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About The Rules for Lying (Big Easy Shaman Book 1)

Magic isn’t for sissies

WARNING: No good comes from a book with magic, mayhem, theft, murder, sass talk, demons, animals committing felonies, gleeful revenge, and bad things happening to good people for no particular reason. This story won’t encourage good habits and probably fine tune bad ones. The only lesson is don’t lie until you know the rules.

Teenager Peter Whistler lives at the Little Angels Home for Orphan Boys. Life in New Jersey is harsh in the Great Depression, but Peter has an exceptional ability to lie. He hones his talent, convinced it’s the ticket to easy fortune. He certainly doesn’t foresee the arrival of a murderous conjuror with mysterious designs on a little blind girl named Esther. Drawn into a nefarious plot to unleash a demon, Peter leads Esther and an enchanted terrier on a desperate escape to New Orleans and meets Amelie Marchand. Like all well-bred southern girls she’s trained in deadly martial arts, but with a murderous stepmother, Amelie has troubles of her own. Peter and Amelie’s one chance for survival is to head deep into the bayou and seek help from a mad shaman known as the Frog King.

Welcome to an alternate 1930s where both jazz and magic fill New Orleans’ air. Can a little luck, mystical lies, and a dash of Cajun crazy help Peter harness the power to kill an immortal demon? If not, the Depression will be a picnic by comparison when hell arrives on Earth.

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I’m a full-time writer of fantasy and science fiction. My stories have adventure, humor, and a little romance because life is dull without them. I don’t write graphic sex or gore so your mama would approve, but do add a touch of cheeky sass so maybe she wouldn’t. Florida is home; a place where the heat and humidity have driven everyone slightly mad. In my spare time I call in Bigfoot sightings to the Florida Department of Fish and Wildlife. They are heartily sick of hearing from me.

About A Murderous Approach

The toxic world of online misogyny spills out onto the streets…leaving behind a trail of blood.

Sarah’s a recently qualified detective assigned to the Major Crime Team. When a young woman is murdered and her body left on display in the street, Sarah knows she’s going to be hunting an unusual killer.

Her initial enquiries lead her to a variety of suspects — a recently jilted lover, a former police officer with friends in high places, and the victim’s teacher with his penchant for harassing women from the comfort of his keyboard, but no closer to the truth.

Every wasted moment gives the killer a chance to strike again. Just as she feels she has him in her grasp, a second murder throws the case up in the air. The manhunt takes a sinister turn as it leads her down into the depths of the toxic online community that created him. But the killer knows justice is coming. And he’s going to force her into a confrontation she may not survive.

Can Sarah put a stop to the killer’s murder spree, or will she become his next victim?

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I’m a former detective from London, England and I write crime thrillers based in the UK. I left the police five years ago and decided to pursue a career in crime fiction rather than crime fact. So far, it’s been bloody murder.

When I’m not writing, I enjoy being gripped by an overwhelming sense of foreboding and crippling self-doubt about my creative career. I’m kidding. I like movies and long walks on the beach.

About Mail Order Bride by Karla Gracey

Critics describe these books as a very sweet invigorating set of books which are heart-warming, full of love, mystery, hope, and the true meaning of friendship.

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Karla Gracey was born with a very creative imagination and a love for creating stories that will inspire and warm people’s hearts. She has always been attracted to historical romance including mail order bride stories with strong willed women. Her characters are easy to relate to and you feel as if you know them personally. Whether you enjoy action, adventure, romance, mystery, suspense or drama- she makes sure there is something for everyone in her historical romance stories!

About Inspired by Art: Fighting Goliath

focuses on the aftermath of the victory over Goliath.

These amazing sculptures, paintings, etchings, and manuscript illustrations inspired the author to write The David Chronicles, a series of three volumes, the first of which is the novel Rise to Power, where she imagines this victory.

Besides being an artist and having worked as an architect, she taught art history, and this collection served as the basis for a semester-long course analyzing the contrasts in viewpoints around the biblical story.

This collection is arranged not by artist, nor by artistic style or era, but rather by moment-by-moment in the story, blow–by-blow, as imagined by various artists: Ghiberti, Guercino, Caravaggio, Filippo Lippi, Gustave Doré, Rembrandt, and Chagall, to name but a few.

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Uvi Poznansky is a bestselling, award-winning author of 26 books, a poet and an artist. “I paint with my pen,” she says, “and write with my paintbrush.” Her romance boxed set, A Touch of Passion, is the 2016 WINNER of The Romance Reviews Readers’ Choice Awards.

