Parallel realms when two worlds collide can Liam and Ally save them

Hi Sorry, it been a while since my last post. I have been reading books but couldn't decide on which one to blog about. Also, remember that I do have Spoilers given with my reviews. http://www.dblstar.com/

When Cepheus, a dark god, forces seventeen-year-old Ally Ashworth off an isolated overlook, she has no idea she's falling into his world, or that the necklace she’s wearing is actually a key, one with the power to ignite the next world war. But she’s carried beyond his reach and into the one place where he’s powerless in the forest of Gilgamesh. Ally’s never been Miss Popularity, but her outsider status takes on new meaning when she’s saved by Liam Cheveyo and his unusual friends.

After seeing them shape-shift into their freaky human-animal counterparts, Ally smacks hard into a few truths: magic really does exist and, although getting here took no effort, finding her way back might be impossible. Feelings between her and Liam begin to grow along with the realization that, in this world, she’s stronger, better, until she’s caught in a trap set by the creepy spider-boy Cepheus sends to capture her. But Ally’s not going down without a fight, not after learning the awful truth about the passageways.

I liked this book it was different than other books I've read like it. When the book was over it left me with a lot of questions that I hope will be cleared up in the next book if and when the author puts one out. The book did end on a cliffhanger making me want more to find out what happens next. I'd like to find out if Ally will really end up going back home and what will happen with her relationship with Liam. I like that all his friends help Ally travel to find a way for her to get back home. I wonder what the real significance of her necklace is besides a so-called key to travel through the two realms and more info on her Dad who gave it to her mom. Also who are the two prisoners Cepheus has captive are they Ally Dad and Liam's(William) mom?

So Ally is a normal girl whose dad died and she on her way to a musical audition in Arizona to get into a Performing Arts school. Her mom gives her this necklace that her father has given her. Her friend was supposed to go with her but at last minute couldn't so she traveled alone with just the GPS to follow but the evil Cepheus somehow changed it which lands her in the middle of nowhere where she falls into a ravine and ends up in the forest of Gilgamesh. Ally also had a dream the night before of these hideous red eyes and a cute boy she saved her.    

So in Liam's world of Gilgamesh magic exist and his friends can transform into different types of animals but he has yet to get his Shanyo which will allow him an animal form as well. Liam lives with his father, grandmother, and sister Meg his mom died several years ago. They all go to this fair they have every year with competitions and food. 

Liam's friends are Ian a panther embodies speed and agility, a Shane a bear represents strength, Oisin a wolf is cunning and courage, Corm a hawk represents seeker. Liam does not participate in the games but does get is fortune told which reveals a journey and a choice involving a love relationship. When the festivities are over the friends leave to go home.

Corm found Ally on the forest ground because her necklace shined in the sunlight. When she wakes up she is disoriented of course and has no clue where she is and they do not know about modern conveniences so when she asked to use a phone or get on a bus they do not know what she is talking about and she has trouble adapting to no electricity and using the bathroom and taking a shower outside. 

Liam takes her to his house and she meets Thea his grandmother who knows about the two worlds but has no way of knowing how to get her back home so they send word to Liam's father for some answers and help. Liam does not like Ally at first he thinks she is odd, selfish, ignorant, and wants nothing to do with her. Soon his heart and mind change toward her especially after he hears how well she plays the fiddle and protected meg from the mean kid Caleb who tries to steal Ally's necklace. He is working for Cepheus. 

Liam tells her the Greek story of the double stars Albireo and Ascencia and how his people the males received the gift to transform into one animal. When Thea returns from visiting Podegar she tells them that she knew about the parallel worlds of theirs and ally and that people have been using portals or passageways for years. Ally finds a note in her bag from her father talking about this and she remembers writing a report about parallel dimensions from his research.  They visit the town of Pembroke where Meg got a journal Ally spent many days with them waiting for word. Caleb who can turn into a spider bites Pilotte Liam's dog he and Ally drain the poison out of him and she has developed some kind of healing ability cause when she placed her hands on the dog he got better and she felt sick afterward.  Liam and Ally get close and share the first kiss in the barn. 

Liam's father sends a message telling them to meet him in 5 days in Portsmouth. Meg journal which turns out to be the Diary of Seshet, gave her a message that said that the six will go on this journey but they will be vulnerable. Liam's star on his neck also changes into the sword and he has the ability of strategy. Ally learned she had a trait as well of inspiration and she is called a Malakai angel. Liam also is given a sword that his mother had called Nuada and also finds out it is Excalibur the sword King Arthur had. 

Their journey begins in Pembroke and then goes to Constance where they meet Gabriel a mute boy who draws amazing pictures of what will or has happened on their journey. Liam asks if she has a beau back home and she says no and she asks him what happened with Olivia the girl that liked him he said they would just be friends. Raya Liam's father's bird returned with a strange message talking about the mute and mutant and a metamorphosis.  

They visit a pub to get food and meet Adam a born who was burned in a fire and he turns out to be the brother of Caleb. Cepheus deceived Caleb by agreeing to protect his family instead tried to kill them all in the house fire. Liam and Ally help Adam and he decides to let him stop working at the pub and go live in his house. 

They are going to camp out under the stars tonight and put the horses in an abandoned barn they find but Marcus a mean kid from the barn who trips Adam goes and sets it on fire and they have to save the horses. Adam runs into the barn through a hole to find Pollux Liam's horse who has not come out. Ally has to go in a rescue him and is helped by Tellervo the goddess of the forest.

The next day in town of Berwick a wedding procession is going by and the bride throws Ally her wreath the laurels of love. They attend the festivities and Liam and Ally have to dance and she is asked to join the band. A little boy with a recorded plays twinkle twinkle little star. Also, a double moon is happening with Pegasus and Chimera Ally says where she comes from there is only one moon. Caleb has an idea and has put a sleeping potion in Liam's and Corm's drink. Those three head off to sleep.

