Sunday, July 31, 2011

Review: Love Never Fails


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Title: 
Love Never Fails
Author: 
Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy
Release Date:
May 29, 2011
Publisher:
Rebel Ink Press
Word Count:
approx. 58,000
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Description:  

Old love sometimes fades away...

When a late night phone call from the former love of her life interrupts both her sleep and her otherwise quiet existence, Caroline Cunningham finds she can't refuse Reid Ramsay's request for help. As the call pulls Caroline back to her small hometown and into the heart of the search for Reid's missing brother, Caroline finds the feelings she thought she'd buried where Reid was concerned are indeed alive and well.

And sometimes it refuses to die...

Reid Ramsay is still in love with Caroline Cunningham. As they work together searching for Reid's brother, Reid and Caro finding themselves attempting to rebuild the life they once shared together. But their future remains uncertain. Before they can find the happiness they seek, each must work through the emotional baggage of the past and test the theory they desperately hope rings true.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Review: Trinity, A Brethren Novel


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Title: 
Trinity, A Brethren Novel
Author: 
Deena Remiel
Release Date:
March 22, 2011
Publisher:
Decadent Publishing
Word Count:
approx. 75,000
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Description:  

One way or another, terror will reign tonight.

School teacher and single mom, Emma Livingston, has been through hell—and back so she thinks. While dealing with the night terrors and active imagination of her five-year old daughter, Hannah, she attempts to lead a normal life. That is, until the demon from those nightmares pays her a visit, too, and threatens both of their lives. Desperate, she reaches out for help—and finds Michael waiting.

Michael D’Angelo is known to everyone in Prophet’s Point, Arizona, as their loving elementary school principal. But to The Brethren, he is the most powerful Protector. Immortal and angelic does not mean he’s without doubts or fears, as protecting Emma and Hannah from Evil tests his ability to fight his tortured past.

As the Trinity is formed, ancient secrets are revealed and faith is tested. When a prophecy is exposed, Hannah becomes the main target and Emma wonders if a normal life will ever be possible again. Hope is like an anchor, but can a mother, her daughter, and an angel overcome the evil determined to annihilate the world?

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Review: Maybe This Time


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Title: 
Maybe This Time
Author: 
Jannine Gallant
Release Date:
May 11, 2011
Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press
Word Count:
approx. 29,000
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Description:  

Adam York attends his 25 year reunion hoping to see his old running pal, Chloe, and her absence hits him like a punch to the gut even though there’s no reason why it should. After all, they’d never been more than friends in high school. Still, he’d hoped maybe this time

Chloe Lane walks off the set of Get Lei’d with her dignity in shreds but the armor around her heart firmly in place. After a series of disastrous dates spawned by her brush with reality TV, she swears off men altogether. Until she runs into her old buddy, Adam, on the course of the Lake Tahoe Marathon.

Attraction sizzles between them, unexpected and disconcerting, threatening their friendship with the promise of something more. While Chloe battles her fear of commitment, a man from her past lurks in the shadows. Will she risk her heart before it’s too late?


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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Review: Hearts in Darkness


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Title: 
Hearts in Darkness
Author: 
Laura Kaye
Release Date:
April 20, 2011
Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press
Word Count:
approx. 20,000
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Description:  

Makenna James thinks her day can't get any worse, until she finds herself stuck in a pitch-black elevator with a complete stranger. Distracted by a phone call and juggling too much stuff, the pin-striped accountant caught only a glimpse of a dragon tattoo on his hand before the lights went out.

Caden Grayson is amused when a redhead literally falls at his feet. His amusement turns to panic when the power fails. Despite his piercings, tats, and vicious scar, he's terrified of the dark and confined spaces. Now, he's trapped in his own worst nightmare.

To fight fear, they must both reach out and open up. With no preconceived notions based on looks to hold them back, they discover just how much they have in common. In the warming darkness, attraction grows and sparks fly, but will they feel the same when the lights come back on? 

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Review: Pulled

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Title: 
Pulled

Author: 
Amy Lichtenhan

Release Date:
February 24, 2011

Publisher:
The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House

Word Count:
approx. 116,000

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Description:  

For nine years, they drift through life, unable to forget the one who holds the strings to their hearts.  In an attempt to escape the pain of her past, Melanie finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage, while Daniel loses himself in a career that means nothing without Melanie by his side.

Now, when their lives intersect, neither can deny the connection they felt so long ago.


But will the power that drew them together be enough to heal the wounds from their past, and do they have the courage to overcome the insecurities and fears that threaten to keep them apart?


Pulled is a story of attraction and separation, of destiny and duty, of a love so strong it refuses to give up even when all others have.


