About Heron’s Path:

Heron’s Path is a fantasy novel for all ages. Step into the world of Katy and her delicate sister Celeste where native ways are threatened by “civilization,” and the Old Ones haunt the forest with their longing to return to their true home. Will Celeste finally understand her wanderings and visions? Will Katy and aged Olena keep her from the clutches of the evil wei-nila? Follow the sisters “north to the true wilderness, dark with ancient trees, where the Nanchuti struggle to keep their sacred songs from vanishing.” Enter into a magical world and be swept into adventure as Katy and Celeste travel the Heron’s Path. Free on Kindle Select from August 1st-August 5th.

Heron’s Path is a beautiful read. I was swept away by Alethea Eason’s rich and beautiful evocations of the natural world.
Bruce Coville, author of My Teacher is an Alien and Always October

Alethea Eason is a master storyteller, weaving subtle lessons about relationships, self-identity, and ethnic tolerance into a story filled with intrigue and wonder.
Janet Muirhead Hill, author of Miranda and Starlight series

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Alethea Eason is the author of the middle grade science fiction novels HUNGRY (HarperCollins) and STARVED (Kindle Select). She has been a reading specialist for over 20 years. She loves to paint, walk in the woods that surround her home, and has just become a mom to a sweet, but naughty, Australian Shepherd puppy.

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About Rest For The Wicked – The Claire Wiche Chronicles Book 1:

She’s running from her past – and running out of time.

Claire Wiche is an ordinary woman, running her Wicca shop in an ordinary California beach town.

But Claire wasn’t always ordinary, and she isn’t quite human. She hides a secret, and a past she thought she had put behind her.

A past that is about to explode into her present.

When it does, and everyone she loves is in danger, Claire must face up to her past – and become what she left behind in order to save them.

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Cate Dean has been writing since she could hold a pen in her hand and put more than two words together on paper.

She grew up losing herself in the wilds of fantasy worlds, and has had some of her own adventures while tromping through the UK, and a few other parts of the world.

A lover of all things supernatural, she infuses that love into her stories, giving them a unique edge.

When she’s not writing, she loves cooking, scaring herself silly in the local cemeteries, and reading pretty much anything she can get her hands on.

There – I got the official biography out of the way. I love to write, and yes, I have been doing it most of my life. I’ve made up stories in my head for as long as I can remember, and I am thrilled to be able to write them down and share them with you.

I love writing different types of stories, and jump from fantasy, to paranormal, and over to romance. So many genres, so little time…

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About King of Ages: A King Arthur Anthology:

A fresh take on a legendary tale, this anthology of thirteen short stories is a testament to just how eternal and timeless the story of King Arthur truly is.

One recurring aspect of Arthurian literature is the notion that he will one day return as a messiah to save his people. Another hallmark of the King Arthur legend is that Merlin—wizard, prophet, and Arthur’s most trusted advisor—lives backwards through time. What if Merlin was actually advising multiple reincarnations of King Arthur during various points, and places, in time and history? And what if this all began at the end of time?

King of Ages is an anthology like no other, showcasing stories that re-imagine King Arthur at several points in history, from the end of days all the way to the beginning of mankind.

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Mike Morgan was born in Hounslow, London, a suburb famous for exactly nothing, so he moved to Stoke-on-Trent as soon as he could. At the age of 30, he realized accountancy wasn’t the exciting life he’d anticipated and relocated to Japan. After learning hundreds of Kanji characters, Mike decided to move to Houston, Texas, where they’d be no use whatsoever, so that was time well spent. These days, Mike lives in Iowa with his wife and two young kids.
Most recently, Mike has written for Flame Tree Publishing and The Martian Wave. But he’s also been a contributor to various volumes on Doctor Who, including You and Who 1-3, Shooty Dog Thing 2, Shelf Life, and Drabble Who. Lately, he’s taken up writing about Blake’s 7, with an essay in You and Who Else.
He’s also written a comic strip for the small press comic, Futurequake, and he’s currently a regular contributor to the website WhatCulture.com, with over 1.5 million views to his name. But the work he’s most proud of getting into print was the cartoon series “Frank the Macra” in the well-regarded and now sadly defunct Doctor Who fanzine, Shooty Dog Thing, found on his Tumblr: wwww.tumblr.com/blog/culttvmike

Patrick S. Baker is a U.S. Army Veteran, currently a Department of Defense employee. He holds Bachelor degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Missouri and a Masters in European History from American Military University. He is a part­time writer and military historian.
His non­fiction work has appeared in Armchair General online, the Saber and Scroll Journal, Medieval Warfare Magazine, Ancient Warfare Magazine, Vietnam Magazine and the Sci Phi Journal. His fiction has appeared in New Realm Magazine and Bewildering Stories. In his spare time he reads, works out, plays war games, and enjoys life with his wife, dog, and two cats.

