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1. BDSM ROMANCE How One Man Recruited and Trained a sub

   About BDSM ROMANCE How One Man Recruited and Trained a sub:

   BDSM Romance, How One Man Recruited and Trained a sub, chronicles the deliberate effort by a man to choose in advance what his next girlfriend will be like. He wants to indulge his desire to have a sexual relationship where he is the dominant partner over a submissive female. He makes a commitment to find an attractive, unattached woman with submissive and masochistic tendencies because he likes to be the boss in a relationship and he likes rough sex. More, he wants her to have those submissive and masochistic tendencies to be the basis of her sexual attraction and sexual expression and practice, such that she will feel safe as the sidekick in a relationship and will enjoy and prefer being the recipient of rough sex. His shorthand phrase for this was the ‘sexual dynamic,’ the way every interaction between a couple can reflect an expression of his or her role in the relationship.

   He has no illusions about finding a cute woman with common interests and hoping to describe, suggest and sell her on the idea. No chance. He knew one had to be born that way – and he knew they were out there. The problem was that everyone who co-exists between this underworld and the surface world where they all work and live hides from everyone else. So he wrote a posting for a dating internet site, basically, “Looking for a sub who wants to know if she is one. – reply to The Teacher.” Such a posting would act as both bait and filter. He wanted a natural sub but he didn’t want someone who had learned some other Dom’s style and was probably ruined. She had to be just ready to discover herself. Timing was everything.

   His natural sub and he find each other and the book tracks his thoughts as he constantly leads her to do more each time, to break another taboo, and to try new practices. The new practices include the concept of devotion to another person and the formalities, protocols and rituals that provide structure and perspective to this very real underworld that exists today beneath the surface world.

   He is careful in “bringing her along” to avoid her ever refusing a suggestion, request or instruction. She wants to please and is receptive to praise, so she can be guided, but he realizes the importance of a perfect record of never saying “no.”

   Similarly, when they play with bondage, he gives her a safeword, but he knows that to continue bringing her further along beyond former boundaries or taboos, he must never push her too fast such that she uses her safeword. As time goes on, it becomes harder for her to say “no” or use the safeword.

   She explores what was already inside her psyche: certainly submissive to a Dominant male, submissive in sexual bondage, a preference for rough sex, exhibitionism, masochism, voyeurism, lesbian desires and the ultimate realization that all of this is normal for her.

   He introduces her to a close circle of friends, later to be known as the Circle of Rope. Three of his friends have D/s relationships with women. She sees that each of his friends has a different set of practices and boundaries with their female partner and becomes aware of the options open to her in the underworld of BDSM Romance.

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   Author Bio:
   J.R. Luxor is the nom de plume of the binary star that is a husband and wife writing team living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently a life coach and he is an author formerly involved in psychology and counseling teenage girls.

   They share the character development, choosing what’s in the heads of the male and female characters.They say their technique of using separate male and female voices for the characters, especially in their unspoken thoughts, produces a multi-dimensionality to the interactions and connections of the men and women in their writings.

   When advising the partner performing cunnilingus, J.R. Luxor’s advice is addressed to female partners doing it girl-on-girl as well as for males doing the licking, and even waxes philosophical on how the genders approach it differently, and how the receiving partner might communicate differently with a male than a female lover.

   As to the question of how much of the actions and depictions of people is from personal experience, J.R. Luxor always declines to answer, fueling speculation and probably purposely cultivating the enigma, but it’s still fun to speculate!

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2. Strings

   About Strings:

   The fact that the story ends does not mean it is the ending.

   Imagine you found yourself in a universe inside itself. Would your weight collapse the universe upon itself, or would you collapse upon the universe?

   This tale is not for you.

   A novelette, and a work of pure fiction. Do not consider any part of this story to be true.

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   Author Bio:
   Austin Finch is 28 years old living in Dallas, TX. He specializes in psychological fantasy horror and is currently working on his Strings series.

   Strings is a story set of 7 novelettes that will ultimately compile a complete journey into the unknown.

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3. Ill Wind: A Caribbean Pirate Adventure (Valkyrie Series 1) by Karen Perkins

   About Ill Wind: A Caribbean Pirate Adventure (Valkyrie Series 1) by Karen Perkins:

   #1 Bestseller – Sea Adventures – UK

   Gabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown.

   Her dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage.