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Monday, July 25, 2011

Review: Craving Perfect

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Title: 
Craving Perfect
Author: 
Liz Fichera
Release Date:
July 25, 2011

Publisher:
Carina Press

Word Count:
approx. 76,000

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Description:  

Grace Mills craves being perfect almost as much as she craves raspberry scones. In fact, her life would be perfect if only she could lose ten more pounds, if only the pastry café she co-owns with her sister would turn a profit, if only the hottest guy at the gym would look her way... 

And then "if only" comes true. Grace is suddenly straddling two lives: an alternate reality where she's a size two, weathergirl celebrity and being chased by the hot guy. Only Mr. Gorgeous isn't very nice, and she doesn't get to eat...anything, much less bake!

In her other life, she's starting to realize her sister is less than happy running the family café, and hunky Carlos, the gym's janitor, seems to have a secret crush on her. Maybe there's more to him than meets the eye...
Grace is living two lives and it's beginning to cost her. Is there a way to pick one...that's perfect?


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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Review: The Pendulum


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Title: 
The Pendulum: Legacy of the Celtic Brooch
Author: 
Tarah Scott
Release Date:
March 8, 2011
Word Count:
approx. 25,000
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Description:  

Two demands for the promised payment of marriage.

Murder, deceit, and fraud pull Lady Airin Keith between these men.

Which one will bed her, claim her...own her?

Lady Airin Keith won't rest until Lord Jason Bothwell is tried and convicted for the murder of her sister. An unexpected marriage proposal brings an opportunity to prove the earl's guilt, but the knight who appears with her great grandmother's lost brooch threatens to interfere with Airin's brand of justice when he demands the agreed payment of marriage. 

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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Review: Hog Wild


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Title: 
Hog Wild
Author: 
Christine London
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Publisher:
MuseItHot Publishing
Word Count:
approx. 45,000
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Description:  

Kyle Matthews might have the music world by the horns, but when he loses out in love to his most famous client and best friend, he escapes into the wilds of the desert southwest on a restorative motorcycle trip. Will the hard driving, salty tongued gorgeous mechanic he relies upon to fix his Harley be able to mend his heart, as well?

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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Review: Dusan

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Title: 
Dusan 
Author: 
Poppet 
Release Date:
May 2011 
Publisher:
Wild Wolf Publishing 
Word Count:
approx. 66,000 
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Description:  

Dusan is on a feeding frenzy after twenty-five years of hibernation. As a soul eater, he cannot kiss without killing. He crosses paths with Aine while being hunted by the Phoenician priest Gregori, and soon discovers Aine is also on the hit list. Falling for her fast, the ultimate soul eater's Armageddon is about to happen.  
 


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Review: Absolution


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Title: 
Absolution
Author: 
P.L. Parker
Release Date:
March 2, 2011
Publisher:
Eternal Press
Word Count:
approx. 95,000
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Description:  

For years, travelers in the French Vosges Mountains heard the wailing of a woman echo in the hollows. Her cries went unbidden. No one was brave enough to seek out the source. Over time, the screams lessen, then stop. Eventually, even the memories slipped away, forgotten.

Six centuries later, two over-eager research assistants find and release the young half vampire, Chloe—unaware of events they unwittingly unleash with her.

Far away, other forces are aware of her awakening. Zaccarius, greatest of all the Slayers, is sent by the Council of Nine to seek out Chloe, determine her worth and render justice. Enticed by her purity and innocence, he becomes her protector. However, Jochad, the Dark Master and his army of evil vampires are eager to claim Chloe.

In the battle that ensues, Zaccarius falls beneath Jochad’s army. To save her lover, Chloe must make a choice. Ancient and dying, Jochad needs her blood to reanimate. His ultimatum—her blood or Zaccarius’ life. 

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Review: In From The Cold

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Title: 
In From The Cold

Author: 
L.J. Holmes

Release Date:
June 10, 2011

Publisher:
MuseItUp Publishing

Word Count:
approx. 26,000

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Description:  

Mari loves men who are intimately communicating with the Grim Reaper, like her only mountain neighbor, ninety-plus year old Hector. Twelve years and now she's enjoying her solitude, till Hector ups and dies.

He leaves everything to her, with one stipulation...she must sell his cabin to collect her inheritance.

Determined to keep her world testosterone free she commands her real estate agent to not even show the curmudgeon's cabin to anyone under the age of sixty-five.

Mari must leave for her son's wedding in the mid west for one month. Necessity requires she sign temporary power of attorney for a possible quick sale over to her real estate agent. A bad, but necessary move.

He's moving in and he's her son's age with rippling muscles, and far too much testosterone. All summer, Mari hunkers inside and drools.

