About At Odds with Destiny:

Each one of the novels in this boxed set is outside the box. Open it at your own risk!

Bestselling, critically acclaimed, and notoriously creative authors from across the book continuum join forces to bring you At Odds with Destiny, everything you’ve wanted in a boxed set but thought you’d never find: full-length novels brimming with cozy mystery, romance, and biographical historical fiction. Finding themselves at odds with destiny, the characters in these stories fight to shape their future and define who they are. Come follow them in their amazing journeys.

Let in the dog and let out the cat, for this box holds dangers of the most rarefied kind!

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Uvi Poznansky is a bestselling, award-winning author, poet and artist. “I paint with my pen,” she says, “and write with my paintbrush.” Her romance boxed set, A Touch of Passion, is the 2016 WINNER of The Romance Reviews Readers’ Choice Awards.

Education and work:
Uvi earned her B. A. in Architecture and Town Planning from the Technion in Haifa, Israel and practiced with an innovative Architectural firm, taking a major part in the large-scale project, called Home for the Soldier.

Having moved to Troy, N.Y. with her husband and two children, Uvi received a Fellowship grant and a Teaching Assistantship from the Architecture department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There, she guided teams in a variety of design projects and earned her M.A. in Architecture. Then, taking a sharp turn in her education, she earned her M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

She worked first as an architect, and later as a software engineer, software team leader, software manager and a software consultant (with an emphasis on user interface for medical instruments devices.) All the while, she wrote and painted constantly, and exhibited in Israel and California. In addition, she taught art appreciation classes. Her versatile body of work includes bronze and ceramic sculptures, oil and watercolor paintings, charcoal, pen and pencil drawings, and mixed media.

Books and Genres:
Her two series won great acclaim. Still Life with Memories is a family saga series with touches of romance. It includes Apart From Love, My Own Voice, The White Piano, The Music of Us, and Dancing with Air. The David Chronicles is a historical fiction series. It includes Rise to Power, A Peek at Bathsheba, and The Edge of Revolt.

Her poetry book, Home, is in tribute to her father. Her collection of dark tales, Twisted, and her Historical Fiction book, A Favorite Son, are both new age, biblically inspired books. In addition, Uvi wrote and illustrated two children books, Jess and Wiggle and Now I Am Paper. For each one of these books, she created an animation video (find them on YouTube and on her Goodreads page.)

About Land of Gods by Justin Sloan

Narcel’s enslavers took everything from him: his family, the woman he loves, and his freedom. All he has left is his will to live and a burning hatred for his masters.

Years of living and training with the Mawtu changes Narcel. Once his sworn enemies, he now considers these men friends and brothers-at-arms. He would snuff the life from those who oppose them, and fight and die to protect them.

As battle looms on the horizon, the Mawtu army faces their toughest challenge yet. Will Narcel side with his enslavers and lead their army to victory? Will he honor his friendship and allegiance with his new brothers? Or was this all a ruse and will Narcel finally exact his revenge and betray the army that took everything from him?

As Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, Land of Gods is the first book in an epic fantasy series based on Ancient Greek wars. It features fast-paced action, a love triangle, and bitter revenge.

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Justin Sloan writes military fantasy and supernatural thrillers. He is a video game writer (Game of Thrones; Walking Dead; Michonne, Minecraft: Story Mode), novelist (Allie Strom and the Ring of Solomon; Teddy Bears in Monsterland, Back by Sunrise, Falls of Redemption), podcaster, and screenwriter.

He has written on taking writing from hobby to career in his book Creative Writing Career and its sequel, and how veterans can pursue their passions in Military Veterans in Creative Careers. Justin studied writing at the Johns Hopkins University and UCLA after five years in the U.S. Marine Corps, and now works as a writer and editor for Military.com.

About Dagger – The Light at the End of the World by Walt Popester:

THE ITALIAN FANTASY SAGA WITH THE MOST DOWNLOADS IN THE WORLD

After a lifetime of reading mainline fantasy fiction, this is what you were looking for.

Son of a god. Raised as a rogue. Hidden from everyone. Searched for by all. The power within is waking. Are you ready?

