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1. The Devil’s Handshake by Michael Reagan

   

   About The Devil’s Handshake by Michael Reagan

   “The Devil’s Handshake” is fast paced political thriller set in the global backdrop of natural resources. The protagonist, Sir Thomas Litchfield is an Anglo-Russian billionaire bound by Homeric code who tries to steer a pragmatic course in the new “Cold War” between USA and Russia.

   The story unfolds in a fictional nation located in the Horn of Africa. Taking the reader on a journey through the intrigue and clashes as two contrasting worlds meet.
   The key to this battle and what ultimately brings the countries to the brink of war is the new naval base that Russia is about to construct in the young African nation as part of Litchfield’s natural resources deal. To counter the re-emergence of the new look Russia, the new director of the CIA manipulates his President to effect a regime change in the country by backing an ambitious Interior Minister who is the chief antagonist in his coup attempt. To stop this Litchfield and his team broker a deal between the two powers “below the line” to stop them going to war. At the end of the book although he is successful as the two nations avoid going to war it is the loved ones of Thomas who ultimately pay the highest price.

   Neither good nor evil; Litchfield is a survivor who adapts to the situation around him: The two key impact characters that influence the Litchfield character are: his true love a former beautiful young prostitute from Turkmenistan that he saves one night and his bodyguard who tries to act as the voice of reason in his life, but fails. The book’s overall premise is. “Blood is always thicker than water,” and despite trying what may Litchfield and the villain and those around them can never escape their pasts and with the underlying theme of “Life doesn’t always bring everybody who commits a crime to justice” and there always has to be a “Scapegoat” when the Bear meets the Eagle in the field of battle.

   This is the first book in the series the second story “The Devil’s Playground” due out in August and is set in North Korea, Japan, Turkmenistan, China and Russia.

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2. Dobyns Chronicles by Shirley McLain

   

   About Dobyns Chronicles by Shirley McLain

   “Dobyns Chronicles is a captivating celebration of the life of Charlie Dobyns. His life began in northeast Texas near Bonham, on the Red River. His Cherokee mother and cowboy father strove to survive on their river valley ranch. Tragedy ended this way of life for Charlie in 1888. Follow him through Chickasaw Territory and on to McAlester in eastern Oklahoma.

   This is a story of a changing way of life and adaptations made to survive. Charlie’s strong passion for life ad dignity equipped him for survival as he raised his siblings with, likeability and dignity. It’s a story of loss, misfortune, hard times and heartbreak, but also love, determination, kindness, joy and spirituality.

   Follow Charlie’s life through the adventures that shaped the man he became, and that of his family for generations.”

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3. Highway to the Stars: The Beginning

   About Highway to the Stars: The Beginning:

   John Kemp awoke that morning thinking that today would be just like any another day, he was wrong. It would turn out to be the worst day of his life. With a recession looming and the economy tanking, he and his team of automotive engineers would lose their jobs, their research and have their lives changed forever.

   Not wanting to give up on years of hard work, they devised a plan to keep their research and their dreams alive. Working for a solution to sustain diesel fuel for extreme mileage, they would call that solution, sustainability. While searching for sustainability, they discovered something that would change our world forever. Others would steal or kill to obtain this new technology. Running for their lives, they continued to develop their technology, trying to learn its full capabilities and just what purpose it was to be used.

   Treachery and deceit, even from the ones they loved. They found themselves fighting to achieve their dreams…the dreams of touching a star.

   Follow John Kemp and his unusual band of misfits, as they journey where others have only dreamt of going.

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   Author Bio:
   B.E. Wilson was born in small town Ohio, south-western to be exact. His family emigrated from the hills of southern Kentucky, settling into what is now known as The Great Miami Valley.

   He has always been a very imaginative person. As a young boy, his 7th grade English teacher was fed up with him not doing his homework. She tasked him to write an apology letter for not doing said homework. In doing so, he used a long list of humorous excuses he thought would make her mad. He was wrong! He used everything from the dog ate it, Bigfoot and Elvis stole it and they were escaping on a UFO, to he was busy being a test cadaver.

   Standing in front of the class he was asked to read the apology letter aloud. This he was not expecting. In finishing, his last few sentences were, “To tell the truth, I was just too lazy. I wanted to play outside instead. Next time I’ll try to do both, so I don’t have to write another one of these apology letters again.”

