No Good Deed by M.P. McDonald

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Seeing the future comes at a price. What price would you be willing to pay to save thousands of lives?
Mark Taylor knows his actions scream guilty—but he was only trying to stop the horrible terrorist attack. Instead of a thank you, the government labels him an enemy combatant and throws him in the brig with no rights, no trial, and no way to prove his innocence. He learns first hand that the CIA can do anything they want to him—anything at all.

Mark's just a regular guy—a photographer—who finds himself in an extraordinary situation when an antique camera he buys at a dusty Afghanistan bazaar produces photographs of future tragedies. Tragedies he's driven to prevent.

His frantic warnings about September 11th are ignored but put him in the government cross-hairs where he learns what being labeled an 'enemy combatant' really means...

How to Make a Baby by Sadie Sumner @SumnerBurstyn

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An almost romantic novel about motherhood, marriage and making babies the modern way.

How far would you go to have a baby?
Monica has everything - a successful career and a stylish townhouse, a creative husband, a designer dog and a gay best friend – everything except a child. As she nears 40, baby fever hits her like the flu. Consumed by mommy ache and in a last attempt at motherhood Monica turns to deception, buys an egg, and hires Kavitha, a reluctant surrogate mother in India.
There, in the heat and ferment of Kolkata, Monica discovers nothing is what it seems when you try to make a baby the modern way. As her world falls apart, a new baby’s future hangs in the balance.


In the spirit of Big Little Lies and Eat Pray Love, How to Make a Baby is a modern family satire of romance, making babies and the complexities of motherhood.
If you’ve ever had baby fever or wondered about surrogacy or found motherhood, marriage and making babies more farce than romance, then How To Make a Baby is for you.


Find out today, just how far Monica will go in her quest to create the perfect family.

This Crumbling Pageant by Patricia Burroughs @planetpooks

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Persephone Fury is the Dark daughter, the one they hide.

England, 1811. Few are aware of a hidden magical England, a people not ruled by poor mad George, but by the dying King Pellinore of the House of Pendragon.

The Furys are known for their music, their magic, and their historic role as kingmakers. When Fury ambitions demand a political marriage, Persephone is drugged and presented to Society—

Only to be abducted from the man she loves by the man she loathes.

But devious and ruthless, Persephone must defy ancient prophecy and seize her own fate.

Get swept away into the first book of a dark fantasy series combining swashbuckling adventure, heart-pounding romance, and plot-twisting suspense.

Web of Deceit by Renee Pawlish @ReneePawlish

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It's 1949. World War II is over, but it has a way of haunting people for years to come.

Gordon Sandalwood suspects his wife Edith is hiding something from him, and he asks Denver private investigator Dewey Webb to find out what. Dewey, toughened by his own war experiences, reluctantly takes the case, certain it will lead to nothing. But when he sees Edith rendezvous with a mysterious man, Dewey realizes his assumptions might be wrong. As he digs deeper to identify the stranger, he turns up secrets that reach back into the war, and as he unravels a web of deceit, he discovers who has the most to gain, and the most to lose.

A hard-boiled, historical mystery that's great for fans who love a traditional detective crime story with a noir flavor, but without a lot of sex or swearing.

Review - Obsession by Jonathan Kellerman

Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

Now, at nineteen, Patty Bigelow, Tanya’s aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware’s help. Armed with only the vaguest details, Delaware follows a trail twisting from L.A.’s sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya’s nomadic and increasingly puzzling life.

Then a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secrets–and bodies–are buried. Dramatic, action-packed, and filled with the psychological detail that only Jonathan Kellerman can provide, Obsession is a whodunit, a whydunit–and something unique: a did-it-even-happen? This is Kellerman at his heart-racing best.

Review: The story begins 19 years in the past with the introduction to Tanya Bigelow's Mother and her Aunt. Tanya's mother tries but ultimately gives up mothering and leaves Tanya with Patty. Patty's dark childhood pushes Patty to make difficult choices for Tanya benefit and the mystery begins.

