFh0Rlv_JoxJPN-KVDDkOjJNCUIL-GtHiHjgdZcLKkAd-/s1600/marsha_cook_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitFUGNhNYAno1gaQMd9wlwAsoNWsA8kt-OaCMoFib6hc01P16QJxqwfFrIWjBu0GmGQ99U0HuX8ZomxA1LNTUZ8znIQe9Vq3ZvFh0Rlv_JoxJPN-KVDDkOjJNCUIL-GtHiHjgdZcLKkAd-/s200/marsha_cook_3.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17px;">Marsha Casper Cook is the author of 10 published books and 11 feature-length screenplays. Her published works include LOVE CHANGES, a contemporary romance novel, and TO LIFE, a non-fiction biography about being a teenager and surviving the Holocaust. She has also written four books for young children, SNACK ATTACK ,THE MAGICAL LEAPING LIZARD POTION and the poetry collection THE BUSY BUS. Her book NO CLUES NO SHOES is the first of the Emelina Hewitt and her dog Stanley series. Marsha's latest work and her first in a romance collection, VIRGINIA TEMPLETON STORIES has just been released in paperback and she is currently working on LEO LOVES GRACIE characters taken from her screenplay Prince Charming which will be out after the first of the year.<br /><br />Since early 2010, Marsha has hosted radio shows on Blog Talk Radio. She and Virginia Grenier,the other half of World Of Ink Network Blog Talk Radio, have been doing shows for almost four years. Her show "A Good Story Is A Good Story" is about writing.Marsha does discuss many subjects on her radio shows but her love of writing draws her to talk to other authors and marketing experts.<br /><br />She will be adding different shows this year with her partner at World Of Ink Network, Virginia Grenier. Marsha is also is doing Radio Book Launches with Marnie McNiff and Virginia Grenier with Michigan Avenue Media.Inc. specializing in Children's Books, Romance and Thrillers.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was early afternoon when Elaine arrived at Arlington Racetrack. The elevator to the clubhouse was exceptionally crowded for a weekday, but to Elaine it didn’t make much difference. She had reserved the same table for the entire summer. Money was of no concern to her. If it took an extra twenty, fifty or sometimes a crisp, hundred-dollar bill to help matters along, so be it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Having money did help with life’s daily struggles. But long range, money could do nothing to change her sadness. Unhappiness was a permanent way of life for Elaine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Elaine hadn’t been seated for more than a minute or so when a waiter approached her table. He placed a large pitcher of lemon water and a basket of rolls on the stark, white tablecloth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Elaine smiled, appreciative of the young waiter’s acute sense of recall. They didn’t speak much, but he smiled when she did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As always, Elaine had not placed a bet on the first or second race. That was her time for gatherings thoughts and pulling the loose ends of the day together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some days she placed bets on only a few races. Those were the days when her mind wandered, remembering what she was trying so hard to forget. It was on those days that she usually picked the winners. But of course, she didn’t care. That really wasn’t why she came.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The ten-minute bell rang. It was the third race. Elaine reached inside her bag and pulled out several hundred-dollar bills. She crumpled them as she walked toward the betting counter. With a brief glance, she pointed to a number and handed the money to the woman at the window.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The race ended. Elaine had won. She paid little attention to the fact that she had bet on a winner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A bolt of lightning flashed. Seconds later, a voice over the loudspeaker called out, “Due to severe weather, we are canceling the remainder of today’s races.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Disappointed voices filled the clubhouse. Just as everyone seemed to be leaving, Elaine felt a tap on her shoulder. She looked up, not recognizing the young man who stood before her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Hello,” he said in a very mellow voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Do I know you?” Elaine asked in a swift, uninterested voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The young man’s smile was attentive. “Yes, as a matter of fact you do. We met at an art showing. You were with Sally Braverman. Now do you remember?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“No, I’m sorry I don’t.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“That’s okay. It was only my art showing and my art gallery. I guess it was foolish of me to think you might remember.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A brief but apologetic smile appeared on Elaine’s face. “Oh yes, now I remember.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Thank goodness,” he laughed. “I thought I was losing my touch. Although, you might be good for my ego. You know, the ego I just lost.