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Nite Fire: Flash Point by C. L. Schneider

Nite Fire: Flash Point by C. L. Schneider

For fans of Supernatural, and the Dresden Files, comes a different kind of dragon story…
Shapeshifter, Dahlia Nite hunts what lurks in the shadows, protecting an unsuspecting human race. But when a supernatural serial killer strikes Sentinel City, light is shed on what should never be seen. Centuries of secrets are in danger of being exposed. And the little bit of peace she’s found in this world begins to crumble. Murder, mystery, mayhem—and dragons!
Flash Point is the multi-award-winning first book in the Nite Fire Series.
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They Called Me Margaret by Florence Osmund

They Called Me Margaret by Florence Osmund

Cozy mystery writer Margaret Manning fears her husband is mimicking the behavior of some of her book’s shadier characters, 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, he’s trying to make it look like she’s losing her mind, or she’s losing her mind all on her own. Disturbing actions of friends and family coupled with bizarre health issues complicate things and cause her life to go into a downward spiral.

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A Wizards Golden Stone by John E. Pointer

About Featured Book: A Wizards Golden Stone by John E. Pointer

This first novel is a grand adventure about a golden stone, the mystical education of a young boy, and a journey with his brother and friends to The Kingdom of Chthonic. Through this epic journey the young boy, with his brother and friends, travel to a magical kingdom, battle an evil warlock, his army, and his fire-eating dragons to save a magical kingdom and its people, a king and queen, and an old wizard with the help of the Magical Golden Stone. With the discovery of the golden stone by this young boy and his beginning as a young wizard, his future is governed by the laws of the golden stone. As a Wizard, this young boy is tutored and granted the ability to perform secret magical powers and perform powerful spells. This first adventure commences in a beautiful area called the Mystic River Basin in central Illinois in the 1940s with the early life of this young boy living on a farm with his mother, father, and brother in the center of North America, just outside a small village that is called Milwood. John, his brother Jess, and four friends travel to The Kingdom of Chthonic to battle Sir Hugo and his dragons to save the kingdom.

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Dirge of the Dead by Reed Logan Westgate

About Featured Book: Dirge of the Dead by Reed Logan Westgate

As Xlina struggles to come to terms with killing her best friend, the wily necromancer Oxivius hatches a plan to set things right. The duo will march straight into the gates of Hell and reclaim what the Arch Demon Ertigan has taken from them. But stealing Amber’s soul from Hell is not without perils.

Xlina finds herself facing the judgement of the Counsel of Magic as the forces of Heaven and Hell align to stop her from performing the resurrection. With new allies and old friends vying to reclaim the stolen soul Xlina is thrust into a whirlwind of deceit and betrayal.

Is it all just another clever scheme by Oxivius to further his own secret agenda? Who are the mysterious druids sent to preserve the natural order? With the world at her back, Xlina must overcome her isolation and deepest fears if she has any hope of freeing Amber from an eternity of torment at the hands of Ertigan.

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Exploration: The Stanfield Chronicles by David Tory

Exploration: The Stanfield Chronicles by David Tory

Seduction. Spies. Sodomy. Starvation. Severe cold. Indian Attacks. A plague of sickness and death. And a love story, too.

Isaac Stanfield is a young man with a thirst for adventure. He leaves his home to become a sailor on a merchantman, the Sweet Rose, and through ingenuity and sheer luck, finds himself in the middle of the drama and explorations that precede the departure of the Mayflower for New England in 1620. Exploration is Isaac’s coming-of-age story, capturing the turbulence of the times through his observations and experiences.

Suspenseful, poignant, and expertly researched, David Tory’s novel brings to life an engaging cultural history of English seafaring exploration and intrigue in the early 17th century.

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Sip Lake by Joe Basara

About Featured Book: Sip Lake by Joe Basara

(Sip Lake is a free download on 9/4/21 and 9/5/21.)

Owen Cloud wonders who might fall for a young man with kinky red hair and a pug nose, namely him? He finds out in this coming-of-age story during the summer of 1977. Embarrassing memories and experiences constantly remind him of his foolishness but also push him toward maturity in this tale filled with all things Florida.

