It was hard for her small frame to open the door; it was a heavy steel door. The wind was blowing so hard she nearly lost her footing as she struggled with it. She could see the vent spinning around on top of the storm shelter to let in some air to the close quarters. It was built tough, but she managed to pry it open, the wind catching it, before she was pulling it shut behind her and bolting it. She was in absolute darkness and she reached for a flashlight she knew they kept on the shelf. Something soft brushed against her hand, she didn’t know if was a spider web, a mouse, or what, and she squealed at the sensation, but determinedly felt for the flashlight against the eternal blackness that was before her. She wouldn’t go down the steps without seeing where she was going. It was a black pit, a void, an absence of any light, and she was frightened. She had heard the roar of the wind, the steel door had shut that out, but in the absence of sound the dark frightened her further. There, there was the flashlight. She quickly pulled it to herself and flicked it on. The beam was feeble, the batteries old and unused. She cursed in her mind, not aloud, just in case someone could hear her and berate her for her naughty mouth. She shone the flickering beam around and saw another flashlight on the shelf. This one too was weak and unused, but between the two weak beams she felt better and could see further. She saw a lantern further down and headed carefully down the stairs. The noises outside as things hit the door scared her, she wondered how long she would have to stay down here, she wondered if she should go back up and get her father. Remembering how he had laughed at Ellie’s death, seeming to take pleasure in the devastation on his young daughters face, she firmly decided that he was on his own. He would make her pay in countless ways later, but she knew it was a price she had to pay.
She got the lantern lit and it provided much more light than the weak flashlights that she turned off. The wind could be heard around the steel door and a little gray through the small window in the door, but nothing she could see beyond an absence of black through it. She looked around the storm cellar. Her grandparents and even her mother had stored things in here, but her father never did, he didn’t even use it, only swore that he had to cut around it in the backyard with the lawn mower. Occasionally she jumped as something fell against the door or window; she could sense the power of the wind.
Oh no! She remembered the box she had taken from Ellie’s home; she had forgotten it in her hiding place in her room. It was all she had to start over! She got up for a moment with the intention of heading back to the house, but a loud crash outside the storm door had her halting in her tracks.
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Watch for the continuation in PIRATED HEART in Spring 2016
K’Anne Meinel is the BEST SELLING author of LAWYERED, REPRESENTED, and SAPPHIC SURFER as well as several other books including her first SHIPS which was written in 2003 over the course of two weeks. She then played with it for several years before publishing it as an e-book and then was approached to publish it in book form. After that it was published on other sites as an e-book. In the meantime she published some 50 short stories, novellas, and novels of various genres. Originally from Wisconsin many of her stories have taken on locations from and around the state. A gypsy at heart she has lived in many locations and plans to continue doing that. Videos of several of her books are available on You Tube outlining some of the locations of her books and telling a little bit more…giving the readers insight into her mind as she created these wonderful stories.
Other Novels and Novella’s from K’Anne Meinel: (*notates a Novel vs. a Novella)
Alone in the Laundromat can she get away with what she needs to do, does she dare? What about when she is discovered.
Agitated:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008IBDC4E
*Anthology:
E-Book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KZMICNA
Print: https://www.createspace.com/4812503
Hasn't there always been a place you wanted to go to, that you dreamed about? What if you made it a reality with the one that you love? All your fantasies and dreams come true?
Beach Dreams:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LY7GAM
This is what happens when I wear a bikini for the first time. A short erotic story that tells a tale for those who understand that BIKINIS ARE DANGEROUS!
Bikini's are Dangerous 1:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005L9VQ6W
Once again we prove that Bikini's can't be trusted, that these itty bitty scraps of material, are DANGEROUS!
Bikini's are Dangerous 2:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LXXBXE
Proving that Bikini's are more than just for swimming.
Bikini's are Dangerous 3:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LY7KCQ
Rio de Janeiro is well known as the world's premiere beach destination. Will I wear my bikini or not as they are also known for their nude or clothing optional beaches...BIKINI'S ARE DANGEROUS!
Bikini's are Dangerous 4:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005M4W3K4
When you are unsure about your body, being around those who are not only fit and trim but bikini clad can be inhibiting as well as distracting. As I work on my body, my confidence and my attraction to this bikini clad body that helps me achieve these results develops. Finally admitting our mutual attraction leads to a situation that proves BIKINI'S ARE DANGEROUS!
