tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29652341485743363142024-03-13T11:39:58.712-07:00The NightLifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12593351315325303120noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2965234148574336314.post-82081969395383236102017-03-01T09:08:00.001-08:002017-03-01T11:49:08.981-08:00DEMONS OF EDEN Series Glossary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>Eden</i><i>: </i>Earth, categorized as one of
the eleven worlds of the <i>Superum</i>.<i> </i>First discovered by the
Empress’s conjurers, Eden became her personal reservation, <i>her garden</i>.
Through the Empress’s benevolent genetic manipulations, a higher order of intelligent life was born, <b><i>homo sapiens</i></b>. In later centuries, the
Garden of Eden and its man-made civilizations fell into chaos, manipulated and corrupted by <i>Incarnate</i>
with god-like powers. <b>Biblical and Judaic origin.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Superum</i><i>:</i> The eleven worlds
terraformed and colonized by the Empress. Eventually, <i>Eden</i> – Earth – became
separated from the Superum when its gate was permanently closed during the <i>Operti
Wars</i>. Once governed by her love and guidance, when the Empress disappeared to escape rebellion, the worlds of the <i>Superum</i> fell into feudal
systems run by authoritarian <i>Incarnate</i> warlords, the <i>Principe</i>.
<b>Latin origin – <i>heaven or heavenly bodies</i>.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Deva</i><i>: </i>Practitioner of <i>conjurings</i> on
the <i>aether</i>. One whose life is devoted to the Vedic way, to reconcile the
lost world of <i>Eden</i> with the other worlds of the <i>Superum</i>. Devas plunge into the <i>aether</i> to make spiritual connections with the minds of humans in <i>Eden</i>. They ply their influence on the people of <i>Eden</i> in hopes of reopening the gateway between worlds. <b>Hindu
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<i>Conjurings</i><i>:</i> Deva’s making connection
across the <i>aether</i>. A form of influence or possession over the minds of the men and women of <i>Eden</i>. Powerful <i>conjurings</i> can gift the host with clairvoyance, psychometry, psychokinesis, pyrokinesis and other forms of extra sensory perception. Unskilled <i>conjurings</i> result in horrific accidents, strange paranormal ghost
phenomenon, malevolent spiritual possession (i.e.: someone needs an
exorcism), schizophrenia, multiple personality disorders, madness, and death. <b>Latin
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<i>Aether</i><i>: </i>The manifestation of mind and
soul at the quantum level. Each mind has a wavelength, a presence and form that exists within and
outside the body. <i>Aether</i> is the collective wavelength atmosphere flowing across
each of the eleven worlds of the Superum. Skilled <i>Devas</i> using special <i>dimensio</i> armor can surf the <i>aether</i> to connect with the minds of gifted humans and build relationships or affect <i>conjurings</i>. <b>Greek origin.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Dimensio</i><i>: </i>Dimensional barriers. Body
armor gear that allows Devas to penetrate gravitational and dimensional barriers
to manifest in spirit across the <i>aether</i> in attempt to influence humans through <i>conjurings</i>
and relationships. <b>Latin origin.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Perturbateur</i><i>:</i> Dimension and space-time
disrupter. Equipment is large and bulky, installed on Mithra’s platform. Causes
space-time breakage and particle disruption. Aids the <i>Deva</i> to penetrate the
<i>aether</i> across great distances, and through dimensional barriers.<b> French origin</b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Pérasma</i><i>: </i>A stone fortress housing
gateways (wormholes) leading to each world of the Superum. A<span style="text-indent: 0in;">ll worlds are accessible through the hall of the <i>Pérasma</i> </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">–</span><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">except for the closed gate of </span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">Eden</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;">. </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Constructed by the Empress as a transport hub for travel between her terraformed worlds, the fortress exists in perpetual flux, a dimension outside space and time,</span><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> simultaneously connected to each planet, yet not
resident in any known world. As the Empress and her city of Atlantis are long gone, so are the ancient arts and technologies incorporated into the <i>Pérasma</i>. </span><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Only the few remaining <i>Incarnate </i>and their <i>Devas</i> retain the archived knowledge to generate gateways traversing the worlds across the </span><i style="text-indent: 0in;">Pérasma</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;">.</span><span style="text-indent: 0in;"> </span><b style="text-indent: 0in;">Greek Origin – <i>passage.</i></b></div>
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<i>Incarnate</i><i>:</i> Officers of the Empress
charged with the responsibility of protecting Eden and shepherding the tribes
of humanity. Each god-like <i>Incarnate</i> is endowed with powerful
supernatural gifts from the Empress. Capable of great feats of skill, carrying
centuries of wisdom and experience, <i>Incarnate</i> live several hundred years
and archive their full knowledge. <i>Incarnate</i> are reborn into identical,
healthy bodies via <i>resurrection nodes</i> gifted by the Empress. Memory archives
are implanted at rebirth and the <i>Incarnate</i> lives again with full access
to centuries of archives for reference. Most <i>Incarnate</i> perished in the <i>Operti
Wars</i>, their resurrection nodes and archives destroyed by Isolationist
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<i>Cambion</i><i>:</i> Mythology considers <i>cambion</i>
demonic creatures with malevolent, monstrous capabilities. Any creature who
shapeshifts or feeds on the blood of its victims to live. A dark, dangerous,
seemingly evil person with animalistic, predatory, or demonic characteristics.
Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters. Early <i>Incarnate</i> archives evidence <i>cambion</i>
bloodlines originated from the Empress’s failed genetic experiments. Through
tenacity and vicious predation, <i>cambion</i> survived many attempts to purge them
from existence over the centuries. The word is an insult, i.e.: <i>unclean,
filthy, mutated and malignant</i>. <b>Medieval European mythology origin.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Principe</i><i>: </i>Warlords who once served as <i>Incarnate</i>
officers of the Empress. The Empress’s disappearance, and the aftermath of the <i>Operti
Wars</i> led to a brutal feudal system of world government. Each of the ten
worlds accessible from the Pérasma are ruled by a reigning warlord. <i>Principe</i>
abandoned the search for the Empress to focus efforts on maintaining order and
civilization through dictatorial rule. <b>Latin and Italian origin.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Cardo</i><i>:</i> The axis, hinge, or pivot
point. The <i>Cardo</i> is the one person empowered to use the <i>Asi</i> to
open the gate of <i>Eden</i>. The <i>Cardo</i> controls the gate to <i>Eden</i> and
thereby all travel to and from <i>Eden</i>. Only humans with special inherited
DNA, descended from the ancient lineage of the Nephilim, can wield the intense heat and power. For two thousand years, no human has survived the fusion
reaction that activates the <i>Asi </i>to open the <i>Seal of Solomon</i><span style="text-indent: 0in;">. Without the <i>Cardo</i>, the gateway between worlds will remain forever closed. </span><b style="text-indent: 0in;">Latin and Italian origin.</b></div>
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<i>Asi</i><i>:</i> Weapons of great power
forged by the Empress’s finest weapon smiths as the only keys able to activate
the gateway to <i>Eden</i>. The <i>Asi</i> were originally created for King
Solomon the Wise, and later lost by war and thievery. Apart from the <i>Asi</i>
hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives, the location or existence of the other <i>Asi</i>
are unknown. <b>Hindu Mahabharata origin.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Resurrection
nodes</i><i>:</i> Rebirth cloning machines designed for the Empress's <i>Incarnate</i> officers.
When activated, the node births a fully adult <i>Incarnate</i> clone, then implants the life memories of the recently deceased <i>Incarnate </i>(the quickening). The newborn <i>Incarnate</i> rises in perfect health with full knowledge, memories, and instantly accessible archives of their many past lives. <b>Latin and English origin.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>Operti
Wars</i><i>:
</i>During the
Roman-Parthian wars of 60 BC, Isolationist rebels spread across the eleven
worlds of the <i>Superum</i> and gathered forces to strike at the <i>Pérasma</i>.
They fought to close each gate, based on the ideals that every world deserved
to live free of the interference of the Empress and her corrupt <i>Incarnate</i>
officials. Rebels burned and sunk the city of Atlantis in attempt to root out
the Empress’s power. She escaped their hordes and disappeared into the <i>Pérasma</i>.
Isolationists convinced the <i>Cardo</i> in Babylon to seal the gate to Eden,
and cut off support between Rome and the <i>Superum</i>. The gate has never been
reopened. <b>Latin origin – <i>closing</i>.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The
Seal of Solomon</i><i>:</i> A gateway device activated by the <i>Cardo</i>
using the <i>Asi</i> as the key. The Seal opens the only gate to and from <i>Eden,</i>
to the main hall of the <i>Pérasma</i>. Custody of both <i>The Seal</i> and the <i>Asi</i> remained in Babylon until the 12th century, when the Knights Templar stole both enchanted devices during the holy wars. In
the early 13th century, Vatican officials assimilated the wealth of the Knights
Templar and hid <i>the Seal </i>and <i>Asi</i> in secret vaults within the Vatican.
