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4.7 stars – 41 Reviews
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At 16, Madison has accepted herself for who she is: smart and witty, but overweight with thick glasses and the social life of a Tibetan monk. Everything changes the summer before her junior year of high school when her eyesight inexplicably corrects itself, and she begins to rapidly lose weight. However, her new look comes with an unexpectedly expensive price. Madison’s first kiss with the boy she has had a crush on for years triggers powers she can’t control, almost killing him.

She discovers she is a Berserker, a powerful being chosen to guard the world from the Havocs, ancient creatures brought into our world by magic thousands of years ago. They cause destruction and death, but cannot be killed. Only the Berserkers’ life-blood can bind – and free – the Havocs. One Havoc is free and wants Madison’s blood to free another. Instead of enjoying her new look and popularity at school, Madison must now work with the Berserkers to master her powers and bind the Havoc before it kills her.

Oh, and if that weren’t bad enough, it turns out she is the first female Berserker since, well – ever.

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Sixteen year old Arelia LaRue lives in New Orleans where the music is loud, voodoo queens inhabit every street corner, and the ghosts are alive and well. Despite her surroundings, all she wants is to help her Grand-mere Bea pay the rent and save up for college.

When her best friend Sabrina convinces her to take a well-paying summer job at the infamous Darkwood plantation, owned by the wealthy LaPlante family, Arelia agrees.

However, at Darkwood nothing is what is seems. Arelia enters a world full of tricky spirits, strange characters and forbidden love.

In the intoxicating world of New Orleans Hoodoo/Voodoo expect the unexpected!

Come along for the ride…

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Crazy in Paradise

by Deborah Brown

4.5 stars – 227 Reviews
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Dying in the middle of the summer in the Florida Keys is sweaty business.Welcome to Tarpon Cove. Madison Westin has inherited her aunt’s beachfront motel in the Florida Keys. Trouble is she’s also inherited a slew of colorful tenant’s – drunks, ex-cons, and fugitives.

Only one problem: First, she has to wrestle control from a conniving lawyer and shady motel manager. With the help of her new best friend, whose motto is never leave home without your Glock, they dive into a world of blackmail, murder, and drugs.

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Shades of Gray

by Andy Holloman

4.0 stars – 123 Reviews
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How far would you go to save your child’s life?    Could you break the law?       
                          
What if your  business was suddenly in danger of going under because of 9/11 ?        
   
 A single father decides to partner up with woman from the opposite side of the tracks.    
                                                                                                                                                      

Can their partnership deliver the cash they BOTH desperately need?                                                                                                                                                                                             

Could they fall in love?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 And will they survive to see the Summer of 2002?
                                                                                        
 (Combine “Breaking Bad” and “Cops” with a disturbing, dark remake of “The Love
Boat” and you have all the flavors of  SHADES OF GRAY)

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5.0 stars – 28 Reviews
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A facetious guide to navigating the perils and pitfalls of a modern relationship, Pretending to Love will teach you how to attract the right sort of partner, trick them into liking you, manipulate their feelings to suit your own needs, and then dump them in an appropriate fashion when you get bored and/or hungry.

Full of useful information such as:
How to Get Your Own Way
Improving Your Partner Through the Power of Nagging
Meeting Your Partner’s Hot Friends
Why Honesty is the Worst Policy

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The Bet

by David Brown

4.3 stars – 32 Reviews
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Richard Kepperman was on top of his game until blowing the whistle on his high powered Atlanta accounting firm. Black balled from the financial arena, on the verge of bankruptcy, he returns to his roots in coastal Georgia to be near his aging grandfather, Clayton. Frustrated and underemployed, he is an easy mark when approached by a stranger who offers to bet ten million dollars that he can capture Richard within a span of thirty days. In return, Richard will be required to risk all that he holds dear.
Given a twenty four hour head start, Richard embarks on an odyssey that will forever change the way he views love, life, friendship and the power of money. On the run, he encounters forces that threaten to do irreparable damage to his sanity and rip his family to shreds. Fighting to stay alive, Richard uncovers the startling truth about the deaths of his parents and learns that the real power behind the stranger is a man who harbors a sixty year old grudge against Clayton and is willing to commit unspeakable atrocities to satisfy his desire for revenge.

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Fear The Dark

by Martin P Kerrigan

4.4 stars – 22 Reviews
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Winner of the Dream Realm Award for Horror.
AKA: Uluru DreamingFrom distant space the beyond gods of darkness have come.
To feed…
To destroy…
To crush the earth.For in the darkness there are things.
Evil things.
Hateful things.
Hungry things.And there are some people who eat darkness.In a land you have never imagined.
In a place you have never been.
An old warrior and a young woman must find a way to
defeat the minions of the dark.
A powerful, shape changing monster created of earth ,
agony, death and blood.
And an enemy of savage depravity.
More than human…
And less.
Eaters of darkness.There are many ways to die…
And the darkness knows them all.If you have never been afraid of the dark…
You will be.

