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Picture of ...And a Bottle of Rum
Date Added: July 21, 2011
Word Count: 113,435
In the middle of the ocean, lives are about to change.      Chastity Allen is a beautiful young woman with scars that run deep. Finally free of the nightmare of her youth, she finds herself living in a similar hell once more. Could life be so cruel as to show her hope on...
Current rating is 4.70. Total votes 20.
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Picture of A Beautiful Chorus of Chaos
Date Added: May 3, 2011
Word Count: 15283
America has changed. 2012 brought upon not the end of the world, but the end of society as we know it in America. A new party called the Raptors has taken the country by storm and they’re not giving it back. Most everyone has given up and joined them, out of fear or fatigue. Penelope had given...
Current rating is 2.50. Total votes 6.
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Picture of A Family's Burden
Date Added: February 9, 2012
Word Count: 53,765
 The funeral of shady businessman Lewis Stackhouse, unearths a horrifying secret: that he is the biological father of his granddaughter, Janice. For decades Lewis’s twisted deed remained the secret of his wife, Ruth; a former flame (who unbeknownst to Janice is her biological grandmother)...
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Picture of A Game of Hide and Seek
Date Added: February 20, 2012
Word Count: 93000
 Liberty "Libby" Ashlyn just wants answers.   Her long blonde hair, smoky-green eyes, and slender frame all seem to meet California expectations, except for that scar over her left eye, but she doesn't ever talk about that.  Gabriel Quinn, the famous rock legend, is always...
Current rating is 5.00. Total votes 1.
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Picture of A Keeper of Sorrows
Date Added: April 26, 2011
Word Count: 49,687
Keepers aren't supposed to love. They're not supposed to have any physical contact with a Mortal whatsoever. They're not allowed to reveal their name or what they are. But Jay did. He told Meredith everything, and he fell in love with her. He risked everything he had to be with her. What happens now...
Current rating is 2.33. Total votes 3.
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Picture of A Personal Hell: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Date Added: March 13, 2012
Word Count: 61,000
Private Gregory Morris lives with a secret that's tearing him apart. His childhood friend is the only one who knows. His decision to join the Army makes his life that much more difficult. Living the lie, loving in secret, and losing everyone close has Greg wondering if life's even worth living. Even...
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Picture of A Wicked Proposition
Date Added: January 24, 2012
Word Count: 157,000
A desperate young woman arrives in London to confront her negligent guardian, only to learn he has abandoned her sister and her family. She agrees to derail his attempts to set her sister aside, unknowingly agreeing to far more than she could ever have known. Too late she realizes the man she is sen...
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Picture of A Woman for the Ages
Date Added: January 24, 2011
Word Count: 262291
A small-town Ohio woman grows up to marry five generations of men (four of whom are geniuses) from the same bloodline, raises ten children, becomes internationally known and loved (using an alias) through a fairly unique Internet nude modeling career, and ultimately becomes history's most famous hum...
Current rating is 3.00. Total votes 2.
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Picture of Alto Rex
Date Added: July 27, 2011
Word Count: 70,542
Just as he is about to graduate and embark on life's adventures, Jacob Smith discovers that he is not of this world. Events lead him to the far-off galaxy of Bathene where he is swept up in a war between the Senite Warriors and the Alto Rex -- a war in which Jacob plays a significant part, though he...
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Picture of An Ordinary Life
Date Added: July 13, 2011
Word Count: 47,423
The novel opens in a village in north India at the beginning of the twentieth century. A farmer is looking out on his farm as the sun rises. Later in the day marriage proposals arrive for his preteen daughters, Sarala and Kanaka, from two prosperous families much above his class. After much ceremony...
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