<b>Biblical and Judaic origin.</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Qui Commander Meseri is charged with reuniting Lieutenant Zeus Windsor with his team. She captures a man on the brink of insanity, a lethal soldier who kills any K’lahn in reach. Bound in submission to her sensual torment, Zeus finds reason to live – Meseri, a shapeshifting winged lizard who was once the enemy and now holds the key to his future.</div>
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Deep undercover, a mission to take down an international trafficking ring leads Jenna Tayler into the dark side of sexual slavery — an exclusive conspiracy selling wealthy women retribution for their wayward men. To infiltrate the Kabas operation, she’s forced to turn against her fellow agent, Ryan Crichten.</div>
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Maddeningly arrogant. British. <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sexy alpha male</i>. Ryan signed up for any mission, whatever the cost, but his reactions to being abducted must ring true or Jenna’s cover is blown. Everything Jenna learned about safe, sane and consensual is scrapped. To keep Ryan alive and maintain cover, she must force him into submission.</div>
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Ryan believes Jenna to be CIA, on assignment to London. She catches his eye and throws him off-balance, but she’s in way over her head. When he pulls her off the team — <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for her own protection</i> — she abducts him. The woman’s gone off the deep end, hell bent on subjecting him to constant sexual frustration. His elite spy training never prepared him for sensual torture, and the mixed signals from Jenna confuse the hell out of him.</div>
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This romantic suspense international spy novel is part of Kayla Stonor’s <a href="https://kaylastonor.wordpress.com/surrender-collection/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Surrender Collection:</a></div>
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#1 Under By Duress<br />#2 Under By Treaty<br />#3 Under By Vengeance</div>
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Reader please note: Kayla Stonor’s steamy romance novels can be dark and edgy, hot and wicked, punishing and uplifting. If you find certain themes uncomfortable reading, these BDSM themed stories may not be for you. This erotic story includes tease and denial. Please see inside cover for further detail.</div>
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4* Amazon Review by Crystal: <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Author Kayla Stonor was able to weave a convincing BDSM/femdom storyline with a hint of suspense and a HEA.”</strong></em> Click<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/532580575" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #743399; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a> to see full review.</div>
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Jenna peeled off the latex glove then stepped up to Crichten’s left side and crouched beside his head. She gently ran her fingers through his hair. The rhythm of his breathing increased, a muscle in his jaw twitched, but his eyes stared fixedly at a point in front of him. She gripped his hair roots and yanked his head back so he looked at the ceiling.</div>
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“I should wash out your mouth.”</div>
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His gaze flicked towards her. “You did leave a sour taste.”</div>
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She smiled and shook his head from side to side. “But your ass is so inviting. When did you last experience a good, old-fashioned spanking?”</div>
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“Is that the best you can come up with?”</div>
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“Of course your training covered humiliation. Still, you haven’t had me spank you before.”</div>
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She pushed his head forward then rested her ungloved hand between his shoulder blades. He twitched at her touch. She trailed her fingers down his spine to the small of his back.</div>
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“How are you doing down below?” She swiveled around so she could run her hand under his waist and explore his caged cock. He tensed when she rubbed the skin bulging through the air vents. Her index finger traced the Vengeance cage to its tip where the head of his penis strained to escape the tiny slit. She scraped the exposed flesh with her nail.</div>
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Crichten hissed.</div>
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“That hurts, huh?” She dug her nail into the sensitive spot until he was straining away from her touch.</div>
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She leaned down and kissed his back where smooth, toned skin met the muscular curve of his buttocks. Moisture seeped into panties already damp from when he’d trapped her up against the wall. She stopped toying with his caged penis, stood up, and stripped off her bikini bottoms, her modesty protected by her sarong. Then she moved in front of him, bent down and pressed her panties against his nose.</div>
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Ryan recoiled from the musky scent filling his nostrils, all too aware the sweet smell of her sex would drive him to distraction. Her swift retaliation had drawn an unwelcome response from his treacherous cock. Fingers gripped his hair, holding him trapped. The need for air compelled him to inhale through the silky material. He struggled not to collapse as his limbs turned to mush. His cock hardened until he winced.</div>
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“I think you liked that,” she taunted him.</div>
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Holding back a moan proved a challenge. Some perverse part of him wanted Jenna to know her effect on him. A saner part resisted the dangerous notion. When the material lifted away, he gulped in fresh air. He didn’t expect her to pinch his nose.</div>
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Immediately, he held his breath, determined to fight her every step of the way. She waited. Seconds ticked by. Then a minute. He struggled to escape her relentless hold, dropping his head to the floor and shaking furiously, but his restraints were secure and allowed little movement. His lungs began to burn. On the verge of passing out, he gasped for air. It came with a ball of musky material. Her panties filled his mouth. He gagged and she let go of his nose so he could breathe. The taste of her desire extended down the back of his throat.</div>
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Hell, he could drown in her scent. His arousal mounted.</div>
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“That should do the trick. Watch your mouth in future, Ryan, or I’ll watch it for you.”</div>
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She moved out of sight and he immediately started work on ejecting the makeshift gag with his tongue. The unmistakable sound of ripping duct tape doubled his efforts to no avail. She returned and plastered the tape across his lips and Ryan blasted her with a furious glare. His anger kept a rising panic at bay — a horrible fear that he’d made a bad decision letting her cuff his hands to the floor. She’d been vulnerable to attack; he could have killed her with one blow.</div>
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Last night, he’d sensed her pull back. He needed to see how far she would take him. More than that, he needed to know he could handle how far she was prepared to go, like it or not. He had little choice in the matter. She had the back up to handle him any way she wanted.</div>
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Jenna crouched down to his level and stroked the under curve of his jaw. Her gentle fingers mocked his impotent fury. “You really need to learn the consequence to disrespect.”</div>
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The African Queen in Outer Space?<o:p></o:p></h4>
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<b><i>A guest post by Edward Hoornaert:</i></b></div>
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My upcoming science fiction romance, <i><a href="http://eahoornaert.com/science-fiction-with-romantic-elements-from-mr-valentine/science-fiction-romance-by-edward-hoornaert/escapee/" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Escapee</span></a></i>, is coming out on April 19. What inspired me
to write the book?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The 1951 movie, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AEFXD1O/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00AEFXD1O&linkCode=as2&tag=albertroussel-20&linkId=ODJLMTA56ZBNMKMM" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The African Queen</span></a><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75"
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moon, rather than the African Jungle, but in both tales the hero and heroine
battle nature and, ultimately, the invading enemy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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How did I transform a movie into a science fiction romance?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Analyzing the movie<o:p></o:p></h4>
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I rented the movie and looked for two things:<o:p></o:p></div>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">Stages -- Charley and Rosie's
relationship go through a number of stages.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">Turning points -- The events
that caused their relationship to change from one stage to another.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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I then devised analogous stages and turning points for <i>Escapee</i>. Here are a few of them, so you
get the feel for how the analysis worked.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Stage 1:</b> Polite disconnect
between hero and heroine.<o:p></o:p></div>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><i>AQ</i> -- Rosie, a missionary in <st1:place w:st="on">German
East Africa</st1:place>, disapproves of Charley, a crude freighter
captain who brings supplies, but treats him with chilly politeness.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><i>Escapee</i> -- Hector, a stuffy career army officer,
disapproves of the freewheeling, lower-class airship pilot, Cattaroon who
supplies his base.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<b>Turning point:</b> The
enemy invades. In <i>AQ</i>, it's the
Germans, who leave Rosie alone and stranded -- until Charley comes by and saves
her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In <i>Escapee</i>, it's humans
from the Proxima system. While Hector's on leave, they destroy his entire
command, leaving him stranded and alone -- until Catt lands, looking for
survivors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Stage 2:</b> Rosie devises a
near-impossible goal that he doesn't agree with.<o:p></o:p></div>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><i>AQ</i> -- Rosie's wants to attack a German warship.
Charley agrees, knowing she'll give up when she learns how dangerous
the river is.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><i>Escapee</i> -- Hector wants to attack enemy headquarters.
Catt agrees only because she's certain he'll give up when he realizes
how dangerous a flight across the moon is.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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So far the two stories are similar. Now they start to diverge, though the
skeleton remains the same.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Turning point:</b> When mild
danger fails to deter her from her purpose, his true feelings come out
explosively.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In <i>AQ</i>,
after shooting rapids doesn't deter Rosie, Charley gets drunk and insults
Rosie. She dumps out all his rum.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In <i>Escapee</i>,
after getting caught in a volcano's updraft doesn't deter Hector, Catt
sabotages a cannon stored in the airship's hold.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Stage 3:</b> Futile attempts to rebuild a civil relationship.<o:p></o:p></div>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"><i>AQ</i> -- Charley
apologizes for insulting her, but she won't accept his apology unless he
agrees to take her to the Germans' ship.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><i>Escapee</i> --
With the cannon gone, Hector realizes how futile his quest is. Feeling
guilty, Catt tries to be nice, but he's too depressed to talk about it.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<b>Turning point:</b> He
agrees to share her goal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In <i>AQ</i>, Charley's (deeply
buried!) chivalry makes him give in.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In <i>Escapee</i>, Catt remembers
all the friends whom the enemy has killed. Hearing her cry during the night,
Hector finally talks, voicing his idealistic reasons for wanting to fight.
