Metamorphosis.An exquisite transformation. A necessary mechanism of evolution whereby the change is not only in appearance, but also behavior. My transformation possessed no beauty. Only pain.But just as the caterpillar morphs to a butterfly my strength is refined in the struggle, my flaws cocooned in the dark. If I survive the alteration my reward is to drink nectar and float on the breeze. Where I was once vulnerable, I will rise above. The same, but different.My name is Paige. I'm spreading my wings.
DD Lorenzo is a contemporary storyteller of love and suspense. She likes to think of her books as "Romance with a Twist"!DD resides in Maryland, The Land of Pleasant Living. She met the love of her life in high school and decided to look no further. Together, they have raised an eclectic and amazing family. When she isn't writing stories, she is rooting for the Baltimore Ravens or the Baltimore Orioles. Her favorite pastimes include spending time with the great people in her life and riding to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in her husband's classic Mustang. DD is currently working on books 5, "Beauty is a Bitch". Just an FYI - Book 1 is a cliffie that concludes in Book 2. Books 3, 4, and 5 are stand alone novels. That will complete the "Depth of Emotion" series.
You can find DD on FaceBook, Twitter, Goodreads and at www.ddlorenzo.com
Do you want to discover how Cleopatra, the famous Egyptian queen succeeded to manage stress and stress symptoms? She was not just one of the most beautiful women in the world, but also one of the most powerful ones. Find out what was her secret by reading this book. You will also find out many interesting things that helped, for example, Alexander The Great, Coco Chanel and many other famous inspirational leaders.
The most interesting thing is that their approach and strategies can be applied to us today. History has so much to offer to those who are open to learning from it.
Besides inspirations from historical leaders, this guide will show you how to fight stress on a practical, easy and relatively fast way.
You will learn how to strengthen:
* your mental health and stress resistance;
* self-confidence;
* self-control in stressful moments.
About the author: Gabriella Kindert (MBA, MA) is a finance executive who has worked in numerous countries for leading organizations. Over the years, she has attributed her success to hard work, diligence, and dedication. In addition to her job, she is a founding partner of several successful companies. Despite her busy schedule, she is a mother of two children and a devoted wife.
During her career she realised the importance of balance, nutrition, physical activity for better control of every aspect of life. She has established an organization called One Life, which actively promotes a healthier lifestyle. You can also follow her on Facebook.
Title : Gathering Darkness: A Paranormal Romance Boxed Set
Series: none
Author: various
Publisher: City Owl Press
Published Date: November 10, 2015
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Buy it: Amazon
Synopsis: There is a gathering on the horizon... It's a place where Vampires feed off your desires, Weres dominate you, Demons seduce you and Aliens whisk you away to fulfill fantasies you never knew you had. Where your darkest appetites are sated, leaving you weak and breathless... Come and join us as we lead you into the Gathering Darkness.
Stories included in this set:
Close Liasons by Anna Zaires & Dima Zales
The Time Stopper by Dima Zales
Shifted Undercover by C.E. Black
Capturing Her Bear by Charlie Daye
Bitten by Choice by Izzy Szyn
Let The Fur Fly and Red's Wolf by Jenika Snow
Walking Dead Girl by Lili Saint Germain
Dragon's Chase by Mina Carter
Zane (Were Zoo One) by R.E. Butler
Captive's Kiss by Sharon Kay
My rating: 4 1/2 Stars
My review: I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I originally got this from one of the authors, Sharon Kay, because she knows how much I adore her books and stories. And it was no different this time around! Captive's Kiss was yet another amazing story of hers, in the world I have come to know and live that started with the Solstii Series. Tanner and Saige are an incredible couple, brought together in the heat of the Solstice, a rabid Mating time for any denizen of her world. The story got off to an explosive start, meandered into an actual storyline (sorry y'all, this isn't just erotica), and ended with a....well, I won't spoil the end for you! All the while, I got to read and see more of the characters I have fallen in love with, the ones I have missed.
Of course, since her story was at the end of the book, I had to work my way from the back to the front.
But in the meantime, I have been able to be exposed to authors I have never read (yay!), and enjoy wonderfully written paranormal romance stories.
The Busy Person’s Guide to Everyday Enlightenment is the perfect antidote to the strains of modern living.
Featuring easy-to-follow meditations, yoga sequences, techniques and holistic advice that you can apply to even the busiest of lifestyles.
What makes this book different is that it is tailored to recognise in this time of hectic living that we all have the need to nurture, care and centre ourselves, yet we don’t always have the time for long practices to achieve this. Ironically, the very thing we have convinced ourselves we don’t have time to do - looking after ourselves - is what can lead to better health and a sense of inner calm.
Within these pages, you will find easy-to-follow sequences.
This book is a helping hand to those who wish to fit in some me-time self-care even into the most time-starved of lifestyles.
You can learn to…
• Develop techniques in as little as 5 minutes a day that can help you deal with stress
• Turn everyday stressful situations into meditation just by shifting your perspective
• Nourish your body with simple yoga schedules that can help target specific areas or states of mind, no matter how busy you are
• Bring the holistic into the hectic and learn to Zen out when the rest of the world is rushing
• Improve and progress with the help of handy tips
• Enjoy guilt-free self-nurturing
About the author:
I grew up on a hill in the north of England. From a young age, I wanted to live in London. As a child, during the depths of night, I'd often listen to the hum of passing trains. Sometimes I'd run to my bedroom window hoping to catch a glimpse so that I could pretend that I too was travelling on one, speeding along, London bound, like the rest of the world was sleeping.
