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1. Bribing Saint Anthony by Rita Moreau

   

   About Bribing Saint Anthony by Rita Moreau

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   Bribing Saint Anthony is an entertaining and humorous mystery.
   A missing husband.
   A plot to blow up a national treasure.
   Fortune telling aunts.

   Mary Catherine, MC for short, didn’t move as the Queen of Boca Vista, Babbs La-Fleur, placed a pile of cash, which appeared out of a purse she knew cost more than her car, smack dab in the middle of her desk.

   Word at all the cocktail parties was that MC had a skill that came in handy for an aging socialite going through a divorce. She was good at finding cash in hidden bank accounts. Cash to pay for a nip and tuck and a new identity: Cougar.

   Hired that day by Queen Babbs to find her bad boy husband, Charlie, MC was back on familiar ground, tracking down bad guys through clues left in the DNA of their paper life.

   Asking her Aunt Sophia to read the family fortune telling cards might have helped. Instead, the paper trail Charlie left takes MC from a murder in the world of rich socialites to working with covert government agents deep in the world of counter terrorism.

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2. Cupid’s Pursuit by Patrick Shanahan

   About Cupid’s Pursuit by Patrick Shanahan:

   Matthew Malarkey is a man on a mission. To find a soul mate. Following the breakup of his marriage he has searched in vain for a new relationship. Encouraged by his good friend Cecil Delaney, he has lived a hectic social life, trawling bars and clubs, but with no success in finding that meaningful connection. Cecil, a straight talking, cockney Londoner who loves to party, suggests that he tries the world of internet dating. Matthew signs up on line in the pursuit of love and embarks on a series of dating escapades, with a variety of ladies, only to find that Cupid does not make the quest for love easy. As Matthew searches for that elusive spark, he finds himself becoming involved in a succession of entanglements, culminating in a date he doesn’t want – with the law.

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   Author Bio:
   I started to write seriously a few years ago. Seriously may not be an entirely appropriate description since my style is ‘serious humour.’ That is, amusing situations wrapped up in a semi-serious plot. It is my view that there are already plenty of heavy, momentous works out there to challenge the intellect and perhaps, just occasionally, the reader might like something fun and light hearted. My aim therefore is simply to entertain and the writing style is light and easy on the consciousness…observational slapstick. But it doesn’t mean the story can’t have some complexities. Humour gives you licence to go where you choose. I quite like that freedom.

   I like to see the fun in situations and often the simplest things can provide humorous inspiration quite unintentionally, so I like to keep the radar that sees the ridiculous fully switched on!

   Cupid’s Pursuit is light, fun reading. However, beneath the comic adventures of the central character, Matthew Malarkey, lies a social comment on the internet dating phenomenon that will appeal to both male and female readers alike.

   The follow up novel, Vegas Pursuit, takes Matthew on a big adventure to celebrate a big birthday where once more fate conspires to make life anything but straightforward!

   I am currently working on the third and final book of what I call the Pursuit Series, entitled ‘Diamond Pursuit.’ This will be out in the WINTER of 2014.

   Most of the situations that appear in this series of books are based on real life. Yes, even the most outlandish ones but with the added flavour of poetic licence. My characters are a mix of the most extreme sides of a number of people I have encountered in real life with a healthy shovelful of imagination.

   I hope you enjoy them all.

   If you would like to know more about the books I can be reached on cupidspursuit@hotmail.co.uk

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3. BROKEN IMAGE by Rene D. Schultz

   About BROKEN IMAGE by Rene D. Schultz:

   BROKEN IMAGE: Women are constantly pressured with the overwhelming message that achieving ‘perfect beauty’ is mandatory to be accepted and successful.

   Mercedes survived a childhood with a hateful and mentally ill mother who constantly called her an ‘ugly duckling.’ Now, at twenty-nine, she’s a brilliant financial icon in Beverly Hills. She knew she was not beautiful, or stunning, or even close to either. She was plain, simple, and ordinary. Take this journey with Mercedes and her four friends who live in a city that judges a woman solely by her outside and not her inside. Will the pressure to obtain beauty become her downfall? Will Mercedes be forced to face decisions that would change her life forever? Or will reality raise its ugly head and teach her the biggest lesson of her life?

