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The Way of Thieves
K.N. Lee and Craig A. Price Jr.
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The Way of Thieves An Epic Fantasy Adventure The Red Rogue Trilogy Book OneK.N. Lee and Craig A. Price Jr. 
Genre: Medieval Fantasy/ Epic Fantasy          Print Length: 276 pagesWord Count: 70k
Publisher: Captive Quill Press
Publication Date: February 19, 2019
ASIN: B07KX4584K
Cover Artist: Jacqueline Sweet
Book Description:
From the New York Times bestselling author of Half-Blood Dragon, K.N. Lee, and USA Today bestselling author, Craig A. Price Jr. comes an epic magical heist fans are calling Oceans Eleven meets Game of Thrones.
Magic. Danger. A gang of thieves unlike any you've ever seen.
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About the Authors

K.N. Lee is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She is the author of the Dragon-Born Saga, Eura Chronicles, Wonderland University, and the Chronicles of Koa series. When she is not writing twisted urban fantasy, epic tales of dragons, pirates, and mermaids, and dark poetry, she does a great deal of traveling and spending time with her family. Wannabe rockstar, foreign language enthusiast, and anime geek, K.N. Lee also enjoys gaming and sketching. She is a winner of the Elevate Lifestyle Top 30 Under 30 "Future Leaders of Charlotte" award for her success as a writer, business owner, and for community service.
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Craig A. Price Jr.is a USA Today Bestselling Author. His novel, The Crimson Claymore, an Epic Fantasy Adventure novel that has garnered millions of reads, was featured in fantasy, had more than 17,000 votes, and more than 1,000 comments/reviews on the social networking platform for readers and writers, Wattpad.
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Meridian Chronicles: Black Widow Curse and The Coven by MD Fryson

Thanks for stopping in to read my guest post!  So just a little about myself…I never set out to be a writer. I have always enjoyed reading, but I was lucky to get than in every day with a demanding work schedule.  I was a single mom for quite a long time and worked a lot of hours.  Horses, training and showing was a major thing for me for a long time and was a form of therapy and a distraction.  Well I haven’t been able to ride in a long while, so writing became an outlet.  Then one day I said, I think I will just publish it and see what happens.  It may sound a little off the hip but that is how I am on some things!  I still love horses and I believe when my kiddos are older ( I have 3, infant to teenager), I will ride once more.  Like most things that are worth it…horses take a lot of time and well, they deserve it!  Back to my book…
Meridian Chronicles:  Black Widow Curse & The Coven is the second book in the series, with two more books left in this series.  I really had a lot of fun writing this one because it talks about Tarot Card readings, magic, witches and fairies while wrapping it up into some romance.  What can I say?  I like a little romance in stories!
There are a lot of characters within the series.  Some will pop in and out throughout the books, however, the main focus in this book is the romance between Meridian and Aiden and how her curse is affecting their relationship and her own destiny.  Not to mention the side plots going on.  Of course, I set one of the places in Salem Massachusetts…because I love that town!  My husband and I went there and the only thing we regret is not getting back fast enough…so another fun thing to add to my list.  
A lot of the inspiration behind the love story comes from my own personal experiences in my life.  A lot of course is figurative and fiction in the story, but the overall theme within the pages holds a message. The old saying that true love can conquer all.  The catch is, you have to let it!   I had to kiss a lot of frogs before I found my best friend and husband…and as much as I would have liked to have avoided them all, had I not taken the roads I did, then they wouldn’t have ended with me finding my best friend.  
If you do get the chance to read it, I hope you enjoy it!  Thanks for playing along.  
~MD Fryson

Meridian Chronicles: Black Widow Curse and The Coven
Meridian Chronicles 
Book Two
MD Fryson