While they are sleeping Caleb turns into a spider and bits both Liam and Corm on the leg to kill them. He then uses the recorder to play the song to lure Ally away it works and he takes her she gets pricked by the Gorgon bush and he drags him down into the ruins his master told him about to await his arrival. Hours later Liam and Corm wake up on the ground and Ally missing. The rest of the group head to the camp to find they use the sword to leech the venom out of their bodies and they go searching for Ally. Liam's mother comes to him telling him he must save Ally and fulfill his destiny. 

When Ally wakes up and finds where she at trapped by a spider web and vine she talks to Caleb and tells him she met his brother who was badly burned he does not believe her at first until he finds his clothes in her bag. He is upset that his master betrayed him he falls into a hole and can't get out and snakes are in with him and he can no longer transform into a spider.

Ally is able to free herself from the webbing and vine but it is too dark for her to see the exit she makes her way out of the labyrinth and finds Caleb is trapped in a hole she uses her clothes and backpack to make a rope and help him out of there. Then two men ride upon horses to take them to Cepheus One named Askari has a cobra on his chest and the other Sukata has a dragon they are death's half brothers.  

Askari uses a poison arrow and hits Corm who is flying above in the sky. Ally tried to get away from the guys but they pull her back she wonders is Liam is still alive since Corm was. For a brief moment, he is able to communicate telepathically with Liam and tell him her location and that they do not know he is not alone. Pollux runs by without a rider and the group swoops in to save Ally. They fight the brother's tooth and nail. Then Death himself shows up to tell Liam of his path to saving two worlds from being destroyed and gives him a shield. 

Ally uses Oisin arrows one adam gave him. It flies toward the red mark on the snake on Askari's chest and he disintegrates. she tries to kill Sukata but he gets away. Caleb is killed by a dragon claw saving Liam. When they go to find where Corm's body landed he is not alive she touches him and cries and wishes for him to be alive. She opens her eyes to see his body transformed from the hawk back to human and then he starts breathing her tears of the Phoenix brought him back to life. They still had a two-day journey ahead.

Cepheus is not pleased when Sukata comes back alone. Sukata told Cepheus she was traveling with 5 Shayeen not one and she found Askari weakness. He also said he carries the Sword of Nuada. He looks into his glass orb and finds out Corm lives and for the prophecy to be fulfilled 2 more must join them to make 8 for the two missing traits of camouflage and determination. They also have the arrows of Golan. He wants to talk to his two prisoners and to not let Ascencia defeat him again he has the other key necklace. 

I am looking forward to the next book I'm sure hoping there will be another one because I don't think the author would leave us hanging like this with so many unanswered questions and a journey not completed. This is Cindy Saunders's first novel so hope to read more from her.  

A Different view on Alien life as we know it and how humans are the real monsters

Hi, a review over a futuristic Sci-Fi book about humans and aliens with a twist on how we normally perceive Aliens. 

In the future, only one rule will matter: Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.

A totally unique story of aliens coming to earth.  Usually, they are way more intelligent than us and are trying to conquer and take over by killing everyone and using our land for its supplies. and that is not really the case in this book. The Aliens are intelligent but they want to live in a peaceful coexistence yes there may be some ulterior motives and some of the Ancients as they are called I'm sure are not warm and fuzzy happy with humans. The ancients don't need as much water as they claim they do and they hid many of their people on Earth called Latent or rogues. Which is against the treaty they only suppose up come for the Takings. Which is quite a different concept they come in at midnight and the human has to wear this patch on their faces that cover their eyes and paralyzes the person for 30 minutes while the Ancient takes antibodies from the human? 

There is a love story is good Lawrence(Law) and Ari are kinda betrothed by their parents since he is the son of the president and she is the daughter of the Commander sort of head of the military but she does not love Law she falls in love with Jackson who she finds out is the Ancient assigned to her for the takings. Some humans think that they can't coexist on the same planet with the Ancients because there is not enough food etc. 

Humans' treatment and experimenting to torture the Ancients is wrong. Humans to find out how to kill them and disperse a neurotoxin. The Ancient just want to live in peace, but humans are sometimes afraid of someone or something that is different than they are and try to find ways to get rid of them or control them. Humans are mean which I think was totally uncalled for since the Ancient has not done anything really wrong they just want to live on Earth and have the Humans abide by the treaty. 

 From what I have gathered the Ancient have not done much to warrant this hostility yes they attack the school and other places but only because the humans refused to honor the agreement of the treaty for peaceful coexistence. Ari and Jackson work together to figure out what really is going on and help him stop the war from happening if humans do not comply with the laws of the treaty. They find out at the ball where the four heads of State around the world met to discuss which action to take and they decide on an Airborne attack which leads to the neurotoxin is released. 

Humans did not think or know how the toxin might hurt humans too because some Ancient has the power to heal humans and given them Xylem in their bodies. So when it dispersed and many humans get sick included Ari and Chloe who was the operative showing Ari how they were experimenting on the Ancients. People panic the government refuses to connect the toxin and the disease as one and the same. They take the infected and put them into an execution camp and Zeus the leader of the ancients announces anyone who is sick can come live on Loge but the can never return home. Ari's mom is able to come up with an antitoxin to cure the symptoms but they only last an hour. Ari, Gretchen, and Lawrence all go to the camp to rescue the people in the process they have to fight and kill other humans who are there to guard the prisoners. 

Jackson ends up showing up right when Ari antidote is wearing off and he carries her through a port to his planet. The book ends with her on Loge being treated for her illness and Ari having to deal with the fact she finds out Jackson is the grandson of Zeus and can she forgive him for lying to her. She is lost and confused and not sure if she will ever see Earth or her family again. Jackson says she can communicate with her family but what will happen how can this War be prevented.  