Determined to make this stop, she sees only one solution...jump his bones, do the deed and get the annoying SOB out of her system once and for all.

Like most well designed plans, something always happens to blow them to smithereens, and now, three agonizing days later, a huge blizzard is about to hit the mountain, isolating the two cabins from the outside world...Oh Dear!



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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Review: Rafe's Redemption


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Title: 
Rafe's Redemption
Author: 
Jennifer Jakes
Release Date:
February 25, 2011
Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press
Word Count:
approx. 89,000
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Description:  

He rode into town to buy supplies, not a woman.
 
For hunted recluse Rafe McBride, the raven-haired beauty on the auction block  is exactly what he doesn't need. A dependant woman will be another clue his vengeful stepbrother can use to find and kill him. But Rafe's conscience won't let him leave another innocent's virginity to the riff-raff bidding. He buys her, promising to return her to St. Louis untouched. He only prays the impending blizzard holds off before her sultry beauty breaks his willpower.
 
She wanted freedom, not a lover.
 
Whisked to the auction block by her devious, gambling cousin, and then sold into the arms of a gorgeous stranger, outspoken artist Maggie Monroe isn't about to go meekly. Especially when the rugged mountain man looks like sin and danger rolled into one. But a blizzard and temptation thrust them together, and Maggie yearns to explore her smoldering passion for Rafe.
 
But when the snow clears, will the danger and secrets that surround Rafe and Maggie tear them apart?


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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Review: Breath of Life

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Title: 
Breath of Life 
Author: 
Christine Pope 
Release Date:
June 15, 2011 
Publisher:
Dark Valentine Press 
Word Count:
approx. 33,000 
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All Romance 
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Description:  

Anika Jespers, a homesteader’s daughter on a Gaian colony, thinks she’s destined for a dull existence on her family’s farm. But when her father makes an impossible bargain with their neighbor, one of the alien Zhore, she faces a future different from anything she could have possibly imagined.

The familiar story of Beauty and the Beast takes on new life in this inventive SF romance novella, with the Beauty a homesteader's daughter and the Beast an alien on a faraway colony world.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Review: Shelton In Love

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Title: 
Shelton in Love

Author: 
Dianne Hartsock

Release Date:
May 13, 2011

Publisher:
Breathless Press

Word Count:
approx. 8,700

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Description:  

Shelton is falling hard for his best friend and roommate, finding Nevil's dark good looks and moments of gentleness almost impossible to resist. But Nevil is more interested in affairs of the body than the heart. As Shelton's desire for the man grows, he wonders if he can change Nevil's mind. But does he even want to? Nevil might not stay, once he learns Shelton's secret, and then his loneliness would be complete.


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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Review: Sleeping with the Frenemy

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Title: 
Sleeping with the Frenemy

Author: 
KT Grant

Release Date:
May 2, 2011

Publisher:
Ravenous Romance

Word Count:
approx. 54,000

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Description:  

Deborah Murnay has a life most women would die for. She has a loving wife of four years who gives her anything she wants. But Deborah hides a dark secret. Her wife, Genevieve, not only enjoys kinky, dangerous sex, but is insanely jealous and possessive. When a violent argument between the two leaves Deborah bruised and battered, she has no other choice but to run away.


Through some intricate planning on Deborah's part, she's able to trick Genevieve into thinking she's dead. Deborah becomes Sharon Wade and ends up hundreds of miles away in the small town of Woodberry Creek, where she can start over again, even though she lives in fear that Genevieve will find her and kill her.

When grade school teacher Bridgette Woodberry notices her new neighbor, she quickly figures out Woodberry Creek's new resident is hiding something. Deborah knows she can't have a future with Bridgette, but finds herself attractive to the kindhearted redhead whose kisses and warm embrace makes her feel protected.

As Deborah turns to Bridgette to help heal her scars, Genevieve is waiting for the right moment to take back her wife and make her pay for deceiving her...



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Review: A Taste of Seduction


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Title: 
A Taste of Seduction
Author: 
Mary Campisi
Release Date:
March 2011
Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press
Word Count:
approx. 87,000
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Description:  

A young woman of noble blood, raised as a peasant girl...

An orphaned stable boy, now grown and the surrogate son of a powerful earl – the same earl who just so happens to be the young woman’s father...

Meriel and Anthony have nothing in common--she runs barefoot and talks to animals, he won’t loosen his cravat unless the bedroom door is firmly closed. Meriel believes in love, hope, and happily ever after. Anthony believes in keeping a safe distance from anything resembling an emotion. They have nothing in common but an undeniable, burning desire for one another they can’t ignore or understand, and an ailing "father" who will do anything to see them together. Unfortunately, there are others, cunning and manipulative, working behind the scenes. Others who will stop at nothing, willing even to kill, to keep them apart.


