The HBS Author's Spotlight SHOWCASES Dawn Greenfield Ireland's New Book: Forced Dreams.
Award-winning independent publisher Author Dawn Greenfield Ireland is the creator of The Alcott Family Adventures cozy mystery series (Hot Chocolate).
Forced Dreams
Author: Dawn Greenfield Ireland
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When the boundaries blur between dreams and reality, a woman must learn to trust her dream lover.
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What if you learned that everything you thought you knew about your quiet, ordinary life was a lie?
And what if you discovered that a far-away world in trouble, an insane rebel, and coming to grips with your husband’s death had more in common than you’d ever expect?
Alma fears for her sanity and the safety of her children in a dangerous adventure that takes her to the depths of space, where a vehicle isn’t even necessary.
Excerpt from Forced Dreams
Alma moaned from the sheer physical desire for him. His lips, mouth and hands sensually attacked her, sending spasms of pleasure throughout every part of her body, mind, and soul. The intense sensation devoured her mind, holding her in bondage.
Long auburn hair fanned out on the cool white sheets making a captivating picture on the huge antique oak spindle bed. The luxurious bedroom, decorated in peach and green, faded as passion burned through her.
Alma traced frantic patterns along his tanned, muscular arms and across his strong back as the onslaught of her senses continued. It was all she could manage—her mind was practically gone. Her fingers ran through his thick, blond hair down the sides of his neck to his powerful shoulders as he made love to her.
Her head rolled from side to side as his body moved along hers, allowing his lips and hands access to more delights. She couldn’t stop herself from gasping, moaning.
“Mark.” She woke with the name dangling on her lips, his features etched on her brain as an invaluable keepsake. She was soaking wet from the dream tryst, but her mouth was as dry as the desert. Her body tingled, alive with sensations from a night spent in his arms—or so it seemed.
The dream had been so real.
Was it a dream?
She questioned the validity of her doubt, no longer sure about anything. Reaching out, she touched the light blue sheets on her bed.
Only a dream; no luxury white sheets here, no antique bed.
She stared at the ceiling as she thought about the dream. Alma didn’t know who he was, but she would recognize him in a crowd or on a busy street. He was tall and blond.
At first, she had assumed it was her late husband, Jeff. But those eyes weren’t Jeff’s—his had been soft and gentle, amber as tigers’ eye. And, she admitted, Jeff’s lovemaking was no comparison, except for the two times she conceived.
Mark’s eyes were as blue as a summer sky, and she had never seen eyes that shade of blue before. They were startling, unsettling. When he looked at her with those eyes he gazed into her, saw everything—all her secrets.
Both men were built similarly, except Mark was chiseled with defined muscles, and his six-pack abs that Alma ran her hands over in the dream.
Jeff was much softer. How ghoulish to compare this man to her dead husband, but the similarity was uncanny.
This was the second week of the recurring dream. It hadn’t started like this but had progressed to this stage through courtship and ritual. At first, he just appeared one night in a mixed-up dream where she was searching for an insignificant object. She couldn’t even remember what it had been, but he found it and held it out to her. When their fingers touched, sparks flew, setting the embers blazing…
Author Genre: Mystery Thrillers, Fantasy,Professional & Technical
Website: Dawn Ireland Writer
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Twitter: @dawnireland
E-Mail: dawnireland1@yahoo.com
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Author Description: Dawn Greenfield Ireland is the CEO of Artistic Origins Inc, a writing and editing company that has been doing business since 1995. Her first book, The Puppy Baby Book (hardcover), was a finalist in the IPPY book competition (2001) and is a steady seller.
Novels include The Alcott Family Adventures cozy mystery series (Hot Chocolate, Bitter Chocolate, and Spicy Chocolate. Science Fiction includes Prophecy of Thol, and The Last Dog (dystopian/futuristic). Be on the lookout for Forced Dreams (Summer 2018), Gifts from Thol (late 2018) and others.
In addition to the novels, Dawn also creates nonfiction/self-help books and products. Writers Preparation Handbook is an online course, eBook and audiobook. What's Breaking Your Budget is currently an eBook and will be available as an audiobook and an online course, fall/winter of 2018.
Originally from Feeding Hills, MA, Dawn migrated to San Antonio in 1968 then moved to Houston where work was more plentiful. She built a 34-year career as a technical writer/editor. She's back on the east coast as of December 2015.
She is an award-winning screenwriter of the following scripts: The Far Corner (psychological horror/supernatural), A Girl and Her Dog (family), Plan B (very dark comedy), and Standing Dead (drama), and Memoirs of a Dog (with Barbara Mackey) which won the Spirit Award of the Moondance Film Festival (children's category) 9/2011. Two of her scripts were optioned.