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   Author Bio:
   I’m divorced, and I live in a small community just north of Los Angeles, where I raised my two sons. I love to garden, try new recipes, take lots of pictures, and occasionally I enjoy a glass of wine with dear friends. I’ve never jumped out of a plane, climbed Mt. Everest, or seen the Northern Lights of Alaska. But, I have danced in the rain, sent a message in a bottle, and I love to ride my motorcycle down the Pacific Coast Highway on sunny California days!

   My passion of writing has lead me on the most amazing journey. Now, my focus is on fiction. I thrive on developing strong story lines that showcase today’s contemporary lifestyles. Rags to riches, Robin Hood, and surviving the odds, seems to be my one common denominator that showcases my fascinating and diverse characters.

   RDSchultz9@aol.com

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4. Adventures with J and Monkey:Lost by JC Style

   About Adventures with J and Monkey:Lost by JC Style:

   Adventures with J and Monkey: Lost, is the first book in a new series of captivating bedtime stories for preschool children. Lost sneaks a peek into the life of a boy and the daring quest he embarks on with his furry companion, Monkey.

   Read along while listening to the multi-voice audio and watch as young children’s eyes light up when they hear the characters of Monkey, Kitty, and more come to life! Lost is suitable for children as young as two, but a delightful interactive story all ages will enjoy.

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   Author Bio:
   JC Style is a father and the stories are based on his own son named Jesiah or as we call him “J”. He is always going on little adventures for being only 2 yrs old and always has his furry companion “Monkey” by his side no matter where he goes. So the stories were there, they just needed to be published. his adventures would sound like every other children book but the multi-voice audio is what makes him stand out from the rest of the children books. Listen to the books come alive in your very own home!

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5. Age of Angels: The First Child by Alicia D’Aversa

   About Age of Angels: The First Child by Alicia D’Aversa:

   The first book in the series Age of Angels follows Demetrius, son of Apollo who is content with his normal life among the Spartans, having never taken his place among the demigods. He finds however, that avoiding his fate amongst his brothers and sisters will be unavoidable. As a beautiful woman walks into Sparta, bloody, headstrong and full of secrets, Demetrius learns that she is a threat to the entire world. She is also the daughter of a deity, but not one from the Greek world. She is the daughter of Lucifer the Morningstar.

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   Author Bio:
   Alicia D’Aversa lives in Canada with her parents, sister and her adorable blue bird Skye. She goes to university and works a part time job but enjoys spending her time with books and tv shows instead. Her best friends are more like family, and the relatives that she does have she cannot live without. However, fictional characters have just as much a place in her heart as real people do. She has a tendency to spend a lot of money at comic cons and concerts. Adventure is something she lives for, so she travels the world as much as she can with her family and friends.

   Readers can contact her at her email, adaversa7@gmail.com, her blog, ageofangels.tumblr.com or her twitter: @mycoveriscas

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6. The Making of Nebraska Brown by Louise Caiola

   About The Making of Nebraska Brown by Louise Caiola:

   The last thing eighteen-year-old Ann Leigh remembers is running from her boyfriend in a thick Nebraska cornfield. This morning she’s staring down a cool Italian sunrise, an entire continent from the life she once knew. The events of the eighteen months in between have inexplicably gone missing from her memory.

   All at once she’s living with Tommy, an attractive, young foreigner asking for her continued love. Though he’s vaguely familiar, she recalls a boy named Shane in America who she reluctantly agreed to marry. Juggling a new world while her old one is still M.I.A is difficult enough without the terrifying movie scenes spinning a dizzy loop in her mind: glimpses of a devastating house fire, a romance gone wrong, an unplanned pregnancy, and a fractured family – each claiming to be part of who she once was – a girl and a past somehow discarded.

   Ann Leigh must collect the pieces of herself to become whole again, but she doesn’t know who to trust especially when Tommy’s lies become too obvious to ignore. And above all, her heart aches to discover what became of the child she may or may not have given birth to.

   The Making of Nebraska Brown tells the story of one girl’s coming apart from the inside and the great lengths she’ll go to reclaim herself and find her way home.

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   Author Bio:
   Louise Caiola, former administrative assistant and small business owner, has authored several works of genre fiction, including WISHLESS, released in 2011, and THE MAKING OF NEBRASKA BROWN, an Amazon bestseller released in 2014. Her two-book short story collection PETIT FLEURS and VIGNETTES will be released in September 2014.

