!!! Written by 2022 Indie Global Book Awards - Silver Medal winner, wolfgang black. !!!

Torn from her home and family at a young age, a Ukrainian farm girl is swept into the KGB's notorious State School Four. Here she is taught the dark side of sexual seduction and is being trained as spy for the State.

Risking it all to escape the horrors of her life in the Soviet KGB's infamous Sparrow training program, the young Ukrainian woman risks all to find happiness in the West. As a defector forced to live undercover in her new home, she achieves the freedom and stability she craves. But her emotional and psychological psyche are still deeply scarred by the death of her boyfriend and her former life in the USSR.

Then she finds a glimmer of emotional salvation through a chance meeting with a lifeguard on a Florida beach. But lets the opportunity slip away for fear of breaking her cover story and risking discovery by the KGB. But the chance meeting does not go unnoticed. Unknown to her, the Native American spirit realm intervenes and creates another opportunity for her rescue.

This story is an intricate blending of the spirit world in a story of adventure and complex emotions that reflect the eternal struggle to find love and true happiness in sometime harsh world.

!! Indie Global Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner !!

Lauren knows that she’s found the one, and she vows to never be separated from him.

Then a dark secret is revealed that could tear her new world apart.

Will love conquer all?

Or does the family secret create a forbidden love?

It’s summer, and Lauren is on break from college. She should be looking forward to three months of carefree summer fun, but there is a cloud in her sunny summer skies. Incredibly, she has no boyfriend. It’s not that Lauren is unattractive. She knows men are attracted to her like bees to summer flowers. It’s just that she hasn’t met a man who holds her interest, and she’s not willing to settle for anything less than what she wants.

But things change one afternoon after Lauren’s car starts running hot. In the waiting room of the repair shop, a green-eyed stranger crosses her path. She is instantly attracted to this stranger riding a motorcycle. But despite her suggestive flirtation, he pays no attention to her. She doesn’t give up, and her persistence pays off when he eventually gets the message. Over the next week, their sexually charged relationship heats up her summer.

Unwilling to let the relationship slip away, Lauren decides to accompany the stranger on his tour of the Texas countryside. But her plans are interrupted by a family tragedy, and Lauren must choose between her new love and her family. So now the lovers are apart, and Lauren senses the relationship is crumbling. But just when she comes up with a plan to bring them together again, a dirty little secret emerges that could rip her future to shreds. Although their tryst was short, a powerful emotional connection has developed between them. Will it be enough to keep them together?

And what about the prophecy based on the fossil that the stranger found on the beach years earlier. This leaves a question hovering over his romance with Lauren. Will the outcome in The Seduction Pool be the destiny that his grandmother had predicted for him?

★ The Tryst Trees, where the Rocking Horse comes to play ★

♥ An adult romantic tale of a young girl's redemption ♥

• Sara loves cowboys, and they love her. And the one thing she's absolutely sure of is that her heart will never be broken again.
• She sees a green-eyed stranger riding a funny- looking horse. He's definitely ignoring her.
• Sara controls the desert heat. But her passion for the green-eyed stranger is becoming fierce.
• The desert can be an unforgiving place for a curious, headstrong girl.
◆ Can this stranger untangle Sara’s life?◆

Devastated by a lover’s betrayal, a brokenhearted Sara flees her home to hide her humiliation. In the desert, she finds the anonymity and independence she craves. But a life of mundane tasks and meaningless flings can be pretty empty. She wonders if anything will happen to change the deep-rooted loneliness and feelings of melancholy that seem to haunt her life.

Things begin to change when a green-eyed stranger riding an English Triumph motorcycle crosses her path. Despite their intentions, a strong emotional connection develops between them. Moving from a casual sexual encounter to a coworker to a daily companion, Robert becomes a part of her life. But all good things come to an end. Robert returns to college leaving Sara behind. Is this the end for them?

Years earlier, Robert had found a fossil on a Florida beach near his home. His half-blood Native American grandmother who has the power of “second sight” had predicted that the fossil would be the guide to his destiny. But he loses the talisman, so the resolution of his destiny is now unclear. This leaves a question hovering over his romance with Sara. Will the outcome in The Tryst Trees, be the destiny that his grandmother had predicted for Robert?

These answers are in the Desert Illusion Series of which this is Book One.

The Desert Illusions Series is work of mature adult fiction. The stories contain
adult themes and descriptive sexual imagery.