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Today is the release day for the VERY LAST book in the Love in the 80s series: ONCE BITTEN, TWICE SHY (Who has the song earwormed in their brain now? You're welcome.)</div>
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<span class="MsoSubtleReference">“What sort of name is
Johnny Slade?</span>” My dorm mate, Amy, is laying with her face buried in her
pillow, crying so much I’m fairly sure the mascara stains will never wash out.
Glad it’s hers and not mine. Last time this happened, I was pillowless for a
week. Not my favorite time of life.</div>
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“Then again, I guess he didn’t have much say in what his
name was.” It is as compassionate as I can get. I’m trying to study. Trying
being the operative word. I love Amy. I do. We’ve been dorm mates since freshman
year, and we’ve had our share of ups and downs. She can be a little needy, and
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As much as I love living with her, sometimes I’d like to be
alone. This is one of those times. I have a massive chem test tomorrow that I’d
like not to fail. I know I shouldn’t be mad at Amy, though. It isn’t her fault
the dude she dated Saturday night dined her, wooed her, sexed her, and left
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For the past three days, she’s been stuck by the phone,
waiting for it to ring, praying it is Johnny Slade, a man I’ve never met, but I’m
fairly sure—according to Amy’s description—has horns.</div>
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I wish I could help her. I take that back, I wish she’d help
herself by moving on with her life. Seeing as that’s not happening anytime
soon, I consider spilling the beans about my little…side business.</div>
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It’s for girls just like Amy: girls who have been used,
abused, mistreated, or downright screwed over by the men in their life.</div>
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Some people might argue that I’m taking advantage of these
poor souls in their state of weakness. I say, if they want to pay me, who am I
to be their moral compass? I have bills to pay, and the revenge industry pays a
hell of a lot more than stripping. And, dare I say it, more fun.</div>
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Amy sits up, rivers of black cake on her red cheeks that
would make Frank N Furter green with envy. She sniffs a few times and takes a
deep breath, “Do you think he lost my number, Nancy?”</div>
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Oh my God.</div>
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If I had a dollar for every client who called Once Bitten
asking the same thing… I wouldn’t need to go to college. I could retire on a
beach with a drink and a cabana boy making my every dream come true.</div>
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I start to say this to Amy, but I can’t. She’s my friend and
I don’t want to hurt her. Yes, I want her to move on; getting lectured from me
isn’t the way to go. “I don’t know, Amy. Maybe?”</div>
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“You really think so?” Hope. I don’t like hope. Hope kills
more than guns, in my opinion.</div>
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I smile and pray it doesn’t come off plastic. “It’s
possible.”</div>
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Amy sits up on her knees straighter, a huge grin reaches
from ear to ear.</div>
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I wait for it…</div>
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I think Bon Jovi sang it best with “Shot Through the Heart.”</div>
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It’s like a jolt of understanding hits her right in the guts
all at once. Her smile contorts into a Ronald McDonald grimace and, with a sob
I’m sure they hear two floors above us, Amy falls face first into her pillow.</div>
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I shouldn’t say what is running through my mind. It is tacky
and impolite. Truthfully, it does no good now. The deed, as they say, is done.
Can’t put the horse back in the barn—as my Grandma Molly said with a warning
glare every time she decided to have the “sex” talk with me.</div>
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Amy beats me to it. “How could I be so stupid to lose my
virginity to him?”</div>
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More sobs.</div>
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I throw her a tissue box ‘cause I’m nice like that.</div>
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“I don’t know, Amy. How could you be so stupid to lose your
virginity to him?” Tactful? No. But damn, it is a question I’ve wanted answered
since she strolled in here Sunday night with her hair teased and distressed
more than normal, her tights ripped, and her shirt pulled way, way off the
shoulder even for her. I don’t think he was easy on her.</div>
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Amy shakes her head in the pillow. “Dnwo loo lear bet wiered
a feing a foudee-foudee…”</div>
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Muffled pillow talk isn’t my major. “Sorry, didn’t catch
that.”</div>
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She lifts her head and glares at me with through squinty,
tear filled eyes. “Don’t you ever get tired of being a goody-goody, Nancy? We’re
seniors in college. Don’t you ever want to throw the virginity card out the
window and have some fun once in a while?”</div>
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I don’t mean to laugh. I can’t stop myself. I’m a horrible
person. “Yeah, ‘cause you look like you’ve been having fun the last three days.”</div>
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Honestly, if that’s what it feels like to get close to
someone, to let them get close to me, then no. I’d rather stay where I am in
life and do what I do to make ends meet, thank you very much. I get close. I
take pictures. I turn to blackmail. I get paid for it. What is wrong with that?</div>
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“That’s not what I mean.”</div>
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“I go out.” I sigh, this chemistry test won’t study itself.</div>
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“You go to the library and study. That isn’t going out.”</div>
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If she only knew. Most of those “study” trips were dates
with the exes of clients. Revenge is different for everyone. I aim to please.</div>
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Amy dries up her tears mighty quickly and looks at me like
she pities me. Oh for the love of…</div>
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“I feel sorry for you. I really do.”</div>
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Funny how coherent she sounds now. “That a fact?”</div>
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“It is. You have no life. No prospects of a boyfriend, and
yeah, maybe Johnny Slade did break my heart, but at least I put my heart out
there. What have you done?”</div>
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<i>Gotten paid to serve
up revenge. </i>“Nothing as worthwhile as you.” I grab my book and my bag.
There is no way I’m getting any studying done here tonight.</div>
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“Where are you going?”</div>
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“Out.”</div>
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“Fine,” she huffs.</div>
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“Fine.” I head for the door when our phone rings.</div>
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She looks at me.</div>
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I look at her.</div>
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I know what she’s thinking. She’s wishing for Johnny Slade.</div>
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I know what I’m thinking… I hope it isn’t a client. So far I’ve
been lucky. She’s never answered a call for me, but I know the time is coming.
