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1. Kiss Me, Lynn by Linda George

   About Kiss Me, Lynn by Linda George:

   Lynn Hanson is convinced by her best friend, Sharon, to participate in a tour of Peru–Lima, Cusco, the Sacred Valley of the Inca, and Machu Picchu, during their summer break from teaching. Lynn teaches World History in a high school in Virginia and admits that achieving her lifelong dream of going to the land of the Inca would enhance her unit on pre-Columbian civilizations. Sharon encourages her to be open to a romance with a handsome Peruvian, but Lynn is adamant about “no vacation flings!”

   Just before they leave for Peru, Lynn discovers that her mother’s behavior has been exceptionally odd for quite a while–something her father hadn’t shared with her. She’s forgotten simple things, made wild assumptions, and gone to lunch only to end up in another city with no idea how she got there. Lynn’s father suspects Alzheimer’s and retires from his job to stay home full-time. He encourages Lynn to enjoy her trip. But her mother’s odd behavior accelerates during the first part of the tour and Lynn has a difficult time focusing on the amazing things she’s seeing in Peru.

   After they arrive in Lima, Lynn unexpectedly finds herself attracted to their tour guide, Alex Vereau, whose interest in Lynn is mutual. Sharon encourages Lynn to “take this handsome Peruvian for a spin!” but Lynn knows a relationship between two people who live on different continents is impossible!

   Alex is drawn to the beautiful blonde turista from the minute he sees her. Once he learns the source of her worry, he wants to help console her, which brings them even closer together. Then, he realizes, his feelings for her are much deeper than simply friendship.

   As their relationship develops, so do the traumatic events going on with Lynn’s parents, making it impossible for Lynn to consider giving in to what her heart tells her she should do. At least they’ll be able to experience the wonder and magic of Machu Picchu together before they have to say good-bye.

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   Author Bio:
   Linda George is the author of seven novels and more than sixty nonfiction books for children and teens. KISS ME, LYNN is the second book in the Kiss Me Series of Contemporary Romances which was launched in 2013 with KISS ME, CHLOE. Linda also writes time-travel romance. ASK A SHADOW TO DANCE takes place in Memphis, Tennessee in present day and the mid-1880s. Linda’s historical romances include GABRIEL’S HEART, written under her pseudonym, Madeline George, for Harlequin Historicals, and the sequel to that novel, TOM’S ANGEL, published in January 2014. SILVER LADY is another historical romance, set in Colorado during the silver-boom days.

   Linda has been a professional writer since 1979. Having “retired” from writing nonfiction along with her writer husband, Charles, she’s devoting full-time now to writing romance. “There are only two types of novels,” Linda explains. “Those about violence, and those about love. I choose to write about love.” Her romances are known for their rich stories and suspense that lasts until the very end.

   Linda and Charles live in West Texas. They also have a wonderful “little piece of paradise” in the New Mexico mountains, where Linda retreats to write and “soak up serenity.” Her website is www.LindaGeorge.net. Photographs she took in Peru will be posted in her blog during the coming weeks. You may contact her through the website.

   KISS ME, LYNN will be offered free from May 1-5.

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2. The Exquisite Zodiac

   About The Exquisite Zodiac:

   As we advance thru each sign, we move forward, but we lose our innocence. Every sign is perfect as it is, but as it reaches its obsolescence, the next sign morphs into existence, reacting to the necessary evolutionary adaptations. Each sign transcends the temporary pseudo-safety of the previous sign. So, we reach forward and invest all of our collective marbles into the next sign. This happens over and over again until we complete the cycle; then we start over again.

   We have seen: the spirit of the signs at the beginning of the zodiac seem like young children, and seem to age throughout the zodiac. A thread of intelligence weaves its way all through the zodiac. The zodiac has a built-in, self-contained, self-regulating mechanism. We need all twelve archetypes to be interlaced with each other for a complete and balanced zodiac. An “Exquisite Zodiac.”

   We now find ourselves consciously within a new quantum holographic universe. We’re far from truly understanding what that means, yet somehow, we just know the truths that underlie the zodiac also underlie all things. If anything, the zodiac teaches that each of us is connected to a much broader, wiser realm of intelligence. The zodiac is your personal calendar and map. The zodiac is like a house of mirrors that makes sense.

