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The Hidden Rose by Abby Gordon
About The Hidden Rose by Abby Gordon
Secrets, adventure, treasonous plots that threaten a valiant secret order –
Owain was dedicated to three things – Wales, the Order of the Rose, and most of all, his cousin – Elizabeth Tudor. From the moment he met the mysterious Anna Elizabeta, he denied the attraction. Yet when England’s spymaster sends them on a mission, Owain throws caution to the wind and claims her. When she won’t tell him her secrets, Owain rejects her upon their return to court. It takes an act of treason for Owain to realize what was his. To recover Anna, Owain must lead the Roses against a stronghold of the Sons of Scion – the Order’s archenemy.
Secretive, proud and the hope of the Order, Anna Elizabeta finds herself in Elizabeth’s court. Espionage and threats she can handle, but her attraction to Owain and the way he fills her mind isn’t something her training covered. He brings her to life on their mission to Tutbury, prevents her from killing the Scots queen, and then rejects her. Reeling from that, Anna realizes she must make a different path. But plots and treason swirl and with the future in danger, Anna prays that Owain can find her in time.
The hope of the future is theirs – if they dare to hold it.
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I’ve two series in the works. The Order of the Rose is historical romance about a secret society that stands against an ancient enemy that wants control of church and state, thought and deed. Beginning in the reign of Elizabeth Tudor with The Hidden Rose, the next six stories are outlined and will take you through Europe as the Roses love and fight their way to survive. Love in the Shadows, erotic romance, is about members of the Shadows Club – men and women who learn to express all the ways of love. This series takes my first several books, and many others, organizing and rebooting into a cohesive collection. The First Connection is available as a free novella and the next two – The Submissive’s Touch (previously The Master’s Choice) and Fall of Adonis are complete, with the next two frantic to be written.
Streaming Sarah by Joyce Kostakis
About Streaming Sarah by Joyce Kostakis
Ghost Whisperer meets Dead Files meets Fringe, Streaming Sarah is a rare fusion of detective mystery and the spirit world.
Dying was the break she needed…
Or so she thought. Homicide Detective Katie Hanson always prided herself on being an advocate for the dead. When she returns home from the hospital after a near-death experience, the door to the spirit world remains open … wide open. Now the murder victims of her police department’s cold cases are haunting her, beginning with Sarah Alexander and her two children. It turns out that Katie’s near-death experience has added a new skill to her crime-solving abilities… she can stream the dead. It is more than just channeling murder victim Sarah Alexander’s account of her horrific murder and the murder of her two children, much more. Katie learns to stream Sarah’s consciousness, her memories, her very soul.
Katie realizes that a dead person’s memory of the events can be as flawed as the living’s: Sarah’s testimony does not back up the evidence. Katie’s gut instinct is to believe Sarah, but the evidence doesn’t support the assertion. It made matters worse. Now she has two suspects. Will Sarah help Katie bring the killer to justice, or will they drag in an innocent man?
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Boulevard Dreams
In this intelligent and darkly funny anti-noir mystery set in 1958 San Francisco, a down and out private eye, Joe Nails, experiences a series of surrealistic yet disturbing dreams, in which his once best friend, Mark Tamlyn, pleads for Joe’s help, before turning a gun to his own head and firing. To ease his doubts, Joe sets out to locate him, only to discover Tamlyn disappeared without a trace a month before the dreams began. As his investigation deepens, Nails initially uncovers a conflicting portrait of Tamlyn rendered by a mixture of unforgettable characters who knew him best; from those intimating his disappearance is customary, to those suggesting he is on the lamb from mobsters, and to the several who insist he is dead. But Joe wants the truth, and becomes embroiled in an encircling world of murder, deception, and confusion, and as the road narrows toward the shocking reality of his friend’s fate, Joe Nails finds himself staring into the dreadful face of the unimaginable.
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My name is Ryan Janz and I’ve not posted my photo on social media in the fear I’ll be recognized and therefore mobbed by crazed fans. For example, let’s say I’m walking my dog down a neighborhood street, perhaps, Main Street, and the unthinkable occurs:
1. I am breathlessly asked by a passerby to autograph my thrilling Anti-Noir/Private Investigator novel, Boulevard Dreams, or I’m pretty sure that’s what he said.
2. He doesn’t have a copy, or as he put it, “I’ve never heard of your stupid piece of trash and you frighten me”.
3. I give him one I happen to be carrying in my wheelbarrow.
4. He doesn’t believe I wrote it.
5. I produce my driver’s license for proof, careful to cover my picture so as not to be recognized and therefore mobbed by crazed fans.
