Rida Allen
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I started my publishing career in 2001, following an extended illness that left me unable to continue in my computer career. After years of not writing, I felt a new calling to be the best storyteller I could be, and to give my books an honesty and a personal connection that they’d lacked previously. In doing so, I began to create plus size heroines, who better represented the women I wanted to read about, and couldn’t find in the industry. The immediate response to my first published book was amazing, and I knew I’d found my niche. In 2004, I decided to open Draumr Publishing in order to get more books like mine into the industry. We’ve since opened our doors to all types of fiction, while still keeping our Dangerous Curves line filled with BBW romances. I continue to write all my romance novels with fantastic plus size heroines who get their hot-hot-hot man without losing a pound.
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| Model Mom |
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Widowed and left alone to care for two young babies, Heather Warren leapt at the opportunity to try plus size modeling on for size. While the work supports her girls, it also takes her away from them more often than she likes. So now, five years after Heather’s surprise entry into the modeling world, she’s on the prowl to land that “big” job, closer to home. When she interviews for the perfect plus size modeling gig, she thinks she may have found the answer to her prayers. What she didn’t count on was the possible complication in the form of tall, dark, brooding D.J., her new boss’s brother.
D.J. Devereaux—who classifies himself as a loner—isn’t looking for romance, despite the fact that all three of his sisters are now happily settled. But he can’t ignore the wit, charm, and style Heather carries with her everywhere she goes. That she also has a rockin’ and voluptuous body makes her almost impossible to forget. When D.J. realizes Heather comes with two very special accessories, can he resist the wiles of three beautiful women, or will he find room in his heart for the beauty that cat-walks into his path? |
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Coming Soon... |
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Re-releases of Rida’s first two books, Great Love originally released in 2001, and The Legacy Tree (book 1 in the series of 5 connected books) originally released in 2002.
Romancing the Chef – release date TBA.
A new series of books – more information coming soon! |
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| Driving Adam...Crazy! |
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Melinda Kowl is in the service business and business is good. As a driver for an exclusive car service company, she excels at her job making her temporary clients comfortable and their commutes the best part of their trip. Want specialized coffee before your first meeting? She can do that. New York Times or Daily Globe on the seat? No problem. But when a particularly attractive executive asks her to pretend to be his wife in order to close a deal, on top of driving him around, will she cross that line? Even she has some limits. Or does she? She would have said no to anyone. Until him.
Not knowing his clear path is something completely new for Adam Wells, and he isn’t sure he likes it. All he wants to do is land a contract that will set him and his company up for years, but he didn’t know going in that he needed a wife to close the deal. Good thing his chauffeur is available, and willing, if a little kooky. In the blink of an eye, she transforms herself into a stunning spouse, and plays the part to a T. At the same time, she somehow wiggles her way into his heart. A real committed relationship is something he’s never considered. Until her.
Can they each let go of what should have been and embrace what could be? What is the price for the pleasure of DRIVING ADAM…CRAZY? |
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| Lost or Found? |
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J.D. Parker gets the unhappy surprise of his life on one of his weekly walks to look for lost souls. His dog uncovers a woman who looks like she’s dead. Because she can’t remember her name or anything else about herself, J.D. names her Cin—short for Cinderella—and takes her into his house and life.
Flashes of memory she can’t understand surface at the strangest times, but Cin doesn’t know who or what she can trust. Is there a dark secret in her past? Does she know the person who attacked her, leaving her in an alley to die? The only thing she is sure of is J.D. and his comfort.
With no leads to her identity and her memory flashes coming less frequently, Cin doesn’t know where else to turn. Should she keep trying to regain her old life, or settle into the new? What is the cost of being Lost or Found? |
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More Books by Rida... |
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- You Have Been Disconnected – released in 2004, More here
- Truth and Lies (book 2 in the series of 5 connected books) – released in 2004, More here
- My Brother’s Wife (online serial only) – More here
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| The Fashionable P.I. |
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Do clothes really make the woman?
For Jordan Devereaux, President of Devereaux Designs, the answer is most certainly yes. Having taken over the upscale women’s clothing company from her father, she lives and breathes high fashion design. Although the company was her father’s baby and she knows she’ll support his dream no matter what, catering to the wealthy and elite feels empty to Jordan. What she really wants is a way to give back to the community, to fill her heart with something meaningful. Being the eldest of five in a close-knit, supportive family, she knows exactly how lucky she is, so when she tries to volunteer her time at a runaway shelter and stumbles onto a family in crisis, she finds her calling. Then a friend in need asks for her help and with her private investigator experience, she jumps at the chance.
Is it nature or nurture?
Jack Morgan really had no answer for that question, though he and his adoptive mother asked it often enough during his youth. At age fourteen, the question is suddenly moot because he is once again left alone in life. He finds his way into adulthood on his own and after a failed attempt at a long-term relationship, Jack decides it is easiest to live alone, to be alone. But a spur-of-the-moment decision and a chance meeting changes his life, bringing him closer than ever to his deepest desire and his darkest fear. |
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More about our lovely Rida... |
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Born in suburban Maryland, I have lived here all my life, moving only three times and even then, less than half an hour away each time. Growing up, I was the youngest and only girl in a family of four siblings, suffering mightily and for many long years under the hands of my three older brothers. To escape, I locked myself away in my bedroom with books, books, and more books! I am and have been a voracious reader of romance novels for as long as I can remember…even before I was writing my own stories as a pre-teen. At 11 years old, I started my writing hobby with poetry, then began writing “short” romantic stories at about 12. Although I always wanted to be a writer, I found myself instead working with computers. I was in the computer industry for more years than I want to remember, first as an amateur and then as an expert (of sorts). My husband and I met online (before online dating was even a glimmer in some internet boomer’s eye), and we knew each other for eight years before we got engaged and married. Even now, after sixteen years together, we are best friends, and he is one of my biggest supporters. I’m lucky that he, too, is a writer, so he understands my creative…quirks. We live close to both our families and spend as much time with them as possible. We have spent recent years in our single family home, purchased partially for the large yard that our dog thinks is her own personal park. |
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