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October 26, 2023
C.H.A.R.O.N. Audiobook
Your best hope to make it through the hour of the wolf is now on audiobook!
C.H.A.R.O.N.
Night Vigil Book 2
by Gail Z. Martin
Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy Adventure
Ex-priest Travis Dominick and former FBI agent Brent Lawson hunt demons, monsters, and supernatural troublemakers. When Brent gets a call for help from an old army buddy, he and Travis head to a small central Pennsylvania town beset by a series of unexplainable deaths and escalating paranormal activity. The murders mimic crimes from decades past, down to the smallest detail, and as Travis and Brent battle vengeful entities, rumors surface that shady government experiments helped make a bad situation even worse.
Torrential rain and rising rivers mean there’s no escaping the creatures hunting the shadows, beings that take shape from people’s deepest fears and feed on their terror. With the lives of everyone in South Fork at stake, Brent and Travis face their toughest case yet. They’ll have to confront the town’s dark secrets, the legacy of a covert supernatural psi-ops program, and their own painful memories to battle a bloodthirsty ancient creature and fight the deadly spirits that roam the night.
C.H.A.R.O.N. is a dark urban fantasy thrill ride filled with Old World spirits, legends and lore, vengeful ghosts, magic, secret government agencies, Vatican ninja-priests, found family, small-town secrets, badass bartenders, psychics, mediums, witches, small-town heroes, and an unshakable bond of friendship.
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Gail Z. Martin writes urban fantasy, epic fantasy, steampunk and more for Solaris Books, Orbit Books, Falstaff Books, SOL Publishing and Darkwind Press. Urban fantasy series include Deadly Curiosities and the Night Vigil (Sons of Darkness). Epic fantasy series include Darkhurst, the Chronicles Of The Necromancer, the Fallen Kings Cycle, the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga, and the Assassins of Landria.
Together with Larry N. Martin, she is the co-author of Iron & Blood, Storm & Fury (both Steampunk/alternate history), the Spells Salt and Steel comedic horror series, the Roaring Twenties monster hunter Joe Mack Shadow Council series, and the Wasteland Marshals near-future post-apocalyptic series. As Morgan Brice, she writes urban fantasy MM paranormal romance, with the Witchbane, Badlands, Treasure Trail, Kings of the Mountain and Fox Hollow series. Gail is also a con-runner for ConTinual, the online, ongoing multi-genre convention that never ends.
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Tentacle Tied
Tentacle Tied
by Zeina Khalem
Genre: Erotic Short Story
A cabin getaway gives one traveler more than she bargained for when she finds something lurking in the hot springs nearby…
This is an erotic 18+ mature short story featuring tentacles and sexual themes.
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Zeina lives in the wild west and marvels at the weather every day. She tries to avoid cliches but sometimes can’t resist. She likes pole dancing, drawing, and feminism.
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October 25, 2023
Hunter Caine: The Tomb of Souls
You need something dangerous done?
Call Hunter . . . If you have the cash, she has the flash!
Hunter Caine: The Tomb of Souls
Hunter Caine, Soldier of Fortune Book 3
by JP Vile
Genre: Supernatural Thriller
You need something dangerous done? Call Hunter . . . If you have the cash, she has the flash!
“I’m Hunter Caine.
Treasure Hunter. Soldier of Fortune. Smuggler.
I’m kind of a bad bitch, you might say.
I do what the chicken-shit Corporation, or the Holier-than-thou Collective are afraid to do.
What they don’t want to do.
And I do it anywhere.
When stuff gets ugly, and things need doin’, I get it done.
I don’t play favorites. Strictly Freelance.
But, I do it all.
And more.
You want something done? Something dirty? Something dangerous? Something distasteful?
Call Hunter. You got the cash. I got the flash.”
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JP Vile is a devious introvert that scribes works of fiction for people that like action. Pulp fiction that is – the kind of fiction that gets your blood boiling and keeps you flipping pages like tomorrow may never come.
