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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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, both inherently and thematically.
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Hello. You can call me A.R.C.

I’ve been called an acquired taste. My books have been called great.

I like Saturday brunch, I ingest far too much coffee, and I’ve read every fantasy book I could ever lay hands on.

When I’m not writing (which happens seldom) I engage in competitive mooing, extreme ironing, and other flavors of storytelling.

I’ve been told I have a flair for the dramatic. I wasn’t cool enough to have a last name. That “C.” gets awful lonely sometimes.

Chameleon by Michael K Foster

He followed his dreams…into someone else’s nightmare. When a ten-year-old boy stumbles across a woman’s body in a wood, a man at the scene gives chase. Sent to investigate, DCI Jack Mason soon uncovers a darker side. There is always a reason for murder. But when a boy turns out to be an assassin’s number one target, that reason is hard to fathom.

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Michael K Foster has been writing crime thriller novels since 2006, all of them based in and around the North East of England. His bestselling debut novel, ‘The Wharf Butcher,’ was released in 2015 and offers a unique insight into this rugged landscape. He has now written five full-length novels and one novella featuring the hard-hitting DCI Jack Mason and local criminal profiler David Carlisle. ‘The Keeper’s Pocket,’ the latest book in the series, is scheduled for release in December 2020.

Michael was born in Plymouth, England. After ten years’ service in the British Army, he moved to Newcastle where he gained a master’s degree. A former Magistrate, he now writes full time and lives with his family in County Durham.

Little Girls Sleeping by Jennifer Chase

She looked at the smiling, eager face of the little girl in the photograph, with dark hair, bright-green eyes, a missing front tooth, and her entire life ahead of her. Chelsea was last seen walking back from a friend’s house one summer afternoon. She never made it home…

An eight-year-old girl, Chelsea Compton, is missing in Pine Valley, California and for Detective Katie Scott it’s a cruel reminder of the friend who disappeared from summer camp twenty years ago. Unable to shake the memories, Katie vows she won’t rest until she discovers what happened to Chelsea.

But as Katie starts to investigate – her PTSD flashbacks kept at bay with the help of her loyal ex-military dog, Cisco – the case reveals itself to be much bigger and more shocking than she feared. Deep in the forest, she unearths a makeshift cemetery: a row of graves, each with a brightly colored teddy bear.

Tracing the silk lining the coffins, Katie links the graves to a stack of missing-persons cases involving young girls – finding a pattern no one else has managed to see. Someone in Pine Valley has been taking the town’s daughters for years, and Katie is the only one who can stop them.

And then another little girl goes missing, snatched from the park near her home…

Compulsive and gripping crime fiction for fans of Lisa Regan, Rachel Caine and Melinda Leigh. Katie Scott’s first case will have you on the edge of your seat and gasping with shock.

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Jennifer Chase is a multi award-winning and USA Today BestSelling crime fiction author, as well as a consulting criminologist. Jennifer holds a bachelor degree in police forensics and a master’s degree in criminology & criminal justice. These academic pursuits developed out of her curiosity about the criminal mind as well as from her own experience with a violent psychopath, providing Jennifer with deep personal investment in every story she tells. In addition, she holds certifications in serial crime and criminal profiling. She is an affiliate member of the International Association of Forensic Criminologists, and member of the International Thriller Writers.

About We Now Sell Sea Monkeys

At 13-years-old, Peter White sent in a mail order for Sea Monkeys. Upon receipt, he discovered that the actual product was not the happy, smiling characters that were depicted in the comic book ad.
As an adult, Peter founded the company White Innovation, the leading company in spy and surveillance products. White Innovation also has one of the top-ranked customer service call centers in the nation. The company is also planning to go public.
Peter finally decided to correct his childhood experience and create a new version of the Sea Monkeys.
However, all product development plans are delayed after the award-winning call center director is caught in a sexual exploitation scandal and an anonymous customer starts harassing and threatening call center agents and the company.
Peter now must hire a consultant to interview and shadow six management candidates to fill the director’s job. He must also track down and discover the identity of the mystery caller who wants to damage the company’s public image.
This is a story about the unimaginable, divergent subculture, eclectic individuals, and the assortment of virtues that exist in the world of the Customer Service Call Center.

