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Last 2 Days NIGHT PREY Audiobook Sale!

For a limited time only, NIGHT PREY audiobook will be discounted from $24.95 to $3.95

Praise for NIGHT PREY audio book:


Karen —  “Terrific Psychological Thriller!”
If you enjoy the EARLY works of Dean Koontz, John Saul, or Stephen King, buy this book now. Although it has a slow start, don’t give up on it for at least 90 minutes. I usually set the timer for 60 minutes at bedtime and fall asleep reading, but because I was so engrossed in the book, I kept resetting the timer until 2.5 hours remained till the end, and I just turned the timer off! This book sank its teeth into me, and I had to finish it lol. It was a good thing it was the weekend!










Tracy — “Filled with suspense! Entertaining”







It was a good thriller and I didn’t want to stop listening until I knew what happened.




Doug — “Can’t get enough of Carol Davis Luce”




As with all Carol’s books – I’ve read them for years in paperback then enjoyed them again on my kindle – just a great thriller with characters you can relate to. A wonderful book by a great author. I highly recommend listening to it!














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7 more bestselling thrillers in one package .99c

MORTAL CRIMES 2. In time for the holidays, at a very affordable price, is the gift that just keeps on giving! The first successful Mortal Crimes box set sold over 70,000 copies in just a few months.

** Over 300 5-star reviews for the individual books **

Includes:

IMPROPER INFLUENCE (Sasha McCandless Series) – Melissa F Miller
THE DEVIL’S CAULDRON (Devil’s Deep Series) – Michael Wallace
ULTIMATE JUSTICE (The Justice Series) – M A Comley
DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (Laura Cardinal Series) – J Carson Black
NIGHT GAME (The Night Series) – Carol Davis Luce
POE (Alexandra Poe Series) – Brett Battles & Robert Gregory Browne
SECTOR C – Phoenix Sullivan
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SPECIAL NOTE: If you missed MORTAL CRIMES 1, it’ll be available through the holidays. After that the bundle will be gone for good! Purchase your copy for an incredible 99c/77p at the following e-retailers.

Amazon

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Tis the Season: Two new releases & two second edition boxed sets!

I’m so happy to announce these new releases for the holidays!
New release of the German edition of my bestselling novel, Night Game,  DEATH IN KING’S CLUB!

 

My new release, NIGHT CRIES, is now in paperback!

 

Amazon ebook

Amazon Trade Paperback

And just in time for the holidays, at a very affordable price (99c), is the second successful Mortal Crimes box set that sold over 70,000 copies in just a few months. MORTAL CRIMES 2. A mixture of bestselling mysteries and thrillers from NY Times and USA Today bestselling authors.

** Over 300 5-star reviews for the individual books **

SPECIAL NOTE: If you missed MORTAL CRIMES 1, it’ll be available through the holidays. After that the bundle will be gone for good! Purchase your copy for an incredible 99c/77p at the following e-retailers.  Amazon iBooks Barnes and Noble KOBO Google Play

And if you can’t get enough of these Bang for your Buck boxed sets, grab the second in the NYT & USA Today bestselling bundle, Deadly Dozen. Even more stories to keep you entertained throughout the cold winter months. DEADLY DOZEN 2!  .99c

 

Coming soon. stay tuned for some exciting Giveaways .

 

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Free Today! Night Stalker

FREE first time ever, #1 in the ‘Night’ books, Night Stalker FREE on Amazon today to kick-off my new release Night Cries.

 

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It’s aLIVE! NIGHT CRIES. Plus Giveaway Winners!

Newest novel release, NIGHT CRIES.

Thirty-year-old Maddie has no memory of being adopted. An only child, her parents loved and protected her. Family means everything. When her daily foundation crumbles after she miscarries and her husband leaves with her best friend, retreat becomes her coping tool. She’s soon forced out of seclusion by her rising success as a crime writer. The public spotlight brings menace in the form of an abusive ex-lover intent on revenge. He stalks her, waiting for his chance…until…an unlikely savior intervenes. She is Maddie’s long-lost sister, her mirror image twin. The sisters revel in a special bond, as if no time has passed.

What is a ‘mirror twin’? Mirror image twins are literally a reflection of one another, identical twins with opposite features. They share the same DNA and similar fingerprints. Many claim to share a psychic connection. One mind in two bodies? You decide.

 

Excerpt of Night Cries:

Anchored to that moment on the green marble porch, a vibration hummed in the air around Maddie. As ridiculous as it seemed, a bizarre static charge linked her to the woman standing on the threshold of that magnificent estate. Her identical twin.

