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4.0 stars – 55 Reviews
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What if the messiah and the anti-christ fell in love?

Azazel is seventeen and sexually frustrated. Her biggest issue is trying to figure out why her seemingly normal boyfriend won’t sleep with her.

Then Jason races into her life. He won’t say where he came from or who’s chasing him. He’s a delicious puzzle, a boy who has no problem using his fists to solve arguments or quoting Plato to justify his actions. Azazel is drawn to him. She’s obsessed with finding out his secrets.

What she doesn’t know is that Jason’s secrets are entwined with her own town’s secrets. Her friends and family have conspired to use her as a pawn in a violent scheme. Soon, she will have to choose between protecting Jason and staying loyal to everyone she’s ever trusted.

A story about forbidden love, fate, and free will, Breathless is Rosemary’s Baby meets The Da Vinci Code.

 Intended for teens sixteen and up.

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A Circle in the Woods

by Winston Emerson

4.0 stars – 43 Reviews
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In a place where people have been disappearing for years, a little girl gets lost in the woods. Meet the man who saves her life.On a late summer morning in 1958, Phil Stapleton discovers and rescues five-year-old Brittany Duncan after she spends two days lost deep in the Kentucky woods. Two months later, when a tree branch crashes through the rickety trailer where Brittany lives, Phil takes the girl and her mother under his roof. What follows is a decade of mystery, terror, violence, and tragedy, with no escape in sight.A Circle in the Woods employs an experimental approach to storytelling.  With limited punctuation, a snapshot plot structure, and mystery at every turn, its technique will either deliver you an enriching, spellbinding experience or send you running for the hills.Take a peek, and decide for yourself: Who is Phil Stapleton?

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4.7 stars – 6 Reviews
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The private eye genre has come a long way, baby, with new subgenres — from teenage PIs to vampire gumshoes to geriatric sleuths — attracting new readers every year. Unfortunately, most writers are not aware of the state-of-the-art developments that shape today’s professional private investigator, which sometimes leave writers floundering with impossible and antiquated devices, characters and methods in stories. Which is why we wrote How to Write a Dick: A Guide for Writing Fictional Sleuths from a Couple of Real-Life Sleuths, whose material we culled from our combined 14 years as private investigators, and also from our teaching online classes and conducting workshops at writers’ conferences about writing private investigators. How to Write a Dick isn’t about how to write a novel, but what you need to know to write an authentic, compelling 21st-century sleuth character or story.

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Dangerous Past

by A. Ebbers

4.0 stars – 20 Reviews
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Airline Captain Frank Braden is being stalked by unknown assailants who must arrange his death to look like a suicide or an accident before a specific deadline. He receives an unsigned message warning him against attending a Senate hearing in Washington. If he agrees, he will receive a million dollars and his wife’s life.

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4.0 stars – 24 Reviews
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If you’re a fan of supernatural fiction then you will be captivated by this true story about a spiritually sensitive girl and the path that led to her possession. Part one of a two-part series, Saving Mary is the story of a modern-day Mary Magdalene—the woman from whom Jesus cast out seven demons.

Deidre Daily is drawn to anything seemingly spiritual, desperately seeking a spiritual existence. But inside this vibrant girl hides a terrified child who sincerely believes she has married the devil. Through a series of spiritual encounters her fear turns into reality, and she ends up possessed.

Deidre’s fascinating memoir relays her story from childhood to adolescence: invisible eyes leering at her from the corner of her bedroom, horrible nightmares tormenting her, and her desperate attempt to find God—only to end up possessed. It is a candid account of possession from a first-person perspective. This dark memoir brings to light an intricate world of deceitful spirits hell-bent on manipulating and damaging an innocent girl’s life, not only through her dreams, but also through seemingly every-day encounters.

Travel with Deidre into the mysterious world of spirits, ghosts and demons. Awaken yourself to a world that isn’t supposed to exist; a world that’s as intriguing as it is sinister. And then emerge as a new person—invigorated, aware and intent on living in the light. Saving Mary; Not just another story about a girl and her exorcist.

Watch for book two, Saving Mary: The Deliverance

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4.6 stars – 14 Reviews
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If you are looking for a step by step guidance on how to create a website with WordPress and start a profitable online business, you are in the right place!

