Review - Asylum by Claude Bouchard @ceebee308

ASYLUM

The author offers this synopsis:

Managing Director of the Montreal Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Doctor Matthew Russell, has always put his professional responsibilities ahead of all else...

...That is, until he one day realizes he is losing his wife, Cassidy, and his two children, Stuart and Jennifer...

With only his family in mind, Russell takes an adventure-filled, impromptu vacation of indefinite duration, leaving all else behind and stopping at nothing to show how much he cares for his loved ones in an effort to win them back...

...But, will he succeed, or...

Will it prove to be all too late in the end




The main character, Doctor Matthew Russell, is a workaholic. Pushing his family further and further away with each broken promise, Matthew decides something must change and nothing is the ever the same again.
If you love to travel then you will love this book. At every stop along the Russel family vacation is danger. Every member of the family has a near death experience. Luckily, Matthew is there to save his family and keep them safe. Every heroic deed allows Matthew to prove his newly found devotion to his family. It is all wonderful and beautiful and perfect.

It's too perfect and that bugged me. Mostly the children bugged me. If there is any clue that something isn't right. it's the children. If you've been on a road trip with kids you will know that even the most well behaved children have a limit. These children do not. Weird.

You know from the title of the book and from where Matthew works (an insane asylum) that there is a twist to this story and there is. It's not a shocker. It's inevitable. When you get on the crazy train it's rare to jump the tracks, you know where this train is headed.

That being said, I liked it. I had fun searching for clues to confirm my hypothesis. It was a fun read.

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Interview with Todd Maternowski @ToddMaternowski

The Digital Ink Spot interviewed Todd Maternowski, Todd studied Ancient Near Eastern religion and early Judeo-Christianity at the University of Chicago before heading into the real world. He has since worked as a ballroom dance instructor, bass player, mediator, credit specialist, art preparator, janitor, journalist, copy editor, armored car money counter, mambo dancer and satirist. He lives in Dallas, Texas with his hyper-creative wife, baby girl and unborn son.

The Digital Ink Spot: Tell the readers a little about your books.

Todd Maternowski: The Exmortus series is about a young, self-absorbed and arrogant young man, Ash Xavier, whose entire meticulously-planned world is obliterated in a single night. Ash is left without food, weapons, armor or hope in a hostile world that actively tries to devour him at every turn. By the end of the first book, EXMORTUS: TOWERS OF DAWN, Ash has progressed to a certain point in his mental and spiritual development, despite overwhelming odds. By the end of the second book, EXMORTUS II: TEMPLES DIABOLIC, he is ready to move on from the power-obsessed adolescent fantasies that drove his youth, and instead use every power at his disposal to grow into a decent human being. Along the way, he must deal with a nightmarish terror from his childhood, the abandonment of his friends, and a hopeless romance with a woman that may well be entirely imaginary.

The Digital Ink Spot: How extensive is the world your books are based on?

Todd Maternowski: Extremely: all three books cover less than 10% of the world it occurs in. I love rich, detailed and painstakingly thought-out worlds, and have made a dozen or so maps that have no relevance whatsoever to the events in Exmortus. We live in a world of constant mystery and discovery, so why should our fantasy worlds be any different?

 

The Digital Ink Spot: Is it hard to write about grisly murders, sex magic and genocidal demons?

Todd Maternowski: Actually, it's very easy. I'm a huge fan of heavy metal, and have always loved how completely over-the-top it can get. 'Go big or go home.' That said, you first have to create a completely grounded, hyper-realistic setting first, or the flashier elements get lost in the shuffle and lose their potency.

 

The Digital Ink Spot: What do you enjoy reading?

Todd Maternowski: Anything that's well-written, especially if it has a dark sense of humor. I grew up on the bleak, soul-crushing Russian literature of Dostoevsky and Gogol, and have since learned to really love more contemporary authors like Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Umberto Eco, Cormac McCarthy and Gene Wolfe. 'Zorba the Greek' is probably my favorite book of the last century.

 

The Digital Ink Spot: What can readers expect from you in the near future?

Todd Maternowski: I'm about to have a baby boy, so the third and final installment of the Exmortus trilogy might be a little slow this time around, but I've got mountains of exquisitely-detailed notes and planned-out chapters for it already: just know in terms of emotional and literary catharsis, it will put the first two books in the series to shame. Following that, I've got about 15-20 projects I could work on next, starting with a sci-fi novel about a scientist who goes back in time for philanthropic reasons, only to use his advanced knowledge to become a master criminal; and a long short story about a military-grade psychic who does espionage on the astral plane for the Pentagon. I've got some other long-term projects, but they're top-secret. 