Bikini's are Dangerous 5:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005MJA9N2
All FIVE in the series
*Bikini's are Dangerous The Complete Series:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XFTGXE
E-Book: http://www.amazon.com /dp/B00A92MWW8
In Print: https://www.createspace.com/3876072
Amazon Print: http://www.amazon.com /dp/1477455434
Don’t judge a book by its cover! Nothing, and no one, is EVER what they seem.
Ellen Christenson escapes from an abusive life, but does one ever escape the scars that are left on their soul? One must move on, one must try. But life has a tendency to circle back to what one once knew and she finds her life choices bring her back to the scenes of her abuse, to deal with it finally and fully, in ways she had never thought she would deal with. It is then that the healing can begin, as she repairs her soul and the people she has devastated along the way.
Ellen hadn’t ‘intended’ to end up in Silicon Valley and its high tech world, but due to life and it’s circumstances she finds herself the head of a startup tech company. Cool, calculating, efficient, she shows the world a side of her that she really isn’t, few if any know the real Ellen. Nearby San Francisco provides her with plenty of girlfriends. That elusive one, that soul mate, she has a hard time recognizing due to the scars within.
Living with the choice of letting someone die for their sins, for years, Ellen is ‘blown away’ by the feelings and emotions she has bottled up for so long….
*Blown Away:
E-Book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Z07JD88
In Print: https://www.createspace.com/5527036
*Blown Away The Alternate Cover:
E-Book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Z07JD88
In Print: https://www.createspace.com/5327649
What do you do when you are offered more money for one single act than most people can make in a year? What do you do with skills so refined that only a thief can appreciate them? Do you enjoy travel? Seeing the world? Meeting new and exciting people? How can you put all these things into one package and call it a ‘career?’
Simone, Marie, Jane, Adelina, Mary or whatever name she chooses to use at the moment has a unique set of skills and a different outlook on life. Anonymous, pretty, she uses anything at her fingertips to get the job done. Join her as she uses them to go to one of the most dangerous islands in the world to bring back a specific item for a client who has commissioned her. Will she be able to obtain it when she finds out she has been misled, will it kill her, get her killed, or will she wind up in a Brazilian prison for the rest of her days?
Charming Thief ~Snake Island~:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G22OO02
Simone takes a trip to Antwerp, Belgium. Four out of Five diamonds come through this capital. Is it too much for this thief to take on the job she has agreed to undertake? Will she get caught? How do you hide that many diamonds?
Charming Thief ~Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend~:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GT6HCHI
Dealing with the death of your best friend, the second parent to your children, your mother is hard enough but Kay now also has to deal with the house she had bought for them to all live in. It’s a ‘fixer upper’ and requires a lot of work for the single mom. A new home, a new life, new friends leads to a family she hadn’t anticipated or planned for…
Kay is doing the best she can, trying to deal with everything when Jackie enters her life. They become good friends but how was Kay to know that she would change her life in ways she had never anticipated…
*Children of another Mother:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/ B00A86QY5Q
In Print: https://www.createspace.com/4036355
20 Erotic Short Stories
*Erotica:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AADE6AM
In Print: https://www.createspace.com/3875982
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/ dp/1477454764
A warm loving relationship, a warm loving body, who wouldn't want to come home to that? What happens to Melinda & Em on Family Night...
Family Night 1:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005L9VPOU
Melinda & Em show that Family Night isn't the same every week and especially NOT for two women in love.
Family Night 2:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LY7S2I
What would you do to be with the one you love....this fantasy tale answers that question but not necessarily in the way you would expect.
Fantasy:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005L9VP3G
How do you cope with a life that you are bored with? You make a new one right? Be careful what you wish for because you might get a whole lot more than you bargained for….
When you’re bored with your current life, take a trip, that always changes things right? What Analisa Meunier didn’t realize is that for every decision you make in your life it can change everything. A new life, a new country, a new family, a new threat to all of that…will she survive? Will they?
Baroness Lydia Von Horn has never met an American like Analisa Meunier. Hiding her own identity leads to problems in their initial relationship, but making a family, a life, and surviving with both intact is the real challenge.
From Oconomowoc, Wisconsin to Hammerbruke, Germany, from Cambria, California, to Munich, Germany, their lives and trials and tribulations take them around the world.
*Germanic:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A91TR04
Video: http://youtu.be/2lNcDhYG7yE
In Print: https://www.createspace.com/4039758
What happens when you fall in love with your best friend? What if that best friend is a GHOST?
