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Love Me Forever - Jina Bacarr (Kindle Scout Winner)

When Liberty Jordan travels back to Antietam in 1862 during a Civil War re-enactment, one stolen kiss with Union officer Major Flynt Stephens makes her wonder if she wasn’t sent here for a reason.But Flynt is engaged to Pauletta Sue Buckingham, Liberty’s mirror image and a Confederate spy who lost her husband. The war heats up when Pauletta Sue saves Liberty from rotting in a Yankee prison. Her price? Pretend to be her so she can fight for the cause. Can Liberty pull off the charade and find love with Flynt? But even if she does, would their love be able stand the test of time?

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About the Author
I'm thrilled my Civil War Time Travel Romance, LOVE ME FOREVER, is a Kindle Scout Winner. Thank you to everyone who nominated my book. And thank you to everyone who has purchased a copy. I love to hear from readers, so please stop by my blog at https://jinabacarr.wordpress.com/

No one will ever forget the war between the North and South. I wanted to write a story about family...and how the war between the states shaped the lives of two women. 

I love family gatherings. Storytelling is at its best in my Irish family. Oh, the tales I've heard over the years... Thanks for joining us at Tears of Crimson. Home to Bestselling Author Michelle Hughes,and all the Friends of Crimson!

Cassandra Sky West (Kindle Scout Winner) - Faith of the Fallen Book 1 & 2

Alexi Creed needs to know who murdered her, and why. When she wakes up with no memory of her previous life, the only clue she has is a sudden, undeniable thirst for human blood. She finds allies in a mysterious witch with an enigmatic warning of the future and a brooding werewolf in search of redemption. Together they must fight malevolent vampires, agents of the Arcanum, and the forces of darkness if she is going to uncover her past and save the world from a night that will never end.


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Alexi Creed’s best friend is dying. 
After a lengthy search, they discover that nothing on Earth will cure Savanna. With the help of a mysterious antique dealer, Alexi and Savanna must travel beyond the Earth into the realm of the dangerous and volatile Fae. With Savanna's life and the fate of the world on the line, Alexi and Savanna must find the ancient source of all magic, before time runs out for them both.
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About the Author
Cassandra is an award-winning journalist, veteran of the armed forces, and jane-of-all-trades. She lives in Idaho with the love of her life and their three kids. After writing day in and day out for ten years, her spouse strongly encouraged her to try to make a living out of it. Since then, she's written under various pen-names and sold several stories of werewolves, witches, and the arcane. She plans on writing until the day she dies. Possibly after, if that's allowed.

http://cassandraskywest.com/Thanks for joining us at Tears of Crimson. Home to Bestselling Author Michelle Hughes,and all the Friends of Crimson!

Meeting Danger - Caila Jaynes & Allyson Simonian (Kindle Scout Winner)

A 2016 Kindle Scout Winner
He can't let go of the past. Camden Taylor is a federal agent working undercover in an outlaw motorcycle club, the Wicked Disciples, investigating their heroin operation. When they kidnap a member of another club, Camden has no choice but to blow his cover in order to save the man's life. 

And she can't imagine a future. Autumn Mason has lived with Butch Cobb, president of the Wicked Disciples, for nearly five years. Butch is terrifying--as abusive as he is powerful--and there is no escaping him. But when Autumn witnesses Camden being beaten and held prisoner, she is forced to make a desperate decision. Will she choose to be loyal, or will she do what she knows is right?
The Danger Series follows members of an elite federal group, the Phoenix Task Force. Members of the task force work undercover in coordination with local law enforcement and federal agencies. Meeting Danger is the first of three books planned for the series.
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About the Authors:
Caila Jaynes is a Southern girl, born in the Carolinas and raised on outrageous storytelling and sweet iced tea. She loves romance, happily-ever-afters, and a good mystery. Put those three together and she’s a happy girl. Her stories will never leave you hanging, and all are guaranteed to have a happy ending.
Originally from the East Coast, Allyson Simonian now lives in California with her husband and children. She began to write in 2012. What inspired her? The emotion in the Fifty Shades of Grey series. It had been a while since Allyson had even read a romance novel. Now she's obsessed with the genre (especially the sub-genre of romantic suspense). 

Subscribers to Allyson's newsletter are currently being sent a code for a free download of Brave Love. Sign up at www.allysonsimonian.comThanks for joining us at Tears of Crimson. Home to Bestselling Author Michelle Hughes,and all the Friends of Crimson!