   Louise has just wrapped up work on the first installment of a romantic fiction series, LITTLE MAY BIRDS. She has also begun crafting another contemporary mystery entitled COUNTING SNOW DOVES. WHAT TRULY KNOWS is her first paranormal novella debuting on August 5, 2014.

   In her spare time, Louise loves blending into nature with a good book in hand, and playing with her sweet little pup.

   Visit her at www.louisecaiola.com or on Twitter via @AuthorLouiseC and @lcwritten.

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7. In A Small Town

   About In A Small Town:

   The shotgun blast catches Detective Matt Longo by surprise. His world unravels into a nightmare that seemingly won’t end. Murder, rapes, pedophiles, the small town of Hutchville, N.Y. is changing. It is up to him to make a difference.
   While partner Donny Mello is in Italy attending a family funeral for someone “connected,” a beautiful F.B.I. agent waits to question Donny about his family business. What will Matt learn from the Agent? Will Donny Mello return in time to help Matt Longo catch his shooter? More importantly, can Matt hide a potentially career-ending secret from his community, his brother, and most especially Agent Cynthia Shyler?

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   Marc A. DiGiacomo is the Multi-Award Winning author of In A Small Town. Mr. DiGiacomo is a retired and highly decorated police detective who worked for a small town in the State of New York. During his police career, Mr. DiGiacomo has worked with numerous police agencies including the F.B.I., D.E.A., U.S. Secret Service, New York State Police, NYPD, Westchester County District Attorney’s Office and many other law enforcement agencies. He currently resides in New York with his wife and three children.

   On September 12, 2013, “In A Small Town,” won the Best Thriller award at the 2013 Orangeberry Book Expo Hall of Fame.

   On July 15, 2014, “In A Small Town,” was named a Thriller Finalist in the 2014 International Readers’ Favorite Awards Contest.

   On June 10, 2014, the much anticipated sequel, Back In Town was released.

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8. The Doppler Affect

   About The Doppler Affect:

   Shapeshifters Control Our Lives!

   The frightening power of vampires, werewolves, and lycanthropes has lived within our nightmares for centuries, failing to be reasoned out by the rapid advances in science and technology. The truth is that they are very much a part of our reality. However, they are merely the genetically inferior offspring of a more powerful race, known as doppelgangers, who evolved alongside humankind. These shapeshifters adopted a secretive yet manipulative approach when dealing with us, feeding off the sexual desires of men to sustain their society…until desperate times forced a new order.

   Christopher Sands, a rising investment banker, was just another victim in a long list of doppelganger schemes. Framed for a crime he wouldn’t commit and watching his family fade farther and farther from his prison bars, Chris makes an unbelievable discovery; shapeshifters aren’t the only race with supernatural abilities. Can he find the strength to accept an even worse fate than prison to not only save his son, but all humankind? Will Michael Sands be able to control the spirits that haunt him to finish what his father cannot?

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   Having spent 15 years conducting rocket propulsion and nanotechnology research and development, he decided to break the seal on his teenage dream and begin writing fantasci (a true combination of fantasy and science fiction). A resident of California, Shawn enjoys hiking, camping, running, martial arts and football.

   Shawn is also the author of Dillon’s Dream: Water & Earth, a young adult fantasy adventure.

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9. Five Days in May by Ninie Hammon

   About Five Days in May by Ninie Hammon:

   A twister’s coming. A big one, a monster F5—a mile wide and 8 miles tall.

   The writhing finger of death hurls across the prairie toward the little town of Graham, Oklahoma, one Friday afternoon in May, 1963, on a collision course with the lives of 4 people—each of whom has already planned a personal rendezvous with death in some other form that day.

   In Jonas Cunningham’s mind, what he’s planning isn’t murder. The handful of little white pills that will free his precious Maggie from the fog of Alzheimer’s is a gift, a final act of unconditional love.

   Jonas’s 16-year-old granddaughter, Joy, isn’t planning “murder” either. She’s pregnant and sees only one way to keep from shaming her family. Secrets like that are hard to keep though, especially in a small town.

   Joy’s father, Rev. Mac MacIntosh has lost his wife and his faith and on Friday, he plans to commit professional suicide—not just leave his church, but abandon his call to ministry.

