About Hooked on You:

When Shay McDaniels learns that her father has been receiving threatening letters she heads down to his resort in the Keys. Frustratingly, he refuses to call the police, determined to handle matters on his own.

Private investigator Chase Reynolds has no idea the woman he meets on the beach, the one whose son is determined to ‘catch his mommy a man’, is James Lansing’s daughter. James had assured him that his daughter was safely away in Miami. So when he sees the woman he’d met on the beach talking to James, even hugging him, Chase regretfully moves her to the top of his suspect list.

It’s not until James invites them both to join him in his private dining room that they discover each other’s true identities. Lansing convinces Chase to become his daughter’s personal bodyguard until the situation with the threats is taken care of. Being thrown together twenty-four seven is the last thing Chase wants, considering the unexpected feelings he has for Shay. Distraction can make a man careless. But he accepts, determined to protect her and her son with his life.

For the first time since her divorce, a man stirs Shay’s passion. More importantly, he makes her son smile. The last thing she expects is to fall for her ‘bodyguard’, a man determined to keep his heart at bay, but she does just that. Can she convince Chase he really is her happily-ever-after? Or will secrets uncovered ruin any chance of a future together?

Humor…Romance…A touch of suspense…A story to warm your heart and make you laugh!

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Romance author Lindsey Brookes is a four-time RWA Golden Heart finalist, as well as a past American Title III finalist, and winner of Harlequin’s Great American Romance Novel contest. She writes for Kensington Publishing, Amazon Publishing, and has indie-pubbed several of her young adult and adult contemporary romances. She is represented by Michelle Grajkowski with 3 Seas Literary Agency. Lindsey’s website: www.lindseybrookes.com

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About Fight Princess:

Things aren’t what they seem. Don’t get involved.

Celisse is too headstrong to listen. Her best friend’s boyfriend is dead, and she does not heed Cullen’s warning, slipped to her in a note as he’s being arrested for the murder.

Cullen tries to keep Celisse out of danger and also tries to avoid her, both unsuccessfully. He can’t deny his feelings for her anymore, but he knows he can’t have her. If she ever discovered the truth about his past, she’d surely hate him.

While struggling with her intense feelings for Cullen, Celisse uses her skills as an ex-prosecutor to investigate, all while continuing to fight for Ogden, the organizer of an underground fight ring. She eventually realizes things are connected—the ring, Ogden, Cullen, the murder, and herself. She races to uncover the truth before she’s arrested or becomes the next victim—or perhaps, the next culprit.

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M.S. Kaye has multiple published books under her Black Belt. Find suspense and the unusual at www.BooksByMSK.com

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About Dreams of a Day Sleeper by Lucey Phillips:

Ashley’s life is traumatic, even outside the hospital…

Ashley Winters is a recent college graduate, a genuinely nice person, and a brand-new ER nurse on the night shift. When she got her first real job, she thought it would be the start of an exciting and freeing transition to independent adulthood. She never expected a bully nurse would be out to get her and that another colleague would rope her into a drug-stealing scheme!

Life outside of work isn’t much better. A combination of unlucky choices and bad judgment puts her into more than a few uncomfortable situations with men. After a series of rough days and rougher nights, Ashley realizes that trauma patients aren’t her only challenge. She’ll need to find the confidence to stand up for herself and live the life she knows she deserves.

Dreams of a Day Sleeper is a women’s fiction novel about a nurse coming of age in the real world. If you like chick lit with substance, characters who tackle personal and professional problems, and gripping page-turners, then you’ll love Lucey Phillips’ dazzling debut novel.

Buy Dreams of a Day Sleeper to go on a journey with Ashley Winters today!

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Lucey Phillips lives in West Virginia with her husband, son, an overgrown dog that loves them, and a geriatric cat that barely tolerates them. Lucy has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a nurse. She loves writing about characters who are fun but flawed. They are people who want to do the right thing, but sometimes fall short of that ideal. Most of all, they’re loyal friends who help each other through unexpected adventures.

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About Alex Finch: Monster Hunter (The Monster Files Book 1) by Cate Dean:

Book 1 of an exciting YA paranormal series!

Meet Alex Finch – tomboy, techno geek, monster hunter.

Reluctant monster hunter.

A school project, an absentminded project partner, and a misplaced backpack all change 16-year-old Alex Finch’s life forever.

In a single afternoon Alex finds the missing backpack, has a run-in with Sam, the boy she’s had a crush on since first grade – and discovers that monsters are real.

That mind-blowing incident throws her life in a completely different direction, uncovering secrets that cost her more than she could ever imagine. And the further she digs, the darker and more dangerous the secrets become.

What else is hiding behind the ordinary facade of her California beach town?

Alex is about to find out.