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Line of Control by Mainak Dhar

Line of Control- A Thriller on the Coming War in Asia


It is 2012, and the world is a more dangerous place than ever before. Revolutions have swept aside one Middle Eastern regime after another. A regime allied to Al Qaeda has swept to power in Saudi Arabia, and uses its oil wealth and modern arsenal to further spread Jihad around the world. Yet another military coup brings a fundamentalist regime to power in Pakistan, which initiates an audacious plan to strike the first blow in this new global Jihad. As unprecedented terror attacks stun India, the stage is set for a conflict that brings the Indian subcontinent to the brink of a nuclear apocalypse.

With a broad cast of characters that puts the reader into the thick of the unfolding crisis, a fast-paced storyline ripped from today's headlines, and explosive action, Line of Control is a thriller uniquely suited to the times we live in.

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One Just Man by Stan I.S. Law @inhousepress

One Just Man [Winston Trilogy Book One]
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After many years of demanding studies of medicine, a Gift of healing chooses to manifest itself through Dr. Peter Thornton's unwilling hands. The new ability plays havoc with his professional life. The Gift becomes an insidious curse as it threatens to obliterate his promising career.

He rebels against his destiny, until a will greater than his own takes over and, unwittingly, he learns how to overcome death itself.

Twitter:  @inhousepress

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PRISON PLANET by Billie Sue Mosiman @BillieMosiman

PRISON PLANET

In the near future Jackie and her husband Antone are working hard to move out of the bottom class of society. In an earlier time of history his work as a designer and Jackie's work as a professor of history would have made them middle-class. No longer. Like 99% of the population, they're poor.

Then one day while her husband is at work in another city, men in suits come and take Jackie and her children away to be interred in a prison camp in North Texas. No phone calls allowed, no explanations given.

Jackie keeps hope alive that Antone will rescue them. But if he does manage to get them out, where are they going to run, where are they going to hide, and where are they going to go on the PRISON PLANET?

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Intersection of Broken Paths, A Nation of Lies Novel by D.E. Parrish @HogcountryHero

Intersection of Broken Paths, A Nation of Lies Novel

In this first book of the Nation of Lies series, author D.E. Parrish returns the thrill to thriller and reminds readers of what it is like to truly fall in love with characters and the stories they tell.

Special Agent Jared Nolan—FBI—is a drunk who has managed to all but destroy a career that started out with so much promise. Yet, with one foot out the proverbial door, he is given one last opportunity to put at bay those within the bureau who are lining up to see him out to the street. Worried that they may have a serial killer on their hands, the Little Rock police department has reached out for assistance, and Jared is dispatched to his hometown in Arkansas to help with the hunt.

Hours after arriving in Little Rock, Jared is paired with the hard-assed Detective Samantha Eubanks, and right away, the two are forced to look past their obvious differences and a lingering sexual tension as the roller-coaster ride to their killer begins. However, just as the two investigators feel as though they are about to get their hands on the man who can give them the answers they need to solve the case, he winds up dead by an assassin’s bullet. Feeling like they are back to square one, they discover that their killer is connected to a shadow government that is behind a centuries-old conspiracy to take over this country.

In the end, Jared and Samantha—aided by some old faces from Jared’s military past—get their killer, and in the process, a metaphorical wall is dropped—exposing the conspirators for the first time ever.

Readers will become captivated by this story and the characters who live it, as well as discover a way to not only follow, but to interact with them on social media. Intersection of Broken Paths is a million-dollar read at a dime-store price.

D.E. Parrish is a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Army. He currently resides in Farmington, Arkansas, where he enjoys creating his politically charged thrillers with characters based on people he has shared his life with.

Visit the author page: http://www.amazon.com/D.E.-Parrish/e/B008857U0M/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
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Involuntary Control by Alex Siegel

Involuntary Control (Gray Spear Society)

INVOLUNTARY CONTROL is the fourth book in the Gray Spear Society series, which began with APOCALYPSE CULT. It's been months since their last mission and Aaron finds himself with a puzzling new mystery. A hacker with extraordinary skills has stolen money from the secret bank accounts of the Gray Spear Society. The theft should have been impossible. The search for the thief leads the team to Lemonseed, Illinois, a quiet farming community where Aaron finds an even greater mystery. The citizens of the small town are killing themselves in gruesome ways, and the authorities are just watching it happen. The intertwined investigations eventually lead him to a conspiracy to enslave the entire world. To win, he will need the help of two new team members with their own unique story to tell.

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Deadly Weakness by Alex Siegel

Deadly Weakness (Gray Spear Society)

DEADLY WEAKNESS is the fifth book in the Gray Spear Society series, which began with APOCALYPSE CULT. The Gray Spear Society is under attack by an unknown threat. The team in Miami was overrun, and the team in San Francisco was completely destroyed. The assaults were executed with military precision and devastating swiftness. A traitor inside the Society is providing the enemy with critical intelligence. Aaron must discover the traitor and stop the attacks before another team is lost. To pull it off, he'll need a plan clever enough to fool his own people. Everybody is a pawn in this game.

