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Jennifer Cannon Well Adjusted...An Excerpt

The Bikini Incident

Biography & Autobiography
English
997 Words
No Age Recommendation
402
2

This darkly funny tale is an excerpt from "Well Adjusted..." which is currently a work in progress.

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Emily Story Lost Angel (Excerpt)

Romance
English
2625 Words
Ages 16 and up
234
0

Excerpt from Lost Angel “I really have no idea what is going on in this enigmatic man's mind. All I know is that I'm falling for him more and more every day, despite his unpredictable behavior. But I also feel him gradually pulling me deeper and deeper into a dark abyss that there is no escape from...” Literature student, July Vermont, is swept off her feet when she meets attractive English professor, David Kennedy, for the first time. Kennedy is tall, attractive and a complete heart-throb. And although he doesn’t seem particularly interested in July, she immediately feels an almost magical force of attraction toward him. She can’t stop falling in love with the professor everyone wants, even though she knows she doesn’t have a chance with him and she is risking her scholarship and her future. Kennedy awakes a deep, inexplicable desire in her that leaves her completely in his power and makes her forget all her principles. She desperately wants to get to know him better, never guessing that he has a dark secret that will change her life forever... [more]

Keywords: Love, Erotica, Grey, Shades

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P. R. Torres [Teaser Excerpt] - All Things Harrison

Fiction
English
1623 Words
No Age Recommendation
378
2

A darkened glimpse from the past, Harrison is still the memory that dominantly remains in Max’s mind and [more]

Keywords: all, things, harrison, teaser, excerpt, torres, fiction

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Semyon White Inferno! (excerpt)

Fiction
English
827 Words
Ages 18 and up
3
0

Three friends in New York City struggle with fidelity and other issues in their relationships with women. Dialogue driven, episodic, frank and explicit, it follows each man's choices, mistakes and explorations with the opposite sex. Seamus Gilley may be the last of the little black book carrying playboys. After decades of working out, woman watching and one night stands, he begins to want more from his relationships. Breaking one of his skirt-chaser rules, Seamus gets involved with a single mother. Derek Towns is a young newlywed with an ideal marriage. When he finds out his father had an affair he begins to doubt his own ability to remain faithful. Derek exposes himself to temptation with an attractive co-worker to prove himself the better man. Milo Bova; cheater, womanizer and would be misogynist struggles as he juggles women, his ideas about women, and his subsequent isolation and guilt. Conflicted about hurting a younger woman to spend more time with her unstable aunt, he upsets the precarious balance of his life. Each man encounters a dirty shirtless man in the city and wonders about the circumstances that led to his predicament. Like a cautionary omen, the man effects each character differently and we see the effect play out in the midst of their dilemmas. [more]

Keywords: ebook, ebooks, cosmopolitan fantasy, men's adventure, slice of life, fiction

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P.J.Lawton Lethal Knowledge (Excerpt)

Mystery & Crime
English
1016 Words
No Age Recommendation
374
4

Distracted by a murder charge lodged against his daughter Jacki, semi-retired P.I. Winston Simon never expected to again find himself face-to-face with the terrorist Atesh. Now his country’s new ambassador to the United Nations, Atesh is also the mastermind of an ominous threat against the United States—a plot so evil that all previous U.S. terror attacks would pale in comparison. Fearful that he will be recognized and Homeland Security alerted, Atesh devises a plan to put an end to Simon, once and for all. Simon’s daughter needs him and he isn’t about to be stopped by a little thing like bad guys out to kill him. Even a warning by the District Attorney to stay away from the case goes unheeded as events unfold in Jacki’s case pointing Simon toward an eco-terror group and a protégé of his old nemesis, with a devastating mission of his own. Can Simon live long enough to clear Jacki and thwart these iniquitous attacks? With failure not an option, Simon is rapidly caught up in a swirling blend of chaos and death from Las Vegas to Seattle to Belize to Alaska and finally back to Las Vegas where a final showdown will ultimately determine who will live and who will die. A forceful blend of terrorists, a beautiful Mossad agent, and Simon make for a very deadly combination. [more]

Keywords: Mystery, P.I., terrorist, death

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P.J.Lawton Tiny Voices (Excerpt)

Horror
English
359 Words
Ages 18 and up
6
0

While on a morning jog, a man suffering deep personal sorrow hears voices of dead children asking for [more]

Keywords: Sci-FI, children, Voices, paranormal

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Bonnie Virag The Stovepipe: excerpt

Biography & Autobiography
English
1958 Words
Ages 16 and up
377
1

Bonnie, age four, along with four of her siblings, was taken by force from her home in rural Canada and placed in the care of the Children's Aid Society. Over the next fourteen years, the children are split up and reunited multiple times, moving from foster home to foster home, always hoping to find one another again. By luck or providence, the four sisters spend the majority of their young lives together working on a tobacco farm and living in an attic, where the stovepipe offers warmth, comfort, and news from the outside that they do not receive from their foster parents. Surviving some of the worst torments a child can know, Bonnie and her sisters depend on each other to meet even their basic needs, forming an unbreakable bond. Bonnie Virag's heartrending yet triumphant memoir, The Stovepipe, recounts the author's experience growing up as a foster child in the 1940s and 1950s. In an honest, unflinching voice, Virag engrosses readers with not only the darkness that she and her siblings endured but, more important, their ability to join together to create a sense of light. This unforgettable story is informed by Bonnie's recollections, remembrances from her sisters, and the official records received from the Children's Aid Society in Canada. This book is not an indictment of the foster care system and its many missteps. Rather, it is a testament to the resilience of the soul and the importance of family, friendship and fortitude. [more]

Keywords: family, foster homes, children, memoir, relationships, foster care system, 1950's, Kindle, adoption, ebook, parenting

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Jenifer D. Ruano The River Man (An excerpt)

Fiction
English
2324 Words
No Age Recommendation
357
1

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Adrienne LaCava No One Can Know - Excerpt

Fiction
English
1133 Words
Ages 16 and up
342
0

Weary of Cold War politics, CIA operative Gabriel Haines can't wait to leave the Company life for a job on his friend's isolated Texas ranch. All he needs to do is go to Dallas and seal the deal. But when President John F. Kennedy is assassinated just yards from where Haines stands, the former agent finds himself in tighter crosshairs than ever before. Keeping a low profile on the ranch couldn't come at a better time. Motherless preteen Ivy Jean Pritchard is a worrier, but she's trying hard not to be suspicious when her father sends her to spend the weekend on a ranch with family she's never met. And with her troublemaker teenaged cousin, high-society aunt, and her uncle's mistress on the scene, it promises to be more than the western adventure Ivy had anticipated. Now, marksmen have tracked Haines to the ranch, getting the entire family involved in something very adult and very worrisome. When the weekend turns deadly, Haines and Ivy Jean are the first to learn that secrets, especially those devised and perpetuated "for the good of us all," can breakdown a family--or a nation--in the blink of an eye. [more]

Keywords: ebook, historical fiction, political, thriller, suspense, coming of age, 1960's, JFK Assassination, JFK, RFK, MLK

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Roy Schmidt To Kiss the Sky, excerpt

Fiction
English
2 Words
No Age Recommendation
231
0

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