About The Subtlest Soul by Virginia Cox

When one false step can lead to disaster, only the most intrepid dare venture into the Borgia labyrinth. Matteo da Fermo must make that journey, compelled by a duty of revenge. His path takes him into the dark heart of Renaissance Italy. We watch him transform from dreamy, lovelorn adolescent to courageous soldier and nerveless spy. We move from army camps and besieged hilltop towns to noble palaces and the glittering decadence of papal Rome. Along the way, Matteo meets brutal assassins, devious courtesans, flamboyant cardinals, and a rich cast of historical characters, including Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci.

While negotiating this vivid and colorful world, Matteo is also charting his way through the equally treacherous landscape of love and desire, forced to balance his feelings for his childhood sweetheart Nicolosa with the dangerous attractions of the women who form part of his dangerous odyssey. The most fascinating of these is Felice della Rovere, daughter and spymaster to his patron Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, a woman “whom the devil seemed to have sent to this earth specifically to bring him to grief.”

Set during the time when Cesare Borgia was ruthlessly exploiting his father’s papal authority to carve out a new empire in central Italy, The Subtlest Soul crafts a colorful and enthralling panorama of life in this remarkable era.

Praise for The Subtlest Soul

“Hypnotically readable … A remarkable achievement, highly recommended.” - The Historical Novel Society Review (Editor’s Choice)

“The characterization is stunning … I sincerely hope that Virginia Cox is writing a sequel.” – Elizabeth Chadwick (The Summer Queen)

Discounted on Amazon, 18-23 March 2020

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Virginia Cox is a professional academic (at New York University) and a specialist in the literature and culture of Renaissance Italy. Bringing the past to life in fiction is a hobby and a passion for her, and a way of reaching out to a broader, non-academic audience. She won the Historical Novel Society’s award for Best Indie Novel in 2014.

About Summary & Analysis of The Infinite Game by SNAP Summaries

In The Infinite Game, Simon Sinek explains the futility of prioritizing short-term profits over long-term vision. Life, he explains, is an infinite game. Merely winning should never be the aim. We need to adopt an infinite mindset and learn to embrace a cause that is bigger than us.

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About Whatever It Takes by June Summers

Gabe Wakefield is a thief burglarizing the immaculate home of Dr. and Mrs. Derrick Byrnes when he notices a rancid odor coming from a garage closet. Inside he discovers an emaciated child clothed in dirty underwear lying in filth and excrement. He kidnaps the child.
Single, twenty-five, and working as a stocker in a local superstore, Gabe is challenged with how to deal with what he has done. He is hell-bent on bringing down the Byrnes. How is that possible when he just committed both a burglary and a kidnapping?

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Some say when you’re old, you should be content with what you accomplished in the past and sit back in your rocking chair awaiting your final fate. June disagrees. At the age of seventy-six, her first suspense novel was published (Let Freedom Ring 2016 by The Wild Rose Press) Besides Whatever It Takes, she has had two additional suspense/thrillers (Before We Fade Away 2018 by The Wild Rose Press and A Conflict of Time by Full Moon Publishing, LLC. She is currently working on three other manuscripts yet unpublished.

June grew up in Ohio, graduating summa cum laude from Youngstown University. She taught art for several years, kindergarten through grade twelve. When she moved to Florida, she became a staff accountant for a local CPA firm. In Florida, she and her older daughter ran a forever home for neglected and abused animals until her daughter passed away. June continued to work for the accounting firm until she officially retired at the end of 2016. A few years ago, June moved back to Ohio to spend time with her aging sisters.

About Cornerstone of Love

Ian Chalmers’s dream life didn’t include becoming the Earl of Hartley or the CEO of Hartley International Shipping, but he obediently accepted the responsibilities when his father and older brother are killed. Duty to the Hartley title and business reputation becomes his all-consuming focus. Ian’s world revolves around unending work and doing what’s expected of him. Then a nerve-wracking, albeit completely fascinating, free-spirited female enters his structured life and turns it upside down.
Allison Moore is the American constructional engineer hired to direct the repairs on Hartley castle. Despite their instant attraction, Allison doesn’t appreciate Ian’s high-handed control of everything in his sphere of influence. Still she’s determined to placate the vexing ‘master of the castle’ in order to get the job done, bringing her another step closer to achieving her life’s goal of having a home of her own. Her strategy is complicated then frustrated when Ian’s kisses prove so delicious her treacherous heart undermines her immunity to his charm.
With the project almost complete and their sizzling interlude ending, Ian and Allison must decide what they want most in life. Is it possible they’ve each been laboring towards the wrong goals? Could what they have with each other be the cornerstone of true love?

