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About Brutal Silence by Margaret Dardess

BRUTAL SILENCE IS EVERY WOMAN’S WORST NIGHTMARE
Alex Harrington’s genteel southern world shatters when two strangers drag her from a tourist bus while she’s on vacation in Mexico City. She wakes on a grit-covered cement floor, head throbbing, looking up into the terrified faces of a dozen women and the brutal world of human trafficking. A champion runner, Alex escapes and returns to run her free clinic in North Carolina, haunted by the faces of the women she was unable to save. When a battered woman seeks refuge at her clinic, only to die moments later, Alex learns that human traffickers don’t only exist in Mexico. They are operating even in her home town, targeting her, and she has no idea why. Alex wants answers, but when the trail leads back to those she loves the most, she finds that sometimes it’s the most innocent and ordinary places that hide the most terrible secrets Proceeds from Brutal Silence will benefit organizations that work heroically to combat human trafficking.

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Born and raised just outside of New York City, Margaret Dardess has lived and travelled across several continents, landing at last in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she probably should have been all along. She is the daughter of an artist and a poet, who were determined to steer their only daughter away from a life in the arts. For many years they were successful. Margaret returned to New York after graduation from Connecticut College to study Japanese history at Columbia University, and after a brief teaching career at the University of Illinois, went on to tackle the law. When she finally stopped going to school, she set off on a journey, masquerading as an international trade lawyer, a corporate communications executive and a university administrator until at last she cast her parents’ warnings to the wind and began to write. Brutal Silence is Margaret’s debut thriller. After meeting a woman who escaped from human traffickers and hearing all that the poor woman endured, Margaret was so angry that she had to tell others about it. She chose to write an action-packed thriller as a way to make the issue of human trafficking come alive through fiction. Brutal Silence is the story of Alex Harrington, a resilient and gutsy young Southern woman who takes on human traffickers in her North Carolina town and in Mexico and wins. Margaret lives with her husband and three cats in Chapel Hill and Wilmington, North Carolina.

About First Strike by Richard Turner

When war comes after a century of peace, it is sudden and brutal. Taken by surprise Earth’s far-flung colonies are in danger.

The only son of an admiral, Second Lieutenant Michael Sheridan finds himself thrust into a desperate conflict that he and the untried soldiers under his command are not ready for. Focusing on the people struggling to survive the onslaught, First Strike is a novel that propels the reader to the furthest limits of space. Fighting a ruthless and determined enemy, Sheridan soon learns the brutal lessons of war and that his enemy may not be what it appears to be.

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Richard Turner proudly served his country for more than thirty years, all across the globe.

He wanted to try something new and now spends his time writing.

About Enthralled by Raechel Lynn

Enthralled is a continuation of Magnus and Eleanor’s story from Enticed. Set two months down the road, Magnus has finally reached his breaking point and decides to seek out Eleanor. But at what price?

As the danger grows, so does their attraction. Will anybody stay safe?

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I grew up in the pacific northwest, which granted me an appreciation of everything outdoors, and a love for raw beauty. The most important things in my life are my two horses and my dog, and I’m forever a champion of adoption. Paranormal, fantasy, and sci-fi are my favorite genres to read and to write.

About The Azhar Sheikhs

Azhar Sheikhs: The Complete Series is a three book boxset that feature the three books in the Azhar Sheikhs series. These books each focus on a sexy sheikh and the woman he falls for. This boxset includes The Sheikh’s Fake Fiancee, The Sheikh’s Pregnant Fling, and The Sheikh’s Surprise Triplets.

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Leslie North is the USA Today Bestselling pen name for a critically-acclaimed author of women’s contemporary romance and fiction. The anonymity gives her the perfect opportunity to paint with her full artistic palette, especially in the romance and erotic fantasy genres.

About Jacqueline Willoughby by Schuyler Randall

A string of mysterious murders rocks Birmingham, Alabama, in the page-turner Jacqueline Willoughby. At first glance, the murders seem to be connected to the Ten Commandments, but FBI agents Kason McAlester and Troy Stephens see that there is more to the story—and that a rare book written decades ago by a woman named Jacqueline Willoughby may have the answer to solving the crimes.
Will the two agents be able to follow the trail of the old book and find the killer responsible for these grisly murders? You’ll have to read Jacqueline Willoughby to find out.