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Paris Adieu

by Rozsa Gaston

4.9 stars – 20 Reviews
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Paris Adieu is a coming-of-age tale of life lessons, romance, and self-empowerment all wrapped in the sights, sounds, and smells of Paris.

The first time Ava Fodor visits Paris as a nineteen-year old au pair, she has no idea who she is. Paris introduces Ava to the type of woman she’d like to become. Her French boyfriend introduces her to the concept of being comfortable in her own skin. She’s intrigued. If only she knew how…

When she gets into Yale, she returns home, but four years later she’s back for an encounter with a Frenchman that awakens her to womanhood. If only she could stay…

Five years later, Ava returns to Paris as a singer/pianist. She meets Arnaud, a foreign correspondent, who captures her heart, but tortures her with long absences. While he’s away, she throws herself into songwriting where she achieves an authenticity she doesn’t feel onstage. With the help of Arnaud’s childhood friend Pierre, who appreciates Ava’s original songs in a way Arnaud doesn’t, Ava takes the reins of her own future. Armed with the lessons Paris has taught her, she bids adieu to Arnaud, Pierre and her very first love—the City of Light. But will the one man who truly understands her follow?

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The Success of Suexliegh

by Zack Keller

5.0 stars – 11 Reviews
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Take a peek into the life of the world’s richest man… a man named Suexliegh (pronounced “Swoo-Lee-Ay”). His house takes up an entire zip code. His pool is filled with nothing but pure glacier water. His butler has a butler.

One year, Suexliegh is too busy throwing himself an elaborate birthday party to bother with paying his taxes, which, due to the massive drop in currency, spirals the world into total financial collapse. Though this trillionaire playboy has traveled all over the globe there is still one place he has never been… Prison.

Until now.

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4.3 stars – 3 Reviews
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A Victorian Steampunk/Paranormal adventure with strong elements of romance…

Lady Lily d’Bulier is prim, proper, and prefers to think of herself as pragmatic rather than timid. And avoiding life-threatening situations at all costs is just plain practical. But everything changes when Lord Adair tracks her down in London; searching for answers he seems to think she has.

Greyston Adair is a blackguard and a smuggler, although British Customs will have to catch him red-handed to prove the latter. Fortunately, the dirigibles they float around in have never been able to get near his air dust.

Hell is rising, One Demon at a Time…

With Lady Ostrich hunting them, and the mystery of how their lives tie back to Cragloden Castle and the powerful McAllister clan, Lily has no option but to throw propriety to the wind and run off with Greyston to Scotland, away from the immediate danger and toward possible answers.

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5.0 stars – 2 Reviews
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Passion will bring them together…but pride may rip them apart.

Dashing aristocrat Evan Blake has seduced some of London’s most beautiful women, but he has one ironclad rule: never touch a servant, because she must say ‘yes’ or risk losing her livelihood.

That rule is sorely tested the day Marian Willows comes to work at Blakewell Manor.

Mischievous, smart, and independent, Marian challenges everything Evan thought he knew about women, life, and love.

But reality cannot be ignored. Master and servant, aristocrat and commoner…even as passion unites them, society’s rules and the couple’s own prideful natures tear them apart.

When Marian’s life is in danger, will Evan risk everything he has – his money, his title, his life – to save the woman he loves?

Set in England and Paris during the years of the French Revolution, PASSION AND PRIDE is about illicit desire, forbidden romance, and a love that conquers all.

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5.0 stars – 3 Reviews
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The world is filled with misfits. The world is filled with the misunderstood. Enter the shadowy underbelly of society where the outsider is king and learn why…

…the Death Angel visits a small town year after year

…an old collector of clocks holds the keys to Armageddon

…a nocturnal game turns deadly when an unexpected player joins

…a church of snake-handlers insist on introducing a visitor to their god

…a group of scarecrows reveal their true nature to the farmer who made them

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There is a time and place for every joke.
Just as there is a time and place for every person.
Even if that person is a waste of time and space.At our last 25 year school reunion, I was speaking to a beautiful, blonde girl who had always been one of the “in” crowd at school. She had married rich, which was also my ambition in life, and had practiced being shallow in many areas of expertise. Making small talk, I said to her, “It’s amazing how time passes, eh?”Beautiful blonde brushed back a strand of shining hair from her forehead, screwed up her nose in the most cute fashion, a fashion that, to quote a great writer, would have made a Bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window, and replied to me seriously, “I know exactly what you mean. One minute it is, like, three o’clock and before you know it, it is, like four o’clock.”God I loved that girl.The only things that kept us apart were:

I am not good looking.
I am not rich.

