Thatcher x Lyra are my lifeblood.
Nothing will ever beat their romantic moments for me. Annotating her books?? Having a conversation via these annotations?? Adorable. Utterly adorable. They are everything I've ever needed in a book romance.
There is such a deep romanticism to this; he sees her innermost thoughts and finds them infinitely interesting.
They have different opinions, they're a true opposites-attract, and it shows in ALL their actions.
Screaming, crying, throwing up– they're such a dark romance, but moments like this ?? ThatcherLyra are everything.
When they're as fucked up as each other >>
They're my favourite ship. I love them both so much.
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Zade meadows & Thatcher Pierson are my dream men xoxo
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Below the cut is a list of all my original characters, from every fandom, organized by such. I figured I would go ahead and put this up, as well as a canon muse one, for my oc and canon starters so that way it's easier for y'all to see who is included without going to every separate muse list.
The Vampire Diaries
Elizabeth Haven Mikaelson
Roman Ryker Mikaelson
Erik Flynn Mikaelson
Kareena Dawn Mikaelson
Thyra Selene Mikaelson
Karsyn Devyn Mikaelson
Mateo Maxwell Mikaelson
Serenity Faye Mikaelson
Sawyer Finch Mikaelson
Aurelia Nova Mikaelson
Felix Ares Mikaelson
Willow Luna Mikaelson
Tobias Floyd Mikaelson
Zephyr Raven Parker
Zariyah Dove Parker
Kennedy Taylor Parker
Myles Zane Parker
Mariana Joy Parker
Paisley Juniper Parker
Braeden Talia Salvatore
Holden Atlas Salvatore
Ezra Grant Salvatore
Liberty Faye Salvatore
Jensen Graham Gilbert
Easton Reed Gilbert
Jesse Jonathan Gilbert
Elias Rhodes Gilbert
Jazmyn Sophia Gilbert
Atlas Rowan Petrova
Titus Izaiah Petrova
Kamen Maverick Pierce
Natalie Adrianna Pierce
Eleanor Marie Bennett
Salem Elijah Bennett
Gabriel Graham Gustin
Belladonna Sharie Bennett
Seraphina Rose Ward
Theodore Joseph Brickenden
Kaia Asherah Halloran
Carter William Forbes
Cameron Myles Lawrence
Jameson Tyler Rosza
Tatum Jaxson Lockwood
Tatiana Jade Lockwood
Taylor Jacob Lockwood
Axel Madden Hughes
Ashton Malik Hughes
Sebastian Sawyer Sharpe
Niall Nash Novak
Montgomery Felix Langston
Ophelia Esme Lovell
Sapphire Lee McGuire
Rami Calder McGuire
Warren Jaxon Kingsley
Jeremiah Michael Kenner
Cecilia Jaklyn Labonair
Rosemary Belle Whitlock
Hadley Kamryn Fuller
Kamryn Avery Marshall
Lorella Diane St. John
Andrew Kolton Rogers
Blair Lilith Walsh
Zachariah Cole Norwood
Matthias Lucien Delacour
Matias Camilo Garcia
Cyrus Boyd Mikaelson (spn to tvdu)
Harmony Iris Johnson (tw to tvdu)
Chandler Matthew Rawlins (tw to tvdu)
Containment
Jubilee Fawn Ellison
Carson Elijah Mayes
Maddox Rhett Lancaster
Malia Rayne Lancaster
Makai Reid Lancaster
Delilah Anne Malone
Austin Blake Coleman
Damian James Taylor
Teen Wolf
Aspen Bella Stilinski
Adrian Archer Argent
Addison Athena Argent
Lyla Sage Martin
Amaia Tala Alexander
Malik Elias Hale
Madelaine Emery Hale
Isaiah Parker Lahey
Amadora Constance Sharpe
Callum Tate Raeken
Dawson Cole Reynolds
Jared Taylor Parrish
Stephen Ezekiel Hemming
Supernatural
Amelia Mae Allen
Melody Athena Hayes
Lucilla Marie Nightstar
Eden Faith Cruz
Elijah Luke Cruz
Valentina Rosalie Hart
Adaliah Ember Darhk
Alexandria Skye Earp
Lillian Dahlia Campbell
Adriel Xavier Grant
Talon Colt Ashford
Silas Kai Parker
Josephina Jazmyn Walker
Elyza Alice Pierson (tvdu to spn)
DC Comics
Kiera Jaylin Davis
Marvel
Kailee Elizabeth Holtz (hero and villain verse)
Kaiden Edward Holtz (villain and hero verse)
Camelia Waverly Maximoff
Kaleb Jonas Barnes
Maxine Josephine Rogers
Melody Elizabeth Young
Anastasia Sloane Lenkov
Wren Nika Volkov
Wynter Nadia Volkov
Cordelia Ara Odinsdottir
Amora Delphine Brantley
Celeste Juliet Livingston