The Only One by Mary Head

Piper Vaughn is a successful real estate agent in the cutthroat New York City housing market, able to afford a comfortable existence in a cozy Manhattan apartment. It's been a year since she broke up with her boyfriend, and she's just starting to feel good about life again when she meets Richard Spencer, a wealthy older English businessman. She's charmed by his laidback demeanor and bright blue eyes, he by her bubbly personality and sweet smile, and it's not long before a romance develops between the two, even though they both know that Richard is only in the city for a year.

As Richard's year in New York is nearing its end, Piper is suddenly faced with a life changing decision: should she move to London to be with Richard, or stay in New York?

About the Author
Mary has been writing since the spring of 1999, but only just published her first book, a romance titled "The Only One", in August 2015. Up next is the thriller "No Safe Place", and after that, she plans to start working on a supernatural romance called "Crimson Hollow".

Mary is a 2008 graduate of Florida State University, and currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida. When not writing, she is a voracious consumer of visual media, particularly her favorite TV shows.
Discover more:  http://imaginarylit.tumblr.com/Twitter:            https://twitter.com/imaginarylit
Facebook:       https://www.facebook.com/imaginarylit/

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Doggone It (A Dreamwalker Mystery) - Maggie Toussaint

Dream walker Baxley Powell can’t remember the last time she had such a crappy weekend. A twilight encounter with a ghost dog left her numb and disoriented, her dream walker abilities are wiped out, and the sheriff just summoned her to a double homicide. With no access to the spirit world, Baxley bluffs her way through the crime scene where a movie star’s assistant and a charter boat captain were strung up and bled dry.
In a haunted house, no less. Figuring out who killed these people will be a real challenge without her ability to speak to the dead. With the sheriff pushing her to solve the case quickly, Baxley teams up with a dog napping medium to boost her powers. All of Sinclair County is on edge, and the media circus isn’t helping. At stake are the movie’s funding, the sheriff’s job, and Baxley’s senses.

Can Baxley safeguard her abilities and solve the case before the killer strikes again?
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About The Author:

Award-winning southern author Maggie Toussaint is published in romance and mystery genres as Maggie Toussaint and in science fiction as Rigel Carson. She's a member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.
Visit her at www.maggietoussaint.com and www.rigelcarson.com. While you're there, sign up for her newsletter to keep up with her latest news.

Maggie uses real life inspiration to flavor her books. Her rich scenery and colorful characters have received much notice, but at heart, she tells a darn good story.
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Over the Line - Sarah Winter (Kindle Scout Winner)

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Gabriel Miller is a professional football defensive end with a blown knee and a blown career. Desperate, he takes a friend's advice and calls a local yoga instructor, Quinn Hadley, to see what she can do for him.
Quinn and her son, Cooper, have been rebuilding their life after an attack that left Quinn in the hospital and her ex, Mitchell McDonald, in prison. But as Gabriel, Quinn, and Cooper grow closer, the bond they forge kick-starts a chain reaction that will threaten all of their lives.


About the Author                  http://www.sarahwinter.xyz/       
I'm Sarah Winter, and I am a published author living in Wyoming. After surprising everyone (especially me) by writing my debut romance novel in the winter of 2013, I decided to give up my 9-5--which was actually an overnight job of 10-7, but I digress-- and pursue my lifelong dream of becoming a published author. I hate writing bios, but people like a looky-loo into what might make a writer tick. I shall oblige. Hopefully it makes sense.I started out life in northern Wisconsin, hunting and fishing and living the Northwoods life. It's the sort of place where nothing really happens, and everyone knows everyone. I grew up an avid reader, in a house full of other avid readers, with books on every available surface.I've been married since I was 19 to my high school sweetheart, and we have two adorable sons. We moved to Wyoming in 2007 and decided to lose our minds completely in the winter of 2015, buying our first house! Should be fun (she says with her eyes rolled back in her skull). My life has a very sarcatic definition of 'fun.'After quitting my job in summer 2013, I started writing my first novel, something I'd dreamed of doing for years but never thought I would ever get around to doing. I amazed myself and everyone else by finishing it within a few months. I self-published Snowbound, in January of 2014 and entered it in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest a month later, where it went on to the Quarter-Finals. My second novel, Over the Line, won a contract with Kindle Press through Amazon's Kindle Scout program, and was published in June 2015. My third novel will release on February 14th, 2016. It is entitled Beauty and the Beast, and it is (obviously) a bit of a departure from my previous two. It is my retelling of the original fairy tale, borrowing from and expanding on elements of previous versions of the story and making it my own. I'm very proud of all of my books and hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.In my writing, I strip my characters of everything that makes them what they are outwardly, and return them to their basic selves. I want to see how people react to situations that force them to act on instinct, and to take away what makes them what they are so we can get them back to who they are. I also like taking common concepts and tropes in fiction and reinventing them to create different, unexpected outcomes.