Proven Blueprint With Actionable Tasks
To create a WordPress website from scratch can be challenging if you don’t have any guidance to follow. Furthermore, most people try to start an online business will quit or fail because they do not stick to a proven blueprint packed with actionable tasks.

In this book, Ming Jong Tey will walk you through step by step to create your website with WordPress and to start your online business! Each chapter contains essential tasks for you to take action so that you will get the most out from this book and stay on the right track.

By following the step by step tutorial and completing the tasks for the first 5 chapters, you will get your WordPress website up and running! You will also discover the proven business model and techniques to run your online business in the next 14 chapters.

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The Ming Storytellers

by Laura Rahme

4.5 stars – 2 Reviews
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Palace fires. Secret passages. Imperial treachery. Espionage.
Dangerous women…
And in the castrate underworld,
The most evil eunuch of them all.This is BEIJING. A city seething with mystery and royal intrigue.
Once a palace orphan, the wilful Min Li has only ever sought to please, even if that means pleasing Emperor Zhu Di. Now a powerful concubine, Min Li unearths a terrible secret concealed within the walls of Beijing’s Imperial city. Driven to despair, she seeks help from her lover, Admiral Zheng He. But this will spark a chain of events that even sets Beijing’s palace on fire. Min Li’s fate is sealed but her real enemy is not who she thinks.The Ming Storytellers is a historical tale of 15th century China that sweeps across the palaces of Nanjing and Beijing into the mountainous villages of Yunnan, where a mysterious shaman holds the key to a woman’s destiny.Across the oceans, from the bustling bazaars of Southern India to the lush shores of Zanzibar, nothing is quite what it seems.For the eyes and ears of the Ming Emperor are ever near.

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I-35 (Road Series Book One)

by Brett Selmont

4.7 stars – 15 Reviews
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I-35 is the critically acclaimed (NY Times Best Seller John Lutz, SPIN’s M. Campbell, NY Press’ G. Tabb) story of David, a loner in his late 20s from New York City who suffers from blackout migraines and has a penchant for painkillers. He wakes up one morning, freezing in the backseat of his car, 1,500 miles from home, with no idea how he got there. After hearing a horrifying voicemail, he embarks on a harrowing journey through America’s heartland, searching for his estranged brother and his brother’s wife, while attempting to piece together his own fractured memory. Along the road, David meets a cast of odd characters who become suspects in his clouded and paranoid mind. And just as the clues begin to add up, a chance encounter at a seedy Oklahoma diner leads him to Shawna–a beautiful girl, shrouded in mystery, who escorts him down a vertiginous path to the end of the I-35 highway…where a shocking truth is revealed.

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Revamp

by Beck Sherman

4.7 stars – 23 Reviews
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FOR THREE DAYS, IT WAS DARK.
News reporters scrambled. This was the biggest story to come along in weeks.
They called it a blackout.
The last one was in New York City in 2003, but this one was different, special, because the grids in six major cities across the country had been fried, kaput, see-you-next-Sunday. Everyone with some jurisdiction blamed each other, and when there was no one left to blame, terrorism rode in on its gallant steed.
It was the media’s fault. They were so busy stuffing fanatical Muslims with a penchant for Allah and decapitations down the American citizen’s throat, that they never saw it coming. I guess I shouldn’t be too hard on them.
They were partially right.
It was terror after all, but a whole new kind. And when the lights came back on, things had changed.
The dark had brought us visitors.

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The Bridle Path

by Julia Hughes

4.3 stars – 7 Reviews
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“What does any thirty something single woman wish for most?”

The Bridle Path is a short sweet fairy tale romance for us grown ups,
set in the county of Cornwall:

Two years after being orphaned in a horrific
car crash, twelve year old Sebby remains silent and zombie-like. His
aunt and guardian Matilda hopes that a new home in the tranquillity of
the Cornish countryside will help restore his health.

Sebby is quickly befriended by the precocious Winny, only child of a local
farmer, Greg D’Silva. Not exactly a knight in shining armour, but Greg looks good on horseback; and even better in jodphurs. Too bad he’s already claimed by pretty, confident Mary-Jo.

As Sebby emerges from a self-imposed prison,
Matilda also finds her voice; aware that she too has been drifting through life,
content with “good enough” when she could be magnificent.  From
being afraid to say “Boo” to a goose, Matilda finally finds the strength
to go after exactly what she wants on her terms.
Told in 31,000 words (novella length).