Nikolai Nathaniel Novak (tvdu to mcu)
Charmeine Ayla Hanlon (spn to mcu)
Stranger Things
Stella Blake Russell
Scarlet Ember Ward
Valerie Mae Henderson
Mitchell Elliot Mayfield
Meredith Eleanor Mayfield
Misc
Ambrosia Nyx Tartarus
Acacius Nile Tartarus
Duncan David Dalveron
Damien Dawson Dalveron
Brantley Cole Kline
Rosalie Grace Anderson
Rowena Greyson Andrews
Ryker Grant Andrews
Aviana Summer Archer
Dylan Bryce Thatcher
Sterling Atlas Ward
9-1-1
Evelyn June Buckley
Ethan Jace Buckley
Hazel Jayne Walker
Hayes Jesse Walker
Izaiah Edison Hendrix
Waverly Chloe Hendrix
Matilda Iris Monroe
Fallon Pierce Richards
Book Babes
Cyra Lux Vespara
Wilder Blaze Hawthorne
Dion Ignis Vanserra
Pyralis Jax Vanserra
Warren Forrest Hayward
Solana Aruna Meridian
Anatole Cyrus Solari
Althea Zaria Cadlawon
Tynan Kerrell Visita
Kirsi Gwyneira Nieves
Lyall Colden Whittaker
Caspian Calder Conway
Maribelle Aelia Sommer
Zodiacs
Wyatt Keegan aka Aries
Kianni Phoenix aka Sagittarius
Leon Cyrus aka Leo
River Mira aka Cancer
Dylan Lucas aka Pisces
Josephine Nova aka Scorpio
Conrad Atlas aka Taurus
Kailynn Amelia aka Capricorn
Taron Sage aka Virgo
Alice Skye aka Libra
Aaron Micah aka Aquarius
Adelaide June aka Gemini
Arianna Rose aka Gemini
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🔥🔥ICYMI: HOT NEW RELEASE🔥🔥 We are thrilled to celebrate THE BLOOD WE CRAVE by Monty Jay is LIVE! #1ClickHere: https://amzn.to/3Wuoqm7 My secrets are infested with infatuation. His cravings are dripping in blood. Is it love? Or is it something much darker… An obsession. Death found me as a young girl. Latching onto the core of my soul. No one knows what that horrid night did to me. What kind of monster it flourished inside me. I’d become a ghost, hiding from the world so that people would never find out about the morbid desire I harbor. Until he noticed me. Thatcher Alexander Pierson: Cunning. Sharp. Beautiful. A man bred from the seed of a serial killer. Stitched together with old money and Dolce & Gabbana clothing. He is my strongest fixation. My sweetest, darkest addiction. And I’m his phantom. I have haunted him my entire life and now? He sees me for exactly what I am. A killer. I sicken him. But he has always mesmerized me. When a copycat murderer prowls among the trees of Ponderosa Springs, our loyalty is tested. It had been foolish of us to believe our revenge would go unpunished. That the town wouldn’t retaliate after what we did. With our lives hanging in the balance, Thatcher and I have no choice but to coexist. In the twilight of musty cabins and haunted library towers, my somber secrets are exposed, and his cravings are revealed. So the question is...What is love without obsession? *The Blood We Crave will be book 1 of a duet!* #nowavailable #montyjay #thebloodwecrave #needtoreaditnow #readmoreromance #needtoreaditnow #newadult #readyourheartout #wildfiremarketingsolutions #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmw0CftLEgv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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💀Book Review 💀
The Blood We Crave by Monty Jay
The Hollow Boys book 3
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Finally we get Lyra and Thatcher’s story!!! I’m obsessed with the Hollow boys and have been since the first book so I’ve been dying for this couple’s story and holy shit Monty Jay didn’t disappoint! This world is dark depraved full of secrets lies and betrayals and I just can’t get enough! These two have intrigued me since the beginning I love their deep connection I loved getting a look into both of their minds and one things for sure they are both becoming obsessed with each other! I can’t wait for the next book I wasn’t expecting that ending but it only guarantees we get more of these two and I’m down for that!