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Aaron Goff is a fun-loving individual who loves to write, read, watch movies, coach sports, travel, and support innovation. A 1987 graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. Aaron has coached youth and high school sports for over 15 years. Family is very important to him. He is a husband, a father, and a grandfather.

Cherokee Summer by Susan Antony

When Ace leaves home to spend the summer in Cherokee, North Carolina the last thing she expects to find is a boyfriend—until she meets Cherokee Tribe member John Spears. As Ace and John’s friendship blossoms, they find their life experiences mirror each other and they fall in love. Despite hurdles thrown by well-meaning family members and jealous frenemies, the star-crossed lovers remain committed to their mutual belief that the universe has drawn them together. However, when Ace sends John a strange text and then suddenly disappears, the two must rely on their trust in each other to save both their lives and their love.

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Susan Antony is an IT by day at a busy hospital by day, a hip-shaker and writer by night, an artist whenever possible, a ukulele enthusiast, and an internet addict. She lives in the sunny south with her teenage son and two Cairn Terriers.

Cherokee Summer placed first in the Missouri Romance Writers of America “Gateway to the Best” contest. It was a 2020 Author Shout Recommended read and 2019 Author Shout Honorable Mention.
2019 Cherokee Summer was Oklahoma Romance Writer’s IDA Finalist. In 2020 Cherokee Summer Won the Write Touch Readers Award Wisconsin Romance Writer’s contest.

About The Flaming Cats of Sohan

All Life on Earth is going to be destroyed when it becomes an Adventure Park for Aliens! It’s up to spiritual entrepreneur, Swami Rohnko, and his junior achievers to Save Absolutely Everything!

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I live and write in New York City. I love the cacophony of so many different people living together, all of us mostly wanting it to work and revealing the human kindness and generosity of spirit just underneath. Amazing, exhausting and inspiring. It can be way too noisy and incredibly inconvenient at times, but every day there is a miracle if I only look and listen for it.

About Half Fast

The true story of a married couple in their thirties who resolve to quit their jobs and abandon their conventional lives to follow a dream of living on a sailboat and exploring the path less traveled—a plan some of their family and friends consider to be a ‘half-assed scheme’ at best. The expected yearlong adventure evolves into a quarter-century voyage of discovery spanning half the globe. Come along as Randy and Cheryl cruise their small boat to intriguing destinations you won’t find in any tourist brochure. Along the way they discover the best and worst the sailing life has to offer. Their adventures and misadventures include encounters with hurricanes, thieves, drug smugglers and a disastrous tsunami as well as lasting new friendships formed with local people and fellow sailors all along their route.

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Randy Baker and his wife Cheryl began their sailing life with their trailerable sailboat Amuck in 1988 and transitioned to full time cruising and living aboard Caribee, their Nicholson 32, in 1992. They cruised the Bahamas, the Gulf Coast of North America, the Greater and Lesser Antilles, Trinidad, the Spanish Main of South America and the Caribbean coast of Central America before transiting the Panama Canal in 2008 and crossing the Pacific, with landfalls made in the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, The Cook Islands, American Samoa, Kiribati, The Kingdom of Tonga and Fiji. Randy has had numerous articles published in the American sailing magazines Cruising World, Blue Water Sailing and Good Old Boat. Half Fast is his first book-length work. Randy and Cheryl sold Caribee in the summer of 2019 after more than 27 magical years spent cruising her. They currently live in their old hometown of Clinton, Arkansas.

About The Dangerous Son

For Spenser Ingram love is an abstract concept. Friendless and fearless, he happily walks his own solo path. Encouraged by his parents to wield his cold-blooded ruthlessness like a weapon, the boy who never cried grew into a man who regularly makes others weep.

Sent to deliver a message to a local motorcycle club that’s standing in the way of his family’s never-ending pursuit of power, he encounters Poppy Tennyson and is immediately captivated.

For the first time in his life, Spenser wants something for himself.

Unfortunately, a decades-long conspiracy is playing out behind the scenes, and he’s quickly left questioning if his affection for Poppy is genuine or a carefully crafted illusion created by the one person he thought he could trust.

The Dangerous Son is a angst-filled romantic suspense novel set in a world where deception is the norm and the truth can’t be trusted.