   You are truly an emissary of the nature of the moment that you were born.

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   Author Bio:
   Rick DiClemente is not your typical astrologer. Widely known as a “way shower,” he blends math-science and spiritual-psychic ability with empirical knowledge in order to reveal the multi-faceted story in each chart.

   Rick’s intuitive-astrological readings blend past-life experience with the natal chart as well as your dharmic, or destiny chart. At the same time, he brings alive the applied discipline of consulting with the cosmos for timeless wisdom that helps others better understand themselves, their relationships and their lives.

   Rick has practiced astrology for 36 years, he works on radio, TV and the Internet and has presented numerous lectures, classes, workshops and online videos. He is the author of “The Exquisite Zodiac” and his articles appear monthly in national and international magazines.

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3. Easy Weight Loss Without Dieting: 77 Simple Lifestyle Changes to Lose Weight and be Healthier

   About Easy Weight Loss Without Dieting: 77 Simple Lifestyle Changes to Lose Weight and be Healthier:

   In this 50 page book you will discover simple tips and lifestyle changes on how to lose weight and live a healthier life without having to sacrifice the food you love. This is not a diet book, it is a resource for those who want to adopt healthy habits and make small changes that lead to big results over time.

   Also included are personal recommendations for overcoming mental challenges and identifying medical issues that may sabotage your weight loss efforts, as well as ideas for healthy grocery shopping trips, simplified exercise routines and mind tricks for losing weight. Written by an empowered foodie with a healthy living mindset who has managed to take control of her health and weight loss destiny through research, self experimentation and personal development (Short book: 19,326 words).

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   Author Bio:
   Lyn Ashby is an empowered foodie with a healthy living mindset who has managed to take control of her health and weight loss destiny through research, self experimentation and personal development.

   A self-acknowledged ski junkie and an Australian by birth currently living in Montana, Lyn has traveled the world while following her passion for outdoor sports, good food and spending time with her friends and family.

   To learn more about you can visit her Website: http://www.lifestylemenu.com/

   follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/mylifestylemenu

   or find out news at her Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/LifestyleMenu

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4. Color Our Second Honeymoon Erotic by Claudia Pulcher

   About Color Our Second Honeymoon Erotic by Claudia Pulcher:

   “Color Our Second Honeymoon Erotic may freak out some readers, at first,” wrote one critic, “because Claudia Pulcher pulls you into wild erotic scenes of agony and ecstasy (never just one). In the end, though, this is a great love story. Leslie and Guy O’Brien are rewarded for taking crazy risks–and for their courage in casting off sexual convention–with the sexiest second honeymoon on record.”

   And a reader wrote: “They do it! They do it as millions of men and women, finding themselves in once-wonderful sexual relationships that no longer make the heart race, have longed to do it: They face every fear, take every risk, to set loose their fantasies!”

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   Author Bio:
   Claudia Pulcher was born to a very wealthy, politically influential family in Rome. She became known as the most beautiful, desirable, and dissolute woman in the Rome of Julius Caesar. The great poet of the time, Catullus, fell hopelessly in love with her; she paid little attention to him, but he wrote his most famous poems about her, calling her “Lesbia” in his poetry.

   So, obviously, Claudia Pulcher did not write “Color Our Second Honeymoon Erotic,” a novel recently published by Amazon. I wrote it. You don’t have to get much further than the first chapter to understand why I decided to us a pen name. Not only is “Color Our Second Honeymoon Erotic” a shocking romance to be written by a woman; it is a book that many, many people will say should never have been published at all.

   My husband and I live in Sag Harbor on Long Island, a very swanky seaside resort (surrounded by people much richer than we are!).

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5. Seal of the King

   About Seal of the King:

   The battle between dark and light rages and the world is on the cusp of a tipping point. Will an age of darkness befall mankind or will the light prevail?
   David and Aurora have seen visions of each other their entire lives but never met, until now. Aurora a fearsome warrior and David a simple farmer are thrust into the heart of the battle. An ancient prophecy foretells of their final showdown with the Dark One. Will their faith be strong enough for them to prevail?
   Join them as they embark on their journey to the lair of the beast knowing they may never return.

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   Author Bio:
   Ralph Smith – was born in 1964, and grew up in Northport, NY.