JP has been a soldier, a wrangler, a financial advisor, a professor and a professional eater of oatmeal cookies, all of which contribute to a well-rounded attachment to chaos. Most importantly, JP’s family is an eccentric group of lovable maniacs who all harbor an unhealthy commitment to raising their small dog, Shadow (who may or may not be a Martian infiltrator).
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Catastrophe Incoming
A war. An escape. No time to lose.
The Chase Begins
Catastrophe Incoming Volume 1
by Aimee Donnellan
Genre: New Adult Epic Fantasy
“She’s escaped. Gods help us all.”
The Theocracy of Izirm is losing a war against dragons. While the Bishops scramble for a solution, the holy city of Kequm faces a more immediate crisis: the murderous mage, Nightingale, has escaped prison and only one person can stop her.
Lark is a devoted follower of the Scholar god who searches for adventure around every corner. Ever since apprehending Nightingale three years ago, they’ve done whatever they can to forget the hole she ripped through their heart, and can think of nothing worse than facing her again. But when Nightingale’s meddling leaves Kequm vulnerable, Lark has no choice but to act.
A whimsical New Adult fantasy adventure set in a queernormative, mysterious world begging to be explored.
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The Collection Awakens
Catastrophe Incoming Volume 2
“Well, you have armour. It’s the lyre and the goose that have me a bit confused.”
The Dragon War has left its mark on everyone, and Reverie Rosetia is no exception. After her brother is struck down in a skirmish, it is on her to take up the family legacy of greatness – no matter what her plans might have been before that. She must find his sword and bring it home.
With no better place to start her search, Reverie arrives at the Collection, an isolated place full of magical oddities and artifacts. Soon after her arrival, the eclectic visitors to the Collection and its owner find themselves trapped inside. A magical force has broken free and is determined to break them, one by one. Can Reverie solve the mystery of how their attacker manifested and put it right before it is too late?
Reverie meets adventurers Lark and Wren as the trio are trapped in this claustrophobic and irreverent fantasy mystery, which may have more to do with Lark and Wren’s chase than they think…
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Aimee Donnellan is an author of whimsical queer fantasy for new adults. She is proudly bisexual and on the aromantic spectrum, and loves to write bisexuals even more chaotic and disastrous than herself.
She lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her fiancè — who helps her write and worldbuild — and dreams of dog ownership when not playing video games or Dungeons and Dragons.
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October 24, 2023
Echo of the Evercry
The cost of magic has never been clearer.
Echo of the Evercry
by E.J. Dawson
Genre: Epic Fantasy
The cost of magic has never been clearer.
Larissa’s inability to kill is a disgrace to her absent mother, Sword Matriarch of the Fair Lady’s order, a sisterhood whose purpose is to hunt down sorcerers corrupted by the Evercry and slay them. But Larissa hides an even more sinful secret: she is drawn toward magic, and it grows stronger in her every day.
Larissa keeps a stranglehold on her gift until the day of her graduation test, when her misuse of magic leads her to failure. Prepared to be cast out of the sisterhood, she is instead brought into the scorned caste of the darkkins, those who study and wield magic in the fight against the Evercry. In their halls she discovers that her proclivity for magic makes her powerful, and a little dangerous.
Gone for years, her mother suddenly sends word that she needs help to defeat a formidable sorcerer, help only Larissa can give. Larissa will do anything to save her mother, even travel with the girl who bullied her all through school. But as they battle monsters and mercenaries, Larissa must grapple with dark truths about the sisterhood and her heritage, and decide who she can really trust with her mother’s fate…and her own.
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Ejay writes scifi, fantasy, and horror, with a dash of the paranormal. She has two books with Literary Wanderlust, gothic noir Behind the Veil and all female cast fantasy Echo of the Evercry. She also has a nonfic story with Seaside Gothic, a dark paranormal with Grendel Press, and hopeful scifi with Savage Planets. She is devoted to writing and the community, as a mentor for Write Hive, Futurescapes Alum, a previous SPSFC judge, Flights of Fancy volunteer, in the Australian Writers Centre Write Your Novel Program, and studying a post-grad diploma in creative writing. When not writing she’s walking her rescue dogs, or becoming obsessed with a new computer game.
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Rejected
Will her fated mate reject her as well?