David W. Landrum teaches Literature at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. His speculative fiction has appeared widely, his science fiction in Aphelion, Alban Lake, Nebula Rift, Pure Fantasy and Sci-Fi, Veterans of Future Wars, and Fiction on the Web.
His novellas, Strange Brew, The Gallery, The Prophetess, ShadowCity, and The Last Minstrel, and his full-length novel, The Sorceress of the Northern Seas, are available through Amazon.

Paola K. Amaras’s entire life has revolved around mythology, legend, and folklore, ever since her grandmother recited fairytales and myths in iambic hexameter and her uncle taught me her to write. She led a group on myth and folklore in high school as well taught about them for CASE University’s Off Campus Studies later on. She received a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University (majoring in Humanities/Classics and Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and minoring in Theater). Her MLS is from the University of Pittsburgh in Rare Books/Manuscripts, Reference, and InfoTech, where part of her final project was self-censorship in pulp, comic books, and popular literature.
She began Scribes Unlimited with her cousin Paul Kraly and they have been writing books, business plans, stories, grants, blogs, articles, scripts and every other type of document ever since. This includes six non-fiction books. Exiles of Dal Ryeas (her first solo novel) was published in 2010. Lately, she has been working on The Hidden Rims Saga, a dark urban fantasy thriller set in the otherworlds. Her housemates include three rescue cats—Mystery, Malkie, and Karma—along with her cousin.

Alex Ness has written a number of works that have been published and self-published. He has an author page for his work at Amazon.com/author/alexness. He is a poet, a prose writer, and he has written and written about comic books. A native of Minnesota, he despises snow, loves cats, loves his wife and son, and dreams of a place with no snow and no people, so that he can write forever in silence.

Philip Kuan is a Californian writer with a healthy interest in befuddling readers. Some of his favorite authors include Charles Dickens, Tolkien, and Franz Kafka, among others. He has been published in several short story magazines, and is always looking for constructive feedback at philkuan.wordpress.com.

P. Andrew Miller has published poetry, creative nonfiction, and short fiction for many years. His short story collection In Love and Water and Other Stories was published by Post Mortem Press in 2014. He is also the author of the lyric comic The Legacy of the Turquoise Knight from Finishing Line press and the prose chapbook Bodies in Water from Porkbelly Press. He has also edited a chapbook anthology of speculative poetry titled Words for Worlds that was also published by Porkbelly Press. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Northern Kentucky University. He lives in Cincinnati. His website is www.pandrewmiller.com.

Joanna Michal Hoyt lives with her family on a Catholic Worker farm in upstate NY where she spends her days tending goats, gardens and guests and her evenings reading and writing odd stories. She acquired the writing habit as a child who didn’t have to go to school, and it hasn’t let go of her yet. Her fiction has appeared in magazines including Crossed Genres, Scheherezade’s Bequest, and Daily Science Fiction, and also in the Spindles anthology of diverse fairy tales put out by Eggplant Productions.
The first part of “She Who Makes Us Free” is loosely based on the 1912 Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, MA. The Palmer Raids took place across the nation in January 1920 at the height of the first Red Scare. Robert K. Murray’s book, Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, gives an excellent overview.

Doug Goodman is a writer who lives on the Texas Gulf coast. He works at NASA and in his spare time when he is not writing, he trains human remains dogs. Warriors of Camlann is his first book. It is a collection of dark and bloody tales of King Arthur. He also has two books from Severed Press—Dominion and Kaiju Fall.

C. A. Rowland writes short stories in multiple genres and is currently finishing her first humorous cozy mystery set in Savannah, Georgia. Ms. Rowland’s short story, “The History of A Fruitcake” was awarded First Place in the Bethlehem Writer’s Roundtable 2015 Short Story Award and “A Rite of Passage,” placed second in the Virginia Writer’s Club 2014 Golden Nib awards. Mostly recently, two of her short stories were included in the anthologies (After)life: Poems and stories of the Dead (“The Remembrance”) and Strangely Funny 2½ (“Sadie’s Selkie”). Ms. Rowland is a member of the Virginia Writer’s Club, Sisters-In-Crime, Riverside Writers, James River Writes and Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. When not writing, she volunteers her time for Quilts of Valor and the Linus Project as well as designs and creates her own quilts. Her official website and blog is at http://www.carowland.comand she is a regular blogger for www.mostlymystery.com.

Josh Brown is the writer and creator of Shamrock, a fantasy-adventure comic that appears regularly in Fantasy Scroll Magazine. His poetry has appeared in Abandoned Towers Magazine, Pixies of Eglantine, Poetry Quarterly, and Lovecraft After Dark. His short fiction has appeared in anthologies from Sky Warrior Books (Alterna TEAS), JWK Fiction (Toys in the Attic), and Nomadic Delirium Press (The Martian Wave). His comic work has appeared anthologies from publishers such as Desperado Publishing (Negative Burn), Alterna (Alterna Tales), and more. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two sons.

