Review of You Make Me (Blurred Lines #1) by Erin McCarthy

You Make Me (Blurred Lines #1)

by Erin McCarthy  

 

Synopsis:

The guy she wants…

Growing up on the coast of Maine with a revolving door of foster siblings, Caitlyn Michaud spent one intense and passionate year falling in love with her foster brother, Heath. Then he left without a word. The betrayal devastated Caitlyn and made her vow to forget the compelling bad boy. But forgetting his sensual touch and their deep all-consuming friendship is easier said than done.

Isn’t the guy she needs…

Determined to move on, in college Caitlyn has risen above her small town impoverished roots and has joined a sorority, reinvented her appearance, and landed the right boyfriend. Pre-law major and frat president, Ethan, is thoughtful and always laughing, and he makes her feel happy, calm. He also gives her the social acceptance she craves.

But the perfect world she tried so hard to attain is ripped apart when Heath appears one night out of nowhere. Caitlyn remembers all the reasons why she loves him, even if they don’t make sense to anyone but her. Out of the military, Heath is as brooding and intense as ever, and he is determined not only to win her back, but to exact revenge on everyone who kept him from her…

And when one love allows her to breathe, but the other feels as essential to her life as air, how does she choose between them?

  

Review by Gia:

You Make Me is a great story.  When I fist read the blurb I thought Caitlyn was in foster care.  She wasn't in but her parents fostered children.  Even though Caitlyn's family were a foster family, she still didn't have a great childhood.   She fell in love with Heath, one of her foster brothers.  He left without saying goodbye.  Four years later Caitlyn is in college and has changed her life.  She has met the perfect guy, Ethan.  When Ethan and Caitlyn get engaged, Heath pops up again.

Ethan seems like a quiet nice guy.  Heath on the other hand is pure alpha male.  Heath comes off as a little rough around the edges but that's what makes him the perfect book boyfriend.  Ethan know nothing about Caitlyn's past but the truth eventually comes out.   Ciatlyn and Heath also learn the truth about the reason Heath left.  I was surprised as I read along in found out the truth about things. 

You Make Me is a great read!

4 Amzeablls Stars!!

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About Erin:

USA Today and New York Times Bestselling author Erin McCarthy sold her first book in 2002 and has gone on to pen more than 38 novels and novellas in the paranormal, contemporary romance, and young adult genres.  A RITA award finalist and an American Library Association winner of the Reluctant Young Reader award, Erin is a member of Romance Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and Ohioana.

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There is no sensation, no experience more delicious and tempting to the senses than the taste of forbidden love. The longing… The desire… The unquenched thirst for his touch. He was the man I was never supposed to love. I was supposed to hate him. I suppose part of me did and that is what made the desire so much more intense. He set a fire under my skin that burned white hot with every smoldering glance. He sets my soul ablaze, the slow burn of passion aching in every inch of my body. 

Black Horse. The name haunted my dreams… But regardless of family vendettas, old hurts and contemptuous blood shed, the heart wants what it wants… and mine has a mind of its own and my mind is set on Colton McClain.

His family is known by his father’s nickname: Black Horse. Like one of the four horses flying out of the gates of hell, Tom “Black Horse” McClain ripped my world apart fifteen years ago. I was only seven when I found my mother and father dead in their beds, with Tom McClain standing over them with a blood stained butcher knife. He would have come for me, too, had my brothers not saved me. Seth, my older brother, swooped me up before I had the chance to scream and covered my mouth with his hand.

Tom McClain sought out the services of my father in a time of great need. My father, Nathan Ford, was a highly reputable criminal defense attorney, who took on Tom’s case when he was accused of murdering his wife after she was caught in bed with another man. Tom didn’t have the money to pay for my father’s services, so he took on the case pro bono because he believed in Tom’s innocence. I remember my dad meeting with Tom in his study while my mother looked after Colton, my brothers and I in the kitchen. We had become very close. My brothers once considered Colton their best friend. Not anymore. 

