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The Mistress of Desire & The Orchid Lover
Silicon Valley is known for being the bubbling caldron where wealth and fortune are born daily. The raw power of success prevails and greed runs deep.
Beautiful Camille Baptiste has a heart of gold, but she's no push-over. She is a seductive mixture of strength and vulnerability. She believes a successful life means having the love and support of her two best friends.
Tiara Blake...is vain, ambitious, and possesses an alluring charm that men can't resist. She is obsessed with obtaining the wealth she wasn't born to. She schemes and hides secrets from the past.
Eris Simeon...is born into a life of wealth, but underneath it all she has a matcher's heart. She is convinced that eligible, handsome, bachelor Desmond Garcia is just the man to play "knight in shining armor" in her game of matchmaker.
Delmar Devereaux... is arrogant, and ruthless. He believes he's irresistible to women. He has a charm that never fails. But does his arrogant mask hide a deeper passion.
Eris' ambitious match making plans go astray when the matchmaking legend herself, Glenda D'Goodwrench-Jackson, gets into the picture and trips up everyone's plans.
Brazenly, the Mistress of Desire unleashes a torrent scandal of treachery and deceit that shatters the illusions of happiness for everyone.
Discover, as four lives are intertwined into an ambitious game forged by betrayal and deceit where sex, love and hate are only the means to an end.
Beautiful Camille Baptiste has a heart of gold, but she's no push-over. She is a seductive mixture of strength and vulnerability. She believes a successful life means having the love and support of her two best friends.
Tiara Blake...is vain, ambitious, and possesses an alluring charm that men can't resist. She is obsessed with obtaining the wealth she wasn't born to. She schemes and hides secrets from the past.
Eris Simeon...is born into a life of wealth, but underneath it all she has a matcher's heart. She is convinced that eligible, handsome, bachelor Desmond Garcia is just the man to play "knight in shining armor" in her game of matchmaker.
Delmar Devereaux... is arrogant, and ruthless. He believes he's irresistible to women. He has a charm that never fails. But does his arrogant mask hide a deeper passion.
Eris' ambitious match making plans go astray when the matchmaking legend herself, Glenda D'Goodwrench-Jackson, gets into the picture and trips up everyone's plans.
Brazenly, the Mistress of Desire unleashes a torrent scandal of treachery and deceit that shatters the illusions of happiness for everyone.
Discover, as four lives are intertwined into an ambitious game forged by betrayal and deceit where sex, love and hate are only the means to an end.
254 pages, Paperback
Published August 10, 2014
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About the author
J.A. Jackson
23 books501 followersAuthor’s Bio
J.A. Jackson is the pseudonym for an author, who loves to write deliciously sultry adult romantic, suspenseful, entertaining novels with a unique twist. She lives in an enchanted little house she calls home in the Northern California foothills. She fell in love with writing as a small child. She was born in Arkansas and comes from a family rich in story tellers. She spent over ten years working in the non-profit sector where she wrote grants, press releases and contributed many stories to their newsletter. She was their Newsletter editor for over ten years. She loves growing roses, a good pot of hot tea, chocolate, magical stories, suspense stories, ghost stories, and reading Jane Austen again and again in her past time.
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You see I write the adventure, that sexy satisfying pleasure you can’t live without. Like a long-distance girlfriend, that you can’t wait to read up and discover what’s happening by taking a moment to enter the mind of the author J. A. Jackson, yes that’s me.
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My story…
There once was a little girl.
Who played with dollies and loved to twirl.
Until she learned to read and write
Then one day, she picked up pen and paper with all her might
As letters of the alphabetic became her friend her fingers took flight
And wrote down things that made new worlds unfold
For with pen in hand she wrote bold
With each new chapter the stories took hold
With characters, places and spaces
Some new some old
From her mind they shined out like pure gold
So ready to land on paper and be told…
For I am that once little girl
Who loved to twirl, and now I am that writer!
With many, many stories that must be told…
Jerreece
Aka J. A. Jackson, The Writer
J.A. Jackson is the pseudonym for an author, who loves to write deliciously sultry adult romantic, suspenseful, entertaining novels with a unique twist. She lives in an enchanted little house she calls home in the Northern California foothills. She fell in love with writing as a small child. She was born in Arkansas and comes from a family rich in story tellers. She spent over ten years working in the non-profit sector where she wrote grants, press releases and contributed many stories to their newsletter. She was their Newsletter editor for over ten years. She loves growing roses, a good pot of hot tea, chocolate, magical stories, suspense stories, ghost stories, and reading Jane Austen again and again in her past time.
