About
Ann is Queen of the Castle to her wonderful husband and three sons in the mountains of West Virginia. In her past lives she's been an Import Broker, a Communications Specialist, a US Navy Civilian Contractor, a Bartender/Waitress, and an actor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival. She also spent a summer touring with the Grateful Dead(though she will deny to her children that it ever happened).
From a young age she's been fascinated by myths and fairytales, and the romance that often was the center of the story. As Ann grew older and her hormones kicked in, she discovered trashy romance novels. Great at first, but she soon grew tired of the endless stories with a big wonderful emotional buildup to really short and crappy sex. Never a big fan of purple prose, throbbing spears of fleshy pleasure and wet honey pots make her giggle, she sought out books that gave the sex scenes in the story just as much detail and plot as everything else-without using cringe worthy euphemisms. This led her to the wonderful world of Erotic Romance, and she's never looked back.
Now Ann spends her days trying to tune out cartoons playing in the background to get into her 'sexy space' and has learned to type one handed while soothing a cranky baby.
Description
<p>FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES<br /><br />At barely nineteen, Angelica Donovan became one of the more successful winners of the T.V. show Our Next Super Model. The world assumed she was destined for a happy, fairy tale life as ‘Angel,’ the beautiful girl who was living the dream; sadly, that wasn’t to be the case. As the years passed, she flashed her million dollar smile to all her fans and fought to stay on top in a profession where you never knew who it was safe to trust while the fashion industry took big bites out of her heart and soul. And trust was a constant challenge for Angel due to the painful childhood secret she guarded as carefully as she did her heart. As a result, she never did find her true love on earth.<br /><br />When she wakes up ‘dead’ from a heart condition a month before her thirty-fifth birthday, Angel is at first relieved to find there is no death, just a change of state, like ice to water, and then she’s scared because her biggest and most important adventure is about to begin.<br /><br />Angelica is chosen to be an angel in training as a spirit guide for three souls on earth! Her assignment is to help two women to gain the courage and confidence to find, recognize and embrace the love that had eluded Angel in life. But her biggest challenge will be to save a very special little girl from the same evil experience that had poisoned Angel’s own earthly happiness and altered the course of her life.<br /><br />Will Angel be able to heal her own shattered soul in the process? And will the three souls she is guiding be able to recognize her, not as a ghostly threat, but as one of those ‘friends in high places’ we all have; the kind who often end up earning their wings.<br /><br /> </p>
Story Behind The Book
Ann decided to write Blessed after she dreamed of the leading characters for five nights in a row. She figured either it was time to write the darn book or call an exorcist.
Reviews
<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong><span style="color:#40007f;"><span>5 hearts from Sizzling Hot Books Reviews</span>-</span><span style="color:#40007f;"></span></strong></span>Where do I begin? I loved Blessed so much that I had to find out if Ann
Mayburn has any other books. Blessed was written is a straight forward
yet exciting style. You do not become confused with all the characters
that are introduced.<br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><br /></span><span style="color:#bf005f;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#40007f;">4 </span></span></strong><span style="color:#40007f;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Howls from Bitten by Paranormal Romance-</span></strong> </span></span><span style="color:#bf005f;"></span>It left me wanting more, to know what comes next, to explore the
possible relationships and problems hinted at - all in a good way. <br /><br /><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="color:#40007f;"><a href="http://yougottareadreviews.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-blessed-by-ann-mayburn_13.html">Rated 'You Need to Read' by You Gotta Read Reviews</a></span></span>- It was a tremendously entertaining and unique read that has me waiting for the second book.