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Susan Carlisle’s love affair with books began when she made a bad grade in math in the sixth grade. Not allowed to watch TV until she brought the grade up, Susan filled her time with books. She turned her love of reading into a love of writing romance. Susan has currently authored more than twenty-five books for the HarperCollins Harlequin medical imprint. Her Modern Masters of Their Castles trilogy is under her own imprint. Her heroes are strong, vibrant man and the women that challenge them.
In her past life Susan has been a full time mother to four children, a high school substitute teacher and now when she isn’t writing she is busy being a fun grandmother. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband of over thirty-five years. Susan loves castles, traveling, sewing and reads voraciously.

Time WARped by Valerie J. Clarizio

Romancing destiny one moment at a time.

When Veteran Blake Cornelis visits his great grandfather’s Civil War grave, he is whisked back in time to Gettysburg, where his ancestor was a hero. His mission—to preserve his family’s decorated military record, because his cousin, Evan, is determined to steal the Cornelius heroism for his own family’s ancestry. Fighting Evan is demanding and requires unremitting vigilance. Fortunately, the gods have sent Blake an exquisite guardian angel to help him.

Ariel, a time travel Protector, is tasked on this journey with safeguarding Blake, and she vows to do that—at any cost. But the attractive hero from Wisconsin is unlike others she’s been assigned to protect. The intense attraction between them casts them into deadly peril on the battlefield.

Blake and Ariel are sent into other wartimes, and as secrets unfold they realize they must sacrifice all to conquer his evil cousin, for the Cornelis honor is not all that is at stake. The fate of the American people lies in their hands. But Evan is a formidable foe, determined to achieve his mission, and since he has nothing to lose, he’ll do whatever it takes to succeed—no matter the cost.

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Valerie Clarizio is a USA Today bestselling author who lives in romantic Door County Wisconsin with her husband and extremely spoiled cat. She loves to read, write, and spend time at her cabin in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

She’s lived her life surrounded by men, three brothers, a husband, and a male Siamese cat who required his own instruction manual. Keeping up with all the men in her life has turned her into an outdoors enthusiast, of which her favorite activity is hiking in national parks. While out on the trails, she has plenty of time to conjure up irresistible characters and unique storylines for her next romantic suspense or sweet contemporary romance novel.

About One Hot Chance

One hot night leads to a hot mess…

I am cursed. One Friday night, after a horrible day at work, I decide to cheer myself up with a one-night stand with a hot stranger. The guy who propositions me has a scorching bod and a sexy British accent. Cheered up? Check. Until Monday morning, when I walk into the office, and there he is.

My one-nighter is my boss’s ex-husband. And her newest business partner.

Raisa Volkov is the toughest, most successful divorce attorney in New York and the woman every aspiring female lawyer wants to be. As her paralegal, I do whatever she tells me to do. And guess what? She just ordered me to help her win back her ex. Lucky me.

Trouble is, Chance Dixon doesn’t want his ex-wife. He wants me. My brain warns me to say no, but my body has other, much naughtier ideas.

I’m so getting fired.

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Anna Durand is a bestselling, multi-award-winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance. Her books have earned bestseller status on every major retailer and wonderful reviews from readers around the world. But that’s the boring spiel. Here are the really cool things you want to know about Anna!

Born on Lachland Air Force Base in Texas, Anna grew up moving here, there, and everywhere thanks to her dad’s job as an instructor pilot. She’s lived in Texas (twice), Mississippi, California (twice), Michigan (twice), and Alaska—and now Ohio. Her adventures include attending a midnight ghost hunt, climbing to the top of Monks Mound at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, and roaming the Mojave Desert.

As for her writing, Anna has always made up stories in her head, but she didn’t write them down until her teen years. Those first awful books went into the trash can a few years later, though she learned a lot from those stories. Eventually, she would pen her first romance novel, the paranormal romance Willpower, and she’s never looked back since.

Anna continues to explore new and exciting types of stories (a nudist resort, anyone?) while living in Ohio with her two rambunctious dogs and three horses.

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Cornerstone of Love by Susan Carlisle

Ian Chalmers’s dream life didn’t include becoming the Earl of Hartley or the CEO of Hartley International Shipping, but he obediently accepted the responsibilities when his father and older brother are killed. Duty to the Hartley title and business reputation becomes his all-consuming focus. Ian’s world revolves around unending work and doing what’s expected of him. Then a nerve-wracking, albeit completely fascinating, free-spirited female enters his structured life and turns it upside down.
Allison Moore is the American constructional engineer hired to direct the repairs on Hartley castle. Despite their instant attraction, Allison doesn’t appreciate Ian’s high-handed control of everything in his sphere of influence. Still she’s determined to placate the vexing ‘master of the castle’ in order to get the job done, bringing her another step closer to achieving her life’s goal of having a home of her own. Her strategy is complicated then frustrated when Ian’s kisses prove so delicious her treacherous heart undermines her immunity to his charm.
With the project almost complete and their sizzling interlude ending, Ian and Allison must decide what they want most in life. Is it possible they’ve each been laboring towards the wrong goals? Could what they have with each other be the cornerstone of true love?