My father got Tom off on a technicality. The prosecution had no reliable witnesses and they weren’t about to rely on the testimony of a five year old boy; Colton himself. He had witnessed the whole ordeal himself. How does Tom repay my father for his kindess and generosity? He murdered him in his sleep. He killed Daddy first. Momma screamed when she saw a man standing over her bed, and that is what woke me. In just my nightgown and socks, I tip-toed down the hall past Timmy, Randy and Seth’s bedrooms and as I entered the doorway to Momma and Daddy’s room, Tom McClain plunged a knife through my mother’s chest. My blood ran cold. I tried to scream but no sound would come out. The next thing I knew, Seth had his hand over my mouth and we hid in the hall closet. Tears streamed down my face as my arms and legs shook. I could her Tom’s boot echo against the hard wood floor of the hall. 

“Sssh… Don’t say a word…” I remember Seth urging. 

The air in the closet was stifling; warm and dead like a coffin. I could hear my brothers’ heavy breathing. Our dog Micah’s frantic barking from the back yard. She knew something was horribly wrong. His bootfalls were getting closer… louder… I took a deep breath and didn’t dare exhale in fear that he would hear me. Somehow, I was able to stifle my tears, but something happened that was out of my control. My thought caught from my sobbing. Tom heard it. The foot steps intensified, beating a path to the closet door. Seth, still firmly holding me, swung around so I was facing the inside of the closet. I focused on the faded floral pattern of the shelf lining that was barely visible in the dark lighting of the closet. I focused on anything but the sound of Tom McClain’s approaching footsteps. Then a loud clicking sound made it impossible. The sound of a shot gun barrel banging into place. He didn’t even bother opening the door. 

Bang! Bang! Then silence.

Out of instinct I jumped into the shelf before me and cowered behind the extra blankets mother kept neatly stored on the shelf. I was stunned that I was still alive, until reality set in. Seth had slumped down against the door of the closet, unrecognizable and motionless. The shotgun blast had obliterated his once handsome face. 

I am supposed to hate Colton McClain, but I can’t. When the police showed up the next day, they found Colton locked in his father’s pick-up a block away, hungry, thirsty and distraught. He was taken away by the state and put in foster care because none of his relatives wanted to have anything to do with the Black Horse name. Black Horse was caught trying to jump the border with my father’s wallet in his pocket and $10,000 in cash in a duffel bag. He traveled alone, having abandoned Colton in his truck back in Oakely. I guess his boy knew too much. When officials apprehended him, they ran my Daddy’s license and discovered that he was found murdered. Tom pleaded insanity, but after a thorough psychiatric evaluation, it was concluded that Tom McClain knew exactly what he was doing. He was sentenced to prison for twenty years, having received a lenient judge; a rarity in the State of Texas.

My surviving brothers Randy and Tim could never know about Colton and I. They’ve had it out for him for years. Bloodlines run thick around here. The sins of the fathers will forever haunt the sons, and women are to stand back and stay out of the way. Well, I have something to say about that… Fuck that, Colton McClain didn’t murder my family. His father did… and he suffered just as much as we did. Now fifteen years after the crime that screwed both of our lives up royally, Black Horse is getting out of jail. Just four days until his release. Colton wants to hide me. He said we can run… Start over somewhere else. My brothers are armed to the teeth and a war is about to break out. I have no intentions of sitting down or running away like a little girl. We cannot hide from this anymore. 

Our past does not own us, and we owe it to our hearts to show the world that love can arise from the darkest of places. We only have to survive to tell the tale.

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Addison Kline is an Amazon Best Selling Author who published her first book, Down To You in October 2013. Mark My Words followed in February 2014 and Black Horse is slated for release on June 28, 2014. She is a prolific writer and has many more plans in the works. Later this year, she hopes to release book three in the Love on Edge Series, titled Fighting for Chance. In addition she is working on book two of the Breaking Black series which is currently untitled. 

Addison loves to read and will read anything as long as it has a solid plot. Romance novels with no plot annoy her, so she tends to steer towards romantic suspense novels the most. Her favorite authors are Nora Roberts, M. Sembera, S. Donahue and Nicholas Sparks. When she is not reading and writing, she is spending time with her family. Addison lives in Philadelphia with her husband and their children. They love to travel, watch movies and chill out at home together. 

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Releasing July 11, 2014

Synopsis

Ghosts are real. They are all around us. Most of the time they are satisfied to watch us go by and not interact. When a couple was cursed to spend three hundred years in death searching for the one living couple that could release their bounds they search for centuries to find a love that will make time stand still. If they fail they will be sent to Hell to live out the rest of eternity.

