tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320298082024-03-13T19:12:31.805-04:00~ Walk Another World ~Award-nominated Paranormal/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Romantic Adventure Author Michele Hart blabs on and on ...Michele Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897487185937109322noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029808.post-6125567884190884812017-07-16T17:59:00.000-04:002017-07-16T17:59:12.506-04:00Find Michele Hart's New Home<div style="text-align: center;">
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com * www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com *</div>Michele Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897487185937109322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029808.post-70598140273298994672013-04-25T01:00:00.000-04:002013-06-26T20:34:09.693-04:00I (Heart) Tortured Heroes.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>I cannot help myself. I love those tortured heroes.</b></div>
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<b>It must be that genetic drive to heal the alpha, the risk-taker. </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><i>Back to my Most Tortured Hero.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><i>Danny is a descendent of the Nephilim and a demon slayer.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><i>Becoming a troubling force, he is.<br />Originating from such a dark place,<br />he worries Metatron, the mightiest angel in heaven.</i></span></b><br />
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<b> Daniel Tierney and his
fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations producing the most dangerous
substance in the Alliance. But reporter Faith Vedder turns up at the worst
times, including Danny’s near-assassination. He’s had enough of her
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<b> Faith won’t tell him
anything that compromises her Pulitzer-worthy story, not even under the magic
of hot attraction. She doesn’t know she’s surrounded by fallen angels at war.
Danny’s not finished making demands. She doesn’t understand until a giant,
snorting, winged monster slobbers down her back, threatening to flay her.</b></div>
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<b>The gangbusters can’t
delay in their mission to shut down gangs until Danny learns the new criminal
kingpin of their world is a man who once held Faith’s heart. In the guise of a
gangland executioner named Heretic, Danny will destroy him. Even if it destroys
Faith. Angels are watching.
Demons are plotting. Faith is the key. </b></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Outside common knowledge of the galaxy's mortal realm burns the holy war between the angels guarding the Maker's paradise and the demons who desire to rip down those gates, casting all souls into chaos. Guided by the heavenly hosts, only the Alliance I-Marshals weaken the grip of the demon hordes upon the mortal worlds.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's a taste of the torture in Danny.<br /><span style="font-size: small;">(This excerpt is rated PG-13 for remembered violence and Danny's sexiness.<br />The story is rated R.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“Danny?”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“Yeah, Faith?”</b></span></div>
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feared what belonging to Heretic meant.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“I’m tired of hearing people call you Heretic, and I
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“Teach me the difference between the two of you,
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nothing about you. Everyone around me knows you as Heretic.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“Only the thugs, Faith. You don’t need to know
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what you do. As Heretic, you make the universe more beautiful by cutting the
sadistic demon forces upon the worlds. H<span style="font-size: small;">eretic</span>’s the angel of death in you. I
understand it. I do need to know…what turned you into a killer?”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“Detachment. And an odd turn of events, for sure.” The
tone of his deep voice gave away his self-analysis. His hand went to her arm
and gave it a long, slow caress that seemed like a comforting action. “Though
it never takes much to push the Nephilim to evil deeds.”</b></span></div>
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Nephilim descent?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“I’d had problems with losing my father at a young
age. I’d started acting out in school, and my mother had been lost to help me.
She’d taken me to counseling, hoping the Church would change my path. I’d told
them I no longer believed in the goodness of the world. The priest had called
me a heretic to disbelieve the Maker was in the creation. I’d agreed that I
was. It was a label that had echoed through my brain.</b></span></div>
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behind. Word had gotten out that I had no fear. And I’d learned that reputation
could put money into my hands. It had eased my mother’s burden. I could watch
people and know they were evil. I’d exterminated those who’d deserved to meet
their Maker.”</b></span></div>
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revelation in figuring out what drove him. The ability to spot evil sounded to her
like an angelic trait.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“No matter how young you are, you’re a man when you
wield a pistol in the streets. When I’d been fourteen, the sister of a friend
of mine had been attacked, truly brutalized and left in a coma. I’d learned the
shot had been called from San Ledra prison in retaliation for a hit I’d made.
So I’d ambushed her attackers with plans to end up at San Ledra and finish the
job with the shot caller. But the men I’d attacked had turned out to be
monsters. They had soon regenerated from what was for them insubstantial
wounds, and they’d walked from the morgue, not as unusual as one would think.
The now bodyless prosecution against me blown, the judge had more closely studied
the case and figured out how I had committed the slayings when the clock had
said I couldn’t have.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Danny tossed overlong bangs from his stunning gray
eyes. “I’d tickled time a bit.”</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“Tickled time?”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“I’d known I was uncommonly fast. It had been the
Brotherhood who’d noticed the supernatural nature of it. They’d been seeking
signs of the Nephilim in the population. In me they’d seen some goodness where
none showed, so they’d ended my legal case and devised a new future for me. The
Alliance Marines and the I-Marshal Academy.”</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Danny wielded
supernatural influence over time. Was that how he’d become the hottest gun in
gangland?</i></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“No matter the number of demons I put down, I can
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anything else. It was an agony that would never leave him.</b></span></div>
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faces can one man own?</b></span></div>
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assassin wearing a holographic mask and a prison tattoo boards Rachel’s
freighter during a prison riot, intent on collecting gadgets capable of
changing a man’s identity from the black-market gang who'd stolen them. Rachel’s
never sure of Jack's identity nor his goal, but he claims to be an Alliance
I-Marshal. Cop or convict? The clues never stop contradicting. She's horrified
to find the bright holographic mask conceals the gruesome face of a monster.
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determines to make the mercenary grow a heart.
How could a stone-cold killer kiss her so hotly? How could she kiss such
a dangerous deceiver?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Jack
has done years in prison to learn who’d stolen the remaining Gemini ticks, 3-D
magic. Nothing will keep him from gaining extreme technology capable of unleashing
galaxy-wide chaos. Forget feelings for Rachel. She can’t stop him from killing
everyone involved.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>***</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Where
did you pitch our tent, Luminous?” Rachel asked Jack, stepping over dew-wet
sticks and leaves toward a light deeper in the moonlit forest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Stop
calling me that,” Jack said, tugging her into the tree line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Stop
calling you Luminous?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Yeah.
Don’t call me that. It's not who I want to be with you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Should
I tell everyone?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No,
just you. I don’t want <i>you</i> calling me that.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It
was progress that he wanted someone to know him beyond his life as a government
assassin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Beyond
the camp firelight, he led her to a tent beyond the woods’ edge and out of
view. Jack’s camping light was turned on inside. Incense smelling just like the
incense she kept in her quarters smoldered in the air. How did he do that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
held the flap open, and she entered, spotting pillows atop their sleeping mats.
She peeled her flight jacket away from her body, and the sudden coolness struck
her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jack
swiftly stripped himself down to nothing. Her eyes could go nowhere but to his
hard-toned, toasted flesh and the poetic rhapsody of muscles gliding over his
big frame, tightening, then releasing. Heat traveled through her with the
cresting waves of his sinewy shoulders, eating up the cold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her
smile at his golden and beautiful nudity defied taming as she watched him climb
into the covers and drag thick blankets over the mats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s
getting pretty chilly on this space ball.” Ironic to his unclothed condition.
He dragged his backpack over to the bed. “We need to generate some heat in
here.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His
smile grew naughty, and his eyes followed her hand pulling the tie from her
hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
went back to digging into his pack. Her breathing altered just knowing what he
could do to her with that fabulously proficient body and his fine imagination.
She stripped herself of clothes and dived into the covers to keep from
freezing. Then she watched him retrieve the gold-foil wrapping of the Eltanin
dark chocolate, and he smiled at her gaze fixed on the shiny package. His first
chocolate kiss had been the most blood-heating kiss of her lifetime. Was the
chocolate addictive? Or was it all Jack?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sight
of the square brought back physical recall of tasting it on his mouth when he’d
taken it from her breasts. She could smell the cocoa brandy mixing with the
sandalwood incense and his own masculine scent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
say I owe you a kiss,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Not
just any kiss. Your hottest kiss from the sexiest part of Hell.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
hunter sighting his kill, he eyed her and peeled the gold-foil wrapper too
slowly. She studied his dilatory possession of the chocolate, intentionally
driving her mad wanting to taste the delicacy again. The memory of Jack’s
chocolate kiss caused her now to crave the confection and his kiss, almost like
a drug addict yearns for his demon. It sent a hotter wave through her to smell
the chocolate and him together again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then,
suddenly, she didn’t care about the chocolate at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Before
he could say his next words, Rachel rushed to his mouth and kissed him with all
the passion he’d inspired in her, every tingle he’d given her, every moan from
last night and this morning. She pushed him down to the mats and indulged in
the taste of him like he’d done her. She pulled away just enough to straddle
his hips, her hair tumbling down into his face, drawing a chuckle from him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Where
the hell the chocolate went, she didn’t care, but the smell of cocoa and Jack
sailed her to a deeper want of him, robbing her of sense and shyness. She
released all that into her hands, stroking his bare chest, enjoying the texture
of his sun-toasted flesh. He was so big. Registering his height and girth was
automatic, but she hadn’t noticed how big was his ribcage, how wide his
shoulders until she was looking over him, his body in her hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Feeling
all of last night’s hunger, she moved down to his mouth again and filled him
with her passionate kiss, drawing a long groan from him. Her head swam with the
stroke of his tongue. His hands moved from caressing her back to stroking the
hourglass of her shape, and need for more of his touch roared through her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Releasing
him from her kiss, she looked down to him from above. His smile wasn’t dirty
this time but one of pure delight. She felt him swollen between her thighs,
making her ache for him to fill her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Wow,”
he commented on her enthusiasm. “What did I do to deserve this?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
if he’d forgotten, or that it was nothing, of little import, or something he
did every day without reward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
saved Davi from a brutal attack, Jack. That beast would have killed him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m
gonna save that kid’s life every day from now on. I’ve never known you like
this, Rachel.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
hadn’t. She’d been defiant and cold to him. He’d been mean and manipulative and
sneaky. It was Jack’s surrender to her of all his overwhelming power in this
rotten situation that had shown her he wasn’t the monster he first looked like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
he was an agent sent from Heaven to help her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Get
used to it. Every time you take your clothes off in front of me, I’m going to
make love to you. Call it reward for a hero.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jack
tugged the blanket up to her shoulders, and brought her down to him again, and
he filled her mouth with his hot, ravishing kiss. Her hips rocked forward in
reaching him, and she felt his hand tease her, stroking her. She broke from his
kiss to endure the ignition making her hungrier for him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then
he put his hands on her hips, and he pushed her down onto him, impaling her,
causing her to throw her head back and rip a shriek from her mouth from the
combustion his entrance gave her. He sat up quickly and his hands covered her
cry. Her eyes popped open, realizing he attempted to keep the children from
hearing their passion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
held her there, she in his lap filled with crashing waves of ecstasy. She felt
every inch of him buried in her body, and she shuddered with the rapture of it.
It was all she could do to keep from calling out his name in delirium.</span></div>
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galaxy-wide chaos. Forget feelings for Rachel. She can’t stop him from killing
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Luminous
Nights</span></i><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">is a 2011 Golden Quill Contest finalist<br /> for
Best Sci-Fi/Futuristic/Fantasy<i><b>!</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nights and Weekends Reviews - “...Set in the future among the stars, <i>Luminous Nights</i> will draw you
into a fascinating world that’ll capture your attention with its new technology
and a galaxy of planets, native inhabitants, and indigenous creatures to
explore. Ms. Hart knows her make-believe world well, and she’s able to bring it
to vivid life....The sexual tension between Rachel and Jack nearly drove me up
the wall. But the wait was well worth it—and I’ll never be able to look at
chocolate in the same way again... Passionate and imaginative, <i>Luminous
Nights</i> is an amazing e-book read that you don’t want to pass up—so point,
click, and download it today.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(This excerpt is rated PG-13 for sexual theme.
The story is rated R.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who is Jack?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Dispassionately,
Jack said, “Forget it.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Appalled,
Rachel snapped, “What do you mean <i>forget it</i>? You agreed to help me this
morning.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “I’m
not sure I agreed to anything specific.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> She
wished to kick him, put her hands around his neck and squeeze the life out of
him. She’d just asked for his general help this morning, then he’d started
drawing on her, and she’d forgotten her mind. He was such a cheater.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Don’t
you want some walking room? You have to admit, restriction to this library is
the pits.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “You
forget, I’d once existed in a prison cell for five years. I’d rather stay here
and drive you mad.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> She
stepped closer to him, but remained outside the electronic cage since his gun was
strapped to her leg. “Please, Jack. I need you. Help me or I’ll find a way to
leave you on this planet.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “I
don’t care if you leave me here, Captain. So then I’ll do what I came here to
do, kill Quattro and prevent the ticks from bleeding into the Draco system.
Live my life out here on this wonderful little space ball.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Oh,
no! I'll tell Quattro-”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Where
to find me? I doubt you’ll do that. Then he’ll hunt me and wipe out the
natives. And <i>then</i> I’ll kill all of Quattro’s men. You, on the other
hand, will make a cherished slave for the gross little demon. You’re probably
the only one he won’t kill. He already sees value in you. Remember how he
contemplated you were less fragile than the natives? Stars only know what rough
acts he has in mind.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack
had her trapped, and he wallowed in the accomplishment. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “You
snake.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Disbelief
soured his handsome and pale face. “Do you fantasize no one will die here?
There’s no way out of it, Rachel. Someone’s going to die.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> He
was right. Too many people had plans of their own. If each player did as they
willed, many would die when only Quattro and his gangsters deserved the
lynching for the murders of the natives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Rachel
drilled her sight into his fake sky-blue eyes. “Good people might die, Jack. I
just want to keep the proto-plutonium you forced me to bring to this planet out
of Quattro’s hands, which I can do as long as I keep <i>you</i> away from
Quattro. Jack, you have to help me.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “I
do?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Yes.
Stop acting like you won’t. So give me your word.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Not
without a reward.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Oh,
yes. One must pay the mercenary, doesn’t one?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Absolutely.
So ask me what I want.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She
put her forehead in her hand to rub away the worry. No one could accuse her of
owning a poker face. “Are you just pissed I took away your control?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Stone-faced
but for a muscle twitching in a clamped jaw, he pointed to the floor, laying
down cardinal rules. “You didn’t take away my control. You're going to find
out, I <i>control</i> every thing in this room.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Was
he blind? Should she hold a mirror for him so he could see the triad collar
blinking at his neck, confining him to this room? Didn’t he see his gun
strapped to <i>her</i> leg? Didn’t it dawn on him she would make him save the
children, no matter what it cost her or him?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> That
he didn’t see it shook her confidence.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “I
thought we’d made progress in our relationship last night.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Oh,
we did. But not in the fight to recover the Gemini ticks.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “What
do you want, Luminous, to teach the kids how to hunt?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Eyes
belonging to a dead cop drew a coldness to their surface. “I want you here
sleeping with me tonight and <i>every</i> night.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> She
took a sad breath. “Sex and death. They seem to be running themes for you.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack
shook his head. “Not death, Rachel. What’s between us has much more to do about
living than dying. And it only faintly has to do about sex, really.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> She
crossed her arms over her bosom self-consciously while hating him. “What would
a killer like you know about life?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Nothing.
Not a single thing. I’m a government-programmed machine. You’re going to teach
me about life and living, Rachel. You slept somewhere else last night, and I
was lost without you. I want you to sleep here. In this room with me. Having
sex with me isn’t a part of any deal between us. You’ll have to trust me.
That’s my offer in exchange for my help. No negotiations.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “This
morning you’d been willing to help me without a price.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Now
I find I’m unhappy without you.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Sleeping
alone in the guest room last night had been lonely and cold without him. She
hadn’t rested until she’d fallen asleep in his arms beside the fire this
morning.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> And
his touch had changed her.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Now
she needed his quick mind, supernatural skills, and uncanny luck to keep sick
children alive. She needed his finely tuned senses. She needed him to stay warm
at night. She didn’t want to need him, but she did.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Rachel,
you know I won’t harm you. Hurting you is not what I want to do.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> He
was almost believable. He’d saved her life, had bypassed opportunities to
molest her nightly. Only this morning had his touch turned intensely sexual,
and he hadn’t followed through. After serving years in prison, he’d held
himself in check to show her he did care for her feelings. His control was <i>in</i>human.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> “Do
you remember the chocolate, Rachel?” he asked her, his momentary anger gone and
now beguiling her with the memory. Shadows danced at the fire’s prompt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The
urge to kiss him in chocolate again surged through her at his mere mention of
the candy. He knew it would. The confection on his lips had made her swim with
need for his closer contact. It made her weak on mention of it. He’d used alien
chocolate as a weapon against her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I
remember.” She loathed the admission, but loved the memory. “But hypnotic
chocolate can’t make me trust you, Jack. You are the most untrustworthy person
I have ever known.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Michele Hart</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Valentine's Day,<br /> and have fun hopping.</span></span></span></div>
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<!-- start LinkyTools script --><script src="http://www.linkytools.com/basic_linky_include.aspx?id=168769" type="text/javascript"></script><!-- end LinkyTools script --><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com * www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com *</div>Michele Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897487185937109322noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029808.post-47694317464415697932013-01-01T01:00:00.000-05:002013-01-27T15:30:22.976-05:00Wishing You Happiness and Success in 2013!<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><i style="color: orange; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">(Pretty sweet prizes. Nice way to start off the new year.)</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I wish you all excellent and joyous new years!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Are you having fun blog hopping<br /> and finding new love stories? I hope so.<br />Start the year off with a new and exciting love affair<br />(without getting in trouble with the ball-and-chain. <i>Wink!</i>)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Does everyone know how to play
this blog hop?<br />
Drop your name and e-mail address<br /> into the comment section of this blog<br />
and you’re eligible to win one of</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3 Big Grand Prizes!</b><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Drop your name and e-mail address<br /> in all 200+ blogs, and you’ll have 200+ entries<br /> into the grand prize drawings. <i>That ROCKS.</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Do you have a New Year's resolution?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Share it with us in the comment section of this blog.<br /> That'll be fun.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Here's a gift to start out<br />the new year with laughs. </span></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b22-book.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Click here for a FREE READ,<br />my Greek Myth Romantic Fantasy<br />No Funny Stuff!<br /> *A Mission for the Muse of Comedy.<br /><span style="font-size: small;">(You can't miss it if you have a shoe fetish.)</span></span></b></span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><br />Take it home<br />for an afternoon of chuckles.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a New Year's confession: <i>I dig sneaky men.</i><br /> Not the bad kind of guy who does shameful things,<br /> but good men who cannot be stopped,<br /> who find unconventional ways<br /> to get the job done under battle conditions. <br /><span style="font-size: small;">(That's one of the reasons why I love my dear heart. He's a journalist.<br /> And he cannot be deterred, side-tracked, or distracted when he's onto something.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">That kind of doggedness is a hero trait. Thanks, honey, for being my hero.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let's talk about Danny, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">the devious hero of<br /><b><i>GANGBUSTERS</i></b><br />my Angels and Demons/Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure.<br />
Coming from a rough background as a teen-aged gangland hit man,<br /> he's sneaky to begin with and capable of anything.</span></span><br />
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Then the government gives him an invisible suit.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What would YOU do with an invisible suit?<br />A very specific kind of cop now,<br /> Danny still exercises a love of torture,<br /> usually on the demons he hunts and destroys.<br />But tonight he'll torment his overly gutsy heroine, Faith.<br /> <i>With his sexiness.</i> </span><span style="font-size: small;">(Biting my knuckle.)</span></div>
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<b> Daniel Tierney and his
fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations producing the most dangerous
substance in the Alliance. But reporter Faith Vedder turns up at the worst
times, including Danny’s near-assassination. He’s had enough of her
interference and requires her source of information.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<b> Faith won’t tell him
anything that compromises her Pulitzer-worthy story, not even under the magic
of hot attraction. She doesn’t know she’s surrounded by fallen angels at war.