I can't wait to read the next book Hover that comes out in August.

She is good at her job until gets taken for a unusual turn

Hi, I am going to talk about a book that I did not like for a change I'd planned on being a bit more balanced with my Reviews but I haven't read many books that I downright hated or disliked. 

Andra Martineau is no ordinary young woman. She's a Klêidouchos Propylaia (K-Pro for short), which means she has the unique ability to help certain people get exactly what they want. And Andra is good at her job her clients have gone on to become 

a veritable who's who of the rich-and-famous. David Styles is an up-and-coming an actor with everything going for him: looks, talent, and countless beautiful women vying for his attention. But when Andra turns up in his bed demanding to know what he wants, his perfect world starts to spiral out of control. And it's not just his reputation on the line what David doesn't know can certainly harm him, in ways he couldn't possibly begin to imagine.

With the help of David's incorrigible costar, Andra begins to realize not only her own true nature, but David's hidden identity as well. Andra is forced to battle not only her attraction to David (and she never gets involved with clients), but the being within him, that wants to take away everything she holds dear.

As David continues to lose himself to the strengthening form within him, Andra navigates the jealousies of the film's director and David's would-be paramour in an effort to save him. She can make others' wishes come true, but can she grant her own? The K-Pro is a fast-paced contemporary fantasy with a paranormal twist.

I did not like this book for many reasons first the setting of the story never changed the whole thing took place at one house where the main character David an actor is apart of filming a Regency Piece movie. The plot is really nonexistent and no real climax. Andra is called by David to help him with something but she doesn't find out till later that he is being kind of possessed by the spirit of a God and his co-star Alfred is really Dionysus the God of wine and fertility. The best part of the book is the Interludes that give the back story. A Lady named Hecate stole a key from Janus who is now in David's body trying to get the key back so he can return to Olympus. So Cassandra(Andra) has this key but does not remember who she is and that it does not really belong to her. She has been using the key to help humans achieve their goals of fame and fortune like Ben Mackenzie the director of the movie. 

Janus(David) and Hecate(Andra) are drawn together he calls her so he can get the key back but she does not know what he wants or who David really is. So they all run around this Victorian House by the ocean trying to film a movie while Andra figures out why she has been called here. In the end, Alfred tells them who he is and if they drink his special wine they will forget that they are Gods and go on there way as nothing ever happened.

They're a bit of love in the book Liz a co-star on the set wants David the director brings in his old girlfriend because he thinks his actors are getting involved with each other and does not want that. Alfred has been seeing the makeup lady Tina. Most of the characters end up outside the house at night because David and Alfred take a walk and go missing. Soon everyone finds them and the truth is revealed. 

David(Janus) mother Juno shows up and tells him to get the key back and he has to swallow it so they can return to be back with the other Gods after three thousand years of being stuck on Earth. So David(J) has a choice to make he can take the key back and go home and David ceases to exist, or he can drink Dionysus(Alfred) wine and forget that he is a God and continue to be David. The regular show up and Margie David's ex comes up and is convinced by Bacchus a.k. Alfred or Dionysus to drink some of his wine and she passes out cold. So some of the men have to carry her back to the house.

Janus told his mom that he did not want to swallow the key he gave it back to Andra and took the flask and drank. He returned to himself and forgot that he was a God and confused why his mother and ex were here but Cassandra looked into his eyes and saw them changing and she knew he did not really drink the wine. His mom still wants him to take the key but he decided to give it to Andra. He tells his mom that Cate "has a true purpose. She uses that key to help people," David(Janus) and Andra(Cate) were left alone and he tells her he did not drink the wine because he did not want to forget her and it tastes awful. He tells her he wants her and has loved her for three thousand years. So they agree to be together. 

So it was a book that I did not enjoy reading it was dry and boring with no big plot structure and no climax. There was a problem they got it solved and two people realized who they really were and they loved each other. 

They are not as different as the government want you to believe

Hi, I hope you like this futuristic love story. It a lovely story about inequality on Mars androids being treated like property and not like humans and much like the gay community in our world they are not allowed to get married or have the same rights as humans. I think people getting mistreated just cause they are different than others and are in the minority of people is wrong. All people are created equal in the eyes of God and should be allowed to have all the same rights and privileges of others.

Seventeen-year-old Retta Heikkinen is in love with a boy. He is completely gorgeous, captivating, and mysteriously named Hemingway. The situation is rather ideal that he likes her, and she likes him. There's just one little problem. He's a blue heart, an android.

Being in a relationship is its own complicated mess, but how long can a forbidden love last? Soon Retta discovers a secret that could destroy the uneasy truce between the blue hearts and humans, which makes life under the domes on Mars possible. Would expose what she knows to make things better or worse? And how can she know for certain without exposing the secret?

Retta and Hemingway are forbidden by the government to be together as a couple because he is an android and she is a human. Living on Mars can be difficult especially for the androids who are treated as second class citizens and even property of Synlife. Retta meets Hemingway at the coffee shop she works at and she was so in awe of how good looking he was and fell in love with his eyes that have galaxies in them. Retta's mom died when many years ago leaving Retta and her younger sister Marta to be raised by her father. Retta's father a botanist is not happy when she brings Hemingway home and finds out he is an android he wants to be his mother and is very vocal about his views on the subject but since his daughter is going to 18 he cannot say much. Their relationship does not get off the ground at first since Hemingway breaks up with her saying that it is too dangerous for them to be together bad things will happen to them. 

