About The Game by Hasse Mori:

“What’s the point in playing if you know you’re gonna win?”

Beautiful and insane – that’s how a woman named Cassandra was described in the ancient mythology. Now another Cassandra got a decision to make when she learns that her father was murdered, and the murder is somehow linked to a mysterious game.

She accepts the strange invitation without any idea of what she’s getting herself into. Or even who sent her the invitation. A thrilling journey of mystery and suspense begins, and now, she must learn to play. But at what cost? How far is she willing to go to find the truth about her father, and seek revenge for his death?

And what would be a better place to begin a racy adventure around the world than the fabulous Las Vegas, a place almost as absurd as the game itself.

Book one of the Chimera Mystery Trilogy

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Hasse Mori has lived in many cities, countries, traveled around the world. As a curious mind, observer, he relies more in a good pair of shoes than anything else.

For a reason that’s still a mystery to him, he avoided to start writing over thirty years, always carrying a book where ever he went, reading everything he could get his hands on. And he still does, loving reading over anything else until one morning he woke-up early, couldn’t sleep, made a pot of coffee and sat down with his laptop and started typing.

A journey began and now nothing feels the same. The time has finally come to let his imagination loose, and hope there’s someone out there who enjoys the stories his wicked mind creates, as he certainly enjoys writing them.

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About Deadly Proof: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery by M. Louisa Locke:

It’s the summer of 1880, and once again the lovely and inquisitive businesswoman, Annie Fuller, is helping San Francisco lawyer and beau, Nate Dawson, with a troublesome case. Nate’s client, a female typesetter accused of murdering her boss, refuses to help in her own defense. Complicating matters, Nate’s sister Laura insists on getting involved in the potentially dangerous investigation, while Laura’s friend Seth Timmons, troubled Civil War veteran, finds himself a witness for the prosecution. Will Nate be able to win his first big case? Will Laura and Seth find some way of staying friends? And finally, will Annie and Nate’s upcoming nuptials be derailed by their attempts to track down a killer?

Old friends and new readers alike will enjoy Deadly Proof, this fourth installment of the cozy Victorian San Francisco Mystery series that blends light romance, suspense, and a glimpse into the lives of late 19th century women who worked.

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M. Louisa Locke, a retired professor of U.S. and Women’s history, has embarked on a new career with her best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, which is based on Dr. Locke’s doctoral research on late 19th century working women. Maids of Misfortune, the first in this series, features domestic service, and Uneasy Spirits, the sequel, explores women and 19th Spiritualism. Her third book, Bloody Lessons, focuses on teachers working in the San Francisco public schools in 1880. She has also written four short stories that are based on characters from the novels, and they can be found in this collection, Victorian San Francisco Stories. Her next book in the series, Deadly Proof, about women in the San Francisco printing industry, will be available early in 2015.

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A Life Interrupted by Lauri Fern

To fifteen-year-old Sophie Martin, life in New York City is perfect. But when her father suddenly loses his high-paying job, Sophie’s fashionista lifestyle changes forever. A new job opportunity leads her family to relocate to a small island town in southwest Florida, a place Sophie does not want to be. Miserable and resistant to making new friends, the struggles of her new life seem overwhelming. Can a local boy named Trent and an injured pelican motivate Sophie to abandon her self-absorbed ways and start over?

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About Evidence of Trust by Stacey Joy Netzel:

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Having grown up under the excessive expectations of her CEO father, Brittany Lucas is as resistant to authority as the mustang she’s training for her boss. It’s a fault that lands her in more danger than she bargains for while camping in the back-country of the Rocky Mountain National Park.

Ranger Joel Morgan is used to having the upper hand in all his cases—until he runs into the headstrong blond while investigating disturbing incidents of poaching in the park. Brittany’s imprudent lie of omission awakens ghosts in his past, making the sizzling attraction between them unwelcome.

As he searches for evidence he can trust her, the monster mutilating wildlife turns his sights on Brittany, and Joel discovers he’ll do whatever it takes to protect her—even give his own life.

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stacey Joy Netzel is an avid reader and loves all movies with a happily ever after. She lives in Wisconsin with her family, a horse and some barn cats. In her limited free time she enjoys gardening, canning, and visiting her parents in Northeastern Wisconsin (Up North), at the family cabin on the lake.

