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The Vicar Man

About The Vicar Man

Dora is a barmaid.
Usually her life is fairly simple: she gets up, cleans the inn, feeds the chickens, argues with the increasingly obstreperous cockerel, listens to the woes of her fellow barmaid, avoids doing the laundry, and serves drinks to the motley crew of islanders who lurk about the taproom every night.
The same old routine, day in, day out.

Tonight, though, is different.

Tonight, just one week before the vernal equinox, after a catastrophically bad harvest the year before, a stranger has walked into the bar…

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Daughter of Magic by J.D. Ruffin

About Daughter of Magic by J.D. Ruffin

She’s been dead a thousand years. She’s angry. And now she wants her throne back.
Daughter of Magic is an action-packed adventure, the second book in The Kingdom War series. If you like fantasy, intrigue, and satirical humor, you’ll love this series.
Ancient, evil Queen Irina continues her plot to return to the living world — and to conquer it.
With her army on the border poised for invasion, Guardsman Keelan Rae and his team continue their desperate chase to save his beloved Healer. While his brother, Declan, travels to an ancient island seeking aid for their country’s sorely outnumbered military. When he meets the mysterious Keeper of Magic, he is forced to face his greatest fears.
Betrayed by her lover, Jess hurtles toward the same sacrificial fate as other kidnapped magicians. Her King-father rallies the nation to find her, but will it be enough?

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Ghost Stories

About Ghost Stories

Truth is stranger than fiction – and these stories would tell you why

In Ghost Stories, you’ll unearth a goldmine of haunting stories that will leave goosebumps from head to toe. Inside, you’ll discover:

● 20 bone-chilling ghost stories that will challenge your sanity and force you to question reality
● The story of the ghost who testified to a murder mystery
● The ghastly story of Taunton State Hospital – and what it’s infamous for
● What’s really hiding in the veins of the famous Roosevelt Hotel
● The frightening secret hiding in an innocent-looking doll
● The mystery behind the never-ending construction of the Winchester Mystery House
● The silent empire that exists beneath the streets of the ‘City of Love’
● The dark chapter in the history of Cannock Chase
● Does science approve of paranormal activities – and does it matter?

And so much more!

There are powers in the cosmos that can’t be explained, but it doesn’t change the fact that there’s always an explanation – it depends on how willing you are to explore things further…

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Murder in the Atchafalaya by Jim Riley

Murder in the Atchafalaya by Jim Riley

book review by Joe Kilgore

“Trixie’s unblinking gaze fixed onto whatever follows death as her last breath left her body.”

A lot of things can kill you in the Louisiana swamps, not the least of which are water moccasins, alligators, and maybe even something unworldly called a Rougarou. But as the body count rises in this jambalaya mystery, it becomes apparent that the increasing death toll is mostly due to some very bad villains and some very tough law enforcers.

Kristi is a young college graduate from West Texas recently hired and trained by the Treasury Department. While on the hunt for two of her colleagues, she manages to get herself assaulted and lost in the Atchafalaya Basin. Hawk is an ex-military combat vet now working for the United States Ranger Services. He’s asked by his old friend, the Parish Sheriff, to try to find Kristi. What he finds is not only the woman he’s looking for but also a hell of a lot of trouble. Together, Hawk and Kristi wind up in the middle of ruffians, counterfeiters, financial scalawags, and murderers. As they try to figure out what’s happening and why, while continually staying one step ahead of assassins, they begin to form a bond of respect, friendship, and perhaps even more.

Author Riley does a first-rate job of steeping the reader in the milieu of South Louisiana and Cajun mores. From murders at mudbug fests to menacing mosquito swarms to monumentally malevolent snake pits, he puts the heat and humidly on every page. He’s also adept at weaving a spider-webbed plot that is both intricate and credible. There’s action, suspense, humor, and even a dash of romance in this gumbo of a novel that promises to start a series of adventures for Kristi and Hawk.

RECOMMENDED by the US Review

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Katarina’s Dark Shadow by MJ Krause-Chivers

About Katarina’s Dark Shadow by MJ Krause-Chivers

Katarina wanted to leave the Land of the Mennonites and become a missionary school teacher. But the Great war was on and travel wasn’t permitted. Then an accident with a horse wakens her to sinister elements in Ukraine. The Russian Revolution is beginning to burn. Katarina must choose. Does she accept the warning signs and flee with the others to an unknown destiny or take her chances with the familiar? There’s a bigger problem here. Mennonites don’t do war and her faith is getting in the way.

