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Elizabeth A. Reeves is an American author best known for the Unlife, Goldie Locke and Were Bears, Witness Protection for Monsters, and Cindy Eller books. Reeves series of novels are best classified as science fiction and fantasy novels. Though she has been a writer for several years, she is a very private person and as such, there is very little information about her on the web. A very popular legend that also appears on her website and social media profile has it that Elizabeth Reeves was born with a book in hand and immediately asked for a pony. While it is not easy to confirm the veracity of the story, horses and books have been very consistent themes in Reeves’s writing. The author was born in Massachusetts to a father that was a university professor and an artistic mother. She credits her mother for one of the most popular of …show more content…
Reeves. It is cute and fun read and is just what a fluffy paranormal romance needs to be. Cindy is a witch even as he mother prefers that she be called a Magical Being. But while her siblings had passed well on their magical studies, Cindy is the black sheep that flunked every test. Witches are supposed to turn the men they meet into princes but whenever Candy kisses any man, he instantly turns into a toad. One interesting twist is that the uglier the personality of the man the uglier of a toad they become. She believes that when her soul mate turns up, he will not turn into a frog, but so far, every man has been turning into one. What usually happens is that the men that she turns into toads will usually turn back into humans soon after. Things turn ugly when one particularly repulsive toad takes too much time to revert to human form. When she meets a gorgeous man named Timothy at her place of work, she is convinced that he is her soul mate. But now comes the tension, will she kiss him and will he turn into a toad just like all the
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