Six Years Ago Federal Agent Samantha Moon Was The Perfect Wife And Mother, Your Typical Soccer Mom With The Minivan And Suburban Home Then The Unthinkable Happens, An Attack That Changes Her Life Forever And Forever Is A Very Long Time For A Vampire.Now Working The Night Shift As A Private Investigator, Samantha Is Hired By Kingsley Fulcrum To Investigate The Murder Attempt On His Life, A Horrific Scene Captured On TV And Seen Around The Country But As The Case Unfolds, Samantha Discovers Kingsley Isn T Exactly What He Appears To Be After All, There S A Reason Why He Survived Five Shots To The Head
J.R. Rain
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J.R. Rain
I m an ex private investigator now writing full time in the Pacific Northwest, where I live in a small house on a small island with my small dog, Sadie, who hasenergy than Robin Williams.As a kid I was always making stuff skates, skateboards, skimboards, skis, sleds, clothing, furniture, wood carvings, Easter baskets, comic books, you name it I was the mother of all nerds Anyway, I think I m an ex private investigator now writing full time in the Pacific Northwest, where I live in a small house on a small island with my small dog, Sadie, who hasenergy than Robin Williams.As a kid I was always making stuff skates, skateboards, skimboards, skis, sleds, clothing, furniture, wood carvings, Easter baskets, comic books, you name it I was the mother of all nerds Anyway, I think I was searching for the one thing I wanted to keep on making for the rest of my life Then one day I discovered Choose Your Own Adventure books Remember those You as the reader were asked to make choices for the characters Choose Your Own Adventures were a lot of fun and I just had to make my own And so I did, writing three of them, and I ve been hooked on writing ever since Just think, I could have been hooked on making Easter baskets In high school, I was a fine balance of jock and nerd I played football and baseball and somehow managed to write five complete novels So how was I able to write so much and play sports and study at the same time Easy No girlfriend In fact, I didn t kiss a girl until I was in college In college, I still managed to write two books and over 80 short stories Even with all the kissing Eventually, I graduated with a perfectly useless degree in anthropology, got married two weeks later, and shortly thereafter started my career as an insurance claims investigator I ve made better choices I would spend the next four years researching and writing my first adventure novel, THE LOST ARK At the age of 28, I landed one of the biggest agents in Hollywood Welcome to Hollyweird I discovered that I had a natural knack for writing screenplays Go figure For the next two years I worked exclusively with Paramount Pictures and Alphaville Productions developing various movie and TV projects Some things worked out most didn t I learned much and I m thankful for the experience Ultimately, I realized I had strayed far from my true love writing novels but never very far from my other true love donuts And so, with a little bit of money in the bank and some time on my hands okay, fine, I got fired from my insurance job , I moved to Carlsbad and wrote three books DARK HORSE, MOON DANCE, and CURSED Being married to a dreamer is tough Being married to a dreamer and a writer is damn near impossible Yup, you guessed it, after seven tough years my wife was gone, baby, gone Not to worry I eventually met another girl poor thing , and together we moved up to Seattle Things turned ugly fast I lost my job, my car, my money, the girl, went bankrupt, and yet somehow wrote THE MUMMY CASE in a freezing cold basement in the middle of a rainy winter, unemployed and stealing food usually donuts from local grocery stores Like the prodigal son, I eventually moved back home to southern California, where I got a new job, got my private investigator s license, got a new movie agent, moved to Hollywood and was fortunate enough to have my first novel published in November 2005 by Mundania Press In 2006, I wrote ELVIS HAS NOT LEFT THE BUILDING, and in 2007, I moved up to Oregon where I eventually became a vegetarian for moral reasons , and wrote the first draft of my ghost story, THE BODY DEPARTED In 2008, I moved back to southern California to help with my sick father Now in 2009, you guessed it, I m back up in the Pacific Northwest, living on a small island in a small home with my small doggie It s a simple, peaceful lifea life filled with writing, hiking, and Beggin Strips Remember life is too short to work at a job you don t love So follow your dreams, my friends, even if it means living on a faraway island in the back of beyond As you can see, I ve come far from those days of stealing donuts Full circle, if y
Moon DanceVampire for Hire, Book 1By J R RainNarrated by Dina PearlmanThis is an audible book I really got into right away It is a turned vampire, a mom of two, her husband finds her repulsive, and she is a PI It is a very exciting story and gets...
