Friday, April 1, 2011

New Author!!!

Introducing Allie Blocker!


Read a step by step diary of one woman's journey into an unconventional love that will overwhelm her sense and make her complete. 

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Released!!!!

Newly released and re-released titles, available now! Click the pic to buy!





A Wild Heart by RaeLynn Blue
Dr. Rashawna Reese let down her guard once before to her fellow research scientist, Dr. Javier Martinez, and she vowed she'd never lose control again. She had a career to think about and sleeping with a co-worker threatened her status like a rainforest thunderstorm.


For Javier, the trip to the Amazon Rainforest marks a dream come true, but coupled with Rashawna it's heaven. Sure, they will hike deep into the rainforest and confront all the unknowns it has to offer. But for Javier, there's only one thing for certain he needed to know for sure. How to tame Rashawna's wild heart.




Love’s Bloom by Janet Eckford
When Stella Milton went on vacation she wanted warm sand, clear beaches, and fruity alcoholic beverages with little umbrellas. Now if said beverages were served by hot men sans shirt, oiled up and...well she just wanted the dream vacation. Unfortunately, her dream was currently a nightmare as she trekked through the Amazon Jungle avoiding wayward foliage, carnivorous spiders, and the very delectable Cisco Marquez.


Cisco Marquez finally had Stella where he wanted her, by his side. Granted he had to trick and trap. well that sounded a bit illegal, entice and cajole her on a hike through the Amazon Jungle to do it. Now if he could get her to see a vacation is only as good as the people you get to spend it with, mainly him, everything would be perfect.


Claiming Sydney by Serenity King
Having promised her best-friend that she’d attend her 30th birthday party, Sydney Greene is off to the outskirts of Venezuela, a place where a year ago, she’d learned to release her inhibitions and had engaged in an illicit two-week affair with a gorgeous Spaniard, Fabian Acosta.

Fabian had spent two glorious weeks with the illustrious, Sydney Greene a year ago, with a promise from Sydney to continue their relationship she returned to the states. Unfortunately, that never happened. Now taken matters into his own hands, and with the help of his sister’s husband, he’s gotten Sydney back on his territory and this time, he’s playing for keeps.





Lost & Found by Shara Azod
It was all the monkeys fault. Kara was minding her own business, sort of paying attention to their Amazon guide, when the furry little beasts decided she would make an excellent target for their fruit missiles. Convinced they were leading her somewhere, she followed. Mistake number one. Okay, so wandering in the rainforest wasn’t such a good idea. But really who could blame her for thinking she’d died of some unknown disease while lost and alone in one of the world’s most dangerous habitats. And when you died, didn’t you get a gorgeous angel type to escort you to heaven? Mistake number two. But what happened next was anything but a mistake.

Be sure not to miss "Walk Softly and Carry a Big Lick by Jeanie Johnson and Jayha Leigh coming soon to Beautiful Trouble Publishing, the last of the A is for Amazon Rainforest series!


The Chevalier Series

Available only at www.sharaazod.com

New Orleans Chevaliers
Complete collection of all five of the Chevalier books in limited edition ebook sold exclusively here for a limited time. Includes Thierry's Angel, Remy Goes to Therapy, The Taming of Katrina, Forever Jade and Lessons for Solange. Retail value $20.95 sold for $11.99!



Book One - Thierry's Angel
In New Orleans, where old Southern lineages root as deep and tangled as the haughty Cypress, two powerful families become entrenched in a battle to preserve pedigrees. For the past nine years, Thierry Chevalier, the strikingly handsome, well-bred, polished son of one of the oldest, most powerful white families in Louisiana, has been harboring an impassioned desire to captivate the woman of his dreams. His desire, Angelique Dubois. Graceful, delicate and sensually delectable, Angelique seems as unattainable as she is desirous: the daughter of New Orleans' mayor; member of a proud Black Creole family; and engaged to another man. But when opportunity opens, their fates are magnetized. The tempest of passion, power and pride that erupts is more sweeping than a steamy Gulf Coast monsoon.


Book Two - Remy Goes to Therapy
With a family like his, Remy had learned not to take anything too seriously and to never let them see him sweat. He had learned long ago to hide his feelings behind laughter and his desires behind snark. Until Regina. There was something about the lovely doctor that went way beyond having a little fun. She brought out things he didn’t know how to deal with and made him face a past he thought dead. Remy decides it is definitely time for some therapy, and he knows just the doctor to see.



