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Twice divorced, cynical Cindy Layton feels like a relic with prehistoric baggage, and doubts she can muster the courage to establish a new relationship, even if it’s on her own terms.

Her journey out of the Stone Age hits freaky, hilarious turbulence when she joins an Internet dating service. The scammers and weirdoes she meets in cyberspace make Cindy want to crawl back into her cave, until she receives an accidental email from Jay DeMatteo.

Jay has the dating blues, too, but after meeting Cindy, reconsiders his options. Now it’s up to him to convince her it’s never too late to pursue a meaningful relationship, even when a couple is struggling with midlife adolescence

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I’ve been writing since I was a wee child and learned crayons weren’t meant to be part of a food group.

My sometimes controversial rants have appeared in my local newspaper, the Asbury Park Press, and I’ve won several awards via the Writer’s Digest 78th Annual Writer’s Contest and the Philadelphia Writer’s Conference.

Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to publish in Parenting Teens Magazine, Good Dog Magazine, and Aim Intercultural Magazine. I’m currently revising a contemporary novel called Slick Trespass and penning the sequel to Dinosaurs and Cherry Stems, The Sugar Ticket. There aren’t enough minutes in a day to get everything I wish to accomplish with my prose! Maybe I’ll come back in another life as a literary octopus!

Dinosaurs & Cherry Stems, a humorous, contemporary romance about achieving mid-life adolescence, is launching September 17, 2012, so don’t miss out!

My eBook, Heart Marks the Spot: Three Short Stories, can also be found right now on Amazon for Kindle, as well as a cook book I contributed to called, Dine With Us: A Collection of Recipes from the Authors of Indie Writers Unite. Lot’s of yummy recipes and delicious stories can be found here, so don’t miss out!

My husband, Joseph, and I live in a lovely town in New Jersey near the sea. Together we have seven children and nine grandchildren

Thirty one year old Law student Sofia Koury thought she found a refuge from memories of her mother’s suicide and life with her controlling father. But when her mentor Alexander Quintis proposes her for an internship on his colleague’s yacht, events move into dangerous waters.

At first excited by the prospect of fieldwork, the attacks onboard make Sofia realize that someone she trusts is not as they seem. Caught in the whirlpool of antique cars, surveillance and defense training, Sofia struggles to uncover the deception ahead.

She must now rely on intuition and lessons from her painful past to complete her assignment and say alive. Sofia faces the challenge of her life navigating a budding relationship, self-discovery and uncertain future all under the sultry Cuban Sun

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Ann Bauer has worked as an educational consultant, college professor and child wrangler to her young son and daughter. She is grateful to have a husband who can sleep with the lights on while she gets “just one more page” written. She can often be found travelling with her husband and kids.

Bryn Bauer is a trained historian and former history professor with a love of Latin America. She loves all education, learning and teaching. She is a lover of life and lives with her spunky cat Don Frijole. She can most often be found travelling, reading and researching. Ann and Bryn are sisters, living in North Carolina.

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I thought I had contained my tears, my emotions, but my body shakes and shudders. Whimpers escape, and the tears increase in frequency and volume. I rush through the door and collapse into the arms of the people who know exactly how much we’ve all just lost.

They say there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Not everyone will grieve in this order, nor will everyone go through every stage. It’s during the stage of denial when Alex Hart meets Andrew Foster. He takes her one-step closer to acceptance: the stage when new, meaningful relationships are formed. The stage when the realization occurs that this is now the new state of normal.

Just when Alex thinks she is on her way to healing, she enters the bargaining phase. That’s the phase where you wonder what you could have done differently. You wonder “what if?” Specifically, what if the ones you loved hadn’t left you?

Leaving…this is what makes heading off to war so difficult and frightening for Alex. She knows all too well what it’s like to be the one on the losing end of life, which is why she’s made it her personal mission in life to save as many lives as possible. The extreme high she gets from treating trauma victims turns into Alex’s own form of therapy, or so she thinks.