David Wiley has been a lover of the Arthurian tradition for nearly his entire life and has grown to love the works and traditions of Medieval literature over the years. His short fiction has previously been published in Firewords Quarterly and in Mystic Signals.

Dale W. Glaser grew up in the 80s with a strong belief that the Wizard character from the arcade game Gauntlet was severely underrated, mostly because nobody wants to be the one wearing yellow. He somehow managed to develop a healthy appreciation for mages, warlocks and other students of the strangeways all the same.
His short stories have previously been published in How the West Was Weird volumes II and III and the PulpWork Christmas Special, all from PulpWork Press, and Twice Upon a Time, from Bearded Scribe Press. He currently lives in Virginia with his wife and three children, and can be found online at dalewglaser.wordpress.com.

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About Bride of a Bygone War:

The second book in the Beirut Trilogy, BRIDE OF A BYGONE WAR is set in the spring of 1981, following the American elections, when Lebanon hopes for fresh political winds that might end their seven-year civil war. Enter Walter Lukash, a midlevel CIA officer assigned as intelligence liaison to the Phalange militia. Lukash soon becomes a pawn in a Levantine game intended to draw the U.S. into conflict with Lebanon’s Syrian occupiers. Unfortunately, Lukash is too distracted by problems arising from having abandoned his Lebanese bride five years earlier to see the trap until it springs.

SYNOPSIS:
Beirut, 1981. Walter Lukash, a journeyman CIA case officer, has been posted in the Middle East for eight straight years and is ready for a quiet desk job back in Washington. When he is ordered to Beirut instead for a two-month secret liaison assignment with the Phalange militia’s intelligence unit, his superiors believe they understand his reluctance to accept.

What they don’t know is that, five years earlier, Lukash secretly married a Lebanese woman against Agency rules and abandoned her soon after the outbreak of war. More than that, his new Irish live-in girlfriend, whom the Agency considers a security risk, has followed him to Beirut from Amman and Lukash has defied orders to break off the relationship.

When the two-month assignment is extended to two years, Lukash realizes he can no longer avoid painful realities and choices. But before he can straighten things out, he is caught in a deadly three-way intrigue between the Phalange, the U.S. government and Lebanon’s ruthless Syrian occupiers that threatens to unleash the full force of Syrian-backed terrorism against Americans in Beirut.

BRIDE OF A BYGONE WAR captures the unique atmosphere of Civil War Beirut with a lively and intelligent style that draws the reader into deep identification with the characters and the action.

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Preston Fleming was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He left home at age fourteen to accept a scholarship at a New England boarding school and went on to a liberal arts college in the Midwest. After earning an MBA, he managed a non-profit organization in New York before joining the U.S. Foreign Service and serving in U.S. Embassies around the Middle East for nearly a decade. Later he studied at an Ivy League law school and since then pursued a career in law and business. He has written five novels.

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About Shades of the Heart:

WHEN PAST AND PRESENT SECRETS ARE REVEALED, ONE THING IS SURE – THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

All was well in Blake Montgomery’s magnificent world. He was actively involved in ministry at church, employed by a great company, and to top it all off, he was happily married to Gabrielle, and awaiting the new addition to his family.

Gabrielle found the love of her life. From the moment they met, their chemistry was undeniable. But, Blake had to work tirelessly to tear down the wall she had built up against ever loving again, and she was glad he did. They shared a love they attributed only to the grace of God on their lives…a love so rare.

When a dramatic turn of events disclosed shocking secrets, everything changed. As their marriage explodes and their lives shift in unexpected directions, both must learn to relinquish control and trust God in order to embrace the future.

Life-altering struggles can be the pathway to new beginnings. Will they find the courage to forgive and create a love for all times?

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Ann Marie Bryan is a dedicated, graceful, multi-talented leader with a passion for excellence. She is the CEO & Founder of Victorious By Design, an organization committed to providing professional writing services, personal and professional development programs and performing arts services.

An inspirational novelist, Ann Marie writes to educate, inspire and empower others. She desires to tell great stories with relatable characters to show the awesome power of God in the lives of people and places. Her most recent novel, Shades of the Heart, an Amazon Best Seller, started her Encounters of the Heart series. Book 2, Mirrored Hearts will be released fall 2015.

Ann Marie’s greatest passion is to empower others to succeed by tapping into their God-given potential. She enjoys writing, reading, dancing, teaching, meeting people and traveling.

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About The Dead Detective Agency:

What’s a girl to do when she wakes up dead?
Tori Van Camp finds herself on a luxurious ocean liner where she’s offered whatever a person might desire: food, clothes, recreation, and the companionship of congenial people. But Tori has no memory of booking a cruise. What she does have is a vivid recollection of being shot point blank in the chest.
With the help of the stunningly handsome Mike and the unnervingly serene Nancy, Tori soon learns the purpose of her voyage. Still, she’s haunted by the image of the gun, the crack of the shot, and the malevolent face of the shooter. Who wanted the young personal assistant dead, and why?
Determined to find out, Tori enlists the help of Seamus, an eccentric but shrewd detective. Together they embark on an investigation unlike anything Tori ever thought possible. Death is all around, the future is uncertain, and if Tori doesn’t act quickly, two people she cares about are prime candidates for murder.

