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FANTASIES

hi,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

my sister (CHRISTINA OW) have our first fantasy/ paranormal books coming out. Its our birthday B.T.W. (just thought i would sneak that in there)

FATE REBORN by CRISTINA OW is already out and available.

Sorrow and torment have been the only companions werewolf Ashat has had in the three centuries since his entire village, including his beloved family, was killed by his enemy, Baku. Though he has resigned himself to a life of revenge, his world suddenly changes when he meets a lovely young woman he never expected.

Merilee lost her family in a fire when she was just five years old. Though she remembers little from that night, terrible nightmares have plagued her ever since. As she finally starts to move on, and new friends enter her life, she begins to remember more about her history and that horrible night. However, each new memory only seems to unlock more questions and uncertainties than answers about what actually happened.

Despite their horrid pasts, Ashat and Merilee begin a relationship that gives them both a reason to hope and live again.

But can they move on from their pasts, or are their demons back again?

here is a snippet;

���Sabrina, that���s enough.��� Ashat shoved her off him. He pulled on his pants and got out of bed to get another beer.

���Are you sure?��� she asked, using her horny voice. She was now seated on the bed, naked. She rubbed her right foot slow and seductively over her left leg, as her fingers played with her long hair.

“If you are trying to seduce me you���ll have to try harder.”

HUNTED by KENYAN KNIGHT (ME) is out on the 10th of FEB.

trapped between two loves,good and evil and made prey by her desires. Sloan is hunted.

WELCOME TO LOONEY TOWN

Don’t you think that authors are a bit looney. They have all these people living in their heads and the only way to get them out is to write their stories. And sometimes that doesn’t even work and they have to write another and another and another and another….

On my all profiles (I just realized) on the bio I always write, “I listen to the voices in my head” Normally out there in society you tell someone you hear voices you are put in straight jacket. On this side of the pond, you are find yourself sitting on a rock in a forest in the middle of nowhere with a guy who is wearing a rumor of clothing dancing around you with a rattle filled with bones and beads. He sprays stuff on you, the favorite chicken blood, then dips you in a river somewhere to the point of asphyxiation in the name of cleansing you of all the evil spirits talking to you in your head.

By now you are wondering why is she telling us this? this is why, someone once told me write what you know. That the ONLY way you can write a good story is by writing what you know (due to my sales i might think she was onto something. I’m kidding) if we only wrote what we knew or what we experienced books would be limited to one genre or practically the same plot but different stories.

If we only wrote what we know I wonder where Brenda Davis and Stephanie Meyer’s met Liam and Edward, or where Nikki Davis met Kane and Ryne. Because I would like to meet them too. As authors we have the free will to dip into the craziest part of our minds, the fantastical area where it allows us to write about vampires, lycans ( I don’t want to say demons) and pantheras. there are no restrictions or regulations on how far we can take the fantastical being we conjure up in our minds. This is why I saw that authors, writers have got the crazies!

Don’t write just what you know, do not do yourself such a great disservice. Combine what you know, to give your story a piece or reality, with what you don’t know. Do not limit yourself to expectations that are not your own.

Own your crazy!

IT’S CHRISTMAS AND ALMOST NEW YEAR

GUUUUUYYYYYYSSSS!

I just want to say thank you for the support you have given me this year. I gave a copy of my book to you lovely folks to enjoy during the holidays. The winners were.

TERRE MCDOUGAL- THE DEVIL’S ANGEL

  Yvan D’Alessandro likes his women the same way he likes his business, exclusive and under his control. He has an affair with his secretary until he finds out that his father is sleeping with her too. Yvan is angry and wants revenge, but not from his father he expected that from him, but from Rubi the woman he was in lust with.

Rae agreed with Yvan’s plan for revenge, all she wanted was a man of her own, it didn’t matter that this man wanted her twin sister Rubi. But Rae son discovers she bit off more than she can chew, she abandons her hopes of getting Yvan to fall in love with her. However she can’t get out of the marriage, D’Alessandros don’t get divorced.

Yvan and Rae have to figure out how to cope in their marriage without Rubi getting involved. But it’s hard especially since each time Yvan looks at Rae all he sees is Rubi.

IRIS PHILYAW- ONE NIGHT STAND

Catelella Ross thought that she had been through it all and had come out of the other side a winner. Beating leukemia and getting her life back with the support of her husband, that’s what she thought. When her husband Michael discovers that she can’t have a child due to the chemotherapy he leaves her. Catalella tries to commit suicide but when she is saved she wakes up with a new lease on life. A few years later she concentrates all her efforts on the law firm that her father had left to her.

