{"id":719,"date":"2015-09-23T13:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/?p=719"},"modified":"2015-09-23T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:10:43","slug":"luminous-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/luminous-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Luminous Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u00a0is\u00a0out and it is freaking beautiful!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LUMINOUS-DREAMS-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LUMINOUS-DREAMS-cover-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Luminous Dreams by Alexa Piper. Cover design by Eileen Wiedbrauk.\" width=\"460\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LUMINOUS-DREAMS-cover-682x1024.jpg 682w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LUMINOUS-DREAMS-cover-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LUMINOUS-DREAMS-cover.jpg 1798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Relax, close your eyes\u2026 and dream.<\/h2>\n<p>Eight tales, eight sensual dreams of enchantment, wanderlust and lovers\u2019 longings, of searching and finding; these dreams tell of birds of fire, curses that lie like bridges between night and day, and hunger for sweet seduction.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eight never before published stories by Alexa Piper:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Phoenix and Styx<br \/>\n<\/strong>Flesh and myth tumble together, strangers in a world too small to hold them. Can they find balance long enough to seek their pleasure, or are they destined to combust?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fortune\u2019s Song<br \/>\n<\/strong>Eliron is a recluse with a bad reputation, Aurora is a fortune teller\u2019s daughter turned nomad. Together, they sing harmonies to make harps blush, but their real song, their true song, may just be something darker and deeper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Candy and the Witch<br \/>\n<\/strong>When Gretel finds a candy trail in the woods leading to succulent desires, she doesn\u2019t walk blindly into its trap\u2014she lays one of her own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Night Train: Story of a Passage<br \/>\n<\/strong>As Taite boards the night train, she expects a less-than-satisfactory nap, not a steamy encounter with mystical strangers and a choice that could change the very course of her life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>I Will Feed You Honey<br \/>\n<\/strong>An ancient muse trapped within a Tarot card, a dancer trapped just outside the bright lights of center stage\u2014they could be each other\u2019s salvation . . . or prison. But before that question is answered, Marina will have to figure out if the sexy dreams she\u2019s been having of a masked man are fantasy inspired by the Tarot card that manages to slip between her sheets . . . or real.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Acorn Princess<br \/>\n<\/strong>Alice enters the woods to get away from the world, what she discovers awakens earthy desires she didn\u2019t even know dwelled within her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Nocturnal Conquests<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ana never noticed them, but they\u2019ve been watching her, waiting, hungering for her. When the three of them finally meet the ending is inevitable\u2014consume and be consumed\u2014or is it?<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A Raven by Day<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sofia knows sunlight only through a raven\u2019s eyes and hasn\u2019t much use for her nocturnal, human body until she meets Hayden, whose hands work her flesh with the same awe and reverence as his metal and clockwork creations. But can Hayden keep the raven in his heart and the woman in his bed, or will they both fly away?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Alexa-Piper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Alexa-Piper.jpg\" alt=\"Alexa Piper\" width=\"190\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a>ALEXA PIPER<\/strong> enjoys writing, romance, and the paranormal. This said, becoming a paranormal romance writer seemed perfectly reasonable, but for Alexa, it is more than that; it&#8217;s fun. Alexa\u2019s work has appeared in the Red Moon Romance anthology Demons, Imps, and Incubi and The Naughty List. Luminous Dreams is Alexa&#8217;s first collection, and she hopes her readers will have as much fun reading it as she had writing it. Check out Alexa\u2019s online home (alexapiper.com) for all things related to her writing and be sure to follow her on Twitter @prowlingpiper.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AVAILABLE NOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldweaverpress.com\/store\/p83\/Luminous_Dreams.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Weaver Press<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1LwWGFE\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allromanceebooks.com\/product-luminousdreams-1893940-340.html\" target=\"_blank\">All Romance eBooks<br \/>\n<\/a>And add\u00a0it to your shelves on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/25750332-luminous-dreams\" target=\"_blank\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00a0is\u00a0out and it is freaking beautiful! Relax, close your eyes\u2026 and dream. Eight tales, eight sensual dreams of enchantment, wanderlust and lovers\u2019 longings, of searching and finding; these dreams tell of birds of fire, curses that lie like bridges between &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/luminous-dreams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[139,140,157],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-luminous-dreams","tag-alexa-piper","tag-luminous-dreams","tag-red-moon-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corividae.com\/shiny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}