About If I Had Two Lives

What would you do if you found out that your whole life is based on a lie?

Vicky Collins has a seemingly enviable life. She is a successful agent for the FBI and lives with her social media star and real estate entrepreneur boyfriend in an upscale neighborhood of San Diego.

But appearances can be deceiving.

When Vicky is recruited to an elite unit at the FBI to investigate a serial killer piggybacking on the murders of other serial killers, her life begins to spiral out of control.

To complicate things further for the young special agent, a routine background check at the FBI reveals a sibling DNA match — a brother she didn’t know existed. Determined to unravel the mysteries of her past and to find her long lost brother, Vicky retraces the boy’s footsteps through the foster care system, uncovering the abuse and neglect he suffered growing up. The secrets she unveils are more monstrous and terrifying than she ever imagined, and a new truth about her childhood threatens to consume her.

Then the Piggyback Serial Killer strikes again, but this time, Agent Collins has multiple suspects—including members of her own family.

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Whelan is a huge fan of mystery and suspense stories. She grew up watching ‘90s thrillers and reading books by James Patterson and Stephen King. She loves competing with her husband to figure out the ending of a book or a movie before the conclusion.
Over the years, her love for twisting and suspenseful thrillers has grown into a passion for writing her own stories. Her inspiration comes from real-life crimes and everyday suburban life around her. She’s dedicated herself to giving a voice to victims of abuse. She is known for her relatable characters, fast-paced storytelling, and endings you don’t see coming.
When she isn’t writing, editing, marketing, or researching her next book, you can find her walking her two rescue dogs, socializing online, training soccer with her children, or doing another DIY project with her husband.

About The Cat’s out of the Bag by Cynthia Terelst

One van. Two hearts. Thousands of kilometres.

Jesse’s a self-made billionaire who yearns to get away from his empty life and the money-hungry parasites who inhabit it. The plan? Go to Australia, tell no one about his money and find himself. Instead of finding just himself, he finds Evie, who is everything anyone should aspire to be. Now, what he aspires to be, is hers. But to be hers, he needs to tell her everything.

Evie has left her past behind. She has rebuilt herself, and her life, into one of happiness. After she meets Jesse, while volunteering at a cat shelter, memories of her past filter back in. She is stronger now and wants to trust him. But after all she has been through, is trust even possible?

The quest to find a cat a forever home leads them to travel across the country together. Can the close quarters drive them to open up to each other? Or will it drive them apart?

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Cynthia Terelst is a project officer by day and a writer by night. She is a contemporary romance writer who likes to share a little bit of history, some Australian scenery and a whole lotta love. Cynthia does not shy away from difficult topics, as she feels that they should not be ignored.
Cynthia used herexperience as a cat owner and foster carer for a local cat rescue, to build an understanding of cat’s in care and to develop the cat’s personalities. Mike is the feline star of The Cat’s out of the Bag. Some people say that she is a crazy cat lady. But she denies this vehemently.
She lives in Queensland, Australia, where the sun shines at least 283 days a year.

About The Art of Good Enough: The Working Mom’s Guilt-Free Guide to Thriving While Being Perfectly Imperfect

THE SECRET TO LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE IS TO FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTHS, NOT YOUR WEAKNESSES.

Have you been feeling depleted, anxious, and unsatisfied in the race of being the perfect mother? Get more out of life guilt-free! Using her own life lessons, Dr. Ge enables you to filter out distractions and self-sabotaging beliefs and create the life you love. You aren’t selfish to recharge before giving your best to your family. You don’t have to be perfect to be happy.

Written with humor and open-heartedness, rigorous research and unconventional wisdom, The Art of Good Enough reveals the tools to simplifying your life, optimizing time management, dealing with difficult emotions, and finding solutions to your dilemmas.

Learn how to:
• Stop comparing to others and only focus on what is important to you.
• Uncover your hidden strengths and use them to improve your life.
• Look and feel your best regardless of your size and age.
• Raise self-reliant children and bring passion back to your relationship.
• Reverse engineer your roadmap to reaching your goals.
… and much more.

Read this book and start creating your best life today!

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From an aspiring actress to working for airline executives to becoming a pharmacy professor and a multi-genre author, Dr. Ivy Ge has transformed her life while balancing her role as a working mother.

She writes to inspire women to design their own fate. Her thrillers tell the extraordinary tales of ordinary heroines caught between personal conflicts and national crises. Her self-help books empower women to pursue self-growth outside the role of caregivers.

Besides traveling, she enjoys practicing hot yoga, horseback riding, and skiing in the mountains in Lake Tahoe, California with her family.

About Void Templar: MEDJAY (Arc One)

“THEY SAY THE COSMOS IS A VOID,
DISTURBED BY A FEW ISLANDS OF MATTER. THEY’RE WRONG.”
– Captain Elric Main of the Light Security Corvette MEDJAY.