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Zoe Hill is an Australian author. She hates speaking about herself in third person, but hopes you’ll bear with her…

A fan of the saying, “there’s three sides to every story. My side, your side, and the truth,” Zoe has found that she enjoys delving into the so-called villain’s version of events as she writes. In life and fiction, Zoe firmly believes that we’re all one ‘bad’ decision away from becoming the villain in someone’s story.

This discovery led to the creation of her brand of love story – Villainous Romance.

Residing in the Central West of New South Wales, she’s a country girl at heart who loves a good dose of heavy metal, watches UFC fights like it’s her job, and can be found discussing the plot of her current WIP with her animals. Zoe loves a good cup of coffee, lives and breathes books, and is pretty proud of how well she’s moonlighting as a competent wife and mother.

About My Happy Place: How I DIY’d My Own Bliss by Katie Fehlinger

The 2:45 A.M. alarm was always going to have a shelf life.

Katie had an existence that looked great on paper with a big market on-air TV career. But out of the public view, she was miserable.

No one else was going to fix her situation.

In My Happy Place, Katie lays out her DIY roadmap to authentic personal bliss: how she self-audited and beat down roadblocks to actualize her most joyous path, plus her practical steps to ensure the good times keep rolling. A relatable, hopeful memoir/how-to hybrid, My Happy Place is for all the people-pleasers trying to take back control of their own lives.

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Katie Fehlinger spent 15 years weather anchoring and reporting for tv and radio at both the national and local level. She’s now an author, public speaker, course and content creator, and will forever be a DIY junkie. Fehlinger lives in the Greater Philadelphia area with her husband and twin daughters…and is happy.

About Carly and Star

All Carly wants for her 10th birthday is the newborn horse her Uncle Joe promised her. When she gets the call to come to the farm, she imagines herself astride an awesome black stallion, one that will win first place in next fall’s pet parade.
After her birthday present turns out to be NOT what she expected, Carly gives up the idea of winning. She names the foal ‘Star’ and hopes for the best, despite discovering they share a trait: impossibly curly hair.
Little does Carly know that Star has far greater gifts that will help her deal with a bigger problem: bullies.
What Carly learns from Star sets her on a course where she’ll need all the courage — and kindness — she can muster.

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Cynthia J Stone could read before starting school, wrote her first story at age five, and has been putting her creative ideas – stories, poems, essays – in writing ever since. A native of Austin, Texas, she attended Stephen F. Austin High School on Rio Grande, where she was awarded the Poet Laureate prize her senior year. She is a graduate of UT Austin.
Since 2012, three of her novels, the MASON series, have been published.
She enjoys gardening (barefoot when possible), needlepoint, jigsaw and crossword puzzles, classical music, traveling, dancing to rock-n-roll, and, of course, reading. Her favorite genres are history and biography, plus the fiction classics in literature.
Carly and Star is her first book for middle grade and young teenagers.

About It’s All Good: Times and Events I’d Never Want to Change by Charles Sacchetti

A lot of people can tell stories but very few can write them in a way that makes readers feel like they are part of the experience. Such is the case with IT’S ALL GOOD: TIMES AND EVENTS I’D NEVER WANT TO CHANGE. The book takes both a nostalgic and more recent look at the times and events of the author’s life while featuring the actual people who played intricate roles. In this compilation of 27 essays, the author relates his experiences that span over a period of decades. In many instances, the stories are written in a way that will make baby boomers rekindle their fond memories, as the stories unfold in heartwarming detail, while readers of other age groups will feel a connection as they compare the stories to similar ones shared by loved ones. With ample amounts of humor and sincerity, the author achieves his goal of having the reader relate to the stories on a personal and emotional level. In doing this he achieves another goal, that the reader will also shed a tear of joy or sadness or both…..just like he did as the stories came to life.

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Charlie Sacchetti was born in 1947 and raised in a tightly knit, working class neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia. It was an environment of strong religious, family and honor-based values. Here he learned right from wrong, a strong work ethic and the importance of standing by your word, your family and your friends. He graduated from John Bartram High School and attended Temple University on a baseball scholarship, graduating in 1969. After a brief stint in professional baseball, Charlie returned to the university and was employed there for 13 years. In 1983, he began a new career in industrial chemical sales which continues to this day.