Ethan McCreery had a hard time growing up. The death of his father forced him to take over the family empire, but he still had his father’s best friend calling the shots. He has to prove himself so as to inherit all of the fortune his father had left to him. A billionaire business man by day and a night club owner by night, a one night stand changes his life completely. Bewitched by Catalella’s full lips the last thing he expected to come out of them are the words “I am pregnant!”

IRENE CHUMBA-DENOUEMENT

Marietta Parks believes that the only way to stop surprises from happening in life is to control your own fate. Paying attention to every detail she scripts out her own life. Leaving love, romance and children out of it. But then she meets a man who just has to be added into her story, Tobias Harden was the man of everyone’s dreams but t her he was a lovely addition to her already scripted life.

Tobias Harden was the modern day Casanova. Love was not in his vocabulary, and he was allergic to the word commitment, like poison Ivy to the bare skin. A chance kiss with Marietta Parks makes him question his single life. He was to be the best for her, and oddly enough she happens to be the only woman he wants to kiss. Tobias convinces Marietta that she needs him in her life. But after three years of marriage and life’s obstacles, he finds himself in bed with another woman. He has to convince her that he is still the man for her, especially now that she’s pregnant.

CHRISTABEL WANJIRU-BETRAYED

Reno Kanaloa Kent, had been abandoned by both his mother and father. His father, Dennis Kent, a prestigious business man in New York, left his family behind when his inheritance was threatened. He had been given a choice the love of money or that of his family and he had picked the former. His mother Kono Kanaloa, a simple island girl, had stopped taking care of his little sister, him and herself when the love of her life walked out the door. Reno’s misfortune didn’t end there. In the dead of the night his sister had been abducted from his bed and he wasn’t able to save her. The guilt of letting down his little sister, Rhyne has followed him through his entire life. Revenge for the betrayal of his father is the only thing that drives him, especially after his mother’s death. He goes to New York to seek his revenge. His luck improves when he meets Dennis Kent’s godchildren at a university end of summer bash.

Lisette had always wanted freedom to be a woman. But her adoptive father and brother are overprotective of her. Her potential boyfriend betrays her and runs off with her underage sister to get married in Vegas. Reno seems to be the only one to help keep her sanity. But she learns that he isn’t who he says he is. She angry with him, but she can’t deny the love in her heart.

Reno and Lisette have to work through the betrayal they feel to be together. Their relationship runs a course filled with obstacles and they finally reunite they love.

ON CALL-JOHN OPANDE

AJ Ross has always focused his attention on two things, women and medicine. He was the best at both. He was the “love ‘em and leave ‘em type. But when he moves in with a girl he had a fling with, a girl he cannot remember, his life slowly begins to unravel.

Katherine had always done what was expected of her. She was daddy’s little obedient girl. But when her father arranges a marriage between her and her friend she begins to rebel. Katherine bumps into a man who gave her a night she could never forget. The problem is, he can’t seem to remember her. So when they end up living together all Katherine wants to do is make sure AJ remembers her—and the night he took her virginity. Will she succeed? Will AJ remember her and want more, or will Katherine’s arranged marriage stand in the way?

THE REBEL’S OWN-WINNIE NJERI

Back in high school, a cruel “game” by the popular crowd left shy Kennedy Bailey pregnant and alone. But now she’s gorgeous and grown-up and she won’t let anything stop her from saving the life of her five-year-old son when he’s diagnosed with leukemia. Even if it means confronting his father, NFL quarterback Ryan Carville.As her child’s health takes a turn for the worse, Kennedy feels helpless and resolves to pull off a daring scheme – seducing Ryan to create another baby to save the one they already have. They reconnect for a steamy one-night stand, but Ryan can’t forget about the dark beauty.When he discovers the truth of who she is, Ryan is shocked and determined to give his son everything he needs, which includes marrying his mother. But a quickie wedding in Vegas won’t solve all their problems. Can Ryan show Kennedy that he’s changed from a spineless boy to a man worth loving?

RED TEARS BLUE BLOOD- JENYNISE BARTLEY

Alma had said no to love. The pain of a lost love was too much. But when Christoffer walks into her life, Alma decides to give love a second chance, hoping that fate would be kinder to her this time. However, loving Christoffer seems to take everything out of her. They are so different. He’s white, and she black, he’s rich and she’s poor. But Alma is determined to fight for her love.