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Apocalypse Cult by Alex Siegel

Apocalypse Cult (Gray Spear Society)

They are God's secret warriors, His henchmen, His assassins cloaked in shadows. When lives and souls are at risk, He sends the Gray Spear Society to save mankind. This time the enemy is the Church of One Soul, a cult that intends to kill thousands of unsuspecting tourists in Chicago. But this is merely the first step in plunging the world into a devastating war. The Society has only a few days to destroy their elusive foe, despite interference by overzealous federal agents. APOCALYPSE CULT is a contemporary thriller set in Chicago with a supernatural theme. It is the first book in the Gray Spear Society series. Please visit http://www.grayspearsociety.com/ for more information.

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FlagShip Steampunk Special Issue @FlyingIslandPre

FlagShip Steampunk Special Issue

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Twitter: @FlyingIslandPre

FlagShip invites you to Launch into Imagination with this special Steampunk issue.

Our stories this month include:

Firebrand, by Doug Souza
Pressed into service on one of Britain's airships, two boys seek their freedom.

Rats to Ruins, by Michell Plested
The town had plenty of rats, that was true. And the troupe knew how to get rid of those. Well, the non-human ones, at least...

Boys will be Boys, by Philip Carroll
Turning lead int gold should have been a simple alchemical task, the boys thought. Dad just wasn't using enough phlogiston. Never mind the explosive side-effects...

Leviathan, by Scott Roche
The Indian man didn't want to repair the English death machines that enslaved his people, but he was one of the best repair men they had. Until he got his chance at the biggest machine of them all...

Crossfire, by Bill Blume
In the post-oil world, Steam is king, but a new form of power may be around the corner. Now if one American agent can just keep terrorists from using it to blow up London...

A Walk in the Park, by Doc Coleman
An exiled doctor and his assistant are servants of her Eternal Majesty, Queen Victoria the 1st. The first Crackle and Bang adventure!

Wondros, the Clockwork Man, by Ryan Underhill
Was he moved by mere mechanics, or was there something more of the magician's art to the movement of the magnificent Wondros?


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Kendra Kandlestar and the Door to Unger by Lee Edward Fodi @leefodi

Kendra Kandlestar and the Door to Unger (The Chronicles of Kendra Kandlestar)


LOST IN A MAZE OF MONSTERS . . . Everyone knows that the creatures of the outside world are forbidden by magic to enter the land of Een. That’s why Kendra Kandlestar is so surprised when a giant Unger arrives in the middle of the night to deliver a cryptic message: If she can find the Door to Unger, she will be able to unlock the truth about her long-lost family. But when Kendra finds herself trekking through the wilderness with a magic-peddling faun and a rebellious Unger, she begins to wonder if it’s all just a clever trap to lead her into the heart of danger. Whom can Kendra trust? There’s only one way to find out: peek through the Door to Unger and enter a world of magic, monsters, and mystery!

 Author website: http://www.leefodi.com
Book website: http://www.kendrakandlestar.com

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Hull Damage by Timothy J. Meyer

Hull Damage (Bad Space)

Earning a decent living as an interstellar pirate has never exactly been easy, but the crew of The Unconstant Lover has got it particularly raw. Contending daily with the mechanical failures of their haggard spaceship and the best efforts of bounty hunters to collect the growing price on their heads, this crew of cutthroats, buccaneers and scofflaws use wits, weapons and wisecracks to make off with as much booty as they can, with the forces of law and order never more than one step behind.

The only impediment between them and a quiet criminal career is their blowhard of a captain. Ace pilot, megalomaniac and complete moron, Captain Nemo leads his motley crew with bluster and bravado through planetary blockades, space station shootouts and rowdy barroom brawls, hell-bent on becoming the most fearsome dread pirate this galaxy’s ever seen. A bidding war between three of the galaxy’s least forgiving crime lords could very possibly be his worst idea to date, but when it comes to The Unconstant Lover and her captain, the line between brilliance and insanity might just have disappeared.

Hull Damage on: Amazon, B&N, the Apple iBookstore, Smashwords, Goodreads, Kobo, Diesel eBooks.

Author's Blog: http://meyertimothyj.blogspot.com/

Book's Website: www.whoisnemo.com

 

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Live Undead by Steve Warren @Steve_Warren

Live Undead

Live Undead tour the country, bringing their blood-slicked shock rock to out of the way dives and underground clubs. Their obsessed fans follow them from city to city, unaware of the band's horrifying secret. The lacerated throats and acts of self-mutilation isn't simply makeup and effects – it's all real. The members of Live Undead are vampires. They prey on the black-clad, disaffected, and depressed teenagers who flock to their shows, while leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake.

