About The Call of Magic – Book One of the Fool’s Journey by A. R. C.

Freshly graduated from high school, EMMA LIE has never let go the betrayal her father served her. On the eve of her college departure, burdened with grand designs, Emma finds herself branded by a strange mark.

Bewildered by its appearance, Emma becomes distracted, then suspicious, of a captivating boy named THIES KRAUSMANN. Suspecting he bears the same symbol, she brings him closer and, amid a passionate moment, demands the truth from him. His cryptic answers skew her reality forever. Magic is real. The impression on her arm is an invitation by FATE.

Called by magic, invited by Thies and his mysterious colleague, Emma refuses their offer to join a cabal of magicians.

An unknown assailant chooses that hour to strike, and Emma is thrust into the world of magic, stolen away from her home even as the aggressor orders the kidnapping of her mom.

They’re transported to the Citadel, the stronghold of the magic Legion. Emma seeks reassurance from Thies, her only lifeline in that strange city. Compelled to trust him, pressed through Orientation, and shown the terror of the Merim, Emma wants nothing more than to return to her life. The secret war being waged by the Legionnaires beyond the Well in the Land of Magic is not her destiny.

She is told by the HIGH PRIESTESS that she cannot return. She is a recruit, now, bound by blood.

Lofty intentions derailed, her mother in mortal danger, and forced into military servitude, Emma struggles, resenting her captivity. Within hours, she alienates the other recruits and, resisting their overtures of friendship, plots escape. Rebuffing Thies’ attempts at romance, pushed to his side by the brutal training regimen, Emma battles for her own heart just as she fights for survival.

Battered by periods of torturous instruction, she finds herself losing ground. Thies is persistent. The moments they shared before her forced entry into the Legion were a reality she never imagined could be hers. Still, she plans desertion.

Strange things occur in the Citadel. The Legionnaires hold her suspect, THE PROFESSOR follows her in the hallways, and a magical parasite has escaped the Land of Magic. When Emma stumbles on a means of escape, her intentions to flee bear fruit. She must find the time and power to explore a mysterious set of tunnels. Days pass, and though Emma had originally shut herself off from friendship, she finds her teammates are as persistent as Thies. Her feelings for Thies intensify, but she cannot abandon her mother, or the life she had planned.

Emma is ordered to help clear the dangerous parasite. In a show of tremendous magic, the parasitic goop forms into a man-shape, claiming it will find her just as she and her companions annihilate it with their combined powers. Yet remnants of the slime are discovered after. It has not yet been destroyed as they had hoped. Despite this setback, Legion life must go on.

In Legion rite, Emma is paraded before the veterans at a ball. Dressed to perfection, plied with alcohol, Emma’s heart gives in. She and Thies fall into love.

In the hours after, Emma is caught in her daily attempts to escape.

Imprisoned, struggling against Thies’ heartbreak, Emma is forced to explain her actions. She learns that the parasite has become aggressive, that it is sentient, even. At the promenade, it abducted one of her teammates. Those who were closest to her disappear one by one.

It comes for Emma, but is driven away.

Intent on saving her friends, with Thies at her side, Emma agrees to act as bait, engaging in a dangerous mission. She joins the High Priestess and the Professor, racing against the opening of the Well. When Thies is captured, Emma has no choice but to chase after him. They enter the Land of Magic.

Confronted by the parasitic extension of a Merim’s power, the pair engage in a desperate battle against a powerful foe. And just when they have won an astonishing victory, another Merim arrives.

Emma dispatches the proxy of the first, and the second Merim disappears. Thies lies on the ground. Though unwounded, he rises inexorably into the sky. Fearing for his life, Emma clings to him with desperation, but is knocked unconscious. She awakens to a world without her love.

Unknowing whether Thies is dead, she vows to return him to the land of the living.