   Aboard the Freyja, she is hopeful that her new life in the Dutch West Indies will be an improvement – a hope that dies when she is given a slave, Klara, and a whip. She discovers that her soon-to-be father-in-law is a ruthless slave trader in league with pirates, and her fiancé is cold, unfriendly and disinterested in Gabriella. She is little more than a vessel to provide the next generation of van Eckens.

   Largely ignored and desperately unhappy, she and Klara develop a friendship which makes life bearable – at first. Once married, Gabriella’s life takes a turn for the worse and she descends into a world of horror and abuse until tensions finally explode. Life will never be the same and she has no choice but to take fate into her own hands.

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   “Easily got lost in the story which is full of emotion. A must read.”

   “I could not have enjoyed the novel any more than I did.”

   “I love when a book can make me feel for a character, whether it’s a kindred feeling, one of disgust, or a feeling of pure fear. K.A. Perkins succeeded in doing that for me . . . I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good historical adventure!”

   “Wow! This story is even better than the description”

   “What a cracking read! I really loved this. Read all the chapters in one sitting. You really know how to spin a tale and grab your reader.”

   “I’m a sucker for a seafaring tale! Love the attention to detail with the ship itself and the description of the sea”

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   Author Bio:
   Karen Perkins lives in Yorkshire, where she spends her time writing as well as editing and formatting as proprietor of LionheART Publishing House. She has been a keen sailor since childhood, competing nationally and internationally until the day she had both National and European Ladies Champion titles – and a terminally bad back. She has written one novella (Ill Wind) and one full-length novel (Dead Reckoning – long-listed in the Mslexia Novel Competition 2011, and a number one bestseller in Sea Adventures on Amazon.co.uk) in the Valkyrie Series. A further Valkyrie novel, Look Sharpe! will be published at the end of 2013, followed by Ready About! Both books follow the fortunes of Henry Sharpe, a character we have already met in Ill Wind and Dead Reckoning. Relationships are turned upside down and secrets revealed. Karen Perkins has also written the novel, Thores-Cross. A dark, haunting tale set in the North Yorkshire Moors about isolation, superstition and persecution, Thores-Cross follows the stories of Emma, a present day writer, and Jennet, an eighteenth century witch. Thores-Cross is a number one bestseller in British Horror on Amazon.com.

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4. The Freedom Star by Jeff Andrews

   About The Freedom Star by Jeff Andrews:

   By day, Isaac toils in dusty tobacco fields beneath a scorching Virginia sun, but under cover of darkness, he steals away to shepherd runaways on their journey north along the Underground Railroad. All the while, Isaac yearns for the freedom that Henry, his boyhood friend and owner’s son, takes for granted. He dreams of the day when he too can escape the chains of slavery and escape north to freedom.

   When war comes, Henry joins the Confederates. Soon after, his older brother capitalizes on their father’s illness to seize control of the family farm. Suddenly, slaves feel the sting of the whip, families are torn apart, and Isaac’s own father is sold south. Fear grips the slave quarters as Isaac’s mother struggles to protect her children and her invalid master from Henry’s ruthless brother.

   Following false promises and failed escapes, Isaac’s only hope of reuniting with the woman he loves lies in joining Henry and the Rebels on their march northward. When Henry is wounded and taken prisoner, Isaac finds himself behind Union lines—free, but facing a hard choice: should he follow his dreams or return to slavery to save his childhood friend?

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   Author Bio:
   Jeff Andrews grew up in Moorestown, New Jersey, a stone’s throw from Philadelphia and a short drive to the Jersey shore. After graduating from Baldwin-Wallace College (now Baldwin-Wallace University), he set off on a twenty-year adventure with the United States Marine Corps, serving in such exotic locations as Vietnam, Japan, Egypt, Morocco, Denmark, Brazil, and Beirut, Lebanon. Along the way, he picked up a graduate degree from George Washington University.

   Jeff is a member of the Society of Civil War Historians and his love of history inspires his writing. He strives to create a connection to our past through rich, character-driven stories spun across a carefully researched historical tapestry.

   Jeff and his wife, Mary Lou, live in Virginia Beach, VA and enjoy every opportunity to lace up their hiking boots and trudge across the plantations, battlefields, and historic parks of the Old Dominion.

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5. Insight Weight Loss: Best Strategies to Lose Weight and Stay Fit

   About Insight Weight Loss: Best Strategies to Lose Weight and Stay Fit:

   Are you looking for the latest information on weight loss? Are you ready to try the most effective diet and workout plans to take control of weight?

