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Introducing America’s first diabetic amateur detective. 25 year old millennial Betty Crawford is thrown into a maelstrom of murder and deceit as she races to clear her best friend of murder charges while coping with Type II Diabetes and her new web business run out of her parent’s home.

And if that wasn’t enough what can – and should – she do about her inexplicable attraction for the police officer handling the murder investigation?

Mystery and Romance are the two most popular modern literary genres and the Betty Crawford series combines both. What makes Betty interesting isn’t merely the crimes and how she solves them but how she deals with the important issues of her life.

Betty is a type II diabetic who loves food and it shows; she is overweight. With a self aware sense of humor she faces the need to change her lifestyle, improve her self image, rebuild her career and most importantly figure out the appropriate ways to interact with her family, friends and the man she loves.

As is the case in real life, there are no easy answers, few straight lines and there is always more going on than meets the eye.

The pen name Liz Marvin is a tip of the hat and a tribute to Bess Marvin, Nancy Drew’s best friend in the enormously popular Nancy Drew Mysteries.

Welcome to Snarque. A town so smug about its exclusivity its unofficial motto is “Have a nice day…. Somewhere else”

When the most prestigious midwife in Snarque is found dead in a million-dollar koi pond (her blood ruining the pond’s pH), David Windom, disgraced Beverly Hills PD public affairs officer now Snarque’s homicide detective has a problem. Does he cover up what he knows to be murder for the good of the town’s reputation or does he try to solve the crime?

He’s aided by Mattie the attractive local florist/exotic plant hallucinogenic purveyor. But even she could be a suspect along with a cross-dressing financier, a Lothario Gardner and others.

Scandal, sex, and schadenfreude. It’s all so deliciously precious.

his is no ordinary quotes book!

If you like to receive daily inspirational messages, have angel card readings, or spiritual card readings to receive spiritual messages, you are going to love this book!

• *Please note: this book is not religious in nature. It is however, spiritual and meditative. 

Utilizing current eReader technology, she designed the book so when in need, open the book and put your finger on the scroll bar at the bottom of the page. Run your finger along the bar until you feel the urge to stop, then look at the page and see what message is waiting for you…Thank Spirit for the message, then close the book until needed again.

O’neill suggests weekly use to receive your message; it is helpful if you make the day consistent. For instance, beginning of week for inspiration going into the week, or end of the week for inspiration to help you shift your perspective on things you have encountered throughout the week, or both!

Now see what messages Spirit holds for you…..

Six year old Jenny Barnes wakes up from night terrors only to find out that ghosts are real and there’s no such thing as safe.

She lives in a two hundred year old farmhouse with her large family, but they’re not alone. There’s a malevolent presence up in the attic and the forest surrounding the farm is alive with folks who just won’t stay dead. Worse is the fact that the cattle have developed a taste for murder and are threatening to stampede. Well…that, and the fact that it seems her own father is trying to kill her.

All Jenny wants is a childhood–a few moments playing in the sunny yard with her sisters. To get one, all she’ll have to do is survive.

And as Eddie, the one farmhand who’s on her side notes, “this old place is going over.”

Will anyone get out of there alive?

au Ceti is the first book in the new, critically acclaimed, Stellar Guild Series. Other authors writing works for the series are:

Mercedes Lackey (Reboots, published December, 2011)
Robert Silverberg (Blue Shift, expected Fall, 2012)
Harry Turtledove (All Aboard, expected Fall 2012)
Larry Niven, Mike Resnick and Eric Flint (unnamed projects, late 2012, early 2013).

Kevin J. Anderson has penned over a hundred novels, 48 of which have become bestsellers; he has more than 23 million copies of his works in print. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Saga of Seven Suns series and has teamed with Brian Herbert (son of Frank Herbert) to write 13 books set in the Dune universe.

Jorie Taylor has lived her whole life on the generation ship Beacon. Fleeing an Earth tearing itself apart from its exhaustive demand for resources, the Beacon is finally approaching Sarbras, the planet circling Tau Ceti they hope to make humanity’s new home.

But Earth has recovered from its near-death experience and is now under the control of a ruthless dictator whose sights are set on Tau Ceti as well. President Jurudu knows how to get what he wants—and he wants Sarbras.

With Sequel Novelette by Steven Savile.

Remi Austin is a fundraiser for the African Peace Collaborative (APC), a conflict resolution nonprofit founded by her late mother. Frustrated by her inability to raise funds and faced with the imminent closure of the APC, Remi turns to a life of crime to keep her nonprofit afloat. From Sydney, to Tokyo, Geneva and Cape Town, Remi transforms from a fundraiser too shy to speak during staff meetings into a daring international art thief who must stop a war from breaking out and figure out how to save herself from a life behind bars. With the help of her best friend, a designer and inventor who creates gadget-packed gowns, Remi eludes a dashing insurance agent and a terrifying stalker, all while redistributing the wealth of the world, one work of art at a time.

SUPERHERO ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE AMAZON.COM #1 SCI-FI BESTSELLER, ALICE IN DEADLAND

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRODUCED BY THE ANIL KAPOOR FILM COMPANY IN INDIA

First published in paperback as ‘Herogiri’ by Random House India, 2010.

What happens when fate chooses an ordinary man for an extraordinary mission?

Arnab Bannerjee has little excitement in his life other than tracking down missing books as the Assistant Librarian in a small college in Delhi. All that changes one day when he is beaten and left for dead after a robbery. Arnab awakens to discover that he has developed fantastic superhuman powers and he tries to master his new¬found powers and to use them for good. As a hooded superhero he takes to the streets on a one-man crusade against injustice. However he soon realizes that in a society where the only power that matters comes from having money or the right connections, one man, even a superhero, can make little difference.

When he embarks on a final, desperate mission, he realizes that to succeed, he has to become a part of the very system he loathes by tapping into a motley set of allies such as the Minister who wants to use his powers to rig elections, the corrupt policeman who shot Arnab for exposing him and the corporate tycoon who wants to sign him up as a brand ambassador!

At one level, Heroes R Us seeks to entertain with a delightfully contemporary take on the superhero genre, and at another level it asks the provocative question of whether in the dark and corrupt times we live in, there is any place left for heroes. Slumdog Millionaire meets Spiderman in this exciting novel that will entertain and make you think at the same time.

BONUS CONTENT in this eBook:

– The Making of Heroes R Us- the origin of this novel in the author’s own words
– Free sample of Vimana, the science fiction thriller by Mainak Dhar