I hope readers will enjoy creating Reckless Dreaming as a movie in their mind. That is ahead of any possible theatrical production. - Nick David, Screenwriter ENLIGHTENMENT, LOVE, AND A STING ARE JUST AROUND THE CORNER AND YET SO FAR AWAY. WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF RECKLESS DREAMING! Imagine a game of Strip Chess surrounded everywhere you turn by strip the soul! Michael and Tara use everything including their wits for weapons! Meanwhile, no knowledge of chess will be needed to determine who is winning as their match progresses. Chess masters Tara, 33, and Michael, 34, stage a high stakes match in San Francisco that their chess rival fathers never got a chance to play. Michael is an intense “win at any cost” player with his own obsessions. Tara is an embattled singer and Eastern Religion buff. As a reformed alcoholic, she leaves a Buddhist monastery on a quest for enlightenment and love. Tara keeps one vital secret from Michael: She has a brain tumor which could kill her at any time! Not knowing her condition, Michael hires Destiny, a possible girlfriend who is into the occult, to play mind games on Tara. However, Destiny plans much more than just mental harm. In a class, Destiny receives a device that helps her enter other people’s dreams. Then, as Destiny remarks, “What could they charge me with, reckless dreaming?” Meanwhile, psychotic “fellow-dreamer” Dwayne pursues a Tarot card riddle which doesn’t bode well for Tara! A female artist influences events in unique ways. Additional obstacles stack the deck against our heroine. More conflict brews in the subplot. It reveals that Tara, Michael, and the rest of the cast are pitted against the unscrupulous producer Wesley. It’s all yours to find out if a sting causes the plot and subplot to merge into multiple twist climaxes! Comments from 3 Professional Script Consultants: Paul Young’s clients have included Academy Award Nominees for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Paul wrote that “Reckless Dreaming has plausibility, substance, focus, resonance, appeal, and emotional power, which helps to create a single film with its own inner layers and complexities.” - Literary & Screenplay Consultants Woodland Hills, CA “All in all, you’ve succeeded in writing an interesting erotic film which has intellectual appeal.” - Caroline Blair San Francisco, CA “You have drawn a very creative visual treatment for moving into and out of dream-space and time.” - Constance Richardson Mill Valley, CA Front Cover Photo: “Evidence” by Nick David www.nickdavid.photoshelter.com www.recklessdreaming.com

A lustful desireBecomes a reckless dreamBetween star-crossed lovers comes a tale like no other.Aurora Moretti:They say opposites attract, but what if we're on opposite sides of the law?Can it become what we dream it to be?I cross my heart and hope like hell we don't die.I dream of being his and him being mine.A reckless dream.Our dream.Cade Edwards:All relationships have obstacles.Some end, unable to overcome them.Some surpass all expectations, fighting whatever comes their way.She kept a secret.Hers not to tell.She's a Princess, but not the glass-slipper fairytale.The kind, my choice of career, stops me from getting her.She's my own personal forbidden fruit, and I've already had my taste.This is Book One of the Moretti Family Series.It's a full length novel that can be read as a standalone.Reckless Dream is a forbidden romance with mafia aspects giving readers an introduction into the Moretti Crime Family.This book is for an audience of 18 years or older!

Tru, a performing singer-songwriter, and Brittany, a photographer and artist, shared a beautiful home on Castle Mountain in Colorado, enjoyed horseback riding in the snow-laden hills, and romantic nights in front of the fireplace. But when an average day ends in a tragic accident, Tru must embark upon a quest to regain the life she once had with her lover, while Brittany returns to a life she neither remembers, nor approves of. Complications increase as sinister outsiders take advantage of the precarious situation. Yearning, revelations, and lurking danger pull at the threads of a once-idyllic life. As You Were is a romantic story driven by mystery and suspense. --

