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“I was longing for a book that I would not want to put down and get totally engrossed in the story. I found it in Portal. This gets you from the prologue and won’t let go. It is a YA but I am 55 and loved it. For me it was a mixture of Time Traveler’s wife with the romance of TwiLight. I loved it and will read it again. I downloaded the next one to start on right away.
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Come Find Me Two Years Ago…


Six words that propelled ice hockey playing tomboy, Arizona, into an alternate dimension.

She suddenly found herself in the past. In one moment she went from being an ice hockey playing teenager in New Jersey to a glamorous cheerleader in California. She found herself transported from a happy life with her dad, Dillard, to a new, strange one living with her mother whom she hates. Apparently it’s a life she’s always lived in.

Everyone knows her as Arizona Darley, but she isn’t. She is Arizona Stevens.

As she struggles to find answers she is certain of one thing- that her mother Olivia, a brilliant physicist, is somehow responsible. .

PORTAL is the story of the repercussions of Olivia Darley’s attempt at creating a perfect world for herself and her children. Arizona’s quest for answers threatens to undermine the seemingly perfect world that her mother has so carefully constructed.

PORTAL is the first book of the Portal Chronicles. Fans of time travel, romance, and the supernatural will enjoy Arizona’s quest for answers.


What the Reviewers Say

“I was in the mood to try a Sci-Fi type book and at $.99 I didn’t have much to lose. Well, after reading Portal I nearly feel like I owe Imogen Rose money! This is more fantasy than science fiction as there is very little science involved. Portal is a time travel story about teenager Arizona Darley, who is transported from one reality to another. It’s actually a YA book but I found it enjoyable. When I first realized that the story was going to follow Arizona rather than her mother I worried that this would be a book of teen angst. However, the “come find me two years ago” line from chapter 1 ensured I was going to finish the book! I am glad to report that I was completely wrong, Arizona isn’t that kind of annoying teenage girl; she’s tough and determined and she goes after what she wants. I was amazed to find that I genuinely liked the character.

“I really liked the ending. At first, the author wraps it up for you. Arizona’s decision is made. I’m happy with it. Then comes the epilogue… cliff hanger! I thought that was a great way to have a cliff hanger – finish the story I’ve been reading and start another one. I think I read this book in 2 hours and then I immediately downloaded Equilibrium. ” –Blondie, Reviewer


“I wanted to find a book that was just as good or better than Twilight series, I think I just have. Imogen Rose is a wonderful writer and I know that when the rest of the world reads this book [it] is going to fall in love with all of the main character from Arizona, to Kellan. The love between Kellan and Arizona is something that all young girls and young at heart will fall in love with and want more. I just want to say that this book is amazing and will be something I would read again [and] again. .” –Photogirl08, Reviewer


The second book in the series has been rated 4.7 out of 5 stars by 27 reviewers and opens with the disappearance of Arizona Darley and her siblings. How will their mother rescue them without access to the time-travel portal she invented?

This third volume, which received an impressive 4.9 out of 5 stars from 15 reviewers, follows Arizona a year later as her life is plunged into a whirlwind ride through the unknown.


About the Author


Imogen Rose was born in a small town in Sweden and moved to London in her twenties. After obtaining a PhD in immunology from Imperial College, she moved with her family to New Jersey, where she has been based for the past ten years. Storytelling is her real passion and she is excited to be publishing, Portal, her first work of fiction.


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Free Kindle Nation Shorts – December 24, 2010: An Excerpt from RIPTIDE, (a Jake Lassiter Mystery) by Paul Levine

By Stephen Windwalker
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“The old man loved gadgets, money, and large-breasted women, and at the moment, he had all three.”

