Stealing My Heart Anthology - help us fight copyright theft

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         Total-E-Bound Publishing Presents 
Now Available in eBook - Stealing My Heart Anhology

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 1st March - Stealing My Heart
 Carol Lynne, D.J. Manly, A.J. Llewellyn, Jaime Samms, Jambrea Jo Jones, Stephani Hecht, Serena Yates

Be it in another time, another dimension, or another world, the authors of the Stealing My Heart Anthology will take you away to a world where male/male love and passion reign.
Stephani Hecht, Jambrea Jo Jones, A.J. Llewellyn and D.J. Manly, Carol Lynne, Jaime Samms, and Serena Yates, have all contributed their talents and their time to make this exciting contribution to male/male erotic romance.
All proceeds will go to help fight illegal e-Book downloading. Thank you, and enjoy!
Stolen Memories by Carol Lynne
On the eve of his mother's funeral, Aden Brousseau met Victor DePasse for the first time. For years his mother had warned him to stay away from the dark-haired neighbour, but on that particular evening, Aden hadn't listened. He'd been fascinated with the handsome man since the day he'd overheard his mother and grandfather refer to Victor as a vampire.
Now, twenty years later, Aden once again is in the presence of Victor DePasse. Only this time he's older and knows exactly what he wants.
After years of visiting his charge in his dreams, Victor suddenly has the man he's fallen in love with in front of him. Does he defy his orders and make Aden his, or does he obey and give Aden up to his destiny?
Stealing Rain by A.J. Llewellyn and D.J. Manly
In the not too distant future, water becomes so scarce the hunt is on for any drop on other planets. Drew and Trace, former lovers find that love, not just rain, is high at any price.
Drew Lecour was once the pride of the military, until he'd decided to leave the federation and became a rogue, selling water to the highest bidder. Trace had a history with Drew, one that involved some hot sex and broken promises. And now, after not seeing him for years, Drew and his crew suddenly show up on a planet Trace has been contracted to protect, a planet where Drew is set to drill for water.
Trace doesn't have a choice. He has to defend the water supply. His men are waiting for their leader to give the order to kill, but he can't bring himself to do that. So he confiscates Drew's equipment and takes him prisoner; but having Drew naked and at his mercy proves far more challenging than he'd anticipated, and then, there are others forces at play.
Hotwired Heart by Jaime Samms
A good car thief needs sixty seconds, but grand theft heart might take even less time than that.
Freedom and trust; opposite sides of the same coin that could give expert car thief, Marky, the win he's looking for. Little does he know escaping his gang ties will lead him through heartbreak and into cuffs he hadn't even thought to watch out for. Now he can trust the powerful man who wants to help, or he can keep running.
It all depends on how much he values his freedom, and whether or not Roland has managed the impossible; hijacking Marky's carefully guarded heart.
The Magic Thieves by Serena Yates
Elryk Muyd'omir is the most powerful lightning wizard born on Tah'Nut in two hundred years and a pacifist. When he refuses to co-operate with the illegally ruling Xoh'kas family they torture and kill his lover. Rather than risking the death of thousands by losing control over his lightning magic in his rage, he flees to Earth—a place without magic. When the gateway that connects Tah'Nut to other worlds opens Elryk knows that the Law Forces have found him. It is time to either face cruel punishment or fight.
Kaythan Vs'urr is a Law Force Commander who is sent to retrieve the criminal wizard Elryk. He is expected to return him to Tah'Nut for ‘reprogramming'. Secretly disgusted with the Xoh'kas' lack of determination to stop the magic thieves, he has decided to win Elryk for his plan of defeating them. All they need to do is find the fabled Magic Shield to prevent further thievery.
Can Elryk trust the gorgeous Law Commander who wants his help? Will the two men be able to work together to defeat the Xoh'kas and eliminate the magic thieves?
Stealing Michael by Jambrea Jo Jones
Can one wrong make it right?
Robert's mother pushes him into stealing a painting. He is in over his head when the homeowner catches him in the act. It leaves him wondering what to do now?
Michael's life turns in a new direction when a stranger enters his home and the urge to protect the thief overcomes his common sense. He knows he should be angry but who can resist a thief that looks like an angel?
Dragon's Eye by Stephani Hecht
After a decade of living under the iron rule of a sorcerer, dragon shifter, Duncan Moore finally has his chance for freedom. With his former master dead, all Duncan has to do is steal the very thing that has been holding him captive all these years, his dragon's eye. The stone holds his magic and his dragon self and without it, he can never go home again.
What should be an easy theft turns complicated when he finds that someone has beat him to the eye and he has no idea where it could be. To add to things he suddenly finds himself teamed up with the dead sorcerers' son, Trent. For years Duncan has longed for Trent, but had never dared act on his desires. Then one night of passion between the men changes everything and Duncan realises that he could lose something far more valuable than his dragon's eye, he could lose Trent.
Will Duncan be able to save them both? Or will he have to make the ultimate sacrifice?