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Pike Place

by Marilyn Tschudi

5.0 stars – 3 Reviews
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Set in 1971 Seattle, Pike Place tells the story of a young family whose teenage daughter goes missing. Told through the eyes of a 10-year-old girl, Pike Place takes the reader back to a simpler place and time in America.

Award-Winning Finalist – 2007 National Best Books Awards

Finalist – 2008 Indie Excellence Book Awards

Best Novel of the Year – 2008 Premier Book Awards

Honorable Mention – 2009 Beach Book Festival

Honorable Mention – 2009 San Francisco Book Festival

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Last week Casey Winter killed a mermaid.

She thought it’d turn out alright, seeing as how the mermaid was trying to kill her at the time, but the leader of Corpus Christi’s Faerie exiles doesn’t agree. Casey now owes the Faerie a favor, and it doesn’t take long for them to collect. A dangerous creature has gone missing on the Lexington Museum, and a visit by reality TV ghost hunters threatens to blow the Faerie’s cover for good. She might be magicless and half-crippled, but Casey Winter has to capture the so-called ghost before the cameras do.

And even with the assistance of hotter-than-hot Elf Marco Creed, that is easier said than done…

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Before I start, I must point out that I’m a spellweaver, not a storyteller. I’ve been nagged into doing this, and I’m still not completely convinced it’s a good idea. I’m not about to attempt to pen any long epic tome detailing all my adventures. I’ll leave that to someone better suited to the task. What I am going to tell you is how I became the cursed werewolf I am, how I met Angela of Troy, and how I got tangled up in the biggest adventure of them all… (Benjamin McConnell, Silver Shroud Werewolf)

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Predation

by SJ Parkinson

4.8 stars – 5 Reviews
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Two hundred years in the future, human beings have traveled to the stars, settled colonies on fifty worlds, and finally discovered intelligent life: the Drakk’Har—large, cold-blooded reptilian creatures who see human beings not as equals, but as food. War was unavoidable. Ill-prepared for the sudden and vicious conflict, humanity finds itself on the losing side.

After three years of retreating from the onslaught to gain time, humanity has dug in its heels, built up their forces, and begun to fight back. When intelligence identifies the distant Mindon star system as a source of Drakk’Har warships, a major engagement begins. Star Command Fleet Nine strikes the first blow in a new offensive campaign.

During combat operations on Mindon-2, the plan goes horribly wrong. Casualties mount on both sides. The men and women on the raid find themselves in a merciless crucible that threatens to change them forever. The Drakk’Har know victory can only come by overwhelming the humans with savage brutality.

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 Katherine wouldn’t have believed it if she hadn’t found the letter…

Katherine Arthur’s mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she would do her best to make a go of it. For Jeanie’s husband Frank it had been a world of opportunity. Dreaming, lazy Frank. But, it was a society of uncertainty—a domain of natural disasters, temptation, hatred, even death.

Ten-year-old Katherine had loved her mother fiercely, put her trust in her completely, but when there was no other choice, and Jeanie resorted to extreme measures on the prairie to save her family, she tore Katherine’s world apart. Now, seventeen years later, and far from the homestead, Katherine has found the truth – she has discovered the last letter. After years of anger, can Katherine find it in her heart to understand why her mother made the decisions that changed them all? Can she forgive and finally begin to heal before it’s too late?

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2011 Finalist Award–Best New FictionFrom the reviewers:

As a voracious reader, I know immediately if an author has what it takes to capture my attention and win my loyalty, and Ms. Shoop is definitely one of those authors. This author’s style and voice are unique, and often gritty, her narrative and dialogue true to the period. Her grasp of life on the prairie is very good, and her detail not only rich, but honest. She does her homework.  –  S.K. McClafferty

I absolutely loved this Kindle book. As I started reading it and it went back to 1887, I realized the time frame and place was right for another excellent nonfiction book, “The Children’s Blizzard” which I read a few years ago. Without giving any more away, suffice it to say I was right. “The Last Letter” was so difficult to put down and I thought the writing was great.   –  Ilene Kreider