Depressed, sexually confused, and bullied at school, Nothing desperately longs for escape. He dreams of rock and roll stardom and thousands of adoring fans, but will settle with knowing what it's like to be special. That's the question he needs answered when he finally gets his chance to meet Live Undead.

Eric's life has been in a downward spiral ever since his pregnant girlfriend went missing thirteen years ago after a concert. When Eric stumbles across Live Undead, he's shocked by their uncanny resemblance to the band that had played the night his life changed forever.

Inspired by splatterpunk novels of the late 1980s and early 1990s, LIVE UNDEAD contains depictions of explicit sex, gruesome horror and graphic violence. Reader discretion is advised.



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Forgotten by Doug Lucas

Forgotten

Historical fiction has a foundation of truth but that truth is often shrouded in fiction. Some claim that only time and distance can separate the two.

We have all lived through events that have shocked or changed our nation.

The assassination of Martin Luther King, or John and Robert Kennedy, men traveling into space, and landing on the moon, and of course the bombing of the World Trade Center; these are just a few examples that have occurred in my life time. These are the pivotal events that surround us I and others think we know all of the important facts.

But do we remember? Ask yourself or a friend what date any of these events happened on, see if you or they can give the exact date or even some of the facts surrounding any of these or other major past events of your lifetime.

Americans are noted for their short memories, we invented the term "Attention Deficit Disorder" to describe it. We immerse ourselves in an event for a short time span, then quickly lay the event aside and move to the next. If those events didn't or don't affect us directly----they are quickly forgotten.

23 October 1983 is one of those forgotten events. One of those events where we felt we knew all the facts and then it was quickly forgotten. I ask one simple question---"Do you really know all of the facts?" There are hundreds of these events, forgotten by all but those who lived them.

I invite you to read "Forgotten", separate the history from the fiction. Another term to remember would be "Plausible Deniability", facts that did happen are handled in a manner that allows them to be denied by those who caused them to happen. Separating plausible deniability from fiction can be almost impossible. At times this is by design of those who use the term.

When you've finished reading this "Historical Fiction", ask yourself if you have forgotten.

You must decide, what is fact, what is fiction, and what could be plausible deniability shrouding truth.

Find the author on Facebook: Doug Lucas

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Conversations With a Dead Man by Doug Lucas

Conversations With a Dead Man

A stroll through an old cemetery will reveal very little about the people buried there. Their headstones will whisper of father, wife or lost child----but they don't sing of the lives those men and women led. Even our national heroes are lucky to have one or two of their life's accomplishments inscribed on their markers for future generations to marvel at.

Cemeteries are filled with forgotten people. They were people who had lives rich with or empty of the joys that just being alive creates for us.

Once we are dead and gone, our lives quickly fade into small morsels of oral history and are slowly forgotten by family and friends as time and generations pass.

What would these forgotten souls tell us if they could talk?

Conversations With a Dead Man answers some of those questions from a dead man's point of view. John Wesley Elder will share his loves, failures, accomplishments and the simple life he led with you.

Spending a few hours with him will allow you to understand not only the man, but glimpse the times he lived in. You'll come to understand that although he's dead, he still has a few quirks in his personality and one or two sorrows------he's much the same as you or I.

John Wesley Elder was an ordinary man who lived, loved and built a life for himself. He invites you to join him for a quiet chat or two, if you have the time he'll share events in his life that you can't find on his headstone.

He'll share his life and also try to help you understand the times he lived in and introduce you to some of the people who filled his life with joy and sorrow.

So set down, lean against the coolness of his head stone and just listen.

Find the author on Facebook: Doug Lucas

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Coming this week 7/2 - 7/8

Coming up this week, we have some titles from great authors: Doug Lucas, Steve Warren, Lee Edward Fodi, Alex Siegel, Darrell Parrish, Jim Donovan, Emma Calin, Trixie J Belle. These are some great authors and they will be offering great ebook for free on Amazon for you to enjoy this week. Stay tuned and keep an eye out for these limited time deals.

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Like Wax Under Flame by Alexandra Pelaez @sirenshaper

Like Wax Under Flame

Everyone knows the story of the apocalypse: The greedy, corrupted world governments waged war, devastated the entire planet, mutated the majority of humanity through biological weapons, and destroyed themselves in the process. The gangs took their place and the only rule of survival was to join them, or at least get on good terms with one or five. Try to survive on your own…well, the concept is nothing short of laughable.

But not to nineteen-year-old Dane. A psychic gifted with extraordinary telekinetic powers, senses, and a self-programmed drive to survive, the thought of bowing to any form of authority is less than laughable. Dane doesn’t question the story of the apocalypse, and has convinced herself that she is content to be the only one of her kind. But she is destined to pierce through the shadow of ignorance that blankets the world. People are watching her, people who want her to know that World War III was merely a smokescreen to hide another war. A war driven by prejudice and paranoia. A war that resulted in the near extinction of Dane’s people and gave birth to a savage, lawless world…

This is a 23,000 word short story based on an adult dystopian novel that is currently in the works.