So one day in my late teens, I bought a one-way ticket and travelled to London with just £30.00 in my pocket and a bit of blind faith.
In my novel The Last Days of Lisa, (that I’m still writing), the main character Lisa mirrors how overwhelming it was for me to see London for the first time through the eyes of a teenager travelling alone….
‘London never rests, she thinks. It’s on speed. A vortex, absorbing everything. Running from its own stench but also basking in it. Seemingly superficial and plastic to those not enchanted by its ambivalent charms. London has a soul; a ravenous appetite that feeds on the egos of the thousands that flock here each day to get closer to their dreams. ‘
Not long after moving to London, yoga and writing graced my life. I think they both saved me. On the writing front the spark came after reading the book, Catcher in the Rye. I’d not had the opportunity to study much as a child but that didn’t matter now as this book blew me away.
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of c—p, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.” J.D Salinger
As for yoga, another book in the form of a second-hand yoga book written back in the 1960’s made its way into my mitts via a second-hand bookstore.
As I’d said earlier, to start with I wasn’t very good at either. Dyslexia and lack of flexibility and poor posture were my obstacles. I could see beyond that though as both yoga and writing offered me hope and possibilities that before this I hadn’t ever thought possible. Before yoga and writing I believed I was useless and had nothing to offer the world.
So I worked hard at studying for more than a decade. The author John Harding was the first teacher to believe in me. After studying writing under his inspiring tuition, I even managed to get a few novels published along the way.
On the yoga side, I studied both Hatha and later Kundalini yoga and despite not being naturally flexible nor a person who liked to sit still. It was in India back in 2004 that I had my first awakening experience.
During all this time, I also managed over the years to work my way up from an office junior job to a finally a supervisor position, having worked for most of my life in a string of unfulfilling office jobs. The good news that in October 2015 I left office work to become The Word Sprite full time!
The silver lining in all of this is through my personal experience of having to be creative with my time I came up with the concept of yoga and holistic solutions for modern day living. Hence, this is how The Word Sprite was born!
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** Warning ** This book is intended for those over 18 years of age due to mature and sexual content.
Have you ever wondered what it's like on the other side of the lights? On the other side of the camera? Better be careful what you wish for.
Daphne Baker is a struggling designer living in a third floor walkup that she can barely afford in Tribeca. When she has the opportunity of a lifetime to travel to L.A. and meet with a world-renowned designer interested in her work, the weekend leads to her surprisingly meeting one of the most famous men in the world.
He's sexy, he's talented, he's rich, he's got it all, right?
Colton Webb is only thirty and yet he's on the verge of becoming "washed out," having seen it all and done it all with the most famous of the in crowd. He's the quintessential Hollywood bad boy. Nothing surprises him anymore, nothing seems real.
That is, until he meets Daphne.
Could she be just what he needs to help find himself again, to find something he never thought existed outside the blockbuster films he makes? To find something... real?
They come from two different worlds, from two very different places. Can she find her way through the chaos to see him for more than the carefully constructed publicity machine he's been made into? Can she hold her own in The "A" List crowd he leads? Is he worth it?
Like the ending of every one of his mega successful movies, will Colton and Daphne find their real life happily ever after, or will it be a tragic love story gone wrong?
Love's safe when watching it play out on screen. It's something very different when you're living it. Daphne's about to find out exactly what it means to be a part of The "A" List. Can she find a way to stay true to herself along the way, or will she end up like the rest of them?
Preorder your copy today and be one of the first to find out, in this full length stand-alone novel with NO CLIFFHANGER. All preorders will include a bonus chapter of book 2 in The "A" List series, THE HARDER THEY FALL.
You can now purchase All the Pretty Lights on Amazon
More About Tara Oakes
Tara is a thirty something newbie author from Long Island, New York. She's a voracious reader, a passionate writer and obsessive junk T.V. aficionado. When she's not doing one of those three things she is attempting to garden, hanging with her hubby or partaking in some retail therapy. She enjoys connecting with her readers and is having a blast entering into this new world of publishing.
Metamorphosis. An exquisite transformation. A necessary mechanism of evolution whereby the change is not only in appearance, but also behavior. My transformation possessed no beauty. Only pain. But just as the caterpillar morphs to a butterfly my strength is refined in the struggle, my flaws cocooned in the dark. If I survive the alteration my reward is to drink nectar and float on the breeze. Where I was once vulnerable, I will rise above. The same, but different. My name is Paige.
DD Lorenzo is a contemporary storyteller of love and suspense.
She likes to think of her books as "Romance with a Twist"!
DD resides in Maryland, The Land of Pleasant Living.
She met the love of her life in high school and decided to look no further.
Together, they have raised an eclectic and amazing family.
When she isn't writing stories, she is rooting for the Baltimore Ravens or the Baltimore Orioles.
Her favorite pastimes include spending time with the great people in her life and
riding to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in her husband's classic Mustang.
DD is currently working on books 5, "Beauty is a Bitch".
Just an FYI - Book 1 is a cliffie that concludes in Book 2. Books 3, 4, and 5 are stand alone novels. That will complete the "Depth of Emotion" series.
You can find DD on FaceBook, Twitter, Goodreads and at www.ddlorenzo.com
