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Danny Smashed

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About Danny Smashed:

Born to an unstable mother whose death leaves him in the clutches of a sexual predator, sixteen-year old Danny escapes from a commune in the northern Arizona desert and makes his way to Los Angeles. In short time, the spectacularly handsome teen lands a modeling contract with a small West Hollywood talent agency. Cunning and charismatic, his climb to celebrity status is meteoric. But as true A-list stardom comes within his reach, Danny is jailed for a grievous crime that neither society, nor Hollywood, can forgive. His crash and burn, and shocking re-invention, ignite a catastrophic chain of events as a crazed stranger from his past unleashes a plot to destroy him.

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Sands Rising: The California Ballot Killings Book I by H. M. Wilhelmborn

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About Sands Rising: The California Ballot Killings Book I by H. M. Wilhelmborn:

Janet Whitaker Virdis is a New York State transplant to San Diego at the very beginning of the longest drought in California’s history. Years after her arrival, she is happily married with four children and a very well-paid job at an elite San Diego law firm. Her work grants her unparalleled access to the rise of the firm’s most powerful client: an extremely wealthy political party with its own beliefs, uniforms, and hierarchy that is determined to lead California and the nation in a moment of crisis.

As the drought worsens and dust storms become the norm in San Diego, Janet insists on remaining in Southern California. Across the world, species are going extinct, people are forced across borders in unprecedented numbers, and entire regions are becoming uninhabitable. A mysterious disease associated with increased desertification, which only kills teenage boys, has made its entrance, and no cure is available. Janet is the mother of three boys. Awaiting public execution in San Diego, twenty-four years after the drought began, Janet tries to make sense of the many reversals she has suffered and how ostensibly innocuous choices upended the happy life she once enjoyed.

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Birds in Peril Boxed Set by Mary Elizabeth Fricke

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Birds in Peril Boxed Set by Mary Elizabeth Fricke

Five women met, fell in love with and married men who aided the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Sheldon Humsler. Even though the events that disrupted their lives, did not necessarily involve Humsler, they certainly invoked the conviction that one-day Humsler would find a way to enact his revenge. All of these women and the men they married are in some way closely connected to Humsler’s arch enemies, Benton Cromwell, T.J. Harvester and Thad Hunt. Because of Humsler, Benton Cromwell’s life and livelihood have become so precarious he now lives as an invalid on borrowed time. However, his friends, T.J. Harvester and Thad Hunt, continue to grow in family, and in deed. Both are well-loved by many. The time is near when a final confrontation with Humsler must occur. Humsler has an accomplice…someone closely connected to Hunt….but who could that possibly be?

Pigeon in a Snare: He was her knight in shining armor. She was his lost love—the one girl with whom life might have been worth sharing—if another had not told lies deliberately intended to separate them. Now her life is in serious danger. Can he save her? Is their lost love worth the blood and tears it will take to salvage not only themselves but their families and their businesses─ and rekindle the love they lost?

Roses for the Sparrow: It was bad enough that her best friend/employer took off on an extended honeymoon leaving Jani to oversee the building of their new business alone. But in strolls this tall, dark, handsome contractor who makes it clear he intends to become the center of Jani’s attention. But, is Rick too good to be true? Why is he the one who continually finds long-stemmed roses on her car or at her door? What kind of admirer leaves expensive roses to freeze on windshields or be trampled on the floor? Some girls have all the luck- or maybe that’s no luck at all. How often does a girl have two stalkers after her at the same time?

Plight of the Wren: Susie Wrener’s life became front page news when her abusive husband put her in the hospital and sent himself to jail. Three years later, life has returned to mundane, while Susie struggles to maintain a peaceful loving home for her two children as a single mom. Then she meets Ted Harvester and wins the lottery in the same week…

Robin Unaware: Life is constant change, sometimes planned, sometimes instant and devastating. For Stephanie Harvester-Garrett, life takes an abrupt curve when her husband is killed in a car accident.
Determined to secure a stable home for her three children, Stephanie returns to Missouri to be closer to family and to accept employment in her brother’s law office. However, the dream of living a peaceful country life is interrupted by unexpected ghosts of the past, and hatred spawned in the name of love.

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The Braided Stream by Harper Swan

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About The Braided Stream by Harper Swan:

When the Neanderthal band led by the old matriarch, Elder Woman, ventures out to the edges of the Great High Plains, Raven’s tranquil life with the Wind tribe is turned upside down. Her mate, Leaf, and her oldest daughter, Wren, have gone missing, and Raven suspects that Elder Woman is behind their disappearance. Injured during her quest to find them, Raven is rescued by someone out of the past whom she never thought she would see again.