Inspired by his idealism, Catt agrees to make the dangerous voyage to the
other side of the moon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Stage 4:</b> Falling in
love<o:p></o:p></div>
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Etc, etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Inspired By", Not a Ripoff<o:p></o:p></h4>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
This post is getting long, so I won't bore you with all six stages, but
hopefully you get the general idea. Analyzing the movie turned out to be a
huge help in developing my plot. You ought to try it some time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I'd like to emphasize that <i>Escapee</i>
ended up having a different feel than the movie. Here are some of the key
differences:<o:p></o:p></div>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal">Although both
environments are hostile, they're different -- river rapids vs.
hurricanes and volcanoes.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">The characters’ genders are
reversed. Their wounds are very different, as are the lessons they need to
learn.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">I added secondary characters.
They capture an enemy who tries to sabotage the airship. Hector has an
alien pet that is ugly/lovable. Finally, Catt's android co-pilot provides
comic relief as well as the book's most poignant scene, when he dies.<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal">The ending is more
believable, IMHO. <i>AQ</i>'s ending
requires an act of God (a rainstorm that floats their grounded boat) and a
wild coincidence (their sunken boat nonetheless sinks the German
ship). <i>Escapee</i> has a
logical ending.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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What's It to You?<o:p></o:p></h4>
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If you have a favorite movie you love, you might want to turn it into a
book of your own. If so, consider analyzing it for stages and turning points.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What movie would you like to turn into an "inspired by" novel?
Tell us about it in the comments.</div>
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About Edward Hoornaert<o:p></o:p></h4>
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What kind of man writes romance? A man who married his high school
sweetheart a week after graduation and is still living the HEA decades later. A
man who is a certifiable Harlequin hero in his own right -- Ed inspired Vicki
Lewis Thompson’s Rita Award finalist <i>Mr.
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Ed started out writing romances for Silhouette Books, but
these days he concentrates on science fiction romance. In addition to novelist,
he’s been a teacher, principal, technical writer, salesman, janitor, and
symphonic oboist. He and wife Judi live in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tucson</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Arizona</st1:state></st1:place>.
They have three sons, a daughter, a mutt, and the world’s most adorable
grandson. Visit him at <a href="http://eahoornaert.com/">http://eahoornaert.com</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Gasoline's guitarist, Dominic Spinelli, and singer Noelle Young of Winter Winds are still trying to sort out their new love. And as happens so often, the course of their love isn't running smoothly. <br />
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Dominic must still come fully to terms with the long-past death of his wife and child and move on with his life, and Noelle is having problems with a bandmate's unrequited crush on her. She also has to set up housekeeping with Dominic and get her band to join her on the East Coast to record their new album. <br />
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In writing my latest novel, a paranormal scifi-romance, <b><i><a href="http://smarturl.it/UponThisRock" target="_blank">Upon This Rock</a>,</i></b> I delved into the vast treasure trove of myth, legend and various religions to find inspiration. The premise was relatively simple, a mortal woman, courted and seduced by a god in her nightly dreams, would do anything to meet her lover in person. She would journey to the ends of the Earth for her loving devotion...</div>
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The idea of gods, angels and demons seducing mortal women is embedded in every mythology across human history. What does that say about women ... that they are such ripe targets for seduction and rape? What does that say about the predatory natures of these gods?</div>
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Hindu gods seduced and impregnated mortals, as did Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Greek and Roman gods. Zues's many lovers (mortal and otherwise) are so well known, the moons of Jupiter are named after them.</div>
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Sadly, the Demigods had it rough. They were mostly human, imbued with special abilities from their divine parentage, but mired in the mess of humanity and forever struggling against the manipulations of gods who used them to further their selfish agendas.</div>
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Thousands of years have passed since the days of Nephilim and Demigods, the days when gods, angels and demons walked among us, seducing women, and birthing supernaturally gifted half-breeds. </div>
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Herein lies the thread of my novel, <i><a href="http://smarturl.it/UponThisRock" target="_blank">UPON THIS ROCK</a></i>.</div>
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What if the Gods sought to reenter our world, to once more seduce women and regain political and religious favor among the nations of men? Ashley Rowan is lured in by the loving, patient whispers of Mithra. He promises they can be together, if only she accepts his gifts of power and journeys to the gate, to open the way to his world. </div>
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Mithra has labored for centuries to reach this moment, the chance for gods to once more walk among the men and women of Earth.</div>
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Available on Kindle, December 22nd 2015: <a href="http://smarturl.it/UponThisRock" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UPON THIS ROCK</a> by Travis Luedke</div>
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Beneath the Vatican lies a portal to other worlds, closed for millennia. Join Ashley for an intense thrill ride to the Vatican underworld to meet her god-like lover Mithra ... on the other side of the universe. </div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "dotum" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beneath the Vatican lies a gateway to other worlds, closed for
millennia. Mithra has labored for centuries to reach across the aether and
connect with a human carrying the ancient genetic markers needed to wield the
key and open the sealed gate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "dotum" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ashley has no one in her life but the voice in her head, the
warm, sultry whispers of Mithra that haunt her dreams. He promises they will be
united once she accepts his devastating gifts of power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "dotum" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Empowered by Mithra and aided by Urvashi – <i>a fallen
angel</i> – Ashley must embrace her destiny as the gatekeeper before
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access, but Mithra vows to protect Ashley at any cost, <i>even if it means
a war between worlds</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">Floating,
warm and lazy, drifting toward sleep, I knew the precise moment he entered my
mind. My breath quickened and my heart raced, fear and anticipation wrangled in
my belly. Images flashed so fast I could barely catch them. Brief glimpses of a
dark purple-blue sky and arcing crackles of energy signaled his invasion of my
consciousness. After reading too much Stephen King in junior high, my early
teenage dreams of him had seemed like a surreal dark fantasy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">Over the
years I’d learned to recognize these unique sensations, the foreign taste of
alien dust on my tongue – <i>his tongue</i>; and the writhing dimensional folds
tangled around my hands – <i>his hands</i>. I experienced his struggle to
control the forces he harnessed to craft a pathway through the barriers
separating our worlds. His aggressive, charismatic power filled me, yet the
texture of his thought and influence flowed distinctly different from my own
mind. I didn’t know what he was, or where he lived, but I knew his name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Mithra.</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">“I’m here,
Mithra. Waiting for you … as always.” <i>As always,</i> he ignored my taunts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">{{Your
patience is rewarded. I crossed rivers of time and space for you.}}</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">When he said
things like that, I worried. Why? Who was I that this magnificent god-like male
visited me, <i>spoke directly to me?</i> His warm, inviting voice was the only
constant in my life. Without him I was a lonely girl with no real life at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">“What … what
do you need? What would you have me do?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">My guts
turned with the dual sensations of anticipation and anxiety. Speaking aloud,
acknowledging him, reminded me of my mother, locked away and drugged for
talking to the voices in her head. The doctors had fancy diagnoses like <i>multiple
personality disorder</i> and <i>schizophrenia</i>, but I knew there were other
possibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">Seeing what
happened to my mother, I never spoke about Mithra to anyone, the things he said
and did to me. The secret of his presence in my life was sometimes overwhelming
… and his lurking expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">{{When the
time is right, you will serve me.}}</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">His touch
radiated through my soul and ended at my skin. Goosebumps rose everywhere as I
shivered with the delightful sensation. I faced a choice, to force myself awake
and brush off his influence, or dive deeper into sleep and accept this man sharing
my soul and body … <i>well not exactly a man.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">His golden
face formed in my mind’s eye. I wanted to run my fingers through his dark, long
hair. The fiery luminescence of his inhuman eyes exposed my deepest desires.
His jaw was hard and square, the undeniable look of an athlete – or a warrior.
Though I’d never seen his entire form all at once, I always enjoyed his power
radiating over me, a raw masculine force. He was larger than a normal man, skin
colored an unnatural metallic sheen. Every part of him projected pure
domineering male physique. Sometimes he appeared almost naked, tonight I
glimpsed ornate armor on his forearms. His intense eyes blazed with the
magnetism of saints, an allure I stopped resisting long ago. Whatever, wherever
he was, he came to me, he wanted me … wanted something from me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">I yearned to
touch his golden-bronzed skin, trace my fingers over his rippling muscles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">{{I am here
for you, Tesorina. Feel me if you wish.}}</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">I smiled at
the affectionate sound of his pet name for me, <i>Tesorina</i>. He rarely
called me Ashley or Ash like everyone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">Mithra knew
what I wanted, even when I wasn’t certain myself. I held no secrets from him.