A genre-defying debut, this queer historical YA centers a wild and reckless trio who fly in the face of small-town tradition—full of compassion, love, and determination to live the lives of their choosing. It’s 1904 on an island just west of Norway, and Asta Hedstrom doesn’t want to marry her odious betrothed, Nils. But her mother believes she should be grateful for the possibility of any domestic future, given her single-sided deafness, unconventional appearance, and even stranger notions. Asta would rather spend her life performing in the village theater with her fellow outcasts: her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, wealthy Erlend Fournier. But the situation takes a dire turn when Nils lashes out in jealousy—gravely injuring Gunnar. Shunning marriage for good, Asta moves with Gunnar and Erlend to their secluded cabin above town. With few ties left to their families, they have one shot at gaining enough kroner to secure their way of life: win the village’s annual horse race. Despite Gunnar’s increasing misgivings, Asta and Erlend intend to prove this unheard-of arrangement will succeed. Asta trains as a blacksmith; Erlend cares for recovering Gunnar. But as race day approaches, the villagers’ hateful ignorance only grows stronger. With this year’s competition proving dangerous for the trio, Asta and Erlend soon find they face another equally deadly peril: the possibility of losing Gunnar, and their found family, forever.

Poet England gives life to her dreams in this stunning text and image collection. Her collages and dioramas are constructed from fabric and paper scraps from the debris of conscious life. In this subconscious geography, viewers travel through the nightmares of the political, the paranoia of the responsible, and the tragedy of the critically aware.

A new provocative love story from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. “The story of Zee and Gentry is the reason we read.” —Brunonia Barry Their journey will break them—or save them. A moving and complicated love story for our time, The Reckless Oath We Made redefines what it means to be heroic. Zee has never admitted to needing anybody. But she needs Gentry. Her tough exterior shelters a heart that’s loyal to the point of self-destruction, while autistic Gentry wears his heart on his sleeve, including his desire to protect Zee at all costs. When an abduction tears Zee’s family apart, she turns to Gentry—and sets in motion a journey and a love that will change their lives forever. “[A] mind-blowing book that has left me scrambling to pick up the pieces of my brain and my shattered heart . . . Prepare to have your mind and heart expanded to their limits.” —The Oklahoman

First paperback publication of the third book in Cornelia Funke's internationally bestselling Reckless series. The worlds on either side of the mirror are about to collide. And there's nothing Jacob can do to stop them. After a perilous encounter with an Alder Elf - an immortal, trick-­turning creature to whom he owes a great debt - Jacob must journey back into the enchanted Mirrorworld once again. Together with Fox, his beautiful shape­shifting friend, Jacob has no choice but to follow his brother on the trail of the Dark Fairy, who has fled deep into the East: to a land of folklore, Cossacks, spies, time­-eating witches and flying carpets. But what exactly is the Dark One running from? Could it be the same danger that threatens Jacob and Fox? The third book in the Reckless series, The Golden Yarn is a thrilling tale of courage and fear, jealousy and forbidden desire; in which love has the power both to save a life - and to destroy it.

The fog is getting worse... A couple empty beer bottles rattle in the back seat, but I forgot they were there. My family portrait-we took it a year before the accident-sits taped to the dash. It's the only image left of her. I can't see the road anymore, and there is a car coming straight at me with his brights on, but my eyes are still fixed on the picture. Jim looks up at me and smiles. I catch his glance from the corner of my eye and smile back... Unconscious after a tragic accident, a man finds himself trapped in his imagination. Feeling anguish and resentment toward his past decisions, fear dominates his mentally-constructed world. In a journey through a phantasmal place in which he is faced with regret and self-hatred, every character he encounters represents a part of him and his shattered life. After losing everything he once held dear, each step in this nightmarish trek brings him closer to realizing what life is worth. In time, fear turns to beauty, and what he thinks he lost might actually be found in the mess of emotions that plague his troubled soul. Let The Motions of a Reckless Soul cause you to slip into your own imagination, and you will undoubtedly discover catharsis through the experience of battling through breaking points and finding redemption. Through one character's journey of suspense and tragedy, you can peel back the layers of the human experience and understand who we all really are underneath it all.