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1. The Sexy & The Undead

   About The Sexy & The Undead:

   (99 cent bargain from 02/21/2014 to 03/01/2014)

   A potion gone wrong, or right? Single, unemployed, and in charge of her very own pet zombie, Ella Perry is cooking up trouble, and it’s raining men.

   Ella has spent years searching for a cure for a zombie named Freddie. However, when an experimental concoction takes an unexpected turn, she gets a glimpse of the life she’s been missing by hanging out with the undead.

   Zombies, Angels, and Pixies. Oh my! Don’t miss out on the first book in the new “Sexy Witches” series by Bestselling Author Charity Parkerson.

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   Author Bio:
   Charity Parkerson is an award winning and multi-published author with Ellora’s Cave Publishing, Midnight Books, and Punk & Sissy Publications. Born with no filter from her brain to her mouth, she decided to take this odd quirk and insert it in her characters.

   2013 Reviewers’ Favorite Award winner

   2013 Readers’ Favorite Award winner

   ARRA Finalist for Favorite Paranormal Romance

   Five-time winner of The Mistress of the Darkpath

   Named one of the top 10 best books by an Indie author in 2011- Paranormal Reads Reviews

   Best Paranormal Romance of 2012- Paranormal Reads Reviews

    

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2. Vegan Recipes for Beginners – Quick & Easy Everyday Cooking By Sarah Clark

   About Vegan Recipes for Beginners – Quick & Easy Everyday Cooking By Sarah Clark:

   Welcome to your new journey toward a vegan lifestyle. Any new change brings about an exciting time in life and we are to help you with this collection of recipes. Many Americans are switching over to a new way of eating. The common meat and potatoes plate, is no longer what’s on the table for dinner. People have started eating less meat for many different reasons; health being the main one. Whether your reasoning is related to ethics, or your health, you will benefit from the new change. Consuming a vegan diet can help lower your risk of cardiovascular and other diseases. It also helps lower your cholesterol, blood pressure and offers you the probability for a longer life. These health benefits come from the omission of many unhealthy foods. This book is dedicated to providing you with delicious vegan recipes to help jump start your new eating habits.

   * Sweet and savory breakfasts

   * Simple, delicious salads

   * Comforting warm soups

   * Convenient and tasty snacks

   * Easy and satisfying dinner Ideas

   * Delicious desserts

   * All Ingredients are 100% free of animal products

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   Author Bio:
   My passion is health & fitness, I like creating books that help people achieve a healthy lifestyle through nutrition and exercise.
   I’m Vegetarian, so I like to creating books related to Vegetarian/Vegan to help people with ideas and recipes that have helped me.

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3. Confessions of an Instinctively Mutinous Baby Boomer and her Parable of the Tomato Plant by Marsha Roberts

   About Confessions of an Instinctively Mutinous Baby Boomer and her Parable of the Tomato Plant by Marsha Roberts:

   Remember when you were young and anything seemed possible? Being a girl and coming of age in the 1960′s… if you weren’t there it’s hard to describe how magical it was. If you were there, you know exactly what I mean. We were sassy and bold and, yes, mutinous! Life felt quite charmed. And then one day it didn’t anymore. I looked in the mirror and the twinkle in my eyes had disappeared. The magic was gone and I didn’t have a clue as to how to get it back. The question was, where do you go to look for a twinkle?

   Had it simply been youth, or was this mysterious and miraculous force still available now? I didn’t know, but I had to find that stubborn, indomitable, fearless gal I had once been. I missed being her.

   The answer came in the form of an unwelcome tomato plant that grew into a parable and eventually led to a spiritual journey I hadn’t anticipated. Spiritual? Yes, no doubt about it, but essentially what I did was go in search of my twinkle.

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   Author Bio:
   After years of producing Corporate Theatre for clients such as IBM and Coca-Cola, Marsha Roberts developed, produced and marketed “Letters From The Front,” the only professional theatrical production to tour American military bases around the world. This heartfelt show touched hundreds of thousands of lives, toured stateside and abroad for fifteen years and was the first play ever to perform at the Pentagon. The daunting process of getting this never-been-done-before production off the ground and onto a worldwide stage gave her a keen awareness of what it takes to overcome life’s obstacles and find the miraculous in the commonplace. She shares many of her experiences in her inspirational memoir “Confessions of an Instinctively Mutinous Baby Boomer and her Parable of the Tomato Plant.” Kirkus Reviews says her book is “An optimistic look at the magic of life” and readers have described her book as “Soul Candy,” “Delightful,” “Funny, touching and inspirational” and more!