Education and work:
Uvi earned her B. A. in Architecture and Town Planning from the Technion in Haifa, Israel and practiced with an innovative Architectural firm, taking a major part in the large-scale project, called Home for the Soldier.

Having moved to Troy, N.Y. with her husband and two children, Uvi received a Fellowship grant and a Teaching Assistantship from the Architecture department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There, she guided teams in a variety of design projects and earned her M.A. in Architecture. Then, taking a sharp turn in her education, she earned her M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

She worked first as an architect, and later as a software engineer, software team leader, software manager and a software consultant (with an emphasis on user interface for medical instruments devices.) All the while, she wrote and painted constantly, and exhibited in Israel and California. In addition, she taught art appreciation classes. Her versatile body of work includes bronze and ceramic sculptures, oil and watercolor paintings, charcoal, pen and pencil drawings, and mixed media.

Books and Genres:
Uvi writes across a variety of genres: Literary fiction, historical fiction, romance, romantic suspense, spy thrillers, biblical fiction, poetry, horror, and children’s books. Thanks to the readers who love the romance novels in her boxed set, A Touch of Passion, it has become the 2016 WINNER of The Romance Reviews Readers’ Choice Awards.

Her two series won great acclaim. Still Life with Memories is a family saga series with touches of romance. It’s latest volume is a WWII spy thriller. The series includes Apart From Love, My Own Voice, The White Piano, The Music of Us, Dancing with Air, and Marriage before Death. The David Chronicles is a historical fiction series with a modern twist. It includes Rise to Power, A Peek at Bathsheba, and The Edge of Revolt.

Her poetry book, Home, is in tribute to her father. Her collection of dark tales, Twisted, and her Historical Fiction book, A Favorite Son, are both new age, biblically inspired books. In addition, Uvi wrote and illustrated two children books, Jess and Wiggle and Now I Am Paper. For each one of these books, she created an animation video (find them on YouTube and on her Goodreads page.)

About The Brilliant Game (Hidden Motives Book 3) by A. Gavazzoni

“Fasten your seat belts readers before you embark on this roller coaster, and prepare for the most unpredictable end.”

The award-winning author, A. Gavazzoni who brought you “Behind The Door” book one and “Lara’s Journal” has now released book three of “The Hidden Motives” novel series titled; “The Brilliant Game” another hot romantic psychological thriller suspense you won’t soon forget!

It begins with Psychiatrist Simone Bennet feeling like a pawn on a chessboard—as if some invisible, master chess player is toying with her life and the lives of the people she loves and cares for.

A series of horrific events—several murders and Simone being tortured at the hands of a serial killer—culminate in the kidnapping of her daughter and have turned Simone’s life upside down.

Struggling to stay afloat in the middle of a sea of chaos, Simone continues to receive her psychiatric patients and do more work for the New York attorney, Carl, while local police, the FBI, and Edward—Simone’s boyfriend, best friend, and business partner—are working hard to locate her child.

Simone is analyzing another set of Lara’s journals, and she becomes dragged into a vortex of sex addiction, suffering, and Lara’s struggle for some kind of balance in her life, while Simone battles an inner fight against her mixed feelings for the enigmatic lawyer.
Filled with twists and turns, this final book in the Hidden Motives trilogy reveals a deranged, steamy, and disturbingly brilliant game of sex, murder, and mystery and chronicles a woman’s conflict between love and reason.

An exceptional page-turner and ending of this novel series with sex, murder, twists, and a unique ending you won’t even see coming …

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Author, Adrianna Gavazzoni is a Brazilian author and has been a lawyer for twenty-seven years. She won her first book award for book one of her series for “Behind The Door:” Then a Golden Book Award 2017- Readers Choice; Book Excellence Award 2017; Honorable mention at Paris Book Festival 2017; Honorable Mention at Reader’s Favorite Award 2017 and was a finalist to the IPPY Independent Author Awards.

Adriana is a lawyer, a former professor of law and a writer of novels and legal books, but she is also a voracious reader. She speaks four languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. When she is not practicing law or writing, she enjoys many interests and is a very active person. She loves to dance (Tango) and loves to workout.

She loves to travel, loves good wine, food, and has been studying astrology for fifteen years. She paints and loves to cook.

She has two poodles -Gaia and Juno -and loves all animals. She is an aunt of four nieces who enjoy to paint and cook alongside their aunt. She lives and works in Brazil.

About Secrets Lies & Murder by Lesli Catsouras

IT STARTS WITH A SECRET
It ends in murder…

When Gabriella Dubois wakes up in the hospital she remembers nothing of being pulled, unconscious, from the bottom of a deep ravine.