I got this cheap for my Kindle with no expectations.After it sat on it for some months I finally opened it to read the first 20 pages before as I planned deleting it.Wow Was I taken surprise this is a GREAT start to a series Fab, well rounded main character, interesting world, actual plot, beginning, middle and end all gripping.2 and a half hours later and one long bath I was buying the second in the series and suggesting to my OH that we have takeaway for di...
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Update After following a dicussion onabout this author getting slammed by another author who hadn t even read past the description, I want to point out a few things The writing wasn t bad It wasn t the greatest, but it wasn t full of errors While I found the plot cliched, I still felt the author had enough merit to pick up another book when it was offered for free haven t read it, though Honestly, I didn t even notice the whole thing about now I don t mind a DNF review or even Update After following a dicussion onabout this author getting slammed by another author who hadn t even read past the description, I want to point out a few things The writing wasn t bad It wasn t the greatest, but it wasn t full of errors While I found the plot cliched, I still felt the author had enough merit to pick up another book when it was offered for free haven t read it, though Honestly, I didn t even notice the whole thing about now I don t mind a DNF review or even why I won t be reading this review both of which have thier uses and are legit...
Samantha Moon s life is anything but simple She juggles her job working as a private investigator, a failing marriage and two rambunctious kids And she s a vampire When she is hired by a hot shot lawyer to find the person who tried to kill him she unwittingly finds herself in the crosshairs And adding to her troubles, there is a vampire hunter gunning for her, her husband is having an affair, and she is fighting her own attraction to the hotshot lawyer Moon Dance reminds methan just a Samantha Moon s life is an...
It was a strong opening entry that left me underwhelmed Moon Dance Vampire for Hire 1 was overall an okay story I liked the fact the protagonist is a woman dealing with her condition But to me, the character is too emotionally tied to her human life to be an effective creature of the paranormal world.I was totally into the story but three things happen she couldn t see her reflection she changed into a giant half woman bat and if someone didn t suspect her condition she was telling th It was a strong opening entry that left me underwhelmed Moon Dance Vampire for Hi...
Unexpectedly good.
Just not the book for me I didn t connect with the characters or story I found it rather corny Great if you love vampire stories but i am luke warm at best I loved Twilight, but that was because it was the first vampire book i had read It was new and interesting.I nearly put this down But i am stubborn and wanted to finish it.I also found the voice didn t quite grab me The author has created a distinctive style which is great But i just didn t like it However, I think that much of m Just not the book for me I didn t connect with the characters or story I found it rather corny Great if you love vampire stories but i am luke warm at best I loved Twilight, but that was because it was the first vampire book i had read It was new and interesting.I nearly put this down But i am stubborn and wanted to finish it.I also found the voice didn t quite grab me The author has created a distinctive style which is gr...
3.5 StarsVery interesting story I m surprised it was written by a male and it had a female lead I was very impressed and will definitely continue the series PS I HATTTTTTTTTE Danny I hope you die a fiery death in the pits of hell view spoiler Seriously, who answers the...
Moon Dance is book one of a 13 book series Vampire for Hire featuring Samantha Moon, that begins six years after she was attacked and turned into a vampire Her life as wife, mother, and federal agent is irrevocably changed, and relationships with her husband and sister, the only two who know of her secret, are strained.Samantha is a very likable and sympathetic character She is not, though, a character in a lesfic novel There are no steamy sex scenes in Moon Dance , but Samantha is a wom Moon Dance is book one of a 13 book series Vampire for Hire featuring Samantha Moon, that begins six years after she was attacked and turned into a vampire Her life as wife, mother, and feder...
Just found this series Free eBook and free audible with kindle unlimited The narrator does the Lillian Byrd series Excellent