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Stranded by Rosalind Tate

Stranded by Rosalind Tate

The first book in a bestselling time-travel series, discounted to 99c! Bridget Jones meets Downton Abbey in this captivating adventure that’s perfect for fans of Deborah Harkness and Diana Gabaldon.

“I feel like I lived this story with the two main characters!”

Sophie Arundel is stranded in history, stuck in a grand house in 1925 England. Thankfully, she has her faithful dog with her. Oh, and fellow student Hugo: fit, privileged, and annoying.

Baffled by upper-class rules, courted by boring suitors, Sophie is desperate to get back to the 21st century. But the only way home is through a hidden portal — and to unlock its secrets, she must work with Hugo.

As one clue leads to another, Sophie discovers that history is unfolding differently. Mobs rule the streets. And when chaos turns into a deadly revolution, anyone in a grand house is fair game.

Sophie is running out of time…

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Diamonds and Lies

About Diamonds and Lies

A gambling debt. A diamond heist. A killer closing in.
Mia and her brother’s carefully plotted heist shatters when they become the hunted instead of the hunters. The mark may be Mia’s only chance at survival. As betrayal, loyalty, and desire collide, Mia must outwit her brother’s stalker while navigating her growing feelings for the mark. But is he her protector…or is he the one out to kill her?

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Rebel and the Redcoat

About Rebel and the Redcoat

Chester, Pennsylvania, 1776.
Anna Hawthorne loathes everything Captain Matthew Sterling represents—the crown, the tyranny, the blood spilled in its name. As the daughter of a quiet revolutionary, she has sworn never to bend, never to trust the enemy. Yet when fate binds her to the very man she despises, hatred begins to blur into something far more dangerous.
In the hush between battles, desire sparks where defiance once burned, and Anna must decide if surrendering her heart is worth the ruin it may bring. Because in a world where love is treason, one reckless choice could ignite a war.

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Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power: A Love Story to the Body, the Soul, and the Woman You Forgot by Stephanie Rimka

About Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power: A Love Story to the Body, the Soul, and the Woman You Forgot by Stephanie Rimka

What if your softness wasn’t your weakness but your greatest power?

Receive: The Dance of Feminine Power is a poetic, soul-rich guide for the woman who is ready to stop performing strength and start embodying truth. With fierce grace and clinical insight, Dr. Stephanie Rimka invites you to reclaim your body, your pleasure, and your power.

Part memoir, part sacred manual, Receive blends neuroscience, sensuality, and spirituality in a lyrical dance between control and surrender, survival and softness.
Inside this powerful book, you’ll explore:
– Why burnout, people-pleasing, and hustle disconnect us from our feminine essence
– How trauma interrupts the body’s wisdom and how to lovingly come back
– What it really means to harmonize your inner masculine and feminine energies
– Rituals, reflections, and embodied practices that reawaken joy, intimacy, and aliveness
– A new language of presence, rooted in the body and soul

If you’ve ever felt like too much or not enough, if you’ve longed for a life of deeper truth, sacred sensuality, and ease, this is your invitation.
Come home to the woman you’ve always been.

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Murders in Magazines

About Murders in Magazines

Murders in Magazines
By Tom Kropp
During 2025, Horror Zine, Freedom Fiction Journal, Short-Story Me, Churches, Children and Daddies, Down in the Dirt, Dark Harbor and Flash Phantoms magazines published my twenty short stories included in this book.
Be warned, these are all violent, action-packed, gritty, crime and horror stories with some explicit sexual content.
I am including these exactly as they were sent to the magazines, so readers can see how my submissions looked when the magazine editors read and accepted them. My stories all received great reviews by the magazines’ readers and many of my stories were republished as a result.
I personally enjoy reading and writing short stories more than I do full length novels. I know there’s many of you out there that feel the same way. This book is for you.

Tom Kropp’s work has appeared in Chiron Review, Churches, Children and Daddies, Down in the Dirt, The Horror Zine, Freedom Fiction Short-Story Me, Dark Harbor Magazine, Blood Moon Rising, Flash Phantoms, Phantomania, Lowlife Lit, The Listening Eye, J Journal, Evening Street Review, Conceit, Spotlight on Recovery, Muscle and Fitness, Outdoor Life and many other magazines. His play Jailhouse Confessions was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in 2019. He has many novels published.

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Snoots Happen by Amy Hough

About Snoots Happen by Amy Hough

It’s quite a hoot when someone snoots!