   With all of the laughter from his classmates, he thought he was headed to the principal’s office for some much deserved detention. His teacher, much to his surprise, she only said that he should be a writer and how much she enjoyed the letter. She found it entertaining and hysterical.

   Finally B.E. Wilson has decided to take that teacher’s advice in sharing the stories inside his head from an overactive imagination. He is the author of the Highway to the Stars series; and with all of the stories floating around in his head, there will be many more series to come.

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4. Mom Con

   About Mom Con:

   Meet Anita Henry, a hard-working, single mom trying to launch her own business after losing her job. To top it all off, her ex-employer is suing her for stealing company secrets.

   Corporate espionage? Please. Her single greatest offense was a high school fashion felony. But when a shady court ruling forces Anita to cease and desist, she’s determined to get revenge.

   There are two ways to get money: you can take it or someone can give it to you. Thanks to an elaborate nightclub scam, Anita’s old boss is about to hand over a small fortune. That is, if Anita’s lazy brother, her deadbeat ex-husband and a sketchy music manager don’t bring the whole thing down first.

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   Author Bio:
   Karl Fields is the author of the Mom Con series. The others, to date, are Mom Con: A Tangled Web and Mom Con: Showtime. He has also written two novels for mid-grade readers, The Odd Job Squad and Instant Preplay.

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5. Falling, Girl With Broken Wings

   About Falling, Girl With Broken Wings:

   A Gripping Paranormal Adventure With A Quirky, Resilient Heroine!

   Maya knew something was wrong… The stranger’s glowing hands were a big tipoff.

   When the stranger murders Maya’s boyfriend with a single touch, drags the college sophomore to an abandoned storage unit, and injects her with a DNA-altering serum, Maya prays for a savior. Instead, she gets a double helping of knight-in-not-so-shining-armor when two young men claiming to be her half-brothers pull off a belated rescue.

   >>> ““There are so many positive adjectives I can apply to this novel, I scarcely know where to begin. It’s totally exciting. Dramatic. Vividly intense. Poignant. Need I add that it’s an utterly riveting, page-turning read?” A Night’s Dream Of Books Blog

   Now Maya is swiftly transforming into an “angel”, one of the scientifically-enhanced, energy-sucking creatures her brothers have spent their whole lives trying to destroy. Maya’s senses sharpen, her body becomes strong and agile, and she develops the ability to visually see the emotions of those around her as colorful auras…beautiful auras…tempting auras.

   >>> “Maya is imperfect, sarcastic and believable; and her plight is heart-poundingly realistic.” Reading Lark Blog

   Struggling to control the murderous appetite that fuels her new abilities, this reluctant protagonist must find a way to accept her new condition and learn to trust her angel-hunting brothers as she joins them in their fight against the powerful and destructive creatures.

   >>> “Quirky and fun with a dash of heart-wrenching family drama.” Black Sun Reviews Blog

   On the up side, at least Maya’s eldest brother has stopped trying to kill her!

   Get ready to fall hard for Falling, the first novel in the action-packed, new adult paranormal series, Girl With Broken Wings

   Warning: contains strong language, violence, and sexual content.

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   Author Bio:
   J Bennett lives and writes in San Diego. Her writing partner is a bunny named Avalon who contributes to each manuscript by trying to eat it. His adorableness is his primary strength as a writer.

   J Bennett is a professional copywriter and an author who loves asking that oh-so-dangerous question – “What if?” She currently writes a paranormal adventure series, Girl With Broken Wings, and a tongue-in-cheek vampire humor short story series, The Vampire’s Housekeeper Chronicles.

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6. Darkangel

   About Darkangel:

   Finding the man of your dreams can be a real nightmare….

   As the future prima, or head witch of her clan, Angela McAllister is expected to bond with her consort during her twenty-first year, thus ensuring that she will come into her full powers at the appointed time. The clock is ticking down, and her consort has yet to make an appearance. Instead, her dreams are haunted by a man she’s never seen, the one she believes must be her intended match.

   But with time running out, and dark forces attempting to seize her powers for their own, Angela is faced with a terrible choice: give up her dreams of the man she may never meet and take the safer path, or risk leaving her clan and everyone in it at the mercy of those who seek their ruin.

