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   Definitely on my reading list!  A Sexy Beauty and the Beast Spin OffWhen Charisse Bellamy takes the job at New Haven’s first ever Night Club, it’s only intended as a short term solution to make ends meet. But she soon discovers there is no resisting the pull of her new boss, Abram. Despite worrying how her feelings for Abram will impact her budding relationship with police deputy Dalton, she can’t seem to stay away, and it’s not until a missing girl is found chained up in Abram’s home that this beauty realizes one of her romantic interests is a beast.
Hunt or Be Hunted Beasts have infiltrated the towns. The cities. The government.
Blood will be spilled. Wars will be fought. Magic will be bartered.
And there's only one person who can bridge the worlds between Conduits and Supplicants.
If she fails, human lives will be reduced to nothing more than a source.

AMAZON
***This book is in the SECRET WORLDS boxed set, and you know I've already preordered.



I loved this read!One of 21 books in our Secret Worlds boxed set.


BySusan Stec "Susan Stec"on May 26, 2015Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase


Summoned captivated me from the first chapter with gritty characters and witty originality. I fell in lust with the author's protagonist and totally wished I were his lover, Syd, by chapter two.

Imagine being at the beckon call of a monster, someone whose wish is your command, one you don't even wish dead because the next heir is a more horrifying monster. She wishes more from you than daddy did. And it's way too personal. As Dimitri would say, "...that slow death I had hoped to avoid."

The plot took several turns along the way, and each one totally blew me away, and that doesn't happen often. Summoned is a book you can't stop thinking about getting back to.

Rainy Kaye pulled this age old myth into the 21st century with a storyline that intrigued, entertained, and surprised me with its uniqueness. I am very much looking forward to the next two books in the series.


Rainy Kaye is an aspiring overlord. In the mean time, she blogs at RainyoftheDark and writes paranormal novels from her lair somewhere in Phoenix, Arizona.

She is represented by Rossano Trentin of TZLA. Someone told her she's a USA Today Bestselling author. She thought there would be cake




I am excited to be included with 20 other USA Today and Amazon Bestselling Authors in the Secret Worlds Boxed Set. Many of you are probably already familiar with my included title, SUMMONED, but for those who aren't, here's the full blurb:

 Twenty-three year old Dimitri has to do what he is told—literally. Controlled by a paranormal bond, he is forced to use his wits to fulfill unlimited deadly wishes made by multimillionaire Karl Walker. Dimitri has no idea how his family line became trapped in the genie bond. He just knows resisting has never ended well. When he meets Syd—assertive, sexy, intelligent Syd—he becomes determined to make her his own. Except Karl has ensured Dimitri can’t tell anyone about the bond, and Syd isn’t the type to tolerate secrets. Then Karl starts sending him away on back-to-back wishes. Unable to balance love and lies, Dimitri sets out to uncover Karl’s ultimate plan and put it to an end. But doing so forces him to confront the one wish he never saw coming—the wish that will destroy him. A dark twist on genie folklore, SUMMONED follows a reluctant criminal as he unravels the mystery of the paranormal bond controlling him. SUMMONED is represented by Rossano Trentin of TZLA.***


Summoned has over 125 reviews on Amazon. Normally you can purchase my book alone for $2.99, however, for this summer only (and the pre-order period leading up to this summer) you can snag a copy of this title WITH 20 OTHER ADDITIONAL TITLES all a boxed set for $0.99! That comes out to less than a nickel per book! You can learn more about the boxed set HERE or you can order your copy on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, or iBooks. While you're here, though, why not take a moment to learn more about the complete line up! I've included a super short blurb of every title in the collection. Some are not yet available and being introduced exclusively through the boxed set, but ALL of the titles are professionally edited and not a single one ends on a cliffhanger!The Secret Worlds LIMITED EDITION Collection!*** ***From USA Today Bestselling Authors***Taken by the Beast by Conner Kressley and Rebecca Hamilton: Women are going missing. Women who look a lot like Charisse. And the man this beauty is falling for may be the beast responsible.The Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton: Sophia's ancestor's body went missing during the Salem Witch Trials, and the only one able to help solve the mystery is a shapeshifter Sophia is afraid to trust. Summoned by Rainy Kaye: Dimitri can't reveal the paranormal bond controlling him, and Syd won't tolerate his secrets. Purgatory by Susan Stec: A sex-hungry myth with no name, no flesh, and no identity ...unless it wears one of you. The Pandora Principle by Noree Cosper: As a descendant of Pandora, Cassi must discover if her lover is one of the evil spirits she hunts before all her friends die.


