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Ashe Barker

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Romance, Contemporary, Historical Fiction

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Until 2010, Ashe was a director of a regeneration company before deciding there had to be more to life and leaving to pursue a lifetime goal of self-employment.

Ashe has been an avid reader of erotic romance for many years—historical, contemporary, fantasy—you name it. Now, at last in control of her own time and working from her home in rural West Yorkshire, she has been able to realise her dream of writing sexy and compelling stories herself.

She draws on settings and anecdotes from her previous and current experience to lend colour, detail and realism to her plots and characters, but her stories of love, challenge, resilience and compassion are the conjurings of her own imagination. She loves to craft strong, enigmatic men and bright, sassy ...more

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	Conquered by the Viking 3.82 avg rating — 666 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vikings : Prologue (Viking Surrender #1) 4.14 avg rating — 506 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vikings by Ashe Barker (Goodreads Author), Lily Harlem (Goodreads Author), Emmanuelle de Maupassant (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkening (The Dark Side, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brandr (Viking Surrender #2) 4.14 avg rating — 391 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Her Celtic Masters 4.01 avg rating — 271 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Darkest (The Dark Side, #3) 4.04 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Pursuing Her Pirate by Jaye Peaches

Pursuing Her Pirate
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Jaye Peaches

Her heart belongs to a pirate and she will follow him anywhere,

even into danger.

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Esme has her heart set on one man. Unfortunately, he’s a pirate. Her only hope in catching his attention is to do something drastic and risk her life. Relying on the loathsome act of pressganging, she uses her disguise to gain access to his ship. Howeve

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Viking Surrender (10 books)
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The Engine House (DCI Evan Warlow, #1)

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THE COMPLETE DETECTIVE PATTON MYSTERIES BOOKS 1-13: Thirteen gripping British crime mysteries

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Ashe Barker rated a book it was amazing DCI Finnegan Series: Ebooks 7 – 9: The Whitby Detective – Dark British Murder Mysteries (The Whitby Detective - DCI Finnegan Yorkshire Crime Thriller Boxsets Book 3) by Ely North (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“He then closes the buttons, leaving me decent, and patently marked out as his.”
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“was not in good shape. Brandr knelt beside his brethren, fearful as he roared at his men for water, all of whom appeared”
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“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
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