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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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A stranger to her own existence, Kayla moves to a small town with the hope of finding comfort in fresh starts. But as she steps inside the unfamiliar classroom on the first day, standing in front of the class is a mysteriously familiar face, one that rouses memories of a time before everything had gone awry. With past baggage catching up in the most intrusive ways, she stumbles upon unexpected pleasures that breathe life into her soul -- comfort of new friendships, rekindling of old ones frayed by time and circumstance, unconditional love of found family, and the blossoming of a beautiful yet complicated bond between two hesitant souls. And when fate starts asking for more, people are forced to dig deep within. ────── "This book was like a warm hug, and I might believe in love again." "I would give everything, especially my soul, to have the opportunity to read this book for the first time again." "You perfectly portraying every emotion, even causing everything to come to life in my thoughts so vividly on a level I assumed was impossible, actually blows my mind." "This book has ruined Wattpad forever for me because everything else seems too plain now, too shallow." ────── CW: Drug abuse, harsh language, sexual content, mention of self-harm, mention of suicide. ────── Started in January 2018. Re-published in November 2022. First draft finished in April 2023.