Laughter will ensue as you read this silly picture book (best suited for ages 3-7) about a girl who experiences every kind of sneeze imaginable- loud ones, quiet ones, snotty ones, and a hilarious one that makes her cheeks turn red!

But what is a snoot, anyway? Will she be embarrassed? Or will she learn that sometimes all you can do is laugh! Don’t miss out on this free ebook on Sunday December 14th only!

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The Heart Sense Journey: Your Heart’s Invitation to Deeper Living by Louise Livingstone, PhD

The Heart Sense Journey: Your Heart’s Invitation to Deeper Living by Louise Livingstone, PhD

The Heart Sense Journey offers a revolutionary path back to wholeness through the profound wisdom of the heart.

It offers the possibility for you to engage deeply with your heart and its many different aspects. In this book, you will meet five different hearts and learn to connect with their wisdom, supporting you to revisit and transform outdated and taken-for-granted assumptions of the heart.

As you move beyond limiting frameworks of knowing and open to your heart’s depths, you will be guided to co-create the world of your heart’s vision, curating conditions for personal and planetary transformation.

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Once Upon A Small Town Secret by Claire Kirby

Once Upon A Small Town Secret by Claire Kirby

I want him. He’s off-limits. And our families’ decades-old betrayal is about to make everything so much worse.

I’m Paige Richards—Vanderbilt graduate with bakery dreams—and the girl who’s been fantasizing about Ben Hoffman’s hands for the last eight years.

I’m smart. Determined. And done waiting.
Ben thinks I’m still Jason’s annoying little sister.
He’s wrong.

When I suggest a potential business collaboration—my pastries, his beer—it becomes foreplay.

Blue eyes that undress me.

Rough hands that know their way around more than beer taps.

Finally…one night after a successful event, Ben’s control snaps and he takes me apart, one breathless gasp at a time, making my skin shiver with desire as I murmur filthy words in his ear.

Then the town whispers begin.
The secret recipe that built Ben’s business?
It was stolen from my grandfather.

The discovery creates a rift between us that threatens to destroy our new beginning.
But six weeks after our perfect night together, two pink lines appear—and the entire town will be watching to see if we’ll choose love or loyalty.

Because in small towns, some secrets destroy everything—and some create miracles.

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Books That Sell Themselves: The AI-Smart System for Non-Fiction Authors

About Books That Sell Themselves: The AI-Smart System for Non-Fiction Authors

With the right strategy and AI, you can publish faster, position yourself as an authority, and earn income from your expertise. Your ideas have value—AI just helps the world see it sooner. Learn how!

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The Metapreneurial Mindset

About The Metapreneurial Mindset

The honeymoon phase of starting a business is characterised by an intense burst of enthusiasm and optimism, yet many entrepreneurs soon find themselves confronted with the reality of a world that does not easily accept the change they are offering, leaving the founder struggling with the doubts they have about being entrepreneurial. Filled with uncertainty, this can often lead to a feeling of being stuck, low on energy and confused about which direction to take.

Where other books focus on what you need to do to build a company, the Metapreneurial Mindset shifts the emphasis to developing yourself, the entrepreneur behind the company. In doing so, it intentionally shifts the emphasis from a traditional entrepreneurial perspective to one that seeks to build a meaningful, purpose-driven venture capable of thriving in the modern economy.

The real challenge is not only knowing “what” or “how”; it’s believing that you can make a change in the world and redefining the mental barriers that limit you from achieving this.

In the Metapreneurial Mindset, you will discover:

✔ The three core components that foster a metapreneurial mindset
✔ How to overcome the obstacles that hold entrepreneurs back
✔ Strategic alignment that enables an authentic brand
✔ How to build your motivational engine to sustain your drive
✔ The key practices that leverage entrepreneurial capabilities

Any significant journey demands preparation; entrepreneurship even more so. However, many entrepreneurs take the bold leap without it. Whether you are taking the first steps on the journey or are already deep into the adventure, this book offers reflection, tools and guidance in your preparation. Beyond the business model, the strategy and even the execution is you, the entrepreneur. Who you become will ultimately influence everything else. The adventure – the real journey – is you.

As a launch price, the book is available for $3.44 until the end of December (regular price $6.68).

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Santa Claus Is Coming… To Kill

About Santa Claus Is Coming… To Kill

Imagine December, a month filled with joy and celebration… now replaced with kidnapping and death. It’s the world’s fault, really; perhaps even yours. Most stopped believing in Christmas magic and Santa. But instead of his magic disappearing, it grew dark. The innocence of children feed his new magic and December has become known as the Dark Month.

