Due to mature content, this novel is not recommended for those under 18. ** Jana Cook was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but her fierce determination leads to a successful career in medical device sales. Toss in five-star meals, fabulous sex with her nearly perfect husband, Andrew, and a gorgeous new house … and Jana’s life is picture perfect before she hits the big 3-0. What more can a girl want? Overnight, her life begins to unravel. When Jana discovers she is pregnant, she dives from hero to zero in the eyes of Covington Company. Despite a resume most would kill for, Jana finds herself unemployed and devastated. Challenging her employer could change her life … if she wins. Does she have the strength to handle the gossip and face the likely reality of being blackballed from her industry? As Jana struggles to make the right choice, her vivacious best friend, Grace, is convinced her own heartthrob husband, Gavin, is hiding something. Despite Jana’s best efforts to convince her that she is wrong, Grace’s mental illness overpowers reality. Jana was a superstar in scrubs, but navigating first time motherhood is real work … especially in the midst of secrets, lies, and unthinkable tragedy. She makes her decision. 

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i was given this book for a honest review.
loved the story was a bit slow but it got better i gave this a 5 star cos i did enjoy it in the end

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Author Bio:

Hi, I’m Garrett Carkos

I was born in Texas at the height of the Viet Nam war and the hippie movement. We moved around a lot because my father was in the oil business. Mainly in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South America.
My teen years were spent in California, where I was the poster boy for bad boys. I managed to get suspended from Beverly Hills High and wound up graduating from Hollywood High where the tolerance for bad boys was the norm.
I played drums in a band called, ‘Brand X’. I surfed. I smoked, drank, and chased women. I was pretty good at it.
The chasing women part anyway.
I did my time at Cerritos College where they handed me my first college degree. I now have a couple more. One from UNLV in marketing and another from NYU in journalism.
Next, I spent a few years in law enforcement (LAPD), before flipping to the dark side where I worked in a casino , (Caesars’ Palace) thanks to my father’s connections to the owner, the late Jay Sarno. It was there I found my niche.
I advanced over the years, became a casino boss and traveled the world opening casinos for a group of very wealthy Americans.
I opened the Royale in Port au Prince Haiti, the Flamingo in Madrid, and believe it or not, Rick’s in Casablanca.
During that time, I picked up the nickname, ‘Player’ and for some reason, it stuck.
A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be a writer. More specifically, a writer of erotica. I figured I might as well put my dirty mind to work. I’ve sold stories to Hustler, Penthouse, and Bitch magazines thru the years and their dough was good. Better than most to be honest. The perks weren’t bad, either. I’ll let you think about that.
I thought my years in law enforcement and my time spent as a player in the casino world would serve me well as a writer. It has.
I tend to write things that men can read while getting a haircut, or women under hair dryers, or factory workers on break. Don’t kid yourself though. Doctors and Lawyers read my work, too.
I currently work weekends for VIP Services, a private security firm I co-own that provides protection for entertainers and celebrities. The doughs good and the perks are incredible. Yeah, big black limo, men in dark suits and darker sunglasses moving the crowds out of the way for stars. Cool job.

You can find my free stories on BooksieSilk, Velvet9, Stories Space, literotica, watt pad and my personal blog,http://youngbloodsheat.blogspot.com/?zx=38b18559f923dacf

My inspiration comes from anything; a sight, a sound, a smell, a neatly turned phrase I hear on TV or radio, kids playing in a park, or simply draw something from my real life and suddenly, I have a story!
I am currently single and living the life in the greatest city in the world. What happens here, stays here.

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Searching for Barbie:

Barbie was a good girl. A dead ringer for the famous doll of the same name. Everyone that knew her said she was the ‘nicest, sweetest, most caring’ girl they knew. But, did they know her secrets? Not even her closest friends knew how much she hated her minister father, or how pathetic she thought her mother was for allowing him to beat her into submission night after night. Barbie wanted to disappear and never look back. But, how? Could she vanish without a trace? She knew her father would stop at nothing to get her back. Perhaps, he had secrets, too. Barbie needed more than a plan. She needed a miracle. Will she find one and if so, at what price?

