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<b>Expected Publication: </b>September 11, 2012</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abby Lovitt doesn't realize how unprepared she is when she takes her beloved horse, True Blue, to a clinic led by the most famous equestrian anyone knows. The biggest surprise, though, is that Sophia, the girl who never makes a mistake, suddenly makes so many that she stops riding. Who will ride her horse? Abby's dad seems to think it will be Abby. Pie in the Sky is the most expensive horse Abby has ever ridden. But he is proud and irritable, and he takes Abby's attention away from the continuing mystery that is True Blue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then there's high school—Abby finds new friends, but also new challenges, and a larger world that sometimes seems strange and intimidating. She begins to wonder if there is another way to look at horses, people, and life itself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Accompanied by the beautiful imagery of 1960s Northern California, Abby's charming mix of innocence and wisdom guide us through Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley's latest middle-grade horse novel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I recently read <i>Pie in the Sky </i>by Jane Smiley. I thought it was a very good book. In <i>Pie in the Sky</i> Abby has a has a horse named Blue. He is not very good at jumping so she takes him to a clinic. The man who does the clinic does not like Blue very well. A girl in Abby's class quits riding for an unknown reason. She askes Abby to ride her horse named Pie in the Sky. Abby and Pie in the Sky help his owner get back her confidence to ride. God gave Abby a chance to help Pie's owner. Anyone who likes horses and learning about God would like this book. I really liked reading about the different horses in the story. <i>Pie in the Sky </i>was a great read and I hope Jane Smiley writes another book
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“You’re quite feisty, aren’t you?” he chuckled, bending forward to examine me. Deep, charcoal eyes overflowed with amusement.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://jkhogan.com/">J.K. Hogan</a></span></div>
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king, and closing the gate before Samhain, when the veil between the worlds is
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">‘Fire On The Island’ was a very deep story about a woman who experienced a very tragic childhood that left her alone and unsure of where she came from or what she was for that matter. On the island that she lives on, the natives began spreading rumors about her, saying that she’s a witch. Those rumors are what catch Jeremiah’s attention. Jeremiah has spent his life working on studying and following paranormal activity and has come across a book he is trying to translate about a group of ancient witches he believes to be from the same island where these rumors have surfaced from. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">So when his editor insists he take a vacation the island is his chosen spot. There he meets Isla she runs Expeditions a place that runs outdoor activities, hikes, kayak tours, and such.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Jeremiah and Isla begin to see each other and Jeremiah discovers Isla is the woman the natives believe is a witch. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">It turns out Isla is a witch and she has no idea but horrible things begin to happen and Isla has to tap into her powers to stop them. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">‘Fire On The Island’ was such a unique story. It was a paranormal tale of witches and demons. However there was also an underlying story about family problems and not knowing who you are or where you came from. I really loved Isla’s character she was so strong, unique, and funny. She was everything you usually hope to find in a main character.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">I enjoyed the plot because I really felt like it was fresh and new. I finished this book very quickly; it kept my attention from the very first page. Something intriguing was always happening. ‘Fire On The Island’ is a definite page turner.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">I love when paranormal books have that family element to it. Where the whole group bands together to fight the evil force and that’s what happened here.</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">I would recommend this book for any paranormal fans.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">J.K. Hogan has been telling stories for as long as she can remember,
beginning with writing cast lists and storylines for her toys growing up. When
she finally decided to put pen to paper, magic happened. She is greatly
inspired by all kinds of music and often creates a “soundtrack” for her stories
as she writes them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">J.K. resides in
North Carolina, where she was born and raised. A true southern girl at heart,
she lives on a farm with her husband and their three horses, one miniature
donkey, one cat, and two champion agility dogs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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writing, she enjoys training and competing in dog sports, spending time with
her large southern family, camping, boating and, of course, reading! Please
