Simon Says

Debut author T.L. Osborn offers a great introduction to her engaging writing in Simon Says.  Full of steamy office interludes and sweet romantic moments showcasing falling in love this work displays all this author’s promise in a very well put together package!

This writer adeptly balanced multiple facets of her hero, Simon Billington, from corporate CEO and well known playboy to single father and devoted family man for one swoony hero.  The pages of this book really lit up when Simon was coupled with sexy but bumbling heroine Aria Thompson for an insta connection that easily carried through to the end of this story.  While a steady simmer kept the pages hot Ms. Osborn presented an insightful and absorbing plot populated with memorable characters insuring readers entire attention to her work.  An exceptional job as done by this author in her portrayal of Simon’s young daughter Charlotte, who was interesting yet age accurate in her mannerisms. T.L. Osborn’s sexy wit brings a distinctive new voice to the world of contemporary romance in Simon Says!

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Bad Rules

Diehard feminist Lily Philips-Thomas has a lot of rules and the cocky guitarist for the band the Wild Minds, Asher Price, is set on breaking every one of them or at the very least bending them.  When the two cannot resist their attraction a whole new set of rules come into play and neither of them is prepared to follow them!

For some people love is hard to embrace. They crave it, yet do everything possible to destroy it.  If they are lucky they manage to want it more then they want to be without it and Charlotte West gives a wonderful rendition of ultimately wanting love more with Lily and Ash’s story.  Book three in the Wild Minds series, Bad Rules, is full of miscommunications both internal and external that run amok in this author’s one of a kind take on relationships with a rock ‘n’ roll twist.  Ash and Lily were determined to not admit they wanted more than a casual fling even as their actions proved otherwise.  Full of Ms. West’s angsty charm her well written words spoke volumes even as her characters muttered denials. This author always stays true to her portrayals even in their less flattering moments and you gotta love it.  She uses humor as a nice device not to downplay what is going on but to move her story to the next level giving readers and her characters a little bit of breathing room in what otherwise could result in one big hot hormonal mess.  Lily and Ash while seemingly incompatible yet complimented each other as characters. Theirs was a hot and stubborn romance full of extremes. Bad Rules continues this series strong trajectory of great writing and irresistible stories thanks to the wild mind of Charlotte West!

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Vandal

If you are looking for an easy read Vandal is not it, but if you are looking for one that is well written  with portrayals who linger and make you think beyond what you may normally find acceptable Ms. Cole will give you that in abundance with this story.  Cole comfortably takes on the mantle of brave author as she unflinchingly brings to the pages of her work characters that defy the social norms of romance.

Forged in tragedy this was an emotionally powerful book. This writer did not fix her characters but she found a place where they could move on and little by little take part in life again. Their pain was concrete and their finding solace in each other was no surprise, but how they moved forward shows just how strong this author’s storytelling abilities are when she takes readers to a seemingly hopeless place and fills it with possibilities.  The twist and turns of this love story were painful and exhilarating and at times terrifying in the depths of this couple’s despair.  Ms. Cole shows kindness in her characters even as she bares their questionable personality traits to intense scrutiny.  Vandal was feral and could not quite make the leap to socially acceptable behavior making his response to his circumstances somewhat expected, Tabitha on the other hand was the one who kept amping up the surprise factor.  Displaying remarkable skill this writer’s use of a blind cat, who loves unconditionally and sees with his heart, as a vehicle to guide readers and characters alike to a place of goodness in the darkness of this couple’s struggle with their morality was a stroke of genius. Vandal may not deliver rainbows and flowers but its journey on lesser traveled roads to love in the distinctive words of Carian Cole was riveting to the very end.

*While part of a series this book can be read as a stand alone.*

Release Date: July 11, 2018

Cover Designer: Sarah Hansen / Okay Creations

Synopsis

Feminist and all around world’s greatest best friend, Lily Philips-Thomas has a rule for everything.

Rule One

No matter how many proposals you receive (seventeen to be exact) don’t ever get married. Marriage is a tool of the patriarchy.

