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A Kind of Homecoming

About A Kind of Homecoming:

A Kind of Homecoming

The Novella takes place in Northern England on the eve of the Great War, where eighteen-year-old Rose Maddox is leaving home to attend nursing school. The daughter of a country veterinarian and a progressive mother, Rose is encouraged to think beyond the boundaries conventional life offers. When she tells her mother she is not sure their country village will be the place she calls home. Her mother tells her that home is not always where you live, but who you share it with. Rose is excited to be taking her first steps into the wide world and writing the next chapter of her life. Rose meets a young German named Sebastian, an apprentice at a motorcycle shop. He too is a restless spirit looking for something that is just out of reach. He shares with her his dream of travel, and she feels an immediate connection. On his Enfield motorcycle, they roar through spring and early summer tearing around the Yorkshire countryside. She finds herself falling in love with him and envisions a life together. Sebastian returns home to visit his family and tell them he is proposing to Rose when he goes back. War breaks out before he can return to England. Rose is hopeful that the conflict will quickly end, and they will be reunited.
Two years later, Rose is serving as a nurse near the front lines in France as the British launch the battle of the Somme. Traumatized by the carnage around her, she struggles to maintain her sanity. During the height of the battle, she is unnerved at the sight of a wounded German soldier she mistakes for Sebastian. An exhausted Rose is sent to get some rest. She returns to her room and tries to drink away the pain. Sebastian is an ambulance driver in a German medical unit. He is taking incredible risks to cut through the numbness that has enveloped him. The pair are unexpectedly reunited during a swap of wounded prisoners. Their fleeting exchange inspires them to remember their time together as something good that life has to offer. As the war winds down, Rose meets a young Scottish officer named Franklin who is clearly enamored with her. The two share a passionate kiss on armistice day but she chalks it up to nothing more than the excitement of the moment. She returns to her childhood home in England. Franklin writes her repeatedly. Rose, lost and directionless, initially resists responding. When the letters stop coming, Rose writes Franklin, telling him the war has damaged her irreparably and he’d be better off with anybody but her. Franklin writes to Rose’s father to ask for her hand in marriage. One week later, Franklin surprises her by showing up on her doorstep and proposing. Rose accepts, realizing she was finally home.
Four decades later, Rose is traveling in Alsace where she stops in a small country village to visit the grave of a British airman shot down in World War 2. The airman is the son of a nurse she served with in the war. At the cemetery, she asks for directions from a young man, who responds in English. He tells her he emigrated to America several years earlier and has returned home to be married. He stopped in the cemetery to pay respects to his father. Rose sees the name on the tomb and realizes it is Sebastian. She breaks down, telling the young man she knew his father before the war. The young man tells her that his father rarely spoke of the war but did confide in him that he once loved a young Englishwoman and was going to ask her to marry him before the war took away the chance. The young man tells Rose that when he wrestled with the decision on whether to leave Alsace for America, Sebastian urged him to seize the opportunity before it passed.

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When Hearts Take Flight

About When Hearts Take Flight:

Unable to say no when others need her, Talia Sampson took on her deceased aunt’s advice column, a worn-out Victorian home, and the care of her special needs niece, Bianca. The last thing Talia needs is a handyman who creates a flutter in her heart.

Enter new veteran, Ben Tanner, who shows up on her doorstep. Lost for many years within the foster system, and broken from the battlefield, he wonders where home truly is. At the address the Welcome Home veteran’s program gave him, a frosty welcome from homeowner, Talia, isn’t what he expected. But with his skill set, he just might have something to offer her for a few of nights of lodging.

Talia and Ben discover two Sampson family heirlooms in the garage. Talia treasures the story the forgotten journal tells, but she secretly fears what finding the hot-air balloon could mean. Ben is intrigued by the ancient balloon and is intent on restoring it for her. Between a secret that shatters his trust and Talia’s self-doubt, it may take more than a leap of faith and going airborne in an antique balloon to overcome what keeps them apart and find a second chance at love.

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illusions

About illusions:

One reckless night. A lifetime of regret. Corey Schaffer has spent her entire marriage privately repenting a horrible mistake made the week before her wedding. When her teenaged daughter is in car accident, Corey blames herself and aches to confess all to her husband. Additionally, their son’s thoughtless rebellion has put her husband Paul’s pastoral position at risk, and he’s finding it hard to forgive. If he can’t forgive Michael how can he forgive her? It all comes to a head when a disgruntled church member sees an opportunity for revenge. Corey must dig deep to find the courage to help her family. Even if that means walking away.

