Adele Dubois Blog

Drum roll, please! Introducing the cover of DREAM TRAVELER, coming soon from Ellora’s Cave! I’d love to hear from you with comments about the hunkalicious model. Many thanks to artist Les Byerley for his fabulous creation. Book summary posted below cover pic.

Enjoy! Thanks for reading!   –  Adele Dubois

                                    DREAM TRAVELER

Emily Hopkins has sexy daydreams and secret erotic fantasies that are suddenly coming true.

And they’re ruining her life.

All she wanted was some zing in her ho-hum sex life. After twenty-five years of an otherwise happy marriage, her raging peri-menopausal hormones keep her in a constant state of arousal, just as her nest empties and her overworked husband Bill falls asleep each night in the family room recliner after supper.

When Emily wins a weekend island getaway in an online contest, she hopes the beach fling with her husband will cure her mid-life blues. Trouble is, the prize doesn’t include him. There’s another tiny entry detail she missed without her reading glasses; the exotic island is an anything goes sex theme resort.

Emily vows to stay out of trouble on magical Isle de Paradises, but temptation, including a mystery man who watches her from the shadows, lures her. When chilled cups of Olympus Elixir and a spa treatment called VIGR-X bring her restored short-term youth, her resistance begins to crumble. The most beautiful men and women on earth offer her every erotic desire she has ever dreamed of. Yet, she loves her husband. Will she act out her fantasies or choose fidelity?

Tempted to the breaking point, Emily faces the choice between honoring her marriage vows and submission to Paradises’ wild, carnal pleasures. Will she surrender? Or will Emily discover the secret to renewed marital passion and live happily ever after?

September is the traditional month of change and reorganization. It’s the time we clean up our physical, emotional, and spiritual clutter as we prepare for a new season. For many people September marks the true beginning of the New Year. Children return to school after a long summer break, vacations are over, and our households resume their normal rhythms. This is also a time when we welcome the fall harvest before the dark nights of winter arrive.

The Autumnal Equinox is still celebrated by many cultures worldwide and signals the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Derived from the Latin words aequus (equal) and nox (night), the equinox typically enters between September 22-24 when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator from north to south. This year, September 23, 2007, at 5:51 a.m. EDT marks the exact moment when fall arrives and the astrological calendar enters the sign of Libra. The days and nights will become nearly equal in length, creating balance, as daytime and night both have durations of approximately twelve hours.

The Harvest Moon is the name of the full moon arriving closest to the Autumnal Equinox. In two years out of every three the Harvest Moon rises in September instead of October. The Harvest Moon shines this year on September 26, 2007. No matter where you live in the Northern Hemisphere, the moon will look round and full as it rises in the east around sunset. Farmers will work well into the night to gather their crops as the bright light of the Harvest Moon fills the sky and shines down on the earth.

September also marks the lunar cycle when grapes are traditionally harvested, pressed, and stored to become wine. When the light of the full Harvest Moon, also called the Wine Moon or Fruit Moon, shines bright across half the world on September 26, snuggle close to the one you love and toast the new season with full-bodied glasses of wine or cups of cider.

Who could ask for a more romantic setting than love, a good vintage, and a warm blanket spread beneath the glow of a full Harvest Moon?

A note to readers:

Love Beneath the Harvest Moon is an original article by author Adele Dubois and may not be copied and reposted or reproduced without the courtesy of permission and full credit given to the author. 

There are two places in the world I most love to be. Home and behind the wheel of my Chrysler Sebring convertible.

I discovered that every clich I ever heard about the fun of riding with the top down are true. When I cruise down the road I’m transformed from personality type A to type B. There’s no need to hurry. Suddenly, I’m twenty years younger with the wind blowing through my long, blonde hair. (My hair is always longer and blonder inside my car. :)) Time can’t touch me while the sun warms my skin. Cool breezes tug my clothes and linger on my smiling face. Inside my Sebring I always feel like smiling!

If you’ve always dreamed of owning a convertible, but resisted the urge to indulge your fantasy, I say DO IT!  You’ll be glad you did. The car doesn’t have to be new or expensive. All that’s important is how it makes you feel when you roll that rag top down and put the car in drive.

Adele’s champagne-colored baby.