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Peg Herring reads, writes, and loves mysteries. As an educator she once set the school stage on fire. As a driver she’s been so lost that she passed through the same town in Pennsylvania three times in one day. Family and friends have lost count of how many times she’s locked herself out of her house. It’s much safer if she sits in her office and writes, either as herself or as her younger, hipper alter ego, Maggie Pill.

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About The Environmentalist:

Cindy Allen wants to promote her cause, she wants the group she founded to be successful, and most of all she wants to look good doing it. But when she’s challenged on national TV, she’s forced to confront her fears and step outside the cozy comforts of her home in San Francisco. She heads up to the wild forests of Washington to face her tests, prove herself, and throw it back in her critics faces. But what’s lurking in the woods when she gets there could prove deadly.

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Rick Soper lives in the wild green forests of Poulsbo, Washington. A lifelong California resident Rick made the move to Washington to get away from it all and continue to write Thriller and Horror novels. He lives with his girlfriend and his three Terriers who all go on daily walks through the many parks near his forest hideaway. As always he’s currently working on his next novel.

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About Obsession:

Family reunions are best avoided, especially if you’re the ex. Sammy was just going to say hi to a few people and leave early. When her ex-brother-in-law, John shows up looking successful and sexy, passion burns hot and anything goes, except love . . . Or is she wrong? Previously published with Liquid Silver Books.

Sammy turned, deciding it was time to leave. “Well, it was nice seeing you again, John. Thanks for the beer, but I think I’d better go.” She set her bottle of beer down on the counter while a brief thought crossed her mind that she was running away. “Maybe we’ll see each other again before I leave.” She tried to sound nonchalant but was painfully aware her tone was a little too rushed, a little too shaky.

She heard John put his bottle down on the countertop behind her and instinctively picked up speed, sensing he might try to stop her. But that was silly, wasn’t it? She wanted him, not the other way around. He couldn’t possibly know the turmoil going on inside her. Damn those dreams! She realized coming here was a mistake. She was horny beyond belief and not thinking straight.

She reached for the doorknob and barely got the door open when he slammed it shut in her face. Sammy spun around, trapped between the door and his body. Her heart skipped a beat as she raised her eyes to his. His expression looked almost fierce, and matched the fire burning in his eyes.

“What are you doing?” Her senses went into overdrive as the warmth of his body enveloped her, threatening to suck her in.

“Where are you going so fast? You just got here.”

He was too close. His warm breath sent a shiver down her spine. “I’m not in a hurry. I only came long enough to visit with the girls again.”

John’s gruff chuckle revealed he didn’t believe her. “You can see my sisters anytime. You expect me to believe that?”

Sammy’s eyes grew round. “If you think I came here to see you then you’re crazy. I’ve spent the last twenty years—” When it dawned on her what she’d been about to say, she cut herself off.

John finished her comment for her, hitting the nail right on the head. “Trying to forget me?” His tone was low and sexier than Sammy remembered. The cockiness of youth was gone, replaced with the firm, deep tone of experience.

Keep it light, Sammy. She tried to laugh off the notion. “You wish!” She put her hands on him to push him away. “Please move.”

“Why? Do I bother you?”

There was no way she was going to show him what he was doing to her. She’d worked too hard pretending she didn’t like him during their brief acquaintance to ruin it now by swooning at his feet.

He leaned in closer. Sammy gasped and tried to shrink back against the door. She kept her hands flat against his chest, trying not to notice how rock hard his pectorals were. Or that his dick was hardening. Their lower bodies were flush and the feel of his erection caused a warm flow between her legs. Sweet Jesus! She was going to jump his bones if she didn’t get out of there soon.

“John, please. I have to go.” Was that panic in her voice? “I should never have come in.”

John grabbed her by the wrists and forced her arms above her head, pinning them against the door. He ignored Sammy’s gasp. “You’ve got that right, baby. You’ve been running from me since we were teenagers. Well, I made myself a promise, Sam. The next time I got you to myself…

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Tory Richards is a fun-loving grandma who writes smut. Born in 1955 in the small town of Milo, Maine, she’s lived most of her life in Florida. Today she lives with her daughter and her family. She has her own woman-cave which she shares with four felines whose main goal in life is getting as much cat hair on everything that they can.

Penning stories by hand and then on manual typewriter at the age of thirteen, Tory was a closet writer until the encouragement of her family prompted her into submitting to a publisher. She’s been published since 2005, and has since retired from Disney to focus on family and writing.