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The Butcher’s Bride by Alice T. Boone

About The Butcher’s Bride by Alice T. Boone

𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒆
It wasn’t a lie.
Your father’s debt had nothing to do with me, but when Malachi demanded blood, I couldn’t let you be slaughtered. You need to believe that claiming you was the only way I could save you. These beasts will never have their fill, and the only thing that could keep you safe was the name I built.
Montreal will know you as the Butcher’s Bride. Your father’s debt will be erased, your family will be safe, and eventually, you’ll realize that I did what I had to.
You have to, Gwen
Because I can’t spend a life without you.

𝑮𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒚𝒏
How could you do this to me?
After everything I told you, after everything I shared, how could you still lie to me? You made me believe you were different. You gave me the hope of a new life, and then you stole it all away.
My father had no right to trade me away, but I expected it from him. To know you were so willing to buy me, so willing to trade me, so willing to treat me like I was nothing? How was I supposed to expect that, Leslie?
I left this life behind two years ago, and not even the Butcher will drag me back.

♥ ♥ The Butcher’s Bride is a stand-alone Irish mafia romance novel and is not for the faint of heart. If you’re looking for some violence and steamy themes, though, dive right in! Happily ever afters, no cheating, and plenty of brooding bad boys guaranteed. ♥ ♥

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When You Start Seeing It

About When You Start Seeing It

This book is an anthology of eight Thriller stories blended with Supernatural elements. Each story may have a different plot, different characters, different events, different places, etc., but every story tries to highlight the same point:
When a suspicious or unnatural event occurs, something which does not have a practical explanation, then there are two ways of looking at it. Either believe it to be something supernatural, or look at it as a figment of one’s imagination. An imagination conceived out of a scared mind.
Something that seems supernatural, may actually be something that has a practical explanation.
Something that seems normal, may actually be something that is supernatural, something which is way beyond our practical thinking.

NOTE – The book will be available for free from Sept 10th to Sept 12th. The eBook can be purchased and read free of cost.

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Afterworld (Next Life, #1)

About Afterworld (Next Life, #1)

Death comes, and misery follows. As a man in his early twenties, Leon never genuinely contemplated what would happen after his death. Like those before him, he never understood the truth of our universe. After his sudden demise, the terrorizing reality of a mysterious dystopian afterlife begins crushing him as it has those prior. Men have started enslaving and killing each other to sate their greed while enigmatic creatures oppress the masses. Only a select few have shown the courage that is needed to challenge their supremacy.

Through this eclipsing darkness, there is hope. But will that hope prove to be enough to save this turbulent cosmos? The revelations of advanced science, magic, human savagery, and even our gods will be showcased. Both in a new light and disturbing darkness, will the verities of Earth and Afterworld give him a greater understanding of our universe; or in turn, begin to break him as they have done to so many before?

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Nature of Society by Nigel Gittens

About Nature of Society by Nigel Gittens

This book begins with the first principles of economics where the primary factors of production namely land, labour and capital are listed and defined. It goes on to show that the true nature of society is one where these factors must be brought into balance if economic justice is to be had by ALL. By balance is meant that all three factors must be of similar value, not one above the other (land over labour or capital over labour or land over capital), which of course is the case today. It is only then that a sustainable economy or sustainable economics could be had and maintained. The book will show how these unbalanced factors of production have disheveled economies, both western or eastern, developed or developing, and will layout a prescription for how environmental conservation, full employment and optimum economic growth and social justice could be realized. It will also show how tariffed and protected trade has not led to the highest prosperity of countries nor its working classes. The book will also lay out the deleterious impact that traditional personal and corporate income taxes have had and is having on wealth production, employment opportunities and diversification in all countries and how these regressive taxes can be successfully replaced with a progressive tax system.

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Being Authentic: A Memoir by Morhaf Al Achkar

Being Authentic: A Memoir by Morhaf Al Achkar

Desire to find your Authentic Voice? Learn the process to participate more authentically in the project we call humanity•••

★ By engaging with the author’s story in Being Authentic™, you will:

+ Garner the bravery to look at your own and be more authentic
+ Strive to connect with the poet, artist, writer, dancer, and actor in You
+ Learn how to heal, forgive, and let go of resentment to live a more positive life
+ Develop better-coping skills and become more resilient in the face of pandemic-like events
+ And much, much more!