Rejected
by Ellie Scott
Genre: Paranormal Werewolf Romance
“I reject you, Alpha! I reject you!”
Elizabeth is an Omega ranked wolf; however, she does not realize she is an Alpha by birth. She has been rejected by her family, and her Pack, having suffered years of abuse by them. She is about to be given to the Pack Beta as his chosen mate when her fated mate finds her.
Will her fated mate reject her as well?
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Ellie Scott is a Canadian writer writing paranormal, romance – all things fiction.
She has two maltese fur babies Oliver and Benjamin.
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October 23, 2023
The Shadow Elf’s Mission
He is committed to protecting her, but can he convince her to trust him?
The Shadow Elf’s Mission
Elves of Eldarlan Book 5
by Elisa Rae
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Favian lives torn between two worlds. As a shadow elf, he serves Eldarlan as a warrior in the spymaster’s ranks. All the while, evidence of his gargoyle blood remains hidden beneath a spell. Despite this, he is content in the life he has chosen until one day, he spots his fated mate, but she is out of his reach in more ways than one. Years pass before he is offered the opportunity to actually meet her, but she isn’t who he thought she was.
Cersei has spent her life hiding in plain sight as the companion of an oligarch’s daughter. By blending in and not calling attention to herself, she has avoided the fate that took her father’s life. Then, political factions change, tensions rise, and her employer and his family are in danger. To make matters worse, the elven bodyguard they hired for protection won’t stop challenging her perceptions of those around her.
The Shadow Elf’s Mission is a light, fantasy romance novella about a romance between an elven/gargoyle and an elven/human woman. It features a fated mates romance where cultures clash when they encounter peril.
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The Elven Spymaster’s Thief
Elves of Eldarlan Book 1
The Shadow Elf’s Rescuer
Elves of Eldarlan Book 2
The Elf King’s Sacrifice
Elves of Eldarlan Book 3
The Elven Healer’s Apprentice
Elves of Eldarlan Book 4
A reader of fairytales and folklore, Elisa Rae loves a happy ending. Noblebright characters, dastardly villains, and chemistry between characters delight her. When she isn’t writing, she loves to watch superhero movies and literary dramas.
Elisa Rae is the pen name of Rachel Rossano.
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Marie Bartek & The SIPS Team
Marie Bartek & The SIPS Team – A Paranormal Mystery Series
As seen on NBC, ABC & FOX and voted one of The 50 Best Indie Books of 2016
Sullivan’s Secret
Marie Bartek & the SIPS Team Book 1
by Robin Murphy
Genre: Paranormal Mystery Romance
Dr. Marie Bartek enjoys a simple life as the veterinarian of Sullivan’s Island — until her psychic abilities suddenly return after eighteen years.
Shaken by the spirits that now haunt her every moment, Marie confides in her best friend. Together, they form the Sullivan’s Island Paranormal Society: SIPS.
As new and unlikely friendships begin, Marie learns to channel her powers. When they find out that the spirits are trying to warn her of an evil presence on the island, Marie and her friends set out to bring a vicious serial killer to justice.
“Communing with the spirits may leave you with some very unwanted responsibility. ‘Sullivan’s Secret’ follows Marie Bartek as she rediscovers her talents to communicate with spirits. Working with friends in a paranormal society, she finds that her skill leaves her with the responsibility to stop murders from sweeping her town and she has to put out her own neck to stop the hysteria. ‘Sullivan’s Secret’ is a fascinating read that will be hard to put down.” – Midwest Book Review-
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Secret of the Big Easy
Marie Bartek & the SIPS Team Book 2
Dr. Marie Bartek is struggling to gain control over her new psychic abilities while attending a veterinarian conference in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Marie’s recent visions prompt her to work with local police and members of the Sullivan’s Island Paranormal Society team to help solve a succession of heinous murders, while fighting against a demon from taking over her mind.
Secret Of The Big Easy is the second book in Robin Murphy’s mystery series with Dr. Marie Bartek and the SIPS team.