Retta of course is devastated and does everything she can think of to try to get over him and learn more about androids and why humans treat them so badly. With the help of her friend Mei they break into and find out some important info about the androids and that their hearts are not really blue but red like humans that it was a lie told to make them seem just like machines. Soon a person calling himself The Voice is calling for a revolution for androids and humans to rise up and get equal rights for androids all over Mars and stop being treated like property and just machines. With this news, many people come out as being androids since there is not an easy way of telling who is one unless you can spot their tell. 

So it turns out Retta's teacher Dr. Craspo and one of the high officials in the government comes out as being an android. Retta finds out that the government wants to send a lot of the androids away to start colonizing another planet for humans to go live on but they are not going to ask for volunteers they will force them to leave their homes and families. The end of the year dance soon arrives and Retta has no one to go with and does not ever really want to be there but she hopes to see Hemingway she just can't stop thinking about him, but when he shows up with a date another android she crumbles and runs away. She ends up in the industrial district called the vents and gets attacked and almost raped by an android when Hemingway comes up and saves her.  

He takes her home and his mom helps her. Retta and Hemingway are left alone and start kissing but soon break it up and she asks about the girl and she says she is like him and safe and will not get hurt if they are together. Retta does not like his answer and runs home. The school year is ending and Mei tells Retta she should let Hemingway know what the found out from Synlife so she calls him and asks him to meet her at the coffee bar. When she tells him the news he is upset that she broke into the building saying they were dangerous people they decide that for him not to be taken away they need to run away together and deliver her information to the Voice. 

They travel to New Tokyo where they will stay awhile, but since it mostly Japanese Colony they stick out in the crowd. They were told by the voice to meet someone named Masumi Kim, but the Information Recovery Services(IRS) bet them there and erased his memory and are soon after them and they run away from the agents. When they are in their hotel room he tells her about a ceremony the blue hearts perform when they want to get married because by law they are not allowed to do it legally. She agrees to marry him and the both say some kind of vows from their heart. They visit a wind garden but those IRS agents find them and they are on the run again. They get to the train station and head to New Sydney. 

Since Retta has been posting pro-android equal rights type stuff on her website the IRS were after them. They really want Hemingway but since she broke into their facility they wanted to arrest her too. She gets a message from her dad about her sister Marta being sick and he asks if they should go back to see Retta's family. After they spent the day in the city Hemingway bought tickets to take them back to New Helsinki so Retta could go see what was wrong with her sister he also bought tickets to New Hyderabad. When they got back Hemingway went to meet his mother and Retta went to the hospital and she found out her sister was dying something was wrong with her heart the doctors were basically not doing anything but letting her die since they do not have many donors available to give heart transplants. 

Her father was not happy to find out Retta married Hemingway he did not see the androids the same way as her he thought they were freaks and just machines. Then they got together with both their parents and talked about the situation they told Sonja Hemingway's mom all they learned about the androids being sent away. She did tell them that Synlife technically owned the androids. Retta had come up with a brilliant idea of how to help her sister and ask Sonja for her help. Retta asks if an android heart could be put into a human since it uses human blood and she said yes but Retta would have to break into Synlife again and steal one. So Retta and Mei once again went to Synlife but Sonja helped them so they did not have to break in saying they were there to visit a relative. 

The plan worked for the most part but Retta almost got caught but Mei was the distraction and lured the guards away from Retta so she could escape. She got to the hospital and Sonja had found a doctor willing to do the surgery, but it was going to be tough to convince Marta and her father. He would not want his daughter to be a cyborg and be part android but he soon agreed because he did not want her to die she was scared about the surgery but she wanted to live. She went back to the apartment and found Hemingway and told him all that had happened and he said he had finished the Holo-documentary he was working on. Soon there was a knock at the door the IRS had found them again and took him away. She had to find out where they were holding the androids so she went to talk to Mei's father who is a member of the Parliament and on the committee that cooperates with the Unified Martian Government.  

They got me out of Synlife and they ask her father where the took all the androids he did not want to tell them but Retta explained she was in love with one, married him, and needed to find him. He tried to tell them the androids were owned by the government and could do what they wanted with them, but Retta insisted they were not so different than humans. So he reluctantly told them where to go Space Gate 11 they also asked him to broadcast the documentary. At the gate, tons of people were there waiting to get on flights to go on vacations or just leave the planet we're talking about what they just saw and Retta got up on a container and began talking about the blue hearts and telling the people that they were being held in the space gate and they needed to stand up to the government and have them release the androids the abducted. It took a lot of begging and pleading to reason with the people but they decided to not let this injustice continue. 

They all stormed the warehouse shouting "Free the androids. The children of Mars." They took the agent's weapons and threatened them and they did not fight back and the opened the doors and released the androids. When she found Hemingway she hugged him and they kissed. 

The epilogue of course Marta lived and she was faster and stronger than before since she was part android and a hybrid. Hemingway and Retta had their own apartment and there was a new vendor set up shop with a sign that said"Android-grown Coffee beans." Retta's Dad say the sign and was not impressed he still did not too pleased about androids showing who they were and being part of society. I hope there is a sequel to this book I'd love to see continue on with Retta's and Hemingway Journey and see how Marta adapts to her new heart. 

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Kayla Marlowe is slowly vanishing.

Last year, Kayla’s world imploded. Her beloved father died, leaving her alone with a vain mother who is quick to criticize her daughter’s appearance. During her winter break from college, Kayla’s dangerous obsession with losing weight begins.

Kayla feels like her world changes for the better overnight. Being skinny seems to be the key to the happiness she has desperately been seeking. Her mother and friends shower her with compliments, telling her how fantastic she looks. Kayla is starving, but no one knows it.