Rule Two

Speaking of the patriarchy, don’t fall in love with an alpha a-hole rock star that believes the sun rises and sets with him. This will only lead to heartache.

Rule Three

Let’s say the alpha a-hole does break your heart. Do not ever forgive him. God could be a woman but the devil is most certainly a man.

Rule Four

Chicks before d*cks. Never let your best friend down even if it means coming face to face with the alpha a-hole who broke your heart and wants you back.

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Bad Rules

Diehard feminist Lily Philips-Thomas has a lot of rules and the cocky guitarist for the band the Wild Minds, Asher Price, is set on breaking every one of them or at the very least bending them.  When the two cannot resist their attraction a whole new set of rules come into play and neither of them is prepared to follow them!

For some people love is hard to embrace. They crave it, yet do everything possible to destroy it.  If they are lucky they manage to want it more then they want to be without it and Charlotte West gives a wonderful rendition of ultimately wanting love more with Lily and Ash’s story.  Book three in the Wild Minds series, Bad Rules, is full of miscommunications both internal and external that run amok in this author’s one of a kind take on relationships with a rock ‘n’ roll twist.  Ash and Lily were determined to not admit they wanted more than a casual fling even as their actions proved otherwise.  Full of Ms. West’s angsty charm her well written words spoke volumes even as her characters muttered denials. This author always stays true to her portrayals even in their less flattering moments and you gotta love it.  She uses humor as a nice device not to downplay what is going on but to move her story to the next level giving readers and her characters a little bit of breathing room in what otherwise could result in one big hot hormonal mess.  Lily and Ash while seemingly incompatible yet complimented each other as characters. Theirs was a hot and stubborn romance full of extremes. Bad Rules continues this series strong trajectory of great writing and irresistible stories thanks to the wild mind of Charlotte West!

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Feminist and all around world’s greatest best friend, Lily Philips-Thomas has a rule for everything.

Rule One

No matter how many proposals you receive (seventeen to be exact) don’t ever get married. Marriage is a tool of the patriarchy.

Rule Two

Speaking of the patriarchy, don’t fall in love with an alpha a-hole rock star that believes the sun rises and sets with him. This will only lead to heartache.

Rule Three

Let’s say the alpha a-hole does break your heart. Do not ever forgive him. God could be a woman but the devil is most certainly a man.

Rule Four

Chicks before d*cks. Never let your best friend down even if it means coming face to face with the alpha a-hole who broke your heart and wants you back.

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Before I could reply, I was spun around, back pressed against the counter. Ash’s hand held firm to the back of my neck. His mouth slammed down on mine. All objections fled my body. Desire erupted. His tongue slid into my mouth. And I gave myself over to it. The want. The need. I’d missed him. So much. Our kiss was rabid, raw, intense. Everything we’d once had was still there only better, bigger.

My leg hiked around his waist. I was bare beneath the robe, and the hard ridge of jeans and the bulge underneath rubbed against my core, adding a little bite to my pleasure. His hand cradled my head, kept me steady. God knows I was shaking in the best way possible. A strong arm held me firmly. The robe slipped from my shoulders and gapped opened. Guess I’d done terrible work on my knot job. My hands slipped under his T-shirt, feeling the solid planes of his abs and pecs. He seemed a bit leaner than before, but slightly more muscled. I didn’t mind at all. In fact, I couldn’t wait to see.

He pulled back, reached behind him, and yanked his shirt off. Chains hung around his neck—his father’s dog tags, a guitar pick from his first concert, a pinkie ring a girl had given him. (He didn’t remember her name, just the moment—the first time he’d heard The Who on the radio.)

My fingers traveled up his chest. God, his body felt so right under my hands. It was like coming home. All these years traveling, and Asher Price’s arms were the best place I’d ever been. My mouth found his again. He clutched me tighter, so we were skin to skin, my nipples pebbling from the cold chains and from being so very turned on. He pushed against me, grinding. I fumbled for his zipper. His hands slid under my ass and we were leaving the bathroom. Somehow he managed to keep a hold on me and open the door.

