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What would you do if dull, boring and nerdy you walked in on your childhood sweetheart and husband of twelve years, caught up in a compromising position in your own home with your beautiful, glamorous and almost perfect best friend? Ally Bradshaw always thought she was lucky that Michael chose her, but she was not ready for the betrayal that awaited her on that day.On the day of her divorce from Michael, and before returning to her job at the museum, Ally opts for a quick coffee at the mall across the road from the divorce court. There she runs into a fireman, who more than just takes her breath away.For the next few weeks, Ally is caught up in a series of what she refers to as one-night stands. Making the most of their encounters, Ally begins to change from the drab, boring and nerdy woman Michael once knew, to the sexy, outgoing bombshell Daniel sees her as.The I Do (Not) series follows Ally Bradshaw as she navigates life after divorce, evolving from the painfully shy wife to Michael Bradshaw, to the sexy and outspoken woman who manages to seduce the fireman, a doctor, a cowboy, and a detective before secretly falling for Daniel, the fireman, and finally being confronted by Michael.Currently, there are five books in the series, with another few in the works.

I DO (NOT) SERIESBOOK 2ON ICEAfter an exciting few weeks with Daniel, Ally now finds herself in the equally cold arms of Dr. William Walker where she takes more chances, and slowly evolves from the drab, boring Ally Bradshaw she has always been. With a new wardrobe and a brand-new hairstyle, she takes risks she would never have taken during her miserable marriage with Michael. But, she soon realizes that the good doctor isn't Daniel, and for some reason, she can't seem to get him out of her mind. When Michael voices his concerns to her parents regarding the new Ally Bradshaw, they force her to make a trip back to her hometown, desperate to save her from herself. There she meets her 8-second cowboy, Ryan Henderson. Editorial reviews uploaded soon.I DO (NOT) - BOOK 1 - PLAYING WITH FIRE - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 3 - AT THE RODEO - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 4 - ABOVE THE LAW - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 5 - DEADLY - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 6 - ALLY BRADSHAW - AVAILABLE 2020

I DO (NOT) SERIESBOOK 3AT THE RODEOBack home, and under strict orders from her parents, Ally does her best to behave, but still can't get Daniel off her mind. Here she meets Ryan Henderson, an 8-second rodeo cowboy, and before she could consider the consequences, she goes on one wild rodeo ride after another, of her own. In between their secret meetings, she is forced to deal with the painful loss of her brother, and her parents' heartache and anger at not only his death, but her lifestyle. On the last night of the festival, Ally Bradshaw's indiscretions with Ryan is exposed for all the townsfolk to see. Shocked by her parents' reaction, Ally sees them in a new light, but is forced to return home when the museum where she works, almost burns down. Here, she meets Detective Mark Warren, and runs into Daniel again, who has another woman at his side.Editorial reviews uploaded soon.I DO (NOT) - BOOK 1 - PLAYING WITH FIRE - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 2 - ON ICE - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 4 - ABOVE THE LAW - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 5 - DEADLY - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 6 - ALLY BRADSHAW - AVAILABLE 2020

I DO (NOT) SERIESBOOK 4ABOVE THE LAWAlly is back home, and meets Mark Warren who is working on the arson case she was called home to. At first, he seemed exciting and dangerous, but the more encounters she has with him, the more she begins to fear him. When he frames Michael for the fire at the museum, Ally reaches out to Daniel who introduces her to an attorney. Together, they set up a sting to prove that Mark Warren is crooked, and hopefully, prove Michael and Lily's innocence, and free them from prison. But, Mark is smarter than they anticipated, and her liaisons with him comes to an abrupt, and violent end.Editorial reviews uploaded soon.I DO (NOT) - BOOK 1 - PLAYING WITH FIRE - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 2 - ON ICE - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 3 - AT THE RODEO - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 5 - DEADLY - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 6 - ALLY BRADSHAW - AVAILABLE 2020

Holly had just discovered she was pregnant when she strolled into Fine Books. While carefully selecting books to prepare her for her pregnancy, Holly was immediately distracted by Passage of Time, lying on a coffee table beside her. Instinctively, she took the book, and began paging through the pages of the legend of Adelaine Alandrali.When Sarah found Holly, she was at once caught off-guard when she found Holly with Passage of Time, the book she had kept hidden in her secret hiding place in Fine Books. She immediately sensed that it was no coincidence that Passage of Time found Holly, but all she could do, was offer Holly a place to come to, should her world be turned upside down.That same night, Holly is murdered by her husband, Mark's best friend. When she wakes up a few years earlier, she is convinced that she returned to save her mother. Panic-stricken, she goes back to Fine Books where Sarah guides her and tells her the story of Adelaine Alandrali.Frantic to prevent her mother's death, Sarah is sure that Holly came back to alter her own instead, and her child's. When Holly has a false sense of security that her death has been averted, it is up to Sarah and Daniel to save Holly, and give her, her one more last chance?