I need to be honest with her, but now isn’t that time.</div>
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She reaches for the phone. I throw my stuff down and dive
for it.</div>
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It fumbles out of her hands and into mine. “Hello?” I say
before she can grab it from my hand.</div>
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“Is it Johnny?” she whispers.</div>
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I motion for her to be quiet.</div>
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“Once Bitten?” the female voice on the other end of the line
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Amy’s big, black stained eyes plead with me to tell me who
it is. I’m pleading with her to let it go. </div>
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“Hi, Dad. It’s good to hear your
voice.” I say, causing Amy to run from the room in an outburst of epic
proportions.</div>
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“Excuse me?” The young woman on the other side of the line doesn’t
seem to catch on very quickly.</div>
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“Never mind. Please talk quickly. How did you get this
number?”</div>
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“Friend of a friend.”</div>
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Just like they all do. “What can I help you with?”</div>
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“My name is Dana Knox.”</div>
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I nearly drop the phone. I know her! Holy cow! Dana Knox has
been all over People Magazine and Teen Beat for the last six months or so for dating
Senator Harris’ son: <i>Beautiful Socialite
Tames Wild Political Heir Romeo</i>. “Chad
Harris needs to pay.”</div>
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Kelly Martin loves paranormal books, villainous characters, and the dark... but she can't sleep without a nightlight. She has been married for over ten years and has three rowdy, angelic daughters. When Kelly's not writing, she loves taking picture of abandoned houses, watching horror gamers on YouTube-- even though she's a huge wimp-- and drinking decaf white chocolate mochas. She's a total fangirl, loves the 80s and 90s, and has a sad addiction to Netflix.</div>
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<span class="MsoSubtleReference">Jessup Hart Blackwell ate
my brain</span> every night. He also ate my spleen, my liver, and my kidneys.
Basically, anything he could get to, he ate. My tongue was his favorite. He
said liars' tongues were the best.</div>
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The leather straps
with the weird symbols on them held me down—and quite frankly chaffed the heck
out of me—while he cut and ripped away at every bit of skin, muscle, and cell I
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All but one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My heart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He said it was
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For years this
happened until I finally told my mom who took me to the doctor who in turn gave
me some medicine to induce a dreamless sleep and offered the alternative of
placing me in a mental hospital if I didn't want to take it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I chose medicine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The nightmares
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Until a week ago
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Last night, Hart
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<i>@sullyGray: What ya up to today?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span class="MsoSubtleReference">I sip my decaf coffee—which</span>
totally defeats the purpose of coffee, I understand that, but regular coffee gives
me worse migraines than I already get—and stare a hole into my monitor. Yeah, I'm
still one of those people who have a monitor. I have a desktop, a keyboard, a
computer chair, and the whole mid-2000s thing going on in my bedroom/office. It's
the one room in the apartment where I can get away from everything. My place to
shut the door, turn up the music, and dance if I want to dance. And I do want
to dance. Nineties' music is my specialty, and I use that word very loosely.</div>
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My room is my place
to shut out the world. To stay awake and not sleep. To hide from my nightmares.
To hide from Hart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Every morning for
the past week, it's the same routine. I get up and rub my throat, because it
hurts like a mother from all the screaming I apparently do in my sleep. As a
side note, this is why I try not to sleep now when Sam's here. Which means I
don't get a whole lot of sleep, but what's sleep when you are eighteen?
Eighteen year olds don't need sleep. We need parties and friends and boyfriends
to not think we are crazy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh, I'm sure Sam does,
though, because he's caught me on a few occasions. Screaming. Yelling. Trying
to fight Hart. Especially that first night. I had the honor of falling asleep
in Sam's lap while we watched a movie downstairs. Then, BAM, Hart was there. I
was on the table. The same table I hadn't seen in five years. Hart smiled. Hart
cut.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Apparently, I
screamed.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sam woke me up, all
big eyed and scared. He poured me some red wine, covered my shoulders with a
blanket, and waited for me to talk about it. I drank every bit in about three
swigs—incidentally, the best wine ever—and told him it had just been a
nightmare.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He knows about the
five pills I take every night before bed and four I take in the mornings. He
doesn't know what they are for. We've been dating for two years, and I haven't
felt the need to tell him about it—okay, I'm scared the heck out. I'm afraid he'll
leave me if he finds out. Sam is, well, he's Sam. Samson David Asher. He's
perfect and good and all that other stuff I'm not. And up until a week ago, he's
been wonderful. Bless him…. He tries. He's at Crimson Ridge on a football
scholarship, so you know he's athletic. It's just that I don't want to ruin
this. He'll think I'm crazy. His father, the therapist, will know I'm crazy. I've
met him one time. That was the one and only time Sam took me over to his house.
Plenty for me. He spent all of supper not necessarily breaking his Hippocratic Oath,
but damn well coming close. He never used names, but I could tell ole Jane Doe
was as batty as a belfry.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And Doctor Asher
would laugh.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And Mrs. Asher would
laugh.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sam wouldn't laugh.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I'm so glad Sam didn't
laugh.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Didn't mean I wanted
him to know about me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
At the time, there
wasn't much to tell. It wasn't that I was lying. I took medicine to keep the
scary dude from eating me in my dreams every night. That's all. And it worked.
It all worked. So I didn't have to tell Sam.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That's why I didn't.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then we moved in
together, which my mother hated even though I told her we weren't sleeping
together or even in the same room. Even then in the back of my mind, I was
scared that maybe the dreams and Hart would come back.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Looks like I was
right.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Yay me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
When I finally roll
out of bed, Sam's already gone for the morning. He gets up before God and goes
running. Then he goes to the gym. Then class. I don't see how he can keep that
up for the rest of the semester, but if that's what he wants to do, who am I to
complain? Makes it easier to fake being <i>normal</i>
when I'm alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I sit and fidget with
my coffee in my hands, staring at the screen, waiting for a reply. I need
someone to talk to. Someone human. I've talked to Hart all night. He cut me
open and the girl… well, she watched.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
You try living with
the same nightmare. You try being ripped apart every night in your dreams. For
the past week, I've had to do it all over again. I thought it was over. I still
take my damn medicine and nothing—he's still there. He's still torturing me,
and I have no idea why. It's getting to me, though. Seeing those red eyes in
the middle of that boyish face. In fact, it's those red eyes that stand out
with Hart. Not sure why I named him that either. He's just always been Hart.
Like I've always been Gracen, and Sam's always been Sam.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He's always been my
tormentor.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
If it weren't for
the eyes, Hart wouldn't be very bad looking. Tall, tan, toned, big muscles,
which he uses to pull my skin off. By the way he tugs and rips, it seems like
difficult work. I have the easy job. All I do is lay there naked and scream.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Hart has longish
brown hair, which gets coated in blood sometimes. Lovely. I totally blame him
for it. It's longer now that he's been gone for a few years. Funny how the mind
thinks of weird things like that.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
He isn't real, of
course. It's just my brain doing what my crazy brain does. Some people dream of
rainbows and kittens. Occasionally, they will have a clown or a possessed doll
thrown in for flavor. To remind them that their mind is a pretty screwed up
place. Sometimes a person will see themselves hanging down from the ceiling and
scream while they sleep. Me? I'd give anything to see a freakin' clown in my
dreams. All I have, all I've ever had, is Hart.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I'm a lucky duck.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But, despite all
that, I try very hard to be normal. Whatever that means. I smile when I figure
I should smile and laugh when it seems appropriate to laugh. Don't get me
wrong, I'm pretty socially messed up. I hate crowds, and if I don't have a backspace,
well, I'm screwed. Royally. I like backspaces. The world needs a backspace.