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Kathryn M Hearts - Feast Of Epiphany

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  Kathryn M. Hearst is a southern girl with a love of the dark and strange. She has been a storyteller her entire life, as a child, she took people watching to new heights by creating back stories of complete strangers. Besides writing, she has a passion for shoes, vintage clothing, antique British cars, music, musicians and all things musical (including theater). Kate lives in central Florida with her chocolate lab, Jolene; and two rescue pups, Jagger and Roxanne. She is a self-proclaimed nerd, raising a nerdling.
The Order of the Sinistra Dei is her first series and includes titles, Feast of the Epiphany and Feast of Mercy. Kate's novel, The Spirit Tree, won a publishing contract with Kindle Press through the Kindle Scout contest. Her short stories have been published in various anthologies. 

http://www.kathrynmhearst.com/Thanks for joining us at Tears of Crimson. Home to Bestselling Author Michelle Hughes,and all the Friends of Crimson!

Welcome to the World of R.E. Carr!

Finding a job is never easy, and the only employment Gail usually finds is acting as Girl Friday for the mob. Lucky for Gail, Georgia Sutherland has just the job for her—that is, if she can handle working nights, managing a little blood, and a boss who's been dead for centuries.In a single interview, Gail's world turns upside down as she discovers that all she’s seen in Hollywood isn’t quite true; vampires don't combust in sunlight, but they do fall in love.Are Georgia's stories enough to persuade Gail to take the gig catering to an antediluvian vampire who's thirsty for a new personal assistant? If Gail wants to live out the year and retire rich, she just needs to remember the Four Rules that govern undead society.



Caring for a vampire is a dirty job, but Georgia Sutherland is just the woman to do it. As the go-to gal for her recovering master, she has everything a girl can dream of--except for the man that she loves, Ren. Still, Georgia refuses to give up hope. For a chance at bliss, she's willing to risk rekindling her relationship with a rival vampire family.

Meanwhile, halfway across the country, Paige DeMarco has given up her old name and her old life, and finally found a man worth her time. Unfortunately for her, werewolf relationships aren't as simple as she hoped, especially when her vampire ex rolls into town.

Both women have to face the facts: once you get involved with vampires, life becomes complicated. As their lives intertwine, ghosts of the past rise up to haunt them. The only question is, can there ever be a happily ever after for those entangled with the undying?


Paige Carmichael has one simple rule: don’t rock the boat. She lives a quiet life in the suburbs with an adequate boyfriend and a job that pays the rent, all the while trying to hide the fact that she’s the daughter of a world-renowned paranormal investigator. Her happy bubble bursts when the father she’s tried so hard to forget appears at her door with an ominous message—vampires are real.Paige’s safe little life doesn’t have secretive strangers that hide from the sun, arcane laws, or mysterious covens that stretch back for eons, but change as sure as the cycle of the moon is headed her way. Unfortunately for Paige, it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and if she doesn’t learn to adapt and discover her own inner strength, she might just find herself at the bottom of the food chain—quite literally.

About the Author
R. E. Carr likes to split her time between the alien (well, resident alien) she married, her two adorable offspring and the vast army of characters who constantly argue in her brain. She uses her past life as a video game reviewer to remind herself just how awesome it is to be writing novels now.

Rachel writes because she knows so many people and places that never quite made it into this version of the universe. It’s her duty to let them out. Writing also gives her mind a certain peace and calm rarely felt in this multi-tasking, wired world.
http://www.rachelecarr.com/Thanks for joining us at Tears of Crimson. Home to Bestselling Author Michelle Hughes,and all the Friends of Crimson!

Jessica Knauss - Awash in Talent (Kindle Scout Winner)

2016 Kindle Scout winner!So much Talent can kill you.
Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, home of telekinetics, firestarters, and psychics!
Emily can't escape her annoyingly Talented telekinetic healer sister without committing a crime.
Kelly must escape her pyrokinesis school and bring Emily's sister to Boston - her mother's life depends on it.
Appointments with Emily might drive her psychic therapist insane.
With so much Talent, sometimes it's all you can do to function in an un-Talented society.

Three narrators. Three interrelated novellas. One unique novel. 
Includes a Reading Group Guide for lively discussion with your friends.

About the Author
I grew up in Northern California, but I've moved so many times, I really don't know what to say when people ask where I'm from. "Not here," is usually the most accurate answer.

