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NOBODY'S CHILD, The Georgia Davis PI Series
Libby Fischer Hellmann
Mystery-Thriller
@libbyhellmann
A bloodstained note left for PI Georgia Davis reveals the shocking existence of a half-sister she never knew about. Her sister, Savannah, is pregnant and begging for Georgia's help. Determined to track her down, Georgia finds herself heading deep into the secretive and dangerous underworld of Chicago's illegal sex trafficking business. She soon discovers that trafficking is just a small part of the horrifying and deadly situation in which her new sister is caught up. Even worse, as Georgia tries to extricate Savannah, she comes up against an old enemy determined to make sure neither woman will escape alive. In the fourth Georgia Davis novel, Georgia faces her toughest challenge yet--and one she might not survive.
Average review score (on amazon): 4.6/5.0 115 reviews
Hi, I'd like to nominate one of my ebooks titled Dreams, Fiction and Me.
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The Alex Cave Series book 4. GravityIt begins dragging satellites from orbit and the shorelines of every continent in the Northern Hemisphere could be destroyed, in this action packed science fiction adventure.
Geophysicist Alex Cave receives an urgent message about an unusual geologic event in Iceland. When he arrives, he sees two video recordings. The first is of large globules of glowing magma rising from a glacier. The second video, taken in the exact same place several days later, shows a deep tunnel below the ice. He is asked to investigate the strange phenomenon, and what he discovers at the bottom is an alien device more powerful than a nuclear weapon.
Before Alex can retrieve it, the device is stolen and activated, but it cannot be turned off. It begins dragging satellites from orbit and threatens to bring down the International Space Station. When it begins changing the orbit of the moon, Alex and his friends begin a desperate race to find the device and shut it down before the tidal effect rips the planet apart.
Soon the western shorelines of every continent in the northern hemisphere will be destroyed and redefined by an extreme tidal effect, unless Alex and his friends can find an unconventional way to re-stabilize the orbit of the moon.
Alex must make a life changing choice when his soul mate threatens to leave because she thinks he’s just an adventure junkie, and it is ripping his heart out that he can’t tell her the truth. He is just trying to save humanity from annihilation.
Can Alex and his friends find a solution for this dire situation? Find out in this epic adventure from bestselling author, James M. Corkill.
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Every action has consequences. Some change everything for the good. Others can get you killed. The worst kind can get people you love killed instead. Thaniel wasn't looking for enemies. He never meant to hurt anyone. But he wasn't the type to do nothing while the innocent got hurt. So when he saw the terror in his girl's eyes and a soldier chasing her, he couldn't just stand there.
As a slave, he surely wasn't trying to attract the attention of the Ontar either. Why would he want to awaken any kind of magic that can be used to Call monsters down out of the sky? Who would actually be that stupid?
But he did...
As the whirlwind of consequence gains intensity and the people he loves the most are swept into the tumult, it's up to Thaniel to find a way to save his loved ones. Join Thaniel and friends on an epic adventure as he discovers that monsters are not just born...
Sometimes, they are Inborn
The Secret Lives of BicyclesI'd like to nominate my cycling inspired fantasy children's book: The Secret Lives of Bicycles.
What if bicycles had lives like ours? They went to work, fell in (and out) of love, had a role within society; carried expectations, hopes and fears.
Together humans and bicycles have existed side by side and yet we are ignorant of each other. That is, until now…until this book.
These bicycles are so much more than two wheels and a pair of handlebars. Discover the hidden truth: the secret lives of bicycles.
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I would like to nominate my latest paranormal romance, Naturally Luna.
Amily Trisdent is 17, looking forward to graduation but has a problem. Her whole family are wolves...except her. For some reason she has not been able to shift, but she has all the other abilities of a werewolf. Her senses are superior to Morts, but that's it. Then one day everything changes. She is not a member of the pack, she faces problems with the pack leader, and new rogues come to town to throw their own chaos to the mix. Amily is not sure if she can handle everything she has to do.
I would like to nominate my neo-gothic contemporary romance, Phantom Traces.“A history professor in a tweed jacket, a cheeky Goth chick, and a pipe-smoking, book-hurling ghost. Put them all together in an antiquated library and…well...”
Abigail Stryker is not your ordinary librarian. She’s reinventing her life after a tragic, secret affair with her late graduate advisor. Abby moves to the tiny burg of Caldwell, NC, her goal to revive the antiquated Harvey library. The task is more complex than she ever dreams. The County Commissioner’s tenacious young wife is hell-bent on shutting the place down, and a pipe-smoking, book-hurling ghost has lately plagued the building.