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House of Darkness by James Ostby

About House of Darkness by James Ostby:

House of Darkness is a literary novel that tells the story of the life of Jonathan Gorgious in Victorian England. Also featured are Simon Slope, Maxwell Backbone, Uncle Thurston, sailor Jack Blevins, and various other characters of some distinction.
Jonathan is the son of a farmer and former pugilist, Elbert, and a beautiful mother, Cordelia. Early in his life Jonathan falls in love with a schoolmate and neighbor, Phebe Moss. They are bound together for life.
As Jonathan and Phebe’s fortunes unfold they face everyday trials and challenges with intelligent resolve. Jonathan inherits a shipping business from his uncle Thurston; Jonathan and Phebe have two daughters, Marie and Rose; Marie leaves home for years and leads a life of dissipation; Jonathon sails to Italy as a common crewmember on one of his ships. Somewhat to his surprise Jonathan finds himself immersed in his own personal philosophy, and he is afflicted with mental disorders.
In the end …, and Jonathan lives a reclusive life in his House of Darkness.

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The Last Sketch by Gosia Nealon

The Last Sketch by Gosia Nealon

They both hold tight to a terrible secret. When they cross paths in war-torn Europe, will their destinies lead to ruin… or victory over evil?

Poland, 1944. Wanda Odwaga will never stop resisting. As the Nazis occupy her beloved homeland, the twenty-three-year-old artist vows to do whatever it takes to help the underground movement mobilize against Hitler’s forces. But she’s devastated when the Gestapo storms her house in search of rebel leaders, killing her heroic father and leaving the face of his murderer forever etched in her mind.

New York. Finn Keller longs to balance the scales. Having escaped Germany with his mother as a teen, he’s disgusted his estranged twin brother has become a ruthless Nazi henchman with a vicious reputation. So when a covert government agency approaches him with a dangerous undercover mission, Finn willingly risks his life to play his part in turning the tide of war.

Still grieving her unforgivable loss, Wanda’s thirst for revenge takes an unexpected leap forward when she once again encounters her father’s killer. And as Finn dives deeply into the role of impersonating his cold-hearted sibling, he’s captivated by the beautiful Polish woman frozen in front of him… her eyes blazing with the promise of murder.

Can these two players in a deadly game survive the ravages of a sadistic conflict?

The Last Sketch is a breathtaking World War II historical fiction novel. If you like engaging characters, exhilarating espionage, and a dash of enemy-to-lovers romance, then you’ll enjoy Gosia Nealon’s powerful drama.

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It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay

It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay

One Sale! Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award 2021. Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It’s Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother, Briar. When a peddler kidnaps her, she escapes only to face an unjust arrest and penal servitude. The laws are not on her side. Or her brother’s.
Briar is serving time on a chain gang with four months left. When an immigrant boy asks him for help, Briar must decide if he should jeopardize his freedom to help the penniless boy.
Soon Willow and Briar become ensnared in a world of cruel secrets, savage truths, deceitful practices, and desperate predicaments.
This novel delves into the gut and sinew of fairness, probing often inexplicable questions, as old and persistent as the forest itself.

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Whispers among the Prairie by Michelle Roberts

About Featured Book: Whispers among the Prairie by Michelle Roberts

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The lands across the American West come alive with conflict, passion, loyalty and uncertainty. Join Black Kettle of the Southern Cheyenne's in his quest to protect his people and way of life. What will be his destiny? His adopted daughter, Morning Dove befriends USA Calvary Captain Clinton McKay. Will their friendship lead them to something unexpected or will they stay on their opposing sides to a war? Come and join the adventure.

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Hippies

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A beautiful naïve idealism. Blasted by the establishment. Torn by its own contradictions. Navigating psychedelics and war protests, sexual freedoms and personal risks, Jazmine, Ziggy, and their friends discover an LSD-spinoff that triggers past life regressions, pulling them toward a dramatic climax. One fateful month in the hearts and minds of an intimate circle of hippies as they pass painfully and joyfully into adulthood at the end of the 1960s counterculture.

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Under the Grapevine by S. Lee Fisher

Under the Grapevine by S. Lee Fisher

The entire country is in upheaval, and so is she. Can one broken woman survive the coming storms?