Before I met my husband, I usually moved in pursuit of education, which included stints in Massachusetts, Iowa, England, Spain, and Rhode Island. My favorite US city is Boston, where I met my husband. In eight years, we lived in nine different places, moving around in search of something that might convince us to stay put. 

I was a fiction and creative non-fiction editor at Fireship Press in amazingly unique Tucson, Arizona, for nearly two years. With support from Fireship's founder, I established Açedrex Publishing to bring you the finest reading material in English and Spanish, mainly in e-book form. Check it out at acedrex.com. I was a founding member of Loose Leaves Publishing (looseleavespublishing.com). We released award-winning literary, historical, mystery, and thriller novels, edited and designed to the highest standard. I'm now a freelance editor. I'll work with you to make sure your book is the best it can be!

I've published fiction in many venues. I've collected the best in UNPREDICTABLE WORLDS: STORIES in ebook and softcover. You can find my short novel about a woman's struggle to find herself under some extraordinary circumstances, TREE/HOUSE, in softcover, Kindle, and audiobook. My exciting epic novel set in early medieval Spain, SEVEN NOBLE KNIGHTS, will be published by Bagwyn Books on December 15, 2016. My irresistible contemporary paranormal, which is Gilmore Girls with a twist, AWASH IN TALENT, is available now from Kindle Press. I've also written a poetry chapbook, DUSK BEFORE DAWN.

My translation of an inspiring medieval story, The Abencerraje, is available for a pittance. I have also published literary criticism: Law and Order in Medieval Spain and Deu-lles o que merecian: Violence in the Cantigas de Santa Maria.

Besides my husband, the things I love most in this world are Spain and rhinoceroses.

Get updates on my writing at my blog, jessicaknauss.blogspot.com, or sign up for my newsletter at jessicaknauss.com, for more fun information.Thanks for joining us at Tears of Crimson. Home to Bestselling Author Michelle Hughes,and all the Friends of Crimson!

2016 Kindle Scout winner!So much Talent can kill you.Welc...

2016 Kindle Scout winner!So much Talent can kill you.
Welcome to Providence, Rhode Island, home of telekinetics, firestarters, and psychics!
Emily can't escape her annoyingly Talented telekinetic healer sister without committing a crime.
Kelly must escape her pyrokinesis school and bring Emily's sister to Boston - her mother's life depends on it.
Appointments with Emily might drive her psychic therapist insane.
With so much Talent, sometimes it's all you can do to function in an un-Talented society.

Three narrators. Three interrelated novellas. One unique novel. 
Includes a Reading Group Guide for lively discussion with your friends.

About the Author
I grew up in Northern California, but I've moved so many times, I really don't know what to say when people ask where I'm from. "Not here," is usually the most accurate answer.

Before I met my husband, I usually moved in pursuit of education, which included stints in Massachusetts, Iowa, England, Spain, and Rhode Island. My favorite US city is Boston, where I met my husband. In eight years, we lived in nine different places, moving around in search of something that might convince us to stay put. 

I was a fiction and creative non-fiction editor at Fireship Press in amazingly unique Tucson, Arizona, for nearly two years. With support from Fireship's founder, I established Açedrex Publishing to bring you the finest reading material in English and Spanish, mainly in e-book form. Check it out at acedrex.com. I was a founding member of Loose Leaves Publishing (looseleavespublishing.com). We released award-winning literary, historical, mystery, and thriller novels, edited and designed to the highest standard. I'm now a freelance editor. I'll work with you to make sure your book is the best it can be!

I've published fiction in many venues. I've collected the best in UNPREDICTABLE WORLDS: STORIES in ebook and softcover. You can find my short novel about a woman's struggle to find herself under some extraordinary circumstances, TREE/HOUSE, in softcover, Kindle, and audiobook. My exciting epic novel set in early medieval Spain, SEVEN NOBLE KNIGHTS, will be published by Bagwyn Books on December 15, 2016. My irresistible contemporary paranormal, which is Gilmore Girls with a twist, AWASH IN TALENT, is available now from Kindle Press. I've also written a poetry chapbook, DUSK BEFORE DAWN.

My translation of an inspiring medieval story, The Abencerraje, is available for a pittance. I have also published literary criticism: Law and Order in Medieval Spain and Deu-lles o que merecian: Violence in the Cantigas de Santa Maria.

Besides my husband, the things I love most in this world are Spain and rhinoceroses.

Get updates on my writing at my blog, jessicaknauss.blogspot.com, or sign up for my newsletter at jessicaknauss.com, for more fun information.Thanks for joining us at Tears of Crimson. Home to Bestselling Author Michelle Hughes,and all the Friends of Crimson!