Tanya has suffered from OCD since childhood and a confession by Patty pushes Tanya to learn what her adopted mother's encrypted words mean. She seeks out her old doctor to help her cope and to help solve this mystery.

Dr. Delaware and Lt. Milo Sturgis to the rescue. Going forward it's a police procedural story. There are some really strange and disgusting characters our heroes come across. When you turn over rocks, you will eventually find snakes and scorpions. It's not a fast paced novel, it's a flower slowly opening. After all is said and done the show down at high noon breaks the doldrums. Unfortunately, the action is passively described afterward.
John Rubinstein reads and does a good job giving life to each character. I enjoyed his reading. The story was very much like an episode of Law and Order. I like that TV show so if you do too, you'll like this book too.

Consequential Damages by Joseph Hayes

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Rick Black and Jake McShane are former law school classmates with very different approaches to life and the law. Rick is a brilliant, ultracompetitive trial lawyer who believes winning is everything. He openly mocks the legal system, claiming that a lawyer who is a great storyteller can fool a jury every time. He is determined to exploit that weakness in our system, regardless of the havoc that wreaks on innocent lives. When an upstanding pillar of the community is victimized by Rick’s unscrupulous tactics, Jake is determined to bring his former classmate to justice—if he can do so without sacrificing his own integrity. Their approaches, skills and convictions are put to the test when they clash as opposing counsel in a high-stakes class action lawsuit. Dirty tricks, intimidation, intrigue—even homicide—become part of the backdrop as the litigation unfolds. Consequential Damages is a compelling legal drama full of twists, turns and suspense. And, it will make you think!

Review - The Vendetta Defense by Lisa Scottoline

In The Vendetta Defense, Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of Moment of Truth and Mistaken Identity, tells a wonderfully rich story of past sins, love and justice. Lawyer Judy Carrier takes the case of an elderly pigeon racer, Tony Lucia, who has been arrested for the murder of his lifelong enemy Angelo Coluzzi. "Pigeon Tony," as he's known, confesses to Judy that he killed Coluzzi because of a vendetta begun more than fifty years ago. Her client's guilt, however, is only the beginning of Judy's problems. The Coluzzi family wants revenge, and they are determined to finish off Pigeon Tony and Judy before the case can go to trial.

Review: Pigeon Tony is the most interesting character in this story.  His back story about his life in Italy and how he met his wife and their love story is really cute and really touching. That alone is worth listening to this story.

There is also a murder trial thrown in there too. The trial itself was a slam dunk of a trial for me to be questioning whether Pigeon Tony would be acquitted or not. Spoiler alert! He's beats the wrap. Shocking! It was a good procedural to follow but we all know how this was going to end. What you don't know is if Judy will survive this case unscathed. 

Kate Burton does a really good job carrying off so many men's voices and representing the broken English. Scottoline conveys the immigrants with out stereotyping them. It was refreshing. It was well written and well read. I enjoyed it.

Review - Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Digital Fortress transports the reader deep within the most powerful intelligence organization on earth–the National Security Agency (NSA)–an ultra-secret, multi-billion dollar agency which (until now) less than three percent of Americans knew existed.

When the NSA’s most classified technological wonder–an invincible code-breaking machine–encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power.

The NSA is being held hostage… not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it will cripple U.S. intelligence.

Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides she finds herself fighting not only for her country, but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves.

With a startling twist that leaves the agency scrambling to avert the biggest intelligence disaster in U.S. history, Digital Fortress never lets up. From the underground hallways of power, to the skyscrapers of Tokyo, to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds.

It is a battle for survival — a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius… an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the balance of power. Forever.

Review: I've seen the movies but this is my introduction to Dan Brown's written work. There are some truly inventive plot points in this story that made me appreciate Mr. Brown's craft. It is a fun and fast paced adventure. Jumping from story arch to arch back and forth at the most crucial moments in each characters story. Brown keeps it lively and exciting.