She grabbed Maddie’s hands. The sensation of live current surged through her body, bringing with it flashes of holding hands, hugging, and whispering secrets in each other’s ears.

Justine stepped out onto the porch, and they embraced. More images swirled around her—sitting cross-legged under a kitchen table, knees touching, their small hands over their mouths. In her extensive research for her novel on multiples, she’d read clairvoyance played an essential part in the lives of twins. Shared emotions, dreams, pain. Some telepathic link between them might have made it possible for her to know a sister existed. She’d been skeptical until then. A twin she’d been unaware of, or forgotten all these years, might have influenced her life.

A sudden chill on the back of her neck made her shiver.

Justine released her and took a step back. She hugged herself and rubbed her hands over the rising goose bumps on her upper arms. “It’s cold out here. Let’s go inside. We have so much catching up to do.”

They crossed the threshold together into a grand entry. Zach followed.

Justine led them into the high-ceilinged great room then to the back of the house and a smaller room with an ocean view. The more casual décor instantly put Maddie at ease.

“Sometimes I feel like I’m in a museum.” Justine kicked off her shoes and sat cross-legged in a wingback chair strategically placed on a Persian rug to complement the pattern. “Tony’s tastes run toward the grandiose. Mine are less refined.”

“It’s a beautiful house,” Maddie said. “I wouldn’t want to clean it.”

Justine laughed. “Me either.”

Their conversation started out slow and hesitant. Since Justine initiated the reunion and knew Maddie was her sister, naturally she took control. It seemed strange to call it a reunion. Before that day, Maddie had no memory of her early childhood. No memory of Justine.

Then the comparisons began. They were news junkies and Scrabble addicts. They had the same tastes in music, art, literature, and movies. They compared the dolphin-shaped birthmarks on their necks and marveled at the exactness of their eyes, golden flecks floating in a hazel shade that picked up more green than blue. They wore the same brand of perfume, an imported scent made from gardenias.

Sitting across from her twin sister was like watching a scene from a paranormal movie. Justine’s hand gestures and body language appeared the same. Her voice and her laugh sounded the same as well. The same inflections and speech patterns, but Justine was more relaxed. A confident extrovert. She owned the space around her.

While they talked, Zach slipped out through the double-doors onto the terrace and kicked back on a chaise lounge. He thumbed through a basket of magazines, looking for a mailing label. Always the cop.

Even though she and Justine were completely enthralled with one another, she knew Zach wouldn’t accept Justine at face value. Theirs was a unique situation, one over which Zach had no control once Justine had rescued her. Yet Zach, with his law enforcement background, would want to take a closer look into her background. Fine with her. Maddie had a few questions of her own.

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~More News~

For a limited time only, NIGHT PREY audiobook will be discounted from $24.95 to $3.95

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First time ever, #1 in the ‘Night’ books, Night Stalker will be FREE on Amazon for five days Nov 22 – 27  to kick-off my new release of Night Cries.

FREE November 22 – 27

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CONGRATULATIONS!

The winner of the custom wreath by WickedWreathz is:

Lynn Voedisch

Winners for the Night Prey audiobooks are:

Debra Guyette

Heidi Daniel

 

To claim your prizes, please email me at caroldluce@gmail.com ASAP.

 

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Better Late Than Never… New Novel!

I’m back and {thrilled}} to announce my soon to be released thriller! Yes, FINALLY!

NIGHT CRIES by Carol Davis Luce ~ Pre-order now $4.99. Release date 11/18


Cover by Indie Designz

Thirty-year-old Maddie has no memory of being adopted. An only child, her parents loved and protected her. Family means everything. When her daily foundation crumbles after she miscarries and her husband leaves with her best friend, retreat becomes her coping tool. She’s soon forced out of seclusion by her rising success as a crime writer. The public spotlight brings menace in the form of an abusive ex-lover intent on revenge. He stalks her, waiting for his chance…until…an unlikely savior intervenes. She is Maddie’s long-lost sister, her mirror image twin. The sisters revel in a special bond, as if no time has passed.

Zach, a former LAPD homicide detective and Maddie’s writing partner, doesn’t take anything at face value. He digs into the sister’s background, revealing hellish early years on a farm that may have caused irrevocable damage. What he finds leads him to suspect she may be connected to a rash of vigilante murders.

As Maddie investigates her past, she must confront her new reality. She is haunted by unexplained fears and a recurring nightmare. The blood runs bad in this family. Long repressed memories gradually surface, forcing her to solve the mystery of her bone tree nightmare. Will the truth set her free…or destroy her?