Her bestselling books include Romancing Wisconsin Series, Italy Intrigue Series, Welcome to Redemption Series, and the Colorado Trust Series.

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About A Real Woman by Etoile Star

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A sexy and entertaining memoir, this book culminates my almost 20 year sexual adventure. My life was far from ordinary. Yes, it included good times and bad, successes and failures, ups and downs. But it also included politicians, Hollywood studio execs, famous madams, foreign dignitaries, sports figures, movie stars, rich real estate agents and Internet start up founders.

Now I’m at a point in my life where I must ask myself: Can a former Hollywood hooker find happiness in a small Midwestern town?

If finding Mr. Right, a good looking, successful, property manager who pilots a company jet and who is also a Level A squash player and a near-scratch handicap golfer, is happiness, then the answer is yes. But life is never all peaches and cream, is it? The entanglement of a budding romance alongside running a sex provider business ensures elements of pain and misadventure, especially if one of your clients is crazy for you because you soothe his Madonna/Whore complex.

Denis, despite his A list credentials (or perhaps because of them), proves to be alarmingly judgmental. Casey, who likes to be called Studs, rescues me from a potentially insurmountable problem, but then, for no apparent reason, goes off the deep end.

Erotically stimulating and often amusing, A Real Woman will titillate your libido as it lures you into my story.

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About Flowers of Grace:

Flowers of Grace, a novel inspired by a true story, is a heart-wrenching book club choice that one reviewer called “a tribute to love and friendship.”

Set in an upscale St. Louis boutique amid a fragile economic climate when retail customers are trading brick and mortar stores for online shopping, Flowers of Grace is a story of love and loss, friendship and forgiveness.

Still mourning a broken engagement, Grace inherits a hibiscus with a legacy she fears she will kill. Doubt in her capacity to nurture anything prompts her to bring the plant into the clothing store she manages, and the dynamic personalities of the female staff band together to help it bloom. Grace and the hibiscus blossom through a wedding and a birth, but its unexpected death pushes her to face false assumptions, opening a path for new love to appear.

The simple gift is more than a plant. When it blooms, so does she. But when it dies, she fears love will too.

What others are saying about Flowers of Grace:

“This is a beautiful story celebrating different kinds of female connections, including those that we may feel we make imperfectly — we especially need each other in our “not-quite-in-full-bloom” stages.” — a Goodreads reviewer

“ . . . truly brings to light how women need women, how we are uniquely invested in overcoming problems, how we grow stronger as an individual when we embrace our differences by communicating, sharing a simple laughter, or extending sympathy in times of sorrows.” – a Goodreads reviewer

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Teresa Hirst grew up in the Midwest with an imagination and creativity straight from the stories she consumed in her childhood. She put away her Harriet the Spy persona to attend Brigham Young University, where she studied journalism and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications, allowing her to engage in some legitimate people watching.

Today, she observes and tells insightful stories, both real and imaginary, that characterize our emotional experience with life. Teresa lives in Minnesota with her husband and teenage children. She is choosing faith and gratitude to cope with neuroendocrine cancer. Teresa loves sentimental movies, Sunday afternoon walks and great conversations.

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About Dark Pursuit:

From the International Award Winning EMILY STONE THRILLER SERIES:

Vigilante detective Emily Stone has covertly hunted down killers and closed more serial cases than most seasoned homicide cops combined. Her exceptional profiling skills and forensic techniques, along with deductive crime scene investigations, have made her a compelling force that cannot be beat.

She has reached her ultimate breaking point and now must face her toughest opponent yet – her biggest fears.

With preciseness, the Tick-Tock Killer has taken his next child victim and promised to dump the body precisely four days later, mocking police and the community. Stone struggles to balance her inner demons and ghosts from the past, against the wits of a brutal and cunning serial killer in an all-out battle of psychological warfare.

Can Stone save the next child in time? Dark Pursuit is an action-packed cat and mouse game that will take you to dark places rarely explored.

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The love that author Jennifer Chase has for books and writing began with the weekly trips that her mom would take with her to the local library. Jennifer would load up her arms with books and spend the week pouring over them until the next visit brought the opportunity to discover even more authors and stories. Before long, she was taking pen to paper and a lifelong connection with creating characters and plotlines was made.