Cameron Bennett burst into Kayla’s life. He’s sexy and kind he has every quality she has been looking for in a guy. As Cameron grows closer to Kayla and learns of how far she’s willing to go to stay thin, he becomes frantic to save her. Kayla’s struggles with anorexia and bulimia reach a breaking point and she is forced to confront her body image issues in order to survive. She wonders if Cameron could be the one to help heal her from the pain of her past.

This story shows how people's words really can hurt other people and Kayla had not got over the death of her father. Kayla's mom told her most of her life she was fat and unattractive and needed to lose weight. When she finally did lose some weight her friends and mother were happy for her, but it made Kayla miserable because she thought she had to keep losing weight and started to hate food not eat right and she even resulted in vomiting up her food after eating so she would not gain it back. She did not confine in anyone about her problems until it was too late and she ended up in the hospital and has to go to a rehab facility to get help. 

Kayla a Journalism major could not see how she was treating her body so bad she even turned to the wrong kind of help on the Internet people telling her ways to hide her problems and how to make her feel bad about herself by looking at pictures of super-thin models. 

Body image is such an integral part of our lives and young girls get the wrong message shoved down their throats and in their faces. We should be proud of our bodies and learn how to control our weight in safe and healthy ways. With so much obesity going on in this country it no wonders girls have problems dealing with how the look. Everyone is so worried about what others will think it says if they are seen looking a certain way that others don't like. 

Karla finds love in this book with a guy named Cameron who works to get College Students to get credit cards. She can't figure out why he likes her and wants to date her. She tries very hard to keep her illness a secret from him. Cameron and her sister soon find out that she has not been eating and starving herself. They try to help her but she doesn't want their help she gets upset at them for not understanding how she feels and just trying to fix her and make her fat. Their intentions are good but she has to hit rock bottom before she can get the help she needs. 

Cameron and Kayla both have a younger sister Cameron's sister Scarlett and Kayla's is Lila. When Cameron Finally met Kayla's family her mom tried to flirt with him but when he stood up to Charlotte about how she was treating her daughters she did not like him anymore. She could not see how her words were hurtful and not helpful. It went a bit better when Kayla met Cameron's family. His sister Scarlett did warn Kayla not to break his heart because someone already done that before, which turns out to be his mother who was a drug addict and abandoned him. 

Like many stories, an old girlfriend shows up or hangs around and when Kayla sees her at Cameron's apartment she jumps to the wrong conclusion like books and movies tend to do, and the injured party runs away without listening to the whole story and find out the truth. Kayla also gets a scare about being pregnant since her period was late due to how much weight she had lost. Her problem gets so bad she moves in with one of the girls she been talking to online who also had anorexia and did not tell anyone where she was. 

She saw how her friend looked and could not believe how skinny she was but this girl was not her real friend because when Kayla got too bad and passed out in the shower her friend Marti and her boyfriend just dumped her on the doorstep of the hospital. So that when Kayla had to finally face the facts that she needed help but it took her a few days to figure that out because when she saw they were giving her fluids in her IV she was still worried about how many calories she was taken in even though she was basically skin and bones. 

Her fear of getting fat was totally irrational and she desperately needed help. Kayla was diagnosed as being anorexic and bulimic and also a body dysmorphic disorder. She went to rehab at first she did not think she could handle it the stomach pain and the urge to throw up overwhelmed her. It also hurt Kayla to be away from Cameron for months but she had to do this by herself soon she was handling the program and felt up to writing Cameron a letter after he sent her one. She got to be good friends with her roommate in April.

Once she got out of rehab she went back to college and one of her roommates Brittany. When she saw Cameron at his apartment for the first time in many months it was like coming home the hug and kissed and she even made him dinner. They enjoyed each other's company. Kayla's parting words are "Having an eating disorder was an ugly thing, but I had survived it. I didn't become a tragedy, a warning to girls of what happens when you starve yourself for beauty. In the end, I'd chosen love."    

Can she give the man she loves who lost his memory another chance

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 Sam wakes up in the hospital expecting to find his girlfriend by his bedside. Instead, he finds a blond diva, claiming to be his fiancée, hovering over him. When he learns that he's just woken up from a coma and has lost the last three years of his life, any semblance of stability he thought he had fallen down around him. All he wants all he needs is Lil.

After numerous visits with her shrink and too many sleepless nights waiting for the one man she loves to walk back through the door, Lil wants nothing more than to separate herself from the life she used to have. But the moment Sam smiles at her, Lil knows it's going to take more than self-restraint to stay away. Sam is fighting to regain his memory and the one thing in his life that felt real. A modern-day Samson and Delilah, it's a look at what it means to love and be loved, and to fight through it seems hopeless.

Sam and Lil were going to live together in a house they bought but things happened and they split up. The story starts three years later with Sam in a condo with his fiancée Chloe who happens to be his boss's daughter. He works for a big gaming company called Titan. Something happened over these years and he lost his girlfriend and alienated his two best friends, he uses to work with testing the video games to become an executive in an office. His life seems all roses until one day he is late for work and slips on some black ice hits his head and forgets the last three years of his life. His family doesn't like who he has become because basically, Chloe looks down on them for not being rich and sophisticated like her. 

Sam thinks it the day after he and Lil bought the house so when Chloe shows up at the hospital he has no clue who she is and wants to see Lil. Lil on the other hand has had a hard time dealing with the last three years having to go to therapy to deal with why Sam left her after they lost their baby. She works as a photographer with her best friend Ellie taking graduation pictures, weddings, etc. When she finds out Sam is in the hospital and she was the only one that could help him Lil was very shocked.

Lil got to the hospital Sam's Father and Brother were there and they explained to her with the doctor that Sam was not dying but he has amnesia and lost the last three years of memories. They say the condition is not permanent and he should get his memory back but don't know how long it will take. His family tried telling him he is no longer with Lil but Chloe he can't remember or accept that.  