When faced with her world being turned upside down, Alex may just find that her true therapy is in the one who has always saved her

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Publication Date: June 24, 2013

“Fairy tales don’t exist. There are no knights in shining armor and for all I know there is no such thing as real, honest-to-God, Earth-shattering romance. There is only comfort and ease when it comes to real love. I should consider myself lucky to have found someone who I’m comfortable with. There are no waves, there are no bumps in the road… so why do I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin?”

Life for Gabriella had always been straightforward, albeit a bit boring, but a passionate, almost magical, encounter with an enigmatic stranger catapults her into evolving into stronger version of herself. Her evolution does not come without consequence, though. Gabriella learns the hard way that turning on the lights can reveal just as much ugly as it can beauty. She discovers that the comfortable relationship she’d been idling in for too long is, in fact, far more dangerous than she ever imagined and finds herself desperate for the inexplicable comfort she finds in the arms of a stranger.

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 “If every word I said, could make you laugh, I’d talk forever.  I asked the sky just what we had, Oooo… it shone forever.  If the song I sing to you, could fill your heart with joy, I’d sing forever.  Let the love I have for you, live in your heart and beat forever.” location 5543

I loved this book for all the richness it beholds. The ,main character and her family were like many I know and the one I grew up in. Gabriella was one of 5 children. She had 4 brothers who I really think need to have a book of their own, just adding in my two cents. It has every element of the perfect romantic suspense. The first if romance, then gotta have the hate, lust, greed and fear. All in all I adored it. It made me laugh, cry and become angst ridden over the handsome Jonathan.

So why do I feel like this?  Why do I feel like, given an ultimatum, I’d take the chance and give up everything for this man I’ve known for virtually no time at all? 

Sometimes you will do anything you can right or wrong for that one person. Ella did that, some things were unthinkable! Her ex boyfriend was the ultimate idiot. I hated him from day one. A certain episode begins the lies and deceit. A college graduation trip begin on the Amalfi Coast and I think Garbriella has an epiphany when she meets this masked man.

Upon returning back to New York. so she started her first nursing job at St Francis. I dont think it is a spoiler, but who shows up? Jonathan YES. Anyways there are a few witty things going on between Ella and Brittany. She is the gossip girl of that wing of the hospital. I loved how she was so nosy and how Ella was not at all forthcoming with information. This puts Brittany in stealth mode, she needs gossip. It is funny!

The only element that I think people will find issue with is the Catholic aspect. I grew up that way and do things like bring a rosary to my sons basketball game. I totally relate to that part and the deep religion and values that the Kelly clan share. I think especially being a product of Catholic School I found comfort in their ways.

A true must read for fans of Kristen Ashley and Pamela Clare. I am amazed at this authors ability to hit a home run on her debut novel!

She handed me a small black box and politely let herself out of the room.  Inside the box was an exquisite and ornate platinum rosary, lined with tiny diamonds.  It was the most beautiful example of a rosary I’d ever seen and my breath caught when I saw it.  location 4734

Wealthy New York socialite Grace Preston uses men for amusement. She is a very womanly  being. I think she is very conflicted between being secure and insecure. When she is dating a model Jonathan and nothing happens she is confused. Going over things in her head it just doest make sense who he has not made a move. After her tragic engagement is over it is hard for her to get over Craig. I mean her was her “IT” She becomes baffled thinking that maybe her trouble is there is never going to be another it for her.  

While this is going on the sub plot is heating up. Woman are being murdered. They are all fitting her description. There is Grace, her best friend who lives next door and a bar. Well you know what happens. It doesnt take long for Cole to realize at about the same time Grace does, they are hotter than a habanero inside a taco in Mexico!

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Some of the best quotes from the book (in my opinion) 

“Grace, you are me in female form. I know you as well as I know myself.” Smiling at his confirmation of our similar personalities, I dug in.  location 1070

To say I wanted him wasn’t powerful enough. I wanted to possess him, make him need me like I needed him. location 1125

I was thinking, if my night out with the girls trolling is what brought him here today, than it’s safe to assume he had feelings for me. Either that or he was just really horny…but 

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I swear his voice alone can coax an orgasm from me.

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The sex-crazed nymphet in my head was screaming, “Forget dinner, food—who needs food?  location 2354

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