About Yaakwdaat Aya, This is Yakutat:

Yakutat, Alaska is known as a town of strong individuals. Even in that atmosphere, this reviewer is sure Kadashan stands out.
Kadashan dives into the world of fiction where the themes are simple: leaving, adolescence, loving, and fishing.
While the writing is highly idiosyncratic; there are such thought stoppers as the “proud face of Mount Fairweather,” “the Scandinavian population, of which Ole claimed he proudly partook,” and the “thicker magnitude of ice.” After a bit, the reader stops minding these and realizes it’s all a part of the vigorous prose.
Kadashan is at his best when he describes the daily life of the village. The storekeeper, really a teenager in awe of the girls, comes alive for us.
Arnie and Richard Jones, young men whose father has recently died, are facing the pain and difficulty Alaska Native children have faced for over fifty years. Do they leave home and familiar surroundings for a boarding school education? They are old enough to be of great physical help at home, yet if they are going to exist in the modern world, let alone advance in Western society, they must leave home for the school year.
We have thrown hard choices at these children and their parents. Kadashan makes us realize just what they’ve given up for us.
D. Longenbaugh (Juneau Empire)

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Kadashan was given his birth name by his grandmother after his great grandfather, Kadashan, whose clan is located on the southern end of the southeast panhandle of Alaska. The elder Kadashan, as a young man, was one of the guides to world traveler and naturalist, John Muir. In his elder years he was known as a “peace-maker” among his native peoples. Kadashan means “red tide coming.” In coastal Alaska when a red tide invades the bays, it means that people should not eat shell fish because the red tide is poisonous and can kill people who eats shell fish during this time. When the red tide shows it is a warning to stay away from shell fish such as clams, etc.
Kadashan began writing when he was in college. He was encouraged to by his creative writing instructor, who recognized his passion for story-telling. Twenty years later his retired teacher and college mentor visited him, read the stories he had stored in his desk drawer, and persuaded him to find a publisher. In time his rejection slips were thicker than his manuscripts. Eventually, he was discovered by the publisher of the Alaska Native Magazine who began to feature his short stories and his water color paintings that illustrated his stories. Yaakwdaat Aya is now published as a short story collection in eBook on Amazon and in paperback from Create Space.
Shortly after, he began writing essays for the Tundra Times, a statewide Alaska Native newspaper. His commentaries dealt with Indian politics and tribal governments. Eventually he was under contract with the Juneau Empire and authored a monthly column for the Capital city’s statewide newspaper. He tweaked these essays and self-published “The Law of Nature and Nature’s God” in eBook; it is also in paperback in Create Space.
His latest, “Kadashan Speaks–Legal Plunder,” clearly demonstrates the adverse signs of the times in America and how the federal system is using legal plunder to fashion illegal matters into legal laws.
“When Raven Cries” is Kadashan’s first novel. It is available in eBook and Create Space. He is presently occupied with writing another novel and a non-fiction book about the history and culture of his Tlingit clan.
Kadashan received his education from Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He is a retired commercial fisherman, a salt water charter boat captain, and tribal government president. He lives in Yakutat with his wife near his children and grandchildren.
He said, “I was inspired to write when I was in college. My creative writing instructor, who thought I had a lot of good stories to share, helped me to develop short stories. I wrote about a dozen stories in one semester and when I left college I stored them in my desk drawer. Twenty years later I was visited in my village by my former teacher who read my stories. She asked me why I was hiding them and encouraged me to polish them and find a publisher. It took another twenty years to be discovered, and I have been writing a lot lately.”
He shares this thought, “When I write short stories I am inspired to create characters from people I know, in my mind I develop a plot as I write. Most of my stories are taken from actual events. ‘When Raven Cries’ is the result of a personal experience when my younger brother got lost and this event caused the entire village to drop everything and engage themselves in the search. Whenever I start writing a novel I do use an outline and develop character sketches. I also write articles and essays and I simply do reporting on political issues. In my book Yaakwdaat Aya, the stories that I began writing in college, are illustrated with my water color paintings.”
Kadashan also adds this, “After my creative writing instructor visited me and made me take my manuscripts from my drawer I left her in my office to read them. She challenged me to find a publisher and left that afternoon. I never saw her again, but I took those stories and began to work on them; my rejection slips were actually thicker than my manuscript, but in time I found a person who owned a magazine in Alaska. She began to use the stories. I finally got recognized. I began to research self- publishing; those experiences took me to the present.”
Website: www.kadashan.simplesite.com

About Defending The Billionaire:

High school sweethearts? Nope.
Friends? No way.
Falling in love? Fighting it every step of the way…

KENNEDY
Ava has been a thorn in his foot since his school days. First, she messed with his heart, then she got him kicked out of school, and now, she’s the only one who can help him.
But old habits die hard and Kennedy’s falling for her again…

AVA
He blamed Ava for a fight he got in by his damn self. And now she’s supposed to help him? Kennedy has another thing coming.
His con artist of a wife went missing, and he thinks Ava will solve it all with a click of her fingers…
Ava wishes she could just make the wife disappear, because those feelings for Kennedy might still be there.
This book has a happy ending and no cliffhanger!