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THE BLOOD WE CRAVE by Monty Jay is NOW LIVE!
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#1ClickHere: https://amzn.to/3Wuoqm7
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My secrets are infested with infatuation.
His cravings are dripping in blood.
Is it love?
Or is it something much darker…
An obsession.
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Death found me as a young girl. Latching onto the core of my soul.
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No one knows what that horrid night did to me. What kind of monster it flourished inside me. I’d become a ghost, hiding from the world so that people would never find out about the morbid desire I harbor.
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Until he noticed me.
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Thatcher Alexander Pierson: Cunning. Sharp. Beautiful.
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A man bred from the seed of a serial killer. Stitched together with old money and Dolce & Gabbana clothing.
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He is my strongest fixation. My sweetest, darkest addiction.
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And I’m his phantom.
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I have haunted him my entire life and now?
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He sees me for exactly what I am.
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A killer.
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I sicken him. But he has always mesmerized me.
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When a copycat murderer prowls among the trees of Ponderosa Springs, our loyalty is tested.
It had been foolish of us to believe our revenge would go unpunished. That the town wouldn’t retaliate after what we did.
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With our lives hanging in the balance, Thatcher and I have no choice but to coexist.
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In the twilight of musty cabins and haunted library towers, my somber secrets are exposed, and his cravings are revealed.
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So the question is...What is love without obsession?
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*The Blood We Crave will be book 1 of a duet!*
#nowlive #montyjay #thebloodwecrave #newadult #readmoreromance
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TEASER BLAST
We are excited to share a teaser for THE BLOOD WE CRAVE by Monty Jay coming December 13th!
#LiveReleaseAnnouncement: https://amzn.to/3WEkdNn
My secrets are infested with infatuation.
His cravings are dripping in blood.
Is it love?
Or is it something much darker…
An obsession.
Death found me as a young girl. Latching onto the core of my soul.
No one knows what that horrid night did to me. What kind of monster it flourished inside me. I’d become a ghost, hiding from the world so that people would never find out about the morbid desire I harbor.
Until he noticed me.
Thatcher Alexander Pierson: Cunning. Sharp. Beautiful.
A man bred from the seed of a serial killer. Stitched together with old money and Dolce & Gabbana clothing.
He is my strongest fixation. My sweetest, darkest addiction.
And I’m his phantom.
I have haunted him my entire life and now?
He sees me for exactly what I am.
A killer.
I sicken him. But he has always mesmerized me.
When a copycat murderer prowls among the trees of Ponderosa Springs, our loyalty is tested.
It had been foolish of us to believe our revenge would go unpunished. That the town wouldn’t retaliate after what we did.
With our lives hanging in the balance, Thatcher and I have no choice but to coexist.
In the twilight of musty cabins and haunted library towers, my somber secrets are exposed, and his cravings are revealed.
So the question is...What is love without obsession?
*The Blood We Crave will be book 1 of a duet!*
Add to your Goodreads TBR List: https://bit.ly/3E5pmHa
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Masc old English names?