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“Hello.”
A figure approaches you on this dusty road called life. Indistinct and familiar, unknown but knowing, they are nobody and the every-man. “May I tell you a story?” they ask, wasting no time.
“What kind?” you reply, impatient with interminable day. Fraught with distraction. You’re unsure you want anything new.
“Some, light and airy, still others dour and dread-riddled. Love and death, black dreams and bright hope, man and his fellow, red war and high peace. All can be found here. The cynics, the broken, the strong, and the weak, all woven into one. You need but only listen.”
“Tell me more?” you inquire after minutes of thought.
The storyteller nods. “Though you might not like each tale, inevitably you will find your hero within. Some to hate, and more to admire. It cannot be else. Hide and reveal, warn or conceal, incite or enchant. So falls the nature of storytelling, a reflection of the soul. Only the cruel would change these tales to fit own beliefs.”
“And should I not wish to hear them?”
“No matter that I sing my yarns to a single body or many, they must be told. It is my honor, my duty, my obligation.”
“But who are you?” you demand.
“If I were to speak base truth about myself, I would say that I’m a dreamer. It holds a double meaning. I daydream regularly, oft to diversion. And though my nightly dreams come and go without memory, that which they tell me changes my mood daily.”
“To this point in life, dreaming has never gotten me anywhere.”
The figure leans in, as if sharing a secret with a friend.
“But it will one day.”
The longer the figure speaks and the more that you listen, the more you perceive that you aren’t alone. Others surround you, attend with you, know the words as you do. Love and tears, heartache and fears, it is good to share these worries amongst friends.
For what is existence, but a semi-sweet story?

Blood Honor _ American Yakuza IV by Isabella

Luce Potter, the only female head of a yakuza organization, has been flirting with death for a while now. Try to take something away from her, hurt her family, or threaten her life, and she strikes back with viper-like precision. Now, Frank Yeow, her dead grandfather’s former second-in-command, is coming for her again. This time he’s working with Carolina Petrov, the widow of her most recent nemesis. Luce finds herself pulled in two directions, with sweet revenge on one side and her lover’s happiness on the other, including a family and everything that comes with it: PTA, soccer, and sit-down dinners on Sundays.

Brooke Erickson is ready for the quiet life that includes babies, a house in the country, and her lover, Luce Potter. Brooke stepped up to lead the yakuza clan when Luce was kidnapped and almost killed, but now she thinks that danger is behind them and it’s their time to be happy, domestic, and drama-free. There’s only one problem: Luce doesn’t see herself as the mommy type and is finding it hard to put her past behind her.

With Frank’s help, Mei Potter has finally found her sister and been at least superficially accepted into the family, but it is clear that Luce doesn’t want anything to do with her. Mei has her foot in the door, but it will take more than a claim of blood ties to earn Luce’s trust enough to enact her nefarious endgame. Getting close to Luce brings up questions of birthright and honor, Mei must navigate a tricky dance with Luce and the crime family while Frank’s iron grip steers her to complete her mission—one way or another.

Three lives are intertwined yet moving in different directions. Can each survive long enough to get what they want, or are they all on a one-way path toward collective destruction?

*Note — there is a bondage scene in the book

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Isabella is an award winning author for Sapphire Books. She lives on the central coast of California with her wife. she teaches at a local college and has three wonderful sons. She rides motorcycles when she’s not writing or remodeling a cabin in the Sierra foothills.

Isabella has written fifteen novels. If you want to read her current work, check out her newest release, Blood Honor in the American Yakuza series.

About Bonds Of Chrome Magic

Ever since Sammiroh, ‘Sam’ was a toddler, his family has had a strange relationship with death: His mother’s ever-warm corpse baffles all the coroners of the three-tiered, ringed world of the Triskai. The dark details of his father’s death remain heavily guarded like a vault of mystic gemstones. In his familial blood, only Sam’s elder sister, Sally survives. For a while, she entertained him with the fantastic myths of the Triskai—primeval stories of gods and goddesses, enchanting tales of magic and fate.

—Until she died—

A stormy funeral service held at three in the morning was bound to produce something bizarre. The coffin had hardly been hauled from the hearse before a chain of events began, changing Sam’s life forever.

Hunted by darkness, he turns to his quartet of friends for solace; only Parris believes him— his best friend’s girlfriend with whom he shares a complicated bond.

As Sam struggles with loyalty, surviving the evils of a spectral assassin, and coming to terms with a bewitching yet frightening reality, he slowly realizes the source of his troubles goes deep into the history of the Triskai itself.

