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Terri Dixon is the online personality Nina Kindred. She has photography shops on Zazzle, Cafepress, Picfair, and Fine Art America. She has written more than 12 stories on Fiction Press. "Bourbon" is the eighth novel she has self-published on Amazon. Terri Dixon is a self-made woman, from Indiana, now living in the Northwest Hills of Connecticut where she enjoys the view. She has traveled in 41 states and 19 countries. She spends any free time she can find writing and taking photos. She works, hikes, kayaks, and hangs out with her husband and their tempestuous kitty, while helping her son chase his dreams in the world of professional auto sports.

Bourbon was the youngest of six children and the only one named after booze. She spent her entire childhood waiting for her chance to get away and make a life for herself. Her father wasn’t much of a dad, and had brought her entire family from Kentucky to Connecticut for better state benefits. In her eyes, no matter how low she set the bar for herself, it was higher than the one set by her dad.

Bourbon enlists in the Army, becoming a linguist and translator; traveling the world. Years later, when her tour is finished, she lands at the United Nations in New York City as a translator, working with the man who’s become her father figure, Herb. Life is good, but she needed a personal life.

Luckily for Bourbon, a wonderful man nearly trips over her in a park near her apartment. He’s everything she’s ever wanted, even though she never knew she wanted it before. The day after she meets Colin, her father dies, forcing her to go to Connecticut and see her estranged family.

Over the next several months, Bourbon learns her mother isn’t helpless or insecure. She learns a lot about her family, her new boyfriend, and life in general. Her mom and her boss fall in love. She falls more in love with Colin every day, despite his tedious mother, Myra. With so much good happening in her life, what could possibly go wrong?

Just when things seem to be coming together, tragedy strikes again when her mother is diagnosed with cancer and her father figure dies. Will the families continue to come together or will it all fall apart? Only Christmas dinner will tell.

Every woman has a story as does Bourbon. She learns a lot about life, family, relationships, and the will to continue on the path of life no matter what happens. She finds out you can be happy, no matter what. You just have to continue to search for the good stuff. Love, family and success await her and the reason why she was really named Bourbon.

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Category: Romance

Everyone has that moment of clarity blamed on reaching middle age. Alice happened to have her epiphany when her husband, Donald, brought her a treadmill as a gift for the 19th wedding anniversary which she completely forgot. What does a woman do after an event like that?

Alice suddenly wakes up from her state of complacency, where she’s been lounging on her laurels for nearly two decades. She begins to notice obvious characteristics about her teenage children, Alli and Graham, that she’d completely ignored. She realizes her husband really isn’t who she expected him to be at this point in life; if ever. She takes a close look at herself, her relationships, and her life; and realizes she can do better for her own peace of mind.

Alice meets Josephine Dusante, French artist extraordinaire, and they become fast friends. Josephine spots the artist that Alice always wished she could be hiding behind a bored, lonely housewife.

Before Alice has time to contemplate much, her children head off to college, her husband gets a promotion at the fan factory where he’s worked for almost 20 years. Donald takes up golf and has secrets galore that Alice was entirely oblivious to.

Will Alice’s world fall apart as her dog, Max, walks across Europe on her treadmill, or will she discover the person she always wanted to be?

Somewhere in this offbeat dramedy lives will change, new lives will develop, and Alice will finally discover what she can be. Endings are just beginnings backwards, and Alice is starting over and finding her true place in the universe.

If you ever had misgivings about your life which made you reevaluate everything you thought you knew, then Alice’s unexpected metamorphosis will keep you well entertained, and assure you that you’re not alone in the world of women rediscovering themselves.

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Category: Humor & Entertainment

Edwoena Carrington, of the Las Vegas Carringtons, is a vice cop, thrown into the case of a lifetime when a mysterious man, known as Mark Twain by the prostitutes he hires, begins killing the girls. Is he a modern day Jack the Ripper? Where does he come from?

Almost immediately, Eddie establishes the man's true identity; Mark Swain III. The game begins with her traveling to Maine, where she discovers her mother was born. She meets her relatives while in town to extradite Swain to Las Vegas for questioning, and the secrets continue to unfold.

Greenville, Maine is the quirky town she must learn to navigate. It's run by timber barons, it's full of moose, and there are Swain family secrets galore. Eddie soon discovers, not only is she from out of town, but she's part of the most powerful family in Northwestern, Maine.

Enacting an arrest warrant becomes virtually impossible as the murders continue, as wealth, mileage from the Canadian Border, and other interdepartmental complications hold up what should have been a simple arrest.

As Eddie Carrington deciphers more and more about the crimes and the man who commits them, her world turns upside down, leaving her the only one to deal with the now life and death situation created by the timber magnate in the north woods of Maine in a bizarre little town called Greenville.

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Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Sandy takes a vacation in 1984 that will change her life forever. She has a dream on that trip that follows her as a recurring dream for years. She doesn't believe in destiny the way her acquaintances and her family does, and decides that the dream means nothing. While navigating a particularly difficult relationship with her family and uncovering their lies, Sandy attempts to make her way through life without giving credence to her dream. As time goes on, she sees more and more signs that her dream is real, and that she needs to follow the signs to find out the answer to the questions in the dream. She stumbles adventurously through life in a Forrest Gumpian fashion for many years, trying to sidestep the signs in her dream. Eventually, she gives in and makes her move to unravel the dream and find out what her vision of her destiny really means. The Destiny Dream is a period specific (1980's and 1990's) story with a lot of international and mystical action and adventure that is a great read for most ages and a great book to carry along to the beach this summer.

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Category: Religion & Spirituality

Stacey had learned a lot about Soviet History from her grandma during her life. When her grandma died and gave her a mysterious Russian looking ring, she decided that she wanted to learn more. She wanted to know about the Tsars that once ruled Russia and the ring that her grandma had given her. During her first year in college, she goes to Moscow University to take a January Term class about the Tsars. What Stacey finds out is that the ring is an ancient right to the throne of Russia and that she is the last surviving direct connection to the Romanovs. There is a Tsarist movement that wants her in power, and a President that wants her gone.

This leads Stacey, her friend Tania, her teacher Steve, and the new man in her life, Peter on an adventure across western Russia. As Stacey tries desperately to exit the country and return home, she makes her way to several towns, museums, and palaces that teach her the history that she went there to learn. As the game continues, Stacey has to find a way to save the lives of her new friends, and make her way home. Will she give President Yuri Kostov the ring that her grandma left her, or will she find a way to keep her family history in tact so that she can come back and battle the corrupt President another time? The Ring of the Queen is the first book of a trilogy about a young girl and a rite of passage that will take her from her home in rural Indiana to the leader of all Russia. It's an adventure like no other, from a history like none other.

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Category: Literature & Fiction