   In a clear and straightforward manner, INSIGHT WEIGHT LOSS offers an in-depth analysis of the best strategies to lose weight and stay fit. Filled with accurate and timely information, INSIGHT WEIGHT LOSS provides a complete yet concise guide for overcoming weight loss challenges and making positive lifestyle changes.

   Inside, you will learn:

   • Strategies to lose weight for good

   • A healthy diet and delicious recipes

   • Newest weight loss supplements

   • Workout tips

   • Current weight loss programs and medications

   • Causes of obesity and obesity-related diseases

   Invest in your health and download this book!

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   Author Bio:
   Dr. Chuan Hu obtained Ph.D. from Columbia University Medical Center, and then did postdoctoral training at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He has more than 20 years’ experience in biomedical research, and has served on the faculty of two major medical schools in the United States. Dr. Hu founded Insight Health Communications, LLC to promote public health communication and healthy lifestyles.

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6. Texas Haven by Kathleen Ball

   

   About Texas Haven by Kathleen Ball

   Free- permafree

   Everything in Annie Douglas’ life has taught her men can’t be trusted. Although Burke is big, strong and not seemingly gentle, Annie feels drawn to the handsome, Texas cowboy. Upon discovering Burke’s advertisement for a wife, Annie shyly asks if he might consider her.

   Burke Dawson wants children; unfortunately, that also includes a wife. His first wife was a citified hellcat who stole half of his ranch. Now, Burke is determined to find an honest, country girl with no expectations of love.

   Misunderstandings, accidents, and treachery leads to Annie leaving shattered and alone. Can their shaky start lead to the loving relationship they both desire but neither is sure of?

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7. Pine-Wave Energy: A Guide to Conflict Resolution by Robert. J. Norton Ph.D.

   About Pine-Wave Energy: A Guide to Conflict Resolution by Robert. J. Norton Ph.D.:

   Pine-Wave Energy: A Guide to Conflict Resolution provides a simplistic yet realistic guide to understanding and resolving conflict in normal day-to-day life, both with ourselves and others. It is a tool to understanding perception within conflict, how emotions become the catalyst for conflict, communication styles, and personality types. It shares effective techniques regarding verbal and nonverbal communication. This is inclusive of the systematically developed QSC strategy for effective verbal communication that can be used in both personal and professional environments. It also introduces the basics of the dynamic technique known as the Fence. This technique has been developed over many years of studying human behavioral patterns by Shoto-Chi’s founder. This technique integrates NLP (neurolinguistic programming) to assist in the control of one’s personal space. This book takes a logical approach and is a proactive guide aimed at resolving conflict prior to physical engagement whenever possible.

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   Author Bio:
   Born in England, I started learning karate from a young age. From early on, I came to the realization that I thought beyond my years. At age seventeen, I founded the martial art known as Shoto-Chi (pine-wave energy). While developing Shoto-Chi, I made the decision to get more hands-on regarding learning about human behavior and conflict. I worked as a doorman/bouncer and discovered how, through the understanding of human behavior and effective communication styles, I had the ability to control conflict and bring conflicts to a resolute state without the use of force in most instances. I also trained in close protection. In 1999, I become recognized in England as a founder of a unique martial art. I now reside in Canada with my wife and son. Twenty-four years after founding Shoto-Chi and studying human behavior, I decided to write a book that helps people understand the dynamics of conflict and the power of effective communication through the understanding of perception.

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8. Murder for Glacier Blue

   About Murder for Glacier Blue:

   Painted in 1907, “Glacier Blue” is an oil painting recently appraised at 2 million pounds. Reginald C. Pierpont, the artist who created the stunning masterpiece, studied with the Impressionists in Europe and bold visionaries in the Americas. The sole heir to a family fortune, Reggie used his vast holdings and leisure time to experiment with new techniques and daring ideas to create his art. Although the masterpiece failed to turn heads during his own time period, Reggie’s secret method triggers larcenous schemes among modern crooks.

   Genuine Fakes, an auction company that sells “authorized copies” of famous paintings, arranges to hold six charity auctions of fakes during a voyage to Alaska. Million-dollar originals will be displayed next to the Genuine Fakes during each auction—six opportunities for international thieves to steal a valuable piece of art. The president of Constellation Cruise Lines, Emily Schultz suddenly needs her new crack security team to guard the paintings.