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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 The First Ones:

A riveting tale of a time when vampires were created to punish mankind. In this horrifying climate, Thereticus, a lonely and heartbroken vampire, discovers an unusually beautiful girl named Arianna. She has abilities but he also senses that something is different about her. Meanwhile, there is a heinous plan led by a rebel vampire named Kleric; to rid the earth of humans. In the process to stop Kleric, he discovers Arianna’s lineage which could threaten the future of both human and vampires.

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As a kid, I was terrified and fascinated by vampires. As I got older, I was attracted to them for three reasons: their nature, desire and loneliness. Their nature is always looking for love and bonding to their love interest for life. I wanted this in my own life. Their desire for blood and difficulty abstaining from it related to my temptations and challenges in life; namely, to remain a loving person in a not so loving world. Vampires are often outsiders, on the fringe of society. I often felt like I did not fit in as well. I think these are reasons why people can relate to them.
If I ever wrote a vampire story, it had to be different than what is on television and film. Honestly, nothing is really “new” but you can have an original angle on it. My angle is not so far out there that you can’t understand it; however, it does blend the lines of good and evil. This story still has the elements of your traditional paranormal romance but with a slight twist. I hope you enjoy the book and thank you in advance for checking it out.

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About Success: A Book On The Mindset, Principles, Habits, & Psychology Of Success:

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how you can succeed and achieve greatness by harnessing the power of failure.

On the topic of success, everyone talks about effective strategies. Rarely do people delve on the topic of failure, and yet it plays such a huge role on one’s journey to success. Failure can break you or make you stronger and better. It can destroy your hopes or prepare you for greatness.

Everyone worries about failure. Unfortunately, not everyone adapts to the right mindset. People who worry too much end up hopeless and depressed. Failure can indeed put you in a dark, ugly place. However, when you do manage to pull through, you come out stronger than ever. You earn the strength to take necessary actions to transform your life for the better.

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Driven individual who has always been determined to become successful. Since I have written my first book I feel so accomplished. I’ve always had so much self-doubt when I was younger and I just kick myself today for letting my negative thoughts control my actions. That is why I wrote my book, it’s to show how one can be successful through life sequences. It just goes to show you that proceeding through and overcoming failure you will become a success.

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About Justice for Hire:

A young girl who has been missing for eight months suddenly reappears and commits a heinous murder. She claims not to know why she did it, or where she has been for the last few months. The girl’s desperate parents hire private investigators Jake and Annie Lincoln to find the truth behind their daughter’s disappearance, and why she would return and kill a stranger in cold blood.

An ex-con, who had seemingly turned his life around, becomes the next victim when a young boy shoots him, then casually holds the gun to his own head and pulls the trigger. An aspiring city councilor is executed in the same manner. None of the murderers seem to be aware of their actions.

As the Lincolns race to solve the puzzle of why young killers are casually murdering without remorse, they are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy and become targets of a merciless assassin.

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Rayven T. Hill was born in 1954 in Markham, Ontario. He has had a variety of occupations and careers since then, spending the last fourteen years as a computer programmer and web site designer.

His first novel, written in 1960, was an instant hit with his mother and one sibling. He then put his career as a novelist aside for half a century to concentrate on making a living, but has now ventured back into the world of writing.

His first real novel, Blood and Justice, was written and published as an eBook in June 2013.

He lives with his wife in Toronto.

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About At The Walls Of Galbrieth by Alon Shalev:

Winner of the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Award for YA and a Grand Prize Finalist. The young elf desired only to follow in his mother’s footsteps and become a healer. But when the Emperor’s army attacks his village to punish traitors and conscript youth, Seanchai flees to the mountains, seeking safe harbor with an uncle he has never met. He is shocked as many people sacrifice their lives to ensure he reaches a Wycaan Master, an enigmatic woman named Mhari, who can teach him to wield a powerful death-and-life magic that might just free the races of Odessiya.

In a world defined by strict racial boundaries, where humans rule, dwarves hide deep underground, and elves are a slave nation, Seanchai must find a way to create friendships and trust, unheard of since the fall of the Wycaan Masters, and reunite the races into an alliance that will bring freedom to all.

But sometimes one must choose between his companions and his destiny. Seanchai abhors his ability to kill and, in the friendships he forges, discovers something potentially more powerful than his magic.

Friendship, however, can be a double-edged sword.

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Alon Shalev lives and writes in two worlds. He is the author of three social justice-themed novels and an award-winning series of Young Adult Epic Fantasy. He swears there is a connection.

In 2009, while on a family camping trip in Northern California, Shalev began writing an epic fantasy novel to read to his sons around the campfire. Over the next five years, both his sons and the ancient redwood forests bore witness to the summoning of the Wycaan Masters, as each new manuscript was read on the annual camping trip to these diligently tough young editors.

His first epic fantasy novel, At The Walls Of Galbrieth, won the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Award – YA Category and was a Grand Prize Finalist. The fifth book in the series is From Ashes They Rose was released in October 2015. All books are published by Tourmaline Books who will release Book 6 in early 2016.

