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Persuadable by Katherine Woodbury
Price: $0.99 USD. 26320 words. Published by Peaks Island Press on February 1, 2013. .
This unique take on Jane Austen's "Persuasion" records the major events of the novel from the perspective of the novel's nemeses: the scheming Mrs. Clay and the wily Mr. Elliot. Exploring their uneven path to love, "Persuadable" challenges assumptions about class, money, and marriage that still persist two hundred years later. Who says a couple of gold diggers can't find true love?

Fox and Wolf by Eugene Woodbury
Price: $0.99 USD. 43470 words. Published by Peaks Island Press on November 19, 2012. .
Ami Tokudaiji is a kitsune (a Japanese werefox) from an aristocratic family whose fortunes are threatened by a financial scandal. Yuki Yamakawa is a werewolf from the wrong side of the tracks. When they end up in the same homeroom class at Osaka's most exclusive girl's school, Yuki is determined to make Ami her new best friend--if they don't kill each other first.

The Gentleman and the Rake by Katherine Woodbury
Price: $0.99 USD. 65740 words. Published by Peaks Island Press on September 5, 2012. .
An unconventional look at two landmark works of English literature. First, a lighthearted take on the critical events in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" from the perspective of Fitzwilliam Darcy. Then Mr. B, the redeemed rake of Samuel Richardson's scandalous "Pamela," is summoned to court to tell his version of the story. A lively romp through the roots of the modern romance novel!

Mr. B Speaks! by Katherine Woodbury
Price: $0.99 USD. 36790 words. Published by Peaks Island Press on June 3, 2011. .
In a world where characters from novels can be tried in real courts for their literary crimes, Mr. B, the famously redeemed rake of "Pamela" (the English language's first true romance novel), must defend himself before a panel of skeptical literary scholars. Can he redeem his good name and win back his wife?

Tokyo South by Eugene Woodbury
Price: $0.99 USD. 49340 words. Published by Peaks Island Press on July 28, 2009. .
In this largely autobiographical account of the author's two-year proselyting mission to Japan during the late 1970s, a Mormon missionary confronts an overzealous religious bureaucracy and his own growing doubts as the work of preaching the gospel is turned into a cynical game of numbers and spiritual one-upmanship.

A Man of Few Words by Katherine Woodbury
Price: $0.99 USD. 29270 words. Published by Peaks Island Press on July 23, 2009. .
A lighthearted look at the critical events in Jane Austen's famous novel from the perspective of Fitzwilliam Darcy.

The Path of Dreams by Eugene Woodbury
Price: $0.99 USD. 84960 words. Published by Peaks Island Press on January 1, 2009. .

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Although they have met just once, at a train station in Japan, Elaine Chieko Packard and Connor McKenzie have been haunted ever since by passionate dreams they cannot control. They determine to resolve the tension between the moral strictures of their religion and their own overpowering emotions by eloping, a decision that triggers an entirely unexpected series of events.

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