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PRIDE'S CHILDREN - a novel of obsession, betrayal, and love. Book 1

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       ***** Finalist for 2016 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards (UK)*****
  
    If you start reading on Wattpad, and would CONSIDER writing a review on Amazon (purchase not required, PM me for an electronic REVIEW Copy). The review is up to you - I won't nag.
    
    [It is published, on Amazon in Kindle Select, as of Oct. 30, 2015. The requirements for KDP are that the story not be available anywhere else, so I have taken all but 10% off Wattpad, where it had a great run. It is available in print as well.]
    
    If you like the sample here, let me know - all comments welcome. 
    *****
    WHAT YOU DO WITH AN OBSESSION COUNTS
    
    
    "I, KARENNA ELIZABETH Ashe, being of sound mind, do... But that's it, isn't it? Being here proves I am not of sound mind..."
    
    So begins Book 1 of the Pride's Children trilogy: Kary immediately regrets the misplaced sense of noblesse oblige which compels her to appear, live on national television-at exorbitant personal cost.
    
    What she cannot anticipate is an entanglement with Hollywood that destroys her carefully-constructed solitudinarian life.
    
    A contemporary mainstream love story, in the epic tradition of Jane Eyre, and Dorothy L. Sayers' four-novel bond between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Pride's Children starts with a very public chance encounter, and eventually stretches over three separate continents.
    ~ ~ ~
    The complete blurb is on Amazon:
     http://amzn.com/B017AZLTLG 
     http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017AZLTLG
    ~ ~ ~
    RATING: Sexual innuendo, mild swearing, occasional non-graphic violence (PG-13).All Rights Reserved

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