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- A Perfect Angel
About A Perfect Angel:What’s a girl to do when her nickname is Angel?
Being perfect all the time doesn’t work, yet neither does the opposite.
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Morgan Mandel writes according to her mood, so you’ll find not only romances, but also mysteries on her Amazon Author Page, as well as her blogs and website.When not writing, she’s out looking for bargains at flea markets, rummage sales and garage sales. She also confesses to a great love of slots, but confines that activity to her vacations, or she’d go broke!
For more chick lit, check out her chicklit website at http://morgandoeschicklit.com
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- Surrender to Fate by Jacelyn Rye
About Surrender to Fate by Jacelyn Rye:
Some say fate holds the cards. But what if love deals the hand? No love goes untested. Ever. Indeed, true love is left to prove itself. And that is exactly where fate steps in to play the game.
For William and Sarah, that game begins with growing up, in the unspoiled mountains of Colorado. In a time and space as clear as the Rocky Mountain skies above, these young souls together learn about life, what matters most, what endures, what doesn’t, and about love. Innocent young love moves ever so surely toward lives they both can picture, lives spent loving each other in a place they know so well and cherish.
Will and Sarah are ecstatically swept away in the swells of new love. And it is in their rarefied bliss that they make the fragile promise of first love, a promise that fate will soon rock and pound into doubt, guilt, and epiphany.
Unexpected and unprepared, these young lovers are suddenly torn apart, first by distance, and then by the far greater pressures of temptation that test the very fidelity of their heart-held promise. No longer able to console each other, hold each other, touch each other, they face the inevitable decision: move on to other loves, or cling to the faith that they will someday be together, again.
Will and Sarah stare down an unknown path, sensing destiny will not wait long before it comes to take them. Wracked with doubt, they wonder if their love was real. Caged by guilt, they both feel tempted by others intent on stealing their hearts.
Fate plays hardest when love is tested. And Will and Sarah are no exception, letting go of their happy past to embrace hope for an uncharted future. Love plays hardest when fate tests. And so it is, even through their trials of the heart, Will and Sarah never really stop loving each other. Theirs is a love so real and pure that each just wants the other to find happiness, even if it’s with another.But fate does not surrender so easily. Dealing blow upon blow, both Will and Sarah are each struck by jolting events that take them to the very edge of life, itself.
Sarah and Will hold tightly to their past, but steadfast promises begin to wane. Life continues, filled with romance, drama, and two souls yearning to understand the challenges brought with coming of age, and learning that fate is ultimately in control. What happens to love when life is on the line? Can they both relinquish control when love is on the line? Will fate even allow them to find out?This is book one of the New Adult Romance Series: Fate’s Path.
The books are not stand alone. For your reading enjoyment, please read the books in order.
1–Surrender to Fate
2–Shattered by Fate
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Jacelyn Rye is many things. She can be as alluring as the love that flows from her pen: pure, honest, simple. But then, like a storm that suddenly appears over the mountain, she can also have you running for shelter where there’s no place to hide. Like life, itself, Jacelyn delivers the hard with the soft, the pain with the joy, the instant with the forever. All of it, for a reason. And it’s there that one can best enter her life. Growing up in the blue sky country of Colorado doesn’t leave an impression, it becomes a lifeblood. For Jacelyn, the clarity of that truth flows through her stories, her characters and her inherent spirituality that somehow knows faith, in the end, triumphs over despair. And then, there’s serendipity. To know Jacelyn is to accept a dance with chance. She accepted one such chance when she moved from her beloved Colorado to an unknown life awaiting her in Southern California, where she happily lives today. In the quiet mornings, you’ll find Jacelyn savoring her coffee, outside. To her, it’s all about listening, breathing in, appreciating being here for another day. And of course, there’s time spent in the mountains, fishing, wading in creeks with the people she loves. Curiously, this girl who comes from the mile-high mountains, still fears the miles-deep ocean she frequently visits, but only to sink her toes in the hot sand and watch, in awe and respect, the thundering surf. On any given day, be it in the mountains, at the beach, or on her terrace, Jacelyn is dreaming and writing, her way of sharing something meaningful with those who come to know her through her stories.Surrender to Fate by Jacelyn Rye is a post from Awesome Gang
- Holdin’ On For a Hero
About Holdin’ On For a Hero:Three full length paranormal tales of love and passion, featuring ex-military heroes and things “not of this world.”
