{"id":5001,"date":"2009-11-27T10:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T01:27:55","slug":"stay-by-moriah-jovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/stay-by-moriah-jovan\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay by Moriah Jovan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/b10mediaworx.com\/covers\/stay\/stay-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">Yup, it\u2019s here, November 27, 2009, Black Friday, the official release date for <em>Stay<\/em>, Book 2 in the Dunham Series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"indent\">\nAt 12, Vanessa Whittaker defied her family to save 17-year-old bad boy Eric Cipriani from wrongful imprisonment and, possibly, death. She\u2019d hoped for a \u201cthank you\u201d from him, a kiss on the cheek, but before she could grow up and grow curves, he left town.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFourteen years later, Vanessa is a celebrity chef at the five-star Ozarks resort she built. Eric is the new Chouteau County prosecutor on his way to the White House.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\nFour hours apart and each tied to their own careers, their worlds have no reason to intersect until a funeral brings Vanessa back to Chouteau County, back to face the man for whom she\u2019d risked so much, the only man she ever wanted\u2014<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u2014the only man she can\u2019t have.<\/div>\n<p>For those of you who read <a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/thebooks\/theproviso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Proviso<\/em><\/a>, you know it ended on January 1, 2009. <em>Stay<\/em> picks up with the <em>adult<\/em> Eric Cipriani (Knox\u2019s executive assistant prosecutor) and Vanessa Whittaker (Knox\u2019s ward and business partner) on January 5, 2009, five days after Eric replaces Knox as the Chouteau County prosecutor. \u201cThe Pack\u201d are secondary characters, with enough face time to give you a good idea what\u2019s going on in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>You can special order it in print from your local bookstore or library (it\u2019s in the Ingram\u2019s catalog\u2014don\u2019t let them tell you different) with ISBN 9780981769639. You can order it in print online at Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, Books-a-Million, Powell\u2019s, and Book Depository (Borders is, apparently, out of the loop). You can get it in digital at <strike>Scribd<\/strike>, Amazon for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stay-Tales-of-Dunham-ebook\/dp\/B002WN34WE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kindle<\/a>, and <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Smashwords<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>What we hope you do, though, is buy directly from the publisher, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">B10 Mediaworx<\/span>, in either print or digital, as it\u2019s cheaper for everybody.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"><em>Stay<\/em> has a website, just like <em>The Proviso<\/em> does<\/span>. What\u2019s there is not all I have to put there, but regular updates will happen to make it fresh.<\/p>\n<p><em>Magdalene<\/em>, Book 3 in the Dunham series, has a tentative release date of April 24, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, it\u2019s here, November 27, 2009, Black Friday, the official release date for Stay, Book 2 in the Dunham Series. At 12, Vanessa Whittaker defied her family to save 17-year-old bad boy Eric Cipriani from wrongful imprisonment and, possibly, death. She\u2019d hoped for a \u201cthank you\u201d from him, a kiss on the cheek, but before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-of-dunham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15740,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}