http://awesomegang.com

Where Awesome Book Readers Meet Awesome Writers

1. Under A Texas Star by Alison Bruce

   About Under A Texas Star by Alison Bruce:

   Disguised as a boy, Marly joins a handsome Texas Ranger in the hunt for a con man and they must bring the fugitive to justice before giving up the masquerade and giving in to their passion.

   When Marly Landers is fooled by con man Charlie Meese, she’s determined to bring him to justice–even if it means dressing up as a boy and setting off across the plains to find him.

   Texas Ranger Jase Strachan is also after Meese, for crimes committed in Texas. He joins forces with the young boy in a journey that takes them to Fortuna, where a murder interrupts their mission. Jase is duty bound to find the killer, no matter the cost.

   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
   Visit the Author’s Website.
   Buy the Book On Amazon.
   Visit the Facebook Fan Page.
   Goodreads Profile Page

   Author Bio:
   Alison Bruce has had many careers and writing has always been one of them. Copywriter, editor and graphic designer since 1992, Alison has also been a comic book store manager, small press publisher, webmaster and arithmetically challenged bookkeeper. She is the author of mystery, suspense and historical romance novels.

   Under A Texas Star by Alison Bruce is a post from Awesome Gang

2. Death Line by Geraldine Evans

   About Death Line by Geraldine Evans:

   The Rafferty and Llewellyn mystery series features working-class lapsed Catholic Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty who comes from a family who think – if they must have a policeman in the family – he might at least have the decency to be a bent one. His partner, the intellectual, more moral than the Pope Welshman, Dafyd Llewellyn, only adds to the angst. And when you add murder to the brew…

   ‘The detectives brilliantly complement and oppose each other. For those who love Sherlock Holmes-style mysteries, you’ll likely adore Evans’ style, humor and method of detection. A wonderful cozy, rainy-night read rich with interesting characters that all appear guilty and innocent. At every turn you’ll think you know who the killer is, but the true identity and motive won’t come until the end. The reveal is not far-fetched or deceptive – it was there all along and it works perfectly.’

   Review by Charlie Courtland of Bitsy Bling Books http://bitsybling.blogspot.com/2011/03/death-line-curl-up-with-cozy-mystery

   ‘Ms Evans writes with a nice, tongue-in-cheek style and in her policemen has created an attractive pair of sleuths. Recommended.’

   MICHAEL PAINTER, THE IRISH TIMES, ON DEATH LINE

   I love English detectives and the team of Rafferty and Llewellyn is no exception. Evans has created a pair that works well together without one over shadowing the other in any way. I love that. I cannot help but compare Evans to Sir Author Conan Doyle, her style is similar although her wit is not as dry, which is another plus in my book. I also liked that Rafferty and Llewellyn recognize and catch the flaws in one another that are sometimes over looked in other novels. In my opinion Geraldine Evans will soon be one of those must read authors whose books sell out in minutes.

   Rita Reviews

   Rita’s Rating: Five Stars

   ‘One of the best crime plots for devotees is written in the stars in Geraldine Evans’s DEATH LINE.’

   PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH

   BLURB

   Jasper Moon, internationally renowned ‘seer to the stars’, had signally failed to predict his own future. He is found dead on his consulting-room floor, his skull crushed with his own crystal ball and, all around him, his office in chaos.

   Meanwhile, Ma Rafferty does some star-gazing of her own and is sure she can predict Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty’s future – by the simple expedient of organizing it herself. She is still engaged on her crusade to get Rafferty married off to a good Catholic girl with child-bearing hips. But Rafferty has a cunning plan to sabotage her machinations. Only trouble is, he needs Sergeant Llewellyn’s cooperation and he isn’t sure he’s going to get it.

   During their murder investigations, Rafferty and Llewellyn discover a highly incriminating video concealed in Moon’s flat, a video which, if made public, could wreck more than one life. Was the famous astrologer really a vicious sexual predator? Gradually, connections begin to emerge between Moon and others in the small Essex town of Elmhurst. But how is Rafferty to solve the case when all of his suspects have seemingly unbreakable alibis?