Visit the author's website: http://saraesperanza.wordpress.com/
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Gentlemen Prefer Burlesque (The Enslavement) by Trixie J Belle

Gentlemen Prefer Burlesque (The Enslavement)

This Novelette is the sequel to Gentlemen Prefer Burlesque (The Enticement, Vol. 1)

Romantic and addictive, the Gentlemen Prefer Burlesque series will intrigue you. Seduced by millionaire hunk, Henry King, Raven Rock wants nothing more than to leave her past behind. Raven flees to London determined to resist his advances and terrified, the criminal, Goldie Taylor will track her down and she might have to confront her feelings for a psychopath she once loved.


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Widow by Billie Sue Mosiman @BillieMosiman

WIDOW

NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR NOVEL.

A novel of feminism taken to the ultimate limit by a woman who no longer has anything to lose.

First her husband killed their children, then himself. Now she's on her own, and she's bent on making sure it never happens to another woman. It's too late for her...she's already damaged. She's already caught in the depths of despair where only taking the law into her hands holds out any sort of relief. Yet when she stops the evil she's felt compelled to commit, the murders continue. Someone is a copycat, pinning crimes on her, stalking her, teasing her with his devious plan. She can't make him stop. There may be no way out of the trap she's created out of loss, out of desperation.

There's another problem--she's falling in love with the detective who is in charge of tracking her down. Life is a complex series of paradoxes, a spiral of fear and murder where nothing is as it seems.

Visit the author's website: http://www.peculiarwriter.blogspot.com
Follow the author on Twitter: @BillieMosiman

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Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age by Kristin Alexandre

Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age

“Nuncio and the Gypsy Girl in the Gilded Age” is the first in a series of three graphic novels narrated by the African Grey Parrot Nuncio.This is the story of Neci, the beautiful gypsy princess who is infatuated with the brilliant composer/pilot Ezra. Neci lives at the turn of the century in Dayton, Ohio, where inventors and engineers have turned the city into the Silicon Valley of the day.
Like everyone in America at this time, Neci and Ezra want to improve themselves and their lot. While Ezra is besotted with the gypsy girl, his head is turned when the well-connected Edith offers her love and her connections to Ezra.
The two women confront each other during the rescue efforts for survivors of The Dayton Flood. Edith recognizes that she is faced with a significant rival for Ezra’s affections. She sets about to abolish he enemy.
As the story unfolds, Edith discovers inside information that the Lusitania faces a real threat of German destruction when it makes its crossing to England. Edith decides to keep this information to herself. She imperils the lives of Neci and the Hubbards.
Neci and Ezra’s benefactors and friends, The Hubbards, choose to make the crossing. When Ezra takes Neci to the send-off for the Atlantic crossing, his emotions overwhelm. He is seen making his way on board.
After a friendly breakfast The Hubbards and Neci find themselves on deck as the ship is struck by a torpedo. The Hubbards choose death and Neci frees our narrator Nuncio and jumps into the Irish Sea. We must wait for the next book to uncover her fate and the fate of the man she loves.

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The Canal By John L. Work @Work949

The Canal

The year is 2048.

Kansas City Police Detective Marie Castaneda is assigned an investigation that will change her life forever. A 76 year old man has committed suicide in a downtown skid row flophouse. But what looks like a run of the mill derelict's death is much more than that.

With her curiosity piqued by the odd circumstances surrounding the old man's final hours, the young police woman begins to uncover his past. What she finds is a dead soldier's story that is both heroic and tragic.

Set 40 years into the future, The Canal reveals America as a nation that is literally coming undone. The U.S.A. is about to be conquered.

Marie Castaneda is forced to take a big risk in order to save her life.

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The Road to Hell by Jess Hanna @JessIsaacHanna

The Road to Hell

Lucas Stone suffers a horrific accident, experiences the terrors of Hell, and returns from the dead paralyzed and alone until an unexpected new friend finds him.

Arrogant, self-absorbed speaker and author Drake Crawford has written a new book that challenges the traditional Christian theology of Hell.

Luke and Drake are drawn together by supernatural forces beyond their realm of understanding to face the spiritual battle that lies ahead on... The Road to Hell.

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Fakakt by Jasmine Schwartz

FAKAKT: MELISSA MORRIS AND THE MEANING OF SEX (MELISSA MORRIS DETECTIVE SERIES)

Melissa Morris is living the Good Life in New York until she gets laid off. She's thrust into the Manhattan abyss, aimless and desperate and deciding the only thing to do is marry. She flies to Rome to track down her errant boyfriend, hoping that he can save her, but on her way to meet him she's arrested for murder.