Book Three - The Taming of Katrina
Return to New Orleans... On the outside, she is fire and ice. But cool, calm, and collected Katrina Smith isn't all that she seems. Like a rippling pool, waves from her past continue to shake her inside. Aubrey had always been the studious one, but Katrina finds that his depth of knowledge goes far deeper than just books. He knows how to set her body ablaze while calming the storms in her sea. But can their love survive the maelstrom of trouble that finds them?


Book Four- Forever Jade
Jade had forever been seen as the good girl, the one who is always in the shadows, never in the forefront. She may have yearned in her heart, but would never expect to have caught the eye of not one, but two men from the power Chevalier clan. She certainly would never imagine them fighting over her. Although Rance may be the man she has always dreamed of, Didier may be the safer of the two. Especially with someone wanted her away from Rance so badly they were willing to try to kill her to do it. Rance Chevalier had a lot to hide. But not even the darkness of his past can stop him from claiming the woman who set his body and soul on fire. He would fight his own past, the unseen threat to her life and even his own flesh and blood who thinks to take her for his own to make Jade forever his.


Book Five - Lessons for Solange
Solange was in trouble. There was no way out, she was caught. Yes, she had been blackmailing her cousin’s no-good fiancĂ©, but she had never meant for anyone to get hurt-not physically. Determined not to beg, she would accept her punishment like a woman. That DID NOT mean cowing or begging however, not even to the powerful Chevalier family.Beaumont and Boden knew they had found a rare treasure. All they had to do was break through that shell Solange surrounded herself in. But first they had to get her to trust them with her secrets, and eventually her heart.

And don't forget the Chevalier prequel-


Ties That Bind Parts 1-4
Is Arienne Chevalier, Lady Rienne to one and all, vicious? Undoubtedly. Is she wicked? Without a doubt. Is she evil? You can bet on it. But what made her the way she is today? The deep origins of her villainy may never be known, but how she climbed to power is a riveting ride. Told in snippets from the first moment Arienne met her own Chevalier man, witness Lady Rienne’s rise to power, and see all that she lost on her way to the top. The ongoing serial saga of how Lady Rienne won…and lost Baptiste Chevalier.



The Anchors Away Series

Chain of Command & Red Skies at Night


Chain of Command
Her enlistment up, Adanna Ingles is about to start her life anew. From the first day he boarded, Ian had been watching Adanna . There was no way that he could touch, but oh, how he wanted to. After spending the last eighteen months being tempted, she was being discharged. Finally, he would be able to let her know how he really feel, how he has always felt.

Red Skies At Night
Teane McGowan was damn good at her job. An engineman in the United States Navy, she worked hard in a male-dominated rate. Brett Olden could not believe his eyes. Teane was one of his best workers, which wouldn’t have been a problem if she wasn’t also one of the sexiest women he’d ever encountered. He’d always played by the rules and thus kept it professional even when his body and libido demanded otherwise.


Basic Flight Maneuvers
Pippa hated military fighter pilots. Virtually all she knew were arrogant, know-it-all bastards who thought that the sun rose and fell on them. And then there was Captain Seth Austin. Undoubtedly, one of the best pilots she was acquainted with, she could find no fault with the way that he treated the crew or his plane. But she could fault him for his infectious smile and those wicked hazel eyes as they were interfering with her hate of him. If only she didn’t lust after the man, her world would be just fine. A man good at calculations, Seth couldn’t figure out Petty Officer Pippa Tanner. An easygoing guy, everyone liked him. And then there was Pippa - the one woman that he couldn’t stop thinking about. Everything about her drew him in and he'd draw her in if only she would give him half a chance to change her mind.


Shades of Gray
Bobbi is a woman used to being on her own. She never allows anything to ruffle her feathers and depends on no man for anything.

Grayson is a man who knew what he wanted, and he wanted Bobbi. He just wished she would let down her guard and let him in. While she might have given him her body, it was her trust he was after.

But when a danger lurks, there was only one place Bobbi can think to go. Straight into Grayson's arms. There she learns life isn't always shades of gray.

