Author has written 36 stories for Flashpoint, and SEAL Team. Laura Acton, author of the Beauty of Life series, If you like action, whump, brotherhood, romance, a bit of supernatural, details, twists, turns, and connections, Laura’s novels are chocked full of them. To receive an email notification for the next release, send an email to laura.acton-author@cox.net For a complete listing of Laura’s novels, visit amazon.com/author/lauraacton For those who enjoy my writing ... full of whump and action ... you might like my published novels. OUTCAST: Trust, Friendship, and Injustice ... Book 9 ... is now available NINE novels are currently available for the Beauty of Life series as ebooks or paperback on Amazon, and I'm hard at work on the tenth novel. If you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited you can read them for FREE, too. If you don't have a Kindle—no problem—just download Amazon's free reader app—it works on phones, tablets, and computers. Beauty of Life Series FORSAKEN: On the Edge of Oblivion (Beauty of Life, Book 1) You can visit Amazon and search for LAURA ACTON in books to read the first few chapters of each book with their look inside feature. Come meet Dan Broderick, Lexa McKenna, Jon Hardy, Nick Pastore, Loki Baldovino, Bram De Haven, Ray Palomo, Tia Walsh, Brody Hunter and the rest of your favorite characters (General Broderick, Yvonne, the Broderick cousins, Blaze, Mason, Patch, Winds, etc.). Delve into a complex world of courageous men and women riding a roller coaster of emotions and danger. Explore the nature of relationships and bonds developed, tested and strengthened in the face of adversity as they seek to find the beauty of life. The published version of my Beauty of Life series maintains the same heart of my fanfiction stories. Come fall in love with Dan and Lexa. Their relationship has passion and their soulmate connection drives them to take a huge risk and keeps pulling them together. If you love the Team, the General, the Broderick cousins, Brody, Blaze, Patch, Winds, Mason, and the rest of the cast of characters, you should enjoy the new Beauty of Life series—they get more time than before. For my FanFiction readers ... If you want a chronological listing of my FF stories and details about the characters, check out the Beauty of Life Series Reference. Chapter 1 slots all the stories, the major ones, and the ones in the compilations (Alphabet Injuries, etc.) into a timeline. SUMMARIES OF PUBLISHED NOVELS FORSAKEN (Book 1) Alpha Team is the elite team of Toronto's TRF. Five men and one woman with a rare familial bond, help each other cope with the dark side of humanity as they keep citizens and each other safe. Their team balance is knocked off kilter when an unwanted new member is forced on them. Will their resentment of Dan prevent them from recognizing the wounded soul in their midst before it's too late? SOLACE (Book 2) Lexa McKenna is a strong, self-determined woman with a tender heart she protects behind carefully constructed walls to avoid being hurt. Romance between teammates is forbidden, but something about Dan intrigues her. Will the attraction between them heal their wounded hearts or destroy them both? Bram De Haven percieves sadness and vulnerability in the rookie the others missed. Can his gentle fatherly ways offer Dan a safe harbor? Jon Hardy takes his responsibility as Alpha Team tactical leader seriously. A demanding and stubborn man, he hides his softer emotion behind exterior gruffness. Can he change his ways before he alienates the most important people in his life? Will events in the rough and tumble world of the Tactical Response Force assist or prevent Dan's teammates in making a connection? BELONGING (Book 3) Lexa McKenna fought against her attraction to Dan, scared to risk everything, insisting to herself that they're just friends. A series of cascading events may decide the future of her relationship with him before she has a chance to accept the truth of her feelings. General William Broderick tried for years to decipher the root cause of his painful estrangement from his son. His wife, Yvonne, maintains hope he will eventually solve the puzzle. The truth is almost within his reach, but betrayal and hidden enemies with old grudges may tear father and son apart forever. Blaze, Winds, Patch, and Mason battled their grief and guilt after they lost two important pieces of their lives. After Brody's death, they failed Blondie when he needed them most. For the past year, they searched for him, but something or someone prevented them from finding him. One fateful day, a chance encounter brings Blondie back to them, but it may be too late. OUTLIER (Book 4) Lexa McKenna decided to risk all she valued for a man. Dan wasn’t just any man … her heart and soul knew what her rational mind didn't. When Dan was laid low by a devastating injury, Lexa feared she'd never get the chance to figure out what might be. Dad—one word William longed to hear, yet accepted he wouldn’t. But Daniel just called him Dad! Hope surged in General Broderick … only to be plunged into a nightmare as blood blossomed from his son's chest. A Broderick invasion was poised to get Danny back and heal nineteen-year-old wounds, but a thirty-year-old vendetta threatens to take Danny from them yet again. They refuse to lose him again without putting up a fight. Dan’s blood family, chosen brothers, and his beauty of life rally around to help him after a life-altering injury. Will Dan’s family be able to help him recover and rejoin Alpha Team? Can Dan once again prove he is an OUTLIER and beat insurmountable odds? PURGATORY (Book 5) Walk with Dan as the flaming fingers of hellfire, twisted and bent by the depravity of humanity, work to bring him down. Do those flames also illuminate the best in humankind and forge lifelong bonds or lay waste to friendships? Will Dan ever be able to rise from the ashes and experience the beauty of life? SERENITY Summary (Book 6) For Dan, the hardest obstacle to serenity is leaving his agonizing past behind. Can he accept the truth and allow light to dispel lingering shadows, bringing joy to his family? He has found his purpose, his family, and his beauty of life. Do Lexa and Dan have the courage to trust one another and risk all to be together? Will a well-intentioned gift destroy him or provide him with wisdom to begin healing and strengthening his fragile soul? GUARDIANS (Book 7) Against a backdrop of bright and cheerful festivities, loom the shadows of a dark and dangerous covert mission which threatened to end Dan's life and shatter his fragile soul. In an inferno of treachery and international intrigue, the Guardians exemplify honor, duty, and solidarity as Dan attempts to rise like a Phoenix from the ashes to reclaim his wings. SECRETS (Book 8) Whose secrets put everyone at risk? Daniel Broderick and Lexa McKenna no longer deny their passion, and they break protocol to date secretly. Dan, still hounded by enemies, revels in their relationship. Lexa opens her heart to him, although she still fears losing everything she values. The lovers are not the only team members to possess secrets. Loki's innocent digging into his pa's life uncovers deceit while Ray's past comes back to haunt him with a vengeance. OUTCAST (Book 9) Constables Dan Broderick and Lexa McKenna tasted the forbidden fruit of fraternization. Both are equally responsible, but after their secret relationship is discovered, Dan is the one cast out. Will unexpected collisions of Dan's past and present undermine his ability to trust friends? |
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