Dagger is a street kid, growing up in a city ruled by a brutal totalitarianism. He came into the world through a blasphemous ritual to resurrect his father… too bad the father in question is a bloodthirsty god whose soul was banished at the dawn of time. The boy is hidden in a guild of rogues, where an albino girl is the only person in the world who does not consider him a monster because of his red eyes. One night, the Gorgors—servants of the exiled god and incarnation of the deepest nightmares—set fire to the entire city to flush him out, and Dagger realizes that there is no refuge for him. Soon, he will realize that no one can fight against himself.

Note from the author:

I wrote a dark fantasy whose purpose was to break with tradition, the narrative addressing more existential issues rather than the old and overused formula of evil against good. In Dagger, the struggle between good and evil is not clear, nor easily identifiable. It is a tormented process, internal to the protagonist, with an outcome that is difficult to predict. I do not sell pre-cooked messages to the reader. I decided to create a story with multiple interpretations.

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Walt Popester has traveled all around the world. Then one day, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, he realized how pointless it is to travel all around the world when you can stay home and enjoy a hot tea. His unique dark fantasy is blended with the experiences, visions, tastes, smells, cultures and people met during his journeys.
Now he lives on the seaside, with no cats, and at times he still hopes to become a pirate.

About The Game of Forbidden Love:

In The Game of Forbidden Love, author Brad Rudisail takes us into the lives of real people from all walks of life as they openly reveal their secret lives that mask the taboo romantic relationships they cannot resist. Their stories bring to life the stress they endure juggling multiple lives in order to find that ‘someone’ who will make them feel desired, loved, appreciated and complete. It is indeed a game they play, a game ruled by the clock that only allots them narrow windows of time to enjoy each other. Because of that foreboding clock, nothing is ever taken for granted. Every moment is precious. Every conversation is enjoyed. Every kind act is acknowledged. Every kiss is relished. Perhaps this sense of appreciation they so vividly demonstrate can be applied to all loving relationships, extinguishing the need to play the game at all. The book is based on interviews with people across the country who were involved in a romantic affair of substance.

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Brad Rudisail is a writer, musician and IT Consultant. Brad was a syndicated writer for eleven years writing a bi-monthly column for newspapers throughout the state of Georgia. He is a hired blogger and writes educational curriculum for online universities. He is an accomplished pianist and composer and has won regional and national awards for his musical work and has released six instrumental CD’s throughout his career. He is also an IT consultant and serves a variety of clients across the globe as a network engineer, technical writer and trainer.

About Self-Hypnosis for Weight Loss:

This program includes two thirty-minute hypnosis audio sessions for weight loss (this is a $49 value package).
This program will help you get motivated to exercise, crave healthy foods, overcome cravings for unhealthy foods, stop binge eating, overcome emotional eating, get rid of bad eating habits, manage stress better, and think like a slim person.
Yes, you can achieve your weight loss goal by simply reprogramming your mind to want healthy food and get motivated to exercise. This is a real lifestyle design program for a leaner and healthier you!

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Emilie Pelletier is a certified hypnotist (American Alliance of Hypnotists) and an entrepreneur in the personal development sphere. She works at uncovering people’s own potential and capacity for improving all aspects of their lives using tools such as meditation, hypnosis and self-hypnosis.

About Virtue of Death by Randi Perrin:

At eighteen, Sera Moore chose to go to culinary school while a higher power selected her to become an angel, specifically, an angel of death.

Now, twelve years later, Sera’s a successful baker during the day and performs her angelic duties at night. The only thing missing in her life is a man, but the last thing she wants is to fall head over wings in love.

But when a tenacious food critic won’t take a hint, can Sera lower her wings long enough to risk her heart one more time?

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Randi has spent her entire life writing in one form or another. In fact, if she wasn’t writing, she’d likely go completely and utterly insane. Her husband has learned to recognize when the voices are talking in her head and she needs some quality time with an empty Word file (the key to a successful marriage with a writer).

She lives with her husband, daughter, and four-legged children—all of which think they are people too.

