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5-Star Fiction from Kindle Nation! In Kailin Gow’s DESIRE you’re invited into a Dystopian world where everyone’s future is planned out for them at age 18 … but it may not be the world that they “DESIRE”

5 out of 5 Stars –Very sweet, lovely story about an eighteen
year old girl Kama who lives in a perfect, settled future with a perfect
boy, Liam…
However, her world turns upside down…

–Xandra Van Welder, News Anchor, TV Zemst

A “fantasy romance series” that will “entertain romance lovers.”

–Kirkus Reviews

by Kailin Gow
4.9 stars – 7 Reviews
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Dystopian world where everyone’s future is planned out for them at age
18…whether it is what a person desires or not. Kama is about to turn
18 and she thinks her Life s Plan will turn out like her boyfriend’s and
friend’s as they desired. But when she glimpse a young man who can
communicate with her with his thoughts and knows her name…a young man
with burning blue eyes and raven hair, who is dressed like no other in
her world, she is left to question her Life’s Plan and her destiny.
Knowing the truth can destroy everyone… Within the book itself, find
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!! :)), May 25, 2011

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This review is from: DESIRE (Desire #1) (Kindle Edition)

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is fast-moving, and you won’t be able to put the book down once you start reading it.

The main character, Kama lives in Arcadia, where her boyfriend,
Liam is the son of the founder and governor of Arcadia. In every
person’s 18th birthday, they get their own Life Plan, where it is
written who they would marry, where would they would live and how many
children they would have. Kama, who is soon turning 18, expects her Life
Plan to tell her she would marry Liam, where she would live happily
ever after, but that never happened. After that, she finds out a secret
which her mother was hiding from her and an enchanting boy, called
Torrid shows up.

I really am a fan of Kailin Gow!! I like how her books’ endings
make you want to buy (or wait, in this case) the next book in the
series. I really loved this book.

Buy this book and you won’t regret it! 😉 

 

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Desire this book!, June 26, 2011

This review is from: Desire (Desire #1) (Paperback)

DESIRE: Book 1 in the Desire Series by Kailin Gow

Desire introduces you to a strange new world where your whole life
is planned out for you at age 18. Even if you want one thing for
yourself whatever is planned out is what you must do…or else.

Desire follows the story of Kama. A young girl who is about to turn
18. Her life is perfect and she hopes that her life’s plan will have her
life following the path she’s on now. She hopes that her plan will be
just as she wishes just like her boyfriend’s and her best friend’s have.
Everything was going exactly as it should be until she comes across a
mysterious yound man who captures her attention with one glance, and is
able to speak to her in her mind. All it took was one gently whisper in
her head and a gorgeous face to go with it and Kama is thrown into a
world she never expected.

When Kama receives her life’s plan in the mail she’s left in shock,
it’s nothing like she expected and her boyfriend Liam is no longer in
the picture. Heartbroken and torn on what to do now Kama and Liam try to
find a way to fix what is wrong and put Kama back on to the path she
was meant to be. But is it what Kama truely wants. With an empty life’s
plan Kama doesn’t know what to do. She knows she can’t be with Liam now
that he wasn’t mentioned in her plan and the thought of that rips her
apart. Her heart aches to be with him because that’s all she’s ever
wanted, but her mind now wanders to the mysterious man with the power to
speak to her from a distance.

As Kama delves deeper into the world she’s lived in all her life she
begins to question the truth behind Arcadia. Her eyes are opened to
what happens behind the scenes, the truth about her family is revealed
as well as what Liam’s father has really been doing with Arcadia, and
Kama must learn to accept the path she’s been given because it’s a gift,
giving her the power to explore the truth behind every lie.

Desire was a new and interesting story in the YA genre. It has you
wondering about the true nature of this so-called perfect world. Will
Kama discover the truth about her life? Will her life’s plan give her
freedom or just cause more problems. Desire was mysterious and engaging
with an ending that leaves you wanting more.

Another great read by Kailin Gow!

Melissa Silva


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CFBI Agent and Pyro-Psychic Jasi McLellan battles a serious infection that threatens to claim her life. Slipping in and out of consciousness, she remembers the Parliament Murders… 

 

One by one, members of Ontario’s Parliament are disappearing, only to be found days later, disoriented and drugged. Or worse―dead. Police are stumped and the CFBI brings in a covert PSI team, agents with special psychic abilities.

 

Accompanied by Psychometric Empath Ben Roberts and new team member Victim Empath Natassia Prushenko, Jasi heads for Ottawa and uncovers a plot so devious that Canada’s national security is at risk. If that isn’t enough to deal with, Jasi bumps into old flame, Zane Underhill, who wants to rekindle their relationship that ended three years earlier.

 

But the investigation takes precedent and Jasi is forced to place her feelings for Zane on hold in order to find a killer who has more than justice in mind for his victims, and in the end she makes a gut-wrenching decision―one that will cost the life of someone close to her.

