6 Movies About Writers

The title pretty much says it all. Whether it's the life of Riley, the fashionista high living or a total disaster, writers have made good fodder for movie writers throughout the years. I've seen all of these films and they're all great, in fact most are on my list of Favourite Movies of all time.

(all images and movie descriptions from Imbd.com)

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Funny Farm

When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the country to write the Great American Novel. From the moment the movers' truck gets lost with their furniture, though, there's little peace and less quiet. From a manical mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its wacky inhabitants. His effort at a novel is mediocre, at best, and he's threatened by Elizabeth's foray into writing when she attempts a children's book. Can the Farmers survive the townsfolk and each other?

Written by Rick Munoz <rick.munoz@his.com>

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Secret Window

Mort Rainey is a successful writer going through a rather unfriendly divorce from his wife of ten years, Amy. Alone and bitter in his cabin, he continues to work on his writing when a stranger named John Shooter shows up on his doorstep, claiming Rainey stole his story. Mort says he can prove the story belongs to him and not Shooter, but while Mort digs around for the magazine which published the story in question years ago, things begin to happen around Shooter. Mort's dog dies, people begin to die, and his divorce proceedings with Amy continue to get uglier. It seems that Shooter has Mort over a barrel, but perhaps Mort has his own ideas on how to resolve all the problems that plague him lately.

Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

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Romancing the Stone

Joan Wilder, a mousy romance novelist, receives a treasure map in the mail from her recently murdered brother-in-law. Meanwhile, her sister Elaine is kidnapped in Colombia and the two criminals responsible demand that she travel to Colombia to exchange the map for her sister. Joan does, and quickly becomes lost in the jungle after being waylayed by Zolo, a vicious and corrupt Colombian cop who will stop at nothing to obtain the map. There, she meets an irreverent soldier-of-fortune named Jack Colton who agrees to bring her back to civilization. Together, they embark upon an adventure that could be straight out of Joan's novels.

Written by Denny Gibbons

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Jewel in the Nile

This is the sequel to "Romancing the Stone" where Jack and Joan have their yacht and easy life, but are gradually getting bored with each other and this way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go to some middle eastern country as a guest of the sheik, but there she is abducted and finds her- self involved with the "jewel". Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. They all go from one adventure to another... What is the story of this "jewel"?

Written by Sami Al-Taher <staher2000@yahoo.com>

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Misery

Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul's "number one fan", who takes Paul back to her remote house in the mountains (without bothering to tell anybody). Unfortunately for Paul, Annie is also a headcase. When she discovers that Paul has killed off the heroine in her favorite novels, her reaction leaves Paul shattered (literally)...

Written by Andrew Backhouse (andback74)

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The true story of 43 year-old magazine editor Jean-Dominique Beauby who after suffering a stroke is found to have locked-in syndrome, where he is paralyzed from the neck down. He can see and hear but cannot speak, communicating only by blinking his left eye for yes or no. Literally trapped inside his body, he faces a terrifying situation despite the support he has from an an expert medical team and his family. It's only when his speech therapist Henriette Roi devises a system for him to "speak" one letter at a time by blinking his eye does the world open up for him. The film is based an Bauby's book, which he dictated, one letter at a time.

Written by garykmcd

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Author Resources: Names

When you're writing a book, one of the first things you need are character names. Why? Because you need to know who you're writing your story about.

I tend to start my notes with characters named B1, G1, B2, G2 etc, which stand for Boy 1, Girl 1, Boy 2 and Girl 2 and so on. Then, once I've got my basic plan of who the characters are going to be and what their personalities are, I can just do a full document replace. So, if I decide to call B1 Nathan, I can do a direct switch.

Once you get to that stage, you'll be looking at which names to use.

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Where do you find these names? There are a lot of choices:

Watch a movie. If you choose a foreign movie or one filmed in various countries, you can usually find some really good unusual, foreign names that will give your characters some authenticity. Or, just go for the super normal ones. But, don't just look at the characters or the actors who play them. Nope, your best bet for unusual names is to check out the cast and crew in the really tiny small print.

If you don't have time to watch a movie, try out the Internet Movie Database.