   Heart Song by Samantha LaFantasie: When incredibly handsome Marren frees Relena, there's a catch.    
From Amazon Bestselling Authors Changeling by Debbie Herbert: As a changeling and a witch work together to restore order in Fairy, they discover that love, like magic, casts its own spell of enchantment. Shiftless by Aimee Easterling: After years of suppressing her inner predator, Terra meets a shifter who forces her to reclaim her wilder side. The Black Parade by Kyoko M.: Poltergeist Michael is the key to saving Jordan's soul from hell, but can she handle the cost of her salvation? Haunting Echoes by Caethes Faron: Will Amaia's vampire clan kill her ex-fiance before she learns whether he returned from the grave for love or revenge?Braving Fate by Linsey Hall: Diana and Cadan fight demonic forces and a deadly passion that has lasted centuries. Trinity Rising by J.E. Taylor: Damian and Naomi are desperate for victory against the devil, but one wrong step couldtrigger Armageddon.Moonlight by Katie Salidas: Good girls don't wear fur, fight over men, or run around naked, howling at the moon. But Fallon's not a good girl. Lash by L.G. Castillo: Lash, a fallen angel, must choose where to place his trust--in a home he fought so hard to regain or in a forbidden love he can't bear to lose.Between by Lisa Swallow: Alek could kill Rose with a kiss. Finn, with a touch. Pulled into an intense affair with Alek, Rose discovers her connection to Finn threatens them all. The Devil's Fool by Rachel McClellan: When vampire Boaz gives Eve the one thing she never had--love--she falls into a world of greed and seduction.Spark Rising by Kate Corcino: A runaway Spark and the agent arresting her ignite a revolution to end their people's enslavement while resisting the electricity between them.Ruby's Fire by Catherine Stine: On the run from a desert cult, Ruby must choose which handsome stranger to trust with her heart and her darkest secret: Armonk or Blane. Cursed by Lucy Leroux: Governess Isobel Sterling has been hiding an uncanny ability her whole life--until she has to use it to save herself from a madman. Hunted by A.J. Colby: With Agent Holbrook's help, Riley races time to stay ahead of a crazed werewolf killer.Vigilant by Angel Lawson: Ari stumbles into a world of crime and vigilantism while discovering the one man that sets her heart on fire.$0.99 PreOrder Price GuaranteeAmazon | Barnes and Noble | Kobo | iBooks


