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Published: Wed, 05/16/18
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Rescuing Lara
He vowed to save her . . . even from herself. It won’t be easy with killers on her trail and the past haunting her.
Lara Spenser guards one of seven prophetic scrolls held by the Council of Guardians. Now a band of killers are out to steal the scrolls. They murdered Lara’s uncle, the High Guardian, and left her seriously injured. She has since escaped to Ireland but knows the killers will find her. She desperately needs a bodyguard.
Enter Connor O’Shea, ex-Special Forces soldier. Conn is on leave in Ireland after a devastating explosion on his firefighting job. Out of curiosity, he answers Lara’s ad in the local newspaper for a “strong chauffeur”. He takes on the job of guarding her
Romance blooms between the two, but with Lara’s pursuers menacing them, the scene shifts to Texas. While Conn may prove his ability to protect her, can he rescue her from soul-deep pain that holds her prisoner?
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Lyn Horner resides in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and several very spoiled cats.
Trained in the visual arts, Lyn worked as a fashion illustrator and art instructor before she took up writing. She loves crafting passionate love stories, both historical and contemporary. Lyn also enjoys reading, gardening, visiting with family and friends, and cuddling her furry, four-footed children.
The author’s Texas Devlins series blends authentic Old West settings, steamy romance and a glimmer of the mysterious. This series has earned multiple awards and nominations, including Crowned Heart reviews and a Rone Award nomination from InD’Tale Magazine.
BORN TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR
About BORN TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR
A book for mindful entrepreneurs.
This is not your typical business book. And it is not your typical startup book, either.
This book has been written for an aspiring entrepreneur who aims at addressing needs of people in their community to create a positive social impact, while maintaining control over their own physical and mental wellbeing.
“Entrepreneurs are born imperfect like anyone else: they struggle and cry, flog themselves with doubts, and experience rejection considerably more often than they do praise. Yet, they don’t give in to shame. They are survivors who manage to strike a fire in a wasteland. They keep the candle of dream burning in the middle of a shitstorm.”
The author defines entrepreneurship as a means to delivering value, where all starts and ends with self-improvement.
“Entrepreneurship doesn’t just talk about passion for our various projects. Entrepreneurship doesn’t exist merely to proliferate profitable companies. Entrepreneurship doesn’t serve the sole purpose of giving people what they want. Entrepreneurship is not only a choice of lifestyle.
“Entrepreneurship is about making a positive impact while having full control of our experience and living our life with a purpose.”
In 40 fast-paced chapters, you’re going to learn:
What it means to be an entrepreneur in the 21st century
What makes you a perfect candidate to become one
What to do if you lack the time, resources, experience, or the right skills
What makes you indispensable to your community and your potential clients
What makes you capable of innovating no matter where in the world you are
Why numbers don’t always tell the right story
and also…
What makes time the most squandered commodity on Earth
How to eliminate the crippling victim mindset
How to generate a sufficient amount of energy in your body
How to regain control of your self-esteem
How to develop good habits and break bad ones
How to awaken the only force that can move you in the right direction
as well as…
What is the secret of the ugly lemon tree?
“Anyone can become an entrepreneur at any point in their lives, regardless of their background, gender, age, past career choices, financial situation, or level of experience. Entrepreneurship is not about individual achievements and resources one has at their disposal. It’s a mindset of brave human individuals who have understood that their time on Earth is absolutely limited and who don’t wait for someone else to make their existence worthy and pleasurable.
“When they see a problem they could solve, they give it a try. When they face an obstacle, they fight it.
“Entrepreneurs are not superheroes to worship or envy. But it’s good to have them around since they always do all that is in their power to move the world a bit forward.”
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Kristyna Zapletal coaches leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives of high-growth companies in the major business and cultural hubs across the world to help them build their mental and physical resilience, accelerate their professional growth, and make an extraordinary impact.
She is the founder of MAQTOOB, an online platform to discover and review business apps. So far, she has handpicked and curated 3,000+ software tools to help entrepreneurs grow with the help of technology.
Together with her team, she has been running the School of Digital Skills whose aim is to show future leaders in developing and emerging countries that sustainable innovation is possible even with limited resources.
Kristyna has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs all over the globe and collaborated with organizations such as the World Bank, Microsoft, or the Global Entrepreneurship Network.
Some of her articles went viral with 5+ million views altogether and were published in TIME, Observer, Business Insider, The Next Web and many others. Besides, she started her own online publication MAQTOOB For Entrepreneurs.
Hard Love
He was football royalty. Legendary quarterback. A champion.
Reiner Strickland had led his team to three national championships and playing a knight in shining armor was all in a days work for the NFL star quarterback. Only his damsel in distress had no idea who he was, and it threw him off his game. He was the face of his organization and was used to everyone recognizing him. Her innocence, charm, and beauty captivated him. It wasn’t until after they parted ways that he realized that he never got her number or even her last name.