 

 

One Reviewer Notes: 

 

Divine Justice is enough to turn even the most die-hard paranormal romance fan…cough…into a mysteries lover. And a thriller lover. And a suspense love…you get my point. I love the way the book starts – with the main character (Jasi) lying comatose in a bed. At first glance I couldn’t see how this would pan out; how can you create a story when your main character is unconscious? But then Tardiff unveils this whole enthralling tale involving Jasi, without the woman moving one inch from the bed.  

 

“There are two distinctly different but intertwining storylines wound through the book, both of which are written beautifully… These two storylines are described as `a prequel within a sequel’ They relate to the first book within the series – Divine Intervention. In that book, Jasi received a gunshot wound which went septic, receives a concussion and brain swelling. But in Divine Justice Jasi can’t even rest when she’s unconscious! Trapped in her coma, Jasi relives the Parliament Murders. These occurred in Divine Intervention but involved members of Ontario’s Parliament slipping off the face of the planet. They turn up eventually, either drugged to the eyeballs or dead. While she’s reliving the murders, her family and friends are firmly in the present, standing watch.

–Emma Butler, author of dystopian romance

 

About the Author 

Cheryl Kaye Tardif is an award-winning, bestselling Canadian suspense author. Her novels include Children of the Fog, The River, Divine Intervention, and Whale Song, which New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice calls “a compelling story of love and family and the mysteries of the human heart…a beautiful, haunting novel.” 

 

Now Divine Justice(book 2 in the Divine series)is available. She also enjoys writing short stories, which has resulted in Skeletons in the Closet & Other Creepy Stories (ebook) and Remote Control (novelette ebook).

 

Cheryl recently detoured from suspense with her debut contemporary romantic suspense novel, Lancelot’s Lady, written under the pen name of Cherish D’Angelo.

 

 

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert! From 1120 to 1307, the Knights Templar answered to nobody, had the strongest military, crossed borders at will, and financed monarchies. What if they returned now to challenge Al Qaeda without worrying about media, Congressional hearings, or the next election cycle? Terrence O’Brien’s THE TEMPLAR CONCORDAT is our Kindle eBook of the Day: 4.9 Stars on 10 Straight Rave Reviews, Just $2.99 on Kindle, and Here’s a Free Sample!

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When the truth is your greatest danger, and the enemy knows the truth, things can only go downhill when the enemy finally gets the proof. And that’s the proof the Hashashin get when they steal what the Vatican doesn’t even know it has.

Now the infallible decrees of two Twelfth Century popes and three kings, stolen by the Hashashin, threaten to catapult the bigotry, bias, and religious blood baths of the Third Crusade straight into the Twenty-First Century.

When Templars Sean Callahan and Marie Curtis are drawn into the mess, they face an ancient enemy that has already nearly won the battle, a newly elected Mexican pope being undermined by entrenched Vatican powers, world class scholars who will sell their prestige to the highest bidder, and terrorists lingering over lattes in sidewalk cafes.

Moving from Rome to London, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia, Callahan and Curtis are desperate to find some way to stem the success the Hashashin are having enlisting the majority of moderate Muslims in their Jihad.

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The idea for the book began to grow a few years ago as news reports revealed more and more about Al Qaeda. What struck me was the fact that it had no national allegiance. It operated outside the established nation state system. Al Qaeda didn’t care what the government of Saudi Arabia, Syria, Pakistan, or Iran thought. It did whatever it wanted, and claimed to be doing it to further world-wide Islam. 

So, I wondered what things would be like if there was an organization in the West that was also free from the governments of the West. How would they combat Al Qaeda? What kind of scene would play out across the world if that kind of group challenged Al Qaeda without worrying about media, Congressional hearings, appeals courts, public opinion, or the next election cycle?

Then I remembered there once was such a Western organization when the Knights Templars were active from 1120 to 1307. They answered to nobody, had the strongest military of the day, crossed borders at will, amassed a huge fortune, engaged in trade and commerce, and financed many of the monarchies.

So, why not bring the Templars forward in time, and let some escape the ambush by the King of France and the pope that destroyed them in 1307? And since the Templars were a creation of the Crusades and the Church, let those players come into the present day, too. And the Hashashin, a secretive branch of Islaimi Shiite Islam that excelled in covert operations? Let them escape their destruction by the Mongols in 1275, and come forward to the present day.

I also noticed news stories about the discovery of the Chinon Parchment from 1308 dealing with the Templar trials. The document had been misfiled in 1628 and was lost to history until an Italian researcher found it buried in the stacks of the Vatican Library in 2001. So the notion that things could get lost for hundreds of years in a library was definitely reasonable.