She walked into his room a bit scared and not sure what to say to him he tells her what he last remembers and how he did not know why Chloe was in his room. He asked her what happened between them how they could go from being so in love to worlds apart. She did not answer but tried to run out of the room but the doctor came in and started asking Sam all these questions that she had not answered for him yet. Sam and Delilah (Lil) started arguing about her not telling him the painful story and him not understanding what happened.  She told Sam she could not help him and it was better if she just left she walked out and did not look back even though all three men were calling her name.

Sam was confused even more after she left his mind kept racing to try to think what could have happened he asks his dad if he cheated on her he said no but would not tell him what did happen that it was Lil place to discuss that but how when she won't talk to him. He gets to go home soon but he did not know he lived in a condo and turned his back on everyone he uses to love that he changed. 

Lil was upset and confused that Sam did not know that they were not together anymore she called the office to tell Ellie to cancel her appointments then called her therapist to set up a visit and she was waiting for Lil. Lil told her all about the hospital visit and asked why she has to be the one to help him and not Chloe why wasn't she even there. 

I for one don't like Chloe she is a self-centered little daddy's girl that gets everything she wants and I don't think she even loves Sam or she wouldn't have gone off and left him alone to deal with this while she planned their wedding. She would have stayed there and done her damnedest to help him remember her if she really loved him. 

Doctor Kingston ask Lil to put herself in his shoes how would she feel if she had been the one to lose her memory. The doctor encourages her to talk again with Sam to help him remember not just for his benefit but her own it might help her heal a bit and get closure. After Sam got out of the hospital he took a drive and ended up in front of Lil's cottage. He met Zach Ellie's boyfriend but at first, he thought he was Lil's. Zach and Ellie left so Sam and Lil could talk she agreed to help him and apologized for how she acted at the hospital. He explained how he did not like his condo or his job and that his friends Kane and Abe don't like him anymore and haven't talked to him or Lil since they broke up. He started to leave knowing he probably should not of come in the first place but she asked him to stay cause it looked like he was not sleeping well at all. 

So they started seeing each other every now and then agreed to go buy a tree together like they use to do. She also agrees to talk to Kane and Abe to try to find out why they stopped being friends with Sam. Chloe called and said she wasn't coming back yet but Sam really did not care and would not marry her if he did not get his memory back.

Lil knew where to find Kane and Abe at the mall so when she found them they were surprised to see her. They told her why they had the falling out with Sam and she told them that he did in fact lose his memory. Sam was in his condo trying to remember anything and clean up a bit when he found a box with a bracelet in it and he knew that he was supposed to have given to Lil for Christmas. He had a meeting with his boss telling him not worry about work and to get his memory back soon and if he broke Chloe's heart his job and condo would be gone but, Sam did not care he did not remember loving Chloe who only thought of herself and thought her father was a viper.

He decided to visit an old hang out Rusty's Bar when he entered the owner remembered him and told him Kane and Abe were there he walked over and started talking to them it was a bit awkward at first, but he asked them to forgive him and they did. He asked them what happened between him and Lil but they would not tell him just said he walked out on her. Sam and Lil went to the Christmas lot and Lil was a bit apprehensive since after she broke up with Sam she had a one night stand with Toby Grayson the nephew of the man who owned the tree lot. 

Lil ran into Toby and when Sam saw them together he was not happy he told Toby to leave her alone but Toby said if Sam ever hurts her again she can come back to him she was not upset that Sam called her his girlfriend she just let Toby think they were back together. Sam took her to the tree he found and they went home. The tension was strong Sam said he was going to leave and Lil said your not gonna ask about Toby? They started to argue and she told him Toby was there when he wasn't and Sam asks why. They argued about whose fault it was that they broke up but since he did not know he was in the dark. They both said mean things to each other. Sam said Chloe did not cause their problems but later they find out in a roundabout way she had a hand in it because when Ellie called his office to tell him that Lil was in the hospital losing their baby Chloe took the message but never gave it to Sam. 

Sam leaves the house mad and drove to Rusty's and Kane and Abe happened to be there too. Sam told them he found out Lil and Toby had a one night stand they were shocked since they did not know they got upset that he just left her again after talking some sense into him Sam left and went back to Lil's He said he was sorry to her many times and then kissed her before leaving. They planned to decorate the tree the next night this event went well they felt a bit comfortable around each other and the ended up kissing again.   

They were decorating the tree and he pulled out an ornament of a pewter rattle and was confused she say him holding and knowing what he might be thinking and she told him that the baby was his, not Toby's. They sat down and she told him the story of how they lost their baby. He told her he had planned on asking her to marry him but did not remember if he even bought a ring. Lil showed him the sonogram picture. They hugged each other and stayed like that all night on the couch. The next morning her water would not turn on and she forgot to winterize her pipes Sam called his dad to come to fix it. They went out to Rusty's that night and the whole gang was there Kane, Abe, Zach, and Ellie they sat down and all started talking laughing, and having fun like they use to. 

The next night was Sam's dad's Christmas party they planned to go together. he found out why his brother was mad at him and was upset that he could treat them that way. They got home and she told him she still loved him and they went to the bedroom and made love. When the clock struck midnight Sam got off the bed and gave her a box she opened it and found a bracelet he told her how he found it and somehow knew it was for her. She then got off the bed and then gave him the gift she had for him a rabbit's foot they said Merry Christmas and went to sleep.

He woke up the next morning and all his memories flooded back to him but he did not want to ruin their day so he did not tell Lil about this until later. He was worried about how she would react if Sam told her right away about the memories coming back. They went over to Ellie's for Lunch and Sam knew he has to call off his wedding. He let the cat out of the bag unintentionally to Ellie in the kitchen while doing the dishes. She got angry with him for not telling Lil and told him his options of course he knew what he was going to do but will Lil listen to him. 