Acton, Aiken, Alcott, Alder, Aldrich, Alfred, Alvin, Barnett, Bentley,
Bradley, Brandon, Brent, Brock, Burt, Buster, Calder, Carden,
Carlisle/Carlyle, Cedric, Channing, Chevy, Creighton, Dale,
Darren, Darwin, Digby, Douglas, Dover, Duncan, Dustin, Dwight,
Edgar, Edmund, Elton, Esmond, Ford, Gilford, Gordon, Hawthorne,
Hudson, Hutton, Kenton, Manning, Mather, Millard/Miller,
Milton, Nash, Nelson, Newman, Osmond, Oswald, Palmer,
Pierson, Ramsey, Ransom, Sherman, Thatcher, Truman,
Wallace, Watson, Wilfred, Winston, Wright, Wylie
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On November 9, the morning after Donald Trump was elected president, I was quite confident that Obamacare was done for. Republicans in Congress had passed bill after bill repealing the law, and now they had a president willing and able to sign one of those bills into law. The coverage expansion inaugurated by President Barack Obama had helped millions of people for a few years, and would now come to an end.
Now, not even five months later, that conclusion feels very premature. There’s still a chance that House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and President Trump somehow pull this out and pass something they can characterize as repealing and replacing Obamacare. But the emergence of the hyper-ideological Freedom Caucus on the one hand, pushing full repeal of Obamacare with barely any replacement, and the Republican “coverage caucus” on the other, which is wary of stripping away health insurance from millions, is making passing a repeal package very, very difficult.
If any theory can explain what happened here, it’s that of Paul Pierson, a political scientist at UC Berkeley. In his 1994 book Dismantling the Welfare State? and 1996 paper “The New Politics of the Welfare State,” Pierson sought to explain why even very conservative leaders are unable to roll back big social programs. Ronald Reagan couldn’t get rid of Medicare or Social Security; Margaret Thatcher couldn’t dismantle the National Health Service. Pierson argues that social programs create a new politics, and in particular build a constituency of people benefiting from the programs that is politically powerful and can resist efforts to dismantle them.
Pierson and I talked a couple of weeks ago about his theory and how it applies to the Republican repeal effort. A transcript lightly edited for length and clarity follows.
Dylan Matthews
You argue that it’s very hard to unravel social programs once they’re in place. Why is that?
Paul Pierson
The basic argument is that with these social programs — I was starting by thinking about things like Social Security but I think it applies with variation across programs — it’s a lot harder to get the toothpaste back in the tube once it’s out. People who are receiving benefits, they’re going to react pretty strongly to that being taken away from them. A taxpayer is paying for a lot of stuff and cares a little bit about each thing, but the person who’s receiving the benefits is going to care enormously about that.
There is a lot of psychological research that suggests that people react more strongly to things being taken away from them. There’s a kind of negativity bias in the way we respond to changes in our circumstances. So there’s that electoral mechanism that has to do with outraged voters.
But often with programs, there are also big networks of interest groups that can grow up around a program. Those are often very well-organized to protect programs and they’re also going to react strongly to things being taken away. The basic idea is that once these programs are put in place, and of course the longer they’re in place, the stronger those networks are likely to get, the more difficult it’s going to be to roll things back.
Dylan Matthews
The day after the election, on November 9, my assumption, and the assumption of a lot of people, was Obamacare is done for now. They have both the House and the Senate. They have a president who can sign a repeal bill. What are they waiting for? It seems in the past few months like it could still happen, but it’s become much less obvious it will happen. What are the main institutional factors that are driving that shift?
Paul Pierson
It’s not at all clear what’s going to happen, and one big reason is all the dynamics we were talking about at the beginning of this conversation. You’re talking about taking really important benefits away from tens of millions of people. Basically politicians don’t want to do that. There is an important dynamic where for years and years and years, Republicans could vote against the Affordable Care Act and loudly declare they were voting against the Affordable Care Act, knowing that this was all theater, that it wasn’t a real vote.
It was an easy win for them given the districts they represented and the way in which the Affordable Care Act had been portrayed to their most important political audiences.
Now the day after the election, you’ve got to think about actually doing it. The more time that goes by, Obama’s not there anymore, the more this other kind of logic — which is, yes, you’re taking away valuable benefits from very large numbers of people, including large numbers of people in your district. So that’s the first factor that I think has made things more difficult.