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The Elitist Supremacy by Niranjan

About The Elitist Supremacy by Niranjan

Alexander Selwood is hiding many secrets. Being the first immortal is only one of them. He is also hunted by the despotic ruler of Cynfor, Cesar Thaxter -the man ruling the galaxy for centuries.

Unknown to Alexander, the group of rebels who had been fighting Thaxter in secret is also seeking to use his company to build a safe haven. He would do anything to keep himself from falling into the clutches of either the Resistance or the Supreme Ruler. When the consequences of his actions cascade into a torrent of events that threatens to engulf him and everyone he cares for in danger, Alexander can’t sit on the sidelines any longer.

Having stayed out of the conflict for this long, he has to make a choice, but can he handle the repercussions of that decision?

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Net Worth by Amelia Wilde

Net Worth by Amelia Wilde

Mason Hill wants one thing: revenge. When Charlotte Van Kempt walks into his office, all innocence and desperation, he knows the perfect way to get it.

He makes a dark bargain. She’ll give him her body to save her family.

Little does she know he plans to ruin both.

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The Secret of Drulea Cottage

About The Secret of Drulea Cottage

Briony Fairborn, a midwife in eighteenth-century Scotland, comes from a family shrouded in scandal. Left with only one friend after her mother’s death, she has little hope of gaining any others, let alone finding a husband. Instead, Briony tries to live a quiet life and avoid her neighbors’ ridicule as much as possible.

But things in Everton take a drastic turn when a storm brings foreigners to the village docks.

On the night Santiago Mendes arrives, he comes with a broken ship, a broken leg, and a broken spirit that Briony finds herself profoundly drawn to. Her scarred heart slowly starts to open, and although Briony suspects he may be hiding something, she cannot help but dream of the possibility of love.

That is, until another stranger appears in town, intent on repaying a childhood debt. A dangerously handsome stranger who shows Briony that she’s even more different than she could have imagined. And that her past is far darker than she realized.

Magic, romance, and political intrigue collide as the secrets surrounding one Scottish woman begin to unravel. Secrets that she may not be ready to face.

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Memory Road Trip

About Memory Road Trip

MEMORY ROAD TRIP is a compendium of travel stories ranging from the sublime to the surreal as told by a money-strapped traveler who gallivanted around the globe on a proverbial shoestring. The journey down memory road is a heartfelt excursion into the past that takes armchair explorers on an odyssey of life, love, and loneliness. The circuitous path is full of philosophical nooks and crannies, and many stories get told from the bottom of a psychological well. Readers will join this intrepid Gen X-er as she gets herself locked inside a cathedral, lost in the desert, and held up at machete point by Zapatista rebels. Her passion for nature, art, history, and architecture gush across the page, along with her contagious curiosity in life and her pragmatic acceptance of death. Many of her stories speak to the angst that simmers inside all of us as we confront the many absurdities that exist in this world. People have always told this adventurer that she needed to write her travel stories down. She always thought that she’d have forever to write them, but now she knows that forever is not as long as she thought it was.

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Starter Pack Book Bundle by David DeLee

About Starter Pack Book Bundle by David DeLee

This first in series bundle contains the first book in each of David DeLee’s thrilling, edge-of-your-seat series featuring bounty hunter Grace deHaviland, ex-DEA agent Nick Lafferty, and NYPD detectives Frank Flynn & Christine Levy. Join them as they deal with the worst society has to offer. As they track down criminals, solve vicious murders, and bring the offenders to justice without losing themselves to the darkness in the process.

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The Hauntings of Old Liberty High

About The Hauntings of Old Liberty High

In this book people die and then come back and terrorize the populace of Old Liberty High as ghosts, some malevolent, some just scared. A group of unforgettable teens must stand up to this threat and maintain their sanity and well-being. A novella by Dalton Lewis, schizophrenic author of The Dread Lord Icon.