Imagine how awesome everything would be with backspaces.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
For the most part,
except for a few glitches—like the <i>one</i>
time I dated Earl Flynn… and my entire sophomore year—I think I've done rather
well for myself in the I'm-just-like-you department. It's been exhausting, worrisome,
and entirely too stressful, but I did it. And I'd been fairly good at it until
this week. Until I'd moved away from home. Moved in with Sam. Drank a little
extra wine every night. Sam offered, and who am I to turn it down even if I'm
underage. The <i>one</i> bad thing I do in
my life. And then I started dreaming of Hart again. My inner demons came out in
my dreams. Very deep.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I thought I'd gotten
out of the woods. I thought Hart was gone, and everything until the end of time
would be hunky dory, all sunshine and roses.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I never should have
thought that.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Idiot.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Is Tina ever going
to message me back?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Seriously, I have
class in like thirty minutes, and I need to finish getting ready. I know she's
online. The little green dot tells me that. And yeah, I guess I could wait for
her on my phone, but keyboards are so much more convenient. To me anyway.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Tina is from California.
I'd think she wouldn't be up at the central time crack of dawn—or seven a.m.—but
she is. She's usually up before me. Messaging me. Asking me if I'm okay. If I
slept well. Typical friendly Internet banter. A side note: I enjoy typical
friendly Internet banter. It's relaxing. There are no expectations. There is no
judging. And yeah… backspace city up in here.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Tina, apparently, is
one of those up and at 'em folks. I want to be like her someday. She's my happy
buddy, which isn't as weird or creepy as it sounds. My therapist actually
suggested it once. To keep away the demons, he'd said.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Dr. Sheldon took
Hart very figuratively. I don't think he ever thought of him as a person or a
thing. Just a crazy hallucination in a crazy girl's mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Maybe Dr. Sheldon is
right?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
My foot will not
stop shaking as I scroll down my page, waiting for Tina to pop up. I know she
has a life and kids and a family and she's never seen me, but still, I need to
talk to her. Talking to her makes me feel less insane.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Talking to a person
I've never met in a room, by myself, makes me feel <i>less</i> insane. Yep, I'm totally normal…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The world is weird.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The shaking of my
foot causes the blanket, the one I always have draped over my legs when I'm
sitting at my desk, to fall toward the floor. Thanks to my lightning quick
reflexes, I grab it before it crashes to the floor and pull it back to its
upright position.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I'm freezing.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then again, I'm
always freezing. Always. I can't ever remember a time when I felt warm. I
totally blame Hart—even if he has nothing to do with it. The doctor, an actual
medical doctor, said she thinks it's some kind of hormone imbalance. At
eighteen?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I'm falling apart.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Because I needed
something else to break me.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I don't care though.
Not really. I can just keep a blanket on me and live in a world of denial where
everybody is cold, and the hot or warm ones are mutants. It would be totally
awesome if I were the normal person in the world and everybody else were the
freaks. It would make my life.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Anyway…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>@tinaM Mornin' Nothing much. Getting ready to
head out. You? Everything okay? Did you sleep well last night?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Loaded question. I
place my fingers on the keyboard to type out my usual: "I slept fine. I'm
fine. Everything's fine. Peachy. Awesome. Couldn't be better." But I
freeze. Those words mean nothing to me. They sound like someone who is moving
through the motions but her heart isn't in it. And it's not. Not really. I feel
deflated. I thought Hart was gone, but he's back. I thought I'd be able to have
an awesome life in Crimson Ridge living on my own with Sam. I thought a lot of
things. I thought wrong.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
"I'm fine"
is what humans say to each other if they are dying. Because we are polite and
think our problems are nobody else's problems. They are hurting worse than us—or
someone in the world always is—so we shouldn't complain. We shouldn't tell
anybody what's bothering us. Not at all. Never. In the scheme of things, it isn't
important. We aren't important.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I'm not important.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I should tell Tina <i>I'm fine. </i>This morning, though, for some
reason, I don't. My fingers seem to have a mind of their own as they type. <i>Not really. Rough night…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
My fingers itch to
keep going. To share anything about Hart, the dreams, and the dark-haired girl
who joined him last night. It has to mean something, right? It has to be a clue
or an omen. I have to be dreaming about these things for a reason. Maybe if I
talk about it, tell someone else about it, then I'll be able to figure it out.
A new, fresh brain on the matter, because, frankly, I've been thinking about it
as long as I can remember. All I can come up with is "Why me?"<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And lately, "What
the hell are these new visions for?"<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The old familiar
beating pounds in my temples, and I know it's coming. A migraine. I have them a
lot unfortunately. And mainly when I'm trying to think about Hart. Trying to
figure him out. I guess I'm trying to figure myself out, which is a whole new
level of crazy. I'd make an excellent research project for someone if I told
them the truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I can't even tell
Tina.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Even through my uncooperative
fingers, my aching head, my anxious innards, I want to tell Tina some form of
the truth, but I can't. I just can't.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>But I'm sure it'll be okay.</i> I type back to cover myself. I'm a moron for
even saying as much as I did. She'll worry. I'll have to explain. Lots of steps
I don't want to do.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I'm a thousand times
sure it won't be all right. Might never be all right again. But I say it
because I'm supposed to. I'm human after all.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
While I wait, the
hardship of Internet chatting, my mind wanders. I really do like my apartment.
It is nice and cozy. Two stories. The bottom has a '90s-style kitchen with an
eat-in area. A sliding door leads to the backyard. When I say backyard, I mean
a little spot of land probably no bigger than a postage stamp. But it's fenced
in, and as a long as we pay the rent, it's ours.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Ours</i>… my mom doesn't like me living with Sam. She likes Sam. Likes him as much
as any guy I've gotten serious with; of course, Sam is the only guy I've ever
gotten serious with. More for his determination than mine. That boy seemed to
really like me when we first started dating, but now…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Anyway, my mom has
enough to deal with, and I sure don't help. Her sister, my Aunt Willow has been,
well, she's in a mental hospital. We aren't sure exactly what made her snap,
but snap she did. One morning she was fine and then… she wasn't. Mom got a call
that her sister was in the emergency room. She'd walked right in front of a
car. Suicide they figured, which threw us both for a loop because Aunt Willow had
always been full of life. I mean, yeah, she was a little weird at times, but
aren't all aunts? Actually, this all happened about a week before I met Sam.
