About Dance of the Restless Soul by Ren’e Fedyna

One rebellious woman-One forbidden dream-One sacrifice too many

Her dream becomes a nightmare. In pursuit of the cabaret life, Lola La Fontaine finds herself thrust into the gritty Paris underworld of kidnappers and killers.

At sixteen, Lola La Fontaine lives an elegant and sophisticated lifestyle in La Belle Epoque Paris, but will soon be forced to marry one of the richest men in France—a man she doesn’t love.

Knowing he will forbid her to pursue her dream to be an entertainer, she has no choice but to escape, but escape to where?

Her passion is enflamed when she meets Charlie Sloane. Handsome, charismatic and debonair. Lola finds him irresistible, but his deceptive ways plunge her into a life of intrigue and violence.

Is her desire for him worth the price of her life?

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My love for historical fiction began as a teenager when I read Les Misérables. The morality, the settings, the richness of the characters and their struggles enthralled me. I found myself hooked on stories about Paris and read the classics by Jules Verne, George Sands, Émile Zola, Colette and many other fabulous authors. I knew one day I would write historical fiction about the interesting characters I would come to know.
I was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. A colorful neighborhood teeming with life. Where wash hung on clotheslines outside the overcrowded tenements and vendors hawked their wares as they pushed carts carrying everything from fruits and vegetables to clothes and shoes (new and used).
The people in my neighborhood were of all nationalities and religions, including Orthodox Jews, Italians, Russians, Slovaks, African Americans and Puerto Ricans. Many popular performers had grown up in the area, including the Marx Brothers, Al Jolson, George and Ira Gershwin, and Irving Berlin. These famous entertainers had moved on long before I was born. However, their spirit was alive in the people who remained. When my mother sent me on errands, the shop owners often entertained me. The shoemaker was a comedian, the tailor’s wife sang opera, our landlord once did a tap dance when my father paid the rent, and my grandfather was an amazing storyteller. These were only some of the great personalities I enjoyed in my youth. These people had never been on a stage but would probably have become famous if they had the opportunity and the good fortune.
Later, drawn by inexpensive housing and cheap food, The Lower East Side became “hip” as the Beat poets and radical artists infused the neighborhood that had come to be known as The East Village.
This early introduction of life’s variety set my imagination on fire. I knew one day I would write stories about the personalities I had been so affected by. But it didn’t happen right away.
After graduating magna cum laude from Mercy College, I worked for six years as a copywriter at an advertising agency in Los Angeles. It was there that I realized how to use powerful words to affect people’s emotions.
When it was time to move on, my love of history and a fascination for colors and textures would help me decide that becoming an Interior Designer would be the perfect fit. I studied Interior Design at UCLA and then became a self-employed Interior Designer. Once again, I realized how important it was to use stirring descriptions to help my clients realize how their empty spaces could be transformed into their dream look.
Now that I am retired, I have the opportunity to fulfill my dream as an author of historical fiction novels. My novel, “Dance of the Restless Soul,” is the first of four novels in the “Dance” series. I have recently published book two, “Dance with the Devil.” But I have so many stories that I would love to share with you in my future novels.

About Eldritch Nights by Ralph Burton

Astronomy student Daphne Browning likes drinking coffee, playing pool and watching the stars above her seaside town of Treadwell. She also has a sea monster living beneath her room, one with sharp claws and far too many heads. Soon Daphne starts having nightmares and the “Dark Creature” beneath her room begins threatening to destroy the entire town and beyond – that is, unless she feeds it one boy a week.
The weeks fly by, and Daphne quickly finds herself becoming the most dangerous girl in town. Worse, her goth-obsessed housemate Megan is being visited by the ghosts of dead boys in the night. Turns out, Megan might just be The Chosen One. Daphne dreads the end of the week but this time, not just one person will die.

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Hi! I'm a twenty-four-year-old author from Aylesbury, UK. My passions are writing, reading and drinking coffee (sometimes doing all three at the same time). I especially like a cup of strong coffee in the morning to propel me through the day so I can read and write in the evening. I'm also a big fan of cats (not the film), hiking in the great outdoors, nature parks, railway documentaries and quiz shows.