At the tender age of 17, Scarlett Rose was the well-known, well-liked and respectable daughter of the only preacher in Carmel, Pastor Joseph and his wife, Lily Horak.Until then, Scarlett Rose had presented herself with utmost dignity and led her life as a teenager in a proper and orderly fashion, as was expected from her.She by no means at all questioned her father's strict and commanding rules, while she remained blithe and content to oblige under his authority.From the moment she met Blade Bannister, it all changed. All she had ever thought was true and correct had altered instantly. She rebelled against her father and her Church. She fearlessly questioned him and his religion.Blade Bannister transported her into a world of excitement, exhilaration and love, while she was keen to surrender entirely to his power over her.For the first time in her life, she had fallen unreservedly and unconditionally in love with the boy from the wrong side of the tracks whose broken and shattered family had been at war with the Horak's for centuries before.Scarlett remained unerringly devoted to her love for him while exploring the stars and her make-believe enchantment through her sand castles.She in no way at all could foresee or predict the devastation the future would hold when she discovered Pastor Joe's horrifying and mortal betrayal. The world Blade had sworn to rescue her to, no longer existed as the crushing and devastating revelation made way for an entirely shattering, yet unexpected forever.

Shortly after graduating from high school, Sarah left Daniel, and her little hometown in search of her wonderful. She swore that she'd be gone for no more than a year. Twelve years later, caught up in the city lights and the loneliness it had brought her, she was desperate to return to her family, and to Daniel. Only, she returned to a graveyard, and a gravestone bearing Daniel's name. She was 11 months too late. Overcome by anguish, Sarah knew that there was nothing she could do to turn back the time, and never leave at all. Her wonderful was right in front of her, before she left. She was devastated that Daniel had kept his illness a secret, and that he had sworn her family to do the same. When she wakes up twelve years ago, can Sarah stop Daniel from taking the trip where he would contract the virus that would eventually kill him? Will anyone believe her as she desperately tries to save his life, and hers? Will her grandmother's book, Passage of Time, the magical pages, and the legend of Adelaine Alandrali be the key to changing the past? What is it about the book that took her back, and gave her, her one more last chance?

Some of you might read this and think I'm arrogant, self-absorbed, lecherous and even a little heartless. I'm not. Not really. I am the woman that you pass on the street in broad daylight, and don't look twice at. I am the type you'd never even glance at for a second longer than is necessary. There is nothing special about me. There is nothing that sets me apart from the rest. I am not a golden girl; I don't shine or turn heads when I walk into a room. I am certainly not the kind of woman you'd find on the front page of magazines, not even in a corner on page 89. I am a Celeste Barber.That's what my ex-husband Michael said until I met Daniel, a fireman, and started playing with fire. BOOK 1PLAYING WITH FIREAlly Bradshaw is newly-single, and oppressed. That is, until she meets Daniel on the day her divorce is finalized. A fireman that knocks her off her feet, and takes her on highs she's never known with Michael, her proper, snobbish and stiff ex-husband. Daniel becomes her drug, and addiction she was never ready for. She was besotted with her new one-night stands, until feelings got in the way, forcing her to set her sights on William, the new tenant in Daniel's building, and a cold as ice doctor. I DO (NOT) - BOOK 2 - ON ICE I DO (NOT) - BOOK 3 - AT THE RODEO I DO (NOT) - BOOK 4 - ABOVE THE LAW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 5 - DEADLY