That was the first line of fiction that author Paul Levine ever wrote. It was a keeper, and with a nod to the strange alchemy by which a working novelist’s initial scribbles survive the visions and revisions that turn them, ultimately, into a terrific book, that line ended up as the first line in the second chapter of RIPTIDE, the Jake Lassiter mystery that we feature tonight in the first of our special holiday Free Kindle Nation Shorts excerpts.
Thus it will be less of a surprise when I share with you the fact that although RIPTIDE was the 5th novel in Levine’s bestselling and highly acclaimed Lassiter series, it was actually the first written. (So, by the way, it is safe to say that you are likely to enjoy this one whether you’ve read the “earlier” Lassiters or not. It’s also safe to say that if you read RIPTIDE, you are going to want to check out other great Jake Lassiter reads like
In RIPTIDE, Lassiter chases a beautiful thief and her boyfriend, trying to recover money stolen from his client. And as Paul Levine told Kindle Nation this week:

“It’s the only Lassiter book based on a case I handled as a lawyer.  I had an 80-year-old client who closely resembled Sam Kazdoy.  He really had an office assistant, a busty woman “somewhere between 40 and hell,” who would perform strip teases in his office.  And she really had a boyfriend who stole $1.6 million in negotiable bonds from Sam’s desk drawer.  In real life, I got the bonds back.  But there was no action sequence in a helicopter above the Kilauea volcano, and I did not windsurf from Maui to Molokai, get upended by a breeching whale, and fight a cold-stone killer in the jungle.  Or if I did, I don’t recall.”
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C H A P T E R   1
Dragon’s Teeth

Standing barefoot and bare-chested in a moonlit tidal pool, the muscular Hawaiian watched the fat man approach, carrying a canvas backpack, slipping on the wet rocks as the roiling surf crashed offshore. The fat man yelled something but was drowned out by the thunderclap of a wave against the volcanic shelf.

Closer now, the man lost his balance and slid into a depression of muck and seawater. He caught himself on a smooth boulder the shape of a tombstone, polished grayish-white by a million years of salt spray. Gingerly, the man navigated between two sharp rocks embedded in the sand.


“Do you know how much I paid for these boots?” the man asked, mournfully lifting a leg from the slime. “Ostrich skin, hand-stitched in Australia.”


As motionless as one of the rocks, the Hawaiian silently watched the fat man, whose voice rose over the howl of wind and waves. “Eleven hundred bucks! I oughta take it right off the top.”


A gust lifted the tail of the fat man’s aloha shirt – white orchids and red heliconia – that still bore creases from the hotel gift shop. “You and your damn rituals.” The man lowered his voice into a formal cadence. “‘Go past the village called Honokahua just behind Makaluapuna Point. Meet me at the rocks they call Dragon’s Teeth.'” A roller crashed and foaming water cascaded into the tidal pool. “What horseshit! Christ, I thought the
cachacos in Colombia were weird, but you Maui Wowies are really two cans short of a six-pack.”


“Do you have the money?”


“You got some nerve, punk, you know that?” The fat man’s eyes darted toward the Hawaiian’s crotch. “Jeez, what’re you wearing, a goddamn loincloth?”


“The
malo is made from the skin of a wild goat.”


“You look like some fruit from Fire Island.”


“My ancestors wore these when they paddled canoes from Tonga to Hawaii, seven hundred years before Columbus.”


The fat man’s boots made a squishing sound as he stepped closer to the darker-skinned, younger man. “Spare me another history lesson, okay?” He swung the backpack off his shoulder. “It’s all here, which is more than I can say for your deliveries. You shortchanged us by twenty percent last time, and my superiors have changed my orders.”


The fat man reached into the backpack and came out with a long-barreled .41-caliber revolver, its satin finish catching the glint of the moon. “I’m sorry about this. You know how I hate violence. If there was any way to work it out, I’d – “


“You should not aim at my head,” the Hawaiian told him, placidly. “A simple movement, and you would miss.” He tucked his head left, then right, a young Muhammad Ali slipping a punch. “Then I would kill you.”


The fat man licked his lips and lowered the gun toward the younger man’s heart.


“That cannon is too heavy for you,” the Hawaiian continued. “You need two hands to steady it. Or are you just nervous? Are you tasting fear along with your hotel dinner of roast beef and mashed potatoes?”


“Hey, you’re the one who should be afraid, beach boy.” He struggled to toughen his voice, but the pitch rose just enough to betray him. “You dicked around with the wrong guys.”


“Do I look as if I am afraid?”


“No, you and your Polynesian warrior bullshit wouldn’t allow it.”