Each day the elves do Santa’s bidding, scouring towns to snatch children away from their homes and bring them back to the North Pole, eating any adult they can sink their claws into. And if you’re lucky enough to escape their grasps… you better hope they haven’t pierced your skin. Follow Olivia as she tries to avenge her family by taking down Santa once and for all, not realizing Santa has other plans for her.

For the ebook version, you can get it on Kindle Select and there will be a sale starting Saturday, January 10, 2026 until Saturday January 17, 2026.

Trigger Warnings include but are not limited to:
• Mental, verbal, emotional, and physical abuse
• Sexual Assault
• Gore and violence, violence against children
• Graphic torture
• Kidnapping
• Vulgar language throughout

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El abrazo que rompió la pandemia por Carolina Torrejón Barragán

About El abrazo que rompió la pandemia por Carolina Torrejón Barragán

¡El libro estará GRATIS en Amazon los días 13 y 14 de diciembre!

¡CON 11 VALORACIONES DE 5 ESTRELLAS! Este no es solo un libro sobre el luto, es un faro de valentía. La autora narra su experiencia real de cómo la pérdida de su padre durante la pandemia desató una ansiedad paralizante. Un testimonio crudo y honesto de sentirse una “máquina rota”, que ofrece un mensaje de esperanza: la vida es ahora y la superación es posible. Perfecto para quienes luchan contra la ansiedad, el luto no resuelto o buscan la fuerza para seguir adelante.

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Living Lightly – Elixir of Life : Practical Wisdom and Gentle Guidance for a Renewed, Peaceful Life After 60

About Living Lightly – Elixir of Life : Practical Wisdom and Gentle Guidance for a Renewed, Peaceful Life After 60

Living Lightly – Elixir of Life is a warm, practical companion for seniors who wish to rediscover clarity, purpose, and inner strength in the later years of life. Written in simple and direct language, it provides clear reflections that help readers think freshly, live calmly, and renew their sense of meaning every day.

Aging is not a decline — it is a new phase of creativity. This book shows how seniors can continue to influence, create, and shape their reality by aligning their thoughts with the natural flow of life. Each reflection offers an encouraging nudge to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom already within.

Inside, you will find:

• Practical reflections for living lightly with simplicity and confidence
• Gentle guidance for calming the mind and “just being”
• Wisdom for conscious aging and inner stability
• Encouragement for renewed purpose after 60
• Simple mental shifts that bring peace, dignity, and quiet joy

These reflections are not theories. They are grounded, practical insights meant for real-life use — small changes that bring clarity to your days and comfort to your mind. Each page invites thoughtful reading, allowing seniors to grow inwardly while staying peaceful and steady.

Whether read one reflection at a time or explored in longer sittings, Living Lightly – Elixir of Life offers seniors a clear, comforting path to a gentler and more meaningful life.

If you wish to live with more calm, wisdom, and renewed purpose in the autumn of life, this book will be a trusted guide.

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Candy Crone by A.L. Hawke

About Candy Crone by A.L. Hawke

Candy Crone is a Christmas Short Story standalone following Shadow Cast in the Hawthorne University Witch Series.

While I’m enjoying a spicy caramel apple surprise at our local ice cream parlor, an old lady in rags rambles nonsense about candy canes to children waiting for Santa. That distracts me from prepping my young friend Cat for her college interview at Hawthorne University.

Christmas turns into creepy Halloween when all the local children, including Cat, disappear in the woods. Bryce and I search our forest but become spellbound. All this voracious casting heralds the arrival of a new witch in town. The Candy Crone.

As the Hawthorne Witch, I hold great power, but with my unborn baby kicking, the witch exploits my sins and vices through gluttony. Am I nothing more than my appetites and power as the Hawthorne Witch? Or can I accomplish something greater? If I can’t sort my stuff out, Cat, my unborn baby, Chandra, and all these innocent kids living in Hawthorne are toast. Candy Crone is FREE from December 8 until December 14!

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Marvin the Stuttering Wizard

About Marvin the Stuttering Wizard

Can a stuttering wizard become the hero of legend?

Marvin is a wizard… kind of.

He’s got magic, a glowing horn, and a scroll of Fireball he’s too nervous to use. He also stutters when he’s scared, trips over his own cloak, and never expected to be chosen for anything legendary.