   Princess has an appointment with the Reaper on Friday, too, one she’s been staring down for 14 years. At 5 o’clock, the state of Oklahoma will strap her into an electric chair called Sizzlin’ Suzie and turn on the juice.

   But as the strange, psychic death row inmate meets daily with the minister during the final 5 days of her life, everything in both their lives begins to change. Princess knows—about Mac’s life and family. And sees—the Big Ugly coming to eat up the world. She sees other terrible things, too, and is determined to carry to her grave an incredible secret about the little sister she confessed to beheading more than a decade ago.

   When the savage tornado rumbles with a sound like gravel in a blender into their small prairie town on that May Friday, all 4 of the people who’d penciled in “death” on their calendars actually do confront eternity.

   But none of them comes to the crossroads of life and death by the path they’d planned or leaves with the result they expected.

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   If Ninie Hammon had to choose between telling stories and eating, she would starve to death. Ninie spent a quarter of a century as a journalist, a career that began as a reporter and ended when she started and became publisher of her own newspaper, with a circulation of 75,000 people. During her 15 years in newspaper, she won more awards for news, feature, column and editorial writing than any other journalist in the history of the Kentucky Press Association.

   In 2006, she left her newspaper when her husband’s job took the couple to England, where they lived for 6 years. That’ where she tried her hand at writing contemporary suspense fiction and discovered it was a whole lot more fun to design her own armed robbery or make up her own murder investigation than to report the facts of a real one.

   Since then, she has published a biography, God Said Yes, and six contemporary novels: Sudan, The Memory Closet, Home Grown, Five Days in May, Black Sunshine and The Last Safe place. Her seventh novel, When Butterflies Cry, will be released in the fall of 2014.

   Five Days in May was awarded a Mom’s Choice Award Gold Medallion seal in May, 2014.

   Ninie’s novels are packed with action and tension—thrillers, mysteries or inspirational fiction that’s deeply moving, filled with the drama of a family in crisis. But however diverse, they all share one characteristic: they are peopled with gloriously complex characters who drag the reader into the story to live it with them.

   Ninie grew up in a small town—doesn’t get much smaller than Muleshoe, Texas. But she now lives a mildly vagabond life. She and her husband, Tom, travel between their home in Louisville, KY and one in the village of Great Linford in Buckinghamshire north of London where Tom directs Young Life in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scandinavia. The couple has six children and eight grandchildren.

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10. The Art of Trapeze: One Woman’s Journey of Soaring, Surrendering, and Awakening by Molly McCord

    About The Art of Trapeze: One Woman’s Journey of Soaring, Surrendering, and Awakening by Molly McCord:

    On a random Thursday morning, with nothing to lose and only a dream to gain, Molly McCord decides to move to Paris, France to follow the courageous call of her heart. She arrives in a city she has never visited before and where she knows no one, yet she trusts her ability to figure it out because her adventurous life has prepared her for this biggest of leaps. She carries the wisdom of Solitude, Strength, Style, Flexibility, Heart, Endurance, and Grace in her non-matching luggage collection.

    Molly’s soul-riveting experiences unfold in surprising ways as she discovers the joys and realities of life as a foreigner in France, falls in love with a sexy Turkish man, moves her cats across the Atlantic, enjoys the rare opportunity of working for a U.S. Ambassador, and creates the life of her dreams in less than two years.

    Yet when unexpected developments require her to surrender once again, a higher consciousness catches her with a deeper spiritual awakening.

    The Art of Trapeze soars with emotional honesty, delightful humor, unexpected wisdom, and inspiring spiritual perspectives around living life to the fullest when nothing is guaranteed except gravity.

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    Author Bio:
    Molly McCord, M.A., is a bestselling author and modern-day spiritual teacher with no religious affiliations. Her debut memoir, “The Art of Trapeze: One Woman’s Journey of Soaring, Surrendering, and Awakening”, hit #1 in 2 Amazon categories within 3 days. Molly’s popular website, www.ConsciousCoolChic.com was nominated by Intent.com for Best Spirituality Website in 2011. She lives in Seattle, WA with her husband where they enjoy camping, hiking, traveling, discovering new restaurants, and sampling seasonal beers from favorite breweries.