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About Dog Goner by Cynthia Port:

Secrets will be revealed! Fondest wishes will be fulfilled! Permacrud will be . . . what the heck is permacrud, anyway? Tawny and Jenny, along with their dogs Dinky and Gunner, have set themselves on a mission – or really, three missions. Gunner just wants to be clean, but it’s not as easy as it seems. Jenny is determined to find out the secret to Kibble Talking, and she’s prepared to feed kibble to the whole fifth grade if need be. Tawny longs for a little brother or sister to make her family complete. But there’s someone else with a fondest wish, and they’ll do anything to get it. Dinky just wants to save the day before someone becomes a dog goner.

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Living in the fossil-filled hills of Southern Indiana, Cynthia Port writes for the young and the stubbornly young at heart. When not writing her laugh-out-loud fiction, Dr. Port is a scientific consultant, assisting medical researchers across the US. She also sponsors a Free Print Books To Teachers Program for any teacher of grades 2 through 6. Contact her for more information. Cynthia is currently working on book 3 in the Kibble Talk series, as well as a standalone historical fiction that takes place in the Australian Outback. Wombats, anyone?

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About Love And Money: Park Avenue Series, Book 3 by Ruth Harris:

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LOVE AND MONEY, the Random House hardcover and mmpb blockbuster, is an international bestseller translated into 19 languages, now #5 in the entire Kindle store.

Rich girl. Poor girl.
Sisters and strangers.
Enemies and rivals.
Two women in love with the same man.

Beautiful Park Avenue heiress, Deedee Dahlen, is born with a silver spoon. Lana Bantry is an unwanted and abused child who lives on the wrong side of the tracks. Deedee and Lana share a father but not an inheritance, a lover but not a commitment—and they do not know of each other’s existence.

Until murder—and Slash Steiner, the handsome, dynamic billionaire with the Midas touch—bring the two sisters face to face in a searing confrontation.

Love And Money, sweeping in scope yet intimate in detail, is a story of family, secrets, murder, envy, and healing.

“A SPECTACULAR, RICHLY PLOTTED NOVEL. Racing to a shocking climax, this glittering novel is first-class entertainment. A story of love and money, and how both are made, lost, and found again.”
—The New York Times

“AN IDEAL BOOK…RUTH HARRIS HAS DONE A MIRACULOUS JOB OF ENTWINING THE LIVES OF TWO WOMEN IN A TOTALLY BELIEVABLE AND FASCINATING WAY.
“A page-turner…Plausible and entertaining, LOVE AND MONEY reads fast and the time frames ring true.  Harris doesn’t miss a trick, her characters are often shaped by circumstances…and her characters change, as do the years.  Ruth Harris is a talented writer who has come up with a novel so entertaining and interesting you won’t have to hide if someone asks you what you’re reading.”
—West Coast Review of Books

“FAST-PACED, SUPERIOR FICTION WITH A ZINGING SENSE OF STYLE.
“A skillfully written, highly commercial ‘page-turner,’ LOVE AND MONEY is also a series of carefully drawn character studies, insightful psychological portraits of people driven by the need for love, the hunger for money and the fear of death. 
“LOVE AND MONEY focuses on three major characters.  Deedee Dahlen is a million dollar heiress, ‘born late, as if she knew ahead of time how complicated her life was going to be and needed all the time she could get to prepare for coping with its difficulties.’
“Lana Bantry, Deedee’s illegitimate sister, was born ‘six weeks prematurely, as if she couldn’t wait to get out into the world and take charge.’
“Slash Steiner—he invented the name because he thought the word sounded ‘invincible, invulnerable and unconquerable’—a man from nowhere who makes it big and becomes Deedee’s husband and Lana’s lover and business partner.
“Harris makes these characters and the joys and tragedies of their lives exciting and believable.  With a narrative style that is crisply precise and descriptive, an unerring ear for dialogue and an overall tone that is strongly reminiscent of Susan Isaacs, Harris has written a terrifically satisfying ‘good read.’”
—Fort Lauderdale News Sun-Sentinel

“RUTH HARRIS IS IN A CLASS BY HERSELF!”
—Literary Guild

“WELL-WRITTEN. FAST-PACED AND DIVERTING.”
—Library Journal

“A powerful contemporary novel of…passions, jealousies and secrets…
“Love and money.  Ultimately they seemed to be all anyone really understood.”
—Michael Joseph

“I COULDN’T STOP READING!”
—Rona Jaffe,  bestselling author of The Best of Everything and Class Reunion

“In this entertaining story, Ruth Harris portrays characters who try to assuage their emotional pain by amassing wealth. When Russell Dahlen’s daughter Deedee is born, his mistress simultaneously gives birth to his illegitimate child, Lana. Years later, Deedee, a reigning socialite gains celebrity. As for embittered Lana, she grows up abused, deprived and chillingly determined to achieve the affluence and respectability required to destroy both Russell and Deedee. HARRIS WILL KEEP HER FANS ENGROSSED AS SHE ACCENTUATES THE RISKINESS AND UNPREDICTABILITY OF LIVES OBSESSED WITH MONEY, SETTING THEM AGAINST A BACKDROP OF DIZZYING SOCIAL CHANGE.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

*DOUBLEDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION*
*LITERARY GUILD SELECTION*
*25 KINDLE REVIEWS, 4.2 out of 5 STARS*
Below, an excerpt from one of the 5 Star reviews:

“Again I am effortlessly transported back in time. The dazzling world of Wall Street comes to life as we enter the world of the Dahlen family in the 1950’s and their journey into the 1980’s. It is a stunning portrait of a family obsessed with love, money and fear, a family rich in wealth yet devoid of emotional stability and love. A family that is headed down an unforeseen path of great wealth and prosperity. A family full of secrets and betrayal on a collision course of emotional upheaval and destruction.