Aunt Willow used to live with us. Took care of me when I was little. She helped
out because I didn't have a dad. I mean, I'm sure I do somewhere, but I just
don't know him. Don't know if I ever want to know him. That's a lie. I would
like to meet the man someday. Curiosity and all that.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So, Aunt Willow went
insane, I met Sam, and two years later, we moved into our apartment at Crimson
Ridge for school. Mama worries about the premarital sex since, apparently, that's
how I came into the world and she doesn't want me to make the same mistake,
which is an awesome thing to say to your daughter. Basically calling me a
mistake. I know she didn't mean it like that, but after all the grief I've put
her through in the last eighteen years, I feel like maybe she meant it. She was
young. Didn't ask to have a kid. And BAM, there I was. It's not like I was the
easiest when I got to be a preteen either with the nightmares and the therapists.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But my mom, if she
really knew Sam and me, she'd know that she has nothing to worry about. We've
been good. No sex—not that I haven't wanted to. Believe me, I have. But Sam
hasn't. He's shot me down every time. It's enough to make a person start to feel
bad about themselves. Sometimes, I think that's part of the problem with us.
Don't get me wrong. I appreciate that he's a gentleman. Still, it's not easy
when it feels like even your boyfriend doesn't like you.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Overdramatic? Yeah,
probably. Can't help my feelings, though. I can help them as long as I don't
talk about them. Talking is bad. Talking gets you new medicine, and if that
doesn't work, I don't even want to think about it.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I wonder how many
people in the world pretend to be normal. I wonder what normal would be if
everyone stopped trying to be it and actually acted like themselves. I bet the
geeks would inherit the world because everyone is at least a closet geek. Who
doesn't freak out over TV shows and Internet memes of their one true paring? Or
fangirl? I do in the comfort of my own bedroom, staring at my own little
computer, in my own little slice of Heaven. I love it here. Sam's room is down
the hall. The bathroom separates us. Like I said, he doesn't venture to my end
of the world very often.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I love my room. It's
white, clean, and cozy. I have dark purple curtains on the windows, shutter
style doors on the closet, a starry fairytale lamp next to my bed, a quilt that
looks homemade that I bought from the store, and my desk. All the comforts of
home without having to hear my mom crying every night.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I should probably
call her.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
In here, in my
little room, I'm safe. Or at least I used to be. I'd shut the door and
everything would just go away. Now? Now I have Hart back, invading my dreams,
killing me, bringing people to watch (which is extremely creepy, believe it or
not). He invades my happy place and makes me feel uneasy in my own room.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I hate it.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I hate him.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I hate myself for
not being strong enough to push through the nightmares.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I hate myself for
having that little sliver of doubt—that little nagging feeling in the back of
my mind—that maybe Hart Blackwell isn't imaginary. That maybe he's real. Or
maybe I'm getting as crazy as Aunt Willow.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>@tinaM: GRACEN! What's up with you? Did you
fall off your chair again or something? Helllllooooo…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So I sort of forgot
to answer her. I suppose that happens. Happens to me when I start thinking and
my mind wanders. #dangerous<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>@sullyGray Yeah, sorry. I'm here. Just
thinking.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Like I said,
thinking is a dangerous thing. And admitting to thinking when trying to act all
fine is a dangerous road. I don't like dangerous roads. I'd rather just stay on
the straight and narrow. That sounds pretty good to me. Straight. Narrow.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Wait? Which road
leads to Hell? Because I'd like to take the other, thanks.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i>@tinaM Panic attacks again?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><br /></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Sometimes, I wish I'd
never told her about the panic attacks. I've never mentioned Hart, obviously,
but on the day the nightmares started coming back—has it really just been a
week?—I messaged her. I guess I didn't have my wall up completely yet, and I
let it slip that I might possibly be having some anxiety issues. Now, my
anxiety issues are all about the crazy dude in my head and not actually <i>me</i>… is it weird that I think of us as
two different people? Yes? No? Maybe?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I so don't want to
think about that.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The thing is, I did
tell Tina about the panic attacks and I regretted it exactly a millisecond
after hitting the send button. I'd been careful to put the wall back up ever
since.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I should tell Tina
the truth, or some sane variation of it. I should give her some reason to stick
around, because I do need to talk. Not to a therapist or a shrink, though I'm
sure my mother wishes I would visit Dr. Sheldon more regularly. But a friend.
An actual friend. Someone I can just talk to. Someone who understands…<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Then again, who can
understand this?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Part of me is afraid
I'm going crazy.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Part of me is scared
I'm not, because if I'm not, if what is going on in my nightmares is real, then
I've got 99 more problems to deal with.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That's why I can't
tell Tina. It's why I can't tell anybody. There is something inside me that
will not allow me to have a meaningful conversation with people. It's like part
of me is missing. Not just the scary part either. It's like I'm missing some
important part of myself that everybody else has and God forgot to put inside
me. Like everyone else has a nice awesome soul and I have… Hart.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So not a fair trade.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I sit up straighter
and place my hands on the keyboard, ready to tell Tina something without
telling her anything at all. It's how humans communicate, right? I'll tell her
that, yeah, I'm having some anxiety issues. It's the second full week of
college, of living with Sam, of being away from home. College assignments are
different from high school, and I'm a little stressed about doing well on them.
I won't tell her about Sam or the weird fight we had last night. Almost like he
wanted to pick it so I'd go upstairs and leave him alone. I'll tell her it's
anxiety and not that I haven't slept more than two hours a night in a week. I'll
tell her a lot of things because she is my friend and that's what friends do.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>@tinaM Tell me about it! Mondays are so hard!
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back in my computer chair. Monday morning. Time for Professor Mitchell's class.
Time to see Marcy, AKA the best Teacher's Assistant in the world, and listen to
the professor talk about some random event that happened in the Civil War.
