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Coming soon… ONCE WERE BROTHERS – a historical adventure short story

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Once Were Brothers will be exclusive to Amazon.

 

The Thomas family’s lives will never be the same again when seven-year-old Daniel Thomas is abducted from the family farm in New Zealand’s Far North by Maoris opposed to the presence of white settlers.

Daniel’s father devotes his remaining years to searching for his missing blue-eyed, blond-haired son. Until his death a decade later, he’s assisted in his search by Daniel’s identical twin brother Benjamin. Like his late father, Benjamin believes Daniel is still alive.

Twenty years later and now a family man himself with children of his own, Benjamin receives a tip-off that could confirm one way or another whether his brother is alive or dead. 

 

ONCE WERE BROTHERS will be released before Christmas. Watch this space!

For other books by Lance Morcan go to: https://www.amazon.com/Lance-Morcan/e/B005ET3ZUO/

 

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Book Launch: A GLADIATOR’S LOVE – an action-adventure love tragedy

In A GLADIATOR’S LOVE, the latest short story by Lance Morcan, dashing Greek gladiator Leonidas promises his true love he’ll buy her freedom if he wins his own in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. First he must defeat an opponent he knows he cannot kill.

 

The year is 83AD and it’s nine years since Roman soldiers killed a young Leonidas’s family in their farmhouse outside Athens and consigned him to the life of a gladiator at Ludus Magnus, one of the biggest and best ludi gladiatori, or gladiator schools, in Rome. Since then, he remains undefeated after twenty-five fights and has risen to the top of the gladiator rankings.

The Greek gladiator craves freedom. The one good thing in his life is Fatuma, an Ethiopian beauty who is a gladiatrix, or female gladiator, and who has stolen his heart. They share fleeting but precious hours together after dark in Leonidas’s cell – a concession occasionally granted to the gladiators by their Roman masters.

The outcome of Leonidas’s next fight will decide both their futures for he’ll be fighting Gaius, another undefeated gladiator who held the Greek to a bloody draw when they met in the arena previously. At stake will be the rudis, the small wooden sword given to gladiators who are granted their freedom.

 

A GLADIATOR’S LOVE is available now on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082S2MKN3/ 

 

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Book launch: THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER – a mystery-adventure short story

In the new release book THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER, Charlie Truganini can’t believe his eyes when on a trip into Tasmania’s wilderness he sees a Tasmanian tiger – a carnivorous marsupial considered by most Australians to be extinct.

Charlie has a number of claims to fame – one of those being he’s a direct descendant of one Truganini, the woman considered to be the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian and whose name he inherited. A close second to that is he’s the great-grandson of one Dingo Truganini, the tracker who helped capture the last known Thylacine cynocephalus – an animal better known as the Tasmanian tiger.

It’s his admiration for his great-grandfather’s exploits that explains why Charlie has devoted his life to searching for the Tassie tiger, as he refers to it, or the thylacine, as scientific types insist on calling it, to determine one way or the other whether it still exists. He has always suspected it does despite having never sighted it nor even stumbled across its spoor in all his travels.

When Charlie sees a Tasmanian tiger with his own eyes, he realises he doesn’t want his tiger meeting the same fate as the last one. And so he makes a decision. A decision that will have life-and-death consequences.

THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER is available via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082GGKR77/

 

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Coming soon… A GLADIATOR’S LOVE

My next short story, A GLADIATOR’S LOVE, will be published soon… Watch this space!

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In the soon-to-be-released short story A GLADIATOR’S LOVE, Greek gladiator Leonidas promises his true love he’ll buy her freedom if he wins his own in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. First he must defeat an opponent he knows he cannot kill.

Watch this space!

 

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Coming soon… THE LAST TASMANIAN TIGER – Watch this space!

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Charlie Truganini always suspected the Tassie tiger wasn’t extinct. He finds out for sure when he goes bush one fine day.

Coming soon to a Kindle near you!

 

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Hall of Fame reviewer heralds THE ME TOO GIRL as a literary amber/red alert!

Amazon Hall of Fame Top 100 reviewer Grady Harp describes our new release thriller THE ME TOO GIRL as “An immensely impressive novel as well as a wake-up call for increased attention to the crime of sexual abuse.” And he says, “This book is important – as well as being a fine read. Highly recommended.”