   When one of the fakes gets stolen from the buyer’s cabin, a discrete search for the missing canvas begins. The stakes rise when a body is found next to the missing fake, and the investigation suddenly takes a deadly turn. The investigators learn more about “Glacier Blue” and realize it’s no ordinary work of art. The painting’s special secret already provoked one murder, and it gets easier to kill again.

   Emily begs Kayla and Steven to work for a few days before their wedding on Glacier Bay. They expected a stress-free cruise up the Inside Passage of Alaska, filled with glaciers, wildlife, and stunning scenery, but an art heist and murder might interrupt their romantic plans. To ramp up stress levels, Steven’s ex-wife, Cynthia, shows up for the cruise on the arm of Steven’s school chum—and Kayla feels hate-at-first-sight.

   The young couple must entertain future in-laws while trying to outsmart murderous outlaws. As the ship navigates through icy waters, truth lies hidden from plain view, like the treacherous underwater portions of dangerous icebergs. Greed, jealousy, and envy generate potent motives for murder.

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   Author Bio:
   Diane Rapp became an entrepreneur when she started her own dog grooming salon in Santa Barbara, California. She spent the next thirty years as a small business owner; she sold real estate, started an office supply store in Telluride, Colorado, and performed free-lance advertising design.

   During all those years Diane wrote stories as a cure for insomnia. She wrote short stories about dogs for a German Shepherd Dog Club newsletter, and then expanded to full length novels. After Diane and her daughter Laura co-authored a travel guidebook entitled Cruising the Eastern Caribbean (four editions were published by Hunter Publishing), Laura gave Diane the idea of writing a mystery set on cruise ships in the Caribbean. The High Seas Mystery series was born.

   Diane also enjoys writing science fiction. Her Heirs to the Throne trilogy follows a crew of spacer refugees as they forge a new life on the backward planet Drako, raise children, and face danger.

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9. Stinger Maguire by Mike Bove

   About Stinger Maguire by Mike Bove:

   “Stinger Maguire” is the second book in the Bruce DelReno Mystery series. It follows the highly succcessful “Willowtree.” The fictitious small Arizona town of Willowtree is home to Bruce DelReno, retired postman and avid golfer. First it was Bruce’s dog that discovered a dead body, and now Bruce has the misfortune himself. This time the victim is a national celebrity, professional golfer Taryn “Stinger” Maguire.

   Maguire had returned to his hometown for a charity exhibition, but met his brutal death at the hands of someone who apparently had golf skills of his own. Bruce’s obsession with the case and his developing relationships with witnesses put him in a special position with the police. Some secrets from Maguire’s past are uncovered, but when his own secret is exposed, it becomes a bigger story than his death.

   The story is told by Bruce with a lot of humor, a lot of compassion, and a lot of food. His Apache friend, Ben, is a playful sort, purposely annoying at times, but loyal and insightful. Bruce’s wife, a nurse, is his confidant and helps guide his sleuthing. He bakes bread to take his mind off other things.

   This book, though a murder mystery, contains no obscene violence or language. It is suitable for all ages. It is a so-called golf novel. The principals play golf and the victim is a well known golfer. Readers of Bruce DelReno Mysteries say that being a golfer or liking the game is not necessary to enjoying the story.

   The town of Willowtree is not a real town, but there is a lot of local color from this part of Arizona. The characters are made-up, but may be much like people the readers may know.

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   Author Bio:
   Mike Bove is a Vermonter, though he has lived in Arizona for the past twenty years, and before that fifteen on Cape Cod. He has changed careers from teacher and coach to working in the retail and nursing home industries, and finally twenty-five years with the US Postal Service.

   During his college and teaching years he participated in numerous productions, on and back-stage, in community theater, and was a high school drama director. His first major writing project was adapting a Russian folktale, “The Nosebag,” which he produced and directed.

   Though Mike reads many genres, his favorite is mystery. His early favorite authors were Donald Westlake, Ross MacDonald, and George V. Higgins. Perhaps his drama experience is why enjoys and appreciates interesting dialogue.

   Retirement gave him more time to read and more than enough to play all the golf he could handle, so he began a story about his fake town, Willowtree, which he had imagined during his daily commute through the Prescott National Forest.

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10. Pulling Home: That Second Chance, Book 1 by Mary Campisi

    About Pulling Home: That Second Chance, Book 1 by Mary Campisi:

    It’s all about that second chance…

    Sometimes we’re lucky enough to get that second chance-in life and in love. That Second Chance Series are stories of strong women who battle heartache and loss with courage and determination to find new paths and true love. These books are stand-alones and are NOT related. Therefore, the characters from one story will not appear in another. What ties them together? A common theme-belief in the beauty of that second chance.

