New Indie Fiction: The Elephant on Sixth Street by John Morton and Toying With His Affections by Laura K. Curtis

the elephant on sixth streetThe Elephant on Sixth Street by John Morton
Pub Date Nov 11 2014

DESCRIPTION

Jack’s life is a three-ring circus of family, work, and extracurricular (sometimes extra-marital) pursuits. Is he the ringmaster or just another trained animal, trotting out the same old tricks? He tries not to think about it (alcohol helps).

Today he’s got a more pressing problem anyway – his dalliance with Meg on a business trip to Dallas has put him in the crosshairs of a thuggish blackmailer. Meg has secrets of her own and, lucky for Jack, she’s got tricks up her sleeve.

The two race back to Austin with the blackmailer hot on their trail. Will they make it home with their lives, careers, and dignity intact, or will they succumb to the violence and corruption that threaten them from all sides?

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Toying With His AffectionsToying with His Affections by Laura K. Curtis
Pub Date Jul 14 2014

DECRIPTION

Good girl gone bad…

Evie Bell couldn’t wait to get out of the small town that had labeled her a goodie two-shoes. She dreamed of showing her more daring side. Selling sex toys might not have been the career she envisioned when she left Fairview, Tennessee, to become a Las Vegas showgirl, but she’s proud of her hard-earned success.

Now, forced to return to the town she’d hoped never to see again to care for her ailing aunt, she will need every bit of that pride to get along with those who disapprove of her way of life.

Bad boy gone good…

Griffin Barstow was given a choice at eighteen: jail or the military. He chose the military. Now he’s come home to Fairview to run for sheriff. But small towns have long memories, and the last thing he needs while trying to convince voters he’s turned his life around is an attraction to a completely inappropriate woman.

Evie would like to avoid Griffin entirely. Her aunt, however, is in financial as well as medical trouble, and Evie must take on the job of making her aunt’s shop more profitable the only way she knows how—by adding a touch of sex appeal. And when vandals make their disapproval of her changes evident, she needs the law on her side. When sparks begin to fly between Evie and Griffin, both will have to decide whether they can overcome the problems of the past to make a future together.