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11. Melody Madson – May It Please the Court? by Jodie Toohey

    About Melody Madson – May It Please the Court? by Jodie Toohey:

    Melody is a genius sixteen-year old attorney at the law firm of Lazlo, Marshdon and Brown. When she is introduced to L, M and B’s other attorneys and employees on her first day, she immediately realizes how difficult it will be getting the new adults in her life to take her seriously, but resolves to give it her best and try to make friends at the firm.

    Melody spends her first few weeks at work sitting idle in her office and begins to question her decision to become an attorney. Things start looking up when she is photocopying a binder of exhibits and helps senior partner, Dan Marshdon, Jr., locate a lawsuit opinion in the law books after another associate, Maggie, is too busy to help him. On her way to lunch, Maggie thanks her for helping and Melody thinks she may have found her first friend at the firm.

    Another two weeks pass before Melody finally gets her big break when Dan Marshdon assigns her to handle her first real case representing a client trying to stop demolition of the Midland Marquee Theater building as the result of the settlement of a slip and fall case at the building.

    Melody’s excitement about her first real case is cut short when her best friend, Jewel Johnson, barely pays attention to her news and is more concerned with her date to her high school’s fall dance. Melody and Jewel’s friendship becomes more strained as Melody’s friendship with Maggie advances and she develops romantic feelings for Dan’s son, Eric, who is assigned to help with her case as an high school assistant. Her feelings for Eric deepen, her relationship with Jewel goes sour, the key medical record in her case turns up missing, and Melody feels her life is crumbling around her. Things appear even more hopeless when the original of the key medical record is destroyed from the doctor’s office so cannot be duplicated.

    When she can stand it no longer, Melody tells Eric about her true feelings for him, but she doesn’t get the reaction she expected. After working the entire weekend before trial to try to find a way to save the case, Melody finds the missing medical record but, before she can celebrate, she’s cornered. Jewel attempts to free her but she is caught and the friends are tied to an office chair, driven out to the middle of nowhere and left alone. Will they be able to save the case – or themselves?

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    Author Bio:
    I was born and grew up in eastern Iowa in towns along the Mississippi River, Clinton and Camanche, respectively. My writing career began at ten years old when I caught the writing bug after a school assignment. From that moment, I was either writing or thinking I should be writing. Upon graduating from high school, I had amassed enough scholarship awards to pay for half of my college education and started the following fall at Iowa State University. As part of my honors program, I took creative writing classes to fulfill my humanities requirements.

    In April, 2001, I moved to Davenport, Iowa and began working as a Paralegal for a prominent local law firm. I enjoyed the position, learned a lot, and got to work with numerous quality attorneys, assistants, and staff members; however, after several years my job satisfaction declined. When I looked closely at my job, I found the parts from which I gained the most satisfaction were those tasks involving writing.

    When a friend from work was diagnosed with breast cancer, I asked myself if something happened to me where I was removed from living or at least prohibited from participating in life for a long period of time, “What would I leave undone?” That answer and my experience with my growing preteen daughter and the friends in her scout troop led me to publish Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls in 2008.

    My interest in writing as a profession grew. I completed a young adult novel manuscript, started another, and began thinking about how I could earn a living from writing. I opened Jodie Toohey Writing Innovations in January, 2010. Since then, I completed my second young adult novel manuscript and have now started a third. I’ve written some articles for the web and continue to build my portfolio by completing various writing and editing projects and volunteering my writing skills to the Midwest Writing Center. I won the Bettendorf Public Library’s Love Poem Contest in early 2012; my full length poetry collection, The Other Side of Crazy, was released by 918studio in September, 2013. I published my novel Missing Emily: Croatian Life Letters in the fall of 2012. Melody Madson – May It Please the Court? came out in the summer of 2014.

    After attending a local half day conference in April, 2012, I decided it was time for my business identity to change. Shortly after that I decided to transform myself and my brand into the Wordsy Woman.

    When I’m not writing or running my business, I enjoy walking my beagle, Maizey, and hiking. I also like to travel when I can away from my home in Davenport, Iowa, where I live with my husband, daughter, son, cat, and said beagle.

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12. The Leopard Tree

    About The Leopard Tree:

    Rosa Carson is a successful photojournalist who befriends an orphanage in Kenya. She accidentally helps three orphans embark on a desperate quest to meet the Secretary General of the United Nations in New York City and deliver a message they hope will help millions of homeless and hurting children in Africa. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz becomes their guidebook as they journey alone across the United States. The trio–one with HIV, one blind amputee, and one who hasn’t spoken for years after watching her family slaughtered–find themselves embroiled in a situation beyond their imaginations as they get close to meeting their goal. Rosa follows their trail and eventually finds them again, but must decide to help or short circuit their efforts to protect them.