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Randy N. Moon was born in Bronx, New York. He was raised and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife Yvette and west highland terrier Que. He’s a freelance writer and a member of the Hoover Library Write Club. Randy enjoys traveling, attending live sporting events, concerts, loves Dutch seventeenth century paintings, listening to a good story, playing monopoly with group of family and friends or a game of electronic battleship with a worthy opponent.

About Two: Mind Games and Murder

Betrayal. Treachery. Exploitation.

Her husband wants her locked away in a psychiatric facility. His business partner wants her dead.

Isabella Armond thought her husband was a physician. Why wouldn’t she? He indeed appeared to be a prominent cardio-thoracic surgeon with a high-end Paris practice. But what she did not know was that he was also a black-market butcher. Aligned with his business partner the two stole and brokered thousands of organs from unsuspecting victims. Adrien Armond, a psychopath, whose addiction to power and the good life needed a constant infusion of funds. Isabella alone stood in his way and that just would not do.

Isabella was now the target of the only man that could save her.

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Kathleen McGillick was born in New York and once she started to walk she never stopped running. But that’s what New Yorker’s do. Right?

As she evolved so did her career choices. After completing her graduate degree in nursing she spent many years in the university setting sharing the dreams of the enthusiastic nursing students she taught. After twenty rewarding years in the medical field she attended law school and has spent the last twenty-four years as an attorney helping people navigate the turbulent waters of the legal system. Not an easy feat. And now? Now she is sharing the characters she loves with readers hoping they are intrigued by her twisting and turning plots and entertained by her writing.

If you asked her what her passions are that would be an easy answer. Reading and traveling the world.

About It’s A Bright World To Feel Lost In

How can you go on being you when you don’t know who to be you for? This gentle story of love lost and found is narrated by Mawson Bear. His friends demonstrate his ponders about love and belonging.

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Mawson is one of this bright world’s few published Writer-Bears. He speaks, as softly as you can imagine, about being one’s best in an often baffling world.

A modest bear of generous proportions, distinctive in his white fur coat and bow tie, he’s often muddled but always confident, deep in his inner-most stuffing, that things are going to be all right.

About WWII in Antwerp Belgium. Experiences of a Young Boy.

War is, of course, terrible. Any war. All the suffering, all the death, all the wounded, the destruction, homelessness, cruelty, hunger, fear, and panic. It may also bring out the best in some people: heroism, patriotism, compassion, and altruism. But one would never think that war might be seen as an adventure; in some ways for me it was.

In this short book I write about my memories of this period of time from the invasion of Belgium, through the German occupation, and to the immediate post war era. For most Belgians this was a hard and sad time full of suffering. While I experienced some of that suffering and the fear as well, many of my memories are about exciting events and experiences (to a young boy), to the point that I remember this time as an “adventure.”

I will justifiably be faulted for talking so lightly about this dark period in Belgium’s and the world’s history and for seemingly having somewhat enjoyed it all , while people were indiscriminately killed, tortured, and exterminated by the Nazis and while there was much suffering, destruction, maiming, and death. Remember though that I was a little boy growing up and mostly unaware of the atrocities occurring away from my immediate environment. Also, my parents did their best to shelter me from the many horrors.

If a reader is offended by this, I do apologize and want to reassure the reader that now at age 83, I am of course fully aware of the darkness of the years between 1940 and 1945. Seen in this light I do hope that this will be an interesting and enjoyable read for contemporaries and others.

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I was born on November 3, 1933 in a small town close the major port of Antwerp in Belgium. All of my primary and high school education was in Antwerp. I lived through WW II and the German occupation.

I went to medical school at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, where I graduated in 1958. My internship was in Schenectady, New York. When I finished the internship, Belgium still had an obligatory military service. Instead I signed up with the Belgian colonial health service and was assigned to a government hospital in the interior of the former Belgian Congo, now called, after their independence from Belgium, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I left there in the middle of 1960 shortly after that country obtained its independence.

After completing a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Miami in 1965, I completed a two year fellowship in reproductive endocrinology in Miami and then joined the faculty of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the UM. I rose rapidly in the academic ranks and was promoted to full professor in 1974.

