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Closure

There’s always the one…

He’s one person throughout life you think about every so often, the one who leaves his unique indelible mark on you, the person with whom you need closure.

For Margaret Collins that person was Mike Taylor. After he broke her heart seventeen years ago, she left everything she knew and reinvented herself. With a new home, a new look and a new name, Riley Williams is now an up and coming journalist given the assignment to interview a Mike Taylor. She never suspected he would be her Mike Taylor. With Mike having no hint of Riley’s true identity, she must decide if she will make him pay for sins he doesn’t remember committing, or if she can wipe away the past and be with the one man who she has always wanted?

About Kim Carmichael

Kim Carmichael began writing eight years ago when her love of happy endings inspired her to create her own. She has a weakness for bad boys and techno geeks, and married her own computer whiz after he proved he could keep all her gadgets running. When not writing, she can usually be found slathered in sunscreen trolling Los Angeles and helping top doctors build their practices.

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925 IDEAS TO HELP YOU SAVE MONEY, GET OUT OF DEBT AND RETIRE A MILLIONAIRE

Get Out of Debt and Retire A Millionaire So You Can Leave Your Mark on the World

925 Ideas to Help You Save Money, Get Out of Debt and Retire A Millionaire So You Can Leave Your Mark on the World from the author of the highly acclaimed book, Your Mark on the World, is a collection of articles about family financial planning that originally appeared at FamilyHow.com.

925 Ideas… is an easy and readable guide to help your family find financial peace. Author Devin D. Thorpe explains:

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Misterio Press Killer Fiction Group Blog Tour and Giveaway!

Celebrity Status, A Kate Huntington Mystery

Kate is now married to Skip Canfield, the man who patiently courted her through the last two books in this mystery series, and life is good. Skip’s private investigating agency, Canfield and Hernandez, may be doing a little too well, however. They have attracted their first celebrity client, a pop singer whose anonymous stalker has a twisted concept of love. Before Skip realizes just how twisted, he involves his psychotherapist wife and their lawyer friend, Rob Franklin, in the case. Soon they are being hounded by paparazzi and someone is planting evidence to convince Skip that Kate and Rob are lovers. As they try to protect their relationship and family from this onslaught of unwanted attention, Kate and Skip struggle with the reality that you can’t always keep those you love from harm.

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Karma’s A Bitch (A Pet Psychic Mystery)

Darwin Winters, reluctant pet psychic, is determined to leave her family’s paranormal past behind and lead a normal life. So she strikes out on her own and opens up a new pet boutique in St. Pete, Florida. When a local homeless man she befriends is found dead, and the police assume it’s a suicide, Darwin has no choice but to use her gift to help collar the killer.

She adopts his grieving mastiff, Karma—and with the dog’s help—tries to piece together the events of that fatal night. Accepting the visions is one thing, but can she solve the mystery without revealing her powers to the jaded, yet drool-worthy, detective in charge of the case? Or will the killer put an end to her psychic sleuthing and bury the truth for good?

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The Shamanic Detective

When Riga Hayworth’s lover is arrested, she’s determined to unearth the truth, no matter the cost. But life – and death – get in the way.

All Riga wants is to clear the name of her almost-fiancée, Donovan Mosse. But a death faerie has other plans for her, and Riga is forced to protect a shaman with a house full of murderous relatives. The only way to stop this killer is to figure out who he, or she, is before the next strike. As the two cases become entangled, Riga must choose between facts and faith, and decide just how far she’s willing to go for love.

The Shamanic Detective is a paranormal mystery set in Lake Tahoe, and explores shamanism, the shadow, and the world of the fae.

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Lana’i of the Tiger (The Islands of Aloha Mystery Series)

In mid-November, Maui wedding planner Pali Moon is hustled into witness protection after sticking her nose in a hush-hush federal sting operation aimed at taking down a vicious drug lord. She’s sent to the private island of Lana’i, Hawaii, to hang out while the feds finish up. After a month she’s bored, homesick and WITSEC’s worst nightmare until she lands a job tending a cozy B & B in Lana’i City.

Movie mogul Tyler Benson checks in and he decides on a whim to marry his long-time girlfriend on Lana’i—far from the stalking paparazzi. But before long, the bushes are rustling with reporters and photogs hoping to get a scoop on the wedding or a candid photo of the reclusive celeb. Then a body is found in Tyler’s fiancée’s suite and the tabloids shout, amen! Who needs a ho-hum wedding when you can have a star-studded murder?

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REDEMPTION Blast and Giveaway

Redemption (Legends of Graham Mansion)

Be careful what you wish for.

When the breakup of her family forces Grae White’s mother to move her two children from their privileged city life to her hometown in the mountains of Virginia, all Grae wants is to be invisible in her new life. But that’s rather hard when everyone knows that her father is the latest headline-grabbing white collar criminal, the most popular boy in school wants to take Grae to the prom, and then there’s that she lives in a haunted mansion. It would make anyone want to get away. Grae soon learns that a simple wish can reveal an unknown ability.