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Susan Carlisle’s love affair with books began when she made a bad grade in math in the sixth grade. Not allowed to watch TV until she brought the grade up, Susan filled her time with books. She turned her love of reading into a love of writing romance. Susan has currently authored more than twenty-five books for the HarperCollins Harlequin medical imprint. Her Modern Masters of Their Castles trilogy is under her own imprint. Her heroes are strong, vibrant man and the women that challenge them.
In her past life Susan has been a full time mother to four children, a high school substitute teacher and now when she isn’t writing she is busy being a fun grandmother. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband of over thirty-five years. Susan loves castles, traveling, sewing and reads voraciously. Visit her at www.SusanCarlisle.com

About Kill Me Why?: Gray James Detective Murder Mystery and Suspense (Chief Inspector Gray James Detective Murder Mystery Series Book 2)

SOME STORMS RAGE INSIDE AND OUT
Chief Inspector Gray James is standing in the spot where he killed his only son when he hears the news – THE STITCHER is back after a fifteen-year absence. And the victim – lips sutured shut with medical nylon – disappears within minutes of being found at a nearby Body Farm.
Something is brewing in the quaint and peaceful coastal town of Halfmoon Bay – edged between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains near Vancouver. The town of Gray’s youth and where it all began – where he had a hand in his son’s death.

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A BEACH; A MYSTERY; A BUBBLY DRINK: RITU’S FAVORITE VACATION DAY
Ritu won the Colorado Gold Award for the first in the Chief Inspector Gray James Murder Mystery Series, His Hand In the Storm. It had 50,000 downloads in its first month and continues to go strong. The book was also a Daphne du Maurier Suspense finalist. Both Book 1 (His Hand In the Storm) and Book 2 (Kill Me Why) are Amazon Bestsellers.
She’s fulfilling her lifelong desire of becoming a mystery writer. Many thanks to all the readers who are making that possible.

About A Diamond in the Rough by Jewel Ryu

“From this day on, let everything be fiction.”
With these words, an aspiring scientist is swept away onto the Periodic Table. In a fantasy land where chemicals are people, she finds her place as the element Carbon. Settling down as a circus magician, she enlightens the crowd with traffic lights and vanishing valentines. She encounters a queer cast of characters and Litmus, a pH indicating chameleon. Yet all is not well in the kingdom of chemicals; Oxygen, the electron thief, burns and corrodes any metal he pleases. Following the mysterious disappearance of Gold, Carbon sets upon a quest to capture the thief. Upon encountering two strangers and a band of fire-eating devils, she finds herself caught up in a contract with the thief. In return for his life, she agrees to accompany him on the search for the alchemist. Arriving at a castle of caves, they travel through a cloud chamber, a forest of rust monsters, a haunted inn, a labyrinth, and a rainbow lake. Their journey extends to a cosmos unbeknownst to humankind, ensuing several cryptic messages. In the end, the worst lie reveals an incredible amount of truth.
At the far west, the Alkali Desert is home to the most reactive of metals. In a land where water is a taboo, a draconian potion, tensions are high at the news of a rising storm. Eastward, the Halogens prepare for battle against a band of islanders, metals, and nonmetals. Between a collection of spellbinding puzzles and color-changing reactions, Carbon comes to question everything she had known. Tangled up in the middle of a war, she and her friends must devise chemical schemes to stop the world from falling apart. They soon discover they are in far more jeopardy than they could have ever imagined.
Want to impress your friends with some scientific knowledge? A flip of the page is all it will take to acquire the greatest insight, delivered in surprisingly simple language. The story will walk readers of any age through the enchanting world of chemical reactions. Bringing personification to the highest degree, the saga casts a new light upon drab materials of the lab shelf. From the ground to stars, galaxies, and universes, the novel will carry those daring enough up into different dimensions. With a unique twist of the plot, readers will encounter a lifetime’s worth riddles yet to be solved. Through an adventure rife with humor, action, and a bit of dark mystery, the series brings light to a crisscross of genres. This crazy-quilt sequence of events will captivate fans of crime and detective novels. Sprinkled with jokes, quips, and bonds, it offers a pleasant escapade into a romantic comedy. The series is a laboratory by itself, proving possible a bizarre, splendid, unlikely fusion between fiction and nonfiction. Those with a taste for the unusual will be fascinated by this tale of dragons and knights presented at the molecular level.
A spectacular tale of friendship and courage, ‘A Diamond in the Rough’ is peppered with art, poetry, and enigmas. ‘The Elements’ introduces readers to a new era of magic – magic opposed to the fairytales saying, the witch mixed the herbs, the fairies happened to make a mistake. The stirring stick being a little wand of its own, characters come up with bombs worth Zeus’s thunderbolt, poisonous drinks, and even potions of emotion. Bringing life to the rigid realm of numbers, the plotline revolves around struggles for power and romance, as a striking parallel to human society. It brings attention to not only chemistry, but a realm of lucid dreams, geometry, and artificial intelligence. Keep your eyes open for the next string of books – The Prince of Magnets, A Strange Cliffside Factory, A Chiral Universe, Something Denser than Love, and Schrodinger’s Lost Cat.