Dawn has been a member and benefactor of Women in Film and Television (Houston) for decades. Her current day job is writing, creating online courses, and editing books and all things written.
Author's Book List
The Far Corner
The Far Corner is an intense psychological horror narrative about a crowd of creatures who try to protect a woman -- from one of their own.
The Far Corner is a Print Replica which is appears like a screenplay format.
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The Last Dog
2018 Book Excellence Award Winner (6/26/18)
After the Unified World Pact of 2045, people lived in a state of peace and prosperity previously unknown in human history. The World Guild, a new global government, managed all the needs of humanity and the animals it loved.
Then in 2086, a security breach of Xavier Labs in Colorado and Zheng Industries in China released the deadly experimental agent XSKL435. Anyone outside was dead within minutes.
As statistics on the death toll are gathered from all over the world, Abby, the six-week old dog-daughter of Bill and Teresa Maxwell, was one of only four known surviving canines. News services soon announce that the other three dogs had succumbed to the deadly poison. Abby was now the last dog.
You’re invited on a journey with a puppy who longs for home after she is confiscated and held captive at a lab, and the family who are determined to get her back at all costs.
After escaping from the lab, Abby must quickly learn how to survive in the wild. Bill and Teresa must devise a plan to find Abby without being arrested themselves.
Neither Abby, or her parents know whether their plans will work, if they will survive the journey, or if they will be reunited. But love of family drives them onward.
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Prophecy of Thol
Recurring nightmares haunted D’laine Jackson when she woke from an eight-month coma following a tragic accident. Four images were branded in her head: a dark-haired, handsome princely young man, a fierce reptilian monster, a white furry creature whose red eyes implored her with some unspoken message, and an ominous black robot.
Now, five years later, D’laine was getting ready to go off to college. During one last shopping trip with her father and brothers for dorm supplies, a blanket of fog rolled out of the sky at the mall, in broad daylight in plain sight of dozens of witnesses. When the fog pulled back D’laine was gone.
When she woke, her nightmare turned into reality.
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Spicy Chocolate
- Book 3 of the Alcott Family AdventuresEveryone croons over Dorothea’s twins, and Bambi’s baby in Lila Mae’s dining room. Louie jumps up and barks, waking the babies. Lila Mae and Amelia look to see who arrived—everyone was already accounted for.
A young Hispanic woman gets out of a cab, with luggage. She sashays to the kitchen door and waves at Amelia and Lila Mae. Amelia opens the door and the woman barges in. She’s Chiquita, one of Uncle Tito’s nieces. She was sent to train for Amelia’s job.
Everyone is flustered. Why would Uncle Tito send Chiquita? Was Amelia going to quit? Lila Mae is freaked out. Amelia’s only thoughts are, “am I dying or getting fired?”
And who’s this chubby-cheeked, middle-aged, cigar-smoking Dougie Vey character that Dr. Victor Tic’s daughter shows up with, all glam and glitter, after being gone for nearly a year? Victor and wife Jeffie Ann had a falling-out with Luna over gambling debts.
The four romantics of Bitter Chocolate go out to dinner and are seen exiting the Bentley by a gang of thugs. The thugs try to rob them. Guess which one of our friends goes into his Shaolin Kung Fu routine? Another remembers some boxing moves. The thugs drop like flies to the sidewalk.
Pecos and the widow are still a couple. He runs the numbers for multiple wedding dates.
Scooter the cat disappears. Louie is sad. The Munson’s accuse Lila Mae of stealing him.
Then Qxxxx shows up and becomes Louie’s best friend.
There’s more love blooming and a surprise change.
Expect company from Las Vegas, and a bumpy ride in Mexico.
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Bitter Chocolate
- Book 2 of the Alcott Family AdventuresThe characters you loved in Hot Chocolate are back with more escapades of life in Houston’s wealthy River Oaks.
Lila Mae is in a tizzy over the Chocolate Ball – a huge event that she and her sisters, Dorothea and Madge, host every year. But due to unusual circumstances, Dorothea and Madge dump everything in Lila Mae’s lap. If it weren’t for Julian Gillespie of Event Is King, the Chocolate Ball would have melted.
Bernie, the Alcott sisters’ 92-year old father, decides he wants his Bentley back. The sisters and Bambi are horrified. They hire Joseph’s cousin Chewie as Bernie’s new chauffeur.
Wolfram, Lila Mae’s new astrologer, gives clues of things to come. This leaves Lila Mae and her sidekick Amelia with brows furrowed.
On her day off, Amelia decides to bake a chocolate blueberry pie. She discovers she needs to make a grocery run. When she returns home, she discovers her kitchen door is slightly ajar. Arms loaded with groceries, she toes the door open.
