Loretta Ellingsworth
1) Betty
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Betty grew up in the mountains. She was old enough to choose to go walk about through them if she wanted to which is what she tried to explain to the woman on horseback who refused to let her make her own way across to the game trails that would lead down the mountain. It wasn't the first setback she had had, those had mostly concerned the lack of food and, of course, water, and planning her walk about a little early in the summer. She had her knapsack,...
2) Word Power
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Aubergine St. Valentine loves her life as a bestselling romance writer. At least she loved it until everything slid a little sideways.
Handsome husband. Check.
Sweet baby. Check.
Blinking cursor at the top of an empty page. Check.
Publisher? No check there.
New manuscript? No.
Time to retire? ...
When does an author become an authority? Probably when she has a blank page and all her other books remaindered. Maybe when caftans were more becoming...
3) Now or Never
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Barbara had a recurring thought. Gray. Gray. Her life was turning into the same pedestrian gray that she had shunned in her teens. She had slammed the door on a faded limp laundered out life and held it shut until now when it squeaked ajar to suck at her again. Two good years was enough to invest in a project. Two good years, then a year tidying and regrouping before you begin to drift in slow centripetal motion.
She was breaking the chains and moving...
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Aubergine St. Valentine stared into the mirror. It was a bad day when your caftan didn't fit. The Queen of Romance did not wear a caftan, that was for the older romance ladies with flaws to paper over. A caftan, if the Queen should choose to wear one, should be gossamer and float lightly around her flawless torso.
And where was her flawless king? Why out gallivanting around and and flaunting his flawless torso in front of a caterwauling horde who...
5) The New Me
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I, if you don't know it yet, am Aubergine St. Valentine, currently, probably best known for creating the acclaimed Moscovi World series of books. I wrote the first one. Since it has been re-published as an ebook and I opened the world to anyone who wanted to extend the Moscovi story line, the town and the characters have become wildly popular on the internet. And wildly popular for a few things that I'd never envisioned happening in a world I created...
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Lucky is a dog person. She understands them. She is a dog psychic who will help you understand your dog better. She writes dog articles, she sells dog food, and she misses Thunder who has gone to the Rainbow Bridge.
A friend tells her she should be looking for a werewolf, the best of both worlds, a furry friend when the moon is full and a good companion when the moon wanes. Werewolves are not that easy to find.
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In the Fifteenth-Century, or thereabouts, a group of nuns in search of a home importuned St. Joseph to intercede on their behalf and he did. And, he still does. Intercede for the sellers, or the buyers, of homes should you call upon him.
Myth or mystery? These first chapters introduce you to four women who face unexpected changes in their lives. Is there an unseen helping hand? Is it luck? Is it something else?
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Liaay: "I know your name is Jeb." He was on the young side of the age of patients I usually met on this floor. "The nurses told me." I switched the guitar that was riding on the back of my shoulder to the handy position forplaying it. "Every week I come and sing songs with the patients. Today I'm here to sing Happy Birthday." I looked around for a chair but Jeb patted the side of the bed near his hips. Yeah, well, I could tell what kind of trouble...
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Flavia loved her career. Even after a grueling international flight and jet lag that would knock out an elephant, she looked forward to the start of the writer's conference where she would represent the publisher as she gave several workshops and met with her writers-ones she already worked with and new ones looking for a home for their manuscripts.
Some things didn't change-not the writing, not the reading, and not the fans who waited with bated...
10) Little Angels
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Fatigue. Aubergine St. Valentine was fatigued she was not the victim of writer's block. Every mother with a new baby is fatigued. It took twice as long to get half as much done.
Not another video! Well, yes. A mama and baby exercise video. Now it took four times as long to get an infinitesimal amount done. There was no time left for writing books. Remaindered. All her books taken off the warehouse shelf and pitched into the trash. All of them. All...
11) Doing Better
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Aubergine St. Valentine, the Queen of Romance although Queendom was not a divine birthright in her world and like Alice in Wonderland it took a lot of running to stay in place or get a little bit ahead, faced the same ticking time bomb her former agent faced. If she was the queen, where were the princes and princesses to come from?
What was the quickest way? Why bare your soul and finances (anemic as they might be) to a social worker and the clueless...
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Ivy looked forward to her sabbatical, a year without 9 to 5 stress and drama, without family responsibilities, time to decide if she was a painter who teaches or a teacher who paints, and most of all time to sit down, take a deep breath, and plan her wedding. Then her fiancé took her to afternoon reality TV and dreams of the wedding disappeared like sunshine in a thunderstorm.
Jimmy Ray follows construction. It pays well and you can work all year...
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Stormy: I am here because there are cattle rustlers on the range and Aunt Quina and her foreman are in the hospital and, if they have good sense, are never coming home.
Someone had recognized several Unbroken Circle cows as they crossed the auction block and had anonymously tipped Aunt Quina to the presence of the rustlers. They might have been the last of the herd because I haven't seen one cow since I arrived.
I was here to round up and count...
14) Sparkles
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Can your soul mate be hidden, a tree among the forest of your acquaintances? Libby knew Jerrold to speak to but until Barbara dumped him in the most humiliating way and with a quick divorce, Libby had never noticed a sparkle in Jerrold's eyes. When she did notice, it rocked her world.
15) Donkey's Tails
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Ella: U;n sure your sister will be happy for you.Letty: She doesn't like it when she's not the first to accomplish things.
16) Patchwork Hero
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Aubergine St. Valentine is the Queen of Romance. Everyone agreed on that. What no one realized was that there were monsters lurking just over her shoulder and she was losing her race to outrun them.
First and foremost was the black hearted mortgage banker who didn't understand that a Queen could have empty pockets. And they were empty since her, now ex, husband had packed up a panel truck with all everything but the bed she was sleeping in and emptied...
17) Clara
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Violetta is an upscale ladies wear boutique. If you haven't found the right fashion for that special occasion, check Violetta, or you can start at Violetta and save yourself shopping frustration. Violet owns Violetta and keeps her friends fashionable and their secrets secret.
Clara has reached the end of her rope, and then she finds her name and picture splashed across OpenCloset.com. Who is going to vote for her now? What is left but a final shopping...
18) Violet
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Violetta is an upscale ladies wear boutique. If you haven't found the right fashion for that special occasion, check Violetta, or you can start at Violetta and save yourself shopping frustration. Violet owns Violetta and keeps her friends fashionable and their secrets secret.
Colin returns from secret faraway places, just in time to be featured on the new titillating website OpenCloset.com. Did Colin deserve to be featured there?
Violet and Colin...
19) Irene
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Get up and Gumption. Her grandmother had been right. Irene had that, not all of her relatives did. Get up and gumption brought her the beach house she enjoyed. It wasn't the best stretch of the beach, the sand angled down to the waters edge a bit too sharply, but owning a beach house didn't necessarily require bathing in salt water. She enjoyed being the head of her own company, managing her own time, and moving more or less half way up in the big...
20) Catching Dreams
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Aubergine St. Valentine, the Queen of Romance, has a good start on keeping the crown. The characters in her next book are visiting frequently (a good dream) but so is her family (not so good). Her husband's dream of a compound (good dream) is one house from being complete (bad dream). The babies's (a good dream) stroller has an empty seat (bad dream). Women have two doom's day clocks, (good dream/bad dream) but the first doom gives you warning to...