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    Lisa Brochu and Tim Merriman have spent the last four decades helping people connect with our global natural and cultural heritage at parks, zoos, museums, nature centers and historic sites. Through their books and speaking engagements, they hope to help others to know more and do more about the daily challenges in meeting basic needs that face tens of millions of people in developing nations. When they are not traveling the globe, Tim and Lisa live in Fort Collins, Colorado, on a small farm where they raise much of their own food.

    In 2008 The Leopard Tree was selected as the Best Young Adult Fiction in the Writer’s Digest International Self-published Awards. It also won an Evvy literary fiction award with Colorado Independent Publishers. It now has 266 reviews with a 4.6 star average at Amazon.com. Email us at tim@theleopardtree.com

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13. The Crown of Stones: Magic-Price by C. L. Schneider

    About The Crown of Stones: Magic-Price by C. L. Schneider:

    Ian Troy is one of the Shinree, a fallen people with an inherent addiction to magic. Scorned and reviled for the deadly side of their spells, the Shinree are bred as slaves. Their magic is suppressed by drugs and used only as it serves the purposes of the other races. Descended from a long line of soldiers, Ian is conscripted into the Rellan army and made to fight in their longstanding conflict against the ruthless Langorian invaders. The downfall of Rella imminent, Ian goes against orders and turns to the Crown of Stones, an ancient Shinree relic of untold power. Ignorant of its true purpose, Ian uses the crown to end the war, and pays a terrible price.

    A decade later, still tortured by the aftermath of that day, Ian lives as a bounty hunter in self-imposed exile. Having renounced his magical heritage, he curbs his obsession with a steady stream of wine and regret. He struggles to put it all behind him, until a fateful encounter with a pretty assassin brings Ian’s past crashing into the present. Targeted by a rogue Shinree, and a ruthless old enemy, Ian is forced to use magic again. His deadly addiction is rekindled and his life of isolation is brought to a swift end.

    With the land he gave up everything to protect once more in jeopardy, and his people’s future at stake, Ian becomes embroiled in a violent race for control of the Crown of Stones. To save the realms and those he cares for, Ian must embrace the thing he fears most: his own power.

    Magic-Price is the first installment in The Crown of Stones trilogy.

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    Author Bio:
    C. L. Schneider was born in a small Kansas town on the Missouri River. Growing up in a family of readers, all with diverse interests, she developed an early and avid love for the written word. Her fascination with science fiction stories and anything supernatural, as well as a keen interest in the Middle Ages, drew her to fantasy. At the age of sixteen, she wrote her first, full-length novel on a typewriter in her parent’s living room. The Crown of Stones: Magic-Price if her first published work. The second installment in the trilogy, Magic-Scars, will be out later this year.

    C. L. Schneider lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband and two sons. Most days you can find her at her laptop with a cup of coffee in her hand, quietly waiting for the zombie apocalypse.

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14. Hush in the Storm by Julie B Cosgrove

    

    About Hush in the Storm by Julie B Cosgrove

    Widowed at thirty-one, Jen is jostled into the storm swells of grief until she is kidnapped by a coworker, Tom, who says it was her late husband, Robert’s, final request to fake her death and hide her in a dark basement so she would not end up as Robert did–smashed between twists of metal on the highway.

    Together, Jen and Tom are thrust into a tempest of danger and debit where no one is whom they claim to be. The list of people Jen can believe keeps diminishing. Who can she trust while dodging the Feds, human traffickers, and the press who’ve discovered she’s alive?

    How will Jen rescue two held-captive girls she befriends without drowning them, Tom and herself in the waves of betrayal, especially when she’s begun to suspect her husband may not be as dead as everyone thinks…

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15. Those Who Remain by Priscila Santa Rosa

    About Those Who Remain by Priscila Santa Rosa:

    Hide your children, lock your doors, and load your guns because zombies are real and they are coming. Danny Terrence knows this better than anyone. He spent months preparing for the inevitable moment the disease would reach his small town. What he didn’t prepare for is the fact that nobody really believes him.