“Bed,” he grunted. “I’m not fucking you in bathrooms anymore.”

Sounded good to me. I threaded my fingers through the short strands on his head. His lips brushed my ear as he laid me on the bed. He came down on top of me. I trembled, opening my legs wider, giving him more room.

“I’ve been going out of my mind over you,” he said.

Ditto. Loving or hating, we drove one another to our highest heights.

“You’re the best thing I’ve ever fucking seen. My pretty Lily. Beautiful inside and out.” His mouth fixed on the side of my neck and sucked. I groaned. Blood rushed to my sex, making me ache for him.

A shuffling noise sounded outside the door. “Wait.” I struggled against Ash’s hold.

“Fuck no,” he said. His mouth laved a path over my collarbone, my neck, finishing by nibbling along my jaw.

“Did you hear that?” I asked. Was someone eavesdropping on us? Listening in was totally okay when I did it, but not when someone else did it to me.

Ash drew back, eyes cloudy. “What? No.”

A soft knock. Shit. What a crap time for someone to come calling. Or maybe it was the best. Regret hadn’t settled in yet, but it was lurking. Were Asher and I about to make a mistake?

“Ash?” It was Lix’s voice, unsure and hesitant.

“Go the fuck away,” Ash said. He lifted a fluffy pillow from the bed and launched it at the door. That man and throwing things.

“I think we should talk about your texts.”

Ash squeezed his eyes shut in a god-give-me-patience way. “I didn’t send them. Lily did.”

Lix’s reply was slow. “Riiight.”

“I’m serious.” Poor Ash, didn’t anyone ever tell him that the more you insisted on something, the less plausible it sounded?

“I totally believe you.” He totally did not. “Listen man, I get that you might have certain feelings. And I’m cool with it, but I don’t see you that way, all right?”

“All right.” Ash had no choice but to agree. He must have realized the shortest route to Lix going away was to cooperate.

“Just to be clear, I’m strictly into vagina.”

“Got it.”

“Good talk.”

“Sorry,” I mouthed to Ash, laughing silently.

Beyond the door stayed quiet. We waited a beat to make sure Lix had left. Then when the coast seemed clear, our gazes settled on each other. The heat of the moment had dissipated. Cold reality set in. I hated him. Right. Right? Nevertheless, Ash was still between my legs. My breasts were on full display. Awkward. I scooted up the bed and closed the robe.

Ash scowled.

I looked anywhere but at him. The awkwardness ratcheted up a notch. I picked at the duvet. “That was a mistake.”

His lips pinned shut; obviously he was not happy with my revelation. “No.” His voice was so low I almost didn’t hear him. My eyes darted to his profile.

He stood. His jaw tightened. Fuck he was good looking, beautiful really. Sculptors could have carved him. He’d been mine once.

“That wasn’t a mistake. Nothing we’ve ever done together was a mistake.” He knelt on the bed so he was close to me. He cupped my cheek.

I had nothing.

“Now, I’m going to kiss you again, and not because I’m pissed you sent some ridiculous texts from my phone. I’m going to kiss you because I want to. Because I want you. And you’re going to kiss me back.” He grazed my lips, softly but surely. “I’m going out of my mind over you,” he murmured against my mouth. A sigh swept through my body, my soul. I closed my eyes. Kissed Ash back.

And just like that, my sworn enemy turned into my friend with benefits.

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Looking For Trouble

It takes a special kind of writer to take on a character like Danny Boy and in shedding light on his flaws make him a hero worthy of his own happily ever after. Candid intimate moments take readers to a place best described as the literary equivalent of Cinema Verite in book five of the Rogue series, Looking for Trouble.  Incredibly revealing Ms. Ward-Cosio’s presents Danny Boy in an unfiltered and not always flattering light. There was so much to love about this character despite his affinity and comfort in bad decision making.

