This book is dedicated to all the women, who are in denial. A cautionary tale, that proves most women, don't have a clue, about men.

Ladies be careful out there!

When sixteen-year-old Jodi meets Brett, she is sure she has found the love of her life. But when the growing romance leads to an unplanned pregnancy, the strength of their commitment is challenged.
But a far more deadly challenge is yet to come! A few years later, the couple's happy and busy lives are shattered when Jodi is diagnosed with cancer and must leave her family in rural B.C. to seek months of treatment in Vancouver.
Will Jodi's faith in God and love for Brett and their son Christopher be strong enough to see her through?
Can Brett resist the temptation of a vivacious girl who attracts his attention while Jodi fights her life-and-death battle far away?
Jodi and Brett face hard choices that ultimately change their lives and cause emotional, spiritual, and personal growth.

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Deliciously erotic, Passions seduces you with the fantasies of Emily, a young lady at the portal of her sexual awakening. Naïve, manipulative and willful, Emily is haunted by agoraphobia (a fear of public places), and seeks refuge in the rural California home of Millie, a high school teacher.

Emily, in her secluded world, is romantically and sexually constrained by her neurosis. The solution is to put pen to paper and visualize the erotic world denied to her. But merely writing of unfulfilled pleasures is hardly exciting enough for the eighteen year old voyeur. Enigmatic and hauntingly beautiful, she plays on the repressed desires of Millie to spin a web from fantasy to reality.

The daring and risky demands of Emily's story entwine the unsuspecting Millie in a world of adult movies and exotic swinger parties. Emily thrills at the thought of pulling the strings of her characters but finds that her own psyche is being manipulated by real people unknown to her. Through an intricate web of fantasy and need, Emily becomes a player in one ultimate adventure; the outcome of which will determine her fate.

This tale pushes eroticism to the edge. A first novel by Ronal Cal, it is a 'must read' for anyone who has dwelled on the realm of sexual fantasy. Written by a former teacher and swinger, it is the ultimate bedtime story. You won't put it down once Emily puts her ear to the bedroom wall.

Valiana (Vali), a child of Spanish aristocracy from the Franco era, is engaged from an early age to a noble class German boy. They see each other during summer while growing up but neither is concerned about marriage until one day Vali realizes that in a few months she is bound for the wedding. While at medical school in Madrid she meets an American enlisted man (Reagan) whom she initially dismisses but he refuses to give up seeing her. She escapes the upcoming marriage by telling Reagan she doesn't love him but she will marry him. He is stunned but accepts willingly and she breaks her engagement and her father's heart. When she and Reagan are married, she realizes that she has made a tremendous mistake as her love life is lacking. Another admirer also reinforces the tragedy of the wedding.

After she and Reagan are returned to the states, he is shipped to Turkey. She meets an American pilot whom she enjoys and he wants to marry her. When Reagan returns from Turkey, Vali tells him about the pilot but Reagan dismisses it and they are able to get a tour in Verona. Still unfulfilled, she settles in Verona and meets an Air Force couple, Wade and Cynthia. Wade is a Major in the NATO Communications Group. He and Cynthia have been divorced and remarried but their marriage is still rocky. Vali and Cynthia see each other frequently and Wade becomes intrigued with Vali. About this time, Reagan is assigned to the NCO Academy in Germany. Taking advantage of this, Wade goes to see Vali and tries to convince her to go out with him. Eventually they do go on a date and before long Vali begins to have feelings for Wade that she has never felt before. She even tells Cynthia about her feelings but Cynthia brushes her story off.

After meeting one night at a friend's house, Wade follows her home for a romantic and yet, unexpected evening. Shortly after, he asks her to spend the night at a friend's house. She agrees but on a condition that stuns Wade, however, in a short time he moves in with Vali and the American community is shocked. Soon there are queries from Wade's commanding general.

Reagan returns from the NCO Academy to face a reception of co-workers and Wade. When he realizes that Vali is leaving him, he goes into a rage but restrains himself. Later he challenges Wade to battle. During this time, Vali's original fiancé has become a German officer and is assigned to NATO in Verona. He tries to renew the friendship with the hope of winning Vali. Soon the headquarters calls Reagan for interrogation and he acknowledges that Wade is often seen with his wife. Wade is soon reprimanded by his commander and he leaves for the states shortly with Vali's promise that she will be there too. Shortly after, Vali's previous pilot lover comes for her. Two weeks later, Wade has not been able to contact Vali but waits for her at the Philadelphia airport. The situation there creates intense confusion as to whether he will ever see her again.