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Star sign Gemini, Asher is a raging introvert content with shirking social life for solitude. In the days, Asher can be found sleeping in a dark box of a room, come night to rise fresh, thirsty to devise convoluted plots during the witching hour. Asher is a soul of many talents and passions, which usually pull hither and thither like waves under the full moon. Among them are Chess and Cricket and Gaming. Asher is a high-tier lyricist, poet, and teacher of Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry.

About Savoring the World: Hit and Misadventures – a memoir

I am an avid world traveler. I have lived in a variety of international locations, and I have both studied abroad and taught abroad. I have backpacked, camped out, stayed at youth hostels, and now, in my senior years, I have stayed in topnotch hotels and resorts. I have flown standby, and I have flown first class. I have hitchhiked, and I have taken public transportation, slow trains, fast trains, boats, and ships. I cherish my memories. They are solid, like granite, and they remind me of what I have been through and of how they have made me into a better person. World travel has taken me out of my comfort zone, has freed me from ever living a cocoon like life, has taught me to reach for the stars, and has provided me with an education that far surpasses any level that I could have achieved in any other way.

“Thank you, world!” I can shout from the greatest heights and from the lowest depths, from Germany’s Zugspitze to California’s Death Valley. I’ve been in the burning sands of Saudi Arabia, and I have been in the Arctic freeze of Lapland in Finland. I’ve been there and I am a better person for it.

Everything and everybody in this book is factual. All details are true to life. This is exactly how it all happened. It is as if yesterday is today, and, in a way, that’s the way it really is. These glimpses of my world journeys are poignant, funny, comical, inspiring, and sometimes frightening, but one thing is for certain: every word details precisely and truthfully how it all happened.

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Michael Meyer is the author of mysteries, thrillers, humorous fiction, and non-fiction: Love and romance, laughter and tears, thrills and fears.

He has resided in and has visited many places in the world, all of which have contributed in some way to his own published writing. He has literally traveled throughout the world, on numerous occasions. He has lived in Finland, Germany, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He gained the wanderlust to see the world, to experience other cultures, at an early age, and this desire has never left him. If anything, it has only gained in intensity as he has aged.

Among the many unique things that have happened to him in his world travels, he has walked the streets of Istanbul with a detective, searching for a pickpocket who got him good. He has ridden on the back of a motorcycle in Tehran while the driver, who spoke not one word of English, pointed out all the sights to him. He has wrestled an Iranian soldier who tried to break into his hotel room in Tehran. He has had the paint completely stripped from his car as he drove across Saudi Arabia in a sandstorm. He has stood on the stage of a busy nightclub in Tokyo, singing "She'll be Coming Round the Mountain When She Comes" to an audience feeling no pain from the Sake they were drinking. He has been chased by a family of mongooses (yes, that is the correct spelling) on the idyllic Caribbean island of St. Croix. And that is just the beginning of his long list of worldly adventures.

As a recent retiree from a forty-year career as a professor of writing, he now lives in Southern California wine country with his wife, Kitty, and their two adorable rescue cats.

About Feisty Heroines Romance Collection of Shorts

Doormats are for stepping on. No one steps on these heroines.

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You’ll travel to ancient English castles, mystical lands, and the streets of Chicago, meeting billionaire bad boys, sexy exes, and seductive half angels willing to risk it all for the tough, spunky—and often stubborn—females who invade their lives on a mission to right the wrongs they’ve endured. Do these leading men have what it takes to compel their strong-willed leading ladies to embrace their softer side? Or will these ladies be too hot to handle?

From contemporary romance to paranormal, historical to fantasy, the Feisty Heroines collection of original short stories will whet your appetite with titillating, heart-pounding tales you’ll want to dive into again and again.

Over thirty pulse-racing stories to capture your heart from New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and award-winning authors.

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Over 30+ stories from USAT, NYT, and international best-selling authors!
FEISTY HEROINES AUTHORS
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About Ari’s Adventure

Finding out her husband of over twenty years is cheating on her? Check.
Laid off from her job the very same day? Check.

Ari had a very bad day and flees to Moonshire Bay to relax, heal and figure out what she really wants. At least she knows what she doesn’t want – a relationship.

Jack Callahan has been playing it safe in all aspects of his life after a failed business and a horrible misjudgment of someone’s character. Living in Moonshire Bay allows him to coast through life with his shields up and blinders on.