feel free to visit J.K.’s contact page—she’d love to hear from you!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s the last day of the summer holiday in The Hague when Leah Koopmans’s carefree life as a teen is brutally flipped upside down. Her pale skin turns a dazzling gold, her senses heighten, and her muscles possess an uncanny strength. But with these exhilarating new powers comes a thirst that can only be quenched by one thing: human blood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">When I first began’ The Fire of Dawn’ I thought it was going to be another cheesy vampire novel about some girl who becomes a vampire and has to save the world while falling madly in love with a bad boy vampire. The same story we’ve been told oh so many times. However I was happily surprised by this intensely detailed portrayal of immortals trying to rebuilds their covens after being separated and suffering a loss from an attack from their enemy, The Brotherhood. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">Leah is the key to getting the covens back together and she possesses a great amount of powers. The question is will she use her influence to help get revenge on The Brotherhood?</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">I really enjoyed this book; it was fresh and had a good story line. Yes it hinted at the characters being vampires but they stated that they are simply immortals, which is in my opinion something new. It was a nice difference for me to read a book about a new paranormal group not vampires. I did think the book started out a bit slow and it really took me a while to get into it. At one point I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to get into it honestly, but I kept with it and read some more. I finally got pulled into the story and really got hooked onto the plot and I was not disappointed. </span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><span style="text-align: left;">I really loved the plot and the characters; I think they really made the story for me. I like how they regarded one another as family and not just friends or members of the same coven. I thoroughly enjoyed ‘The Fire of Dawn’ and the writing was great. It was a very thrilling story. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Genre:</b> Chick Lit/Comedy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Jane Austen meets the <em>Bachelorette</em> in this twenty-first-century comedy of manners about a suburban family, their four eligible daughters, and what happens when reality TV comes to town.<em></em></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">With her acclaimed first novel, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">One Flight Up</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">, author Susan Fales-Hill is on a roll, already leaving her chick-lit predecessors “in the dust,” as the </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">New York Post</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> put it. Now, in </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Imperfect Bliss</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">, she offers up a hilarious take on genteel family life with a cast of irresistibly eccentric characters. Meet the Harcourts of Chevy Chase, Maryland. A respectable middle class, middle-aged, mixed-race couple, Harold and Forsythia have four eminently marriageable daughters—or so their mother believes. Forsythia named her girls after Windsor royals in the hopes that one day each would find her true prince. But princes are far from the mind of their second-born daughter, Elizabeth (AKA Bliss), who, in the aftermath of a messy divorce, has moved back home and thrown herself into earning her Ph.D. All that changes when a</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Bachelorette</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">-style reality television show called </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">The Virgin</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> takes Bliss’s younger sister, Diana, as its star. Though she fights it at first, Bliss can’t help but be drawn into the romantic drama that ensues, forcing her to reconsider everything she thought she knew about love, her family, and herself.</span></span>
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This was a really great, light, funny and refreshing read. Yes, the plot was very predictable, but nevertheless I enjoyed the story immensely. As I said, it was kind of a light read, but I also found myself taking some of the issues talked about in the book, and things that the characters were involved in, and thinking about them more. So even though this was a pretty light, I think there is definitely some deeper meaning behind it, and will leave you with something to think about. Especially in today's society with our fixation on reality t.v., sex etc. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">Sethie Weiss is hungry, a mean, angry kind of hunger that feels like a piece of glass in her belly. She’s managed to get down to 111 pounds and knows that with a little more hard work—a few more meals skipped, a few more snacks vomited away—she can force the number on the scale even lower. She will work on her body the same way she worked to get her perfect grades, to finish her college applications early, to get her first kiss from Shaw, the boy she loves, the boy who isn’t quite her boyfriend.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">This book is a pass. It reads as though it glorifies eating disorders. A character saying every girl goes through that stage, which just isn’t true. Somewhat reads as a how too manual while no graphic details are given it does cover a character being obsessed with her weight and vomiting, restricting calories and being happy about it. This is the nature of eating disorders. It did accurately portray a person so deep in the disease that nothing else matters. The ending leaves much more to be desired. No real fall out ever comes from her dramatic weight loss which may send the wrong message to some.