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Go through your old yearbook. Write up all names into Boy, Girl and Surname. Then, mix them up and you'll have a handful of names that you can use for characters. They're likely to be normal, every day names that will come in great for characters local to your area. If you're British and plotting your story in the same country, then the names from your yearbook are likely to be normal British names. If you're American and plotting your book in America, then your names will be normal American names.

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Think back to all your own favourite movie stars. The really amazing, 1920's, Golden Era of Hollywood stars. You'll often find that some of their stage names or real names won't be commonly used in our time. But, they can be great names for your characters.

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You can also search names by their specific country, if you have a foreign character you want to add 

to your story, or someone who has changed their name for whatever reason.

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Here are some generators you can use, online and offline:

Behind the Name

Fantasy Name Generator

Generate a Random Name

Donjon

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Here are some names from various films, yearbooks and movie stars that I've dug up for you:

Female

1. Greta
2. Lori
3. Jono
4. Sabine
5. Taea
6. Clotilde
7. Yolande
8. Mady
9. Valèrie
10. Monette
11. Marie-Laure
12. Karine
13. Valèriane
14. Pauline
15. Jona
16. Beatie
17. Pip
18. Fenella
19. Phyllida
20. Haydn

Male

1. Marion
2. Guillaume
3. Marton
4. Cameron
5. Brent
6. Fabian
7. Urbain
8. Serge
9. Ticky
10. Amaury
11. Geoffrey
12. Tristan
13. Raji
14. Aidan
15. Rolf
16. JJ
17. Art
18. Tariq
19. Ewan
20. Adie

Surnames

1. Makoare
2. Ulyatt
3. Dungey
4. Rhodes
5. Monaghan
6. Mortensen
7. Elsworth
8. Tautou
9. Cravotta
10. Csokas
11. Boyd
12. Nanty
13. Kassovitz
14. Bénichou
15. Pinon
16. Holgado
17. Babault
18. Zarrouk
19. Descoureaux
20. de Villeneuve

Character Casting: Courage in the Kiss

Today, we'll be taking a peek at the dream character casting for Courage in the Kiss, by Elaine White.

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Maxx

God, the man was gorgeous. In sunlight or in shadow, he was the most attractive man she'd ever met. He turned, on hearing the door open, and his features never changed. There was no smile or even an arch of those impeccably looked after eyebrows. Just nothing...as usual.

Still...Hadley almost lost herself to those blue eyes, to that natural upward tilt at the corner of his lips and the intensity of his gaze.

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Hadley

Maxx smiled, looking forward to the game of cat and mouse he'd unwittingly begun to play with her. He caught her thick brown hair in his hand and pulled her down, until he could kiss those pink lips.

It was the first he'd noticed that she wasn't wearing any make-up. Yet, she was still, easily, the most attractive woman he'd ever known. He kissed her with desperation and need, devouring whatever he could of her.

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Others

Other key players include:

Maxx's father, Emerson, who would be played by Ed Asner.

Micah, Maxx's little brother, who is seventeen and a keen observer. It would be awesome to have Callan McAuliffe play him.

As for Micah's troublesome best friend, Rowan, Colin Ford has the right attitude to bring off this character.

As a new addition, late into the story, the character of Ronnie creates an interesting development and is there to support Hadley through a difficult transition. Douglas Booth would be perfect for this side character.

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Coming Soon! Crossroads

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Extract

Looking into the mirror, I adjusted my black tuxedo and ascot tie. Then, I combed my hair back once more and looked into my own green eyes, bright with anticipation.

“Well, well, don’t you look gorgeous,” Drake Summerfield teased as he crossed the room and looked into the mirror behind me.

“Thanks, Drake,” I said, smiling, “but I don’t think gorgeous is the right word.”

“No, dapper is more the word, but it seemed inadequate.” He returned the smile. “Are you sure this is what you want? To marry Leila?”

“More sure than anything.” I pulled the front of my jacket down, adjusting it once again even though it didn’t need it.

“Well, she could always become a vampire for you,” he said, matter of fact. Drake and I were both vampires. I was the head of the North Coven and he was the head of the South Coven, but we have been friends for what seemed like an eternity.

“No, she doesn’t,” I replied, my eyes suddenly flaring.