So what happens when Jack and Ari start working on a project together? Can their newfound friendship and attraction overcome their lack of trust?

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Author Bio:
Elle Sweet is the pen name of mystery author Laina Turner.

I started writing ten years ago, and it was always my intent and desire to write romance. However, in my first book, someone died. It just happened and turned the romance into a mystery.

Twenty-some books later, and I decided enough was enough. I was going to do what I’d initially set out to do at the start of my writing journey. Write a book where no one died (It’s not as easy as you think).

I can’t tell you how much fun I had writing Finding Rachel and the three others set in the small town of Moonshire Bay. Finding Rachel is out now and Ari’s Adventure will release in spring of 2020 with the third book set to follow in the early summer of 2020.

How did I come up with my pen name? Elle for the “L” in Laina and Sweet was my grandfather’s last name. I wanted something that had a story. I originally wanted to call myself LuluBell after a pet cow I once had, but the family shot that one down.

Born and raised in the midwest, I live in Indiana with my husband, three amazing children, and our dogs Duke and Macy.

About Tokyo Traffic

Running from a life she didn’t choose, in a city she doesn’t know, Sukanya, a young Thai girl, escapes into Tokyo from human traffickers who will do anything to recover the computer she took. With help from Chiho, a Japanese girl living in a net café, she tries to get free from her pursuers and her past. Detective Hiroshi Shimizu tracks the killers through Tokyo’s teen hangouts and deserted docks, straight into the underbelly of the global economy and the highest reaches of the power elite.

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Michael Pronko is a Tokyo-based writer of murder, memoir and music. His writing about Tokyo life and his character-driven mysteries have won awards and five-star reviews. Kirkus Reviews selected his second novel, The Moving Blade for their Best Books of 2018. The Last Train won the Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book.

Michael also runs the website, Jazz in Japan, which covers the vibrant jazz scene in Tokyo and Yokohama. During his 20 years in Japan, he has written about Japanese culture, art, society and politics for Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and Artscape Japan. He has read his essays on NHK TV and done programs for Nippon Television based on his writings.

A philosophy major, Michael traveled for years, ducking in and out of graduate schools, before finishing his PhD on Charles Dickens and film. He finally settled in Tokyo as a professor of American Literature at Meiji Gakuin University. His seminars focus on contemporary novels, short stories and film adaptations.

About Featured Book: Mountain Man's Accidental Surprise by K.C. Crowne

"I'm ready for a private striptease lover boy."
My best friend's bachelorette party had to be amazing.
Lucky for me, my hired stripper blew everyone away.
Later that night, he gave me a private show I’ll never forget.
But now, no can know our secret. Because the life of my unborn baby literally depends on it.

After returning home my father gave me life-shattering news.
How the h*ll could he sell me off to the mob??

With no other choice but to run…
The mountains of Liberty would be my new home.
Safe. And zero souls who could recognize me.
Except, that last part was a lie.
Because the stripper that knocked my socks off…
Turns out to be anything but a stripper.

And when he discovers my whereabouts…
He's ready to show everyone just what the h*ll he's really made of.

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About Featured Book: HARRY HUNTER MYSTERY SERIES 1-3 by Willow Rose

Available for 0.99 from 06/15-06/20

This is the first three books in Willow Rose’s electrifying new Harry Hunter Mystery series.

Mystery, love, and action: this series has it all.

BOOK 1: All The Good Girls:

Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.
Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found dead in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime. Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.
Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

BOOK 2: Run Girl Run:

When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter.
Everything points to a murder-suicide.
They were homeless, living in their car, and the mother decided to end it all for them both by driving into the water.
But the case is not what it looks like, Detective Harry Hunter soon realizes.
Harry’s daughter is carrying devastating knowledge about their deaths, and soon she becomes the killer’s next target.
As Harry races to protect her, he is betrayed by someone he thought he knew, leaving him terrified of trusting anyone in a town filled with liars.

BOOK 3: No Other Way:

Three women went on a road trip to Key West. Only two returned. When asked what happened, their stories don’t completely match.
Who is telling the truth?
What are they hiding?
Detective Harry Hunter of the Miami PD is in church on a peaceful Sunday morning when a young teenager pulls out a gun and shoots his own father.
Once the shock is gone, Harry starts to ask himself the question no one else seems to care about: What makes a young boy want to kill his own father?
When more blood is shed, Harry suspects there’s a secret buried in this town that no one wants unearthed. What are the people around him not telling him?