The result is The Templar Concordat. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Terrence O’Brien

After leaving the Marine Corps I began a career in mine and oil field development. So, I have followed the oil fields spanning Alaska, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia, and now live with my wife in Kansas City where I became a floor trader at the Kansas City Board of Trade. I’m currently working on Avram’s Cross, the second book in the series.

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In the award winning guide to health, ORGANIC FOR HEALTH, cancer and liver disease survivor Sandy Powers shares first-hand knowledge of antibiotics in meat and seafood, pesticide absorption in fruits and vegetables, and additives that can trigger asthma and hyperactivity in children. You won’t believe what the U.S. Department of Agriculture permits farmers to inject into beef cattle, sheep, poultry, and dairy cows. After all, the faster an animal gains weight, the more quickly it can be slaughtered and sped to your dinner table. More telling yet, the USDA has mandated that organic food cannot contain added hormones, antibiotics, synthetic pesticides, irradiated components, or reprocessed sewage.That means non-organic foods most likely contain these additives, all of which may be detrimental to your health, or even deadly.
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A Single Deadly Truth “is a fast read that blends sunken treasure, deep-sea diving, fast boats and a cast of characters that run from bad guys to real bad guys to really really bad guys. (And that doesn’t even count the shark.)”

–Author Frank Cook

Urban sets the story on the waters of Cape Cod and Buzzards Bay and gives the reader a rewarding blend of adventure, seaside escapism, and maritime history. Fans of Clive Cussler, Peter Benchley, and Randy Wayne White will find a new hero in Steve Decatur.

“Sunken treasure, modern day pirates and and boats, what more could you ask for in a thriller? It’s obvious that John Urban knows boats and the area he writes about. This is a fast moving nautical thriller and I for one enjoyed it. Keep ‘em coming, John.”

Mike Jastrzebski, author of THE STORM KILLER, KEY LIME BLUES, and DOG RIVER BLUES

 

Like his protagonist, John Urban has worked as a college professor and he sails the waters of Southern New England on an old wooden sailboat that he restored. He is a regular contributor to the blog Write On The Water, and his short stories have appeared in the anthologies Seasmoke and Deadfall.

The ocean was his desired destination from an early age. As a boy living a landlocked life in Western Massachusetts, nights were dedicated to reading about boats and watching Flipper and weekends were spent boating and fishing, April-to-October, on Long Island Sound. Thoughts of a career at sea ended early after a stint at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, but the circle of life has come around some years later in the form of the fictional world of Steve Decatur. Urban lives just outside Boston and spends his summers near the waters edge of Buzzards Bay and Rhode Island Sound. A Single Deadly Truth, published on Amazon Kindle, is Urban’s debut novel. As second Steve Decatur mystery is due out in 2011. For more information:

 

 

 

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Kindle Nation Bargain Book Alert! SHOCKING, FUNNY, SAD AND RAUNCHY! Think “Area 51 meets Dr. Strangelove, with a hilarious dash of Catch-22 thrown in” and you’ll have our Kindle eBook of the Day, Michael Harris’ THE ATOMIC TIMES – 4.6 Stars on 10 out of 11 5-Star Reviews, just $2.99 on Kindle!

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A real-life Catch-22 — with radiation

The searing and subversively funny memoir of a young Army draftee’s experiences during the H-bomb tests of the 1950s —
In late 1955, twenty-two-year old army private Michael Harris “earned” an assignment to Eniwetok Atoll, ground zero of U.S. Joint Task Force Seven’s Pacific Proving Ground.  There, on a desolate stretch of the South Pacific, Harris was part of a grand experiment called Operation Redwing.

The biggest and baddest of America’s atmospheric nuclear weapons test regimes, Redwing was one of those strange Cold War phenomena that mixed saber rattling with mad science, while overlooking the cataclysmic human, geopolitical and ecological effects.  But mostly, it just messed with guys’ heads.

With The Atomic Times, Michael Harris welcomes readers into the U.S. Army’s version of the nuclear family — the young men stationed in the Pacific during the 17 tests of Operation Redwing, where the local F-words were fallout and fireball.  As Harris tells it, daily life at ground zero could have been scripted by a committee comprising Franz Kafka, Sergeant Bilko, Hubert Selby, and Joseph Heller — all working within the constraints of the peacetime army’s unofficial modus operandi, “Hurry up and wait.”

When not playing radioactive guinea pig, Harris’ jobs included editing the base’s newspaper, cheekily named The Atomic Times, whose logo was a mushroom cloud and whose motto was “All the News That Fits, We Print.”  Harris, in a distinctive narrative voice, describes his H-Bomb year with unforgettable imagery and insight into how isolation and isotopes change men for better and for worse.