   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
   Visit the Author’s Website.
   Buy the Book On Amazon.
   Visit the Facebook Fan Page.
   http://www.twitter.com/gerrieevans
   Goodreads Profile Page

   Author Bio:
   From a traditionally published background (Macmillan, St Martin’s Press and several more), after having eighteen novels published, Geraldine Evans became an intrepid indie in 2010.

   She hasn’t regretted it. For the first time in a writing career that encompasses over half her life, she’s now making a living income. She also enjoys the freedom to choose her own covers and make all the other decisions about her books that only a control freak could desire!

   But she’s happy and enjoying her writing again after a period in the doldrums during her trad days.

   Geraldine is a Londoner, but shifted across the country to East Anglia (UK) and settled in a Norfolk market town with George, her darling late husband.

   Desperate to get her drearily dragging on (and on and on) annual accounts finished, so she can GET ON, she’s eager to return to her writing. She plans to write two new books: the first, Asking For It, will be #16 in her popular Rafferty and Llewellyn mystery series. The second book is another historical, this time set in the Plantagenet era and will (like Geraldine’s first historical: Amazon No 1 Category Best Seller, Reluctant Queen, about the little sister of Henry VIII), be a fictionalised account of another real character. The research books she’s bought are piled up wherever she can find a space. She hopes they won’t gather too much dust (housework? Ugh!) in the interim.

   Geraldine enjoys gardening and grows many of her own plants from seeds and cuttings she’s grown on herself. She loves painting portraits in oils and, given some of her earlier efforts, has to sweet-talk her nearest and dearest into being her victims. Geraldine is also learning to play keyboards. She’s convinced, if she has the time to practise, that she would take Carnegie Hall by storm. Or at least a little, light rain.

   Geraldine has a NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP. Why not click the link for her irregular news about new books, bargains and freebies? Here’s the link: http://eepurl.com/AKjSj

   WEBSITE: http://www.geraldineevans.com

   BLOG: http://geraldineevansbooks.wordpress.com

   Death Line by Geraldine Evans is a post from Awesome Gang

3. Breaking TWIG

   About Breaking TWIG:

   Set in the rural South in the 60s and 70s, Breaking TWIG tells the story of thirteen-year-old Becky (Twig) Cooper, who is trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life. Not even Twig’s vivid imagination and keen wit are enough to help her endure the assaults of Helen and a new stepbrother, but help comes from an unexpected source—Frank, her stepfather. Sometimes, having one person who believes in you is all a girl needs to keep hope alive.

   Over the next eight years, Becky’s tumultuous struggle to prevail—becoming neither a “pick” (victim) nor a “picker” (abuser)—finds her bouncing back and forth between Helen’s abuse and Frank’s tenderness as she fights to win this desperate battle of souls. She infuses her tale of torment and triumphs with a blend of dark humor and endearing wit, as when describing Helen, Becky declares, “I may not be the smartest squirrel in the tree, but I know a nut when I see one.”

   Just as she begins to feel life holds some promise, Becky’s world crumbles when she loses Frank. To counter Donald’s attacks, Becky makes a shaky truce with Helen. On Halloween night, she and Helen argue and all lies are stripped away. Now that she knows the shocking truth about her mother, Becky must make a fateful decision—one that can give her the freedom she craves or send her to prison for life.

   Sprinkled with all the southern flavoring found in a hearty bowl of chicken and dumplings, Breaking TWIG is about finding love where we least expect it, destroying lives with easy lies, and realizing each of us determine our own truth.

   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
   Visit the Author’s Website.
   Buy the Book On Amazon.
   Visit the Facebook Fan Page.
   https://twitter.com/DDEpperson
   Goodreads Profile Page

   Author Bio:
   Born and raised in the Deep South, Deborah Epperson grew up during the era of the Civil Rights Movement, integration, and Vietnam. She received a BS degree in biology and English in Texas, and later moved to Atlanta to work and pursue post graduate work at Georgia Tech. After working in the scientific field for twenty years, she turned her talents to writing fiction and nonfiction. Her award winning nonfiction and poetry have been published in newspapers and magazines locally and nationally.