Demons are real. They are all around us. Their one goal is make our lives a living hell. They will stop at nothing to destroy our minds and bodies. With the curse rapidly approaching its end the deepest darkest demon is summoned to make sure they don’t succeed.

Kate O’Malley fell in love with the old two story farm house in Maine at first sight. She had to live there. Spending all of her savings she was able to buy it and moved right in. The very first night strange things happened. Her dreams aren’t her own. Looking for answers she calls on a friend who puts her in contact with a ghost hunter, Sawyer Hamilton. Neither knew what was in their future, neither knows if they are going to survive it.

Dreaming in Moonlight when your sleep is filled with passion and your nightmares are real.

About the Author

M. Stratton is an International Amazon bestselling author in the romantic suspense and mystery suspense categories for her debut novel After the Storm. She is a self-proclaimed dork that loves to make people laugh and can trip over nothing. Her inner rock star is always on stage performing to a sold out crowd but is quiet and shy on the outside.

She lives with her husband and son in Arizona, which is a big difference from where she grew up north of Chicago Illinois. As an only child she learned to tell herself stories to make the long winters go by quicker while dreaming of summer vacations. Now as an adult she still makes up stories to pass the time, but now she writes them down to share with other people.

When not writing you can find M. watching football (Go Bears!), NASCAR, or classic movies, watching her husband and father restore classic cars, and seeing who can be sillier, her or her son, and of course reading.

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Synopsis of Incredible Dreams:

Leona, a woman in her late twenties who has been dreaming about a guy that she doesn't know finally sees him in real life one day, but she doesn't approach him out of bizarreness of the whole situation and that leaves her with an feeling of missed opportunity, so when life gives her a second chance she grabs it with both hands. Nathaniel, a police officer who's been on a hunt to find his brother's killer for over a year now turns out to be a dreamguy in real life too, and while things are going great between the two of them, Leona's long life friendship with her dear friend Naomi isn't. Resenting the thought of having to choose between the two of them she and her two friends Alyssa and Alexandra come up with an idea to whisk Naomi away for a little holiday in the hopes that after they'd spend some quality time together things would finally go back to the way it used to be, but it doesn't and when Marcus, Naomi's current boyfriend who followed them out there confesses something to Leona that she really wished he hadn't, she keeps finding it harder and harder to even look her best friend in the eyes without feeling like the worst friend ever.....

Excerpt of Incredible Dreams:

He began kissing my ankles and all the way up my legs. He looked like a playful cat and when he reached my waist he rubbed his head against it and meowed. I laughed and threw my head back, I loved his childlike antics. I tugged at his ears and stroked around his neck as he kissed my stomach. It started out as a joke, but I could tell from the way he moved that he enjoyed my touch. He stood up and lifted me up, placing me on the edge of the basket. I flinched instinctively, I didn’t think he’d let me drop but the fact that we were at such an altitude that I’d never survive if I fell, kind of scared the hell out of me. I looked behind me at the beautiful view, and buried my head back in his chest when it gave me butterflies. “Do you trust me?” he breathed, obviously turned on by all of this. His intense chocolate eyes were staring into mine, screaming at me that they wanted me. I looked down and his erection was screaming the same.

I held onto him for dear life, wrapping my legs around his waist and pulling him closer to me for safety. “I trust you baby.” He kissed me almost before I’d managed to get my words out and that familiar rush of electricity soared between us. Coupled with the adrenaline from the balloon, I felt so alive; it was amazing. I’d never been one for danger, but this was exhilarating. I felt on top of the world as the wind blew my hair and Nate kissed me passionately. My insides were burning for him to move those soft lips somewhere else. He must have felt it too because he backed off and pulled me down from the side. “We’re going to have to stop that here, because if we carry on you’re going to keel over the edge. This is just too much for me to handle and I don’t want to drop you.” He pulled me down onto the thickest blankets until we sat facing each other on our knees, staring at each other with pure lust in our eyes. The way he looked at me made me so hot that I could barely breathe; my heart was racing and my fingers trembled. I needed him right then. “Turn around little lady,” Without even asking him why, I immediately shifted, and after a couple of seconds I felt my back leaning against his chest. He took my hair in his hands and let it fall on the right side of my neck. He started kissing me along my bare neck, while his hands massaged my shoulders very gently. He brought his lips to the back of my neck and kissed his way down, while he unzipped me so slowly that I wanted to rip my dress off for him. He was prolonging what was going to happen for as long as he could, and he was driving me crazy with it. After what felt like about an hour, he got to the last piece of the zipper and my dress was fully open. He brushed his fingers against my skin and removed my dress one step at a time. My body was tingling all over and my panties were moist by the time he was done with me, he placed his left hand under the lace of my bra and started playing with my nipple, while he let his tongue ring run around loose on my ears, neckline and shoulders. I started feeling behind my back for his free hand and when I found it I brought it up to my mouth and started sucking on his fingers one by one. I started out with his little pinky and by the time I got to his thumb, I had him moaning and panting behind me. “Wouldn’t you like to suck on something else?” he breathed in a husky voice. In that state, he didn’t need to ask me twice, “I thought you’d never ask.” He bit my bottom lip, “I love these,” Slipping his tongue into my mouth and sucking on mine for a few seconds, he pulled away, “I swear you drive me crazy with that mouth.”