I was disappointed with the riddle at the end of the book. With a nations best cryptographer coming up blank and me screaming at my CD player, the answer, it was frustrating. It was too easy for me to solve but it could be I'm a super genius. Don't feel bad if you don't get it right a way.

The reader, Bruce Sabath did a wonderful job.  Put him on your to-listen-to list. He really does each character justice, developing their individuality.

Great story and great reader. Check this one out.

Howls of Love by Jack S.L. Florence

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Kate has grown to hate her life. Dangers that are a given in her line of work, unstable pay and no time to relax. Besides that, her lovelife has dried up and her job gets in the way of socializing with anyone whom she would even consider dating. So, it’s time for a complete change. She intends to do one last job and then leave the city for ever. Did I mention that she was a professional burglar?
Her last job turns out to be a lot more dangerous than she thought as she gets the hunch that something out of a fairytale is chasing her - a shifter. She returns to her hometown for a new start, but soon enough discovers that nothing is the way she remembered.
What's even more troubling, and delightful at the same time, is that someone from her past makes a reappearance and makes her heart beat even faster than it did the first time around. But nothing is ever that simple, especially with the past always trying to catch up.

EMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL by JR. Forasteros @jrforasterosos - Book Review in My Bathrobe

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The Yogic Wisdom to Discover Your Soul: Manifest Your Greatness by Mr. Ravindra Raman Kalathil

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This book provides a profound insight into the science of yoga, ‘Raja Yoga’ (The King of Yoga), an ancient system of yogic science discovered in India 4000 years back, preserved in its purity and practiced. The book also introduces some of the great spiritual masters of past and present whose teachings and practice methodologies are changing the lives of millions all over the world. The book also touches the life experience of the author as to how he overcame severe setbacks in his life with the aid of the above spiritual tools and fulfilled his dream of writing this book. The concept of this book is that anything is possible with the divine strength and this book provides the means to acquire that divine strength from within. In a nutshell, this book aims to not only inspire others to not to give up on their dreams in the midst of challenges but also to guide them by providing all the necessary spiritual tools to manifest their potential and ultimately manifest their divinity, the purpose of all the human beings. The author’s own spiritual and life experiences propelled him to give birth to this book to help others to attain peace and well-being in their life.

The Silverblade Prophecy by Scott M Sandridge @scottmsandridge

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Throughout the ages, messiahs have come and gone, and all have fallen.
After centuries of exile, Bantaka the Godslayer is active once more. The Seer manipulates the strands of Time and Space to bring together Pankea’s only hope: the most unlikely motley of misfits and cut-throats in the land, and a godling half-breed who’s bloodline heritage holds the key to saving—or dooming—all Existence.
Destined to fulfill an ancient prophecy to “pierce the heart of her ancestor,” Marian Silverblade is hailed as the current messiah of her age. But prophecies often get misinterpreted. And Lord Calahan Darkblade—Marian’s ancestor and Bantaka’s Herald—has plans of his own....

The Silverblade Prophecy is the first book in The Messiahs War Trilogy. When destinies collide in a war unlike anything before seen on Pankea, the choices made by the most unlikely of heroes may determine the outcome.

The Devotee - The Way Of The Heart: Book 2 by Oksana Grinberga

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Her road lies from the capital of the Southern Province to the heart of Kemir, through ice-covered passes of the North to the wooded hills of the West. She left powerful enemies behind, and her real friends are by her side. She follows her own way, aware of who she was by birthright. She is Layniza Cromund, the Princess of Kemir, and this road is the way of her heart.