Who will save Melissa now? Marriage? Sex? Or something even more surprising? When Melissa sets out to find the real killer, she discovers an underside to Rome, and herself, she never imagined.

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Dive and Fly by Warren Caterson @WarrenCaterson

Dive and Fly

Imagine… You were born with a rare condition. Synesthesia. You taste color. You feel sound. Now imagine how that would impact your job. Your love life. Your future.

Billy Shakes is a successful writer whose synesthesia helped him create six killer novels. But he has hit a slump so his agent urges him to get out and take his ‘disease’ on the road. Take some risks. Get those creative juices flowing again. He does.

Billy meets Maureen at a Florida film festival, and to Billy her shimmering bronze skin tastes of crème brûlée. But the barely married Maureen tastes adventure. Since they share a love for movies, Billy suggests a weekend trip to the Chicago Film Festival. Thus begins a kaleidoscope of events involving Maureen’s brutish husband, a feisty best friend, a deadbeat fiancé, two inept hit men, an alcohol-infused Scientist, a riot grrl with a penchant for large automatic weapons…Oh, and Eden, an old friend with her own mysterious condition who longs to take a few risks herself.

Through a series of missteps, close calls and mistaken identities, this dysfunctional group ricochets off one another as they storm into Chicago. After causing a near riot at the Art Institute, Billy and Eden find themselves poised on the edge of the roof. As a dozen security guards rush toward them with guns ablaze, Billy and Eden are forced to take one last risk - with wondrous and surprising results.

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Coming this week 6/25 - 7/1

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Death of the Couch Potato's Wife by Christy Barritt @cbarritt

Death of the Couch Potato's Wife: A Suburban Suspense, Women Sleuths, Cozy Murder Mystery

Welcome to Boring, Indiana, home to patio cookouts, homeowner dues, carpeted lawns, and neighbors so welcoming they’re dying to meet you — literally.

City slicker turned suburbanite housewife Laura Berry isn’t taking well to life in her new neighborhood. She moved to follow her husband’s dream, and now she can’t tell if she’s clinically depressed or just bored half to death. But Boring becomes anything but when Laura discovers her neighbor Candace Flynn face up on a sofa with her hand buried in a snack bag. With a healthy dose of neighborly suspicion and street smarts, Laura sets out to find Flynn’s killer, but her curiosity becomes desperation when the killer targets Laura.

Someone is determined to stop her from digging deeper into the murder, but Laura is just as determined to figure out who’s behind the death-by-poisoned-pork-rinds.

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Baseball's LOST Tradition by Eric Thompson (author) Bob Costas (Foreword)

Baseball's LOST Tradition: Two Eight-Team Leagues

BASEBALL’S LOST TRADITION: Two Eight-Team League is a chronological history of the turmoil and consequences involved in baseball’s first self-imposed expansion for the 1961 and 1962 seasons- the problems encountered in forming two ten-team leagues, and the struggles players faced as Major League Baseball replaced the traditional two eight-team leagues.

Author Eric Thompson reveals obscure facts regarding baseball’s first self-imposed expansion? For example, which teams were the original expansion teams? Did the American League expansion draft and National League expansion draft use the same format for selections? What did major league baseball promise the Continental League? Was the promise fulfilled? Which league first announced their expansion? Did the American League and the National League expand during the same year? These questions and many more are answered in BASEBALL’S LOST TRADITION: Two Eight-Team Leagues.

In the second half of the book Thompson moves beyond the facts and weaves a compelling story with two eight-team leagues playing a traditional 154-game schedule in the fictional Adirondack Valley League. In the style of “The Natural” and “A League of Their Own” Thompson weaves facts with fiction and presents player transactions and plausible, detailed statistics are presented for the 1961 and 1962 seasons as if expansion had never taken place.


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Circle of Bones by Christine Kling @christinekling

Circle of Bones: a Caribbean Thriller

Do you love to read big adventure thrillers packed with tales of gold snatched away from Nazis, chase scenes in steaming jungles, even steamier sex scenes, treacherous waterfalls, coded messages buried in dusty journals, and a secret society conspiring to take over the world?

Christine Kling's new Caribbean thriller, CIRCLE OF BONES, is just such a real page-turner based on an actual true mystery of World War II. The French submarine Surcouf, once the largest submarine in the world, departed Bermuda in 1942 and vanished without a trace. In this pulse-pounding thriller, Kling imagines what might have happened in this unsolved mystery.

Solo sailor Maggie Riley is cruising aboard her forty-foot sailboat when she rescues a sexy – but crazy conspiracy-spouting treasure hunter/archeologist who is swimming totally nude off the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. She soon learns he is searching for the wreck of a mysterious submarine. Cole Thatcher claims the sub holds millions in gold coins as well as secret documents from a powerful inner circle of Skull and Bones whose goal is to keep America at war for their own profits. Cole hopes for Riley's help in decoding his father’s journals that are the key to the location of the wreck.