Adept plot building takes this work from a love story that spans from learning to love one’s self to loving those around you and ultimately finding your true love. This author’s insightful writing shows her character’s struggles and choices in a way that makes them accessible to readers who may never experience similar ones in their own scope of experience but will be able to empathize with Danny Boy nonetheless. The very definition of the anti hero, Ms. Ward-Cosio gave layers and depth to Danny Boy that took him from being consigned to the villain category to a memorable character that readers will love even as he stumbled through embracing who he was. A journey of self discovery, Looking for Trouble was genuine, reflective and most of all forgiving.

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IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME will release on AUGUST 7th!

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Returning home for her father’s wedding was never going to be easy for Adele. If being sent away at eighteen hadn’t been bad enough, the mess she left behind when she made a pass at her dad’s business partner sure was.

Fifteen years older than her, Pete had been her crush for as long as she could remember. But she’d misread the situation—confusing friendliness for undying love. Awkward. Add her father to the misunderstanding, and Pete was left with a broken nose and a business on the edge of ruin. The man had to be just as glad as everyone else when she left town.

Seven years later, things are different. Adele is no longer a kid, but a fully grown adult more than capable of getting through the wedding and being polite. But all it takes is seeing him again to bring back those old feelings.

Sometimes first loves are the truest.

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Bane, the highly-anticipated next standalone in the Sinners of Saint Series by L.J. Shen is LIVE

Bane

Naked surfer. Habitual pothead. A con, a liar, a thief and a fraud.

Last I heard, he was extorting the rich and screwing their wives for a living.

Which is why I’m more than a little surprised to find him at my threshold, looking for my friendship, my services, and most puzzling of all—looking humbled.

Thing is, I’m on a boycott. Literally—I cut boys from my life. Permanently.

Problem is, Bane is not a boy, he is all man, and I’m falling, crashing, drowning in his sweet, perfect lies.

Jesse Carter

Hot as hell, cold as ice.

I wasn’t aware of her existence until a fat, juicy deal landed in my lap.

She’s a part of it, a little plaything to kill some time.

She is collateral, a means to an end, and a side-bonus for striking a deal with her oil tycoon stepdad.

More than anything, Jesse Carter is a tough nut to crack.

Little does she know, I have the f****** teeth for it.

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Bane

Then.

A liar.

A con.

A godless thief.

My reputation was a big wave that I rode, one that swallowed everyone around me, drowning every attempt to fuck with what’s mine.

I’d been known as a stoner, but power was my real drug of choice. Money meant nothing. It was tangible, and therefore easy to lose. See, to me, people were a game. One I’d always known how to win.

Move the rooks around.

Change the queen when necessary.

Guard the king at all fucking times.

I was never distracted, never deterred, and never jealous.

So, imagine my surprise when I found myself being all three at once.

It was a siren with coal black hair who robbed me of riding the biggest wave I’d seen that summer. Of my precious attention. Of my goddamn breath.

She glided from the ocean to the beach like nightfall.

I crouched down, straddling my surfboard, gawking.

Edie and Beck stopped beside me, floating on their boards in my periphery.

“This one’s taken by Emery Wallace,” Edie had warned. Thief.

“This one’s the hottest masterpiece in town.” Beck had chuckled. Con.

“More importantly, she only dates rich bastards.” Liar.

I had all the ingredients to pull her in.

Her body was a patch of fresh snow. White, fair, like the sun shone through her, never quite soaking in. Her skin defied nature, her ass defied my sanity, but it was the words on her back that made my logic rebel.

It wasn’t her curves or the way she swayed her hips like a dangling, poisonous apple that warranted my reaction to her.

It was that tattoo I had noticed when she swam close to me earlier, the words trickling down the nape of her neck and back in a straight arrow.

My Whole Life Has Been Pledged to This Meeting with You

Pushkin.

I only knew one person who went gaga over the Russian poet, and, like the famous Alexander, he was currently six feet under.

My friends began to paddle back to shore. I couldn’t move. It felt like my balls were ten tons heavy. I didn’t believe in love at first sight. Lust, maybe, but even that wasn’t the word I was looking for. No. This girl fucking intrigued me.