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A NEW ADULT series and you can find it on Amazonafter April 15th
~~~~DoppelgangerI am who you are.~~~~
I push myself into your body, absorb everything that is you, and wear you like a glove~~Then there are two of us~~




 Live fast, play hard, move on! That was my mantra......until I dressed myself in CeCe  ...and she led me to Gaire.





Sexy laugh, body to die for, and eyes to get lost in, Gaire intrigued me, attracts me, and churns up feelings I've never felt before. 





Gaire turns out to be the ultimate  bad boy.  I run, and swear never to look back. Only problem is, I can't forget him. Time to find a new body. One Gaire will like. Because I want more than being a dark meaningless creature from pretending to be part of what's above Damn it, I want to rock Gaire's world! Unfortunately, I'll have to find him first. 
My second host, and by far my favorite, is Jane.   I met her on a corner on South Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando. The girl's got spunk. Jane helped me find Gaire, kill a bad guy, and then she was gone.* A single mother, tall, thin, healthy, and  loving; she can talk with ghosts.  Gaire's motto is 'We Can Work it Out.' To do that I need the witch, Gracie Jean. 
April 15th






ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I love laughing with my daughters, class B scary movies, fine cuisine and hamburgers from Wendy's. I'm addicted to electronics, dark chocolate, vintage eyeglass frames, warm socks, have been known to drive miles for a really good cup of cappuccino. I'm a wannabe gamer--Zelda is my fave, but I'll play Mario with my grandson for hours. I am an Amazon girl all the way, baby. I LOVE my Kindle!--support Indie authors.
 My favorite all-time television series are Twin Peaks and Dark Shadows. Best movies ever, 1943 A Christmas Carol and Soylent Green. Favorite authors, Stephen King and Ann Rice.



There isn't just one thing I'm passionate about. I'm married to a wonderful man, have two adult daughters, three grandsons, and three dogs. I live on fifty acres and hunt and fish. I will get up in the middle of the night to listen to the coyote sing, sit under a tin roof in the middle of a rain storm, stare at barren trees and revel in the white show surrounding them. I sew, do stained glass, paint watercolors, make jewelry, but most of all, I write. I write because I have to, and because it amuses me to live vicariously through my characters.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead~~Oscar Wilde
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Purgatory, and Gaire

As she slowly walks toward me I can smell desire. Not human desire, a musky, animalistic desire—essential, dark, and demanding. Her blouse comes off first and she tosses it at my feet, steps out of her cutoffs, and stands before me in a triangle of black lace.Our eyes lock. I feel hair on my neck prickle as my spine shifts and mouth salivates; heart hammering, jaw tightening, I bend and pick up her clothes. She's a breath away, waiting, feet parted, lace riding fingers as she runs them over her hips. I grit my teeth and place the clothes in between pink breasts framed in rich tanned skin; when my knuckles connect with soft creamy flesh my body tightens, prickles another warning, and it's all I can do to keep from taking her right there.


I can hear his heartbeat; I feel the heat of his gaze, the strength behind his touch. Crap! My head is spinning—my head, not the human's I'm wearing. I never do this. I amuse myself and let them do the dreaming, the what-if's, and get off on that. I don't contemplate commitment, relationships, love! I just get my high on. I trade them their lives for a quick fix.Damn it, sex with this guy is not going to be a quick fix. I want...I realize I'm grabbing for my clothes before they fall to the floor, and he's stepping back, shaking his head. What the hell?


Sexy laugh, body to die for, and eyes to get lost in, Gaire intrigues me, attracts me, and churns up feelings I've never felt before.
But he turns out to be the ultimate  bad boy.  I run, and swear never to look back. Only problem is, I can't forget him.






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Coming this Valentine’s Day…Middle Eight, a romantic come...

Coming this Valentine’s Day…
Middle Eight, a romantic comedy by Audra MiddletonHe’s sex, drugs, and rock and roll. She’s spray bleach, spreadsheets, and check lists.
Will their relationship hit the charts, or break hearts?
When the normal life Ray has always dreamed of unravels, she finds herself falling for a drummer, coming to terms with her unconventional childhood, and inevitably discovering that normal was never really in her best interest