Christoffer was running away from his past and future and ran into Alma’s arms. Al he wants is to see a smile on her face, but his secret is threatening their happiness. Christoffer is living a double life. He was brought up to honor his duties to his family. But now he has to honor duty to his love, Alma. Christoffer has to hope that Alma will keep standing by his side.

HIS LOVE -BRENDA SAYO

What happens when the person engineered by God to love you—can’t?

Antonio is the CEO of a multi-million dollar company, but his huge house and sleek car don’t matter when it comes to knowing how to love his young daughter. Every time he looks at her, all he can see is the reason his wife is dead. But when the beautiful Rayne falls into his life as his daughter’s nanny he is forced out of his ice cold exterior. He finds himself falling hard for his newest employee, but Rayne doesn’t want anything to do with him. It doesn’t matter how handsome or ruggedly perfect his exterior is—how he treats his daughter tears at Rayne’s very soul.

Antonio has to learn how to love his daughter again, while trying to convince the woman he loves to stay with him and not bolt at the first opportunity…

COVERT EXISTENCE- MIRANDA PYATT HOWELL

What do you do when you have committed the ultimate no-no? You keep the secret as long as you can.

Charlie Montgomery has kept her child a secret for six years. But when push comes to shove she must bring in her baby’s father to help her.

Reece Morgan wanted it all: the family, the house with the white picket fence and maybe a dog. But all that is taken away from him in a night. The woman he thought was his future just abandoned him.

 

LOVE LETTERS- STEPHANIE BARTLEY

Maxine did not believe in soul mates or the term ‘love of my life’. According to her, life was a revolving door which people walked in and out of. However, when she finds herself at a crucible, she holds on to love. The love of a mother, a husband and that of a lover. The past shades a light into her confused present and Taylor, the boy she never thought she could count on is by her side every step of the way.

 

 

THE MARA SONG-RECHO WANJIKU NJUNGE

Wakio escapes the city trying to distance herself from her broken heart. She finds peace of mind at the heart of the Mara, but something she didn’t expect to find was love. Christopher is known to many as Jonathan, and to those familiar to him know that Jonathan is about to get married. He meets a lady and doesn’t tell her who is truly is or why he is at the Mara.

he learns how quickly one can fall in love. But he also learns that love is only for the strong. How can he fight for Wakio when he isn’t strong enough?

MY PATH- SYLVIA NDEGWA

When does love seize being enough? This is the question Gabriella struggles with when the love of her life turns into her tormentor. All Gabriella wanted to do was to go back home and work with her father on the ranch. But when she meets a young ranch hand she gets more incentive to stay on the hacienda. But her father has something else on his mind. He wants gabriella to be married to his bestfriends son, to merge the two families wealth. Falling in love and running away with Tony, her father’s ranch hand, was not in his plans. Feeling like she finally got her happily ever after, Gabriella doesn’t expect Tony to turn on their love. The sweet romance soon turns violent and Gabriella considers going back home. Home seems to be the only place where things were normal and where her happiness existed. She goes through hell and back, escaping from home to be with the man she loves but only ends up going backhome to find her true happiness.

Next year is promising bigger and better things, I hope to bring you along with me. So I have at least four books coming out next year. For my New Yorker Series fans I am going to try to get the last three books out next year. I have rushed rough work so I won’t be able to I apologize, 2016 is also an awesome year (i hope).

Anyway enjoy your holidays, like my Amazon page and keep up with the new releases.

Merry Christmas and have a blessed happy New Year.

SO IT’S HER YOU WANT?

Originally posted on This gal I know...M.I.A:

“One thing is for sure if i can’t make it work with him, then I’ll never make it work with anyone else, because…I love him and I’ll always love him. I need something to drink, a pill to take. I want to be numb, my thoughts silenced, something.”

“You my dear are doomed to be plague the pain, and there is no morphine for a heart break.”

“He loves me.”

“He doesn’t, and he never did.”

Shot to the heart? Nope, hers already gone, broken into little bits and slowly ceasing to exist.

“Oh God, don’t let me loose him, I don’t know what I am going to do. Why can’t I tell him that he is hurting me. I feel him pulling away from me day by day. I’ve wanted to give up so many times but my heart thought otherwise. Thinking with my heart has not been my…

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IT’S JUST HIM

Originally posted on This gal I know...M.I.A:

A sharp cry brought him back to the realization of her innocence. Even in his urgency how could he have forgotten. he was incapable of letting her go, but still managed to hold back. Stroking her trembling body, soothing her fear, catching her tear with his thumb and yet he was still incapable of holding his need at bay…it was beyond his control.