Wolf Tale
Wyatt Wolf is a warrior, a man without fear. At least that’s the picture he presents to the members of his Navy SEAL team. He’s a stone-cold killer with a reputation as a woman magnet, and needing no one.
But appearances can be deceiving. Inside Wyatt is a man torn by love and betrayal. His only need, his one weakness—Chance—a woman from his past he can never have, can never trust. Wyatt will be forced to see her and face the old feelings that have haunted him for years, because something inside him, an entity of violence and lust, is fighting for control of his mind. And his only chance of survival depends on a love that will be pushed to the very edge.
That Which Survives
When a string of murdered scientists lead the police and the corrupt leader of a covert agency to Senna Laserian, she becomes embroiled in a series of events that take her ever closer to discovering the deadly secrets of her past.
Konnor, ex-military and ex-operative of the same covert agency shadowing Senna, may be the only person who can save her. The question, however, may well become, who will save him from her?
A Matter of Trust
An ex-Army Ranger trapped within his own mind finds himself coming perilously close to saying to hell with life. He is a prisoner, held hostage by an inability to communicate. When all hope seems lost, someone new appears in his life.
She’s down on her luck, running out of options and needs a job in the worst way. When she answers an ad to be a “care-giver” for a wealthy couple’s son, she’s expecting to meet a child. Her “ward” is anything but a child and he wakens feelings she cannot afford to had.
Against a backdrop of breathless sexual interludes and the uniting of two kindred spirits, it’s a race against time—and a ruthless family that will stop at nothing, even murder—to find the artifact and be the custodians of the immense power it holds.
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iana lives in Florida with the love of her life. When asked for more information, she will confirm the following facts:Ciana is:
1. Female
2. Happily married with two fantastic children and four amazing grandchildren
3. An artist and photographer
4. Loves animals of the warm and fuzzy variety but reptiles give her a major case of the creeping willies
5. Loves playing disc golf
6. Is hooked on video games and Left 4 Dead (and L4D2) are her favorite games.
7. Loves to work out and looks forward to her daily workouts
8. Is a fan of television shows like Justified, Game of Thrones, The Newsroom and The Blacklist
9. Likes operating power tools
10. Likes all types of music and always has the sound system turned on.
10. Loves to hear from readers
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- Dead Willow
About Dead Willow:The massive Weeping Willow towers over the landscape, its leafy tendrils an enormous canopy that shields the town and its residents from the outside world. It makes Willow Tree into a world all its own … and its residents into a family like no other.
But, as high and as wide as the tree goes, the roots go even deeper, down into the soil of the 150 year old cemetery beneath. What it does down there is the real secret of Willow Tree.
Welcome to a zombie horror that’s out of this world!
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Joe Sharp lived and raised hell in Richmond, Indiana until the age of eighteen. Then he married Penni, and they moved to Indianapolis. He is the father of Chris, and grandfather of Austan, Ethan and Corbin. He is also the great-grandfather to Katelyn.He graduated from Richmond High School in 1973. That year he was published in the school literary journal “The Quill”. The writing bug was itching, but would remained unscratched for many years.
Look for his novels “Viral House” and “The New Wizards out now.
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- MALICIOUS
About MALICIOUS:70,000 DOWNLOADS IN ONE WEEKEND!!
‘Cover up your webcams…or suffer the consequences.’
He calls himself the Slave Master. He spies on women through their computer webcams. Then he blackmails those who unknowingly reveal their secrets to him. His last victim was brutally murdered. Now he’s targeting the cop in charge of the investigation. To him she’s the perfect prey – because she has secrets of her own.
PRAISE FOR MALICIOUS:
‘Wow, this book completely blew me away; I loved it. I was hooked from page one. An explosive psychological thriller that really hit home,’ SAN FRANCISCO BOOK REVIEW.