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About Horses of the Sun

The teens on Sunhaven Downs in outback Australia have a city cousin staying with them for a year, and when she declares she hates horses, they know their year is ruined. What they don’t know is that their cousin has a secret – a secret that will save their lives on the night of the great storm…but not all their lives. Humour, tragedy, and resilience make this a ride to remember – a book the whole family will enjoy.
The introduction to The Outback Riders series is suitable for all ages, though serious issues are covered along with the laughter and day-to-day activities of outback living.

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Leanne Owens lived in the outback for many years and the unique aspects of outback living make an appearance in most of her books, even the romances. She wrote and reported for Horse Talk TV and has done freelance writing for Australian horse magazines for decades. Author of a number of successful books on Amazon, she is very fond of the teens in The Outback Riders and is happy watching them grow up and overcoming everything life throws at them, with Book #6 due out soon.

About Featured Book: The Call of Magic – Book One of The Fool’s Journey by A. R. C.

Freshly graduated from high school, EMMA LIE has never let go the betrayal her father served her. On the eve of her college departure, burdened with grand designs, Emma finds herself branded by a strange mark.

Bewildered by its appearance, Emma becomes distracted, then suspicious, of a captivating boy named THIES KRAUSMANN. Suspecting he bears the same symbol, she brings him closer and, amid a passionate moment, demands the truth from him. His cryptic answers skew her reality forever. Magic is real. The impression on her arm is an invitation by FATE.

Called by magic, invited by Thies and his mysterious colleague, Emma refuses their offer to join a cabal of magicians.

An unknown assailant chooses that hour to strike, and Emma is thrust into the world of magic, stolen away from her home even as the aggressor orders the kidnapping of her mom.

They’re transported to the Citadel, the stronghold of the magic Legion. Emma seeks reassurance from Thies, her only lifeline in that strange city. Compelled to trust him, pressed through Orientation, and shown the terror of the Merim, Emma wants nothing more than to return to her life. The secret war being waged by the Legionnaires beyond the Well in the Land of Magic is not her destiny.

She is told by the HIGH PRIESTESS that she cannot return. She is a recruit, now, bound by blood.

Lofty intentions derailed, her mother in mortal danger, and forced into military servitude, Emma struggles, resenting her captivity. Within hours, she alienates the other recruits and, resisting their overtures of friendship, plots escape. Rebuffing Thies’ attempts at romance, pushed to his side by the brutal training regimen, Emma battles for her own heart just as she fights for survival.

Battered by periods of torturous instruction, she finds herself losing ground. Thies is persistent. The moments they shared before her forced entry into the Legion were a reality she never imagined could be hers. Still, she plans desertion.

Strange things occur in the Citadel. The Legionnaires hold her suspect, THE PROFESSOR follows her in the hallways, and a magical parasite has escaped the Land of Magic. When Emma stumbles on a means of escape, her intentions to flee bear fruit. She must find the time and power to explore a mysterious set of tunnels. Days pass, and though Emma had originally shut herself off from friendship, she finds her teammates are as persistent as Thies. Her feelings for Thies intensify, but she cannot abandon her mother, or the life she had planned.

Emma is ordered to help clear the dangerous parasite. In a show of tremendous magic, the parasitic goop forms into a man-shape, claiming it will find her just as she and her companions annihilate it with their combined powers. Yet remnants of the slime are discovered after. It has not yet been destroyed as they had hoped. Despite this setback, Legion life must go on.

In Legion rite, Emma is paraded before the veterans at a ball. Dressed to perfection, plied with alcohol, Emma’s heart gives in. She and Thies fall into love.

In the hours after, Emma is caught in her daily attempts to escape.

Imprisoned, struggling against Thies’ heartbreak, Emma is forced to explain her actions. She learns that the parasite has become aggressive, that it is sentient, even. At the promenade, it abducted one of her teammates. Those who were closest to her disappear one by one.

It comes for Emma, but is driven away.