Humanity stands at an expansionist crossroads. Planetary systems have been colonized and exploited. Yet, even with barely fifteen percent of the Milky Galaxy fully explored, mankind had already set its sights on the Canis Galaxy, the closest galaxy.
Technology and growth have been fueled by corporate greed, with massive conglomerates now having their own domains in space. Over everything is the Interstellar Galactic Federation, composed of spacefaring companies. The very way of life and destiny of mankind are in its hands.

The Milky Way galaxy was but a stepping stone for corporate expansion. Nothing stood in humanity’s path. With such kind of rapacious competition, the usual wars and conflicts are now commonplace, with rules governing intercorporate relationships being determined by the Federation. In space, only the truly powerful survive.

But despite such galactic advances, humanity has yet to encounter another sentient lifeform. An experience that had given birth to an unwarranted arrogance in the primacy of its species.

All that is about to change. There is life out there, but not life as humanity expected it to be. Now, man’s very existence will rest in the hands of a few intrepid individuals at the edge of human space.

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Active Member, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
A Goodreads Author
Writer –
The ACCIDENTAL ARCHMAGE Series
The ARCANUM ASTRAY Series
PLANAR WARS Series
ANCIENT FANGS Series
MANUS DEI Series
VOID TEMPLAR Series, and the
FRIEDA Children’s Book Series

Our Last Shot — Family Business at Peckerwood by Bob Keaton

Tommy is leaving the country, but he hasn’t told anyone why. That—and a lot more—gets revealed during the last barbecue at his plantation south of Atlanta. He bought the decaying Southern relic 10 years ago and has put a lot of money into the restoration. Now he’s ready to show it off.

So, he’s invited the old college gang for the weekend, hoping to relive some memories and maybe even create a few new ones, as he sees his friends for the last time.

They do that, but a lot more happens, too. Old rivalries are reignited. Secrets get revealed. A young guy meets his birth mother for the first time and discovers who his dad is. Old love interests get rekindled. One member of the group reveals a sex change that nobody knew about. Oh, and there’s a murder, who will it be? And who did it?

Although they were close in college, now that they’re scattered around the country many of them haven’t seen each other in more than 20 years. Here are some of the characters who are invited to the reunion: A TV soap opera star from Los Angeles with a colorful past love life; a prominent high tech attorney in Seattle still trying to overcome the damage done by one of the gang back in college; an evangelist from Charleston whose ministry is based on “getting high” on drugs; a famous New York actress with a mysterious past, and a well-known model from the 70s who now has his own agency and also a lot of baggage. Everybody’s favorite professor back in college, who was always there to listen to their problems and offer advice, shows up, but now he needs someone to listen to him and offer advice.

Not your typical weekend down on the old Georgia plantation.

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Bob Keaton is a writer and editor with an expansive editorial career, having worked for three daily newspapers, including covering the entertainment field for two of them. He is the author of numerous newspaper and magazine articles. Our Last Shot is his second novel. He currently resides in Atlanta, but has lived in South Florida and California which served as the basis for his first novel, SEX is nothing more than a game of tennis, a story about the wild life of sex, drugs and rock and roll in San Francisco during the 1970s.

About The Prophet: Prelude – The Trial of Sa’riya, by Don Newton

Draggons are the worst…

The war with the Draggons is raging, and only the battle-hardened Na’Geena warriors can stand against them. They have the weapons that can kill them, and the Griffins they ride are the mortal enemies of the lizards. There’s a chance they could be defeated, but they have allies in the Eradorians, and a secret mission could turn the tide and destroy the Draggon King. Only a god can make it work. But will he help?

Ok, her twin sister was killed, but it was an accident…

When the Carolonian sun exploded, Zi’anna was caught in the blast-wave, and even her immortality and the powers of the K’Pa couldn’t save her from certain death. Now, the immortal’s Elder Council wants her sister, Sa’riya, to pay for that loss, with her life… But not all of them…

Follow along as the trial unfolds. Will they find her guilty? Would you?

“When you know the right question to ask, the answer will be obvious.” – Yin, The positive aspect

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Don Newton is a writer and armchair philosopher, author of the science fantasy trilogy "The Prophet", and short stories too numerous to count. Don has been in love with science fiction and fantasy his entire life. The first alternate world he created was the result of a sixth-grade essay assignment, and he's been hooked ever since.