A pop-culture junkie, she has been known to have entire conversations in movie quotes and/or song lyrics.

Catch her on Twitter or Facebook, or email at randi.perrin.writes@gmail.com.

About True Alpha (Shifters in Seattle 1) : New Adult Paranormal Romance:

He’s a broken alpha. She’s his sexy intern.
Mia is just a college girl trying to earn her business degree and dig out of the poverty she was born into—being a shifter is something she hides, hoping her secret won’t sabotage her dreams. Shifters live in the shadows of Seattle, after all, dangerous and generally criminal. At least, that’s what she thinks until a wolf saves her from an attack in an alleyway… and then turns up as the hot boss at her new dot-com internship. Lucas is a broken alpha, a wolf who lost his mate, his pack, and almost himself—he wasn’t looking to rescue a girl or start a pack war. But now he has to keep her safe or it won’t just be her life, but his whole family at risk… only his inner wolf can’t seem to keep its paws off a girl who has secrets of her own.

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Author Bio:
Alisa Woods lives in the Midwest with her husband and family, but her heart will always belong to the beaches and mountains where she grew up. She writes sexy paranormal romances about alpha men and the women who love them. She enjoys exploring the struggles we all have, where we resist–and succumb to–our most tempting vices as well as our greatest desires. She firmly believes that love triumphs over all.

About Son of the KING: an ELVIS paradox unveiled by Rico Austin:

From Amigo Author, Rico Austin writer of the Best-Selling book; “My Bad TEQUILA” is his new release,
“Son of the KING, an ELVIS paradox unveiled” . . . .

This authorized biography is the true story of ELVIS, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll and his bastard son. This book explores the relationships of those closest to ELVIS PRESLEY and the influences each of them had, which kept ELVIS from claiming his first born John Smith Presley.

This ELVIS story is unique and frankly written. The most complete and controversial book on ELVIS, his son and those in their inner circle. Read about the humble beginnings of Gladys Smith Presley and Vernon Presley. The rugged schedule, the persistent marketing and management by Colonel Tom Parker of ELVIS, that eventually led to ELVIS being overworked to exhaustion with nowhere to turn other than prescription medication. The Memphis Mafia, the famous back-singers – The Jordanaires, movie co-stars and ELVIS’ favorite singer Sherrill Nielsen sharing their personal stories of ELVIS.

This is a must read book for ELVIS fans worldwide!

5 ***** “Love every minute of it.”
Rico did a great job capturing and telling John’s life and story in this book! It sounds like John wouldn’t change anything about his life but you can’t help but wonder what if? The world and especially the music world could be way different if a few people made a few different decisions along the way!

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Rico Austin – Mi Vida Loca (Biography)

Born and raised in Southwestern Idaho, Rico is the oldest of five boys, growing up in a area that was ripe for several adventures for him, his four younger brothers and numerous cousins.

Rico grew up near farmland that produced potatoes, hay, hops, grain and corn. There were several fruit orchards and vineyards in the Snake River Valley as well, due to the extraordinary fertile soil. A couple of years out of high school he moved to Boise and enrolled at Boise State University as a student and walk on football player. However, he could not escape the allure of traveling the world and began writing and storing his experiences in hopes of someday becoming a novelist. He began by reading every chance he had. From contemporary novels to classical literature, Rico’s love of storytelling was uncontrollable. He appeared occasionally at Boise’s former Comedy Club as a “Stand Up Comedian” retelling his stories of growing up in a comedic fashion. Rico earned an Associate Degree in Marketing and Sales from BSU.

After a few years of low level management positions Rico moved to Hawaii for a short time surfing the waters of Kauai and enjoying the outdoors. He then moved to Southern California for less than a year before heading back to Idaho. In 1991 Rico moved to the Phoenix/Scottsdale area and continued his education receiving a Bachelors of Business Administration in International Business at Grand Canyon University and received “Outstanding International Business Graduate of 1995.” That same year he was also selected as “Mr. Future Business Executive” at the State Leadership Conference which included all universities in the State of Arizona.