He pulled my hands to his body by force of will. My palms landed on his hard,
strong chest. The warm ridges of muscle beneath my fingers felt more solid than
anything in my world. Hot sensations raced over my body, spearing down between
my legs. I was instantly wet, ready for a man. I quivered with fear and
anticipation. I shouldn’t touch him like this, too familiar, too intimate, but
I could never resist his compulsion, especially when he indulged my fantasies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">He was the
only man – <i>male creature</i> – in my life. I sighed in appreciation of his
generous gifts. I often felt blessed when he allowed me to touch him … and
especially when he touched me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">Feeling the
tiny ridges of smooth, metallic armor that wrapped his skin, I wondered who or
what he really was, his intentions for me. “Why do you visit me? What am I to
you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">{{<i>Pledge
absolute devotion to me and I promise you the key to the universe, Tesorina.</i>}}
I loved the resonating timbre of his deep, melodic voice, especially when he
played seduction games. I enjoyed his flirtatious affections, but Mithra’s
insistent demand remained constant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">He’d made
this request many times, and in my heart, I’d pledged devotion to him many
times over. I hesitated to say the words aloud. Someday I might give him what
he asked for, if I knew how. For the moment, I desired something else. “I don’t
want the keys to the universe. I want you, here. For real.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you do to have me? To be together?}}</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">“Tell me
what to do. What do you need?” My ethereal dream hands flowed over the hard
lines of his chest and abs, then up to his golden face. I traced his powerful
jaw and shoulders, hungry to know every part of him. While men bragged about
their six-packs, Mithra flexed an eight-pack of the gods. He was huge, strong
as an ox. I imagined he stood well over eight or nine feet. I wished he would
step out of my dreams and into my life, but at least I had him here, now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">My nipples
hard, breathing heavily, I wetted for him. Though I’d never been with a man, my
body knew what it needed. I squirmed with the heat of my arousal, ready to
pledge anything he asked, if only he’d touch me more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">{{<i>A time will
come when you must travel and face many challenges. There will be danger and
great risk. You are not yet prepared.</i>}}<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">“Show me how
to prepare. Teach me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">His warm
chuckle spread across me in a tingling sensation. I wrestled with my bed sheets
as tendrils of pleasure made me spasm with an intense, quivering need to feel
him inside me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">{{<i>Your
eagerness serves me well. Soon, you will know me fully.</i>}}<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.2in;">Mithra
removed his </span><i style="font-family: 'Calisto MT', serif; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span style="color: blue;">dimensio</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.2in;">
gear and gradually disengaged from the </span><i style="font-family: 'Calisto MT', serif; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.2in;"><span style="color: blue;">perturbateur</span></i><span style="font-family: "calisto mt" , serif; line-height: 150%; text-indent: 0.2in;"> platform that helped him harness
the power resources to peel away wavelengths of space-time. The rippling
graviton vibrations ceased and local space-time normalized as it had for the
past two hundred years of his life. Utterly predictable and disappointing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">He looked
down at his uncomfortably hard groin and yearned for a shower. More frequently,
his visits to Ashley left him agonized with need for a lover. He considered a
visit to the harem at Sitri’s palace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">He chuckled.
“My sweet <i>Tesorina</i>, how you torment me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">Mindless
indulgence in sex was not the Vedic way, but his seductive attentions to Ashley
served a double-edged blade cutting him with desire. Ashley’s dependence on him
had become his primary focus – a mutual addiction they shared. For months now
their connection had grown strong and steady. Night by night, his mind
penetrated deeper into the substrate of her consciousness, coiling her will
around his own, taking a vital role in her life. Her emotional need for his
presence slowly bypassed her mental defenses. Though Ashley was a quiet,
unassuming person, he had sparked a passionate flame of desire inside her. Now
his body burned with the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "calisto mt" , serif;">They had
never been closer in spirit and harmony, and he’d never found anyone with her
latent capabilities. So much untapped potential... He sensed the tides of
destiny sweeping towards them. He would soon bind his <i>Tesorina</i> to him,
and prepare her for the journey that would lead them face to face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "dotum" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jaden forfeited rank and freedom to serve as tribute to the Qui
Empress and save Earth. A devoted lover, Jaden’s iron will won the love of the
Empress, but his backbone and loyalty to Earth breeds mistrust. On a diplomatic
mission to Earth, a Surashan connection is revealed and tension runs high
within the Qui Court. Humanity has unwittingly become a gateway for the enemy,
at the center of a treacherous plot to strike at the Empress herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Empress.</span></i><span style="font-family: "dotum" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "dotum" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">She promised to protect Jaden, and now his life and Earth’s fate
rest on an impossible decision. The Empress must choose between love and duty.
Both demand sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shapeshifter erotic romance with a strong alpha hero who will strike a deal
with the devil to save the Empress he loves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Freed after years as a sex slave, only a unique man could capture Angelica’s heart.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Captain of the starship VNV Revertar, Magellan DeLan is immediately attracted to his priority passenger, the lovely, intelligent Doctor Angelica Giverny. Mage plans a careful pursuit of the petite beauty when they arrive in port, but landfall brings the unexpected.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Face-to-face with a man he once worshipped, Mage yearns to say yes when Tristan DeHelios blatantly declares his dishonorable intentions, but Mage doesn't trust his heart to withstand the fallout. This man's rejection had devastated him years before.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">For Angelica, having Tristan DeHelios as her bodyguard is enticing. When he pursues her, too, her emotions seethe and tangle. How can she chose between the honorable and gorgeous starship captain and a rogue whose carnal dominance challenges and provokes her at every turn?</span></div>
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<i style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">If the alien assassins stalking Angelica succeed, her answer will be moot.</i></div>
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Erotic Romance, Ménage (MFMM/MFM), PNR, Fantasy, Futuristic, Suspense,
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love between them have a chance to flourish before a fatal attraction and a
determined captor rip their love asunder? Will Kindise find true love or will
betrayals at every turn crush the fight out of her? Can she find her inner
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Abducted and enslaved as concubine to alien Cats, I'm trapped on a jumpship racing across the galaxy. I am faster, smarter, stronger. I am Angel 6.0, engineered to perfect the human genome. I might be the savior of the human race...<em>if I can escape the Gran</em>, ferocious alien Cats who want to breed me for slave stock.</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Born of illegal genetic experimentation, I've been taken for a ride across the galaxy, enslaved to the warlike race of Cats called the Gran. They think I'm some kind of upgrade, a new slave stock to be bred.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Though many would resent me for the decisions I made, they never experienced my struggle to find love and meaning in a world where I do not belong.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; line-height: 22.4px;">Standing at the center of an interstellar war, the Earth Defense Council never saw me coming.</span></div>
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<i><i style="line-height: 22.4px;"><b style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I am Angel 6.0 and this is the dark, wicked, violent tale of my life.</b></i></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>ANGEL 6.0: CONCUBINE </b>Faster, smarter, stronger. She is Angel 6.0, engineered to perfect the human genome. She might be the savior of the human race... if she can escape the Gran, ferocious alien Cats who want to breed her for slave stock.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>ANGEL 6.0: ESCAPE</b> Angel, a specially designed human clone, serves as concubine to her captor, a tall, powerful alien Cat, while planning to escape with Jason, her fellow prisoner and lover. But will their love survive their escape?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>ANGEL 6.0: ENSLAVED</b> Recently escaped from the Gran, Angel is again whisked away to the far side of the galaxy and enslaved to a Catlike Alien race of Warriors. Experience her struggle to survive captivity as a concubine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>ANGEL 6.0: PURSUIT</b> Enslaved to a Catlike Alien race of Warriors, Angel is whisked away to the far side of the galaxy. Pursued by the Prince of the Gran, and her lover, the space pirate Cesar, she must find a way free of the Captain who claims ownership of her. Experience her struggle to survive captivity as a concubine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b>ANGEL 6.0: EMISSARY</b> Abducted, enslaved as concubine to alien Cats, then rescued and mated to the Prince. Princess Angel must embrace her destiny as the Emissary to the Emperor. Can she do what is necessary to stop a galactic war that threatens everyone she loves?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The annihilation of mankind is held at bay only through the Treaty consummated between the Qui Empress and General Jaden, her human tribute. The Treaty ended the thirty year war between Earth and the K’lahn, <i>military enforcers for the Qui. </i>K’lahn warships evacuated the solar system by order of the Empress.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Generations of hatred, vengeance and enmity stand between humans and K’lahn. To avoid further hostility, the Empress selects three trusted Qui escorts to find and retrieve Special Forces soldiers sold by their K’lahn captors and sent to the far reaches of the Empire.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Qui pheromones can sedate, paralyze, or arouse. Alien shapeshifters, Qui assume an almost-human appearance and experience the world through human senses. Some Qui possess a telepathy stimulated by passionate love.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Qui pheromone sensitivity is a double-edged sword and the former captives spark a powerful, sensual reaction. One by one, the Qui escorts discover the battle-hardened soldiers have captured their hearts. These rare couplings of human military officers and former enemies create a new understanding between the species, but Earth’s defiance of Qui rule incites rebellion across the galactic Empire, <i>a volatile political mess</i>.</span></div>
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This isn’t yet possible but it isn’t as ridiculous a
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<i>In my cafe, as we dine among alien artifacts, we appreciate the finer qualities of aphrodisiac liquor distilled for concubines of the Gran....</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Instead of striking me or
chastising me as I expected, he clicked approval and grabbed another bottle of
liquor from his cabinet. He poured my glass full once more. After the fifth
cup, I felt nothing. No desire for Cesar. No need for Cesar. No desire to be
rid of this tall, furry, striped son-of-a bitch with his huge cock swinging in
front of my face. I felt nothing but a floating haze of inebriation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">After the sixth cup, I’d was a
grinning fool who could barely stand, perfectly content sprawled across the
Captain’s lap, my cheek rested against his thick, warm cock. There was
something about his gloriously large cock that made me happy, even though I’d
never get it inside me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">I buried my fingers in the fur of
his thighs, giggling and enjoying the feeling of his powerful musculature. I
rubbed my face against the soft fur on his chest. I knew what he wanted, the
same thing every male wants. Instead I teased him and avoided his
ever-hardening cock. When I tried to stand up I fell over and found myself
whisked into his powerful arms. He laid me out on his couch-lounger and hovered
over me, a look of satisfaction on his face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">“I understand you, Angel. I know
you are pained by the loss of your men. For this reason I forgive you … <i>this time</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">He unzipped my suit and I did not
fight him. He stripped my one-piece off and all I could do was giggle. He
grabbed my knees in his clawed grip and squeezed hard enough to draw blood. The
pain brought more trickles of euphoria and a smile to my face. It didn’t matter
if he wanted to hurt me. He’d already destroyed me when he took me from Cesar.
