
5-star reviews, baby!
5-star reviews, baby!
Joy Parker had the perfect childhood. Doted on by her parents, she couldn’t imagine her childhood any different. As a child and later a young adult, she’s ignored by her much older siblings, made to feel the outsider…until a tragedy occurs, altering her life in ways she couldn’t possibly have imagined.
The next few years of her life are vastly different from her parents’ hopes and dreams for her. Then suddenly, another life-altering event changes the course of her life and she must make decisions she never dreamt possible. Winning the largest lottery in Wisconsin history opens the flood gates of possibility and means Joy must again decide which direction to take with the rest of her life.
After Joy is stalked relentlessly by fortune hunters, reporters, and even her own siblings, she decides to fly away into a future that she never could have imagined, let alone planned….
What would you do if you won $341,726,178.10 after taxes? Come along for the ride as we discover what Joy Parker decides to do with it….
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How many of you can say you remember what you were doing that many years ago? I do. That was a rather rough week. I was suffering from the flu, in and out of the hospital all week only to go back for more hydration in the form of an I.V. drip. My doctor was sick of seeing me.
27 years ago today was a Thursday, and I remember it so vividly because of what happened that evening. Since I’d been so ill, I had to be ‘careful’ about what I ate. I felt so good that day that I craved lasagna. A favorite still. So, we got Stouffers and I got my lasagna. Well, a few hours later I began to have stomach pains. Chock it up to too much too soon? Or should I mention I also happened to be very, very pregnant at the time? When my husband at the time (Hey, yes I AM a lesbian NOW, but I was young and stupid and trying heterosexuality)….said, how do you tell the difference between flu cramps and being in labor? Well, I was 23 at the time and I’d already had a baby so of course I knew it all! That’s what I told him, I would KNOW! Well, when those flu cramps got five minutes apart, he called the doctor. I told them, I didn’t mind going into the hospital just as long as I didn’t miss my favorite show which was due on that night. Those were the days when you had to wait the entire season to see what you missed in one night for a rerun…if you got that! At the time my favorite show was L.A. Law…hello Susan Dey anyone? Well, I got my wish. They got me into a room and I refused to contribute ANYTHING to the delivery of my son until I could watch the entire episode. How’s that for a devoted fan?
A few hours later I was willing to get that baby out of me and I cooperated. Not bad! I think I’ll keep him. Happy Birthday Andrew! (He’s given the name I would have been given had I been a boy). Btw, I’m STILL trying to lose that baby fat!
Later Madison texted her, a common form of communication between them with their busy schedules.
‘How was the rest of your day?’
‘You wouldn’t believe the day I had.’
‘What hap?’
‘I devoured a baby.’
‘Damn phone…delivered.’
‘Good, because otherwise…gross.’ She waited a moment and then sent, ‘Boy or Girl?’
‘Gorilla.’
‘That was either hysterically funny or extremely racist.’
The phone rang then and Madison picked it up, “Hello?”
“They call these smart phones?”
Madison couldn’t help but snort-laugh through her nose. “Its technology,” she tried to console her.
“I can’t believe that people put up with these things. I wanted to throw it!”
“Uh oh, sounds like phone rage!”
“Phone rage? Is that a real thing?”
“You’re the doctor, you tell me?” Madison could almost hear Deanna shaking her head.
“Why does anyone use these things? It doesn’t matter whether I type it or speak it, it gets it wrong!”
“Convenience?”
“Embarrassing!”
“You know, there is a way to turn off some of those features.”
“You better show me the next time I see you,” she sighed angrily.
“How did you cope when you were traveling?” she asked, amused.
“I waited until I got to a phone, none of these ‘conveniences.’”
Madison chuckled wondering how such a brilliant doctor could be so technologically inept.
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Lady Claire Von Hagen was en route to the island of Baleniesia, in the Caribbean, to meet the man her father had dictated she would marry. Lord Von Hagen, Governor of Baleniesia, ruled his island and his daughter with an iron fist, and he had determined that marriage to the distasteful, but wealthy and titled, Sir Edmund Fitzhugh, would be most advantageous. Lady Claire was sailing to Baleniesia to submit to marriage when her ship was captured by pirates. Her abductor, a pirate Captain known as Black Betty, had other plans for Lady Claire.
Claire had never experienced love of any kind, and she had certainly never conceived of the things that went on between two women. Black Betty taught her things that surprised her, and the freedom she experiences with this woman, and their developing love, capture Claire’s heart. From the islands of the Caribbean to the shores of Canada, and on from there to the continent of Africa and the Orient… together they experience things both had only dreamt about.
Will they survive the dangers of the high seas and the first years of a relationship that neither expected to find?
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