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I’ve got a penchant for avocados. Colors and geometric shapes – as in 2d, 3d, and platonic objects – are a source of constant fascination. I collect strange rocks and minerals, and the planets that make up our galaxies. Through my research in mechanical engineering, materials sciences, and chemistry, I am planning on designing nanoparticles in the near future.
Other than that, I’ve got a turtle named 'Sudden' at home.
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His Muse by Annie J. Rose

I fell in love with my brother’s best friend.
Only to get pregnant, and then abandoned.
I’ll never forgive Ben.
He left me when I needed him the most.
I’ve survived five years without him.
But my heart still races when I see him again.
I’m tempted to make the same mistake I did back then.
But what happens when I tell him my secret?

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Annie J. Rose is an Amazon top 30 best seller contemporary romance author who loves to bring all of your fantasies to life. She writes steamy romance with a happily ever after.

Born and raised in New Zealand, she often spends most of her time writing stories by her balcony. Pharmacist by day, smut-writer by night.

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It’s Only the Dream that Counts: Short Stories All Over the World by Arye Dreyfus

Arye Dreyfus has extended his career for long years as an envoy to Africa and Europe. He describes unique people as dissimilar as people can be without condoning or condemning but with an evident empathy.
At first stories revolving around such at odd characters do not belong together but in this curiosity piquing book they do as they all share an essential characteristic, they never give their dreams up. Each of his cases delves with a peculiar issue, together they are a bunch of human beings unflinchingly chasing their dreams in a bitter struggle against the misery and the complexity of life. They do not belong to the high society or to the wretched and poor, just ordinary people trying to come to terms with the resistance their struggle inevitably raise. Their twisted trails take us among others from Berlin to the jungles of Africa, from an empty airport in New- York to a Nazi celebration in Paris during the Second World War and to an evening under shelling in Haifa.
Love, all kinds of love, is characteristically a main component especially love in situations of alienation and distress. Faith and nationalities aren’t relevant but the Jewish background of the author is never in doubt.
The Motto of this book could be:
Keep true to your dreams, they often bear the seedling of new realities.
The Author life story makes him a natural candidate to join the lists of characters the reader will encounter. Arye eighty years old often tells he has accomplished two things in his life, awaking in the mornings after a night spent dreaming about one of his nine grand- children and expecting one of his dreams come true.

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Arye, a teacher born in France, describes dire facts, but being an Israeli he doesn’t let them merge into an apparently hopeless situation. He has as impressive record both as an educator and as envoy to various missions, mainly in Europe and Africa. He doesn’t condemn or condone, he just eloquently unfolds a story of a decadent society that fifty years later doesn’t seem ready to come to terms with its own inconstancy.

Reclaiming Our Own by Christopher Irons

How would you react if one of your loved ones was unexpectedly abducted from a seemingly safe environment?
Would you fall apart and wait for life to pass you by, hoping and praying that your loved one would return?
Would you continue to be there for your family and allow the authorities to do their job?
Or would you take matters into your own hands and do whatever necessary to reclaim your own?

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From the time we were old enough to comprehend language, we were told to have a goal. It took me almost fifty years, but I finally found it. To be more specific, I no longer want to put on pants to go to work.

You are most likely wondering how being pants-free relates to writing. A writer can write from anywhere, wearing anything, or wearing nothing at all. In fact, I am writing this from my couch, in a t-shirt and underwear. My apologies for that visual, but it was necessary to advance the plot.

Becoming a writer is easy, like running, just start doing it. If you run, you are a runner. You don’t have to be fast, you just have to run. If you want to write, start writing. Getting paid to write something is difficult. Getting paid to write full-time, for a living wage, is shooting for the stars.

If you want to write for other people, not just for your own enjoyment, you need an audience. That brings us to why you are here. I hope to use my works, my website, and my Facebook page to build an audience.

Blogging seems to be a great way to start. I hope to entertain, inform, be insightful, and share some personal stories. I enjoy telling stories. My posts will most often be a humorous short story with the other aspects mixed in. If you stick around, I plan to write a few essays, articles, longer short stories, and more novels.

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