Genre: Paranormal Fantasy

Publisher: AMF Publishing

Date of Publication: Sept. 29th, 2018


ISBN: 978-0-692-12117-7ASIN:  B07FDB677Q
Number of pages: 408Word Count: 91,410
Cover Artist: Todd Engle
Tagline: Dark Paranormal Fantasy
Book Description: 
Exiled from her realm, living with the Black Widow Curse, Spirit Guide is at the whims of the dark one and a dark witch.  Fairy Nymphs may help and a high demon has grown tired of the politics. 
Will she break her curse with her twin soul?
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/-JBhIUwdXgo   Books2Read
Excerpt:
In the empty space above the center of the table a heat emerged and with it a face that appeared through the smoke and flames that engulfed the space above the table.  The demon did not make a total appearance but almost appeared as though he was checking a part of himself through from his own realm.  “Oh, dark sister, you call upon me. What do you wish to know from the dark places I only know?”  the demon asked.“Oh, dark one, hear my plea. I beg of you to unveil the workings of the curse on Meridian!” Raina shouted out.The demon answered Raina, with ease. “The curse bestowed on the once-spirit guide is The Black Widow curse, and one that only a dark one can cast.  A dark one born of a demon with powers for only the dark with a heart of black.”“Dark one, I am in your debt. We understand, on the surface, who has cast this curse on Meridian.  We now need to understand how we may find a way to break this curse,” Raina spoke to the demon.The demon gave his answer in riddle form.The being whose work is dark can only be stopped with the twin soul.  The being you seek is hard to hold.  Spirit guides who engage with a mortal are not pure of heart in that act, but in the face of true love all remains intact.   Meridian does not trust herself in her choice. She will not listen to her inner voice.So many can enter her mind, her greatest challenge in the true find.The demon disappeared and was gone from sight.


About the Author:
MD Fryson is a wife and mom to three boys.  When not writing, she likes to read, hike, jog, garden and she loves to travel.  Favorite place aside from the U.S.A. is London England where she has some family. 
One of her favorite authors is Cassandra Clare.  She also likes to read inspirational and anything on astrology.  Lover of all music, she is an equal-genre-tunity.Apart from her family she can’t live without, is the ocean and beach vacations,  chocolate, coffee and tons of creamer where her husband asks if she would like some coffee to go with her creamer. 
An animal lover of all sorts, horses hold a special place in her heart from when she used to ride, train and show.  
www.mdfryson.com
https://www.mdfryson.com/meridianchroniclesmdfrysonblog
https://twitter.com/madelyn_fryson
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17352162.M_D_Fryson

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Meridian Chronicles: Black Widow Curse and The Coven by MD Fryson

Thanks for stopping in to read my guest post!  So just a little about myself…I never set out to be a writer. I have always enjoyed reading, but I was lucky to get than in every day with a demanding work schedule.  I was a single mom for quite a long time and worked a lot of hours.  Horses, training and showing was a major thing for me for a long time and was a form of therapy and a distraction.  Well I haven’t been able to ride in a long while, so writing became an outlet.  Then one day I said, I think I will just publish it and see what happens.  It may sound a little off the hip but that is how I am on some things!  I still love horses and I believe when my kiddos are older ( I have 3, infant to teenager), I will ride once more.  Like most things that are worth it…horses take a lot of time and well, they deserve it!  Back to my book…
Meridian Chronicles:  Black Widow Curse & The Coven is the second book in the series, with two more books left in this series.  I really had a lot of fun writing this one because it talks about Tarot Card readings, magic, witches and fairies while wrapping it up into some romance.  What can I say?  I like a little romance in stories!
There are a lot of characters within the series.  Some will pop in and out throughout the books, however, the main focus in this book is the romance between Meridian and Aiden and how her curse is affecting their relationship and her own destiny.  Not to mention the side plots going on.  Of course, I set one of the places in Salem Massachusetts…because I love that town!  My husband and I went there and the only thing we regret is not getting back fast enough…so another fun thing to add to my list.  
A lot of the inspiration behind the love story comes from my own personal experiences in my life.  A lot of course is figurative and fiction in the story, but the overall theme within the pages holds a message. The old saying that true love can conquer all.  The catch is, you have to let it!   I had to kiss a lot of frogs before I found my best friend and husband…and as much as I would have liked to have avoided them all, had I not taken the roads I did, then they wouldn’t have ended with me finding my best friend.  
If you do get the chance to read it, I hope you enjoy it!  Thanks for playing along.  
~MD Fryson

Meridian Chronicles: Black Widow Curse and The Coven
Meridian Chronicles 
Book Two
MD Fryson