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Publication Date: </b>February 14, 2012</span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">At age twenty-one, Andrea Palpant Dilley stripped the Christian fish decal off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At twenty-three, she left the church and went searching for refugein the company of men who left her lonely and friends who pushed the boundaries of what she once held sacred. In this deeply personal memoir, Andrea navigates the doubts that plague believers and skeptics alike: Why does a good God allow suffering? Why is God so silent, distant, and uninvolved? And why does the church seem so dysfunctional? Yet amid her skepticism, she begins to ask new questions: Could doubting be a form of faith? Might our doubts be a longing for God that leads to a faith we can ultimately live with?</span></span>
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I thought that a lot of the authors stories, points of view, etc were great. As a sort of agnostic myself I can relate to her stories because quite honestly, I've pretty much been there 1000 and one times. I grew up in church my whole life, much like she did so I know exactly what she's talking about.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">After having been a good girl and following her mother’s advice to snag a husband before she became a twenty-something spinster, Barbara Slate realized that her Mr. Right was actually Mr. Wrong and that she was living her life according to everyone’s rules but her own. After twelve years of an unblissful marriage, she made her escape.</span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> Now this accomplished comic artist lets it all out in a savagely funny and emotionally honest fictional narrative. Jo, her stand-in protagonist, is a successful wedding photographer (of all things) who has been dumped by her husband and desperately needs to get on with her life. She follows her friends’ advice to get laid, see a shrink, go out more, and live a little. Nothing works. Eventually she realizes that she must stop listening to what everybody else tells her and follow her own voice instead.</span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"> Jo’s struggle with female guilt and her quest for self-awareness, told in a series of hilarious panels, is the perfect book for any woman needing to take back control of her life, or remembering when she did.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">After thirty-four years of just letting life happen to her, Paula Tenenbaum’s mundane existence was suddenly interrupted. It was bad enough to be fired from her job because she was “average”, but on that same day, her boyfriend also dumped her for being “un-dynamic.” Somehow, someway Paula needed to make a change. But before she could figure out what her first step should be, her scheming neighbor Larry tapped into her silent desperation and dreams and challenged everything that she believed about herself.</span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">At first Paula was skeptical and scared, but quickly, she realized that she had nothing to lose, as she donned the persona of the successful, and vibrant individual that she had always dreamed of being, navigating thru business, colorful personalities and the people that she had idolized from afar.</span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Written with sharp humor, and huge personality, Paula Takes A Risk is the hilarious story about the metamorphosis of Paula Tenenbaum, who naively enters into an adventure that changes her life. This is a story certain to strike a chord in anyone who secretly desires change, but is afraid to make it.</span></span>
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We are so thrilled to be revealing the cover for Ada Adam's new book, ReAwakened today.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In honor of this fantastic occasion Ada Adams will be hosting a live Tweet Chat about a<span style="color: #222222;">nything and everything related to her writing, Angel Creek, characters, non-spoilery parts of the story, etc. Today at 5pm EST! You should totally join in the fun!</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><b>[Use hashtag #ReVampedChat]</b>. Even if you can't make it at 5, you can leave your question at any time of the day. She'll get to it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">A man's Past leads to his Future......</span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Agent Stone of the Shadow Unit's job is simple, most days. Work in the Shadows, police his own Kind. </span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">When an unwanted assignment turns out to be his darkest fantasy from the past, Draven can't help but be conflicted by the memories of the past and his responsibilities in the future. But his decision has been made.</span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">The Heart of a woman is Tested........</span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Jes can't let the tall dark agent back into her life. </span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">How can she trust any man after what she's endured. Years of abuse have broken her down and she doesn't have room for more. The man she turns to for help hasn't abused her physically but he's tormented her emotionally. A past betrayal left her scarred, but also brought her life. </span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Can she accept him into her heart and trust him again? </span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">One will survive and adapt, the other will realize hearts can be mended even if it’s a bit too late. </span><br style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;" /><span style="line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">The road to forgiveness sometimes only brings more pain. Unexpected events set their lives on two separate tracks leading to one outcome. Lives will be changed and an emotional battle to save their souls will leave them both trapped and enslaved in their need for one another.</span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My