About Hole Punch

HOLE PUNCH is:
The height of the Earth Empire – where War Bricks flatten alien civilisations.
Yorkshire 1985 – where a child’s mind is patched together with trauma.
Ancient Greece – where Socrates discovers a carnal method of time-travel.
Mars 2348 – where crime and terror haunt the Martian Habitation Domes.
The Mistake’s skull – where Muscle Society achieves self-destruction.
Delaware Dost – where mindfulness prevails and hierarchy is understood.
The End of Everything – where convert concepts welcome refugees into the folds of theory.

All these places (and many more!) reside within the tangled text of Hole Punch.

“If you’re looking for a raw, fragmented, nightmarish collection of stories that makes you feel simultaneously bewildered, scared, disgusted, amused and angry all at once, boy oh boy do I have a book for you.” Dystopic.co.uk

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Garth Simmons was born in 1981 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK. He’s a visual artist who’s made paintings, installations, animations and pattern designs. He has had exhibits everywhere from Scarborough to Los Angeles. His pattern designs were in the Golden Globes and Fashion Times and he likes to remind people of this. Writing has always been a feature of his artwork. He would write directly onto his artwork, or by collaging “stream of consciousness” notes.

In 2015, whilst working in a data entry position for Siemens, he began writing short stories as Facebook posts. At first they were daydreams of outrageous acts he could commit whilst at work (if he were professionally or ethically allowed). Later they were stories in other settings. Some dark memoirs of times in various school settings and learning programmes (for those who are “not on the right level”).

These stories resonated with his social media followers. He was encouraged to put them into a collection and seek out publication. While putting these stories into a contextual order he realised they formed a larger narrative. A tapestry of recurring themes, settings and characters. They made up a larger biographical webwork and subjective statement on the world. A hole punched through this fabric, hence the title Hole Punch.

Since completing Hole Punch, he has been working on three long-form novels. Also he has an actual short story collection comprised of several 10’000 word stories. He also does a podcast called Slanderhour and has an EP in the works. His philosophy is that “the more things you make, the more you enjoy your own company”.

Apart from creativity, he loves cats, mochas, wearing blazers, arthouse films and many ropey science fiction series.

About Shall We Go Adventure? A Journey To Being You!

Are you ready for a charming story full of magic and adventure that will warm your heart and sense of being?

A whimsical tale about nature and her creatures and what it can teach you: let your imagination expand beyond anything you’ve ever imagined. Inspired by my twins’ birth, it’s a reminder of the infinite potential that we all bring into this world when we are born but quickly forget as we get older.

The desire is to inspire future generations to remember everything that we believe will become a reality, that wishes do come true, and that dreams will always follow us wherever we go.

Did you know that we are all born with a bright light with enough magic to change whatever you wish to change?

Did you know that if we ask enough questions, we can create unlimited possibilities?

A simple yet powerful story, written for children of all ages, no matter how big or small, “Shall We Adventure” is about the magic and possibilities we have on our wondrous and beautiful Earth, her creatures, the elements of nature, and everything this can bestow upon us. Are you ready to play?

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Anna Florentina Junker is the author of her debut book, “Shall We Go Adventure, A Journey To Being You.” She’s a mother of 1-year-old twins and two older boys, who’re the illustrators of their first book. As a fourth-generation healer in her family, her focus has always been self-awareness and self-care.

Anna facilitates classes to help people explore themselves through the elements of nature and the universe, and what better time than now to help children learn about who they are born to be and the significance mother earth has on our lives and being.

When Anna has some spare time in her supermom life, you can find her reading, writing, or researching. She’s a true nature lover, a waterfall chaser, and an intuitive healer

About Musings of the Heart by Aaron E. Peters

God is constantly speaking to each and every individual born into this world; wanting us to grasp His truth which will bring us life abundant.

He reveals His truth to us in different ways. It can be through His Creation which testifies to who He is. It can be through the situations, sights, and people He brings along our path. But the most important way by which He reveals His truth to us is through His Word that has been made manifest in Christ.

To know God is to know His Word. This book is a collection of observations through which God has made His truths known to the author.

The prayer behind them is that they will be reminders, as much as they are for the author himself, to always listen for God; both as He speaks to us through His Word and in every area of our lives.

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Aaron Peters has a great talent, insight and heart for writing Christian encouragement. He is a young man with wisdom and insight beyond his years. He has skillfully written the daily devotionals within Musings Of The Heart which point to Christ and lead us to greater dependence on Him in every facet of life. Though living in Canada, Aaron has had rich experience of serving God in India and parts of South East Asia (some of which come out in these pages). Aaron is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, Department of History

About Midnight Whispers

When chaos consumes, and worlds collide, all that’s left in the night are whispers.

