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Call me Jane, The sequel, or I should say prequel to The Dark Lake Is free Saturday, November 24 through November 29.

"Judy Blume meets Catcher in the Rye in this raw story of adolescence." -Amazon Reader.

Here is a free romance (free at midnight.)

Title: STOP (Malcolm Blaze)

Link: http://www.amazon.com/STOP-Malcolm-Bl...

Description: the book is about this african american man named Malcolm blaze. He goes through Romance, Racism, Secrets, Surprises, Suspense, Cheating. He is a sexual surrogate that tries to change his path but has trouble doing so with stupid decisions. He has a love interest in a girl but her family doesn't approve of his race. he also keeps his secret from his interest to the point where its out of his hands.
Genre: Fiction Romance

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The sequel to Nadia Simonenko's February new adult bestseller Lost is finally here!


We’ll find each other somehow. We’re not lost anymore...


All it took was one phone call to tear Owen's life apart. His father is dead and his mother is in critical condition. Even though he feared his abusive father and despised his family, losing them hurts in a way he never expected. Just weeks ago, Owen was terrified that he'd have to go home. Now, there is no home.

All it took was one phone call to shatter Maria's happily-ever-after and bring her nightmares back to life. Maria's estranged brother is coming up to see her graduation and he isn't coming alone. He's bringing Maria's parents, as she expected, but he's also bringing along an old friend from college—someone who's haunted Maria's nightmares for seven years. Now, she's about to come face to face with the man who ruined her life.

Will the love and happiness Maria and Owen found be enough to hold them together as their lives fall apart around them, or will their relationship slip away and be lost forever?

Found is the exciting conclusion to the Lost & Found series. This new adult contemporary romance is recommended for audiences 17+ due to dark themes and heavy content. 73,500 words (approximately 290 print pages).

I wanted to write Game of Kings because I have spent 20 years playing Tournament Chess and I thought people might find this world intriguing, because of the nature of the game and because of the strange assortment of people I met and got to know.
I chose to use a template plot, and picked my favorite, the tried and true structure of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. I did not use the character names, but just the personalities and plot points. I’ve always been intrigued by the brilliance of these plot devices. I love how Lizzy and Mr. Darcy are thrown so believably together by her sister’s love interest in his dearest friend. The chemistry is built into the relationship by the fact that though they dislike each other, they are confined together in a closed space for lengths of time.
Chess tournaments are ripe for this. We often joke that we are really like a big dysfunctional family. Even if you hate each other you might find yourself paired against each other in a game, forced to sit across from each other for as long as 7 hours for a game.
Another feature that I like about Game of Kings is that I didn’t write this one alone, I wrote it as a team with the wonderful editor I used for The Oshkosh Trilogy, DJ Natelson, an author whose work I respect and admire. I believe that working alone I could not have achieved the level of success that Game of Kings has had, because I simply would have put way too much chess in there, and alienated the bulk of my readers.
After all, this book is not for chess players, it is for fans of Jane Austen. And most chess players, as you will learn from the book, are so obsessed with chess they rarely raise their head above the board to look around at the world, much less the romance novels contained in it.