She might have as well asked for heaven in hell. It was impossible for her to reconcile her latest rash decision. A few minutes ago, before the pain and the doubt, she thought that this was the way to get him back, the way to mend her broken heart.

When he heard her sobs he pulled back, stared at her. He held her for a while and for a second she thought, “he gets it… the sacrifice she made. maybe it was worth it.” then seconds later…

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Old Ghosts…

Originally posted on Read me...:

I found this poem with my stuff and considering I don’t even remember writing it, it’s amazing the paper is still in mint condition. I even did an internet search to make sure I didn’t copy it somewhere ( ;) ) I probably wrote it in High School. I don’t even remember what inspired it but it’s pretty strong… what was i going through?

It’s not very good but at the right time and moment, I sure I’ll be able to make it better.

I cry inside me, I cry.

I’m down on my knees, I cry hopelessly.

I know I’ll never breath your love.

The truth has to surrender itself before adversity befalls me as I wait.

It was under your spell that you got me crushed,

Since I set my eyes on your devine image its haunted me.

(couldn’t be that hot if I don’t remember him)

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MY NAME IS M.I.A

guyys,

Happy holidays!!

So while I am away enjoying my vacation there will be a couple of posts on my other site This girl I know M.I.A

This is going to be in prep for the books coming out in 2015, the them being, PEOPLE FALL IN LOVE…IN HEART BREAK.

so here are the titles and 2 blurbs. enjoy. so visit the site This girl I know M.I.A.

shed some tears with me, smile with me then celebrate love.

1.LOVE AND WAR

Raven wasn’t promiscuous. When she was younger she saw the world differently, and focused on her studies. However, when she met Fabio she thought that she could give love and sex a try. Big mistake. Fabio turned out to be an abusive monster. And after his death Raven promised to live her life the way she wanted but with her eyes wide open. So when a man who resembled her monster walked into the bar, she decided it was the perfect time to get over her fear and conquer her monster. What she didn’t expect was that he one night stand was actually Fabio and he did things very differently.

All Guillermo de Castillo has ever wanted to do is live up to his responsibilities and get revenge on the woman he believed he murdered his brother. What he didn’t expect was that he would slowly fall in love with the woman and become a man he never thought he was. he doesn’t say the words I love you because he associates that to betraying the memory of his brother.

2.BROKEN HEARTS

Drew thought that he had finally found the woman he would be with for the rest of his life. That is until he found his “wife” and the bestman in the honeymoon sweet. Having his marriage annulled he found himself alone and vulnerable once again. he needed a drive just to clear his head and his father, was riding shot gun. Drew didn’t know that that was a ride only one of them would come back from.

Piper met a dying man in the ER and she promised him that his son would be alright.  Piper kept her promise by sitting with Drew during the night when his mother couldn’t and paying extra attention to his care in the hospital. Her constant vigilance led to one thing, falling in love with a man she had never met before. Desperate for him to wake up, to see the color of his eyes, she leaned over him and kissed him.

An angel, that’s what Drew thought brought him to life when he opened his eyes and saw dark chocolate eyes looking into his. But then when his instant fascination with the black beauty was replaced by unimaginable pain, the memory of his failed wedding night came back to him. He was in an accident and he was sure his father was dead. Barely 24 hours awake, Drew is visited by the family lawyer, he needed to get married in two weeks or loose everything his father had left to him. Who better to marry than his angel. Drew and Leo convince Piper to marry him to save the family fortune. There was just one more thing, she needed to give him a son.

Piper was happy to marry Drew she was in love with him, but the sad thing was Drew had given up on love. His focus was to avenge the death of his father. And according to him, love was just a sign of weakness, one he didn’t need. Piper is determined to heal Drew’s broken heart, but her plans hare disrupted when she is attacked in her old apartment.

Drew’s focus shifts from revenge and building the family empire to making sure his wife doesn’t attempt another suicide. Piper feels broken and Drew doesn’t know what to do to put her back together except profess his love for her. But Piper doesn’t believe him, she hates him now. How could he blame her? Drew finds out that Piper is pregnant but what he isn’t sure is if the baby is his or his attackers.

In the end Drew and Piper reclaim their lives and start enjoying their love.