Delve into the darkness.

Experience total mayhem.

Explore bounds that test the limits of reality.

The authors of this set bring you twenty-two supernatural adventures.
With stories that stretch the veils of belief, you’re destined to get lost between the pages.

These twisted and magically wicked tales will satisfy your craving for paranormal romances and urban fantasy stories of all steam levels.

MIDNIGHT WHISPERS is a limited edition collection you don’t want to miss. Each book is exclusive and can not be found anywhere else. Grab this ultimate bundle for 99 cents before it’s gone forever!

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estselling author Jessica Wayne writes paranormal and fantasy romance. She lives in Texas with her husband, three kids, two dogs, and her filly–Phoenix.

She is skittle obsessed, enjoys the occasional whiskey, and is an ambassador for the mix-matched socks movement.

A believer in true love, Jessica also believes that good things are worth fighting for, and sometimes you have to risk it all to find your place in the world.

About The Shapeshifter Stone

A mysterious stone etched with animal shapes…
A white swan with a broken heart…
A black wolf with dreams of freedom…
And a shy zookeeper who discovers his destiny.

Zookeeper Noah Hartman spends most of his life at Cloverdale Zoo tending to the wild creatures he loves, especially a sickly white swan named Lyra. His only human friends are fellow keeper Calvin Hobbs, and his sweet next-door neighbor Jennie Gordon, who is secretly in love with Noah. His mother is dying in a nursing home, and his sister is too busy being a Hollywood star to pay him any attention.
Then Noah finds a velvet pouch left by a mysterious old woman. Inside is a stone etched with animal shapes, and a spell that turns animals into humans. Noah tries the spell on Lyra and she emerges from the pond a beautiful, heartbroken woman pining for her lost love, a black swan named Onyx who was taken to another zoo.
Noah vows to reunite Lyra with Onyx, but his plans are derailed when he and Calvin discover their shifty zoo director is illegally selling wildlife for canned hunts. Noah needs proof fast, for his newest black wolf, Alec, is next to be sold. Noah rounds up his animal allies in human form and they concoct a dangerous plan to save Alec.
Some will live, some will die, some will find freedom, some will find true love, but all will be forever changed because of the stone, the spell, and the courage of one man who follows his destiny.

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Marie D. Jones is the best-selling author of over 26 non-fiction books and novels. She is also a screenwriter, producer, and indie filmmaker. Her vast works can be viewed at her website, where she also has links to her line of fun and funky journals with attitude, “Attitudenals,” and her “From Crappy 2 Happy” product store on Teespring. When she isn’t writing, she’s…writing!

About The Other Christmas List

Struggling to connect with her grandson, Eleanor tells him the story about how she once suffered a tragic loss the day before Christmas. She thought she would always hate Christmas and never be happy again until she rediscovered a forgotten childhood Christmas list. Eleanor decided that, if she could accomplish one thing off her list every Christmas, it would heal her heart and set her on her path again. When the list takes her to an old city in Europe, Eleanor strives to check the last two things off her list and, along the way, rediscovers the magic of Christmas.

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Kristie lives in California, where she works as an official court reporter when not fantasizing about the perfect man in a romance novel. In her free time, she enjoys tennis, hiking/climbing, whale watching, volunteering as a naturalist on whale watching boats, exotic travel adventures, Scrabble, screenplay writing, blogging, and checking goals off of her bucket list.

In what seems like a past life, she has worked as a professional dancer all over the world, a
dance instructor, and a professional model and actress. She can be seen in the movies “Chasing Sleep” and “Fallout Shelter,” as well as numerous commercials and infomercials. She has received awards for Best Leading Actress from the Lansing Civic Players and Best Choreography from Riverwalk Theater. She has also spent a couple of years performing as a stand-up comic. This book is based on Kristie’s award-winning screenplay.

About Super Dense Crush Load by Aneesh Abraham

Discover history and philosophy as it should be—entertaining and provocative!
Embark on a thrilling journey that hurtles through time with breathtaking velocity and clarity. The story of mankind—extracted and reduced with brute-force into sweet answers—a symphony in three movements slogging through every high and low of humankind, revealing the big plot of our collective story.

The fragmented pieces fall into place, compressing and integrating every facet in our consciousness—art, science, philosophy, history, human geography, society, culture, politics, religion, psychology, sex, and technology. It is not the saga as we have known it , but an inside-out conclusive redux, an inspiring battle royale between Man, the world, and the universe.