More details of these novels can be found at the author’s website (http://www.alonshalev.com) and Shalev blogs weekly at http://www.elfwriter.com.

The author continues to write in both genres. In 2012 Unwanted Heroes (pub. Three Clover Press) was released. Unwanted Heroes brings together an old, battle-scarred Chinese American war vet and an idealistic and pretentious young Englishmen, who share a love for San Francisco, coffee and wine. They soon discover they share even more when repressed memories bring them together as they find in each other unlikely allies to set themselves free from the tragic past that binds them both.

Other novels include:
– A Gardener’s Tale
– The Accidental Activist

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About Beautiful Affliction by Lene Fogelberg:

Lene Fogelberg is dying—she is sure of it—but no doctor in Sweden, her home country, believes her. Love stories enfold her, with her husband, her two precious daughters, her enchanting surroundings, but the question she has carried in her heart since childhood—Will I die young?—is threatening all she holds dear, even her sanity. When her young family moves to the US, an answer, a diagnosis, is finally found: she is in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. But is it too late?

Unflinchingly honest and often harrowing, Beautiful Affliction is an inspiring account of growing up and living on the verge of death—and of the beauty, harshness, loneliness, and, ultimately, unbending love that can be found there.

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Growing up in a small town on the Swedish West Coast, Lene Fogelberg developed a love of poetry and reading, nurtured by the enchanting surroundings of her childhood; deep woods, fields, and ocean.

Always curious, Fogelberg has embraced opportunities to study and live abroad, in France, Germany and the USA. Shortly after moving to the US it was discovered, by luck of circumstances, that she was in the last stages of a fatal congenital heart disease. Within weeks she underwent two life-saving open-heart surgeries and began the long battle of recovery. Now she is well and grateful for every day with her husband and two daughters. She is currently living in Jakarta, Indonesia.

An award-winning poet in Sweden, Fogelberg has always felt drawn to writing in English and switched language when writing the memoir Beautiful Affliction, published by She Writes Press, September 2015.

Fogelberg is now working on a novel taking place in Jakarta.

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About Levant Fever: True stories from Syria’s underground:

Levant Fever is a memoir from the political underground darkness of Assad’s Syria. Seen through the eyes of a boy growing into a man, in the middle of feverish historic events. Not widely understood, or told before in the West but at the roots of the current conflicts. The narrative grips the reader with its honesty, brutality and beauty. The author describes his own journey, reflections and life stories told to him whilst he was held without trial for 14 years, as a political prisoner in several prisons. These included Palmyra, noted by Amnesty International as one of the most oppressive prisons in the world.
The work is an enthralling and informative mosaic reflecting the colours, sects, religions, politics, legends and geography of the Levant. The journey spans the areas deserts, coastline, mountains and forests. It speaks of family, friendship, love, hope, fear, torture, hiding and escaping. A truly human tale of a life well lived, a life of conscience, courage and endurance and ultimately one of triumph of the human spirit.

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Wajdy Mustafa was born in Tartous, Syria. A long time political activist and writer for social, democratic and human rights in Syria; he was imprisoned without trial for 14 years. Despite torture and solitary confinement, Wajdy continued to find ways to express and campaign for his belief in truth and justice. He lives now in Northern California.

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About Jeanette’s Sword:

This is a Napoleonic Wars historical fiction story of a brave woman and her friends and lovers, and treachery and danger greet us at every turn as Jeanette tries to fight against the many enemies who would silence her.

During the era of Revolutionary France, Jeanette and her mother are caught in a trap. After they survive the harsh situation, they have little choice but to enter the murky world of low men who would rule France. Navigating such waters is not an easy feat, because even the ones who rise high above their former station harbor secrets, and those secrets can get them and their protégées killed.

Ultimately, Jeanette and Henriette find their final refuge with the dregs of the Earth, the future elite of Napoleon, the French Army stationed in Italy. And there Jeanette finds not only her old, relentless enemies, but war and romance. Will Jeanette survive and find a place in the world of men?

“This is a furiously fast paced and well researched novel of the French revolution. I especially like the way the changing political climate influences the heroine. Definitely going for the sequel!” – Amazon Customer

Jeanette’s Sword is a 2015 bestselling book of French Revolution and Napoleonic wars historical fiction. It is also a war romance novel with a strong female adventurer.

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Alaric Longward was born 1970, which makes him as old as computer floppy disks. Do not worry if you don’t know what they are.

Throughout his childhood, he found himself curiously attracted to books. This strange hobby did not take anything away from the computer gaming and occasional sports, but the books stayed and the wonderful stories that could be found in his father’s vast library would inspire him throughout his life to appreciate the power of story telling. He loved history, fantasy, and sci-fi.

