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Ryan Holiday distills ancient wisdom to reveal how slowing down can oil the wheels of personal and professional success in his instant New York Times bestseller Stillness is the Key.

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About The Curious Case of the Missing Head by Gabriel Farago

A headless body on a boat. An international conspiracy. Can he survive a controversial scientific discovery?
Esteemed Australian journalist Jack Rogan is on a mission to solve the disappearance of his mother in the 70s. But when a friend needs help rescuing a kidnapped world-renowned astrophysicist, he doesn’t hesitate. Struggling with more questions than answers, his investigation leads them aboard a hellish hospital ship, where instead of finding the kidnap victim, he’s confronted with a decapitated corpse.

As the search intensifies, Jack bumps up against diabolical cartels with hidden agendas. And when his research reveals dubious experiments, a criminal on death row, and a shocking revelation about his mother’s fate, he must uncover how it’s all linked.

Can Jack unravel the twisted connections and catch the scientist’s killer, or will the next obituary published be his own?

The Curious Case of the Missing Head is the fifth standalone novel in the page-turning Jack Rogan Mysteries series. If you like meticulous theoretical science, exponentially increasing intensity, and astonishing surprises, then you’ll love Gabriel Farago’s hair-raising medical thriller.

Buy The Curious Case of the Missing Head to blow the lid off an electrifying adventure today!

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Gabriel Farago is the international, bestselling and multi-award-winning Australian author of the Jack Rogan mysteries and thrillers series for the thinking reader.

As a lawyer with a passion for history and archaeology, Gabriel had to wait for many years before being able to pursue another passion–writing–in earnest. However, his love of books and storytelling started long before that.

Born in Budapest, Gabriel grew up in post-War Europe, and after fleeing Hungary with his parents during the Revolution in 56, he went to school in Austria before arriving in Australia as a teenager. This allowed him to become multi-lingual and feel ‘at home’ in different countries and diverse cultures. Shaped by a long legal career and experiences spanning several decades and continents, his is a mature voice that speaks in many tongues.
Gabriel holds degrees in literature and law, speaks several languages and takes research and authenticity very seriously. Inquisitive by nature, he studied Egyptology and learned to read the hieroglyphs. He travels extensively and visits all of the locations mentioned in his books.

‘I try to weave fact and fiction into a seamless storyline,’ he explains. ‘By blurring the boundaries between the two, the reader is never quite sure where one ends, and the other begins. This is of course quite deliberate as it creates the illusion of authenticity and reality in a work that is pure fiction. A successful work of fiction is a balancing act: reality must rub shoulders with imagination in a way that is both entertaining and plausible.’

Gabriel lives in the Blue Mountains in Australia just outside Sydney, surrounded by a World Heritage National Park.
‘The beauty and solitude of this unique environment,’ he points out, ‘gives me inspiration and the energy to weave my thoughts and ideas into stories which, I sincerely hope, will in turn entertain and inspire my readers.’

If you like historical thrillers, excitement, mystery and suspense, if you enjoy exotic settings, colourful characters and fast-paced action, if you like to learn about interesting, well-researched subjects that tease your intellect and imagination, then once your step inside, Gabriel will show you his world; the world of the storyteller.

Shaped by a long legal career and experiences spanning several decades and continents, his is a mature voice that speaks in many tongues.

His first book -The Empress Holds the Key: A historical mystery thriller- will take you on an exciting quest for a holy relic mysteriously erased from the pages of history. You will be transported far back in time to the reign of Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh of ancient Egypt, and King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. You will discover a dark secret guarded by the Knights Templar and feared by the Vatican, a mystery that has haunted the Catholic Church for centuries, and can challenge the very foundations of Christianity.

His second book -The Disappearance of Anna Popov: a psychological thriller- will thrill you in a different way. You will enter the dangerous world of an outlaw bikie gang. You will travel to the remote dreamtime wilderness of outback Australia where the ruler is an evil master, outcasts are heroes, and cruelty and violence are admired and rewarded. You will meet Cassandra, an enigmatic psychic. Using her occult powers to avenge an old, deep wrong, she sets the scene for an epic showdown where the stakes are high and the loser faces death and oblivion.