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To celebrate my new thriller I’m giving away a special prize (a custom-made indoor/outdoor wreath of your choice by WickedWreathz). If you’re a member of my Night Team, you’re automatically entered in the giveaway for this stunning prize. If you’re not a member, please sign up for my newsletter to be included. 
Winner to be selected on November 18th.

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Exciting follow up to the  New York Times and USA Today bestseller Deadly Dozen (no longer available!) is this terrific  LIMITED EDITION thriller boxed set featuring 14 individual books from The Twelve AND two guest bestselling and award-winning authors.

 

 

 

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More than 103,000 readers devoured New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Deadly Dozen and clamored for more.
Now, The Twelve presents Deadly Dozen 2!
800+ reviews
14 books
12 award-winning, USA Today and New York Times Bestselling Authors you know and love
2 Guest Authors
2 New Tales you’ll only find here!

Deadly Dozen 2 contains:

J. Carson Black – Cry Wolf
Joshua Graham – Direct Action
Allan Leverone – Parallax View
Michele Scott – Dead Celeb
Cheryl Bradshaw – Bed of Bones
Diane Capri – Jack in the Green
Vincent Zandri – The Shroud Key
Carol Davis Luce – Night Prey
Aaron Patterson – N19Teen
Cory Clubb – Dead Letter
Jack Patterson – The Warren Omissions

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NEW RELEASE by J. Carson Black!

Hard Return, a Cyril Landry thriller from NYT best-selling author J. Carson Black

Cyril Landry has been a dead man since he escaped a firefight off the coast of Florida three years ago. In all that time, the former Navy SEAL has been living off the grid to protect his wife and teenage daughter, who have mourned him and moved on.

Five days a week, Landry watches from a distance as his daughter Kristal leaves school—his only chance to see her. One day a shooter in black unloads his M-16 on the students, killing eight kids—including Kristal’s boyfriend, Luke. Landry takes out the gunman with a single sniper shot before melting back into the city. But this wasn’t a typical massacre, and the clues add up to only one conclusion: someone knows Landry’s alive, and wants him dead—again. Teaming up with Detective Jolie Burke—a homicide cop who plays by her own rules—Landry must find a way to protect his family, and avenge Luke’s death.

In the second Cyril Landry thriller, black ops turn the world red.

Hailed by bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker as “a strong new voice in American crime fiction,” J. Carson Black has written fifteen novels. Her thriller, THE SHOP, reached #1 on the Kindle Bestseller list, and her crime thriller series featuring homicide detective Laura Cardinal became a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. Although Black earned a master’s degree in operatic voice, she was inspired to write a horror novel after reading The Shining. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Visit J. Carson at http://www.jcarsonblack.com/

Book Excerpt

In Memoriam

Four dead.

Every day, no matter how busy he was—and he was up to his ears in busy right now—he made himself look at the Crime Scene photos.

After that first year, it had gotten so that he could look at them without emotion. A cop friend of his had cadged the photos for him. They had been friends since Baghdad. Different branches of the military, different areas of expertise, yet somehow they had forged a friendship in that godforsaken hellhole.

What were the odds?

Josh—the youngest–was a towhead. His hair always stuck up like a dandelion. (Even in death his hair looked like a dandelion–the part that wasn’t drenched in blood.)

He was a good kid. He’d been under-qualified for the job, that was true, but it wasn’t his fault. Someone should have made that call for him.

He went back through the photos, all six of them. The floor, the open door to the bedroom, the legs and feet and shoes on the other body, intruding into the frame.

The blood.

A nicked carotid artery. A broken neck.

Not one or the other, but both.

There were three dead men in the house.

The fourth had died separately, days later.

If he’d died at all.

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5th Installment of FLIGHT 12 has taken off! Fun and Prizes!

FLIGHT 12 – The 5th Installment is Now Available. Get on board if you dare!

Kirk Weston likes his alone time. He is not a fan of people, planes or peanuts and he finds himself stuck on a 16-hour flight. Between a drunk passenger, a crazy flight attendant and a terrorist he may end up punching someone in the face. Fasten your seat belts, turn off your cell phones and prepare for a stressful, ride that will make you doubt the sanity of airline travel forever.

Aaron Patterson is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of the Mark Appleton Thriller series. Aaron was home schooled and had a book in his hand from the time he learned to read. He read an average of 2 books a day and over summer break in high school he read over 100 novels. He worked construction and wrote his first novel in 2008 because it was on his bucket list. Aaron has 2 thriller series, a young adult paranormal series and a serial along with many short stories in print.  He also is the co-founder of StoneHouse University/The Idaho Book Extravaganza and Sandbox. He lives with his family in Boise Idaho.

Twiter: Mstersmith
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