Knowing when to pull out a joke – and, more importantly, when not to, makes all the difference between bringing the house down and bringing the house down on you.

For example: I was working in a Human Resources department for a large multi-national and the HR Manager was bemoaning how she had to weed through so many applications for the one position. I helpfully pointed out that my method was to split the applications into two piles and then throw one of the piles in the bin, as I didn’t want to work with unlucky people anyway.

I thought it was funny.

Oddly enough, I no longer work in HR.

There are millions of jokes out there. Not all of them people. But all of those jokes are just waiting for the perfect time to be told. Read the following jokes and laugh. At some time in the near future you will find that life presents to you exactly the right moment to throw one out there.

Laughter is good. You should laugh as much as possible every day. If you can bring laughter into the lives of others, you will be sought out and make friends easily. And remember, women always say they love a guy who can make them laugh.

Or is good looking and rich.

I can respect that.

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4.0 stars – 1 Reviews
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Dr. Abigail Westward has been home after two tours of duty in Afghanistan for about two months and she’s taken up an unusual hobby. A hobby that has the local sheriff scared stiff: tossing lit dynamite sticks into the still waters of Lost Lake in Montana. After locking her up for twenty-four hours, then a couple weeks later for forty-eight, the sheriff is getting desperate to find a way to combat Doc Abby’s explosive habit. He calls in a very special Doc-sitter, Jacob “Smitty” Smith, a fellow soldier of Abby’s and the only man who might be able to find out what was really going on with Bandit Creek’s doctor.

Smitty is in Bandit Creek for one reason and one reason only. He loves Abby, has from damn near the moment he met her in Afghanistan. He’s stayed at arm’s length until now because getting involved with anyone while on a combat mission is just plain stupid. But combat is over for both of them and he’s waited long enough. He wants her and he’ll play dirty to get her because he knows she’s hurting deep down in a place she doesn’t want anyone to see.

Seeing Smitty waiting for her on shore, Abby gives up the dynamite with little or no argument. It’s far too much fun to verbally poke at him and the sheriff, until she finds out he’s been hired by the town of Bandit Creek to ride herd on her. She’s resistant to the idea right up to the moment someone attempts to shoot her in the middle of town. Now she and Smitty have to figure out who wants to kill her and why before he’ll go, because if he stays she’s not sure she’ll be able to resist temptation. Smitty is her only weakness. He’s the one man she trusts absolutely, the one man she loves, the one man who knows her terrible secret.

She’s a doctor who’s guilty of murder.

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How far would you go to save your child's life?    Could you break the law?       
                          
What if your  business was suddenly in danger of going under because of 9/11 ?        
   
 A single father decides to partner up with woman from the opposite side of the tracks.    
                                                                                                                                                      
Can their partnership deliver the cash they BOTH desperately need?                                                                                                                                                                                             
Could they fall in love?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
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Megan’s Way was inspired by a true – and very personal – event that took place many years ago. My mother had undergone surgery for what I was told, at the time, was a benign condition. Years later, she revealed to me that there had been an oncologist in the operating room – the doctors had thought she had cancer.

She also confessed that had they found cancer, she would not have sought treatment. Upon hearing this, I instantly reverted into a little girl again, What? How could you leave me?! The emotional impact of that event, and what that loss would have meant to both of us, festered for years – until Megan’s Way was born.

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“When you read this book, you will be crying. ”  –  C. Wong  |  40 reviewers made a similar statement

“Thank you Melissa Foster for writing such a captivating and lovely book!! ”  –  Marilou George “Confessions Of A Reader”  |  59 reviewers made a similar statement

“[Foster] drew me into this amazing tale easily, with masterful yet not overly complex language that flows beautifully into a story one will remember always…Though clearly creatures of fiction, the characters in Megan’s Way are wonderfully three-dimensional, brought vividly to life by Foster’s careful details, from their unique back stories to the idiosyncrasies that make each person believable and real.  To put it succinctly, Foster knows her stuff. Whether conveying Megan’s soulful struggle over continuing her treatment, or delving into the fears of a teenager forced to deal with situations beyond her tender years, Foster does so skillfully and poignantly.”   –Barnestable Patriot.

“Megan’s Way…beautiful and tender portrayals…very enjoyable read on the order of a Jodi Picoult novel.”   – The Bookish Dame, Book Reviewer.