His third book -The Hidden Genes of Professor K: a medical mystery thriller- was released in 2016. Cutting-edge medical research meets the ruthless, dangerous world of pharmaceutical empire billionaires, where unbridled ambition and greed threaten to destroy the dreams of a visionary scientist with the power to change the future of medicine, and the journey of man.

A writer like Gabriel, sees the world through a different lens. Using creativity and imagination, He endeavours to weave fact and fiction into seamless stories that have only one aim: to entertain you.

About Mayhem, Murder and the PTA

Parker Monroe is a tough-talking investigative reporter used to writing headlines, not being the subject of them.

When a key source vanishes on a politically toxic story, this single mother of three finds herself at the center of a media storm and out of a job. Ready to reset, Parker moves her family back to the rural town where she grew up. But a gossip-filled PTA, a tyrannical school principal and a gruesome murder make adjusting to the “simple life” anything but.

Parker Monroe is about to chase the story of her lifetime…

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Dave Cravens wanted to grow up to be a superhero, capture Bigfoot, fly experimental aircraft out of Area 51, develop cold fusion and star and direct in his own blockbuster movies.

That didn’t work out.

Instead, Dave got a degree in journalism, which he hasn’t used at all other than to justify his incredibly insightful and valid complaints about the state of journalism. During his twenty-two years in the video game business, he’s written for award winning franchises, directed TV commercials and movies, sprained his ankles numerous times in ultimate frisbee games and published three original novels.

He also married the love of his life and is currently raising three amazing children who may one day capture Bigfoot, Nessie or a Yeti.

No pressure.

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About The Jersey by James Rosenberg

Dan West wonders which is more important to him: Helping his long-time friend win back his business after being accused of stealing money from the company or coaching his eleven-year-old son’s soccer team trying to win an improbable championship.

Money and prestige don’t motivate Dan. Rather, family, work and coaching soccer are the underpinnings of his life. He revels in the simple joys like hanging out with his wife Jill, mentoring a young lawyer at his firm and watching the boys connect on three passes before drilling the ball into the back of the net.

Dan always knew to keep it steady—not to get too high or he might get knocked off of his perch. And he did, until he, and the boys’ soccer team, achieved unimagined success. Before he can grasp how good he has it, tragedy rips a hole in his family.

James Rosenberg, author of the bestseller Legal Reserves, strikes a new chord in his exploration of what makes a life and how to put it back together after it is shattered.

The Jersey is a beautifully written, profoundly touching, and relatable story of love, loss and the redemptive power of a group of motivated eleven-year-old kids.

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I am a third-generation lawyer who spends an inordinate amount of time in a courtroom. I have tried significant cases and some of the most ridiculous cases you could imagine, but every trial leads to a good story.

I still practice law full time but now try to get some of my stories down on paper. i have recently released my second novel, The jersey, which is a slice of life exploration of a family and evaluates why we care so much about our kids’ sports prowess.

My first novel, Legal Reserves, is a legal thriller, which Amazon has recently designated as a #1 best seller.

When I get a chance to hang out, I love doing it with my wife and three kids. Our dog Allie also likes hanging out with us.

About Beholden to Balance: Initiate by Cilla Raven

Rebecca Mason, 18, has had a pretty rough go of life so far.
Her adoptive parents didn’t know how to handle a child that said she saw fairies in their backyard, demons on the street, and elves in the park. They told her she was imagining things and to stop making up ‘stories’. But over time, Becks never got better and their anger and resentment toward her grew. It grew so much, in fact, that they abandoned her in an asylum on her eighth birthday, never to see her again.
Her doctors prescribed medicines that stopped Becks from seeing the supernatural world she adored, making her descend into a pit of depression that nothing could shake.
When she got out of the asylum on her 18th birthday, she thought life would be better, but instead found out pretty quickly that this world can be quite unforgiving and cruel. She was attacked by someone she was supposed to trust, further growing and cultivating her despair and hatred for all things ‘normal’.
Now, completely fed up with how her life has been going, Becks decides to stop taking the medications that dull her world, and almost immediately, things start to change when her half-elf, half-gargoyle familiar, Brax, shows up.
And he’s got a lot to tell her.
She was never meant to be raised in the human world; she’s not human.
She’s a hunter, a race of supernaturals charged with maintaining the balance between good and evil.
Brax brings Becks into this supernatural world with the help of three reluctant, drool-worthy new team members. However, Becks soon finds out that cruelty and evil can spread even into the hunters’ organization, and it’s up to her and her team to stop it before its too late.
However, her past haunts her. It causes panic to seize her. She knows she’ll need to get a handle on it if she ever wants to have any hope at a future she wants desperately. A future that could be gone at any second if she and her team don’t get the world back into balance.
**This is book one in a slow-burn, reverse harem urban fantasy series. It is intended for an adult audience.