The Girl In Between by Laekan Kemp @LaekanZeaKemp

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Bryn Reyes is a real life sleeping beauty. Afflicted with Klein-Levin Syndrome, she suffers episodes of prolonged sleep that steal weeks, and sometimes even months, from her life. But unlike most KLS patients, she doesn’t spend each episode in a catatonic state or wake up with no recollection of the time she’s missed. Instead, Bryn spends half her life in an alternate reality made up of her memories. For Bryn, the past is a place, until one day a boy she’s never met before washes up on the illusory beach of her dreams with no memory of who he is.

But the appearance of this strange boy isn’t the only thing that’s changed. Bryn’s symptoms are worsening, her body weakening as she’s plagued by hallucinations even while awake. Her only hope of finding a cure is to undergo experimental treatment created by a German specialist. But when Dr. Banz reveals that he knows more about her strange symptoms than he originally let on, Bryn learns that the boy in her head might actually be the key to understanding what’s happening to her, and worse, that if she doesn’t find out his identity before it’s too late, they both may not survive.

The Dark Ones by Rachel Van Dyken @RachVD

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To touch a Dark One is death.
To talk to an immortal is suicide.
Yet, I've been marked by both.
A Vampire.
And the King of the immortals.
My life is no longer my own.
And now I know the truth, my life was never mine to begin with.
It was theirs.
It's always been theirs.

We Were Here by Daisy Prescott @Daisy_Prescott

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In the 90’s, sex was dangerous, music was life, and love was something no one had ever felt like we did.

We met in college, completely free for the first time in our lives and determined to enjoy every minute of it. For four years, we gossiped and flirted, partied and road-tripped. We were inseparable.

Each of us has our own story of falling in or out of love. Of finding out who we are. Of growing up.

We thought we knew everything. We knew nothing.

We Were Here is where the Modern Love Stories begins, in a standalone that perfectly captures the humor, angst, and sheer chaos of college.

H. P. Lovecraft: The Collection by H.P. Lovecraft

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Among his most celebrated tales is "The Call of Cthulhu", canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46.

Breakthrough by Michael C. Grumley

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ONE OF THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY.
A SECRET THAT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND.
AND A CRISIS THAT CANNOT BE STOPPED.

Deep in the Caribbean Sea, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances. Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator, John Clay, to a small group of marine biologists who are quietly on the verge of making history.

With the help of a powerful computer system, Alison Shaw and her team are preparing to translate the first two-way conversation with the planet's second smartest species. But the team discovers much more from their dolphins than they ever expected when a secret object is revealed on the ocean floor. One that was never supposed to be found.

Alison was sure she would never trust the military again. However, when an unknown group immediately becomes interested in her work, Alison realizes John Clay may be the only person she can trust. Together they must piece together a dangerous puzzle, and the most frightening piece, is the trembling in Antarctica.

To make matters worse, someone from the inside is trying to stop them. Now time is running out...and our understanding of the world is about to change forever.

Hostile Living by Jason Medici

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Will can't seem to get his life together. College drags on when the only thought on his mind is putting that chapter to an end. Returning to Nottingham where the nightlife is a collage of alcohol, sex, and the many vices of a decaying society, any future is hard to see. The hostel is his home for a time and a mix of over-indulgent weekenders and
people from across the globe trying to carve out lives for themselves. When a French beauty walks the path of self-identity alongside him and a romance unfolds, Will is forced to give his life shape for better or for worse. Gritty and untamed, Hostile Living is that hopeful pursuit of something better when the world demands self-destruction.

The Feral Sentence by G.C. Julien @GCJulien

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Women convicted of murder are being sentenced to the wild.

A fast-paced, award-winning action-packed thriller.

The year is 2087 and the federal government is no longer sending murderers to prison. Instead, convicted felons are being stripped of their belongings and dropped into the waters of Kormace Island—the Island of Killers—to fend for themselves.

Lydia Brone, an eighteen-year-old girl who is convicted of murder for having accidentally killed her mother’s abusive boyfriend, finds herself being transported by helicopter to this mysterious island. She knows that her sentence will be difficult, but what awaits her is far more terrifying than anything she could have ever imagined.