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Vengefully Yours by J Rose Black

About Vengefully Yours by J Rose Black:

…a thrilling and seductive collection…” – Literary Titan ★★★★★

“This was a delightful read with plenty of steam, the right amount of danger, and a fantastic romance. Could not put it down.” – A NetGalley Reader ★★★★

“…keeps the reader glued to the story with intriguing characters and fantastic plot twists.” -Readers’ Favorite ★★★★★

Immerse yourself in this collection of short stories filled with dark secrets, tormented pasts and forbidden desires. Where love still conquers all.

Join six heroes (and the heroines they pine for) on these fast-paced adventures of mystery and romance, longing and loyalty, vengeance and redemption. And get just a taste of how far these men will go to protect the one woman they can’t have…

1940’s era private investigator Joe Casey finds himself entangled with a dangerously alluring woman as he launches a war of vengeance against the mob.

Stellan Stark, a paramilitary assassin for hire, must face the mission and the woman he walked away from – ten years ago. With his handlers watching his every move, can Stellan find the closure he needs to finally leave the tempting and tempestuous Verity Cordray in the past? Or would he dare defy orders a second time?

Former Marine intelligence operative Maxen Brigh joins forces with the relentless and attractive investigative reporter Aveline Watson. Together, they embark on a high-profile, international manhunt for a murderer. The victim: Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes’ assistant – and Aveline’s father.

Plus, three more tales of dark pasts with hopeful futures.

Whether you prefer streetwise private investigators, loyal and protective military men, or even alpha males with a dark past – there’s a steamy, suspense-filled story for you inside Vengefully Yours.

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Spider Wars

About Spider Wars:

Gonzalo Gonzales clones prehistoric mega-spiders in the Colombian Amazon to turn dangerous venom into medicinal serum to save lives. A meter wide, they’re history’s largest spiders. When a drug lord steals his family, Gonzalo takes his giant, venomous spiders to save them, if it’s the last thing he does.

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Fault Line by H N Hirsch

About Featured Book: Fault Line by H N Hirsch

A murder mystery set in the political world of Southern California. Bob Abramson, a newly appointed Assistant District Attorney, is thrust into the investigation of the murder of Samuel Bergman, the husband of San Diego's Mayor, Amy Bergman, a moderate Republican with a rising national profile.

This Mystery book is available in these Formats: Print

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Wildlife Wonders Nature Coloring Book by Libellule Bleue Editions

About Wildlife Wonders Nature Coloring Book by Libellule Bleue Editions:

Looking for a wild adventure and a breath of fresh air ? Search no more !
Dive into the enchanting world of the American Rockies with our exclusive coloring book, specially designed for creative minds.

Ready to color your world ?
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With our relaxing animals coloring book for adults and teens, you get lost in the serene beauty of the forest as you embark on a journey with us. Featuring captivating wild animals such as deers, owls, wolves, birds, foxes, etc., this nature coloring book immerses yourself in the majestic landscapes and wildlife of the American Rockies thanks to our original and exclusive patterns.

Your 100% nature escape break
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Perfect for nature and wildlife lovers, this coloring book offers various styles:
– Simple illustrations suitable for everyone, without intricate details
– Advanced animal patterns in mandala style
– Scenic elements: waterfalls, lakes, and wooden cabins
– Mountain animals: eagles, wolves, bears, lynxes, deer, foxes…

Create unique masterpieces that reflect your style !
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More than just a coloring book, our wildlife coloring book is a relaxation and creativity tool that guarantees an escape from the everyday hustle. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced enthusiast, this coloring book is designed to bring you relaxation, escape, and a sense of accomplishment. So, unleash your inner artist and create unique masterpieces that reflect your style !

Let your inner colors shine !
So, what are you waiting for ? Go and grab your magical experience now !

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The Mazatlan Showdown

About The Mazatlan Showdown:

Champion surfer Jeff Walker’s father was murdered before he was born. What’s worse, his mother died of a broken heart after clinging to life to raise him by herself. Desperate to confront the crook, Walker moves to the U.S. and finds work on the beach in sunny San Diego. Then, when he sees a shooting on a yacht and swims out to the rescue, he unwittingly steps into the sticky web of a smuggling ring.

Along with a rich cast of characters, Walker assists the police in the investigation, but the case turns personal when the master smuggler is revealed to be the killer Walker’s been looking for his entire life!

This is the first novel in The Park and Walker Action Thriller Series. If you like muscle cars, brawny bikes, explosive action, compelling prose, and spectacular oceanfront settings, then look no further. This is your kind of book. Only $.99 from June 18-25, 2023 in the ebook version.

**Semi-finalist in the 2023 Adventure Writers Competition sponsored by the Clive Cussler family. Stay tuned to see if it reaches the finals or wins!

