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Stand Alone released on audiobook

[image error]Stand Alone is now available in audiobook format on Audible! I always enjoy hearing my books come to life on audio, and this is no exception. Check it out today!

Stand Alone:

Is Justine crazy?

Everyone thinks so…

Her mother. The kids at school, and the teachers and administrators, too. Even the police who pick her up from her night rambles. Maybe them most of all.

Justine’s therapist says she is ‘troubled’, but it means the same thing. He thinks that her vivid, reoccurring nightmares and atrocious behavior point to some trauma in her past; but Em, Justine’s mother, can’t explain it.

Justine used to have Christian, her best friend and skateboard partner. He was the only one who accepted her. Maybe because skating is the only time that Justine is really free to be herself. Now that Christian is gone…Justine keeps thinking things can’t get any worse.

Even as she sees her life spinning further and further out of control, Justine can’t give up her sense of who she is – someone far different than the loving daughter Em expects her to be – to just fit in and be happy. She is sure that Em secretly holds the key to who Justine really is. But if she does, Em isn’t talking.

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Excerpt from Hell’s Corner

I haven’t had a chance to make a separate post about it yet, but if you like thrillers, take a second to have a look at this Instafreebie promo.  A great collection of free reads for you, including In the Tick of Time.

My Camp Nanowrimo book is coming along, currently sitting at 75,000 words. I should be done it by this time next week. Though I’m thinking it might end up a bit longer than the projected 100,000 words.

Keep your eyes open at the end of this week for the release of She Wore Mourning, book one in the Zachary Goldman Mysteries series!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

I just started this one today. Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci is Book 5 of the Camel Club series, bringing back the highly-skilled Oliver Stone, on a new mission to save the United States and its president.

The pain might become even more intense. The communication he’d received an hour after returning home had been explicit. They would come for him at midnight. No debate was allowed, no negotiation suffered through, no chance of any compromise. The party of the other end of the equation always dictated the terms.

David Balducci, Hell’s Corner

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John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most skilled assassin his country ever had-stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, perhaps for the last time. The president has personally requested that Stone serve his country again on a high-risk, covert mission. Though he’s fought for decades to leave his past career behind, Stone has no choice but to say yes.

Then Stone’s mission changes drastically before it even begins. It’s the night of a state dinner honoring the British prime minister. As he watches the prime minister’s motorcade leave the White House that evening, a bomb is detonated in Lafayette Park, an apparent terrorist attack against both leaders. It’s in the chaotic aftermath that Stone takes on a new, more urgent assignment: find those responsible for the bombing.

British MI-6 agent Mary Chapman becomes Stone’s partner in the search for the unknown attackers. But their opponents are elusive, capable, and increasingly lethal; worst of all, it seems that the park bombing may just have been the opening salvo in their plan. With nowhere else to turn, Stone enlists the help of the only people he knows he can trust: the Camel Club. Yet that may be a big mistake.

 

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Lots of Instafreebie books across multiple genres for your enjoyment! Pick up a free copy of the award-winning Ruby, Between the Cracks and more.

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Excerpt from Every Last Lie

Don’t miss the Smashwords Summer Sale, I’ve got lots of books on sale for your summer reading!

Camp Nano is well on it’s way; I am 45,000 words into what will be the third book in the Tattooed Teardrops series.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

This has been an interesting book so far! Every Last Lie, by Mary Kubica, begins with a husband’s fairly routine death in a car accident, tragically taking place only days after the birth of the couple’s second child. While the wife believes that everything in their lives was fine, things gradually start to unravel as she discovers one secret after another, while keeping a few of her own as well.

A number of grammatical errors have grated on me—the editor seems to have been asleep at the switch for this one—it has been an interesting book so far and I am enjoying it.

I nearly correct her for the erroneous cliche, but then realize it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters anymore now that Nick is dead. Maisie’s eyes are hopeful, her smile wide.

Mary Kubica, Every Last Lie

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Clara Solberg’s world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident…until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon.

Tormented by grief and her obsession that Nick’s death was far more than just an accident, Clara is plunged into a desperate hunt for the truth. Who would have wanted Nick dead? And, more important, why? Clara will stop at nothing to find out—and the truth is only the beginning of this twisted tale of secrets and deceit.

Told in the alternating perspectives of Clara’s investigation and Nick’s last months leading up to the crash, master of suspense Mary Kubica weaves her most chilling thriller to date—one that explores the dark recesses of a mind plagued by grief and shows that some secrets might be better left buried.