Danny’s not finished making demands. She doesn’t understand until a giant,
snorting, winged monster slobbers down her back, threatening to flay her.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<b> The gangbusters can’t
delay in their mission to shut down gangs until Danny learns the new criminal
kingpin of their world is a man who once held Faith’s heart. In the guise of a
gangland executioner named Heretic, Danny will destroy him. Even if it destroys
Faith. </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<b>Angels are watching.
Demons are plotting. Faith is the key.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here. Watch a book trailer:</b></span><br />
<br />
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<b> </b></div>
<br />
<br />
<b>This is the first time Faith meets up with Danny, sort of:</b><br />
<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: center;">
<b> [ This
excerpt is rated PG-13. The story is rated R. ]</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wrapped
in her bathrobe and feeling silly for taking a gun with her for a bath, Faith
came from the shower room to find all the lights out in her home. She was sure
she’d left at least some of the lights on. The only visible thing was a red
read-out of the clock mounted on the wall.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Bedroom
lights on,” she told the computer system that operated the rented home. The
room lit up, and she discovered the furniture rearranged.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
was no imagining this. She held her gun up for business. If someone were there
to hurt her, why did he wait to do it? </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“This
sooo isn’t funny,” she said to her unseen tormentor, not expecting an answer.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She
heard a deep masculine chuckle in the room with her. Then a resonant, seemingly
disembodied voice said to her, “It’s funnier on my end, I know. The surprised expression
on your face is priceless.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
shiver swept through her. Her trigger finger itched. “Who’s here?”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Who
I am is less important than my mission. I’ve been sent to kill you, Faith.” It
was a smooth baritone voice with a particular unnamable element that moved
through her like a hot wind.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She
turned the gun toward the voice and pulled the trigger, only to hear and feel
the click of an unloaded gun. She heard him laugh again. </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Kitty
has claws.” His voice sounded sinister. “I couldn’t leave you ammo.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dumping
the gun, she scrambled to her side table where she picked up the lamp, pulled
it free from its power source, and she brandished it as a weapon. Her sight
swept the room for some hint of his position. She couldn’t see him in the two
mirrors in the room. </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
better believe I have claws, buddy. If you’re planning to rape me, you’ll get
the roughest time you’ve ever had.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’ll
take your warning. Get dressed. We’re leaving.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her
brow crashed into her vision. Going somewhere with an invisible man? She was
better off remaining on her turf than submitting to his. “I’m fine with getting
dressed, but I’m not going anywhere with you if you won’t show your face. If
you plan to rape and kill me, let’s get it over with right here.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m
not a rapist.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No,
you’re a killer. You told me you’ve been sent to kill me.” </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She
scanned the small room for a better weapon. There were knives in the kitchen.
Could she get him to move this debate into the kitchen? She left her cell phone
by the computer keyboard. Attempted murder was a great reason to call the cops.
</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m
going to make you disappear, Faith.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
lamp was yanked from her grasp, and, before she had a moment to respond, he had
her wrist hand-cuffed to the headboard of the bed. She didn’t have a split-second
to fight back. He moved faster than her tired brain operated.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Instead
of killing you,” the voice, now beside her, said, “I’m going to relocate you.” </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
drawers of her dresser slid out, and clothes flew from them onto the floor.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Mmm,”
she heard, as she watched her lingerie held up for inspection. His choice
sailed onto the bed. A favorite blue blouse hung in mid-air for a second, and
he said, “Hmm, yeah.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then
the blouse landed in her lap. A pair of black jeans soon followed.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m
not leaving, and you and your people can’t scare me away!”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It
doesn’t frighten you, Faith…that I’ve entered your home and taken possession of
you?”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“N—No.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It
should.” </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She
was terrified, and hoped the shaking didn’t show.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>His
voice, closing in on her again but from a different direction, echoed through
the old steel-frame cottage, further disheveling her. “I could easily overcome
you, Faith.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“N—No,
I’m not a child quickly frightened away. I have a decade in martial arts, and I
could kick your ass!” Unable to see his expression, she couldn’t gauge if the
ridiculous promise of a hard defense affected him. Maybe he was a small man,
and she had a chance against him.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What
kind of martial arts?” his deep velvet voice asked.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Onterie!
The most deadly of the martial arts! And I have a black belt! How about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i>!”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Onterie
doesn’t give out belts. I doubt you’ve spent an hour in an Onterie class.
People who master Onterie don’t talk about it.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
breath fled her lungs. “I’m still not scared!”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Then
you’re stupider than you look or write. I’ve read some of your stories, and you
sounded much smarter than this. You’re also a rotten liar, Faith. Remember that
so you don’t get into more trouble. Get dressed.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
pair of boots came flying toward her from her closet, missing her by
centimeters.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She
grew more angry by the minute that she’d be forced to leave. “Don’t call me
Faith! You don’t know me!”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
splash of papers came from nowhere and landed on the bed next to her. She
picked them up and thumbed through report after report of her, information from
family connections to her library loans.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Your
full name is Victoria Faith Vedder. You switched from Vicky to Faith at age
seven when there were too many Vickies in school. Your favorite food is kung
pao chicken, spicy. Your favorite drink is gold-label vodka with a splash of orange
juice. For good health, you always say. Your favorite color is black, like your coffee and comedy. Extremist, Faith?"<br /> She scowled a reply.<br /> "A solid B
student, you’d served on your college yearbook staff, and you’d added your name
to the rosters of nearly every team that played for the school. As a joke.
Funny.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She
heard the smile in his voice. She hadn’t known that last one had been caught
and documented for the society-shaking crime it had been. It was probably a
good idea not to go back for a reunion. </b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Miffed
he knew so much of her, she gathered the spilled papers, her best tough-girl
scowl on her face. The letterhead on every page had been ripped off.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You
hadn’t given up your chastity until college when you met a bad boy named Mako. He was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> worth it.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> Now h</span>er
intruder was frowning. She could sense it like a wave washing over her. His growl of disappointment deepened his voice, making him sound...very sexy. Shameful that it would occur to her about her invisible kidnapper in this risky moment.<br /> How
could anyone learn so much about her? Did he have a record naming every man
she’d slept with?<br /> She should probably get a copy of that.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“And
you’re behind on your credit payment.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Not
much!” It was the designer dress for her Pulitzer acceptance ceremony. She
could’ve used the money for something more important, but…it was the most
beautiful dress in the worlds. They’ll love her wearing it in the homeless
shelter, if this story didn’t work out.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re
leaving, whether you’re cooperative or not. I guarantee you I’m big enough to
take you without your approval.”</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He
probably was pretty big with a voice that deep. That eliminated any foolhardy
hope of overcoming him physically. He was too quick—and invisible—for a
surprise attack.</b></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc;">
<b><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Umm…</i> He smelled like brandy. It sent a
shock-wave of stimulation through her.</b><br />
<b> "Get dressed, Faith. Right now." </b></div>
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excerpt, I thought I’d do something different and just as fun. I found an old interview with Danny, the handsome and devilish hero of my Angels and Demons/Sci-Fi Romantic
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Daniel
Tierney and his fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations producing the
most dangerous substance in the Alliance. But reporter Faith Vedder turns up at
the worst times, including Danny’s near-assassination. He’s had enough of her
interference and requires her source of information.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Faith
won’t tell him anything that compromises her Pulitzer-worthy story, not even
under the magic of hot attraction. She doesn’t know she’s surrounded by fallen
angels at war. Danny’s not finished making demands. She doesn’t understand
until a giant, snorting, winged monster slobbers down her back, threatening to
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The
gangbusters can’t delay in their mission to shut down gangs until Danny learns
the new criminal kingpin of their world is a man who once held Faith’s heart.
In the guise of a gangland executioner named Heretic, Danny will destroy him.
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Enjoy<br />
Interview with a Demon Slayer: Danny of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GANGBUSTERS</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: Thank you, readers, for stopping by. Today, I have I-Marshal Daniel
Tierney in the hot seat. I should say, the Scorch Seat! Danny’s the hero of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GANGBUSTERS</i>, the sizzling, gritty,
high-action Paranormal/Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure by Michele Hart. I understand <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GANGBUSTERS</i> is the third installment of
the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> I-MARSHAL STORIES</i> series, tales
of futuristic demon hunters and fallen angels at war. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
Yes. Angels, demons, lasers. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GANGBUSTERS</i>
has secret technology, demonic possession, microchips, fistfights,
teleportation, unholy resurrection, forbidden passion, assassination, doomed
missions, daredevil antics, a battle for love against a Hell-spawned horde.
Just everyday, on-the-job issues for a demon slayer.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: I had the chance to speak with Faith, your heroine, and she told me to
tease you as much as possible in payback for what you’d done to her the first
night you’d met.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
(He chuckles uncomfortably.) She knows I love to torture demons, so she loves
to torture me. She shouldn’t have told you any part of our first night since
she’s aware secret technology was involved. I think she just wants a little
spanking when I get home. Hint, hint to Faith, if you’re “listening”.</span></b></div>
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DAILY: All right, let’s skip that part. Faith says you were angry all the time.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
I was. I fell for her on the job, anathema in my profession. Undercover cops
can’t become emotionally involved with witnesses. We sure can’t fall for
reporters seeking to bust our covers. That’s what she wanted to do the first
night we met. And the second night we met. I just wanted to put her in the
sheets of her bed and rock her world. Not being able to do so made me angry. I
wanted to take her off the case, but every moment, she became more valuable.
It’s not a good place for a man to be, watching the woman he cares for step
into more and more danger. I knew the gangsters around her, and the monsters
they really were. I was angry the woman I wanted would stir that pit of vipers.
There was no stopping her. She’d wanted a Pulitzer. If not for my intervention,
this story would’ve given her an ugly trip to an unmarked grave...about page
ten. You can’t write a Pulitzer-worthy story beneath two meters of dirt.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: (This journalist tugs at her collar.) No. No, you can’t. Faith had said you lost
your mind when the criminal kingpin of your world kissed her hand.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
Metaphor. Lost my mind...cut the demon’s wings off, plugged all its goons, set
the building afire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, metaphors.
Kicked that demon’s ass all over the mortal realm, dragged the monster to Hell,
casted its filthy carcass into the bottomless pit. Dissolved its immortal
spirit in the molten floes of the Abyss. Just metaphors. Theories, unprovable
allegations. One couldn’t prove what really happened since there was no witness
or evidence to the acts. Because I may or may not have been visible.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: (This journalist's mouth went dry, and she took a gulp of water from a nearby bottle.)
Faith said she didn’t believe in demons until she met you.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
She gives me too much credit. Faith was already bellybutton-deep in
smoke-snorting fiends when I was contracted to kill her. She just likes to
fantasize I put demons in her life. Faith, if you’re reading this, don’t forget
how you got demon-slimed. I was light-years away when that happened, and you
were the one who’d given a scumbag demon directions to our hide-out. Just
pointing that out to aid your memory, baby. She loves it when I call her baby.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: (This journalist considers Danny’s lively gray eyes, his salt-and-pepper hair, and
his big, genetically gifted physique wrapped in speed-racing leathers.)
I...don’t think I’d mind if you called me baby, either. Faith tells us the
I-Marshals have a new weapon in the destruction of demons. Can you tell us
about it?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
No. I can’t. Faith, we’ll be playing The Arrest Game tonight and having a long
talk about what Alliance tech we’ll reveal to the public.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: Faith tells us the I-Marshals possess invisible super-soldier suits,
demon pistols, interstellar teleportation, healers, telekinetics, time wizards, dream walkers, other paranormal practitioners.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Danny
retrieved his palm computer from his pocket and typed a text message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few seconds of ominous silence followed. A
beep sounded from his palm comp, and Danny showed the DEMONSEED DAILY reporter a text
message.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
Faith would like to rescind permission for you to use information given in her
interview. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: (This journalist shuffles her paperwork, perplexed.) Well, then...okay... Danny,
what would you like to tell us about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">GANGBUSTERS</i>?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
My team hunts down villains producing a drug that will open the entire galactic
sector to boundless crime. How? It masks direct guilt detection by the fMRI
lie-detection machines used by all Alliance law enforcement agencies. Without
direct guilt detection, criminals walk free. Atop that, we learn a demon with a
particular hatred for my team has discovered a way to come back from my
destruction of him. Despite repeated slayings, Freak, a nasty spirit of
obsession, returns on a mission to kill the gangbusters and take our women.
Freak’s plans to sell that life-after-destruction process to the hordes of Hell
sends us all—angels, demons, mortals—to violent confrontations. Resurrection
sucks when the bad guys have it. It’s even worse when the biggest monster you
ever knew wields emotional power over your woman.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: That sounds perilous.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Too</i> perilous. We’d never intended to
put Faith at so much risk. It almost cost her all. I’m very lucky to have her.
No mortal should be forced to live a minute with the flames of Hell in her
veins. You gotta read what happened.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: I think I do! Give us a little tease for the other <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I-MARSHAL STORIES</i>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
(He rubs his strong, square jaw sprinkled with days-old stubble.) Let’s see...
I’m not great at teasing.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: Faith said you bring down demons as big as and half again your size, but you fall like
monsoon rains for the slightest tease. She says it’s a weakness of yours.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
(He scowls.) Faith is an unreliable witness and bad at details!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: She’s a trained investigative journalist.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
Faith is a very bad girl who is earning a bigger spanking with every passing
minute of this interview. <i>I-Marshal Stories</i> teases...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">LUMINOUS NIGHTS</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> is about a lonely freighter
captain traveling deep space who encounters a prison escapee claiming to be a
famous—and dead—I-Marshal. But he’s really an avenging angel on a mass-murder
mission, recovering stolen secret technology from the hands of the black
market. Beware the chocolate scenes. A couple of reviewers said they’d never
forget them.</span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">VIGILANT</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> is the story of a desperate
young woman caught in a human-trafficking ring and the I-Marshal guarding her
and watching a demon plan to savage her in a feast of revenge. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">How
about those teases? Tons of action in and out of steamy sheets. Thanks for the
chance to chat about our story. It’s time for me to go.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DEMONSEED
DAILY: Rushing off to slay demons?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
Rushing home to spank Faith. She’s asked for it and knows it’s coming. It was
her motive and goal. She just wants my hands on her naked bottom, and I’ll be
damned if I’ll disappoint her. </span></b></div>
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DAILY: You aren’t angry with her, are you?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">DANNY:
Angry at Faith? Never. I almost lost her to the demon hordes. I’ll never waste
our time being angry at her. I’m lucky to hold a woman brave enough to love a
demon slayer. Besides, I know she’s my punishment for a life of sin. (He smiles
slyly.) Have an action-packed day, everyone.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I write<br /> angels and demons/Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure,<br /> but today, I'll hold back my angels and demons.<br />I'm going to give you<br /> my Contemporary Erotic Suspense,<br /> <i>Looks Are Deceiving</i>. <br /><i>LAD</i> won the Bronze Award<br /> for Best Suspense at<br />the <span style="color: #6aa84f;">2010 </span>Reader's Choice Awards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Will love cost Elissa all her dreams,<br />or
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"> All shadows and mystery, Elissa Baker’s in hot
pursuit of something bigger, uglier, and meaner than Greg Moretti, and she
keeps her destiny with the scum of the Earth a closely guarded confidence. Only
Greg--muscles, brains, and passion—can wreck her long-laid path by being Mister
Right and refusing to let her go. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How
can she resist her Latin lover’s dark-chocolate eyes always arresting her, his
hypnotic lure stealing her soul, and dealing lusty persuasion like trump cards
in a fixed bet? </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Restauranteur
Greg Moretti is crazy for a woman who leads a smoke-and-mirrors life. He’ll fix
that by cooking up some heat, triggering a little hunger, and melting the
ice-wall protecting her soul. Elissa will need to choose between Greg and the
criminal world. What keeps her from his total consumption? Why
does Elissa keep so many secrets?</div>
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will take no hostages nor will he back down from his chase until he identifies
his competition and makes Elissa want him more than her other distractions. Good
boys can be bad too…and lethal to the heart.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
serendipitous solution to the cold-case murder of Greg’s father leads to a gun
battle that changes everything. Who invited the Mob?</div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">This excerpt is
PG-13 rated. The story is R-rated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Wine Thief</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Elissa
watched his suspicious green eyes roam the cocoa-and-white living room
appreciatively. “Greg’s got some pad here,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> His
vision fixed on the cases of wine stacked beside the airport-lights sound
system and flat-screen TV embedded into the wall. One would’ve thought the
electronics would have drawn a thief’s eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> He
pointed the gun at the cases of wine stacked in the entryway, then back to her.
“That’s what I’m looking for.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> “You’re
holding me at gunpoint for wine? Some alcohol problem you have.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The
man cast her an angry snarl. “Shut up. Don’t be a problem, and you won’t get
hurt.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> “I
can do that,” she replied, keeping her hands in his sight as not to elicit a
bullet. No reason to earn a gunshot wound. She was about to disarm him away,
anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Over
the man’s shoulder, Elissa spotted the front door easing open, and she saw Greg
stick his head in. He eyed the man, then slid back noiselessly behind the door.
His sudden appearance changed everything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Now
Elissa wasn’t sure how to keep everyone from injury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The
stranger ordered her, “You’re going to pick up those cases and put them in the
trunk of my car.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Elissa
shook her head, gambling, now hoping to exclude his gun from the action
entirely, avoiding any physical struggle altogether. He’d need to put down the
gun to pick up the wine. “I can’t lift them. I tried earlier.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Her
assailant gave her a nasty grimace. “What do you mean you can’t lift them? They
can’t be over thirty pounds.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> She
shrugged her shoulders, taking in his posture, sizing up his every move, an eye
out for some advantage she could exploit or an unexpected aggressive motion. “I
have a bad back. I’m bound to drop a case and shatter the bottles.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Clearly
frustrated, the man tucked the gun into his holster on his belt, exactly what
she needed him to do. Then he grabbed hold of her upper arm and hauled her over
to the window where he ripped the pull cord from the glass door’s mini-blinds.
