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1. Mazie Baby by Julie Frayn

   About Mazie Baby by Julie Frayn:

   Mazie Reynolds has moxie from the top of her bruised face to the tip of her broken wrist. She married a man she adored, and who adored her in return. But over fourteen years, her happy marriage soured with each new beating.

   When his attentions shift to their twelve-year-old daughter, Mazie knows it’s time to get the hell out. She hatches a plan to escape. But can she outwit the man she vowed to obey until death do they part?

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   Author Bio:
   Julie Frayn pens award-winning novels and short stories that pack a punch. And a few stabs. She has published three novels and two short, short story collections.

   Julie’s first novel, Suicide City, a Love Story, won two gold medals in the 2013 Authorsdb cover contest. Her second, It Isn’t Cheating If He’s Dead, is the Books and Pals 2014 Readers’ Choice winner for women’s fiction, and she won honourable mention in the NYC Midnight 2014 short story challenge.

   “Julie Frayn is an author to watch. She has a talent that if all were right in the world would earn her instant classic status.”

   A proud Canadian, Julie calls the beautiful province of Alberta home. Though she’s grown up on the edge of the Rocky Mountains in a city with the unfortunate nickname “Cow Town” – she doesn’t ski, hates steak, and listens to good old rock and roll.

   In grade school, Julie was a math whiz, loved to write stories and poems in English class, and had an artistic flair for pencil drawings and pen and ink pointillism. When it came time to choose a career, she was torn between three loves. Her artistic brain ached to create. But her practical side, and the need to eat, won out. She devoted her career to numbers. She counts beans by day, but still revels in the written word.

   After years of writing on the down low, she finally came out as a full-fledged writer when she published her first novel in 2013. Suicide City, a Love Story began as a short story in 1998. That’s a pretty long incubation period! But with the first click of that publish button, she never looked back. She wrote and published two more novels in the next fifteen months, with a fourth well on the way.

   When she isn’t working or writing, Julie spends as much time as possible with her two children (grown adults, really), while they still think she’s cool.

   Follow Julie on Twitter at http://twitter.com/juliefrayn

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2. Inheritance, by Zoey DuBois

   About Inheritance, by Zoey DuBois:

   Dominic Diamond is drowning in the dark side of his nature. Caught in a downward spiral of destruction, his only hope of redemption lies with the hidden away bookshop he bought to spite his Mafia-esque Father.

   With the bookshop sinking fast, and his own x-rated novels, penned drunkenly during his darkest hours, still unpublished, time is rapidly running out for Dominic. His sinister addictions are steadily laying waste to his efforts to break free from the ugly word he’s become a part of. All that awaits him now is his inheritance: a fortune in dirty money, and a lifetime at the helm of the Family Business that generated it.

   Until the day a shy, broken soul stumbles into the bookshop clutching her resume, and in her innocence, inadvertently turns his entire world upside down.

   Filled with smoldering sex, dangerous tension and a heartwarming fight for love, Inheritance is an addictive debut from an exciting new British talent set to take the genre by storm!

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   Author Bio:
   Zoey DuBois lives in the wilds of rural England with her American husband, her young son, and two cats with attitude problems. An editor by day, she writes long into the night when everyone else’s words have been polished to perfection, and anyone with any sense is asleep.

   Inheritance, the first in the Diamond Books series, is Zoey’s first novel. The sequel, Indebted, is coming sooon!

   If you’d like to be notified of new releases, and find out more about Zoey and Diamond Books, visit www.zoeydubois.com

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3. Cosmic Girl: Rising Up by R S J Gregory

   About Cosmic Girl: Rising Up by R S J Gregory:

   It’s amazing, how something so simple as getting up out of bed can change your life.
   If I had stayed in bed, and not gone on that school trip, my life would have been so different.
   But I did get up, and I did go on that school trip. My life will never be the same again.
   I will never be the same, and the world will bear witness to that change.
   But I didn’t know what was coming my way as I stared out of the school bus at the pine trees as we drove by. I wasn’t thinking about anything dramatic.
   I was just looking forward to a nice thanksgiving dinner when I got back.
   But something was set in motion that day that I was powerless to prevent.
   I was only sixteen, and still in a wheelchair back then. I had no idea what was about to happen.
   A field trip to Washington D.C., what could happen?
   This is my story.
   Who am I?
   I’m Cosmic Girl.