   Through her storytelling, Deborah tackles issues most people, especially Southerners, can identify with and, like her, may have struggled to understand. She enjoys writing stories and characters steeped in the lyrical traditions and mystical surroundings of the Deep South where she grew up.

   A transplanted Texan, Deborah lives in Montana with her husband and children. When not working on her next novel or article, she enjoys doing pet therapy work with her golden retriever and volunteering in animal rescue.

   Breaking TWIG is a post from Awesome Gang

4. The Change

   About The Change:

   500 Years into the future, nine of every ten babies conceived are female. Men have been enslaved for their own protection and the only way to get a mate is to enter the Network Games and fight for one. The catch? It’s a live battle to the death and the competition is fierce.

   Who’s ready to play? Are ya? Are ya really?

   Let’s meet the Players…
   Candice Marie Pruett- Just barely 18, this intimidating Bounty Hunter resides in the Recovery Zones of Ohio and has a long record of excessive force. Recently fined over one million UDs for injury to a family member, this brutal Changeling only wants one thing. – To get back what was stolen from her. Rank at the start of competition: 5/10.
   The Blonde Bombshell- As reigning champion, this scarlet-wearing Dock Worker is heavily favored to repeat her vicious victory and claim a second Bachelor. Trying to amass a harem to stand between her and the Change, she starts the games ranked 1/10.
   The Ex-Defender- Fresh from tracking fugitives in the deserts of Nebraska, this former Network guard seeks to make amends by winning and donating her prize to charity. Baker, the dangerous, untrained male she allowed to escape, is still missing. It has lowered her rankings on day one, to just 7/10.
   And their prize: A choice of…
   Daniel is a 20 year old Bachelor with excellent home skills and no memory of his life before being sold to the Network. Calm and unaggressive, he has been trained to be the perfect, harmless mate, and now hopes for a kind and loving owner to take him home.
   Or…
   One of the eight other brutally brainwashed males sharing his Cell. They are lot #21198.

   Who’s ready to play? Are ya? Are ya really?

   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
   Visit the Author’s Website.
   Buy the Book On Amazon.
   Visit the Facebook Fan Page.

   Author Bio:
   Hello, I’m Angie.

   Little pleases me more than to explore the dark fantasy and horror stories in my head. Knowing other people like them is second only to the magic of this new career. As a die-hard Cincinnatian, I much prefer writing to the stresses of being a city Taxicab dispatcher. Thank you for making my dreams possible.

   Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, lets you and I take a little stroll. There’s a story I need to let out of its cage and I think it’s one you need to hear. It’s about the end of the world as we know it…

   The Change is a post from Awesome Gang

5. The Sister by Max China

   About The Sister by Max China:

   Cornwall, England 1967

   Two children witness a murder. One, a young Irish girl, views it from miles away, the other a seven-year old boy, from fifty yards . . .

   London 2006

   With retirement looming, DCI John Kennedy reopens the only unresolved case in his career – the disappearance of a young nurse twenty-three years earlier. Following the broadcast of a cold case reconstruction, a witness comes forward. Kennedy, now set on the trail of a serial killer, unwittingly sparks a sequence of events that to his horror lead back to him. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes apparent that the murderer is no ordinary adversary. Resourceful and cunning, he has been operating undetected for over forty years, and it seems that only the original witnesses from 1967 can stop him.

   But they have yet to meet . . .

   A devious and compelling thriller that will keep you guessing from start to finish

   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
   Visit the Author’s Website.
   Buy the Book On Amazon.
   Visit the Facebook Fan Page.

   Author Bio:
   I work as a construction professional and write in my spare time.

   They say everyone has a book inside them just waiting to be written, and I’ve wanted to write mine since I was seventeen. It took a long time . . . Now that I’ve written one, I’ve started on another . . .

   I research anything that piques my interest with a passion. I love reading, writing, and listening to music, off road cycling, the great outdoors, freedom and much more besides . . .

   I am currently writing a spin-off novel involving characters featured in The Sister called The Life and Times of William Boule: Serial Killer scheduled for completion in March 2014.

   The Sister by Max China is a post from Awesome Gang