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August 31, 2017
GIVEAWAY: THE CASES OF LIEUTENANT DELONG by Angela Kay


The Murder of Manny GrimesThe Cases of Lieutenant DeLong #1By Angela Kay
Genre: Suspense, Thriller, Mystery

With the help of his oldest friend and mentor, former Naval investigator Russ Calhoun, DeLong sets out to find whether Manny Grimes is alive or dead. The further away he gets to the bottom of the mystery, the closer he comes to realize that his own life is falling apart.
Delving deeper into the murder of Manny Grimes, Lieutenant DeLong begins to unravel, losing his sense of control, falling into old temptations he spent years to overcome. Will he be able to move past his own demons and untangle the web of lies before it's too late?
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Blood Runs ColdThe Cases of Lieutenant DeLong #2

The victim is his sister-in-law, and old thoughts he's fought to delete will be resurrected whether DeLong likes it or not. He and his brother have been estranged by unhappy times in their youth. With no clear motive, DeLong questions his ability to remain objective.
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Angela Kay was one of 23 across the United States to win a 2009 playwright contest for her one-act entitled “Digging Deeper.” Because of this, she was able to spend a week in Atlanta at the Horizon Theater Company.
She lives in Augusta, Georgia with her crazy calico, Maggie.
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Published on August 31, 2017 05:00
PRE-ORDER: SERAPHINA'S VENGEANCE by Sheena Hutchinson

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Sera should have known that things weren’t as quiet as they seemed. After one of the best nights of her life, Sera is forced into this treacherous journey to save one of her loved ones.But following the path of evil begins to take its toll on Sera. As she struggles with her own internal dilemmas, Nate starts to take matters into his own hands. When this unseen world finally begins to affect Sera’s emotions and her relationship, can she hold it together to save her loved ones? Will love conquer all? Or will it turn her evil… forever?




Published on August 31, 2017 05:00
August 30, 2017
RELEASE BLITZ: DEAR DIARY by Susan Horsnell






Published on August 30, 2017 08:26
GIVEAWAY: PREPARED by Courtney Konstantin



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Now as a mother to three beautiful children, she tells them all the time to follow their dreams, be whatever they want. Those lessons reminded her how much she loved writing. She finally opened the door to making writing a real priority in her life.
Living outside of Portland, Oregon she loves the green and beauty Oregon offers. When she’s not matching wits with her children, her crazy Siberian Husky or her bi-polar cats, she enjoys binge reading, hikes and touring wineries. Courtney and her husband, the love of her life, enjoy traveling the world whenever they can get a free moment. And cruises….she loves cruising. She’s especially fond of life, laughter and sarcasm – and she’s excited to share all of that and more with her readers!
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Published on August 30, 2017 05:00
August 29, 2017
GIVEAWAY: BEDFELLOWS SERIES by Paul Casselle



Not the usual psychological thriller...
Tom Friday, a depressed photographer is plagued with hallucinations. But paranoia turns into reality when he comes face to face with the truth; all his memories are false. Is he really Joseph Miller, a renegade MI6 assassin suffering severe amnesia? And does western society’s survival hinge on him regaining his memory?
What are people saying about If The Bed Falls In...
“The storytelling skills of the author are amazing…It is one of those books that left me craving for more...and the end of it brought an acute sense of bereavement. Therefore, totally recommendable!” - Yves TOP 500 Reviewer Amazon.co.uk
"If you have never read any books by Paul Casselle, then you should know he ranks up along with the greatest authors of this genre. You just can't put it down. He is the new "King" of thrillers. I loved it! Janice." - Amazon Kindle Reader
"If The Bed Falls In is a chilling psychological thriller that attaches itself into your subconscious and refuses to leave. Paul Casselle is a story-teller who deftly weaves his tale into a thrill ride of a page turner. He creates multilevel characters that remain with the reader long after the book has been closed. His characters leap off the page and scream to be heard." - The Hungry Monster Book Review
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When MI6 agent Tilda Brooker walked into a secret CIA facility in New Mexico, she had no idea that she was initiating a terrifying series of events.
Who was the Russian defector she was there to guard? What was so important about his scientific work? And why was the most powerful family in the world determined to destroy both him and his invention?
For Tilda, this was just another day. For human society, today might be their last!
THIS IS A COMPANION NOVELLA TO THE BEDFELLOWS THRILLER SERIES**You must read Book One 'If The Bed Falls In' before you read this novella -
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As Mad as Hell is the second book in the 'Bedfellows thriller series'. It picks up the story where If The Bed Falls In left off!
The first book is a psychological thriller that begins the descent into the dark and criminal dealings of the international banks and corrupt national governments. A disgruntled MI6 agent wakes up to how 'The Few' are destroying all we hold dear, are accumulating everything of physical value on our planet, and are committed to enslaving humanity in a medieval feudal system.
This second book in the series, takes us so much deeper as we follow a rogue MI6 agent using every resource he can to hunt down the culprits behind the New World Order. But he is a man battling with his own internal demons as well as the One Percenters.
With the CIA, MI6 and the most powerful family in the world hot on his heels, he struggles to blow the lid off the 9/11 conspiracy, but stumbles across deep and frightening truths that are darker than even the most committed conspiracist would have believed. His carefully laid plans take him to New York, Johannesburg and London as the intricate plot slowly reveals itself.
WARNING: The faint hearted should turn away now. Only those who really want to dig deep into the lumpy broth of humanity should buy this book.
A companion novella Guerrillas by Night is available from Amazon NOW..
The third book, A Tale of Three Cities will be released in 2018.
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Published on August 29, 2017 05:30
BLOG TOUR: AMBER SKY


