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1. Eternity by Teresa Federici
   Teresa Federici grew up in South Florida, the baby of four kids. She started writing at a young age, and finally got the nerve to inquire about publishing her first novel when she was 35. Eternity was published a year later in 2010. She lives in South Florida with her husband, and eagerly waits for summers when her step-son visits. You can read more news and updates at her blog, http://teresaafederici.wordpress.com/ or visit her website at http://teresafederici.com
2. Flower of Heaven
   Julien Ayotte spent his entire career in the corporate and legal world. He holds a BS, MBA, and PhD, all in business and Flower of Heaven is his debut novel after publishing a financial planning book, Wealth Building for Professionals, in 2001. He resides in Cumberland, RI with his wife, Pauline. They have three grown children. Flower of Heaven is the Honorable Mention winner for General Fiction in the 2013 New York Book Festival and the Indie Book of the Day for March 19, 2013. Bill Reynolds, Providence Journal, cited the book as a potential great movie.
3. Corrupt Connection
   I grew up in a small central Illinois town in the 50s and 60s. It was, and still is, the kind of town where kids ride bikes, fish, and play ball as their dogs follow them about. My parents are in their mid-80s and still live there. I was the first in my extended family to go away to college, and I graduated in 1976 with a wife and degrees in education and mathematics. A fruitful 31-year sales management career with a Fortune 500 company and a storybook life with my wife and two children followed college. Life changed for me and my family when I lost my wife in the spring of 2008. She’d been my best friend for 35 years. Life stood still for a long time, but gradually, everyone finds a way to move forward. I have since met a wonderful woman, Claudia, and we married in the spring of 2012. We share time between a home in Charlotte and a getaway place in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Reading, writing, gardening, hiking, traveling (mostly to visit family and friends) and watching sunsets with a glass of wine occupy our days. Claudia is also an experienced editor and helps me greatly with tightening up my writing. It’s a teamwork that has worked well the past several years. I’ve published two novels. The first, CORRUPT CONNECTION, is the story of a modest businessman and beautiful PhD who become the targets of a drug cartel attempting to raid futuristic technologies developed by their company. The second, BETTER LATE THAN EVER, is about Phil Greenfield, a 60-year-old, recently retired bachelor, and the dangerously misdirected focus on youth Phil discovers behind the private stone walls of a modern retirement community.
4. Strange Metamorphosis by P. C. R. Monk
   P.C.R. (Paul Colin Richard) Monk was born in Exmouth, Devon, grew up in the south east of England then spent over 20 years living in France with a 3-year stint in Spain. A qualified linguist, he worked for 9 years as a teacher then moved into the digital world where he has written various scripts and storyworlds for video game titles, and authored an interactive language learning course. Influenced by the works of naturalist Jean Henri Fabre, he has been an enthusiast of entomology for many years as well as a former resident of Villeneuve where his YA fantasy adventure story takes place. Monk now lives in England with his lovely French wife and their three young sons.