The Hawaiian turned toward the crashing waves. Across the Pailolo Channel, the cliffs of Molokai rose from the black sea, silhouetted by the moonlight. “My people had no metal. Their sailing canoes were made of wood lashed together with coconut fibers and caulked with breadfruit gum. The sails were woven from
hala leaves.”


“Who gives a shit?”


“They had no navigational instruments. Just the stars and the moon and their
knowledge of ocean currents and the flight of seabirds.”


“Seabirds,” the fat man repeated, shaking his head. “You been smoking too much of your own shit.”


“They followed the clouds on the horizon to find mountainous islands in the sea. All this my people knew.”


“What’s your point?”


The Hawaiian turned back to face the man with the gun. “What is it that you know,
haole? Could you survive even one week in the jungle on Molokai barely ten miles from your luxury hotel?”


The fat man shifted his weight uncomfortably. “I was too busy stealing hubcaps to get my Eagle Scout badge, okay?”


“If you and I were alone in the jungle, who would survive and who would die?”


“That ain’t the way it is,” the fat man said, wagging the gun. “I got Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson on my side.” A wave crashed on the rocks and the spray shot over them.


“On a shore very much like this, the English sailors aimed their guns at my ancestors.
Your Captain Cook believed the natives would surely surrender.”


“Hey, he wasn’t
my captain.”


“Except for wooden fence posts and rocks, we were unarmed.” He smirked at the fat man. “And dressed like fruits from Fire Island.”


“You sound like you were there.”


“Oh, but I was.”


Another wave hit, a torrent rushing over them, the backwash tugging at their legs.
The fat man’s boots filled with seawater and sunk deeper into the muck. He tried to lift a leg. “All right, enough. I gotta get this over with. Finish your damn story. It’s the last one you’ll ever tell.”


The Hawaiian’s smile shone in the moonlight. “We were on our own land. There was never any chance we would surrender. We swarmed over the English, while singing praises to our gods. We crushed Cook’s skull against the rocks, then stripped the flesh from his bones.”


“Great story. I’ll watch for it on HBO.” The fat man seemed to shiver as the sea breeze picked up and whipped a frothy spray over him. He looked profoundly sad as he drew back the hammer on the large-framed revolver. “Look, I hate this part of the job, but I got no choice.” A giant roller tumbled past the rocks and surged over them, filling the tidal pool up to their knees. The fat man coughed and spit. “Shit! I’ll take a dark alley in Jersey City over this anytime.”


“High tide,” the Hawaiian said, looking toward the moon. “You must always know your surroundings. Listen to the earth and the sea, and they will speak to you.” He turned toward the fat man and braced himself against a boulder.


“What the hell are you – “


A giant wave crashed past the rocks that resembled dragon’s teeth and cascaded over them. The surge twisted the fat man around in his sunken boots and toppled him into the water, the gun flying from his hand. Before the backwash could drain from the tidal pool, the younger man was on him, grabbing him by the neck, bashing his head against a boulder, time and again, the fat man’s skull shattering like a coconut under the ax, his cries drowned out by the roar of the ceaseless waves.


C H A P T E R   2
The Old Man, the Blonde, and the Bonds


The old man loved gadgets, money, and large-breasted women
, and at the moment, he had all three. His thick hands caressed the newest gadget, a sixty-second camera, turned it over and admired its smoothness, a tidy little box cool to the touch. The money came from the sale of Corrugated Container Corp., the company he had founded in the 1920s. The breasts belonged to Violet Belfrey, and she relied on them as an aging fastball pitcher might his slider. Few men remembered a word Violet said, but the image of her full breasts endured for years. A lot of men and a lot of years. With her solid cheekbones and strong jaw, Violet’s age was impossible to determine.
Somewhere between forty and hell, the old man guessed.


She showed him how to open the camera, her hands touching his and lingering.
“Birthday present for you,” Violet Belfrey said. “Now, let’s take some pictures.”


Samuel Kazdoy shrugged his rounded shoulders. “What’s to take here?”