Because that's what he does. He talks about random events that didn't matter to
anybody but does it in such a way that you care. Professor Mitchell is one of
those teachers who just makes you want to learn, makes you want to listen. He
has something special about him. Something no other teacher has had, and I've
only had him three times. I have his class Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. A
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Sweet, intelligent,
awesome, and at least twenty years older than me. Handsome in that <i>old</i> guy way. Not that I'd want anything
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The professor loves
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computer and stretch in my chair. Yeah, it's Monday, but it'll be a good
Monday. It will. I'll go to class with a positive attitude. I'll listen. I'll
take notes. I'll text Sam—funny how he's not sent me one before now—and I'll be
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That's all people really
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Sunshine. Marcy, the
T.A. for Professor Mitchell. Tina. Sam—somewhere. I'm living my life. I'm
moving on. I'm totally ignoring Hart, who is currently whispering in my head
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Title: Highway Revenge<br />Author: Nadine Millard<br />Genre: Regency Romance<br />Publisher: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlueTulipPub" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0071bb; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Blue Tulip Publishing</a></h4>
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Evelyn Spencer has spent the last ten years living in her uncle’s house and longing for the day when she can leave and make her own way in the world.<br />
When she finds out her uncle’s terrible, hidden secret, Evelyn decides that she will first get revenge then leave and never set eyes on her wicked uncle again.<br />
Everything is going according to plan…until Viscount Andrew Ashdon comes along.</div>
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Andrew has been coerced into coming to spend a dull few weeks at his friend’s country estate. Used to intrigues, seductions and debauchery as a spy for the Crown, Andrew can think of nothing worse than rusticating in the country with no one around to entertain him…until he meets Evelyn Spencer.</div>
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The race is on for Evelyn to get the proof she needs to prove her uncle’s deception and the last thing she needs is to be distracted by the devilishly handsome, rakish Lord Ashdon.<br />
Can she achieve the impossible with Lord Ashdon’s help, by finally getting her revenge? And, more importantly, can she do it while keeping hold of her heart?</div>
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Being alone with her thoughts on a darkened, rarely used road was not good for her frame of mind, Evelyn decided.</div>
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For one thing, it left her to stew over her uncle’s horrid betrayal and her complete inability to do anything about it.</div>
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For another, it gave her far too much time to remember every tiny detail of her encounter with Lord Ashdon and his magical lips, the touch of which still felt imprinted on her own.</div>
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Evelyn lifted a hand to her mouth and pressed her fingers to the spot that still tingled in remembrance of his touch.</div>
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Perhaps she hadn’t handled the aftermath in the sophisticated, worldly way she would have liked.</div>
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Sprinting back to the house, nearly bursting a lung in the process, then barricading herself into her room with another faux headache was neither sophisticated nor clever, as it turned out, since she had both Anna and Jonathan demanding that Mr. Carver, the aptly named surgeon be called.</div>
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It took so long convincing them that she was perfectly fine, that she’d had a genuine headache by the time they left and she’d been grateful for Molly’s herbal remedy and insistence that she be left alone in a darkened room.</div>
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Lord Ashdon hadn’t asked after her welfare at all, she thought snippily.</div>
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Which just went to show; the man was a veritable rake who had felt nothing when they’d kissed and should be avoided like the plague.</div>
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And Evelyn had every intention of staying as far away from him as humanly possible from this day forward.</div>
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“Lovely evening for a robbery, my lady.”</div>
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Evelyn screeched in fright as a deep, mellifluous voice penetrated the still night air, and she nearly fell off her horse as she spun to see to whom it belonged.</div>
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But of course. She already knew, didn’t she? Nobody else’s voice had the power to completely steal her breath away.</div>
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And wasn’t that just the way her luck had been going anyway? When she’d decided to avoid him, lo, here he was, ruining her robbery again.</div>
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“What are you doing here?” she demanded indignantly as she tried to keep control of the stallion who she’d once again frightened half to death.</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I’ll make it up to him, </em>she assured herself, choosing to ignore the fact that the list of living things she was having to make things up to was growing steadily by the day.</div>
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“Oh, I’m just out for a night-time ride. May I enquire as to what you’re doing?”</div>
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His faux politeness was stirring her temper, but she refused to give in to it. The best way to deal with the interfering cad was to coolly dismiss him, then ignore him.</div>
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“You may not,” she snapped, her tone as freezing as she could make it. “Good evening to you.”</div>
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“Oh, come now, my lady. What harm in having a friendly chat?” he asked jovially as he moved his horse to stand beside hers.</div>
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Bloody nuisance.</div>
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“I am not your lady,” she retorted. “I am a dangerous, hardened criminal, and you are interfering <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">yet again</em> in my robbery.”</div>
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“But, of course. A thousand apologies.” He swept his hat off his head and executed a dramatic bow that almost unseated him from his mount.</div>
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Evelyn gave a regal nod of her head, which she hoped was dismissive enough for even this most obtuse of men, then turned again to concentrate on the empty road.</div>
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“And how is the business of robbing passing carriages? Slow? Lucrative?” he continued in that polite tone that would have been better suited to a ballroom in the height of the Season.</div>
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Evelyn took a calming breath and pointedly ignored him.</div>
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“Of course, I, myself, would never rob someone. Too ethical, you understand. But I can appreciate that some highwaymen do quite a trade in the area.”</div>
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Evelyn clenched her teeth so hard she was afraid she’d never pry them apart again. Still she remained silent.</div>
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“But then,” he continued, and she wanted to smack him again, all thoughts of their earlier kiss forgotten in her rage, “I have never known a <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">woman </em>to be involved in the business. You’ll forgive me if I think that rather singular.”</div>
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Evelyn gazed at the stars and counted to ten, trying desperately to calm her beating heart, to unclench her death grip on the reigns. Poor Midnight was having a horrid time of it with her. There weren’t enough apples in the world to make up for it. Not if she were to bake John Coachman’s pies too.</div>
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“And, you must admit, my dear, you aren’t very good at it, are you?”</div>
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“That is it,” she snapped and whirled round to face him. “Whatever is the matter with you?” she began. “I’m not going to rob you, and I want absolutely nothing to do with you. Nothing,” she emphasised as she leaned toward him. “So why do you insist on bothering me?”</div>
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He merely smiled as though he found the whole thing vastly amusing.</div>
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She growled low in her throat.</div>
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“Pardon me, my dear, but did you just growl?”</div>
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“I am not your bloody dear,” she exclaimed. “For heaven’s sake. Just leave me alone. You go your way, I’ll go mine, and that will be that.”</div>
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With that, she turned her horse once more and pointedly ignored him.</div>
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“I’m afraid I can’t do that.”</div>
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“Why not?”</div>
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“Because, you are a mystery that I am determined to solve, since there are so many which are apparently too far out of my reach,” he grumbled with a frown, and Evelyn thought for one mad moment that he was speaking of her.</div>