“…a vivid portrayal of each character’s journey through life; of the joys and travails of putting one’s heart on the line and making oneself vulnerable through the act of giving the heart.”   – Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards

“Megan’s Way by Melissa Foster is an emotionally moving book…Melissa does a great job in bringing you into the life of her characters and keeps the story rolling smoothly…” –Jeanette Stingley, Women’s Literary Editor, Bella Online

“A wonderful, warm, and thought-provoking story with a touch of the paranormal. This is a deep and moving book that speaks to men as well as women, and I urge you all to put it on your reading list. ” –Thomas Elliott, Book Review Editor, Mensa Bulletin

”Megan’s Way” is a fine and fascinating read that many will find hope in. ” –Midwest Book Review

“Megan’s Way…beautiful and tender portrayals…very enjoyable read on the order of a Jodi Picoult novel. ” –The Bookish Dame

 

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“Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is the real deal”–Author Jennie Shortridge

Melissa Foster is the bestselling, award-winning author of three novels, Megan’s WayChasing Amanda, and Come Back to Me. She has also been published in Indie Chicks, an anthology.

Her books have been recommended by USA Today’s book blog, Hagerstown Magazine, The Patriot, and several other print venues. She is the founder of the Women’s Nest, a social and support community for women, the World Literary Cafe, and Fostering Success.

Melissa is currently collaborating in the film production of Megan’s Way.

Melissa hosts an annual Aspiring Authors contest for children, she’s written for Calgary’s Child Magazine and Women Business Owners Magazine, and has painted and donated several murals to The Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Melissa is currently working on her next novel, and lives in Maryland with her family. Melissa’s interests include her family, reading, writing, painting, friends, helping women see the positive side of life, and visiting Cape Cod.

Melissa is available to chat with book clubs and welcomes comments and emails from her readers. Visit Melissa on The Women’s Nest or her personal website.

Comments from Melissa:

Hello everyone! I grew up in Maryland with my mother, a slew of wonderful brothers, and friends. I am passionate about writing, reading, living healthy, and helping others do the same, and enjoy just about anything outdoors. I love to chat with readers and book clubs, and welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to email me. You can also catch me on The Women’s Nest, user name, “Thinkhappy.”

Awards:

2011 Beach Book Award Winner (Spirituality)
2011 Readers Favorite Awards, Winner (Fiction/Drama), Finalist (Women’s Fiction)
2011 New England Book Festival, Honorable Mention (Spirituality)
2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist (Spirituality)

Chasing Amanda

2011 Readers Favorite Awards, Winner (Paranormal), Finalist, (Women’s Fiction, Mystery)
2011 Dan Poynter’s Global eBook Awards, Winner, (Paranormal)

And here, in the comfort of your own browser, is your free sample of Megan’s Way by Melissa Foster:

 

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Comandante Ángel Valdés is getting old. He feels his power slipping and is haunted by the memory of his long-dead comrade, Juan La Roca, who in a fit of jealousy he decides to publically defame.

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Publetariat Dispatch: Storytelling Is Us

Publetariat: For People Who Publish!In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, The Book Designer Joel Friedlander muses on the notion that all human beings are, by their very nature, storytellers.

Author Henning Mankell, writing in the New York Times  last year related how he came to live much of the time in Mozambique.  Listening to old men sitting on a bench talk, he speculates:

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer  nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo  narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is  the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys,  sorrows, desires and defeats–and they in turn can listen to ours.

 

Now, Homo sapiens means loosely “knowing person.” Homo narrans would be “storytelling person.”

Certainly we are differentiated by our intelligence, but I found Mankell’s idea magnetic.

No matter what realm we operate within, no matter what discipline we’ve learned or invented, storytelling has a central place.

For instance, it’s how we transmit the news of our discoveries, how  we describe who we are and where we want to go, how we account for what  we’ve become. In each case a personal narrative in involved. A  collection of stories that taken together create a personal history all  our own.

How did you meet your wife? Where did you go to school? Why did you  decide to start that business? How are you different from the person you  were when you graduated high school?

Each question evokes a story, or a chain of stories that weave into a narrative.

We vary widely in how compellingly we tell these stories, both to  others and to ourselves. Some stories we tell internally, in our own  minds, are always accompanied by feelings, justifications, memories, the  bits and pieces left with us from our own experience and the way we’ve  processed that experience over the years.

Some of these narratives are truth in the sense that the events  described really did happen. Many many others are interpretive accounts,  colored by the passing of time and the agendas and assumptions through  which we filter our experience.