Sara had a perfect life, or so she thought. She had two wonderful children, a handsome husband and a beautiful home.
Something was telling her that things weren't quite right. She began to sense that something was pulling her and Jack in different directions.
Out of the blue, a stranger walks into her life. Sara feels something she has never felt before.
Will Sara follow her head or will she follow her heart?

Tim's station training is marked by a series of hilarious pitfalls, as time and again his naivety, and incompetence, lead him into difficulties - even landing him in the hospital a few times. Despite his growing reputation around the network for cock-ups, Tim finds romance with fellow station assistant Carol Wright, and eventually moves into her flat, although he faces competition from fluffy cat Cuddles.

Encouraged by Carol, Tim decides to seek promotion to train driver and to his shock is accepted, although his training continues to be marked by mishaps and mistakes. Tim and Carol take holiday in Greece and Tim proposes, to Carol's delight. However, on their return, a prank at work sends him packing to his parent's home. Fortunately the truth is revealed and they eventually make it to the alter.

Returning from their honeymoon, they discover the union has called a strike, leaving Carol in a panic over finances. Carol ends up working for Tim's dad at the local chicken farm, and although Tim holds out as long as he can, he ends up cleaning windows until the strike is finished, if only to show Carol how much he cares. When Carol discovers she is pregnant, the couple look for a larger home near Tim's parents. Carol gives birth to a baby boy called Tim, and they live happily ever after.

Can one place help two people come to terms with the past, and can a series of long-distance letters provide the basis for a future?

Reaching out into Lake Michigan, the slender peninsula of Door County, Wisconsin is a place of idyllic beauty and rustic charm - of sailboats and sunsets, dormant cherry orchards, and dry-docked wooden fishing boats. It is a place Brian Bailey loves - and tries to escape to. But the quaint tourist towns, quiet back roads, and weathered gray barns offer little respite from his memories.

Memories never known bring Colleen O'Connell from Arizona to The Door in search of the places her brother held dear. Hoping to find remembrance in a place she's never been, she finds instead an old farmhouse, perched atop a hill.

The story of two people brought together by the very distance that separates them, Searching for the Postmark asks difficult and uniquely human questions about what it means to live, love, and die - and how the fellowship of family helps us find meaning in the fleeting nature of our existence. From the remembrance and longing of autumn to the excitement and hope of spring, Brian and Colleen's journey through the seasons tells a story of holding on and letting go, of memories kept and created, of letters sent and unsent. A beautifully descriptive and deeply introspective testament to the power of people and place, Searching for the Postmark is a summer read that will stay with you into fall, and winter.

"What I hope to have written," writes author Jeff Donovan, "is a book that, in addition to telling a nice story, will also give the reader pause to think and reflect, on the death of a loved one, and on that from which we draw meaning in our lives."

A thought provoking love story about accepting the loss of a loved one, Searching for the Postmark will appeal to anyone who finds special meaning in the dream of Door County, and have meaning for anyone who has lost a special loved one.

Surviving drowning Cassie hopes for a fairytale life. Reality delivers discrimination, the forces of nature, sexual predators, loss of loved ones - all challenges she overcomes through her Liyan thread.

Starting in 1939 on a remote Island in the Indian Ocean, the story follows the life of Cassie, her family and friends, through the trials of growing up during World War II, the post-war era, the love affairs and difficulties of single parenthood. Spanning nearly thirty years, the reader will get an insight into the rough and tumble of outback life in Australia and the characters spawned by the times and the territory.

Any inner journey, to true spirituality, is an individual one. It can be found, not only in the teachings of the ancients, but in many cultures as well. This story is a beautiful allegory, showing the pitfalls and dangers mortals have to overcome on their way to eternal life.

The author's attitude takes the reader through the initiation of another culture, although the culture is startlingly like our own. His whole aim is to make us see the "rich qualities of life" that play an important role for those seeking inner peace. Mr. Patrick proves how unspoken words express the most advanced philosophy. He shows that we can master the forces that shape personal reality. These powerful forces, which work within each heart and soul, are always present

No matter the outer chaos of events in the lives of the main characters, they always look within themselves for inner truth. They live their daily lives with peace, love and caring. Others live by terrestrial laws, living for status, power, or control. This story mirrors earthly life experiences in all of its aspects.