Don’t miss the Smashwords Summer Sale!

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It’s the Smashwords Summer Sale (or Winter Sale, if you are in the southern hemisphere)! I have a ton of books participating in this sale, so be sure to check it out! Here is a breakdown of what I have on offer. Click on a book title at Smashwords to get the sale price.

25% Off

A Single Soul Bundle
Dark is Deepest Bundle

50% Off

Loose the Dogs 
Medical Kidnap Files #1-3 Bundle
Proxy 
EDS 
Enemy of Light Bundle
Michelle 
Pursued by the Past 
June & Justin 
Tattooed Teardrops 
Diversion 
Stand Alone 

$0.99

Don’t Forget Steven 
Questing for a Dream 
Cynthia Has a Secret 

Free

Ruby Between the Cracks 
Deviation 
Looking Over Your Shoulder 
By-Pass 
Those Who Believe 
Lion Within 
Once Brothers 
In the Tick of Time 
Intersexion 
Mito 

 

Excerpt from Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly

A couple of my Birthday/Canada Day/Independence Day freebies are still available, be sure to check them out!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

I abandoned one book earlier this week, one of those highly-acclaimed literary works that sadly turned out to be poorly written as well as self-indulgent filth. Don’t need to waste my time on that stuff. The next book that I picked up was Adrian McKinty’s Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly: A Detective Sean Duffy Novel, and it is a wonderful police procedural full of literary allusions and dry, tongue-in-cheek humour. I’m sure I probably miss half the jokes in it, but the ones I catch really make me smile. I had a hard time choosing between this one and on referencing Chekhov’s Gun.

So, for the second week in a row, I bring you an Irish detective murder mystery.

“Oh, I see. This is the world’s worst thesaurus anyway. Not only is it terrible, it’s terrible,” he said and began to chuckle with such suppressed mirth that I thought he was going to do himself a mischief.”

Adrian McKinty, Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly

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Belfast 1988: A man is found dead, killed with a bolt from a crossbow in front of his house. This is no hunting accident. But uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy down his most dangerous road yet, a road that leads to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave.

Hunted by forces unknown, threatened by Internal Affairs, and with his relationship on the rocks, Duffy will need all his wits to get out of this investigation in one piece.

 

The Girl in the Morgue now live!

[image error]The Girl in the Morgue, the fourth book in D. D. VanDyke’s California Corwin P. I. Mystery Series is now live on Amazon and other online book sites.

Thirty-something ex-cop-turned-P.I. Cal Corwin faces her most puzzling murder case yet. When a friend of a friend dies in suspicious circumstances, the police believe it’s open-and-shut. As Cal digs deeper to get to the bottom of the mystery, she finds herself a target for those who want the truth to stay dead and buried.

The Girl in the Morgue is the fourth novel in the Cal Corwin series of hard-boiled neo-noir mystery-thrillers.

You can also get the rest of the series here. Book 1 is free!

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And even more freebies

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If you haven’t already sated your need for free books on yesterday’s post, here is a huge Instafreebie promo for Independence Day!

[image error]Get In the Tick of Time and a hundred other book downloads and spend your summer reading for free. What could be better?

 

Happy Birthday weekend!

[image error]It’s that time again! My birthday, Canada’s birthday (a big one—150 years old this year!) and Independence Day. With all of that going on, everyone deserves a present (or half a dozen), don’t you think?

Endless Change is free June 29-30 only:

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She was a broken bird

He was a mender of wings

Parker’s mother always said he jumped into things without thinking first, and that’s exactly what he did when he saw Dakota, cold and hungry, fending for herself on the city streets. How could he ignore the pain and fear in her dark eyes? Dakota was eager to go to school and she made friends quickly, eager to make up for a dismal childhood full of deprivation and abuse by enjoying every moment she could.

But there was something wrong with Dakota. It wasn’t just the hollowness in her eyes or her traumatic past. Others sensed it too and warned Parker not to get too close to Dakota. But despite his questions, he just can’t help falling for her.

Dakota holds her secrets close, and Parker is worried that if he pushes too hard for answers, she’ll just run away.

You can pick up the first book in each of my series for free:

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Since it is Canada Day, I also wanted to do a special feature on Questing for a Dream, available for $1.99:

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Nadie is a bright but rebellious teen growing up Manitoba Cree. Living in abject poverty, she tries to help care for the younger children in the band. Devastated by the drowning death of her little cousin and unable to overcome her grief, Nadie leaves the band.