The second thing is that, while it’s true that on paper they have unified control of the government, they don’t have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. And there’s a lot of diversity in opinion — it’s all conservative opinion, but it’s quite a range of views — within the Republican Congress.
So there are people who are worried about rolling things back too far, and there are people who are worried they aren’t going to roll things back enough. They don’t have a lot of margin for error. They’ve got some margin for error in the House but they’ve got almost no margin for error in the Senate.
There are a bunch of institutional hurdles that remain quite important given the narrow majority they have in the Senate in particular.
But I think bigger dynamic is the first, which is that now you are talking about taking away benefits from probably tens of millions of people over time. Politically, that’s a very, very difficult thing to do.
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Medicare is very, very popular.
Dylan Matthews
This theory seems to imply that universal programs like Medicare are more politically durable than ones like the Obamacare subsidies and Medicaid expansion, which are means-tested. This is the old, controversial “programs for the poor are poor programs” argument.
Paul Pierson
I think basically that argument is right and maybe has become truer over time because the amount of clout that low-income voters have in our politics has declined. The idea for the poor is going to be a poor program — I think that’s not a bad basic rule of thumb.
The argument I made in the book was that doesn’t necessarily mean that if you start with two social programs, it’s the means-tested program that will get cut disproportionately, because presumably some of that political weakness is already built into the program. It’s already going to be smaller.
There was a time when conservatives said, “It’s the middle-class welfare state that we don’t like, those are things that should be done privately. The public sector should be diminished so all it’s doing is stuff for people who we couldn’t meet their needs through the private sector.” Though actually I think Republicans are changing on this, and the changes they’re talking about to the Affordable Care Act reveal this.
So I think the argument about means-testing and its effect on retrenchment is complicated. I don’t think it’s straightforward that these programs are always going to be the ones where you see the biggest cuts. But at the moment, it’s pretty clear that that’s where the energies of those pushing for retrenchment are focused.
Dylan Matthews
It strikes me that one thing that might have changed in recent decades, that makes rolling back social programs more possible than it once was, is that the parties are a lot better sorted by ideology. There would have been a lot of Republicans who voted for Obamacare and wanted to preserve it in the late 1970s.
Paul Pierson
I think it’s a huge deal that that has changed. It has a whole series of effects. One is that it means for most of the people who are going to be voting on this, who you need to vote for repeal or whatever they put in, overwhelmingly these are people who come from heavily Republican districts or heavily Republican states. They all opposed the ACA if they were in Congress at the time.
So even if they have constituents who benefited from the ACA, they might favor something different. A lot of their voters do not fall in that camp; probably the majority of their voters do not fall in that camp. They are also going to have to run for reelection in primaries dominated by activists and people who are sufficiently engaged that they turn out in low-turnout elections. A lot of those people will be very, very angry if they don’t take action on the Affordable Care Act. That’s a really new development that I think has a big effect.
For most members of Congress, unless you’re in a closely held seat, and most of them are not, that’s probably not something that’s going to keep you up at night. Whereas bucking the party on repealing the Affordable Care Act sets you up for a lot of trouble, potentially. It sets you up for a primary challenge, it sets you up for a lot of recrimination and payback from party leadership and the Trump administration. I think the political calculations look pretty different in a hyperpartisan era.
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Chair of the House Freedom Caucus Mark Meadows.
Dylan Matthews
It seems like there are difficulties due to the fundamental difficulty of taking benefits away from people, and there are coordination difficulties. You have a lot of people with different views in the Republican caucus and you want to get them all. Do you have a sense of how important the coordination problems are relative to the inherent difficulty of welfare state rollback?
Paul Pierson
A wide spectrum of views becomes more problematic in a context when you can only afford to drop two votes.
The institutional and procedural problems are big. The procedural ones, though, offer an opportunity. You can often use congressional procedures to provide cover for members doing things that might be unpopular.
