Sometimes venting, sometimes ranting, and sometimes raving. This book takes you through three distinct styles; part inspirational, part personal feeling and part universal thought. This poetry is uncensored, uncorrupted and serious food for thought. Deep and meaningful the words capture more than her essence but share her voice. Innocent and confident at age twelve. She almost commits suicide over religion and world affairs. She was saved by angels that knew that knowledge for the sake of knowing, then teaching yourself to write and loving researching the answers would save her life. Elevation started where her life began, as a twelve-year old girl discovering the world. Troubled by life she became a writer to express her inner thoughts and emotions. In researching these thoughts for enlightenment, a life of harmony followed. Finding completion in a quest for world peace and humanity these poems share an open heart and mind. Being raised by: "Speak only when spoken to" and "Be seen not heard". She learned to express the desire to be seen and heard. The passion to be heard became habit and necessity to write. Whether by choice or chance she wrote about everything concerning life. What people said, what they didn't, and showed in body language. She watched and with that; saw a purpose. Elevation became habit and then purpose. She found freedom because the paper did not control her desires. Expression, love and desire were free to move from page to page. "By habit I wrote about the problems that which would come and go. Write through it, about it, and write a new way of seeing life." "Purpose ... it reminds me to keep writing for truth and reality. To show that life is worth a living record." The principle that she believes is "Now is now". Staying in the now and the present is the conclusion. To stay in the moment, to stay in motion and into the next moment are a perpetual motion of thought, reality and in personal poetry. Finally realizing that it is her childhood dream to be a book on the shelf, she shares the moments of her life as young person to adult. - A liberation of the three decades of the learning and feeling through these living pages.

Enjoy this sexy good girl meets bad boy story in this sensual romance from top-selling author Zuri Day, part of the Sin City Secrets series. She’s strictly off-limits but when their worlds collide, sparks fly… will they be engulfed by the flames? After a serious accident, worldly CEO Noah Breedlove’s family hires Damaris Glen as his live-in caretaker. She’s sheltered, far too innocent…and his instinct is to seduce her, even though he knows she’s forbidden fruit. As she heals the man, she heals his hardened heart, too. At least until their mutual attraction overrides logic, and she’s forced to choose between her family…and him. From Harlequin Desire: A luxurious world of bold encounters and sizzling chemistry. Sin City Secrets: Book 1: Sin City Vows Book 2: Ready for the Rancher Book 3: Sin City Seduction

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When an adopted daughter is murdered and her young son kidnapped from the home where multiple generations of their family live together, Inspector Dave Crouch inverstigates the disappearance of another family member and wonders aoubt secrets they may be hiding.

With a wink and a nod to Bram Stoker, New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith unites the casts of Tantalize and Eternal in a delicious dark fantasy her fans will devour. (Ages 14 & Up) "You’ll try to fight it. But you’ll only be fighting your true self. It’s done. It’s destined. In time, you’ll come to accept it." He pulled back his sleeve to reveal two dress watches. "In time, you’ll come to me." Quincie P. Morris, teen restaurateuse and neophyte vampire, is in the fight of her life -- or undeath. Even as she adjusts to her new appetites, she must clear her best friend and true love, the hybrid werewolf Kieren, of murder charges; thwart the apocalyptic ambitions of Bradley Sanguini, the seductive vampire-chef who "blessed" her; and keep her dead parents’ restaurant up and running. She hires a more homespun chef and adds the preternaturally beautiful Zachary to her wait staff. But with hundreds of new vampires on the rise and Bradley off assuming the powers of Dracula Prime, Zachary soon reveals his true nature -- and a flaming sword -- and they hit the road to staunch the bloodshed before it’s too late. Even if they save the world, will there be time left to salvage Quincie’s soul?