Excerpt:The loud clanking of a spoon against a cereal bowl roused Ray from her second slumber. Her nausea was completely gone, but it felt like somebody shoved a few dozen hat pins into her skull. She opened one eye, and found herself staring at someone’s bare feet.Ray had a thing about feet. Feet were disgusting appendages. Especially hairy guy feet. The Birkenstock trend nearly made her mental. She never even let her husband touch her with his feet. But these feet were different. They weren’t hairy or calloused, for one thing. They were clean, for another, and the right one had a dragon tattooed along the side of it.“Did you clean my kitchen?”Ray sat up, squinting with the pain of bright lights and hat pins stirring in her cerebrum. She dug into her purse for the ridiculous aviator shades she’d bought at the last gas station and put them on. Looking up, she saw that the feet were attached to the drummer boy from the band in the bar. Wavy brown hair tucked behind his ear, cobra tattoo hissing on his chest, he wore nothing but a pair of faded jeans. Funny, had she seen this guy in the supermarket last week, she’d have crossed the aisle to avoid him. This morning she couldn’t take her bloodshot eyes off of him.“Sorry about that. I’m psychotic.” She rubbed her temples, the effort of speaking causing more hat pin sticks. “It’s just, I got up to take some Advil, and I stepped on some Cheerios and so I tried to sweep up the crumbs, but the crumbs were stuck because the floor was sticky…next thing you know I’m scrubbing your floor. It just snowballed. It snowballed and thank God I started to feel sick or I would have moved on to the bathroom, started changing sheets while you were still sleeping in them, who knows. I clean when I’m stressed. It’s my process.”He smiled and shook his head, shoveling another spoonful of Cheerios into his mouth.“I’m Ray, by the way,” she said, removing a bobby pin that was poking at her scalp near her temple. Holy crap, maybe those aren’t imaginary hat pins in my head.“Were your parents hoping for a boy or something?”“Not exactly.”“I’m Van,” he said, in between bites.Van. A flicker of excitement stirred in Ray’s stomach. Might she have stumbled upon somebody else whose parents were too high in the seventies to properly name their child?“Were you conceived in a van or something?”He did a combination laugh-choke. “Uh, I have no idea. My first name is Jeff, last name Vandermark. Van’s just a nickname. It’s easier since there always seems to be at least three other Jeffsin any given room.”Ray sighed. A fun nickname given by friends. She couldn’t relate to that. “You hungry?” he asked, pointing his spoon at his bowl of Cheerios.“A few hours ago I swore I’d never eat again. Think I’d better hold off.”He smiled slightly, and got up to pour himself another bowl. Ray sucked in a breath. When he passed by she got an eyeful of chiseled obliques, angled perfectly, pointing toward the Promised Land. What is wrong with me? Escaping lunatic husband, thirty bucks to my name, dead car, remember? Not the time to drool over drummer boys.“Thanks for letting me crash here last night. I’d get out of your hair, but I have no idea where my car is. I mean, I know it’s at a bar somewhere in Portland…”He laughed into his spoonful of cereal and nodded as he struggled with a swallow. “Right. Let me finish eating and we can go see about your car.”

 
About the Author:Audra Middleton was born and raised in Washington State where she lives with her husband and their three boys. She gave up her teaching career to raise her children, and in between diaper changes and baseball games, she began writing books. Once she started, she couldn’t stop, even after she went back to teaching.





For more information about Audra & her books:Web page/blog - http://www.audramiddleton.comFacebook page – http://www.facebook.com/AudraMiddletonAuthorGoodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6883579.Audra_Middleton
 More Books by Audra Middleton:
HitchhikerSupernatural abilities haunt her. Brainiac students taunt her. The FBI "Freak Squad" wants her. Will she abandon her extra sensory talents in favor of freedom, or or will she hone them to help catch crooks?NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK at Champagne Book Group, Amazon, iTune, iBookstore, Kobo, and  Barnes & Noble.




WatcherAn orphan girl seeks the oblivion of the forest while darkness lures the Chosen Son of prophecy, yet they find each other, and their budding love could destroy the very world Goran, the tormented prophet, is trying to save.Buy Links:Available as an ebook at Burstbooks.ca, iTunes, Amazon.com, iBookstore, Kobo, and  Barnes & Noble.com. Also available as a paperback Amazon,  Barnes & Noble, and Champagne Book Group.



AbominationA sequel to Watcher.The seeds are planted. Which will take root, change or destruction?Buy Links:Available in paperback and as an e-book on Amazon, and now available on Barnes & Noble and iBookstore.

Witchy

Steam up a witchy tale. Ingredients: 

1 good witch who makes majorly stupid relationship choices
A warlock with control issues
A vintage Mustang



Preparation:
In a well-ventilated garage, toss the witch into a large cauldron with a *Bunsen burner set on high.
Add a warlock with control issues, and a  vintage Mustang: red with black interior.
Stir vigorously.
Put-A-Lid-On-The-Cauldron! Bring the mixture to a rapid boil.
(Don't go all wonky when the warlock's Mustang bursts into flames)
Let the mixture stew for, oh, 3 seconds (or until you hear loud furry-animal noises), and open the lid.
Wallah! You have conjured up a black cat!
*!* Remove the cat (don't freak out if the cat starts cussing at you. The witch is inside the cat).