In his rough handling, she spotted Greg skulking through the front door to duck
behind the island of the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The
wine thief shoved her to the floor at the metal-and-glass coffee table, and he
wrapped the cord around her wrists without a fight from her. She focused on
keeping her assailant’s attention on her so he wouldn’t pick up the small
sounds of Greg passing over the tiled kitchen floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> “You
know, you can get help for the alcohol problem,” she said, watching over the
gunman’s shoulder as Greg surfaced on the other side of the island and slipped
into a door beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> “I
know a few places you could get help. You just really have to commit to it—”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> “Shut
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<span style="font-size: small;"> “Got
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tied her rather insecurely to the table, the armed man then grabbed hold of two
of the stacked cases, one atop the other, and he hauled the cases outside.
Wordless, she watched Greg slip from the bedroom, a Glock-22 semi-auto in his
hand, and he sneaked back into the kitchen to press himself against the
refrigerator, shielded by an entranceway wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Elissa
took a deep breath and thought up a quick prayer. Why would someone, an armed
someone, show up at a home to steal three cases of wine, passing up the nicest
home theater system she’d ever seen?</span></div>
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hid behind. In one smooth motion, Greg stepped into the hall and pressed the
muzzle to the back of the man’s head. </span></div>
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move,” Greg told him, stopping the man cold, and the look of surprise on the
gunman’s face was profound. “And I won’t shoot you. Move a muscle, and your
brains are going to be my new decorating scheme.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cop or
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How many
faces can one man own?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> An
assassin wearing a holographic mask and a prison tattoo boards Rachel’s
freighter during a prison riot, intent on collecting gadgets capable of
changing a man’s identity from the black-market gang who'd stolen them. Rachel’s
never sure of Jack's identity nor his goal, but he claims to be an Alliance
I-Marshal. Cop or convict? The clues never stop contradicting. She's horrified
to find the bright holographic mask conceals the gruesome face of a monster.
And the badge doesn’t slow him from murdering people right before her eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When
Rachel learns Jack will trade innocent lives for the digital miracles, she
determines to make the mercenary grow a heart.
How could a stone-cold killer kiss her so hotly? How could she kiss such
a dangerous deceiver?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack
has done years in prison to learn who’d stolen the remaining Gemini ticks, 3-D
magic. Nothing will keep him from gaining extreme technology capable of unleashing
galaxy-wide chaos. Forget feelings for Rachel. She can’t stop him from killing
everyone involved.</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Coaxing her with
flashes of his potent bedroom eyes, Jack broke the trade seal attesting to confection’s
origin and taxed status. His sky-blue vision still hadn’t left her. He peeled away
the foil at a slow pace, revealing four squares of dark chocolate made from a
recipe responsible for starting bloody wars in the past and trade wars
presently. The smell of the cocoa brandy wafted into the air, loosening her
grip on her will.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“I still have a few
surprises left for you.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">His smile revealed his thrill
of possessing something few women could resist. His flashy eyes told her he reveled
in teasing her, and Rachel never knew such joy. He was a one-man miracle to
make her feel what she felt right now. Goose bumps ravished her just sitting
beside him. Or was it the cocoa?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Tell me,” the
too-handsome Imperial Marshal said, seduction lacing his words, and he leaned
closer to her. “What would you give me for a square of chocolate?”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Rachel smiled.</span></b></div>
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Chocolate.”</span></i><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"> Spoken slowly, even the word flowed thickly over his tongue. His eyes
portrayed rapture. Alone, he was a cauldron of temptation. With chocolate, he
was irresistible. He worked to cut a deal. She’d noticed Jack was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">always</i> negotiating an advantage for
himself.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Weakness overcame her,
and she laid back on the rug, pretending to expire from just the pleasure of
the cocoa aroma. There wasn’t enough oxygen in the air.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He stretched out on the
ratty rug beside her, balanced on a bent arm, close enough for her to smell his
sandalwood scent mixing with the aroma of cocoa brandy. Rachel’s desire for the
confection became a synergetic force acting on her, sparked by just the smell.
Or was it his proximity? She didn’t know and was robbed of the care. Chocolate
and Jack mixed an intoxicating cocktail.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Fiendish, he waved the
square just above her lips, letting its smell seize control of her.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Mm…” she murmured low,
barely spoken, her voice hoarse. “Chocolate.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Her eyes closed, and the
scent of the chocolate, its cream, its cocoa smoothness, its erotica induced a
sudden addiction, triggered a craving.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“You sadist.” Her smile
was indelible.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Lying on her back, she
opened her eyes, unable to suppress the pleasure of his nearness nor desire for
the confection and his velvet voice, which now she imagined entwined. She closed
her eyes again to cut out all other stimuli but the aroma of the chocolate and
Jack, to experience them fully. Tingles cascaded through her body, pleasure and
hunger coursing through her veins and settling into the core of her. She’d
never felt that before.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Come on, Rachel, face
the sweetness.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He wagged a square of
chocolate centimeters from her lips. The best in Draco, and it was her favorite
treat in the galaxy, though she’d only tried it once before and probably not so
high a grade, at that. It had turned her to mush then, but she’d not admit that
to him.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">She reached for the
square waved before her, and Jack yanked it away. “Oh, no! There’s a price on
this chocolate.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">The smile fell from her
face.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Of course there is.
What do you want?”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“A kiss,” he declared,
intently watching her reaction.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">A kiss? What’s a kiss?
He’d kissed her before on her ship, an offer of his bedroom talents in exchange
for information. She flushed, remembering that kiss. It had preset her to
respond to his every sensual move, notice his walk, want him to stand a step
closer.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He’d kissed her again
when she’d saved them from Desmonda’s security force. A hot kiss that had
almost made her forget he’d blackmailed her, had nearly cost her her life on
Desmonda. But each of those kisses had been surprises, and she hadn’t responded
to them.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">When the aroma of the
cocoa brought her back to his offer, it softened her fear of the high-tech mask
he wore. The smell of the confection was hypnotic. Relief tickled her, made her
thankful he didn’t require her full sexual services for a small piece of
chocolate. She wouldn’t have done that, but it was what she’d expected of Jack.
She was mildly disappointed to have been wrong.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“It’s a deal.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">When she reached again
for the chocolate square he used to taunt her, he again snatched the candy
back.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Not just any kiss. No
copping out, commit to it. I want a hot, full-participation kiss of passion and
want from you. And your offering is subject to my approval. All or nothing.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Rachel pursed her lips,
a little worried. What would happen to the holographic mask he wore to maintain
his golden false identity if they shared another full-contact kiss? If she
opened her eyes so close to him, would she see the hideous cracks, the drips of
blood on his tattooed face below the nanocomp trick and never want him to touch
her again? Testing the mask was a worthy excuse to kiss him, but she was
reluctant to see the scarred and horrific face of the killer again. Wasn’t it a
research thing?</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Okay, a full-contact
kiss, no holds barred.”</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“And I get to put my
arms around you.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Okay. All right,
already. A kiss! Don’t write a laundry list of conditions.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He held the little
square out to her. If she took the chocolate, she couldn’t wiggle out of the
kiss, assuming she really wanted to get out of her end of the deal. She’d be
crazy to wish to escape that fate. He was a fantastic kisser. What was a little
kiss anyway after he’d given her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save her life
at the hot springs?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">If she allowed him this
one deep kiss, would she be able to put a stop to him if he pressed further?
What if the chocolate was drugged? Would he do that to her? He’d once said in
plain language he wasn’t worth trusting, but she couldn’t believe he’d harm
her.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">She watched him mash
the chocolate square between his finger and thumb. The chocolate clung to his
fingertips, shiny and thick, wonderful and melty. The newly released scent of
the cocoa brandy floated to her nose again, compromising her strength.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He mashed the chocolate
a little more before he brought his thumb to his mouth, and he consumed the
glob of alien chocolate on one finger, his little groan of pleasure hammering
at her resolve to keep this an impersonal kiss.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">She was acutely aware
he didn’t want an impersonal kiss.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“You’re a vicious
tease, Jack.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">His eyes sparkled in
delight.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Slow torture, he sucked
the almost black sweetness from his thumb. She wished she was his thumb. Then
he broke off another square and dangled it just above her lips.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Rachel closed her eyes
and took in the chocolate from his hand, felt it melt and spread in her mouth,
seducing her taste buds with the most exquisite cocoa experience, giving her
entire body the sensation that she soared through the air on a spiritual
lightness. Every cell of her being quickened, hypersensitive and at attention.
The sweet taste took over her senses and made her weak. She made the chocolate
last as long as possible, enjoying it fully.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">She opened her eyes to
see Jack above her, the look in his sky vision longing, the flames of the
hearth boiling in his eyes. And she wanted him.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Commanding the moment,
he slipped a hand into her loosely bundled hair and lowered his lips to hers.
The persuasion of dark chocolate on his breath stole her into his kiss. She
lost herself in a rush of ecstasy, the fine taste of Eltanin’s best splendid on
his tongue, and his delicious weight pressed against her. Her hands went to his
bare chest, and she savored the hard feel of him beneath her palms, his hair
tickling her.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">The soft exploration of
his tongue excited her, breaking down her defenses when she’d thought herself
spineless already. He made the chocolate taste better. His hand caressed her
tresses, and he moaned as though just touching her that way held some ecstatic fortification.
She wanted nothing more than for him to keep pressing her to the dirt floor
with his big, hard body, insisting on his price. No man had ever kissed her
like this. He awakened something long asleep inside her.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Parting from her much
too soon, he released her from the chocolate kiss, his hand warm against her
neck. She was bewitched by the sizzle of fingers stroking her from below her
ear to her collarbone. Her eyes fluttered open to his golden masculine beauty, and
her heart sank, aching a bit from his kiss too short. Her heart pounded in her
chest, and her breath ran quick. She wanted him to kiss her again, an
unignorable desire building inside her now. She’d forgotten to open her eyes
during the kiss to see under the projected mask, but under his spell, she
didn’t care. She just wanted him to kiss her again.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">His fluid vision swept
over her features, hinting he might be feverish seconds away from another
arousing kiss when they both heard the faraway song of Davi’s whistle playing
the show tune they’d taught him.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Jack had done it, she
recognized in quiet defeat. She’d fallen victim to his predatory eyes without
much of a fight, his enticing kiss without battle. She’d fallen for all his I-Marshal
mind tricks and charisma, and she hated herself for it. And loved herself for
it. And hated herself for it.</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Now, the arrival of
Davi’s people was the moment she needed to reverse all this, take the safety
of the planet’s natives out of the cop’s dangerous hands. She needed to snatch
a clear mind from the spell of Jack and the chocolate, mingled. Just when
they’d taken control of her.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b>Now Rachel
would arrest Jack. And she already knew controlling the I-Marshal was an
illusion. She'd never met a slicker manipulator than the one behind the
3-D shape-shifter mask he wore. Despite the fact she'd put cuffs on his
wrists, she shuddered in consideration of Jack's next move. He'd
already proven, there was little he couldn't control. And his plan to
recover dangerous technology would cause the deaths of millions. A few
million unimportant natives to save the hundred billion citizens who
write his paycheck. </b><br />
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<b>She had to stand up to him. Here was that moment. </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> For extra fun, I'll draw a few names Thursday
the 15th, and give away a few ebook copies of my Angels and Demons/Sci-Fi Romantic
Adventure, <i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Gangbusters</span></span></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b22-book.htm" target="_blank">This is my Greek Myth Fantasy <span id="goog_1033235652"></span><span id="goog_1033235653"></span>Romance novella,<br /> <span style="color: #e69138;">No Fu<span id="goog_1033235656"></span><span id="goog_1033235657"></span>nny Stuff!</span><br style="color: #e69138;" /><span style="color: #e69138;"> *A Mission for the Muse of Comedy</span>.<br /> Take it home for an afternoon of chuckles.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One surviving hijacker is charged<br />with the murders of
a hundred citizens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One cop sees her innocence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alliance I-Marshal Weber hauls Yadira
to her home planet and infiltrates the human-trafficking ring controlling her.
But he finds himself unbearably attracted to his witness. A gift for detecting
deception reveals she’s the next victim of a criminal industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Descending into shadowy worlds of
slavery, Yadira endures a dark angel stalking her dreams and watches the quiet
I-Marshal become dangerous in her defense. Everything about him moves
her…except the memory of seeing him execute the most important man in her life.
Shouldn’t she take vengeance? Delusions of a heavenly guardian affect her mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Slavers and demons plan to snatch her
from Weber’s custody while he is uncovering connections, and Weber won’t
hesitate to execute the guilty surrounding Yadira. Who but a son of fire can
save her from fiends harboring hardcore fantasies of harming her?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Reviews I made my
mother memorize:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">* 5 out of 5 tea
cups from Happily Ever After Reviews: “Whether or not you’re a sci-fi fan,
you’ll enjoy this stirring romantic adventure.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">* 5 out of 5 stars
from Book Binge: “Wow! What a cast of characters!...It will be a rare person
indeed who does not find this story to be awesome and one of the Grade A,
Top-of-the-Mark books no one should miss.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">* Beyond 5 stars!
from A Journey of Romance: “I declare <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vigilant</i>
to be another hit in her series. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vigilant</i>
is beyond 5 Stars!”</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> Here, watch a tense book trailer: </span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here's a bite of adventure for you.</span></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">***</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[This excerpt
is rated PG-13 for action. The story is rated R.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Hotel Escape</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What if I kissed you before a room of crooks and criminals?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Goose bumps raced over Yadira’s flesh at contemplation of Weber’s
passionate kiss anywhere, in front of anyone, at any time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She just didn’t know why he would want to kiss her behind closed doors,
as blackened with grievous offense as she was. She wished his sister hadn’t told
her he could see guilt. She would’ve wept over the state of her soul, if he
hadn’t been in the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But Weber was in the room, giving her flights of delight with his
enticements and innuendo. She was supernaturally aware of his presence,
closeness, and possible actions. His hands kneading hers slowed and stroked
each finger, stealing a part of her mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m available to fill your needs for the case, Marshal.” Her heart
pounded in her chest. “If it keeps me from prison.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He smiled, pleased with her answer, his olive-green eyes alight in the
sexiest way. Could his vision carry the power to blank her thoughts and still
her actions? Perhaps it was a gift of the unusual gene the I-Marshals carried
that made them special. It was a preposterous thought, but she began to think
he was something extra-human. Wasn’t a law enforcement officer who saw guilt
more than just a cop? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Were delusions of an angel prowling her subconscious messing with her
mind?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She wondered how long Weber’s testimony of their being lovers would
stay a lie. A firestorm of attraction raged through them. They sat together on
a bed now, his hands intimately massaging hers and relaunching all the heat he
commanded. He’d kissed her moments ago, programming her to respond to him. Her
thighs were on fire. He stared at her lips now as though they were edible,
sending her subliminal hints that he would kiss her a second time. The thought
of his mouth on hers again… With this much warning, she had time to lose her
breath, anticipate the softness of his lips, want him more with every passing
second.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Weber…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, Yadira?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Have you sent an angel to watch over me?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A loud bang rocked the room, startling them and breaking the
electricity burning the air between them. Her question forgotten, they spun
toward the hotel room door to see it had taken a strike to its metal so hard,
it dented. She froze in fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh, yeah, the Alliance,” the I-Marshal muttered under a sunken brow as
though having forgotten some vital information to add to the night. He
scrambled from the bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A second strike slammed into the security door with great force,
denting its surface again. The lock was not yet compromised. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Move, Yadira! They’ll be through the door in seven more strikes!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Snapping herself from a terror-induced stasis, she burst from the bed,
ran to and fro, looping the bag of clothes around her neck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Weber! Did you kill my guard?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No. I only kill the guilty. Your guard probably awakened in the room
next door about five minutes ago.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He grabbed her hand and tugged her into the shower room. There, he
unlatched the small, highly placed window. It was the room’s only outlet for
fire escape. Hotel guests were not prisoners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Except for Yadira. She actually was a prisoner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Who’s coming through that door, Weber? And why?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The window did not open all the way, so he ripped it from the metal
frame, and he pulled in a knotted rope already hung outside for their escape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Probably, an Alliance SWAT team…or two, maybe some fed guys, a few
overexcited locals. They’ll blow the door in a few seconds. The I-Marshals have
taken me off the investigation, Yadira, and I’ve decided if they won’t release
you from the case, I’m going to hide you from the Alliance. They aren’t happy
with my plan.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yadira’s head snapped back to the sight and sound of new dents driven
loudly into the room’s door. The noise of hovercraft blades warping the air
blasted through the window. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He propped the room’s chair against the wall, assisting her climb to
the high window. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“We’re on the fifth floor!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“All you have to do is get out of this room. Take hold of the rope
hanging out the window.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Displeased with her catatonic speed, he snatched her up and put her
atop the windowsill, feet first through the open window. She was about to
scream bloody murder when she felt a knotted rope between her legs. She grasped
it for dear life and leaned out of the building to assess their position. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The chaos was much louder outside the metal-plated room. Sirens
shrieked, flashing lights blinded her. She saw the hovercrafts that belonged to
the warp of blades she’d heard pivoting all around the hotel, their spotlights
aimed on her and watching. How did they all get there so fast?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She turned to Weber behind her in the shower room, and snapped, “Aren’t
I already under arrest?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Just climb onto the rope, Yadira, trust me.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was difficult to trust him when police on PA systems blasted,
“Imperial Marshal Weber and Yadira Maxwell! Hold your position! You are
surrounded! Do not attempt to escape!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Trust him? The alternative was
surrender. </span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Looking up the rope secured to the tube railing of the building, and
seeing a variety of police uniforms aiming weapons at her, Yadira grasped the
rope, put her feet on a knot, and wiggled off the window ledge, clinging to the
rope and shaking. The red-and-blue flashing lights blinded her. The hard breeze
set off by the hovercrafts whipped her hair across her face, stinging her. The
sights and sounds of every law enforcement machine focused on her exit shocked
her. She hadn’t known she was this important to the Alliance. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Or maybe capturing a rogue cop was this important. She guessed it was.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Weber climbed out of the window and onto the rope above her, and then
he shimmied down to and around her, protecting her from crazy hails of rubber
bullets or stunner rays. Cops with Tasers waited below the rope to take custody
of them. Cops with stunners awaited atop the building. Cops in hovercrafts
surrounding them, weapons sighting them, awaited any dangerous move. She’d never
seen so many uniforms in all her life put together.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They’d </span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">never<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> let her
out of prison for this!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His big boots planted on a big knot in the rope below hers. “Turn on
the rope and wrap your arms around me, Yadira!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She looked around the hurricane they withstood, terrified. Emergency
crews assembled below. Spectators were shooed away from witnessing their deaths
or horrible mutilations when they hit the ground. Did the cops plan to plant a
laser beam in the rope, melting the braid and causing their fall? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What’s happening, Marshal? Why is all of Reigna’s force sighting us?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Ignore them.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Her mouth dropped. “Ignore them?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I should have punched your guard harder. Put your arms around me!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Surely, they’d fall! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Trust me!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She wrapped one arm around his neck, and let go of the rope with her
other hand, hooking her arm beneath his to reach her other hand and locking
them together. He trapped her against him with the rope, one hand gripping the
lifeline above her. Sure she’d next tumble to her death or find herself behind
bars, she watched Weber retrieve his palm comp with his free hand and type some
numbers with his thumb.</span></div>
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terrifying sensation of falling. It felt like they fell for minutes instead of
the second it would have required for them to hit the pavement like melons.</span></div>
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font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">8. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.rosannaleo.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805790" target="_blank" >Rosanna Leos Room</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">9. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: reneefield.blogspot.ca/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805811" target="_blank" >ReneeField Blogpost</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">10. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: vickibatman.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805823" target="_blank" >Twinkle Lights</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">11. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.staceyjoynetzel.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805828" target="_blank" >Stacey Joy Netzel - Author</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">12. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: apmassie.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805919" target="_blank" >Aine @ House Millar</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">13. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://catedeanwrites.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805931" target="_blank" >Cate Dean - Author</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">14. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: dlindunauthor.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805942" target="_blank" >dlindunauthor. blogspot. com/</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">15. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: jessekimmelfreeman.com/blog.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805948" target="_blank" >Jesse Kimmel-Freeman</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">16. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.bellastreetwrites.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4805978" target="_blank" >Bella Street Writes</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">17. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.cynthiawoolf.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806021" target="_blank" >Cynthia Woolfs Blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">18. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://carrieannebrownian.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/the-beauty-of-autumn/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806059" target="_blank" >Carrie-Annes Magick Theatre</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">19. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://booksbymaureen.com/?page_id=914" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806081" target="_blank" >Maureen Fisher: Sassy Romances & Smokin Hot Heroe</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">20. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.staceybrutger.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806100" target="_blank" >Stacey Brutger</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">21. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: cariquinn.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806117" target="_blank" >Cari Quinn</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">22. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://danadelamar.blogspot.com/2012/11/autumns-harvest-blog-hop.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806162" target="_blank" >Dana Delamar - Gritty, Steamy Romantic Suspense</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">23. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: leeannsontheimermurphy.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806166" target="_blank" >Rebel Writer: Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">24. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.kristiknight.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806188" target="_blank" >Kristina Knight, Romance Author</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">25. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: myeroticnotions.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806211" target="_blank" >Daryl Devore</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">26. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.gramico.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806228" target="_blank" >Greg Carrico, Live the Story</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">27. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: chitsuen.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806261" target="_blank" >[Insert clever quip here]</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">28. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://danitaminnis.danitaminnis.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806363" target="_blank" >Romance The Book Blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">29. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: debraasoles.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806422" target="_blank" >Debs Daydreams</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">30. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: kristalbaird.blogspot.co.uk/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806496" target="_blank" >Kristal Baird Erotic Romance</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">31. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.karenbynum.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806518" target="_blank" >karen Y. bynum</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">32. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.StephanieQueen.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806682" target="_blank" >Stephanie Queen</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">33. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.taoofliz.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806749" target="_blank" >Liz Matis - Tao of Liz</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">34. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: tcarcher.tcarcher.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806775" target="_blank" >T. C. Archer</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">35. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: tarahscott.tarahscott.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4806782" target="_blank" >Tarah Scott</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">36. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.amberkallyn.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4807173" target="_blank" >Amber Kallyn</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">37. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://natashablackthorneblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/meet-sexy-puritan-enter-to-w-i-n-kindle.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4807183" target="_blank" >Natasha Blackthorne ~ Erotic Historical Romance</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">38. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://lynncahoon.wordpress.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4807327" target="_blank" >Lynn Cahoon - A Member of the Council</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">39. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.juliekenner.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4807472" target="_blank" >J. K. s Blog (Julie Kenner/J. K. Beck/J. Kenner)</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">40. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.kmccullough.com/kblog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4807515" target="_blank" >Karen McCulloughs blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">41. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: kristinecayne.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4807678" target="_blank" >Writing with Kristine Cayne</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">42. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.nataliegowens.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4808070" target="_blank" >Natalie G. Owens</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">43. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.pendarielraye.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4808363" target="_blank" >Musings of an Independent Artist</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">44. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.christinaphillips.blogspot.com.au/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4808557" target="_blank" >Christina Phillips aka Christina Ashcroft</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">45. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: jordanlhawk.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4809076" target="_blank" >Jordan L. Hawk</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">46. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: janiceseagraves.org/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4811718" target="_blank" >Janice Seagraves, Romance Writer</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">47. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: dianeburton.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4811797" target="_blank" >Diane Burton ~ out of this world adventures</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">48. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: susanfrancesny.wordpress.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4812106" target="_blank" >Susan Frances</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">49. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://tmoniquestephens.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4812291" target="_blank" >Tmonique Stephens</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">50. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: thetardisscribbles.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4816331" target="_blank" >Doris OConnor</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">51. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: dcjuris.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4817667" target="_blank" >Love is a Many Flavored Thing (DC Juris)</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">52. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: bookswagger.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4818465" target="_blank" >bookswagger. com</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">53. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: zeemonodee.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4819543" target="_blank" >Zee Monodee</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">54. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: anngrant.blogspot.ca/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4827758" target="_blank" >Ann Grant</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">55. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.ranaerose.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4837934" target="_blank" >Ranae Rose</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">56. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: ptmacias.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4837963" target="_blank" >ptmacias. blogspot. com/</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">57. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: ptmacias.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4838225" target="_blank" >ptmacias. com</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">58. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: shelikesitverbal.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4843509" target="_blank" >She Likes it Verbal</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">59. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: blog.dianalayne.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4848159" target="_blank" >Do You Want Mayo With That?</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">60. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.featherstoneauthor.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4856806" target="_blank" >Feathers Passion</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">61. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://www.cocktailsandbooks.com/2012/11/autumns-harvest-blog-hop.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4860020" target="_blank" >Cocktails and Books (INT)</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">62. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.suzanbutler.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4860889" target="_blank" >Suzan Butler</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">63. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: starrwords.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4861218" target="_blank" >starr words</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">64. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.hcbrownauthoroferoticromance.blogspot.com.au/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4861682" target="_blank" >H. C. Brown Author Of Sizzling Romance</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">65. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.selahjanel.wordpress.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4861974" target="_blank" >Selah Janel</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">66. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: reviewsbymolly.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4864288" target="_blank" >Reviews By Molly</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">67. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.blackvelvetseductions.com/readers_blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4865112" target="_blank" >Black Velvet Seductions Readers Blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">68. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: lindsayavalon.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4867166" target="_blank" >Lindsay Avalon</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">69. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: hennesseeandrews.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4879240" target="_blank" >Hennessee Andrews</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">70. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: abcsoferotica.wordpress.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4886502" target="_blank" >Malia Mallory</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">71. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.mariehallwrites.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4887111" target="_blank" >Im kinda a big deal. . . </a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">72. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.toryrichards.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4887739" target="_blank" >Tory Richards</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">73. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: romancinghistorylove.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4910749" target="_blank" >Romancing History</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">74. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: adrianakraft.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4912288" target="_blank" >Adriana Kraft</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">75. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: alexohurley.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4914183" target="_blank" >Alexandra OHurley</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">76. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: lucyfelthouse.co.uk" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4922205" target="_blank" >Lucy Felthouse</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">77. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: suzzanacryanromanceauthor.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4925158" target="_blank" >Suzzana C Ryan Erotica</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">78. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.MadelineSloane.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4925690" target="_blank" >Madeline Sloane</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">79. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: tamibrothers.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4927769" target="_blank" >Tami Brothers - Live, Love, Write! (Int)</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">80. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://www.krystalshannan.blogspot.com/2012/11/krystal-shannans-stop-on-autumn-harvest.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4927874" target="_blank" >Krystal Shannan ~ Where Love and Destiny Collide</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">81. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://4myreadingobsession.blogspot.com/2012/11/autumn-blog-hop.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4929325" target="_blank" >My Reading Obsession</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">82. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: debsanders.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4934721" target="_blank" >Deb Sanders</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">83. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: michelehart.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4941355" target="_blank" >I Love Shape-Shifters. com</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">84. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://mrsmommybooknerd.blogspot.com/2012/11/autumn-harvest-blog-hop-november-9-12th.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4943930" target="_blank" >Mrs Mommy Booknerds Book Reviews</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">85. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: angelicadawson.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4947335" target="_blank" >Angelica Dawson</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">86. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://smartmouthtexan.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/autumns-harvest-blog-hop-and-giveaway/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4954063" target="_blank" >SMARTMOUTHTEXAN (US)</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">87. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.deannalynnsletten.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4957216" target="_blank" >Deanna Lynn sletten</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">88. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.taramillsromance.com/blog.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4959431" target="_blank" >Tara Mills Romance</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">89. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://www.apassionforromance.blogspot.com/2012/11/autumns-harvest-blog-hop.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4960124" target="_blank" >A Passion for Romance</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">90. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.readingreality.net" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4960616" target="_blank" >Reading Reality</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">91. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: miadowning.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4961990" target="_blank" >Mia Downing</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">92. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://www.snifferwalk.org/2012/11/h0p-on-in-to-snifferwalk-for-autumns.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4962354" target="_blank" >SnifferWalk</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">93. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.romancebeyond.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4965768" target="_blank" >Romance and Beyond</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">94. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: thealanden.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4967054" target="_blank" >Thea Landen</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">95. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: diannehartsock.wordpress.com/my-blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4967833" target="_blank" >Dianne Hartsock</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">96. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: daniwade.wordpress.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4971290" target="_blank" >Dani Wade</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">97. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: bloodthirstymuses.wordpress.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4971755" target="_blank" >Paranormal Hotness - Author H. A. fowler</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">98. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: mreauow.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4979253" target="_blank" >The Cats Mreauow</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">99. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: katherinekingston.com/blog-2/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=4997719" target="_blank" >Katherine Kingstons Blog</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">100. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://kimcarmichaelnovels.com/category/blog-hops/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5001449" target="_blank" >Kim Carmichaels Blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">101. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: charleneawilsonblog.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5002415" target="_blank" >Charlene Blogs</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">102. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: blonde-not-dumb.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5002475" target="_blank" >Nancy Reece - Blonde Not Dumb</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">103. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.gemsivad.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5002754" target="_blank" >Gem Sivad</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">104. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.laceywolfe.com/blog.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5004830" target="_blank" >Lacey Wolfe</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">105. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://www.kharismarhayne.com/2012/11/autumns-harvest-h0p.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5006210" target="_blank" >Kharisma Rhayne</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">106. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.kissastarling.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5012532" target="_blank" >Author Kissa Starling</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">107. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: jennifermcconnel.wordpress.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5017385" target="_blank" >Jen McConnel</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">108. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.celiakyle.com/2012/11/what-i-love-most/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5025078" target="_blank" >Celia Kyle, Erotic Romance Author</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">109. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://www.alexa-grace.net/BlogHop.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5025919" target="_blank" >Author Alexa Grace Website</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">110. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.ceradubois.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5034656" target="_blank" >Cera duBois</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">111. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.sarawalterellwood.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5034674" target="_blank" >Romance Writer Sara Walter Ellwood</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">112. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.lcgiroux.com/thoughts" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5036394" target="_blank" >L. C. Giroux -Steamy Romance -Smart, Sexy, Fun</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">113. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: ajcarmicheal.com/blog" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5040294" target="_blank" >AJs Reading Nook (INT)</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">114. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: danamasonromance.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5041256" target="_blank" >Dana Mason Romance</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">115. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: sweetesttaboobook.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5047390" target="_blank" >Sweetest Taboo Book Blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">116. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://mimmismusings.blogspot.com/2012/11/autumn-harvest-blog-hop-awesome-prizes.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5048233" target="_blank" >Mimmis Musings</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">117. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: deenar116.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/autumns-harvest-blog-h0p/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5051248" target="_blank" >Deena Remiels Place</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">118. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: sjthomaswpr.weebly.com/blog.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5052584" target="_blank" >SJ Thomas - Writing Paranormal Romance</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">119. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: wp.me/p2aKUo-3x" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5056057" target="_blank" >Bebe Balocca</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">120. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.wendyely.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5063301" target="_blank" >Wendy Ely</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">121. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.patyjager.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5063948" target="_blank" >Paty Jager</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">122. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: gloriaharchar.com/blog-2/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5065354" target="_blank" >Gloria Harchars Blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">123. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.kesaxon.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5080972" target="_blank" >K. E. Saxon</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">124. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: beccasimone.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5083590" target="_blank" >Naughty but Nice</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">125. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: kckleinbooks.tumblr.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5084429" target="_blank" >KC Klein Romance With an Edge</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">126. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://candaceshaw.net/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5087938" target="_blank" >Candace Shaw, author fun, flirty and sexy romance</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">127. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: cathryncadesblog.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5094192" target="_blank" >Cathryn Cades Blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">128. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: booksamour.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5120371" target="_blank" >Books Amour</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">129. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.michelle-clay.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5121397" target="_blank" >Michelle Clay ~ Paranormal Romance Author</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">130. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://reginamayross.com/2012/11/08/autumns-harvest-blog-hop-wgiveaway-open-to-all/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5121455" target="_blank" >Reginamayrosss Blog</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">131. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.shaylacy.com/blog/shays-blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5131719" target="_blank" >Shay Lacy</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">132. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.constancephillips.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5136332" target="_blank" >Constance Phillips, A Writers Musings</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">133. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: victoriaadams.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5139820" target="_blank" >Victoria Adams</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">134. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.juliettesprings.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5156604" target="_blank" >Juliette Springs. . The Darker Side of Romance</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">135. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: allythomas.wordpress.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5164283" target="_blank" >Ally Thomas</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">136. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: victoriaembers.wordpress.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5164350" target="_blank" >Victoria Embers, Author of My Vampire Lover series</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">137. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: sultrystoryteller.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5171864" target="_blank" >Bonnie Bliss</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">138. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: louisabacio.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5174961" target="_blank" >Louisa Bacio -- Love Knows No Bounds</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">139. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://governingana.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/to-rake-or-jump/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5186827" target="_blank" >Anastasia Vitsky, Governing Ana</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">140. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: barbarawinkes.blogspot.ca/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5188314" target="_blank" >Word Affair - Barbara Winkes</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">141. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: dreamvoyagers.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5188784" target="_blank" >Taryn Kincaid</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">142. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: vannasmythe.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5191054" target="_blank" >Vanna Smythe - Fatnasy Author</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">143. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: sandrabunino.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5191629" target="_blank" >Sandra Bunino</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">144. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: stbende.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5193643" target="_blank" >ST Bende</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">145. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://www.romcon.com/_blog/Blog_Hops/post/Autumn's_Harvest_Blog_Hop_-_November_9th-12th/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5194102" target="_blank" >RomCon (Romance Readers Convention)</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">146. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: ambriellekirk.wordpress.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5226886" target="_blank" >Ambrielle Kirk</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">147. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.janewakely.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5227698" target="_blank" >Jane Wakely</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">148. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: bethdcarter.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5232848" target="_blank" >Beth D. Carter</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">149. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.jrpearsenelson.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5233120" target="_blank" >J. R. Pearse Nelson</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">150. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: karenerickson.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5233785" target="_blank" >Karen Erickson Romance Author</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">151. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.sarahgilmanbooks.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5237853" target="_blank" >Paranormal Romance Author with a Thing for Wings</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">152. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: amburns.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5242526" target="_blank" >Yellow Sky Dispatches</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">153. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.ajmarcus.com/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5242528" target="_blank" >Bunk House Heat</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">154. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: melthegreatest.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5243998" target="_blank" >Melthegreatest Blogspot</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">155. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: ute-carbone.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5246202" target="_blank" >Ute Carbone</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">156. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: srhowen1.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5246720" target="_blank" >Critters at the Keyboard . . . </a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">157. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.bethyarnall.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5247474" target="_blank" >Beth Yarnall</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">158. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.sdbancroft-author.com/blog.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5258768" target="_blank" >Romancing The Law</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">159. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.lovebychocolate.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5259033" target="_blank" >lovebychocolate</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">160. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: denadepaulo.wordpress.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5262537" target="_blank" >Harvest Blog Hop</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">161. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.jdfaver.com/blog.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5268291" target="_blank" > J. D. Faver~Bad Girls Need Love Too</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">162. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: tjmanderino.webs.com/apps/blog/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5271020" target="_blank" >Tara Manderino</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">163. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://elkefeuer.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5274483" target="_blank" >Elke Feuer</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">164. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: jenniferconnerwriter.blogspot.com/2012/10/watch-for-more-details-on-autumn.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5274550" target="_blank" >Jennifer Conner Best Selling Romance Author</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">165. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: caroldevaney.weebly.com/blog.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5274943" target="_blank" >Author Carol DeVaney</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">166. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: passionatebooks.blogspot.co.uk/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5278880" target="_blank" >Passionate about Books</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">167. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://allisoncassatta.blogspot.com/2012/11/autumns-harvest-chris-and-josh.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5279360" target="_blank" >Official Site of Allison Cassatta</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">168. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.bridgetteohare.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5280094" target="_blank" >Bridgette OHare-Harlequin Finalist/Paranormal Rom</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">169. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: http://lisarayns.blogspot.com/2012/11/autumns-harvest-blog-hop.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5283228" target="_blank" >Lisa Rayns</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">170. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: melindadozier.blogspot.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5287373" target="_blank" >Melinda Dozier - Contemporary Romance Author (INT)</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">171. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.alexandraanthony.wordpress.com" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5303185" target="_blank" >Alexandra Anthony-The Vampire Destiny Series</a></div></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">172. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: morticiaknight.blogspot.com/" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5303509" target="_blank" >Daring Adventures In Writing - Morticia Knight</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; font-size:80%; float:left; vertical-align:top; text-align:right;">173. </div><div style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left; margin-left:34px; font-size:100%; line-height:1.15;"><a title="Linked to: www.timelessquills.com/blog.html" href="http://www.linkytools.com/click_linky.aspx?entryid=5306840" target="_blank" >Timeless Quills ~ Historical Romance</a></div></div> </td><td valign="top"> <div style="white-space: pre-line"><div style="width:28px; 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<span style="font-size: large;"> I’ve always thought of Romance as a worship of
the alpha. The determined man, the take-charge, fight-for-what's-right, gotta-save-my-woman guy. I’ve seen some hot beta heroes, but it’s the alphas who make me stay
up at night reading and breathing heavily. (Kisses to my alpha male in Port Charlotte today!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> For extra fun, I'll draw a few names Wednesday
the 24th, and give away a few ebook copies of my Angels and Demons/Sci-Fi Romantic
Adventure, <i>Vigilant</i>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b22-book.htm" target="_blank">This is my<br /> Greek Myth Fantasy Romance novella,<br /> <b style="color: red;"><i>No Funny Stuff!<br /> *A Mission for the Muse of Comedy</i></b>. <br />Take it home for an afternoon of chuckles.</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Suppressing dark
thoughts and frightening fantasies, my alpha men hunt demons by orders of the
angels. To the mortal realm, they are I-Marshals, law enforcement with
unlimited jurisdiction to police the wildlands of Alliance space. But
in the war played just above the mortal realm, the I-Marshals serve as
Nephilim demon hunters, the sons of fallen angels, their disgraced
bloodlines spawned at the beginning of mankind's history. The Nephilim,
the bad and the good, live among us in a future where crime and the
hellish forces behind it have no boundaries but the galaxy. Demons, the
source of most human misery, are in possession of human forms and at
work to drive souls into hopelessness. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"> Today, I give you <i style="color: red;">Gangbusters</i>, Book 3 of <i>I-Marshal Stories</i>,
a tale of a dark hero who uses his Nephilim talents to accomplish
heavenly duty, though he considers his soul condemned. He doesn't even
care to be happy in this life as long as he can make up for his crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Danny
is a deep and murky thinker. Disturbed by a childhood of gangland wars
and street executions, he can't help it that his mind spins to acts of
cruelty when he holds a demon in his fists. Danny is demonseed. Even his
role as angel of death cannot deter him from his love of torture. The
highest of angels, Metatron worries for Danny's soul.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> And
Danny worries for Faith, who will wander, unprotected, into a den of
devils for something as stupid as a story. The expose' she wishes to
write will turn a hidden war of angels versus demons into a galaxywide
apocalypse of the mortal realm. How will the I-Marshal keep her quiet? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> He'll start with a hot kiss.</span></span><br />
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fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations producing the most dangerous
substance in the Alliance. But investigative reporter Faith Vedder turns up at the worst
times, including Danny’s near-assassination. He’s had enough of her
interference and requires her source of information.</i></span></div>
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anything that compromises her Pulitzer-worthy story, not even under the magic
of hot attraction. She doesn’t know she’s surrounded by fallen angels at war.