“What’s her name?” I snatched Beck’s ankle, yanking him back to me. Edie stopped pedaling and looked back, her gaze ping-ponging between us.

“Doesn’t matter, bro.”

“What’s. Her. Name?” I repeated through a locked jaw.

“Dude, she’s, like, way young.”

“I will not repeat myself a third time.”

Beck’s throat bobbed with a swallow. He knew damn well that I didn’t mess around. If she was legal—it was on.

“Jesse Carter.”

Jesse Carter was going to be mine before she even knew me.

Before I even knew her.

Before her life turned upside down and her fate rewrote itself with her blood.

So here was the truth that even my lying ass wouldn’t admit later on in our story—I wanted her before.

Before she became business.

Before the truth caged her in.

Before the secrets gushed out.

I never did get to surf that day.

My surfboard broke.

Should have known it was an omen.

My heart was going to be next in line.

And for a small chick, she did one hell of a fucking job obliterating it.

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L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.

Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.

She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.

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Bane, the highly-anticipated next standalone in the Sinners of Saint Series by L.J. Shen is coming May 10th!

Bane by L.J. Shen

Release Date: May 10th

Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Bane

Naked surfer. Habitual pothead. A con, a liar, a thief and a fraud.

Last I heard, he was extorting the rich and screwing their wives for a living.

Which is why I’m more than a little surprised to find him at my threshold, looking for my friendship, my services, and most puzzling of all—looking humbled.

Thing is, I’m on a boycott. Literally—I cut boys from my life. Permanently.

Problem is, Bane is not a boy, he is all man, and I’m falling, crashing, drowning in his sweet, perfect lies.

Jesse Carter

Hot as hell, cold as ice.

I wasn’t aware of her existence until a fat, juicy deal landed in my lap.

She’s a part of it, a little plaything to kill some time.

She is collateral, a means to an end, and a side-bonus for striking a deal with her oil tycoon stepdad.

More than anything, Jesse Carter is a tough nut to crack.

Little does she know, I have the f****** teeth for it.

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L.J. Shen is an International #1 best-selling author of Contemporary Romance and New Adult novels. She lives in Northern California with her husband, young son and chubby cat.

Before she’d settled down, L.J. (who thinks referring to herself in the third person is really silly, by the way) traveled the world, and collected friends from all across the globe. Friends who’d be happy to report that she is a rubbish companion, always forgets peoples’ birthdays and never sends Christmas cards.

She enjoys the simple things in life, like spending time with her family and friends, reading, HBO, Netflix and internet-stalking Stephen James. She reads between three to five books a week and firmly believes Crocs shoes and mullets should be outlawed.

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Lennon Reborn

Author: Scarlett Cole

Series: Preload #4

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: May 1, 2018

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press SWERVE

Format: Digital and Paperback

Lennon McCartney is not a broken man. Because being broken implies being whole once. When a horrific accident deprives him of the one thing he loves—his talent as a fierce and explosive drummer—Lennon is left with a life chained by an abusive mother, by crushing guilt over a tragic past. A life he doesn’t want.

Dr. Georgia Starr is a legend. She’s one of the most successful neurosurgeons in the world, coming from a long-line of respected New York doctors. Her life is built around solving complex medical cases in order to bring relief and hope to sick children. But the one problem she can’t solve is how to live her life. How to shake loose the burden of being her elitist, arrogant father’s daughter. How to be free.

Can a man who despises his life and a woman who desperately needs to live find the answers, and love, with each other?

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Lennon Reborn

Lennon McCartney has taunted readers from the inception of the Pre-load series with his elusive behavior and mixed signals.  On one hand he could be endearing yet just as easily turn aloof and at times seemingly spiteful.  No person could really reach him until his fated encounter with Dr. Georgia Starr. In Lennon Reborn, the inner workings and the culminations of the leads past come to the forefront as they deal with an event that bonds them in an intimate and exclusive way. The title aptly describes how Lennon voiced his need to be released from his pain in a poignant moment where he existed in a place between life and death.  His fragile coping mechanisms destroyed, his demise/rebirth was held in the hands of Dr. Georgia Starr.  She held the key to his salvation from her literally being at the scene of his near death to the relationship she developed with Lennon giving him a reason to embrace life.  As Ms. Cole revealed Lennon’s secrets she also tackled his very ambivalent existence as she guided him through a series of choices that ultimately proved his worth.  Before Lennon Georgia went through the motions of living but never really knew what it was to partake in life.  Through Lennon she felt in color.  This couple lived in emotional prisons and their connecting with each other set them free in a deeply moving and often brutal way.