name is Katina Jewel Hernandez pen name Tigris Eden. I am eternally 29 years
old. I love to write, read, and listen to music, watch movies, and travel. My
biggest goal right now is to be waited on hand and foot. Possibly a group of
hot cabana boys, maybe two or three door men, a butler and personal chef and
driver, for now. I adore oatmeal crème cookies and long walks to my pillow. I’m
pretty laid back and I love to laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I’m
an ex-military brat, and have been to a number of wonderful places. I’ve been
writing for as long as I was able to put pen to paper. I use to write music and
play flute. So if it wasn’t music notes jumping at me to be put on paper it was
words. True story: When I was growing up in Germany my father and I watched a
lot of musicals. Sound of Music, Annie…. You name it I’ve watched and probably
know the words by heart. Anyway, I thought life was a musical and my first day
of school I sang the entire day. Whether it was hello, my name is Katina or can
I go to the restroom. Two years later I was asked to write about my very first
day of school. When I wrote my story the teacher didn’t believe me, told me I
was a big story teller. So I’ve been telling stories ever since, whether it was
with music or words.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I live in Cypress, Texas
with my Husband LL and my boys Darryl Joseph and Andrew and a newly acquired
puppy name Kastor. When I’m not writing, I’m balancing payroll taxes, moving
state wages, or answering that age old question. “Why don’t my wages in box 1
equal what’s on my pay stub. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Today we have a fabulous guest post by the author of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_11?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=minivan+mom+mystery+series&sprefix=minivan+mom%2Caps%2C212">Minivan Mom Mystery Series </a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jim Bronyaur! He will be talking to us about writing his sequel, the merging of new & old characters, </span></span></div>
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There’s always fun in creating new
characters, but when it comes to writing a sequel, there’s the chance to mix
new characters with old ones and seeing how they react. </div>
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I loaded up the first book in the
Minivan Mom Mystery Series with some fun characters – everyone from Eve Bailey
herself, to her family, to the town gossip queen, and even to Eve’s sworn
enemy, Karen Corothers.</div>
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When I wrote the second book in the
series, I needed those main characters to be alive and well, but I knew it
couldn’t just be about them again. There
had to be something new and fresh happening with these ‘old’ characters in the
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To do this, I created the Jenkins
family and their back story. A family of
land owners who appear normal on the outside but are anything but on the
inside, maybe much like most families in the world. The family shows that money doesn’t create
happiness and that regret can be a lifelong curse living inside ourselves.</div>
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Of course, I had to create the
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In the first book, we have this
innocent seeming woman, a local resident who perhaps walked off the straight
path in life. There’s tragedy behind
Janet in If Errands Could Kill and I didn’t want that same thing to happen in
the second book. For the second book, I
imagined it moving a little more quickly.
I figured since we all know who Eve is by now and we all about
Marysville, why not just jump right into the story and bring some outside stuff
into the book? What that means is that I
created the murder victim as a rich, big wig kind of guy, someone who had a lot
to do with a local casino in town that seems to causing trouble and bringing
trouble to the innocent town of <st1:city w:st="on">Marysville</st1:city>. </div>
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Eve doesn’t know who the murdered
man is but that doesn’t mean she’s not connected to him… and that’s where the
second book really picks up its speed.
In the first book, it was about Eve trying to understand the fact that a
normal, kind woman had been killed. For
the second book, it’s Eve working through some of her own past to help the
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The new characters bring more life
to the series and more life to Eve. The
fun part of the book and the series is that in the background, we have the
other characters, still living and still functioning within the story – and
even helping the story along too.</div>
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In other words, writing the sequel
just made the ‘family’ within the Minivan Mom Mystery Series bigger and
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Yes, plans do exist for a third
book, but I cannot share them just yet.