“Grabs the reader’s attention and keeps it until the final page.” – Readers’ Favorite
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Federal City’s Secret
Marie Bartek & the SIPS Team Book 3
In Federal City’s Secret, Dr. Marie Bartek and the SIPS team investigate spirit activity in the heart of Washington, D.C.
Marie learns more about her psychic abilities, bringing more depth and intrigue into their ghost investigations, as the SIPS team lands in the middle of conspiracy, politics, secret societies and murder.
Through the help of a spirit, Marie discovers that the mafia doesn’t take kindly to strangers taking what isn’t theirs. Can the SIPS Team get to the bottom of things before more lives are lost?
The third book in Robin Murphy’s Marie Bartek series, Federal City’s Secret will captivate you with murder, suspense and the world of the paranormal.
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Secret of Coffin Island
Marie Bartek & the SIPS Team Book 4
Dr. Marie Bartek and her fiance, Police Chief Cory Miller, have finally tied the knot. Their wedding festivities are interrupted, however, by the discovery of a body.
While criminal investigations are Cory’s milieu, Marie and her team of psychic researchers have been instrumental in solving mysteries in the past, and she has already received visions that seem to pertain to the mystery at hand.
Her mentor Myra, who had passed after suffering a heart attack, has continued her mentorship from the other side, and Marie takes comfort from both her presence and her guidance. Marie’s also been asked to help with the case of Isabella, a young woman whose mother is concerned that she’s been possessed.
A compelling cozy mystery with a paranormal twist, Secret of Coffin Island is the fourth novel in Robin Murphy’s Marie Bartek And The SIPS Team series.
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Savannah’s Secret
Marie Bartek & the SIPS Team Book 5
After returning from their honeymoon in France, Marie, Cory, and the SIPS team find themselves on another case in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia.
Trying to help a young girl who discovered a beast killing their livestock, they find a body on Tybee Island with wounds in the neck. Soon after, the team learns that there is more to learn from those keeping secrets from behind their masks at a masquerade ball.
But is there such a thing as real vampires, and can Marie and the SIPS Team receive help from a famous young spirit in time before more lives are lost?
A compelling cozy mystery with a paranormal twist, Savannah’s Secret is the fifth novel in Robin Murphy’s Marie Bartek And The SIPS Team series.
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Robin Murphy is an Amazon best-selling author of a paranormal mystery series, and also writes chick-lit, and nonfiction. She is a speaker on author platforms, self-publishing, and marketing. She currently is a virtual admin and a freelance writer.
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THE UN-DIET DIET
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Dr. Douglas Pooley will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
The UN-Diet Diet is a health reclamation strategy. It is designed to give the participant simple and effective tools to aid in improving overall health, effectively deal with weight management issues, and to serve as a guide for empowered aging. The program is aimed at those over the age of 55 with existing health compromise. It examines the true genesis of both health and disease through the lens of our evolutionary footprint, drilling down to the essence of what it means to be alive. It is here within the principles which create and maintain life, that we also find the keys to health and longevity.
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Science is just starting to understand the resident wisdom contained within the human body with all its complex mechanisms for preserving health. Let me give you an example.
Through an internal strategy for repairing and replacing cells, called senescence, directed by tiny signalling proteins called sirtuins (we will discuss this in depth a little further into the book), we are naturally and automatically capable of monitoring and regulating many metabolic functions related to ageing and repair—including genome stability, inflammatory response, apoptosis (normal cell death), DNA repair and mitochondrial functions. I am sure that some of you may be saying, “So what? Big words and complex processes, but what’s the point?” What I am driving at is simple. The body is creation’s most magnificent health factory. We were all born with these and many other spectacular health enhancing processes, and they happen without thought or conscious direction every minute of every day you are alive. Really, it just does not get any more amazing!
As for blaming illness on age, although some critical biological functions may not perform quite as effectively at eighty-five as they did at thirty-five, as we go forward into the book, you will witness how these processes most certainly can be stimulated to work more efficiently at any point in our lives.
