Mary B. Moore

Amanda Chimera by Mary B. Moore explores our hybrid nature as body and something else--mind, soul, spirit--through poems spoken by and about the persona Amanda. Haunted by her vanished twin, Gloria, who died in utero and some of whose DNA she absorbed, Amanda views herself as hybrid and thus as a monster, a carrier of the dead. Grounded in nature's grace and variety, domestic life, and family dynamics, poems on art and myth focus on hybrid creatures, paralleling Amanda and Gloria. The sisters' relationship is as varied as the poems' tones: as Amanda says, she "likes a mixed diction." Sometimes loving or sorrowful, sometimes witty and wry, the work revels in image and word music.

JinxShe was meant to be just another appointment, but when Sienna Blake came to get her scars covered up, the story that came with it changed everything. I should have been more aware back then, more clued in to what was going on, but I'd been so focused on finding my path in life that I'd messed up, and she'd become a victim because of it. I'm going to make it up to Sienna and help her get her life back, this time with me in it. And it's not just because of who hurt her. It's because there's something about her that I can't stop thinking about. She's fragile but strong. Hurt but complete. And I can't stay away from her.Art's my passion, and skin's my canvas, but The Broken Eagles are what brings it all together. At least, it was until Sienna came back into my life.SiennaI don't go out, and I don't speak to people-I just focus on my pottery and designs. So why I finally decided to bite the bullet and get a tattoo, I don't know. Maybe I did it because it was him?Covering up the past helps, but you can never erase it completely. This I know well. But that one appointment opens up my life in ways I didn't expect, and now that we've met up again, Jinx is determined to give me a future I never imagined I'd have.Unfortunately, we can't always erase the demons chasing us, though, and it seems like she isn't finished trying to ruin my life. But now she wants everything we've built together to come tumbling down.This time, though, I'm not on my own, and I'm stronger than I was before because of him.Until Jinx is part of Aurora Rose Reynolds' Happily Ever Alpha World. If you loved Until July, then you'll want to read Until Jinx.

Raoul I have an issue that comes in a tidy, neat little package-my neighbor. She's driven me out of my mind every day since she moved in a year ago. To add salt to the wound, she's a nurse and the sister of a tattoo artist, and I have a massive phobia of needles. I think it would be okay if she'd just stop giving me her special smile every morning, stop being cute, stop giving me that attitude that drives me out of my mind.I'm lying. Rose could wear a paper bag over her head, and I'd still want her. The problem is, we're the complete opposite of each other. I mean opposites in everything, including the fact that I'm me-the most normal guy out-and she's classy AF. I'm not sure that's enough to stop me, though.RoseGrumpy Raoul Evans, oh, how I do love to mess with him. Smiling and waving at that glare he gives me every morning, the flowers I plant in front of his house, the packages of needles that accidentally fall out the pocket of my scrubs onto the floor in front of him. It's all just so much fun. It used to hurt me when he glared at me, but then I decided to enjoy it and just seize the day, so now I do that every day. I'm sure at some point I'll push him too far, but today is not that day. Maybe tomorrow? He says I'm classy, I say he's grumpy, and the rest of the world says opposites attract. I know I'm attracted to him, but until he starts feeling the same way toward me, or I make his head explode, I'm just going to enjoy pushing his buttons.

JoseEvery little girl dreams of a big white wedding with their knight in shining armor. None of us ever dreamed of being divorced with a baby because we discovered the knight was an evil ogre when we caught him in bed with another woman. Yet, here I was, twenty-six, a single mom, trying to find a magic spell to keep the ogre out of my life.My sister, Tabby's, arrival on the day I found him cheating brought something I needed into my life-someone who acted and loved like a real family member. I hadn't even known she existed until that ancestry DNA testing gift, but it felt like I'd known her my whole life.Now I wanted my dream, but I wanted to have a fresh start and be me for the first time in years. I wanted to live my best life with my daughter, laugh every day... Basically, I wanted the dream without the knight.Then, my soon-to-be brother-in-law's best friend dares me to go out on a date with him, and it's not a dare I can say no to. EllisI've been a tattoo artist for years. I've met great people, weird people, pains in the ass, you name it, but I've never met anyone like Jose. We're proof that opposites attract, but every time I ask her out, she keeps saying no. So, I've come up with a plan, a plan based on handing out dares, knowing she wouldn't say no to them. Why? Because she's the most stubborn woman in the world. When that still wasn't enough, I went ahead and submitted a photograph of the two of us into a competition in an ink magazine. Guess what? It won, so it's now on billboards all over the country, and she can't get away from me. So now we're living on a dare. And I dare Jose to say no.Read the seriesFireballLiving On A DareClassy AFTalk Flirty To MeJust Good FriendsEat Crow