Genre: Paranormal Fantasy

Publisher: AMF Publishing

Date of Publication: Sept. 29th, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-692-12117-7ASIN:  B07FDB677Q
Number of pages: 408Word Count: 91,410
Cover Artist: Todd Engle
Tagline: Dark Paranormal Fantasy
Book Description: 
Exiled from her realm, living with the Black Widow Curse, Spirit Guide is at the whims of the dark one and a dark witch.  Fairy Nymphs may help and a high demon has grown tired of the politics. 
Will she break her curse with her twin soul?
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/-JBhIUwdXgo   Books2Read
Excerpt:
In the empty space above the center of the table a heat emerged and with it a face that appeared through the smoke and flames that engulfed the space above the table.  The demon did not make a total appearance but almost appeared as though he was checking a part of himself through from his own realm.  “Oh, dark sister, you call upon me. What do you wish to know from the dark places I only know?”  the demon asked.“Oh, dark one, hear my plea. I beg of you to unveil the workings of the curse on Meridian!” Raina shouted out.The demon answered Raina, with ease. “The curse bestowed on the once-spirit guide is The Black Widow curse, and one that only a dark one can cast.  A dark one born of a demon with powers for only the dark with a heart of black.”“Dark one, I am in your debt. We understand, on the surface, who has cast this curse on Meridian.  We now need to understand how we may find a way to break this curse,” Raina spoke to the demon.The demon gave his answer in riddle form.The being whose work is dark can only be stopped with the twin soul.  The being you seek is hard to hold.  Spirit guides who engage with a mortal are not pure of heart in that act, but in the face of true love all remains intact.   Meridian does not trust herself in her choice. She will not listen to her inner voice.So many can enter her mind, her greatest challenge in the true find.The demon disappeared and was gone from sight.


About the Author:
MD Fryson is a wife and mom to three boys.  When not writing, she likes to read, hike, jog, garden and she loves to travel.  Favorite place aside from the U.S.A. is London England where she has some family. 
One of her favorite authors is Cassandra Clare.  She also likes to read inspirational and anything on astrology.  Lover of all music, she is an equal-genre-tunity.Apart from her family she can’t live without, is the ocean and beach vacations,  chocolate, coffee and tons of creamer where her husband asks if she would like some coffee to go with her creamer. 
An animal lover of all sorts, horses hold a special place in her heart from when she used to ride, train and show.  
www.mdfryson.com
https://www.mdfryson.com/meridianchroniclesmdfrysonblog
https://twitter.com/madelyn_fryson
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17352162.M_D_Fryson

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A Christmas Tradition of Making Music

           Music is an important part of just about everyone’s Christmas, whether it’s Christmas carols at the church Christmas program, a rerun of Bing Crosby singing in ‘White Christmas’, or the incessant Muzak playing at the malls.  As a singer and musician, Christmas music is an especially important part of my Christmas.  I have been making music for the holidays since I was a teenager playing the organ in a little Baptist church, and it continues to be an important part of my Christmas celebration every year.            I have made Christmas music just about everywhere.  In that small church, at the school where I taught for many years, in the televised choir of a large suburban congregation, in the back of a truck on a Christmas caroling hayride, on a barge floating down the San Antonio River with the Boy Scouts, for church senior groups, in the dining rooms and halls of nursing homes.  I’ve made Christmas music in every one of those places.  My opportunities to make Christmas music grew exponentially when I learned to play the dulcimer and ukulele and joined The San Antonio Riverpickers, a mountain music band that features dulcimers and old-time Appalachian tunes, and Ukulele Ladies and Gents, which plays all kinds of music including lots of island songs.  With these two groups, I have expanded my holiday repertoire beyond the usual Christmas carols and radio and movie songs.  I also find myself playing in venues that are an adventure in themselves.Riverpickers does a lot of street festivals around the holidays, most notably Christmas in Comfort and Dickens on Main in Boerne.  We mix in a few Christmas numbers but play mostly mountain tunes, as very few carols sound all that good on a dulcimer.  Our audience seems to enjoy the old mountain tunes as much as they do the carols.  Playing for a street festival can get interesting in terms of weather, however.  After all, we are playing outdoors.  We’ve played with the sun shining in our eyes on a stage facing a setting sun, and under chilly cloud cover with rain threatening.  We’ve played in the hot-this is Texas and it can still be hot in December.  We’ve played in the cold.  Really cold.  Our record cold-weather performance was an hour-long set in Boerne a few years back.  The sun had gone down, it was twenty-nine degrees and the wind was blowing.  It was so cold the instruments all had to be retuned, not a problem unless you play a hammered dulcimer with forty-plus strings.  (My fingers burned for a solid hour afterwards.)  We promised ourselves afterwards we’d never again play below forty degrees, but I honestly don’t think it would stop us.  Street festivals are just too much fun to pass up.The ukulele group is just the opposite.  We stay inside where it’s nice and warm and play Hawaiian Christmas music, complete with hula dancers and red and green Aloha shirts.  And we sing them in Hawaiian!  Of course, we do other Christmas songs also.  The ukulele group plays many different places, including churches and libraries and a lot of nursing homes.  Although we play for someone or something every month, the holidays tend to be our busy season.  So far, we have one performance scheduled right before Thanksgiving and four during December.  And that’s so far.  There may be more.Making all the performances can get hectic in an already jam-packed season.  Occasionally we must skip a party or another event to play and sing.  But making music, especially Christmas music, deeply enriches our holiday.  I cannot imagine Christmas without it.