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Aneesh Abraham is a story crafter who has been working on various works of fiction primarily in the thriller/action/adventure genres for a silent period of fifteen years. Super Dense Crush Load is his first launch and also the first work of non-fiction. The book is based on the insightful superimposition of the exciting world of fiction onto reality, bringing the author’s thought process into the light of day.
He holds a master’s degree in marketing and also in arts/philosophy, that together power his creative engine towards dynamism and depth.

About Midnight Found

It’s Christmas Time in Glen Point, and someone needs a Christmas miracle!!

For ‘Midnight’ Smith, there is no such thing as gallant knights or family time under the Christmas tree.

For her, trust is a hard-given item. But “Hunt,” her cyber buddy, has earned it in spades with his actions without even meeting him. Midnight needs a Knight to help her resolve the nightmarish reality of her life when she made a wrong move.

Can “Hunt” help her again, this time it’s a big favour, one that means life or death for her.

Hunter “Hunt” Jones is on leave from his role as an elite SAS Solider due to injury, and for once, he’s at a loose end.

Memories of what could have been had been haunting him more than usual. Thankful, he has the mysterious “Zero” as he knows her online, to keep him from going off the rails.

Can Hunter show Midnight that Knight’s do exist even when their armour is hidden?

Midnight Found – is book four in the Glen Point Series , Steamy Romatic Suspense at its best.

If you like sizzling sex scenes and international small town locales, then get your copy today!

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I’m Catrina Maddox (well my pen name is ) and I live in the beautiful country of New Zealand. I’m a southern girl at heart. (i.e., someone who lives in the south of the South Island ) so there is nothing more after a hard day that I like to do then, to curl up in a sofa chair and enjoy a good romance.
I have been a romance reader since I was a teenager and checked out my first Mills and Boon from the local liabary. (I’ve moved on a little in taste since then)
I love all gene types (Cowboys, Menge, Shapeshifter, Contemporary, Historical – the list goes on). So much so that I started writing. Then work, and life got in the way as they do. I have been tooling my way through the corporate management world working away at several different jobs, but writing romance is my first love. Then one day the love of my life gave me the gift of following my dreams, as he says you only get one shot at this life, so with his support. I get to do what I love everyday, which is to put a little romance out into the world.

I’m a keen camper and cyclist and you will see some of our travels through New Zealand on my instagram site.

About Bay of Devils by Grahame Shannon

In 1918 the Canadian liner SS Princess Sophia sank in Alaska with 350 souls aboard. All perished when the ship, stranded on Vanderbilt reef, slid off into deep water. Fifty years later, Cindy Lu, a waitress at a Vancouver cafe finds an old flask. The message inside is from a passenger on the doomed ship to his sweetheart. She delivers it to the original address, which is nearby.

Elizabeth Hadley, now in her seventies, reads the letter with excitement. She hires detectective and sailor Sean Gray to lead an expedition and unravel the mystery. He tracks down Cindy, and the chemistry between them is immediate.

Lizzy introduces the crew of her 110-foot classic yacht Lady L, including Ajax, an acid-tongued parrot. With Cindy as cook, and Levi, a mysterious Israeli ex-soldier, providing security, Sean prepares for the voyage to Alaska.

However, they aren’t alone.

There are others after the booty, and they are willing to kill anyone who gets in their way.

So, with pirates hot on their trail, will they find the treasure and unlock the secret behind the half-century-old mystery? Find out in Bay of Devils, an Amazon #1 best seller on the day of release.

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Grahame Shannon walked around barefoot until he was five. Then his cruel parents dragged him to Canada from his native Grenada. He thought Montreal was cold and miserable until he was moved again, to Northern Alberta. At nineteen, he had the good sense to relocate to Vancouver.

He has founded several yacht sales firms, boat-building companies and even pioneered a 3D CAD system for boat design. He has designed many successful racing and cruising sailboats and powerboats.

These days he is combining his love for storytelling with writing. He pens mystery novels that are inspired by his own adventures in life. Grahame still races yachts and sails the BC coast He is married with two grown children, a lovely wife, and a horrible little dog.

About Under the Scarlet Tree

When the dead become the undead, the alive will do whatever is necessary to survive.
Mya Whitten-Davis thought of the baby in her stomach as she shoved the knife into the base of her husband’s skull. It had to be done. An undead father didn’t fit into her idea of a perfect family. He would understand and if their neighbor had taken a chunk out of her, he would have done the same.

