AWESOME COVERS!!!!

I have recently discovered another author im lovin on. You wanna know how I discovered her...well...it might be shameful to say, but HER COVERS R~O~C~K!! I had to post them for you to look at...hulloooooooo check the shoes on these women out!~ Girls after my very own heart!!!!

WOW ITS BEEN FOREVER!!!

Ok so wow it been like forever since I blogged...summer comes and I get so freaking busy being outdoors and all. Buuuut...I did manage to get some great reads in and Im gonna post them for ya....

First up....


Trista Ann Michaels is a goddess when it comes to Romantic Suspense. The woman can write a freaking HAWT story!!!! Slaves, left me fanning myself for at least an hour trying to cool off. Beyond the sex though is the storyline that just never quits. So much inner betrayal going on and turmoil between the hero and heroine and their families. I often wish I had the mind of this author to come up with utterly fabulous storylines like this!!! Slaves is not one but the story of two women that are both unwillingly in the sex slave trade. Lin goes to rescue her friend Keeran and Tony comes to save Lin. Tony and Lin's dynamic is like adding fuel to flame. Its so hot it just about combusted my laptop. Aiden is the man hot on the trail of Keeran She knows him very well and they both were left stunned by the passion they felt for each other when the met prior to all this. Somehow the men that love them have to find a way to rescue the two of them without being discovered as moles in the secret world. Serious intensity here! Highly recommend this read!!!


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One of my all time fave authors EVER!!! Cherise Sinclair. Im a total fan girl and not ashamed to admit that she is lucky she lives so far away from the midwest because I seriously would stalk her and it would probably scare her. The woman writes some of the best BDSM/Romance EVER!!! Not to harsh, not to light, its really just right. Lean on Me is book for in the Masters of The Shadowlands series and is the story of Cullen, who if you know any of her work is the bartender at Shadowlands, and Andrea. Andrea has a history of people letting her down starting with her father who was drunk most of her childhood. She wants a Dom...but he cant be a pansy Dom. She wants a Dom that KNOWS what he is doing...or does she? When she finds Cullen is just that Dom, she might have signed up for a little more than she realized.

What I love also about Lean on Me is the fact that we get to see all of our other faves from The Shadowlands...which are all, by the way, fave reads of mine.

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Drilled by Regina Carlysle-ok so I am not a big Cougar fan...but let me tell ya! Ms. Carlysle just hit my high note ...woooooweeee...this is one hot read! Drilled is the story of Lori and Jack. Lori is still recovering from a bitter divorce two years ago. After moving back out to her grandparents house she meets the owner of the oil drilling company that is drilling on her property. Boy does she ever meet him! Jackson is a hot, hands on, hard working man. He might be younger than her but he is done playing the field and Lori is just what this oil man is looking for. Can he convince her he is the staying kind, especially when Lori's ex husband shows up wanting a second chance? Ms Carlysle is not only one AWESOME writer, she is very much a wonderful lady! She always takes time to talk with her adoring fans and Im not the only one who says this...trust me. I have sooooo many of her books on my TBR pile that have now worked their way up to the top of my list. Awesome read!

So in a nutshell there are some books to start you out with. LOL!!!

Of course all these wonderful reads have official reviews on them up at the wonderful site

Go check them out!!!

Rocky White, MD-Rest in Peace

I wanted to write this tonight in memory of a great man. John "Rocky" White, was a surgeon in Decatur Illinois. Fate took me in the direction of a town I would have never gone to otherwise. I met Rocky when I was a younger nurse. I took a position in 2001 as a traveller there. I remember the first day I met him. He just had a presence about him. I thought to myself, this man is larger than life here, and coming from Springfield where our hospitals were large trauma centers with doctors I loved, this is saying something about him. Rocky was a forward thinker-he brought Decatur out of the dark ages and into the 21st century with surgery. He was a God with the laproscope. I remember thinking early on...what is he doing here? He is so much bigger than this small town. He was so special to me in a matter of days. I did my stent at that hospital for a year and he and I became good friends. I realize now that Decatur needed him and he was right where he belonged.

When I told him my time was up there and it was time for me to head back to my hometown he was so unhappy with the news. I remember him asking me "what if I could arrange for you to stay here" and I thought to myself...well im a little burnt out on the whole hospital thing...I asked what he had in mind and to my shock he said, "I need a nurse for my office" I thought...psh...he's just yankin my chain. There were so many other nurses that he knew for so long who would have LOVED the chance to do this. He was just that kind of man. He was charismatic, charming, caring and had that boyish dare me to smile. You could read his emotions in his eyes. A couple days later he told me to contact the woman in his office who would be hiring me. I was stunned but JUMPED at this opportunity. I remember the night I quit the hospital and he joined me and some of the other nurses that I worked with in a celebration over drinks and food...god it was such a great time.