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   Author Bio:
   A native of Southern California, Christine Pope has been writing stories ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona typewriter back in the sixth grade. Two of her short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

   She writes as the mood takes her, and her work includes paranormal romance, and fantasy and science fiction/space opera romance. She blames this on being easily distracted by bright, shiny objects, which could also account for the size of her shoe collection. After spending many years in the magazine publishing industry, she now works as a freelance editor and graphic designer in addition to writing fiction. She fell in love with Sedona, Arizona, while researching the Sedona Trilogy and now makes her home there, surrounded by the red rocks. No alien sightings, though…not yet, anyway!

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7. Rhythm of My Heart by Kemberlee Shortland

   About Rhythm of My Heart by Kemberlee Shortland:

   Artist Representative, Eilis Kennedy, gave up a singing career so that other women could have a fair chance at having their music heard. Having suffered rejection from callous men in the industry, she thought she would get away from ‘casting couch’ mentality. But when she finds herself in the office of Fergus Manley, all bets are off. Disgusted by his continual come-ons and lewd invitations, Eilis is looking for ‘the one’ who will take her career to the next level, getting out from under Fergus’s controlling thumb.

   Aspiring blues guitarist, Kieran Vaughan, is looking for his big break. But after suffering near bankruptcy at the hands of an unscrupulous business partner, Kieran is left picking up the pieces. He’s unsure if the debts will ever be paid or if he’ll ever have a chance to do something with his music. At his whit’s end, he’s about ready to throw in the towel and find a full-time job with real hours.

   When Eilis discovers Kieran playing in a seedy pub in Dublin’s Northside, she knows he’s the one rare talent she’s been searching for. With her know-how and his talent, Eilis will finally get everything she’s been waiting for. Neither of them count on the powerful attraction from first meeting. Eilis is so rocked by Keiran’s forthright words that it sends her running. Kieran risks being arrested as he chases Eilis across Ireland.

   Seeing what’s happening between Eilis and Kieran, anger wells inside Fergus and he steps up his pursuit of Eilis. Refusing to let Kieran get in his way, Fergus vows to add Eilis’s notch to his bedpost, whatever it takes.

   Will Kieran be able to protect her?

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   Kemberlee is a native Northern Californian who grew up in a community founded by artists and writers, including John Steinbeck, George Sterling, and Jack London.

   She has dual diplomas — canine and feline nutrition, and hotel and restaurant management. At one time she also ran a private part time obedience business, and also showed English Bull Terriers

   In 1997, she left the employ of Clint Eastwood to live in Ireland for six months. It was there she met the man she would marry, and relocated to live in Ireland permanently. While always writing, Kemberlee earned her keep as a travel consultant and writing travel articles about Ireland. In 2005, she saw her first romance sell, and to date, she has eight published romances.

   Kemberlee enjoys her two Border Collies, who feature on the cover of A Piece of My Heart, and also knitting, gardening, photography, music, travel, and tacos!

   Kemberlee enjoys hearing from her readers. Please feel free to visit her on her social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter.

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8. Fearless Finns Murderous Adventure, Mike Coony

   About Fearless Finns Murderous Adventure, Mike Coony:

   Fearless Finn’s Murderous Adventure – A fascinating, action-packed masterpiece
   From the quiet woods of Ireland during the ‘Troubles’, to the wheeling and dealing of Hong Kong, Fearless Finn’s Murderous Adventure takes readers on a fast-paced, globe-trotting, roller coaster ride featuring Triads, Mafia, sexy women, deadly accurate shots, miraculous escapes, and savage murders in exotic locations.

   The brave and handsome Fearless Finn Flynn is a bank-robbing, kidnapping, IRA terrorist. But there’s always time in his life for love, lesbian sex and looking out for the underdog – especially if she’s a prostitute.

   Finn’s forced on the run after a kidnapping gone wrong and a murder he didn’t commit. He’ll hide out in Sweden, check an arms cache in the scorching deserts of Libya, and do a short stint with the PKK in Kurdistan before stopping to make his fortune in Hong Kong.

   With Hong Kong’s booming property market, skyrocketing stock market, and organised crime of every colour and flavor, it’s not long before Finn is raking in the cash – and exploiting the corruption amidst the breath-taking beauty and sexual exploitation of West Africa for his own ends; while his Mafia partner arranges massive drug hauls. But a journalist’s exposé threatens to bring it all to a screeching halt.

   After twists, turns, murders and betrayals, can Finn Flynn exact his cunning revenge? Will he be able to use Scotland Yard’s Anti-terrorist Branch to put his enemies in their place? And will he escape with the millions he’s earned off a deal involving billions of dollars, General Noriega, Military Governor of Panama?