But there will be some of the old characters, and yes, I will be back to
work creating new ones.</div>
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Grab your copy of both<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_11?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=minivan+mom+mystery+series&sprefix=minivan+mom%2Caps%2C212"> If ErrandsCould Kill</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_11?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=minivan+mom+mystery+series&sprefix=minivan+mom%2Caps%2C212">A Mess to Die For</a> on Amazon… and don’t miss any of the
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Genre:</strong> Paranormal, Romance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publication</strong> <strong>Date:</strong> May 31, 2011</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>Publisher:</strong> Ballantine Books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9780345520084</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Roxanne “Roxy” Banfield refuses to be like
her mother, a fertility witch who uses sex as nothing more than a magical
weapon. Roxy rejects that life and is determined to become mortal to pursue her
dream of real love and a family. All she has to do is avoid meeting the one man
whose sensuality can release her powers. But steering clear of this magnetic stranger
is easier said than done.<br />
Wing Slayer Hunter Kieran “Key” DeMicca channels the dark violence that lives
inside him into a popular comic book series about an ancient dragon named
Dyfyr, but only Key knows that Dyfyr is real. Lately he finds himself drawing
images of a young woman in peril, and assumes that she’s just a product of his
imagination—until he meets Roxy. Struck by her beauty and her resemblance to
his sketches, he feels compelled to protect her. As steamy magic, lethal
danger, and timeless love collide, Roxy must become what she swore she would
never be- and awake a part of Key that will threaten to destroy them both.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">‘Sinful
Magic’ is a delicious intoxicating novel. Once you start it, I promise you will
not be able to put it down. Jennifer Lyon creates a world of danger, fantasy,
action, and loves so strong it could kill. ‘Sinful Magic’ continues the Wing
Slayer novel saga, the fourth novel is the story of Kieran or ‘Key’. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has always been the darker, mysterious one in the group. He is famous for the
dark comics he creates including his dragon Dyfyr. His way of releasing the
dark and evil of the blood lust and the curse was always drawing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Roxy
is looking for a comic series to make into a television series. She goes about
looking into Key’s comics but that’s when all hell breaks loose. Roxy is a
fertility witch but she has no desire to be a witch at all. See she doesn’t
believe her mother used her power the right way and she doesn’t want to be like
that. So if she doesn’t find her awakening her chakras will die off and she
will become human and that is something she wants more than anything.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what happens when Key turns out to be her awakening and he needs her to awaken
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">There
were so many different elements to this plot; I was in love with it. So many
twists and turns happened; this book had me on the edge of my seat the whole
time. Roxy and Key’s love is so unbelievably strong and passionate it just
captivates you from the moment they meet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">I
love the world Jennifer Lyon creates, these Wing Slayer Hunters grip your
attention and don’t let go. These books are romantic, adventurous, with some
very well placed humor, and they have a great plot of fantasy. I would recommend
‘Sinful Magic’ to anyone! Trust me you do not want to miss this series,
Jennifer Lyon truly created a new level of paranormal excellence I cannot wait
for the next installment!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.sophiedavisbooks.com/">Sophie Davis</a></span><br />
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<b>P<span style="font-family: inherit;">ublished: </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">January 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Talia Lyons is Talented. She
possesses the ability to read the minds of others and manipulate their
thoughts. Ever since she witnessed the brutal murders of her parents,
Talia has spent her life honing her abilities, with her heart set on vengeance.
Now she is poised to face the man responsible, but duplicity causes Talia
to doubt herself and her powers. In the wake of this betrayal, Talia
turns to a boy who can mimic her Talents, a boy who truly understands her inner
turmoil. But even he can’t help Talia when she’s forced to choose between
saving herself or avenging the lives of her parents.<span style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">When I first picked up ‘Talented’ I wasn’t sure if I could really get into it. From the summary it didn’t entirely sound like my kind of book and I was a bit skeptical to be honest. However I was proven wrong very quickly, ‘Talented’ was a very good book and it pulled my attention in. Talia, is talented, like the rest of the kids that she went to school with and now she is training to become a hunter. She is working very hard to put her special abilities to good. Also on a more personal level she wants to get her revenge on the man that killed her parents, Ian Crane.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sophie moved to Washington, D.C. after graduating from Penn State
University to pursue a career in the Sciences. After deciding to actually
write down one of the stories she makes up in her head, Sophie began the long
journey towards her first full-length novel, Talented. Caged is her
second novel, and the second in the Talented Saga. When Sophie isn't
hunched over her computer, she can be found shopping in Georgetown, running in
Rock Creek Park, or at the local dive bars in her Columbia Heights
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