About Picking Up The Shards by Anita M. Oommen

Have you been deeply wounded by your mother, a parental figure, early caregivers or by a significant person in your life? Have you been stung by rejection, covered with the shroud of unworthiness and wounded from feelings of abandonment by the very one who was supposed to nurture, love and protect you in this world? Have you felt your life fall apart in pieces, or felt too broken to be restored? If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, you will not want to miss this bestselling Memoir. Picking Up The Shards is a raw and honest account from the author as she faces her early traumatic childhood experiences and darkest emotions that linger into adulthood. She ferrets out the limiting conclusions she drew about herself as a child and adamantly calls for the God-given truth of her identity to be restored. Her beautiful voice, which she shares so eloquently in this book, is a reflection of all the healing work she’s done.
Picking Up The Shards is also about the author’s awakening moment – when the despair of her mother-wounds met the mother-heart of God–the final catalyst to her ultimate healing and forgiveness of her mother(s).

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Anita M. Oommen has traveled across the globe from the beautiful continent of Africa to the tranquil villages and bustling cities of India, and currently lives in the U.S.

She is a wife to her wonderful husband whom she met half the globe away during her nomadic wanderings. She is a "mama" to two beautiful, smart and rambunctious children who keep her on her toes and have taught her to live joyfully and authentically in the moment.

She is trained as a Speech-Language Pathologist and Audiologist, with dual undergraduate and graduate degrees. She has worked for a United Nations Development Program helping under-resourced and underprivileged children with disabilities. She has been equally passionate about her work in neuro-rehabilitation of adults over the last two decades. Brain, behavior and neurosciences have been her interests. She has also volunteered in the villages and local hospitals of Southern India and Africa.

Anita has been passionately committed to helping others find their voice, literally and figuratively. She writes from her messy dining room table right in the middle of the chaos of everyday life or in her children's school carpool lane when inspiration strikes.

All of her life experiences and the healing that she has experienced have led her to discovery that there is no pain too deep, no one too lost, nor is it ever too late to pick up the pieces of your past life and rebuild a new life with resiliency. She is committed to writing about her life story of personal growth and transformation from broken to restored and living into the serendipitous moments of grace. She writes to pass the gift of healing forward and to give a voice to those with similar stories.

She loves to craft from scratch and enjoys the tranquility of nature whether it is at the beach, in the mountains, or in her backyard where the skies display God's handiwork.

Anita won "The Difference Maker Award" for her book at the Author Advantage Live Conference in September 2019 and was an Award-Winning Finalist in the "Spirituality: Inspirational" category of the 2019 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest.

About The Forbidden Dæmyn (The Entwined Spirits Saga Book 1)

– She no longer dreams of mighty conquest. Now she only dreams of return.

This is the tale of Lîlît Gamaliel, an elderly dæmyn forbidden from adventuring with the ærendmyn she loves until she can prove that fate has not abandoned her. To regain that companionship and her own pride, she engages in agonising struggles against fierce monsters deeper in the chaotic void than anyone has ever dared go.

– Gavríæl is a Trueborn ærendmyn. Lîlît is an arch-dæmyn. They are forever entwined.

J. M. Blum’s enthralling debut, The Forbidden Dæmyn, is the first book in the Entwined Spirits Saga. This is a never give up book featuring the strongest female lead character known to fantasy. It is a mighty warrior’s attempt at redemption in a battle with a forbidden obsession, but will it be the pride before her fall?

This fantasy series uses rich and powerful imagery. It describes the eternal struggle of love and mortality between the Trueborn ærendmyn, Gavríæl Kheruvîm, and sultry arch-demon, Lîlît Gamaliel. Each book is set in the magical fantasy world of Sefirot. These are standalone modern literary myths embedded in an overarching epic of unconscious desire, repression, and transcendence. Filled with mythical creatures, they draw from rich traditions of sacred writings, spirituality, Kabbalah, Angelology, and Demonology. Fans of fantasy, fantasy gaming, gamelit, myths, folklore, and legends will love this series for years to come.

Coming soon… The next book in the saga, First They Came for the Minùtemyn.

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J. M. Blum was born in ‘77, in a forest grove of the Pacific Northwest. Comic books and Commodores informed his childhood, along with tales of wonder from books, radio, tv, movies, and even stories spoken over rotary telephones. But games around tables co-creating meaningful stories has always been a great passion.

Blum attended Virtual High in Vancouver, BC in the ‘90s. He wrote some unpublished poetry about it. Then he hung out at an ashram and went traveling before attending the Center for Digital Imaging and Sound in the noughties to take up video game programming; which he eschewed for academic and industrial computer and data science/engineering. He wrote a PhD thesis, published papers in journals and conference proceedings, and wrote a great deal of technical content and programs. But he missed fiction.

So the prodigal son has come home with the publication of his first novel, The Forbidden Dæmon. Blum's present home is in Belgium after living more than a decade in the UK. He's a proud dad of three, and a happy husband too. With love for the writing process, he expects to continue producing The Entwined Spirits Saga along with many more works for years to come.