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   Mike Coony’s been an advertising poster boy, art student, soldier, bouncer, night club owner, pop group manager, tobacco smuggler, magazine publisher, trade unionist, advertising copywriter and senior ad exec. He’s lived in England, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Africa, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines and the U.S.A.

   Advertising and publishing opportunities took Mike to Hong Kong, where he lived a life of luxury, living in five-star hotels and flying around Asia in helicopters. Mike’s award-winning ads – including print, outdoor and film campaigns – won him recognition in both Ireland and Asia, and he sat on the judging panels of the Asian Advertising Awards in Hong Kong and Bangkok.

   After many years in Hong Kong Mike returned to Ireland, where he was dubbed ‘Hong Kong Mike’ by the smugglers on the border between The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. In the late 1990s he established Ireland’s first major phone card company. The company enjoyed great success until it all came crashing down due to mistakes, or otherwise, of his once trusted accountant. Mike suffered a heart attack, but he lived to tell the tales.

   Today, ‘Hong Kong Mike’ lives amidst the loughs and mountains of rural Ireland with Meg the Golden Boxer and Ruby the German Pointer in tow. With his creativity still brimming, his days and nights are spent writing fictionalized adventures loosely based on his rich life experiences – and the close friendships he’s enjoyed with members of paramilitary groups, subversives, lesbian prostitutes, drug dealers, insurance fraudsters, bankers, lawyers, Chinese Triads and police officers.

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9. A DEAD HUSBAND

   About A DEAD HUSBAND:

   Jessica Huntington is hiding out from her own well-planned life, now in shambles. Her law career tanked by the Great Recession, she failed miserably as a desperate housewife in the Silicon Valley. Playing beat-the-clock with her 30-something hormones for 3 long years her final reward was a little baby fat, but no baby. The final blow, though, was walking in on her husband in bed with a well-known Hollywood blond.

   The Rancho Mirage home where she grew up, surrounded by the beauty of the desert resort town near Palm Springs, seems the perfect place to take refuge. That is until her best friend’s husband is murdered. Jessica and her friends are soon swept into the fray, stalked by scoundrels in pantyhose, stilettos, Bruno Maglis, and Armani suits. Roger Stone had something that got him killed. What was it and to what will they do to get it back?

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   Life is an extravaganza! Figuring out how to hang tough and make the most of the wild ride is the challenge. On my way to Oahu to join the rock musician and high school drop-out I had married in Tijuana, I was nabbed as a runaway. Eventually the police let me go, but the rock band broke up. Our next stop: Disney World, where we trained to be chefs. More education landed us in academia at The Ohio State University. For decades I researched, wrote, and spoke about a number of gloriously nerdy topics. Retired now, I’m still married to the same sweet guy and live with him near Palm Springs, California. The Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery series is set here in the Sonoran Desert, a spectacular place to ponder life’s mysteries while relishing the delights of the desert resort cities.

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10. The Moonglow Cafe

    About The Moonglow Cafe:

    New York reporter Paige MacKenzie has a hidden motive when she heads to the small town of Timberton, Montana. Assigned to research the area’s unique Yogo sapphires for the Manhattan Post, she hopes to reconnect romantically with handsome cowboy Jake Norris. The local gem gallery offers the material needed for the article, but the discovery of an old diary, hidden inside the wall of a historic hotel, soon sends her on a detour into the underworld of art and deception.

    Each of the town’s residents holds a key to untangling more than one long-buried secret, from the hippie chick owner of a new age café to the mute homeless man in the town park. As the worlds of western art and sapphire mining collide, Paige finds herself juggling research, romance and danger. With stolen sapphires and shady characters thrown into the mix, will Paige escape the consequences of her own curiosity?

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    Author Bio:
    Deborah Garner is an accomplished travel writer with a passion for back roads and secret hideaways. Born and raised in California, she studied in France before returning to the U.S. to attend UCLA. After stints in graduate school and teaching, she attempted to clone herself for decades by founding and running a dance and performing arts center, designing and manufacturing clothing and accessories, and tackling both spreadsheets and display racks for corporate retail management. Her passions include photography, hiking and animal rescue. She speaks five languages, some substantially better than others. She now divides her time between California and Wyoming, dragging one human and two canines along whenever possible.

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