“Then, how do you think you’ll manage it?” Drake asked.

“One day at a time.”

“You love her very much, do you not?” When it was just the two of us with no humans around, we tended to let down our guard and slipped into our older vernacular.

“Yes, I do. Over all of my years, I have never met anyone like her before,” I said, as my mind drifted back over the centuries. “Where has the time gone, Drake?”

“I don’t know, but the only ones who are getting older are the children,” Drake joked.

“Luckily,” I replied, laughing. There were many drawbacks, but that was one perk of being a vampire—you don’t age. I was turned when I was thirty-three and I haven’t aged a day since.

“Well, I think it’s time that I retrieve your lovely bride,” Drake said, looking at his watch. Then, he glanced up at me with a gleam in his eyes. “If you aren’t at the altar when we get there, I will marry her myself.”

“Like hell you will,” I replied. “I’ve waited a long time for this.”

Drake laughed. “Yes, you have.” He clasped my shoulder, then pulled me in for a quick man hug. “Congratulations, you lucky bastard.”

“Hey, now, leave my mother out of this,” I joked.

He laughed as he walked down the hallway toward the room where Leila waited.

I took a deep breath, not sure why I was suddenly nervous. I hadn’t been nervous in centuries, but here it was, rearing its ugly head.

“Ready?” A voice asked from the other end of the hallway. I turned and it was Kellen Tussand, with his dark wavy hair and muscled good looks, wearing a tuxedo. He looked young, despite his being a vampire. In fact, I turned him when he was twenty-five. Looking at him now, he hadn’t aged at ll since that day, even though he was centuries old.

Kellen and I had become friends and he was dying on the battlefield toward the end of the Revolutionary War, so I carried him to a nearby cave. I gave him my blood and sat with him as he died. Then, I gave him my blood after he awakened, turning him into a vampire. But that was long ago and he has been a trusted member of my coven ever since.

After my best friend and colleague Charlotte St. Claire had betrayed me and had nearly killed Leila and the baby, Kellen had helped to stop the vampire werewolf war, so I gave him the job as my personal assistant, in charge of my affairs. We were friends before, but now we were

closer and I trusted him with my life. Even though Charlotte had betrayed me, I refused to let that prevent me from trusting others. It was an isolated incident. The thought of it pains me, when I allow myself to dwell on it. I trust the people around me until they do something that made them untrustworthy. Then, I never trust them again. Trust and loyalty are big issues with me. Anyone who knows me, knows that.

“Well, Lance,” Kellen said, clasping my shoulder. “Your bride awaits.”

A broad smile spread across my face as I forced the memories from my head. This was the happiest day of my life and I intended to enjoy it. “After you,” I said, gesturing to him, then I followed him out.

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The Devil's Gate Trilogy

The Devil's Gate (The Devil's Gate Trilogy, #1)

Curiosity can be a dangerous thing. In Abigail Watson's case, it nearly ended her life.

After a brush with death, Abigail is reminded of just how short life can be...then she meets Jack Landon, the mysterious heir to the Landon fortune and her savior from a certain death. Jack's needs are very defined, and his ability to seduce with ease draws Abigail into his dark world. One taste of him on her lips and she is consumed with a desire, a willingness to submit and let him take the gift that she has protected for so long.

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Razor Saga

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Razor (Razor Saga, #1)

Lilah is a woman, who is in the midst of grieving for her dead lover 'Rin', a man who has taught her how to mix pleasure and pain.

Razor is a twisted tale of love, taking you deeper than you have ever been into the dark world of fetish, bondage and submission.

This series is graphic in nature with scenes of extreme violence and sexual scenes which contain strong language.

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Torn (Razor Saga, #2)

After Lilah recovers from her bloody night at “Razor”, she starts to unravel and allows herself to be open to dangers she did not see coming. Lilah fights her lingering nightmares of her dead lover “Rin” and as she struggles with this she is tormented by Tyler, a man who may seem innocent enough but has a dark secret, she is soon to discover.

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Malice (Razor Saga, #3)

Malice is the final book in the "Razor Saga" and wraps up the twisted tale of love that follows Lilah, a woman who seeks pleasure in the underground,to the end of her journey...or perhaps it is the beginning. This story is very graphic in nature, hardcore erotic in the BDSM world, and is sure to keep you wanting more. Adult only reading.

