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There was no sex that night at the hotel since Delane suddenly wasn’t in the mood. As a result, Petra went to bed feeling angry and rejected. After all, her steady bed-buddy was usually always in the mood for intimacy. In fact, this was the first time Delane had ever turned her down. After not being able to get to sleep, though he’d reclined in the dark for almost two hours waiting for sleep to come, Delane finally decided to go downstairs to the hotel bar and have a few drinks. Unfortunately, since this was something that he never did, the alcohol went straight to his head. Fortunately, the inebriated man decided to use some of the common sense he’d been blessed with and not try to drive himself around town afterwards. Instead Delane prudently hailed a taxi for his drive since he was still not ready to go back up to the room where Petra was. Interestingly enough, that ride took Delane right back to Sage’s apartment complex. After ringing the doorbell three times, he encountered a sle...

Delane never had so much fun in his life and he soon discovered exactly what a collective meal was. It started out with Sage’s church members all meeting up at one central location - the church. Then they all caravanned to seven selected individual homes for fellowship and to consume one course each of a seven-course meal. Not only was the fellowship outstanding, with all those friendly church members around keeping a smile on everyone’s faces, but the food was also stupendous. It was of the highest quality possible. The first course contained an appetizer of fresh shrimp on ice with cocktail sauce. That was eaten at a man they called Brother Bryant’s home. The second and third courses consisted of baby artichokes and salad with stuffed salmon balls on the side. They were eaten at Sister Edwards and Brother Aragon’s homes respectively. The fourth course was a homemade minty grapefruit sorbet and it was served at Sister Shari Hutcheson’s home. Delane soon realized exactly who Shari was ...

Just a reminder: This is the last week Side Dishes will be featured. The remaining sample chapters posted this week will be 13,14,15 & part of 16. I'll let you see for yourselves how good they are. Though Side Dishes can be purchased at the SIDE DISHES link on the left, due to an unexpected backlog of sorts at the publisher, I ask that you visit the ordering pages of My Website instead. This way, you can get this e-book in a more timely manner. Thanks so much for following Delane and Sage's story. Suprina

After their long flight, Delane and Petra freshened up in their hotel room. Then they drove the luxury black sedan he’d rented to Sage’s address on that sun-drenched May 30th afternoon. Perusing the middleclass neighborhood that his ex-wife lived in before pulling up in front of her red brick three-story apartment building, Delane was pleased to see that the lawns and homes in the area were well maintained and that the children that were playing outside were well monitored by caring adults. Wonder what the properties in this neighborhood go for, he mused, thinking like the avid property buyer that he was. Although Delane already owned large sections of property in Protégé, he saw no need to limit his real estate ventures just to Arizona. Especially now that his son lived in Georgia. As soon as Delane parked the car in the small parking lot of the apartment complex, he noticed a woman and child heading towards a blue van two cars away. Right before they made it to the van, the woman st...

Reminder: This is the last day to vote for DATE NIGHT! So far, 2/3 of you are still undecided, 1/3 wants Mateo and Brenda to go out again. If the undecided remains undecided by 5pm EST, the 1/3 reigns and Mateo and Brenda will have a happily ever after together. Poor Stan will just have to find somebody else. LOL. Either way, my fingers are ready to write the closing scenes. On another note: Thanks to everybody who is following this month's featured book -SIDE DISHES. I am really loving the comments. Keep 'em coming. Suprina

After his heated encounter with Sage, Delane rushed back home and took a long, cold shower. When that didn’t help and he ended up tossing and turning in bed, he called Petra to come over for an intimate nightcap, hoping that she would be able to quench the fire that another woman had started within him. By the time his nightcap was all over, Delane had ascertained that his fiery desire for Sage might never be quenched, even though Petra had come closer than most to putting it out. He also resigned himself to the fact that he was just going to have to live with that harsh reality. Additionally, Delane decided to drop the idea of trying to make Sage a part of his social life. After all, that would only serve to fan the flames higher and give her an added edge over him through his desire. And Mr. Ryder did not want his ex-wife to have any future advantage over him. It was bad enough she could now hold a child over his head. Delane couldn’t wait to see how much she was going to ask for in ...