“The characters are brought to life by the tremendously descriptive writing as you take on their journey as they progress and grow throughout the story. The dialogue between characters is real and believable and the historical events of the time period are woven into the story with compassion and ease.

“A highly charged emotional story that spans decades of the Dahlen family, LOVE AND MONEY is fast paced and full of twists and turns that will keep you engaged in the story. It is a tale of a family that is perceived to the outside world as having it all yet behind closed doors face tremendous hardship, scandal and ultimately love and survival.

“I highly recommend this book to all readers; I totally enjoyed and was swept away with the story.”
—Marilou George, “Confessions Of A Reader”

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I’m a million-copy New York Times and Amazon bestselling author and a Romantic Times award winner for “best contemporary.” My emotional, entertaining women’s fiction and critically praised novels have sold millions of copies in hard cover, paperback and ebook editions, been translated into 19 languages, sold in 30 countries, and were prominent selections of leading book clubs including the Literary Guild and the Book Of The Month Club.

I write about strong, savvy, witty women who struggle to succeed and, when sometimes they don’t get what they want, find something even better along the way. Critics have compared me to Nora Ephron and Joan Didion and called my books “brilliant,” “steamy,” “stylishly written,” ”richly plotted,” “first-class entertainment” and “a sure thing.”

With my husband, Michael, I indulge my wild side and write bestselling thrillers with vivid characters, international backgrounds and compelling plots. Our thrillers have made numerous appearances in the top 3 of Kindle’s Movers and Shakers list and in the Top 100 in the Kindle Store.

Publisher’s Weekly called our thrillers “Slick and sexy with all the sure elements of a big seller written by pros who know how to tell a story.” Readers have raved, calling them “awesome,” “gripping,” “chilling,” “a must-read,” and “a real page-turner.”

It’s no surprise I’m a writer. My Mom was an RN who had a trove of big-city hospital stories—some funny, some sad, some touching—and told them with great style. My Dad loved words, word play and language and he is remembered by those who knew him as “always reading.” My paternal grandfather was noted for his extensive library and both parents were avid readers: my Mom loved popular fiction and my Dad read four or five newspapers every day and subscribed to what seemed to be every magazine published—from Life and Look to BusinessWeek and Organic Gardening.

As a girl, I wanted to be a professional ice skater. In my teens, I wanted to be a lawyer—a summer job in a law office cured me fast! After college, I got a beginner’s job in publishing and my career path—first as an editor and then as a writer—was set.

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About THE ATOMIC TIMES: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground by Michael Harris:

Michael Harris is a New York Times best selling author.

THE ATOMIC TIMES:
My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground.

Catch-22 with radiation.
Area 51 meets Dr. Strangelove.
Except it really happened.

Operation Redwing, America’s biggest and deadliest nuclear weapons test series, mixed saber rattling with mad science while overlooking the cataclysmic human, geopolitical and ecological effects. Welcome to the U.S. Army’s nuclear family where the F-words were Fallout and Fireball, and isolation and isotopes changed men for better—and for worse.

“THE ATOMIC TIMES is a gripping memoir of the first H-bomb tests by one of the small groups of servicemen stationed at Ground Zero on Eniwetok Atoll. Leavened by humor, loyalty and pride of accomplishment, this book is also a tribute to the resilience, courage and patriotism of the American soldier.”
—Dr. Henry Kissinger

“Brilliantly conceived, elegantly rendered and persuasively authentic.”
—Robert B. Parker, bestselling author of the Spenser and Jesse Stone series

“Harris uses a chatty, dead-pan voice that highlights the horrifying absurdity of life on the island: the use of Geiger counters to monitor scrambled eggs’ radiation level, three-eyed fish swimming in the lagoon, corroded, permanently open windows that fail to keep out the radioactive fallout, and men whose toenails glow in the dark. (The money initially earmarked for enlisted men’s goggles was diverted to buy new furniture for the colonel’s house. ‘Goggles are important,’ Harris is told. ‘But the colonel’s furniture is important, too.’) An entertaining read in the bloodline of Catch-22, Harris achieves the oddest of victories: a funny, optimistic story about the H-bomb.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

“Harris’ frank and disturbing descriptions of the criminally irresponsible proceedings on Eniwetok, and the physical and mental pain he and others endured, constitute shocking additions to atomic history.”
—Booklist