“Yeah?” I flashed him a sexy smile and he struggled to swallow. Triumphant at his reaction, I laughed and pushed him further onto the blankets, starting to unbutton his shirt. “No one has ever touched me or kissed me like you have, I’m addicted to you.” “Right back at you.” I smiled. 

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Synopsis of Irrational Behavior:

Just when Leona finally started to believe that maybe, just maybe, her future was written in the stars - that she was one of those girls destined for a happily ever after - her life takes a dramatic turn for the worse, and she finds herself standing face to face with the man who destroyed her childhood. Will this brutal encounter push her into a nightmare world again, or is the love that she shares with Nathaniel going to be strong enough to keep her from turning into the person she hates the most, and erase all those bad memories for once and for all?

Excerpt of Irrational Behavior:

When I looked at him in the mirror above the sink, the look in his eyes was hungry. He was watching my every move intently and to make matters even worse he’d started grazing those two fingers that I’d grown to love so much, over his bottom lip, and when I turned around to face him fully, he closed his eyes and bit his lips seductively. When he opened them again, he cocked his head to the side, flashed me one of his wicked smiles and gestured for me to come over to where he was standing with his index finger.

Damn him and his sexy smile, I thought to myself before I started my walk over to him with weakened knees and a moist inner thigh. How is it possible that he can command me with only one finger? Nathaniel and I had been dating for six months, give or take, and within that period of time he had taken over my body and my will power so quickly that he had me wondering if I’d ever stood a chance with him.

I began to walk slowly, but I wanted to feel him inside of me so badly and it got the better of me again. I found myself walking over to him in double time. “Turn around and watch us in the mirror,” he said.  When I did, he blew me a little kiss in the mirror and turned his gaze away from our reflection.

“Keep looking at us,” He told me, “If you look away I will bite you!” He pulled my hair to the side to get clear access to my neck, and started nibbling on it. “You drive me crazy, you know that right?” He asked me, somewhat out of breath, “I couldn’t even function without you by my side, you were on my mind all day long. Promise me that you’ll come with me to the live shows in August.” He had me so lost that I would have agreed to do anything he wanted me to. “Yes, I will, I will, now less talking and more action. I need you.”

He laughed out loud at that statement, “Well alright then,” he whispered softly into my ear before he continued to drive me crazy with his skilled tongue. Oh man, just looking at us in the mirror made me even wetter. Nate used one hand to rub both of my breasts and the other one he slid right in between my thighs. When he reached my waterfall he looked at me in the mirror with a proud smile on his face, “Damn, you’re always so wet for me, baby.” His hot breath smelled of champagne and when he kissed me the taste of him pushed my senses into overdrive.

I couldn’t get enough of him and he knew it. Wait a minute, I thought to myself, I’m not going down that easily, two can play this game. But little did I know that when I’d pull his pants down his boxers would already be dampened with his pre cum. It stuck to my fingers while I massaged him.  A sudden urge to taste him crept into my mind so I lifted my hand up to my mouth and licked every drop from my fingers while he looked at me with unknown hunger in his eyes. I already knew that Nathaniel was a bit of a freak, but there was something different about him tonight. Mmm, I guess they’re right when they say that absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I wanted to drive him crazy too, and by the looks of it I was doing a great job. When he started panting heavily behind me, I continued to massage him without taking my eyes off his reflection. I took it as my cue and turned around fully, dropping to my knees in front of him. He was still dripping and the sight of it made me even greedier, I charged at him like I hadn’t had a taste in years and wrapped my soft lips around the tip of his length, while I stroked him gently, in and out, up and down, until he gripped me by the hair and pulled me away. Before I knew it, he had me bent over the sink while he placed my hands on top of it to steady me while he kissed me with rough passion and slid himself inside without any warning.