But when a shattered crown from an ancient hero starts glowing in his presence, Marvin’s quiet life turns upside down. With danger rising and forgotten enemies awakening, Marvin must team up with a grumpy orc warrior, a clever tinker with a thing for smoke bombs, and a poet who can’t stop talking (or singing). Together, they must unlock the secrets of the crown before the darkness swallows their world.

Bestselling author Scott W Kimak tells a story full of magic, courage, and laughter—for readers who love epic quests, unlikely heroes, and the power of friendship.

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MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE

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His sister vanished without a trace. So how did a letter from her, dated last week, just wash ashore?

Six months after his sister Sam vanished on the remote, infamous Whisper Atoll, Leo receives a one-word condolence from her expedition partner: “Consumed.”

Grief-stricken and desperate for closure, Leo travels to the same isolated island lodge. He is seeking traces of her final days. What he finds is impossible.

A bottle, half-buried in black sand. Inside, a note in Sam’s unmistakable handwriting, dated one week ago.

Its warning is a truth that will unravel his world: “The island is wrong. The geography changes. Don’t trust the paths. Find me.”

Armed with only his sister’s cryptic field journal, Leo is plunged into a race against a landscape that refuses to stay still. Waterfalls move overnight. Beaches become cliffs. The jungle itself watches with a patient, ancient hunger. To survive, he must ally with the lodge’s secretive owner and a geologist with a hidden agenda, each guarding their own dark history with the island.

But the deeper Leo goes, the clearer the terrifying rules become. This is no ordinary island. It is a living, breathing archive of lost time. And escape demands a sacrifice more profound than he ever imagined: the very memory of why he came.

Message in the Bottleis a relentless, atmosphericthriller perfect for fans of the mind-bending suspense and mystery of Blake Crouch and the eerie, primal isolation of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation. Step onto the island. The most dangerous thriller of the year is waiting.

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The Billionaire’s Past by Winter Snow

About The Billionaire’s Past by Winter Snow

From the depths of a childhood overshadowed by poverty, Zeyd emerged into a life of unparalleled luxury. Now, Esmeralda, the woman who saved him, is back… haunted by a darkness she can’t control: a hidden alter born of trauma. Their rekindled friendship ignites unrequited affection, jeopardizing their connection. Can Zeyd save her from herself, or will her alter consume them both?

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Eating ‘Round the Toilet Stool

About Eating ‘Round the Toilet Stool

Immerse yourself in the soul-stirring verses of Aubrey E. Drummond’s second poetry collection, ‘Eating ‘round the Toilet Stool.’ Following the success of ‘Boy, Kant You Read,’ Drummond continues to captivate with his poignant reflections on love, life, grief, and death. Experience the world through the eyes of a black man, as he weaves tales of reality and fantasy into a tapestry of emotions. Don’t miss this journey into the heart of life’s complexities.

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Value-Based Parenting: A Letter to Our Adult Children by Lee & JoAnn Bailey

About Value-Based Parenting: A Letter to Our Adult Children by Lee & JoAnn Bailey

Parenting is one of life’s greatest callings and one of life’s greatest challenges.

In a culture where truth feels slippery and values shift with every trend, Value-Based Parenting: A Letter to Our Adult Children offers a steady, heartfelt guide for raising children with purpose.

Drawing on decades of experience, Lee and JoAnne Bailey share the timeless principles that shaped their own family of six. Through homeschooling, church involvement, sports, and daily life, the Baileys learned that parenting isn’t about perfection—it’s about consistency, intentional choices, and values that endure.

This book invites readers to reflect on the foundations they want for their own families and build a roadmap that works. Each chapter highlights a specific value—such as respect, generosity, humility, and hard work—paired with real stories, biblical wisdom, and thoughtful reflection questions.

If you long to raise children who stand firm in a world of shifting standards, Value-Based Parenting is a compassionate, hope-filled companion that will inspire you to lead with love, faith, and purpose.

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Rule of Extinction by Geoff Jones

About Rule of Extinction by Geoff Jones

THE PRESERVATION OF SPECIES
I – Rule of Extinction
II – Struggle for Existence
III – Beasts of Prey

All three books in this trilogy are on sale – $0.99 each – December 12-18

A civilization-ending comet is headed for Earth.

Two days before impact, thousands of mysterious pods land in a swath across North America. When people touch them, the pods open. Anyone who climbs inside is carried away.

No one knows where the pods came from and no one knows where they go, but finding one is David Williams’ only chance to save his family from the end of the world.

… and escaping Earth is just the beginning.

The Preservation of Species trilogy is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction adventure filled with unforgettable heroes, terrifying monsters, and heart-pounding action.

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