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About the Author:
Ju Ephraime began writing
professionally at age 19; at that time,
she wrote short stories for the local
radio station in her home town. She
gave up writing to pursue her
education and has since earned several
degrees, including two Masters and a
Doctorate in Higher Education
Administration from Northeastern
University in Boston. During the course
of her schooling, she wrote and
published a working curriculum for a
career school, a business manual and
its answer key, as well as other literary
work. In 2010 she revisited her first
love, writing for fun and enjoyment.
She writes high heat, steamy, romance
novels. The first was, State of Ecstasy in
the LaCasse series, which was soon
followed by, Temptation to Sin, Loving
Therèse, #2 in the LaCasse series. Ju
has gone on to write several more
books, including, The Odor of Violet,
on tour this month, Complete
Surrender, #3 in the LaCasse series; as
well as, a Christmas Novella, Footsteps
in the Sand and her award winning
paranormal, White Magic Woman,
Quarterfinalist in Amazon
Breakthrough Novel Contest, 2013, out
of over 10,000 entrants.
Ju lives in Connecticut, where she is
very active in her community. She is the
administrator of a business school and
the president of a non-profit
organization that dresses individuals for
job interviews. Find and Follow:
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Ms. Andrews walked into the room,
and Damien felt the air leave his lungs.
He could not see her, but he felt Jake’s
reaction also. He was not certain if he
was mirroring Jake’s reaction to the
candidate or his own overactive
imagination. Whatever the reason, he
had a physical reaction to whomever it
was that walked into his library. She
was polite and calm, and he sensed she
had a smile on her face because Jake
had an answering s mile in his voice
when he greeted her. Poor Damien, he
couldn’t see a thing, but boy, was he
aware of her. He could smell the
fragrance she was wearing, and it was
doing strange things to his body.
There was a hint of jasmine, mixed with
a bit of musk, but the overwhelming
scent was of violet. He recognized the
scent because of the perfusion of violet
plants that grew in the garden
surrounding his house.
It was his favorite flower. He was never
tired of sitting on the porch just
inhaling its heady fragrance. On Ms.
Andrews, the fragrance was positively
intoxicating. The mixture of violet with
her unique scent was overpowering.
Damien was almost in pain from the
strength of his physical reaction to her.
He was uncomfortable in his seat and
kept fidgeting and moving to get a
more comfortable position. He did not
want either Jake or the young woman