Morning Ritual

By Paris Dixon

When she rents an ocean beach house along the Georgia coast, overworked photographer Anastasia Hunter finds the peace and serenity she craves. Until she observes her next-door neighbor performing his morning ritual, that is.

Quickly she grows obsessed with the activities of the handsome stranger, and before long, her camera is back in action, capturing from afar every salacious moment for her personal viewing pleasure.

But what will happen when she meets him face to face? Will he discover her addiction to voyeurism? And if so, will he have her arrested, or will he retaliate in a different and pleasurable way?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Sep 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781646569021

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Morning Ritual

By Paris Dixon

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Copyright 2021 Paris Dixon

ISBN 9781646569021

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NOTE: This book was previously published by Amber Quill Press.

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Morning Ritual

By Paris Dixon

Chapter 1

Anastasia Hunter anticipated the alarm clock’s warning even before it cut through the morning quietude. She had just finished her light breakfast of a whole-wheat bagel and freshly squeezed orange juice when her internal alarm clock coerced her out of the kitchen chair and propelled her up the staircase. Sure enough, as she entered her bedroom, the buzzing from the clock on the nightstand began. She tapped the OFF button and eyed the 6:45 emblazoned in red letters across the digital readout.

In truth, Ana had been awake for several hours, anxiously awaiting this moment. Ever since moving into the rented beach house along Georgia’s coastline, it had become her habit. Setting the alarm, that is.

Before returning to her native state for a much-needed vacation, she had grown accustomed to rising before the sun. Her job as the lead photographer for Celebrity Parade Monthly kept her dashing to airports in the wee hours in order to get a jump start on whichever movie, TV, or rock star happened to be the magazine’s featured cover model or major news story. Therefore, her internal alarm clock stood perpetually at the ready, waking her usually between the hours of 3 and 4 AM. This whole digital alarm clock business, however, which she started just after her return to Georgia three weeks earlier, had simply become her added insurance so she wouldn’t miss the day’s main event.

The main event, she thought, with a tranquil yet eager sigh.

Ana knew this morning ritual, as she had deemed it, had taken over her life. Every action she performed, whether jogging along the sandy coastline, taking a dip in the invigorating waters of the Atlantic, or reading on the deck, watching the boob tube, or napping away the hours of self-imposed solitary, seemed mere filler. Like an alcoholic performing mundane tasks until that special moment each day when a drink touched their lips, Ana simply killed time before