About Made in L.A. by Amy Sterling Casil, Dario Ciriello, Jude-Marie Green, Gabi Lorino, Andre Hardy, Bonnie Randall, Allison Rose, Cody Sisco

Readers in Los Angeles are thirsty for stories that bring their city to life. This anthology features a diverse range of voices and genres. Like the City of Angels in which these stories were born, nothing is off-limits. Literary or contemporary, noir or ghost story, fabulism or science fiction, each story in this volume will forever change the way you look at this iconic metropolis.

Table of Contents

Between Broken Pieces by Allison Rose
Four women are caught in the spotlight of a starlet with one last, dark performance up her sleeve.

Going with the Flow by Gabi Lorino
A weary job-hopper contemplates her future in L.A. when yet another contract ends.

Salt in the Hell Mouth by Cody Sisco
The demonic invasion of Los Angeles is underway and only a curanderx can stop it.

Chromosome Circus by Amy Sterling Casil
Can a circus of genetic freaks care for the abandoned furry boy who shows up out of the blue?

Little Woman by Cody Sisco
A workplace harrassment incident has severe consequences when the victim shrinks to doll-size.

Negro in a Hot Tub by Andre Hardy
A black writer visiting the Hollywood YMCA confronts his worst nightmare: a man with tiny hands.

No Vacancy by Bonnie Randall
A hotel in downtown LA is the source and focal point for shattered dreams and too many deaths.

Wild Irish Rose by Gabi Lorino
Life lessons unfold for an old lady who thought she knew everything decades before.

Endless Summer by Jude-Marie Green
Stranded in Venice, an interplanetary visitor finds solace in surf rock until a stranger arrives.

Unquiet Baggage by Cody Sisco
On a train in Highland Park a dead man’s ghost bemoans his husband, his murderer.

Dry Bones by Dario Ciriello
The discovery of a young woman’s remains in the Altadena foothills erodes the boundary between the present and past.

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Made in L.A. Writers is a collaborative of Los Angeles-based authors dedicated to nurturing and promoting indie fiction. This 2018 volume is the first of the annual Made in L.A. anthology series. While our styles, themes, and story locales differ, our work is both influenced and illuminated by our hometown and underpinned by the extraordinary, multifaceted, and often surreal culture and life in the City of Angels.

About The Billionaire’s Obsession ~ Simon by J. S. Scott

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Full length novel. No cliffhangers.

Down on her luck, nursing student and full-time waitress Kara Foster gets a massive blow to her already desperate financial situation that will surely find her living on the streets. Needing nothing less than a miracle to save her, Kara gets rescue from an unknown, unlikely and overwhelming source. Billionaire Simon Hudson makes her an offer that is impossible to refuse, but terrifying to accept from a man that she’s never met. Will the handsome, alpha billionaire really be a solution to her problems, or will he end up being a major complication and a danger to her emotional sanity?

Reclusive billionaire Simon Hudson would rather be behind a computer creating computer games than rubbing elbows with the elite and he knows exactly what he wants…until he meets Kara Foster. Something about Kara touches Simon in ways he’s never experienced and definitely doesn’t like. For over a year, Simon watches over Kara, but stubbornly refuses to admit his desire to possess her, not even to himself. But when she ends up in a situation that could very well be her destruction, Simon steps up to help her, not realizing that in saving Kara, he might very well be salvaging his own soul.

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J.S. “Jan” Scott is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of steamy romance. She’s an avid reader of all types of books and literature. Writing what she loves to read, J.S. Scott writes both contemporary steamy romance stories and paranormal romance. They almost always feature an Alpha Male and have a happily ever after because she just can’t seem to write them any other way! She lives in the beautiful Rocky Mountains with her husband and two very spoiled German Shepherds.

About The Haunting of Cabin Green: A Modern Gothic Horror Novel by April A. Taylor

Ben’s first mistake was going to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancée. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, “There’s no such thing as an evil building.” Now he’s caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.

This trope-busting modern Gothic horror story avoids numerous overused themes and takes the reader directly into Ben’s hellish experience. Is he crazy? Is a ghost haunting him? The only way to find out is to make it to the end of this deep, dark thrill ride that’s filled with more twists than a roller coaster.

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Horror caught my attention at a young age, and I’ve enjoyed exploring the darkness hidden inside everyone’s psyche ever since. I’m also intrigued by each person’s capacity for astounding levels of goodness in the face of overwhelming evil.

My horror, paranormal mysteries, and dark, reimagined myths and fairy tales tackle both these topics. The darker side of humanity is also on display inside my Fine Art and Dark Art photographs, which have been published and exhibited worldwide.

I’m an Active member of the Horror Writers Association and an Amazon Bestseller in Canada for Vasilisa the Terrible: A Baba Yaga Story (March 2018).