The summer before graduating Rico went to Vilnius, Lithuania and taught English (ESL). During fall semester of his senior year at GCU Rico attended Staffordshire University in England where he also started on the American Football Team for the Staffordshire Stallions. Rico finished his Masters, an MBA in International Management at Thunderbird School of Global Management with a focus on the Latin American Region and the Spanish language.

He did this while working full time as a feature writer and free lance journalist at the T-Bird school paper “DAS TOR.” A few of his articles at “DAS TOR” were written in Spanish by Rico specially for the foreign students of Latin America.

Former Vice President Dan Quayle served as an “Invited Interim Professor by the Thunderbird School President for 2 semesters” and Rico was fortunate enough to be one of 16 students selected to attend his class.

*Special note, Rico received an “A” from the VP for the 2 credit elective class. Was it because of Rico’s performance on studies or VP Quayle was afraid of what Mr. Austin might write in the paper?

Hollywood has even had an encounter with Rico. For those of you who watched Baywatch with the beautiful Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra and David Hasselhoff, Mr. Rico Austin did a cameo appearance in the episode “Night of the Dolphin” in 1997 where he played the role of a drug lord on a huge yacht with sexy chicks. He and his graduate class mates watched the episode when it aired in the “old clock tower hanger” together in the TV lounge. He was invited back for another episode by Producer and Casting Director Susie Glickman, but had to decline due to a conflict with finals at Thunderbird. Rico chose education over stardom, when questioned why, he responded, “No one can ever take your education away, everything else can come and go and, most likely will.” Rico also acted in a commercial for the local market in Boise, ID as a construction worker in “That old House” sponsored by BMC West.

Rico is an avid fisherman and has traveled far and wide to cast his line into many waters; including streams, lakes, ponds, rivers, seas and oceans. He has worked for a few international companies as both a sales manager and a marketing manager. In his spare time he has worked as a Land Developer and is a Licensed Realtor in Arizona. Should you decide to make your home in Arizona or would like to purchase property to build your dream home in the future, Rico would be more than happy to show you around his Great State of Arizona.

Rico now is happily married to a graphic artist from Minnesota with a prominent company. They make their home in the “Land of the Sun” Scottsdale, Arizona. He and his wife Connie enjoy snorkeling, hiking, hanging by their swimming pool and traveling to the beaches of Mexico while sipping on a cold cerveza or margarita blended with Rico’s favorite TEQUILA.

Rico Austin first began writing seriously as a seventh grader at age 13. He was elected as reporter for the “Eager Beaver 4-H Club” in Marsing, Idaho and started submitting weekly articles to the local newspaper. Rico then was elected reporter for the local FFA chapter his freshman and sophomore year continuing to expand his writing ability. As a freshman Rico took 3rd place in the Marsing High School essay contest titled “American Beef Farmers.” He later would write a few short stories for Reader’s Digest and become a professional freelance and feature writer for DAS TOR newspaper at Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of Global Management from 1996 – 1998. Rico also won the first and only writing essay at DAS TOR in March 1997. The essay asked contestants to propose ways for Thunderbird to be improved.

Rico used his humor, knowledge of several countries that he had traveled to and innovation to secure the winning essay. One of his most serious assignments and pieces of journalism was reporting on the Winterim class 97 “US Foreign Economic Policy” in Washington DC including the opening of the 105th Congress and the Inauguration of the President of the United States – Mr. Bill Clinton. Rico was also selected among several hundred writers and bloggers to help compile a booklet with 13 other prominent authors. “How to Create Credibility as a Freelancer – 70 Tips from a Collection of Experts” was published in 12/2009.

Favorite movie “Gone With the Wind”
& the new movie “Hangover” for a comedy.
His favorite books are:
John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden”
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”
J.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit”

Rico’s first novel, “MY BAD TEQUILA” was published in September of 2010 and earned his first Award of Excellence in May of 2011.

On the 26th day of May, 2011, the Office of Key West Honorary Mayor Gonzo Mays was proud to present ‘MY BAD TEQUILA’ with the Honorary Mayor’s 5 Parrots In A Palm Tree Award of Excellence for superb island reading. Congratulations to author Rico Austin and forever peace, parrots and palm trees to you!