by Claire Warner
Genre: Dystopian Steampunk
Release Date: June 2nd 2017
Summary:
"You thought I did this out of the goodness of my heart?" He gave a short mirthless laugh. "Not a bit of it, this is going to be dangerous for me. What are you offering for my help?"
Beneath the Amber Sky, the nobility control the food, education, and the mysterious C.O.I.L.S of Copper and Brass. To Tay, struggling to keep her siblings alive, the ideas of rebellion and freedom are distant and unreachable.
But when her father is arrested, she begs Darius James, the son of the Overseer, to save his life. Darius agrees, but his help costs her a favour, one he can call in at any time.
Darius' favour will bring her to the Palace, and the perfect position to help the growing rebellion. But the court has games beyond anything she has seen before, and Darius' secrets will add to the danger.
Tay is now able to make a difference, to join the rebellion, find the C.O.I.L.S and discover the secrets of the Amber Sky. All she has to do is survive.
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I sew.My favourite Disney film is Atlantis.I’ve been a film extra and stood 5 feet away from Sam Rockwell.Babylon 5 is my fave sci-fi show.I cried at the end of Toy Story 3.
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“Emerson?Is this lady recognises the famous name, why don’t any of her new employers/co-workers? Maybe she his has surname from most, but the maid and nobles would know it - it’s on her employment form, apparently.Author Links:Website│Goodreads│Twitter│Facebook
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Published on August 29, 2017 05:00
August 28, 2017
GIVEAWAY: GYBE by Kristi M. Turner



Child psychologist, Cynthia Kutcher, believes she can help Nicole confront her anger and build back the self-worth she lost when her father abandoned her to a drunken uncle after her mother’s death.Along the way to building a more valuable life, Nicole meets Keagan, an affluent young man with whom she begins an often overwhelming love affair despite the conflicts their disparate pasts bring.
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Published on August 28, 2017 08:22
GIVEAWAY: SERENGETI by J.B. Rockwell