*!* Now back away from the cauldron.

AMAZON

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* A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion .


*!* Said cat may be extremely angry so handle with care (I suggest you shove it into a pillowcase and tie up the opening)... just sayin'.

*!* The warlock is about to jump out. When he sees his beautiful Mustang burning he's going to be really, really angry. He will be less apt to turn you into a toad if you hand him the cat in the pillowcase--not your problem if he takes the trapped witch 200 miles from home and dumps her.





Follow   USA Today Bestselling Author Susan Stec loves laughing with her daughters, class B horror flicks... and rainy days. She's addicted to electronics, dark chocolate, vintage eyeglass frames, and fuzzy warm socks.There isn't just one thing she's passionate about: "Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment." - Barry LePatner (Color me experienced!)

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead~~Oscar Wilde

Clowns are human travesties buried under layers of pancake makeup and enticing Crayola-colored clothing.~~~Susan Stec

"You got to kick at the darkness 'till it bleeds daylight ~ Bruce Cockburn

The higher the building the lower the morals~~Noel Coward

After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box- Italian proverb

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today ~~James Dean

Wherever I'm going, I want to be laughing when I get there ~Jeni Decker-Lopez, The Infinitely Infinite Jest
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2015

COMING SOON...
Rebecca Hamilton's latest release, COME, THE DARK, book 2 in the Forever Girl series. 

FREE in December

December Specials  FREE on AmazonDecember 1st thru 3rd 

Dekram can't help feeling like an outcast. She's the only mixed breed fairy running around her secluded home realm of Wandermere. She loves her parents, but part of her wishes she could just be like everyone else. That sentiment only intensifies when she begins overhearing strange conversations the adults seem to be having about her and her future. Something isn't quite right in Wandermere and Dekram seems to be at the center of it. 





FREE on Amazon December 3rd thru 5th The Purgatory seriesForget Me  #1 in the novella series, PURGATORY which takes a doppelgänger through a number of female hosts in search of love and stability in a world where it doesn't exist.

The doppelgänger: a myth, a night fright, as singular as an individual's nightmare—a demon's blunder. It has no name, no sex, no flesh, and no identity unless it wears one of you, a human.

Gaire: the doppelgänger's wicked attraction, an anomaly, a wendigo-aswang half-breed; he's a rogue hiding from a race that wants him dead. He can't fight what he is—they won't let him forget what he's done.

Born into lives where hope leads to disappointment and wishes lead to disaster; could two very different creatures find love in each others arms? Maybe, but they will have to fight all that is Down Under before they find out.

FREE on Amazon
December 6th thru 10th The Dark and Deadly series A demented mind? Or a mind with dementia?

Viola Fisher may be in her eighties, look a bit zany, and pop out with an amusing rendition of a favorite song in the middle of a sentence. But tread lightly, because if you happen to resemble the antagonist in her last murder mystery or television show, or sound like a suspect in a recent news article, you may end up her next victim.


FREE on Amazon December 8th thru 12thThe Dark and Deadly series

In the small town of Reed City, Michigan there are secrets well-kept like any other small city in rural America. But in the community surrounding the town common a dark secret begins to bleed from basements and attics onto the streets. One murder after the other takes place, and soon it becomes clear someone is trying to break the wicked circle of miss doings that have carried on from generation to generation in the heart this city.




FREE on Amazon
December 10th thru 12th
The Grateful Undead series
Susan is 58-years-old and bored with life. Middle age is a daily drudge of sagging body parts and aches and pains. Her fervent prayer that she could somehow recapture her youth comes true one night during a chance encounter with a child-like vampire. As soon as the other women in her family see the transformation they waste no time in sticking their necks out, hoping Susan will share this new-found fountain of youth.

Suddenly, this newly born group of hot-bodied vamps find themselves thrust into a world controlled by an ancient order of vampires. A world with rules, all of which the ladies pretty much break within hours of becoming immortals. And the little matter of the accidental epidemic of vamped out wildlife isn't exactly endearing them to the powers that be, either.

They're So Vein is a hilarious and irreverent new twist on the paranormal/vampire romance genre.


FREE on Amazon

December 17th thru 19th The Dead Girls series Toni's grandmother is a psychopath.
Her sister is a ghost.
Her boyfriend is possessed.
And she has no idea who she is.