Noelle
The Smoky Blue Series
Book 10
Emily Mims


Genre: Contemporary Romance


Publisher: Boroughs Publishing

Date of Publication: Nov. 20, 2018
Word Count: Approx. 74,000
Cover Artist: Boroughs Art Department
Tagline: Ike and Cassie love each other. But her daughter stands between them.
Book Description:
He’s found the wife who’d run from him five years ago. But it will take a Christmas miracle to keep her in his life.
A terrified Cassie Jeffries fled Tennessee to protect her newborn daughter from her father’s wrath, abandoning her young husband in the process. Ike has tracked her down-not because he wants her any longer, but at the behest of her dying grandmother. Her love for Ike is still strong. He still loves her, too-but wants no part of her daughter Noelle.
Ike is beyond shocked to learn that the child he thought was his is in fact the child of his wife’s rape. He still loves Cassie, but every time he looks at Noelle he’s reminded of his own failure to protect the woman he loves. And Cassie is adamant. She will have no part of a man who can’t love her daughter. But danger lurks for Cassie’s child. Will Ike be able to protect Noelle from the threat that seeks to destroy everything his wife holds dear?  

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 “Yeah, it’s easy to love those blue-eyed blonds, isn’t it?” Wade gibed. “Those dark ones, man. They’re a lot harder to love.”            Ike felt his temper spike and tamped it down. “It would be hard to love any child who looks like the man who raped my wife,” he replied softly. “It wouldn’t matter if they were white, black, or purple with stripes down their back.” More was on the tip of his tongue but he bit it back. He already sounded enough like an ass.Wade gave him a go-to-hell look and glanced to one side. Cassie stood there, her face pale and her expression one of horror. Ike felt himself cringe. She’d heard every word.He started to say something but clamped his mouth shut. He couldn’t defend a statement like that and he knew it. But it had been the unvarnished truth. Noelle was a visible reminder of Cassie’s violation. He didn’t know how to get around that.Cassie disappeared into the house. It was time to make his case one more time and then get the hell out of here. Ike nodded to Wade, thanked Angie for her hospitality and followed Cassie inside, where he found her in the kitchen by herself. “You leaving now?” she asked as she transferred leftover vegetable sticks into a plastic bag.“Not until you agree to come see Granny Mae.”“Then you better wash your clothes and buy another tube of toothpaste. I’m not going to let you pressure me into a decision that’s not in Noelle’s best interests.”“Damn it, Cassie, what about Granny Mae? Your grandmother’s dying. The only thing she wants before she goes is to see you and Noelle. Are you really going to deny her dying wish?”“That’s right. Play the guilt card.” Cassie snapped the bag shut and practically threw it in the refrigerator. “I told you last night. Granny Mae is a woman of the holler. She’s not going to want to see Noelle. And even if she did, what part of ‘Hugh Siler will kill her’ did I not communicate fully to you?” She turned to Ike, her eyes blazing. “I’m not the sweet, gullible girl you knew before. The one who could be persuaded or guilted into doing just about anything you wanted me to. So don’t try that crap with me. No way in hell am I giving you any kind of answer today. Don’t ask again.”“All right. All right. Calm down. No answer today. I get that.” He paused. “But I will say it again. Granny Mae will want to see you both. Your daughter will be in no danger from your father. So please, Cassie. Will you at least think about coming? Will you do that much? You could come for a few days, maybe a week after ‘Wizard of Oz’ finishes its run. Please, Cassie? For Granny Mae? Please?”“I will think about it but no promises.”“Thank you. I’ll need your contact information and would like you to have mine.”They exchanged phones and entered the necessary information. “I guess I’ll be going,” he said as she handed him back his phone.“One more thing.”“What’s that?”Cassie hesitated. “Never mind.”“No, say whatever’s on your mind.”“Noelle. She’s not responsible for the circumstances of her conception. She’s a beautiful, wonderful child. Everyone who knows her loves her.”“I’m sure she is and I’m sure they do. I’m not proud of my feelings toward her, Cassie. Just so you know.”


