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    Taking Control
    Taking Control
    Taking Control
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    Taking Control

    By Virginia Nelson

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    Looking for Love...

    After being voted off Find Your Hubby, a reality TV show, Mellie gave up on finding love. Instead, she spends her final check on a spur of the moment fling, paying for a matchmaking service that offers the perfect person-For One Night Only.

    Can you buy passion?

    When the ‘perfect person’ turns out to be a woman, Mellie first questions Madame Eve’s choice...then her own desires.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDecadent Publishing
    Release dateAug 16, 2012
    ISBN9781613333495
    Taking Control
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    Virginia Nelson

    Virginia Nelson likes knights in rusted and dinged up armor, heroes that snarl instead of croon, and heroines who can't remember to say the right thing even with an author writing their dialogue. Her books are full of snark, sex, and random acts of ineptitude--not always in that order.

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      Taking Control - Virginia Nelson

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement (including infringement without monetary gain) is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in, or encourage, the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Taking Control

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 by Virginia Nelson

      ISBN: 978-1-61333-349-5

      Cover art by Fantasia Frog Designs

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work, in whole or in part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      A 1Night Stand Story

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      Virginia Nelson

      ~DEDICATION~

      To happily ever afters…like Carrie and Ben have

      Chapter One

      The night in the Bahamas would be the last one of its kind Mellie could afford for quite some time. Sitting at the indoor patio, scents of food, the ocean, and the red floral centerpiece on the glass

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