At last, Riley joins the search for Surcouf when she discovers the demons in her own past intersect the inner Circle of Bones, and this conspiracy nut might not be so crazy after all.

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The Possibilities of Amy by Jaye Frances

The Possibilities of Amy

Amy is the ultimate trophy girl—gorgeous face, killer body, and a vivacious personality. But there’s something else about her, something that makes her even more special. Amy is new. A transfer student from out of state, she’s starting her senior year without knowing a soul. And that means she’s up for grabs, available.

Infatuated from the moment he sees her, David is determined to meet Amy, and if the fates are willing, to spend the rest of his life with her. But his shyness prevents him from approaching her—until his friends devise a contest to determine who will be the first to prove their manhood by seducing her.

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Thief by Jane Glatt

Thief (Brotherhood of the Throne)

Book 1 in the Brotherhood of the Throne series

When Duke Thorold murders her mother, indentured servant Brenna Trewen flees to Kingsreach.
Forced to live in the shadows, she’s caught stealing from the Church of the One-God and comes to the attention of Kane Rowse. But Kane is more than the Captain of the Kingsguard, he’s also a senior member of the Brotherhood of the Throne, a secret society that follows the old gods and was formed generations ago to safeguard the bloodline of the first king.
And with the childless king dying, the Brotherhood is convinced that Brenna is the one prophesied – the one they have waited two millennia for.
Despite her new-found magical abilities, Brenna doesn’t believe in the Brotherhood’s prophecy. But when the Church of the One-God tries to kill her, she’s forced to accept their offer of a safe haven.
After stealing her mother’s knife from Duke Thorold, Brenna realizes that it is made of the same old steel as the ancient weapons of the Brotherhood. Is she really the one prophesied? And can the Brotherhood keep her safe from both Duke Thorold and the church of the One-God?

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Let Us Prey by Jamie Lee Scott @Jamie_LD

Let Us Prey (Book 1, Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries) (Gotcha Detective Agency Series)

Mimi Capurro is trying to put her life back together after the sudden death of her husband. Using the skills she learned as a secret service agent, she runs the Gotcha Detective Agency, along with her skilled computer forensics partner Charles Parks. Gotcha specializes in executive protection (bodyguards), and tailing cheating spouses.

Nick Christianson is running from the demons of his past, and that has put him back in his old stomping grounds in Salinas, CA. Nick has transferred from the San Francisco Homicide Division and is now adjusting to this new police department.

Mimi never expects to run into her old college flame Nick, when she takes on an executive protection case for New York Times bestselling author Lauren Silke. But when Lauren’s assistant is murdered, the homicide case, along with Mimi, land in Nick’s lap. Will Mimi and Nick be able to solve this murder without killing each other first?

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Zoned for Murder by Evelyn David @evelyndavid

Zoned for Murder (Sound Shore Times Mystery)

Former Newsweek reporter Maggie Brooks has two kids, a dead husband, a mortgage to pay, and a lot of competition when she tries to get back into the shrinking newspaper business. Landing a job with a local paper, she's bored to tears covering bake sales and Little League games. But when a developer tries to build an outlet mall in a neighboring town, what starts out as potentially a great clip for her resume, suddenly turns dangerous and ugly. Someone will do anything to block the mall's construction. Dirty money, nasty politics, and shady land deals abound as Maggie pursues the scoop that might jumpstart her career. When murder is added to the mix, she realizes that meeting her deadline might be the last thing she ever does.

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A Horse Called Trouble by C.K. Volnek @CKVolnek

A Horse Called Trouble


A troubled teen must overcome her abusive past to save the defiant horse that has taught her to love and trust again.
Abandoned by her mother at the young age of seven, Tara Cumming’s been passed from foster home to foster home; not wanted anywhere by anyone. At thirteen she finds herself skeptic and suspicious, with no family, no friends, and forced to participate in horse therapy.

Horse therapy “will teach trust, perseverance, respect and the value of teamwork,” or so says the program’s instructor. Tara is unconvinced. Trust only got her heart broken, perseverance only gets her put down, and no one respects or wants to team up with the misfit foster kid.

At the stable, Tara meets Trouble, an angry horse bent on destroying everything and everyone around him. When Tara realizes he’s just as misunderstood and untrusting as she is, she pushes aside her fear and a special relationship is formed. Trouble trusts Tara, and Tara in turn finds hope and acceptance as well as the will to love and trust again herself.

But Tara’s confidence is shaken as a great challenge looms ahead. Trouble’s manipulative owner is determined to have him destroyed because of his ‘dangerous’ nature. Tara must overcome her own limitations and fight to save the horse that has freed her heart and given her life value and meaning.