Physical pain was nothing more than pleasure to my twisted nervous system.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN;">Bleeding and smiling, I curled up
naked in his arms, loving the sensations of his slippery, soft fur on my skin.
I had to face the fact this was my place, right here, playing pretend for the
Captain. If I couldn’t be with Cesar, I had to try to salvage a future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">With Cronin’s ship cruising double-time to reach the jump
site at the outer edge of our solar system, I found my fellow concubine curled
into a ball, passed out on the couch in her cabin. Chilla’s beautiful green-striped
fur had bloodstains from a recent round of punishing sex with Cronin. If there
was a hell for Cats, that son-of-a-bitch Cronin had a special corner dedicated
to him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Seeing her miserable condition lit fires of fury in my
veins. My hands shook with the intense adrenaline rush, the need to lash out
and hurt someone. If he fucking came near me, I’d probably break his claws off
one a time and use them to castrate him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He tried to enter our cabin a few hours later, without
permission or warning. I kicked him so hard in his fat, fist-sized balls that he
puked all over the hallway as I shoved him back out the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Chilla moaned from the couch. “If I deny him, he will short
my payment.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“And if you’re dead, how will you collect your money?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">She didn’t argue that one. Concubines had died servicing
males who lost control while high on <i>amixa</i>.
She’d admitted as much, and I feared she’d end up like one of her lost sisters,
dead on the floor, fucked and mauled to death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Chilla’s thighs showed deep scarring from the many times
she’d been mauled during sex with males high on <i>amixa</i>. Her nanomed cream healed her wounds in a couple days, but it
didn’t get rid of the scars. That cream she used religiously was the only reason
she’d survived this long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Captain and I couldn’t really <i>have sex</i>, and he didn’t do any permanent damage to me. Though his
massive cock didn’t fit me, he was creative with his games of pretend. Luckily,
my skin healed in hours without a mark. I could serve him well enough to keep
him away from Chilla until she recovered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Cronin waited a few hours before he knocked on our door with
a polite growl, requesting entry. I hoped his balls were too sore to get it up
and enjoy his drug addiction. Chilla, the fool, answered the door and let him in.
The stupid female worried she wouldn’t get paid if she refused him service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Though I wanted to crush his swollen testicles in my hands
so I could watch him mewl and puke, I volunteered to service him, to keep him off
Chilla for another day. Like a good little concubine I followed Cronin back to
his cabin. He laid out the bottle of spiced amber-colored liquor with little
spongy squares of spice cake –<i>Angel
treats</i> – and watched me strip off my one-piece suit. The Cats, specifically
Cronin, preferred I wear the clothing of a female Cat – a barely there bra, and
a belted skirt thing that left my legs, thighs and most of my ass bared. My
zipper suit was quickly discarded as the Captain brought out my new outfit,
another facet of his pretend routine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Standing naked before this massive male, with a swinging
dick as long as my arm, I was glad for the liquor. The potent aphrodisiac
liquor allowed me to perform for this motherfucker, instead of killing him like
I wanted to. He bent me over, sprayed <i>amixa</i>
on my back and ass, and rubbed his monstrous cock between my thighs, pretending
to fuck me. With the heavy meat of his erection rubbing my inner thighs and
pussy raw, I knew somehow, some way, I’d make him pay. If not for all he’d done
to me – <i>for Chilla.</i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that romance readers are single women in possession of cats and in want of a man. Other "true" facts about the romance reader: They're "nice people with bad taste in books", uneducated, bored, stupid, "lack romance in their lives." Or if we want to be really specific, they're "middle aged women who are bored in their marriages and want to fantasize about hard, chiseled men." Or maybe they're "younger women who are using them as emotional porn."***</div>
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The romance industry is big -- it's the second largest category of fiction, outselling science fiction, fantasy and the classics -- which means there are a lot of readers, who may or may not fit the stereotype. It means that you or someone you know might be reading romances.</div>
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There are many myths about who reads romance novels and why -- something I explore in my book<a href="http://www.dangerousbooksforgirls.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dangerous Books For Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained</em></a> -- but here's the truth, based on research, <a href="http://www.dangerousbooksforgirls.com/surveys" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">survey data </a>and common freaking sense:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: The romance reader is likely to be a desperate housewife, lonely spinster or sorority sister.**</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT: </strong>Contrary to popular perception, women do not make up 150% of romance readers. According to survey results from <a href="https://www.rwa.org/p/cm/ld/fid=582" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Romance Writers of America</a>, 84 percent of romance readers are women and 16 percent are men -- up from 9 percent a few years ago.</div>
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While 70% of romance readers discover the genre between the ages of 11 and 18, most romance readers tend to be older (the average age range is from 30 and 54 years-old.) She's also likely to be coupled up and has an average income of $55,000 per year.</div>
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The romance industry is large -- more than half of the mass market paperbacks sold in the U.S. are romance -- and it's readership is vast as well. So for every desperate housewife, there's a happily harried wife and/or mom taking a break with a romance novel. For every lonely spinster, there's an unapologetic single woman. And for every sorority sister, there's a proud geek girl who loves romance novels.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: The address of the romance reader: Fly over state, USA</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT: </strong>There is a grain of truth in this one. In the United States, romance readers are most highly represented in the south, followed by the midwest. But romance novels are read all over the world and translated into many different languages.</div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: Romance readers are stupid</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT: </strong>There's a sense that romance novels are stupid books for stupid people. The non-romance readers I surveyed thought romance readers were less likely to have an advance degree than romance readers reported having attained. But the idea that women's fiction was frivolous and the readers were foolish goes way back to the 18th and 19th centuries, when the novel was gaining popularity and women were gaining literacy. General impressions of women's intelligence were hardly flattering, probably because no one thought to give girls an education. This is just an old, leftover association that is hardly relevant these days -- isn't stupid to keep perpetuating it?</div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: Romance readers lack romance in real life. </strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT:</strong> "I don't think people assume that people who read mystery novels are thwarted detectives,"Esi Sogah, a senior editor at Kensington books, told me. "But there's this idea that people who like romances don't actually have romance in their lives." Get some candles, soft music, wine, flowers, chocolate and a hunk of a man immediately. Or just a romance novel. Because someone out there might not have enough romance in their life.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What is enough romance anyway? What if we have candles but no wine? What if there are flowers but someone forgets the chocolate (that's really bad). What if there is no man? Can it still be romance? What if you are not swept off your feet because that sounds like someone could get hurt, which would lead a night in the ER which I think we can all agree is not romantic (well -- unless it's McDreamy, RIP).<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And if someone doesn't have enough romance, and supplements with a novel, what's wrong with that? And if someone doesn't have a relationship that looks like the ones she reads about in romance novels -- where she is cherished, pleasured and respected -- and that gets her thinking about making some changes, is that so bad?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: Romance readers wear ugly sweaters</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT:</strong> So does Mr. Darcy.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-05-05-1430839981-7757695-darcy.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="2015-05-05-1430839981-7757695-darcy.jpg" height="281" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-05-05-1430839981-7757695-darcy-thumb.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></a></div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: Romance readers are stay at home mothers and housewives, idling away the hours by reading trashy <a href="http://www.dangerousbooksforgirls.com/fabio/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Fabio books</a></strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT:</strong> Well this is a fraught subject. Raising a family and keeping a house in order is a tough job and someone has to do it. For a long time, housewife and mother were the highest occupations women could aspire to (also, basically the only one). To claim romance readers aren't full time family caretakers is to suggest that there's something wrong with that, which is not something I want to do. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In the 1970s, when the bodice ripping boom happened, women were just starting to venture out into the workforce. In the early 1980s, Janice Radway wrote <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reading the Romance: Pop Culture and the Patriarchy</em> based on her focus groups with "The Smithton Women" who were a group of avid romance readers and stay at home wives/mothers, and for a long time this was the only official study of romance readers. Given that the popular perception of the genre seems frozen from the 1970s (<a href="http://www.dangerousbooksforgirls.com/fabio" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Don't even get me started on Fabio</a>), it makes a certain amount of sense that this is one of the stereotypes that might have been grounded in truth, and stuck around, even though attitudes and day-to-day realities have changed.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Most women work at jobs. Many women work now for reasons ranging from because they can to because they have to either because they're single or because it's insanely difficult for a middle class family to get by without two salaries nowadays, which hasn't always been the case. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Whether staying at home, working from home or working in an office, many women turn to romance novels for some entertainment, escape and relaxation at the end of the day.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: Romance readers are obsessed with wine, chocolate, and <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pride & Prejudice</em>.</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />FACT: You say that like it's a bad thing.