They were in his office on the mezzanine of the South Side Theater in Miami Beach.
The ventilation was bad, and the theater smelled of age, a tired building in a dying part of town that somehow missed the renaissance going on all around it. Samuel Kazdoy puttered around every afternoon in the dimly lit office and checked in evenings at his twenty-four-hour delicatessen on Collins Avenue. If you’ve worked for seventy years, you can’t turn it off just because the sand is running out of the glass.


“Ah’ll show you two things to take,” Violet said, peeling off her orlon sweater and slipping out of a sheer red brassiere. She loosened her platinum hair, shaking it in streams over her shoulders, her breasts tumbling free. “How’s this for a Kodak moment?”


He squinted through the viewfinder. “Ay, you got some moxie,
bubeleh.”


“Jes’ aim and push the button,” Violet said. He did, the flash bleaching the office in white light and casting tiny shadows in the furrows of her forehead. She squeezed out of her tight jeans and high-stepped out of her panties that matched the brassiere right down to the red frilly trim. She turned sideways and arched her back so that her buns jutted skyward like the ramp of a ski jump, and at the same time, squashed her breasts together with her arms. There was no seduction on her lips, no excitement in her eyes. She could have been composing grocery lists for all that her face revealed.

Kazdoy clicked another picture. Eyes smarting from the flash, Violet Belfrey saw a strip joint in Jacksonville a dozen years earlier. She had danced on a table there and even now could smell the stale beer on the wooden bar and feel the salesmen’s clammy hands tucking dollar bills into her garter, copping a quick feel as she stepped down. She hated it when the music stopped and she heard the scumbags laughing and the glasses tinkling, no longer able to pretend she was alone.

Violet Belfrey saw more than her share of motel ceilings in Jax, which she figured was the world’s largest jerkwater town, a place where the stench of the paper mills clung to your clothes like flypaper on a summer night. She had been stuck halfway between the Carolina mountains and the Florida Gold Coast, and the money was decent even if the men were not. She remembered a blur of flushed faces, of men who leaned close with spur breath and winked that maybe a double sawbuck was the key to her apartment door. Never again, she had vowed, would she sell herself. At least not so cheaply, she later amended.


Gottenyu!” Kazdoy wore a child’s look of astonishment as the instant film developed before his eyes. The legs appeared, the bare round bottom, the breasts filling in, all creamy smoothness, the nipples flat, oblivious to his attention.


Kazdoy loosened his clip-on tie and removed the plaid sports coat. An old sensation tugged within him but he knew it was his memory stirring, not his loins.


He shuffled across the cluttered office filled with photos of company picnics, sketches of new factories, and industry awards. A short man with fringes of white hair, he wore a blue plaid polyester sports coat and a baggy pair of pants that fit better when Ike was president. Placing a hand on Violet’s shoulder, Kazdoy said, “Here,
bubeleh, I got something for you.”


She stiffened a moment, an old reflex no matter how many times she’d been down that road. The feeling passed as it always did and she was ready for him, but Samuel Kazdoy walked past her, threw back a soiled blanket that covered a file cabinet, and twirled a combination lock. Violet squinted, but the seventy-five-watt bulb tossed shadows, and her eyes still saw blue lightning from the flash.


“How do you remember the combination?” she asked, hoping he would say it aloud. “My little ole head would never keep all the numbers straight.”


Kazdoy laughed, touching a finger to his forehead. “My
hop still works, even if my schmeckel don’t.” He opened the cabinet and Violet saw bundles of papers, legal-looking with fancy script writing and colorful borders. “Coupons,” he continued, reaching in with both hands, a kid in a candy bowl. “Put ’em in a safe place. And the first of every month, take ’em to the bank.”


The only coupons Violet knew got you twenty-five cents off the kitchen cleanser, so she had no idea what he was giving her, but she figured if you take them to the bank, they can’t be half bad. Violet stuffed the documents into the bag from the camera store and quickly put on her clothes. She gave the old man a peck on the cheek.


“Thanks, Mr. K. You’re the only thing in pants what’s ever been nice to me without askin’ somethin’ in return.”


“You’re some
tsatske,” he said with the smile of a young man. His dark eyes were bright and still sparkled with the gift of laughter. “Now run along before I start something I can’t finish. I got coupons to clip for the first of December, and so do you.”


