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1. Kidnapped Cowboy by Lindsey Brookes

   About Kidnapped Cowboy by Lindsey Brookes:

   After countless attempts to speak with the owner of the retreat for troubled teens she runs on the outskirts of Lone Tree, Montana, Caitlin Myers resorts to kidnapping Brandon ‘The Ogre of Lone Tree’ Barnes in a desperate attempt to change his mind about turning Stoney Brook into a vacation resort for the wealthy.

   Retired rodeo star, Dalton Barnes, gets the surprise of his life when he’s abducted by a soft-spoken female with a ‘gun’ and taken to the retreat his family owns. He soon learns she’s kidnapped the wrong cowboy by mistake. She wanted his brother. Things go from bad to worse when a late spring snowstorm strands them together at the cabin. But it’s during their snow-in that Dalton learns why Caitlin has gone to such lengths to save Stoney Brook. Having had issues with his older brother himself and a not so happy past, Dalton promises to do what he can to help her.

   When confronted Brandon tells Dalton he’ll hold off on his plans for the retreat, but only if Dalton agrees to stick around and help run it. Keeping his promise to Caitlin, Dalton agrees and what starts out as a common goal to turn the troubled teens’ lives around that summer ends up turning theirs around as well. Can a man who has always avoided putting down roots and a woman with a deep-seated fear of abandonment hang on to the happiness they’ve found together? Or will the past return to threaten their newfound love?

   Love, laughter and a heartwarming read…

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   Author Bio:
   Romance author Lindsey Brookes spent part of her life growing up in the deep south, the rest up north where winter brings in the cold and the snow. She penned her first romance, a historical, at the age of seventeen. From there she went on to join Romance Writers of America where she learned the ins and outs of the publishing business and ways to hone her craft. She switched to writing contemporary romance and has finalled in/or won more than 75 RWA chapter sponsored contests with over a dozen different manuscripts. She is also a four time RWA Golden Heart finalist as well as a past American Title III finalist and winner of Harlequin’s Great American Romance Novel contest. She writes for Kensington Publishing, Amazon Publishing and is Indie pubbed as well. She’s married to her childhood sweetheart, her hero, with whom she has two beautiful daughters.

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2. The Consul’s Daughter

   About The Consul’s Daughter:

   Diana, a young Christian woman living during the time of Nero, is thrust into a web of intrigue after her settlement is destroyed by Roman soldiers. The biggest problem? Diana is also a Roman, the daughter of a former Consul. She must hide her past, as well as her feelings, as she figures out who she can trust and how to stay alive.

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   Author Bio:
   Crystal L Biccum grew up outside Buffalo, NY and joined the Air Force right after college. As an active duty musician her career has taken her all across this great country. Currently she lives in California with her husband and five cats.

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3. The Blood Stiller by Minerva Taylor

   About The Blood Stiller by Minerva Taylor:

   RED TERROR COMES TO NEW YORK

   Wealthy New York socialite Christina Gartner is lured into a dangerous émigré conspiracy, and ends up on the hit list of a former Bolshevik spy.

   Embittered and depressed by her recent divorce, Christina attempts to escape her glamorous life by moving from her luxurious Fifth Avenue residence to a shabby apartment building on East 82nd. Street.

   Unaware of the danger that awaits her, she befriends her mysterious neighbor Mme. Feodosia Petrovna Antonova, a White Russian who fled her country after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Feeling lost, near to a breakdown, Christina is enthralled by Mme. Antonova’s dramatic stories of old Russia. Lulled by the safety and comfort of living in the past, she is drawn into her neighbor’s world and her circle of eccentric émigré friends, and gradually becomes aware that Mme. Antonova has been guarding a dangerous secret since her escape from the revolution.

   Christina is plunged into her neighbor’s turbulent history and her involvement in the intrigue and sexual debauchery surrounding the Bolshevik leaders and Tsar Nicholas II’s court. Her attempts to uncover the secret Mme. Antonova had buried for years leads to the heart of a sinister émigré conspiracy that makes her the target of a shadowy former Bolshevik spy and his killers

   When Christina is on the run from the Bolshevik spy, she finds herself in a passionate love-hate relationship with Jack Reilly, a New York detective.

   The Blood Stiller is the first novel of a trilogy of historical thrillers set during the Russian Revolution and Civil War and the present day. The writer spent eight years researching Russia’s Revolutionary and Stalinist Periods. All of the actual events, as well as personal details of the Tsar’s family, Rasputin and other public figures portrayed in the book are historically accurate.

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   Author Bio:
   Judith Windeler, who writes under the name Minerva Taylor, is an American living in London. She has been a freelance writer for twenty years, publishing international travel articles with historical backgrounds in magazines and newspapers.

   Judith spent eight years researching Russia’s Revolutionary and Stalinist Periods. She lived in New York City for thirteen years, and during this time met many Russian émigrés, including her White Russian neighbor, who provided material and inspiration for the book.

   She also has published two children’s books and is writing the third novel of the Russian Trilogy, The Devil’s Tears, set in Baku.

   The second book of the trilogy, The Blood Archive, is soon to be published.

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4. Ghost Chaser

   About Ghost Chaser:

   A small-town homicide detective, Niles Patrick, with an unusual ‘sixth sense,’ is called to the scene of a ghastly murder of a beautiful young woman where the only evidence the criminal forensics team finds is fingerprints, which Niles runs himself and discovers something extremely disturbing; the prints are his, though he did not know the woman nor had he ever been to her home.