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Holding out his hand, the young man introduced himself. “I’d better not embarrass myself any more by thinking you know my name, so I’ll make it easy on myself. Josh Derman.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Elaine was just about to say her name when Josh interrupted. “Elaine Lewis. Am I right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Josh was just about ready to sit down when Elaine stood up. “You’ll have to excuse me, but I should be leaving.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Then I’ll see you tomorrow,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“You’re here every day, so why not tomorrow?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Because I’ve seen you here every day for the last few weeks,” Josh smiled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Author: Candice Terry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal Romance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Release Date: November 25<sup>th</sup> 2013</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Terrified, her mother constantly keeps them on the move until they finally find themselves in the company of her mother's old friend...who doesn't look that old at all. Even in the small town of Hinckley, Ohio things seem to only get worse for Alysun and her heart longs for the one person that could help her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As her powers progress unwanted attention is aimed Alysun's way and evil won't stay away long. Control is the only thing that can help her, but anger is sometimes harder to let go of than you think. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik4Y53YqSM6FZhumjFuS38zKMWayz3u8DI_aEIPG56jhW5ji4gSjIVWcysXX8cnWoccVNx4zc0l9uaVLv49ID0MuFt9qm2caWmeMqFCwJv3C_VQY8GhiLR-1pRBX7k-Yo6tjAuj_f6LoLB/s1600/Candice+Terry.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik4Y53YqSM6FZhumjFuS38zKMWayz3u8DI_aEIPG56jhW5ji4gSjIVWcysXX8cnWoccVNx4zc0l9uaVLv49ID0MuFt9qm2caWmeMqFCwJv3C_VQY8GhiLR-1pRBX7k-Yo6tjAuj_f6LoLB/s200/Candice+Terry.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />Candice lives in Laurel, Mississippi with her husband and energetic toddler.When she's not chasing her son around she runs her photography business or is stuck in front of her computer pounding out stories.Her first short story was published March 2013 and she is currently working on two more short stories along with the first book of a three part series to release in 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Title: ARV-3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Author: Cameo Renae<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Genre: <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">YA Post-Apocalyptic/Dystopian</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Release Date: November 26<sup>th</sup> 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cover Design: Regina Wamba at Mae I Design Photograpy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">June 6, 2014: The beginning of the end. The Apocalypse.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A nuclear fallout wiped out every living thing on the planet, except for a few thousand of us who took shelter in underground bunkers across the globe. Now, after thirteen long years, we were finally able to return to the topside to begin to rebuild.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We thought we were alone. We were never more wrong.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Before the fallout, scientists had worked on creating an anti-radiation vaccine (ARV). The first two attempts failed, but despite the incomplete tests and results, the government approved and distributed the third serum to the masses in an effort to aid those who had no shelter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">It worked, keeping those who remained on the topside alive, but it also altered and mutated them. This new and infectious threat had completely outnumbered us. Now, we not only had to rebuild our planet. We would have to fight for it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My name is Abigail Park. I’m seventeen, and this is my story.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">My family is what keeps my heart beating, and my world a happy place to be.<br /><br />I love reading great books that whisk me away from reality, even if for a little while. :) Writing is my passion. I love creating new worlds and new characters, and taking wondrous adventures with them.<br /><br />In My Dreams & Hidden Wings were both recently published through Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing. Descent (A Hidden Wings novella) will be released May 15, 2013, and Broken Wings (Book 2 in the Hidden Wings Series) will be released June 1, 2013.<br /><br />One day I will find my magic wardrobe, and ride away on my magical unicorn... ♥ Until then... I'll keep writing! ;)<br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Follow Cameo on:</b><br />Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CameoRenaeFanPage<br />Blog: <a href="http://cameorenae.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://cameorenae.blogspot.com/</a><br />Website: <a href="http://cameorenae.com/" target="_blank">http://cameorenae.com</a><br />Twitter: @CameoRenae<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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school, I had schoolbooks spilling out of one hand, the other holding my