The Last Five Days by Paul Seiple @pseiple

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"Things Like That Never Happen Here."

The townsfolk of Black Dog wrapped themselves in that sentiment like a security blanket. Being part of the tight-knit, small town shielded them from the horror that plagued the evening news.

And then something happened. It happened fast.

Two fishermen became ill after a day on Black Dog Lake. The mysterious virus that had an almost supernatural way of evolving began to spread. People got sick. People got violent. And then they died.

But the hunger that ravaged their bodies lived on.

The infected were considered the lucky ones. The cloudy film covering their eyes blinded them from the death of mankind. The survivors witnessed everything—the true value of life and the evil that lurked deep in the human soul. Each day the world darkened.

On the bright side, it would all be over in five days.

Future's Ending by Gene Michaels

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When our future ends, what will you be doing?

The question about how the world will end is as old as we are. As we are carried towards an ever more uncertain future on an overpopulated planet, which appears destined for destruction, this question takes on an even greater significance.

Future's Ending is a collection of short Science Fiction stories which look at the possible outcomes for an out-of-control world.

With tales of artificial intelligence, time travel, eternal life, and other themes which define the futuristic genre, this is a collection which takes inspiration from Science Fiction giants such as Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. 

The stories in Future's Ending use the unpredictable nature of mankind and the unsolvable problem of overpopulation as their foundation, offering thrilling and inspiring tales, which will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

The stories in Future's Ending use the unpredictable nature of mankind and the unsolvable problem of overpopulation as their foundation, offering thrilling and inspiring tales which will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.

REDUX: A Black Flagged Thriller by Steven Konkoly @stevenkonkoly

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Two years after shocking Washington D.C. with a brutal betrayal, General Terrence Sanderson waits in the shadows for the right moment to demonstrate the grim necessity of his resurrected Black Flag program. His opportunity may arrive sooner than expected.

At the CIA, Karl Berg makes a disturbing discovery. Russian Federation intelligence services are quietly scouring Europe to find Anatoly Reznikov, a rogue Russian scientist at the top of every nation's WMD watch list.

Obsessed with reviving a bio-weapons program long banned by the Russian government, Reznikov has found partners willing to fund the project--with unimaginable consequences.

Berg goes "off the books," sending one of Sanderson's Black Flag teams to track down Reznikov. Led by Daniel Petrovich, the team races to stay one step ahead of a twisted conspiracy aimed at crippling the West.

In the end, nothing is what it seems in this gritty world of covert operatives and back room Washington agendas.

Dog Days of Voodoo by G. A. Chase

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Absolutely nothing stands between a woman and her beloved dog… not even the malevolent force of a voodoo curse.

Kendell Summer, lead guitarist for Polly Urethane and the Strippers, has always been interested in the unexplained. So when she sets off on a paranormal research romp with Myles, a former classmate, to explore his skills in psychometry, she’s ready for a little adventure. But she gets more than she bargained for when her Lhasa apso, Cheesecake, is dognapped. Kendell will do whatever it takes to get her dog back.

While rescuing the pup, Kendell and Myles learn that the touristy glitz of New Orleans’ voodoo shops hides a dark history few understand—a truth that some in the city plan to use for their own gain.

Soon they uncover more than they ever wanted to know about New Orleans’ unsavory past and a curse that threatens to change everything. Only Kendell can prevent the evil they’ve uncovered from doing more damage, but she’ll need Myles’s support and psychometric abilities—and the vigilance of the ever-watchful Cheesecake.

The Weight Watchers Instant Pot Smart Points Recipes Cookbook by Smart Eater

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Will Santa bring you an Instant Pot for Christmas? If not, you’ll want to treat yourself to one. Cooking with a pressure cooker like the Instant Pot is much like slow cooking except you don’t have to think about your recipe 4-8 hours ahead of time. This is perfect for someone who generally busy and If you’re watching your weight, you’ll love putting your pressure cooker to work with this "Weight Watchers Instant Pot Recipes Cookbook"


Pressure cooking has many advantages, among which saving time & energy, preserving nutrients and eliminating harmful micro-organisms from food are most significant.