Until one small recollection slowly unfolds, and she remembers a secret her husband, Daniel, wants her to forget.

Now fueled with the force of a woman scorned, Gabriella plunges through Daniel’s life. But the deeper she digs, and the more secrets she finds, the more frightening things become.

A few days later, when the body of Daniel’s young mistress is found brutally murdered, and all the evidence points straight to Daniel, Gabriella is forced to confront a dangerous secret of her own.

In a desperate attempt to clear his name, Daniel is running out of time and about to make a shocking discovery. But when new evidence appears and the clues don’t add up, everyone becomes a suspect.

What Gabriella finds next drives this heart-pounding psychological thriller down a dark and dangerous trail of unexpected twists and deadly consequences. It’s only when the truth is finally revealed that the real nightmare begins.

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Award-wining author Lesli Catsouras is thrilled to launch her first Murder Mystery Novel Secrets, Lies & Murder.

Secrets, Lies & Murder is the first in her new Murder Mystery Series ‘In Dark Places.’ Lesli’s novel Secrets Lies & Murder is inspired by her own life experiences dealing with unspeakable tragedy, heartbreak, and healing.

After the loss of her eighteen-year-old daughter, Nikki, Lesli immersed herself in her journal as a way of coping with a loss too unimaginable to bear. Through her grief came her first Memoir Forever Exposed: The Nikki Catsouras Story.

Lesli has won numerous literary awards for her Memoir including being named the Grand Prize Winner of the 2012 Christian Choice Book Awards.

But she didn’t stop there. The inability to change the ending of her tragic story is what drove her to rewrite every dark moment of her life, but this time, using fictional anecdotes in which she can find reason in the unreasonable, order in the chaos and even forgiveness in the unforgivable.

~Lesli Catsouras

About The Crucifix by Simon Farrant

“When Mason Grey, a retired church minister, forms a new church at home, a cult is born. Inspired by Biblical killings, the cult hands out their own brand of rough justice.
Abbie, a founder member of his congregation, realises something’s not right with the cult’s actions, something feels off.
Will the cult succeed in their macabre machinations or have they met their match?”

The Crucifix is about a man called Mason who was a pastor. He had to take early retirement due to disability. He already held charismatic authority, so when his carer suggests running a church from home he jumps at the chance. Before long, he finds that the congregation of 20 has evolved into a cult. One of them finds out about some paedophiles being released from prison into their local community. The people discuss it one Sunday and they decide to stop any chance of reoffending. Permanently. They choose methods of killing from the bible, and start taking their targets out weekly, leaving a crucifix with the bodies as a calling card. One evening, the carer realises that something is wrong….

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Hi! I’m Simon, I live in Corby (England). I’m forty something married with three kids a cat and a skink!
I love motorbike racing and watching football and rugby. I’ve been writing for about a year now and love it. The Crucifix has 5* reviews.
Best of all, I love spending time with the family.
Currently, I don’t work because of my disabilities, but have done all kinds of jobs. My last job was a truck driver, and I was a volunteer police officer too.

About Letting Go of Holding On by D. Duquette

April had the perfect family, children that loved her and a husband that adored her. Happy and grateful for the life they built together, one bad decision turns her world upside down.

Just when she thinks things can’t get any worse, she receives a letter that threatens to change life as she knows it, once again. Follow this incredible mother through her raw experiences with trauma. Admire the way she copes with her pain. Laugh with her humor and cry with her sorrow. This powerful story will surely tug at your heartstrings.

**Due to strong language and adult content, this book is intended for mature audiences.

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Born on October 1, 1987, in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

She still resides on the east coast with her husband, three children and several farm animals. When she’s not writing, you can find her in the kitchen cooking up something delicious! She also loves crafting, gardening, reading, spending time with her family, venturing outdoors and camping.

About Hedda Stein-Sun’s UnRemembered Islands

An adventure story for young and old – follow Hedda the young Viking on her journey through 1985 – what is the secret of the blue glow? One day flash free sale 9 March Friday

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Anthony Nordvik-Nash is from an Anglo-Norwegian family and has spent 30 summers on the secret islands in Norway where creatures in the forest share the land with the locals.

About Anarchy by Nancy Isaak

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WOULD YOU SURVIVE?

It’s been 19 years since humanity lost the battle.

Now, Frankie and Abby—two young sisters in their 20’s—are living in a desolate beach house on a Southern California cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. For 5 years they’ve been all alone—without electricity or running water, and with “death” that comes loping toward them in the darkness each night.