On the edge of total failure, Serengeti thinks only of her crew. She herds the survivors into a lifeboat, intending to sling them into space. But the escape pod sticks in her belly, locking the cryogenically frozen crew inside.
Then a scavenger ship arrives to pick Serengeti's bones clean.
Her engines dead, her guns long silenced, Serengeti and her last two robots must find a way to fight the scavengers off and save the crew trapped inside her.
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The Valkyries have a plan to stop him—depose Brutus and restore the Fleet’s purpose—and that plan involves Serengeti. Depends on Serengeti turning her guns against her own.
Because the Fleet can no longer be trusted. With Brutus in charge, it’s just Serengeti and her Sisters, and whatever reinforcements they can find.
A top-to-bottom refit restores Serengeti to service, and after a rushed reunion with Henricksen and her surviving crew, she takes off for the stars. For Faraday—a prison station—to stage a jailbreak, and free the hundreds of Meridian Alliance AIs wrongfully imprisoned in its Vault. From there to the Pandoran Cloud and a rendezvous with her Valkyrie Sisters. To retrieve a fleet of rebel ships stashed away inside.
One last battle, one last showdown with Brutus and his Dreadnoughts and it all ends. A civil war—one half of the Meridian Alliance Fleet turned against the other, with the very future of the Meridian Alliance hanging in the balance.
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Too bad he didn’t ask more questions before accepting the assignment. Too bad no one told him just how dangerous this particular skunkworks project was.
They call the ship the RV-N: Reconnaissance Vessel - Non-combat, Raven for short. A stealth ship—fast, and maneuverable, and brutal as hell. On the surface, Henricksen's assignment seems simple: train his crew, run the RV-Ns through their paces, get the ships certified for mission operations and job done. But an accident in training reveals a fatal design flaw in the Raven, and when an undercover operative steals classified information from a Black Ops facility, the Fleet Brass cancels the tests completely, rushing the faulty ships and their half-trained crew into live operations. On a mission to recover the Fleet’s lost secrets.
Out of time and out of options, Henricksen has no choice but to launch his squadron. But a ghost from his past makes him question everything—the ships, their AI, the entirety of this mission, right down to the secrets he and his crew are supposed to recover.
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Published on August 28, 2017 05:00
August 26, 2017
BOOK REVIEW: ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr
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ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
Anthony Doerr
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Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
MY REVIEW:
Doerr's Pulitzer Prize winning novel was, admittedly, a slow starter for me, but once I got about a third in, I was hooked. Told from several points of view, this beautiful narrative tells the story of three very different individuals: a blind girl from Paris, a driven and terminally ill Nazi Sergeant Major, and a young German soldier with a gift for radios. Their stories revolve around the 1944 siege of the French seaside town of Saint-Malo and a rare jewel, the Sea of Flames.
As I read, I felt transported, transformed. The characters are so human and flawed, yet at the same time heroic. I wanted so much for everyone to have a happy ending, but that is perhaps why this story is so poignant--it peels back the layers of fiction to reveal the truth behind all really great stories--the truth of the human experience. And this one does it with such reverence and an almost other-worldly touch, which is made accessible through the author's use of third person present tense point of view. As the reader, you feel both immersed in the story and yet somehow just out of reach, like an out of body experience.
All in all, a truly memorable tale that the heart will not soon forget.
CONTENT REVIEW:
Profanity: High (though infrequent)
Sexuality: Moderate (one mention of rape)
Violence: High (though not overly descriptive)
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Anthony Doerr
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Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
MY REVIEW:
Doerr's Pulitzer Prize winning novel was, admittedly, a slow starter for me, but once I got about a third in, I was hooked. Told from several points of view, this beautiful narrative tells the story of three very different individuals: a blind girl from Paris, a driven and terminally ill Nazi Sergeant Major, and a young German soldier with a gift for radios. Their stories revolve around the 1944 siege of the French seaside town of Saint-Malo and a rare jewel, the Sea of Flames.
As I read, I felt transported, transformed. The characters are so human and flawed, yet at the same time heroic. I wanted so much for everyone to have a happy ending, but that is perhaps why this story is so poignant--it peels back the layers of fiction to reveal the truth behind all really great stories--the truth of the human experience. And this one does it with such reverence and an almost other-worldly touch, which is made accessible through the author's use of third person present tense point of view. As the reader, you feel both immersed in the story and yet somehow just out of reach, like an out of body experience.
All in all, a truly memorable tale that the heart will not soon forget.





CONTENT REVIEW:
Profanity: High (though infrequent)
Sexuality: Moderate (one mention of rape)
Violence: High (though not overly descriptive)
Published on August 26, 2017 06:00
August 25, 2017
GIVEAWAY: LORD OF THE SEAS by Sabrina Jarema


Genre: Historical RomancePub Date: 8/8/2017

The Vikings roamed and raided the known world, always returning to their beautiful, sacred realm. Now, a young Christian woman is forced into this land—by a Viking lord with a secret he dares not reveal . . .From Istanbul to Ireland, Rorik of Vargfjell is legendary for the battles he has fought, the wealth he has amassed, and the women he has loved. So when a Northumbrian Earl refuses to pay tribute, and even burns one of Rorik’s ships, the Viking seizes the earl’s daughter—and will hold her for ransom. Or so was his plan.At home in Northumbria, Elfwynn had experienced agonizing losses—including the peaceful world she was born into. Now she stands face to face with a towering, chiseled Viking in his wondrous kingdom. With her gift of music, her unworldly beauty and strange courage, Elfwynn will prove to be very different than any woman Rorik has known. And for a man who lords over sea and land, what she demands will be the greatest challenge of all . . .
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Published on August 25, 2017 05:00