   Britney Brookes was just an ordinary sixteen-year old girl who couldn’t walk.
   But when Britney and her school friends are kidnapped and experimented on, they are given extraordinary powers.
   When they break free and tell the police about their kidnapping, they and the F.B.I. find no leads to pursue, just some dead bodies.
   Britney vows to find the shadowy figure behind it all, and begins her own investigation.
   Back home in Chicago, she creates a costume, and gives herself a new name.
   Cosmic Girl.
   Then her search begins.
   But this is more than just a thirst for justice. This is personal.

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   Author Bio:
   41 years young, married, and I have a very young precocious daughter.
   I love travelling. I’ve been to Switzerland, Ireland, South Africa (numerous times), I’ve been all over the United States, and I’ve been to Hawaii twice. Hawaii is beautiful, and I would love to live there one day.
   I am the youngest of three, one older sister and one older brother. I am originally from Bristol, England. My mother was Irish, and my dad is English/Welsh. So I’m a bit of a mixed blend. People always comment about my accent, as I don’t sound British. They usually think I’m Canadian or American. It amuses me.
   I began writing in 2008, after I had recovered from Cancer (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma). A scare like that really makes you think about your life. I certainly reevaluated mine. I read more. Lots. After finishing Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn, inspiration struck. Stephenie was a housewife when she wrote Twilight. The only thing that qualified her as a writer, was that she had a story to tell, and she wrote it. If she can do it, then why can’t I? Seems quite arrogant looking back on it, but that’s how I started. I wrote some short stories, poetry, and a rough draft of what would become Cosmic Girl. Then in 2010 I attended a Creative Writing course with Maggie Hamand at the Groucho Club in Soho London, for six weeks. It was this course that cemented the desire in me to become an author. I knew I had it in me to write, and I had lots of stories to tell.
   In April 2014 my first novel, Cosmic Girl: Rising Up, became available on Amazon. And so my journey has begun.

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4. The Butterfly Crest (The Protogenoi Series Book 1)

   About The Butterfly Crest (The Protogenoi Series Book 1):

   Between the shadows of the human world, a war as old as time is being fought. Ageless pantheons scheme to obtain or keep control, provoked by the weight of human belief which has altered the realm of the divine.

   An ancient prophecy speaks of a human woman who will alter the course of this divine war, a descendant of a Great House mired in misfortune and blood, whose history was shaped by the cruelty of the gods.

   On a day as unremarkable as any other, Elena Vicens, a young woman living a seemingly ordinary life, receives a letter about a deposit box belonging to her mother, nineteen years after her mother’s death. When this letter sends her on a journey halfway across the world from New Orleans to Japan, Elena unknowingly comes into possession of a cursed inheritance. She is suddenly thrust into a world of myths and legends, where the intangible and the strange are the fabric of everyday life, and deathless gods vie for victory at any cost.

   As allies converge to help Elena fulfill the prophecy, one of whom is struggling with his own inheritance, Elena must choose for herself the measure of her own destiny.

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   Author Bio:
   Author. Attorney. New Orleanian. Lover of Cherry Ring Pops. Confirmed Japanophile. Dreamer. Sometimes Obsessive. Blunt to a Fault. Wishful-Thinker. Tea and Anime Compulsive. Diehard.

   In the beginning of 2011, Eva took a blind leap of faith to pursue what she loved most. The result of that journey is her debut novel, The Butterfly Crest. She is currently working on Book Two of the series, so please stay tuned.

   Eva lives in New Orleans with her husband, two cats and a Japanese maple.

