Norma Jean

Blurb:

The night Chance Duncan drunkenly kissed me on his couch, I vowed my revenge. I finally had something over his head, something that would bring him to his knees. It only served him right. He bullied me for years and turned me into this messed up person I am now.

Though I didn’t know at the time he wasn’t that mean little boy anymore. He was almost a man and easily stole my breath away. I just wanted to make him fall in love with, then break his heart into a million pieces. Just the way mine was. Instead he put the pieces back together and I started to feel whole again.

Good things never last. He did what I was supposed to do. Broke my already fragile heart all over again. Betrayed and alone I fled my home town and started a new life where I wasn’t in the shadow of what I did. 

Now he is back and trying to worm his way into my heart, again. Though he will never know it will always belong to him. He hurt me and I want nothing to do with him. Life has other plans. Doesn’t it always?

He doesn’t know though. Doesn’t know what I’m hiding or who I’m hiding from. I never thought I would see Chance again and I’m afraid that he’ll get hurt getting mixed up in my mess. Though he is right in the middle of it, without even knowing it. I have to find a way for us to get out, before somebody dies.

My name is Norma Jean and this isn’t a fairytale

Author Bio:

Amanda lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and young child. 

She enjoys reading, writing, and drinking tons of Dr. Pepper.
You can find her sitting on the couch with either her head in a book or typing on her laptop.

Amanda is the author of This Beautiful Thing, Fire In Her Eyes, Angel Cuffs, and Norma Jean. Wrong Kind of Love will be released this June.

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This book is one of those books that has so much emotion you almost have to put it down.

My gosh what Chance put Norma though was beyond awful. However what Norma was going to do to Chance was just as heart breaking. Just when I thought things were going to work out with them BAM. I had to put the book down at this point my heart just couldn't take it. 

Then years past~ yes, years. What happened in those years was horrid. I just hoped Chance and Norma would find their way back to each other. They did but it was messy and what happened in those years they were apart was going to tear them up. As I'm reading I realize that most the characters from "This Beautiful Thing" are in this book as well- I didn't expect that at all-Nice Surprise Amanda Heath!

Fantastic Ending & an Epilogue to Rocks!

Quotes:

"I want to be immune to him but I know I never will be. That kiss last night made sure of that. Hormones are a bitch."

"I'm in love with the only person I ever hated."

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Avenger (book 3 in the Impossible Series)

The third book in the Impossible series. 

I found that I was dead inside again, but this was far worse than it had been the first time. Before I met Sean Reynolds I had been cold, isolated, carefully controlled. I hadn’t even realized that I wasn’t really living until he showed me what it was to connect with another human being. I had foolishly allowed myself to hope for a future with him, envisioning a day when both of our souls were fully healed and we were free of our pasts. But now I had lost him, and in the process I had lost myself.

Dr. Claudia Ellers had thought Sean Reynolds a beautiful traitor, but in the end it was she who betrayed them both. Her actions have changed her, hardened her. Claudia is sick of being hunted, tired of living in fear. And now Sean isn’t there to protect her any longer. So she resolves to become the hunter, and she won’t stop until she has her revenge. But when the time comes, will Sean have her back, or will he be the one stabbing a knife into it?

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I loved this series!

Sean is a hot beast with a kind soul he just been forced into a life style he wants no part of. Claudia has no one but she lets Sean in and ends up betraying him or so he thinks. Now she needs to take control of her life and make it right for Sean. Clayton becomes a friend that she didn't know she desperately needs. Tragedy hits and Claudia realizes just how alone she is. Lots of hot steamy sex. Fabulous ending.

Kissing Fire

Preston Mitchell, undercover DEA agent, has led a life of danger and obscurity. Knowing his job would never allow a normal relationship, he’s never opened himself up to any woman...that is until the lovely Avery Middleton stumbles into his life. 