This book is as good as it sounds..love, duty, unrequited love, and daily fortitude of life on the prairies..if you’re into pioneering stories, which I am! I saw it mentioned somewhere else, and knew I had to have it…found it on Amazon.com for a great price. Great read!  –  Linda Pfeffer

This is a very eye-opening book as to how people actually lived on the prairies of the United States when territories were first being settled. When this family moved into their “Home” the former resident left a sign for them that read, “Welcome to Hell”. They should have turned and ran all the way back home, but they chose to stay out of stubbornness, pride, and wishful thinking.  This was a great book. It’s definitely not “LIttle House on the Prairie” with happy endings at the end of every episode, but I’m glad I read it and highly recommend it.  –  Michelle Wegner

 

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Thank you for reading about me here and for purchasing my novel! I’m married with two children. I’ve been seriously writing for almost a decade although I dabbled much earlier than that! I’ve had short stories published in four Chicken Soup for the Soul books, am a regular contributor to a local magazine, Pittsburgh Parent, and have had essays in local newspapers as well.I have a PhD in Reading Education and currently work as a Language Arts Coach at a school in Pittsburgh. I work with teachers and their students in grades k-8 and am lucky to learn something new from them every time I walk through their doors.

My first novel, The Last Letter (2011 IPPY Gold Medal–Regional Fiction, Midwest, 2011 Indie Excellence Finalist Award for Historical Fiction and Regional Fiction, 2011 International Book Awards Finalist for Historical Fiction and Best New Fiction), was a fascinating trip through history, punctuated with fictional characters and events. The idea for the story grew from my great-great grandmother’s letters (see My Dear Frank for the complete set of letters!) written during the year of her engagement to Frank Arthur. The beautiful letters are the inspiration for the novel, the seed from which The Last Letter’s characters and their voices grew.

I’m considering revisiting my characters and setting of The Last Letter for a future book, but I hope readers will enjoy the fact I write about varied eras and places and that they will love each book for it’s unique setting and time.

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A single, miracle drug that will save the world from disease
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For the King's Favor by Elizabeth ChadwickKindle Daily Deal: For the King’s Favor

When Roger Bigod arrives at King Henry II’s court to settle a bitter inheritance dispute, he becomes enchanted with Ida de Tosney, the king’s young mistress. This bittersweet tale of love, loss, and power is based on the true story of a royal mistress and the young lord she married.

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Ashfall by Mike MullinKindle Kids Daily Deal: Ashfall

Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a super volcano with a caldera visible only by plane or satellite. When it erupts, Alex’s weekend without his mother abruptly turns from a fun time hanging out with friends to a nightmare of darkness and violence as he searches for his family.

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Another Winner From Bestselling Kindle Author, Joan Hall Hovey! Mystery & Suspense Novel, Night Corridor – Over 50 Rave Reviews and Just $2.99 on Kindle … (Take Our Advice: You Will Want to Read This One With The Lights On!)

Night Corridor

by Joan Hall Hovey

4.2 stars – 64 Reviews
Text-to-Speech and Lending: Enabled

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Caroline Hill was torn from the boy she loved by her tyranical father. Then they took her child. Finally, her grasp on reality. Now, after nine years in Bayshore mental institution, once called The Lunatic Asylum, Caroline is being released. There will be no one to meet her. Her parents who brought her here are dead. They have found her a room in a rooming house, a job washing dishes in a restaurant. She will do fine, they said. But no one told her that women in St. Simeon are already dying at the hands of a vicious predator. One, an actress who lived previously in her building. Others. And now, as Caroline struggles to survive on the outside, she realizes someone is stalking her. But who will believe her? She’s a crazy woman after all. Then, one cold winter’s night on her way home from her job, a man follows and is about to assault her when a stranger intercedes. A stranger who hides his face and whispers her name.