Western Pennsylvania, 1925. Olive Westchester brims with bitter, unrealized potential. Refusing to visit her father’s deathbed and forgive him for her beloved brother’s passing, she turns her attention to completing the schooling she always coveted. But her anticipation erupts into rage when a fifth unplanned pregnancy torpedoes her longed-for future.

As the years pass and America suffers from the Great Depression, Olive painfully faces shattered dreams of reaching medical school and independence. And when her youngest daughter inherits her smarts and seizes an opportunity for higher education, Olive’s unhappiness threatens to swallow her whole.

Will she ever find the success and achievement she so desperately craves?

Under the Grapevine is the gripping second book in The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga women’s fiction series. If you like deeply drawn characters, historical authenticity, and true-life dilemmas, then you’ll love S. Lee Fisher’s emotional journey.

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Where Bravehearts Dwelt – 10 Incredible Stories from Indian History by Saurav Ranjan Datta

About Where Bravehearts Dwelt – 10 Incredible Stories from Indian History by Saurav Ranjan Datta:

The history of India is not only fascinating but also very colourful; it narrates incidents of myriad contours. However, till date we have only been exposed to it from an academic point of view. While our mythologies have fascinated the populace of this country repeatedly due to their fantastical elements and also due to the quality of their supreme storytelling style, history has always taken a back seat. With this in mind, this book is an endeavour to present history through fiction to make it more interesting and entertaining. This book is a compilation of real stories based on facts and historical characters. I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I did while writing it. God Bless us all.

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Wonders In The Deep: A Tale of Healing by Chuck Carr

Wonders In The Deep: A Tale of Healing by Chuck Carr

Love. Loss. Hope. Heroism. Is there safe passage through the torrents and storms of life?

Wonders In the Deep is a dramatic illustration, an emotionally charged depiction of the elements that keep us human, fuel our spirit, and give us the courage to continue.

The life of eighteen-year-old Brandon Lawrence is one riddled with questions. Pained sore inside, he seeks answers that have been swallowed deeply by his own grandfather, whom he lovingly calls Pap. How did his parents and grandmother die? Why does his grandfather resent Natalie, Brandon’s best friend since childhood? Why is he forbidden to step foot on a boat, to ride the waves of the sea? Will he ever find answers?

Pap’s journals. Could they hold the secrets?

Set in the rocky and rugged coastline of Maine, the story uncovers Brandon’s world in the summer of 1998. The 1930s and 40s of his grandfather’s world are now over, along with the flat plains of a corn-belted Illinois town he had decided to leave as a young man. What had happened to cause a man to run from a life he couldn’t handle? What had turned Pap into a man withdrawn from life? A man holding tight to the secrets of his life.

Sitting alone on the same weathered dock Brandon had come to with Pap every Thursday growing up, he tries to piece together the puzzle of an unspoken life. Face to face with the only solution he knows, he must choose between honor and answers; an act of thievery plagues him hard, haunting and jolting his conscience. If his grandfather is too brokenhearted to speak of such things, could Brandon steal the answers he needs from the journals?

Wonders In the Deep is a soothing balm, medicine to a hurting and wounded soul. Faced with the harsh realities of grief and loss, two men embark on a great journey to find healing in the deep and uncertain oceans of life. As you journey with Brandon and Pap, you may identify with their struggles.

Is there true triumph over adversity? How far will one go for answers? How far will you go?

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Razorback by Carter Ettore

Razorback by Carter Ettore

Self-employed and unchained from the shackles of a traditional daily routine, Leon is afforded plenty of time for… himself. Especially since his wife, Pickle, has been spending more and more time staying with her sister.

A habitual procrastinator and ritualistic day-drinker, Leon whiles away his time batch-selecting client emails “Mark as unread”, grilling in the driveway, and building up a strong “yellowwater” buzz for his voyeuristic neighborhood walks to the mailbox. But, with an escalating gush of libations spilling through his mouth, a curious encounter with his neighbor and her soon-to-be-estranged husband becomes the catalyst that sends the compulsively introspective—and judgmental—Leon tumbling into an abyss of sweat-drenched ruination.

Increasingly challenged by what should be mundane exercises in societal engagement, and with the elemental structure of his life in splinters, Leon eventually finds himself face-to-face with the punishing reality of being truly, purely alone… and trapped inside a sprawling pseudo-European chain store famous for their flame-retardant furniture.