Meanwhile, Leaf finds himself in a very tough spot for unknown reasons. The only person who can explain what has happened to him is Elder Woman, but she’s in no hurry to enlighten anyone. In trying to find answers, Leaf soon finds himself estranged from the people he cares for most with little hope of reconciliation.

As for Elder Woman, she’s very sure of herself. Above all else, she wishes for her people to survive, and she will go to any lengths necessary to accomplish that goal even if it means she has to deal with Early Humans, a group she contemptuously calls “Them”.

Picking up the story several years after Leaf, Raven, and Wren join up with the Wind tribe, The Braided Stream once more paints us a picture of how Early Modern Humans and Neanderthals met and interacted.

Set against the unyielding landscape of ice age Eurasia, The Braided Stream is a reading binge of Neanderthals and Early Humans for those who think that Jean Auel’s first book “The Clan of the Cave Bear” was her best work.

The Braided Stream can be enjoyed without reading the first three parts of the Replacement Chronicles series.

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Bushwhacked!

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The Wild West. The words conjure images of cowboys and injuns, rattlesnakes and rot-gut whiskey. It’s the slap-leather summer of 1876 and Giovanni Sacchettini, a Sardinian olive farmer on the lam, lands boots up in the American frontier with Wyatt Earp, General Custer, Buffalo Bill, and enough hombres to stock a Blazing Saddles sequel. Gio’s mission? Merely taking the wild out of the west. Can he tame America’s great frontier or will he be just another notch on a Colt 45 in the corral dust of history?

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Lucky Star

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Teenager Ben Somerset has three great loves in his life: Sherlock Holmes, designer clothes and a certain song by Madonna. And then Susie appears.
Set in England in the summer of 1984 Lucky Star tells of Ben’s introduction to the world of shoplifting, music, politics, love and heartbreak.

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The Furies

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The city of Fury is a mother that eats its young. It is a working class melting-pot found at the end of the line on the Quad-City Express. It is a place with where the predators are equal to the number of those preyed upon.

Living in the city is tough, and growing up there is even harder. Cava, Luc, and Sally each face their own demons trying to make it through their final year of high school. Surrounded by fiends, thieves, prostitutes, and gangs, the crew must find their own path to overcome the temptations and obstacles, and make it through just one more year.

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The Family by Charlotte Morgan

The Family by Charlotte Morgan

In The Family, a young woman tries to leave a troubled past behind . . .
Seeking acceptance, Eileena Clayton joins a spiritual community, The Family of the Forgiven. Her own pious family has failed her, so she turns to this one seeking love and a place to belong.
As the novel opens, Sister Eileena is punished for her supposed sins of the flesh. The all-male Council––even her fiancé––goes along with the decision to separate her from the community for a period of repentance.
Eileena struggles with her sexuality and rocky past. On her return to the group she’s rebellious at times, making enemies, in particular one of the group’s founders. A visiting reporter warns Eileena of covert struggles within the group’s leadership. Who can she trust?
Death in her birth family calls Eileena home. Secrets she’s left behind – and her sister’s husband – confront her.
Like many young people today, Eileena struggles for identity and self-determination as she searches for a personal belief system. At the heart of the novel’s conflict is the question: Once “called,” is it possible for a woman to escape from powerful, controlling influences?

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Protecting Elvis by Charlotte G. Morgan

Protecting Elvis by Charlotte G. Morgan by Charlotte Morgan

The one and only Elvis, three women, lives complicated by obsession, jealousy and drugs: these components collide in Protecting Elvis.

Velis Emerson, agoraphobic, lives alone with only memories of her deceased parents. She devotes herself to her work as corresponding secretary of the Elvis Presley Tupelo Fan Club. Her sheltered existence is shattered when a reporter from the Rolling Stone comes around trying to dig up dirt on Elvis;

Priscilla Jane Johnson, a nurse at the Durham Diet Clinic, cares for Elvis during his brief weight-loss stay. In late night gab sessions he shares his fears and losses to her compassionate ear. His departing gift of a red Mustang convertible creates a chink in her engagement to Kendall Kennedy, aspiring Gospel songwriter who is jealous of any man he perceives as a threat; and

Notary Pettiford Midgette, a domestic at Graceland, needs Elvis’ help to save the life of her only remaining son, the wayward Antwan who’s turned to drugs and the dangerous streets of Memphis.

Over all hovers the voice of Gladys, the mother in heaven who wants to guard Elvis from the temptations of drink and drugs and those who use him for his money and fame.

