About Who We Used to Be by Dara Nelson

Ten years is a long time to live with a broken heart

Ten years ago Zeke Malloy had everything:
A happy childhood, a shot at a state championship wrestling title, a best friend, a boyfriend (albeit a secret one but that was okay because, once they graduated, that would change).
He had love, happiness……a heart.
All of that changed in the blink of an eye.
One moment he was deliriously happy, looking forward to a future with Digger Brandt, building a life, a home, a forever, with him.
And then it was gone, disappearing like the tears that flowed down Zeke’s cheeks as he watched from the back of the church as Digger married Lisa – with his father sitting proudly in the front pew. Those tears were still flowing when he walked out of that church and went directly to the nearest recruiting office. Because he didn’t just lose the love of his life that day, he lost his hopes, his dreams, he lost…..himself.
For the next ten years he was a machine – the best Marine, the best friend, but like a machine, he did it all without a beating heart.
His was dead…..or was it?
Was ten years too long?
Was a broken heart too much?
Zeke didn’t know. Hell, he wasn’t even sure he wanted to know.
From the moment Digger walked up behind him and said Hello in that smooth, sexy voice that used to light him up six ways from Sunday, Zeke was screwed
The only thing he really knew now……..was that he was about to find out

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Author Bio:
Kendel Duncan is the pen name for Dara Nelson. Why a pen name? I first chose it because I was initially writing in two different genres (M/F Paranormal and Gay Romance). I’ve since transitioned into a strictly gay romance author – writing romance, action, suspense and second chance romances.
I’ve tackled subjects that I’m very proud of, including losing a spouse, living with HIV, among other things.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area of Northern California but have made my home in the Pacific Northwest for more than two decades. My husband & I live on a small farm surrounded by chickens, goats, 5 dogs, and a cat, in the shadow of stunning Mt Rainier.
With my grown children and grandchildren nearby, my life is always busy, happy and full of laughter.

I am an active Blogger, having created Love Unchained Book Reviews out of my love for all things reading – mostly MM books.

Owner of Dare Publishing & Design – Offering quality, affordable services for indie authors, including:
Editing, Publishing, Book Cover Design and more!

When I’m not on the phone with my best friend (which is at least once every day) – I am an avid, addicted reader. It is my passion, my escape, my joy
And I am most definitely a writer. The characters in my head are constantly demanding that their story be told.
But above all that – I am a human being. My passion for people is unparalleled, my firm belief in Love is Love unwavering, my hope that all can be accepted, undying. I do not write because I want to, I do it because I have to. I write because these voices, these beautiful men, have chosen me to tell their stories – and how damn lucky am I for that?

As an author, I write under both my name and my pen name (Kendel Duncan), with total transparency and honesty.

About Lincoln’s Lawman #1 by AM Van Dorn

Abraham Lincoln is dead, but his legacy lives on in the man they call Lincoln’s Lawman. As elite marshals, Nash Riker and deputy McKenna, his twin sister travel the West upholding justice. Their drive to preserve law and order is matched only by their embrace of sizzling escapades with the opposite sex.

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A.M. Van Dorn enjoys flipping the script on Westerns believing “Cowboys shouldn’t have all the fun” by replacing the usual lantern-jawed cowboy hero with four bold, beautiful and brave half-sisters in the Wildes of the West/Half Breed Haven Series. Combining a love of old character-driven tv westerns such as Bonanza, The Big Valley, and The High Chapparal A.M. Van Dorn pays homage to these 1960’s classics with a decisively 21st-century bent.

About How to Get Your Shit Together and Start Making Money

At some point in life, we all need to get our shit together: stop partying, stop making excuses and set ourselves up for success. If you’re in a time of transition and want an honest, funny and effective guidebook for how to start making progress in your life, look no further. Peter Ruecker details his personal experience with getting his shit together: changing his party habits, becoming a family man and transforming into one of the top sales reps in his industry. Now, Ruecker wants to pass it on to you. Here, he shares tips for re-evaluating your social circles, caring for your mental health and building active and passive income streams that will pay off big. Are you ready to get your shit together?