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Her, Evelyn. Not her, mysterious highway non-robber.</div>
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“There is no mystery. Nothing to solve. I just choose to earn a living this way. That’s all there is to it,” she said decisively. She didn’t need him poking around in this as well as everything else.</div>
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Any answer he would have made was silenced by the distinct sound of approaching hooves.</div>
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Evelyn’s heart flew into her mouth.</div>
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“Did you hear that?” she asked, all animosity forgotten.</div>
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He merely nodded, watching carefully now as he usually did.</div>
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“It seems a victim is approaching.”</div>
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She tried not to flinch at his words but <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">victim</em> made the whole thing seem so, well… so criminal.</div>
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Perhaps she would just pretend to rob this carriage.</div>
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After all, he’d seen her again now, so there was no cause to ever do this again.</div>
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If she got rid of him quick enough, she could just loop round and go back to the manor house the long way, avoiding being seen by him, and leaving the occupants of the carriage robbery free.</div>
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Suddenly feeling much better about the whole thing, she smiled brightly.</div>
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“Well, it’s been nice knowing you,” she said and stuck out her hand, “but as you see, I have work to do, so I’ll bid you good evening.”</div>
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He glanced down at her hand and then back up at her and moved his mount closer, leaning forward to peer closer still.</div>
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“You know, you seem terribly familiar.”</div>
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Evelyn just stopped herself from leaping back in horror. Oh God, he couldn’t recognise her!</div>
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“I hardly see how,” she mumbled.</div>
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He was silent for a moment before releasing a sigh.</div>
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“No, I suppose that is impossible. Apparently, the Fates have a wicked sense of humour, throwing two impossible women with devastating eyes and annoying habits into my path.”</div>
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Evelyn was momentarily distracted by his complimenting her eyes before his words registered.</div>
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“I am not annoying,” she said, mightily affronted and doubly so, since she was both women.</div>
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“Oh, but you are. Not as much as she, I’ll grant you, but then I haven’t had the pleasure of your company as much,” he continued wryly.</div>
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“Well, you’re not exactly pleasant to be around either, sir,” she quipped.</div>
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She really shouldn’t be enjoying this.</div>
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“Me?” he widened his eyes innocently, and Evelyn had to bite the inside of her mouth to keep from laughing.</div>
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But this was no good! She needed to get rid of him so she could leave before the carriage arrived.</div>
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“Yes. You. Now, if you don’t mind I have a — er — job to get on with.”</div>
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“Oh, don’t let me stop you,” he said with a smile.</div>
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Her own smile froze.</div>
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“Wh-what do you mean? You can’t <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">stay </em>here?”</div>
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He shrugged his large shoulders with enviable nonchalance.</div>
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“Why not? I must admit I find the whole thing fascinating, and while I heartily disapprove, I find myself unwilling to leave you to your own devices, should anything bad happen.”</div>
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Evelyn felt her jaw drop open at his words.</div>
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He’d risk being caught here, risk being thought of as a criminal because he didn’t want to leave her alone?</div>
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The thought was humbling, and it also served to soften her toward him, which wouldn’t do at all. She needed him to leave. And quickly.</div>
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“But, you can’t risk being seen here,” she stuttered. “Suppose you should get caught. S-surely a man of your stature cannot risk such a thing.”</div>
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He raised a brow.</div>
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“What do you know of my stature?” he asked.</div>
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Blast. She’d slipped up again.</div>
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“N-nothing. But, well, I just assumed—“</div>
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“There you go with those assumptions,” he said smoothly. “No need to worry yourself about it, in any case. The problem will be mine to deal with, should anything go awry.”</div>
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Oh, but he was exasperating.</div>
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“But why?” she wailed.</div>
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He was once again ruining everything.</div>
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“As to that, I cannot tell you. I only wish I knew myself,” he muttered as much to himself as to her. “But, here I am. Unwilling to allow you to be caught or put into any sort of danger.”</div>
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It was a peculiar thing, Evelyn thought as she rubbed at a sudden headache, being jealous of oneself.</div>
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Clearly, Lord Ashdon cared a great deal about the highwaywoman she was. And yet, he had kissed her to, so intensely this morning in the gardens.</div>
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What a brute!</div>
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Well, she would never allow him to kiss her again, and that was that.</div>
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Even though he didn’t know who she currently was, he had known perfectly well who she was this morning, and he had no business getting himself embroiled with <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">some woman</em> now. The logical part of her brain tried to remind her that she was the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">some woman</em>, but she had no interest in that.</div>
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The point was that <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he </em>didn’t know who she was…</div>
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The thought brought Evelyn up short.</div>
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Evelyn Spencer, lady of quality, good, well-behaved, docile miss couldn’t allow a rakish lord any liberties.</div>
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But a mysterious, masked female who lived outside the law? Well, couldn’t she do just about anything she wanted?</div>
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Her mouth curled into a slow grin as the possibilities flitted through her mind. This could be rather wonderful. Perhaps being a highway robber for a little longer wouldn’t be so bad after all.</div>
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A dark and twisted saga that winds its way through the Victorian streets of London like a luxurious and lethal ribbon. <br />
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When a series of terrifying and seemingly paranormal murders occur at a rapid rate, panic and fear grip the city. <br />
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Still haunted by the ghost of the Whitechapel Ripper case, Inspector Steptree is forced to admit the murderer he now pursues maybe even more wicked and brutal. As the case closes down on the mysterious No.7 club, owned by the enigmatic Evangeline Valentine, Steptree discovers that evil is far from a fantasy. <br />
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It is against this backdrop that Kaspian Blackthorne turns eighteen and begins his apprenticeship under the scientific maverick, Doctor Greyson, a pioneer in brain surgery, and human transplantation. Whilst Kaspian is introduced to the horrors and wonders of man’s scientific progress, he also begins an epic adventure of self-discovery and infatuation. Guided into the decadent and luxuriant world of the London West End night scene by his new friend Hugh Denvers, Kaspian tastes the sweet temptation of a life less ordinary, but such a privilege comes at a terrible price. <br />
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Based on the original novel, ‘Beautiful Freaks’ written and published in 2013 by Katie M John, this series is a development of that world. This is the first season of a planned three seasons. You can find out more about this season and forthcoming seasons on the official site. <a href="http://www.katiemjohn.com/">www.katiemjohn.com</a> <br />
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NEXT DOOR TO A STAR by Krysten Lindsay Hager</div>
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<b>Hadley Daniels is tired of feeling invisible.</b></div>
