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Romance We Must by Maryanne Peters Ebook Available

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Romance We Must
by Maryanne Peters
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What do you do when your responsibilities mean sacrificing your desires... your dreams... even your gender? In her 34th collection from DopplerPress, Maryanne Peters explores what it means when duty calls, and you're expected to answer with high heels on.



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Destiny's Serendipity -20-

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Destiny's Serendipity

Episode Twenty: Parting of the Ways

A Thriller - Romance - Transgender Serial

From the Limoxian Universe

By Jo Dora Webster

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Project Toxin: Chapter 12 Revelations

A young New Yorker finds himself in over his head after finding a symbiote that changes him in unexpected ways.
Toxin
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Chapter 12

I’m in a city—New York?

But it’s wrong.



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Raven's Blood: Chapter 9

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Chapter 9: Family Secrets

Raven Demarco grew up living a sheltered life. When she starts University to get away from that she is caught up in the world of the paranormal. Secret organizations, magic, creatures from myth and legend, and worst of all, her own legacy and the Demons who want her blood.

 

“There are Demons after me; they put a price on my head. I need you to teach me how to fight,” I admitted.


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Easy As Falling Off A Bike pt 1250.

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The Daily Dormouse.
(aka Bike)
Part 1250
by Angharad

Copyright © 2011 Angharad
All Rights Reserved.
  
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Noel by Christopher Leeson now on Kindle

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If you carry your own punishment around with you, can you carry your own salvation?

NOEL
by Christopher Leeson
Noel


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The Princess of Venda Part II

The Princess of Venda Part II

Note. Special thanks to all the people who voted for this story in the contest.

I was honored and you have encouraged me to continue writing it.

Chapter 5

I was stunned. This castle had always seemed like the safest place in the world. The biggest danger was skinning a knee if we fell on the gravel running around outside. “What happened? How could someone do that?” I asked.



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Do What You Wanna Do

The moon is in its seventh house. Greg is on his very first high. The dawning of the Age of Aquarius came late to Bellington College. Greg finds love, but will he risk all to keep it?



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Trenner’s Garage Chap. 2

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Masks 24: Part 4

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Part Four

"This time it was a sound attack of some sort," said the Detective, as Vic came hurrying onto the crime scene of yet another "super drive-by."

Unlike the previous two attacks, this one had been during business hours. Additionally, the target was not a crowd, but a downtown real-estate company. This turned out to be one of the business working to refurbish and resell abandoned houses in the Detroit area.



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Butterscotch -21- Waffles

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Mom continued with a sparkle in her eye. "The real question is, what makes you happy?"

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Cross Country Disconnect - 11 State Meet and Beyond

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Cross Country Disconnect - 11
State Meet and Beyond


By Jessica C


Gary opened his big mouth and was challenged...
He saw no way of losing but did... Losing he became a winner...



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Her Roommate

Her Roommate
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters

He was really no threat to our relationship. I suppose it says something about my insecurity that I thought he might be. I have heard it said that there are reachers and settlers in every relationship. A guy like me reaches high, and a girl like Miranda is willing to drop a rung or two to go out with me. That’s how I felt anyway.



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Gaby Book 22 ~ Avoidance ~ Chapter *4*

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*Chapter 4*
Retail Therapy


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Gaby Book 2 ~ Summer Girl ~ Chapter *29*

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*Chapter 29*
Happy Birthday!


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And It Feels So Good

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Jessica left Eloise a decade ago, and then fulfilled a lifetime dream. She had made a break with her past -- but is filled with anxiety when an invitation to her high school reunion manages to find her.



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Broken Wings 13

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CHAPTER 13
Kim was running out of steam by ten o’clock, so I helped her up the stairs to her room before returning to the living room and Rosie, who was pensive.

“Who the fuck is she, Deb?”

“Someone else who’s had a load of shit, love. Thank your lad for the medicine; I don’t think she’d have survived much longer the way she was going, and the weather”

“Well, what are you going to do with her?”



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It Just Ain't Happenin'

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It Just Ain't Happenin'

By Melanie E.

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you just can't have the things you want.



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The Infiltrator

Please understand—I was not a spy. But the counter-terrorism unit needed an infiltrator, a job I was uniquely qualified for.

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The Infiltrator

by Maryanne Peters

Chapter 1



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The Woman Who Would Be A Spy: A tale of Zhor, Part 2

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On the planet Zhor, as in most pre-modern societies, careers appealing to women can at first seem rather restricted. But in so complex a civilization as Zhor's, a capable woman -- if determined enough --may discover that some rather unique fields of endeavor lay open to her. Lady Caron thinks that she has found one that will suit her nicely.

This story is inspired by Ranbarth's novelette "The Lancer's Tale," available at Fictionmania.



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Freedom of Choice

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Tony has a choice to make. He can demand that he be what he wants to be, or life can simply go the way everyone else thinks it should.



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Bra Tripping

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Cary Chrome’s life is turned upside down as he spends a day pursuing his first bra.



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The Huntress

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The Huntress
A Short Story
By Maryanne Peters



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Who's hunting who? Chapter 24.