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Reviews

“…another winner. I highly recommend it to any lover of suspense, mystery, romance, or thriller. You’ll not only race through this book, but clamor for more works by this talented and polished author.” – Aaron Paul Lazar, author of Healey’s Cave

“…The mystery and suspense in this novel is outstanding, truly top notch, in the vein of Mary Higgins Clark, but—dare I say—even better?” – Midwest Book Review

“…intricately plotted and the ending will surprise even the most devoted mystery and susense reader. Gripping Suspense!” – Sandy Heptinstall – Whispering Winds Reviews

“…Danger shimmers throughout the novel. You walk down the darkened streets with Caroline, afraid for her. You wake up in the middle of the night when she does, hearing the same faint noises she hears, afraid for her… She cannot seem to escape danger no matter how careful she is. And you cannot stop reading…” – Beth Anderson, author of Raven Talks Back

About The Author

In addition to her critically aclaimed novels, Joan Hall Hovey’s articles and short stories have appeared in such diverse publications as The Toronto Star, Atlantic Advocate, Seek, Home Life Magazine, Mystery Scene, The New Brunswick Reader, Fredericton Gleaner, New Freeman and Kings County Record. Her short story Dark Reunion was selected for the anthology investigating Women, Published by Simon & Pierre.

Ms. Hovey has held workshops and given talks at various schools and libraries in her area, including New Brunswick Community College, and taught a course in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. For a number of years, she has been a tutor with Winghill School, a distance education school in Ottawa for aspiring writers.

She is a member of the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick, past regional Vice-President of Crime Writers of Canada, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

Visit Joan’s website at: http://www.joanhallhovey.com/

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James Sanbourne’s Shocking Yet Captivating Memoir My Mormon Life; A Boy’s Struggle With Polygamy, Magic Underwear,and Racism – Engaging, Humorous And Definitely a Page Turner – Now Just $2.99 **PLUS A Link to Enter This Week’s Kindle Fire HD Giveaway Sweepstakes

10 Rave Reviews
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In a deep torch lit cavern, beneath the Mormon temple, hundreds of barefoot, white clad youths wait in line to be plunged beneath the water in a bronze tank that rests on the backs of twelve gigantic bronze oxen. Each time they are lowered backwards into the water, a member of the Mormon priesthood evokes the name of a person who is dead.

My Mormon Life is the story of a boy, raised in the Mormon faith, who examines the beliefs of the church and comes to realize that what he is being taught by the church is not consistent with what seems to be the real world. In this process he takes the reader on the grand tour of Mormon beliefs, from baptism of the dead, to polygamy and Mormon underwear, survival food, and the separate policy toward Blacks. One by one the unique beliefs of Mormons are explored by the boy’s active mind, often leading to humorous conclusions. By following these explorations the reader will find the answers they are seeking about the Mormon Church and by the end of this story understand what it means to be a Mormon.

Ultimately the Mormon faith does not hold up to the scrutiny of this young boy’s mind and this leads to powerful questions about the whole process of forcing fanatical religious beliefs on the mind of a child.

One Reviewer Notes

“I really enjoyed this book. I found it to be both insightful and enjoyable. It gives an insider’s look into what it is like to grow up in a Mormon family and to be a part of the Mormon Church. The writing is engaging and humorous, and the book is definitely a page turner.” – Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars

About The Author

James Sanbourne was born a Mormon. Raised to believe literally every word of the church doctrine. Some of this doctrine is fantastical and it is difficult for a child to separate fact from fiction in this environment. This book deals with the issues surrounding this type of indoctrination and how it might affect the way a person comes to deal with the process of thinking.

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The Emperor’s Edge

by Lindsay Buroker

4.6 stars – 217 Reviews
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Imperial law enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon is good at her job: she can deter thieves and pacify thugs, if not with a blade, then by toppling an eight-foot pile of coffee canisters onto their heads. But when ravaged bodies show up on the waterfront, an arson covers up human sacrifices, and a powerful business coalition plots to kill the emperor, she feels a tad overwhelmed.

Worse, Sicarius, the empire’s most notorious assassin, is in town. He’s tied in with the chaos somehow, but Amaranthe would be a fool to cross his path. Unfortunately, her superiors order her to hunt him down. Either they have an unprecedented belief in her skills… or someone wants her dead.