Monday, March 28, 2011

My Alabaster Box

I have no great epiphany to share, nothing profound to share or no great wisdom to impart that is any wiser from any other woman my age who has lived a little- 39 in case you're wondering, soon to be 40. I have my quirks, one of them is picking songs in the morning to inspire not only my day, but sometimes my kids as well. I have discovered to my delight and bafflement that they really have taken it in and soaked it up. My son (13) is way more into Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest than any modern "artist". We like to call him Little Malcolm now cause - yeah- it REALLY rubs off. I drive them to school, the trip takes about an hour and a half. Long way to go we have our reasons and it is working well thus far for them. They are testing this week, so seeing as how they go to a Christian school, I decided gospel to encourage and inspire and pray as they head off for yearly testing that will go on permanent records for people with no clue as to their real potential can judge them. Sucks, but such is life. As usual they were asleep before thirty minutes had passed, but I kept it going, just in case, One never knows what we soak up in our sleep. I know the first chapter of James got me through boot camp so it couldn't hurt.

That's when it came on. A song I forgotten was on the mixed CD I had made. The tears came as I listened, undisturbed by the kids, by traffic, by anything, and for just a moment it was all laid bare. My pain, my joy, my triumphs, my failures. As Cece sang "You weren't there the night He found me.
You did not feel what I felt when he wrapped his love all around me and you don't know the cost of the oil in my alabaster box", all of the things I had buried and hidden deep in the darkest corners of my past came tumbling out. I felt the price of every wrinkle, every gray hair I have thus managed to hide reasonably well, all the wrong turns, the bumps in the road, and most of all the burdens I took on that I didn't have to was right there.

I know the costs, and I have paid them. In some ways I will keep paying them for a while. But you know what? It has brought me to the here and now. I'm not the frightened little girl with stars in her eyes I once was. I'm not the person who lost herself so busy trying to be the perfect wife and mother. I met myself again on the road today. Nothing has changed, no great insight has come to me. I just accepted me and the price I have paid to find the me I lost for a moment. There is no Prince coming to save me, but I don't need one. God has given me all the tools I need to save me. No earth shattering miracle may happen between now and my final rest, but I have had miracles along the way. I may not be where I could've been, but I learned what I needed to learn, and I am learning still. More than anything though  I realize the costs of the oil in my alabaster box.




Thursday, March 24, 2011

Coming Soon!!!! A is for....



Claiming Sydney

Having promised her best-friend that she’d attend her 30th birthday party, Sydney Greene is off to the outskirts of Venezuela, a place where a year ago, she’d learned to release her inhibitions and had engaged in an illicit two-week affair with a gorgeous Spaniard, Fabian Acosta.
Fabian had spent two glorious weeks with the illustrious, Sydney Greene a year ago, with a promise from Sydney to continue their relationship she returned to the states. Unfortunately, that never happened. Now taken matters into his own hands, and with the help of his sister’s husband, he’s gotten Sydney back on his territory and this time, he’s playing for keeps.










Love’s Bloom
 
When Stella Milton went on vacation she wanted warm sand, clear beaches, and fruity alcoholic beverages with little umbrellas. Now if said beverages were served by hot men sans shirt, oiled up and...well she just wanted the dream vacation. Unfortunately, her dream was currently a nightmare as she trekked through the Amazon Jungle avoiding wayward foliage, carnivorous spiders, and the very delectable Cisco Marquez.

Cisco Marquez finally had Stella where he wanted her, by his side. Granted he had to trick and trap. well that sounded a bit illegal, entice and cajole her on a hike through the Amazon Jungle to do it. Now if he could get her to see a vacation is only as good as the people you get to spend it with, mainly him, everything would be perfect.









A Wild Heart

Dr. Rashawna Reese let down her guard once before to her fellow research scientist, Dr. Javier Martinez, and she vowed she'd never lose control again. She had a career to think about and sleeping with a co-worker threatened her status like a rainforest thunderstorm.

For Javier, the trip to the Amazon Rainforest marks a dream come true, but coupled with Rashawna it's heaven. Sure, they will hike deep into the rainforest and confront all the unknowns it has to offer. But for Javier, there's only one thing for certain he needed to know for sure. How to tame Rashawna's wild heart.








Lost & Found

It was all the monkeys fault. Kara was minding her own business, sort of paying attention to their Amazon guide, when the furry little beasts decided she would make an excellent target for their fruit missiles. Convinced they were leading her somewhere, she followed. Mistake number one. Okay, so wandering in the rain forest wasn’t such a good idea. But really who could blame her for thinking she’d died of some unknown disease while lost and alone in one of the world’s most dangerous habitats. And when you died, didn’t you get a gorgeous angel type to escort you to heaven? Mistake number two.  But what happened next was anything but a mistake.