Jack Wood is a history professor at Caldwell’s community college, his tweed jacket and silver-streaked hair marking him, in Abby’s mind, strictly off limits. But Jack’s taken a new interest in preserving local history since Abby came to town. Unfortunately, it’s his boss who wants the library gone. And Abby’s mindset about older men means Jack will have to work extra-hard to win her heart.
Abby enlists Jack’s help to figure out what has stirred the spirit of the library’s founder, and why he’s still trapped within its walls after over 100 years. In so doing, they uncover a tragic, 19th century tale of everlasting love. “Phantom Traces” combines a modern love story, a historical tragedy, and a spooky paranormal in a multilayered, fast-paced plot guaranteed to take the reader on an emotional ride.
Goodreads Link: http://bit.ly/1O4wVhL
Book Trailer on my Goodreads Author Page!
Excerpt:
At that moment, the lights in the building flickered, dropping dim and pale. They pulsed for a beat, then went completely out. It was still light outside, though the fading twilight cast the interior into near blackness.
“What the . . .” She looked around, wrapping her arms around herself and instinctively moving a step closer to Jack.
“Oh, that’s not unusual around here.” His voice was calm and reassuring. “Blue Ridge Power is infamous for testing transformers at the darnedest times of day.”
By the time he finished speaking, the lights began to glow, then steadily increased until they were fully illuminated. He grinned over at her. “At least it doesn’t last long.”
His killer smile shot a jitter through her middle again. She smiled back but found she couldn’t hold his gaze long without feeling as if she had a fever coming on. She turned away.
“I’d better let you get to work,” she mumbled, then scooted around the reception desk and into the back room.
Tea. I just need a cup of peppermint tea to get my mind back where it belongs.
As she stood in the small anteroom, she could feel Jack watching her from his seat across the way. She dunked the tea bag in the steaming water for way longer than necessary. As the pale green essence oozed into the water, all she could think of was how the hue almost matched the color of his eyes.
I'd like to nominate my latest horror novel Shadow Out of the SkyAn evil entity invades and terrorizes a small town by possessing children, forcing their hands to kill and slaughter each and every adult, while a small group fight to survive in this apocalyptic tale.
The entity's plan is to shove the human race into extinction so a new world can Shift forward, a new world designed by four demons called The Reckoning that flying inside their own transparent spheres.
I would like to nominate my YA urban fantasy dystopian, Beacon.***When ignorance is bliss, Bliss is power.***
As a ward of The Colony, seventeen year old Macie Breen has a short list of interests: become an unregistered and maybe find out the truth of what happened to her parents eight years agao.
Suddenly selected as an Attendee for the Jubilee celebration, her wants are no longer a possibility, her future a thing The Colony can and will control.
That is...
Until one lie exposed sets her on a path of discovery. Facing the treachery of The Colony is one thing, but can she handle facing the truth about herself?
Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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I'd like to nominate my latest short story The Noise Effect which is currently on pre-order with Amazon until November 14th. What lengths would you go to in order to ensure a peaceful existence? Newlyweds Eve and Leigh Chandler are thrilled to be given a council house on a recently built estate after living with Eve’s parents for a year, and are eager to get to know their new neighbours. Eve quickly forms a friendship with Tessa Patterson at number 16, but things turn sour when Mark Denny moves into number 18 with his two teenage sons.
The Dennys enjoy playing their music loud enough for the whole street to hear. Leigh and Eve, both normally easy-going and placid, complain to the council after being driven to distraction by noise emanating from the house next door. However, this only serves to make them a sitting target for Mark Denny’s anger, causing Eve to discover a previously hidden side of her new husband that she was totally unaware of.
I would like to nominate my erotic romance novella Bad Romance. SYNOPSIS:
Skyler Rayne was pretty, smart and sassy or so that's what Sullivan Forest tells her when he first sets his eyes on her. When Sky stops doing what is expected of her and starts letting go, it is only a matter of time before it all catches up with her.
After agreeing to a no strings attached "friends with benefits" relationship, Sky is not so sure that's what she wants after all. And Sullivan is intrigued by her but Sky knows he has secrets of his own.
When the rules of dating don't apply how will Sky define her relationship with Sullivan?
Or is at just a bad romance?
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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School of DeathsThrust into a world of men, can a timid girl find bravery as the first female Death?