Jennifer has found her niche in the writing world by integrating another passion, criminology, into her work. She holds a bachelors degree in police forensics and a masters in criminology, academic pursuits that developed out of her curiosity about the criminal mind as well as from her own experience with a violent sociopath, providing Jennifer with deep personal investment in every story she tells. She also holds certifications in serial crime and criminal profiling and is a proud member of the International Association of Forensic Criminologists.

Jennifer Chase was born and raised in California and still lives there with her husband, dogs and cats. In addition to writing and studying, Jennifer enjoys spending time outdoors, both at the beach and hiking, and engaging in some amateur photography.

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About Tall, Dark, and Bad:

Summer Pettigrew is in desperate need of a fiancé, a temporary job, mind you . . .

Bad Boy Cooper Garrett answers the call. He swaggers into Summer’s High Society Life oozing testosterone. He’s hardly what Summer expected, the man straddles a mean looking motorcycle, for Pete’s sake! But Summer is stuck with him for the time being, even though her pulse skyrockets each time he steals a kiss.

Cooper willingly plays the doting fiancé, but he has one thing on his mind: Bedding the proper Miss Pettigrew! And although Summer is tempted to take a ride on the wild side, she fears it will lead her down a road to heartbreak.

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Charlotte Hughes published her first category romance in 1987, a Bantam Books’ Loveswept, titled Too Many Husbands, which immediately shot to #1 on the Waldenbooks Bestseller list. She went on to write almost thirty books before the line closed in 1998.

Although Charlotte is widely known for her laugh-out-loud romantic comedies, she went on to pen three Maggie-Award winning thrillers for Avon Books in the late nineties, before resuming her first love, funny stories about people falling in love. She thrilled readers with her hilarious books, A New Attitude and Hot Shot, the latter of which won the Waldenbooks Greatest Sales Growth Achievement in 2003.

Her books received so many accolades that she was invited to co-author the very popular Full House series with mega-star author Janet Evanovich.

With that series behind her, Charlotte began her own, starring psychologist Kate Holly; What Looks Like Crazy, Nutcase, and High Anxiety, creating a list of somewhat kooky but always loveable and funny ensemble characters.

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About At First Light:

In the heart of the Amazon Jungle a child disappears. Thousands of miles away this tragedy changes two lives forever as they are thrust together to save the young girl.

Piper Brown finds herself witnessing the child being auctioned on the wrong side of the knife-edge that separates luxury and poverty. And in in that moment Piper knows one thing. She must return the child to her jungle home. Piper’s daring act, and love for this girl will change her forever, and it may save her from her own destructive path.

Jesse Nickols is searching for meaning and happiness in his adrenalin fuelled world of hang gliding. When trouble finds him, he is forced to run once more. His search for contentment is rewarded and doomed when he finds himself caught up with Piper and her struggle to save the child’s family from a tribal warlord’s savagery deep in the Amazon Jungle.

Together they discover that inner strength and selfless acts are essential to being human; and discovering happiness.

Surprising, lyrical, and riveting; At First Light is that rare novel one is reluctant to put down; with characters so engaging, you will want to send them a Christmas Card. A world built of wonder, a world so real, it’s pure escapism.

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Spike Pedersen is a local boy from Green Bay, where he owned and operated Spike’s Hardware for 15 years. He also wrote a Sunday column for the Green Bay Press-Gazette for many years, and did a morning radio show on WNFL with Don Roberts, and a weekly morning TV-11 appearance with Pete Petoniak illuminating all things wise in the world of home ownership. Today he resides in Madison, Wisconsin, where he travels across the Midwest, always in search of a story or character.

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About Ageless Skin by Paula Hawley:

Perfect skin is not a miracle, it’s a process — and YOU can have the recipe!

You’re about to discover how to vitalize and renew your skin with amazing techniques and tips that smooth wrinkles, erase cellulite, heal sun damage, and unveil ageless, glowing skin.

Ageless Skin is your guide to:

* State-of-the-art products (and which ones you need to stay away from!)

* Cosmetic do’s and don’ts

* How to tighten your skin naturally

* Looking younger

* Stress reduction

Did you ever even dream that you could reverse the aging process and look 10 years younger

JUST BY CHANGING A FEW SIMPLE THINGS?