Saving Time & Energy
Foods are cooked much faster by pressure cooking than by other methods. Typically electric pressure cooker can reduce cooking time by up to 70% comparing with other methods.

With much less water used in cooking and a fully insulated external pot, much less energy is required, saving up to 70% of energy comparing with boiling, steaming, oven cooking or slow cooking. Electric pressure cookers are the second most energy efficient cooking appliance after microwaves.

Electric pressure cookers, such as Instant Pot, has a unique fully sealed cooking mechanism. No steam and smells spread throughout the kitchen and your home. This makes it an ideal clean and convenient cooking appliance.
Everyone wants to look and feel good, but few are willing to do what it takes to get there. We are all so caught up in our busy lives that we hardly pay any attention to the small habits that make a huge difference. One of the main issues is what we eat and how it affects our bodies.

The Ravagers Box Set: Episodes 1-3 by Alex Albrinck

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In the distant future, humanity staggers against wave after wave of population decimating catastrophes, and hope fades as the extinction point draws near.

They find a time capsule carrying with it the knowledge of the past, technology that allows them to rise above their meager existence. Within a few generations, they've built walled cities to protect them from predators they'd learned to fear, bustling commerce, and telecommunications capabilities that connect people and businesses.

They've also restored the means to make war. Two great factions control East and West, each preparing to fight while hoping war never comes. Humanity wouldn't dare fight a great war so soon after nearing extinction.

But there are some who would prefer those astonishingly low population counts. And they'll unleash a weapon unlike any other in human history to achieve those ends.

Five people with varying levels of knowledge and responsibility of those plans live their last normal day, unaware that they'll be fighting for their lives against a weapon which cannot be stopped.

But somehow, they'll all need to figure out how to survive the unleashing of... the Ravagers.

The Girl in the Box Series, Books 1-3 by Robert J. Crane @RobertJCrane

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This is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)

Alone

Sienna Nealon was a 17 year-old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years. Then one day her mother vanished, and Sienna woke up to find two strange men in her home. On the run, unsure of who to turn to and discovering she possesses mysterious powers, Sienna finds herself pursued by a shadowy agency known as the Directorate and hunted by a vicious, bloodthirsty psychopath named Wolfe, each of which is determined to capture her for their own purposes...

Untouched

Still haunted by her last encounter with Wolfe and searching for her mother, Sienna Nealon must put aside her personal struggles when a new threat emerges – Aleksandr Gavrikov, a metahuman so powerful, he could destroy entire cities – and he's focused on bringing the Directorate to its knees.

Soulless

After six months of intense training with the Directorate, Sienna Nealon finds herself on her first assignment - tracking a dangerous meta across the upper midwest. With Scott Byerly and Kat Forrest at her side, she'll face new enemies and receive help from unlikely allies as she stumbles across the truth behind the shadowy organization known only as Omega.

The Mystery of the Blue Dolphins by Sandra Baublitz @SandraInvesting

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When struggling freelance writer, Clarissa Hayes, and her trouble-making Saint Bernard, Paw, visit their relatives in Upstate New York, they are saddened to find the family in mourning. Clarissa's amateur sleuth uncle has died, evidently from a heart attack.

But was the death truly an accident? An anonymous note hints that her uncle was murdered, and now Clarissa and Paw are determined to sniff out the truth.

Soon the duo find themselves nose deep in their uncle's final baffling case: the theft of the fabulous Blue Dolphin diamonds. Clarissa's determination to find her uncle's killer leads her deep into a world of glittering gems and deadly secrets, where each new discovery threatens to bring her to the notice of a ruthless murderer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. Can Clarissa and her detective dog Paw crack the case, or will they become the killer's next victims?