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I will Love You For 1000 Years

A summer romance by a lake turns to forever love. He was born with a gold spoon in his mouth. She was born deaf. Yet, somehow they knew they had found their soul mates. At the end of summer, they blew kisses across the lake, not knowing if they would ever meet again. Years later, they did. The world was their oyster as they traveled the world in style. Their journey of self discovery had them running with the bulls in Pamplona and even enduring the Camino de Santiago, a 700 mile hike known as ‘the way’. They had it all. Everyone said they were the happiest and most beautiful couple in the world. Then during a routine Christmas visit back home in Manhattan, everything changed. One would survive. The other wouldn’t.

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Untimate Milf

Jane and Dexter Flynn were an ordinary couple living on the fringes of Hollywood. Jane longed to be more. She convinced her hapless husband to take her out on the town so she could rub elbows with the rich and famous. She certainly got more than she bargained for. It was during their dinner at Hollywood’s fashionable Brown Derby she fell under the spell of Sergio and Electra Nike, one of the wealthiest and most powerful couples on earth. From there, Jane meets Alexander Nike, the power couples teen age son, and the story escalates causing a total transformation from plain Jane to the ultimate milf. It was lust, love, and adventure as the couple travels the world seeking new thrills and adventures. There journey hits a snag in Rome just when things were heating up and Jane finds herself alone and desperate. Will the Nike family rescue her? Will her young lover abandon her? This is both a love story and cautionary tale. Remember, everything that glitters is not gold.

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Reckless

Alexis Cole was born in the Tennessee hills as a result of her waitress mother’s fooling around with trucker’s during her dinner breaks. A victim of her trailer park environment and with no real guidance from her mother, young Alexis follows in her mother’s footsteps. But, she had no interest in truckers. Her sights were higher. She went after older men with money and that was her ticket out of the Tennessee hills to Beverly Hills. After a string of failed marriages and countless meaningless affairs and one night stands, she reevaluates her life and begins her quest to find Mr. Right. She finds that journey frightening when she is almost gang raped, but saved at the last second by a mysterious biker named Zeke. It was a combination of lust and love at first sight for her, but men like Zeke aren’t so easy to tame. He was ruggedly handsome with long hair, big arms, and heavily tattooed. Women swooned over him like a rockstar. It was during a visit to his grandmothers high upon a mountain that Alexis finally knew he was Mr. Right. Unfortunately, he didn’t see it that way and the couple go their separate ways.She travels to Las Vegas to find her missing father who was now working as an Elvis impersonator, she learns of a late night radio program that sets the stage for a powerful and tearful conclusion.

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Tomorrowland

Do you believe in miracles or a life after this one? Meet little Pearl, an orphan and gentle Ben her rescuer. Both homeless and with no family, they quickly bond and decide it was their destiny to ride out the snow storm inside a little diner. There they meet waitress Alice, who instantly sees their situation as desperate and treats them to breakfast. With their tummies full and their minds full of questions, up pops Joey. Joey is smartly dressed and seems to be much wiser than his years. He claims to be from Tomorrowland. A place he describes as ‘someplace nice’ where there are no orphans or homeless. No one ever gets sick or grows old. It sounded too good to be true, but Ben and Pearl had nothing to lose...except each other. Would they stay together and live on the streets or take a chance on a better life in Tomorrowland?

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The Locket

The Locket

Do you believe in miracles or a life after this one? Meet little Pearl, an orphan and gentle Ben her rescuer. Both homeless and with no family, they quickly bond and decide it was their destiny to ride out the snow storm inside a little diner. There they meet waitress Alice, who instantly sees their situation as desperate and treats them to breakfast. With their tummies full and their minds full of questions, up pops Joey. Joey is smartly dressed and seems to be much wiser than his years. He claims to be from Tomorrowland. A place he describes as ‘someplace nice’ where there are no orphans or homeless. No one ever gets sick or grows old. It sounded too good to be true, but Ben and Pearl had nothing to lose...except each other. Would they stay together and live on the streets or take a chance on a better life in Tomorrowland?

Amazon US - http://www.amazon.com/Locket-Cloud-Nine-Bedtime-Stories-ebook/dp/B00PUPK7XU/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0EN00R0HW9QARVM5PM1Rkstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0EN00R0HW9QARVM5PM1Rkstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0EN00R0HW9QARVM5PM1R  kstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0EN00R0HW9QARVM5PM1Rkstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0EN00R0HW9QARVM5PM1R

About The Book

Can young hearts ease a restless spirit?