I currently live in Michigan with the love of my life and our two cats. My appropriately spooky black cat, Riley, is my toughest editor and critic (look for pictures of him in action – and sleeping on the job – on Instagram!). If my life was a cartoon, I’d be Lisa Simpson.

About The Fifth Sense

Vision is illusion, a self-delusion perpetrated by manipulators and savages to corrupt the purity of innocent minds. Fall in line. Be a good citizen. Never open your eyes. Young Apple Peterson is not a good citizen. How could she be? She does not echolocate well. Her singing sucks. Her hair is coarse. Her family worries that she will never amount to anything, and they are probably right. Apple has a sneaking suspicion that something is terribly wrong with her society, but is she willing to bet her life on it?

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I wrote my first novel when I was twelve. It was a rambling saga about Vikings sailing up a long Russian river and getting confused about how long it takes to sail up a long Russian river.
I was hooked. All I wanted to do was write more novels.
But life offers many wonderful experiences, and I sailed up many side tributaries to explore. I climbed big cliffs. I taught teenagers to question reality. I pretended to be a local in a small cafe on the streets of many foreign towns.
All the while I kept writing. For fun. Or to get published.  Or just because.  Now I have finished something, and I am happy to share it.

About When Butterflies Cry

Grayson Addington comes home from Vietnam to find his wife in his brother’s arms and a mysterious orphan named Maggie playing with his 2-year-old daughter, Sadie. When Sadie runs away, the brothers find her trapped in the rocks–beneath a dam about to collapse. Grayson will have to watch her drown … unless Maggie is much more than she seems.

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Most of Ninie Hammon’s writing career was devoted to telling TRUE stories. For twenty-five years, she was a journalist—and she was good at it, started her own newspaper and won a wall full of awards.

But journalism never felt right—like walking around with sand in her shoe. Seven years ago, she took her shoe off, dumped out the sand and settled into making up the facts instead of reporting them. Writing fiction fit as perfect as Cinderella’s slipper.

Since then, she has written eleven novels—about ordinary people caught up in harrowing circumstances they didn’t create and don’t want, situations they have to fight their way out of. And in the process, they discover they are stronger, more noble, braver — or more cowardly and evil—than they ever suspected.

Hammon is noted for creating characters so real they feel like family, emotionally compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. One reader called them his “soul mates.”

About Eye Bleach

Psychologist, Dr. Sylvia Marstens, is making a fresh start. The move from NYU to Silicon Valley is just the ticket to break out of her rut. With a huge boost in salary, beautiful California weather, and complete autonomy at work, her new job is a dream come true.

The world’s largest online video sharing service, UVid, has a problem. The Content Moderators hired to review questionable materials are quitting en masse. Some videos are just too disturbing and disgusting to forget. Dr. Marstens, with her unorthodox method of isolating and suppressing traumatic memories, has the perfect solution to solve UVid’s expensive turnover troubles. Her controversial technique, long denounced in the halls of academia, is more than welcome in the land of algorithms and code. It is a match made in heaven.

She soon discovers some traumas cut too deep. Sometimes the past comes back. Some horrors will not stay buried. In this terrifying thriller, Dr. Marstens finds even she cannot escape her own dark history, because some things seen, can never be unseen.

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Paul Creasy was born in Radford, Virginia, the only child of Victor (Gene) and Marla Creasy. He grew up in the small town of Bluefield, West Virginia before moving to Richmond, Virginia where he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University.

He continues to reside in Richmond today, with his lovely wife Mary and their rambunctious puppy Truffle. Apart from writing, Paul enjoys old horror movies, obscure documentaries, new books, Christian apologetics, ballroom dancing with his wife, and traveling extensively.

About The Queen of Paradise Valley by Cat Dubie

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A shotgun wedding, a prison sentence for the groom, not a marriage made in heaven. But when he returns after four years to claim his rightful share of the ranch, to prove he isn't a criminal, and to finish what he and his wife began four years ago in a smoldering daze, she's wary and distrustful. After a year of natural and personal disasters, can these two enemies become lovers? Can they work together to save the land they both love and must fight to keep?

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About Mountain Man’s Accidental Baby Daughter (A Mountain Man’s Baby Romance)

She didn’t know it, but the second she entered my woods, she was mine for the taking.

Nature was my domain.

Where I preferred to be.
Hiking trails.
Guiding people through the tangle of scrub.

But then I got the rescue call – a chick with a twisted ankle stuck on a hill.
Typical city girls.
Clueless.

Only, when I found Fiona, I didn’t anticipate that she’d be so… smoking hot.

Fawn-like eyes.
Redheaded bob.
Curvy figure…
Hmm, my carnal desire went into overload.

I helped her back to my cabin.
But that was a mistake.
My “mountain man” urges couldn’t be resisted.
And the way she looked at me was far from innocent.
So, we made love… all night long.