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Double Gun Dealer Series

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Ava (Double Gun Dealer, #1)

Ava is a waitress in a shitty diner in the heart of New York City. Sai is a mysterious stranger who suddenly appears out of nowhere and seems to bring the wrath of hell with him. Sometimes it is better to just keep to yourself, but in Ava's case, this could never be...Sai not only brings hell with him, he also brings all the answers to who and what Ava really is and sets her on the path she was destined to walk. Sexy, action packed with smoking hot love scenes, two guns are definitely better than one.

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SALEM (Double Gun Dealer, #2)

For Brian, life is boring...well, except for the hallucinations and lack of sleep, and oh yeah, the job he has a love/hate releationship with.

Brian is a genius in his field, creating new bio weapons for a company he has no love for, but feels trapped in. He is a loner, has been since his childhood, but longs for a relationship of any kind. His sexual needs are met mostly with his vivid imagination, or perhaps they are real. Who can tell? Along with the hallucinations come a glimp into the real world Brian is caught up in, one that a beautiful woman, by the name of AVA, is eager to teach him about. "SALEM" is book 2 in the Double Gun Dealer series and takes you into the origin of Brian a.k.a "Salem", letting you know where he came from and where he is going. This series is graphic in nature with violence, intense language, sexual situations and does not come with ice water, but should.

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LIN (Double Gun Dealer, #3)

Marcy has a crappy job at a bar, one she would love to leave, but cannot afford to give up. She also has to endure a creepy neighbor who is a bit to enamored with her, but she just upgraded her life by moving "uptown" as opposed to "down" so the thought of moving again is also a no-go. Then in walks "LONDON", a mysterious stranger with a beautiful accent and all the right things for Marcy...right up until Hell follows him, literally. As things unravel and passions ignite Marcy finds herself tranforming into something she may have always suspected herself of being, explaining so many things in her life. Will she take the plunge and accept her new powers? Will she let LONDON feed her carnal needs? Find out as "LIN" comes into her own in book #3 of the Double Gun Dealer series, where Demon Hunter's do it better.

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LONDON (Double Gun Dealer, #4)

London, 1948.

Ethan was born into a life of a whore. His mother was one and his father a repeat customer. He has never known love, but longs too. Then along comes a beautiful woman by the name of "IZZY" who is about to rock his world in more ways than one, showing him that what he thought was truth was but a lie and that Hell always finds you.

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IZZY (Double Gun Dealer, #5)

Izzy had a terrifying start in life, surviving plague and famine only to end up in the new world fighting for her life as her village was attacked by black winged devils from the sky. It seems her supernatural curse will render her a loner for eternity. Then a handsome young man arrives in town and with him her future followed.Will she finally find the love she longs for or will her curse take everything from her as it always has?

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SAIGON (Double Gun Dealer, #6)

Meet Saigon, a sharp tongued and jaded man who hates his station in life as much as he misses his lost love. He is a Hunter, not just any Hunter...he hunts demons who feast on human flesh and wish for destruction. With his dreams and visions becoming stronger he tries his best to prepare for "her" to finally arrive. Will Saigon find redemption for past sins? Will he finally allow love to penetrate his broken heart and accept his fate? Join us in the incredible conclusion to the DGD series as we come full circle and have all questions answered, proving that everyone and everything are connected in some way.

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Maddie Maze

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Menagerie of Mystery and Mayhem (Maddie Maze Series, #1)

Welcome to the world of Maddie Maze, a 14 year old girl who is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

Maddie finds herself accepting life in "Nowhere, Colorado" after waking up at the age of 8 and finding her parents missing. She is sent to live with her Aunt Bernice, who is desperately trying to remind Maddie that she is a girl.

But things are about to change in Maddie's world with one recurring dream, a boy's kiss and a book.