place in a Nancy Drew novel, and bunny slippers still on my feet. My
mom was a wee bit upset.<br /><br />I haven't changed much. Still always
have a book (or two) in my hand or creating stories in my head, and
although I don't have any bunny slippers, I love writing in my jammies
and snuggly slipper socks.<br /><br />With my husband TJ (my own cuddly
werewolf), I home-school our three girls, who keep us busy with art,
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7109148405669867264.post-9207714573410246572013-11-19T14:33:00.000-08:002013-11-19T14:33:00.247-08:00Thankful ContentmentIn October 2007, I started writing with the intention of getting published because I was about to be laid off from my job. I had one big, overwhelming dream, and that was to be home with my kids. I wanted to be the stay-at-home mom, make a beautiful cozy home full of happiness and warmth, and homeschool my kids while doing fun projects with them like painting pictures and planting flowers. <br />
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TJ and I always agreed that the kids come first, and that our family was top priority. But it just so happens to be that I can make more money than TJ can, so I work while he homeschools and cooks and does the laundry. I’m really proud of him. He doesn’t really know how awesome he is.<br />
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Facing the upcoming layoff, I had to admit what I really, really wanted was to be home, but what if I can’t? What if I have to continue working, then what is it I want to do?<br />
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What do I want to be when I grow up? I was in my early 30’s, but I really hadn’t found what I wanted yet.<br />
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I thought over my childhood love of reading and creating stories (whether in my head or on paper) and wondered why I ever went into software testing rather than what I had always really loved doing. And I’d been good at it! My teachers always loved my stories in high school and in college. I got A+’s, so why can’t I just pick up where I left off?<br />
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I plunged into writing my first novel. And it sucked. But by then, I was addicted to writing. And I really believed that someday I could finally get to the point where writing could replace my boring, stiff, soul-stealing job. I kept at it and ended up writing two more novels plus loads of short stories.<br />
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I started the query process and got a few nibbles. At the same time, I was a part of a few non-profit anthology projects with some author friends of mine, and I realized how much I enjoyed the whole process, not just the writing. Designing covers, editing, marketing, formatting the interior design. <br />
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So in 2011, my husband and I started our own publishing company Robot Playground Inc and released my first book TEARS, which was not that big of a success. OK, it bombed because I made some mistakes in targeting my audience. I didn’t fully understand the market or where I fit in it, but I learned a lot from the experience and still am.<br />
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I floundered a bit due to my failure, but that too was a learning experience. Six years have passed, but my writing is just now becoming what I want it to be. <br />
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Six years later, my dreams haven’t quite come true the way I wanted them to. I still have a day job (a new one since I was laid off). We lost our house, due to that same lay off. I gained a lot of weight due to lack of sleep and all the caffeine and sugar I consumed to keep myself awake. And I burned my candle at both ends until I wasn’t even sure I was human anymore.<br />
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But I’m still writing, and if I never make money at this, creating stories and sharing them with all of you is the best hobby I’ve ever had. I sell enough books to pay my PA but not to cover all my other expenses (swag, book covers, promotional events, etc), let alone quitting my day job and being home with my family.<br />
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Yet I’m not quitting. I love what I’m doing, and I’ve learned to make the most of my family time. I can’t be that perfect mom I dreamed of or be part of school time, but I do my best to give what I can, perform what is expected of me at my day job, and still write in the evenings and weekends.<br />
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Thankfully I have an awesome husband who believes in me. He reads and edits all my writing, takes care of me and the family to make it all possible, and won’t ever let me quit, but even better, he’s now joined me in my crazy adventure. <br />
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One of my favorite Bible quotes is in Ecclesiastes. It’s something about how a man alone, struggling to survive, is a sad state of affairs, but a three-stranded rope is much stronger than one strand alone. In my home, my husband is one strand, I’m another, and God is the third.<br />