It would be easy to imagine a progression that goes something like this [note that Pierson is saying this weeks before this all actually became Republicans’ plan — Dylan]: They lean toward the Freedom Caucus in producing the House bill, because that’s where they’re worried about losing votes. Then when they get to the Senate, they produce a somewhat more moderate bill in order to allow their members who are more toward that end of the spectrum to have their moment where they can stand up for increasing the generosity of the new law, maybe in mostly symbolic areas. And then you go to conference committee and you essentially write the bill that you want, and you’d throw a lot of the stuff out that you conceded along the way.
And you come back and in both the House and the Senate you just have an up or down vote.
What the leadership seems to be counting on — it seems to me this is risky but not foolish — is that very, very few Republicans are going to be willing to say no on an up or down vote for Congress’s most important domestic policy initiative.
Dylan Matthews
You used a lot of international examples in your book and paper. You have the example of Margaret Thatcher privatizing public housing as rare politically popular retrenchment. Are there any parallels from other industrialized democracies that are useful here? I can’t think of a country, other than maybe Australia in the ’70s, that did a big rollback on health care.
Paul Pierson
I think in general, there’s a strong consensus that this remains very, very difficult to do in most democracies. It doesn’t mean you can’t make changes in social programs, but when do you, you usually have to find a way to do it over an extended period of time.
I can’t think of any comparative precedent for coming in and taking health insurance away from tens of millions of people. That’s just a really big number.
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Obama, Reid, and Pelosi made a lot of compromises with industry to get Obamacare through.
Dylan Matthews
Obama made a super-concerted effort to get Big Pharma and America's Health Insurance Plans (the lobbying arm of the insurance industry) and a lot of other stakeholders on board, who had killed a lot of previous attempts at health care reform.
I’m wondering whether the things that were necessary to get Obamacare through in the first place also weaken it when Republicans try to roll it back. Something that had done less to appease those interest groups — maybe by doing more to expand public insurance programs like Medicaid and Medicare — might have been harder to pass initially, but once passed might have been better at creating its own constituencies.
Paul Pierson
That’s an interesting idea. I think you’re right in describing what the politics were. They cut a bunch of deals with powerful interest groups in order to either get them to support the legislation, or at least get them to be close to neutral. Anything that made it harder to pass the bill probably means you get no bill. It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which you come closer to not getting a bill and yet you got one.
I would imagine if you asked people who had been part of that effort about the political calculations they made, they would probably say, and quite credibly, “Had we not made the concessions we made, you would not have gotten the Affordable Care Act.”
There are a lot of things about the design of the Affordable Care Act that I think made it hard to sell to people. But it sure seems like people are appreciating the ACA more now than they did over the last past seven years.
There’s probably a lot to learn about American politics from that. Maybe it just has to do with the messiness and ugliness of compromise — it’s not inspirational when you compromise, even if you compromise to do something that I think has done an enormous amount for millions of Americans.
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We are thrilled to reveal the cover for THE BLOOD WE CRAVE by Monty Jay coming December 13!
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My secrets are infested with infatuation.
His cravings are dripping in blood.
Is it love?
Or is it something much darker…
An obsession.
Death found me as a young girl. Latching onto the core of my soul.
No one knows what that horrid night did to me. What kind of monster it flourished inside me. I’d become a ghost, hiding from the world so that people would never find out about the morbid desire I harbor.
Until he noticed me.
Thatcher Alexander Pierson: Cunning. Sharp. Beautiful.
A man bred from the seed of a serial killer. Stitched together with old money and Dolce & Gabbana clothing.
He is my strongest fixation. My sweetest, darkest addiction.
And I’m his phantom.
I have haunted him my entire life and now?
He sees me for exactly what I am.
A killer.
I sicken him. But he has always mesmerized me.
When a copycat murderer prowls among the trees of Ponderosa Springs, our loyalty is tested.
It had been foolish of us to believe our revenge would go unpunished. That the town wouldn’t retaliate after what we did.
With our lives hanging in the balance, Thatcher and I have no choice but to coexist.
In the twilight of musty cabins and haunted library towers, my somber secrets are exposed, and his cravings are revealed.
So the question is...What is love without obsession?
*The Blood We Crave will be book 1 of a duet!*
Cover Designer: Opulent Designs, CL Matthews
Add to your Goodreads TBR List: https://bit.ly/3E5pmHa
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