In 2016, after having all four of his “letters to the editor” published, he reasoned that if these editors thought enough of his work to publish all of those submitted, perhaps he had some talent. So, in May of 2016, he submitted the commentary piece, “Getting in the Game” and it was published in a major newspaper on Mother’s day. Subsequently, his piece, “Getting the Message” was submitted and published for Father’s day by a different major newspaper.

That was it…he was bitten and infected by the “writing bug”. The idea of publishing a book of his essays was born from hearing many requests to do so, from friends and strangers alike.

As of this printing Charlie and his wife, Luann, reside in New Jersey and have been married for more than 45 years. He continues to enjoy the blessings of a wonderful family and loyal friends. Contact author at:
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About Missunderstanding- My Thread

In the male talent agency run by two women, Hana Fukuhara and Megumi Shimada, many strict rules have to be obeyed. Some of them are hard to follow. No relationships. No sexual activities. Not even self-stimulation.

Kenta Yamamura is somehow always dragged into forbidden encounters with other boys. His inability to say no causes him a lot of troubles. He does want to be faithful because he has a partner he loves more than anything in the world. His partner is Hana Fukuhara. This is a secret. But… Kenta has more secrets. One of them is…

Masato Suto is a very busy and hard-working talent. For him, friendship is one of the most important features in life. But… because of his violent deeds it slowly crashes, leaving him frustrated and lost. If his girlfriend was aware of what he did… He has to keep it as a secret forever. She can’t know that he…

Shunji Nishimura is a confident and bold boy who isn’t afraid of crossing boundaries. He thinks that rules are meant to be broken. Having fun in life, that’s what’s important. But… he has to carry some dark secret with him. In the past, he…

Emotions. Passion. Sex. Lust. Fetish. SECRETS.

Love treads hand in hand with loath. If this is a contest, which will cross the finish line first? A draw is impossible. There can be only one winner. Do you want to find out who is victorious? Open the book, check page by page. Ah, you say you already know the answer because good always overcomes evil. Hmm… did we mention this book was a fairytale? No? Yes? So many pages… that we forgot… Will you help us to remember?

Is that all? No! That’s not all. Entertaining means bringing up more so everyone could feel pleased. Check the pure comedy parts!

The two youngest boys who are just on the threshold of adulthood are completely clueless when it comes to ‘these stuff’. It causes a lot of comic situations based on double meanings.

Doggy is passionately in love with Hana and always tries to gain her affection, but is he constantly failing. Hana-san just detests all furry creatures. He, of course, doesn’t find it deterring since his little heart has already been sold.

Secrets are wretched moments that leave us restless as long as someone else finds them out. Are human beings eager to reveal the secrets themselves? No. After all, we are all scared of the consequences. Besides, isn’t it just

MISSUNDERSTANDING?

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Two completely different persons have connected. But… they have never seen each other in person. Even more, they have never spoken to each other. Then how? How did it start? The Internet was so generous to let them find each other. They met here, online. Among the millions of users, their IP addresses linked up to detect similarities. Two completely different persons melded with the same interest: writing. And then the exchange of words began. A small trickle became a stream, and then a river, and finally an ocean of letters forming words. When the sun rises, Vera writes. When the sun goes down, Bevin takes over. Work put in unceasing motion so the books could come to light. Silence and noise are joined to create a perfect symphony.

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About The Maiming of the Shrew

Shakespeare lover, bookshop owner and now amateur sleuth, Beatrice Hathaway finds herself searching for answers to life’s great questions when she accidentally buys a bookshop in England. With another failed relationship under her belt, she arrives in the real home of Shakespeare, in search of the truth. Pratford-upon-Avon with its quaint Tudor cottages, cobbled streets, old English pub and a whole host of characters seems the perfect escape – so what could possibly go wrong?

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When Charles Deverill, a newspaper tycoon and the owner of Deverill Manor is found poisoned, the night before his Daughter’s wedding, the finger of suspicion firmly points at the village’s newcomer – Beatrice Hathaway.

With the help of Antony Marsden, an archaeologist from Egypt who’s been summoned to the Manor, and Beatrice’s only friend in town, they unravel the mystery of the Deverill dynasty, with devastating consequences.

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Hannah Clemson is a Shakespeare-obsessive and lover of cozy mysteries. She lives in England and writes Shakespeare-themed cozies set in the village of Pratford-upon-Avon which according to locals is the real home of Shakespeare.