This is a 5200 word short story/mini mystery. Read time is approx. 30 minutes.

His Last Witch by L.J. Hodgson @LJHWriter

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For all of her life, Sally Matthews had suffered a fear of travelling over bridges which ran over water, a condition which she discovered to be called Gephyrophobia. In an attempt to cure her of this bizarre phobia, her best friend, Alice, books Sally in to see a hypnotherapist.
Whilst under hypnosis, Sally discovers a past life and goes on to tell the story of Annie Hobbs, a 17th-century wife and mother, and the very last to be accused of witchery by the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins.

The Tegen Cave by Inge-Lise Goss @IngeGoss

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On the run from her ex-boyfriend’s powerful criminal family, Sara Jones hides in Billings, Montana. But when people around her start dying from poisonous spider bites after she receives a mysterious package containing a hidden spider, she worries that the family has found her. Can she escape?

Life takes an even more bizarre turn when Sara seems to be not only immune to the spider venom, but also surrounded by a sinister group of people using spiders to incapacitate their prey. Even her new boyfriend starts acting suspiciously. Just whom can she trust?Then to make matters worse Sara's twenty-fifth birthday approaches, and her dark heritage begins to emerge. She is forced to make a life-or-death decision. And somehow, she must find a way to deal with the crime family.

Silent Fear by Lance Morcan and James Morcan @SterlingGate

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Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world.

When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives.

A stunning, claustrophobic, "whodunit" murder mystery, Silent Fear (A novel inspired by true crimes) is the eighth novel by father-and-son writing team Lance & James Morcan. Included is a commentary by Deaf filmmaker Brent Macpherson on the unique aspects of Deaf culture the story covers. Together, the Morcans and Macpherson are currently developing a feature film adaptation of Silent Fear.

Bad Karma by DouglasClegg @DouglasClegg

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When Trey Campbell takes his family to Catalina Island, his escaped patient leaves a trail of bodies behind as she hunts for her one true love – from a previous life.

The Good Liar by Denise Camille Frye @FryeDenise

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At the dawn of the sexual revolution, 1963 is a life-changing year for Cassie Taylor, a beautiful, physically abused seventeen-year-old living a non-existent social life. Cassie abandons her childhood dream of becoming a Hollywood star when she meets the man of her dreams - or is he the stuff of nightmares? The Good Liar is an explosive tale of love and deception that will blow the minds of Boomers and Millennials alike!

Empty Bodies by Zach Bohannon @zachbohannon32

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When the world falls, who will survive?

In a single moment, everything changes. Hundreds of thousands of people suddenly collapse, leaving their friends and loved ones behind, terrified and confused.

Moments later, the fallen rise and the survivors become the hunted.

Follow three intertwining stories through the apocalypse.

Will Kessler works a dead-end warehouse job in Tennessee, driving a forklift and unloading shipping containers. When he wakes up from a nap during his lunch break, he finds most of his co-workers have mutated into monsters, and they have turned the 50,000 square foot building into a war zone, murdering any other survivors. Alone and weaponless, Will must fight through the undead horde to secure the building and answer one question: Is he truly alone?

In Texas, Gabriel Alexander boards a plane, thinking he is heading back to his wife and daughter in Washington D.C. After his flight takes off, several passengers fall suddenly ill, sending the cabin into a panic. Soon, the sick passengers go on a rampage, attacking others on the plane, including the pilot. And with no one to fly the plane, it dives toward the ground, taking Gabriel and the start of the apocalypse with it.

Jessica Davies runs the front desk of a hotel in the North Carolina mountains. It seems like another boring day of checking tourists into their rooms when she receives a call from a guest to bring them some aspirin. The elevator door opens, and Jessica is forced into a hell she could’ve never imagined.

Awaken: A Horror Short Story by Zach Bohannon @zachbohannon32

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Where am I?