He had me right where he wanted me, I couldn’t resist him anymore. “Is this that one thing you missed the most? Or..?” He withdrew himself from my aching body, took off his shirt and placed it on top of the sink. Then he lifted me up and told me to have a seat and to show him how wide I could spread my thighs for him. As soon as I opened my legs, he started rubbing my sweet spot before he spread my swollen lips and teased my clit with just the tip of his tongue.

He repeatedly punished me with just the tip, before he finally started sucking and licking me as if his life depended on it, “Or did you miss this more?” He teased me with his words between his structured and well played move. I couldn’t even answer him, “Mhmm, mhmm, mhmm,” was all I managed to moan. It had been a week since I had last felt him and I was about to pop way too soon, but he wasn’t about to let up.

With one last lick I exploded all over his tongue while I giggled my ass off, I don’t know what came over me but it embarrassed the shit out of me. Recalling upon it now, it had to be the relief of all the stress that came pouring out of me when Nate brought me to such an intense climax. He laughed alongside me, “Wow, I never knew I could climax a woman into a laughing fit.”

“Ha ha, very funny, lover boy. You better finish what you started here, ‘cause as much as I loved that, I really want some of this.” I grabbed him gently by his pleasure stick and led him toward the first toilet booth, pulling the toilet lid down. I pushed him down to sit and he did as I pleased. I sat on top of him and let him slip inside and started to ride him slowly while I stepped up the pace. 

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S.E Felida author of the Incredible Dreams Series

Book one Incredible Dreams

Book two Irrational Behavior

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Honor Bound
by Noelle Adams, Samantha Chase
The Protectors #2
Publication Date: June 16, 2014 

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Synopsis: My life was just like any other girl’s until the Maxwell corporate empire ruined my family and stole my future. I’d given up hoping to see justice done, but then the way to right this wrong was dropped in my lap. My job with an event planner can get me into the home of one of Maxwell’s business partners. I can find evidence of what they did to my father. I can make sure they pay.I wasn’t expecting Sebastian.Sebastian has been hired for security, but he is also the son of the man I despise. I should hate Sebastian purely on principle. I shouldn’t care that he’s sweet and funny and sexy as hell. He’ll always be a Maxwell, and that means he’s my enemy.

I can’t help but want him anyway.

He seems to want me too, but only for a good time. He’s the son of privilege, and he’ll never be serious about me. He’ll also never betray his family. If he finds out what I’m really doing here, he’ll turn on me in an instant. He’ll keep me from finding justice.

It’s just that I keep finding him instead.

 

Excerpt One:

Feeling pleased and victorious, I pushed the window up.

It really wouldn’t be that hard for me to climb in inside.

I stood for a minute, trying to decide whether I should do it or not. No one was around. What harm could it do? If I was caught, I could always say I was checking out the building for possible use in the charity event.

It wasn’t dangerous. And it would be a first step toward seeking justice, restoring my family’s honor.

Feeling a rush of determination, I leaned in and saw that the window opened to what definitely looked like an office. My heart raced as I started to climb inside.

“What are you doing?”

I froze, halfway in the window, when I heard the unexpected male voice from behind me.

My mind whirled with fear, embarrassment, and desperation as I tried to remember the excuse I’d just thought up a minute ago.

This wasn’t supposed to be happening.

I’d started to ease myself down from the window, when I felt a pair of strong hands on my waist. They startled me so much that I jerked and turned around too quickly.

I bumped my head on the window and stumbled into the man who was now right behind me.

I would have fallen had he not caught me. I found myself looking up at the face of the best-looking man I’d ever seen in my life.

He was about five or six inches taller than me, with a fine, athletic body. He had vivid green eyes and strong features that were so handsome they were startling. His expression was half-questioning and half-amused as he gazed down at me.

“Ouch,” I said stupidly, rubbing my head where I’d hit it on the window.