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4. Yesterday’s Promises

   About Yesterday’s Promises:

   Tyler Rivers has returned to his hometown. As a successful country music star with custody of his young son, he has become tired of the lack of privacy in Nashville. With his son, Jesse, being only five years old he feels that the best way to raise him is in the same environment that gave him his own high standards and values. His marriage to Jesse’s mother, Dalaina Hibbert, was a disaster that he doesn’t want to repeat. However, he blames himself for that failure since he knew Dalaina wasn’t the type of woman that you marry and take home to your family. Not like someone else he knew years ago and still held in his heart.

   After the accidental death of her professional football player husband, Jason, Shannon McKinley-Keystone needs to find a way to rebuild her life for the sake of her daughter, Shiloh. The publicity surrounding Jason’s accident which took the life of one of his mistresses was the breaking point of a marriage that had been unraveling for years. With very little resources left after the legal battle regarding his estate, she packed up and went home to live with her parents and started to try to pick up the pieces of their lives.

   Ty and Shannon never expected to run into each other again after the close friendship of their youth was destroyed by a prom night prank but in a small town it’s very hard not to run into your neighbor at some point of time. And they were neighbors again, just like they had been years ago growing up. When he saw her at the fall festival in town, the wheels in his head started turning and the feelings that had been hidden in his heart for many years came to the surface. He was going to win back the girl that he knew would make the difference in his and Jesse’s lives.

   Shannon had a different idea. She had been hurt by Ty once and devastated by a miserable marriage and there was no way that she was ever going to put herself or her daughter in a position to be hurt again. She was not impressed by his fame or his fortune and made her mind up that she would do anything she could to make sure he stayed away. But her daughter had a different idea and was hell bent to partner with Ty to help the two adults find their happily ever after.

   Family and friends join forces to help Shannon get to the point to give Ty, and love, a chance. Things seem to be heading in the right direction until Ty’s former wife pops back into the picture and the media has their fun with making sure that the public thinks that there is a reconciliation in the works. But appearances are not always what they seem, so will Shannon be able to overlook her past struggles and trust in Ty again?

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   Author Bio:
   Teresa Keefer is a self-published author by night and a ‘temporarily retired’ human resource professional during the day. Her primary interest is romantic fiction; however, she has been known to dabble in other genres when the mood strikes her. Being an avid reader of everything from non-fiction to horror to romance and erotica since she was young, her dream of becoming a published author herself became a reality in 2013 when she published a contemporary romance she completed in 2007. She is a current member of Romance Writers of America as well as the Indiana Chapter of RWA.

   Coming Home was released in February 2013 through Amazon’s Create Space and Kindle Direct Publishing. Blood Vengeance-Book 1 Vengeance Trilogy was completed and released by the same platforms in July 2013 with the subsequent books due to release in 2014. On Valentine’s Day 2014 she released her second contemporary romance Yesterday’s Promises. She also has written several short stories and essays as well as poetry which may be found on www.fanstory.com.

   First-hand experience breathes life into her stories because they are set in places that she has visited. Coming Home is set in the beautiful, peaceful Smoky Mountain area of East Tennessee, which is her favorite place to relax. Blood Vengeance is set in the steamy, seductive New Orleans, a place where she and her daughters visited and to which she hopes to return. We should also watch for locations such as Las Vegas, New York City, Washington D.C. as well as some fictional locations that she has created in her own mind. She says that if she is able to start working on her bucket list soon, there will also be a visit to Ireland and hopefully a story from there too. Her favorite author saying is ‘be careful what you say or do…you might end up in my next novel’. Not to say that her fictional characters bear any resemblance to actual people, living or deceased. Readers have said things like ‘she pulls at the heartstrings’ and ‘she makes you feel like you are right there’ when reviewing her books. She says between book ideas that are fed to her by friends, her own imagination is continually coming up with new book ideas and she has no less than three works in process at a time.