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Featured Author Terri Greening

Featured Interview With Terri Greening

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Michigan and have lived here all my life. Michigan has a lot of lakes and is a nice place to live and to vacation. I like to go to Lake Michigan on nice days.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always liked to read. I remember going to the library in the summer as a child and signing up to read a certain number of books by the end of the summer for fun. Mostly though, I just read books that looked interesting. I started writing at a young age, too. I wrote songs and short stories. When I was in high school, I wrote more stories, and I majored in journalism in college.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I like to read novels by Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Amity Gaige, Delia Owens, Barbara Josselsohn, Karen Dionne, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and Agatha Christie, among others. I am inspired to write when I read suspenseful thrillers or mysteries and emotionally powerful stories.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
“The Lady of the Lighthouse” is a historical thriller set in the Great Lakes region. Loralei Lancaster, a lonely, pregnant, young mother and lighthouse keeper is caught up in a WWII espionage plot with a mysterious, Italian spy while waiting for her shipping-captain husband to return home.

I got the idea for the novel when I read a history book about the Great Lakes and WWII and found out that the Soo Locks was under military protection during the war.

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Featured Author Terri Greening

Featured Interview With Terri Greening

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Michigan and have lived here all my life. It’s a nice place to live and to vacation. Michigan has a lot of lakes, and I like to go to Lake Michigan on nice days.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always loved to read. I remember going to the library in the summer as a child and signing up to read a certain number of books by the end of the summer for fun. Mostly though, I just read whatever books looked interesting. I started writing at a young age, too, but I usually wrote songs and short stories. In high school, I continued to write stories, and I majored in journalism in college.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy reading novels by Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Amity Gaige, Barbara Josselsohn, Delia Owens, Karen Dionne, Hank Philippi Ryan, and Agatha Christie, among others. I’m especially inspired to write when I read suspenseful thrillers or mysteries and emotionally powerful novels.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Lady of the Lighthouse is a historical thriller set in the Great Lakes region. Loralei Lancaster, a lonely, pregnant, young mother and lighthouse keeper is caught up in a WWII espionage plot with a mysterious Italian spy while waiting for shipping-captain husband to return home.

I came up with the idea for the novel after I read a history book about the Great Lakes and WWII and found out the Soo Locks was under military protection during the war.

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Featured Author Patrick Weill

Featured Interview With Patrick Weill

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Patrick Weill has made a living as a lifeguard, a saxophonist, a teacher, and now as an award-winning translator and author. Weill lives in Mexico with his wife and three daughters, four dogs, and an aquarium full of fish. His novels are action-packed tales of police heroes versus cold-hearted crooks, with mostly male protagonists but also women and the barest hint of romance.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Patrick Weill’s mother reports that he learned to read at two years of age and that one of his early favorites was a lawnmower catalog. He read all through childhood and adolescence and is still an avid peruser of pages.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Weill has read all of Lee Child’s books, the first 23 or so before Andrew Child took over the franchise. Other favorites include David Baldacci, Clive Cussler, Dan Brown, Ian Fleming, Arthur Conan Doyle, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and many more.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Double Threat, book three in Pat Weill’s Park and Walker Action Thriller Series is nearly complete. Many of the events take place on large ships such as a cruise ship, a cargo ship, and a superyacht. Double Threat features motorcycles, hot-rod cars, and pages and pages of edge-of-your-seat excitement!

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Featured Author L. L. Nelson

Featured Interview With L. L. Nelson

Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I am a librarian by trade and I’ve grown up all over the United States. Most of my childhood was spent in Virginia, however. I currently live in California (which is where I was born), not too far from Disneyland. That said, I’ve traveled around the world and a lot of my stories come from inspiration I’ve had while traveling or while dreaming of traveling. One day I’d love to be a world traveler again, but for now, I’m content to be a word traveler.

I don’t have any pets anymore, but I grew up with plenty of cats and dogs. My last cat took a liking to my parents years ago and now he’s living the good life of milk and fish every day at their home.
I do however have kids (and a husband) who would LOVE to get a cat or a dog. So we may end up with a new pet in the not too far future.

At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve had a fascination with books since before I could read. (A trait that all of my kids have carried on.) Libraries were always my refuge growing up and I love the idea of exploring new worlds through the pages of a book. My first ‘story’ was a little fan fiction piece when I was about 6 years old? Lion King had just come out and I wrote a few lines about Simba and Nana having a playdate. My first original story wasn’t until I was 12-13 and I wrote a historical romantic fantasy that took place in a fantasy version of 1700s Virginia. It was interesting… but I was hooked on writing stories, even when the adults in my life dissuaded me from pursuing creative writing. I kept writing and trying out different genres to see what I liked. A lot of those stories are ones I’ll have to go back to, because while I had a lot of passion for the characters and stories, my craft skills were still relatively weak.

Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Ooh… I have many. Madeleine L’Engle, Tamora Pierce, Brian Jacques were all fantasy authors who I loved as a kid. I’m also a history buff, so I loved the American Girl books, Dear America and any kind of historical fiction. I also enjoyed Monica Hughes’s Invitation to the Game, which while technically sci-fi, has some great portal fantasy elements.
I love to read pretty much anything: fantasy, romance, historical fiction, sci-fi, you name it. The only stuff I won’t read is horror and dark/gritty sub genres. When I read, I read to escape into a less stressful world, lol.
As for who inspires me in my writings? A little bit of everyone and everything. It sounds cheesy, but I’ll get inspired by most anything – books, video games (current obsession is The Elder Scrolls), images, or even just people watching.

Tell us a little about your latest book?
Heart of Lohikärra is the fifth and final book in the Lohikärran Chronicles. The series itself is based on the premise of a young woman (Ina Svanunge) getting tossed into the real life world that her favorite video game is based off of. Think Chronicles of Narnia meets Skyrim, with a dash of Ready Player One and the Princess Diaries for good measure.
Needless to say, Ina ends up in Lohikärra and realizes she’s an integral part of the world for better or for worse. Through out the series, she fights family members (both hers and her new husband’s) who want the power she has, defends her people from power hungry ancient elves, bonds with a very powerful dragon, and help end an ongoing war.
So by the time Heart of Lohikärra arrives, she’s queen, but now she’s dealing with a necromancer who not only has revived an evil dragon, but wants to take over numerous realms, including those of the living and the dead. So, despite having created a life and family in Lohikärra, she has to fight this necromancer (and dragon) once and for all, even if it means risking her own future.
The series has taken me about 4 years to complete (from writing the first book to when Heart of Lohikärra releases), but writing Heart of Lohikärra took about 2.5 months for the first draft, which was a LOT quicker than the first book in the series (which took about 2 years because I was honing my craft AND world building at the same time.)

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The Beacon Hill Affair by Edward Rabroziss

About The Beacon Hill Affair by Edward Rabroziss:

Beacon Hill is one of Boston’s exclusive inner-city residential neighborhoods, with rows of crowded city townhouses, private city homes and city mansions lined along narrow city streets. For Edward, life on Beacon Hill was simple and routine, aside from needing a financial opportunity to save his ever-loving skin. With every passing day he came closer to financial doom, until a mysterious woman from out of town enters into his life with claims of having information to a buried treasure chest, buried in a secret grave somewhere in an old colonial graveyard in downtown Boston, and with the promise of riches for whoever finds it.
Needing his help to locate the graveyard and the grave containing the treasure chest, she was willing to share the treasure with him. With only a few clues leading to where this old downtown Boston colonial graveyard and treasure chest could be, together they try solving the mystery to the secret buried treasure. Their journey begins on Beacon Hill and takes them into downtown Boston and to the national historic sites of “The Boston Freedom Trail.”
The Freedom Trail holds the secret to a buried treasure chest buried in 1775 during The American Revolutionary War, buried to hide it from the British and from George Washington’s Continental Army.
Together while solving the clues to the mystery of the buried treasure chest, the buzz of romance was in the air. But when things get complicated, he finds out she was hiding a secret. The romance that just began now begins to fall apart. Her only chance to prove she is sincere was to move to Beacon Hill. But the secret past tells a tale and no one can change the past.
The Beacon Hill Affair is “Contemporary Fiction, Cozy Melodrama, Buried Treasure Hunt, The Boston Freedom Trail, Clean & Wholesome, Humor, Modern City Crime Adventure.”

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Of Death & Sacrifice: A Dark Epic Fantasy

About Of Death & Sacrifice: A Dark Epic Fantasy:

A rebel with a deadly weapon. A secret that could end the world. A war that will decide the fate of legends.

Embark on a thrilling journey filled with mystery, action, and unforgettable characters in Titanlord: Of Death and Sacrifice. This riveting epic fantasy will transport you to a world of magic, danger, and adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat until the very end.

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The Teleporter

About The Teleporter:

A lab accident leaves Kurt Wiseman with the ability to teleport. But in order to harness his powers for good, he’ll have to overcome his demons and get to the bottom of an American business mogul’s dirty scheme!

This best selling super hero comedy by Lee Hall is the perfect escapism and is packed full of witty dialogue and fun sci-fi action.

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