Intent on saving her friends, with Thies at her side, Emma agrees to act as bait, engaging in a dangerous mission. She joins the High Priestess and the Professor, racing against the opening of the Well. When Thies is captured, Emma has no choice but to chase after him. They enter the Land of Magic.

Confronted by the parasitic extension of a Merim’s power, the pair engage in a desperate battle against a powerful foe. And just when they have won an astonishing victory, another Merim arrives.

Emma dispatches the proxy of the first, and the second Merim disappears. Thies lies on the ground. Though unwounded, he rises inexorably into the sky. Fearing for his life, Emma clings to him with desperation, but is knocked unconscious. She awakens to a world without her love.

Unknowing whether Thies is dead, she vows to return him to the land of the living.

——————–

The Fool's Journey, a massive new series written in two parts – with blog posts acting counter-point to monthly-published novels – revolves around a cabal of warrior mages, and focuses heavily on the inclusion of Tarot.
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About Taking Action for a Better Tomorrow

In our world today there are monumental and exponential changes occurring. These changes are happening not just in the local, international, and global arenas, but even within ourselves. Looking at ourselves, our governments, our societies, humanity, and the world in general, many questions and concerns may come to mind. Let us explore these, and discuss our responsibilities and the necessary actions that will help guide us into our future. It is important to look beyond isolationism or globalization. There are many different contributing factors to our immediate surroundings, the cultures we live in, and the changing situations that all humanity shares. And there are also many different forms of cause and effect at work. We must examine all of humanity, from the various cultures and subcultures that exist to our individual selves. The purpose of this book is to have you ask a variety of engaging questions, both of yourself and about the world around you. I want to help you explore these deep questions so you can find answers that will ultimately help you survive the intense upheavals of today.

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Ever since Jeremy Boggess was a small child, he has felt that there would be a chain of events set in motion and that his task would be to help us all through those changes.

He was born in 1971 in the United States of America, and in 2016 moved to Europe. In the 2000’s he ran for the Idaho Senate several times as an independent with a desire to make a positive contribution to the lives of people. In 2008, while running for office, he self-published his first book of philosophical observations, Thoughts & Responsibilities. He graduated from Boise State University and Lewis-Clark State College with business degrees. Additionally, since childhood, he has studied philosophy and sociology because of his concern for the future of humankind.

Contact: jeremypboggess@gmail.com

About Fighting For a Second Chance

Liz
I am an eighteen year old high school graduate who has just experienced my first… well, everything. I would give anything to hold on to Cooper, but we made a decision. After thirty hours of falling in lust, we are parting ways. I’m starting college and I can’t be distracted. Besides, he has his own life to get back to.

Cooper
The moment I saw her I knew she was the one, but what my heart wants it doesn’t get. I know how life works. I’ve been fighting most of my life. My dad was a fighter and so was his dad. I watched my mom cheat on him and in return he destroyed her. I will never do that to a woman. I get thirty hours with Liz and then we’re both walking away. At the end of the day, all we will have are the memories we’ve created here in Miami.

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Five years later, Liz runs into Cooper, only he has no idea that memories weren’t the only thing they created in Miami. He broke her heart once the day he left and now she’s guarded. Will he succeed in winning her heart back a second time? The only thing he knows for sure is that he is fighting for a second chance and this time he won’t let her go that easily.

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Nikki Ash resides in South Florida where she is an English teacher and mom by day and a writer by night. When she’s not writing, you can find her with a book in her hand. From the Boxcar Children to Wuthering Heights to the latest Single Parent Romance, she has lived and breathed every type of book.

While reading and writing are her passions, her two children are her entire world. You can probably find them at a Disney park before you would find them at home on the weekends!

Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out. – Pam Allyn

About To Forge A King by Thomas Adams

His past was lost, only faded dreams and echoes of happier times remained. Sometimes he had a flash, a quick fleeting glimpse of a better place with friends, warmth and cheer below a silver sun in a twilight land. Those were rare though.

Now, there is only the harsh brutal present, sweat stinging the eye and blood flowing from cracked bruised knuckles, a sword in his filthy callused hand and the hoarse shouts of the Sword Masters ringing in his ears. Exhaustion paints his partner’s face like cheap mask. No doubt his own face looks just as bad.

