Learning to Soar

©Copyright Bebe Balocca 2013 Cover Art by Posh Gosh ©Copyright 2013 Total-E-Bound Publishing All rights reserved ISBN# 978-1-78184-249-2
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How to Impress a Gentleman

Baronet Charles Donovan is hard to impress. As an up and coming member of the Beau Monde, he has seen his fair share of lovely and accomplished ladies. Unfortunately for Lindsay Beaumont, she has succeeded where all others have failed. Not within some glittering ballroom or tiresome salon, has she managed to captivate Charles. Instead, her innocent maneuverings have expertly entangled Charles in a family drama that results in him being impressed into His Majesty's Royal Navy.Now, the handsome and fun loving gentleman will learn through hardship and violence, what it takes to survive. After four long years at sea, Charles has only one thing on his mind: to find the young lady who cost him his youth, and to make her family pay for their betrayal. How better to recoup his fortune and his honor than by bedding and wedding the only girl who deserves his broken body, spirit, and pocketbook? Yes, her family will pay for his suffering with their precious dowry, and their daughter.Lindsay has adored Charlie for as long as she can remember. He has always been dashing, handsome, kind, and courageous. So why, after disappearing for five long years, has he suddenly resurfaced, a scarred and ferocious antihero? What has happened to the boy she admired? And why do his whispered, course endearments drip like venom from his lips? Charles knows that she is leery of marriage. So, why does he entice her now? Lindsay has never been the kind of woman to sit back and allow bad things to happen to those she loves. She will get to the root of this mystery and help Charles find happiness, whatever it takes. But how can she be the one to help Charlie heal, when it seems she is the very poison that eats at his soul? How To Impress a Gentleman is an 82,000 word historical romance novel set in eighteenth century England.
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Rivals

There are rules to every game. And I never break mine. No relationships. No regrets. No repeats. Being a single dad with my job? I’ve got space in my life for one girl and one girl only, and that’s my eight-year-old daughter, Emily. Besides, forever-love is a f*cking myth. I’ve learned that the hard way. That is, until she walks into my life. Well, back into my life, I should say. Serena Roth - the enemy. You might say we’re acquainted - one incredible, mind blowing night, a month ago, when we were rivals working for opposing football teams. But my uncle’s mysterious will throws Serena right into the middle of my world. And suddenly, that one-night fling I can’t stop thinking about is living in my city, and working in my office. Suddenly, she owns half my damn team. She’s the enemy - the enticing, tempting-as-sin, make-me-lose-my-mind enemy. But somehow, we need to work together, or we lose it all. Somehow, we have to be professional. Somehow, we have to follow the rules. The only problem? She makes me want to break every damn one of them. *RIVALS is a standalone book (approx. 65,000 words) with a HEA; NO CLIFFHANGER!* This new-release includes three bonus books for a very limited time. Happy reading!
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Irresistible Fear

“His presence was electric. The tiny pulses of excitement made her shiver inside. But so did the fear. The feelings were almost indistinguishable…yet completely irresistible.”Emily Hilbright's life is toxic. The negative threads curling around and strangling her. The nights of fear, the days of depression, the frantic struggle to stay sane. Her conscious world was consumed with the most basic need to survive. If her mother's abusive hand didn't break her, the nightmares would.But what about him? The boy in her dreams that had turned her world upside down. Was he her savior or her tormentor? Did it even matter? Because she knew she loved him. Needed him. His presence a taunting tease that was as maddening as it was helpless...for the simple reason that he existed only in Emily's mind.Or did he?Good and evil play out in a distorted landscape where dreams and reality clash and sanity and madness are impossible to tell apart. What is Emily left with when her world crashes down around her and the new love she has discovered is ultimately her killer?Irresistible Fear is the first book in The Redeeming Trilogy...the dark story of a girl, a boy, and a love that could destroy them both.
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What More Could You Wish For

Do you ever think about your first love, the one you thought you couldn't live without? Libby Carson does, and when she receives a marriage proposal she turns to SearchForClassmates.com to reach out to her high-school boyfriend, Patrick ... just for fun. But fun soon turns to flirtation and Libby, startled to feel the same stirrings of passion she felt at seventeen, wonders if she's having a mid-life crisis. Is it possible, she wonders, to feel so giddy and carefree at fifty? Is it possible to sustain it? Events take a turn when Libby is faced with not one, but two offers of marriage. There's no getting around it now—Libby must take stock of her life and everyone in it, to answer for herself the question that everyone has been asking her—What more could you wish for?
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Book Club Babies

In the colorful small town of Cherico, Mississippi, librarian Maura Beth McShay is preparing for an exciting new installment in her own life story—with some help from the Cherry Cola Book Club.Overseeing the opening of Cherico's new library has been a labor of love for Maura Beth McShay, made extra challenging by the fact that she and Jeremy are expecting their first child. And there's another plot twist on the horizon: Jeremy's sister, Elise, has taken a sabbatical to have a baby and will be staying in Cherico during her pregnancy.It's an unlikely move for the fiercely independent Elise, one that's causing her some anxiety. Jeremy, who's supposed to be birthing the Great American Novel, is instead testing his wife's patience with his incessant "sympathy pains." Resourceful as always, Maura Beth decides to use her new library as a venue for "Expecting Great Things" meetings—a sequel to her beloved book club. The weekly gatherings allow townsfolk...
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Secrets of the A-List, Episode 10

Friends in devious places... Poor Elana Marshall. She just can't catch a break. But balancing the men in her life is nothing compared to her latest earth-shattering secret. Too bad the Fixer can't help. There's a much bigger distraction—a demanding new client looking to pay big money for an even bigger job. Still, with the Marshalls circling the drain and the Fixer's reputation on the line, "no" is simply not an option... Super Rich. Super Sexy. Super Addictive. Secrets of the A-List—read all 12 episodes! Praise for Dani Collins "Her couple is the epitome of miscommunication, but watching them finally 'get' each other is worth every page. Oh, and the love scenes are jaw-dropping sizzlers!" —RT Book Reviews on More than a Convenient Marriage
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