Jada Dalton had no idea who her sexy knight in shining armor was, but knew that she’d probably never see him again. She was focused on building her business and didn’t have time for love. Just because she was determined to become a successful businesswoman, it didn’t mean she couldn’t dream about her sexy as sin rescuer.
Another chance meeting brings the two together and this time, Jada discovers who exactly Reiner is. She learns quickly what goes along with dating a football legend and is not sure she can handle it. Reiner refuses to let Jada go. He’ll have to dig deep and call out the most important play of his life to ensure that Jada Dalton remains on his team.
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Peyton Banks is the alter ego of a city girl who is a romantic at heart. Her mornings consist of coffee and daydreaming up the next steamy romance book ideas. She loves spinning romantic tales of hot alpha males and the women they love. She currently resides with her husband and children in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Infinite Death of the Sun by Patrick Compton
About The Infinite Death of the Sun by Patrick Compton
The Infinite Death of the Sun begins with a family in Oklahoma finding an injured man on their ranch in the middle of the night. The man can’t remember who he is or where he comes from, but the husband and wife suspect that he has ulterior motives and is feigning amnesia to cover a government eminent domain conspiracy. Because of this, they treat his wounds themselves and rehabilitate him without alerting the authorities. Over time, as he regains his strength and starts taking part in chores around the ranch, the family doubts their earlier suspicions and believe this man truly does have amnesia. The mother, father, teenage son, young triplet girls, and their youngest child Mary grow close to the man and start to treat this lost soul as one of their own.
In other parts of the world, from police stations to emerging air bases in the South China Sea to NASA, agents of subterfuge with pale skin and stark black hair start taking over the people in these command control nodes and turning them into mindless drones. One scientist at NASA, equipped with a titanium plate in his frontal lobe from a car accident, is unaffected by one of these agents and bears witness to his coworkers turning into drones and forced to work on a feat of engineering greater than anything that had been attempted before on Earth.
Snippets of diary entries detail newlyweds Amanda and Pierre as they move to South Africa and start a life there.
One night, as the amnesiac man on the ranch in Oklahoma becomes lost again, he stumbles upon something in the hills that brings back the memories of who he is and where he comes from. And why the people of Earth are all condemned – unless he and his new family can save them.
A novel that starts as a southern mystery and turns into full-fledged science fiction, The Infinite Death of the Sun questions the illusion of choice and is an attempt to answer Plato’s ancient question of “How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?”.
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Patrick Compton is an active duty Air Force Captain and started writing his first novel, The Infinite Death of the Sun, while stationed in Alaska. Much like the changing scenery in the story, he continued writing as he traveled to the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Qatar, Oman, Italy, and eventually finished in the panhandle of Florida. Patrick grew up in middle Tennessee and attended the Air Force Academy, graduating with a B.S in Environmental Engineering (which has nothing to do with creative fiction writing). He enjoys doing pretty much anything outdoors; snowboarding, mountain biking, hiking, fishing, kayaking, camping, you name it. Regardless, whatever activity he is doing is accompanied by a book, usually with multiple dog ears of his favorite passages. His favorite novels include Into the Wild, Ender’s Game, Blood Meridian, Invisible Monsters, and The Stand.
The Night Out
After a spectacularly bad day at work, possibly resulting in the loss of his job, Jake decides to go out drinking with friends to commiserate himself. After that night, he is never seen again. The Night Out follows Jake’s misadventures on the evening, whilst focussing on his family and friends who mourn his loss or continue in a vain search for him. The darkly comic story blends a variety of genres and promises many twists and turns throughout.
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Ants Ambridge is a new author in the process of releasing a trilogy he began work on two years ago. He sets his novels in the small town of Grimsby, his home town, as both a tribute and a critique. He enjoys blending genres and tackling serious issues such as mental health, yet still remaining entertaining.
Brain Damage: A Juror’s Tale – The Hammer Killing Trial (A Juror’s Perspective Book 1)
About Brain Damage: A Juror’s Tale – The Hammer Killing Trial (A Juror’s Perspective Book 1)
“I could not put it down! It is a great read for the ‘True Crime Junkie’…Paul Sanders didn’t miss a beat!” The true story of the death penalty trial of Arizona’s ninth most deadly woman, Marissa DeVault as told by deliberating Juror #13. ‘Brain Damage’ was also featured on Investigation Discovery’s True Crime Series, ‘Deadly Sins’ with Darren Kavinoky, titled ‘Until Lust Do us Part’.