3.HUNTED; THE AWAKENING 1 (fantasy)
4. ONCE UPON A PLAYBOY; THE NEWYORKERS 4
5. STAY WITH ME
6. I LOVE HIM, I STILL LOVE HIM; THE NEWYORKERS 5
7. I NEEDED YOU
8. I CHOOSE YOU
9. POSSESSED; THE AWAKENING 2 (fantasy)

so yeah, that’s a lot and i’m not quite sure its all of them. I’ll let you know. Until then Catch up with the New Yorkers BETRAYED, ON CALL & ONE NIGHT STAND.

can you tell I am an #Olicity fan

****Free Reads Friday****

Originally posted on Musings of An IR Romance Junkie:

I thought I’d deviate from my usual Kindle Unlimited picks and give you some free reads to check out in honor of this Black Friday. These aren’t necessarily personal endorsements because I may or may not have read them, but they’re free, so grab them while they’re $0.00! Simply click the pic to purchase. (Pardon the formatting)

 
   

 

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Color of Love Blog Hop 2014

Originally posted on Kim Golden: women's fiction author:

I am so excited to be able to be a part of the second annual Color of Love Blog Hop. As I writer of interracial/multicultural women’s fiction, it thrills me that so many people are beginning to discover the stories we tell and understand that love comes in many different colors–and not just what’s considered “mainstream”.

I first began writing IR/MC stories when I was in high school. Back then I wrote them for myself–in the late 1980s you were hard pressed to find many IR titles on the shelves of B.Dalton, Borders and Waldenbooks. The titles you found were bodice rippers about buxom blondes being kidnapped by Native American warriors or sheikhs and falling in love. But what about stories featuring nonwhite heroines falling in love with men from different racial or cultural backgrounds? Well, I never found any, so I started writing them myself and sharing them with my…

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COLOR OF LOVE BLOG HOP

It’s that time of the year where we celebrate our love for characters of color in romantic fiction in the Color of Love Blog Hop.

I think the main point of this blog hop was to ask us as authors why we love to write interracial romances. Is it the diverse cultural setting of the stories, the exotic locations, the sexy accents or the hot bodies?

For anyone who has read my books you will notice that the setting, the locations, accents and almost maybe the hot bodies do not influence my work. Love in itself is an impossibility to me, something that at times is inconceivable and too far to reach. Love is a phenomena to me, so I imagine how interracial love was perceived a hundred years ago. Impossible. That warm cuddly feeling, the thousand butterflies in my stomach, the heart flutter and all that stumping stuff, I get those emotions in a moment I can only describe as beautiful, sometimes not in my own life, in a show, a song in real life and fiction. I guess the concept of love doesn’t make sense to most people, sometimes it doesn’t make sense to me. That is why my characters have to go through heaven and hell to be together. I don’t believe in forcing a HEA, if a couple at the end of the book is not at the right spot I make it a HFN ending. I think you will see that in my fourth NEW YORKER book. Love in that book is all about pain, a struggle that does not seem to have an end.

I don’t include racial differences in my stories. I might mention them but it will only be for a sentence or two. I may be naive but I believe that we are, even though slowly, are getting over it. Beyond black and white, although at times interracial relationships are described as a hot new trend in love literature and this is at times pushed to real life. We should not view IR Love in the same category as twerking and crop tops, this isn’t something that will go out of fashion. Even with the situations now, humanity strives not to loose itself in hate. So as ambassadors we make this IR love real not only for us but for the people who read our work. Keep the integrity.

hey, i wanted to share a review from THE DEVIL’S ANGEL

What would you do if you knew the man you loved was in love with someone else…and that someone else happened to be your twin? And what if your twin sister had the face of an angel but a heart of pure evil? That’s the scenario M.O. Kenyan ensconces us in with The Devil’s Angel. Like Gothic novels of the past, The Devil’s Angel takes the good twin/bad twin plot device and uses it to build up an thrilling love triangle, adds a sexy alpha male and oodles of family drama, infidelity and the HEA we all love in a romance and hurdles you along twists and turns that leave your head spinning in a good way.

Though they are identical in appearance, the twins in question–Rubi and Rae–couldn’t be more different if they tried. Rubi is the man-eater of the two. Sexy, manipulative and devious, she isn’t above hurting anyone who stands in the way of getting what she wants. Rae, on the other hand, is gentle, generous to a fault and too meek to fight back against the sister who physically and verbally abuses her. Rae is used to being in her sister’s shadows and now, when she is married to Yvan who lusts after her bad twin, she longs to love someone who will love her and only her. Can she get Yvan to look at her through new eyes and make him forget about Rubi? Well, you’ll just have to read it to find out.

If you’re looking for a great page-turner that will keep you hooked, then give The Devil’s Angel a shot. I really enjoyed it and even forgot to watch “How to Get Away with Murder” while I was reading it. It’s exciting, romantic and will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Two thumbs up, M.O. Kenyan!

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