Three things catch her attention: a vase of flowers on the kitchen island that was not there when she left the house, her marble rolling pin covered with blood… and a dead body on her kitchen floor.
Amelia’s eyes drift toward the dining room and beyond – is the house empty, or is there a murderer in the house? She backs up, turns and hurries outside. After setting the bags on the ground, she slips back into the kitchen and snaps a picture of the dead guy. Then she calls Detective Chance Walker, Lila Mae and finally… 9-1-1.
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Hot Chocolate
- Book 1 of the Alcott Family AdventuresMeet the middle-aged, eccentric Alcott sisters: Madge, Lila Mae and Dorothea, heiresses to the Alcott Chocolate fortune and mavens of Houston's elite River Oaks.
Madge ambushes Lila Mae with Dorothea's manipulative plea: she can't care for Bernie, their 92-year old father, any longer. Lila Mae explodes in a hissy fit--she had warned Dorothea years ago that they should put Bernie in an assisted living center.
Robert, Lila Mae's astrologer, warns of impending problems and he's rarely wrong.
The sisters call a meeting with Walter Branson, their solicitor. They discuss Bernie's nurse Bambi Chaline, a blonde bombshell who looks more like a hooker than a nurse. The sisters fear that Bambi has her sights on being the next Mrs. Alcott and the need to separate her from their father is at critical mass.
Arrangements are made for Bernie to be transferred over to Lake Sides Assisted Living Center in the Uptown Galleria area and a severance package is drawn up for Bambi. Out from under the ever watchful eye of Dorothea, Bernie takes to the Lake Sides social scene like a butterfly to sugar-water. He's the best dressed senior and chases the nurses relentlessly. He may be 92, but he's a handful.
Jimmy Ray Chaline, Bambi's bowling alley husband, is enraged that Bambi was let go. He hires ambulance chaser Mark Slade to file a lawsuit for wrongful termination. Bambi had been more than satisfied with her bonus, letters of recommendation and praise from the Alcott clan. She does not want to sue her former employer and the Alcott chocolate empire.
Jimmy Ray's eyes dazzle as Mark Slade convinces him that the court will award Bambi millions. The judge dismisses the suit as frivolous and it is thrown out of court further fueling Jimmy Ray's rage. He's shocked when the callous attorney demands his bill be paid upon receipt.
When Jimmy Ray fails to return home from the bowling alley that night, a series of events unfold that shocks the entire Alcott family and their extended members.
Who killed Jimmy Ray Chaline? Was it Bambi, his innocent looking wife? Could it have been Tilly, Walter Branson's half-looped niece who had a mysterious relationship with Jimmy Ray? Or was it Dorothea Divine - the weapon came from her house where Bambi worked for three years.
The Alcott clan is in turmoil and no amount of chocolate will soothe their nerves until they solve the mystery and Dorothea is off the hook.
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Mastering Your Money
If you or someone you know is constantly coming up short of money in your checkbook, or if you have checks bouncing like basket balls, Mastering Your Money will take the mystery out of maintaining your checkbook. You will soon learn:
* How to create a budget.
* Why checks bounce (Hint: you contribute to this).
* What happens when a check bounces.
* How to make your check register your financial guru.
* And how to maintain your checkbook so you can safely use online banking without disasters.
This book is perfect for:
* Young people getting started on their own.
* High school and college students.
* People starting over.
* Anyone thrust into the role of responsibility for their household.
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The Puppy Baby Book
This unique fill-in-the-blanks book gives dog lovers the same opportunity to chart their puppies growth and progress, as parents of infants do with their baby books. Now, as your puppy grows, you can document:
*Where the puppy was born
*The birth parents names and breeds
*Who the puppy resembles
*Where the puppy was adopted from
*Puppy's first meal
*The puppy's playmates
*When potty training took place
*Obedience school classes
*Favorite things to do
*What vitamins the puppy takes
*Medical records
*Medical emergencies and blunders
*And much more There is a keepsake pocket for the first rabies tag after it expires, a page where you can place your puppy's paw prints, a pocket to keep the adoption papers, a placeholder for an adoption announcement card, a first aid kit list, and picture placeholders throughout the book. You will be able to write what you did with your puppy on special days throughout the calendar year from New Years day to Hanukkah and Christmas -- 23 occasions in all.
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Writer’s Preparation Handbook
You want to write a book, but you don’t know the first thing about getting started. Will it cost you money to create a book? How should you begin? Maybe you’re not that computer savvy. This course helps you get everything organized so when you sit down in front of that computer you will not be intimidated by the setup and mechanics of getting started. You will be able to dive into writing your book content and, you will make great progress as you challenge yourself to write more and more each time you sit down at your computer. The great thing is, you will learn some neat tips and tricks along the way to make your book dream come true.
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