Hilarious, absurd, and surreal, Razorback is an outrageous modern take on the “superfluous man”. An epic disintegration of consciousness and composure that questions the true nature of who we think we know, who we may very well be, and the limits of redemption.

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The Lost Wisdom of the Magi by Susie Helme

About The Lost Wisdom of the Magi by Susie Helme:

This engaging, meticulously researched novel, a finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards for ‘Best Historical’, tells the story of Sophia, a first century Babylonian Jew who learns ancient languages at the royal archives of the Parthians and secretly studies the magic on cuneiform tablets. She runs away from home, joining a Nabataean incense caravan, studies with the Essenes on the Dead Sea and joins with the militants of Qumran. As the Zealots battle to defend revolutionary Jerusalem against Titus, she falls in love with a Greek freedman, Athanasios, a comrade in arms. Jews and Christians briefly unite with Samaritans and the People of the Land. But messiahs can prove false.

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Take a Chance & Other Stories of Starting Over by T. L. Cooper

Take a Chance & Other Stories of Starting Over by T. L. Cooper

When past and present converge, the characters in these short stories must reexamine the future they planned. Myriad characters and situations populate these stories pushing the characters to decide whether to risk changing their lives as they face loss, love, and revelations. In these short stories of beginnings and endings, of recognizing moments of before and after, of choosing to stay or leave, of facing a future divergent from expectations, lives a thread of hope in life’s ability to transform.

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Trafficked

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Isabella has everything to live for; a nice job that she enjoys and a boyfriend in the Army who has promised to marry and take care of her. But when she goes to investigate the sounds of a crying child one night after work, it is against her better judgement and against everything that she had ever been taught. And for good reason.

Kidnapped and trafficked by a ruthless gang, she is bound and kept naked alongside three other women, waiting her turn to be sold like a piece of merchandise to a wealthy Mexican cartel owner.

She knows that any attempt to escape will likely result in her death and as she tries to make sense of her situation and make a connection with one of her kidnappers, to try to let him see the human being behind the commodity, she is suddenly confronted by the shocking reality of her situation and how he came to be in it.

Now, with only her own salvation at the forefront of her mind, Isabella is prepared to do whatever it takes to be free once more and to exact the revenge that is burning fiercely inside her.

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Fly Away Home

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Is running away from your troubles the best path to a fresh start?

Claire Perkins struggles with her past, even as a thirty-eight-year-old woman. While attending her abusive mother’s funeral in the town where she grew up, Claire discovers a deeper emotional scar that challenges her definition of home. No longer willing to put on a façade, buried pain triggers Claire’s only logical choice: escape to a quiet place, somewhere far away from the risk of any further disappointment and heartache.

Pigeon Grove appears to be a sleepy southern locale in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. But there’s a unique and underlying charm to this small town that has other plans for those looking to slip into the silence of a solitary life. The close-knit community guides Claire along a different path, one that encourages her deep-seated need to connect with others. Can this small mountain town help Claire connect the dots to create a life she’s always imagined?

It’s never too late to come home.

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Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin by Marc Sercomb

About Featured Book: Living in Cleveland with the Ghost of Joseph Stalin by Marc Sercomb

Kindle Countdown sale price $0.99 August 13-18, 2021!

It’s the summer of 1953. Calvin Jefferson Coolidge is thirteen years old when the ghost of Joseph Stalin appears to him in his Aunt Evelyn’s cluttered Cleveland attic and wants to dictate his memoirs to him. “I want to tell my side of the story,” Uncle Joe tells him. “They’re giving me one year to set the record straight, so we need to get started right away.” Calvin’s life is falling apart at the seams. He’s a misfit and loner whose only friends are famous dead people. He loves polka music and Westerns and sometimes wonders what it would be like to kiss a girl.

His con man father is in Florida looking for his bipolar runaway mother. His cousin Buck is abducted and experimented on by aliens. The lady next door wants to coach him in the ways of love. His pastor thinks he’s headed straight for Hell. His English teacher thinks he’s a savant. The school psychologist wants to have him committed. His shrink thinks he’s just plain nuts. Sometimes, Calvin believes it too. Everybody’s trying to figure out what makes Calvin tick in this quirky, fast-paced metaphysical romp through the heart and soul of 1950’s America.

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