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2015 SPR (Self Publishing Review) Independent Woman Author bronze awardee Evy Journey has always been fascinated with words and seduced by beautiful prose. She loves Jane Austen and invokes her spirit every time she spins tales of love, loss, and finding one's way--stories she interweaves with mystery or intrigue and sets in various locales. She's lived and traveled in many places, from Asia to Europe. Often she's ended up in Paris, though—her favorite place in the world. She's an observer-wanderer. A flâneuse, as the French would say. You can find her musings on Paris and her adventures on food at http://eveonalimb.com. The mind is what fascinates her most. Armed with a Ph.D., she researched and helped develop mental health programs. And wrote like an academic. Not a good thing if you want to sound like a normal person. So, she's written fiction (mostly happy fiction) as an antidote.

Can a Victorian feminist tame her man when they finally marry? This sequel takes off from the titillating ending of the BBC miniseries, North and South, based on Elizabeth Gaskell's novel. John Thornton and Margaret Hale honeymoon in a vibrant mid-century Paris when impressionism was beginning to take hold and cafés were the place to be. They spend days of ease in Cadiz with her brother and his Spanish wife. These experiences change their outlook.Back in England, she deals with the problems of modernity and industrialization in a harsh bustling northern city. At the same time, she struggles with the age-old complexities of relating to her new husband and mother-in-law.Thornton is tender and loving towards Margaret but not as sensitive as she is to the needs of cotton mill workers. On Margaret's coaxing, he begins to care more for his factory workers. Both Thornton and Margaret step over the bounds of what society expects their roles to be. This blurring of roles leads them into a new way of meeting each other,more as unique individuals than persons taking on rigid roles.Margaret of the North resurrects Gaskell's feminist-leaning themes. It is a romance. But one set in the context of changing social and sexual roles, as well as artistic revolutions.An enduring romance, a guilty pleasure.

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Category: Romance; History

What would Elizabeth Bennet be like if she had been born today? What things would she have to cope with? In this modern-day tale inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, bright, beautiful law student Elise Halverson looks forward to a promising career. The last thing she needs is to fall in love with well-known playboy Greg Thorpe. Besides, he's engaged to be married. Greg finds Elise so unlike the women he used to date and he’s deeply intrigued. But distrusting the image she has of him, Elise tries to keep away. Elise’s parents invite Greg to their frequent dinner parties. There, Greg and Elise butt heads. She’s surprised to find that, behind his rich playboy persona, he’s intelligent and engaging. They can’t help feeling drawn to each other. The night before his wedding, they give in to their mutual attraction. Although Elise expects nothing more from that night, Greg is in for trouble. His jilted fiancée strikes back, intent on revenge. Two years later Greg and Elise get a second chance but they find that the way to their happy-ever-after is not so easy. For one, Greg is in for a surprise. Then, his former fiancée comes back and trouble returns to haunt Greg and Elise again. At the core of this women’s fiction is a literary and realistic romance spiced with a twist of mystery. Hello My Love is Book 1 in the series Between Two Worlds, a family saga about three strong women. In three tales of loss, love, second chances, and finding one’s way, they cope with issues contemporary women face.

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Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense; Romance

Elise Halverson-Thorpe thought she knew her mother. But when her oldest brother attempts suicide, dark secrets are about to be revealed. Now, Agnieszka Halverson realizes she must tell her children a past she's kept buried--the tale of what happened in her youth, back in the exciting,changing seventies. More importantly, she will need to reconnect with the strength that allowed her to conquer the past and have hope for the future.As a child in the seventies, she hears her talented, lusty grandaunt Jola, a concert pianist in Poland, give a piano recital. Agnieszka discovers a passion for music. Jola hones her talent and feeds her dreams. But too poor to continue her training, her dreams of being like her grandaunt are shattered. And her thorny relationship with her mother worsens.Agnieszka meets Lenny Weisz and they fall in love, renewing her hopes for happiness. But forces beyond their control end their love.Her family--weighed down by its roots--casts her aside. Can music and memories of her first love help Agnieszka make a life for herself all alone Can she rise from the losses she has suffered and get a second chance at happiness?Hello Agnieszka tells the tale of a mother's youthful dreams, thwarted and renewed amidst the exciting promise of the 70s.

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Category: Literature & Fiction

***Summer Special: Discounted from $3.99 for the month of July*** Leilani’s mother has never set foot in her school until the day she whisks her children out of their Pacific Island country, without their father and without explanation. Eighteen years later, Leilani just wants to leave the past behind, move forward. She has settled peacefully in California and like her long-lost father, she heals people. But her tranquil existence is disturbed one evening. A computer nerd and culinary whiz with a biting sense of humor, Justin is brokenhearted from the loss of his girlfriend who has left him after seven years. All he wants is to drown his sorrows. But he finds more trouble than he’s looking for when thugs assault him. On her way home from work, Leilani sees the assault. An ace with a gun, she rescues him. Weeks later, they meet again and find themselves attracted to each other. Fearing Justin is on the rebound, or has a rescuer complex, Leilani doesn’t want to get involved. But Leilani cannot deny her feelings. As they begin to fall in love, her past comes back to haunt her. A friend of her father arrives with news which forces her mother to reveal a shocking, shameful secret—the truth about the role Leilani’s father played in a deadly political web. Can Leilani deal with the truth? But hero or villain, he is her father and only she and Justin can rescue him from the island she’d left long ago. At the core of this women’s fiction is an Asian woman-white man interracial romance spun with international political intrigue and a young woman’s acceptance of her past. Welcome Reluctant Stranger is Book 3 in a family saga. In three tales of loss, love, second chances, and finding one’s way, three strong women cope with issues contemporary women face

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Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense; Romance