    Pulling Home is Book One of That Second Chance Series.

    She’ll risk anything to save her child…even the truth.

    It’s taken nine years and a cross-country move, but Audra Valentine Wheyton has kept her secrets safe. She’s created the perfect life-a husband who loves her, a daughter she adores, and a position as head writer for an award-winning daytime soap. When her husband dies suddenly, Audra returns to her hometown for the funeral and faces a community that has not forgotten her meager beginnings and a man who has never forgiven her for marrying his brother.

    Jack Wheyton is a successful pediatric neurosurgeon who is about to become engaged when Audra walks back into his life with her daughter. He forgave his brother long ago for taking something that had been his, something he hadn’t even realized he wanted until it was gone. But forgiving Audra is another story…and forgetting her? Near impossible.

    When a shattering illness strikes Audra’s daughter, she turns to Jack to save her child and risks exposing a secret that will change their lives forever.

    That Second Chance Series

    Book One: Pulling Home – She’ll risk anything to save her child…even the truth

    Book Two: The Way They Were – Tragedy tore them apart, destiny will bring them back together

    Book Three: Simple Riches – What is real wealth?

    Book Four: Paradise Found – How does one see truly? With the heart or with the eyes?

    Book Five: Not Your Everyday Housewife

    Book Six: The Butterfly Garden

    BONUS MATERIAL: Included in this book is 2 Chapters from The Way They Were: That Second Chance, Book 2

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    Author Bio:
    Mary Campisi writes emotion-packed books about second chances. Whether contemporary romances, women’s fiction, or Regency historicals, her books all center on belief in the beauty of that second chance.

    Mary should have known she’d become a writer when at age thirteen she began changing the ending to all the books she read. It took several years and a number of jobs, including registered nurse, receptionist in a swanky hair salon, accounts payable clerk, and practice manager in an OB/GYN office, for her to rediscover writing. Enter a mouse-less computer, a floppy disk, and a dream large enough to fill a zip drive. The rest of the story lives on in every book she writes.

    When she’s not working on her craft or following the lives of five adult children, Mary’s digging in the dirt with her flowers and herbs, cooking, reading, walking her rescue lab mix, Cooper, or, on the perfect day, riding off into the sunset with her very own hero/husband on his Ultra Limited aka Harley.

    Mary has published with Kensington, Carina Press, and The Wild Rose Press. She is currently working on A Family Affair: Fall, Book Four in the popular Truth in Lies Series, due out Fall 2014.

    website: marycampisi.com

    e-mail: mary@marycampisi.com

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11. The Witches of Dark Root by April Aasheim

    About The Witches of Dark Root by April Aasheim:

    Maggie Maddock spent her life trying to get out of Dark Root, Oregon. After all, not every young woman aspires to become a witch. But when she and her sisters are called back seven years later, they discover a mysterious illness has stricken their coven-leading mother, and the town has lost its literal magic.

    Now Maggie and her sisters must put the past behind them and use their collective powers to save their mother and their town.

    Part Practical Magic, part Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The Witches of Dark Root is a modern fantasy that zips through time and will have readers believing in magic.

    This is the first book in The Daughters of Dark Root series.

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    Author Bio:
    April Aasheim enjoys belly dancing, Zumba Fitness, hiking, reading, documentaries on Big Foot, and movies. She is married and is a mother, currently residing in Portland, Oregon. She maintains an active blog and has written three novels.

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12. Roar of Revenge by Joan Foley Baier

    

    About Roar of Revenge by Joan Foley Baier

    Keri’s scream woke her from the nightmare…that huge black SUV bearing down on her, crunching her leg against the concrete barrier in the zoo’s parking lot. An unlikely hero, the elephant in the zoo where Keri works, saves her from sudden death. If the animals didn’t make such an uproar, the SUV would have come at her again… and killed her. But now, who will save her in the real world?

    The police investigate fruitlessly. The threats keep coming. Eventually, Kevin has to move back into the house with her and the kids while her leg heals—and also for her security. Is Kevin enough to stave off a killer?

    The kids love having them all together again, but she,,,? She feels the same old pull when he looks at her, and when he touches her. But is that enough to open her heart again? And for what? Another heartbreaking separation?

    This novella, Roar of Revenge, is a quick read and answers all these questions in a suspenseful romance of intrigue, mystery and love.

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