PublicBookshelf has acquired the Digital Rights to Shades of Deception

Imagine lonely people searching for love, romance or a life time partner on an online dating site, at a social function, through a pen pal service, on a social network or through a chance meeting and believe they have found true love and happiness, only to discover that they have been deceived by heartless con artists.

Written by Vivienne Diane Neal, Shades of Deception is a collection of ten fictional short stories centering on diverse men and women who in their speedy search for love, romance and bliss, become the targets and victims of deceit, betrayal, fraud, revenge and scandal. Each chapter tells a story as to how ordinary citizens who are sophisticated, successful and financially smart fall prey to insightful predators that use love, romance, lust and money as embellishments to destroy lives.

The characters are as dynamic as the stories themselves. Enoff is a business owner who is eager to find someone. Passion, a pastry chef always sees the good in people. Marsha is the devoted and clueless wife. Tawney, a computer developer plans to marry a man she has only known for 24 hours. Shaun, an ordained marriage and wedding officiant longs to find a woman with whom to share his accomplishments. Lea, the caterer, sets out to take her best friend’s man. Mark, the well respected and retired math teacher will soon become the subject of scandal in his community. Kamani, a thriving business owner thinks going the distance to find someone is the answer. Nia, a top negotiator at a major New York brokerage firm thinks the men she keeps meeting are boring, and Jamo, a cunning college student, is about to obtain a large trust fund, which he will never get to enjoy.

The stories with their subtle adult themes, and attention-grabbing plots and twists, will have readers turning the pages quickly to see how each character handles the bad hand that has been dealt to them. And even though the tales are heartbreaking, Vivienne always finds a way to add some humor to her anecdotes.

Ms. Neal is not new to writing. Her first book, Making Dollar$ And Cent$ Out Of Online Dating was released in the summer of 2008 and is now sold and distributed worldwide. In March 2009, the book ranked 250 in sales on Lulu.com. She continues to write short stories and articles on love, romance, dating and relationships, and on other significant topics. Two of her short stories appear on Short Fiction and Bibliofaction. She has also been featured on Solo Spotlight on SingleEdition.

You can sample or read the book in its entirety, by going to Public Bookshelf or you can order the printed book from this site.


Shades of Deception: ISBN: 978-0-578-03187-3

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PBR and AC/DC really is the way to a girl's heart

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After a night of drinks and dancing that had gone nowhere I was standing outside of the club having a smoke. Up walks a pretty blond woman looking at her cell phone, talking to herself.
"Standing by the car?!" she proclaimed "What do you mean standing by the car?!"
I felt the need to join into this conversation and added my thoughts. "No cars here... maybe around back? There are plenty of cars over there."
"No, She's in the bar. Stupid T-9 texting bullshit."
"I've watched it kill relationships before," I said truthfully.
"Me, too. Want to grab a beer?" She asked and I was shocked. I had just come out of a failed seven plus year relationship and wasn't sure how to handle being single again. I honestly got a little scared and took the fastest, safest approach I could think of.
"Sure, but I'm on my way to this kegger and need to hurry so if you want to give me a call later," I handed her a crisp new business card. "There is probably plenty to drink if you want to save yourself some money. Bring your friend too." As soon as I said it I gave myself a mental ass chewing. Three is a crowd you dumbass.
About five minutes later she calls and her and her friend are on their way to meet me at this party. Now the party was real but had been going on for hours and it was late. I was fairly sure that it would be over or at least out of beer but I hadn't really thought about that at the time. We get there and sure enough its over, there is no beer and pretty much everywhere else is closed at that point.
"I've got a sixer of PBR in my fridge if you ladies still want that beer," I offered thinking that there is no way that these two woman would go home with a stranger for a PBR and two oclock in the morning. I was wrong. Not only did they want to come over they were very excited about it. I couldnt remember if I even had a full sixer in the fridge or what state my house was even in.
We get there and the friend immidiately starts riffleing through the cd collection and pulls out some AC/DC, put it on and turns it up... loud. Luckily I did have a sixer and pass out the beers taking survey of my house. I quickely pick up some dirty clothes in my room and throw them into my walkin closet. There are a lot of dirty clothes in my walkin, some smelly.
"Take me on a tour," Cute Blond asks and procceeds to take herself on said tour.
I catch up to her standing in my closet.
"You have horrible fashion. I just want to go in here and throw all these clothes away," Blond says and she is serious. You can see it in her eyes.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa," says I. "I do not, I rather like my clothes and new ones aren't cheap."
She start pawing through what is hanging up, bad mouthing every one of my favorite shirts. I step into the closet to make sure that she doesn't just start tearing them to pieces. Just then she turns around.
"You're cute," Blond whispers as she starts to pull off my belt buckle. I am at a loss. Maybe its because this is all so new to me or that I'm a little drunk but all I can seem to think about is that we are standing on and over every bit of dirty clothes from over a week.
Before I really knew what had happened we had done the nasty over my hamper full of socks. As soon as it was over she quickly said goodbye, woke her friend who had fallen asleep on my couch and left. I turned off the AC/DC that was still blaring and started a load of laundry.

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