   Her interests include ancient Greece, Classical Antiquity, mythology, Japan, tea, the Celts, reading, writing, architecture, modern art, Asian art, anything by Joan Miro, fantasy literature, gothic fiction, anime, manga, and gardening.

   Her favorite authors are J.R.R. Tolkien, Haruki Murakami, and J.K. Rowling.

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5. The Naughty Nine: Where Danger and Passion Collide by Nina Bruhns, Taylor Lee, Julie Leto, Lorhainne Eckhart, Mary Leo, Patricia Mason, Dana Marton, Rita Herron, Karen Fenech, Jill Sanders

   About The Naughty Nine: Where Danger and Passion Collide by Nina Bruhns, Taylor Lee, Julie Leto, Lorhainne Eckhart, Mary Leo, Patricia Mason, Dana Marton, Rita Herron, Karen Fenech, Jill Sanders:

   1. Deathblow (Dana Morton- Romance, Romance-Suspense): Former small-town football hero turned cop, Joe Kessler never met a linebacker, perp, or a woman he couldn’t handle. Then a troubled single mom walks into his life, and the only place this hot jock will ever see ‘easy’ again is in the dictionary.

   Hiding out in Broslin, PA was working pretty well for Wendy Belle until Cop Casanova took her under his protection. Now she’ll either lose her life to one man, or her heart to another.
   2. ONE NIGHT TO KILL (Rita Herron- series title: Seven Nights – Book one, Contemporary romance, romantic suspense, Military Hero, Humourous, Sexy): Just coming off a dangerous mission, Sergeant Max Murdock desperately needs some R & R.

   Unfortunately his leave turns into an assignment to protect the General’s daughter.

   Then he discovers the seductive vixen is running a phone sex business, and it becomes impossible to keep his hands off of her.

   Worse, he’s losing his heart to her, and that is far more dangerous than any Special Ops mission!

   3. Red Rock Rises (Taylor Lee- Book 1 The Red Rock Sexy Romantic Suspense Collection): Her unit named her. The fiery redheaded special operative is their rock. Red Rock never lets them down. She is front and center on every mission. She never backs off from a fight. But when she is caught in untenable circumstances, fighting may be the last thing she should do. Tell that to Red Rock.

   4. Everything He Never Wanted (Mary Leo, Romance, Romantic Suspense): Billionaire, Antonio Melani has come to London for the annual book fair and to retrieve his first edition, signed copy of Oliver Twist. His book was stolen from him by a woman he thought was talented new author his publishing house was courting.

   Margot James has spent the better part of her adult life raising two children in a small town and writing ‘journals.’ Now that her kids are grown, Margot takes a leap of faith and travels to London to visit her best friend. When her bff takes a hike and leaves her with Antonio, she wants nothing more than to fly back home. But attraction, heat, and a pending book contract get in the way of her departure and soon both she and Antonio are dealing with everything they never wanted.
   5. Snowbound (Karen Fenech- Protectors series, book 2): THE PROTECTORS: Though they work independently and at times are oceans apart, their ties to each other remain strong. They’re related by blood or bond – this group of men and women in law enforcement, government intelligence, and the military who do what others cannot to serve, defend, and protect.

   SNOWBOUND: The Protectors Series — Book Two

   When her cover is blown in a criminal operation to apprehend a human trafficker, FBI Special Agent Mallory Burke is put in a car destined for a mountain cabin to be tortured and killed. But a snow storm results in an accident that leaves all but Mallory dead and she finds herself in the midst of the raging storm and in the care of Police Captain Gage Broderick. Mallory’s relief that Gage is a cop is short lived. He has secrets of his own.

   Gage is haunted by an incident in his recent past. The last thing he wants is to become embroiled in Mallory’s investigation – or to feel this powerful attraction to her.

   But the lives of twelve women depend on Mallory and Gage working together to stop this man -

   - the women’s lives and now Mallory’s life. He knows about her. He knows where she is. And he wants her dead.

   *** Please note: SNOWBOUND is Book Two in The Protectors Series but may be read on its own. IMPOSTER, Book One in The Protectors Series, is currently available at retailers for just 0.99 Cents.

