Sizzlin' Summer Sellabration!

June 1 through Labor Day, 2009

All summer long, things are sizzling at Vanilla Heart Publishing, with specials and surprises, new releases, twofers, and more!

June Special
Buy your favorite VHP fiction titles in print version from Amazon, and for every copy purchased, select a FREE ebook (with full cover covers, front and back) from our entire Ebook Catalog!

Simply send verification of print copy purchase (your Amazon order number – last three digits only, date of purchase, your name and email) to Sizzlers@vanillaheartbooksandauthors.com and include the name of the free ebook you have selected. Within just a few short hours, you can be reading your free ebook, while waiting for your print copy to arrive!

Check out the contemporary romance Soul Series books for some hot summer reading!

Thursday's Thirteen - Truths About Love

Thirteen Truths about Love
In a Kids Point of View

“I think you fall in love why you get shot with an arrow or something, but the rest of it isn’t supposed to be so painfull.”

“One person who has freckles finds somebody else who has freckles and they fall in love.”

“Falling in love is like an avalanche where you have to run for your life.”

“If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don’t want to do it. It takes too long.”

“No one is sure why people fall in love. But I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That’s why perfume and deodorant are so popular.”

“Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time.”

“Lovers hold hands. They want to make sure their rings don’t fall of because they paid good money for them.”

“When people hold hands they are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the matchimony thing.”

“I’m in favor of love as long as it doesn’t happen when SpongeBob Squarepants is on TV.”

“Love is foolish…but I still might try it sometime.”

“To make a person fall in love with you, tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores.”

“Love with find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I’ve been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me.”

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”

Character Sketch - Puzzola/Andrew Somerby

A dark brooding man with a strong passion and desires hidden behind his Caribbean blue eyes. Tall, thin with long fingers along with his black hair makes him a presence to behold. He moves like a black panther in the black clothes he always wears. Seductive, sexual, yet very much in control of himself, yet prone to emotional and artistic outbursts.

His self portrait titled "Painted Soul" pretty much sums him up.


Andrew Somerby grew up on the estate next to Hampton House and is a close friend of the McAlister brothers. His parents were ashamed of the white stripe of hair on his head so he was forced to die it most of his life. Andrew didn’t want to be apart of the family banking business; instead, he always wanted to be an artist. After his grandparents’ death, he moved to Italy to attend art school and earned the nickname, Puzzola. Because of his father’s disapproval, Andrew’s funds were frozen so he had to look into other ways of making money. Unfortunately, he was preyed upon by a seductive manipulator.

When Andrew met Elizabeth McAlister at the nightclub, The Place, she didn’t recognize him so he introduced himself as “Puzzola”. Instant attraction passed between them, but they weren’t given the opportunity to experience their relationship farther. While Puzzola was in dark despair in Italy, memories of Elizabeth kept him sane.

As a man, he returned to England as a popular artist but with deep dark, hidden secrets. Emotionally scarred, he withdrew from society, love, and lived two separate lives… one as a banker, the other as the mysterious underground artist. How long would it be before he’d be pulled apart by his life? Would Elizabeth ever be able to turn him back into a man with a soul?

Purchase Painted Soul the debut novel of the Soul Series.