“One of the best books I’ve ever read, combining elements of Catch 22 and Dr. Strangelove in a memoir both hilarious and tragic. A ‘must’ read, destined to become a classic.”
—John G. Stoessinger, Ph.D. (Harvard), winner of the Bancroft Prize for Inernational Affairs, member of the Council on Foreign Relations

“Harris has seamlessly presented a colorful cast of characters and a shockingly honest depiction of his experience. The effect is at once deeply personal and politically profound.”
—Senator Charles Schumer

“A real page turner.  I couldn’t put it down.”
—Rona Jaffe, bestselling author of The Best of Everything and Class Reunion

“By turns touching, horrifying and uproariously funny, this memoir of the author’s year on the island of Eniwetok reminds us that behind the famous H-bomb tests were men who did the unglamorous work, survived (or didn’t) the grinding isolation, and received the fallout (sometimes literally) from government incompetence. Now that the cold war is over, we can learn what it was really like—and get an account that is hard to put down.”
—Dr. Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University

“This engaging story of how atoms can change men’s minds and bodies isn’t fiction, though the absurdity of it all would suggest otherwise. Tragic and yet hilarious, and unlike anything I’ve ever read. If you want to see how careful planning and sanity led to the U.S. advance in nuclear weapons, this isn’t the book. This is the reality of life at ground zero.”
—Phillip Jennings, author of Nam-A-Rama

I was surprised to learn women are big fans of THE ATOMIC TIMES. I first found this out when I read through 121 Amazon Customer Reviews (4.0 out of 5 stars), in particular one by VicPell (Vic Pelletier, Nassau County, NY), who writes:

“I picked up THE ATOMIC TIMES because it looks like an interesting book and it is, but it’s much more than that. I used to be an English teacher, and I was very impressed by Michael Harris’ distinctive writing style, not like any other author I’ve ever read. In addition to the unique way he puts words together, the book also manages to be sad and hilarious at the same time — as a reader, I can’t recall experiencing that before.

“The book also has a collection of memorable characters (especially the pompous and absurd Major Maxwell) and is a fascinating story about Operation Redwing — and reads just like a novel, complete with cliffhangers. I told my wife she would also love THE ATOMIC TIMES, but she was skeptical. She hates military books and she was sure she would read more about the H-bomb than she wants to know. She only agreed to read it when I suggested a bet — if she loved it, she’d take me out dinner. If not, it would be my treat. She made the reservation in her name when she was only half way through. I’m willing to bet other women will feel the same way. Not to mention men.”

THE ATOMIC TIMES reached #3 on the Movers and Shakers List; landed in the Top 30 of the Top 100 Paid in the Kindle Store and remained there for a considerable period of time; hit #32 at Barnes&Noble/Nook; sold well at Kobo, Apple iBooks and Google Play

THE ATOMIC TIMES was nominated by Random House for a Pulitzer Prize and has been an international bestseller in its hardcover and e-book editions.

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Author Bio:
Michael Harris, a New York Times bestselling author, was a public relations executive at CBS for many years, eleven of them on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Michael was the first person to greet the Beatles on their arrival in the United States and is the author of the national bestseller, ALWAYS ON SUNDAY:  An Inside View of Ed Sullivan, the Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra and Ed’s Other Guests.

Michael’s highly acclaimed memoir, THE ATOMIC TIMES:  My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground, is based on a more fraught experience, the 1955 U.S. H-Bomb tests, and has been called Catch-22 with radiation!  Area 51 meets Dr. Strangelove! Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by Random House, THE ATOMIC TIMES was called: “A gripping memoir leavened by humor, loyalty and pride of accomplishment. A tribute to the resilience, courage and patriotism of the American soldier.” —Henry Kissinger (The Atomic Times is available in a Nook edition.)

Michael is also co-author with his wife, Ruth, of two thrillers, HOOKED and BRAINWASHED, both available in Kindle editions.

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About Journey Back To Threa by Cindy Cowles:

For two thousand years, there has been a spaceship hidden on the dark side of the moon. Very few know of its existence, and only one has known its location. That one was High Councilwoman and Captain Estelle Morgan, Lacy’s grandmother and one of the original survivors from the planet Threa. When Lacy’s grandmother chooses not to Rebirth again and passes away, Lacy inherits the house, a tantalizing letter about humanity’s true origins and…a FTL spaceship called Pegasus I. Forced to flee when her home is invaded by a group called the Chosen, and her life and the lives of her three closest friends are threatened, Lacy brings her friends aboard an atmospheric hopper – a small transport meant to shuttle explorers from Pegasus I to a planet’s surface and back – and escapes just in time. Now she’s taking them on the trip of a lifetime, going on a Journey Back To Threa.

