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Hi, I'm Brenda Nolan. Life has been a journey of resilience and transformation. From a young age, I’ve faced adversity head-on, after being struck by a car. Despite enduring decades of family trauma, addiction, chronic pain, and disease, I refuse to let these circumstances define me.
Through conscious awakening and present awareness, I embrace challenges as opportunities for growth and healing. By sharing my journey, I seek to uplift and empower those who may be facing similar struggles. My story is a testament to the power of resilience, the unwavering human spirit, and hope.
Pain and Awakening
Chronic pain — I get it. This crap sucks.
Your body becomes a cage of torture, and your mind starts to resent you for it. The doctors keep circling back to square one because, after years of the same treatments ...they've run out of options. Your body has endured the gauntlet of tests, injections, and procedures. Still, you lie awake at night, clutching a pillow so the house doesn’t hear you scream.
I’ve been there. I know what pain does to people, and I’ve seen how much it changed me.
This is my story of personal evolution after a conscious awakening. I’ve learned how to thrive through pain and illness by diligently changing my thoughts and habits.
I hope those suffering from chronic pain can find something useful in the lessons I’ve learned and the tips I’m sharing. Conscious awareness has made an incredible difference between surviving and thriving with chronic pain.
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NovalliaIt will take more than her adoptive aunt and two cousins to keep Nola Valerian out of trouble. Her callous emotions and fearless determination make discipline impossible. Addicted to escaping the house late at night, Nola is dead set on stalking her adoptive benefactor. Having little to no contact with the man entrusted with her safety, Nola continuously seeks out the mysterious Lord of Graelohr Manor.
The obscurities that surround Gavin Graelohr are endless. Nola has hardly met the man who decides her education and supports her family. Regardless, in recent months, curiosity has become an addiction. Nola’s persistence signals to her sponsor that she is about to face the most devastating change of her life.
Armed with only an ancient journal, Gavin introduces Nola to a world of darkness found only in nightmares. Opening her mind to the stories of the undead, Nola is terrified to learn there is something much more dangerous than thugs and thieves lurking in the city. Worse yet, she is assumed to be one of them.
A frail version of the feared and dominant species, Nola is hunted by those who want her dead and imprisoned by those who need her alive. When the creatures of the night descend on her home, Nola is forced to meld herself with a man far more monstrous than the Vampyres that took her family.
The only price she has to pay for his assistance is eternal slavery.
Naylene CaulderNot every woman craves adventure.
Having a semi-feral little sister is exhausting and expensive. Naylene Caulder is at the end of her rope with Josey. Fighting, stealing, and running away have become common for the twelve-year-old.
Unfortunately, it was the rock Josey smashed through Captain Ridley’s office window that became the catalyst for Naylene’s dangerous adventure.
Though Josey is brave to the point of being reckless, a rare moment of fear finds her accidentally loaded onto a merchant ship. Naylene will not stand by as her little sister sails across the Atlantic. Heartbroken and terrified, she strikes a bargain with Captain Samuel Ridley.
In the midst of his own conniving plans, the Captain agrees to assist the beautiful woman manipulating his empathy. Catching one of his own vessels and returning the ladies to Port Lorne sounds annoying, but simple. Samuel is used to managing small-town catastrophes. After all, he owns half the businesses surrounding the harbor.
Naylene did not plan on Evan Kerrick complicating her entire life. As a navy deserter, Evan spent years amassing treasure for his crew. It didn’t matter that his cousin, Samuel Ridley, felt the brunt of his attacks. When Kerrick seizes another of Ridley’s ships, the pirate has no choice but to kidnap the feisty girl hiding among the crew. However, instead of fear, Josey sees an unsung hero in the pirate.
Through every meal and each storm, Naylene begins to falter beneath Samuel’s advances. Still, Captain Ridley has dangerous business to conduct while Evan Kerrick is the key to his fortune or downfall. Despite the passengers he’s meant to reunite, Samuel’s plans are already in motion. With no other option, he sets sail for the Caribbean.
For Captain Ridley, it’s business.
For Evan Kerrick, it’s revenge.
For Naylene, it’s a terrifying adventure she would rather avoid.
Now, with a maritime battle looming, she must choose between the lesser of two devils. One way or another, Naylene is bound to bring her little sister safely home.
The Harlot’s HeiressEmilia Ross is a legend. She holds the highest station of any Madam in New York by the end of the 1980’s. Her Silk-Hat house, disguised as a musical boarding school, boasts the finest women in all of New York. Nothing could knock her off the prostitution pedestal. Any skeletons in her closet remain secure across the Atlantic. Had her daughter managed to follow directions they might have remained there.
Jonan Emerick was not about to let one Madam and her young protégé ruin his life. He knew all too well the rules of the streets and had grown a reputation for enacting revenge. After working his way into Emilia’s good graces, he enjoyed a different woman every night. It would have been convenient if he could have remained there. However, Jonan had no idea the damage Emilia posed to his life when compromise became competition. What he holds fast to is the perfect failsafe, he would marry the protégé.
Raelyn may not have known the details of their fraudulent marriage, but she understood what it was like to be held as Jonan’s prisoner. The women she grew up with held an addiction for his flawless features and alluring charm. Although, none of it mattered to her. Her mother would never let Jonan have a stake in their empire.
The two played tug of war for years before a fake ceremony led to Jonan’s immediate disappearance. However, Raelyn never forgot that he was the only bastard scoundrel Emilia feared. Now, across a sea of deceit, Jonan has come for revenge on them both.
Raelyn has no doubt Emilia will succeed in getting rid of him. What bothers her is the inability to escape either of their conniving ways, and her estranged husband’s bed.
Juliana GallowayHis green eyes and chiseled jaw turned heads wherever he went—but Juliana Galloway had no interest in taming Roland Therrin.
A deep-rooted distaste for her guardian’s son kept her at arm’s length. Still, Roland had a way of creeping past her defenses with playful banter, fiery glances, and moments far too intimate to ignore. When he dared to instruct her to marry, Juliana was rightfully furious.
Luckily, with her best friend soon to be engaged, the opportunity for husband-hunting arrived at just the right time. Colonel James O’Connell is an impeccable option. Ruggedly handsome, stoic and quiet, James is everything Roland was not.
Yet fate is cruel. Juliana’s father, a revered war hero and local legend, presses her to marry the Colonel despite rekindling flames with Roland. As war and political unrest sweep through the land, Juliana is thrust from the comfort of her opulent home into the heart of battle. With no choice but to rely on James, she fights to reconcile loyalty to her family with a heart that still remembers the green eyes she tried to forget.
The Colonel has other plans. Beneath his polished manners lies the smoldering intensity of a soldier who always gets what he wants—and what he wants is far more than Juliana’s hand. With revenge burning in his veins, James threatens to unravel everything Juliana holds dear.
Their relationship, born of duty and deception, blooms in dangerous soil. But there’s nothing false about the way the world fades beneath his kiss.
For years, Roland held her heart.
Now, James holds her future.
