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Taryn Raye

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Romance

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V.C. Andrews, Tanith Lee, D.H. Lawrence, Jane Austen, fellow authors

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A romantic at heart, my love of storytelling began in childhood with the typical fairytales and my membership at age 10 to the Just for Girls Book Club. I grew up on classics and contemporary tales, but it wasn’t long before my tastes also matured as I ventured into my mother’s stash of Harlequins and Silhouettes, too.

Always an avid reader, I have found that some stories, the ones most near and dear, reside where only I can hear them~ in my heart and my mind. For the majority of my life, those stories remained buried as I put my writing on the back burner to everything else.

There comes a point for writers though, where the desire, the necessity to write, overrides our own logic and reasoning. I couldn’t keep promising myself I would get aro...more

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Mother Nature Mondays~ #TigerLilies & Memories #beauty #childhood #friendships

It would seem that the spring flowers are winding down in my yard. My rose bushes are all flowered out, at least for the moment until they start to gain new growth. I know I have day-lilies on their way in and gladiolus, but for now here are my tiger lilies that stand tall and willowy next the front porch and down near the kids' swing set.

Tiger lilies grow quite wild here in Kentucky, often s... Read more of this blog post »

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Eventide (Dark Ink Chronicles #3)

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