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1. Kate’s Outlaw by E.E. Burke
   

   E.E. Burke writes sexy, suspenseful historical romance set in the American west. Her latest release, Her Bodyguard, is the second in the series, Steam! Romance and Rails, which features stories based on true events from the golden age of steam railroads. Her writing has earned accolades in regional and national contests, including the prestigious Golden Heart®. Over the years, she’s been a disc jockey, a journalist and an advertising executive, before finally getting around to pursuing her dream of writing novels. Her stories are as deeply rooted in American soil as her family, which she can trace back to the earliest colonists and through both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and three daughters, the greatest inspiration of all.

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2. FLOATS THE DARK SHADOW by YVES FEY
   

   FLOATS THE DARK SHADOW is the first of Yves’ series set in the dynamic and decadent world of Belle Époque Paris. It recently won several Indie awards--a Silver IPPY in the Best Mystery category, a Finalist Award in the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards in mystery, and it was one of four Finalists in both History and Mystery in the Next Generation Indie Awards. Yves began drawing as soon as she could hold a crayon and writing when she was twelve. She holds a Bachelor’s in Pictorial Arts from UCLA, and a MFA from the University of Oregon in Creative Writing. In her varied career, she has been a tie dye artist, go-go dancer, baker, creator of ceramic beasties, illustrator, fiction teacher, and finally, novelist. She’s won prizes for her chocolate desserts, and her current obsession is designing perfumes inspired by her characters and by the magical city of Paris. A Libra with Scorpio Rising, Yves’ romantic nature takes on a darker edge. She hopes these shadows bring depth. A world traveler, Yves has visited Paris, England, and Italy. She lived for two years in Jakarta, Indonesia, with many trips around Asia. She wishes she could live in Montmartre like her heroine, but feels lucky to reside across the bridge from San Francisco, with her husband and their three cats, an Asian Burmese dubbed Marlowe the Investigator and two rescued girls, half Siamese and half tabby, The Flying Bronte Sisters. She's sometimes seen puttering in the garden. Under her own name, Gayle Feyrer, she authored two historical romances for Dell. The first takes place in the lush and violent world of Renaissance Italy. The second is set amid the earthy glamour of Robin Hood’s Sherwood. Under the nom de plume Taylor Chase, she wrote two historical romances for Avon. These novels explored the turbulent realm of Elizabethan England, an era of brash and bawdy manners contrasting with elaborate courtly protocol, of vice and venality contending with a questing romantic spirit. These books will all soon be available again under her own Tygerbright imprint. Feel free to contact me at YvesFey.com

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3. The 22nd Secret
   

   Randal Lanser was born in Missouri and grew up in Colorado where his parents were both educators. He is a CPA and currently living just outside of New Orleans after having lived in Texas for many years. He is married and extremely proud of his six children and ten grandchildren. A lifelong model railroader, he also enjoys riding his Harley Davidson and driving his Mustang GT.

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4. They Met at Shiloh
   

   Phillip M. Bryant attended the University of New Mexico and earned his bachelor's degree in history and with a minor in American studies. He has been active in local New Mexico reenacting and on the national level is a member of the 23rd SNY as part of the Army of the Pacific, 1st Federal Division. He has been researching the American Civil War for over 25 years. His sources have included diary accounts, autobiographies, historical monographs and first-hand reports on the actions taken 150 ago published in the War of the Rebellion battle reports and War Department communications. Phillip served 15 years in the Army, New Mexico National Guard, with the 44th Army Band in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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5. Unbound Brothers by Rob Rowntree
   

   Rob Rowntree, lives in Nottinghamshire, England, with his wife and two boys. He took up writing fiction over ten years ago and has had some success with short stories, notably, Armadillo, in issue two of the short-lived professional magazine, Farthing. More recently his work has appeared in the Transtories Anthology, from Aeon Press and the anthology Colinthology (in memory of the SF writer Colin Harvey), from Wizards Tower Press. Unbound Brother’s is his first novel. He is currently working on his second, The Narrows.

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6. The Babet & Prosper Collection I by Judith Post
   

   Judith Post taught 1st, 2nd, and 4th graders before having children of her own. Her husband often teased her that you can take a teacher out of the classroom, but you can't take the classroom out of the teacher, because she loves kids. She filled her house with them while her girls grew up. When diapers gave way to teenagers, though, and reading to children shifted to writing to entertain herself, she first turned to mysteries. She sold mystery short stories before trying her skills at novels. And once she discovered urban fantasies, mysteries became subplots and magic and myths filled her pages. Her love of cooking occasionally sneaks into her stories, too.

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