‘This is a chilling story, superbly written, with captivating and unique characters,’ NANCY SILK REVIEWS BLOG.
‘Malicious is a wonderful, fast-paced work of fiction. The plot is timely and the details add to the authenticity.’ BESTSELLERS WORLD.
‘Tense, gripping and filled with clever clues. There’s a lot to enjoy in this mystery: most of all the unpredictable storyline. It will draw you in and immerse you until the last page,’ D Donovan, MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW.
‘Wow, that was one heck of a good book. I mean…really, really good. Fast- paced, tight, gripping and terrifying. It has characters I care about and a crime ripped from today’s headlines. Mr Raven has other works out there and I’m all over that,’ BEACH BUM BOOK REVIEWS.
‘Malicious is terrifyingly relevant. The book grabs you on so many levels; but at its core it’s simply a fantastic and fulfilling murder mystery,’ EDITOR, FREEBOOKSY
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James Raven is a former journalist and TV producer who now writes ful time. His other books include the bestselling After the Execution, Urban Myth, Rollover, Stark Warning, Red Blitz, Arctic Blood and Brutal Revenge.MALICIOUS is a post from Awesome Gang
- Test of Magnitude
About Test of Magnitude:Revenge is only justice when it can be administered without hatred.
Welcome to the Tora star system, home of the spectacular Cardinal-4 space station overlooking Amulen and Banor, twin worlds that share the same orbit. One visit and you’ll understand why this station is the pinnacle of Torian achievement and a wonder of the Erobian Sphere.
Unfortunately, your timing isn’t great. Many centuries of peace and prosperity are on the verge of collapsing for members of the Erob coalition as signs of the first interstellar wars loom. The half-breeds tell us it is because we are now forsaking the ancient law, and have thus allowed an evil infection to begin spreading through the galaxy. But those Erob half-breeds have always been a little over-dramatic, haven’t they?
Brandon Foss, an unhappily married Virginian in his early thirties, awakes from a strange dream to discover he has been abducted from Earth and kept in cryonic preservation on Amulen for two decades. One other resuscitated human is with him, a real knucklehead who almost seems as alien to Brandon as their reptilian captors. A friendship of convenience forms as the two Earthlings soon become unwittingly intertwined in Torian politics and military affairs–at a time, it turns out, when the Torians desperately need just such intertwining.
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Andy Kasch lives in Southern California with his beautiful wife and two neurotic cats. He writes when he is not fly-fishing from his kayak or travelling. The two greatest things to happen in the 21st century so far, according to Andy, are the craft beer revolution and the advent of the self-publishing business. These are good times if you are blessed enough to be in a position to enjoy them. Andy wishes you much benevolence and advises you to lead a balanced life, always. Tulros.Test of Magnitude is a post from Awesome Gang
- The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride – Book Two
About The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride – Book Two:Following the deaths of her sister and brother-in-law, Kaya Brehna is awarded custody of their three children, and to avoid financial ruin, she must move them to Palm Beach where her successful career in interior decorating can provide financial security. Her plans are, however, thwarted by New Hampshire business mogul, Bryce Fontaine, who is determined to keep his godchildren in Granite Falls at all costs—even emotional blackmail.
Ever since he lost his own family five years earlier, Bryce Fontaine has been a tormented soul. His godchildren are the closest thing to family he has, and he’ll be damned before he let some corporate ladder-climbing stranger take them away from him.
When a second will surfaces that changes both their plans, to keep the children’s world intact, Bryce and Kaya enter a loveless marriage of convenience that, nonetheless, sizzles with unrelenting passion. Does Kaya have the power to free Bryce’s heart from the nightmares and demons of his past, or will his fears cause him to lose the family he’s grown to love so dearly?
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Ana E Ross, began indulging in romance novels at a very early age. By the time she was sixteen, she’d read every Mills & Boon, Regency, and Historical Romance novel in the library on her native island of Nevis in the West Indies.History Nugget: Nevis is also the birthplace of American Statesman, Alexander Hamilton. You can find Hamilton’s image on the US $10 bill.