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-05-05-1430841025-7398117-heygirl.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="2015-05-05-1430841025-7398117-heygirl.jpg" height="332" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-05-05-1430841025-7398117-heygirl-thumb.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></a></div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: Romance readers can't distinguish between fact and fiction.</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT: </strong>Along with decrying the genre as unrealistic, this is something we say to lessen the impact of ideas women get from romance novels. "Crazy" ideas like they can be the heroine of their own lives, that they can find fulfilling love, have orgasmic sex, or just be happy. It's shorthand for saying "lower your expectations honey, your needs are taking a backseat to <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Law & Order</em> reruns and no I'm not going to put my socks in the hamper. Also, can you get me a beer?" Romance novels show an idealized -- but potentially attainable -- life of happiness and satisfaction for women and then they can inspire women to make that fiction a reality.</div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: Romance readers don't know good writing</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT: </strong>"Easy reading is damn hard writing," said none other than esteemed and celebrated author <a href="http://dangerousbooksforgirls.tumblr.com/post/67760906032/nationalbook-lastnightsreading-maya-angelou" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">Maya Angelou</a>. When it comes to romance, it often seems like the entire genre has been written off as crap because of a few poorly written books. Even die hard romance fans, in defense of <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">50 Shades of Grey</em> will say "it was terribly written" or "it really needed editing."<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But romance readers appreciated a well crafted sentence or a lovely and surprising turn of phrase as much as the next reader. And romance authors strive to deliver, some with more success than others.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Romance readers and writers do know good writing -- it's the kind that make you forget you are reading, that transports you to other worlds, make you feel all the feelings, and makes you want to pick up another book and repeat the experience. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH: Romance readers are cat ladies</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FACT:</strong> I think the Internet has proven that everyone is a cat lady.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> </div>
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<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**Sources: Romance Writer's of America, <a href="http://www.dangerousbooksforgirls.com/surveys" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fd5b0a; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_hplink">The Dangerous Books For Girls survey</a>.</em></div>
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15 Pieces of The Creepiest Global Vampire Folklore</h1>
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Think you know vampires? Maybe you do. But odds say <a href="http://www.vampires.com/top-vampire-myths/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">all you know</a> comes from t.v., movies and novels. But the undead arise from<a href="http://www.vampires.com/10-huge-differences-between-real-vampires-of-history-and-vampires-in-films/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank"> myth and legend</a>, stuff far outside the imagination of <a href="http://www.vampires.com/bram-stoker/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">Bram Stoker</a> or Anne Rice. Consider these fifteen tidbits of genuinely creepy vampire folklore…</div>
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1. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">The Anti-Mother<a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_lbx1clAkeQ1qdqopvo1_500.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><img alt="tumblr_lbx1clAkeQ1qdqopvo1_500" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27178" height="210" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_lbx1clAkeQ1qdqopvo1_500.gif?resize=500%2C210" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="500" /></a></span></h5>
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Our image of a vampire as seducer, an avatar of seduction, has nothing to do with most folkloric creatures such as the Portuguese <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/the-bruxsa/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">Bruxsa</a></em> or Filipino <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/the-aswang-phenomenon/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">Aswang</a></em>. These embody the opposite of the Earth Mother, a female who devours instead of engenders. A death dealer instead of one who gives birth. Not a being of beauty or pure love, but foul and disgusting, fueled by hatred. To most mythologies, the vampire simply finds the weakest and most vulnerable of us–children–to treat them as prey, nothing more. Such stories say nothing of romance or loneliness and everything about revenge.</div>
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2.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Vampires as Gods<a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/russel_gif.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><img alt="russel_gif" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27179" height="282" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/russel_gif.gif?resize=500%2C282" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="500" /></a></strong></span></h5>
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Although touched upon now and then in fiction, a vampire god to us seems more an aberration or perversion of true faith than a genuine religion. Other cultures do not agree. Egypt had a war goddess <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/sekhmet-the-scarlet-lady/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">Sekhmet</a></em>, to whom the shedding of blood was in some sense worship. The Hindu <a href="http://www.vampires.com/kali-vampire-goddess/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Kali</em></a> was the ultimate defender of mankind and the world, in no small part because she literally drinks blood! Naturally enough, worshipers of the latter sometimes go so far as to commit human sacrifice in her name (although to be fair, most do nothing of the kind).</div>
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3. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Land of the Vampires<a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_mag8jcIBFM1r0ejv0o1_500.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"><img alt="tumblr_mag8jcIBFM1r0ejv0o1_500" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27181" height="250" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_mag8jcIBFM1r0ejv0o1_500.gif?resize=500%2C250" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="500" /></a></strong></span></h5>
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You just thought of<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/the-truth-behind-transylvania/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">Transylvania</a></em> didn’t you? Well, why not? Ever since the novel Dracula appeared in print the association between the undead and that part of Romania has only grown. Yet in terms of myth, no place in Europe seems more infested with vampires than <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/santorini-and-the-vrykolakas/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">Greece</a></em>. Indeed it seems likely nosferatu derives from a Greek word for disease, nosforos. Indeed <a href="http://www.vampires.com/greece-and-vampires/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">Greece</a> and its thousand-plus isles gave rise to the ancient legend of the <a href="http://www.vampires.com/the-original-lamia/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">lamia</a> as well as tales of how the dead long to drink fresh blood (see Homer’s <span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Odyssey</em></span>). Such a beautiful land, but one steeped in fear of the hungry dead.</div>
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4.<a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_lgbe18T4ml1qg39ewo1_500.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"><img alt="tumblr_lgbe18T4ml1qg39ewo1_500" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27183" height="260" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_lgbe18T4ml1qg39ewo1_500.gif?resize=499%2C260" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="499" /></a> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Un-Killible!</span></strong></h5>
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Despite <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/quiz-take-the-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-trivia-challenge/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">Buffy</a></strong></em>, we do tend to believe pretty much anyone with the right tools and training can bring True Death to one of the Undead. Not according to folklore. In many places genuine vampires are held to be utterly immortal (like <a href="http://www.vampires.com/the-bruxsa/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">the Bruxsa</a> above). You, a mere mortal human, stand no chance in any combat with a vampire. None at all. All you can do is protect yourself as best you can, praying you’ve not made any mistakes. It is a paranoid world view, one that assumes we humans as very nearly powerless, at the absolute mercy of an uncaring Fate.</div>
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5. <a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bruxsa.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"><img alt="bruxsa" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27175" height="217" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bruxsa.gif?resize=460%2C217" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="460" /></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Vampires as Disease</span></strong></h5>
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Operas and gothic literature of different stripes may seek to make romantic death by “consumption” but in fact tuberculosis means a steady fading of one’s strength, slow suffocation, coupled with the constant taste of blood in one’s mouth. Little wonder <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/mercy-brown/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">victims</a></em> of such in real life were often seen as nascent vampires. It inspired genuine terror, especially when the cause for disease remained unknown.</div>
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6. <a href="http://i2.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Tumblr_ln63wtRYMi1qbvrito1_r1_500.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"><img alt="Tumblr_ln63wtRYMi1qbvrito1_r1_500" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27185" height="281" src="http://i2.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Tumblr_ln63wtRYMi1qbvrito1_r1_500.gif?resize=500%2C281" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="500" /></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Children of the Dead</span></h5>
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It might startle some to realize how many viewed vampires not as in any way seducers but rather<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">rapists</strong>. These days we rarely examine our dead personally, so all kinds of disturbing details escape our notice. Among these is the tendency for corpses to sport erections. Biologically speaking, nothing at all odd about this, but to many this indicated a desire by the dead for more than blood. Hence legends that spouses were among the first “visited” by a newly risen vampire–with the result sometimes a <a href="http://www.vampires.com/what-is-a-dhampir/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">dhampir</em></a>, half-breed between human and vampire.</div>
