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Afraid – A Novel of Terror

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WELCOME TO SAFE HAVEN, POPULATION 907…

Nestled in the woods of Wisconsin, Safe Haven is miles from everything. With one road in and out, this is a town so peaceful it has never needed a full-time police force. Until now…

A helicopter has crashed on the outskirts of town and something terrible has been unleashed. A classified secret weapon programmed to kill anything that stands in its way. Now it’s headed for the nearest lights to do what it does best. Isolate. Terrorize. Annihilate.

Soon all phone lines are dead and the road is blocked. Safe Haven’s only chance for survival rests on the shoulders of an aging county sheriff. And as the body count rises, the sheriff realizes something even more terrifying – maybe death hasn’t come to his little town by accident…

WELCOME TO SAFE HAVEN, POPULATION 907… 906… 905…

AFRAID by Jack Kilborn

Are you afraid of the dark? You will be.

About the Author

JA Konrath is the author of eight novels in the Jack Daniels thriller series. They do not have to be read in chronological order to be enjoyed, but for those who want to know it is: Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb, Shaken, and Stirred.

Jack also appears in the novels Shot of Tequila, Flee, Spree, Three, Timecaster Supersymmetry, Banana Hammock, and Serial Killers Uncut, as well as the short story collection Jack Daniels Stories, and the novellas Floaters and Burners.

Last Call, the ninth Jack Daniels novel, will be available in spring of 2013.

Other novels include Origin, The List, Shot of Tequila, and Serial Killers Uncut.

Konrath writes horror under the name Jack Kilborn, including the bestsellers Afraid, Trapped, and Endurance.

Haunted House, the new Jack Kilborn novel of terror, will be available in mid 2013.

He has sold over a million ebooks

They Walked Into Darkness

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They Walked Into Darkness is based on the Cherokee Indian Trail of Tears , a grueling 1,000 mile forced march to Indian Territory in Oklahoma in 1838. It tells of a teenage Cherokee girl named Ellie Sheldon Starr. Her people are rounded up by Government troops and forced to walk in the snow to a promised new land. It tells of Ellie s escapades in the empty wilderness, her love for a young soldier and a near rape at the hands of another soldier. For the civilized non-savage Cherokee people this forced journey meant death, sorrow, hunger, exposure and humiliation. They had to deal with living out in the open, experiencing attacks by wild animals. There are no doctors, only a medicine man who does his best to administer first aid with his healing herbs. All around Ellie many Indians begin to die the young and the old. One by one Ellie loses her family. Then, when she learns she is pregnant, she begins to fall ill herself.

Sewerville: A Southern Gangster Novel

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A small-time hood tries to escape the family business in this powerful story of crime and drug abuse in rural America.

The town of Sewardville, Kentucky teeters on the edge of a violent abyss, overrun with methamphetamine and prescription drug abuse. The Slone family controls everything. Patriarch Walt Slone is the town’s mayor and head of one of the largest crime syndicates in the eastern United States. His son metes out justice from behind his sheriff’s badge, while his daughter handles all the numbers for the family business.

Business for the Slones is good, too – at least until Walt orders his son-in-law Boone to kill his own brother. That becomes the first link in a chain of events that threatens not just the livelihood of all involved, but their lives as well. While the Slones move to strengthen their empire, Boone moves to break free and take his little daughter with him. Will he escape from one of America’s most heartbroken regions, or will his dark past bury him forever in the place they call Sewerville?

The Fire King (The Alterra Histories)

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The first in the Alterra Histories series of NOVELLAS from the author of the Elfhunter trilogy:

Invincible. Unconquerable. Fearless.

It’s no longer enough…

…not for Aincor Fire-heart, the first High Elven King of Alterra.

For Aincor’s reign, his power, his life itself – is about to change.

After charging headlong into a conflict that plunges all of Alterra into war, Aincor must face a force of such power and terror that none may stand against it. Despite unrivaled skill, pride, and valor, no one is truly invincible…or fearless. As the Flame struggles against the Shadow, Aincor’s secret, hidden dread rises up to torment him. Will it stand in the way of victory?

If the King falls – what of the Kingdom?

From the creator of the beloved ELFHUNTER Series comes a tale of fate and faith, of the eternal but never certain struggle of Light against Darkness, of the power of love itself – as a King is forced to confront that which is in himself, that which is in us all.