Something more than curiosity spirals Grae back in time to seek the truth in the tragedy of a 200 -year-old murder. Along the way, she learns about history, happiness, and heartache in the lives of those who have lived on the property, including her own family. Her first journey reveals secrets that will lead Grae to further explore the legends of Graham Mansion.

REDEMPTION is Book One in the Legends of Graham Mansion series. Look for the second story in the series, AMBITION, in spring 2013.

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ENLIGHTENED: A Tale of Love and Light

Enlightened: A Tale of Love and Light
Loti Dupree fears that when her husband died, she lost her soul. Harboring a painful secret, she flees her life in a small Appalachian town for the ashram, the spiritual retreat where she trained to be a yogini. But she is running from more than grief. An ominous nightmare the night before she leaves sets her on a dangerous path of self-discovery that challenges everything she believes – and threatens her life.

While dodging psychic attacks from an unknown assailant, she struggles with her growing attraction to a broody, handsome and completely frustrating vampire. Loti races to understand who and what she is before her anonymous enemy catches up with her.

Loti thought she couldn’t survive her husband’s death, but among healers, witches, and vampires, she discovers not only a future, but a family.

About the Author

Melissa Lummis considers herself a truth seeker, a peaceful warrior, a paranormal and fantasy writer, an avid reader, a thru-hiker GAàME ’98, a wife, a mother, and a free thinker. She believes the universe conspires to help an adventurer. And if we live our lives as if it is a daring adventure (and it is!), then everything we need will find its way to us.

The author lives in rural Virginia with her husband, two children, an Alaskan Malamute and a myriad of forest creatures. The nature of her mind dictates that she write to stay sane. Otherwise, her fertile imagination takes off on tangents of its own accord, creating scenarios and worlds that confuse the space-time continuum. Namaste, dear friends.

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Morrigan

Shuffled from place to place in the foster system, Morrigan doesn’t know the meaning of home. Plus, she is different. She has power over fire, the ability to move objects with her mind, and glimpse into the future. Just when she believes her life can’t get any stranger, she discovers her true identity.

Filtiarn, a knight with a dark past and a surprising secret, has been tasked with guiding the heir of Tír na NÓg through countless perils to be returned to her family. Once Morrigan has been reunited with her mother and grandmother, their triad can save the forgotten land of magic from being devoured by an ancient evil.

 

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Laura “Luna” DeLuca lives at the beautiful Jersey shore with her husband and four children. She loves

writing in the young adult genre because it keeps her young at heart. In addition to writing fiction, Laura

is also the sole author of a popular review blog called New Age Mama. She is an active member of her

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My Author’s Journey, Part 3

I just looked back and realized that it’s been over two months since I posted Part 2 of this series.  Well, the theme is journeys, after all, and the last two months have been a whirlwind! More later.

So there I was, through high school and college, where my more creative writing had given way to scholarly pursuits. I married my one true love a few months after I turned twenty, and together we went to Hawaii, where we lived for about five years while he served his first tour in the Army.

While we were there, our first two daughters were born. New motherhood consumed most of my life, but I always kept a folder where I jotted down story ideas, plot lines and character names. Sometimes, if I were up late rocking a baby or doing the most mundane housework, I would spin chapters in my head. But few of those made it onto paper.  I managed a few short stories, which I shared with my mother and grandmother, since they were mostly for their benefit. I liked to write little vignettes that captured some emotion or family dynamics. Well, you write what you know. . .

After we left Hawaii, we moved to Wisconsin. Yes, you read that right. From the land of Aloha to the land of. . .snow. Dark. Cheese. There really wasn’t much writing, but it definitely influenced me. (An early draft of FEARLESS featured Tasmyn’s days in Wisconsin before she and her family moved to Florida.)

We moved back to New Jersey a few months before my mother-in-law died of lung cancer. Losing a parent, even one by marriage, is a devastating event.  I wrote a few more short stories that were largely informed by that loss. But beyond that, my writing energy was consumed by editing our church newspaper, and eventually, stretching out into some new non-fic areas. In the early days of the wider use of the internet, I fell into a group of fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, writing a column on Buffy fashion for an ezine.

As the web became more a part of our daily lives, I started writing for homeschooling groups, parenting blogs (when they developed) and other venues where I could use my particular area of expertise. By this time, we had four children, so that was definitely my area!

And all during this time, it goes without saying that I was reading as voraciously as ever. Since reading makes good writing, I look at that as the best prep ever.

In 2006, our annus horribilis began. We lost my dad, who had battled multiple myeloma for five years. My husband took a job in Florida, although the kids and I would remain in NJ so that our oldest daughter could finish high school. And then my mother was diagnosed with leukemia. She passed one week shy of the year anniversary of my father’s death, just a few weeks before we moved to Florida.

It was a devastating year, one that I never wish to relive. But at the same time, it was shaping me into the person I needed to become and preparing me for the next step on the journey.