Danny’s not finished making demands. She doesn’t understand until a giant,
snorting, winged monster slobbers down her back, threatening to flay her.</i></span></div>
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delay in their mission to shut down gangs until Danny learns the new criminal
kingpin of their world is a man who once held Faith’s heart. In the guise of a
gangland executioner named Heretic, Danny will destroy him. Even if it destroys
Faith. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><i> Angels are watching.
Demons are plotting. Faith is the key.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Let's see how bad my alphas get.<br />Readers, this is Danny.</span></div>
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of punishment. Just awful stuff.</span></h4>
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had a screw-you for Calderon from the entire Alliance,
hand-delivered. This was Danny's favorite part of the job, having
custody of an invisible super-suit. Hurrah for Alliance technology
secrets.</span></span></span></span></div>
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oily Calderon stood alone in a shooting booth, firing a variety of firearms,
both projectile and beam weapons. The mobster’s range time was the only time he
was without his posse in attendance or women on his arm. The familiar smell of
gunpowder made Danny smile. He watched for a while to see if Calderon was a
good shot. He was. But it wasn’t going to help him.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Danny felt like it, he walked up to Calderon unsuspecting, and he clocked the
mobster, sending him to the concrete floor.</span></span></span></span></div>
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later, Calderon awakened to find himself hanging upside down a half-meter in
the air at the target-end of the shooting range, his hands cuffed behind his
back, his body wrapped in and suspended by the cables that operated the
target-retrieval system of the range. His eyes rolled upward to find Danny’s
gold I-Marshal badge jammed in his mouth and no one in the room. </span></span></span></span></div>
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gangster’s ear. “Scream all you want.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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did. He screamed as much as he could, his mouth stuffed with a big eight-point
star, and it wasn’t enough to penetrate the soundproofed range. He looked
terrified. Good.</span></span></span></span></div>
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the criminal scourge of planet Reigna wore himself out squealing like a pig,
Danny plucked the badge from his mouth and wiped it on Calderon’s expensive
suit.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">“I’m here for a few reasons, demon. First, to avenge the wholesale death,
corruption, and misery you’ve caused the mortal worlds for millennia. I’m going
to visit all your brothers connected, and I’m going to destroy every one of
you.”</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Calderon
thrashed in his bonds to no avail. He only swung for his efforts like a
pendulum blade. </span></span></span></span></div>
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I’ve been sent to avenge your wife’s murder, and that of her family.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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sent you?” the gangster spat, livid to find himself in this vulnerable position.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Vedder. You remember her, the reporter who’s on you like…blasphemy on a devil’s
lips. You met her today.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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crook snorted. “I recognized her right away.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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thought you might have. That’s why I’m here to dismantle you. She actually
hasn’t asked me to kill you yet. But she will. That you will be dead before she
calls the shot is just a trick of time. Going against you.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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shouted again for his boys, and rocked himself in an effort to bring his body
down from his bonds. When he tired, he gave up, still swinging from side to
side. </span></span></span></span></div>
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want some information from you. What do you know about a street manager on planet
Valdeya called Freak? Lie to me, and I’ll call upon Metatron to get the truth
from you. If you make me call upon my master, I’ll cut your tongue out, and he’ll
have a hard time understanding your answer. You don’t wish to give the highest
of angels a difficult time, do you? He will consign you to the Fifth Heaven
where your punishment will last an eternity. He has no mercy for corruptors.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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sweated like a turkey shown the chopping block. “Freak… He’d been a high-level
employee of the Juicers. I’d sold him the job of killing Faith Vedder. I’d
been told he’d taken the contract to Boss, who’d given it to Heretic.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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didn’t surprise the I-Marshal. Contract killings were often passed through a
chain of criminals to erase the true originator.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Heretic hadn’t done his job. I found him at the woman’s side earlier today.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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disengaged his invisibility, removed the helmet and the cowl beneath it, and
set them down beside him on the floor. The gangster sucked in a slow breath of
shock to see him and put it together that his long-time associate from the
black-market underground was an undercover I-Marshal.</span></span></span></span></div>
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always do my job. You’re not making any more plans for Faith. She’s fantasizing
of your destruction now.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Is
a third-rate reporter calling your shots now, Heretic?”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Keep
mouthing off, and I’ll put my C-breaker down your throat and cook you from the
inside out. When was the last time you heard from Freak?” </span></span></span></span></div>
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click of Heretic’s switchblade rushed the monster into saying, “Weeks ago.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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or after Boss’s crew got hit on Valdeya?”</span></span></span></span></div>
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A week before, I’m sure of it. I’m guessing Freak died in that hit.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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knew Freak had survived his destruction somehow, and he knew Calderon lied.</span></span></span></span></div>
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you didn’t kill Faith Vedder…and you’re screwing her now… Isn’t that against
I-Marshal rules?”</span></span></span></span></div>
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provoke me, demon. I’m not a man of limits.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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gangster’s vision roamed the target range and his position in it. “Are you
planning some shooting practice on me?” </span></span></span></span></div>
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good would it do? We both know that won’t end your sick existence. You’ll just
regenerate in a day or two in that body. Unless I give you a thorough
destruction.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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nervously chuckled, his peace disturbed. “You’ve a bit of a reputation as a
torturer, Heretic. Wouldn’t you rather take your anger out on me and let me
live, giving you a source of information?”</span></span></span></span></div>
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like to take my anger out on you. Especially since I saw you put your grubby
demon lips on Faith today, attempting to defile her. I’d carve my initials in
your scaly chest for that. Maybe force you to transform completely, let your
wings sprout…so I can slip my blade beneath them and cut them from your demon
back. Carve the horns from your demon skull. Pull the fangs from your demon
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letting you live for what little info you could provide violates my mission to
destroy you and your kind. I’ll do what I must to end your existence. By the
way...” Heretic lifted the gold chains hanging around Calderon’s greasy neck
with his blade. “I arrest you in the name of the Draco Alliance. Now it’s official.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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pretending to be a cop, Heretic,” Calderon growled. “You’re formed from the
same dark and wicked flame as me…son of fire.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com * www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com *</div>Michele Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897487185937109322noreply@blogger.com61tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029808.post-9972444432307069392012-08-30T21:45:00.001-04:002012-08-31T08:18:23.756-04:00Let's Romance This Blog.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you're having a great time surfing the blogs and finding new authors and stories you'll love, reread, and relive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check out the swag for Romancing the Hop. Believe it or not, that's the 3rd grand prize. Plus, nearly every author is giving something away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For extra fun, I'll draw a name Tuesday the 4th, and give away an ebook copy of my Angels and Demons/Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure, <i>Gangbusters</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b22-book.htm" target="_blank">Caught up in hurricane weather? Me, too.<br /> Have a<br /> FREE READ,<br /> my Greek Myth Fantasy Romance Novella, </a></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b22-book.htm" target="_blank">No Funny Stuff!<br /> *A<span id="goog_285603977"></span><span id="goog_285603978"></span> Mission for the Muse of Comedy.<br /><span style="font-size: small;">(I hope you find it a-musing.)</span></a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here's my contribution to <i>Romancing the Hop</i>, an amorous excerpt from probably my most romantic book, my Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure, <i>Luminous Nights</i>. Here's a nibble of that:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cop or
convict?</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How many
faces can one man own?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> An
assassin wearing a holographic mask and a prison tattoo boards Rachel’s
freighter during a prison riot, intent on collecting gadgets capable of
changing a man’s identity from the black-market gang who'd stolen them. Rachel’s
never sure of Jack's identity nor his goal, but he claims to be an Alliance
I-Marshal. Cop or convict? The clues never stop contradicting. She's horrified
to find the bright holographic mask conceals the gruesome face of a monster.
And the badge doesn’t slow him from murdering people right before her eyes.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> When
Rachel learns Jack will trade innocent lives for the digital miracles, she
determines to make the mercenary grow a heart.
How could a stone-cold killer kiss her so hotly? How could she kiss such
a dangerous deceiver?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Jack
has done years in prison to learn who’d stolen the remaining Gemini ticks, 3-D
magic. Nothing will keep him from gaining extreme technology capable of unleashing
galaxy-wide chaos. Forget feelings for Rachel. She can’t stop him from killing
everyone involved.</b></span></div>
<div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ***</span></b><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> Watch an adventure.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxoyQdkiA4AXtwKG78-A18Q4qsc-AukXcs7p49jdaXVnHxAFy3_wISOYwcdyI9nuKvpFt-duHt0saw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>
<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #f4cccc;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"> *** </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Here's a big romantic bite.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">[ This excerpt is rated PG-13, but Jack is rated Rrrrr. ]</span></div>
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Coaxing her with
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origin and taxed status. His sky-blue vision still hadn’t left her. He peeled away
the foil at a slow pace, revealing four squares of dark chocolate made from a
recipe responsible for starting bloody wars in the past and trade wars
presently. The smell of the cocoa brandy wafted into the air, loosening her
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<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Chocolate.”</span></i><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"> Spoken slowly, even the word flowed thickly over his tongue. His eyes
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<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He stretched out on the
ratty rug beside her, balanced on a bent arm, close enough for her to smell his
sandalwood scent mixing with the aroma of cocoa brandy. Rachel’s desire for the
confection became a synergetic force acting on her, sparked by just the smell.
Or was it his proximity? She didn’t know and was robbed of the care. Chocolate
and Jack mixed an intoxicating cocktail.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Fiendish, he waved the
square just above her lips, letting its smell seize control of her.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Mm…” she murmured low,
barely spoken, her voice hoarse. “Chocolate.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Her eyes closed, and the
scent of the chocolate, its cream, its cocoa smoothness, its erotica induced a
sudden addiction, triggered a craving.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“You sadist.” Her smile
was indelible.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Lying on her back, she
opened her eyes, unable to suppress the pleasure of his nearness nor desire for
the confection and his velvet voice, which now she imagined entwined. She closed
her eyes again to cut out all other stimuli but the aroma of the chocolate and
Jack, to experience them fully. Tingles cascaded through her body, pleasure and
hunger coursing through her veins and settling into the core of her. She’d
never felt that before.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Come on, Rachel, face
the sweetness.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He wagged a square of
chocolate centimeters from her lips. The best in Draco, and it was her favorite
treat in the galaxy, though she’d only tried it once before and probably not so
high a grade, at that. It had turned her to mush then, but she’d not admit that
to him.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">She reached for the
square waved before her, and Jack yanked it away. “Oh, no! There’s a price on
this chocolate.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">The smile fell from her
face.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Of course there is.
What do you want?”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“A kiss,” he declared,
intently watching her reaction.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">A kiss? What’s a kiss?
He’d kissed her before on her ship, an offer of his bedroom talents in exchange
for information. She flushed, remembering that kiss. It had preset her to
respond to his every sensual move, notice his walk, want him to stand a step
closer.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He’d kissed her again
when she’d saved them from Desmonda’s security force. A hot kiss that had
almost made her forget he’d blackmailed her, had nearly cost her her life on
Desmonda. But each of those kisses had been surprises, and she hadn’t responded
to them.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">When the aroma of the
cocoa brought her back to his offer, it softened her fear of the high-tech mask
he wore. The smell of the confection was hypnotic. Relief tickled her, made her
thankful he didn’t require her full sexual services for a small piece of
chocolate. She wouldn’t have done that, but it was what she’d expected of Jack.
She was mildly disappointed to have been wrong.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“It’s a deal.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">When she reached again
for the chocolate square he used to taunt her, he again snatched the candy
back.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Not just any kiss. No
copping out, commit to it. I want a hot, full-participation kiss of passion and
want from you. And your offering is subject to my approval. All or nothing.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Rachel pursed her lips,
a little worried. What would happen to the holographic mask he wore to maintain
his golden false identity if they shared another full-contact kiss? If she
opened her eyes so close to him, would she see the hideous cracks, the drips of
blood on his tattooed face below the nanocomp trick and never want him to touch
her again? Testing the mask was a worthy excuse to kiss him, but she was
reluctant to see the scarred and horrific face of the killer again. Wasn’t it a
research thing?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Okay, a full-contact
kiss, no holds barred.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“And I get to put my
arms around you.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“Okay. All right,
already. A kiss! Don’t write a laundry list of conditions.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He held the little
square out to her. If she took the chocolate, she couldn’t wiggle out of the
kiss, assuming she really wanted to get out of her end of the deal. She’d be
crazy to wish to escape that fate. He was a fantastic kisser. What was a little
kiss anyway after he’d given her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save her life
at the hot springs?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">If she allowed him this
one deep kiss, would she be able to put a stop to him if he pressed further?
What if the chocolate was drugged? Would he do that to her? He’d once said in
plain language he wasn’t worth trusting, but she couldn’t believe he’d harm
her.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">She watched him mash
the chocolate square between his finger and thumb. The chocolate clung to his
fingertips, shiny and thick, wonderful and melty. The newly released scent of
the cocoa brandy floated to her nose again, compromising her strength.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">He mashed the chocolate
a little more before he brought his thumb to his mouth, and he consumed the
glob of alien chocolate on one finger, his little groan of pleasure hammering
at her resolve to keep this an impersonal kiss.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">She was acutely aware
he didn’t want an impersonal kiss.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">“You’re a vicious
tease, Jack.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">His eyes sparkled in
delight.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Slow torture, he sucked
the almost black sweetness from his thumb. She wished she was his thumb. Then
he broke off another square and dangled it just above her lips.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Rachel closed her eyes
and took in the chocolate from his hand, felt it melt and spread in her mouth,
seducing her taste buds with the most exquisite cocoa experience, giving her
entire body the sensation that she soared through the air on a spiritual
lightness. Every cell of her being quickened, hypersensitive and at attention.
The sweet taste took over her senses and made her weak. She made the chocolate
last as long as possible, enjoying it fully.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">She opened her eyes to
see Jack above her, the look in his sky vision longing, the flames of the
hearth boiling in his eyes. And she wanted him.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Commanding the moment,
he slipped a hand into her loosely bundled hair and lowered his lips to hers.
The persuasion of dark chocolate on his breath stole her into his kiss. She
lost herself in a rush of ecstasy, the fine taste of Eltanin’s best splendid on
his tongue, and his delicious weight pressed against her. Her hands went to his
bare chest, and she savored the hard feel of him beneath her palms, his hair
tickling her.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">The soft exploration of
his tongue excited her, breaking down her defenses when she’d thought herself
spineless already. He made the chocolate taste better. His hand caressed her
tresses, and he moaned as though just touching her that way held some ecstatic fortification.
She wanted nothing more than for him to keep pressing her to the dirt floor
with his big, hard body, insisting on his price. No man had ever kissed her
like this. He awakened something long asleep inside her.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Parting from her much
too soon, he released her from the chocolate kiss, his hand warm against her
neck. She was bewitched by the sizzle of fingers stroking her from below her
ear to her collarbone. Her eyes fluttered open to his golden masculine beauty, and
her heart sank, aching a bit from his kiss too short. Her heart pounded in her
chest, and her breath ran quick. She wanted him to kiss her again, an
unignorable desire building inside her now. She’d forgotten to open her eyes
during the kiss to see under the projected mask, but under his spell, she
didn’t care. She just wanted him to kiss her again.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">His fluid vision swept
over her features, hinting he might be feverish seconds away from another
arousing kiss when they both heard the faraway song of Davi’s whistle playing
the show tune they’d taught him.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Jack had done it, she
recognized in quiet defeat. She’d fallen victim to his predatory eyes without
much of a fight, his enticing kiss without battle. She’d fallen for all his I-Marshal
mind tricks and charisma, and she hated herself for it. And loved herself for
it. And hated herself for it.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ea9999; text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;">Now, the arrival of
Davi’s people was the moment she needed to reverse all this, take the safety
of the planet’s natives out of the cop’s dangerous hands. She needed to snatch
a clear mind from the spell of Jack and the chocolate, mingled. Just when
they’d taken control of her.</span></b><br />
<br />
<b>Now Rachel would arrest Jack. And she already knew controlling the I-Marshal was an illusion. She'd never met a slicker manipulator than the one behind the 3-D shape-shifter mask he wore. Despite the fact she'd put cuffs on his wrists, she shuddered in consideration of Jack's next move. He'd already proven, there was little he couldn't control. And his plan to recover dangerous technology would cause the deaths of millions. A few million unimportant natives to save the hundred billion citizens who write his paycheck. </b><br />
<br />
<b>She had to stand up to him. Here was that moment. </b><br />
<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">*** </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">I’m
thrilled you’ve stopped by. (I love thrills. Don't you?) Are you meeting strong and
handsome heroes capable of anything?<br />I’ll bet you are. Have I got a hero for
you!</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">But let’s take a second to chat about this blog hop.<br /> Have you seen the grand prize?</span></strong></span></span></strong></span><br />
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<em>Whew!</em> You can share that with your friends,<br /> family, and half the neighborhood.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">A Kindle Fire, plus a gift card! Get outa town!<br /><br />
So how do you get this sweet pot of Romance?<br />
Follow the blog links at the end of this blog post,<br />
leave your email address in a comment for every blog,<br />
and a name will be drawn to take that puppy home!<br />
And I’ll draw a name to win an eBook copy of my<br /> Angels and Demons/Sci-Fi
Romantic Adventure, <em><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b27-book.htm" target="_blank">Vigilant</a>.</em></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">“But
what about right now?” you ask. “I want something free!”<br />
You read my mind. (<em>How did you do that?)<o:p></o:p></em></span></strong></span></span></div>
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ILoveShape-Shifters.com chats with Jon,<br /> the Very Bad Hero of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mind-Blown.</i><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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any man do,<br />holding the secrets to mind control<br />while the woman he
wants resists his charms?</strong></span></span></span></div>
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</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jon Paige discovers his employer
developing illicit mind control techniques. He quickly learns how to hijack the
system and breaks down his beautiful assistant’s persistent walls. Will Holly
forgive him for sneaking into her mind, if she ever learns of it?<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Holly Maddox is determined not
to dip her pen in the company ink, a policy that’s served her well…until Jon
comes along. He steals her mind when he’s in the room, weakens her fortitude
with every flash of his flirty eyes and secretive smile. How will she keep
herself from falling in love with her boss when he melts her impulse control?<br />
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When Jon and Holly decide to
sabotage the brain-washing experiments, they learn they’re up against a greater
power than they’d bargained for. Doing the right thing risks lives. Will the
truth of their beginnings wreck their sizzling affair?</span></span></strong></span></div>
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Welcome, Jon. Take a seat, get comfortable.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Jon
takes a seat, bounces a little to test the virtue of the chair.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
So, Jon, you’re the hunky and felonious hero of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mind-Blown</i>, the spicy Sci-Fi Romance available now at BookStrand.