WHAT WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO LOSE TO GAIN ALL?

Binding Spell (Tales of the Latter Kingdoms)

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A case of mistaken identity takes Lark Sedassa from her family’s estate and into the power of Kadar Arkalis, the ruler of North Eredor, who thinks he’s captured a much greater prize. Although he soon realizes his error, he makes Lark his bride anyway, still hoping to capitalize on her family’s connections. Escape is nearly impossible, and before long Lark is not sure whether she even wants to leave. As she struggles with her growing feelings for her captor, she must find the strength within herself to draw on powers she doesn’t even realize she possesses. Without those powers, she cannot hope to face the evil rising within the kingdom…or save the man she now calls husband.

Eerie

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From newcomer Jordan Crouch and Blake Crouch, author of the Top-10 Kindle-bestsellers Run, Stirred, and Fully Loaded, comes Eerie, a chilling, gothic thriller in the classic tradition of The Shining and The Sixth Sense.

TRAPPED INSIDE A HOUSE

On a crisp autumn evening in 1980, seven-year-old Grant Moreton and his five-year-old sister Paige were nearly killed in a mysterious accident in the Cascade Mountains that left them orphans.

WITH A FRIGHTENING POWER

It’s been thirty years since that night. Grant is now a detective with the Seattle Police Department and long estranged from his sister. But his investigation into the bloody past of a high-class prostitute has led right to Paige’s door, and what awaits inside is beyond his wildest imagining.

OVER ANYONE WHO ENTERS

His only hope of survival and saving his sister will be to confront the terror that inhabits its walls, but he is completely unprepared to face the truth of what haunts his sister’s brownstone.

This 65,000-word novel also contains a bonus interview with Blake and Jordan.

About the Authors:

BLAKE CROUCH was born near the piedmont town of Statesville, North Carolina in 1978. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated in 2000 with degrees in English and Creative Writing. Blake is the author of five novels and numerous short stories. He lives with his family in southwest Colorado, where he is at work on a new book.

JORDAN CROUCH was born in the piedmont of North Carolina in 1984. He attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and graduated in 2007 with a degree in Creative Writing. Jordan lives in Seattle, Washington. EERIE is his first novel.

PRAISE FOR THE WORKS OF BLAKE CROUCH

[In SNOWBOUND], Crouch builds suspense as lines blur between good and bad, and plot twists continue to the last sentence. Absolutely compelling.

BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)

ABANDON…demands to be read in one sitting, so you can better appreciate the beauty of Crouch’s storytelling…[O]ne of those books that almost instantly puts you in the mind of a classic.

BOOKREPORTER

Weaving the past and present together with such seamless skill that from the prologue to the last page, this book captures the imagination. [ABANDON] has the arc and flow of a master storyteller. Easily my favorite book of this year.

CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE

Highly recommended, this is easily one of the best this year.

NEW MYSTERY READER MAGAZINE

ABANDON is terrific…a great storyteller hitting his stride.

LEE CHILD

Gut wrenching…the writing is tight, the plots exciting, the suspense unending…Crouch tops my list.

OTTAWA SUN

Expertly paced and viscerally effective, with many surprises and genuine chills.

KIRKUS REVIEWS

Blake Crouch is the most exciting new thriller writer I’ve read in years.

DAVID MORRELL

Harrowing…terrific…a whacked out combination of Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy.

PAT CONROY

Crouch delivers his description of place with vivid prose…his carefully crafted characters make the story immediate, intense and thoroughly believable.

DENVER POST

This is a complex, cleverly constructed novel of motive, and Crouch takes his time bringing us through the story…a great debut. Crouch is an author to watch.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL

The Illegal Gardener (The Greek Village Series Book 1)

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‘Reminiscent of Remains of the Day.’

‘A good tale well told. Shades of Steinbeck and Bradbury.’

‘The author has huge potential and if she keeps writing and developing like this then I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see her name on a future Man Booker list!’

‘Sensitive with beautifully crafted characters that you really cared about.’

‘I was captivated from the start unable to put the book down.’

Product Description

Driven by a need for some control in her life, Juliet sells up on impulse and buys a dilapidated farmhouse in a tiny Greek village, leaving her English life behind.