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One August Day by Charlotte Morgan

One August Day by Charlotte Morgan by Charlotte Morgan

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What a smart way for an award-winning short story writer to develop her first novel: using poignant fact to ground a flight of the imagination. Morgan, who teaches English at a Virginia community college, builds her tale around the August 1969 floods in the Appalachian foothills: when Hurricane Camille’s last gasps collided with local thunderstorms, 25 inches of rain fell on Nelson County, Virginia, in five hours (a world record), leaving 114 people dead and 37 missing. Eight flood victims–men, women, and children, aged 6 to roughly 70–were never identified. One August Day imagines what might have brought those eight to the center of the storm. A browbeaten woman grasps the damage her cruel husband is doing to their three children. A runaway teenager tries to make a place for himself. A teacher heads for a new life with the man she loves. A prison escapee plots biblical revenge. An elderly woman in intermittent contact with reality rules the ancient mansion she hasn’t left in years. A vivid and involving story. Mary Carroll –This text refers to the original publication.
This is the 50th Anniversary of the Camille Flood, making One August Day a must-read for anyone who wonders how natural disasters have an impact on those who are caught in the maelstrom.

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Life As A Vampire by Daniel Jones

About Life As A Vampire by Daniel Jones

The vampire Elena wakes up after sleeping 200 years to a changed world of the present day. She falls in love with Blayze, a human. A love triangle exists between Ethan, Elena and Blayze as they race towards the mysterious Evangeline Sun when they all might be changed forever to be a kind that they might only dream about.

Vampires dream to be free.

I hovered in that place between sleeping and waking for what felt like years. I wanted to just open my eyes, but they were glued shut.

Ethan was there, just steps away.

I wanted him to wake me, and I tried, how hard I tried, to ask him, but my message wasn’t getting through.

For years, I struggled to wake, but couldn’t win the fight.

Maybe it was only hours, or minutes.

Or maybe it was years. Who can say? I’ve been asleep for two hundred years.

Yes, I remember that now. Two hundred years of sleep, then waking just in time for…

That’s it.

The Evangeline Sun.

My eyes snap open.

The weight of the ring on my right middle finger is the first thing I feel.

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DEATH BY DESIGN by JOHN GRAVES

DEATH BY DESIGN by JOHN GRAVES

Tracker has trained with the Navy Seals and Mossad. She is the best assassin today. Her mission?
Eradicate mankind from Planet Earth.
She has 20 years and $20 billion to achieve her goal.
Opposed to her are
Jake and Soliz, the best of the best at the CDC.
Dr. Sharon Blake and daughter, CRSPR research scientists.
Mantis, her Asian nemesis
Tracker kills with bacterial, viral and fungal attacks worldwide.
She employs AI, Nano and food attacks to finish the job.
Who will survive?
Will you?

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Dirty Barry

About Dirty Barry:

The first casualty of adultery is … the tooth!

An outrageous British comedy introducing CULLEN, an offbeat loner with a highly individual sense of right and wrong.

Barry Sullivan is a sordid dentist who resorts to blackmail to keep his string of married women compliant.
But now Cullen has toothache – and a very different interpretation of the dental code of practice.

This laugh-out-loud novella is a prequel to the highly entertaining CULLEN series of full-length novels. It is #1 on Amazon UK in Satire (free books) and #1 in Scottish Crime (free books).

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Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt

About Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt:

In reality our beautiful blue planet is facing terrible social and environmental crises. And just at this moment we see a significant movement to empower women. We are already seeing the benefits for families, communities and even nations. For this author it was a siren call to build a story where women were central to preserving the future. Our fantasies often are reflective of reality.

And the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy was born to explore the possibilities of a rescue of our future. What if our Earth Mother Gaia had reserved a very special population of women whose existence was to guard the future when an inevitable time of social and environmental crisis befell us. In this story hat time has come. And this series has central characters of talented and effective women to lead us forward. And, of course, an underlying theme supports the growing empowerment of women.

In this second book the crisis in our world is reaching historic proportions. The Tethyan women are fully engaged to save and build our future. Fantasies, dreams and reality swirl together in this story when humankind is at peril.

Our Earth Mother Gaia Speaks:
You used to adore me. You took my bounty gratefully and before my loving sight developed your literaryskills as will a child in the sight of mother. You worshipped me and my fruitfulness. I tested you with adversity which made you strong. But in time you selfishly saw Earth’s bounty as your due. You now have a choice between stewardship or devastation.

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Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt

About Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt

The Tethyan people were chosen by our Earth Mother Gaia to prepare for a mission to preserve the future of humankind. It was inevitable that there would come a day when the people of Earth were at final peril and the future of humankind would come to question.

But the Tethyan people were not ordinary humans. To insure their safety and future Gaia gave them cities in the sea around the globe. It is these people called Progenitors who gave rise to the mystery of mermaids and most of the Tethyans were women with a few men among them to insure continuity. When in the ocean they had a fishlike tail and could breath in the water. When they returned to their cities they resumed ordinary human form.