On the shores of stunning Lake Geneva, Gina Remy is celebrating her brother’s wedding – when the figure of a woman appears hovering above the water, beckoning to her. Ghostly visitations do not happen to Gina - a self-confessed control freak with her own successful property business, she prides herself on being level-headed. But as she is tormented by dreams and visions, her perfect life begins to unravel, and she knows she needs to help this ghost find peace if she’s to get any of her own!

Enter Ollie Martin, an Anglo-Swiss property developer who’s sexy as hell and knows it. His arrogance annoys Gina, but he’s the only one who will take her seriously… and the closer they come to understanding the quest the ghost has set for them, the closer they get to one another…

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About The Author

Karen Aldous enjoys village life on the edge of the north-downs in Kent with easy access to the buzz of London. Not only does she love the passive pleasures of reading and writing, she also craves the more active pursuits with her family and friends such as walking, cycling and skiing especially when they involve food and wine!

Karen gets much of her inspiration from her travels and if she had to choose, France, Greece, Switzerland and Italy would be her favourite. However, wherever she goes, she discovers a new character emerges in 'Karen's World'. She likes to write about strong independent women who can direct their own lives - but struggle to control them! And, of course there's always a gorgeous hunk or two!

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REVIEW

was given this book for a honest review. i gave this a 5 star cos i really did enjoy the book 

i loved the story and the plae where she lived is a really nice place where she was from, loved the characters in the book didnt like max but i loved ollie hoping all the way through the book that they got together  

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How can we harness the future if the past will not set us free? An emotive story of love, loss and letting go.
Opposites attract? Laura Brown, interior designer and James Morgan-Jones, horse whisperer - and Midnight Sky, a beautiful but damaged steeplechaser.
Laura seems to have it all, glamorous job, charming boyfriend. Her sister, Maggie, struggles with money, difficult children and an unresponsive husband. She envies her sister's life, but are things as idyllic as they seem?

She might be a farmer's daughter but Laura is doing her best to deny her roots, even deny her true feelings. Until she meets James, but James is very married, and very much in love, to a wife who died two years ago. They both have issues to face from their past, but will it bring them together, or push them apart?

i was given a copy of this for a honest review ,this is the first of hers ive read and ive really enjoyed it and i will definetely be reading more of her books
what a gorgeous read loved the book didnt want it to end loved the characters and how the chemistry between them all was slowly being built between them all.
this story as alot about relationships and families bonding to i loved how jan put all these things into one story i will be reading more by jan ruth 

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Notorious pirate Barren Reed has one thing on his mind: Revenge against the man who killed his father. So kidnapping his enemy's fiancé seems a perfect plan…until he actually does it. 

Larkin Lee is more than a pretty face and fiancé to a powerful man. Her fierce personality is enough to make any pirate want to push her overboard.

But when the King of the Orient comes to Barren with a task—to find the Bloodstone, a powerful gem thought only to exist in legend, Barren sees another opportunity to destroy his enemy. Together, Barren, Larkin and a crew of pirates set off to find the stone, only to discover it caused the death of Barren’s own mother and Larkin’s, too. As his strongest allies turn into his greatest enemies, and the life of the girl he kidnapped becomes more important than he ever dreamed, Barren’s quest for revenge becomes a fight to save the Orient.

Author Bio: 

Ashley was born and raised in Oklahoma, where the wind really does sweep down the plains, and horses and carriages aren't used as much as she'd like. She has a Bachelor's in English Writing and a Master's in Library Science and Information Technology. When she's not writing she's either working out or pretending she's Sherlock Holmes. Her obsession with writing began after reading the Lord of the Rings in the eighth grade. Since then, she's loved everything Fantasy--resulting in an unhealthy obsession with the 'geek' tab on Pinterest, where all things awesome go.

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my review 

i was given this to review in return for a honest review

i have never read books about pirates and this is the first time reading one i thought it was a slow start but did enjoy it in the end.i will read more by ashley nixon as i always liked to read something new i gave the book a 4 star for the review as it was new to me and it was a bit slow but that was all 

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today we have julias williams author of coming home for christmas with us at suzies bookblog im so happy to have her here she will be talking about her new book 

Julia Williams grew up in North London, one of eight children, including a twin sister who also writes. She studied English at Liverpool University where she met her husband, David, a dentist. They have been married for 25 years, have four lovely daughters and live in Surrey. Julia worked in children's publishing for ten years, before going freelance and taking the plunge and writing. Her first book,Pastures New was published in 2007. Coming Home for Christmas is her eighth book.