AdamI've spent years helping victims. My family knows nothing about it because it wasn't safe for them to - but now I've led trouble right to all of us. He says that Jack Townsend is his target, but I was the one who helped to save the women in his biggest shipment out of the country. Scarlett Hayes had been my obsession from the moment I met her. What I never expected though, was to feel so much for her little brother - a boy who, like his sister, deserves the world. That becomes my goal, and I'll move heaven and earth to make sure they get it.When trouble hits though, it changes to just keeping her safe and finding the little boy who's stolen my heart.ScarlettI'd fought and worked hard for everything I had. Running a business and raising my little brother was a daily struggle, but it was worth every tear and every drop of sweat.Trust doesn't come easy to me, and with Tuck to consider, it's even harder to do. Adam says he'll keep me safe. He says I can trust him. He says it's me and only me. He also says he'll find my brother and bring him back to me. For the first time in my life, I believe in what I have with someone and I believe in him.I just hope he gets to Tuck in time because I can't live without him. He might be my little brother, but he's mine. He's ours.Karma comes to us all, and the Townsends and Montgomerys finally have the man who has been targeting them in their sights. You took the life of one of ours. You tried to take more. We'll take everything.

LilithThe one time I do something irresponsible it blows up in my face. Two pink lines, the word pregnant mocking me, a blue cross... twenty-six pregnancy tests in total, all screaming the same thing at me - Girl, you're pregnant AF. The problem was, I wasn't sure Tate even remembered our night together. There was no question in my mind, I was keeping my baby. The only issue was - I needed to break the news to him, too. I had time to figure out the way I was going to do it, how hard could it be?At least, that was my plan until my best friend revealed the news to the entire bar... including the man in question.TateI'd been trying to figure out a way to ask Lily out ever since she'd moved to town and her family had bought the local bar. Apparently, car problems, man problems, and a couple bottles of Johnny Walker were the cure for that - or the accelerant for stupidity. The only proof I had when I woke up that our night together hadn't been a dream was the pair of her panties in my shoe. How they'd gotten in there, I had no clue, but that black scrap of lace was the best thing I'd ever seen because it made what had happened real.. The situation with my cousins got in the way, and I was frustrated I still couldn't remember every detail from that night by the time I came home to Gonzales County . Then, I walked into the bar and smelled her perfume as she passed me, and all of it came flooding back.That wasn't the best part of the night. No - that was finding out I was going to be a dad, just as some twat punched me in the face.I wish I could say I was sorry, but I wasn't. Now all I had to do was convince Lily to take a chance on me.

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Madix From the outside looking in, I've got it all. An awesome career, an amazing sister, good friends...what else could I ask for? The answer to that would be - the love of someone not related to me. Specifically, the woman who kissed me at midnight on New Year's Eve and then disappeared into the crowd. The same woman who reappeared a day ago on the plane that I was on. She's trouble and mayhem andI don't want to obsess over her, but I'll be damned if I can stop.DahliaIt wasn't my fault he thought I was having an allergic reaction on the flight. I tried to tell him the truth, but my tongue was too swollen. What are the chances of me totally embarrassing myself twice in front of him? For me - it was a given. Same day, not once but twice Now, I can't get those steel gray eyes out of my mind. Every time I allow myself to think, or even blink, there they are front and center. Apparently, we know each other, semi-intimately as well, and he seems offended that I don't remember, but my mind is one chaotic mess. A walking chaos, the definition of calamity, shouldn't be the perfect match for someone who's organized to the point of being anal - should it? Or will he run for the hills?