What was your motivation to use mind control on your assistant Holly?</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
(Smiles wildly.) Have you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">seen</i> her?
Take a gander at our book cover. Holly was a stubborn one, wouldn’t open the
door for magic between us. A past loss had built high walls around her, and I
wasn’t getting past them. It was a stroke of fate that we had divined our
company’s mind control tricks. I was offered a last chance to confirm my theory
of the discovery, and I took it. And I only pulled off a few small break-ins,
nothing worthy of the full-blown adjective “felonious”. (Uses finger quotes.) I
prefer the words “resourceful” and “unique thinker”.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
(Issues a disagreeing moan.) Now, Jon. Federal law would consider the multiple
penetrations of a federal medical institution felonious. Note the word "federal", Jon.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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(Shrugs, still smiles coolly.) I didn’t take much. <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span></div>
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</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
You blew up the place, Jon.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
(Points in counter-accusation.) That’s hear-say. This isn’t some kind of police
entrapment, is it? Because I haven’t admitted to anything specifically, and you
have no evidence against me. That’s what my kick-ass attorney will say to any
guy wearing a black dress and banging a mallet. (Taps the microphone.) Is this
thing on? Will all the G-men in the room please raise your hands?</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
No, Jon, I’m not a government agent.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
Spy says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what</i>? </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
I’m not falling for that, Jon. So, you tested your theory on Holly?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
I actually tested it on a group of unknowing employees, but I did slip a little
subliminal romantic help into Holly’s memory experiment. Just to see if I could
weaken her stifling opposition against spending casual off-time with me.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
You say the opportunity to change her mind about not dating coworkers was just
too juicy to pass up?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
It was. I’m a weak man for a hot redhead and legs up to her chin. I blame a
loss of good judgment from basking in Holly’s bewitching company five days a
week.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
Sounds shifty in the employer-ethics corner. Even sounds bad for a friend to have done
to another friend.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
That it had been, a violation, really. I’m not usually one to wish for this
sort of power over another person. I’d felt very badly after I’d done it. I’d
wished to undo it, and had thought to confess…until Holly kissed me and led me
to her bed. I’d lost all interest in guilt somewhere along the way to her
bedroom. Listening to the music of her panting my name in my ear had made me
realize there was no going back. Not that I’d wanted to, at that point.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
Was it a case of desperate people doing desperate things?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
Yes, it was exactly that. I’d wanted Holly and lost my mind.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
I guess you’d figured you’d never get caught. It didn’t end well, did it?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
(Shakes his head, looks remorseful, a bit haunted.) No. I hadn’t anticipated my
little test-run of brain-washing would end like this at all. By the time it was
over, I’d ended up in a red-smeared bunny suit—yes, a bunny suit—with the world
media involved. And the FBI asking questions. Even worse, I’d nearly lost
Holly. We’ll be in hiding for months, maybe years. We’re in our own little
witness protection program.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
We’ll not tell where you are. When the story had broken world-wide, the
President had said he’d like to see you.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">JON:
I’m open to that, but not Holly. She stays in hiding. The CIA scientists have
put her through enough. We’re lucky they hadn’t liquefied her brain. Another
thirty seconds…and the unbuffered electro-shock would have killed her. I don’t
want to think of it. It just makes me angry.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
(Refocuses the interview.) Your little thought experiment uncovered an insidious, powerful
corporate/government conspiracy and had exploded into big changes for several
government agencies. The FDA, the AMA, the NIH, the CDC, the FBI.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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Another strike against the very evil CIA. Hopefully, all governments will think
again before they try such things on smart, aware people. Somewhere, there will
lurk patriots with no fear.</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ILS-S.com:
Patriots with no fear. Thanks for dropping by, Jon.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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It was my pleasure. <em>Watch your government, people.<o:p></o:p></em></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Onto worship of the dark. </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Don't you love to hide in shadows and mystery, and watch the weak candlelight flickering and failing to fight back the insidious night? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> Suppressing</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> dark thoughts and frightening fantasies, my men hunt demons by orders of the angels. To the mortal realm, they are I-Marshals, law enforcement with unlimited jurisdiction to police the wildlands of Alliance space. But in the war played just above the mortal realm, the I-Marshals serve as Nephilim demon hunters, the sons of fallen angels, their disgraced bloodlines spawned at the beginning of mankind's history. The Nephilim, the bad and the good, live among us in a future where crime and the hellish forces behind it have no boundaries but the galaxy. Demons, the source of most human misery, are in possession of human forms and at work to drive souls into hopelessness. </span></div>
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fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations producing the most dangerous
substance in the Alliance. But investigative reporter Faith Vedder turns up at the worst
times, including Danny’s near-assassination. He’s had enough of her
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anything that compromises her Pulitzer-worthy story, not even under the magic
of hot attraction. She doesn’t know she’s surrounded by fallen angels at war.
Danny’s not finished making demands. She doesn’t understand until a giant,
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delay in their mission to shut down gangs until Danny learns the new criminal
kingpin of their world is a man who once held Faith’s heart. In the guise of a
gangland executioner named Heretic, Danny will destroy him. Even if it destroys
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guards and into the firing range, not needing to kill the guards to keep them
from spotting his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">talk</i> with their
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oily Calderon stood alone in a shooting booth, firing a variety of firearms,
both projectile and beam weapons. The mobster’s range time was the only time he
was without his posse in attendance or women on his arm. The familiar smell of
gunpowder made Danny smile. He watched for a while to see if Calderon was a
good shot. He was. But it wasn’t going to help him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Danny felt like it, he walked up to Calderon unsuspecting, and he clocked the
mobster, sending him to the concrete floor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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later, Calderon awakened to find himself hanging upside down a half-meter in
the air at the target-end of the shooting range, his hands cuffed behind his
back, his body wrapped in and suspended by the cables that operated the
target-retrieval system of the range. His eyes rolled upward to find Danny’s
gold I-Marshal badge jammed in his mouth and no one in the room. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Go ahead,” Danny spoke loudly into the
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did. He screamed as much as he could, his mouth stuffed with a big eight-point
star, and it wasn’t enough to penetrate the soundproofed range. He looked
terrified. Good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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the criminal scourge of planet Reigna wore himself out squealing like a pig,
Danny plucked the badge from his mouth and wiped it on Calderon’s expensive
suit.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">“I’m here for a few reasons, demon. First, to avenge the wholesale death,
corruption, and misery you’ve caused the mortal worlds for millennia. I’m going
to visit all your brothers connected, and I’m going to destroy every one of
you.”</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Calderon
thrashed in his bonds to no avail. He only swung for his efforts like a
pendulum blade. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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I’ve been sent to avenge your wife’s murder, and that of her family.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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sent you?” the gangster spat, livid to find himself in this vulnerable position.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Vedder. You remember her, the reporter who’s on you like…blasphemy on a devil’s
lips. You met her today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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crook snorted. “I recognized her right away.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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thought you might have. That’s why I’m here to dismantle you. She actually
hasn’t asked me to kill you yet. But she will. That you will be dead before she
calls the shot is just a trick of time. Going against you.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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shouted again for his boys, and rocked himself in an effort to bring his body
down from his bonds. When he tired, he gave up, still swinging from side to
side. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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want some information from you. What do you know about a street manager on planet
Valdeya called Freak? Lie to me, and I’ll call upon Metatron to get the truth
from you. If you make me call upon my master, I’ll cut your tongue out, and he’ll
have a hard time understanding your answer. You don’t wish to give the highest
of angels a difficult time, do you? He will consign you to the Fifth Heaven
where your punishment will last an eternity. He has no mercy for corruptors.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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sweated like a turkey shown the chopping block. “Freak… He’d been a high-level
employee of the Juicers. I’d sold him the job of killing Faith Vedder. I’d
been told he’d taken the contract to Boss, who’d given it to Heretic.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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didn’t surprise the I-Marshal. Contract killings were often passed through a
chain of criminals to erase the true originator.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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Heretic hadn’t done his job. I found him at the woman’s side earlier today.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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disengaged his invisibility, removed the helmet and the cowl beneath it, and
set them down beside him on the floor. The gangster sucked in a slow breath of
shock to see him and put it together that his long-time associate from the
black-market underground was an undercover I-Marshal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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always do my job. You’re not making any more plans for Faith. She’s fantasizing
of your destruction now.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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a third-rate reporter calling your shots now, Heretic?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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mouthing off, and I’ll put my C-breaker down your throat and cook you from the
inside out. When was the last time you heard from Freak?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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click of Heretic’s switchblade rushed the monster into saying, “Weeks ago.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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or after Boss’s crew got hit on Valdeya?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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A week before, I’m sure of it. I’m guessing Freak died in that hit.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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knew Freak had survived his destruction somehow, and he knew Calderon lied.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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you didn’t kill Faith Vedder…and you’re screwing her now… Isn’t that against
I-Marshal rules?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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provoke me, demon. I’m not a man of limits.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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gangster’s vision roamed the target range and his position in it. “Are you
planning some shooting practice on me?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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good would it do? We both know that won’t end your sick existence. You’ll just
regenerate in a day or two in that body. Unless I give you a thorough
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nervously chuckled, his peace disturbed. “You’ve a bit of a reputation as a
torturer, Heretic. Wouldn’t you rather take your anger out on me and let me
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like to take my anger out on you. Especially since I saw you put your grubby
demon lips on Faith today, attempting to defile her. I’d carve my initials in
your scaly chest for that. Maybe force you to transform completely, let your
wings sprout…so I can slip my blade beneath them and cut them from your demon
back. Carve the horns from your demon skull. Pull the fangs from your demon
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destroy you and your kind. I’ll do what I must to end your existence. By the
way...” Heretic lifted the gold chains hanging around Calderon’s greasy neck
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Pulitzer gown for his inspection. He gained his feet, produced a thornless red
vine rose from the side table, and he twisted it around the dress strap, then
he returned to the bed and took in the sight of her. A rose was a gift of love,
not a gift of acquaintance or friendship. The flowery fragrance enhanced her
longing for him. The candlelight silvered his gray sight in a tactile way, but
she always did feel his eyes when they were fixed on her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of her lasted so long, she began to shy from his devoted gaze. “Have you had
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“I’m divided. I want you to eat, but I want to take that dress off
you.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“Some people think <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they</i> have
problems.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Rising from the bed again, he collected the covered plate and eating
utensil, and set them in her hands held out before her. Then he removed the cover
to present a dish in the meatball family. His smile bordering on the diabolical,
he loaded the utensil and put it to her mouth. Her sharp eye on him, she
accepted a flavor she’d never encountered before, savory, mysterious, delectable.
So was Danny.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Stalking, he roved around until he was behind her, and he leaned, pressing
his nose to her exposed neck, inhaling her freshly bathed scent as she chewed. The
act carried such an animal-feel to it. The alpha-male predator had brought his
chosen a meal...and he savored his upcoming reward for that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Having already been beneath him, arrested and detained by him, she
chewed quicker. Was she sweating yet? She soon would be. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh, gawd</i>, she already throbbed, her body programmed now and eager for
his possession. Did he know he owned her? She bet he knew.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">His hair danced over her bare shoulder. “You smell like delicious
dinner.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Every word he uttered with that deep voice was verbal chocolate, making
her ache all the more for him. “You always have an invitation to feast upon me,
Danny.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">She felt his lips thin into another secret smile against the sensitive
flesh as he pressed sizzling kisses up her neck to her ear. “Every night I’ll
figure out a way to put you in my bed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Should she tell him how easy that will be?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Weakened, she scooped up a forkful of dinner and fed him over her
shoulder. He groaned his approval, and he sent his big hands to span and stroke
her figure in the silky gown, a sensuous experience that blotted out everything
for the moment but his contact and body heat. She would memorize a list of the
things that made him groan. Hearing it launched cascades of thrill through her.
His exploration slipped downward from behind her and onto her belly, pressing
her against his long, hard physique and sliding downward to the heat between
her thighs. She almost dropped the plate. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Mm…Danny
and good food together. That was total pleasure. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Again, he commandeered the fork and sent a
bite to her mouth. As she chewed, he placed a sucking kiss below her ear. Then
she forgot to chew, taken by the fantastic shower of ecstasy he inflicted, and she
had to remind herself again to chew. His breath on her body enticed her to a
new level of want.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Another bite administered, he drew the zipper of the dress all the way
down her back, and he slipped his hands into the dress, around her, and cupped
her breasts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh…</i>” The rough surfaces of
his palms and fingers abrading her tender flesh played with her nipples, stoking
the fire. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“Take another bite.” His whispers rushed lightning through her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Hands slid from her dress, and she turned to watch him pull his T-shirt
from his torso, all iron-worked muscle, pale flesh, a thin scatter of body hair
she wished to feel scrubbed against her. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Again.</i>
His lion’s mane skimmed broad shoulders. His silvery sight never left her. Before,
they’d made love in shadows, and she hadn’t seen him wholly nude. Just
shirtless, he was beautiful, blessed with a holy kind of glamour that activated
her soul. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Oh…<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">He fed her another bite of dinner, then he released the clip holding
back her freshly dried hair, and his long, tapered fingers caught her tumbling
tresses. Stirred to a corrupt snicker, he took in the scent of her hair as
though it told him everything about her, as if it fed every hungry part of him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“How can your T-shirt say you’re faster than light when you’re so
torturously slow with me?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“I know, the longer I take with you, the more you’ll moan in my ear.
And I like that a lot. It’s a triumph to feel you under my power, Faith.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">That just made her moan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">He took the empty plate from her hands and set it aside on the table, then
he put her in his arms. He’d said he wouldn’t let her go to Max’s without
making love to her. The intent in Danny’s eye revealed his plot to ruin her
freshly bathed scent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“Are you enjoying the moment of marking me for the demons to detect?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“Enormously. I’ll kick them in their heads if they touch you.” His demon-slaying
grin gave away his entertainment. She knew he meant for Max to get that message,
as well. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">“This is like unwrapping the most fun present.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">She loved being explored by him, adored it, and she noticed each lithe
movement of his heavenly warrior-body, marveled at how well he’d been put
together for hunting criminals and hellish merchants of misery. She’d never
discourage him from doing that duty. Those monsters better run and hide. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Danny wasn’t a monster. Was he?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">She reached for his jeans and unbuttoned them, feeling him hard beneath
the metal teeth of the zipper. He pushed the jeans to the floor for the
unwelcome interference they were. Her mouth went dry at the unveiled sight of
him, worthy of an artist’s sketch, all muscle, brains, instinct, skill, action.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Danny was better than perfect. He was physically superior.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But what was he on the inside? </i>The progeny of an angel, the breed of a
demon. She recalled her brief study of the heavenly races. If Danny turned out
to be more angel, what would that mean? Angels did many benevolent things, but
they also struck down populations with disease, disaster, and genocide. A
single angel wielded the power to destroy cities, cause famine, flood a planet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i>Angels were heaven’s hit men.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<i>
</i><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;">Danny snatched her up by the waist, capturing her, pressing her against
him, and snickering over his plans for her.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #b4a7d6;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh…</i> She could barely wait.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> In the end,<br /> it’s either you or the demon that comes for you.</span> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There should be at
least five days dedicated to celebrating chocolate and roses, two of the best things in a
woman’s life, don’t you think? Five days a month sounds righteous to me.<b><i> ;-)</i></b> I hope you’re loving the Chocolate and Roses Blog
Hop and discovering great new authors and fresh stories. Stick around for a
chance to win a copy of my latest release. Thank you, Lea Barrymire, the goddess-author who
brought us this wonderful blog hop! If you’re not coming from her blog, do
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<span style="font-size: large;">My name is Michele
Hart, and I write gritty, high-action Paranormal/Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure and
Suspense. Welcome to my blog. I have angels & demons, shape-shifters, monsters,
horrendous villains, hunky heroes who love risk, and the smart heroines who
love them for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Pick up a FREE READ here!</span> <a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b22-book.htm" style="color: #f4cccc;">http://www.MicheleHart.com/b22-book.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In celebration of
chocolate and roses, I’ve chosen an excerpt for you coming from my Sci-Fi
Romantic Adventure <b><i>Luminous Nights</i></b>, a book
filled with chocolate… No, that came out wrong. Let’s say, the hero Jack wields
wicked alien chocolate bars. And they aren’t his only incredibly sexy tools,
believe me. Not by a long-shot. This mystery man commands a frightening arsenal
of skills and technology to complete his mission. Part of his mission is
Rachel.</span></div>
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How many faces can one man own?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An assassin wearing a holographic mask and a prison tattoo
boards Rachel’s freighter during a prison riot, intent on collecting gadgets
capable of changing a man’s identity from the black-market gang who'd stolen
them. Rachel’s never sure of Jack's identity nor his goal, but he claims to be
an Alliance I-Marshal. Cop or convict? The clues never stop contradicting.
She's horrified to find the bright holographic mask conceals the gruesome face
of a monster. And the badge doesn’t slow him from murdering people right before
her eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Rachel learns Jack will trade innocent lives for the
digital miracles, she determines to make the mercenary grow a heart. How could a stone-cold killer kiss her so
hotly? How could she kiss such a dangerous deceiver?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack has done years in prison to learn who’d stolen the
remaining Gemini ticks, 3-D magic. Nothing will keep him from gaining extreme technology
capable of unleashing galaxy-wide chaos. Forget feelings for Rachel. She can’t
stop him from killing everyone involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack forever has a
trick up his sleeve. He’s a master at bending circumstance to his will. He must
tell Rachel he’s going to kill someone she loves, but first…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I’ve a new treat
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<span style="font-size: large;">The look in his sky blue
eyes touring her in her black nightie hinted of mischief and debauchery.
Whatever his treat was, no doubt it was designed to put what Jack wanted right
in his hands. He seemed to hold unlimited weapons built for that purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rachel stretched out
on her side atop the bed, watching him and the ballet of his bare-chested sinew
beneath sun-kissed flesh. He lay opposite her on his side, facing her, very
close, pitching sizzle in his gaze. His finger traced the wrinkles of the black
silk she wore. The alien chocolate lay an arm’s reach away, lending the moment
its delicious aroma. Her eyes roamed his half-naked form, every cell of her
body reigniting to his silent bid. Goose bumps raced over her flesh, shooting a
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<span style="font-size: large;">“You always wield
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<span style="font-size: large;">Smiling as though he
held all the secrets to the universe, he reached into the same hip pocket of
his pajama pants where he’d earlier carried chocolate, making it melty, and he
drew another gold foil-wrapped treasure. This time the foil was wrapped with a
green ribbon, and she didn’t know what it was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“This is Eltanin’s
best <i>mint</i> chocolate.” His eyes
flashed, upcoming ecstasy there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her head fell
backward, experiencing the expiration of resistance at mention of such a thing.