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Monday, July 11, 2011

Review: Jezebel's Wish

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Title: 
Jezebel's Wish

Author: 
A.J. Nuest

Release Date:
April 15, 2011

Publisher:
The Wild Rose Press

Word Count:
approx. 81,000

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Description:  

Haunted by nightmares, tormented by guilt, Jezebel came to Redemption Ranch to escape the past—except now she's stuck in the middle of nowhere with no redemption in sight. When her mother pushes her into riding lessons with local veterinarian Matthias Saunders, Jezebel balks. Sure, the doctor is gorgeous, but he’s completely obnoxious and knows how to push every one of her buttons.

Only her deep connection with The Reverend, a gentle stallion who guards her darkest secrets, has her agreeing to spend any more time with Dr. Saunders. Caring for the stallion is the first bright spot in her life in months, and if being around the horse means she has to deal with Matthias Saunders, then so be it. Surely a city girl like her can handle one country vet—even one with disturbing blue eyes. Can't she?



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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Review: A Slower Lower Life

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Title: 
A Slower Lower Life

Author: 
Lila Munro

Release Date:
May 17, 2011

Publisher:
Rebel Ink Press

Word Count:
approx. 69,000

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Description:  

When two worlds collide,

Being the oldest of eight has never been easy for Kurt Delaney, but the pressure he’s put on himself far exceeds anything anyone else inflicts on him. Known as the family stick in the mud, Kurt’s pushing forty and with the heirship to the family farm hanging in the balance, he finds his hopes of a married life with children swirling down the drain. Honor and family are everything to Kurt and a mate that doesn’t hold those same things as dear as he does is completely unacceptable.

Deidre Maloney is city born and bred. In the absence of her botanist parents, she was raised by a nanny and knows nothing of the love of a family or how being married works. Commitment isn’t a word in Deidre's vocabulary. Only concerned with finding a new job and having a fling, she embarks on a trip from Chicago to Seaford, Delaware to see her best friend Cait marry her high school sweetheart. Being attracted to a Delaney brother wasn’t on Deidre's carefully planned itinerary.

the aftermath is all that matters…

With so many differences between he and Deidre, Kurt can’t believe he’s let himself fall for such a woman. She’s looking for a prime rib guy and Kurt knows he’s just skirt steak. When they’re in close proximity, however, something undeniably amazing happens. How does he convince her that family isn’t something to fear and love doesn’t hurt? How does Kurt show Deidre that a slower, lower life is what she’s been looking for all along?


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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Review: The Last Soul


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Title: 
The Last Soul
Author: 
Carolyn Rosewood
Release Date:
April 20, 2011
Publisher:
Evernight Publishing
Word Count:
approx. 28,000
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Description:  

Faina has been dead for one hundred and fifty years, but she’s about to become human again. All she has to do is seduce Jace Blackmon, the most honest financier ever to grace the city of angels, into signing away his soul.

Jace Blackmon has fallen in love with his fantasy woman. But when he realizes she was tricked by a demon to bring about his ruin, including the revelation of a long-buried secret to the media, he must choose between his heart or life without her.


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Friday, July 8, 2011

Review: Timeless Heart


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Title: 
Timeless Heart
Author: 
Karyn Gerrard
Release Date:
May 11, 2011
Publisher:
Evernight Publishing
Word Count:
approx. 24,000
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Description:  

Sandra Cranston, an elementary teacher on leave, discovers a carriage deep in the woods. Inside is a man, Jerrod Ross, who fuels all of her wicked Regency dreams and fantasies.

Ross has been torn from the only world he has ever known—1821 Cornwall, England. How will he adjust to the future and his growing desire for the lovely lady who found him? More importantly, how will he ever return to his time?



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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Review: Tell Me You Want Me


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Title: 
Tell Me You Want Me
Author: 
Amelia James
Release Date:
March 2011
Word Count:
approx. 61,000
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Description:  

Their first kiss is impulsive, fun, a little wicked—everything Jane Elliot isn’t looking for in a man—but desperately needs.  Their second kiss is slow, deliberate, an instant connection—everything Austin Sinclair never had with a woman—and doesn’t want.
 
Jane isn’t the easy conquest Austin’s used to.  She’s a stubborn-as-hell bookworm who’s more interested in studying than dating.  She needs a little—no—a lot of fun in her life, and Austin’s just the guy who can give it to her.  Too bad she thinks love should easy. Too bad Austin knows it isn’t. 
 
Everybody told her to stay away from the heartbreaker, but Jane knows there’s more to Austin than full-body contact kisses and bad boy charm.  All he ever promised her was a good time and wow, does he ever deliver….
 
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