After that, I never expected to see her again…

Until she showed up at my house and uttered two words that changed everything:
“I’m pregnant.”

Fiona wasn’t just a mere rescue anymore.
She was the mother of my baby.
And that meant she was mine.

But neither of us were prepared for what happened next…

Note: Mountain Man’s Accidental Baby Daughteris 40k of hot, steamy romance between a mountain man and his damsel in distress and features exclusive bonus books including billionaire romance Billionaire Boss’s Virgin Intern!

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About Summary & Analysis of To Sell Is Human by ZIP Reads

Whether you’re a door-to-door salesman or a doctor, bestselling author Daniel Pink argues you’re selling something at your job, and that sales have changed irrevocably since the dawn of the Internet. Weaving engaging anecdotes into candid observations, Pink shows how to connect to a tough audience, pitch, clarify your offering, and survive rejection. Anyone who wants to become more effective at persuading other people will find this an invaluable read.

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We cover books in self-help, business, personal development, science & technology, health & fitness, history, and memoir/biography. Our books are expertly written and professionally edited to provide top-notch content. We’re here to help you decide which books to invest your time and money reading.

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About The Summer Proposal by Burr Gladden

Stranded on a remote beach by his girlfriend and best friend, Rilo Remmington soon stumbles upon rescue in an unlikely form. His rescuer, the infinitely handsome and wealthy Henley Ross proves to be an engaging and amusing companion, and Rilo soon finds himself accepting an unusual proposal. Alone and bored in his private paradise Henley asks that Rilo extend his stay until the end of summer, a request that upon fulfillment ultimately changes the course of Rilo’s life. After all, Henley Ross proves to be more than just an eccentric introvert; Henley Ross is none other than box office hit, multi-millionaire, celebrity Henley Ross, a fact Rilo is clueless to.
Theirs, however, is not a summer without an expiration date. When summer ends what will become of the men and the growing bond between them? Can a relationship exist when the differences between them are so great?

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Burr Gladden has always had an obsession with the MM genre as well as writing. However, it is only recently she decided to merge the two loves and start creating her own MM romance novels. When she isn’t writing romantic male goodness it is likely she is drawing, reading, playing video games or spending time with her family and fluffy purr pet companions.

About The Word According to Jack: A Dog’s-Eye View with Self-Help Advice for Other Dogs

Ever wonder what’s going on inside the head of your four-legged best friend? John Newport did, which is what motivated him to collaborate with Jack, his 10-pound Chihuahua mix, on Jack’s first book project titled, The World According to Jack.

The World According to Jack presents a broad appeal to dog lovers throughout the world, providing a side-splitting and heart-warming dog’s-eye view of the world surrounding this charming creature. Replete with self-help advice for other dogs, the book contains five chapters for dogs only on “Training Your (Human) Parents” – providing dogs tips on how to persuade mom and dad to give them extra treats, and even work their way into sleeping on the bed with them. Other choice pearls of wisdom include chapters titled “Everyone Needs a Hobby” (describing Jack’s mega-obsession with food), “Weight Watchers for Dogs”, “So Now I’m a Marriage Counselor” and “Keep Them Laughing”.

Ever full of surprises, in the final chapter “The Grand Finale” Jack launches his off-the-wall presidential campaign for 2020. His motto: “The nation’s going to the dogs – let’s make it official!

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Narrated from the head and heart of a fun-loving, opinionated Chihuahua mix prone to delusions of grandeur, The World According to Jack represents a literary milestone as the first known book in which the dog himself garners full authorship credit.

About Technically Speaking: Another Romantic Comedy of Errors

Money never mattered to millionaire socialite, Stacey Holiday—until she lost it all!

My grandmother, the great Gladys Gladwell Holiday and I were never really close, but when she died, I still mourned her the only way I knew how: wine straight from the bottle and randomly texting HottGuy69 on an anonymous dating site.

It was nice of Grandmother to leave me everything she owned to inherit on my wedding day, but it wasn’t like I needed the money. Except, my father was just arrested and my family’s assets are now frozen so yes, I very much need Grandma’s money!

Then, my childhood friend Logan suddenly pops back into my life.

Logan.

The sweet, humble, chubby, Italian kid who worked for my grandmother turned into a hot, sexy specimen of a man and we reconnected in more ways then one.

Then, my family pushes him away and for good, this time. I never thought I would ever see him again. That is, until I learned the identity of HottGuy69…

Technically Speaking is a fast-paced, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy with more sweetness than you can handle. It is book two of N. Franko’s Romantic Comedy of Errors, but can be read alone and in any order.

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N. Franko is a reporter turned author and musician living out her happily ever after with her very own rock star husband. When she’s not writing romance, she’s reading about magic and annoying her neighbors with her drum kit.