About the Author:
Dr. Pooley has been in practice over 43 years, and during that time worked with over 20,000 individuals in close to 500,000 clinical encounters. He is married to his soulmate Patti Mugford-Pooley and lives in Lighthouse Cove in Canada. He has served his profession and community in various roles, and lectured nationally and internationally on professionalism as well as the importance of natural approaches to health and wellness. Doug is a former bodybuilding champion and continues to explore new frontiers in health and successful aging.
He is currently in his early seventies going on seventeen.
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October 22, 2023
SUBTLE FELONIES
SUBTLE FELONIES
by Austin S. Comacho
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GENRE:
mystery/thriller
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BLURB:
Is retired basketball star Xander Brown missing, or kidnapped? His crazy family and dangerous friends draw DC detective Hannibal Jones into a deadly chase to find – or rescue – a complex man. In public, Xander is a husband, father, partner, friend, but who is he in private? Which role took him away? The search moves at breakneck speed across the posh suburbs and angry alleys of the nation’s capital, forcing Hannibal to confront tough truths and deadly risks. Will DC’s troubleshooter save a life or lose his own?
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EXCERPT
Charlotte took a deep breath while examining Hannibal. Her eyes scanned him top to bottom. He felt the way he did in the airport when they put him in the chamber and told him to raise his arms overhead. Was she staring into his eyes, or wondering about his dark glasses?
Were his black suit and white shirt inappropriate for the season?
“Ben told me that you were very good at finding people,” Charlotte said. “And that you were trustworthy and above all discreet.”
“Yeah, and he probably figured you’d be more comfortable with a black investigator.”
She grinned. “Yes, there is that. You wear those shades all the time?”
“Unless I’m asked not to.”
“Well then, would you mind?” She leaned in. He removed his sunglasses and slipped them into his suit jacket pocket. She leaned even closer.
“Blue? No, I think hazel eyes,” she said. “Where’d you get them?”
“You’d have to talk to my parents about that.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Austin S. Camacho is the author of eight novels about Washington DC-based private eye Hannibal Jones, five in the Stark and O’Brien international adventure-thriller series, and the detective novel, Beyond Blue. His short stories have been featured in several anthologies and he is featured in the Edgar nominated African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey. He is a past president of the Maryland Writers Association, past Vice President of the Virginia Writers Club, and one of the directors of the Creatures, Crimes & Creativity literary conference – now in its 10th year. The 8th Hannibal Jones mystery, Subtle Felonies, is scheduled for a September 27 release.
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Author page – https://www.amazon.com/stores/Austin-S-Camacho/author/B003E1O5JO
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Q & A With …
Tell us about you as a person.
I’m a Black man retired from the American Army and a civilian career as a public affairs specialist for the Defense Department. I have 14 mystery and thriller novels in print with two more written that haven’t been placed with a publisher yet. I read mostly the genres I write in and love a good action movie. I write every fiction every day but like my protagonists I revere the truth in all things.
If you could hang out with one famous person for one day, who would it be and why?
I would spend the day with actor Shemar Moore. It would give me 24 hours to talk him into portraying my fictional private detective Hannibal Jones in a TV series.
What’s the story behind your latest book?
In Subtle Felonies, a famous retired basketball player goes missing and his family hires Private Eye Hannibal jones to find him. While trying to figure out of the missing man is a runaway, lost or kidnapped Hannibal learns that the family has a number of hangers-on, some left over from the professional athlete days, and some may have a motive for doing the man hard.
What advice do you have for other writers who want to get the word out about their latest book?
If you can afford it, I recommend you hire an experienced publicist. Also maintain a daily presence on social media and identify those people who are willing to talk your book up. Stay close to those superfans and reward them with early readings and swag to keep them interested. Word of mouth is always the best way to get the word out.
List 5 things on your bucket list.
Visit Australia – I have internet friends there.
Go through the handgun course at the FBI headquarters.
Go scuba diving in the Bahamas
Write a novel that becomes an international best seller.
Collaborate on a book with Reed Farrel Coleman
Any final thoughts?
I am very eager for feedback about my newest novel, Subtle Felonies. I hope your readers will post reviews or just send me a note at ascamacho@hotmail.com to tell me what they think of the book. Reviews are the life’s blood for some authors. I’m one of them.