Wanting to retire early from my academic position, I left the full time practice there at the end of 1989 at the age of 55. However I remained in the faculty and to date I am an Emeritus Clinical Professor of the University of Miami.

After leaving the University of Miami, I worked for various lengths of time as an obstetrician and gynecologist in a number of locations around the world and and in the USA. These locations include : Okinawa Japan; Karachi, Pakistan; Sitka, Alaska, Queensland, Australia; Tasmania, Australia; New Zealand; St Lucia in the Caribbean; Chiapas, Mexico. Many of my assignments were organized through an organization out of Salt Lake City in Utah, called Global Medical Staffing. This organization recently ran an article about our travels and experiences in their newsletter.

Currently (2017), I am retired from clinical practice and am Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. I am also voluntary professor at the Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, where I am member of the Medical College Admissions Committee and interview medical school applicants.

I am board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and maintain a license to practice in Florida.

I have belonged to a number of professional societies and have carried a number of editorial and peer review responsibilities. I was honored with a Fogarty Senior International Fellowship for one year in 1997 at the University of Goteborg in Sweden. I am an author of more than 150 publications in various professional journals.

I am married to Anne and have four children and eight grandchildren. I am fluent in English, Dutch and French and conversant in Spanish. My wife and I are both in excellent physical health. We enjoy outdoor activities and we were both competitive swimmers. We do a lot of traveling within the USA and in other countries.

I can be reached at: awlemaire@hotmail.com

About Goodbye Anxiety, Hello Freedom by Stephanie Dalfonzo

Are you tired of just “coping with” or “managing” anxiety? This book will show you how to overcome anxiety once and for all.

Over 20 years of researching natural, holistic and scientifically proven skills and techniques are packed into this powerful little book. Anxiety Expert, Stephanie Dalfonzo, shares many different techniques in this book because she knows “one size” doesn’t fit all. Each of us experiences anxiety in our own unique way and each of us will resonate differently with these tools.

Some of the tools are deceptively easy, but don’t let their simplicity fool you. Simple shifts are truly what create lasting changes. There is a much greater chance that you will actually practice these new skills, because you can quickly and easily fit them into your daily routine.

The book will be free on Amazon from March 10 – March 12, 2018.

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Born out of her lifelong journey of struggling with relationships, insomnia, feeling lost and stuck, Stephanie has become an anxiety expert out of necessity. After the stark realization that something had to change… she started the process of learning how to break free from the invisible bonds of anxiety and has spent over 20 years researching holistic, natural, and scientifically proven methodologies.   

Stephanie knew that “one size fits all” would not work for her or anyone else for that matter. This was her mantra in her quest for learning and healing which led her to extensive training programs and certifications in Hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping, Neurolinguistic Programming, Reiki, Yoga and more.  
 
In the 1980s and 1990s Stephanie’s first career was as celebrity radio DJ “Stevie Knox” in south Florida. Starting a family and following her husband’s career, which included moving across the country several times, required a change in direction. This is when the learning started and once they were settled, she opened a hypnosis office which she successfully operated for 10 years.   
 
As her skills grew past hypnosis, she closed her hypnosis practice and now works with clients virtually in addition to speaking at inspirational and evolved business conferences and as a guest contributor at small, intimate transformational retreats. 

About Shadows of Wychering by Michael Wigington

The forest always seems darker…when people are missing.
Rumors of dark magic and demons abound in Wychering Wood. Ameline Harsent and a small group are sent to investigate the dark forest. Nothing goes as planned. Can Ameline save the man she loves in time? Or will Wychering Wood claim more victims? Shadows of Wychering – a fantasy novella set in the Corvarix Age. Magic thrives, kings rule, and Wychering Wood is claiming lives.

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Michael lives in Texas amongst the pine trees and is married to a wonderful woman and between them they have four kids and two grandchildren.
Michael gets get inspiration from great authors like J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan and Bernard Cornwell. He loves classic lit and especially fantasy and mythology genres. Nothing is more rewarding than reading a page-turning novel packed with adventure where characters become your best friends and heroes, and you hate to leave them when you reach the last page.

He says, “I love C.S. Lewis’ quote, ‘You can make anything by writing.'”