After thirteen years of teaching middle and high school Writing and Literature, Ana reigned from teaching in 2013 to follow her dream of writing fulltime. She now pens and self-publishes steamy contemporary romance novels featuring sexy alpha heroes and feisty heroines who challenge them within a hairsbreadth of insanity.
Ana’s works include three short stories:
Her Perfect Valentine Birthday Surprise
The Brit Who Loved Her
When Amber Got Her Groove Back
and, four novels in her Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls series:
The Doctor’s Secret Bride – Book One – June 2012
The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride – Book Two – May 2013
The Playboy’s Fugitive Bride – Book Three – January 2014
The Tycoon’s Temporary Bride – Book Four – October 2014
She is presently working on her next ‘still untitled’ novel about the on-again, off-again love affair between Robert and Yasmine, two secondary characters from The Doctor’s Secret Bride.
Ana loves travelling, tennis, yoga, meditation, everything Italian, and spending valuable time with her gorgeous daughter.
Connect with Ana at: www.anaeross.com
The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride – Book Two is a post from Awesome Gang
- On Hearing of My Mother’s Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter’s Memoir of Mental Illness by Lori Schafer
About On Hearing of My Mother’s Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter’s Memoir of Mental Illness by Lori Schafer:
It was the spring of 1989. I was sixteen years old, a junior in high school and an honors student. I had what every teenager wants: a stable family, a nice home in the suburbs, a great group of friends, big plans for my future, and no reason to believe that any of that would ever change.
Then came my mother’s psychosis.
I experienced first-hand the terror of watching someone I loved transform into a monster, the terror of discovering that I was to be her primary victim. For years I’ve lived with the sadness of knowing that she, too, was a helpless victim – a victim of a terrible disease that consumed and destroyed the strong and caring woman I had once called Mom.
My mother’s illness took everything. My family, my home, my friends, my future. A year and a half later I would be living alone on the street on the other side of the country, wondering whether I could even survive on my own.
But I did. That was how my mother – my real mother – raised me. To survive.
She, too, was a survivor. It wasn’t until last year that I learned that she had died – in 2007. No one will ever know her side of the story now. But perhaps, at last, it’s time for me to tell mine.
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Lori Schafer’s flash fiction, short stories, and essays have appeared in numerous print and online publications, and her first two books were published this November. On Hearing of My Mother’s Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter’s Memoir of Mental Illness commemorates Lori’s terrifying adolescent experience of her mother’s psychosis, while Stories from My Memory-Shelf: Fiction and Essays from My Past is an autobiographical collection featuring stories and essays inspired by other events from Lori’s own life. In the summer of 2014, Lori began work on a second memoir, The Long Road Home, during the course of a solo two-month-long journey across the United States and Canada. She anticipates that it will be ready for publication late in 2015.When she isn’t writing (which isn’t often), Lori enjoys playing ice hockey, attending beer festivals, and spending long afternoons reading at the beach in the sunshine. For further information on Lori’s upcoming projects, please visit her website.
On Hearing of My Mother’s Death Six Years After It Happened: A Daughter’s Memoir of Mental Illness by Lori Schafer is a post from Awesome Gang
- The Tycoon’s Temporary Bride – Book Four
About The Tycoon’s Temporary Bride – Book Four:Since he was left standing at the altar, Adam Andreas has been a bit bride-shy. This handsome, sexy CEO is quite content with his temporary relationships, until the day he literally bumps into Tashi Holland. One look into Tashi’s frightened, emerald eyes and Adam finds himself falling into his old habit of rescuing damsels-in-distress—something he’s sworn never to do again, since the moment he begins to rescue a damsel-in-distress is the moment he begins falling for her.
Tashi Holland is running from a man whose identity she doesn’t know, and looking for one who’s just as mysterious. Following the instructions of the FBI agent who rescued her from a New York City human-trafficking kingpin, Tashi arrives in Granite Falls, New Hampshire—the safe haven the agent has sent her to. But without the identity of the man who’s to protect her, Tashi feels lost, scared, and vulnerable. She has no idea whom to trust, so when she bumps into a man in a café, and finds herself locked in his arms, she panics and runs.