When they got home he told her he got his memory back she felt like she was going to be sick. Lil did not even let him explain then his phone started to ring. She just said well you better tell Chloe or she asked did you already tell her and he said he had not told Chloe anything. Lil told him he had to go and get back to his fiancée and that she had helped him and was done. He left and went back to his condo and told Chloe the good news but he did not want to be there he wanted to be with Lil. 

Sam was glad he has a day to think before Chloe could get home he has a lot of questions to ask her and wondered how he really ended up. He tore his condo apart looking for anything that was him he found a box tucked away far back of a drawer and found the engagement ring he bought Lil the same day he got the bracelet. When Chloe came to him he held her at arm's length saying they needed to talk and he asks her all kinds of questions about why they don't spend time at his father's house and why they only hang out with her friends. He did not like her answers they made him angry and told her he needed time. 

Sam and Lil both had appointments to meet their therapists. They told them that Sam got his memory back and said how they felt about it. Sam tells his dr. that he does not like the man he has become because he does not care about anything and he turned his back on his family and friends and on Saturday everything would change. Lil was unhappy that Sam left she missed him she was about the leave the shop when Chloe walked in thanking her for helping Sam get his memory back. Lil thought this met he had chosen Chloe over her and got his normal life back but that not exactly how it plays out.

Sam ask Ellie for help to win back Lil and Kane and Abe both said they would help too. On Saturday Sam pretended he was going to get married he went to the church and found Chloe and said they needed to talk. He asks her about when she took the message for him when Lil was at the hospital losing the baby. He got mad at her for not giving him the message she was shocked to hear he and Lil were going to have a baby. She tried to play it off saying Ellie did not say he was needed at the hospital but he knew she would have said it was an emergency. He was mad she did not tell him and ruined his life making choices for him and using him. He and told her that the wedding was off. Then he ran into Jonah Miles Chloe's father and told him the same news and that he quit and so do Kane and Abe. Sam did not care about keeping his job or his condo. Johan was not happy about this news but Sam stood his ground.

Ellie had to ask Lil to spend New Year's Eve at Rusty's with the gang but she did not want to go instead she had her own plans. After he left the church he went over to Rusty's to put his plan into action but when he got a call from Kane saying thy tried to keep there  but she left. Sam knew he had to find her they said she went down to the river and he knew where she be and this would work out better than proposing in a bar. Lil was at the cove setting up her camera. Sam arrived thinking she be with another man but it was just her camera. He told her he was looking for her and wanted to explain and told her he did not marry Chloe because he was in love with her and only wanted to be with Lil. He told her how he felt when they lost the baby and how he shut her out of his life and faded away. He felt trapped when he got together with Chloe and did not know how to leave. Sam said he never stopped loving her and told her she messed up his plan by leaving the bar. He told Lil he quit his job with Kane and Abe and they are gonna start their own company. He finally pulls out the ring box but a ring was not inside the plane tickets were he ask her to go away with him so they could make new memories together and told her he loved her ever since college. 

She said I thought you were gonna ask me to marry you saying it with sadness. He said it would happen on their trip. They tell each other I Love You and kiss and he says he needs a place to stay and Lil says you have a couch available jokingly. Through all of that hardship Samson (Sam) and Delilah (Lil) were able to get back to each other and start their love affair all over again and make it last forever. 

Strange things happen when you put this nightgown on and your not dreaming.

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Kelly Goins’ life didn't match her four-point plan.

1. College at eighteen

2. Career at twenty-two

3. Marriage at twenty-four

4. Kids at twenty-six

For Kelly, life didn’t follow the order after step two. After a hard day of corporate climbing in Lincoln, Nebraska, Kelly slips into a vintage nightgown and goes to sleep. The next thing she knows she’s in a dream maybe. The annoying, stone-cold Captain Duran might be what she’s not looking for, but what she needs. She knows it's only her subconscious producing the commanding and handsome man who orders his way into her heart so she dreads when her alarm clock will yank her from her heart’s desire.

In Iraq, Duran had come to grips with the fact that he would be alone for the rest of his military career, but Kelly turns his orderly life upside down when she appears in his tent. The woman is more than interesting but is also crazy. He doesn't want to like the hard-nosed woman that keeps popping up in his coat, but maybe he's crazy too

Kelly who has a cooperate job at Temme International as the Senior Marketing Analyst. She recently broke her engagement with Mark and he later married someone else. She wanted to get married and have a child her #3 and #4 on her list or plan for life. Captain Duran is a marine in Iraq with his troops and in three months he got to go home. Kelly has the white long elegant nightgown she has had for years but never worn it. She decided tonight she would finally put it on and when she bought it she instantly loved it and when she touched the fabric it gave her a static shock.    

Kelly was in the middle of a dream when someone said cap? Duran was also dreaming at the time of his ex-wife who could not handle him being gone so much so she filed for divorce. Captain Duran wakes up to Sergeant Larsen saying the Colonel wanted to see him and said there is a woman in his bed. They were all confused about how she got there she of course thought she was still dreaming. Cap thought she was a soldier and she said she was not one she was very confused and stumbled outside and wondered where she was and found out she was in the middle east. 

When the medic Talbit arrived her vitals were good and thought the cap was lucky to have an unknown woman in his bed and was very willing to take her off his hands. Kelly was dreaming again but was waken up by the sound of the men arguing. she instantly disliked doc Talbit and thought of Broan as her stern father and he asks her name and how she got here of course she did not know how she got into the country. Of course, they thought she was crazy. She told them last night she went to sleep in her bed in Nebraska and woke up here. She told them she was still dreaming and would wake up soon. 