It is a never ending struggle, up before the sun, running, jumping, lifting and fighting, each day full of pain and injury. Training, always training, His country, Vesfalruk, needs warriors to defend their land and homes. And, this place makes the best warriors. There are none better with sword or ax in all the world.

But there is a power and a sense of belonging in this place, this ancient Guild Hall and fortress lying in the shadow of the Eastern White Mountains.

Being here comforts him in ways he does not understand and the cold winter winds are somehow less chill. His sword calls and he takes it up and trots out into the yard.

Vesfalruk is a besieged place, an isolated mountainous land that has struggled against numerous foes and invaders, the Erhand.

It is a land with a violent and bloody history and a kingdom without a king.

There has been no king for over two-hundred years and relative peace, if it can be called that, has been the norm for most of that time.

So trade flourishes, peace reigns and ancient traditions are openly questioned and sometimes mocked.

Vesfalruk warriors are still renowned throughout Ellorhim and the Guild Halls continue to train them, against a rising popular opinion.

Old enemies are stirring again, their armies gather, swelling and massing for another round of invasion and conquest.

And, that is fine with him and it if the same for those he has grown up with in this Guild Hall. Let them come again. We will be ready. He vows this, to himself and to others.

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Author Bio:
Hello, I love to read and I read all types of books. Some of my favorites genres are fantasy, thrillers, espionage, historical fiction, history and science fiction.

I was born in Pennsylvania but grew up all over America. I served in the Army and then started a career in IT. I have done systems admin, coding, architecture and applications administration among other things.

My wife and I have been married for over twenty five years and we have two grown kids that are living their own lives now. We also have one little dog still living at home with us.

I enjoy writing and have always felt I should write a book or two. So, in 2012 I started and released my first book in 2015.

My favorite categories are fantasy and science fiction. Some of my favorites are Armor by Steakley, Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, Haldeman’s The Forever War, of course Tolkien and Brooks, Terry Goodkind, Asimov, Burroughs and Tefler. There are just too many to mention.

Some of my favorite espionage authors are Ludlum, le Carre, Fleming, Clancy, Forsyth, Flynn, Higgins, Child, Deighton and Ambler.

Historical fiction favorites and classics: Authors-Kent, Cooper, O’Brien, Shaara and Cornwell. Books-Ivanhoe, Treasure Island, Captain Blood, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers and so on.

Look for my books and check them out on Amazon. I have a new one coming out soon.

You can email me at tomadamsbooks@gmail.com. I would love to hear from you.

About And Then Love Came Along

“And Then Love Came Along…” is the story of Rachel Turner and Sam Allen. They have a few things in common, such as working in the same school for children with special needs, and having romantic backgrounds that left them heartbroken and convinced that love is not in the cards for them anymore.
Circumstances, or maybe fate, has other ideas though, and now they find themselves inexplicably drawn to each other in a way that both excites and scares them at the same time.
Rachel saves Sam, and then Sam has an opportunity to do the same for Rachel. But will this be enough for them to save themselves and each other from a past full of sorrow and heartbreak and give them a chance at a future that is filled with love and happiness?

“And Then Love Came Along…” is a story about emotional turmoil after personal loss and mental abuse, about romantic fantasies and ultimately about believing in a second chance at love.

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My name is Janine Campbell and this is my first book. Imagining stories has always been a great passion of mine but I’ve never had the courage to write them down – up to now!
I’m a single mother of two and love spending time with my girls. We like going for long walks in the forest and swimming in one of the nearby lakes.

About Kong Boys

In summer 2006, twenty-year-old Gerald Yeung and his childhood friends from Hong Kong travel to South America and Africa on their parents’ dime. Confronted by challenges foreign to their privileged upbringing, the “Wannabe Backpackers” persevere in their Christian Dior clothes. They make plans to do it again when they turn thirty.

The decade that follows doesn’t go exactly to plan. Gerald chases the American Dream in a town of twenty thousand and subzero winters. Others pursue a fast-and-furious life in Hong Kong. They all experience failed relationships, career setbacks, and a decreasing ability to impress girls at clubs.