A near-death experience brings them together again, and slowly, but surely, Tashi begins to trust Adam, and eventually tells him about New York City and the FBI agent who died rescuing her. Will Tashi’s fear that Adam might suffer the same fate as the FBI agent keep her from accepting his offer of protection by becoming his temporary bride?
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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Ana E Ross, began indulging in romance novels at a very early age. By the time she was sixteen, she’d read every Mills & Boon, Regency, and Historical Romance novel in the library on her native island of Nevis in the West Indies.History Nugget: Nevis is also the birthplace of American Statesman, Alexander Hamilton. You can find Hamilton’s image on the US $10 bill.
After thirteen years of teaching middle and high school Writing and Literature, Ana reigned from teaching in 2013 to follow her dream of writing fulltime. She now pens and self-publishes steamy contemporary romance novels featuring sexy alpha heroes and feisty heroines who challenge them within a hairsbreadth of insanity.
Ana’s works include three short stories:
Her Perfect Valentine Birthday Surprise
The Brit Who Loved Her
When Amber Got Her Groove Back
and, four novels in her Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls series:
The Doctor’s Secret Bride – Book One – June 2012
The Mogul’s Reluctant Bride – Book Two – May 2013
The Playboy’s Fugitive Bride – Book Three – January 2014
The Tycoon’s Temporary Bride – Book Four – October 2014
She is presently working on her next ‘still untitled’ novel about the on-again, off-again love affair between Robert and Yasmine, two secondary characters from The Doctor’s Secret Bride.
Ana loves travelling, tennis, yoga, meditation, everything Italian, and spending valuable time with her gorgeous daughter.
Connect with Ana at: www.anaeross.com
The Tycoon’s Temporary Bride – Book Four is a post from Awesome Gang
- Rocket Man
About Rocket Man:“This critically insightful diatribe against conformity is recommended.” Library Journal
“Rocket Man is a charming tale of fatherhood, family, and the American Dream.”
Midwest Book Review
“Hazelgrove asserts that the real American Dream–that of being self-made and maintaining individuality–is what gets crushed by the empty pursuit of material products we are programmed to desire.”
–San Antonio Express
“An exemplary novel dealing with the death of the American Dream.”
–Southern Review of Books
“”The funniest serious novel since Richard Russo’s Straight Man, rich with the epic levity of John Irving and salted with the perversion of Updike.””– Chicago Sun Times
“”The rollicking story of a writer whose piece of the American Dream falls apart.”
Chicago Tribune
“The author has given us an incredible read about finding the American Dream. We have all wanted it and we have all gone about trying to get it in different ways. The book is very entertaining–you can’t seem to put it down. It is hilarious and serious. Rocket Man is a true story of a rebel.”
–ReaderViews.com
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Book Description
Rocket Man is a very funny and poignant comment on our times, when an upside down middle class is barely hanging onto the American dream. Taking cues from the calamity of The Great Recession, we meet Dale Hammer, a man who is determined to find meaning in a landscape of suburban homogeneity, looking for the moment he had with his own father when they blasted off a rocket on a wintery evening. He feels his son slipping away as he tries to get around “the silent shame of fathers and sons.” He becomes the Rocket Man for his sons scout troop and immediately his life implodes. Accused of cutting down the subdivision sign to his neighborhood, he becomes the lone rebel, going down in a flaming arc. When Rocket Day comes, Dale is determined to give his son more than his father gave him.
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William Elliott Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of eight novels, Ripples, Tobacco Sticks, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, The Pitcher, Real Santa and the forthcoming Jackpine and The Pitcher 2. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly, Book of the Month Selections, Junior Library Guild Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications. He has been the subject of interviews in NPR’s All Things Considered along with features in The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Richmond Times Dispatch, USA Today, People, Channel 11, NBC, WBEZ, WGN. His most recent novel, The Pitcher is a Junior Library Guild Selection and was chosen Book of the Year by Books and Authors. net. His next book Jackpine will be out Spring 2014 with Koehler Books. A follow up novel Real Santa will be out fall of 2014.He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic.
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