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Cilla Raven is an indie author that lives in North Carolina with her husband, five children, and a big fluffy Great Pyrenees named Luna. She’s an obsessive reader that cusses too much and has too much attitude to take seriously from her four foot eleven frame.
She constantly has stories running through her mind from the depths of her own complicated, funny, sometimes dark and scary subconscious that eat at her until she has no choice but to write them down. She falls for all of her characters; even the “bad” ones, knowing that they probably didn’t start out that way. So is life or whatever.
Cilla has a pants-off after 10 p.m. mentality, loves music and dancing in her underwear, dirty humor, playing video games, funny animal videos (probably more than is necessary), and good food to name a few of the many things that excite her.
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About The Lost Boys from Longwood: What Hides Behind the Walls of a Facility Housing Wards of the State with a Juvenile Record. True Stories.

Longwood was a secure facility for the wards of the state in the Chicago area. It was a scene of corruption, sexual exploitation, and violence, but it was also where people loved, laughed, and made sacrifices to help one another. This book is a true account of events that took place in a facility for teenage youth-in-care with a juvenile record.

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J. C. Pater spent two decades working as a journalist in the United States and Europe. In the early 2000s, J. C. earned her second Master’s Degree and followed her passion for working with adolescents with special needs. She spent years as a special education teacher in a secure residential facility for the wards of the state, mostly juvenile delinquents with a criminal record. That experience became an inspiration for her book, The Lost Boys from Longwood. During that time, J. C. also adopted a seventeen-year-old boy with severe emotional disorders who carried a baggage of more than twenty foster and residential placements. J. C. is currently employed by the state government and works part-time at a private university supervising student-teaching practicum for aspiring special education teachers.

About Girl, Rise

My book is inspired from my life’s experiences of having four toxic relationships in my life and how I healed and coped from them using biblical principles. I provide throughout the book prayers, scriptures, an encouraging letter Alli wrote to herself when she discovered her true self, and much more. Lastly, let’s introduce Alli and what her story is about. Meet Alli, a girl who is in her late twenties now, lost herself along the way throughout childhood and in college, until one day she broke free and discovered who she was meant to be all along.

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Allistar Banks is a prolific author, having published five books in the last two years. She was born and raised in McCormick, South Carolina. Ms. Banks is a graduate of Lander University in Greenwood, SC, and received her Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications in 2013. She has been featured in the Index-Journal, The Press and Banner, McCormick Messenger, Lander University’s magazine, and interviewed on WZLA 92.9FM. She has a terrier mix named Sylvia, and before that, she owned a golden retriever and two Shih Tzu’s. Besides spending time writing, she loves to go hiking, hear local bands play, watch re-runs of Friends, go to museums, see plays, read, bowling, and catch a good comedy at the movie theater.

About Daddy’s Best Friend by K.C. Crowne

17 years age gap…
Why does something so wrong feel so right?

Hot.
Taboo.
Strictly off limits.
Jeremiah was my father’s older best friend.
And now I can’t get the single daddy of twins out of my mind.
Misfortune could cause him to lose everything.
And, I’m the only one who can clear his name.

My late friend’s daughter just told me she wants me in bed.
At my age, I still have the stamina of a stallion.
And parts of me have even been compared to one.
But Elle’s innocent ocean blue eyes, full lips and long luscious legs…
Leave me wondering if I’m fit for the job of mayor.
I want to own her.
Dominate her.
Teach her how to use her sweet assets.

But something tells me this little secret of ours…
Won’t stay little for very long.
And this daddy of two…
Will soon become a daddy of three.

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