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Thanks for taking the time to pick up my book. I’m a sales rep living north of Boston with my beautiful wife and two sons. I’m a husband, father, son, brother, employee, and lover of life who believes that genuine relationships are the key to success. This book is to show you how anybody can get their shit together and make money.

To understand my approach to life and business, you need to know about my childhood. I was born and raised in Taiwan, to a German father and Taiwanese mom. I spoke English at school, German to my dad and Mandarin to my mom (I’m still fluent in German and conversational in Mandarin). My school classmates were from all over the globe. On the weekends I watched my dad bring out his Rolodex and make expensive international calls because maintaining his relationships was so important to him. On vacations, my parents took me and my three siblings around the world to visit family. Leaving Taiwan we’d land in Hawaii, then head to Chicago or New Jersey before crossing the Atlantic to visit my grandmother in Germany.

Growing up in such a diverse environment taught me to embrace different perspectives — something that still helps me solve problems today. I learned that we all bring our own life experiences and other views are just as legitimate as my own. I also learned that in the end, no matter what culture or value system we’re from, we all want the same things: a safe place to live, something to eat and time to spend with our families.

My father, Hans, was instrumental to my success. When I was a kid, he made sure I was exposed to the global community. As an adult, he taught me about hard work — that you have to put in the hours to enjoy success. But behind the big lessons were the little things: looking people in the eye, and listening to them; sharing ideas; shaking hands; and taking an interest in something other than yourself — basic stuff that not enough people do.

Last May, my dad passed away. While I was heartbroken, I also realized how lucky I had been to have a wonderful role model who taught me about family, finances and finding your purpose. I wrote this book to pass those lessons on, and pay it forward in Dad’s memory. There’s nothing he would like more than to know we built a thriving community where we could share successes and support each other.

About Death Report

Sergeant Brad Braun has seen more dead bodies than he’d care to remember, but a dismembered young woman with a note promising more bodies to come isn’t what he had penciled in for this Monday morning.
And hers is just the beginning.
The killer wants to be noticed, he wants his handiwork in the spotlight, and he needs his name known. The man’s motivation is something only a fractured mind could imagine.

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Erik Racker, writing under numerous pen names, has published twenty-plus novels in the thriller and crime fiction genres and is inching up on a million books sold worldwide.

Racker’s current work in progress is the Sergeant Brad Braun Series. Set in the Tampa area, the police procedural series follows the sergeant on and off duty from one bloody case to the next. In Braun’s world, the crimes are grisly and bad guys are as bad as it gets. The stories are dark, gritty, and shouldn’t be started late.
Residing in sunny Florida, when not tapping away at the keyboard, Racker enjoys getting out of the house and being in the outdoors, whether that involves casting a line from shore or boat, or simply getting off the beaten path.

About Bully Academy

At Westview Academy, only the baddest boys get the girl.

My stepmother hates me, my stepbrother can’t stand me, and my new school is filled with awful rich kids.

But I’ve been a fighter my whole life and I won’t let any of them get me down.

They don’t call it Bully Academy for nothing, and I will come out on top to get my revenge.

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I love bad boys, the girls who tame them and the happiest of endings.

But I also love revenge on those boys who deserve it, so not everybody will get that happy ending.

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About Pseudo President

Pseudo President takes readers through murder, romance, intrigue, mystery and the fraudulent voting technologies widely used in the last several elections, based upon actual events, court cases, news reports, and persons. The main character is a former Special Operations US Marine. Voters want to know their vote counts.

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Dr. Rob Bryant is a successful author of four published books. He is a USAF Vietnam era veteran, father of two active duty US Marines, a Ph.D., and retired VP of Quality for two Fortune 150 companies. After an industrial accident left him a paraplegic, he became a motivational speaker and author of three non-fiction books. He set a Guinness World Record (rowing 3,280 miles in 117 days). He’s spoken to over 500 organizations on six continents. Pseudo President is the first book in a series.