Summer vacation is ruined when Toni's twin sister, Sara, dies. Instead of walking into the light, Sara stomps directly away from it, totally pissed she didn't die in her skinny jeans. That's when Sara finds out their grandmother has a gift for talking to dead people, and two spritely spirits and a nasty soothsayer named Bartholomew are all working their angle with Toni's future caught in between.

Dear old Granny's determined not to be the last necromancer in the family, but with the death of her promiscuous granddaughter, her only option is Toni, who must remain a virgin until her eighteenth birthday without any ghostly interference from Sara.

Sara's not having any of it; especially since the guy Granny's conspiring with is the same guy that assisted in Sara's demise. Toni needs help! But protecting her sister is complicating all the ghostly fun on the other side!

Can death stop a twin? Maybe not, but Granny knows Dead Girls Never Shut Up.

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Coming this Valentine’s Day…Middle Eight, a romantic come...

Coming this Valentine’s Day…
Middle Eight, a romantic comedy by Audra MiddletonHe’s sex, drugs, and rock and roll. She’s spray bleach, spreadsheets, and check lists.
Will their relationship hit the charts, or break hearts?
When the normal life Ray has always dreamed of unravels, she finds herself falling for a drummer, coming to terms with her unconventional childhood, and inevitably discovering that normal was never really in her best interest



Excerpt:The loud clanking of a spoon against a cereal bowl roused Ray from her second slumber. Her nausea was completely gone, but it felt like somebody shoved a few dozen hat pins into her skull. She opened one eye, and found herself staring at someone’s bare feet.Ray had a thing about feet. Feet were disgusting appendages. Especially hairy guy feet. The Birkenstock trend nearly made her mental. She never even let her husband touch her with his feet. But these feet were different. They weren’t hairy or calloused, for one thing. They were clean, for another, and the right one had a dragon tattooed along the side of it.“Did you clean my kitchen?”Ray sat up, squinting with the pain of bright lights and hat pins stirring in her cerebrum. She dug into her purse for the ridiculous aviator shades she’d bought at the last gas station and put them on. Looking up, she saw that the feet were attached to the drummer boy from the band in the bar. Wavy brown hair tucked behind his ear, cobra tattoo hissing on his chest, he wore nothing but a pair of faded jeans. Funny, had she seen this guy in the supermarket last week, she’d have crossed the aisle to avoid him. This morning she couldn’t take her bloodshot eyes off of him.“Sorry about that. I’m psychotic.” She rubbed her temples, the effort of speaking causing more hat pin sticks. “It’s just, I got up to take some Advil, and I stepped on some Cheerios and so I tried to sweep up the crumbs, but the crumbs were stuck because the floor was sticky…next thing you know I’m scrubbing your floor. It just snowballed. It snowballed and thank God I started to feel sick or I would have moved on to the bathroom, started changing sheets while you were still sleeping in them, who knows. I clean when I’m stressed. It’s my process.”He smiled and shook his head, shoveling another spoonful of Cheerios into his mouth.“I’m Ray, by the way,” she said, removing a bobby pin that was poking at her scalp near her temple. Holy crap, maybe those aren’t imaginary hat pins in my head.“Were your parents hoping for a boy or something?”“Not exactly.”“I’m Van,” he said, in between bites.Van. A flicker of excitement stirred in Ray’s stomach. Might she have stumbled upon somebody else whose parents were too high in the seventies to properly name their child?“Were you conceived in a van or something?”He did a combination laugh-choke. “Uh, I have no idea. My first name is Jeff, last name Vandermark. Van’s just a nickname. It’s easier since there always seems to be at least three other Jeffsin any given room.”Ray sighed. A fun nickname given by friends. She couldn’t relate to that. “You hungry?” he asked, pointing his spoon at his bowl of Cheerios.“A few hours ago I swore I’d never eat again. Think I’d better hold off.”He smiled slightly, and got up to pour himself another bowl. Ray sucked in a breath. When he passed by she got an eyeful of chiseled obliques, angled perfectly, pointing toward the Promised Land. What is wrong with me? Escaping lunatic husband, thirty bucks to my name, dead car, remember? Not the time to drool over drummer boys.“Thanks for letting me crash here last night. I’d get out of your hair, but I have no idea where my car is. I mean, I know it’s at a bar somewhere in Portland…”He laughed into his spoonful of cereal and nodded as he struggled with a swallow. “Right. Let me finish eating and we can go see about your car.”

 
About the Author:Audra Middleton was born and raised in Washington State where she lives with her husband and their three boys. She gave up her teaching career to raise her children, and in between diaper changes and baseball games, she began writing books. Once she started, she couldn’t stop, even after she went back to teaching.