   6. Saved (Lorhainne Eckhart- Contemporary Military Romance): Growing up I had dreams that one day I’d fall in love, get married and start a family. Then onenight I was taken. But I survived, I escaped and I was saved. Eric didn’t see me as damaged. He didn’t see my baby as a monster. He protected me, he kept me safe … he saved me.

   7. A Girl, A Guy and A Ghost (Patricia Mason- Humorous, Romantic Suspense): A slightly clumsy reporter who must find a ghost to save her job. A yummy private eye who provides a big distraction. But when somebody tries to kill her, the question becomes whether she’ll find a ghost or be turned into one.”

   8. Stop in the Name of Love (Nina Bruhns, Sexy Romantic Suspense): That sexy road crew stud is a lot more dangerous than she thinks.

   Undercover vice cop Russell Bridger hates his new assignment doing surveillance on the home of a suspected traitorous spy. That is, until he receives orders to cozy up to the man’s sweet, beautiful neighbor…and find a way to move in with her for the duration. But things don’t go as smoothly–or seductively–as he’d hoped when she tells him she hates cops with a passion and wants nothing to do with him, his lies, or his damn assignment. Under cover…Or under the covers…?

   Cops in Mary Alice Flannery’s family keep dying, and she doesn’t think she can take another shot to the heart. So when the infinitely sexy road crew guy she’s crushing on big time turns out to embody her worst nightmare, she must decide what kind of future she wants… safe and lonely, or wild and dangerous but filled with love?

   9. Dirty Little Secrets (Julie Leto- Sexy Romantic Suspense) When Marisela Morales sets out to stop her ex-boyfriend Francisco Vega from skipping out on bail, she has a secret agenda: revenge. She hasn’t seen Frankie in ten years, and back then, he broke her heart, choosing his gang over his girl. So when she tracks him down in their old haunt, a hot dance club in Tampa, she sets about seducing him into her trap.

   Frankie has a secret agenda, too, and Marisela soon faces a tough choice: continue drifting through her twentysomething life — hitting the same town with the same girlfriends every weekend while struggling to find a job and pay the rent — or dive headfirst into danger with her ex. Frankie operates in a treacherous underworld full of arms dealers, assassins, and sinister agendas — a world overrun with people keeping dirty little secrets — and only Marisela has the cojones to fight her way to the truth.

   Sexy, sultry, and action-packed, Dirty Little Secrets is a thrilling adventure in manhunting of the most dangerous kind.

   BONUS STORY: Secret Identity (Jill Sanders- Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense): Eve is at the top of her game. She’s finally going to make partner at the ad agency run by two of her best friends. But when she takes a business trip to wine and dine a potential customer, her boss decides to tag along at the last minute. Now, everything she’s worked hard for might just disappear in a flash.

   Carter has had a thing for his best friend Eve ever since he can remember. He hired her a few years ago to help boost his business and it has never run more smoothly. But when a once in a lifetime opportunity presents itself, he takes a chance at happiness that could end up destroying their friendship.

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   Author Bio:
   Dana Marton: New York Times bestselling author Dana Marton writes fast-paced stories of suspense and romance. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and sold 2.5 million copies world-wide.

   Rita Herron: Award winning author Rita Herron has written over sixty romance novels and loves to hear from fans!

   Taylor Lee: I published my first book in November 2012. I have since published 27 books—14 of which are full length novels. I combined the books into Collections and now have 6 Collections. All of my books are e-books.

   Karen Fenech: USA Today Bestselling Author Karen Fenech writes romantic

   suspense and is the author of The Protectors Series. When Karen’s not writing or spending time with her family, she loves to shop, watch movies and just kick back in a comfortable chair and read. www.karenfenech.com

   Lorhainne Eckhart: Lorhainne Eckhart is a 2013 Readers Favorite Award winner, frequently a top 100 bestselling author on Amazon in Romance, Westerns and Police Procedural. Author of over 25 titles which includes novels, collections, and short stories. She writes three genres, western romance, romantic suspense and military romance and has sold more than 250,000 eBooks since her bestseller The Forgotten Child landed on the Amazon Bestseller list for Westerns and Western Romance.