6. My neighbor threatens to call the police.
7. My dog insists we leave, and I lower my baseball cap because I do not wish to be recognized and…etc.
8. I hear police sirens and while hiding below my basement trap door my dog decides to move out.
9. While perusing a book chock full of fun survival techniques, it occurs to me I don’t own a dog.
10. Having read how baked rat can be transformed into a healthy snack while overthrowing the government, a dog howls in the distance, reminding me it’s time once again to collect my wheelbarrow and rejoin my best friend for a pleasant walk down Main Street, USA.
Second Spring
Melanie is an elementary school teacher who has always struggled with her self image as a the older, chubby redhaired sister of her “perfect” skinny blonde sister. Parker is a single dad of two young girls who hadn’t expected to fall for his daughter’s teacher or anyone else for that matter.
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Nicole David enjoys reading, hiking, and walking her two dogs whenever she’s not busy crafting a new story.
Medicine Man by Saffron A. Kent
About Medicine Man by Saffron A. Kent
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Willow Taylor lives in a castle with large walls and iron fences. But this is no ordinary castle. It’s called Heartstone Psychiatric Hospital and it houses forty other patients. It has nurses with mean faces and techs with permanent frowns.
It has a man, as well. A man who is cold and distant. Whose voice drips with authority. And whose piercing gray eyes hide secrets, and maybe linger on her face a second too long.
Willow isn’t supposed to look deep into those eyes. She isn’t supposed to try to read his tightly-leashed emotions. Neither is she supposed to touch herself at night, imagining his powerful voice and that cold but beautiful face.
No, Willow Taylor shouldn’t be attracted to Simon Blackwood at all.
Because she’s a patient and he’s her doctor. Her psychiatrist.
The medicine man.
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Ghondatha
The power to love. The power to heed your own voice. The power to hope in a world of blood and shadow.
Yesterday morning, most of Saphrona Melioska’s family was executed. Today, at dawn, she and her brother’s widow would have followed them to the block. But something changed.
Saphrona doesn’t know who paid for their sentence to be commuted, but by that act of kindness, she and her hearth sister are exiled to the remote island of Ghondatha, where Saphrona’s only relatives live.
She has nothing to take with her but the legacy of ten generations of master sculptors, a family name beloved in the world of Art, and her own credo: there is goodness and beauty in everything.
Upon their arrival at Ghondatha, however, Saphrona and Leigh find that even ageless Ghondatha is not what it once was. The island has a new liege-lord, a nobleman from the lavish Amkadan Empire, with deep pockets and extravagant ideas about progress.
All Lord Gideon Bloodstone requires is that the villagers obey three laws: no one may leave the island; all who are invited to his nightly masquerades must attend; and those who are not invited must mind the curfew and stay home.
Who is this man who has stolen the last familiar piece of life Saphrona has left in the world?
Someone who will change forever how she defines that which is good and beautiful.
Ghondatha, Book I in the Garden of Night Trilogy, is a romantic fantasy featuring what readers call an “amazingly rich and complex world” and a “slow-burning romance.”
Discounted to $0.99 (regular $2.99) July 17 – 31, 2019!
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Dear Reader,
I hope you know that you are the one person who brings the most important ingredient to every story you read, an ingredient no author can create, anticipate, or dream of. Your imagination. A book is just a narrative in a vacuum until your imagination brings the story to life. Essentially, you are the magic. Thank you so much for bringing your magic to this book. I hope I’ve kept my promise to create an imaginary world you want to be part of, a world that literally cannot exist without you. I wrote this book for you.
Night’s Grace,
Emery
WHAT HIDES BENEATH by J.L. Canfield
About WHAT HIDES BENEATH by J.L. Canfield
Detective Philip Samyn is convinced his boss wants him to retire. Why else would he assign a man with his experience to a low priority case involving a missing laptop from a museum and give him and his partner Sargent Melvin Moore some geek rookie who’s still a toddler investigator?
When they arrive at the museum, they learn more things are missing than just a researcher’s computer. An insurance investigator and the night guard have disappeared along with a vase that’s either priceless or worthless depending on which appraiser you ask.
As the investigation grows, Samyn and his team learn, you never see everything; there’s always something hidden underneath.
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J.L.Canfield debut novel, What Hides Beneath, won the 2018 Pencraft Award for Literary excellence. She resides in Virginia but was raised in North Carolina, (GO HEELS), spent purgatory in upstate New York, and started life in Jacksonville Florida. She’s a southern woman seasoned with Celtic blood. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, Medium, and her website
The Darkness at Dillingham: An Austerley & Kirkgordon Adventure #2 by G R Jordan
About The Darkness at Dillingham: An Austerley & Kirkgordon Adventure #2 by G R Jordan
Only $0.99 on amazon from 18th to 23rd July 2019
An exhibitionist witch. An English seaside town literally descending to hell. And the only hope is a broken partnership that doesn’t want to heal!