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Whimsical whatnots and whodidits (Maddie Maze, #2)

Join Maddie Maze once again as she navigates this new world of magik and tries to figure which way is up and which way is down. Maddie wakes on the Isle of Ely as she is greeted by magical creatures and a boy named Addison who is more than what he seems. Addison escorts Maddie on the next leg of her incredible adventure that is sure to entertain and delight you. Mysteries unfold and new ones are created as book two dives deeper into the mystical world of Maddie Maze.

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Character Casting: Parker's Proceedings

Today, we'll be taking a peek at the dream character casting for Parker's Proceedings, by Genevieve Scholl.

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Parker

 

“A young man, likely in his early twenties, dressed in business-casual attire, is heading in my direction. Dark brown hair is wind-blown and falling over his almost black eyes. Tanned skin is stretched across his tall, slightly muscular form. He is simply beautiful.”

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Ashlee

Ashlee Rosenthal is a 40 year old divorce attorney. Her life is boring, and her friends are few and far between. She feels dull and frumpy at her age, with average looks. Her blonde hair and brown eyes are lifeless and ugly, in her mind. But when Parker comes into her office and her libido takes a notice for the first time is nineteen years, something shifts in her point of view and he makes her feel beautiful once more.

*Author note: Diane Lane is not blonde, nor frumpy, but she fits the part more than any other actress. For the movie adaptation, I would be able to sacrifice details for her amazing skills.*

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Others

Other key players include, Dorothy, Ashlee's assistant, played by Molly Quinn.

And Christina, Parker’s soon-to-be ex-wife. The perfect actress to play this flawless character is Anne Hathaway.

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Coming Soon! Courage in the Kiss

Today, we have my good friend Elaine on the blog, to give us an extract of her Work in Progress 'Courage in the Kiss'. The book is a contemporary romance and is in the process of edited.

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Hadley has been a member of the Williams household her whole life; she's practically one of the family. Younger son, Micah, is her best friend, who knows all of her secrets. Particularly her secret crush for his brother, Maxx.

Though Hadley accepts that he doesn't return the feeling, a shock rocks her stable world and threatens to expose her secret feelings. With her world turned upside down, Hadley must make a choice; tell Maxx the truth or move on with her life.

No matter what she chooses, the biggest question of her life dangles before her eyes:

Can she stick to her moral compass and remain a dreamer, even if that means she'll be alone? Or will Maxx and his natural charm have her in the palm of his hand, compromising everything she's ever held dear?

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Extract

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Elaine White is the author of YA paranormal romance Runaway Girl  and Reckless Abandon, books 1 and 2 in The Secrets of Avelina Chrinicles; MM Romance author of Decadent and The Other Side,  books 1 and 2 in The Decadent Series, both available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords; and her first nonfiction book An Unpredictable Life, detailing her teenage strugle with cancer, coming soon. She is also the author of The Alpha and the Oracle, in The Belesone Pack Trilogy, 

and An Unpredictable Life.

Visit Elaine White's author page on Amazon for more:

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Rue released her first film, Hellhound, in November of 2014. She is currently working on two more films, 'The Devil's Gate' and 'Into the Never'. Please visit her at ruevolley.com

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Hellhound

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Hellhound (Hellhound, #1)



One ROMAN
One VAMPIRE
Two VIKINGS
and one PISSED OFF CHICK.
Meet the HELLHOUNDS.
Earth's only defense against the rising tide of HELL.
Beaten down and broken, HALO BAY has spent her life at the feet of abusive men.
One fateful night she fights back, but when she awakens from her battle she finds herself at a crossroads.
She can be damned to purgatory forever, or train to become a Hellhound, a defender of humanity and demonic assassin.
With righteous intention on her side, she joins in the HOLY WAR
between Lucifer and God.
Two angelic SIBLINGS who have yet to settle the ultimate score.
Every LEGEND has a DARK PAST.
Unlock your HELLHOUND today.

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Hellhound: Dogs of War (Hellhound, #2)



In 'Dogs of War' we rejoin Halo Bay and the Hellhounds as they adjust to an unexpected loss. Weakened and feeling as if they may be losing the battle, the Hellhounds reach out to the most unlikely of creatures...that of the vampires. At Ari's insistence, two very powerful vampires are called upon to help them.