The east coast, Sage repeated silently through the thick, desire-filled haze that threatened to only get thicker as Delane turned her around in his lap and began to literally feast upon her torso with loud slurping sounds that revealed his extreme hunger for her. Yet Sage continued to repeat those three words to herself - the east coast . Just thinking about the east coast reminded her of all that had happened to her there, including salvation and giving birth to their son. A son that she was supposed to be telling Delane about right now instead of being two steps away from making love to the man. “I can’t do this,” Sage suddenly announced, withdrawing from him completely and returning to the glass table area on shaky legs. She quickly planted her body in the nearest chair, lest she fall down from the gravity of their passionate encounter. Sage could hardly catch her breath now as it was and she had no idea how or when her shoes had come off. “Why not, Sage? I can tell that you sti...

Delane called Sage at the hotel three days later - after her sizable check had cleared the bank, of course - to set up a time to talk. Although she had given him the car and jewels, he still hadn’t trusted her check not to bounce or trusted her motives for returning those things. After all, she was Sivilla’s daughter and had been well trained in the art of manipulation. Furthermore, the fact that Sage had chosen to stay in the hotel of their first date seemed very suspicious, very suspect to Delane. Being in such close proximity to their meeting place, Sage arrived ten minutes early and settled at a small, white-clothed corner table to wait for Delane at the exact same restaurant they’d had their first public date in. Although she could have chosen many other hotels to stay in and countless other restaurants to have their meeting in, she’d chosen this one because it was special to her and because what she had to tell Delane tonight was just as special, if not more. During her wait, Sag...

Delane arrived back to his lonely home around noon after driving his latest one-night-stand to her place. Even though the woman had stayed all night, he was still severely disappointed. As usual. No matter how shapely, no matter how beautiful, no matter how eager, no woman could seem to satisfy him in the bedroom. In fact, the only one that could, had betrayed him. Only Sage had made Delane’s body sing with desire beneath her touch and made his heart quiver with love. Yes, many women had tried over the last five years, especially since he lost all that weight and carved his body into that of a Mr. Universe. Unfortunately, none of those women had been successful and now he was more miserable than before. If anything those women had been merely side dishes with Sage as the highly anticipated main course. Even Petra, Delane’s regular one-nighter whom he’d been seeing for almost a year, hadn’t moved behind the side dish stage although it was obvious that she wanted to. Why else would she ...

Five years later On the long plane ride back to Protégé, Arizona, Sage tried to calm her nerves once more about going to see Delane again. Already she knew that he was not going to be happy to see her again. After all, she’d pursued him with the wrong motives and taken half of what the man had acquired during their marriage in their divorce settlement. What man would want to see a woman who’d done that to him? However, it was extremely necessary that Sage did see Delane again. Not only did she need to relieve the lingering guilt of what she’d done by giving him back most of what she took from him, she also needed to tell him about their four-and-a-half-year-old son. The same son that Sage decided to keep her married name for since she wanted to honor his father and reduce the social stigma that went along with a mother and child having different last names. The same son that she affectionately called her ‘man’ or her ‘little man’ at times since he’d been the only male in her life since...

Just wanted everybody to know that the latter part of Beautiful…Tangled Roots (December’s book that was featured in its entirety) will be taken off the blog this coming Thursday (1/19/06). Therefore, if you haven’t finished the book, do it in the next four days, because from that point on it will be back on the selling block. Also the book that is being featured this month ( Side Dishes) has received several RAVE REVIEWS. The links are posted below so that you can go read them for yourselves: http://www.romancebookcafe.com/suprina-frazier.html www.coffeetimeromance.com/SideDishes.html www.fallenangelreviews.com/November2005/Anita-SideDishes.htm Suprina

A week before Valentine’s Day, Sage went to her mother’s home to deliver some of those shrimp puffs that Sivilla seemed to like so much and had requested for a private dinner she was having with her new man tonight. Sage was glad to be doing this favor for her mother. Especially since it gave her a chance to practice what it would be like to live the life of a caterer. However, as soon as Sage entered the duplex, her elation at doing this favor for her mother soon turned into deep regret. Sivilla wasn’t alone as she stated she would be around this time since her date wasn’t supposed to arrive for at least forty-five more minutes. And instead of there being one man present, there were two. Both were very handsome and both looked to be very wealthy by the expensive suits they wore. The mahogany-skinned older man with the friendly almond-shaped eyes was sitting on the hunter green eastward placed couch and the bronze-skinned younger man with the cocky green eyes was on the green and blue ...