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7.<a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_ml0k4lEHEX1qjouuqo1_500.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"><img alt="tumblr_ml0k4lEHEX1qjouuqo1_500" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27186" data-recalc-dims="1" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_ml0k4lEHEX1qjouuqo1_500.gif?resize=500%2C264" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Flesh-Eating</span></strong></h5>
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No, not all vampires survive on blood alone. Hindu <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/pishach/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">Pishacha</a></em>for example follow battles in order to eat those who have fallen. Romanian<a href="http://www.vampires.com/strigoi-movie/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Strigoi</em> </a>are straightforward gluttons, eating massive amounts of food, forcing people to starve. Then they drink the blood of those people, killing and then <a href="http://www.vampires.com/nachzehrer-vampire-or-ghoul/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">eating</a> the people themselves–man, woman and child.</div>
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8.<a href="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_mkcgohHhVZ1s8o1r4o1_500.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"><img alt="tumblr_mkcgohHhVZ1s8o1r4o1_500" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27188" height="281" src="http://i1.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_mkcgohHhVZ1s8o1r4o1_500.gif?resize=500%2C281" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="500" /></a> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Stench</span></strong></h5>
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Unpleasant to think on, but in folklore nearly all vampires give off the odor of the grave. If you’ve never actually encountered the smell of a good-sized animal (like a dog or cat) decomposing, believe me you are missing nothing desirable in your life. However, such was far more common in ages past. It was said to be emanate from a vampire, a way to warn you such a creature might be near. In fact, this idea probably kept many a person from a real source of infection.</div>
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9. <a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_inline_mnj9lcpSry1qz4rgp.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"><img alt="tumblr_inline_mnj9lcpSry1qz4rgp" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27190" height="270" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_inline_mnj9lcpSry1qz4rgp.gif?resize=500%2C270" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="500" /></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Hidden</span></h5>
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Some legends say vampires are easy to spot. Others insist, however, there’s no way to easily recognize one of the undead. Ever. Lots of myths make zero mention of <a href="http://www.vampires.com/sunlight-and-vampires/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">sunlight</a> causing any harm at all to the things, <a href="http://www.vampires.com/vampires-vs-mirrors/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">mirrors</a> refusing to reflect them, crosses or holy objects having any impact upon them whatsoever. Most aren’t even <a href="http://www.vampires.com/apotamkin-or-rather-the-cold-one/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">cold</a>to the touch, etc. Our fiction comes up will all kinds of ways to give humans the advantage, but folklore has no such imperative. So legendary vampires remain many times more terrifying.</div>
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10. <a href="http://i0.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_static_tumblr_mb2glftiye1r3nfc7o1_500.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"><img alt="tumblr_static_tumblr_mb2glftiye1r3nfc7o1_500" class="alignright size-full wp-image-27192" height="284" src="http://i0.wp.com/www.vampires.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/tumblr_static_tumblr_mb2glftiye1r3nfc7o1_500.gif?resize=500%2C284" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 12px 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="500" /></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: maroon;">Unhuman</span></h5>
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For clear and obvious reasons, dramatic stories about the undead have them retain (or sometimes acquire) human personality traits. Legend sometimes insists nothing of the kind is even remotely true. The Hindu <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.vampires.com/pey-and-peymakilir/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">Peymakilir</a> </em>to give one example, isn’t even a former human being. They are <a href="http://www.vampires.com/demons/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;">demons</a>, never spending their time as humans do in <a href="http://www.vampires.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-vampire/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">distorted versions</a> of our own lives. Russia’s <a href="http://www.vampires.com/the-vampires-of-russia/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">upir</a> likewise seem little more than eating machines, their minds gone and replaced by all the conscience or emotion of a leech.</div>
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As mentioned earlier, legend insists that most vampires do not in fact seek out lovely young virgins to join them in an eternity of darkness. Rather, their meat of choice are the youngest of our species, the younger the better. Some legends even refer to <a href="http://www.vampires.com/carol-gill-discusses-lilith-vampire-history/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank">Lilith</a>, supposed first wife of Adam, who seeks with all her offspring to consume the children of Eve. When you blend this tendency with other types of vampires, we can see the undead as another version of our own modern monster of legend–the pedophile.</div>
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We think of zombies as shuffling mindless corpses motivated by a simple, implacable hunger. Our image of vampires focuses on temptation, infused with eroticism. But that really begins with Dr. John Polidori’s <a href="http://www.vampires.com/john-polidori-the-vampyre/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Vampyre</strong></em></a> novel. In centuries prior, what most peasants and others thought about “vampire” (or the equivalent) what they had in mind was a lot closer to what we call a George Romero-style zombie. No cape, but rotting rags. Not eyes burning with eldritch power, but filmy orbs lacking the spark of what made our loved ones human.</div>
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Movies might portray it easy to pierce a chest cavity with a pointed piece of wood. Actually, not really. Rib cages are tough precisely to as protect what’s inside! Mind you, according to folklore that really isn’t enough, usually. At the very least one is supposed to burn the vampire. That sounds easy, too, though. Well, no. You need a fair amount of kindling for one thing. For another, legend and legend says all kinds of things will crawl out of the flames–birds, frogs, snakes, insects and like. You have to kill every single one of these or the vampire will return. Every. Single. One. And there might easily be thousands.</div>
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This one in some ways is the most creepy of all. Movies and books portray some essence of divine power ready to defend you against the thirsty dead. Folklore doesn’t have that much hope in it. Most assume the universe just naturally wants to kill and eat you, with vampires just one vivid example of this. At best, even among the most Christian of nations, firm belief insisted the powers of the universe–God, his Saints, the Angels–will leave you to your fate if you do one little thing wrong. If you are born on Christmas, you become a vampire. If you forget to light a votive candle, God will let a vampire eat you alive. If a cat jumps over your corpse the Heavens reject you and back into your corpse you go, to prey upon your friends and family. Prayer may or may not work to protect them from you. And no one–<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">no one</strong></em>–knows why.</div>
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There’s a storm of controversy about fantasy vs. reality in romance, particularly in BDSM romance. Certainly, we all have our opinions about what is good and what isn’t.</div>
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I enjoy writing and reading books with alpha heroes and elements of BDSM. I love the fantasies in these stories, but I don’t think they portray real-life relationships. I know that romance and all its subgenres is fiction. It’s fantasy.</div>
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My stories are fiction. They feature alpha males with varying degrees of sexual dominance, light to hardcore. Like most authors in this genre, I strive to make the physics as accurate as possible—a spanking still stings and cuffs can still chaff the skin. But I also take a bit of artistic license to make the fantasies larger than life. The heroes themselves are often larger than life, perhaps their financial success and physical attractiveness enhanced. It’s part of the fantasy.</div>
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Fun to read? Absolutely. But not the norm in reality. I read a statistic that the average male penis is about five inches long—but I’ve yet to read a romance with a hero who is average in that department. We <i>love</i> those hunky, well-endowed heroes.</div>
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Of course, romance books aren’t about the real world. They aren’t intended as instruction or “how to” manuals. Romance is entertainment. Like movies and games. It’s a fun, sexy escape from everyday stress or ho-hum. </div>
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I think the majority of romance writers endeavor to treat elements such as safety and consent realistically (especially in BDSM titles) while fulfilling the fantasy for readers. That is not to say there aren’t stories with elements of dubious or non-consent, but most of these have pointed disclaimers and warnings in the front material. Also, there’s usually line or two that emphasizes the story is not about real life. Something like: “This is a work of fiction. Names, places, and events, etc. are made up or used fictitiously.”</div>
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To me, that applies to sexual situations as well.</div>
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One of my favorite disclaimers is the one Loose Id uses with its BDSM titles: “<span class="calibre15">Please do not try any new sexual practice, especially those that might be found in our BDSM/fetish titles without the guidance of an experienced practitioner. Neither Loose Id LLC nor its authors will be responsible for any loss, harm, injury or death resulting from use of the information contained in any of its titles.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In the real world, sex education (no matter what type of sex you’re interested in) is essential. Don’t skip the education, and always do your research. Read <i>non</i>-fiction. Learn from experts—and even then be careful.</div>
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I believe we should enjoy the wide and varied genre of romance for the fantastic entertainment it is, but always play safe in the real world.</div>
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Wishing you happy reading …and exciting fantasies.</div>
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Check out my Pinterest boards to see some the sexy images that inspire my stories.<a href="https://www.pinterest.com/marilynlakewood/" style="color: #7009b8; text-decoration: none;">https://www.pinterest.com/marilynlakewood/</a></div>
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Book Genre: Romance/Hot Alpha Billionaire</div>
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Publisher: Troll River Publications</div>
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Release Date: February 14, 2015</div>