“You’re a sweetie,” Violet said, wondering what the hell he had given her and what
was left behind in the locked cabinet.


“Sweetie?” Samuel Kazdoy shook his head and smiled again. “Twenty years ago … no make it ten, I’d have given you something sweet. I’d have
shtupped you from here to Shamokin.”


* * *


The sign bolted to the stucco wall said sea view terrace, though the drab, three-story building had neither. Violet had moved in shortly after answering the classified ad in the
Miami Beach Sun: “Shayna maidel or shiksa wanted as Gal Friday for owner of theater and delicatessen.” She figured the job couldn’t be worse than the midnight shift at the Sunny Isles Peep Show.


It was only a five-minute walk to the apartment building from Kazdoy’s office, and tonight there would be no detours. A few aging widows still lived there, having relocated from Brooklyn or Jersey, but now the tenants were mostly Hispanic. To Violet, they were mostly Cuban, for she made no distinction between the Salvadorans, Nicaraguans, Costa Ricans, Colombians, and a melting pot of others from the Caribbean and Central and South America. All she knew, they jabbered in Spanish so loud you couldn’t hear the old Jews hacking up phlegm across the hall.


Violet
could tell the difference between her Hispanic neighbors and the Haitians who moved in a block away at the Ocean Manor. The Haitians were blacker than midnight, poorer than Georgia crackers, and they scared the bejesus out of her when she walked by their building. No matter that the men looked down as she walked by, Violet feared them for their barechested blackness. This night, one of them painted bright pictures on a piece of driftwood, another carved a woman’s torso in a piece of dark mahogany. Violet eyeballed the knife as she passed. She clenched the camera store bag until her knuckles were white. Thirty paces from the front steps of her building, a blur flashed from behind.


“Cuidate mujer!”
Manuel, a skinny twelve-year-old from the second floor, flew by on his skateboard and Violet stumbled off the curb.


“Stay off the sidewalk, you little greaseball!” Violet shrieked after him.


Tingling with anticipation, Violet climbed the stairs. The hallway smelled of fried bananas. Behind the thin walls, a child wailed. Once inside her apartment, Violet’s bony hands were a blur of motion. She made a small pot of black coffee. She tied her hair back into a ponytail and sat cross-legged in the tiny living room. She spread the papers onto the living room floor, the cheap shag carpeting matted under the glorious display of colors, blue and orange and purple borders. On top of each one, a finely etched eagle, a magnificent predator with wings unfolding and poised for flight.
Violet Belfrey felt like singing the national anthem.


Sipping the strong coffee, she arranged the papers alphabetically, which seemed the businesslike thing to do. First came “Allegheny County Industrial Development Authority Environmental Improvement Bond, United States Steel Corporation Project 6-3/4 percent.”


Bonds, she thought, smiling, for she had heard of stocks and bonds. She had posted bond once on a crummy soliciting charge, but that was different. Posting bond, you paid them; stocks and bonds, they paid you. She folded the bond along its creased lines into a little package. On the front, it said, “Five Thousand Dollars,” a wonderful round number. She unfolded the pretty package and inside, attached to the bond, were three dozen little slips with tiny print like an eye exam. Must be the coupons the old man mentioned, she thought. They each said $168.75 payable every September 1 and March 1. Then, what the hell, in the year of our Lord 2012, she would get the five grand.


Too damn long.


Her tits would hang to her hips by then. Tomorrow she would take the bonds to her bank where the vice president with the rat’s tail mustache and wandering hands would tell her how the hell to get some money now. Not about to wait six months to cash little tickets like a shitty bolita prize, much less nearly twenty years for the jackpot.

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Come Find Me Two Years Ago….

Six words that propelled ice hockey playing tomboy, Arizona, into an alternate dimension.

She suddenly found herself in the past. In one moment she went from being an ice hockey playing teenager in New Jersey to a glamorous cheerleader in California. She found herself transported from a happy life with her dad, Dillard, to a new, strange one living with her mother whom she hates. Apparently it’s a life she’s always lived in.