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You see I write the adventure, that sexy satisfying pleasure you can’t live without. Like a long-distance girlfriend, that you can’t wait to read up and discover what’s happening by taking a moment to enter the mind of the author J. A. Jackson, yes that’s me.
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My story…
There once was a little girl.
Who played with dollies and loved to twirl.
Until she learned to read and write
Then one day, she picked up pen and paper with all her might
As letters of the alphabetic became her friend her fingers took flight
And wrote down things that made new worlds unfold
For with pen in hand she wrote bold
With each new chapter the stories took hold
With characters, places and spaces
Some new some old
From her mind they shined out like pure gold
So ready to land on paper and be told…
For I am that once little girl
Who loved to twirl, and now I am that writer!
With many, many stories that must be told…
Jerreece
Aka J. A. Jackson, The Writer
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March 26, 2015
Camille Baptiste has a heart of gold. She has a seductive nature of strength and vulnerability. She also believes in the support of her two best friends, Tara and Eris. And she also believes in the love of a good man.
Tara has a charm that men can't resist. She "loves" her men with all the passion she can muster. Eris, on the other hand, cannot seem to find a man that she wants. Maybe she pushes the right away. Camille has met the man of her dreams, but has been trying to keep him.
Their lives are forged by betrayal and deceit where sex, love and hate are involved. Will these women finally have happy endings?
I won this book through the Goodreads Giveaway. I cannot wait for the sequel.
Tara has a charm that men can't resist. She "loves" her men with all the passion she can muster. Eris, on the other hand, cannot seem to find a man that she wants. Maybe she pushes the right away. Camille has met the man of her dreams, but has been trying to keep him.
Their lives are forged by betrayal and deceit where sex, love and hate are involved. Will these women finally have happy endings?
I won this book through the Goodreads Giveaway. I cannot wait for the sequel.
September 13, 2016
When Camille Baptiste caught Delmar Devereaux cheating on her, she dumps him. He keeps trying to win her back. Camille has moved on and been matched with Desmond Garcia by her matchmaking friend. Both know they have something special between them but Delmar keeps getting in the way.
These are interesting characters. I liked the story. Unfortunately there are also typos that pulled me out of the story as well as missing words and misused words. There are also logistic problems. The premise is that Camille is to be telling to her story to a psychic. She should only be telling her story, her thoughts, her words, conversations where she participated, and her actions. We readers get Tania's (friend) story and Eris' (friend and matchmaker) story as well as Delmar's, Desmond's, and Gabrielle's (mother) stories and thoughts. That makes an interesting story but it ruins the premise of the book. The beginning of the book has us knowing a character is dead but the ending does not show the death. I know there is a sequel coming and we are given a preview at the end of the book but there still seems to be no continuity for the death. I hope this is rectified before publication.
The story and characters are a 5 but the lack of editing (especially the logistics) and proofreading is a 1. It's a shame for the story and characters deserve better.
These are interesting characters. I liked the story. Unfortunately there are also typos that pulled me out of the story as well as missing words and misused words. There are also logistic problems. The premise is that Camille is to be telling to her story to a psychic. She should only be telling her story, her thoughts, her words, conversations where she participated, and her actions. We readers get Tania's (friend) story and Eris' (friend and matchmaker) story as well as Delmar's, Desmond's, and Gabrielle's (mother) stories and thoughts. That makes an interesting story but it ruins the premise of the book. The beginning of the book has us knowing a character is dead but the ending does not show the death. I know there is a sequel coming and we are given a preview at the end of the book but there still seems to be no continuity for the death. I hope this is rectified before publication.
The story and characters are a 5 but the lack of editing (especially the logistics) and proofreading is a 1. It's a shame for the story and characters deserve better.
November 30, 2016
I received this book through Goodreads/First Reads program.
This was a very difficult book to get into in the beginning but it did get much easier as it moved along. It is a good story, sometimes disappointing with grammar and spelling errors. Camille Baptiste is strong, yet vulnerable. She is completely satisfied in working for everything she gets. Her friend, Tiara Blake, however, would rather do whatever she can to obtain the wealth that she desires. This is the story of friends with different outlooks on life and the future and how they end up.
This was a very difficult book to get into in the beginning but it did get much easier as it moved along. It is a good story, sometimes disappointing with grammar and spelling errors. Camille Baptiste is strong, yet vulnerable. She is completely satisfied in working for everything she gets. Her friend, Tiara Blake, however, would rather do whatever she can to obtain the wealth that she desires. This is the story of friends with different outlooks on life and the future and how they end up.
November 18, 2014
I won this book through a GoodReads giveaway. What an incredible read!! Loved it and would suggest it to anyone who wants to read a good book!!
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