Over the ages some of these people came to land and founded families with men they chose. These families were called Primal. Their children might be either Progenitors or Primal. All were dedicated to the mission, but the future of Primals lay only on land.

And among these people on land were the women of the Andromeda. They were the warrior class who served in defense of the Tethyan people and included Progenitors, Primals and some women descended from ancient warrior women such as the Amazon women of the Steppes of Asia or the Viking Shield Maidens.

Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise is the second book of the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy. The trilogy opens when a young woman discovers that she is Tethyan and finds her birth mother. In turn she meets and falls in love with a man who also did not know he was Tethyan. Slowly their place among the Tethyan people is revealed and it is apparent that they are at the core of the efforts to save a world falling ever deeper into crisis.

The first book Gaia’s Majesty-Mission Called: Women in Power sets the stage for this second book where two children emerge who are core to the mission and a dramatic change in the future of humankind. It becomes clear that the Tethyan people, who are close to the spirit world, will do more than merely guard the future.

Book 1 – Gaia’s Majesty-Mission Called: Women in Power (Available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback. Kindle discounted to $0.99.)
Earth is descending into social and environmental crisis. The mission of the Tethyan people is being called. Gaia has chosen people to play essential roles.

Book 2 – Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise (Available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback. Kindle discounted to $0.99.)
The chosen have borne children with the power to lead the Tethyan people deep into the fight for the future and to open the spirit world.

Book 3 – Gaia’s Majesty-Transformation: Life Forces Revealed (Coming Soon)
The crisis is deep as cities collapse and great numbers of people die in what is called the extinguishment. The Tethyan people have engaged the spirit world and it is apparent that humankind is headed either for their end or a marvelous transformation yet to emerge.

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Facemate by Steven Greenberg

About Facemate by Steven Greenberg

Alex Daugherty may be autistic, he may be dysfunctional, but
he’s a genius; and he’s come up with a brilliant website that will match you–or anyone you’ve ever loved and lost–up with an exact double. With seven billion people on the planet to choose from, he’s convinced he can do so with amazing accuracy. Ah, but what will happen to you and your perfect double when they are found? Ben Atherton, the celebrated billionaire venture capitalist, a newly recruited backer of Alex’s company, is about to find out.

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The Warsaw Conspiracy (The Poland Trilogy Book 3) by James Conroyd Martin

About The Warsaw Conspiracy (The Poland Trilogy Book 3) by James Conroyd Martin:

A Gold Medal IPPI Winner
Engaging and opulent, The Warsaw Conspiracy unfolds as a family saga set against the November Rising (1830-31), partitioned Poland’s daring challenge to the Russian Empire. Brilliantly illustrating the psyche of a people determined to reclaim independence in the face of monumental odds, the story portrays two brothers and their fates in love and war. Michal is a seasoned veteran soldier, cautious of the evolving conspiracy; Jozef, his much younger brother and impassioned cadet, finds himself caught up in the vortex of a daring plot to abduct the Grand Duke of Russia. With Siberia or emigration to France looming as heart-rending contingencies, matriarchs Anna and Zofia stay steadfast in their resolve to steer the clan through ever-muddying waters.

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FACEMATE by Steven M. Greenberg

About FACEMATE by Steven M. Greenberg

Alex Daugherty may be autistic, he may be dysfunctional, but he’s a genius; and he’s come up with a brilliant website that will match you–or anyone you’ve ever loved and lost–up with an exact double. With seven billion people on the planet to choose from, he’s convinced he can do so with amazing accuracy. Ah, but what will happen to you and to your perfect double when they are found?
Ben Atherton, the celebrated billionaire venture capitalist, a newly recruited backer of Alex’s company is about to find out.

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Danny Smashed

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Born to an unstable mother whose death leaves him in the clutches of a sexual predator, sixteen-year old Danny escapes from a commune in the northern Arizona desert and makes his way to Los Angeles. In short time, the spectacularly handsome teen lands a modeling contract with a small West Hollywood talent agency. Cunning and charismatic, his climb to celebrity status is meteoric. But as true A-list stardom comes within his reach, Danny is jailed for a grievous crime that neither society, nor Hollywood, can forgive. His crash and burn, and shocking re-invention, ignite a catastrophic chain of events as a crazed stranger from his past unleashes a plot to destroy him.

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They Called Me Margaret

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Cozy mystery writer Margaret Manning thinks her husband may be mimicking the behavior of some of the shadier characters in her books, even though he claims to have never read any of them. When several pieces of her jewelry go missing, she wonders if he’s responsible for it or if she’s losing her mind. When her world becomes complicated with health issues and the unsettling actions of friends and family, her dream of opening a bookstore for indie authors begins to crumble…along with the promise for a happier life.

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