All eBook proceeds from this anthology will go towards the Authors Against Copyright Theft Fund, helping the cause to fight copyright theft.

  Foreword from Authors Against Copyright Theft (AACT)
  First of all, we'd like to thank you for your purchase of this anthology. The proceeds will go towards the purchase of advertisement against the illegal downloading of copyrighted materials, specifically, electronic books.
Writing is a craft which demands a great deal from its practitioner. It is often a painstaking effort carried out in solitude.
Authors don't count their hours, like in other kinds of labor, for if we calculated our salary per hour, we'd probably fall into a depression, but even that would never be enough to make us stop writing.
Writers have a compulsion to write. We are artists, like any painter or sculptor, we need to create.
When someone reads a book and enjoys it, they probably don't think much about the process, and they're not supposed to. The best books are those that appear as if they wrote themselves.
But they don't.
There is a living, breathing person behind that book. And that person needs to eat and pay their bills, as unglamorous as that may sound. 
Each time someone illegally downloads a copyrighted book, they affect an author's salary. That means the author, readers love to read so much, that author who takes them away from their everyday lives and gives them those moments just to escape, may be struggling financially. Illegal downloading meant that the author's work is being stolen, passed from reader to reader without the author ever seeing a cent of royalties from those downloads.
I've heard all the arguments for illegal downloading; including everything on the internet is there for the taking, and it should be free to use. But that's just not true. The internet is a marketplace. It's the place you can go to purchase what you want. You may have it delivered directly to your doorstep, like something off eBay; or delivered to your personal computer, like a book or a software program. If something is offered for free, it's free. But if something wears a price tag, it means it's for sale, like any book in a physical bookstore. It also means that there are people expecting to receive payment for that book: the publisher who keeps the website where the books are stored, the editor who makes the copy clean, the artist who contributes to the cover, and the author who created the work.
How many times have you passed along a paperback you have purchased? We all do it, without giving it a thought. But there is a difference between lending your novel to your mother, and downloading copies of an ebook for free to post it online so that countless others can download it as well, sometimes thousands of people within days.
Some argue that maybe illegal downloaders can't afford to buy a book, or they represent the ones who wouldn't buy an ebook anyway. I figure if a person has enough money for a computer, and the internet, that person can afford to pay for an ebook. And it's not at all fair to the readers that take money out of their pocket and pay for their books. Should we reward those who steal a book by letting them get away with it, while penalizing those readers who are honest and respect authors? If you knew that you could shoplift in one store and get away with it, would it make sense to shop at the store across the street where you had to pay? If we don't take a stand against illegal downloading of ebooks, there will not be any new books published to download, illegal or otherwise. Ebook publishing is a business. It's not a charity. 
Electronic books are the future. A great many of us writing in the industry today started writing ebooks when people scoffed at the idea. No one would buy these books! Well, people aren't laughing anymore. Even the major book publishers are now investing in the ebook industry. Big name writers are jumping on the bandwagon. Ebooks are profitable, environmentally responsible, and economical for the reader. And the industry will continue to grow. Ebook sales are already surpassing print sales. Laws will become stricter, and eventually illegal downloading will be more difficult to accomplish. It has already started. People have been fined, closed down, and cut off from the internet for copyright theft.
Illegal downloading sites are now scrambling their files, naming them different things, making it difficult for authors to find their books and demand they be taken down. If you need assurance that these people are doing something illegal, their actions to hide their activity speaks volumes.
If you as a reader truly love an author, if you get enjoyment from that author's work, and look forward to the next book, then fight illegal downloading wherever you see it. If a writer isn't making enough money to pay the bills, they will have to take on more unrelated work. That unrelated work takes the writer away from their craft, which means the author you love so much may no longer have enough time to do what you want them to do; write.
I hope you enjoy this anthology. It is a labor of love, and of hope. We hope that readers respect writers enough to keep them writing. Unlike illegal downloaders, we're not asking for anything for free, we're only asking for what we're due.
Thank you.
D.J. Manly (on behalf of Authors Against Copyright Theft)

Adam Killian's statement:
"I said yes when AJ asked me to do the cover of Stealing My Heart, because like the book industry, mine is being affected by piracy. I said yes because if it's good for AJ, it's good for me. I said yes with pleasure and pride. I am proud to be the face for this groundbreaking book. From my heart to yours,
Adam Killian."