About the Author:
Author of thirty-six romance novels, Emily Mims combined her writing career with a career in public education until leaving the classroom to write full time.  The mother of two sons and six grandsons, she and her husband Charles live in central Texas but frequently visit grandchildren in Tennessee and Georgia.  For relaxation she plays the piano, organ, dulcimer, and ukulele.  She says, “I love to write romances because I believe in them.  Romance happened to me and it can happen to any woman-if she’ll just let it.”
Website Address:   www.emilymims.com
Twitter Address:  @EmilyMimsAuthor
Instagram Address: mims_emily
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EmilyMimsAuthor


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Black Dog: A Christmas StoryKnights of Black SwanBook ThirteenVictoria Danann
Genre: paranormal fantasy
Publisher: 7th House,Imprint of Andromeda LLC     
Date of Publication: December 22, 2018
ASIN: B07JBK9DNR
Number of pages: 201Word Count: 43k
Cover Artist: Victoria Danann
Book Description:
Old dogs tell no tales.
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Victoria Danann, brings a moving triumph-over-darkness story to the world of Black Swan.
The Hawking family is at home at the Northern Ireland farm and wolf-dog kennel for Yuletide when Blackie goes missing. Instead of a joyous celebration of family and friends, Ram's mate and elflings are beside themselves with fear and worry. As Song and Litha bring their respective paranormal abilities to aid in the search, the story takes a turn into the dark world of dogfighting and the abduction of adult male dogs matching the profile of fighters.
Black Swan rarely gets involved in the mundane affairs of the world because it's not their purpose, mission, or directive. But when Simon's office is drowned in messages from retired knights insisting that Blackie is unofficially one of them and that an exception must be made, he relents and orders available personnel to assist B Team with a rundown.

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Blackie climbed the hill to his favorite spot. He didn’t trot or run, as he’d been known to do in his younger days. He ambled, telling himself that he could trot or run if he was so inclined. He just didn’t feel like it that minute. The hill above the Laiken kennel and farm had the very best view of the surroundings. When he was there he could imagine himself to be protector of all he surveyed; his people, the land, the wolf dogs. There’d been a light snow the day before, but the morning’s bright sun had melted a small clearing that formed a patch of bright green grass. Bright sun was unusual in northern Ireland at that time of year, but dogs don’t analyze changes in weather or atmospheric conditions. They simply accept what is and adapt as best they can. When the sun shines warm on old bones, they accept it.After turning in a circle three times around the patch of green, Blackie sunk down into a sphinx pose and indulged himself in a satisfied sigh.It’s impossible to know what dogs do or do not remember. Perhaps he had crystal clear memories of his adoption by The Order of the Black Swan and recalled every detail of every adversity and adventure. Perhaps there was a vague recollection of his history. Who can say?He sat on the hill overseeing his farm. Perhaps old dogs do what old people do. They divide their reveries between recollection and remorse. Because even the best of us, human or dog, could have done things better. If there was an exception to that, it would be Blackie. Because he had never failed to give his whole heart and effort to any given task in any given moment. Surely dogs as smart as Blackie are like humans, recalling this corner of a moment or that fragment of a song at odd and inexplicable times.To Helm, Blackie was as constant as was the idea of his father, Sir Rammel Aelshelm Hawking, Black Swan Knight Emeritus and Prince of Ireland, and his mother, Lady Elora Laiken, Black Swan Knight Emeritus, former Princess of Britannia, Stagsnare Dimension.Perhaps his earliest memory was a black muzzle shoved between the bars of his baby bed resting on the sheet-covered mattress, intelligent brown eyes full of light and staring at him intently like he was the most precious thing in the universe. At fourteen he’d never confronted the prospect of surviving Blackie. He’d never considered it and simply couldn’t imagine the world without the big black dog.
About the Author:
#1 Amazon Paranormal Romance Bestseller
OVER ONE MILLION BOOKS SOLD
New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author.
Knights of Black Swan - BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE SERIES (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
A Summoner's Tale - BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE NOVEL (2013)
Moonlight - BEST VAMPIRE/SHIFTER NOVEL (2013)
Solomon's Sieve - BEST VAMPIRE NOVEL (2014)
Falcon - BEST PARANORMAL ROMANCE NOVEL (2016)
Simon Says - BEST SCIFI/FANTASY ROMANCE NOVEL (2017)
D.I.T. - BEST SCIFI/FANTASY ROMANCE SERIES (2017)
In addition to the brave and beautiful vampire hunting knights, Victoria writes other paranormal romances that often touch on scifi/fantasy along with contemporary bikers for those who love it when the bad boys are soooooo good.
http://www.VictoriaDanann.com
http://www.facebook.com/VictoriaDanannBooks


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