She had lost her parents at 18 years old and when her older sister decided the stress was too much, the job of raising her sister and brother fell to her. Caring for her siblings had always been her responsibility regardless of their age. She would stop at nothing to ensure the safety of her brother and sister.

While a scene from the latest zombie flick became reality, Mya and her brother, Logan, set off on a road trip to not only survive, but to get to their sister, Lilianna, before she became undead. Sibling loyalty has no bounds.

Mya finds her journey filled with unexpected turns, countless losses, new friends and a spark of romance.

Under the Scarlet Tree. A place of reflection to those lost to the undead. A place to build new memories.

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Danielle R. Wilson is a first time author of Under the Scarlet Tree, a zombie thriller. Wilson grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Wilson works full-time as a medical social worker. When Wilson isn’t working on writing her next book, she is spending time with her family and two cat babies. Wilson decided to become an author after accepting a dare from her mother to ‘write a book’.

About Strength Endurance: Reflections on the Legacy of Dr. Leonard Schwartz – creator of “Heavy Hands”, “Panaerobics”, “Longstrength” and “IsoTonOMetrics” by Chuck Huckaby

How does a flabby 50 year old 2 pack a day smoker become a ripped “Adonis” who performed strength endurance feats undefeated still today? The answers here.

What if someone had taken all the guess work out of “strength” or “cardio”, HIIT, or the latest buzz words and put together an exercise system that gave you strength, endurance, calorie burning and cardio in one simple package that didn’t leave you feeling as terrible as gut bursting cardio? What if that package had lower impact on your joints and could tone and shape all your body not require separate workouts?

Well that was done starting in the mid 1980’s by Dr. Leonard Schwartz! You can still purchase his books on HeavyHands(tm) and they’re worth reading still today. But did you know that he created two additional exercise systems using bodyweight training and a form of isometric/isokinetic training? If you didn’t know that, you’ll enjoy learning the secrets of Panaerobics and IsoTonoMetrics as discussed by his fans and students in the book Strength Endurance: Reflections on the Legacy of Dr. Leonard Schwartz – creator of “Heavy Hands”, “Panaerobics”, “Longstrength” and “IsoTonOMetrics”.
Check it out… if you want to know more about Dr. Leonard Schwartz’ research, this it the book for you!

The research in this book is ideal to help fitness buffs “Supercharge” their workouts by understanding how to obtain maximal, scientifically proven results that produce more benefits with less struggle. Ideal whether you work out at home, at the gym, or outside, with weights, resistance bands, or bodyweight exercise.

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Chuck Huckaby has spent years fascinated by the work of Dr. Leonard Schwartz and his unique exercise theories that are proven to increase intensity instantly without the pain associated with many “High Intensity Interval Training” techniques. This book catalogs his reflections so you can apply the concepts for yourself. It’s a “how to think book” not another “do as I say” book.

About A Date in Time by Anna Jones

A Date In Time – Book One in The Midnight Metropolis Series

Aria Fortune expected herself to feel lonely in her new job. Moving to London after a recent relationship break-up, she didn’t know anyone – and wanted to be alone.

Yet when she uncovers a cryptic compass and captures the advances of a mysterious stranger who travels through decades just to meet her, it dawns on her that the fate of the future hangs in her hands. Who is the mysterious stranger…and will she be able to make a date in time?

A Date In Time is available for Free on Amazon from 28th – 29th November, 2020.

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Anna Jones is a Freelance Writer and Author whose first foray into book writing is The Midnight Metropolis Series a short sci-fi/time travel fiction trilogy, released in September 2020. Anna lives in Cheshire with her partner and two cats.

About Written: A Story of Love, Secrets, Betrayal and Honour

What if your entire existence was based on someone else’s story, someone else’s dreams, someone else’s expectations ….someone else’s lies?

Writer’s Digest Awards 2020 Finalist in Mainstream Literary Fiction

Written is the heart-wrenching story of a young girl’s struggle for freedom, and the uncovering of an intricate plan laced around forty years of secrets, betrayal and lies, in a family desperate to preserve their culture and honour.

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D.A. Lee is a Bangladeshi-born British author, artist and poet, best known for her novel 'Written' published in 2019. Raised in a small town in Lancashire, England, Lee describes the cultural challenges of growing up in a Bengali household whilst navigating a western world.