Some of the narratives are fanciful, intentionally or not. Fables,  fantasies, speculations, imaginative wanderings, all those stories have  their place too, and that’s why we have those other storytelling  magicians, the novelists.

Storytelling and Story-selling

When I watch a really accomplished marketer at work, I’m always  looking at the stories they are telling. It might surprise you to know  just how much even the most dedicated pitchmen rely on stories to reach  their audience.

Everyone loves a story, everyone wants to know how they end, what happens next: “Tell me more!”

The serialized novel, the never-ending soap opera, even the little  3-panel comic strips in your morning paper, they all rely on story and  the narrative arc to teach, entertain, to amuse.

  • First panel, the setup.
  • Second panel, the conundrum.
  • Third panel, boom, the punchline hits from an unexpected direction.

The storyteller, no matter what her medium, knows how to surprise, to  delight, to put a twist or a bend in the road that we didn’t expect.  It’s all about keeping the attention of the reader.

Think how storytellers in the thousands of years before literacy  became widespread had to be able to hold the attention of the crowd with  only their own words.

A lot of that is still in our language and our expectations every  time we realize there’s a story to be had. Every year we tell the iconic  stories; the three wise men; the early settlers and the native peoples;  the salvation of the world.

Most religious texts are, after all, collections of stories used to amaze and teach us.

Today’s Storytellers—You and I?

Because story is at the base of our civilization and runs throughout  human endeavor, you would think that artful storytelling would be one of  the most highly respected occupations a human could aspire to.

This isn’t true, of course, although our best storytellers who also  capture the popular imagination—like movie makers, novelists,  songwriters and playwrights—become stars.

But you and I, writers who unspool our stories for far smaller groups  of people, are participating in an age-old and uniquely human activity.

Whether they are used to sell, to persuade, to inform, to entertain  or to enlighten, our stories in a way define us. And in that sense, I  guess I would agree with Mankell. Man truly is the “storytelling  person,” Homo narrans.

Finding the stories you need to tell, and telling them as best you  can, are things all writers learn. Heard any good ones lately?

 

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Begin a high-octane suspense ride that will grip you to the very end in Marty Steere’s Thriller Sea of Crises – 16 out of 17 Rave Reviews & Just $2.99 on Kindle

Sea of Crises

by Marty Steere

4.6 stars – 17 Reviews
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Here’s the set-up:

“That shouldn’t be here.”

Those are the last words uttered by Commander Bob Cartwright in September 1976, just before all communication with the crew of Apollo 18 is inexplicably lost during the astronauts’ first moonwalk.  Frantic attempts to re-establish communications with the astronauts are unsuccessful.  Three days later, however, as NASA is scrambling to put together a rescue mission, astronomers detect a burn of the service propulsion system, and, on schedule, but still in eerie silence, the command module begins its return transit, culminating in the welcome sight of the capsule descending majestically beneath a trio of parachutes into the South Pacific.

But when the hatch is opened, the navy divers tasked with assisting the astronauts into the recovery helicopter make a gruesome discovery.  The bodies of the three men inside have been burned beyond recognition, victims of a failed heat shield.  And with them has died any chance of learning the meaning of Cartwright’s enigmatic last statement or what transpired during those three blacked out days in the Mare Crisium, or Sea of Crises.

Unfortunately, unless and until man returns to the moon, it’s a mystery that will remain forever unsolved.

Or will it?

Thirty-six years later, Cartwright’s sons make a shocking discovery:  The capsule that came down in the Pacific Ocean with three charred remains was not their father’s capsule.  And the body they buried all those years before was not their father. What they’ve uncovered puts the three brothers on the run, chased by a ruthless group who will stop at nothing to preserve the secret behind the fate of the Apollo 18 astronauts.  The brothers will need to set aside past differences and pool their talents if they are to stay alive and unravel the mystery behind what really happened in the Sea of Crises.

Reviews
“Steere’s high-octane suspense tale takes off with all the intrigue and honor of the best space-age Westerns and political thrillers.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Author Marty Steere is brilliant!… The action is non-stop and fast-paced and is mixed with just the right amount of mystery to make a perfect thriller…. [The] plot is plausible, the characters are realistic, and the writing is superb…so stunning a read that you will be unable to stop reading until the very end.” – Readers Favorite

“Steere’s assured prose is compelling, and the book’s intriguing plot will keep readers turning pages until the very end.” – Publishers Weekly

About The Author
The son of a career air force officer, Marty Steere grew up on or near military installations across the country and overseas before settling in Southern California, where, when he’s not writing, he practices law. Sea of Crises is his first novel. His second, Defiant Heart, is slated for release in early 2013.

Visit Marty on his website at http://www.martysteere.com/.

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