Paul Sanders was a death penalty juror for Marissa DeVault, ranked Arizona’s ninth most deadly female killers. He went on to write three books on the world’s most sensational trials including that of Arizona’s most deadly woman, Jodi Arias. His compassion for the victims and their families throughout each work separates him from the typical true crime author.
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Paul Sanders writes True Crime from a juror’s perspective. His story began in 2014, when he was called to serve as a death penalty juror in the trial of Marissa DeVault. At the completion of the case, he wrote his first True Crime book, Brain Damage: A Juror’s Tale – The Hammer Killing Trial (2015).
Since then, Paul has gone on to write three more true crime books on some of the most spectacular trials in US history, Why Not Kill Her: A Juror’s Perspective – The Jodi Arias Death Penalty Retrial (2016) and Banquet of Consequences: A Juror’s Plight – The Carnation Murders Trial of Michele Anderson (2017).
Paul’s book, Banquet of Consequences: A Juror’s Plight (Book 3: A Juror’s Perspective) has received many honors in the General Non-Fiction category: 2018 Winner Florida (Orlando) Book Festival, 2017 Winner Los Angeles – Halloween Book Festival, 2017 Runner-Up Southern California Book (Los Angeles) Festival Honors, 2017 Runner-Up London Book Festival Top Honors.
All Paul’s books are published on Amazon and are Bestsellers in the “Juries Category”, which have received rave reviews from his readers. This helped to build a platform of thousands of followers who are now eagerly awaiting the release of his latest work,
Secret Life of a Juror: Voir Dire – The Domestic Violence Query (2018). In this book, Paul has strung together his most graphic and riveting work yet. The story is as much about the trial as it is an inward look at the demons endured by all who have suffered from domestic violence.
Paul has been a guest on True Crime Radio, Trial Diaries, Court Chatter, HLN and Fox. He has also been featured on NBC Oxygen’s, “Snapped,” as well as I.D. Discovery’s, “Scorned,” where he represented himself as a former juror. He recently appeared on two episodes of Investigation Discovery’s, “Deadly Sins”. He was a trial reporter for Trial Talk Live during the Carnation murders trial of Michele Anderson.
He currently resides in Seattle, Washington with his dog, Danica. Paul is an active member of the PNWA. He is currently preparing Beyond the Pale: Rogue Juror – The Joseph McEnroe Death Penalty Trial for publication by 2020.
Amina and the Prefect Trial
About Amina and the Prefect Trial
Amina is a young wizardess starting her third year at the Royal Academy of Magic. She has no idea how many challenges are waiting for her this year. Will she pass her trials and becomes a Prefect? She will find love and gets her heart broken too, but soon she will realise that it’s possible to find true love again, perhaps she had these hidden feelings deep in her heart for a long time. Join her on this amazing adventure and let yourself mesmerised by magic!
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Mrs Krisztina Kristán-Pednekar is a Hungarian born artist and author. She studied at the West Univercity of Hungary and the South Bank University of London, Architecture. She is mostly inspired by the timeless beauty of nature and the magical world of fantasy. She hopes you will enjoy the book as muck as she had fun writing it.
Unringing the Bell
Jacob Gillis might have been known as the “trouble kid” while he was growing up, but he returns to his hometown of Goose Bend, PA as a responsible adult, determined to redeem himself. The night of his return: a murder! Nothing to do with him! At least until the beautiful sister-in-law of the victim entices him to help her do some private sleuthing. In high school, Jacob had spurned Kate (the sister-in-law), and she’s still more than a little touchy on the subject, but she employs a little charm and a lot of guilt to draw him in. But has she set a trap for Jacob? When the prosecutor gets wind of Jacob’s meddling and his relationship with Kate, he uses that to try and force Jacob to present false evidence in the trial. Only by outwitting the prosecutor and finding the murderer can Jacob save himself from permanent ruin of his reputation. “Fabulous all the way to the startling conclusion!” ‘Unringing the Bell’ is even better than Higgins’ prize-winning book, ‘The Lady!'” (Amazon Reviewer)
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Judy was born in South Georgia where she grew up playing baseball, reading, and taking piano lessons. To pay for her lessons, she raised chickens and sold eggs to neighbors. She attended Mercer University for two years, and then Baylor University from which she graduated with a BA in German. She received her MA in German literature from The University of Michigan. After teaching German for several years, Judy decided to become a librarian and earned a MA in Library Science at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.
Judy’s life took an exciting turn when she left her teaching job in Pennsylvania to be Head of Library at the Learning Center School of Qatar Foundation. She lived in Qatar for eight years, traveling during every vacation, and enjoying the experience of living in a different culture. Recently, she returned to the United States and lives in Lexington, KY. Judy has two children, Julia and Stephen, two children-in-law, Jim and Erin, and four grandchildren: Kyle, Jon, Addy, and Karina.
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