He and I....where to start...we had our differences, but I believed in him always. He was by far not perfect and definetly not the immortal I thought. What he was though was human. His generosity knew no bounds and he took care of those that took care of him. After spending a couple of years with him and watching him to continue to grow his practice I decided it was time for me to come back home to work. I had a newborn and he and I werent seeing eye to eye on some things. I have to say that leaving him was almost like leaving a husband for another man. I cried and fretted and was sick. I know I hurt him deep down for moving on, but I also know it was for the better. We kept in contact for a while but I know he felt somewhere that I was betraying him and I understood that and still do. There hasnt been a day go by that I dont appreciate all that he did for me, and all that he taught me. I assume there never will be.

On Monday January 18th at around 6pm I got a phone call from one of the girls that still works there saying he had been killed in a plane crash.

Tonight...I can no longer deny nor hope that it wasnt him.

Rocky flew his own plane. His beechwing was gorgeous and it was something that he was so proud of. He would fly Angel Flights- taking patients who couldnt afford to get to the specialists they needed to because they couldnt afford it. He would take his time and money and use his plane to do this. This wasnt just once in a while this was quite frequent. I remember having to rearrange his schedule for this at times. I always made him check in and when he didnt call me on time I would get nervous. I remember one time he flew into an airport and had to land because of weather. He had a patient with him, a young boy, and they were not at their destination. He rented a car, drove the patient and his mother to where they needed to go, and came back and waited out the storm then flew home.

Rocky was coming home from a vacation at his home in Boca Raton, Florida when his plane went down in Alabama. He was with a woman named Lisa Mattix. Lisa and Rocky went way way back. She was his scrub tech and then he hired her on as his nurse manager of his practice. She was easy going, laughed alot and was always smiling. She had a huge heart and her life as well as his ended far too abruptly.

Many will speculate the why's of them being together and all I have to say is this. Who cares why?

He leaves behind a wife, a son, a practice, and numerous people whose lives he saved when they had very little chance for survival. Im not bragging here, if you look him up you will see this.

So I write this tonight to say goodbye to you my friend, my boss, my teacher. I know your in a better place looking down on us. I would have rather you waited to be a guardian angel, but looking back I see that you always were. I will miss you for the rest of my days and will never forget you and be thankful I was one of the lucky few to be touched by your caring grace.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne

To which Rocky filled every day of his all too short life.

When I get where I'm going
on the far side of the sky.
The first thing that I'm gonna do
Is spread my wings and fly.

I'm gonna land beside a lion,
and run my fingers through his mane.
Or I might find out what it's like
To ride a drop of rain

Yeah when I get where I'm going,
there'll be only happy tears.
I will shed the sins and struggles,
I have carried all these years.
And I'll leave my heart wide open,
I will love and have no fear.
Yeah when I get where I'm going,
Don't cry for me down here.

I'm gonna walk with my grandaddy,
and he'll match me step for step,
and I'll tell him how I missed him,
every minute since he left.
Then I'll hug his neck.

So much pain and so much darkness,
in this world we stumble through.
All these questions, I can't answer,
so much work to do.

But when I get where I'm going,
and I see my Maker's face.
I'll stand forever in the light,
of His amazing grace.
Yeah when I get where I'm going,
Yeah when I get where I'm going,
there'll be only happy tears.
Hallelujah!

Mahalia Levey

To the girl who just by chance we met after finding each other on some yahoo loops. Hales is going to be the next best thing I am telling you this now. Her writing has an unbelievable flair to it and her use of the english language is something of modern day life and poetry mixed together. Hales first release is due out soon from Phaze publications "Embrace the Moment". I have read some blurbs on it and I am bouncing up and down with excitement for her characters. They are believable and freeeeeeeking hawt!!! Best wishes to a very successful career and a business that is not easy nor forgiving that you have broken into!!!

Jacquelyn Frank Finally hooked me!!

Ok so her first series was not so great in my opinion. The Shadowdwellers series will have you gripping the pages so hard your fingers will hurt. Magnus and Dae's story is by far one of the best stories I have ever read!!! He is a penance priest and built the world known as Sanctuary. It was supposed to be a safe place but he is going to find out that the corruption goes extremely deep and will cut straight through to his heart. Magnus likes control and order. When Dae comes into his life she is anything but controlable. Abused for most of her life she doesnt know kindness until Magnus shows her. He may awaken a passion in her for him but she will awaken him to life.

Excellent story!! I was fortunate enough to get to read the ARC of Sagan and Guin's story too. You wont be dissapointed in either of these!!!