The house is livable by local standards, but the job of restoring the garden is too big. It requires strength. Juliet cannot bring it to life on her own.

Around the olive tree, hidden beneath the covering of bindweeds, are mattresses, broken chairs, shepherds’ crooks, and old goat bells, the remains of past lives intertwined in a slow decay. The beauty of the garden is lost with the years of neglect and no one to appreciate it.

Juliet reluctantly enlists casual labour. She has no desire to share her world with anyone. The boys have grown, Mick has gone. This is her time now.

Aaman has travelled to Greece from Pakistan illegally. His task is to find work and raise money for the harvester his village desperately needs to deliver them out of poverty. Poverty that is sending the younger generation to the cities, dividing families, and slowly destroying his community.

What he imagined would be a heroic journey in reality is fraught with danger and corruption. He finds himself in Greece and follows the work, a little here, a little there. As time passes, he loses his sense of self. He is now an immigrant worker, illegal, displaced, unwanted, with no value. Some days he does not have enough money to feed himself, let alone to return home to Pakistan.

In the village square, he waits for work, dawn not even broken.

Juliet hires Aaman.

Neither is entirely comfortable with their role. Juliet the Westerner, who has money and a valid passport, resents the intrusion even though she wants her garden cleared. Aaman needs the work and money but resents the humiliation.

As the summer progresses, even though they are from vastly different backgrounds, cultures apart, they discover they have something in common, an event that has defined how they interact and even how they view themselves. Pieces of their lives they have kept hidden even from themselves are exposed. They are each other’s catalysts to facing their own ghosts…

Praise for ‘The Illegal Gardener’

This book hooked me immediately! I could relate to many of the happenings in this book and felt the love of Greece radiating from page to page but it also made me reflect on loneliness and appreciate my own often hectic life. I look forward to the next!A good tale well told. Shades of Stienbeck and Bradbury. The story motors on. Will look out for more of Sara’s work.It is well worth the cover price – I can only recommend that you read it – I have no doubt that you will enjoy it. Looking forward to the next one in the Greek Village series – not sure when it will appear but will certainly keep checking. A great and thought provoking read.What a great book – I devoured it in a couple of days and was left wanting more, always a sign of a good book! Very well drawn characters, details of the quirks of Greek village life and the culture difference between east and west.A perfect summer read you really feel involved with the characters, it leaves you wanting more so pleased to know there will be more Greek Village stories

A Purple and Gold Afghan and other stories

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About the last thing shy and lonely Joseph wanted to do was live on campus at seminary. But when he finds a beautiful afghan on his dorm room bed and attempts to track down its maker, Joseph runs headlong into a series of events that might just lead to something called… love.

Charming, whimsical, and poignantly funny, A Purple and Gold Afghan and other stories is a delightful collection that will tug at your heartstrings.

Poe (An Alexandra Poe Thriller)

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From Award-Winning Thriller Writers Brett Battles and Robert Gregory Browne
 

After losing her mother to a terrorist attack, Alexandra Poe was devastated when her father–disgraced and accused of treason–disappeared from the face of the earth. Now, over ten years and a stint in Iraq later, Alex is approached by a man who has information about her father and wants to help her find him.

But there’s a catch. The man works for Stonewell International, a security firm that specializes in fugitive acquisition. And in return for their help, Alex must agree to run point on an extremely dicey mission. One that will take her behind the walls of a brutal and dangerous women’s prison near the coast of the Black Sea.

When Alex finally agrees, she has no idea what she’s gotten herself into. She may find her father, but she could very well lose her life.

Dating After Trauma: How to find the love of your life after experiencing an abusive relationship, rape, or sexual abuse

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After suffering an abusive relationship or sexual trauma, it takes tremendous courage to date. It can be even more difficult to accept intimacy from a good person. However, once you know what to look for in terms of roadblocks, the path to love becomes much easier.

In “Dating after Trauma” Emily Avagliano discusses the common obstacles abuse victims have when trying to find love. Her story is based on her own personal struggle to overcome past trauma and find her soulmate. Through this insight, she provides a methodology for dating that builds trust and intimacy in a safe and healthy way. She can help you let go of your fear and date in a manner that love becomes possible.