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We don’t live to ourselves or die to ourselves. We are not complete until we share ourselves with others. My husband shores up my weaknesses and balances me out. He sees what I missed and brings depth to our stories.<br />
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The future will be better because we are together, because we have each other. I haven’t yet seen my dreams come true, but I know that they will happen.<br />
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We’ve been together 14 years, two sets of 7, and I’ve heard it said that 7 is a significant number to indicate completion. Our first 7 years, we got married, had 3 kids, and established the groundwork of our family. The one thing we’ve always had together is friendship and laughter. <br />
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The second set of 7 years, we learned how to work together. We started our business. I started writing. We finally figured out how to make our budget work, even with one income. We began the adventure of homeschooling and worked out the kinks. We discovered health issues (loads of food allergies plus my problems with Celiac disease) and figured out how to overcome these problems. This was the framework we’ve built on top of the strong foundation of friendship and love we have together.<br />
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The next 7 years will be our years of success, where the work in building our foundation and the structural frame becomes our own castle.<br />
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But even if I never get there, I am content with where I am. I have my husband and three girls, food on the table, a roof over my head, and enough money to pay for dance classes and music lessons, which is a luxury for us. Our cars are paid off (we bought them with cash at an auction 5 years ago), and our small apartment, though cramped, is warm and safe. We have awesome friends and people like you who enjoy our writing.<br />
Rita Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15705211010768041660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7109148405669867264.post-7249755405596332972013-11-18T12:48:00.001-08:002013-11-18T12:51:15.480-08:00Last Edits of Breaking Angelina! Woot!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4JOBLHkqRK2wYVfTLzNORffBdwbMvxI3x4ZzYJpqptouzl2qObkDZVduP96EaJeK2fcylx4ytkchAuWAlWAYctcuAWKOlH36uFnaYl8Wpsg_F_sc8vAzUEBBgawJ_VKnrINTBikcG3s/s1600/18131954.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR4JOBLHkqRK2wYVfTLzNORffBdwbMvxI3x4ZzYJpqptouzl2qObkDZVduP96EaJeK2fcylx4ytkchAuWAlWAYctcuAWKOlH36uFnaYl8Wpsg_F_sc8vAzUEBBgawJ_VKnrINTBikcG3s/s400/18131954.jpg" width="266" zsa="true" /></a></div>We got our comments from the beta readers. As a result, TJ and I plunged into editing. It was overwhelming at first, but the deeper we get into fixing things, the better this story gets.<br />
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The good news is the marriage hasn't ended and we will continue writing books. There were no dead bodies, well, except for the fictional ones. And we are totally in love with our story.<br />
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The bad news is we're utterly exhausted. And ARC's will be out 1 day late. And I screwed up some deadlines I was supposed to do for my blog and such.<br />
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<b>Round #1:</b> I went through and made changes Thursday night and into Friday. Took me almost 24 hours with a break for sleep.<br />
<div> </div><ul><li>Added a better intro to Hunter's character in Chapter 2. It wasn't very clear who he is, what he is, and where he is. </li>
<li>Added a whole new scene near the end of the book</li>
<li>Added some clarification and explanations about the magic and stuff throughout</li>
<li>Fixed some character issues related to Angelina to make her more likable. There was some first draft stuff that I included before I really got to know her. Now that I know her better, I dropped some of her obsession with her appearance.</li>
</ul><div> </div><div> </div><b>Round #2:</b> TJ fixed my fixes. Started Saturday morning and finished Saturday evening at like 3 in the morning.<br />
<div> </div><ul><li>Hated my changes to Chapter 2 so he fixed them.</li>
<li>Added a new ending to Angelina & Hunter's escape from the circus with the Siren in tow</li>
<li>Tweaked and did more tweaking throughout the whole story</li>
<li>Went over my new scene with mental war with the wraiths. Made some wording changes.</li>
</ul><div> </div><div> </div><b>Round #3:</b> I went over his fixes.<br />
<div> </div><ul><li>Cleaned out the deleted stuff from our Track Changes so we can see what we have to work with</li>
<li>Removed addressed comments</li>
<li>Tweaked a few more things</li>
<li>Tried to fix his fixes to my fixes of Chapter 2</li>
</ul><div> </div>Then we argued over Chapter 2. Neither of us were happy with anything. Both versions felt wrong to both of us, and neither of us could figure out what to do with it.<br />
<div> </div>Sleep (we only got like 4 hours) and then church Sunday morning, we were ready to tackle this thing again.<br />