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4.8 stars – 36 Reviews
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Matt Kile, ex-cop and ex-con, current smart-aleck, and a neighbor of Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge has built himself a comfortable career writing mysteries. Garson Talmadge sold weapons to Saddam Hussein, then moved out of France, came to America and married Clarice, a woman half his age. When Clarice is arrested for murdering her husband, Matt becomes the investigator for her defense attorney, and quickly learns there is a line of suspects stretching from the U.S. into Europe and the Middle East.
Not long after getting involved in the case Matt learns that Garson Talmadge’s weapons deals meant the FBI had an interest as well as the French Prefecture of Police. While Matt is simply trying to establish that Clarice is innocent, the FBI is trying to learn how Hussein got some of his weaponry, and powerful members of the French government and armaments industry wants to keep Matt from following the trail far enough to expose them.
Told in the first person, Matt shares his thoughts and wise remarks as he weaves his way through a mass of plot twists and turns to its conclusion, and learns Who Murdered Garson Talmadge.

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4.0 stars – 24 Reviews
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If you’re a fan of supernatural fiction then you will be captivated by this true story about a spiritually sensitive girl and the path that led to her possession. Part one of a two-part series, Saving Mary is the story of a modern-day Mary Magdalene—the woman from whom Jesus cast out seven demons.

Deidre Daily is drawn to anything seemingly spiritual, desperately seeking a spiritual existence. But inside this vibrant girl hides a terrified child who sincerely believes she has married the devil. Through a series of spiritual encounters her fear turns into reality, and she ends up possessed.

Deidre’s fascinating memoir relays her story from childhood to adolescence: invisible eyes leering at her from the corner of her bedroom, horrible nightmares tormenting her, and her desperate attempt to find God—only to end up possessed. It is a candid account of possession from a first-person perspective. This dark memoir brings to light an intricate world of deceitful spirits hell-bent on manipulating and damaging an innocent girl’s life, not only through her dreams, but also through seemingly every-day encounters.

Travel with Deidre into the mysterious world of spirits, ghosts and demons. Awaken yourself to a world that isn’t supposed to exist; a world that’s as intriguing as it is sinister. And then emerge as a new person—invigorated, aware and intent on living in the light. Saving Mary; Not just another story about a girl and her exorcist.

Watch for book two, Saving Mary: The Deliverance

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5.0 stars – 1 Reviews
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When danger comes lurking in the night, most people run home and hide—safe behind a locked door. For others, though, running home isn’t the answer. For these unlucky ones, when the front door closes and locks at night—the horror’s not locked outside. It’s locked inside.

Isabel Delgado knows all about horror. For nearly five years, her step-father subjects her to the kind of abuse and depravation that no child should ever have to endure. But Isabel survives. Her spirit is strong and she never gives up hope. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Isabel takes a stand. She wakes early, gathers her things in a school backpack, and with a last look behind, she runs. But Isabel’s not prepared for what she finds.

In the third Danny Logan mystery novel, Seattle author M.D. Grayson brings Danny Logan and the entire team at Logan PI–”Toni” Blair, Kenny Hale, and “Doc” Kiahtel—back for their most exciting and most important adventure yet. Their mission—find Isabel and rescue her from the street gangs and the seething cauldron of teen-age prostitution and human trafficking.

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The Lance (The PROJECT)

by Alex Lukeman

4.7 stars – 21 Reviews
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In the frozen wastes of Antarctica the Lance, an ancient weapon of unthinkable power–once lost and legendary–has been recovered. In the terrorized streets of Jerusalem, devastation is unleashed upon the eve of international peace. In the halls of power of Washington, D.C. a desperate plot set in motion during the final days of World War II has begun to unfold. Now Nick Carter and his team of deep black operatives from the PROJECT must race against time to stop events that will lead to the next World War. But to do that they must first stop those who already wield the Lance.

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KNOWLES

by KENNETH MARKSON

4.7 stars – 6 Reviews
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Knowles is a fast moving tale of a warrior which starts out in Texas in the 1870’s. When a small town sheriff is gunned down in the street by the murderous Hays gang, everyone in Reliant looks the other way except for Knowles. Johnny Knowles is determined to track down and bring the killers of the man he considered to be his father to justice, come what may.
This is a richly accurate, fast moving, action packed taste of the old west which takes you for a ride with young Johnny Knowles on a steamboat down the Mississippi to the fancy pleasure houses of New Orleans and the meanest neighborhood in the world on Gallatin Street. Knowles’ pursuit leads you through a series of hair raising adventures in the toughest towns in Texas.
But this story is not just about seeking revenge. It is also about helping others and finding true love. The whole panorama of the era unfolds before you, as you follow along with Knowles in a surprise twist to the final showdown.