Coming Home for Christmas is the third in a trilogy set around the fictional town of Hope Christmas, which is based on a real town called Church Stretton in Shropshire. The original idea for the first book, Last Christmas, came from wanting to write about the difficulties of  putting on a Christmas nativity. I liked the characters so much I returned to them in A Merry Little Christmas, and then again in this story. The idea for this story came about because I care quite a lot about inappropriate development in lovely places, and I wanted to bring my characters together, so they join forces to campaign against a new luxury development being built near where two of my characters (Marianne and Pippa) live. I also continued to explore their stories. Marianne is married to Gabriel, whose ex wife Eve suffers from mental health problems and ends up coming to stay. Pippa split up from her husband Dan in the last book, so I continued their story here, and finally Cat, who has four children is juggling work, teenagers, being a grandma and looking after her mother in law. I like writing about family life and the different dynamics and problems that it can create. And I hope people will relate to the result.

did you enjoy writing it ?

Most of the time! I love the characters and the setting, but some bits of the story came more easily then others, so at times I was tearing my hair out. And the rewrites came at a particularly difficult time, so that was like getting lead out of a stone. Having said that, when writing is going well, it's the most fun job in the world.

do you listen to music when writing ?

I don't usually listen to music when I'm writing, but I do use music to inspire me. Most of my books have a soundtrack, and I sometimes listen to key songs to write a particular scene. A theme running through all three of these books is motherhood, so Angels by Robbie Williams has been a huge inspiration.

who is your favorite character in the series ?

Oh that's really difficult! I love Gabriel, who is Marianne's husband (and looks spookily like Richard Armitage!), but I also really like Dan who has been through so much. Cat I really relate to as she has four kids like me, but overall, it's probably Pippa because I admire her  courage and common sense.

what made you want to be a writer?

I always liked writing/making up stories from a very young age, but it never occured to me that I could earn my living that way. I was lucky enough to get a job in publishing, and when I decided to go freelance after I had children, I thought I'd give it a go. it took me nearly 9 years to get published, but I learnt a lot along the way, and now I wouldn't want to do anything else!

giveaway tell me what about your favorite christmas memory is?1 you have til wednesday 26th november 9pm uk time to do this 2 its international so everyone can join in 

Title: Taking A Chance
Genre: Romance
Author: Kacey Hamford

Synopsis:
Rose has spent her whole life living in her sister’s shadow; boys have always preferred her sister Amelia. Amelia has always achieved the best grades, the boys would flock to her and good luck seem to just follow her around.
When Rose meets Jacob, she feels as though her luck is starting to change. He is everything she could wish for and more; he is not only gorgeous and clever, but he wants her, not her sister.
Jacob and Rose begin dating, but the course of true love never runs smooth and it’s not long before Jacob is hiding things from Rose. Will his secrets destroy their relationship, or will he finally open up to Rose? Or will Amelia destroy them before he has the chance?
Join Rose and Jacob on their rollercoaster journey.
When the highs are so good, does it make it worth enduring the lows?
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Author Bio:
We are two thirty-something females, living in Cornwall, England.
We both have full time jobs and manage to squeeze writing in around very busy lives.
Last year we joked about writing a book, and in December we actually started writing! On 12th March 2014 we pressed the ‘publish’ button and didn’t breathe for a whole several minutes!
We have now written four books, ‘Rocking Esme’, ‘Rocking Scarlett’, ‘Rocking Marcy’ and ‘Rocking Ashton’ and we also have a million other book ideas which we are dying to write!
When we first started writing, we didn’t tell anyone- not even our other halves! We decided to tell them about a month before publishing, then about a week before publishing we told our friends and family.
We both love reading, and since buying Kindles, reading has become much more of an obsession and we have both discovered authors we had never heard of. Some favourites are… Jennifer Foor, Aurora Rose Reynolds, Kirsty Moseley, Kelly Elliot, Terri Anne Browning, Diane Chamberlain… the list is endless!
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Kacey Hamford Interview

What inspired you with the story for your books?
I love to read rocker books and that’s why my first series was about rockers. I joked about with my friend
about writing a book and I sent her a paragraph to Rocking Esme and she encouraged me to carry on writing.


How long have you been writing books?
I started writing my first book in December 2013 and published it in March 2014. Since then I have written 5 books with loads more ideas for future books.

What made you want to be a writer?
It was purely because I love to read and wanted to write my own love story. As soon as I started writing it got addictive and I wanted to keep writing.