“The Darkness at Dillingham” is the second instalment in the A&K urban fantasy series. If you like breakneck action, sexy villains and cutting dialogue, then you’ll love this misfit set of heroes. Can the team bind together long enough to rescue a cursed town? Get the book one reader called “A real roller coaster of spookiness with some sexy bits thrown in”.
Dillingham, the nightlife’s straight from hell!
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GR Jordan is a self-published author who finally decided at forty that in order to have an enjoyable lifestyle, his creative beast within would have to be unleashed. His books mirror that conflict in life where acts of decency contend with self-promotion, goodness stares in horror at evil and kindness blind-sides us when we are at our worst. Corrupting our world with his parade of wondrous and horrific characters, he highlights everyday tensions with fresh eyes whilst taking his methodical, intelligent mainstays on a roller-coaster ride of dilemmas, all the while suffering the banter of their provocative sidekicks.
A graduate of Loughborough University where he masqueraded as a chemical engineer but ultimately played American football, GR Jordan worked at changing the shape of cereal flakes and pulled a pallet truck for a living. Watching vegetables freeze at -40’C was another career highlight and he was also one of the Scottish Highlands’ “blind” air traffic controllers. Having flirted with most places in the UK, he is now based in the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where his free time is spent between raising a young family with his wife, writing, figuring out how to work a loom and caring for a small flock of chickens. Luckily his writing is influenced by his varied work and life experience as the chickens have not been the poetical inspiration he had hoped for
The Man, the Master & the Mountain
About The Man, the Master & the Mountain
For Josh, a troubled and lost young Londoner, falling out with his best friend and an emotional breakup with his girlfriend turn his whole world upside down. Only Sumesh, the master of his local Buddhist centre, can provide the answers he so badly craves…
In Sydney, too, all is not well. A close encounter with yet another casual fling very nearly puts Zoe’s life in danger, prompting her to seriously question her life’s direction and whether she can carry on living a lie.
The answer to their troubles seems to be the alluring and enigmatic Nepal. As Josh finds out about a temple reported to grant instant enlightenment to all who enter, he leaves his life in London behind without a second thought. Zoe, hounded by otherworldly visions, just as quickly heads for the Himalayas in search of revelation.
Yet all is not quite as it seems. As mysteries and long-hidden secrets are unravelled, will Josh and Zoe find the truth they are looking for?
This book will be discounted on amazon.com and available for just $0.99 between Monday 22nd July and Sunday 28th July.
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I am a young British author living in Brighton, UK. I’ve been interested in writing from an early age, and have always loved writing poetry and short stories. Recently I decided to take on the challenge of writing a novel, and in May of this year it was finally ready! Apart from reading and writing, I’m interested in personal development, spiritual growth and foreign languages.
Jessica’s Footprints by J R Evangelisti
About Jessica’s Footprints by J R Evangelisti
Area 51, Christmas in July, Roswell and ancient astronauts. Atmospheric ionic transgression, electro kinetic propulsion, exceeding the speed of light, this is Science Fiction with a touch of the paranormal and a true mystery.
In current times, a seventeen year old girl named Jessica involved on an archeological field trip finds the footprints left 20,000 years earlier.
We fast forward twenty years to find the trajectory of Jessica’s life has changed as government scientists, and a former colleague fiercely believe extraterrestrials left the footprints. The now famous Dr. Jessica Bethany disagrees with the other scientists assessments. She faces hostile crowds across the country explaining her reasoning.
Jessica while on a lecturing tour during the holiday season in Roswell, New Mexico, forms a friendship with a single woman struggling to raise two adopted children. Jessica begins to exhibit hallucinations and odd behaviors in Roswell.
It turns out here are powerful forces that want to silence the truth behind Jessica’s discovery. Lives will change forever as well the understanding of the Universe.
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J R Evangelisti has written novels and screenplays in a variety of genres, to include science fiction and mystery.
Fire in the Mountain by Lily Ennis
About Fire in the Mountain by Lily Ennis
Set against the backdrop of an erupting volcano in New Zealand’s North Island, Lana wrestles with her recent grief, for survival on the mountain and her future with a man whose past she was once part of. Woven through her narrative is Alfred’s story and the theft of war medals, and which Lana finds herself enmeshed in, further threatening her life. Follow Lana as she tries to extricate herself from not only the mountain but her past.
Lana returned to New Zealand after the tragic death of her husband, Yuri. Both were musicians. Too painful to continue without him, she finds solace in her old school friend, Sarah, who inspires her to stay and take up geology. She settles into her new life and new love until she unexpectedly reunites with Paul, her first love. With that she is thrown into turmoil as she tries to reconcile the girl she once was with the woman she became.
Paul travelled the world studying volcanoes, devoting little time to his marriage, but he came home to study Mt Ruapehu’s lahar. His love for Lana never died and when he learns of her whereabouts he engineers himself back into her life.