Hunter, who has a sordid past with Dorin and Vanessa, Queen of the vampires and daughter to Dracula himself. As they struggle to solidify their new alliance, Halo finds she has to barter with the only thing she truly owns. Herself. This is a deal that Lucifer is eager to seal and, blinded by love, Halo may be stepping into a plan set in motion centuries before she even existed.

Will she restore the balance between Heaven and Hell? Or will be become the final seal?

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Hellhound: Prince of Fire (Hellhound, #3)



This is the THIRD and Final book in the series.

Waking up in Hell is not where anyone wants to be, but this is exactly what has happened to Halo Bay. After being tricked into a lustful night of pleasure she now accepts her new responsibility as a caregiver to a child she finds impossible to hate. Just as she starts to regain her strength, a new player enters the game that may cause her to let her guard down when she needs it the most. After a daring attempt at freedom she will soon discover that her feelings will need to be set aside if she is to fulfill her obligations as a protector of humanity and a branded Hellhound. Vampires, Hellhounds and Werewolves will need to unite as one, if they plan to defeat the ultimate enemy that is rising from the depths of Hell itself. As the blood moon hangs high in the night sky the true fight for humanity will begin.

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Hellhound Handbook (Hellhound #4)



This is the FOURTH book in the Hellhound Series.
This book contains TWO origin stories.

“The Long Ride to Hell”
Long ago, in a time of War, a great man ruled with an iron fist, that of Vlad the Impaler. His armies vast and his lands growing but it was not at his own hand, it was led by Dorin, The Red Dragon.
Dorin served Castle Bran and his Lord with an unwavering loyalty. His strength absolute and his armor impenetrable, except for one thing, his forbidden love for Vlad.
With war subsiding and a bright future of peace on the horizon, Lady Illona is sent to Castle Bran to bind their nation’s houses as one. As a wedding looms, Dorin finds that his love cannot be contained and it sets a series of events into motion that will seal his fate and that of the legend of Dracula, forever.

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Blood and Light Vampire

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Blood and Light (Blood and Light Vampire, #1)



Rue Volley is a seventeen year old going on immortal. Her mother Grace is in Rolling River Asylum, after she mysteriously stopped speaking to anyone. Her father William is now absent from her life. The only person she thinks she has left is her annoying brother Kai, who tries to kill her with his lack of cooking skills. Kai convinces Rue that she needs to be more social and drags her to a party at Johnathan Graphs house. Little does Rue know that because of this one small change in her otherwise normal routine, her life as she knows it will never be the same. Rue is about to find out that she will never die and has to make the ever trecherous decision of which hot boy she will spend eternity with. She wants Johnathan Graph, really, really bad but she needs Joshua Barrington, a boy who does nothing but annoy her death. One boy wants to kill her and one will die to save her. Suddenly, although she has lost the core of the family that she has known, she has gained a new family, who desperately try to help mold her into what she will become. Rue struggles to learn who she is as she navigates through a new world of beings that seem to want to own her or destroy her completely. This story takes Rue on a wild ride from her hometown of Calvary, Minnesota to the gates of the immortal city of Valon...the birthplace of her decendants...immortals who believe that humans are nothing but cattle.  What do you eat when blood grosses you out, but that's all you think about? Everything is such a big deal, except death...OMG.

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Smoke and Mirrors (Blood and Light Vampire, #2)



In book two the story takes a much darker turn. The rogue vampires are introduced as they try to destroy everything Rue holds dear. Rue is fighting her way back to reality after being abducted and forced to enter Valon, the ancient city to all vampires. Dark forces close in all around her as new enemies threaten to take everything she has ever known.
Epic battles rage, new enemies are uncovered, and the deepest of loves may have to be sacrificed for survival.

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Oil and Water (Blood and Light Vampire, #3)



We join Rue as she wakes up in a foreign place. She does not remember who she, how she got there or why her heart aches so badly. She also has a very bad feeling that if she gets well, something terrible will come of it. She struggles to get a grip on reality as new friends try their best to earn her trust, but old enemies bring with them memories of a life she has all but forgotten.
Once again she finds herself in a battle of epic proportions, only this time her greatest enemy is her own mind and what it will accept as truth.
Will she allow herself to move forward? or, will she fade into memory once and for all?