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Cindy Cowles was born in Louisiana. She has drove trucks over the road, sold tickets for a traveling carnival and drove a dump truck to gather corn from a corn field before settling in Oklahoma where she drove for a construction company. Now she lives in North Louisiana again, and she spends time with her grandson when she’s not writing. She shares a home with her boyfriend, two grown kids, a grandchild, and several cats. Her hobbies include reading, photography and poetry. Her first published work was a poem in a local newspaper when she was eight.

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About Want:

Trust no one, no one trusts – that is the way of Lunar City.

2085 – The Earth has nearly been destroyed through global warming and the use nuclear weapons as WWIII begins.

Two hundred years later and it is the Ruling Class in the Moon’s Lunar City who rule the five cities left on the barren planet. Careers are dictated, breeding is regulated, those who can’t work are made to disappear and everyone is known by a number. There is no time for fun and very little need for love. Lethal injections are brandished freely and an army of clones are bred for purely military purposes.

Aurelia has left school with flying colors and will be flown to the Moon to work with the Elite race in the hospital. Kind-hearted, creative and intelligent, Aurelia is about to be launched into a life she could never have even dreamed of on earth, a life where power and politics are a dangerous combination and trust is hard to come by.

With the help of new friends, Aurelia will learn whose side she is really on but the truth soon becomes horribly clear: on Lunar, you can trust no one.

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Magus Tor is a dreamer who enjoys dreaming varied dreams of being a doctor, a lawyer, a police officer and a teacher but never in the wildest dream to become a writer. Since starting to write in 2007, Magus continues to explore creating worlds in his imaginative mild. Although he wishes to specialize in writing fantasy but his mind twisted his will and he ended up writing more Science Fiction than Fantasy.

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About Awakening the Fire (Guardian Witch Book One) by Ally Shields:

A witch with a badge and a gun…and her first murder case.

Arianna Calin has sworn to keep the peace in Riverdale. Most of the Otherworlders haunt the Olde Town district—partying at vampire strip clubs, dining in elegant supper clubs, and inhabiting the cliffside caverns along the Mississippi. They’re no trouble at all…until something goes wrong.

Being a cop for the supernatural is a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it. Ari carries a gun, a wicked-looking dagger, and a few handy charms against things that go bump in the streets. She’s also a fire witch—an ability that comes in handy, since her partner’s only human.

When a virtual reality drug hits the streets, people start to die, and an elusive pack of werewolves show up at every turn. So does the aristocratic vampire singer, Andreas, with his Old World charm and his bedroom eyes.

Ari and Ryan are drawn into a web of murder and evil that leads sworn enemies to a confrontation. While the city simmers around her, Ari struggles to prevent an all-out supernatural war…

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Ally Shields was born and raised in the Midwest, along the Mississippi River, and considers herself a “river rat.” The settings for her urban fantasies and some of the folklore comes from that area. After a career in law and juvenile justice, she now writes full time and lives near Des Moines, Iowa, with her Minature Pinscher, Ranger. When not writing, reading or visiting family, she travels in the US and abroad and often includes references to those places in her writing.

Shields belongs to Sisters in Crime, MFRW, and several on-line writers’ groups. Way too often she can be found on Twitter: @ShieldsAlly.

She recommends the completed Guardian Witch series be read in order: Awakening the Fire, Fire Within, Burning Both Ends, Blood and Fire, Fire Storm, Wild Fire and the finale, Eternal Fires.

To learn more about the author, her books, the novels’ settings and characters or what she is blogging, visit her website.

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About Quinn Invisible by Amy Martin:

When her cop father is killed in the line of duty, Quinn Callahan returns from New York to her hometown of Shady Springs, Missouri, to live with her aunt. Unfortunately, Shady Springs holds nothing but pain for Quinn, whose mother allegedly murdered Quinn’s popular best friend Emma before killing herself, leaving Quinn a bullied outcast at her upscale prep school.

After almost four years away, Quinn finds not much has changed at Harrandale Preparatory Academy, although her bullies have grown older, taller, and crueler. And Emma’s twin brother Evan is still indifferent to her, which is more painful than any punishment her classmates can inflict.

Determined to clear her mother’s name, Quinn begins re-investigating Emma’s death with the help of some new friends and–eventually–Evan. But will Quinn and Evan be able to live with what they learn about their families in the process?

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Amy Martin wrote and illustrated her first book at the age of ten and gave it to her fourth grade teacher, who hopefully lost it in her house somewhere and didn’t share it with anyone else. The first book she published as a grown-up, In Your Dreams, was a semi-finalist in the Young Adult category of the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. There are four books in the In Your Dreams series: In Your Dreams, As You Wake, Before You Sleep, and Beyond Your Dreams. Her latest Young Adult series is the Quinn Callahan Chronicles–the first book, Quinn Invisible, debuts in August 2015.

Amy currently lives in Lexington, KY with her husband and a ferocious attack tabby named Cleo. When not writing or reading, she can usually be found watching sports, drinking coffee, or indulging her crippling Twitter habit (and, sometimes, doing all three at once).

Come hang out with her at www.theamymartin.com or on Twitter: @ThatAmyMartin

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