Every day of his life Alfred tried not to think of his years spent in prison camps. Then some medals are stolen and he is inextricably thrown back to Monte Cassino. But as he follows the search for the medals he is pleased to add some excitement to his sedate retirement years until it comes at a cost, first to Lana and Paul, and then himself.
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Vegan, minimalist, musician and writer of five novels, I am always thinking about life and how everyone has a story. I have a love of science and history and I find it satisfying to combine these into my novels. As a great reader of science I make sure I use factual context in my work. It makes the settings real for me and I can imagine my characters in well documented worlds.
I have an Earth Science degree, which sadly I have never used in the real world. I was determined to share my love of science and the natural world and decided to write a novel based on Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand’s central North Island. That’s how I started writing. The research was fascinating and I have never looked back.
I struggle to accurately describe the genre I write in: it’s suspenseful, romantic, historic. I use real events to place my characters and although I have written only two pure historical fiction novels, the others are chock full of real history.
The interesting thing about writing novels is that sometimes the character can do something I don’t expect. Suddenly a situation occurs that I hadn’t planned and a character acts in a way that is completely comfortable for that character but which was unforeseen. It can turn the book on its head. But that’s okay because that’s life isn’t it. We deal with all sorts of personalities and being around people modifies our behaviour.
I am part way through walking the length of New Zealand.
First of Embers
Betrayed. Tortured. Hunted.
I know the agony that comes.
I have spent my life and hers preparing for it and I am helpless to stop it.
The darkness gathers and drowns the light and I have no other choice but to surrender.
I know this is only the beginning.
My sacrifice will be life knowing it will ensure she lives. And I will die peacefully knowing she is my legacy, knowing she will rise to save us all.
When Everly’s father is murdered she is left abandoned by all their allies. She is the last surviving Alta Axian, the only family with the power to rule.
With only a stranger Az to help Everly, she must reach the pAx while hunted, betrayed and tortured to try and save what is left of her father’s legacy before his death triggers a catastrophic failure of their world that can only be saved by his last surviving descendant facing a fight to the death in a battle to rule them all.
But to succeed Everly must face the person who killed her father, tortured her and endlessly hunts for her death….alone.
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I do the very best I can to stop daydreaming and participate in the real world. My life is slightly hermetic surrounded by a menagerie of animals and a few beloved humans. I am an avid reader, a socially awkward conversationalist with an occasional stutter and knack for knocking into things. When not writing I can be found horseback riding with my girls.
Doctor Leviathan volume one
About Doctor Leviathan volume one
Doctor Leviathan volume one is a black and white superhero, horror graphic novel that takes place in a dystopian future where monsters and madmen roam free and terrorize mankind. This is a nightmarish world where civilization struggles to survive each day. There is hope though as mankind finds out that to protect civilization……it will take a special type of monster to protect mankind from these other monsters…..This monsters name is Doctor Leviathan
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James Banks jr was born and raised in Indianapolis Indiana and began reading and drawing comics at an early age. He started working on his first comic book to publish as he was working overnight on his first job, as a store clerk during his late teens and early twenties. Jim banks first published his first comic book in the early nighties and began to attend and sell his books through local comic book shops and conventions. In the later nighties Jim Banks expanded his comics throughout the Midwest. In 2005 Jim banks attended the Detroit comiccon and also self published issue number one of Doctor Leviathan volume one. He also began to self published his comics to comic book shops , book shops and magazine stands not just in the USA but also to the UK. and parts of EUROPE and Greece. In 2017 Jim banks published his first graphic novel and has continued to publish comics and interact with other promising young artist and publishers to this day. contact Jim Banks customerservice@leviathancomics.com
Ms. Anna by Bill Lockwood
About Ms. Anna by Bill Lockwood
Family, guns, intrigue, high seas adventure, and a tuna canning factory. Anna is a twenties college graduate in the early 1990s without a job comparable to her education. She works as a part time bartender and pilot of her father’s fishing boat in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, a city that proclaimed itself “the tuna canning capital of the world”. Max is a late thirties academic who was maybe once in the CIA. He is a member of a staid New England lobstering family that has bought one of the tuna plants. Anna and Max team up. They, the boat, its crew, and staff of the tuna plant become embroiled in a high seas adventure that involves smuggling from Cuba and ends in Key West.
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Bill is now a retired State social worker. By night he has always been active in community theater and writing. He wrote articles covering the arts, and interesting people in the “Bellows Falls (VT ) Town Crier” from 1998 through 2006. Currently he freelances with the weekly “The Shopper/Vermont Journal” and daily “Eagle Times”. He has had three novels published by The Wild Rose Press, “Buried Gold, 2016, “Megan of the Mists” 2017, and “Ms. Anna” 2018.
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