   I’ll never forget those days when we would walk to school, ride bikes to the beach, play stick ball in the street, and hang out under the street lights until well past dark. Life was simpler then and I learned something really important (although it took me many years to understand it).

   Every day of your life is what you make of it. I’ve had my share of good and bad days. No matter what we face in life, how we face it is just as important as the outcome.

   I like the current phrase “Be Present”, but I would take it one step further. Make the most out of every moment, so that if anyone is your last you can look back in pride at not having wasted it. How we touch the lives of those around us is far more important than what we’ve accomplished.

   I have been blessed with a wonderful wife and three sons who fill my life with purpose every day.

   Having traveled around the world for work (more places than some and a lot less than others) I have been blessed with friends all over the globe. I only hope that in some small way I have touched their lives as much as they have touched mine.

   I found my faith late in life. For a long time I didn’t believe. Then one day, I knew without a doubt that God existed. I knew that he was working in my life in ways I can’t always see, but that he was there.

   How I knew is one of the things I can’t put into words. It would be like trying to explain how I use the muscles in my hand. It is something that is beyond words.

   Onto the topic at hand, writing. My sincerest thanks to anyone who reads my work. Writing is my passion, it always has been.

   My college professor Judith Johnson wrote a poem, “the gift”.

   what have i got for you?
   only what i am,
   and you are not.

   More than thirty years later her words still resonate and inspire me.

    

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6. Rising Tide: Dark Innocence

   About Rising Tide: Dark Innocence:

   CHOSEN AS ONE OF 400 FOR THE SECOND ROUND OF THE AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD FOR 2014!!!

   ARE YOU A FAN OF VAMPIRE ROMANCE?

   Rising Tide will sink it’s teeth into you, keeping you awake into the wee hours of the night

   Maura’s life just can’t get any worse…or can it?

   Isolated and sheltered by her lonely mother, Maura’s never been the best at making friends. Unusually pale with a disease-like aversion to the sun, she seems to drive her classmates away, but why?

   Even her own father deserted her, and her mother, before Maura was born. Bizarre physical changes her mother seems hell bent on ignoring, drive Maura to fear for her own life. And her luck just seems to get worse.

   Life is about to become even more bewildering when her mother’s abrupt…and unexplained…decision to move a country away sets off a chain of events that will change Maura forever. A cruel prank turned deadly, the discovery of love and friendship….and its loss, as well as a web of her own mother’s lies, become obstacles in Maura’s desperate search for a truth she was never prepared to uncover.

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   Author Bio:
   Claudette Melanson lives in Guelph, Ontario, with her husband Ron and four bun babies: Tegan, Pepper, Butters & Beckett. She was born in Bristol, Tennessee and graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and an MA in Literature. Vampires have been a passion since age five. She hopes to one day work full time as an author, since there are many, many books living inside her head.In her spare time she enjoys watching Japanese Anime and reading vampire stories….along with other great fiction. Rabbit Rescue is her favorite charitable organization.

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7. Holding Paradise by Fran Clark

   About Holding Paradise by Fran Clark:

   Two women, two journeys. The secrets of mother and daughter will either bind them together or make them fall…
   Angelica Ford boards a plane one grey morning, leaves her business and London behind and heads for a sunny island in the Caribbean. Angelica has wrongly accused her husband, Luke, of sleeping with his step daughter, Eva. Not only has he walked out on her but Eva has flown off to New York. Alone and desperate, Angelica seeks the help of her mother, Josephine Dennis, who has returned to the Caribbean, after having lived in London for over thirty years and weathering life in 1960s London, raising a family and living with an adulterous husband. Josephine’s extraordinary story of courage & determination strengthens Angelica’s resolve to re-unite her family.

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   Author Bio:
   I’m a singer-songwriter and vocal coach from West London, married to a bass player and we have two sons. One is a musician the other is a swimmer who wants to be selected for team GB!
   At the moment I’m writing my second novel set in 1950s London. It’s about jazz, lies and an act of revenge. I’m also studying for a Creative Writing MA so I’m back at University as a mature student.
   In September 2013 I released my second album of original music and I’m about to release a single called ‘I Would Come Back To You’ which is a song sung by one of my characters in Holding Paradise.
   I love writing and music in equal measure, I just wish one or the other could make me some real money so I can keep doing what I love. That’s my idea of paradise.

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