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How does a sophisticated man with everything, convince an unassuming older woman with nothing, that she’s what he desperately needs?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>”You’re just not good enough, Kali.”</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Her ex-husband’s hurtful words echoed in Kali Benson’s heart as she rebuilt her life in tiny Laketon, Washington. It took some time, but at 39, she’s happy, self-sufficient, and emotionally armored. She’s strong enough to resist a sweet-talking hunk, who drives an old Dodge truck and makes her feel nineteen again... isn't she?</div>
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Chase took the shortest route to the auto accessories area and cut through the carpentry section. He turned down the aisle and his steps slowed. Fuses, old trucks, everything, dropped off the radar as his gaze focused on the woman perusing the locks-and-hinge display.</div>
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Sweet. There was something incredibly sweet and alluring about her. More than pretty, she was arresting. His heart did a drum roll against his ribs, and he drew in a deep, stabilizing breath.</div>
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Easing to a stop a few steps away, he positioned himself near the opposite side of the aisle as if he were interested in something other than her. Not the most inspired tactic, but he needed a moment to process her intense effect on him.</div>
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In profile, she had a straight, refined nose, full lips, and a balanced chin. Thick, golden-brown hair shimmered in glossy layers past her shoulders, styled with a fringe of bangs across her dark, tawny brows.</div>
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When she pulled an item from the display, he noticed she kept her nails a short, practical length, and she wore no wedding ring.</div>
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His eyes drifted down her slender length, admiring her lush, handful-size breasts and the pert nipples that dimpled against her knit top. She had a slim waist, gently rounded hips, and a great curvy ass, temptingly displayed in a pair of distinctive cutoffs. They were distinctive to him, at least. Although she’d removed the label, he recognized Soft Wear jeans and understood what the brand signified.</div>
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This little beauty might not want anyone in Laketon to know, but if she bought those jeans, she harbored at least some sexually submissive desires.</div>
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In a sudden, vivid image, he pictured her in his bed, her body pinned beneath him, his hands holding hers against the mattress. He imagined her thighs around his hips. The first intimate touch of his cock to her sex. Her mouth parted, gasping when he shifted deeper.</div>
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He flinched and she turned her head.</div>
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Large, topaz eyes danced over him, and she smiled distractedly, the merest civility necessary, before returning her attention back to the shelves. He’d been dismissed. There was nothing haughty or superior about it, but apparently she’d found him unsuitable.</div>
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Marilyn lives in the northwest U.S., not too far from the Canadian border, and believes the long, cold winters are perfect “writing weather.”</div>
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She started writing romantic, sex-driven stories “just for fun” seven years ago. Today, she’ll joyously admit she’s obsessed with creating hard-core dominant heroes and happily-ever-after endings.</div>
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Visit Marilyn at <a href="http://www.marilynlakewood.com/">www.marilynlakewood.com</a></div>
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<br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #040404;">Hi all y'all! PAK here,</span><br /> I want to tell you about an upcoming <strong><span style="color: #24678d;">June 2015 release</span></strong> that is dear to my heart,<strong><em><span style="color: #24678d;">Undertow</span></em></strong>. This is my <strong style="font-style: italic;">first novella </strong>and <em><strong>I had an absolute blast writing it</strong></em>. Its funny (I hope!) and sweet ... and of course sexy.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Readers,<br /><br />Welcome to a Troll River Publication collection of short stories. This is the perfect introduction to some of the lovely authors in our romance group. Their styles are unique to them. But whether in the far distant future on an alien planet, jostling down the streets of Regency London in a carriage or fighting the congestion of modern Washington D.C. traffic, their stories share a common theme: strong heroes, hot sex and happily-ever-afters.<br /><br />I've put together a sampler box of their short stories that are perfect for those lazy days at the beach, or poolside, when you want something to read that's not too heavy, never sad and guaranteed to end well. So, slather on the sunscreen, slip those sunglasses on and let us entertain you.<br /><br />Warm regards,<br /><br />Stephanie McKibben<br />Troll River Publications</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #24678d; font-size: medium;">Blurb:</span></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #040404;">When Cole, Mr. FBI, and Logan, local cop and reigning Ice Princess, hook up to solve a case of Mississippi corruption at the highest judicial levels, sparks fly. Their attraction is hotter than the sultry southern sun. She wants to hate him—but she can’t. And Cole would never commit career suicide by staying in a backwater Mississippi town…not for any woman…especially not for Isabella Logan Church.</span></span></em></strong><strong><span style="color: #24678d; font-size: medium;"><br />Excerpt:</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #040404;">A single eyebrow arched and a small smile tugged up the corner of Cole's mouth. Logan leaned forward and brushed her lips against his. He held still and that control won him some points in her book. The Fed had restraint. The question was how much? Deliberately she pushed her bikini clad breasts against his hard muscled chest and lifted her hand to caress his cheek. <br /></span><span style="color: #040404;"> “If you are worrying about me being able to sell it…don’t. I don’t have to like you to act like I am making love to you.” Her purred words sounded breathless and needy even to her own ears. She turned and walked out of the cabin before she did something stupid. Like crawl up his big sexy body and kiss him until his federal reserve broke. </span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #24678d; font-size: medium;">Blurb:</span><br /><span style="color: #050505; font-size: small;"><em>Victoria Abbott meets Aeron Morgan in the intimate dining room of her hotel in her hometown of Oxwich. He’s looking for a woman who can accept him and all of his desires. She’s looking for closure. What they find in each other is totally unexpected. </em></span></strong><br /><span style="color: #24678d; font-size: medium;"><strong>Excerpt:</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color: #040404; font-size: small;">I tease my skirt a little higher, revealing some flesh before slipping the first button on the front of my dress. Without knowing, I chose the perfect outfit. Once the second button is free, I look up at Aeron. Lust gleams from his eyes, and they drink in the body I’m slowly revealing to him, button by button. I slink closer, standing a fraction out of reach as I undo the last button. I slip the dress slowly off my shoulders and let it drop to my feet. I step out, and close the final gap between us. He straightens and once more he sweeps my body with lust filled eyes. I take a breath and unhook the back of my bra and slip it off my shoulders. Hooking the sides of my thong, I inch my knickers down my legs as seductively as possible. The appreciation on Aeron’s face is all I need to bolster my confidence. I bend down, collect my knickers from the floor and strut to him. Dangling them over his lap, I drop them.<br /><br />“Straddle me.” Aeron’s smoky voice is deeper than before. My little strip show has definitely affected him. The knowledge he is aroused spurs me on. Swinging my leg to sit on his lap, I position myself on his thighs. He has a clear view of my pussy. He hasn’t tried to touch me. His hands remain firmly by his side. I’m amazed... and disappointed.<br /><br />“Make yourself come for me. I’m going to watch you come undone on my lap before I take you.”</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #24678d;">Blurb:</span></span></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Cheated on, dumped and fired—all by the same man—Ava Hollins’ only goal on her Caribbean vacation was to forget men existed. When she wins hot, wealthy, resort owner, Bret Wright, during a charity “man auction,” she’s not sure what to do with her suddenly acquired “love slave.” Fortunately, for Ava, Bret knows exactly what to do with her.</span></em></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #24678d;">Excerpt:</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #020202;">Bret kept his eyes on Ava’s face as he looped two lengths of rope around her rib cage, one on the fleshy mound of her breasts, the other underneath. A gentle yank and the two pieces squeezed her breasts outward. The rough rope bit into her skin, and her breathing sped up.<br /><br />“If you ever feel dizzy, tell me,” he said.<br /><br />All she could do was nod. Her power of speech had fled.<br /><br />“If it comes to it, I’ll cut the rope. Do you understand?”<br /><br />“Yes.” She barely breathed the word. She tuned into the full length of his body now pressed closer against her, as if he meant to keep her steady and present. Even with rope biting into her skin, she loved being this close to his body. <em>And, what a body.</em> Even clothed she could tell some serious muscle lived behind those pants and shirt.<br /><br />More pulls around her ribcage shifted her focus. She dropped her chin, fascinated by the beautiful knot he’d formed on her sternum. The ends dangled, tickling her belly. He lifted her chin and looked deeply into her eyes. <em>Keep your eyes on me, </em>they transmitted<em>.</em><br /><br /><em>Yes, sir.</em><br /><br />His hands returned to their work. In seconds he had her wrists crossed and tied together with another short length of rope. He tugged her closer. She blinked but didn’t dare break his gaze. He sealed his lips to hers, and his tongue moved slowly while his capable hands explored her body, fingers slipping under the ropes as if checking the level of restriction.<br /><br />He released her mouth. She felt more, gentle, scratching pulls on the rope. A downward glance revealed her chest and belly encased in an intricate diamond pattern make of jute. She inhaled deeply, testing the restriction of her rope top. Could she get out of it, if needed? She expanded her chest again. <em>No, I can’t. </em>Moisture gathered between her legs in response. She looked back up at his face, now tilted in question. Without him having to ask, she knew what he sought.<br /><br />“Amazing,” she said.<br /><br />He smiled. “I’m glad you appreciate my work.”<br /><br />The relief in his eyes spurred her courage. “Will you do more?” she asked.<br /><br />“Oh yes, baby. So much more.”</span></strong></span><br /></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #040404; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.patriciaaknight.com/my-books.html" style="color: #000099; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><i>Undertow</i></a></span></strong><br /><em style="font-size: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #040303;"><br /></span></span></em></h2>
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<em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #020202;"><strong>Please Note: </strong><br /><strong>These manuscripts are still in edits. </strong><br /><strong>While no substantial changes will be made to the story line, </strong><br /><strong>there might </strong></span><strong style="background-color: initial; line-height: 1.5;"><span style="color: #020202;">be some changes to language.</span></strong></span></em></div>
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