Seventeen-year-old Molly was relentless when she pleaded and begged her father to let her stay behind in the village she grew up in, after James Starkey was tasked with the grim decision of moving his family away from the only home they had ever know, and out to the city.Molly was terrified of leaving Ryan behind. She could barely shake the overwhelming and tormenting fear that things between them, were about to change forever.After their first holiday together months later, Molly was devastated to return to her parents, bringing horrendous and shocking tragedy with her.James was crushed by Ryan and Molly's carelessness, and in a moment of anger, he demanded that she never see Ryan again.Molly's hopelessness and rage turned to instant hatred for the father she once adored.James was beleaguered by feelings of guilt as he watched his daughter pine for the boy she had left behind; the boy he had forced her to say goodbye to, and in the process, he made her question all that she had ever believed in. Would he ever forgive himself for the haunting choices he made on her behalf?When Molly finally made the journey back to the town she once adored, she was shocked to discover that the man he had become, was nothing like the boy she had once left behind. Even though her heart longed for him, he had become a stranger to her. She was horrified by his unanticipated anger and surprising hatred towards her when he learnt of Molly's disturbing betrayal.Will Molly and Ryan's one night together make way for a whole new world of distressing aftermaths? Will Ryan ultimately forgive her, and can he stop her from making the same mistake again? Will Molly finally find peace in all that once destroyed her, and can she ever forgive James for turning his back on her when she needed him the most?

Back home, and under strict orders from her parents, Ally does her best to behave, but still can't get Daniel off her mind. Here she meets Ryan Henderson, an 8-second rodeo cowboy, and before she could consider the consequences, she goes on one wild rodeo ride after another, of her own.In between their secret meetings, she is forced to deal with the painful loss of her brother, and her parents' heartache and anger at not only his death, but her lifestyle.On the last night of the festival, Ally Bradshaw's indiscretions with Ryan is exposed for all the townsfolk to see. Shocked by her parents' reaction, Ally sees them in a new light, but is forced to return home when the museum where she works, almost burns down.Here, she meets Detective Mark Warren, and runs into Daniel again, who has another woman at his side.

Ally is infatuated with the elegant, successful and powerful Damon, the attorney Daniel introduced her to.Still, she has fallen for Daniel, and unable to resist him when she temporarily moves in with him after the fiasco with Mark Warren.But, Daniel is committed to Lucy, and successfully resists Ally's advances. Before she is able to submit to Damon, Michael causes havoc in her life, leaving her for dead on her bedroom floor.

After an exciting few weeks with Daniel, Ally now finds herself in the equally cold arms of Dr. William Walker where she takes more chances, and slowly evolves from the drab, boring Ally Bradshaw she has always been.With a new wardrobe and a brand-new hairstyle, she takes risks she would never have taken during her miserable marriage with Michael. But, she soon realizes that the good doctor isn't Daniel, and for some reason, she can't seem to get him out of her mind.When Michael voices his concerns to her parents regarding the new Ally Bradshaw, they force her to make a trip back to her hometown, desperate to save her from herself. There she meets her 8-second cowboy, Ryan Henderson.

When Lola chose Sutherland, she had no idea that she was choosing a town to get away from a life she no longer felt that she belonged in, while running into a life she had no memory of once living in. A family she was already a part of; a journey she had already begun a long time ago. For Lola, it was a city that chose her to come back into a life that already knew her; a life that was stolen from her as a child. She soon discovers the secrets of her childhood and how her dreams were pushing her to find her way back home, to a little boy she once loved, to the man he had become while hiding from a family who took her from him.

Ally is back home, and meets Mark Warren who is working on the arson case she was called home to. At first, he seemed exciting and dangerous, but the more encounters she has with him, the more she begins to fear him. When he frames Michael for the fire at the museum, Ally reaches out to Daniel who introduces her to an attorney. Together, they set up a sting to prove that Mark Warren is crooked, and hopefully, prove Michael and Lily's innocence, and free them from prison. But, Mark is smarter than they anticipated, and her liaisons with him comes to an abrupt, and violent end.

He was not ready to lose her in either world, so he tricked the stars and conspired against the Universe.He loved her in life - he swept her into a portal and loved her in death, and then he sent her back to her world as he continued to linger in his - between life and between death.They told her it was all in her mind. They said that her memories were never real. They locked her away until he found a way back, to her world. Misty-Bleu, "Through all our lifetimes, across so many universes and dimensions, our souls always know each other. You and I, we've loved before, it's just always our bodies that are new. Still, in each form, each age, each universe, and each lifetime, you leave me here without you. I can't do another lifetime without you. I search for you in each existence, when really, my survival has always been in you, and yours in me. Our worlds collide again and again, lifetime after lifetime, body after body. I need to be in a world where you won't leave me again. I've got to be where you are." Misty-Bleu, "The place I go to every time I close my eyes. There where you are. There where I find you again. There where our ancient love comes home to me. There where all other worlds die, and ours lets me live again. With you. There, where we make plans again. There, where you touch my face and hold my hands. There where I can breathe again. There, where you never left, never gone. There where I find you when I no longer want to be awake in my world. The world you sent me back to. The one I've had to live in without you, and hide my tears. The one that crushes my soul and shatters my heart. The world I hate. The one I search for you on empty beaches and crowded streets. The one you've left me in, without you."

