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May 5, 2013
Promoted to Wife (Destiny Bay)
Book 5-DESTINY BAY–FOREVER YOURS SERIES
“Need a vacation? Get ready for a real treat and sail away to Destiny Bay, courtesy of one of the very best authors I know. I’ll meet you there!”
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Marie Ferrarella
She has to prove she can do the job as butler. But is sleeping with the hot shot son part of the job description?
Terry Yardley is trying to keep her father’s butlering job open for him until he recovers from an accident by doing the work herself. Cleaning and preparing for a ball she can handle, but no one told her she would have to deal with a blow up doll, a set of hard-to-handle children, Rick’s Aunt Julia and the very sexy Carrington gentleman himself.
Includes love scenes.
Original published in print by Dell Candlelight Ecstasy and recently revised as part of the Destiny Bay Series.
Destiny Bay-Forever Yours Series
Book 1-My Little Runaway
Book 2-Wife For a Night
Book 3-Too Scared to Breathe
Book 4-Make Believe Wife
Book 5-Promoted to Wife
Book 6-Not the Marrying Kind
Destiny’s Kingdom: A Prophecy Revealed
Book 2 in the Destiny’s Kingdom series
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Book 2 Description
Having seemingly committed the most heinous act of attacking the Keystone and leaving him for dead, Quade Dacairus seeks sanctuary with the galaxy’s most powerful magic user, the Avè. Hunted by the SanFear, an ancient entity as old and as powerful as the gods, Quade’s limited time to save his world ticks away as he searches for the chosen spoken of in legends to join him in this quest. Uniting the chosen is Quade’s only hope to defeat this evil and save his world from certain destruction. In a world rich with magic and technology, a seamless blend of Fantasy and Sci-Fi, Destiny’s Kingdom follows Quade’s journey as he battles to save a galaxy that has always known peace and prosperity, from a powerful evil that he alone can see. A Prophecy Revealed is Book two in the Destiny’s Kingdom Series
A Prophecy Revealed is Book two in the Destiny’s Kingdom Series
The President is No More
In a future where progress is accelerating beyond humanity’s ability to keep pace, the Humanists are trying to live in harmony with nature and avoid the advancing technology. One night, a fire destroys Kingstown – the Humanist settlement on the West Coast. As details of the tragedy emerge, outrage sweeps the Unites States, putting President Bill Freeman’s reelection prospects in doubt.
Negotiator Mia Arc faces a challenge of a lifetime when she’s asked to defend Humanist rights in the face of growing controversy. As she investigates the tragedy, she finds more questions than answers. Who is responsible for the tragedy? Did robots have something to do with it? And is anybody really who they say they are in this cyber-enhanced, nano-technological, unnatural world?
Mia doesn’t know if she can answer those questions. She is not influential. She is not powerful. She is just an ordinary woman…
Share your own customer images The Sons of Masguard and the Mosque Hill Fortune, Part One
The first installment in a new series from Vivienne Mathews, this anthropomorphic tale is sure to strike a chord with fans of “Redwall,” “Watership Down,” and “Warriors.” Centered on a rivalry between two otter captains and the ancient threat that brings them together, it is an adventure-fantasy on the open sea, described by the author as “’Wind in the Willows’ with pirates.”
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A haunting mist has settled on the harbor beneath Secora Tor. Tasked with unlocking its mysteries is the stoic otter Captain Marshall, an accomplished military figure and heir to the greatest explorer in the kingdom’s history. As he sifts through myth and reality, his dangerous journey grows ever more complicated when he learns that McKinley the Marauder – pirate, nemesis, and general miscreant – has ambitions that could put his mission at risk.
Now, accompanied by a gypsy mercenary, a dishonored knight, and a family of thieves – and tailed by the evil wolf Baron Von Ulric, who has ambitions of his own – their paths converge in an uneasy alliance, becoming a race against time as they travel to the legendary island of Mosque Hill, each of them hoping to reach an ancient artifact before it is too late. Each of them desperate to stay ahead of the secrets that they keep.
What will they lose along the way?
And where will they turn when they realize that nothing is as it seems?
Delphinus Contract (Delphinus Trilogy)
Talana Xian meets her soul mate at the exact moment she needs her the most and wants her the least. After daring to step outside the shadow of expectation to captain the space faring ship the Equuleus, the captain is determined to prove her all female crew can fight the inequity of her universe. She thinks she has everything she’s ever wanted until her carefully constructed world is shattered by betrayal. Her only source of strength comes from a Delphinus stranger named Mia. Strikingly beautiful but tormented, this stranger claims they share a unique telepathic link. Talana is haunted by the intangible bond that threatens to expose her well guarded fears and vulnerabilities. As she struggles to pay the price of revenge Talana learns there is nowhere to hide from Mia.
Drinking with Dead Women Writers (Drinking with Dead Writers)
“A rare mix of cleverness and intellect, and a total blast to read.” -Alan Heathcock, award winning author of VOLT.
“Engaging and revealing, but most of all, flat out funny.” -Flashlight Commentary
Essays on drinking with Dorothy Parker, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Erma Bombeck, The Bronte Sisters, Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Margaret Mead, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Margaret Mitchell, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand and Virginia Woolf.
Facts about Dead Women Writers:
Most early female writers used pen names because women weren’t regarded as competent writers.
Margaret Mitchell wrote only one published novel in her lifetime, but Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 and sold more than 30 million copies.
Emily Dickinson was so paranoid that she only spoke to people from behind a door.
Carson McCullers wrote The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at age 22. Her husband wanted them to commit suicide in the French countryside, but she refused.
Ambrose and Turner explore these and other intriguing facts about the most famous (but departed) women in literary history.
May 4, 2013
Lovers in a Bag
A middle age woman, whom after years of living on her own with her mother, tries to find the ideal man with her colleague Sarah for company. On the way she suddenly discovers that Mr Right was in fact only around the corner.
The Shadow Savior
Virgil “Doc” Heater has just left his San Diego medical practice with plans for a day at the beach. When he perceives the child in the vehicle next to him is a kidnap victim, however, Doc follows the vehicle to determine the driver’s intention. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, deputy district attorney Debra Gallagher, is struck by a powerful premonition, and leaps into action to thwart what she believes will become a cataclysmic event.
Doc learns from the radio that he is following a recently-released sexual predator who has indeed kidnapped the child. Debra, armed with a .45-caliber pistol, follows her intuition out on the road and encounters Doc, unaware that he has been trailing the suspected vehicle. For a very brief moment in time that produces actions destined to linger for decades, the four people become weaved into a web of suspense in which the outcome is uncertain but one thing is clear: a child’s life hangs in the balance.
A short novel written from a stream-of-consciousness perspective and set in real-time, you will never forget this unusual story and the people involved.
A Hoale Lot of Trouble (Hoale Construction Mysteries)
Adam Hoale owns a construction company called Hoale Construction. When he finds an eye-opening surprise in the walls of a house he’s flipping, and a libido flaring surprise standing on the lawn, he’s willing to do the right thing with the surprise in the wall while entertaining lusty thoughts about the surprise on the lawn.
But as the world finds out what he discovered, and his new boy toy seems to be keeping too many secrets to make a relationship a reality, Adam soon realizes he may just get flipped himself if he’s not careful.