How can she find her own place in a foreign world where she is abused and discriminated against, and for the first time in her life, completely alone?

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And I have done a round-up of other freebies you can get this weekend:

The Remnant Keeper, by Robert Scott-Norton

The Remnant Keepers are a loathed group of telepaths, paid to read the last memories of the recently murdered. Jack Winston is one of the best and hates it. Under the scrutiny of the world’s most powerful corporation, Jack is as much a prisoner as those he helps send behind bars.

But when his latest case arrives, Jack’s world shatters as his wife is brutally murdered. Fuelled by vengeance, Jack vows to catch the murderer, but as the bodies pile up, Jack realises he’s made a terrible mistake; he was never the hunter, only the hunted.

Cat Killed a Rat, by Welling Lynn

Nothing bad ever happens in Ponderosa Pines

At least, that’s what anonymous gossip columnist Chloe LaRue and her best friend, town matriarch EV Torrence thought—until a resident of their sleepy little village turns up dead. When EV becomes suspect #1, even Chloe can’t stop the rumor mill from churning.

Against Detective Nate Harper and Deputy Dalton Burnsoll’s orders, Chloe and EV mount their own investigation—but what they uncover might just rock the community to its very core. Could one of their own beloved citizens really be a killer?

The Buried Symbol, by Jeffrey L. Kohanek

Free July 1-5. 

Discover a lost magic, long buried and forgotten…

Without a rune marking his role in society, Brock is doomed to a life below the lowest rung of the social ladder. Unwilling to accept his fate, the teen risks his life to obtain a fake rune that marks him as a member of the Empire’s ruling class. He then embarks on a quest to join an institution where the Empire’s future leaders are trained.

Laguna Woods Secrets, by Tara Flynn

Laguna Woods Secrets creates a tapestry of intrigue and suspense that will lure readers down a dark path that circles the history of a small, seaside town. Jordan MacIntosh, a college professor haunted with repeating nightmares of an unknown girl’s death, retreats to the small town of Laguna Woods for some much-needed relaxation. Everything appears to be normal on the surface, but it is what is lurking underneath that threatens to turn the town upside down.

Fairy Eyeglasses, by Emily Martha Sorensen

A 12,000 word children’s fantasy story.

When Cassie finds a magic pair of glasses that allow her to see fairies, she has to figure out where they came from . . . and what the fairies want her to do with them.

 

Sunny Side Up, by Sonia Parin

With her bitter divorce behind her, Eve Lloyd wants to relax and think about her next step. Paying her aunt, Mira Lloyd, a.k.a. Elizabeth Lloyd, renowned historical romance author, a long overdue visit, she plans to spend a month on Rock-Maine Island lounging around and plotting the launch of her new life. Her ex-husband, however, has other ideas. As for her aunt… she’s gone missing. And now there’s a dead body to contend with and a murder weapon with her fingerprints on it.

Rock My World, by Bianca Vix

Book Funnel, free until July 19.

A steamy contemporary MMF bisexual romance.

Devin spends most of his time working in a busy Chicago hotel, and he likes his life the way it is. Or so he thinks until his past catches up with him. When an old friend comes back to town, a big secret comes to light along with her.

Running Home, by Barbara Ellen Brink

Ivy’s husband has always been a cheat and a liar, but when he gets caught up in a game of espionage he flees the country with his latest bimbo, and Ivy has finally had enough. She packs up the kids and moves back to her hometown to escape the fallout. Trouble is – her problems don’t stay behind in California, but follow her all the way to Omaha, Nebraska.

The FBI is tracking her every move, hoping she’ll lead them to her fugitive husband, while evil men threaten her family’s safety if she doesn’t give them what they want.

Unmasking a Duke, by Ellie St. Clair

The Duke of Elenford is a scandalous rake who has made many enemies. His brother, Andrew, sends him away in order to make amends and determine who is threatening his brother’s life. In the meantime, he takes the Duke’s place at a masquerade ball, where he meets a woman who takes his breath away and haunts his dreams.

One of the enemies of the Duke of Elenford is a greedy earl who gambled away his family’s most precious heirloom. Now, Arabella Marley’s father is determined she will gain it back for him, no matter the cost. He presents her to the Duke at a masquerade ball, where she is surprised to find him both handsome and agreeable.

Will Andrew and Arabella find love ever after or will their hidden secrets keep them apart?

 

 

 

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