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Crystal Dreams by Katherine Schnieder @KathyHS87

Crystal Dreams

Fifteen year old Kat had dreamed about a world full of crystals for as long as she could remember. It never occurred to her that such a world might actually exist until she found it. And what she found was more than crystals she found friendship, love, mystery, and murder in a world that had been torn apart long ago in The Shattering.

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Born of Water by Autumn M. Birt

Born of Water

In the buried archives of the Temple of Dust may lie the secret to defeating the Curse, a creature which seeks to destroy 16 year old Ria for the forbidden gifts she possesses. But it is from among the ranks of those who control the Curse where Ria will find her best chance of success. Only the Priestess Niri can save Ria from the forces that hunt her, if Niri doesn’t betray the girl first. Along with Ria comes Ty and his sister, Lavinia, both bound to defend Ria from the Church of Four Orders and Niri, if they must. However, Ty has been living a life less than honest and keeping it from his sister. To survive a journey that takes them across the breadth of their world, the four must learn to trust each other before pursuit from the Church and Ty’s troubled past find them.

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Czechmate by Seth Harwood @sethharwood

Czechmate (Jack Palms Crime)

Once hired by the SFPD to investigate the mysterious murder of a crooked cop, Jack Palms now finds himself in the path of Alexi Akakievich, a cruel drug lord with a ring of sex slaves tapped directly into the city’s political elite. What’s unclear is whether Akakievich wants the power they can give him, or if he just wants to tear the city down. Whether Jack likes it or not, he finds himself in the way. Luckily, in Czechmate we see the return of Vlade, Niki and Al to stand by his side.
Graphic violence, sexual themes and packed with action. Not for the young or faint of heart.

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Review - Messages From Henry by Rebecca Scarberry @Scarberryfields

Messages From Henry

The author offers this synopsis:

Henry is special.
When Evelyn Bury becomes the unlikely victim in a random kidnapping, Henry flies to the rescue.
In the process, Henry enlists Tammy, Evelyn’s next-door neighbor and the lackadaisical authorities to assist in Evelyn’s escape.
Henry hurdles many obstacles to the point of endangering his own life in order to save his dear master.
You will find yourself routing Henry on, cheering his progress and praying for Evelyn’s safe return.
Read MESSAGES FROM HENRY and lose yourself in a fun, fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller written for all ages, twelve and above.
But, please…remember one small, feathery detail…
Henry…is a homing pigeon!

A homing pigeon as a hero? I know it sounds strange but true. Henry puts in as much passion into saving his master, Evelyn, as any action hero I know. This story reads very much like an action movie. The use of present tense makes the action and suspense more real. It's like being in the story and watching it unfold before you in real time.
I like the concept of using the pigeon as apart of the story and creating this cat and mouse game. If there was an element that didn't appeal to me was that the chase was too long. The police would eventually arrive on the scene just a split second too late again and again and again.
I liked the detective work of the main character and her observations bring about a great ending to the chase. Henry is a great hero and you will cheer him on through the whole story.
Messages From Henry is a short story that I recommend to read.

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Surviving The Fall by William R. Potter @WilliamPotter68

Surviving The Fall

James Goodal has spent his entire life avoiding uncomfortable situations. This safe and easy existence has left James lonely and facing divorce. Everything changes when he takes in a young street girl named Ashley. The pair finds comfort in their unorthodox friendship until her violent world returns forcing James to fight for Ashley and for his very survival.

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Messages From Henry by Rebecca Scarberry @Scarberryfields

Messages From Henry

Henry is special.
When Evelyn Bury becomes the unlikely victim in a random kidnapping, Henry flies to the rescue.
In the process, Henry enlists Tammy, Evelyn’s next-door neighbor and the lackadaisical authorities to assist in Evelyn’s escape.
Henry hurdles many obstacles to the point of endangering his own life in order to save his dear master.
You will find yourself routing Henry on, cheering his progress and praying for Evelyn’s safe return.
Read MESSAGES FROM HENRY and lose yourself in a fun, fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller written for all ages, twelve and above.
But, please…remember one small, feathery detail…
Henry…is a homing pigeon!

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Sailing Down the Moonbeam by Mary C Gottschalk @Marycgottschalk

Sailing Down the Moonbeam

With a destination loosely defined as the rest of the world, Mary and her husband Tom, leave behind family, friends and successful finance careers in New York City and embark on a five-year sailing adventure. As the voyage takes her farther and farther from traditional support systems, as her world becomes more and more defined by forces outside her control, Mary reexamines what it means to be a daughter, a friend, a professional, and a wife. Her travels through often uncharted waters and remote island communities offer a compelling metaphor for a fascinating journey of self-discovery.

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