MICHAEL HARRIS began writing The Atomic Times in 1955 when he was an army draftee stationed on Eniwetok and finished fifty years later. In between, he married novelist Ruth Harris and spent years as a public relations executive at CBS Television, eleven of them on The Ed Sullivan Show — he was the first person to welcome the Beatles to America on their initial trip to the United States. Mr. Harris is also the author of the national bestseller, Always On Sunday: An Inside View of Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra & Ed’s Other Guests
Praise for Michael Harris’ The Atomic Times:

“THE ATOMIC TIMES is a gripping memoir of the first H-bomb tests by one of the small groups of servicemen stationed at Ground Zero on Eniwetok Atoll.  Leavened by humor, loyalty and pride of accomplishment, this book is also a tribute to the resilience, courage and patriotism of the American soldier.”
— Dr. Henry Kissinger

“Brilliantly conceived, elegantly rendered and persuasively authentic.”
— Robert B. Parker, bestselling author of the Spenser and Jesse Stone series

“One of the best books I’ve ever read, combining elements of Catch 22 and Dr. Strangelove in a memoir that is both hilarious and tragic.  A ‘must’ read, destined to become a classic.”
— John G. Stoessinger, Ph.D. (Harvard), winner of the Bancroft Prize for Inernational Affairs, member of the Council on Foreign Relations

“Harris has seamlessly presented a colorful cast of characters, and a shockingly honest depiction of his experience in the isolated Pacific islands during the 1956 H-Bomb tests.  The effect is at once deeply personal and politically profound.”
— Senator Charles Schumer

“The Atomic Times was a heavily censored military newspaper to which Harris contributed during his hellacious tour of duty on the island of Eniwetok, the Atomic Energy Commission’s Pacific Proving Ground.  Drafted in 1955, Harris didn’t think anything could be worse than his miserable, motherless childhood, but life was by turns absurd and terrfiying on Eniwetok as he and his stressed out comrades witnessed the testing of monstrous hydrogen bombs without protective gear.  Not only did the military cut down every tree and plant and pave paradise, the massive tests poisoned the air and the beautiful turquoise ocean.  The physical health of the men was threatened, and so was their sanity.  Bored, frightened, angry, and sexually frustrated, the men turn cruel, violent and suicidal.  Harris’ frank and disturbing descriptions of the criminally irresponsible proceedings on Eniwetok and the physical and mental pain he and others endured constitute shocking additions to atomic history.  Amazingly enough, given his ordeal, Harris, author of a popular biography of Ed Sullivan, with whom he worked at CBS, remains healthy.”
— Booklist

“Life on Eniwetok Atoll in the 1950s was a case of the doldrums punctuated by massive blasts, a pattern that mirrors Harris’ memoir of his time as a drafted soldier stationed far out in the Pacific during a series of hydrogen bomb tests, twelve of which Harris witnessed sans protective goggles. (The money initially earmarked for enlisted men’s goggles was diverted to buy new furniture for the colonel’s house. “Goggles are important,” Harris is told. “But the colonel’s furniture is important, too.”) Harris, also the author of the Ed Sullivan biography Always on Sunday, uses a chatty, dead-pan voice that highlights the horrifying absurdity of life on the island: the use of Geiger counters to monitor scrambled eggs’ radiation level, three-eyed fish swimming in the lagoon, corroded, permanently open windows that fail to keep out the radioactive fall-out and enlisted men whose toenails glow in the dark..  An entertaining read in the bloodline of Catch-22, Harris achieves the oddest of victories: a funny, optimistic story about the H-bomb.”
— Publisher’s Weekly

“Harris’s memoir is a chilling reminder that human beings are capable of great destruction as well as great teamwork and achievement.”
— Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager

“An important book about Harris’s fascinating experiences. A grim warning of what can happen in our own country if we do not find a way to end the nuclear threat.”
— Christie Brinkley, author, supermodel and anti-nuclear activist

Comments from other Atomic Veterans of Operation Redwing

“Michael Harris captures the feeling of isolation that all of us had on the remote Pacific island of Eniwetok and he shows the horrors of living with mushroom clouds.  THE ATOMIC TIMES   is impossible to put down.  It grabs you in a very compelling way.”
— Leon Nelms
Corinth, Mississippi

“Brought back memories of serving on Eniwetok during Operation Redwing.  I relived the excitement, the awe and the fear of wathcing atomic and hydrogen bombs being detonated, as well as the mind-numbing emptiness of an island which made you count the days until you could leave.”
— Chuck Morgan
Arlington Heights, Illinois

“WOW!  I too watched it sitting on the beach facing West across the lagoon through slits in the fingers covering my eyes (no goggles!).  It was truly awesome! The horrific rumble!  Goose bumps all over my body.  The flash.  The rising stem of the mushroom cloud.  And, the eerie time lag between the sight and the sound of the deep rumble we all felt that morning on the beach!  I can even feel the unimaginable power of the explosion these many years later…..Thanks for helping me remember.”
— Robert Cherouny
Round Hill, Virginia

 

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