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    Black Silk
    Black Silk
    Black Silk
    Ebook154 pages2 hours

    Black Silk

    By Jan Gordon

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    Vic has two loves in her life, her cat, Mister, and reading books from her bookstore. Her future looked set, until one night when she's saved from probable danger by a mysterious stranger.

    Cole has moved around a lot during his life, never finding a true home, until he buys an old house, and fate steps in to change his future.

    A light romance with a paranormal twist.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJan Gordon
    Release dateSep 4, 2009
    ISBN9781452326344
    Black Silk
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    Jan Gordon

    Jan Gordon grew up in London, England, and emigrated to Israel in her early twenties. After many years of working as a secretary in various media companies, both in the U.K. and Israel, she took time off to raise her two sons.In 2006, after many years of reading fanfiction for an old American TV series, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, she decided to pick up her pen, or rather her keyboard, and wrote her first story, a collaboration with another fanfiction writer, Amy F. (TwoPhantoms1), and the writing partnership of The Yank and The Brit was born. Three years later Jan answered a writing challenge on a fan site for that same TV show and wrote a short original piece and posted it to the group. The characters in that story wouldn’t leave her alone and eventually she gave in and wrote their story. That story was “Black Silk”, a paranormal romance about were panthers.Jan posted “Black Silk” on the fan site and it received such a good reception from the other members, she branched out and posted it on other sites, including Smashwords. One of the members of the fan site, another fanfiction writer, Charlie, made a comment in her review of the shifter story that sparked an idea, and in reply Jan told her she should use that concept in a story because it sounded fantastic. That ‘idea’ became “Forever In Time” by, the newly named, Nicky Charles. After Nicky’s first two books, Jan started working with her as editor and neither has looked back since.Jan has since written “Life In The Shadows”, a paranormal romance anthology and a prequel, of sorts, to “Black Silk”. Nicky Charles collaborated with Jan on one of the stories in “Life In The Shadows” which combined her wolves and Jan’s panthers. They enjoyed the endeavour so much that they decided to repeat the experience – the result was “In The Cards”.Jan Gordon now lives in Jerusalem, Israel, with her husband and two adult sons. She and her husband often travel to North America and the U.K. to see family and friends. Although Jan both writes and edits paranormal romance, she rarely reads that genre for pleasure. Since discovering author Georgette Heyer as a young teen, her passion for reading Regency romance has never dimmed. Apart from reading, which she does whenever time allows, her other favourite pastimes are cooking and doing Pilates.

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    • 3/5
      A good read, worth the time. The story was solid with a good plot. Some of the scenes were choppy or just unnecessary, but the author's next book corrected a lot of those issues as she improved tremendously with experience and time. The story has stayed with me, probably because I liked the next book so much.
    • 3/5
      I just did a review for a romance where there was zero SC and complained it didn't have much fire. Now, I'm on the other side of the spectrum. This book focused too much on the SC and not enough on the plot. The writing was good, formatting good. No real new ground broken here however.I have cooled off on reading paranormal romances. Currently, I am just trying to finish series I started a while back. But, this book was either free or 99 cents, and I have had it for a very long time. So, while I'm trying to get some older ebooks read, I noticed this one was really more of a short story, about 125 pages long. So, I read it in less than an hour. I complained earlier about a book being too YA for my taste, since I am a more "mature" reader, but this one made me feel old. I like a good steamy romance as much as the next person, but at the age I'm at now, I prefer a little more emotional development and more focus on the plot. We have instant chemistry between male and female protaganist. However, the hero happens to be a shapeshifter. A were- panther. Other than that the guy is the perfect fantasy. Over all a C-

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