<div> </div><div> </div><b>Round #4:</b> I fixed Chapter 2<br />
<div> </div>We got out of church and I said, "I know what's wrong with Chapter 2. We started the scene too late. We need some dialogue at the beginning."<br />
<div> </div>Yep, that fixed it. We were both finally happy with the scene. I got my fingers crossed that you will be too.<br />
<div> </div><div> </div><b>Round #5:</b> TJ and I both looked over what we had and decided we were happy with it ... after we fixed just a few more things.<br />
<div> </div><ul><li>Changed the name of Brogg's Bar</li>
<li>Changed the name of the "other world"</li>
<li>Changed the spelling of Jezebarra's name. Again.</li>
</ul><div> </div><div> </div><b>Round #6:</b> We're doing a read out loud. <br />
<div> </div>Even with all the editing we've done, we're still finding issues. And believe me, the editing we did in the last 3 days is nothing to what we did before we sent it out to beta readers.<br />
<div> </div>Our read out loud is the final polish we put on a story. This is when we find our typos and awkward phrasings and editing errors (like we added a word in the wrong spot in a sentence or deleted only part of a sentence or we changed a character's name but didn't find all the instances where that person was referenced) or grammar errors (run-on sentences and the wrong verb tense).<br />
<div> </div>Last night, we read 12 chapters. Tonight, we'll read about 12 chapters. And tomorrow we'll finish the book and send it out to reviewers.<br />
<div> </div><div> </div><div> </div>The marriage is patched up now that the editing is almost done. The kids aren't acting up too much because Mom and Dad went on hiatus. And the house will get clean again soon ... eventually.<br />
Rita Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15705211010768041660noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7109148405669867264.post-25525121612460324462013-11-18T00:00:00.000-08:002013-11-18T05:17:34.882-08:00Cover Reveal: Winter by Nikita Rae<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Winter<br />
Author: Nikita Rae<br />
Genre: New Adult Suspense Thriller<br />
Expected Release Date: November 25<sup>th</sup>, 2013<br />
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New Adult Suspense Thriller From Debut Author Nikita Rae</i></span></b></div>
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<b>A girl with a dark history…</b></div>
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Iris Breslin took a leap of faith when she changed her name.
As Avery Patterson, she is no longer the daughter of a serial killer. No longer
the girl who was bullied and abused through high school. A fresh name and a
fresh start at Columbia University means Avery can leave all that behind.
There’s only one thing marring her dream of a clean slate….</div>
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<b>A boy with a past of his own…</b></div>
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Luke Reid has a lot going for him: sex appeal, badass
tattoos and insane musical talent. Despite his guitar skills, his calling in
life has always been to serve and protect. A NYPD cop by day, singer in rock
band D.M.F by night, from the outside Luke seems like he’s got it made. But
falling hard for a girl whose father was accused of deeply sinister acts—a man
whom Luke shares a devastating history with, himself—only serves to complicated
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<b>Pieces of a puzzle….</b></div>
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<b>Four symbols, four methods of destruction.</b></div>
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<b>A trade.</b></div>
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<b>Borrowed wings.</b></div>
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<b>Dark secrets that threaten to destroy.</b></div>
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<b>Winter is a full length novel, the first in the Four
Seasons series. The next instalment will be available for purchase early
2014. </b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh38J1moKe99e4LpiqfXrzIBN3-bjeY8X_taiubRymE2ctjsCAzrjiC6EKm2Cy9jn4egAHH1LAKjo_QoG3y00fgKMWaDL1bvFsLz09bUfP3owVCa_LYjYeIMWwAvC9I9M5r3FIhiABmPlsR/s1600/Nikita.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh38J1moKe99e4LpiqfXrzIBN3-bjeY8X_taiubRymE2ctjsCAzrjiC6EKm2Cy9jn4egAHH1LAKjo_QoG3y00fgKMWaDL1bvFsLz09bUfP3owVCa_LYjYeIMWwAvC9I9M5r3FIhiABmPlsR/s200/Nikita.jpg" width="133" /></a>Nikita Rae resides in fair Kingston, Ontario, with her
husband and three year old son. She began writing at an early age, and has been
honing her skills ever since. She is a passionate figure skater and loves cold
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weather-- a good thing since her home town is buried under snow for half the
year! When she's not penning sexy suspense novels, Nikita can also be found
enjoying a glass of red and watching Hell On Wheels. Winter is her debut
novel.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Links:</b><br />
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nikita.rae.9?fref=ts<br />
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18746239-winter<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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