   Teresa is a lifelong Indiana resident living in a rural community in the east central portion of the state. As a single mother of three daughters, she returned to college as an adult and earned an MBA from Indiana Institute of Technology. Teresa has spent over 25 years in the human resource profession and has often threatened to write a humorous depiction of life in the human resource profession. Oh, the stories she could tell! She has been known to debate political and social issues with passion and generally does not back down, sometimes resorting to dry sarcasm to prove a point. In addition to spending time with her daughters and grandchildren she has a lot of other interests that compete for her time such as cooking, sewing, gardening, crafting, studying spiritualism, and traveling.

   Links to Teresa Keefer-Author-

   teresa.keefer.author@hotmail.com

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   http://www.facebook.com/TeresaAKeefer

   http://www.amazon.com/Teresa-A-Keefer/e/B00E1NM82K

   http://www.librarything.com/author/keeferteresa

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5. Strength by S.M. Welles

   About Strength by S.M. Welles:

   When gods are confronted by problems they can’t solve alone, they call upon mortals with supernatural abilities, called Aigis, to step in.

   Seventeen-year-old Roxie Lohr has always wondered why her eyes glow different colors whenever she feels intense emotion. Aerigo, a captivating Aigis, not only gives her the answer but also whisks her away into a host of new problems. Suddenly, Roxie finds herself thrust into exotic worlds, an unexpected romance, and a conflict between gods in which only they can decide the outcome…

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   Author Bio:
   S.M. Welles and her two cats are currently enjoying the desert life in Arizona with a longtime WoW friend near the base of Mt. Graham. And like a lot of pro athletes, retirement is often temporary. Welles futzes around in ARAM on LoL (Synlaga), along with on Midget Ofdoom in FFXIV on Lamia. You are more than welcome to run around and kill things with her whenever she’s taking a break.

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6. The Secret in Defiance: A Coming of Age Supernatural Adventure by Jeff Bennington

   

   About The Secret in Defiance: A Coming of Age Supernatural Adventure by Jeff Bennington

   ONLY 99¢ Feb. 21-23

   FASCINATING & DANGEROUS SECRETS
   When Andy Harper is entrusted with a powerful secret from his dying neighbor, he discovers that Defiance is far more mysterious than he thought. There are secrets, legends, hauntings, and men with dangerous plans. Suspicious of Andy and the Harper family, members of an old mob syndicate connected to Al Capone will stop at nothing to recover something very precious they lost 30 years ago.

   While unraveling the “secret”, Andy must protect his mother and little sister, and find out what happened to his missing father before he is the next victim. Will Andy uncover the power behind the secret? Will he rid his town of the darkness lurking in the shadows? Or… will he die trying?

   Think Stephen King’s “The Body”, “Tom Sawyer” and “The Last Child” by John Hart, and you’ll get THE SECRET IN DEFIANCE.

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7. Bex, drugs & rock ‘n’ roll

   About Bex, drugs & rock ‘n’ roll:

   A comedic, psychedelic, rock and roll, coming of age story. If you love Charles Bukowski, David Sedaris and John Birmingham, you’ll love this. It’s a batch of dysfunctional, zany yet poignant tales. Inside you’ll meet characters like Balloon-Head Ed, the sociopathic neighbor, the startled prostitutes, Trixie and Destiny, a transsexual terrier, an angry and drunken town, a disabled comedian, and one very hung over and naughty boy.

   So what are you waiting for?

   “A hilarious batch of tales” The Emerald News

   “Funny and quirky” Mackay Mercury Times

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   Author Bio:
   Cris got the comedy itch when he co-wrote the Alien Television Workshop variety series which aired last millennium in Australia and also in England (he’s getting old).

   His previous jobs weren’t so glamorous and included picking out cigarette butts from hot tar and impersonating a Latino. He lives in Rockhampton and spends his time teaching, creating music with The Falling Echoes, an art rock band, running Stargate Activation Meditations and telling stories.

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8. Spark

   About Spark:

   For centuries, the powers of Heaven and Hell have been at war, locked in a perpetual stalemate. Fifty years ago, the war spilled out on Earth and the last modern age of man ended. Humanity now finds itself at the brink of annihilation, barely surviving in small pockets of civilization scattered across the globe. But even in the direst of circumstances, the human spirit lives on.

