Between Two Worlds series by E. Journey ♥ Spotlight & GIVEAWAY ♥ (Contemporary Romance)

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A modern-day pastiche of Jane Austen novels. Elise is a bright, beautiful law student, focused on a career and distrustful of men. She butts heads with Greg at her parents' dinner parties. Dark, good-looking, internet-business owner, he finds Elise intriguing, so unlike the dark-haired seductive beauties he used to escort around. Specter of revenge. Unable to deny their attraction for each other, they spend an unexpected night together two days before he is to wed someone else. Lori, the jilted fiancée, exacts revenge, tearing Greg and Elise apart and forcing them to face who they are and what they really want. An accident. Older and wiser, Greg and Else reunite two years later. He is in for a surprise. Later, their lives are thrown again into disarray when Elise becomes the victim of a hit-and-run. Is Lori back to haunt them again? A delicious romance with a literary slant, spiced with a twist of whodunit.

A raw tale of early love, rivalry and betrayal. Her oldest son's suicide attempt shocks the Halversons and forces Agnieszka to reveal a past she has kept from her children. Passion for music. Hearing her talented, irrepressible grandaunt Jola, a concert pianist in Poland, give a piano recital, young Agnieszka discovers a passion for music. Jola hones her talent and feeds her dreams. Shattered dreams. Real-world problems, thorny relations with a mother tied to her roots and betrayal by Jola shatter her dreams. A 70s love story. Agnieszka falls in love, but fate deals her first love a death blow. She rises from the losses she has suffered and gets a second chance at happiness. A mother's youthful dreams thwarted and renewed, amidst the exciting promise of the 70s.

A Riveting Tale of Love, Loss, and Finding Your Own Way Can a family bury its secret past? Like her long-lost doctor father, Leilani Torres heals people. But can she heal herself? Having fled the troubled Pacific country, Costa Mora, for America when she was nine, she still doesn’t know what happened to him, or what mysterious reasons prevented him from leaving with his family. But Leilani is aware that as a child, she was trained to use a gun to protect herself against danger, A lovable computer nerd who’s failed at love. Brokenhearted after his relationship of seven years ended, Justin just wants to drown his sorrows. But he finds more trouble than he’s looking for, when he is assaulted by thugs. A mysterious woman with a dead aim rescues him. They’re immediately drawn to each other, but Leilani fears Justin may have a rescuer complex or is on the rebound. A hero or a villain? Suddenly, Leilani’s past is not so past, as a friend of her father turns up at her mother’s door with some shocking news. Caught in a deadly political web, Dr. Torres was ready to commit a horrific crime that shocks and unsettles Leilani. She isn’t sure if he is a hero or a villain, but only she and Justin can rescue him from their old island home. Welcome, Reluctant Stranger interweaves a love story into a tale of past political intrigue and Leilani’s inner journey, accepting her past.

I'm a realist in my writing, as well as my art. I don't have as much imagination as many other writers--a handicap (or strength) that comes partly from my training (Ph.D., University of Illinois) and experience as a mental health program researcher/evaluator. I'm also a flâneuse, a female observer-wanderer. So, I watch, and observe. And listen. That's where the meat of my writing comes from.

As an author of love stories, I tend not to rely on broad shoulders and heaving bosoms. Instead, I go into the protagonists' thoughts and emotions, and how those show their growth. My novels deal with protagonists' insecurities and disappointments, love/hate relationships with parents, characters who seem to behave out-of-character, and even life events not typically included in romantic fiction. My stories do have happy epilogues, and I've tried to work in intriguing plotlines into them.

As Evy Journey, I have a book blog (http://www.margaretofthenorth.wordpress.com) and a blog on art, food, travel (mostly Paris), and state of being (http://eveonalimb.com). My author website is http://www.evyjourney.com

     

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