Andy awakes with no recollection of where he is, how he got there, or how long he's been there. All he knows is that it's cold, it's dark, and he's alone.

When he finally escapes, he encounters strange, supernatural creatures. Terrifying monsters of the night.

Thinking of his daughter, Emma, his only goal is to get home and make sure she's okay.

And he has only one choice...

...Run.

A 3,000 word story, perfect for any fan of suspenseful horror!

Death Ship by Joseph Badal @JoeBadal

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“Death Ship” is another suspense-filled thriller in the 45-year-long journey of the Danforth family. This fifth book in the Danforth Saga, which includes “Evil Deeds,” “Terror Cell,” “The Nostradamus Secret,” and “The Lone Wolf Agenda,” introduces Robbie Danforth, the 15-year-old son of Michael and Miriana Danforth, and the grandson of Bob and Liz Danforth.
A leisurely cruise in the Ionian Sea turns into a nightmare event when terrorists hijack a yacht with Bob, Liz, Miriana, and Robbie aboard. Although the boat’s crew, with Bob and Robbie’s help, eliminate the hijackers, there is evidence that something more significant may be in the works.
The CIA and the U.S. military must identify what that might be and who is behind the threat, and must operate within a politically-corrupt environment in Washington, D.C. At the same time, they must disrupt the terrorist’s financing mechanism, which involves trading in securities that are highly sensitive to terrorist events.
Michael Danforth and a team of DELTA operatives are deployed from Afghanistan to Greece to assist in identifying and thwarting the threat.
“Death Ship” is another roller coaster ride of action and suspense, where good and evil battle for supremacy and everyday heroes combat evil antagonists.

Wolves of the Northern Rift by Jon Messenger @JonMessenger

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In a world of science, magic is an abomination.

Magic is an abomination. It spread from the Rift, a great chasm hundreds of miles long that nearly split the southern continent in two. The Rift was a portal, a gateway between their world of science and the mythological world of magic.

On the northern continent of Ocker, King Godwin declared that no magical monstrosity would be allowed within their borders. The Royal Inquisitors were formed to investigate reports of mystical occurrences and, should they be found, to destroy them.

Inquisitor Simon Whitlock knows his responsibilities all too well. Along with the apothecary, Luthor Strong, they’ve spent two years inquiring into such reports of magical abominations, though they’ve discovered far more charlatans than true magical creatures. When assigned to investigate Haversham and its reports of werewolves, Simon remains unconvinced that the rumors are true. What he discovers in the frozen little hamlet is that the werewolves are far more real than he believed; yet they’re hardly the most dangerous monster in the city.

Review: The Awakening (The Elders Trilogy Book 1) by TL Travis @tltravis1

Synopsis: In The Awakening, book 1 of The Elders Trilogy, Jessica Cartright has come of age. On top of being new to adulthood and all it encompasses; her nightly dreams are haunted by a faceless man guiding her deeper into the darkness. Fight or flight mode ensues, but she’s trapped. When she’s finally reunited with her first love, her dreams start becoming a reality. Is this a coincidence or are they somehow linked? When these two worlds collide, she fears for her life but finds there’s nowhere left to run.

 Review: I was genuinely interested in the second half of this story. It's an interesting story arc. The second half is really where the action is. It then runs out of gas by the ending. The ending of Book 1 falls into a easy methodical tying of loose ends. The latter half is still well written. I feel it could have been even better. If we learned anything from Game of Thrones, the people closest to you are last people you should trust.

My biggest hurtle was Travis' decision to trust a supporting character that betrays a main character. No matter what promises are made or how the character is written to redeem themselves. I, the reader, will not forgive as easily as literary characters.

Finally, I was surprised coming from an author known for erotica, that this story is as tame as it was, not that the author shies away from descriptions or sex acts. What Travis does do is rush through the sex acts and straight to the after glow. I would classify this story as mature romance. This is novella is low on the arousal meter but high on the story line meter. A good story for a quick read.

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