It is hard not to fall in love with the Pre-load series and every one of its five members.  Each installment was beautifully crafted, even while dealing with heart-wrenching and often ugly subject matter, that even the most hardened reader would find it hard not to be affected by. Ms. Cole is an excellent writer, she plots well and writes in such a way that readers can easily connect to her characters.  What makes this author stand out though is not only does she form a connection for her audience but it is apparent from her opening lines forward that she is fully invested and deeply tied to her work as well. This makes all the difference and brings her books to a whole other level. It is always sad to see a highly anticipated exceptional series reach its conclusion but Scarlett Cole has created a group of characters that will live on in many a fan’s heart.  With Lennon Reborn Scarlett Cole has firmly established herself as a romance rockstar!

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Georgia ripped off her coat and tucked it around the man of the floor. The air was sharp against her skin. Without thinking, she used her hand to move the stray hairs from across his face, and the man gasped. She checked his pulse and could tell the blood loss was getting dangerous.

“What’s your name?” she asked as she shone her light in his eyes. The tightness in her gut relaxed a little when they responded as they should.

The man hissed in a breath. “Lennon.”

“Do you know what day it is?” she asked.

“April . . . fucking . . . Fool’s . . . day.”

“Well, Lennon,” she said calmly, “the paramedics are almost here, and we’ll get you out of here soon.” She reached for his uninjured hand and squeezed it between hers. There was a spark of static between them, white and powerful. His life force. The thought was overwhelming.

“Let me go . . .”

She released his clammy hand immediately. “I’m sorry, I was just trying to give you some comfort. I—”

He reached for her hand, gasping. His fingers were large against hers. “No . . . you should . . . let . . . me . . . go.”

His eyes rolled closed.

No! She wouldn’t let him die. She tapped the side of his face until his eyes opened. “Wake up. I am not letting you go anywhere,” she said, knowing that any semblance of the professionalism to which she usually clung was slipping away. She believed patients’ stories about tunnels of white light, and seeing loved ones, and auras dimming. And she knew everyone needed to be allowed to leave if they really felt it was their time. But there was something so different about Lennon. She could feel his life force vibrate from his hand into hers, as if she taken hold of an electric fence. The energy was slipping away from him, and she would do anything to put it back in him.

He tugged her down toward him, so his lips could brush against her ear. “I’m . . . tired . . . of my life. Just . . . let me . . . go.”

His eyes closed, again.

She rested her forehead on his. “Your work here on Earth isn’t done, Lennon,” she said, tears burning her eyes. “And I am not going to let you go.”

About Scarlett Cole

The tattoo across my right hip says it all really. A Life Less Ordinary. Inked by the amazingly talented Luke Wessman at the Wooster Street Social Club (a.k.a. New York Ink). Why is it important? Well, it sums up my view on life. That we should all aspire to live a life that is less boring, less predictable. Be bold, and do something amazing. I’ve made some crazy choices. I’ve been a car maker, a consultant, and even a senior executive at a large retailer running strategy. Born in England, spent time in the U.S. and Japan, before ending up in Canada were I met my own, personal hero – all six and a half feet of him. Both of us are scorpios! Yeah, I know! Should have checked the astrological signs earlier, but somehow it works for us. We have two amazing kids, who I either could never part with or could easily be convinced to sell on e-bay.

I’ve wanted to be a writer for a really long time. Check through my office cupboards or my computer and you’ll find half written stories and character descriptions everywhere. Now I’m getting the chance to follow that dream.

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