Thirteen-year-old Suzie Sarnio always believed the Grim Reaper was a fairy tale image of a skeleton with a scythe. Now, forced to enter the College of Deaths, she finds herself training to bring souls from the Living World to the Hereafter. The task is demanding enough, but as the only female in the all-male College, she quickly becomes a target. Attacked by both classmates and strangers, Suzie is alone in a world where even her teachers want her to fail.
Scythes hungry for souls, Deaths who enslave a race of mysterious magicians, and echoes of an ancient war with Dragons.
As her year progresses, Suzie suspects her presence isn't an accident. She uncovers a plot to overthrow the World of Deaths. Now she must also discover the reason she's been brought there: the first female Death in a million years.
THE SCYTHE WIELDER'S SECRET is a Young Adult fantasy trilogy reviewers have compared to Harry Potter and the Hunger Games. Inspired by the author's experiences in Oxford the books explore sexism and coming of age in a thrilling fantasy environment. This is Book One, with Book Two also available for review. Pefect theme companion for the approaching Halloween season. Currently 4.6 on Amazon.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
James Bond meets Lord of the RingsAward winning novel, THE PRINCE’S MAN, is a sweeping tale of spies and deadly politics, inter-species mistrust and magic phobia, with an underlying thread of romance.
Rustam Chalice, hedonist, dance tutor, gigolo and spy, loves his life just the way it is, so when the kingdom he serves is threatened from within, he leaps into action. Only trouble is, the spy master, Prince Hal, teams him up with an untouchable aristocratic assassin who despises him.
And to make matters worse, she’s the most beautiful woman in the Five Kingdoms.
To track the would-be usurper, Rustam and Lady Risada join the prince’s daughter as part of her party on the social circuit, travelling to the fests thrown by each of the great houses. In the secret dungeons beneath one mansion they make a shocking discovery: an elf, a member of a species believed long vanished from the kingdom in the wake of a devastating war between the races.
Too late, the spies discover they are behind enemy lines. Their only viable escape route is to cross the mountains to another kingdom, and they are forced to leave the princess behind, hoping that her position will offer her some protection, even if only as a hostage. Taking the sickly elf with them as a political pawn, the mismatched pair struggles to keep him alive while surviving deadly wildlife, the machinations of a spiteful god - and each other.
But when the elf reveals that Rustam has magic of his own, he is forced to question his identity, his sanity and worst, his loyalty to his prince, for in Tyr-en all magic users are put to death. He must also keep the knowledge from Lady Risada, who is set on upholding the kingdom’s laws at any cost, at the same time as trying to learn enough about his burgeoning abilities to keep everyone around him safe.
As secrets pile up and old enemies must be courted for aid, the kingdom’s only hope comes finally to rest on a return journey through the beautiful, unsettling and hostile elven kingdom, where Rustam will come face to face with his goddess and make the most important choice of his life: stay, and settle down with those who accept him as he is, or embrace his magic, return to save his prince’s kingdom – and die.
The Prince's Man
Last Mage: The InterviewA Mystery From The Beginning Of Civilization.
A Threat From The End Of Time.
The Truth Of The Apocalypse Finally Revealed.
The human race has thrived for millennia, but their survival has not quieted a storm that has been brewing since the dawn of language and technology. Living, breathing, thriving alongside a hidden race, more powerful than any man, woman, or child could have imagined, mankind faces an ancient, deadly threat, powerful enough to destroy the world.
Eljah Valentine, was the only one strong enough to face this deadly threat and the only one who knew when and how that threat would emerge. The world witnessed it's own destruction and resurrection and now Elijah has finally come out of hiding to tell his story.
With difficulties at every turn and forces, bent on destruction, beyond any the world has ever seen how did Elijah prevent a theft that lead to the demise of the world and the total extinction of the human?
Simple, he says, he is this world's last Mage.
ERASING RAMONAPeggy Rothschild
Mystery-Thriller
@peggyrothschild.author@gmail.com
Twenty-seven-year-old Miranda Burgess hasn’t seen her hometown since she awoke inside a strange house and discovered six dead bodies, including that of her boyfriend. With no memory of the prior drug-fueled night or who committed the murders, Miranda panicked and fled to L.A. where she changed her name and made a fresh start.
Though hiding her identity and lying about the past have kept her safe for the last ten years, the nightmares haven’t stopped. Now Miranda’s new boyfriend has asked her to marry him and she longs to tell him everything. But, to do that, she needs to know what happened on that long ago night. When her father dies suddenly, Miranda returns home to Mill Valley to say her goodbyes and look for answers. If Miranda succeeds in digging out the truth about that long-ago night, she may finally be able to stop hiding and build a new life.