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Clarity and Reason (Blood and Light Vampire, #4)



As Rue accepts the tragedies that have befallen her family, she finds it almost impossible to allow love back into her heart. Everyday she is maturing, coming closer to becoming a true protector. Closer to understanding her power and what she truly is. All the while some old enemies have now become strong allies, and some allies are not what they seemed to be.
Will she love again?
Will she take the final steps and accept her powers?
Or will she force them back into the books, locking them away forever?

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Grace & Beauty (Blood and Light Vampire, #5)



In book five of the Blood & Light vampire series life takes an even stranger turn for Rue and all of the characters you have come to love.
Johnathan suffers with loss of a great magnitude, Joshua and Rue try to cope with an ever growing "Gracie", Theo try's to distract himself from his longing for Jonah, and suddenly a new darkness arises forcing them to become the family they have always been destined to become. Continue your journey in this epic saga with a new breed of vampire as we ramp up to the final book in the series, that of book 6 "Hope & Faith".

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Hope & Faith (Blood and Light Vampire, #6)



Rue faces the biggest obstacle in her path yet...herself.

Her power is so immense that she has weaved a safety net for everyone around her. She has created a new reality to ignore the truth. It is so impenetrable that she may not even be able to destroy it.
Their one true enemy has discovered their location after being buried in the earth for decades. This new threat will join forces with anyone who harbors ill will towards Rue and her family.
Rue must wake up to reality and set things right.
Will she discover her true destiny in time?

*as a bonus to fans this final book in the series has two prequels added on at the end of the book.
"Birth of a Vampire" and "Will and Wonder"*

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Golden Crown

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The Bitter End (Golden Crown, #1)



Bethany was born into a world of privilege and has never had to want for anything in her life. Her parents gave her everything but the one thing she desired the most...love. When Bethany’s mother dies, her Father becomes even more distant with the immediate replacement of Bethany’s mother by “Miko”, a woman who has no compassion nor interest in Bethany whatsoever.

On her own and living in a penthouse, a lavish gift from her father, Bethany ignores all responsibility as she lives on a weekly allowance her Father is sure to place into her bank account. With too much time on her hands, Bethany is free to pursue other interests such as a young man she never cared for in school named Ryan Blackwood. Ryan is a male escort for hire and has made his living on pleasuring the higher echelons of New York society women, but when he meets Bethany his game is shifted from one of hunter to one of prey and he will soon find out that she is not the easy target he once imagined.

Their torrid love affair is filled with a painful need to harm each other in every way, including the bedroom. Will Bethany finally receive the love she has always desired or will her lineage doom her forever?

“The Bitter End” is book one in the Golden Crown Series, filled with lust, greed, suspense and murder. Sometimes new beginnings lead only to bitter ends.

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The Twin Dragons (Golden Crown, #2)



A terrible past will build two things, a bridge to freedom or a gate to hell. Join the Players of The Golden Crown Series in book two as the saga continues.

Reluctantly accepting her fate, Bethany has settled into the role of “Mother” but never that of “wife”. She feels the looming threat approaching that will leave her alone with Ryan as August and Cas near their 18th birthdays. She has spent years with prescription medication guiding her moods and emotions only to suddenly decide to allow the world to creep back in. With that she ventures out and finds danger at the hands of what may be her only redemption. This one act sets the chess game in motion as a new man enters their lives and Bethany finds it very hard to resist him. Threatened and fearing rejection, Ryan contacts an old enemy and invites the darkness back in. All the while, August and Cas both harbor dark secrets of their own, navigating a world both Ryan and Beth are not even aware of until it may be too late. Sometimes no matter what you do, the dragon will rise.

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The Gold Crown (Golden Crown, #3)



Beth and Ryan find themselves at a crossroads. They can either part and try to find happiness or stay and accept their fate. After the tragedy they endured in their own home Beth is still trying her best to explore a love she cannot quite accept with Mani. His patience with her is nothing short of miraculous as she battles to make him more than just a carnal pleasure.
Ryan is fighting his own demons, which have expanded from not only sexual but self destructive. All the while new enemies have risen up from the grave and are more than willing to try to consume them all.

Redemption can be found, even in hell, if that is where you happen to be.

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