Returning her sight to him, she confessed, “I’ve never had it.”</span></div>
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wrapper away to find the mint chocolate gooey. He took a glob of it on his
finger and, his eyes daring her, set the finger a fraction from her lips, the
aroma of mint tickling her nose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“What do you want
for a piece of mint chocolate, Jack?” She was eager to hear the deal on the
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I believe I’ve been
giving you that for the last few days.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“No, you’ve been
lending it to me. I want it all to be mine.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She took his teasing
finger into her mouth and sucked the chocolate from his fingertip. Her taste
buds flooded with delight of the finest aphrodisiac chocolate and a mint flavor
so powerful, it turned every breath into an arctic wind blowing through her
body already set afire by his nearness. The sensation filled her head with
conflicting reports of hot and cold throughout her being. His smile was
pornographic.</span></div>
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to support his head, his prismatic vision wandered over her nightgown,
seemingly very disappointed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Rachel, no work of
art should be hidden.” His expression was long-suffering to teach her that
lesson. “What had I been thinking when I’d bought the nightie? As pretty as it
is on you, the nightie has to go. You can wear it another time. Art must be
displayed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He snickered as he
sat up beside her and tugged the soft fabric from her body. The swatch rode the
air down to the floor beside the bed. She fought the urge to cover up, but his
gaze and the artwork he’d put on her body made her feel so beautiful, she
surrendered to his sight. She lay nude before him, leaning against the
headboard of the bed, atop a mound of pillows. To be fair, he said, he stripped
himself of his pajama bottoms in record time and rejoined her on the bed. His
unveiled golden body made her throb. The sight of his ready erection struck her
with the most hungry, empty feeling. The heat he generated won over the arctic
breeze of the chocolate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He surveyed and
approved his inspired work, red-berry-and-ink swirls and symbols still vivid on
every section of her body, drawn like the scars of Aztec warriors. She liked
the way he filled his sight with his artistic enhancement of her. He made her
feel…ethereal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Are you cold? I’ll
heat you up, my Aztec goddess.” His smooth, deep voice shot her through with
anticipation. </span></div>
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went to her side, stroking the hourglass of her figure, sending the most
engaging tension through her. Her breath quickened as his hand took accounting
of his new territory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He took up another
glob of the mint chocolate onto his finger and redrew the sun over the berry
stains on her breast. Her heart pounded so hard for him, she could see its
thump in her chest. Then he sucked the mint chocolate from her breast, lighting
thrilling fireworks of tension and pleasure through her, making her call out
for him as she locked her fingers onto the blond spikes of his head. The lap of
his tongue, his capture of her with his lips, the gentle suck of his mouth
stole her mind from the room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He must have heard
enough of his name in pleading tones because he pressed her into the pillows,
and he filled her mouth with his mint chocolate kiss again, passionate and
hungry. As though he couldn’t wait another minute just to be there, he fit his
body between her legs, and she trembled. Her knees came around his hips in
welcome. She could feel his erection hard against her and growing stronger, multiplying
the craving and ache within her. Her hands spread over his hairy chest, and she
savored the friction of their bodies. Then she noticed their hearts pounding in
unison. His weight atop her turned her on entirely. She slid her hands down to
the hard river-rapids of his stomach, stroking the soft hair there, enduring
the tension and lightning he gave her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He finally broke his
marauding kiss. The air she sucked in, enhanced by the mint, chilled her again,
then quickly thawed to the wildfire he set in her body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His weight taken on
his strong arms, he delayed, just sent his sight wandering down her decorated
body, drinking her in. Then he buried his nose in her hair, taking in a deep
breath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Rachel,” he said low
into her tresses from above, “I can just imagine myself as a warrior-priest
about to give an offering to an Aztec goddess upon her altar.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The vision was
fabulous. Rachel dressed in feathers and beads lying upon a stone altar, Jack wearing war paint above her, taking her like a holy sacrament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then he penetrated
her, launching an explosion through her body and soul. She forgot to breathe,
gasped his name, experienced the wild wave of pleasure he put into her. When
she sucked in a breath again, the cold sensation of the mint flooded her body,
sending shock and splendor through her again at the collision of fire and ice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Locking her in his
arms, he squeezed her in the ecstasy of his filling of her. She didn’t have to
stay quiet this time, so she let it out in an unrestrained cry. He held her
there, nestled in his firm embrace, giving her time to experience that pleasure
fully. Waves of rapture finally ebbed. For now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Delaying, he propped
himself up on his elbows to gaze down upon her, and he swept stray hairs from
her eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She recognized his supernatural
glow, thinking him an unbelievable sight. Smiling, he dipped his finger in the
mint chocolate again and put it to her lips. She sucked the cool delight from
his finger, refreshing her body’s response to the delicacy, its cooling infusion,
while his hard body dominated her. Then he gave her another hot kiss, and the
chocolate and Jack mixed together filled every cell of her body. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Powerful above her,
he unleashed himself, making her cry out his name with every plunge of his body
into hers and driving the most exquisite waves of pleasure she’d yet endured.
The cool and hot multiplied every sensation into shivering bliss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When he’d reduced
her to sweaty, sated moans calling on Heaven, he gave up his fight to hold back
and his embrace of her tightened, giving her one last soar through imaginary
mountain breeze, the power of his orgasm shaking her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After waning flights
of release brought them back to the room, Jack rolled onto his side against the
bed pillows and tugged Rachel into his arms, settling her close to him,
throwing a leg over hers to keep possession of her. Quiet, he propped an elbow
over her head to bear some of his weight, and he sent that hand to slide
through her hair. The other hand roved down her breasts, over her belly, and
over her thighs, tracing his deifying artwork. His contact was the most
incredible thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She stretched her
legs against his hard thigh wrapping them. “I love the way you capture me,
Jack. You wrap your whole body around me as though you’re containing me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“I have you under my
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<span style="font-size: large;">She giggled at his
employment of law enforcement metaphors. He’d probably spent half his life cracking
cop jokes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He’d probably spent
the last five years in prison fantasizing of touching a woman again…</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Is this a
cop-and-criminal fetish of yours? Maybe a domination scenario that gives you
power?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She pulled from his
arms just a little and gave him a interrogative smile. “Jack… Does your job
turn you on?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He burst into an
amused chuckle of denial, then he pressed her back into his arms, back to her
place, and he nuzzled his face again into her hair. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“No, it doesn’t have
a thing to do with my job,” he said, very close to her ear, his breath brushing
her neck. “I think it’s more about wanting to make contact in every way with
something that’s all mine.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She was all his. For
once, she didn’t question his sincerity, chose not to search his words for
meaning. It was such a beautiful thing to say, and she didn’t want to ruin the
music of it with any negative thought when he was the source of so much light
within her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack was all she
wanted now. What could take away their ecstasy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The end was seconds
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">[ Now for shameless self-promotion. ]</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">Don’t
stop. Read more.<br /><b><i>Luminous Nights</i></b></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> finaled in the Golden
Quill Contest for Best Sci-Fi.</span><br style="color: #cfe2f3;" /><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
Find out why.</span><br style="color: #cfe2f3;" /><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
Explore steamy, peril-packed excerpts, check out awesome reviews:</span><br style="color: #cfe2f3;" /><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </span><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b15-book.htm" style="color: #f4cccc;">http://www.michelehart.com/b15-book.htm</a></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">Read
the First Chapter:</span><br /><a href="http://dreneebagbypresentsfirstchapters.blogspot.com/2010/08/luminous-nights-by-michele-hart.html" style="color: #f4cccc;">http://dreneebagbypresentsfirstchapters.blogspot.com/2010/08/luminous-nights-by-michele-hart.html</a></span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Buy Link:</span> <a href="http://www.bookstrand.com/luminous-nights" style="color: #f4cccc;">http://www.BookStrand.com/luminous-nights</a><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Available @ BookStrand, Amazon Books, Barnes & Noble,</span><br style="color: #cfe2f3;" /><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">
nearly everywhere exciting adventures await you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Leave me a comment and tell me about your favorite chocolate—dark, milk,
white, with caramel, with peanut butter—or your favorite roses, and I’ll draw a name every day of the
Chocolate and Roses Blog Hop and give away an e-book copy of my newest, hottest
release, </span><i style="color: #cfe2f3;">Gangbusters</i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">. Check out </span><i style="color: #cfe2f3;">Gangbusters</i><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> here!</span> <a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b28-book.htm" style="color: #f4cccc;">http://www.MicheleHart.com/b28-book.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, chocolate, and roses to all the ladies!<br />
Michele</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It’s Carrie Ann’s birthday! A kabillion
people here on Earth are celebrating. And nearly everyone’s walking away with a
prize. That’s my kind of world-wide party! Check out the birthday excerpt, throw down a comment about your favorite chocolate along with your e-mail address. I’ll put your e-mail address in a <span style="color: orange;">contest drawing</span> to win an e-book of my high-action,
high-sizzle adventures with sexy, daredevil heroes you’ll not soon forget. There’s
even a <i style="color: orange;">free read</i> at the end of this
excerpt, so hang in there to the end. Let's see if I can interest you along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Carrie Ann, dahlink, I wish you a thrilling
day infused with minor, harmless wickedness and great memories that last a
lifetime. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> How old is our blog hop mistress, you ask? (I
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<span style="font-size: large;">And a beautiful 21, I must add.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Here’s a birthday scream for the Birthday Girl. Please join me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">An authentic
birthday scream, generated at
my surprise birthday party. <br />1995, I
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<span style="font-size: large;"> In honor of the lovely and talented Carrie
Ann--twenty-one years old, I swear--I present to you a birthday excerpt from my gritty, sexy, roller coaster Sci-Fi Romance <i style="color: #6fa8dc;">Luminous Nights</i>.<span style="color: #e06666;"> </span><i style="color: #e06666;">LN</i><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span>was a Golden Quill Contest finalist!
Find out why. The reviewers consistently swore they’d never forget the
chocolate love scenes. Can’t figure out why they stuck in the mind. What’s so compelling about
an artist painting his heroine’s body with seductive alien chocolate? <span style="font-size: small;">Do I have any chocolate in the house? It's time to search my hiding places.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Isn’t it great when someone gives you the
exact gift you need in the best possible timing? What if it was the most
expensive the giver ever gave? What if it cost him everything?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: yellow;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Beware avenging angels.</span> </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cop or
convict?<br />How many
faces can one man own?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">An assassin wearing a holographic
mask and a prison tattoo boards Rachel’s freighter during a prison riot, intent
on collecting gadgets capable of changing a man’s identity from the
black-market gang who'd stolen them. Rachel’s never sure of Jack's identity nor
his goal, but he claims to be an Alliance I-Marshal. Cop or convict? The clues
never stop contradicting. She's horrified to find the bright holographic mask
conceals the gruesome face of a monster. And the badge doesn’t slow him from
murdering people right before her eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When Rachel learns Jack will
trade innocent lives for the digital miracles, she determines to make the
mercenary grow a heart. How could a
stone-cold killer kiss her so hotly? How could she kiss such a dangerous
deceiver?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack has done years in prison to
learn who’d stolen the remaining Gemini ticks, 3-D magic. Nothing will keep him
from gaining extreme technology capable of unleashing galaxy-wide chaos. Forget
feelings for Rachel. She can’t stop him from killing everyone involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://firepages.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/luminous-nights-by-michele-hart/" target="_blank">A super review of<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><i style="color: #6fa8dc;">Luminous Nights</i> here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack’s a mystery to Rachel, a
hot, cold mystery. She believes the only things on his mind are vengeance and
lust and trickery. She’s wrong about that. In this scene, he gives her an
unusual birthday present:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The boy led Rachel, symptom list and diagnostic wand in hand, into the
hallway leading to Jack’s new prison cell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> All business, she stalked into the
library to find Jack sitting in a big chair before a roaring fire, studying a
book of odd drawings. Triad detainment light-bars were positioned around his
chair and table, restricting his movement. The collar preventing his passage
over the light-bars blinked under his chin. The remote control punishment-torture
switch lay on a faraway table, tempting when she thought of the trouble Jack
had given her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Luminous,” she addressed him, halting before him on the safe side of the
glowing bars…and loathing to call him by his fake identity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He looked up from his book and gave her his soul-stripping azure eyes,
inflicting a rash of goose bumps and a flush of her cheeks. For a second, she
went weak. His butchered and chaotic blond spikes of hair made his eyes more
powerful. Oh, Gawd, every time she looked at him, he stole her mind, and she had
to take it back again. She should never have submitted to his hypnotic
chocolate kiss. Now she had to guard her heart and soul against his skillful
manipulation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> All her mind thought of was his chocolate kiss when she wasn’t
focused on something else. Luckily, she had a thought-stealing problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “These children are dying, Jack. I need the ship’s medical computer.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He lifted his wrist, mashed the appropriate button on the communications
watch he’d stolen from her, and spoke to the ship, “Evie, allow Rachel access
to all medical databanks.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Yes, Jack,” the <i>Caprice</i>
replied in the feminine voice simmering with want he’d programmed in his
takeover of her ship, but Rachel was too tired to give him the jealousy he
wanted. She still fantasized of taking back that communicator, fruitless
brain work when he was very tall, full of muscle, half again her size in every
direction. She didn’t have a chance against him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then he unstrapped the bulky watch, tossed it through the barrier to her,
and she caught the watch with ease. No protest, no defiance. No ridiculously
high price would he demand for what she needed. She'd expected more of a fight. She’d
already pre-approved begging and tears for this purpose. He could have gotten
anything from her. Even what he wanted. Funny that he hadn’t sensed that. He
hadn’t even put a selfish proposal on the negotiating table. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She sat on the couch beside a wonderful churning fireplace crafted from
marble, unscorched by the raze Quattro had given most of the buildings. Jack
quietly spectated from his cell as she uploaded the diagnostic blood test report
and entered the list of the children’s symptoms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> In a few short seconds, the medical computers confirmed a hyperactive
death of protein in the patients’ cells and recommended several common
antibacterials, many of which she’d recently purchased to replace expired
stock. If she’d been in a rush to shelve the shipment, it would not have been
left on the counter. Luckily, it all had been swept into the medical bag she’d
brought with her. It was her first instance of procrastination paying off in a
big way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack didn’t launch a challenge or say a word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> When she formed a battle plan against this bug with the computer’s
help, she signed off and placed the communicator on his side table. There was
no use in keeping the comm watch. He’d locked her out of nearly everything else
on the <i>Caprice</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But he’d enabled her to do the one thing she really needed, help the sick
children. His swift capitulation made her believe, if she needed the medical
computer again, he’d hand the wrist communicator back to her, despite her
capture of him and the ongoing battle between them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She owed him, even though he’d put no debt to his concession. Hundreds of
sickened children would recover because of his mercy this moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Rachel cast her sight to his light eyes, and she could watch the flames
of the hearth reflected there, boiling, tempestuous. She loved watching fire in
his eyes. She was divided on whether she should apologize to him for taking him
captive, but what good could it do? She wouldn’t release him. He wasn’t
trustworthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Thank you,” she said genuinely, then she turned and headed for the door
to put the cure into play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Happy birthday, Rachel Marie,” she heard Jack say. “Sorry your gift was
late.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She paused at his words. On her birthday, they’d been on Desmonda Station
running from crooked police in an all-out fire fight through the port. Jack had
killed a half dozen men or more. They’d narrowly escaped.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She could barely believe he’d set no price on access to the med comps he
controlled, had handed it to her without strings. He’d immediately given up
territory in the war between them when she’d needed him to. He didn’t have to cede
the power he held. He could have made it cost her much. He must possess some
kind of heart working with the cold mind of a government assassin. And,
unfortunately for her waning resistance, the kiss of an angel, the hands of a
demon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “It was a generous gift perfectly timed, Jack,” she replied, grateful for
his mercy for the children. “It was exactly what I wanted.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then she paced out the door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Watching the door close behind her, Jack rose from the chair, dragged
himself to the side table, and stared at the communicator. Then he cast his
sight to amber eyes peering from the darkness at him. Jet, the big black dog nearly
invisible in a shadowed corner, watched him. He’d forgotten the security canine
guarding him was in the room when Rachel strolled in with her everything-Jack-wanted.
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I remember the exact moment she’d mentioned her birthday. I’d been busy
saving our lives at the time. I’d promised her a nice gift. I hope she likes
it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Strapping the comm watch on his wrist, he went back to his seat and
dropped down wearily. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “She’ll never know just how damned expensive that gift is, what it’ll
cost me personally, professionally, and spiritually. She just got the best of
this deal, and probably doesn’t know it yet.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jet gave a mournful moan for his plight, and Jack raked a hand through
his spiked hair. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “If I ride out the hostage game with Rachel, I’ll be postponing, maybe
surrendering the one thing I’ve wanted all my life, the thing I’ve trained for,
my hardwired goal. To kill a man who should’ve died twenty-three years ago. How
many people have suffered these past twenty-three years since that kid missed
the shot?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jet moaned an answer, but he didn't know. No one knew how many lives might have been saved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack stared into the fire, his too-vivid memory of missing the shot when
he’d been twelve, looped and repeating in his head, until he became cognizant of
a furry chin on his knee. He hadn’t noticed Jet rise to his side, settle at his
feet, and offer his sympathy. He scrubbed the Dane’s big-boned head, thankful
for the company of another soul. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Everything changed somewhere along the way, buddy. I think it was the
moment I stepped onto the <i>Caprice</i>. I’ve
found something I want more than I want vengeance. Bigger than my demands on
justice.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack wanted Rachel and the freedom of soul he still didn’t possess,
though he’d left prison bars behind weeks ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jet couldn’t speak to him, but the canine could communicate. In the
ear-flicker sign language taught the canine officers, Jet told Jack to hold his
cards, play his game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> Hold your cards, play your
game.</i><i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack decided he’d do just that. Play <i>his</i>
game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Rachel’s going to gasp when she sees his full hand. She didn’t have a chance
to win this game. The deck was stacked when she drew her cards. He wanted her,
and it wasn’t about five years in prison without a woman. He’d mastered the
mental and physical training to deal with that. This magnetism he felt with
Rachel was something much stronger than physical things. It was about life, breathing in beautiful moments with her in his arms, living through the bad times holding her hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He was going to have her. He’d make her love the idea. He had plenty of
magic chocolate to change her point of view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “It’s your fault, you know…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jet put his knobby paws over his head and issued a bay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “You should feel guilty…I’m here because of you, you troublemaker. And I’m still killing
Quattro and his men. She can’t stop that. <i>Nothing</i>
can stop that.”</span></div>
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tricks up his sleeve to melt Rachel’s ice. I didn't mention chocolate love scenes earlier, did I? Does anyone have any chocolate? Not that my mind is easily redirected....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Hi, everyone! Happy St. Patrick's Day! We're Number 103!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(We're just jazzed to be in the show! Scroll down for hot, unpredictable heroes, harrowing adventures, and free stories!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My name's Michele Hart, and I write gritty, high-action Paranormal/Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure and Suspense. If you love angels and demons, cop stories, subjects just below the radar, wander through my universes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Let’s start off with my favorite Irish joke:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> An Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walk
into a bar and order pints for all. The Englishman spots a fly in his pint, and
disappointed, he sets the glass aside. The Scotsman spots a fly in his pint,
ignores it, and guzzles it down. The Irishman spots a fly in his glass, snatches
it up, hangs the bug over the glass edge, and shouts, “Spit it out, ye
bastard!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I’ve great memories of St. Patrick’s Day 2003.