   When another gorgeous young woman is slain via the same grisly MO, a throat slit ear to ear, forty-eight hours later, and Niles cannot account for the hours during which the murder 0cccured, he finds himself hunting a serial killer who may or may not be himself and has precious little time to solve the mystery that’s driving him to the brink of madness.

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   Author Bio:
   Matthew Riehl is an up and coming mystery/suspense author/screenwriter poised to make his mark and provide his readers a fresh, new voice. Matthew began writing fictional novels roughly three years ago, when from out of the ethos came the idea for his first book, “Yellow,” a pulse-pounding suspense/thriller centered on espionage. He followed this with “Ghost Chaser.” His next work, “Brenda,” is another blood-curdling suspense/thriller inspired by a true event. His latest work, “Methuselah,” an ‘apocalyptic’ thriller, is in the works. You can visit Matthew’s webpage at riehlsuspense.com/.

   Born in San Diego, California, Matthew currently resides in Newport Beach, where he is a project manager/senior technical writer for a pharmaceutical company in Irvine. Prior to that, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Yuma, Arizona for three years, where he wrote hundreds of news articles and creative personal profiles, before spending five years as lead technical writer at a military weapons testing facility.

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5. Yellow

   About Yellow:

   Jax Wright, an ordinary man leading a relatively mundane life as lead technical editor at a military proving ground, inadvertently hears a conversation between one of his underlings and a member of one of the world’s most notorious terrorist groups, Hamas, regarding Goliath––a cutting edge weapon system being tested at the facility which is capable of triggering another Holocaust, Hamas’s main goal, and putting America in grave danger.

   When Jax learns Hamas is attempting to infiltrate the system and seize the project as their own and that his name is being used by the terrorist group to recruit others, he embarks on a dangerous quest to expose the real traitor and prevent multiple imminent terror attacks.

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   Author Bio:
   Matthew Riehl is an up and coming mystery/suspense author/screenwriter poised to make his mark and provide his readers a fresh, new voice. Matthew began writing fictional novels roughly three years ago, when from out of the ethos came the idea for his first book, “Yellow.” He followed this with “Ghost Chaser,” a dark, psychological murder mystery. His next work, “Brenda,” is another blood-curdling suspense/thriller inspired by a true event. His latest work, “Methuselah,” an ‘apocalyptic’ thriller, is in the works. You can visit Matthew’s webpage at riehlsuspense.com/.

   Born in San Diego, California, Matthew currently resides in Newport Beach, where he is a project manager/senior technical writer for a pharmaceutical company in Irvine. Prior to that, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Yuma, Arizona, where he wrote hundreds of news articles and creative personal profiles, before spending five years as lead technical writer at a military weapons testing facility, which provided the fertilizer for and lends credibility to the narrative of “Yellow,” as he knows what he’s writing about is plausible.

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6. Brenda

   About Brenda:

   Inspired by a true event, “Brenda” is the tale of Jax Wright, whose world was turned upside down at the age of ten after a brazen attempt to avoid the lash of a father’s belt turned into the most horrific thing he’d ever witnessed. Not only was Jax emotionally shattered by the tragic accident, but he was sentenced to eight years in a juvenile detention facility. Upon his release, the now eighteen-year-old Jax realizes his only option is to put the past behind him and make a new life for himself. Having been abandoned by his family after the incident, as Jax begins his struggle with the fear that accompanies adjusting to life on the outside, he’s suddenly faced with a far more daunting challenge, as there’s someone who’s been watching and waiting during his incarceration, her ire growing stronger daily, intent on making him remember the past by making his future as close to hell on earth as possible.

   Jax’s grim tormentor, known only as “Brenda,” uses a highly unorthodox method to thrust him into a perilous quest that has him darting back and forth across the country, with very little time to spare and the police and FBI hot on his trail, to save the ones he loves most, including his best friend and father figure, a corrections officer from Juvenile Hall, and thousands of other innocent strangers, from unimaginably horrific deaths. Brenda’s twisted “game” will either send Jax, who became mentally and physically resilient during his years of confinement, to his early grave or end in his ultimate redemption and, if fate permits, a reunion with his family members, who left him heartbroken and alone during his greatest moment of crisis.
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   Learn more about the author, buy the book, or follow them on social media:
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   Author Bio:
   Matthew Riehl is an up and coming mystery/suspense author/screenwriter poised to make his mark and provide his readers a fresh, new voice. Matthew began writing fictional novels roughly three years ago, when from out of the ethos came the idea for his first book, “Yellow,” a pulse-pounding suspense/thriller centered on espionage. He followed this with “Ghost Chaser,” a dark, psychological murder mystery. His next work was “Brenda.” His latest book, “Methuselah,” an ‘apocalyptic’ thriller, is in the works. You can visit Matthew’s webpage at riehlsuspense.com/.

   Born in San Diego, California, Matthew currently resides in Newport Beach, where he is a project manager/senior technical writer for a pharmaceutical company in Irvine. Prior to that, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Yuma, Arizona for three years, where he wrote hundreds of news articles and creative personal profiles, before spending five years as lead technical writer at a military weapons testing facility.

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