   Patricia Mason: Patricia Mason is the award-winning author of steamy romantic suspense, paranormal romance and urban fantasy. She lives in the strange and wonderful city of Savannah, Georgia, where she happily spends her days as the subject of her cat overlord’s mind control experimentation.

   Nina Bruhns: New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Nina Bruhns’ adventurous romantic thrillers contain a unique blend of interesting characters and settings, twisty suspense and sizzling romance. To date she has published over 30 award-winning novels.

   Julie Leto: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Leto has sold over forty-five books to four publishers—all featuring strong, confident women and the super-sexy men they drive to their knees. She’s now concentrating on publishing her books independently, playing chauffeur to her daughter and catering to the needs of her spoiled dachshund and haughty Siberian cat.

   Jill Sanders:Jill Sanders is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Pride Series, Secret Series and West Series romance novels. Having sold over 150,000 books within 6 months of her first release, she continues to lure new readers with her sweet and sexy stories.

   Mary Leo: is an Amazon bestselling author writing romance, paranormal romance, romantic suspense & mystery. Trusting Evil, based on a true crime, and The Spia Family Presses On, a humorous mystery, are her latest releases.

   The Naughty Nine: Where Danger and Passion Collide by Nina Bruhns, Taylor Lee, Julie Leto, Lorhainne Eckhart, Mary Leo, Patricia Mason, Dana Marton, Rita Herron, Karen Fenech, Jill Sanders is a post from Awesome Gang

6. Job Interview Questions: Most Common Interview Questions and Answers, Including Good Questions to Ask! by BestBooks 4 Business

   About Job Interview Questions: Most Common Interview Questions and Answers, Including Good Questions to Ask! by BestBooks 4 Business:

   Walk into (and out of) the interview with your head held high.

   What if you knew the most popular interview questions and had guidance on how to respond to each of them?
   What if after a few short exercises you had a 100% better handle on how you would respond to the top questions?

   In “Job Interview Questions: Most Common Interview Questions and Answers,” we cover 20 of the most common job interview questions so that you have a good idea of what to expect – and most importantly – how to respond.

   Additionally, you’ll get in-depth guidance on how to craft questions of your own for the interviewer so that you can showcase your critical thinking, initiative, and willingness to find a job that is the right fit for you.

   We’ll offer some guidance on sensitive questions and even give you a sample letter to send as a follow-up to your interviewer(s) so that you are well-prepared in advance of as well as after your Big Day.

   Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn…
   * The three most-dreaded interview questions
   * The top ten most common interview questions
   * A list of additional popular questions
   * Thoughts, scenarios and guidance on how to answer each question
   * Short chapter assignments to get you into ACTION
   * Guidance on questions to ask the interviewer
   * Notes on questions to avoid – don’t ask these yet!
   * Guidance on writing a follow-up letter
   * BONUS chapter: confidence affirmations to get you in the right mindset

   This book has condensed the essence of everything you need to know about job interview questions and answers. If you do your part and give each chapter thoughtful consideration, you are likely to walk into your job interviews with a completely new attitude – one of confidence.

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   Author Bio:
   Hello, my name is Lisa and I founded BestBooks 4 Business to offer empowerment and fulfillment in one of the most important aspects of life: Business and Career.

   We place enormous emphasis on what we do to earn a living because we care about how we add value in the world – how we contribute. Yet it’s easy to keep doing things the way they’ve always been done, sometimes in ways that aren’t optimal.

   Drawing on my experience with organizations from startups to Fortune 500, I founded BestBooks as a means to publish both thoughtful and thought-provoking ideas to help improve how we view and incorporate work into our lives. As a way to move into alignment with our values, aptitudes and creativity.

   Whether an approach to finding a job, or asking whether we need a job at all — BestBooks 4 Business is committed to publishing empowering books that can help transform how we relate to business and career.

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