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It’s fun and flattering when Simone includes her in her circle, though Hadley is puzzled about why her new friend refuses to discuss her former Hollywood life. Caught up with Simone, Hadley finds herself ignoring her quiet, steadfast friend, Charlotte. </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">★ ★ KRYSTEN LINDSAY HAGER ★ ★ </span></b></div>
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Krysten Lindsay Hager is an obsessive reader and has never met a bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as a journalist and humor essayist, and writes for teens, tweens, and adults. She is the author of the Landry’s True Colors Series and her work has been featured in USA Today and named as Amazon’s #1 Hot New Releases in Teen & Young Adult Values and Virtues Fiction and Amazon’s #1 Hot New Releases in Children’s Books on Values. She’s originally from Michigan and has lived in South Dakota, Portugal, and southwestern Ohio. She received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint.</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An ancient prophecy set
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Destroy the lawless ones or
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beautiful girls, and adores living in sunny California. Her daughters were born
in Chicago, San Diego, and Baltimore; and she feels fortunate to have called
many places home. She believes in fairy tales and happy endings and is an avid
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an early age, she escaped into books and believes they can be the source of
healing and strength. If she’s not writing, you can find her on the tennis
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Cover Reveal ~ Ignite</b> a broken novel<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">~ Its always darkest before the dawn </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From award winning YA science fiction Author: </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">Carlyle Labuschagne</span></b><br />
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In this epic conclusion to the Broken Trilogy when all seems lost and annihilate by darkness, Troy sets out to to rescue his friends and the survivors of his planet from the controlling hands of Illuninatus. On his rescue mission he discovers where Ava has been held captive for nearly three years completely warded from all supernatural seekers. Troy alone can save her from the brink of her dark disease and stop her from unleashing death to life as we know it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But first Troy and Troy have to set out into the darkest, lost realms of a desolate Earth together seeking out Cain who holds the answers on how to how the cure to the Shadowing Disease works before her disease becomes irreversible and she becomes the Dark Queen forever, burning down the entire world and those she loves down with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Cover Designer</b>: Ubber talented <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MaeIDesignandPhotography" target="_blank">Regina Wamba Mae I design and photography</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Book</b>: Ignite A broken novel #3 (end of trilogy) can be read as a stand alone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Fire Quill Publishers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>expected date</b>: 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b>~ add the book to your TBR pile</b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25649643-ignite-a-broken-novel" style="border: currentColor;" target="_blank"><img alt="Ignite A broken Novel" src="https://www.goodreads.com/images/atmb_add_book-70x25.png" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Calyle is an South African award wining author, with a flair for mixing genres and adding loads of drama to every story she creates. For now she is happy to take over the world and convert non Sci-fi believers. Her favorite genre to write is YA SF and dystopian romance novels.</span><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Her goal as an author is to touch people's lives, and help others love their differences and one another by delivering strong messages of faith, love and hope within every outrageous world she writes about.</span><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;"><em style="position: relative;">"I love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, its in the dark times that the light comes to life."</em></span><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Carlyle used writing as a healing tool and that is why she started her very own writers support event - SAIR bookfestival. </span><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;"> </span><em style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; position: relative; text-align: center;">"To be a helping hand for those who strive to become full times writers, editors, bloggers, readers and cover artists - its a crazy world out there you dont have to go it alone!</em><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">"</span><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">follow @CarlyleL for all the crazy updates on all things me.</span><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Founder of </span><a href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/" style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">SAIR Book Festival</a><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Co Founder of </span><a href="http://www.firequillpublishing.com/" style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">Fire Quill Publishing.</a><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Founder of Help build a </span><a href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/1/post/2014/03/help-build-a-library-in-sa-2014-has-kicked-off-with-a-bang.html" style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">library in South Afric</a><a href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/1/post/2014/03/help-build-a-library-in-sa-2014-has-kicked-off-with-a-bang.html" style="font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">a. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola, fantasy;"><span style="font-size: large;">Smooth…
Classy… Professional… Sexy… <br />All words that Taylor would
have used to describe her dream employer, Alexander Stone – CEO of
Stone Literary Agency. That is, until she met him. Now there are much
different words coming to mind… <br />Overgrown Man-child.<br />Her
incredibly serious, professional demeanor clashes with Alexander’s
sweetness and vibrant sense of humor and he loves to get her angry.
He just can’t seem to wait to hear the next terrible thing she’ll
say to him. Taylor, however, isn’t one to back down and Alexander
manages to bring out her own dark humor as her need to get even with
him at every turn gets the better of her. <br />The game only barely
gets started when she gets a little friendly advice that she can’t
seem to shake. Things begin to change for Taylor and she begins to
find the girl that she used to be. The more these changes take place,
the more her life seems to spiral out of her control. <br />When her
secrets catch up with her as trouble comes knocking, everyone she
loves is put in danger. Taylor’s life is threatened and she learns
that Alexander has some secrets of his own. Maybe he isn’t just the
sexy yet silly, unprofessional man-child she once thought him to be
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<span style="font-family: Gabriola, fantasy;"><span style="font-size: large;">A.M Wray is a pen name by the fabulous author, Candy Crum. Candy
Crum is the author of The Eternal Series (The Eternal Gift, The
Eternal Echo) as well as the creator of The Dark Compendiums (The
Withering Darkness), anthologies focusing on the work of
"yet-to-be-known" authors as a way to give back to those
who helped her. She lives with her two amazing, ornery boys in
Indiana and spends the majority of her time playing with her kids,
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383428208911136535.post-70410244512690635152015-05-22T15:33:00.001-07:002015-05-22T15:33:56.776-07:00Whacha Doin' w/Your Summer? || Ask Kelly Anything<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Intz8SiRO9M" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383428208911136535.post-23478756187327066972015-05-15T15:42:00.000-07:002015-05-15T15:42:00.501-07:00Tainted Dreams release by the awesomely amazing CHRISTI CORBETT!! (translation: I'm super excited!)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am SO excited to have Christi Corbett on the blog today!!! I've been following Christi for years (pretend that doesn't sound creepy). Ever since her first book, Along the Way Home, came out. Well, we have sequel time.... SQUEE!!! Here we go!</span></b></div>
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Historical Western Romance/Frontier and Pioneer Romance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of miles from home, on an unsettled land America doesn't yet own or govern,
gender still takes precedence over ability. Refusing to be ruled once again by
the stifling laws and societal norms she'd escaped by leaving Virginia, Kate
begins creatively claiming what is rightfully hers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trail, and fell in love with her along the way. Now he wants to marry her and
build a life together, but a ruthless man from Jake's past threatens to reveal
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the Oregon Trail, William and Margaret, have entered Oregon City. They are looking
for the hotel.)</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Instead of backing away, the man lurched forward and reached for Jake's saddle
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Hey there!" Jake said. Raising his left
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unintelligible response, and then fell face-first into a patch of mud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Drunken fool," Jake muttered, then faced
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stood clustered together, giggling and shrieking as they pointed toward him.