About Growing Season by Melanie Lageschulte

When her big-city life takes a sudden detour, can Melinda find a fresh start down a rambling country road? Don’t miss this heartwarming story about friends, family and second chances – farm dog included! First in a series. A “feel-good tale … rich in nostalgia” – Publishers Weekly

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Melanie Lageschulte grew up on an acreage in northern Iowa. She’s spent much of her professional life telling the stories of Iowa and its residents, including several years as a reporter and editor for the Des Moines Register. When she’s not writing, you’ll find her in the kitchen or volunteering at an animal shelter.

About The Broken Code by Dr.Ashish Rastogi

Dr. Alisha Venkatesh faces death every day. Why wouldn’t she? She is an intensivist working in the ICU. This does not prepare her for the near-death situations of the two most important people in her life.
For Alisha, technology is like her second passion. First being medicine. She is a great advocate for using tech to solve the world’s health puzzle but she also knows the dangers that technology presents. Does she? Well, she is about to find out.
Alisha must use all her life’s learnings to deal with an enemy who works right beside her. Using her medical and tech knowledge to track and decipher patterns that the dark side has camouflaged. Her analytical skills lead her to a theory which no one could have imagined being possible. Not at least at the current stage of human tech advancement. Despite having to deal with her own emotions Alisha works with the two New York detectives Nick & his friend Miguel.
Amidst all this personal conflict for Alisha stands the nefarious designs of an enemy she has worked with. He is equal in thinking and intelligence to her. He is ruthless as he leaves a series of bodies to eliminate his tracks. Including that of his lover. Only to be undone by a woman ‘fumbling’ her way to break his secret designs.

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Ashish started his career as a physician over two decades ago. For the past ten years, clinical research has been his labor of love. He has worked on projects all over India and has traveled widely in the country and abroad. Ashish has a keen interest in healthcare technology.
Creative by nature, Ashish writes poetry, short stories, and paints in his leisure time. He is an avid reader. His healthcare experience has given him an insight into current and future technological advances. Ashish brings his multifaceted experience into the narration of this story. Highlighting for us the challenges that await amidst all the technological advances.

About The Boy Who Dreamt the World by Jethro Punter

Adam is living the dream – literally…..

There are two worlds which have always lived alongside each other, The Waking World and the Great Dream, Reverie. Adam is living a very ordinary life until he becomes aware of the link between the worlds and discovers that, as a Daydreamer, he is one of the very few people who can travel freely between the two and achieve impossible things.

You would think that being in control of your dreams would be fun. But when both worlds are threatened by a new and growing danger and when Nightmares not only roam the dream world but also start chasing him even while he is awake, Adam realises that he will need all of his new found powers just to survive the night.

With the help of a very unusual band of friends Adam now has to save both worlds, discover more about his past, and if he can, try and avoid yet another detention.

The Boy who Dreamt the World is the first book in the Daydreamer Chronicles series.

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When he is not spending too much time in his own head, Jethro lives with a very patient wife, two very lively (i.e. noisy) children and two cats (one of which may now be the oldest living cat in the world, held together entirely by fluff and stubbornness).

Writing provides a pleasant way to pass the time whenever the TV remote has been commandeered by another member of the household (which seems to be most of the time).

About Number Ten by Robin Hawdon

IT COULD HAPPEN HERE! TERRORISM COMES TO BRITAIN.

Explosive post-Brexit political thriller by one of the UK’s most widely published writers.

British ‘West Wing’ meets the Jason Bourne stories.

Unknown forces attempt to create havoc in the UK, and assassinate radical new British Prime Minister, James Torrence.
Paul Gunter, bright young member of the PM’S staff, is arrested by MI5 in the middle of the night, and finds himself falsely implicated in the terrorist attacks. He has to fight for his life using his inside knowledge of Number Ten’s operations, and the reluctant help of attractive staff member Andrea Holt.
Suspense, romance, and fast action ranging across London’s extraordinary cityscape and beyond.