Too bad the killer has other plans.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Doesn't Take a Crystal Ball Lizzie Chandler is a gifted psychic matchmaker. In need of extra money, Lizzie puts her skills to use and starts a matchmaking business. If only she could have predicted how crazy her quiet—and frankly, boring—life was about to become.
Her first client, Barb, wants a rich, well-endowed man to become husband number four. Barb goes missing, possibly kidnapped by a man she met through Lizzie. Essie, a newly divorced, seventy-eight-year-old woman, wants to find a younger man for sex. This proves to be a difficult task with Essie’s cranky ex-husband constantly underfoot. Then Lizzie meets Tessa, her first normal client. Or so Lizzie believes. Tessa already has a match in mind. His name is Eric, and Tessa’s been stalking him for months. Lizzie quickly determines that Tessa is never going to win the man of her dreams, because Eric is gay.
Lizzie’s oddball clients constantly test her patience and her sanity. Maybe she should have consulted a crystal ball before hanging that “Open” sign.
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
AS THE CROW FLIES
Meet Crow, an engaging but self-serving thief. He has spent his life perfecting the talents given to him by the gods, sharpening his razor wit, and planning for a comfortable future with the woman of his dreams.
And then there’s Tanris, dauntless servant of the empire, dedicated lawman. It’s a feather in his cap when he finally captures the miserable, thieving bird that’s been flitting about the Bahsyr Empire as if he owned it.
Neither man is prepared to become a cat’s paw for a wizard with even bigger plans.
In this tale of thieves and dragons, author Robin Lythgoe ventures into a world where the master thief Crow and the lawman Tanris must learn to weather each other as well as survive dangerous lands, a haunted cave, and a temple guarded by blade, sorcery—and a vengeful dragon. Their goal? Simple: take a journey across inhospitable land to fetch an incredible, mythical prize. Escape the dragon. Return before time runs out …
With today’s concerns about global warming and the need for alternate energy sources, I believe that the environmental thriller, “Green Power”, would be a good choice for EBM BOTM.
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Following the Three Mile Island accident and the deadly Chernobyl disaster, the safety of nuclear power frightened everyone. This prevailing attitude encouraged Dr. Ray Pendleton to lead a demonstration to close down Rancho Seco Nuclear Power Plant. Following the shutdown of this power plant, Dirk Hendrickson loses his job as head of security. Dirk convinces two of his fellow Delta Valley Militiamen to physically attack Ray. Ray survives the beating and is motivated to set up methane digesters as an alternative source of electrical power for Lodi dairies.
Dirk’s continued attacks on the professor and his projects results in a death threatening epidemic pointing to one of Ray’s methane lagoons as the cause. The infected patients are admitted to UC Davis Medical Center. Linda McCord, a lab tech at the hospital and former microbiology student of Dr. Pendleton, works with Ray to prove that the methane power source is not the cause of this spreading disease. Both Ray and Linda develop a romantic relationship while working together. Linda is devastated when Ray comes down with a serious infection caused by the same type of bacterium responsible for the epidemic.
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Halifax homicide detective Allan Stanton's walked away from his job to reconnect with his young son, until a killer starts methodically carving his way through the city's underbelly. His ex-partner needs help, and Stanton reluctantly returns.
The killer is definitely working through a list of victims, and he's leaving cryptic clues at his grisly crime scenes. Are they there to confuse the police? Or is there something more to them? As Stanton unravels this shocking central mystery, he becomes the target of an unexpected enemy--those next on the killer's list.
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On a space station in Earth orbit, something terrible has happened to Bertie Lindermann.
Under normal circumstances, the investigation would be a job for station security, but circumstances are anything but normal.
Allon Wu might be the last person you would entrust with unraveling a high profile mystery, but there is no one else.
With deceit the order of the day, who is not a suspect? Is this an isolated incident or the precursor of a storm that could throw Kostya station into chaos? When will it be too late? Who can he trust? Can he prevent this crisis from spinning out of control? This is his best chance to regain Lovey's trust, and Allon is determined not to let her down again.
Allon Wu is the Negative.
A missing spacecraft –
A cryptic message –
And a fearsome secret hiding in plain sight.
Five years after he was marooned in Earth orbit, Ryan Hunter must go even farther to find the man who saved his life.
With former astronaut Penny Stratton, he leads an unconventional rescue team into a threat beyond anything he could have imagined. What he can’t know is that the fate of millions rests on their shoulders.
Because something big is coming...
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