    Luckily for him, an old classmate and bully just happens to be the first one bitten. The bad news is that the family with the biggest arsenal of guns just packed up and left town, leaving them defenseless from an oncoming zombie horde. Being a leader isn’t turning out the way Danny imagined.

    Yet four other survivors easily have it worse than him. Between a thirteen-year-old girl on a road trip from hell, a family of paranoid hunters having to deal with their feelings for the first time ever, a stubborn doctor butting-heads with a cold-hearted sergeant and an amoral British professor carrying the fate of humanity in his hands, Danny has it easy. Unless, of course, they all end up in his town, messing with his already messed up life.

    Follow these five people as their paths cross and their lives and hopes are challenged in this thrilling novel with brain-mushing humor and heart-breaking action. Those Who Remain: Book One is part of a trilogy.

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    Author Bio:
    Priscila Santa Rosa writes about fantastical worlds, horrifying creatures and weirdly lovable characters in tough situations. Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, she’s a geek at heart and

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16. Vegas Pursuit (Fleeing Sin City)

    About Vegas Pursuit (Fleeing Sin City):

    Matthew Malarkey has hit the big four -O. To celebrate, he plans nothing more than a quiet dinner for two with the lady in his life. But his friend Cecil Delaney has other ideas. In Cecil’s eyes big birthdays mean big parties and there’s no better place to party than Las Vegas, Nevada. In the spirit of keeping the dream alive, Cecil organises a surprise trip to the bright lights of Sin City. With his plans hijacked, Matthew decides to play it low key. But it’s hard to stay low key in Vegas and when Matthew inadvertently gets mixed up with the wrong people, he finds himself gambling with a much higher stake than he had anticipated – his life!

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    I started to write seriously a few years ago. Seriously may not be an entirely appropriate description since my style is ‘serious humour.’ That is, amusing situations wrapped up in a semi-serious plot. It is my view that there are already plenty of heavy, momentous works out there to challenge the intellect and perhaps, just occasionally, the reader might like something fun and light hearted. My aim therefore is simply to entertain and the writing style is light and easy on the consciousness…observational slapstick. But it doesn’t mean the story can’t have some complexities. Humour gives you licence to go where you choose. I quite like that freedom.

    Vegas Pursuit, a follow up to the first in the series (Cupid’s Pursuit) is such a book – light and fun following its central character on a big adventure to celebrate a big birthday where once more fate conspires to make life anything but straightforward!

    I am a great believer in keeping the radar focussed on simple, everyday situations in life where even the most innocuous incidents can contain humour. It’s all good material!

    I am currently working on the third and final book of what I call the Pursuit Series, entitled ‘Diamond Pursuit.’ This will be out in the WINTER of 2014.

    Most of the situations that appear in this series of books are based on real life. Yes, even the most outlandish ones but with the added flavour of poetic licence. My characters are a mix of the most extreme sides of a number of people I have encountered in real life with a healthy shovelful of imagination.

    I hope you enjoy them all.

    If you would like more information on the books please contact me on cupidspursuit@hotmail.co.uk.

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17. Borrowed Bibles by Jim Good

    About Borrowed Bibles by Jim Good:

    It was during the 1940s in Arkansas when the very young Jim Good first learned from his father’s sermons that drinking Coke was a sin, but drinking Royal Crown was not. He also learned not to lie, to keep the Commandments, to love Jesus, and that God wanted segregation. By the age of twenty, he had moved thirty-one times and attended thirteen schools.

    In his compelling memoir, Good shares the heartfelt story of what it was like to grow up with a nomadic teacher father who borrowed Bibles from churches so he could conduct services on the front porch. With the goal of seeking income and respect, Good’s father moved the family more than once a year—from segregated Arkansas to integrated Washington and Oregon and back to segregated Arkansas, filling his son’s life with culture shock. As he embarked on the challenging path to adulthood, Good began to question everything about God, soon realizing that the only way to find the truth was to become a preacher himself. And, at the end of his questioning, we discover with Jim the place where the questions disappear, and all that remains is unfocused love.

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    Jim Good is a management consultant and genealogist and author of three genealogy books¬¬–one a winner of the Award of Excellence by the Heart of America Genealogical Society. His diverse career includes stints as a manager of engineering, chief financial officer, corporate president and business school dean. He currently lives in California’s Silicon Valley.

    jimgood56@gmail.com

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