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Paula Hawley is a holistic wellness consultant and an avid information-gatherer who is committed to guiding clients towards high-quality foods, safe and effective supplements, healthy lifestyles, and helping people achieve ageless and radiant skin. Paula is a veteran massage therapist specializing in healing bodywork and homeopathy. She also makes some great music!

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About Coming to Las Vegas, A True Tale of Sex, Drugs & Sin City in the 70s:

A true tale of sex, drugs and Las Vegas in the 70s, Carolyn V. Hamilton tells how she arrived in Las Vegas in 1973 to join a circus, and opened the new MGM Grand Hotel/Casino as a cocktail waitress.

In 1973 Carolyn Hamilton arrives in Las Vegas with boyfriend Del to join the business side of the newly-formed Las Vegas International Circus. When they run out of money Carolyn gets a job as a cocktail waitress in the soon-to-open MGM Grand Hotel/Casino. Through nefarious means, Del gets the position as bailiff for District Court Judge Paul Goldman. Carolyn and Del marry, but Dale’s ex-wife surfaces, and he is revealed as a bigamist.

Working cocktails at the MGM turns out to be more involved than a nice Lutheran girl from Seattle would think: rumors, parties, stealing, sex, drinking and drugs are the main entertainment for a bored crew of cocktail waitresses, bartenders, dealers and floormen. Some waitresses date culinary union bosses, who have their own high drama of payoffs, fights for control, fire bombings and an 18-day culinary union strike.

After a ménage a quatre with two other waitresses and a casino floorman, Carolyn decides this is not the kind of life she wants for herself. After three years she leaves the MGM to rediscover her personal values and commitment to her marriage.

Each story told in this memoir—of the Martin Scorsese “Casino” era of Las Vegas—is true, and many of them are humorous as well as outrageous.

The e-book, COMING TO LAS VEGAS, can be downloaded FREE on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 2015.

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Carolyn V. Hamilton is an author, teacher, workshop leader, free-lance journalist and author of fiction and non-fiction, including her memoir, Coming to Las Vegas, A true tale of sex, drugs & Sin City in the 70s. Professionally trained as an illustrator and graphic designer, she spent over 3 decades working as a marketing executive and copywriter in the real world of “Mad Men.”

She is a graduate of Antioch University Seattle and her other adventures have included two years’ service as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer and a stint (in her “younger days”) as a Playboy Bunny.

In 2009 she founded www.adventuress-travel-magazine.com, the digital magazine “for women over 50 doing fun things”, focusing on essay stories from women about their personal travel adventures.

When she is not traveling, she resides in Cuenca, Ecuador.

Visit her writers’ website at www.carolynvhamilton.com and sign up for her FREE newsletter, SECRETS OF FICTION WRITING SUCCESS!

You can e-mail Carolyn at info@carolynvhamilton.com

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About Call of Kythshire:

The existence of the fairies of Kythshire is a secret kept for over a century…

Azaeli has trained from a young age in order to follow in her parents’ footsteps and become a Knight of His Majesty’s Elite. When she finally becomes a Squire, her name is mysteriously left off of the list for the King’s Quest. Her parents set off without her, but the simple quest goes awry leaving tragedy in its wake. With the help of her lifelong friend, Rian, a Mage apprentice, Azaeli must unravel a sinister plot that threatens both the existence of Kythshire and the peace that her people have celebrated for generations.

Call of Kythshire includes over a dozen beautifully rendered illustrations in this author-illustrator’s debut novel. Enjoy full color illustrations in the digital version and black-and-white images in the Paperback.

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Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Missy. She didn’t have many friends, so she spent her time quietly singing to herself and exploring the woods in her quiet Connecticut neighborhood. Her parents were a pair that was meant to be, and from them she and her younger brother learned the value of love, hard work, and appreciation for life’s small blessings. They spent many hours together floating on the lake, exploring mountain trails, camping, and taking lazy rides along the river on bumpy dirt roads.

As she grew older, Missy had her share of trials and difficulties as we all do at times in our lives. The forest was a steady friend for her, and she would find herself escaping into it to listen to the wind in the leaves and feel the quiet strength of the trees. Of course, anyone spending any amount of time in the woods begins to wonder about fairies, and even if they don’t admit it to themselves, they might even start to believe.