To the outsider, Avery has it all...wealth, family, connections and a great job. But on the inside, she’s miserable. Her social life is in the dumpster, the kooky gal next door has some zany plans for her and her selfish mother drives Avery to the point of insanity. Her only salvation is to get out of Charleston and start a new life. So that’s precisely what she does. She moves to Seattle and steps right into the path of hot and sexy, Preston. 

Unfortunately for both of them, Avery ends up being in the wrong place at the wrong time and is now running for her life. But she’s not alone. She has a gorgeous DEA agent protecting her and suddenly finds herself irresistibly captivated by him. There’s only one problem. Preston carries more than his share of mental baggage, courtesy of his job. His covert missions have put him in places and situations he can barely stand to think about. Avery rocks Preston’s world because she is nothing like anyone he’s ever met and something extraordinary begins to happen between them. But can their love survive in this world, where danger, intrigue and deception lurk on every corner?

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Avery is not your typical "Lady Porn" girl, well at least she doesn't see herself that way. Avery is also pretty goofy actually which a refreshing change in pace. This book goes from Avery's POV to Preston's POV so when you read Preston's POV Avery is not as goofy as she makes herself out to be. 

Preston has a lifetime of baggage that is sometimes hard to read. This book is full of Action, Drama, Sex & Romance. I couldn't help but also fall in love with Avery's best friend Melissa - She is something else that's all I'll say :). Lots of hot juicy sex. Fantastic Ending. 

Quotes:

"For the first time in my life, I wanted to be a fork."

"I could love you with all my heart and soul."

"I told Preston he was my catnip."

Retribution

Kayla Sutton thinks it’s over. She now holds the leverage she believes will end her contract with her blackmailer, but Gage Channing isn’t going down without a fight. He’s turned the tables on her, cleverly making her submit under the guise of giving her a choice, and Kayla soon discovers that retribution isn’t so black and white when everyone around her has secrets.

She faced sexual servitude in Ultimatum. In Enslaved she was seduced into craving it. Now she must find the strength to either accept the part of her that craves him still, or walk away for good . . .

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This is one Crazy story! After "Enslaved" I found myself rooting for Gage even know he was blackmailing Kayla & he was just a nasty man but there was just something about him that was loving as well. There's a bombshell surprise in this book that I didn't see coming making things that much more messed up. Lot's of drama. Who will Kayla choose? either of them? Hot juicy sex but there's some pain in there too. Fabulous ending - clever what the author did.

CONTENT RATING

Romance: 3 out of 5

Kink: 5 out of 5 

Raunch: 4 out of 5

Overall Hotness:  4 out of 5

No Takebacks

There was something I didn’t know. 

Something that would change everything. 


The grand opening of Turtle Tear Resort is a time for celebration, but the man Rachael loves more than anything is suffering in silence. Rocha Enterprises was Merrick’s life. Now, he’s been left with no choice but to sell off the business he built from the ground up, and Rachael’s hell-bent on finding out why.

I love you too much not to fight to get it back. 

Even if you’ve given up.

“You’re hurting me, Rachael…You’re going to him…I can’t promise I’ll be here when you get back.”

My heart bleeds as you stride away from me. Last night you told me you love me, now you’re walking away because I’m fighting for you. 

Rachael can forgive and forget the past, but can Merrick overcome her betrayal?

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Short Story only 46 pages.

Whoa is all I can say ....... it's so possible but unimaginable at the same time. 

I hurt for Rachael that Merrick would just leave her 

because she is going to talk with his father.

There's not much talking when she meets his father because well nothing needs to be said it's all visual. I cannot wait for Taken by Storm to come out I have to wait until spring 2013 but I know it will be worth the wait!!. A few hot steamy sex scenes- nothing to detailed but raunchy nonetheless.

Don't read No Takebacks until you read Taken first!

CONTENT RATING

Romance: 4 out of 5

Kink: 3 out of 5 

Raunch: 3 out of 5

Overall Hotness:  4 out of 5