The beasts…

Frankie, the younger sister, calls them “skeeters”. You can smell them before you see them, she says. And they only come in the dark because the light, it hurts their eyes. Abby, the older sister, says that some people thought that the volcanic eruption in Yellowstone Park 19 years ago opened a door to the secret world under the ground and the skeeters got out. Other people, Abby says, thought that maybe skeeters were hibernating and just woke up. And—of course—there were always those people that thought that skeeters were part of the Rapture and came straight out of hell.

Whatever the reason—whether skeeters were vampires or demons—they took down humanity quickly, killing and eating with a voraciousness that drove the last few humans into hiding.

And now the skeeters are coming for Frankie and Abby. It’s not a case of “if”…but “when”. The scat-signs are increasing, the beasts are circling. Perhaps there’s a migration afoot or—perhaps—the beasts have simply found the girls at last.

Darkness is coming…it’s time to RUN!

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Nancy Isaak is the Gemini-nominated and award-winning author of the “365 Days Quadrilogy” series, “Flight 308 to Christmas”, as well as, numerous television movies and series episodes, both in the United States and in Canada. An Alfred P. Sloan Fellow for writing in the hard sciences, Nancy has also produced, directed, and acted in over 100 different productions. That said–she’d still rather be an astronaut. Stupid math.

About Love and Mutiny: Tales from British India

Reared in India, Edwina Hardingham loves her country and cannot imagine an existence away from it. Equally at home in the vibrant society of members of the East India Company in Calcutta, and in the cool clime of Simla, at the foothills of the Himalayas, she enjoys undisturbed calm until confronted with love and mutiny. When the dashing Mr. Grayson rescues her from the hands of brigands in Calcutta, she develops a tenderness for him, which not even the ill-humoured Mr. Davenport can discourage. All is changed, however, when the long-suffering sepoys of India revolt against the inequitable rule of the East India Company, in 1857. Torn between worry for her family, now imperiled by the distraught mutineers, and the man she loves, Edwina must learn to hold her peace until a happy outcome ensues. Will she find joy with the man she loves? Does her family escape unscathed from the ravages of war? Read this gripping novel—set in real events and places of the First War of Indian Independence—to find out.

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I am a newly published author who has finally taken the plunge into the world of writing! I live in the United States with my husband and son. While I have just begun my career as a novelist, the dream of becoming an author is not a new one. I always wanted to be a writer but simply had no time to do so!

I finally committed to a career in writing after spending several years as a college professor, having earned a doctorate in family and human development. When my son was born, I decided to stay home with him for a few years and in the process, finally gave myself to writing for pleasure. Strangely, although motherhood taxes me—physically, mentally and emotionally—more than anything ever has, I find myself in an increasingly uncluttered state of mind. Perhaps children have a way of simplifying the world around us along with our view of it!

It is from this tidying of my mind that my first novel, Love and Mutiny: Tales From British India, emerged, not to mention the desire to simply tell a good story. Having finished the process, I have come to the conclusion that I wish to tell lots of good stories that entertain my readers and help them forget, if only briefly, the bewildering world outside the covers of my books!

About Promise (The Naravan Chronicles 1) by Isabo Kelly

Kira Farseaker led a sheltered, privileged life—until the discovery of a secret that plunged her into an underworld of danger. Now she fights to save an alien species, the Shifters, from government-sanctioned extermination. When she learns some of the Shifters are evolving, she vows to give them sanctuary on a secret planet, a Farseaker legacy. But getting them off-planet and safely to the promised haven will be the most dangerous mission she’s ever attempted. A challenge made more deadly by her attraction to the dark, hungry eyes of a suspected spy.

Officer David Cario’s assignment to a Shifter extermination squadron might be just the break he needs to uncover the secrets behind his sister’s execution. But earning the trust of his commander’s ex-wife, the suspected terrorist Kira Farseaker, proves more complicated than he planned. Crossing into Kira’s world will lead him to truths he isn’t prepared to discover, and the desire between them destroys everything David once believed.

Tangled in a web of treachery, Kira and David struggle between duty and a growing passion that could destroy everything they’ve worked for…or save both their lives.

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Isabo Kelly is the award-winning author of numerous science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal romances. She also writes best-selling paranormal romance under the name Kat Simons. Her life has taken her from Las Vegas to Hawaii, where she got her BA in Zoology, back to Vegas where she looked after sharks, then on to Germany and Ireland where she got her Ph.D. in Animal Behavior. Now Isabo focuses on writing. She lives in New York with her Irish husband and two beautiful boys, working as a full time writer and stay-at-home mom.