Clenching his jaw, he focused on the street ahead, all the while hoping Kate
didn't notice one woman in particular who'</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">d separated herself from the others
and was now hanging over the railing, calling him by name.</span></div>
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studied it briefly and then eyed the surrounding buildings. "My uncle sent
me a rough sketch of where it's located, but there are so many new buildings,
it's useless. Jake, do you know where it's at?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Best American Historical novel, lives in a small town in Oregon with her husba<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>nd and their twin children. The home's location holds a
special place in her writing life; it stands just six hundred feet from the
original Applegate Trail and the view from her back door is a hill travelers
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dream of starting a horse ranch in Oregon Territory. Settlers out west value a
strong woman, and though she manages the financials of her father's mercantile
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land out west to raise cattle and crops. But dreams require money and he's
eating dandelion greens for dinner. So when a wealthy businessman offers double
wages to guide his family across the Oregon Trail, Jake accepts with one
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as Jake demands she abandon all he deems frivolous, including her deceased
mother's heirlooms. Jake stands firm, refusing to let the whims of a headstrong
woman jeopardize the wages he so desperately needs--even a beautiful one with
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In <i>Along the Way Home</i>, author Christi
Corbett unfurls an unforgettable epic romance inside of an epic Western
adventure. Beautifully crafted, this debut novel is a tender journey of the
heart as well as a treacherous journey of many miles. <i>Along the Way Home</i> is a squeaky-clean historical romance with
authentic period details and deep emotion. Much danger, risk, courage and
compassion will make you long for more books from this talented author. As
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this dangerous journey with characters you will treasure as they cope with
heart-wrenching difficulties they never thought to encounter in a search to
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new home in a new state. The chance to get away from the relentless bullies and
reinvent himself. Then on the first day at his new high school, Robin Westmore
finds himself in the exact wrong place at the exact wrong time and right back
into the role of victim. All Robin can do now is wish for the harassment to
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Being
the leader of the genie world is not what Desiree expected. The Guides aren’t
happy with her or any of the decisions she makes. The only thing they all agree
on is that they want their old boss back, but Kaf has vanished, leaving the
Guides in shock and Desiree with a broken heart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Desiree hides from her responsibilities, Robin disappears into the video game
he’s created. There he finds excitement, adventure, and control. When the game
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Chapter
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<b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Robin<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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With something fatal. Something so contagious the entire high school would
contract it just by looking at me. Was there such a thing? I took out my phone.
“Okay, Google. What is visual contagion?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For half a second I thought
my phone had learned my name. And had started speaking in my mom’s voice? I
entered the kitchen and found Mom in her pink bathrobe with the tea stain down
the front, waiting for me. She must’ve heard me talking to my phone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only one direct hit and was now blinking at me, waiting for something that
would challenge its storage banks. The ‘contagion’ it presented wasn’t even a
disease. It was some company in Vancouver that spread positive messages on
organic hemp or bamboo T-shirts. Great. I ask for science, I get hippies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Contagion would be a good name for a band?” I asked Mom as I scrolled through a
few of the t-shirt pictures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fingernail against her teacup. “A band that plays music?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“What other kind is there?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hairband. Wedding band. Waistband.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on and then open the thesaurus app on her tablet if I didn’t stop her. “I’m a
guy. I don’t think about hairbands or jewelry. Yes, I meant a band that plays
music.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Contagion, great a name as it is, would not work for a musical group.” She took
a sip of her tea, Irish breakfast according to the tag hanging from the string,
as she contemplated. “Auditory Contagion could work. Audio? Audial?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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indeed be a damn cool name for a band. Almost made me want to form one. Except
I couldn’t play a single instrument. Not even that plastic flute-thing they
made us play in elementary school. Maybe I could compose something on my
computer. I needed music for my video game anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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software.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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breakfast?” Mom asked. “Or are you just going to play with your phone until
it’s time to leave?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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domestic person. She did like to feed people though, and when she took the time
to make an actual meal, she was a great cook.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What kind of tea?” She held up her Irish breakfast to me with a questioning
look and wiggled the box as if that would lure me to the Celtic side.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the kitchen and set a black case—smaller than a briefcase, larger than a
lunchbox—on the gray marble counter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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excited over a handgun? Then again, this one did have a built-in laser. Guns
weren’t my thing, but if presented with a laser-operated piece of technology
I’d be all over it. So, I could understand his enthusiasm to a point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robin?” Dad asked as he plugged the first of two coffee pods into the machine
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GPA. Get into the college of your choice and academic scholarships as well.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Shawn McGuire is the author of young adult
novels that blend contemporary settings and issues with a touch of fantasy and
magic. She started writing after seeing the first Star Wars movie (that's
episode IV) as a kid. She couldn't wait for the next movie to come out so wrote
her own episodes. Sadly, those notebooks are long lost, but her desire to write
is as strong now as it was then.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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books deal with harder topics (death of a sibling, divorce, dating violence, bullying,
and teen suicide) because she believes it is important to talk about these
things. Those kinds of topics can be hard to handle and a bit overwhelming, so she
infuses a bit of humor in her work as well because she also believes that a
sense of humor can help you get through just about anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Shawn
lives in Colorado with her family where she spends her time reading, cooking
and baking, practicing yoga and meditation, and hiking and camping in the
spectacular Rocky Mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thanks so much for checking out the blog today! Casey L. Bond is revealing brand new covers for her Harvest Saga trilogy! Check these bad boys out.<br />
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I.LOVE.THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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Full disclosure: I read REAP a few months agot and LOVE IT!!! <3<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Casey L. Bond resides in West Virginia
with her husband and their two beautiful daughters. When she’s not busy being a
domestic goddess and chasing her baby girls, she loves to write young adult and
new adult fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Pariah, Book 1 in The New Covenant
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Shady Bay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Reap, Book 1 in The Harvest Saga<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Resist, Book 2 in The Harvest Saga<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>Reclaim, Book 3 in The Harvest Saga</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sin (Serial Series)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Light in the Darkness (YA Anthology)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Remember way back in the day when they had those 80s rock compilation CD commercials? And they played some of the songs while they were talking about them? (please tell me you remember). I've had this ONE LINE of a song in my head for years... not even one line... just, "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah poisonnnnnn..." I have tried and tried to find something... anything that would match it on youtube. I tried Cinderella, Poison (the band), Guns N' Roses... NOTHING.<br />
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