When Gabriel was assigned to Kenya with a team from Doctors Without Borders, Skyler never thought that their new beginning would end so abruptly after Gabriel went missing in war torn Kenya.Angered by his family's betrayal, Skyler left the home she shared with him shortly after his memorial service, and moved away to a new city, hoping to never see them again. She slowly began picking up the shattered pieces of her heart when she unexpectedly met and fell in love with the kind-hearted and charming, Gavin Taylor.Just when Skyler thought the years that had gone by had finally brought her the closure she so desperately sought, the news that Gabriel was found alive, left her reeling and devastated all at the same time.Can Skyler return to the town and the family she had left behind so many years before?Will her love for Gavin shield her from the turmoil she is flung into by Gabriel's unexpected return?Are Skyler and Gabriel destined to become perfect strangers, while sharing a secret of the past Skyler can no longer hide from the world?

On February 12th, I received an email from the Author Academy Awards, signed by "The Author Academy Awards Committee" saying that submissions for my books were received and that they were being reviewed.Later that day, I received another email stating, "Hello Alice. First the best news. You're IN The Author Academy Awards selection committee has approved your submission. Your book will be listed on the Author Academy Awards site when voting officially opens in March." Signed by Kary Oberbrunner. With this, I received graphics to use for voting purposes for the two categories my three books were nominated in, Best General Non-Fiction and Fantasy. The purpose of the graphics is to attract votes.On February 27th, I received an email that voting will kick off on March 3rd, following a global livestream hosted by the Author Academy Awards.On March 3rd, I tuned into the livestream hosted by, amongst others, Kary Oberbrunner, while eagerly anticipating the kick off. During the livestream, Kary Oberbrunner mentioned an author from South Africa with a controversial book, "making waves," and has "already" gained haters, or lovers. I want to make it clear that I have had no contact with any of the organizers regarding the content of any of my books, or have in any way discussed controversy, "making waves," "haters" or "lovers." This came up without me being aware of it, and I was rather stunned. I couldn't help but question whether they were approached by those currently on a crusade to silence the truth about South Africa.With voting having kicked off, my campaign began to canvass for votes for all my books, just as the other nominated authors were doing. After all, the outcome relies on votes garnered for the books nominated.On March 5th, I received another email from the Author Academy Awards, signed by Emily Myers which read as follows: "Hi Alice, We hope you are well. Under further review of the content of your books submitted for our Author Academy Awards, you are no longer approved to be included in the contest. Have a nice day, Emily Myers Customer Support Manager."Not only was "My Turn - South Africa" removed from the awards competition, but so were "Afterlight" and "Passage of Time" which are purely fictional, fantasy novels.My Turn- South Africa recounts the emotionally charged and tragic details of what is happening in present-day South Africa. It is the story of racism run rampant. Land is being taken. Whites are being targeted for brutal torture and murder. The statistics document this to be true, but little is known of this travesty in our world. The reason? The crimes are not committed by whites against blacks, but vice versa. This scenario finds no traction because it does not fit the politically correct view of what racism is known to be.Alice VL provides alarming statistics and sobering documentation to bolster the claims that white people in South Africa, particularly white land-owners and farmers, face unremitting danger. Gripped by fear, each is left to wonder, is today "my turn" to be tortured and murdered? The author seeks to be the voice of the minority in South Africa yearning for justice under a government that seems utterly disinterested in providing it. Instead, the government turns a deaf ear to the cries of the persecuted minority while at times even lampooning their plight.

I DO (NOT) SERIESBOOK 5DEADLYAlly is infatuated with the elegant, successful and powerful Damon, the attorney Daniel introduced her to. Still, she has fallen for Daniel, and unable to resist him when she temporarily moves in with him after the fiasco with Mark Warren. But, Daniel is committed to Lucy, and successfully resists Ally's advances. Before she is able to submit to Damon, Michael causes havoc in her life, leaving her for dead on her bedroom floor.Editorial reviews uploaded soon.I DO (NOT) - BOOK 1 - PLAYING WITH FIRE - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 2 - ON ICE - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 3 - AT THE RODEO - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 4 - ABOVE THE LAW - AVAILABLE NOW I DO (NOT) - BOOK 6 - ALLY BRADSHAW - AVAILABLE 2020