Everyone knows her as Arizona Darley, but she isn’t. She is Arizona Stevens.

As she struggles to find answers she is certain of one thing- that her mother Olivia, a brilliant physicist, is somehow responsible. .

PORTAL is the story of the repercussions of Olivia Darley’s attempt at creating a perfect world for herself and her children. Arizona’s quest for answers threatens to undermine the seemingly perfect world that her mother has so carefully constructed.

PORTAL is the first book of the Portal Chronicles. Fans of time travel, romance, and the supernatural will enjoy Arizona’s quest for answers.


What the Reviewers Say

“Author Imogen Rose has created a wonderful cast of characters and story line that will appeal to readers of many different genres. Arizona Stevens…. errr, Darley, was just a seemingly normal teenager who awoke to find herself living in an alternate world – a world that she has to learn to navigate quickly without raising any suspicions, and also to figure out what happened to her old life…

“The concept of the “portal” is well explained, without getting mired in scientific jargon. A wonderful, fun read that will leave all readers anxiously waiting for more.” 

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“Arizona Stevens lives with her father while she finishes high school. Her sister lives with their mother on the other side of the country. Or at least that’s how it was before she fell asleep in 2009 and woke in 2008 in her mother’s car in an alternate life…

“As a general rule I don’t read YA novels, but as with all rules, there are exceptions. PORTAL (Portal Chronicles) is that. Whilst I can’t comment on the authenticity of the story’s teenage characters, the premise is intriguing and Rose’s engaging writing style kept me turning the pages. An excellent debut. Highly recommended for fans of teenage romance and time travel.” 

–VickiT, Reviewer 
“I’m a grandma, pushing 70, and I absolutely loved the first two books in this series. Guys will like it, too. What a great writer she is. The story moved along with many twists and turns and her character developement was extraordinary for a new writer. Can’t wait for the third book. This writer is definitely going to go far in her career.” 
— L. Carpenter, Reviewer

It’s not every day you see a naked body slumped by the side of the road…

This ominous sight is just the beginning of a mystery that will span two dimensions.

When California teen Arizona Darley and her siblings go missing, their mother, Dr. Olivia Darley, discovers that the time-travel portal she invented has been hijacked. Is the hijacker responsible for the disappearance of her children? Have the children been transported to another dimension? If so, the police and FBI will never be able to find them, and Olivia Darley must find a way to rescue her children on her own.

How will she do this without access to the portal?

A whole year has passed. It’s October again… or is it?

As California teen, Arizona Darley, contemplates traveling back through the portal to seek out her dad, her life is plunged into a whirlwind ride through the unknown. But this time, she doesn’t disappear through the portal.

Has Arizona been kidnapped–again? Is Raj Sen to blame? Could Dillard have taken her?

As Kellan, David and her parents launch a frantic search with the help of the Wanderers, it becomes apparent that things are much more complex than they seem – for all of them. While investigating her daughter’s latest disappearance, Olivia faces shocking revelations about the Wanderers and her life with Rupert. In the meantime, what’s happening in New Jersey? Are both of Arizona’s worlds about to collide?



About the Author

Imogen Rose was born in a small town in Sweden and moved to London in her twenties. After obtaining a PhD in immunology from Imperial College, she moved with her family to New Jersey, where she has been based for the past ten years. Storytelling is her real passion and she is excited to be publishing, Portal, her first work of fiction.


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About the Author
AUTHOR, ATTORNEY, ADVOCATE.
Teresa Burrell has dedicated her life to helping children and their families in both the courtroom and the classroom.

As an attorney in San Diego, Burrell maintained a private law practice for twelve years, which specialized in domestic, criminal, and civil cases. Her work in juvenile court focused on representing abused minors and juvenile delinquents. Burrell has received several awards and special recognition from the San Diego Bar Association for her countless hours of pro bono work with children and their families.

Burrell has also enjoyed a satisfying career as a teacher. She has taught children of all ages with diverse backgrounds and special needs. After creating an after-school program that kept kids off the street, she received a community service award.

Now in semi-retirement in California, Burrell continues to educate groups about social issues impacting children and write novels, many of which are inspired by actual legal cases.

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