The summer of their thirtieth birthdays, they hit the road again to fulfill a lifelong dream — the 2016 UEFA European Championship. Set during European soccer’s most anticipated event, Kong Boys traces a friendship that transcends distance, culture, and time, dovetailing the different trajectories of seven boys in a decade of changes in Hong Kong. Kong Boys is a celebration of youth, brotherhood, and a sport of incomparable beauty.

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Gerald Yeung grew up in Hong Kong. He loves soccer and travel. His travel stories have been featured in magazines, the Hong Kong government youth blog, and a Travelers’ Tales humor collection. These days, he can be found in northern California.

About A Not So Immaculate Conception

The PROPOSAL meets BRIDGET JONES’ BABY when a career obsessed woman, who finds herself pregnant with no memory of having sex, has to persuade her friend to play her fake husband to save her job.

Lacey Winters had a perfectly plotted life.

Then, she had the most toe-curling dream ever—only it wasn’t a dream. And the blurred image of the charming, hot guy she once considered a figment of her imagination, just became the poster boy of her worst nightmare when she finds herself pregnant with no clue who the man is.

The reason for her foggy memory? A case of transient amnesia brought on by… well… only the most mind-blowing… she’d rather not say.

Nonetheless, her boss is not having it. Terrified of unemployment and with her ten-year plan up in smoke, Lacey does what any woman with more brains than curves would do. She announces her co-worker Zak Cooper is her fake husband, then begs him to play along—just until the private investigator can give her answers.

A set of unforeseen circumstances.

Fake kisses turned all too real.

And now she’s torn between a man she’s falling for and an unreliable list of potential fathers. With the delivery soon approaching, she must decide if life is better lived or planned.

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Crystal Estell is a romance author who spends her days caring for the sick and her evenings chasing happy ever afters. Somewhere in between she finds time for her husband, kids, dogs, chickens, and cockatiel, Puck, who flew into her life uninvited. Fueled on coffee and wine, she often does crazy things like paint the walls of her home twice, build her own furniture, repair broken appliances, install her own floors—and then shares how she did it. Her goal is to amass an army of fans who love romance as much as she does so she can rule the world—although she’d happily settle for the rank of full-time author.

About Glimmer

In a world where light and darkness are equal, which one would you choose?

If you believe that your thoughts are private, think again. Raegan Cole, a new Glimmer to her Vine, can read everything people are thinking, and she can do more than just read. Her gift propels her on a journey from which she can never return, triggering an unlikely connection with Dom Carter, the Leon enemy. An ancient treaty between two powers shattered by forbidden love, long before Raegan’s time, forces her into choices no seventeen-year-old should have to make. Unwanted in conception, unwelcome at birth and repeatedly abandoned by those who were supposed to care for her. The world she knew was no longer simple. The people, no longer trustworthy. Her destiny, no longer certain.

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I am a secondary school teacher by trade, in my fourteenth year of teaching with a specialism in Film and TV production. My passion for visual arts has propelled me into my literary journey. Having three children under the age of eleven somewhat limited my time for film production so I expanded my interest into writing for young people, to whom I spend most of my working day with.
I am a vegetarian and aspiring minimalist. I go through stages of liking and hating running. Love watching Netflix and documentaries.

About The Archons Rise

Humanity is under siege, simultaneous attacks of unknown origin against government leaders around the world have shaken society to its core. Foundations such as democracy, rule of law, and long-held alliances will be tested in this stark new reality. This story follows America on its path to take on this never-before-seen global calamity. Beginning with deciding how to rapidly address the vacuum of power to be ready to take action and also bring the culprits responsible for the heinous attacks to justice. The task may be insurmountable as the responsible party possesses unheard of technology, implying the events are otherworldly.

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Brian Sieteski is a networking solutions architect, a proud Veteran of the United States Army, and most importantly a loving and dedicated father. He grew up in the charming and historic village of Williamsville, NY. He was raised by his mom and surrounded by his friends and family during his childhood years. He has always had a passion for reading which led to his passion for writing. Reading has opened his imagination to explore infinite destinations and most importantly sparked his creative process. When he's not writing the next chapter in the Humanity's Gauntlet series, he can be found playing with his three big dogs, watching the local NHL team, enjoying a game of tennis, or playing video games with his best friend. He does his best writing from the couch accompanied by his German shepherd Ott. He's excited to share the fates of the Archons, the United States, and the Earth with readers everywhere.