As time moved on, he graduated from the university with a degree of Master of Political Science, dreamed of a career in diplomacy and ended up making computer games in Nokia N-Gage. He stayed on after the demise of the first serious swing at mobile gaming, and worked as a senior manager and product manager in ICT sector for over a decade, specialising in internet services, innovation solutions, and crowdsourcing.

One day he decided to drive his family nuts, and quit his job to become an author. Now, as a bestselling author of eight books, he hopes to provide you with exciting adventure stories. He is a dad, a husband, and a full time author.

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www.alariclongward.com

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About A Hero For Holly by Kristy K. James:

With so many depending on her, she has no time for a personal life…
When her husband left her pregnant, with a four-year-old child and a restaurant on the verge of bankruptcy, the only things Holly McGinty had time for were her kids – and working hard to stay out of the poor house. Five years later, business is booming and her boys are happy, but she’s still putting her own needs at the bottom of her priority list. That doesn’t stop her from daydreaming about her oldest son’s sexy scout leader though.

He never believed in love at first sight – until he met her…
Sam Jensen gets along great with kids, is a successful architect, and has the best friends a guy could ask for. But figuring out relationships with women has never come easy to him. He feels like a tongue-tied teenager around most of them. Except for Holly, and it’s looking like things might work out with her. As long as one tiny little secret remains a secret.

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Kristy K. James’ first goal in life was to work in law enforcement, until the night she called the police to check out a scary noise in her yard. Realizing that she might someday have to investigate scary noises in yards just as dark as hers if she continued on that path, she turned to her other favorite love…writing. Since then her days have been filled with being a mom and reluctant zookeeper (5 pets), creating stories, and looking for trouble in her kitchen.

Kristy is the author of the Coach’s Boys series (The Daddy Pact, A Hero For Holly, A Harry Situation, Her Best Friend Jon, Darby’s Dilemma, Code Red Christmas, and The Detective’s Second Chance ),The Casteloria Series (Laying Low in Paradise, A Cool Summer in Paradise, and A Cold Day in Paradise – coming December 2015), The Men From the Double M Series, Enza, Reluctant Guardian, Laying Low in Paradise, Gluten-Free Sucks, A Fine Mess, and more.

Personal note, I was born and raised in Michigan and will probably live here for my entire life. Taking the ‘write what you know’ to heart, most of my stories are set in this great state. We have just about anything you can find anywhere else – huge, ocean-like lakes with beautiful beaches, desert-like sand dunes, mountains, one of the longest bridges in the world, and even tropical weather in the summer. Tropical? Yup. When you combine our high humidity with eighty and ninety degree heat – it’s tropical!

So why not set the stories here? Not that some of my characters don’t travel (Casteloria Series), and I don’t always stay with straight romance. I’ve done an historical romance – Reluctant Guardian, a literary/historical book based on the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and I just love time-travel romance and am working on the third in my Wishes in time series.

Tired of cookie cutter romances that follow steps A, B, and C in order to get to the HEA, my goal is to always be a little different. And based on feedback from readers, I think I often succeed.

The info on the Awesome Gang application says to include hobbies. Well… Does cooking count? I’ve always loved to cook and bake but having to choose between gluten-containing foods and being able to breathe a few years ago, I’ve made it my mission to replace favorites with gluten-free options that are just as good as the ‘real’ versions. I’m still working on dressing for turkey, pie crust, and doughnuts, but I’ll master those too.

I also enjoy working with plastic canvas and yarn and have made a few snow villages that are absolutely beautiful – not so much because I did them but because I followed the directions and they turned out like they were supposed to.

Traveling around this great state I live in is another thing I love to do, as well as looking around antique furniture and book stores, as well as Hallmark, where I can spend forever reading card after card after card.

I love interacting with people on my Facebook account. Twitter? God’s truth? I try but it’s hard for me to fit a thought into 140 words and characters.

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About Finding Margo:

When Margo misreads a roadmap while travelling by car through France, her husband Alan flies into one of his usual rages. Tired of his constant bad moods, Margo slips away from him at a motorway café. She hitches a lift with a woman truck driver and escapes into the French countryside. What follows is adventure and romance far beyond her wildest dreams. Will Alan find her before she finds herself? Currently free until mid-December

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Susanne O’Leary is the bestselling author of fifteen novels, mainly in the romantic fiction genre. She has also written three crime novels and two in the historical fiction genre. She has been the wife of a diplomat (still is), a fitness teacher and a translator. She now writes full-time from either of two locations, in a ramshackle house in County Tipperary, Ireland or in a little cottage overlooking the Atlantic in Dingle, County Kerry. When she is not scaling the mountains of said counties (including MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, featured in her recently published crime novel, Full Irish), or keeps fit in the local gym, she keeps writing, producing a book every six months

Visit Susanne at her website, http://www.susanne-oleary.co.uk

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