His expression transformed to a full smile. “That’s what happens when you try to climb in somewhere you don’t belong.”

Ridiculously—absolutely ridiculously—I wanted to smile back. His expression was just so warm and amused.

He wore a pair of khakis and a black t-shirt, and I figured he must work on the grounds somehow, since he seemed to belong here when I clearly did not.

“I wasn’t trying to climb in,” I lied, thinking as quickly as I could. “I was just looking inside to see what was in there.”

“Why would you need to see inside the guest cottage?”

A guest cottage. Oh. That was what this this place was. Not a secret office hideaway housing tempting secrets. Definitely not worth the embarrassment of getting caught like this. “I didn’t know what it was,” I said, speaking the truth in this at least. “I’m the assistant of the event planner. I was just checking out what the building was to see if we could use it somehow for the big charity gala.”

The man’s mouth tilted up slightly in one corner as his green eyes ran up and down my body. His gaze looked appreciative—as if he liked how I looked—so maybe he didn’t think I looked like a school marm. “I guess you could use it for couples who want to sneak off for sex. Maybe reserve it by the half-hour so you can offer it to as many horny couples as possible.”

He spoke with such a deadpan expression that it took me a minute to realize he was joking. When I realized it, the clever humor hit me so hard that I burst into laughter.

His expression changed as he watched me, and I sobered, feeling suddenly self-conscious.

Like he could see me. All of me. Even the parts I didn’t want anyone else to see.

Review by Gia:
Honor Bound is the second book in The Protectors series.  The series follows four friends (all ex marines) after the their military experiences in over.  The four of them, Sebastian, Declan, Levi, and Cole run a security company.  Book one Duty Bound was Levi and Harper's story.  Honor Bound is Sebastian and Ali's story.
Sebastian is from a family of wealth and power.  He doesn't really like being associated with his family.  As part of a security job he is hired to protect Ken Gentry, the COO of his father's company.  He meets Ali while on the job.  Ali has an ulterior motive for working at the Gentry house.  She wants to take down Maxwell Enterprises. 
Ali takes some convincing before she gives into Sebastian's advances. Just when you think everything is going to be good from them, Ali has some news to share with Sebastian.  Both are angry at each other on how the other one handles the news.  I could see it from both their prospective.  I think they both acted appropriately for their characters. 
I loved how everything comes together and there is no cliffhanger.
5 Amazeballs Stars!! 

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Synopsis:

I used to think I could be a hero, but one deadly night destroyed that delusion. So I’ve come home defeated. My military career, my best friend, my purpose—all of it is lost.

What I find is her.

She’s my best friend’s sister, and she’s everything I shouldn’t want. She’s on a hopeless quest for answers about her brother’s death, but those are secrets that can never come to light. She’s always been a fighter, and she desperately wants the truth.

I desperately want her.

Someone is trying to kill her now, and she won’t let me keep her safe. I have to do it anyway, even if she doesn’t trust me, even if she hates me for it. A man protects what’s precious to him, whether or not he can ever claim her for his own. So she becomes my purpose.

I’ll become a hero for her.

About Noelle Adams: Noelle handwrote her first romance novel in a spiral-bound notebook when she was twelve, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. She has lived in eight different states and currently resides in Virginia, where she teaches English, reads any book she can get her hands on, and offers tribute to a very spoiled cocker spaniel.

She loves travel, art, history, and ice cream. After spending far too many years of her life in graduate school, she has decided to reorient her priorities and focus on writing contemporary romances.

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About Samantha Chase: Contemporary romance writer Samantha Chase released her debut novel, Jordan's Return, in November 2011. Although she waited until she was in her 40's to publish for the first time, writing has been a lifelong passion. Her motivation to take that step was her students: teaching creative writing to elementary age students all the way up through high school and encouraging those students to follow their writing dreams gave Samantha the confidence to take that step as well.

Her second book, a holiday novella titled "The Christmas Cottage" hit #10 on Amazon's Best Seller List on Christmas Eve. It was a great Christmas gift! Watching the numbers rise and fall is a daily roller coaster ride but definitely an exciting one! And on February 25th, she released the follow up novella - "Ever After" - available exclusively on Amazon.
When she's not working on a new story, she spends her time reading contemporary romances, blogging, playing way too many games of Scrabble on Facebook and spending time with her husband of 23 years and their two sons in North Carolina.

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