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  “I’ve already got the only present I want.” Joy filled Adam. He knew there would be some rough patches along the way, but he was becoming more confident by the minute that they could get through them and make this new relationship work.

  The red ribbon was still twined around Shayla’s neck, a reminder of their night together. “So do we.” Her eyes twinkled as bright as her diamond necklace. “But I still want the packages under the tree.”

  About the Author

  N.J. Walters worked at a bookstore for several years and one day had the idea that she would like to quit her job, sell everything she owned, leave her hometown and write romance novels in a place where no one knew her. And she did. Two years later, she went back to the bookstore and her hometown and settled in for another seven years.

  Although she was still fairly young, that was when the midlife crisis set in. Happily married to the love of her life, with his encouragement (more like, “For God’s sake, quit the job and just write!”) she gave notice at her job on a Friday morning. On Sunday afternoon, she received a tentative acceptance for her first erotic romance novel, Annabelle Lee, and life would never be the same.

  N.J. has always been a voracious reader of romance novels, and now she spends her days writing novels of her own. Vampires, werewolves, dragons, time-travelers, seductive handymen and next-door neighbors with smoldering good looks, all vie for her attention. And she doesn’t mind a bit. It’s a tough life, but someone’s got to live it.

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  ISBN: 978-1-4268-9223-3

  Copyright © 2011 by Norma Collins

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