Top internet reviewer Linda Hill:-
“Wow! Number Ten begins in explosive fashion and maintains a high-octane, fast pace until the very last word.”

Amazon review by Top1000 reviewer Mark Fearns:-
“I never can resist a book that involves my ex work, some are good, this was outstanding. Very up to date, and a fabulous twist at the end.”

Amazon reviewers:-

“This is a blinder from Robin Hawdon… It must surely be made into a TV series. Better than ‘The Bodyguard’“

“Rarely have I devoured a book so voraciously. I read it in 2 sessions. The pace is relentless, the plot intriguing.”

“I made the mistake of starting it on Good Friday and that was the Easter gone! I couldn’t put it down.”

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Internationally known writer with plays and books in over 40 countries. Previously a well-known actor who almost became James Bond! (go to website).

About The Greatest Endgame by Artem Kofanov

Lena, a young lawyer and artist, is abducted by a serial killer and held captive in his basement. As she awaits her approaching death, he prepares to play a twisted game with her…

While her fiancée turns Moscow upside down to rescue her, Lena delves inside of her abductor’s mind to discover what turned this young genius into a serial killer.

Will she be able to use this knowledge to outsmart him and escape? Or will the psychopath’s sick game result in Lena’s excruciating death? Find out now in this blood-chilling psychological thriller, The Greatest Endgame, by novelist Artem S. Kofanov.

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Artem Kofanov is a human rights lawyer and aspiring writer from Moscow, Russia. Aside from legal practice and writing, he has such hobbies as Taekwon-do (he has a black belt), chess (no black belt here), and keeping tarantulas. His literature preferences are thriller, crime and sometimes science fiction.

About Hellbound (Persephone and Lucifer)

Persephone’s story takes a delicious turn when she meets Lucifer himself in the debut of the erotic new series, “Hellbound.” This novelette is meant to be devoured in one bite.

‘Hello,’ a voice calls out from inside the fireplace. I sit up and blink my eyes into focus. The wine wore off two hours ago and I’m too sober for this shit. I take another sip of water.
“Who are you?” The fireplace says, the flames beginning to move unusually slow and rhythmically, forming themselves into the shape of a man’s face with two curved horns protruding from his head. I spit my water out.
“Why have you called me here?” The horned man made of flames asks me.
I open my mouth to speak, but my brain refuses to comply, so I just kind of gawk at him like a hungry baby bird.
“Who are you?” He says slower and slightly louder than the last time.
“Percy,” I answer aloud, after internally struggling with the fact I may or may not be hallucinating. “I’m sorry, I’ve never had a fireplace speak to me before.” At this point, I’m unsure of what constitutes as reality in any capacity, but I am intrigued. After all, every great story starts out with something kind of fucked up happening.
“I’m not a sentient fireplace,” he says sardonically.
“Then what are you,” I ask, mesmerized by the fire’s deep shades of burnt oranges and reds creating the entities sharp cheekbones, the lighter yellows at his mouth and brow.
“You’ve summoned me yet you don’t know my name?” He asks in a way that suggests I’m teasing him. The flames curl back into a smile.
“Are you a demon?” I ask. It’s the best guess I have based off of my extensive Netflix research.
His laugh is deep and rich against the crackling from the firewood. “You’ve watched too much ‘Supernatural, Percy.’” Damn, he is good.
“That’s a weird thing for a demon to say.” I squint my eyes at the flames.
“How so?” he asks, “It’s the number one watched show in Hell.”
“See, now that sounds more like something a demon would say.”
In an instant, the face in the flames disappears as a column of black smoke pours from the fireplace and fills the room.

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Lilith Mara has devoured erotic stories since she was a teenager, sneaking her mother’s Anne Rice novels from the bookshelf at night. Now, after reading what feels like everything that the internet has to offer, she’s began capturing her imagination’s own vivid stories in writing to share with fellow lovers of naughty words. This is her debut novelette, with many more to come.