Eventually, Missy went off to college and spent some time learning about the wide world, and finally found true happiness with a paint brush in her hand, telling a story. She dreamed of happiness and tried to spread it around wherever she could.

Then one day, Missy met the man of her dreams. True love carried her to Virginia to the suburbs of Washington D.C., where she married her best friend. Together they had a child.

The three of them are currently living out their happily ever after together, even as you read this little tale.

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About Turn On the Light So I Can Hear:

A young artist badly in need of money bluffs her way through an interview into a job she is not prepared for.

To succeed, she must make room in her life for two people: Curtis, a deaf architect who has sworn he will never date a hearing woman, and thirteen-year-old Alex, profoundly deaf, rebellious, bold, and frightened. As each takes new risks in friendship and love, the hearing and deaf worlds come together.

With sign language–nimble and evocative–at its center, Turn On the Light So I Can Hear is about reaching across distances, the transformative powers of art, and finding a place to belong.

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Teri writes novels, short stories, essays, stories for children, nonfiction for both children and adults, and lots of appellate briefs.

Her stories and essays have appeared in publications as diverse as Education Week, Scope Magazine, The Iowa Review, Cricket Magazine, and The American Literary Review.

She lives in California by the beach.

Teri’s books have received the following honors and distinctions:

The Girl From The Tar Paper School:
–California Reading Association Eureka Silver Honor Book Award
–Included on the 2015 list of Notable Social Studies Trade Books for young readers compiled by the National Council for Social Studies
–Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (National Association of Teachers of English), Recommended Book
–Included in the New York Public Library’s list of 100 children’s books to read in 2014.
–A Junior Library Guild selection

Praise for The Girl From The Tar Paper School:
“Beautifully and clearly written.” School Library Journal, starred review
“Worthy of the highest recommendation.” Midwest Book Review

Rivka’s Way
–Sidney Taylor Book Awards, Notable book of 2001
–Lilith Magazine’s 5th Annual Selection of Books for Young Readers
–Included in Great Books for Girls, by Kathleen Odean
–Included in Best Jewish Books for Children and Teens, by Linda R. Silver

Praise for Rivka’s Way:
“A rewarding read for the romantically inclined.” School Library Journal
“A simple but daring adventure.” Voice of Youth Advocates

Guilty? Crime, Punishment, and the Changing Face of Justice
–Junior Library Guild selection

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About Every Breath by Tasha Ivey:

How does someone give their heart away when they don’t have all of the pieces?

Not that Makenna really wants a second chance at love anyway. She is stuck in her tragic past, secretly living every day for her deceased fiancé, while her new boyfriend, Drew, is gently nudging her into the present.

Desperate to appear normal again, she slaps on a happy face and goes through the motions of a normal, healthy relationship—but with the exception of even a single kiss. And she’s okay with pretending, but Drew needs more than she’s willing to give.

Surprisingly, it’s an innocent letter from a soldier halfway around the world that has her seeing life differently. Sawyer is at his breaking point, and his depression sucks him in deeper every day. Makenna becomes his only lifeline to home, and he’s hanging on by a very weak thread.

By helping him, Makenna learns to let go of grief before she’s left with only a ghost of the woman she once was, finally freeing her from guilt and showing her that it is possible to love again. But when she discovers that both of the men in her life are hiding something, she makes two shocking revelations.

One of them is insanely in love with her, and one of them destroyed her happy ever after.

Even though a fairytale ending does await her, is she willing to face her own demons to fight for it?

Book One of the Every Life Series (Books two and three are currently available)

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Tasha Ivey is a literature fanatic, whose love for the written word fostered her development into the writer she has become. A lover of an extremely erratic mixture of literature, she has been influenced by authors from Jane Austen and E.M. Forster to Charlaine Harris and Alyson Noel. But her biggest influence and literary hero? Nicholas Sparks. Aside from writing, since she doesn’t have anything other than a shriveled up prune on the left side of her brain, she prefers to spend her time being creative in other ways like painting, cake decorating, and various types of crafts. That is, if the constant voices streaming through her head allow her to stop making up stories for a while. Lucky for her, she has a huge supportive family, including her amazing husband and two kids, who doesn’t complain too much when she hangs out with her characters more than she does with them. Sophie, the dog, however . . . she does complain. A lot.

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