For more information about Audra & her books:Web page/blog - http://www.audramiddleton.comFacebook page – http://www.facebook.com/AudraMiddletonAuthorGoodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6883579.Audra_Middleton
 More Books by Audra Middleton:
HitchhikerSupernatural abilities haunt her. Brainiac students taunt her. The FBI "Freak Squad" wants her. Will she abandon her extra sensory talents in favor of freedom, or or will she hone them to help catch crooks?NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK at Champagne Book Group, Amazon, iTune, iBookstore, Kobo, and  Barnes & Noble.




WatcherAn orphan girl seeks the oblivion of the forest while darkness lures the Chosen Son of prophecy, yet they find each other, and their budding love could destroy the very world Goran, the tormented prophet, is trying to save.Buy Links:Available as an ebook at Burstbooks.ca, iTunes, Amazon.com, iBookstore, Kobo, and  Barnes & Noble.com. Also available as a paperback Amazon,  Barnes & Noble, and Champagne Book Group.



AbominationA sequel to Watcher.The seeds are planted. Which will take root, change or destruction?Buy Links:Available in paperback and as an e-book on Amazon, and now available on Barnes & Noble and iBookstore.












 I'm very pleased to have the author of one of my favorite young adult series, DelSheree Gladden, here to answer some questions about WICKED GLORY in the Someone Wicked this Way Comes series. I've read all three novels and am looking forward for the release of book 4, which I hear, Mrs. Gladden is now working on. You can see all three of my reviews for this series on Goodreads and Amazon. 


Author Interview DelSheree, what was the inspiration for your story?

The inspiration for this particular book in the series really grew from Zander’s need for redemption and Van’s struggle to find out who she really is on a personal level. This book, even more than the others in the series, really focuses on the siblings’ personal conflicts and their attempts to correct past mistakes and find their inner strength.

What kept you going throughout the writing process?Ketchup’s fans, LOL! Not every reader loves Ketchup, but he tends to be a fan favorite. I got requests that he become a prize in a giveaway, readers asking to “borrow” him from Van for a while… I love that readers are enjoying him so much and asking for more. The reader support really kept me going even when I struggled to get any writing done on Wicked Glory.

Who is your most meaningful character and why?In Wicked Glory, I felt like Zander really developed from his initial self-centered, somewhat egotistical character into someone who truly begins to understand what it means to love someone so completely it almost hurts, and what true sacrifice not only requires, but demands.

Can we expect to hear more from these characters in the near future?Definitely! There will be at least one more book in the series (which will feature Ketchup on the cover this time, yeah!) and possibly a fifth. I’m not sure yet, and probably won’t be until I write “The End” on book four. I’ll keep everyone updated though!

How has this story touched your life?As I worked on this story, I spent a lot of time considering what it takes sometimes to find your own inner strength. It’s not an easy thing to do, and at times it takes and external force or situation to make a person realize how strong they really are. During this time my husband and I listened to several nonfiction audio books like the Louis Zamperini story, which is an amazing account of personal strength and endurance. So much of his story will shock you, but his determination to survive a Japanese prison camp and the torture they put him through was inspiring. Listening to his history really impacted me and helped me while writing this book and trying to understand the topics I was writing about.
What motivated you to start writing?I loved reading when I younger, and still do, not just for the escape it provides, but for the connections I get to make with characters. That connection and understanding was special to me as a child and I wanted to be able to create that for someone else.


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About the Author DelSheree Gladden was one of those shy, quiet kids who spent more time reading than talking. Literally. She didn't speak a single word for the first three months of preschool, but she had already taught herself to read. Her fascination with reading led to many hours spent in the library and bookstores, and eventually to writing. She wrote her first novel when she was sixteen years old, but spent ten years rewriting and perfecting it before having it published.
Native to New Mexico, DelSheree and her husband spent several years in Colorado for college and work before moving back home to be near family again. Their two children love having their cousins close by. When not writing, you can find DelSheree reading, painting, sewing and trying not to get bitten by small children in her work as a dental hygienist. DelSheree has several bestselling young adult series, including "Invisible" which was part of the USA Today Bestselling box set, "Pandora." The Date Shark Series is her first contemporary romance series.  
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