   Now, in this post-apocalypse, humanity has but one choice: resist or die. In order to combat the forces of Hell, man has learned to fight, training from their youth to hunt the demons that threaten their very existence.

   Twenty-five years ago, a demon hunter dared rise against an ancient demon family, the Saligia—the Seven Deadly Sins—and was cursed for her defiance. The curse appeared in the guise of an innocent: the huntress’s own daughter, Ardentia, who had been born with a demon soul attached to her own.

   In the present day, Ardentia, now grown, seeks to free her mother from her curse by hunting down the demons responsible. But the road ahead will be difficult now that the demon within her has awakened. Trusting him is dangerous, especially when he can turn on her at a moment’s notice. Others have warned her that succumbing to the demon will be her own downfall.

   Now Ardentia must decide what she’s willing to lose: her mother’s freedom or herself.

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   Author Bio:
   Karyn Pearson is the author of Spark (Hellfire Trilogy #1) and Inferno (Hellfire Trilogy #2). She is a full-time pet parent of her two dogs Nikki and Jamie. She has a B.A. in Anthropology and has explored dozens of cultures in her studies, but has imagined countless more. Karyn enjoys reading, playing action RPGs, and plotting the next adventure for her characters when she has a spare moment free of the dreaded and undefeated “puppy dog eyes attack.”

   Her current projects include Embers (Hellfire Trilogy #3) and the first novel of the upcoming vampire series, Arcturian Bloodlines. When she’s not writing, Karyn can be found playing with her puppies or Googling various dangerous topics for novel research that make her constantly question why federal agents haven’t yet knocked down her front door.

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9. Sanctuary 12

   About Sanctuary 12:

   Sanctuary 12 (Book 1 of the Fallen Gods Saga)

   FOLLOW HER VOICE

   Nine strangers, linked by the inner whisperings of a mysterious little girl.

   Each must piece together the origins of their other-worldly abilities and the location of the white manor, where they will be reunited and the questions that have plagued their existence will finally be answered.

   But someone else marks their every step. The sinister Mr Cradleworth has other plans for them, plans that could bring about catastrophic consequences, not just for earth, but the whole universe.

   Jerrico Flynn always felt distant from the world around him, soaking up emotion like a sponge.

   Martha Johnson dreams of other worlds – worlds where demons stalk the highways.

   Vladimir Volanov can get inside your head by eating the one thing you can never escape from.

   Josie De Morgan is blind, but she can see your death long before you can.

   Heven Ramirez can break your heart if he concentrates hard enough.

   Kaleb Levesque is a sculptor with a healing touch. He can give you a new lease of life.

   Evelyn Alton has an Unkindness of ravens at her command.

   Stuart Matheson is bound to a wheelchair, but his telekinetic power evens the odds a little.

   Barnes may look like just a dog. Take your eyes off him, he may jump somewhere you can’t follow.

   This epic tale covers half the globe, as it follows each character into the darkest recesses of their soul. Combining eighties-style horror with science fiction, this dark fantasy will take you on a journey you will never forget.

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   Author Bio:
   I’m 38 years old and live in Staffordshire in the UK. I’m as much in love with the world of film as I am with literature. My tastes are varied, but the horror genre feeds my imagination the most.

   I regularly attend Film 4’s Frightfest film festival in London, and have met some of my heros and heroines there. I’m hoping one day to meet my all time favourite author, Clive Barker…we’ll see.

   Until then, I’m working hard on my horror/fantasy trilogy, the Fallen Gods Saga. Book 1, Sanctuary 12, is available now, with Fallen Gods: Infanticide to follow in November 2013. The final instalment, Fallen Gods: Mind over Matterless is my current project and should be ready in 2014.

   I have several more projects lined up, including a possible comic book! I hope you will find something you like within my work. If you like your romance dark and bloody, why not try my novella, The Last Cut is Always the Deepest.

