Vicki Stiefel's Playlist for Altered

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1 - “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan

2 - “Across the Great Divide,” The Band

3 -  “Tanz mit mir”, album Von den Elben, Faun 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=beXW5s3ZCB4

4 - “Stairway to Heaven” - Led Zeppelin

5 - “Still the One,” Shania Twain, the video with her horse

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rKf_5vQODbU&time_continue=241

6- “Run for the Roses,” Dan Fogelberg

7 - “Journey of the Sorcerer,” the Eagles

8 - “Now Is Here,” Clanned (Robin (the Hooded Man) album

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=4Ln1pxaRxAE

9 - “Dream of the Archer,” Heart

10 - “Aquarius,” the Broadway show Hair

11 - “Rhiannon,” Fleetwood Mac

12 - “Candy Girl,” Trailer Trash Tracys

13 - “She’s in Love with the Boy,” Trisha Yearwood

14 - “Devil’s Nightmare,” Barrage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gXrKvmcHpI

15 - “Follow Me,” the Broadway show Camelot

16 - “Run for the Roses,” Dan Fogelberg, 

17 - “World Away,” Lissie

18 - “If We Only Have Love,” Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Synopsis:

The Eleutians are dying out, one female at a time. To save their species, the powerful Alchemic Clan conscripts women from parallel worlds, altering them into the perfect breeding stock. 

Kitlyn, a retired circus equestrian broken in both body and spirit, awakens on a strange world in her own much-younger body. She has been transformed into a Made One, but the gift of youth and the promise of a new life come at a terrible price. 

Rafe, the Wolf Clan’s warrior champion, vows to find the cause of the species’ decline. He’s certain the Alchemics’ bid to save the Eleutians is but a thin veneer masking a dark purpose. 

That vow becomes hard to keep with the threat of an inter-clan conflict and the arrival of the proud Made One named Kitlyn. 

To save herself and those like her, Kit must carve a dangerous path in this new reality and make a choice that may cost her her freedom, her life, and the life of the Eleutian warrior she’s come to love.

About the Author

Vicki's fantasy romantic suspense series, The Afterworld Chronicles, launched with Chest of Bone, followed by Chest of Stone and Chest of Time. She is currently pounding the keys on her series' fourth novel, Chest of Fire, and the first in a new series, The Made Ones Sags: Altered.
Her mystery/thrillers include Body Parts, The Dead Stone, The Bone Man, and The Grief Shop, a Daphne du Maurier prize winner. All feature homicide counselor Tally Whyte. All are available as ebooks.
She co-wrote (with Lisa Souza) and photographed the 10 Secrets of the LaidBack Knitters. With her late husband, William G. Tapply, she ran The Writers Studio workshops in creative fiction.
Vicki taught fiction writing and modern media writing at Clark University.
She loves both a well-crafted sentence and unlocking the doors of a student's imagination.
She grew up in professional theater and planned to become an actress, with a bent for song and dance. She didn't. Instead, she's been a professional photographer, a high-school teacher, a hamburger slinger, a scuba-shop manager, and an editor.
She's Blake's and Ben's mom, her favorite role of all.
Her passions include scuba diving and fly fishing and knitting; photography and movies; vinho verde and bourbon (not together!); Maine lobster and chocolate (also not together!); and musical comedy scores, which she sing in the shower, unfortunately not an Equity venue; and a fascination with people in all walks of life. .

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Spotlight: Under Currents by Nora Roberts

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For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under?

Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Strangers and even Zane’s own aunt across the lake see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children’s ballet recitals and baseball games. Only Zane and his sister know the truth, until one brutal night finally reveals cracks in the facade, and Zane escapes for college without a thought of looking back...

Years later, Zane returns to his hometown determined to reconnect with the place and people that mean so much to him, despite the painful memories. As he resumes life in the colorful town, he meets a gifted landscape artist named Darby, who is on the run from ghosts of her own.

Together they will have to teach each other what it means to face the past, and stand up for the ones they love.

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About the Author

Nora Roberts is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 200 novels, including Shelter in Place, Year One, Come Sundown, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than five hundred million copies of her books in print.

Spotlight: A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell

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From bestselling author Michele Campbell comes A Stranger on the Beach, an edge-of-your seat story of passion and intrigue that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Caroline Stark’s beach house was supposed to be her crowning achievement: a lavish, expensive space to showcase what she thought was her perfect family. But after a very public fight with her husband, she realizes things may not be as perfect as they seem: her husband is lying to her, the money is disappearing, and there’s a stranger on the beach outside her house.