The Hit Single Song “My Bad Tequila” co-written by Rico and Elly Garrison, who also sings and performs the song with her band QuarterDeck can be found on iTunes, Yahoo Music and Amazon Music. www.QuarterDeckCountry.com

“This Book is going to Change the World, Guaranteed to Knock You off your Axis!” – Woody Nelson, Program Director / CEO, Cowboy Bills Radio www.CowboyBillsRadio.com

“Fun, self-indulgent non fiction with a turn around every page. I’ve had a MY BAD TEQUILA kind of day!” – McMullen, The Oregonian

“MY BAD TEQUILA” did NOT disappoint, I LOVED the story!

It was very well paced ….dropping little hints as to what might happen…. leading us along, but never giving the story away. I liked how the novel subtly drifted back to Rhet’s childhood and prior experiences, giving valuable insight into his character.

It came to a point in the story, where the situation begins to really heat up…. many things go awry. It was impossible for me to stop reading, until I found out what happens to everyone. There is a very clever twist, followed by a big shock that you don’t see coming.

The ending was terrific!! Mr. Austin has his own unique version of Hemingway’s style of storytelling. Straight-forward, describing the adventure in detail…..(I learned a few things I hadn’t known about fish :-))

“My Bad Tequila” is 80% true and 20% fiction. Much of the truth is easy to figure out, but there’s enough question….’mystery’ that leaves you thinking,…. long after finishing the novel.

If Mr. Austin continues to write stories like this, …..He might just become ‘A Legend’……like Papa Hemingway!

“My Bad Tequila is an excellent book!!
– Jeanne Sampson

“The Novel ‘My Bad Tequila’ is so smooth, no Salt and Lime needed!”
– Jay Nance, Social Media Director, Las Vegas Railway Express, Inc.
www.VegasXTrain.com

“Rico’s love of storytelling is infectious”, said one loyal reader and friend at a recent party.”

“Once you read one, you have to read all of his short stories.”
Steven Boyce – Hollywood Actor, Stunt Man, Harley Rider

Rico Austin is the first author to have paid Sponsors advertise on a novel.
Azuñia Tequila of Jalisco Mexico, featuring Platinum Blanco, Reposado and Anejo Tequilas, distributed by Intersect Beverage of San Clemente, CA. www.AzuñiaTequila.com

BloodyFine of Boise, Idaho, with Bloody Mary Mixes, Buffalo Shake Spices, Season Salts, Fry Mix and Salad Dressing Kickup. www.BloodyFine.com

AWARDS Won by “MY BAD TEQUILA” & Author Rico Austin

Hollywood Book Festival – Honorable Mention (Wild Card genre 2011)
Readers Favorite Book Awards – Silver (Fiction – Mystery – General genre 2011)
Amazon eKindle – #1 Top Rated Kindle eBooks (Mexico Travel genre 2011)
“Five Parrots in a Palm Tree” – Superb Island Reading award 2011
#1 Book to Read, June 2011 – NY Professional Reviewer, Fran Lewis
Readers Favorite Book Awards – Finalist (Fiction – General genre 2011)
Arizona Authors Association – 3rd Place (Fiction Book of the Year 2011 – 2012)
London Book Festival – Honorable Mention (Wild Card genre 2012)
Los Angeles Book Festival – Honorable Mention (Wild Card genre 2011-2012)
New York Beach Book Festival – Honorable Mention (General Non-Fiction 2012)
Bibliocracy.com – Author of the Month (June 2012)
Suspense Magazine Review – (July 2012)

About Lost and Found:

A collection of stories. Loss, failure, redemption and an unsettling look into the dark spaces between all three. Includes the novella ‘Shadow Play’.

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Author Bio:
Chris is a writer of horror based in Nottingham, UK. He has worked as a professional actor and teacher. He enjoys rock and roll, fiction novels, play scripts, movies, sour mash whiskey and wasting time watching videos of dogs on the internet.