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River of Eden

by Tara Janzen

4.8 stars – 20 Reviews
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With his sun-bronzed skin, a week?s worth of beard, and a shaman?s crystal around his neck, Will Sanchez Travers looked more like a man mothers warned their daughters about than a Harvard-trained ethnobotanist. And even if only half the rumors about him were true, Dr. Annie Parrish figured she was in trouble. Still, she needed the rogue scientist to ferry her upriver in search of a prize so extraordinary, it would make her reputation?if it didn?t get her killed first.

When he?d reluctantly agreed to take the legendary Amazon Annie deep into the Brazilian rain forest, Will expected a woman warrior, not a blond ragamuffin renegade whose secrets ran darker than he could have imagined. But once the journey begins, there will be no turning back as they enter territory?of the wilderness and the heart?as dangerous as it is beautiful, desperate to stop a twisted destroyer of worlds before his nightmarish fantasy becomes horribly real. Amid sorcery, violence, and mystical visions, which will be the victor?the yearning for vengeance, or a power as potent and seductive as the heart of a singular, magical orchid?

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Revamp

by Beck Sherman

4.8 stars – 21 Reviews
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FOR THREE DAYS, IT WAS DARK.
News reporters scrambled. This was the biggest story to come along in weeks.
They called it a blackout.
The last one was in New York City in 2003, but this one was different, special, because the grids in six major cities across the country had been fried, kaput, see-you-next-Sunday. Everyone with some jurisdiction blamed each other, and when there was no one left to blame, terrorism rode in on its gallant steed.
It was the media’s fault. They were so busy stuffing fanatical Muslims with a penchant for Allah and decapitations down the American citizen’s throat, that they never saw it coming. I guess I shouldn’t be too hard on them.
They were partially right.
It was terror after all, but a whole new kind. And when the lights came back on, things had changed.
The dark had brought us visitors.

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Pike Place

by Marilyn Tschudi

5.0 stars – 3 Reviews
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Set in 1971 Seattle, Pike Place tells the story of a young family whose teenage daughter goes missing. Told through the eyes of a 10-year-old girl, Pike Place takes the reader back to a simpler place and time in America.

Award-Winning Finalist – 2007 National Best Books Awards

Finalist – 2008 Indie Excellence Book Awards

Best Novel of the Year – 2008 Premier Book Awards

Honorable Mention – 2009 Beach Book Festival

Honorable Mention – 2009 San Francisco Book Festival

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The Ming Storytellers

by Laura Rahme

4.5 stars – 2 Reviews
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Palace fires. Secret passages. Imperial treachery. Espionage.
Dangerous women…
And in the castrate underworld,
The most evil eunuch of them all.This is BEIJING. A city seething with mystery and royal intrigue.
Once a palace orphan, the wilful Min Li has only ever sought to please, even if that means pleasing Emperor Zhu Di. Now a powerful concubine, Min Li unearths a terrible secret concealed within the walls of Beijing’s Imperial city. Driven to despair, she seeks help from her lover, Admiral Zheng He. But this will spark a chain of events that even sets Beijing’s palace on fire. Min Li’s fate is sealed but her real enemy is not who she thinks.The Ming Storytellers is a historical tale of 15th century China that sweeps across the palaces of Nanjing and Beijing into the mountainous villages of Yunnan, where a mysterious shaman holds the key to a woman’s destiny.Across the oceans, from the bustling bazaars of Southern India to the lush shores of Zanzibar, nothing is quite what it seems.For the eyes and ears of the Ming Emperor are ever near.

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4.7 stars – 6 Reviews
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The private eye genre has come a long way, baby, with new subgenres — from teenage PIs to vampire gumshoes to geriatric sleuths — attracting new readers every year. Unfortunately, most writers are not aware of the state-of-the-art developments that shape today’s professional private investigator, which sometimes leave writers floundering with impossible and antiquated devices, characters and methods in stories. Which is why we wrote How to Write a Dick: A Guide for Writing Fictional Sleuths from a Couple of Real-Life Sleuths, whose material we culled from our combined 14 years as private investigators, and also from our teaching online classes and conducting workshops at writers’ conferences about writing private investigators. How to Write a Dick isn’t about how to write a novel, but what you need to know to write an authentic, compelling 21st-century sleuth character or story.

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