As Caroline’s marriage and her carefully constructed lifestyle begin to collapse around her, she turns to Aidan, the stranger, for comfort…and revenge. After a brief and desperate fling that means nothing to Caroline and everything to him, Aidan’s infatuation with Caroline, her family, and her house becomes more and more destructive. But who is manipulating whom in this deadly game of obsession and control? Who will take the blame when someone ends up dead…and what is Caroline hiding?

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About the Author

A graduate of Harvard University and Stanford Law School, Michele Campbellworked at a prestigious Manhattan law firm before spending eight years fighting crime as a federal prosecutor in New York City.Michele is the author of She Was the Quiet One and It's Always the Husband.

Spotlight: We Went to the Woods by Caite Dolan-Leach

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They went off the grid. Their secrets didn’t. For readers of The Secret History and The Immortalists comes a novel about the allure—and dangers—of disconnecting.

Certain that society is on the verge of economic and environmental collapse, five disillusioned twenty-somethings make a bold decision: They gather in upstate New York to transform an abandoned farm, once the site of a turn-of-the-century socialist commune, into an idyllic self-sustaining compound called the Homestead.

Mack, a publicly disgraced grad-school dropout, believes it’s her calling to write their story. She immediately falls in love with all four friends, seduced by their charisma and grand plans—and deeply attracted to their secrets. But it proves difficult for Mack to uncover the truth about their nightly disappearances and complicated loyalties, especially since she is protecting her own past.

Initially exhilarated by restoring the rustic dwellings, planting a garden, and learning the secrets of fermentation, the group is soon divided by intense romantic and sexual relationships, jealousies, slights and suspicions. And as winter settles in, their experiment begins to feel not only misguided, but deeply isolating and dangerous.

Caite Dolan-Leach spins a poignant and deeply human tale with sharp insights into our modern anxieties, our collective failures, and the timeless desire to withdraw from the world.

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About the Author

Caite Dolan-Leach is the author of Dead Letters and a literary translator. She was born in the Finger Lakes and is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the American University in Paris.

Spotlight: The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory

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Maddie and Theo have two things in common:

1. Alexa is their best friend
2. They hate each other

After an “oops, we made a mistake” night together, neither one can stop thinking about the other. With Alexa’s wedding rapidly approaching, Maddie and Theo both share bridal party responsibilities that require more interaction with each other than they’re comfortable with. Underneath the sharp barbs they toss at each other is a simmering attraction that won’t fade. It builds until they find themselves sneaking off together to release some tension when Alexa isn’t looking, agreeing they would end it once the wedding is over. When it’s suddenly pushed up and they only have a few months left of secret rendezvouses, they find themselves regretting that the end is near. Two people this different can’t possibly have a connection other than the purely physical, right?

But as with any engagement with a nemesis, there are unspoken rules that must be abided by. First and foremost, don’t fall in love.

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About the Author

Jasmine Guillory is the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date, The Proposal, and The Wedding Party. Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Oprah Magazine.com, and Shondaland.com. She lives in Oakland, California.

Spotlight: When Love Comes Around by Suzette Riddick

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Series: Love Conquers All, Book 2

Publication Date: August 20, 2019

Genre: Romance, Contemporary Romance

The walls are closing in on Starr Avery. An unexpected health crisis sends her into an emotional spiral. Everything she's ever dreamed of having now hangs by a thread. When she thinks all hope is gone, her salvation is closer than she realizes.

Kevin Dawson, a career womanizer, is off limits for Starr. The sparks of attraction are magnetizing and make him hard to resist. After a night in Kevin’s company. Starr ends up on the wrong end of a marriage proposal. When past forces work together to tear them apart, will love be enough to keep them together? Or will Starr’s dream become a nightmare or sweet reality?

The Love Conquers All series has been previously published under the author’s former pseudonym. This is a revised version.

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ABOUT SUZETTE RIDDICK

Suzette Riddick is a wife, mother and nurse practitioner who enjoys writing about flawed characters on a quest for love. She is an Amazon Best-Selling Author and was a featured author in USA Today ~ Happy Ever After. A native of Philadelphia, PA, Suzette loves to travel, read, and is addicted to Chanel parfum. 

To learn more about Suzette visit her website at www.suzetteriddick.com.

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