The author lets his readers wander into paradise, to a new awakening that can elevate them to new heights and great depths of inner awareness. He clearly expresses that we can attain a world of love, truth and beauty.

The wedding ceremony reestablishes every individual's spiritual marriage with God and universe. Mr. Patrick exemplifies special traits in his, proving literature of power and knowledge. It is great reading with a style and spell all its own. "Compellingly readable," says one reader.

The author's talent to create suspense and drama arouses curiosity which connects to the readers interest and makes Inner Journey an absorbing novel.

For more information about this book, or to read the essay What Is An Inner Journey?, visit the author's website at http://innerjourney-lawrence.blogspot.com/

Coke on the Rocks is a powerful drama set in sunny Spain, about a group of expatriates struggling to live a normal life on the Costa del Sol. But it seems impossible for them not to get drawn into the insidious underworld of criminal activity.

This book has terrific pace and is a wonderful example of fiction enhanced by fact. It is written in a way as to entertain as well as inform, and is very funny in parts due to the colourful characters whose lives we follow as they evolve and grow.

Drug smuggling is on the increase, and the cocaine consumption in Spain is higher than anywhere else in Europe. Prostitution and promiscuity are two more examples of the darker side of life, hidden behind the seductive high life that is advertised in the brochures and the media.

Some of the scenes in this novel will shock and may seem unbelievable - but trust me - there is far more fact than fiction in Coke on the Rocks.

This book is not only a must for all expatriates but also a warning to anyone in the U.K. who is thinking about moving to Spain.

The Costa is a fabulous place to live - but only if you are aware of the pitfalls.

Before you buy your dream villa you really must read Coke on the Rocks.

Soon after moving in, her live in boyfriend moves out and goes to live with his over possessive mother after a seemingly small tiff about a cold cup of tea. Instead of a kss and reconciliation, Jacky receives a wedding invitation from him. She is not named as the bride at his wedding. Attending the wedding escorted by rich, handsome Declan Kavanagh as pretend lover's made a mockery of the ceremony but afterwards, the emotions and the charm of Declan vividly explodes in her mind when she wakes up the next day completely naked in bed with her wedding partner and discovers the ecstacy of their pretend love was real.

"What have I done?" was her plaintive cry.

The new client at her Advertising Firm was millionaire Sir Robert Ravenhead who seems to think money buys whatever he wants and he made it clear that he wanted her. She was his Project Accounts Manageress for his Book Promotion.

The two men in her life were women magnets and Jacky's emotios were rocked with more questions than answers. She confides her confused romantic feelings with her best friend Jennifer who warns her to beware

Jacky is determined to maintain a professional image with Robert and at the same time show her sexy friend Declan that loving is not just lust.

Money cannot buy love.

Jennifer tells her that Declan never did anything without a backup. He even used two fertility protection devices and that was significant.

Did she make the right choice when she asked Declan to wash up the evening meal dishes?

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In the backcountry of North Carolina in 1927, 13-year-old Harriet, motherless since birth and rejected by Joshua, her father, and ignored by Ida, her jealous stepmother, has no expectations that she will ever be loved. When she encounters Spider, a man of deception, whose own childhood experiences are despicable, she is like a dirt dauber's nest with the dirt still wet, not yet secure in its foundation, its edges raw, unpolished and easily uprooted. She has never before met a man who calls himself Spider, but she knows spiders -the many legged kind. She knows how they weave webs to trap unsuspecting victims. But she believes Spider offers her the love no one else has, and her need is like that of someone in a dry desert with parched lips. His entrapment of her and the consequences she endures come long before a conjure woman, a painter, an old Indian man and a host of other unlikely characters change her expectations.

Buddy, top trainer at a harness racing track, turns his job over to his younger brother Manx, whom he has been grooming for the position since he was quite young. It is just at the time the raceway is taken over by new owners, the LeRoy family. Its new name is Kingdom 4.

The story is an intertwining of the personalities, strengths, ailments, and lineages of the horses and the people connected to the track. Throughout, horses and people are drawn together in an allegorical and metaphorical way to clarify conflicts, and comment on conditions, on and off the track.