Dressed in our green Ren Fest garb, my boyfriend took me to Four Green Fields,
an incredible Irish bar in Tampa, and I was mistaken for someone famous. It was
shoulder-to-shoulder packed with people! I wish I were there right now. If
you’re ever in Tampa, stop by Four Green Fields for an authentic Irish bar.
It’s good to be Irish! If you’re not, you can pretend you are on St. Patty’s
Day. If you can throw a good Irish brogue, all’s the better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Don’t you love the name Danny? I always think of
it as an Irish name, and I’m pretty sure that’s exclusively due to <i>Oh, Danny Boy</i>. Daniel is my favorite angel name, and I
couldn’t resist writing a hero named Danny with an angel on his shoulder. So
here’s a blurb from my Angels & Demons/Sci-Fi Romantic Adventure, <i>Gangbusters</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b4a7d6; font-size: large;">In the end, it's either you or the demon that comes for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Daniel Tierney and his fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations
producing the most dangerous substance in the Alliance. But reporter Faith
Vedder turns up at the worst times, including Danny’s near-assassination. He’s
had enough of her interference and requires her source of information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Faith won’t tell him anything that compromises her Pulitzer-worthy
story, not even under the magic of hot attraction. She doesn’t know she’s
surrounded by fallen angels at war. Danny’s not finished making demands. She doesn’t
understand until a giant, snorting, winged monster slobbers down her back,
threatening to flay her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The gangbusters can’t delay in their mission to shut down gangs until
Danny learns the new criminal kingpin of their world is a man who once held Faith’s
heart. In the guise of a gangland executioner named Heretic, Danny will destroy
him. Even if it destroys Faith. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Angels are watching. Demons are plotting. Faith is the key.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here’s a
big bite of Danny:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">[This excerpt is rated R for just
the beginning of unabashed sexual stimulation.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Stand
over here, in the candlelight.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Faith went
to the spot where Danny pointed, and she stood in her Pulitzer gown for his
inspection. He gained his feet, produced a thornless red vine rose from the
side table, and he twisted it around the dress strap, then he returned to the
bed and took in the sight of her. A rose was a gift of love, not a gift of
acquaintance or friendship. The flowery fragrance enhanced her longing for him.
The candlelight silvered his gray sight in a tactile way, but she always did
feel his eyes when they were fixed on her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Do you
like the gown?” she couldn’t help asking. His concentrated attention through
overlong salt-and-pepper bangs caused her nipples to rise and brush against the
soft cloth, quickening her for his capture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Very
much. You look stunning in the dress, Faith,” his baritone voice murmured. His
lips pressed together, revealing the tension it gave him. “The threads of the
lace shimmer in the flame glow.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> Oh…</i> Soft, flickering light seemed to cling to him instead of illuminating
much else in the room. His breathing livened. His study of her lasted so long,
she began to shy from his devoted gaze. “Have you had enough yet?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “No. You
aren’t enforcing a time limit, are you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She broke
into an embarrassed smile, and his sly gaze said he enjoyed his torture of her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I’m
divided. I want you to eat, but I want to take that dress off you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Some
people think <i>they</i> have problems.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Rising
from the bed again, he collected the covered plate and eating utensil, and set
them in her hands held out before her. Then he removed the cover to present a
dish in the meatball family. His smile bordering on the diabolical, he loaded
the utensil and put it to her mouth. Her sharp eye on him, she accepted a
flavor she’d never encountered before, savory, mysterious, delectable. So was
Danny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Stalking,
he roved around until he was behind her, and he leaned, pressing his nose to
her exposed neck, inhaling her freshly bathed scent as she chewed. The act
carried such an animal-feel to it. The alpha-male predator had brought his
chosen a meal...and he savored his upcoming reward for that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Having
already been beneath him, arrested and detained by him, she chewed quicker. Was
she sweating yet? She soon would be. <i>Oh,
gawd</i>, she already throbbed, her body programmed now and eager for his
possession. Did he know he owned her? She bet he knew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His hair
danced over her bare shoulder. “You smell like delicious dinner.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Every word
he uttered with that deep voice was verbal chocolate, making her ache all the
more for him. “You always have an invitation to feast upon me, Danny.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She felt
his lips thin into another secret smile against the sensitive flesh as he
pressed sizzling kisses up her neck to her ear. “Every night I’ll figure out a
way to put you in my bed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Should she
tell him how easy that will be?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Weakened,
she scooped up a forkful of dinner and fed him over her shoulder. He groaned
his approval, and he sent his big hands to span and stroke her figure in the
silky gown, a sensuous experience that blotted out everything for the moment
but his contact and body heat. She would memorize a list of the things that
made him groan. Hearing it launched cascades of thrill through her. His exploration
slipped downward from behind her and onto her belly, pressing her against his
long, hard physique and sliding downward to the heat between her thighs. She
almost dropped the plate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> Mm…Danny and good food
together. That was total pleasure. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Again, he commandeered the fork and sent a bite to her mouth. As she
chewed, he placed a sucking kiss below her ear. Then she forgot to chew, taken
by the fantastic shower of ecstasy he inflicted, and she had to remind herself
again to chew. His breath on her body enticed her to a new level of want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Another
bite administered, he drew the zipper of the dress all the way down her back,
and he slipped his hands into the dress, around her, and cupped her breasts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “<i>Oh…Danny…</i>” The rough surfaces of his
palms and fingers abrading her tender flesh played with her nipples, stoking
the fire. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Take
another bite.” His whispers rushed lightning through her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Hands slid
from her dress, and she turned to watch him pull his T-shirt from his torso,
all iron-worked muscle, pale flesh, a thin scatter of body hair she wished to
feel scrubbed against her. <i>Again.</i> His
lion’s mane skimmed broad shoulders. His silvery sight never left her. Before,
they’d made love in shadows, and she hadn’t seen him wholly nude. Just
shirtless, he was beautiful, blessed with a holy kind of glamour that activated
her soul. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> Oh…</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He fed her
another bite of dinner, then he released the clip holding back her freshly
dried hair, and his long, tapered fingers caught her tumbling tresses. Stirred
to a corrupt snicker, he took in the scent of her hair as though it told him
everything about her, as if it fed every hungry part of him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “How can
your T-shirt say you’re faster than light when you’re so torturously slow with
me?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I know,
the longer I take with you, the more you’ll moan in my ear. And I like that a
lot. It’s a triumph to feel you under my power, Faith.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> That just
made her moan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He took
the empty plate from her hands and set it aside on the table, then he put her
in his arms. He’d said he wouldn’t let her go to Max’s without making love to
her. The intent in Danny’s eye revealed his plot to ruin her freshly bathed
scent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Are you
enjoying the moment of marking me for the demons to detect?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Enormously.
I’ll kick them in their heads if they touch you.” His demon-slaying grin gave
away his entertainment. She knew he meant for Max to get that message, as well.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “This is
like unwrapping the most fun present.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She loved
being explored by him, adored it, and she noticed each lithe movement of his
heavenly warrior-body, marveled at how well he’d been put together for hunting
criminals and hellish merchants of misery. She’d never discourage him from doing
that duty. Those monsters better run and hide. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> Danny wasn’t a monster. Was he?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She
reached for his jeans and unbuttoned them, feeling him hard beneath the metal
teeth of the zipper. He pushed the jeans to the floor for the unwelcome
interference they were. Her mouth went dry at the unveiled sight of him, worthy
of an artist’s sketch, all muscle, brains, instinct, skill, action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Danny was
better than perfect. He was physically superior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> But what was he on the inside? </i>The progeny of an angel, the breed of a
demon. She recalled her brief study of the heavenly races. If Danny turned out
to be more angel, what would that mean? Angels did many benevolent things, but
they also struck down populations with disease, disaster, and genocide. A
single angel wielded the power to destroy cities, cause famine, flood a planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Angels
were heaven’s hit men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Danny
snatched her up by the waist, capturing her, pressing her against him, and
snickering over his plans for her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> Oh…</i> She could barely wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don’t stop. Read more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Investigate steamy, peril-packed
excerpts, a tense first chapter,</span></div>
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font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Thalia must force to light buried secrets of a millennia-old family curse and face down a most vengeful Immortal on his own battlefield</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> if she wishes to free both Drew and Daisy from an unjust fate.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ares, the ruthless god of war, </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="color: yellow; 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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Daniel Tierney and his fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations producing the most dangerous substance in the Alliance. But reporter Faith Vedder turns up at the worst times, including Danny’s near-assassination. He’s had enough of her interference and requires her source of information.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Wrapped in her bathrobe and feeling pretty silly for taking a gun with her for a bath, Faith came from the shower room to find all the lights out in her home. She was sure she’d left at least some of the lights on. The only visible thing was a red read-out of the clock mounted on the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Bedroom lights on,” she told the computer system that operated the rented home. The room lit up, and she discovered the furniture rearranged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There was no imagining this. She held her gun up for business. If someone were there to hurt her, why did he wait to do it? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “This sooo isn’t funny,” she said to her unseen tormentor, not expecting an answer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She heard a deep masculine chuckle in the room with her. Then a resonant, seemingly disembodied voice said to her, “It’s funnier on my end, I know. The surprised expression on your face is priceless.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A shiver swept through her. Her trigger finger itched. “Who’s here?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Who I am is less important than my mission. I’ve been sent to kill you, Faith.” It was a smooth baritone voice with a particular unnamable element that moved through her like a hot wind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She turned the gun toward the voice and pulled the trigger, only to hear and feel the click of an unloaded gun. She heard him laugh again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Kitty has claws.” His voice sounded sinister. “I couldn’t leave you ammo.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Dumping the gun, she scrambled to her side table where she picked up the lamp, pulled it free from its power source, and she brandished it as a weapon. Her sight swept the room for some hint of his position. She couldn’t see him in the two mirrors in the room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “You better believe I have claws, buddy. If you’re planning to rape me, you’ll get the roughest time you’ve ever had.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I’ll take your warning. Get dressed. We’re leaving.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Her brow crashed into her vision. Going somewhere with an invisible man? She was better off remaining on her turf than submitting to his. “I’m fine with getting dressed, but I’m not going anywhere with you if you won’t show your face. If you plan to rape and kill me, let’s get it over with right here.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I’m not a rapist.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “No, you’re a killer. You told me you’ve been sent to kill me.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She scanned the small room for a better weapon. There were knives in the kitchen. Could she get him to move this debate into the kitchen? She left her cell phone by the computer keyboard. Attempted murder was a great reason to call the cops. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I’m going to make you disappear, Faith.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The lamp was yanked from her grasp, and, before she had a moment to respond, he had her wrist hand-cuffed to the headboard of the bed. She didn’t have a split-second to fight back. He moved faster than her tired brain operated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Instead of killing you,” the voice, now beside her, said, “I’m going to relocate you.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The drawers of her dresser slid out, and clothes flew from them onto the floor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Mmm,” she heard, as she watched her lingerie held up for inspection. His choice sailed onto the bed. A favorite blue blouse hung in mid-air for a second, and he said, “Hmm, yeah.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Then the blouse landed in her lap. A pair of black jeans soon followed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I’m not leaving, and you and your people can’t scare me away!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “It doesn’t frighten you, Faith…that I’ve entered your home and taken possession of you?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “N—No.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “It should.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She was terrified, and hoped the shaking didn’t show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> His voice, closing in on her again but from a different direction, echoed through the old steel-frame cottage, further disheveling her. “I could easily overcome you, Faith.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “N—No, I’m not a child quickly frightened away. I have a decade in martial arts, and I could kick your ass!” Unable to see his expression, she couldn’t gauge if the ridiculous promise of a hard defense affected him. Maybe he was a small man, and she had a chance against him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “What kind of martial arts?” his deep velvet voice asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Onterie! The most deadly of the martial arts! And I have a black belt! How about <i>that</i>!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Onterie doesn’t give out belts. I doubt you’ve spent an hour in an Onterie class. People who master Onterie don’t talk about it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The breath fled her lungs. “I’m still not scared!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Then you’re stupider than you look or write. I’ve read some of your stories, and you sounded much smarter than this. You’re also a rotten liar, Faith. Remember that so you don’t get into more trouble. Get dressed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A pair of boots came flying toward her from her closet, missing her by centimeters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She grew more angry by the minute that she’d be forced to leave. “Don’t call me Faith! You don’t know me!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A splash of papers came from nowhere and landed on the bed next to her. She picked them up and thumbed through report after report of her, information from family connections to her library loans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Your full name is Victoria Faith Vedder. You switched from Vicky to Faith at age seven when there were too many Vickies in school. Your favorite food is kung pao chicken. Your favorite drink is gold-label vodka with a splash of orange juice. Your favorite color is black, like your coffee and comedy. A solid B student, you’d served on your college yearbook staff, and you’d added your name to the rosters of nearly every team that played for the school. As a joke. Funny.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> She heard the smile in his voice. She hadn’t known that last one had been caught and documented for the society-shaking crime it had been. It was probably a good idea not to go back for a reunion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Miffed he knew so much of her, she gathered the spilled papers, her best tough-girl scowl on her face. The letterhead on every page had been ripped off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “You hadn’t given up your chastity until college when you met a bad boy named Mako. He was <i>not</i> worth it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Her intruder smiled again. She could sense it like a light washing over her. How could anyone learn so much about her? Did he have a record naming every man she’d slept with? She should probably get a copy of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “And you’re behind on your credit payment.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Not much!” It was the designer dress for her Pulitzer acceptance ceremony. She could’ve used the money for something more important, but…it was the most beautiful dress in the worlds. They’ll love her wearing it in the homeless shelter, if this story didn’t work out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “You’re leaving, whether you’re cooperative or not. I guarantee you I’m big enough to take you without your approval.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> He probably was pretty big with a voice that deep. That eliminated any foolhardy hope of overcoming him physically. He was too quick—and invisible—for a surprise attack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Umm…</i> He smelled like brandy. It sent a shockwave of stimulation through her.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Read and live an adventure.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Michele Hart</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In the end, it’s either you or the demon that comes for you.</b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com * www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com *</div>Michele Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897487185937109322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029808.post-60605562296797611122011-10-30T18:45:00.002-04:002011-10-30T18:53:00.655-04:00Gangbusters and I are released!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwyoyvVt3lbNmDyn4umeumm_IzW2cYmYAx0FfuaNv0I1rnaAuWB4IvjqIsUS5OaagNZYErye9t7IUA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br />
<div style="color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_992473328"><span style="font-size: large;">Check out <b><i>Gangbusters</i></b>!</span></a></div><div style="color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b28-book.htm"><span style="font-size: large;">Then, come and get it for 15% off!</span></a></div><div style="color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.bookstrand.com/gangbusters"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #93c47d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have a thrilling day,</span></div><div style="color: #93c47d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Michele</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com * www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com *</div>Michele Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897487185937109322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029808.post-26207956124850296072011-10-04T09:29:00.011-04:002011-10-09T21:49:04.494-04:00Upcoming Appearances<div style="color: #f6b26b; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I can't believe how busy I am. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here's my schedule:</b></span></div><div style="color: #f4cccc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.michelezurlo.com/">October 16th: The Steam Room with Michele Zurlo</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.loveromancescafe.com/">October 23rd: Creatures of the Night - Love Romances Cafe</a></b></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.theromancereviews.com/">All through November! </a></b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FallForRomance/">November 10th: The 2011 Fall For Romance One-Day Event </a></b></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Stop by, say hi!</b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/booktrailers.htm" style="color: #f4cccc;">Check out my book trailers here. </a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b28-book.htm" style="color: #f4cccc;">Want a sneak peek at the next I-Marshal story, <i>Gangbusters</i>? </a></b></span></div><div style="color: #ffd966; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Michele</span></b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com * www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com *</div>Michele Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897487185937109322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029808.post-39645013125370843002011-08-11T09:41:00.011-04:002011-08-11T11:45:30.611-04:00Gangbusters is Accepted for Publication!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Coming November 2011!</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/b28-book.htm"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kGfQ-9bEKS8/TkPbfxLmlrI/AAAAAAAAARI/GQhDkVvBxa0/s320/Super-soldier+suit-clear.jpg" width="112" /></a></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a2c4c9; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Danny on the job...invisible.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Gangbusters</strong></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Daniel Tierney and his fellow I-Marshals take down the organizations producing the most dangerous substance in the Alliance. But reporter Faith Vedder turns up at the worst times, including Danny’s near-assassination. He’s had enough of her interference and requires her source of information.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
<strong><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Faith won’t tell him anything that compromises her Pulitzer-worthy story, not even under the magic of hot attraction. She doesn’t know she’s surrounded by fallen angels at war. Danny’s not finished making demands. She doesn’t understand until a giant, snorting, winged monster slobbers down her back, threatening to flay her.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
<strong><span style="color: #ffe599;"></span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>The gangbusters can’t delay in their mission to shut down gangs until Danny learns the new criminal kingpin of their world is a man who once held Faith’s heart. In the guise of a gangland executioner named Heretic, Danny will destroy him. Even if it destroys Faith. </strong></span></div><span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Angels are watching...</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><a href="http://www.michelehart.com/series-i-marshals.htm">Check out I-Marshal Stories Here. You'll love the risk, steam, and adventure!</a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Wishing you romance and action,</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Michele</strong></span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com * www.ILoveShape-shifters.Com *</div>Michele Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06897487185937109322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32029808.post-30637949907575113132011-07-31T14:32:00.009-04:002011-08-02T14:04:08.786-04:00Sweetest Review Ever! 5 Stars! Really, it doesn't get better than this!<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>If any author ever got a better review than this, I've never seen it. I think the reviewer liked <em>Vigilant</em>.</strong></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>* 5 out of 5 stars from Book Binge: “ I am so incredibly thankful that I didn't miss this one! Wow! What a cast of characters!...It will be a rare person indeed who does not find this story to be awesome and one of the Grade A, Top-of-the-Mark books no one should miss.” </strong></span></span></div><br />
<strong><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The reviewer said a WHOLE LOT more than that! Read it all here:</span></strong><br />
<a href="http://thebookbinge.com/2011/07/guest-review-vigilant-by-michele-hart.html"><span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>http://thebookbinge.com/2011/07/guest-review-vigilant-by-michele-hart.html</strong></span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Check all my reviews at </span><a href="http://www.iloveshapeshifters.com/"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">http://www.ILoveShapeShifters.com/</span></a></span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #b6d7a8; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Scroll down to earlier blog posts and watch the book trailers.</strong></span><br />
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