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Old Wounds: A Nick Shelby Case and Other Crime Stories

About Old Wounds: A Nick Shelby Case and Other Crime Stories

A collection of 15 short crime stories from dark detective noir to domestic murder, crossing time periods as far back as the Victorian era and into the near future. Some with a twist of horror, science fiction or the supernatural. Each story revolves around intriguing characters with twists and turns and on occasion a sting in the tail.

In the title story, private investigator Nick Shelby is struggling to move on from the abrupt and unexplained departure of Louise, the woman he loved. When she turns up dead in Mexico, he sets off to investigate her death and, in the process, unravels a web of lies and betrayal woven together by a roster of shady characters in 1940s Los Angeles. A mysterious man thought to be dead, a deceiving doctor and a notorious gangster are all connected, but the big question is who killed Louise and why?

Plus, three small town sheriff’s deputies are made a tempting offer by a sinister stranger they’ve arrested; a young prostitute tracks down the man who murdered her friend and exacts brutal revenge; in the near future where reproduction is regulated a desperate mother will risk everything to have a child of her own and in Victorian London a married couple encounter one of the city’s most infamous criminals and find themselves on the wrong side of the law.

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ROADS TO MEANING AND RESILIENCE WITH CANCER by Morhaf Al Achkar

ROADS TO MEANING AND RESILIENCE WITH CANCER by Morhaf Al Achkar

Pursuing a more Purposeful Life? Assimilate stories from 39 patients with incurable Lung Cancer as they share their experiences, hopes, and strengths to find meaning in your life.

Inside Roads to Meaning and Resilience with Cancer™, you will:

+ Confront questions about life, meaning, and your legacy before it is too late
+ Gain a new perspective on the meaning of living that transcends culture and social status
+ Learn countless coping strategies across various disciplines to build your individual Resilience
+ Acquire a positive and realistic perspective on your life that promotes hope and healing for your body, mind and spirit.
+ And much, much more!

This book is about the essence of the human experience at its limits. It is for Every Reader!

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Pink Lines On a Dark Sky

About Pink Lines On a Dark Sky

Rati, September 2001
“I do not want to go out today. I look at the pink paper that I have carefully folded and kept in the upper drawer of my study table. The paper has a poem, I think it is about me. It is about a girl whose smile is out of the world. Is that guy a weirdo? Who writes poems at the age of eleven? Who even writes poems nowadays? But he is cute, and super serious.”
Samay, January 2008
“I know she is lying. I do not mind. I know she wants to be seen as a strong person. And strong people do not cry. But we writers know. The real strong person does not mind crying. In fact, the real strong person cries often, shares the pain of the other people, making it their own. But I let her lie, because she is being honest, as she always is.”

Rati, July 2009
“That’s what everyone thinks when they are young. You need money, it is a reality. Everyone starts with a very optimistic view of the world, but then disillusionment hits fast, and it is too late by then. In my opinion, even being a plumber is better than being a writer. Besides, you will have to spend your life alone. No sane girl would marry an author.”

Samay, August 2010
“She is like that. Impulsive, dominating, endearing, talkative, beautiful – adjectives end when you start describing her. Descriptions are not meant for people like Rati. They are what they are, ethereal and otherworldly.”
He is a writer. She is an engineer. He writes poems to her. She teaches maths to him at lunch.
They know each other since they are eleven.
They think they have problems. They just don’t know what’s coming.

In September 2010, their world turns upside down. Will they survive the biggest crisis of their lives?
A part of the World of Whiskey and Suicide, a world populated with the characters that you met first in “Whiskey and Suicide”, a world of middle class Indians, who lead a mundane life, till something makes them do something heroic, or villainous. The world contains romances, heartbreaks, mid life frustrations and joy, friendships, ambitions and heartburns, and a vast kaleidoscope of emotions that are pastel color.”

Meet Samay and Rati, the ordinary extra-ordinary couple.

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A Curious Orb by Jonathan G. Meyer

A Curious Orb by Jonathan G. Meyer

Travel to a new world – and a different time.

Daniel Shaw is transported to another world by accident. One second he is sitting in his room, safe at home, and the next he is dropped on an overgrown path in a dark, alien jungle. What scares him the most? He does not know how to get back.

In the morning his mother found the imprint of his body on the bed, with an empty wooden box and a delicate silver pedestal on his nightstand. Her son, and the contents of the box, are nowhere to be found.

Daniel’s trusty Labrador Retriever was the only witness – and he isn’t talking.

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