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I do it in the bed, on the floor, in a café … no not that nasty! I’m talking about writing ;-).

Hey there, I’m July and I craft steamy and sexy novellas just to ignite your passions and senses. Check out my latest book and tell me what you think.

About Immurement: The Undergrounders Series Book One:

The earth’s core overheats. The sovereign leader vanishes. A young girl is the survivors’ only hope.

What little land is habitable is patrolled by cutthroat gangs of escaped subversives, but that’s not the greatest threat facing sixteen-year-old Derry Connelly, her brother Owen, and a ragged band of Preppers holed up in a bunker in the Sawtooth Mountains. Mysterious hoverships operated by clones are targeting adolescents for extraction.

Owen, is one of the first to disappear. To save him, Derry must strike a deal with the murderous subversives, and risk a daring raid to infiltrate the heart of the extraction operation.

But will the rookie leader falter when forced to choose between her brother and a clone who ignites something inside her she didn’t know was possible?

Immurement is the first book in The Undergrounders Series, A Young Adult Science Fiction Dystopian Trilogy.

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Travel junkie, former professional globetrotter, legend lover, idea wrangler. Norma Hinkens has lived, worked and visited her way across continents, soaking up stories along the way. Her writing is greatly influenced by the resilient characters she met, and the fascinating cultures she experienced.
Norma grew up among vibrant storytelling traditions in her native Ireland. A Celtic bard at heart, she wields her wordsmithing sword with as much wit and eloquence as a bard can muster. She’s a legend-loving author who takes a fiendish delight in pushing reluctant characters over cliffs to find out what they’re made of. Epic odds, seemingly impossible missions, pasts that haunt, intrigue and misadventure. She’s happiest when wrangling provocative big picture ideas that are never black and white when you turn them inside out. It’s all about the tension in the journey. She lived and worked in Germany for several years, and currently resides in California with her husband, three children and Chihuahua extraordinaire. She is the author of The Undergrounders Series, Immurement, Embattlement and Adjudgement, a Young Adult post-apocalyptic, sci-fi adventure trilogy.

About Finding Lylaby Cate Beauman

Principal Dancer Lyla Markovik-Avery is always on the go. Grueling practices and endless performances rule her busy days—and things are about to get more hectic. Russia is rolling out the red carpet for their beloved star, despite the string of violent terrorist attacks that have rocked the nation.

Bodyguard Collin Michaels’ life is falling apart. His long-time relationship recently ended. He’s trying to start over, but that’s easier said than done. Luckily, Collin has a new assignment on the horizon: keeping a beautiful ballerina safe for the next three weeks.

Collin finds comfort in Lyla’s easy friendship, but that all changes after a night out on the town. Simple feelings become complicated—something Collin can’t afford, especially when tragedy strikes and Collin realizes Lyla’s caught in the middle of a dangerous plot for revenge.

Collin and Lyla are forced to flee. They need to reach the border before it’s too late, but the odds are stacked against them in a country that wants them dead. With time running out, Collin formulates a risky plan that might be their only chance of making it out alive.

*NOTE: While reading the series in order is recommended, it is not necessary. Each story is a stand alone title featuring new primary characters with limited overlapping secondary characters.

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International bestselling author Cate Beauman is known for her full-length, action-packed romantic suspense series, The Bodyguards of L.A. County. Her novels have been nominated for the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award, National Indie Excellence Award, Golden Quill Award, Writers Touch Award, and have been named Readers Favorite Five Star books. In 2015, JUSTICE FOR ABBY was selected as the Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Gold Medalist, while SAVING SOPHIE took the Silver Medal. SAVING SOPHIE was also selected as the 2015 Readers Crown Award winner for Romantic Suspense and FALLING FOR SARAH received the silver medal for the 2014 Readers’ Favorite Awards.

Cate makes her home in North Carolina with her husband, two boys, and their St. Bernards, Bear and Jack. Currently Cate is working on Deceiving Bella, the eleventh novel in her popular bodyguards series.

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About The Hunted: The Fifth Force Series – Book One by Alice X

Just imagine… falling in love with a man

The same man who swore an oath to hunt down your kind

The same man who guards your prison cell

Then ask yourself… what would happen

If that man fell in love with you too?

It’s the year 2085 A.D… and a full-scale war has broken out between the witches and the witch hunters.

The government will not stop until the last witch has been captured and Cleansed of their powers.
And make no mistake… witch hunters are everywhere. The armed soldiers of the government’s Orion Task Force have orders to capture witches off the street and shoot those who try to flee.

And even if you evade the men with guns, you’re still not safe. Your closest friends and neighbors might be clandestine witch hunters… vigilantes who believe it’s their civic duty to turn witches in to the Task Force for punishment.

Ava Edwards is a witch on the run. Her powers were passed down to her from her father. Now her whole family is guilty of witchcraft unless they can prove their innocence to the Task Force’s satisfaction… which is not bloody likely!