To read Grady’s full review go to: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08137BDGH/

 

Thriller novel launched this week on Amazon.

To view Grady Harp’s reviewer profile page on Amazon go to: https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AGZV527R2U6APJG2FF4DP3AB5KBA/

 

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‘The Me Too Girl’ thriller novel finally launched today!

Sterling Gate Books’ new release thriller novel The Me Too Girl  was released today on Amazon.

 

Launch day arrives for new thriller novel.

 

Co-authored by Lance & James Morcan, the writers of the international thriller series The Orphan Trilogy  and the historical adventures White Spirit  and Into the Americas, The Me Too Girl  is a novel that’s sure to resonate with female readers – in particular those who support the burgeoning The Me Too Movement.

The book is dedicated to abused women everywhere – and to those individuals (men and women) who help convict the abusers.

The storyline:

Young Los Angeles public relations exec Suzie Fox is being blackmailed for sex by a bad cop, a senior officer of the LAPD no less. Suzie fights back the only way she knows how, and, in the process, unwittingly becomes a beacon, a shining light, for America’s Me Too movement and for abused women everywhere. But will justice be served?

 

The Me Too Girl is available via Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08137BDGH 

 

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Excerpt from soon-to-be-released thriller THE ME TOO GIRL

Susan Fox was lost in thought as the cab she traveled in negotiated the city’s rush-hour traffic. Her destination was the Sheraton Grand Hotel in South Hope Street – the venue for a celebration of the recent re-election of Los Angeles’ popular mayor, Dean Lopez.

Twenty-two-year-old Susan, or Suzie to friends and colleagues, was attending the function in her capacity as a member of the mayor’s now disbanded election team of voluntary canvassers. That successful exercise, along with a glowing testimonial from an appreciative Mayor Lopez, had helped secure her a sought-after position as an account executive with a prestigious boutique public relations firm. It was her first job, her first real job, since graduating from UCLA where she excelled in the allied fields of communications and journalism.

When the cab stopped for a red light, Suzie reflected on the past week. It was, she thought, the week from hell. And that was saying something. As someone who had been subjected to sexual abuse in her teens, first by an abusive stepfather and then by a corrupt policeman, she’d had some bad times to contend with, but this past week, in her opinion, had to be one of the worst. 

So begins our soon-to-be-released thriller THE ME TOO GIRL. You can check this upcoming book out on Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48390120-the-me-too-girl?

 

Heroine a beacon for The Me Too Movement.

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Announcing the Amazon-launch of Brooklyn Bankster, a fast-paced, short story

Sterling Gate Books announces the Amazon launch today of author Lance Morcan’s first solo-authored book, Brooklyn Bankster.

 

After ageing hippy Bill Hogan is taken hostage during a bank heist in Brooklyn, his captors demand a million-dollar ransom for his safe return. The problem is no-one knows who the hell Bill Hogan is. Does he even exist?

All is not what it seems in this fast-paced, short story.

 

Brooklyn Bankster is available via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZTT23YK/ 

 

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Contentious VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED maintains 4.5 star review rating on Amazon

Amazon Vine Voice review describes VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED as “a work of extensive research into the antecedents and current status of childhood vaccinations.”

Excerpts from this 5-star review follow:

‘The efficacy and safety of vaccines is a passionate topic at this time in the real world. I say “in the real world” because among flesh-and-blood people looking out for their kids, enough doubt has leaked through to prompt concern about autism and other maladies being caused by childhood vaccinations.

‘In the unreal world of the mainstream media, vaccinations are safe miracles of science, and anyone who disagrees is an ignorant lout. Stepping into the breech is Vaccine Science Revisited: Are Childhood Immunizations As Safe As Claimed? by James and Lance Morcan.

‘This work of extensive research into the antecedents and current status of childhood vaccinations pulls from history and tons of peer-reviewed scientific papers to “revisit those origins, leaving the science to do the talking.”

‘…I am impressed with the non-biased nature of this book and its reliance on papers written by medical professionals.’

 

Book resonates with the critics.

 

VACCINE SCIENCE REVISITED is available via Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MQTN3CG/

 

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