Lee's novel, whilst fictional, draws on many of her own experiences of growing up in a Muslim family and explores the underworld of cultural expectations, arranged marriages, honour, abuse and domestic violence that often limit women's choices.

Lee first started writing as a form of self-healing through the challenges of home life. The word 'Written' had become a poignant theme throughout the book, a word often expressed culturally to describe the notion of determinism and predestination adopted by some traditional Muslim families as a common explanation for events in life. Lee takes us on a journey through her character Eleanor, a young girl caught between a web of family secrets and lies where she comes into conflict with these values.

Today, Lee is an advocate for women's freedom of choice and encourages women to speak out and seek help if they feel they are in danger.

About The Reticent Witch by J E Martin

This is the second book from the ‘When Darkness Calls’ series. Though it is a standalone story which can and perhaps should be read before book 1 ‘Sold Out Soul Doubt’.
This is the story of Catherine Antoinette Heely, ‘The Reticent Witch’. Cathy is the product of meticulous bloodline manipulation over many centuries; she is a hybrid witch of immense power; a power she does not want, a power that she feels to be a curse rather than a gift.
The story charts her life from birth to present day; told through her own eyes, it tells of her struggles and her anguish as she learns to manage her powers and to harness them for good. All of this as she comes of age. Her struggles intensified and against a backdrop of school bullies, a vindictive sister and a voice in her head she calls ‘The Darkness.’A voice which seeks to coerce her to inflict dreadful punishments on those who stand against her, as it attempts to win her over.
Cathy has a short temper and a propensity for exacting immediate and often irreversible punishments on those who seek to harm her physically or who hurt her emotionally; she must learn to control her anger and her wrath before they consume her.
As Cathy matures, physically, emotionally and sexually, she finds herself in numerous types of conflict, as she tries with all that she is, to use her powers for the good of others.
Cathy seeks only to love and to be loved, to live a simple life at one with nature. However, her trust issues, driven by the betrayal and the lies of others, are a constant barrier to her finding happiness.
Cathy finds herself questioning her own sanity as her life descends into chaos as the afflicted and the dead mount in her wake, will she find the solace she so desires?
Is Cathy a good person resisting evil, or is she an evil person trying against all the odds to be good? Will she win the day, or will she succumb to The Darkness?

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John is in his early fifties. For over 20 years he has been a technical author, penning many guides, professional examinations, and training materials, he has now decided to switch his focus.
John has an interest in the supernatural, and the paranormal, having had many direct experiences over the years, which began when he was 18 when he experienced his first ghost sighting.
Over the years John has dabbled with Ouija boards, dowsing and crystals and spent 4 years living in a haunted house where he believes that he was attacked by an entity. Check out some of John’s stories on his blog. whendarknesscalls.blog
These specific experiences are to be documented in his upcoming book ‘A Very Ordinary Story & The Thoughts & Ramblings of a Madman.’
John’s first book Sold Out/Soul Doubt was in part inspired by his interest in the subject.
John also has a keen interest in the work of John Dee and Edward Kelley as well as King James I. using the KJV bible as a key reference source, along with the book Daemonologie also written by King James I.
John’s desire is to write easy to read, engaging, accessible and fast-paced books; containing a strong message about morality.
John does not believe in writing 50 words where 10 will suffice; he is personally put off by books where it seems the authors only concern is demonstrating they have a huge vocabulary (or depend heavily on a thesaurus) and who try to convey their own intellect rather than a palatable story.
Although John recognises that it is a bold statement to make, he believes that given his many years auditing against numerous international standards that his stories will not contain any plot holes.
He also avoids expecting the reader to make huge leaps of faith and attempts to set out rules that are adhered to throughout the story and indeed the series.
John’s books are best described as ‘cross-genre’ as they often have elements of romance, thriller, mystery, and supernatural and urban fantasy. Books two and three, also have a foot firmly in the horror/dark fiction camp.
John has recently experienced his own brush with ‘Darkness’ as his wife was diagnosed with cancer while he was writing Sold Out. She is now thankfully through surgery and treatment and is now in recovery.
John recognised that through these difficult months his own mental health had suffered immensely, and he has authored a book called ‘Cancer The Collateral Damage’ which is a short and hard-hitting account of those troubled times. The book is intended to help others not to fall into the same emotionally driven traps that he did. The book is currently free on ISSUU and currently $0.99 on kindle
Other than that John lives a simple life on the east coast of Lincolnshire.