The Col was upset and told the cap to get her some clothes and have one of the female soldiers guard her in case she is a spy and he left. Cap went to get her some clothes to wear when a siren went off he grabbed put her on the ground and covered her with his body. They had to get to their post but had no one to watch Kelly so cap told her to stay in the tent and he would be back later to get her. 

When he got back to Kelly there was debris all over the fallen tent he got they got her out and she hugs him and did not want to ever let go. They got the tent up and she finally changed out of the nightgown he had to carry her to the women's side of the camp. He called to Lieutenant Pendle and told her someone needs to guard her even though she has done nothing wrong yet expect to end up in Iraq somehow. Pendle wanted to interrogate her but that was going overboard. So Private Coleman got the joy of babysitting Kelly and she was very unhappy to do this on her day off. 

 Kelly and Coleman started talking and Kelly told her the story of how she got here and that she is dreaming. Coleman gave Kelly some flip flops so she could follow her and get some laundry done and when they got back to the tent the private got chewed out by Pen because they left but Kelly told her where to put it. Kelly put her nightgown back on and went to sleep in the tent but she did not stay there she ended up in a cap bed again. So somehow this nightgown was transporting her to different places when she fell asleep. 

He still thought she was crazy and wondered how she got back in his bed and away from Coleman. Duran did not have to wait long because the private entered saying she lost Kelly and said she just disappeared. They are thought this was crazy but she did not have any shoes on and no one in camp saw her outside. He started having feelings for this strange woman but he needed sleep and even though he wanted her to stay it would not happen. So he had Coleman take her back to her tent and he couldn't believe Kelly thought this all was a dream. 

Back in Coleman's tent, Kelly wanted to lay down but that was not going to happen Coleman put her in a chair and handed her a book to read afraid if Kelly fell asleep again she would disappear again. Duran was heading to go get briefed on another attack coming when Larsen came over saying Kelly was gone and Coleman was frantic. Kelly was not in his tent this time she was found wandering around away from camp. Kelly was dreaming again was in a cap tent but he wasn't there so she saw some sandals and left and started to look for him but ran into the enemy. Cap found her and took her back to his tent. They argued a bit and she still insisted she was dreaming. She asked why he left her the sandals and he said he didn't and had no idea where they came from. 

The colonel again asks if Kelly was a spy since she walked right into the enemy but she said she wasn't. He began to interrogate her asking her name where she lives and who she works for. They lasted for several hours finally she was allowed to leave the cap took her back to his tent. Coleman was too tired to watch her this time and cap could not do it so he reluctantly let dr. Talbit take her with him to the surgical tent Kelly did not like this idea one bit. 

Talbit showed her the hospital and she even had to help with a wounded soldier she did not like this one bit she wanted to be back with a cap. Duran found then in the mess hall and followed him back to his tent and he told her she would be leaving tomorrow on the transport. She had an and figure out her dream she started with Pendle "You represent me at work. Stern hard-nosed, quick to interrogate but slow to understand others' feelings." She here to show Kelly what she needs to change. Col represents Kelly's fear of her father and their relationship needs to change. Talbit shows her she needs to step out of her comfort zone and lastly cap he represents her perfect number 3 a husband and someday father to her children but to her, they are not real it is just a dream to her. 

Duran then took her back to Coleman's tent to go to sleep. Kelly asked for her gown but Coleman had it locked up. Mattie and some of the other woman soldiers were trying to get Coleman's locker open learning that Kelly disappears when she is wearing the gown and they thought it was a lie. They gave Kelly her gown and she put it on and was gone. 

She was in his bed again and he was not there she saw some old sneakers and put them on and walk out to find a cap. When she saw him she ran toward him they were talking and discussing how she vanished again when a sniper started shooting. One of the bullets hit her and she went limp in his arms. Talbit arrived and began to inspect her wound and she was gone in a blink of an eye. They thought she went to his tent but she was nowhere to be found

She woke up on the floor in her bedroom and was scared because she noticed she had really been shot and did not know how it was possible since it was just a dream. She was able to get to the intercom and call for help. Duran woke up in the hospital and Talbit told him he found Kelly she was in Nebraska in the hospital and was found shot in her condo. 

Talbit asks when he would leave the cap was confused about how could he show up at Kelly's and tell her he was not a dream and he thought he wait for his 3 months to be over before contacting her. Kelly woke in the hospital thinking her alarm was going off the nurse told her the military had called about her and wondered if she knew someone in it. Her gown was missing. 

Duran had to go talk to his CO and he asks did she really vanish and cap said one second she was in my arms her blood all over me the next she was gone. Duran gave him the scenario reenactment envelope and he would give it to the investigator. When Lt Col LaMans arrived she was met by Duran and Talbit. She was given a list of personnel that was closely related to Kelly's disappearance she would interview them later. First, she wanted to see the reenactment first hand so Duran showed her. After she interviewed everyone she told Duran to pack his things they were taking a trip to Lincoln Nebraska. 

Kelly got woke up to a dr. and a detective in her room and wanted to ask her some questions. He asks how she got shot she said in her dream she told them she was dreaming of Iraq and wondered how she got shot with an Iranian bullet. Soon LaMans showed up to ask some questions. Kelly told her about her dreams of Iraq and told her about her gown and that they could not find it. LaMans wanted Kelly to tell her dream to someone else and he came into the room. She saw Cap and ask if she was dreaming and he said it was not a dream at all. LaMans ask them both if she was in his camp and they said yes. Then they kissed and she finally realized it was not a dream. 

In the Epilogue on the author's website, Kelly and Duran got married and she was pregnant. Larsen and Coleman got married and Pendle was engaged to Captain Tuttle who came with LaMans to the camp. Of course, they never found the nightgown.

This was a sweet romantic book of two people finding love in a very unusual way with the aid of a magical nightgown.