   One of the biggest tragedies in modern fiction is the lack of strong female characters. I don’t subscribe to this idea that a strong female in fantasy has to jump around doing martial arts in a tight costume. My female characters distinguish themselves by having a strong moral core, and being able to think under pressure without giving in to fear-induced aggression. I hope my characters offer something a little different for both female and male readers.
   You may find my love for monsters quite apparent in my books. That’s because I adore them. We are all monsters in the end, aren’t we? Some beautiful, some not so much.

   I would be very interested to speak to you, even if it’s just to talk about horror in general. Feel free to follow me on Twitter or drop a comment on my website. Take care until then, fellow monsters.

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10. American Warrior

    About American Warrior:

    The year is 1961. America has a new president, named John F. Kennedy, and a new era the newspapers are calling the Dawn of Camelot. But for ten-year-old Paul Brett, dealing with an abusive father and the immigrant gangs roaming his slum neighborhood of China Slough, America is only a small, dead-end place he is struggling to survive.

    That is, until the night a mysterious stranger comes out of the darkness to his rescue, and initiates a journey–an unforgettable odyssey–beyond his wildest imagination.

    From his unlikely beginnings in a brutal California migrant camp, into the darkest underbelly of a distant and unpopular war, to his final and, perhaps, most deadly struggle for survival inside the bowels of a near-medieval military prison, American Warrior follows this amazing journey of one young hero from boyhood to manhood, and from love lost, to his final and most incredible attempts to regain that love.
    “A fast-paced…thoroughly engrossing story of a journey through pain and violence.” Kirkus Reviews

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    Author Bio:
    James Snyder was born in Memphis, Tennessee and fell in love with the cadence and sound of storytelling as a child, listening to the meandering tales of his Southern grandmothers and great aunts. While still a child, his family moved to Napa Valley, California where he attended middle and high school, and began taking writing classes at the local college. He left after a year to join the military, and was a soldier with a tactical mobile operations unit in Germany. It was there, while pulling a Harz mountaintop guard duty one night during a snowstorm, he had the chance encounter with another soldier that ultimately became the genesis for his military thriller, American Warrior.

    His second novel is the suspense thriller, Desolation Run. In addition, he has just released the YA trilogy, The Beautiful-Ugly.

    “Berlin Diaries” is his blog at JamesSnyder.net where he further discusses the backgrounds of his writings.

    He currently lives in Texas.

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11. The Nightlife London by Travis Luedke

    

    About The Nightlife London by Travis Luedke

    The Nightlife Series is violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy.

    Vampires Aaron and Michelle prowl the dark, gritty, strip clubs and back alleys of London on the hunt for Michael Jamison, the man who stole Michelle’s blood and left her for dead. To assist them, Aaron’s new master, Urvashi, calls in favors from her friends, Russian mercenary werewolves.

    Wolves Katya and Ivan, hunters adept at killing rogue vampires, set aside their animosity for Aaron and Michelle to stop Jamison from murdering another woman – he already has one bloodless victim lying in the morgue.

    Jamison, ex-special forces, feels his enemies closing in, but he won’t go down without a fight – and like Aaron and Michelle, he also has powerful friends.

    Experience the violent, sensual underbelly of Nightlife London, as Aaron and Michelle mix up a wicked blend of sex, chaos, mayhem, and vengeance.

    The Nightlife Series novels are Adult Paranormal Romance ~ Urban Fantasy Thriller:

    #1 THE NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK

    #2 THE NIGHTLIFE LAS VEGAS

    #3 THE NIGHTLIFE PARIS

    #4 BLOOD SLAVE

    #5 THE NIGHTLIFE LONDON

    #6 THE NIGHTLIFE SERIES OMNIBUS (Books 1-4)

    Young Adult novels by TW Luedke (Travis Luedke)

    THE SHEPHERD (YA Paranormal)

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12. Blue Standoff

    About Blue Standoff:

    Detective Max Cole could not believe his eyes: The plot of the $2 movie he bought at the discount store was the same as the case he was investigating. That is, until he saved the life of a small-time crook and went off script. Can he salvage enough of the plot to arrest the bad guys and still keep his girlfriend from being kidnapped?

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    Author Bio:
    Jon Batson is four-time winner of the Lower Cape Fear Short Story Contest and has twice won Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest and twice in the Rusty Axe contest. He has completed eight novels and three short story collections. Jon lives with his wife in Raleigh, NC., where he is outlining his next novel.

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