Ava is captured and sits brooding in a tiny prison cell. Days of soul-crushing boredom and isolation are interrupted by random interrogation sessions… and encounters with The Machine, an unspeakably sadistic device that breaks the will of prisoners who dare lie to the Task Force.

Enter Thomas Madden. Interrogator. Zealous witch hunter. And the son of a high-ranking Task Force leader. Thomas is specially assigned to break Ava.

Despite their differences, a connection begins to form between prisoner and handler. Maybe it’s the way Thomas takes risks to spare Ava from punishment. Maybe it’s the kindness and decency that Ava senses beneath Thomas’s cold exterior. And perhaps Thomas secretly admire Ava’s unbreakable will and unsinkable devotion to her family.

Whatever the reason, an intense and passionate bond undeniably exists between them. And it yearns to be consummated with all the urgency and electric energy that comes with a new love that dare not speak its name!

But should Ava fully trust Thomas? Is his love for her sincere, or is he playing a deeper game? Has Ava fallen for a cunning young witch hunter who will use any insidious trick in the book to get her to betray her father?

There’s only one way to find out… start reading The Hunted by Alice X today!

This romance book is available in ebook format.

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About The Murder Suite – The Audrey Murders – Book One -by Leonie Mateer:

The Murder Suite is the first book in the New Zealand series: The Audrey Murders –

Audrey is a psychopath, a serial killer and friendly resident in a small town in rural Northland New Zealand.

Audrey owns and operates “The Three Suites” perched high on a
remote mountain top
But when male guests check in – Audrey takes “checking out” to the extreme

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Mateer was born and raised in New Zealand, but moved to the United States in her 30s to pursue business opportunities. She lived back in New Zealand for several years in the 2000s, running a luxury lodge in Northland, and now splits her time between Northland and the US.

Mateer is known as a brand development expert, and has previously written business advice books. THE MURDER SUITE is her first thriller, and kickstarts a series starring Audrey, a serial killer living in idyllic small-town New Zealand.

About The Body Market (Leine Basso Thriller):

A retired assassin is called in when a celebration south of the border turns into a nightmare.

Everything’s for sale…

Former assassin Leine Basso is hired by a wealthy Beverly Hills power couple to find their missing daughter, Elise, last seen partying with her boyfriend at a club in Tijuana. At first, police believe the two teenagers are the victims of a carjacking. But when Leine finds their missing vehicle with the boyfriend’s mutilated body inside, and the local cartel warns her away, she knows if Elise isn’t already dead, she will be soon, or worse.

In the lethal world of organized crime, there’s always a worse.

As Leine races to uncover the reason behind Elise Bennett’s disappearance, she must also battle the powerful interests fighting to keep her from the truth.

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DV Berkom is a slave to the voices in her head. As the bestselling author of two award-winning thriller series (Leine Basso and Kate Jones), her love of creating resilient, kick-ass women characters stems from a lifelong addiction to reading spy novels, mysteries, and thrillers, and longing to find the female equivalent within those pages.

Raised in the Midwest, she earned a BA in political science from the University of Minnesota and promptly moved to Mexico to live on a sailboat. Several years later, she wrote her first novel and was hooked. The Kate Jones adventure thriller, Bad Spirits, was first published in 2010 as an online serial, and was immediately popular with Kindle and Nook fans. Dead of Winter, Death Rites, and Touring for Death soon followed before she began the far grittier Leine Basso thriller series in 2012 with Serial Date. Now, she tries to give equal time to both Kate’s and Leine’s stories, a must for her (happily) impatient readers.

DV currently lives just outside of Seattle, Washington with the love of her life, Mark, a chef-turned-contractor, and several imaginary characters who love to tell her what to do. Her most recent books include Cargo, The Body Market, Bad Traffick, A One Way Ticket to Dead, and Yucatán Dead.

About Free Me:

From the NYT bestselling author of the Fixed Trilogy… I wasn’t supposed to be working the night I met JC. Before him, I’d been content with the daily grind, managing one of NYC’s top nightclubs. So what if my life didn’t have a happily ever after? I didn’t believe in that anyway. Then JC showed up. Sexy, rich and smooth-talking, JC is nothing more than a distraction. I’m not interested in a night-in-shining latex so it’s easy to push the playboy away. Or it is until my life spins unexpectedly out-of-control. Then he’s there for me, offering a new method of survival, one based on following primal urges and desires that requires me to abandon my constant need for control. His no-strings-attached lessons obliterate my carefully built walls. And as I discover freedom, I start to feel things for him that I shouldn’t. Things that make me fear for my newly vulnerable heart. Because JC has secrets of his own, and his secrets don’t want to set him free. BOOK ONE OF TWO. This series can be read alone or with the Fixed Trilogy.

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With over 1 million books sold, Laurelin Paige is the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling Author of the Fixed Trilogy. She’s a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however. When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Game of Thrones and the Walking Dead, or dreaming of Michael Fassbender. She’s also a proud member of Mensa International though she doesn’t do anything with the organization except use it as material for her bio.

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