Stacey is your normal teenager, living with the the 'normal' teenage angst moments. She just happens to have a friend who is a ghost. This takes her on a journey, while it would have been normal for most people, it is guided by her friend Renata who just happens to be dead. As the years go by and Stacey experiences life she finds that love eludes her until she realizes it has been there all along. What do you do when the love of your life turns out to be a GHOST?
Ghostly Love:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LXX6V6
Video: http://youtu.be/zyC5CNIfNvg
In Print: https://www.createspace.com/5394615
Claudia is looking for a new playmate/partner. Can she train one to her satisfaction? Brenda is looking for...she isn't sure what but in Claudia she finds a woman she can admire, trust, and eventually love. Can Brenda heal Claudia's cold heart?
Heel or Heal Book 1:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LY7JUO
Leah is blonde, Anglo, and up until recently, unable to fulfill her fantasies that she has been having with her internet friend for months. A sudden winfall allows her to seek out her friend, her potential lover, and fulfill those wants, desires, and fantasies.
Carmen has never felt like this for an Anglo, she herself is a Latina and her friends cannot understand her being faithful to a woman she has never met.
Meeting each other for the first time is explosive.
Internet Dreamers:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005M4KFNG
My dream lover takes me on an adventure...into the Garden
Into The Garden: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J6EM0GI
Alexis isn't KEPT in the standard sense of the word. She has her own life, her own money, she is her own woman, and yet Sasha keeps pulling her back....an intriguing idea for all of us who wonder what it would be like to have unlimited funds to do what we want, when we want, and with whom...
Kept:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LIX4HC
This author’s humorous view on kissing
Kiss:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LD2W5C
Discovering that you don’t have everything you thought you wanted is a surprise. Getting a promotion, finding new friends, learning you are attracted to women….
Nia Toyomoto has worked hard all her life to prove she was the best; she graduated early from high school, college, and got the dream job in Manhattan. Becoming a partner at the tender age of thirty she thought she had it all until the law firm made demands about her personal appearance and a few other things that made her change her life for the promotion. Then she realizes having everything isn’t all that it is cracked up to be without someone to share it with…
A successful lawyer in the big city, choices have to made, sacrifices and surprises await this beautiful and talented woman….does she make the right ones though?
*Lawyered:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LPQ1YRG
Print: https://www.createspace.com/4841964
When you unexpectedly fall in love, don’t you take it for what it’s worth? Don’t you love the person while you can? When you can? What if they live on the other side of the globe though? Could you handle that long of a distance? Patience becomes the word when two women of independent character fall unexpectedly in love. From different lifestyles, to different geographic locations, the problems of maintaining this relationship seem astronomical. Just when they think they have solved these minor problems, new ones seem to pop up. Will they survive a Long Distance Romance?
Eliza is from the Midwestern United States, Wisconsin. Independent, a business woman who has finally achieved her dream. She is determined to fulfill and continue to live this dream when in walks a woman that knocks the old dreams out of her head for new ones. Will she someday have the woman of her dreams? Should she abandon that what she knows for the unknown? Can she have what she knows she wants?
Krystal is from Austria. Rich, cultured, and bored; she has seen everything and done everything. A side trip on another trip to the United States proves to be interesting when she walks into Eliza’s store and is knocked on her back side by the feelings that this woman provokes. The distance thing is easy to someone who owns a jet but even she has responsibilities back home. Will she be able to have this woman she has fallen so deeply in love with? A woman who fascinates her, intrigues her, and challenges everything she is? Even if all her dreams come true, is it enough to keep them together?
*Long Distance Romance:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AADOQHU
Video: http://youtu.be/hcHq56MYe-A
In Print: https://www.createspace.com/4052575
LARGE PRINT: https://www.createspace.com/4273787
I meet the love of my life, a whirlwind romance, love, passion, and happily ever after...right? Marriage, until death do us part.....
Love of my LIFE:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I2TX32I
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bsp; Lenny gives her femme, Zoe an ultimate fantasy come true with a little help from her friends Xandra and Yolanda.
Menage a WHAT?:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KNCVEWS
A short story that isn't quite what you expect it to be. Warm, loving, and erotic, joining the MILE HIGH CLUB wasn't going to turn out like expected.
Mile High Club:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005LPSJF2
Meeting a mysterious woman in a bar, Deirdre's life is about to change. The abuse from her husband stops suddenly as this woman enters their lives. What does this woman want in exchange for her help?
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