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I swear, I didn't forget. I simply don't want to spam chapters.

Here it is, the next one with Sasha. Please enjoy.



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Masks 24: Part 3

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Part Three

Vic - in her old armor, the helmet in her left hand - got out of her Corolla wagon at the scene of another "super drive-by" attack. This time, what was apparently the same black SUV from which the energy blast had been directed at the theater crowd days earlier, had made a different type of attack. Vic found it odd that even though there had been several more-traditional drive-by shootings lately in Detroit during that same period, the energy blast attack - and now this one - were "the" drive-bys on the minds of most police and civilians alike.



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Princess of Castile Chapter 12


Princess of Castile

By Jennifer Reed

Chapter 12
Natalia and John have their first encounter in years as John realizes who Natalia has become and Natalia has an encounter with her ex wife
The final pieces of Aragons fate are put in place and the Princess plots for the future



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Broken! - Chapter 6

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After a severe beating by his father, Alex was left in a coma and broken. Will his memory return and what will it mean for him if it does?



 

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Broken!

By Shauna

Copyright© 2020 Shauna J. Rousseau
All Rights Reserved.
(All images and artwork are property of and copyrighted by Shauna J. Rousseau.)


 
Chapter Six

 




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My Super-powered Diary: Chapter 37

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My Super-powered Diary
Chapter 37
Nightfall

By
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When Maddock Ainsley gets involved in a rescue operation with his unit things go horribly wrong and his life is forever changed. Can the newly minted Merida cope with being a girl and a teenage super hero?
The eyes of the Tainted widened and he just stared at me for a moment before sputtering, “But you’re jussst a child, how…”


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Easy As Falling Off a Bike pt 3251

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The Weekly Dormouse.
(aka Bike, est. 2007)
Part 3251
by Angharad

Copyright© 2020 Angharad

  
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Broken Wings 12

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CHAPTER 12
When I returned to the living room, she was still there, wrapped up tightly in the sleeping bag, a light sheen of sweat on her face. I handed her the hot chocolate I had prepared, along with the first of the antibiotics, and watched her face light up at the aroma rising from the mug.

Her voice was clear, as Sparky had observed, but still weak.

“Why are you doing this?”

“Later, girl”

Another twitch at that word. I pressed on.



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October's Bright Blue "Whether"

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Brandon’s girlfriend wants him to make some changes. His mother isn’t sure exactly just what Brandon is. Who will help Brandon find peace?

October’s Bright Blue “Whether”
by Angela Rasch

Copyright  © 2010 By Angela Rasch
All Rights Reserved.



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Forsythe Saga - Sometimes, life just does not make sense - Part 2 of 2

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When Maxine returned home from the Hospice, she sat still for a while. The carers were busy cleaning the Bedroom where Adrian had slept for the past two months. The medical equipment … The medical equipment was all being boxed up to be sent back to the rental company. It all seemed so final. She just had to accept that Adrian was not coming home again. Now it was up to her to run her life and the business. For the first time since she’d gone to that interview with Sally Jameson, she felt truly alone. She mentally sighed to herself. There would be many more days like this in the days, weeks and months to come.

Maxine sat at her desk and gazed into space for god knows how long thinking about everything and nothing at the same time.



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Castle The Series - 0127 The Music Man

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CASTLE THE SERIES – 00000000

BEFORE THE BEGINING OF TIME

For countless thoughts before the birth of spacetime, they watched.



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Unaccounted Gains - Book 1 - Part 7

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Accountancy Can Be Deadly
Part 7


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Like for Like. Chapter 16. Final

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Chapter 16

The next few days were quiet and Wendy and I got around to cleaning out the flat after the weeks it had been collecting dust and we did a bit of shopping to restock the pantry. I then had a phone call from the agency asking if we could all go and see them the next day; they would send a mini-bus at ten. We let the other girls know to be ready.



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The Patsy Project: Book 3. Positively Patsy Parts 1 & 2

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Positively Patsy Part 1

I sat there at a table in a nightclub in Hanoi and the lass in front of me had just told me she may be Grogs daughter without knowing just what this may mean. Not wanting to alert Pietro to the ramifications of the situation I just laughed and said that I had heard about loving drink but that was a good one.



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Click here on the link to go directly to Being Invisible!

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Easy as Falling Off a Bike 9 - Wuthering Dormice - on Kindle

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The ongoing story....

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Cathy always tries to mind her business, unfortunately business doesn't give her the same respect. In fact it goes out of its way to send a fresh helping of drama her way in the shape of a three-year-old force of nature named Jemima.

Can she really help the girl, save the dormice and look after her nearest and dearest all at the same time?

Easy as Falling Off a Bike
9. Wuthering Dormice
by Angharad
Now on Kindle


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Kelly Girl by Wanda Cunningham - New Edition from DopplerPress

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New Third Edition!

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Kelly Girl
by Wanda Cunningham

New Edition on Kindle


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Choosing Romance by Maryanne Peters on Kindle

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Twenty more gender-bending tales from Maryanne as her heroes-turned-heroines, in the midst of crisis, choose the romantic option.

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