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    Jove's Passion
    Jove's Passion
    Jove's Passion
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    Jove's Passion

    By Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

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    Take one ancient god living a mundane life in Texas and add a beautiful woman to the mix...

    Jupiter Jove, known these days as simply ‘Jay’, is so taken with journalist Skye Marcus that he wants more than a sexual encounter. Since the sky is Jove’s traditional realm, it seems somehow meant to be. She’s as willing as he but she has no idea who—or what—he really is or that he can control the weather.

    When he tells the truth, she can’t handle it and runs from him. But Skye can’t stay away, returning to beg for a show of power that will change fate—for them both.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEvernight
    Release dateJun 13, 2014
    ISBN9781771308861
    Jove's Passion
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    Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

    Growing up in historic St. Joseph, Missouri, Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy scribbled her stories from an early age. Her first publication – a poem on the children’s page of the local newspaper – seems to have set her fate. As a full time author, she has more than twenty full length novels published along with assorted novellas and short fiction. A contributor to more than two dozen anthologies, her credits include Chicken Soup For The Soul among many collections of short fiction. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Missouri Writers Guild, and the Ozark Writers League. Lee Ann earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Missouri Southern State University as well as an Associate Degree from Crowder College. She has worked in broadcasting, retail, and other fields including education. She is currently a substitute school teacher. As a wife and mother of three, she spends her days penning stories, cooking, reading, and other daily duties. She currently makes her home in the Missouri Ozarks, living in what passes for suburbs in a small town.

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      Jove's Passion - Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

      Published by Evernight Publishing at Smashwords

      www.evernightpublishing.com

      Copyright© 2014 Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

      ISBN: 978-1-77130-886-1

      Cover Artist: Sour Cherry Designs

      Editor: Karyn White

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      DEDICATION

      For Miss Albright, my middle school librarian, who first introduced me to mythology and helped me discover the vivid tales handed down from the dawn of time.

      JOVE’S PASSION

      Love Immortal

      Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy

      Copyright © 2014

      Jove’s Realm

      Chapter One

      Jay stood with his feet firm against the carpet and hands locked behind his back, as he glared through the glass wall of his office. The blue of the western sky stretched outward into infinity above the city of Fort Worth and onward over the plains with no more than a few wispy white clouds to break the intense color. He determined that would change. As his mood darkened, his plans for a thunderstorm increased. All the elements existed to bring it together in a seemingly natural way. Temperatures rose, the barometer fell, and a storm front hovered within a few hundred miles. No one would question severe weather so he could indulge and vent his frustrations over his mundane, less-than-satisfying existence. Living like a mortal irked someone who had been an ancient deity, but so few believed anymore that he had no choice.

      Mr. Jove? His newest office assistant stuck her head into his office. He’d asked her to knock first and to call him by the name he preferred, but she did neither.

      He spoke without turning around. Call me Jay, please. What is it?

      Skye Marcus is holding for you on line one.

      Take a message.

      I tried, Mindy said. She refused and said she’d hold as long as necessary until you took her call. I didn’t know what to do.

      Jay did. After he dealt with the call, he needed to find yet another office assistant. Maybe he could find one capable of following his simple directions and easy rules. Tell her I’ll talk with her in twenty minutes.

      Yes, Jay, I will.

      Mindy retreated like a shy mouse. Jay—short for Jupiter Jove—turned away from the window wall and sat down at his desk. His powerful frame folded into the oversized chair with ease and his long legs stretched under the large desk with room to spare. He considered Skye Marcus. Although he’d never met the woman, he knew her reputation. As a world-class journalist, she published a magazine, Skyewatch. The print circulation numbered in the millions and her online subscribers matched or exceeded the number. She wrote for her publication now, but in the past she’d been first a newspaper reporter, then a television anchor. When she branched out solo, media pundits predicted her failure but her career soared. The national and cable news network program sought her as a guest. So

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