*Mild Rant* What Ever Happened to Privacy?

Hello, gentle readers!

I have a question that I think is valid (WARNING: This may turn into a rant). I'm usually an easy going person: Live and let live, but I must ask...what ever happened to privacy? Or keeping things to yourself instead broadcasting everything to the public?

The reason I ask this question is because of what happened this morning while I was doing my grocery shopping at my local Fry’s. There was a woman who was right behind me throughout my shopping trip and she was on her cell phone, arguing with either her husband or baby daddy, I’m not sure which. She was pretty loud, at one point screaming at this person (and saying the most atrocious things. Now, I can cuss like a sailor, but I try to be considerate of those around me. This woman did not). I was not eavesdropping. Seriously. But one couldn’t help overhearing her. Apparently, he was cheating on her, which is sad on so many levels and I don't blame her for being angry.

My thoughts as this woman followed me from aisle to aisle? The grocery store was not the proper place for this argument. I didn’t need to know any of this and neither did anyone else going about their business. An argument such as this should have been held at home, face to face.

Don’t get me wrong. Cell phones are great! Seems everyone has one. They’re a wonderful way to keep in touch with someone at a moment’s notice (so much different than when I was young…if someone called you and you weren’t home, they left a message, usually with someone in your family or on your answering machine if you were lucky enough to have one. Or they called back, which is usually what happened).

Now? You can reach anyone instantly. No waiting. No fuss. No muss.

This isn’t the first time something like has happened. I’ve been privy to conversations and arguments in restaurants, waiting in line at the DMV or the bank, in elevators where there is no escape…everywhere something like this shouldn’t happen. So I ask again, what ever happened to keeping things private? If you can’t (or won’t) keep it private, lower your voice. Better yet, wait until you get home. End of rant.

 

Until next time, remember to spread kindness wherever you go.

Marie

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Yes, it's that time of year again. My favorite time of year when the weather grows cooler and Halloween is right around the corner to be followed by my birthday.

To me, it also means it's time to giveaway a number of my favorite masks! This all started 6 years ago with my first book release titled MASQUE. In this rather sexy story, the hero and heroine wear a mask every night they attend the masque held in the Pleasure Palace.

Where did this idea come from? It came from a classic Edgar Allan Poe story called "The Masque of the Red Death." Because I write romance inspired by the classics, I just had to make the Red Death the hero who lived at the time of Poe's story and introduce him to a lovely woman from present day.

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Always, Lexi
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 Masque

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Rena Mills plans to turn an abandoned abbey into a haunted bed-and-breakfast to prove she can be successful without her ex-fiancé. What she finds inside is Synn MacAllistair, the distinguished, self-proclaimed Ghost Keeper. Her dreams soon fill with sexual cravings for him. But are they dreams?

Synn, born in 1828, is determined to free the souls of the resident spirits, blaming himself for bringing the Red Death that killed them. When Rena steps into the old Pleasure Palace, he’s sure he can take her through the after-midnight Pleasure Rooms and stoke her passion to complete the Masque so the souls can cross over. Her innocent fire makes him crave more, but it’s far too late for him.

As Rena begins her erotic journey, her heart becomes more involved with every sensual caress until she discovers by completing the Masque she would lose her ghosts. Synn’s betrayal wars with her compassion for her ghostly friends. Torn, she must make a choice between her financial security and freeing seventy-three trapped souls. Either way, she could lose her Synn.

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Lexi Post is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of romance inspired by the classics. She spent years in higher education taking and teaching courses about the classical literature she loved. From Edgar Allan Poe's short story “The Masque of the Red Death” to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, she's read, studied, and taught wonderful classics.

But Lexi's first love is romance novels so she married her two first loves, romance and the classics. From hot paranormals to sizzling cowboys to hunks from out of this world, Lexi provides a sensuous experience with a “whole lotta story.”

Lexi is living her own happily ever after with her husband and her cat in Florida. She makes her own ice cream every weekend, loves bright colors, and you will never see her without a hat.

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The Spitfire by Christi Caldwell

What do you do when you find someone assaulted in the streets, and the assailants are present?
It might be different today, but in 1826 London, England, a woman certainly wouldn't stop to help.
Clara Winters wasn't just any woman, though.  She's beautiful, street smart, and happens to have medical experience.
A former Madam, Clara is working so hard to right her life and be treated like a human.  She's opening the Muses, a music hall.
When she sees a noble lying in a seedy part of London with two mean accosting him, she takes her pistol and scares of the bad guys.  Going against her better judgment, she hauls Henry March to her home and dresses his wounds.
He won't admit to himself that he's infatuated with the thirty-three year old.  He's forty and needs a family.  Clara finds him to be the most fair noble man she's dealt with.
Henry works for the Parliament and owes Clara his life.  Yet, months after she puts herself at risk to help him, he sends notice that her business will be shut down.
A confrontation by Clara starts sparks of all kinds.  Not to mention the intense kiss she leaves him with to think about.
History doesn't typically favor the nobility mixing with lower level people in family matters.  As we've learned through the ages, love can beat out so many norms and allow happiness to flourish, but it's a road chosen with many potholes to plow through.
Great story with a colorful path to happily ever after!  I really enjoyed Clara's character, and Henry better straighten up or I'll give him a shove for her!

Happy reading,
Dawn