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From an EPIC Fantasy Award-winning author: Sometimes vampire is the only career choice available. When it comes without training or instructions, that sucks.
Review for Vampire Career by S. T. Hailstock :
“Read it...read it...read it. If you’re a fan of vampire books, or if you’re not a fan, or if you’re up to your eyes in vampire stories, this one is worth the time.”
A popular ER doctor is found impaled on a SCUBA spear. A motorhome blows up, killing four Gaviota Nude Beach regulars. Clothing-optional beachgoers are beginning to feel they have a target painted on their bare backs. Who is the killer and what is his motive?
When police don’t seem all that interested, physical therapist Jake Ross and horse trainer Nikki Desjardin decide to look for answers.
Bad Boy Ballers series finale! Includes an epic novella length epilogue for Rafe and Peyton, Brooklyn and Delaney, and Calder and Reggie!
The dark horse of the NFL. A superstar showgirl on the Vegas strip. Their desire is taboo in ways you can’t even begin to imagine.
Calder Malone. Black sheep. Bad boy. Kicked off the Reno Ravens and almost suspended from the NFL. The sexy center remains a fan favorite now that he’s playing for Carolina Crush. And what Calder wants more than anything is to prove his worth to the team that’s his last chance, the family he disgraced, and the one woman he fell in love with years ago.
Unfortunately the comeback kid isn’t a boy anymore, and the babe he wants was never his for the taking—for reasons that make him question his sanity.
Reggie isn’t just a Vegas showgirl, a pretty face. She’s an Air Force widow, a strong woman who’s piecing her life back together . . . And maybe the man she always thought was out of her league and completely off-limits just became fair game.
Off the field and offstage, what happens when Calder and Reggie don’t stay in Vegas?
Series complete:
Million Baller Baby
Free Baller
Baller Made
DEADLY FUN - The perfect sleuth is a chameleon, every man's perfect dream.
Exotic luxury cruises to the Bahamas are supposed to be fun and exciting. This trip is just a routine investigative job for a woman who works in disguise and undercover, using her beauty to entice men to reveal their secrets. The exciting and sometime harrowing is expected, but this job will be like no other.
Her boss is aboard, as is a mafia enforcer with murderous ties to her own family. She chases suspects through the tropical islands, gets in physical confrontations with knife, fist and firearms. By the end of the cruise, the deck is awash in blood. Can she survive a deadly fun cruise--and her boss, who may prove more deadly than the mobsters?
“Well written, Academic Betrayal is a cautionary tale shedding light on the darker side of higher education, the hubris of some educators, and the ‘big business’ focus of universities that have little regard for their most important constituent: the student.” - Patricia Pihl, founder and personal historian at Real Life Legacies
Fueled by a desire to become a teacher, Loren Mayshark entered Hunter College in 2008, with the intention of gaining a master’s degree in two years. Six years and tens of thousands of dollars later, he abandoned his studies without attaining the degree. This is the tale of one young man’s journey through the labyrinth of American higher education, stymied by haughty professors, an inept administration, and ridiculous policies. In the process, he nearly lost his desire for academic learning and his reverence for the educational system, and came close to losing his will to live.
As Loren Mayshark discovered, his experience was not unique. Across the United States, graduate students are increasingly finding themselves caught in a vortex of burgeoning loans, byzantine policies, and administrative lassitude. The casualties, as this book makes clear, are the next generation of American minds.
A sin eater has to make a living in today's world somehow.
But when she's called in the dead of night to perform her rite for a recluse billionaire, she stumbles upon a murder scene, and the evidence points to her.
In an attempt to clear her name and uncover the true culprit, Aria is forced to team up with a private investigator who's possessed by three spirits and a handsome wizard who would rather see all sin eaters like Aria go extinct.
Aria knows her job is never easy, but now, it's become downright deadly.
SIN EATER is the first book of the Aria Knight Chronicles by USA Today bestselling author Samantha LaFantasie and Alesha Escobar, author of the bestselling Gray Tower Trilogy.
Both men tried to shoot her then, and the two women were stunned at the speed with which she moved. Penny charged straight at the gunmen then dove under their fire. Spinning on her back she kicked the legs from under one man, and as he fell, she kicked the gun from the other man’s hand. Spinning back to the first man she saw the gun barrel moving toward her, and she lashed out with her foot. Her boot crushed his skull and she rolled to her feet to grab the last man in a neck lock. A quick twist and he lay lifeless in her arms.
She let him fall, as, breathing deeply, she came down off combat mode. “Are you ladies all right?” she asked as she untied the ropes that held the older woman.
“Who are you?” asked the old woman fearfully, as she pulled the tape from her mouth.
“They call me Lady Blue,” smiled Penny as she helped the woman to stand.
“What are you?” It was the younger woman who spoke.
“Cold, hungry, dead tired, and covered in blue war paint,” giggled Penny as she released the older woman’s arm. She turned and began to search the bodies.
Buried secrets, hidden regrets and crime uncovered.
For many years, Lily and her partner had kept a terrible secret. When her partner dies, this secret becomes her burden alone. Soon it becomes an obsession.
Having worked alongside her more flamboyant partner in the publishing industry in London, the more sensitive Lily was used to playing second fiddle in their enigmatic social set. But their nice life hid a dark secret, one that she does not want to carry to her grave.
Many years ago, Lily and her partner covered up a crime. They took something precious that didn’t belong to them and lost it. Lily has had to live with the consequences of her actions until she is given the chance to repair the damage she has done.
This leads Lily down a dangerous path into the past. Disorientated, paranoid and scared, she uncovers a far graver crime. What she contemplates next is unthinkable.
BONE BABY is set in the present-day cities of Bath and Portsmouth in southern England. BONE BABY is the eleventh novel by Diane Dickson to be published by THE BOOK FOLKS. Diane has a distinctive style and her thrillers and mysteries explore the lives of ordinary people facing difficult situations. Look out for her bestselling LEAVING GEORGE and the recently-published TANGLED TRUTH.
Jack Liege was acquitted of murder in the deaths of two sheepherders, but that hasn’t stopped the people of Douglas, Wyoming, from treating him as if he’s guilty. And so Jack hits the road, hungry for peace and a fresh start in the small town of Ellis Crossing. But a quiet life isn’t in the cards: shortly after his arrival, he breaks up a gunfight between sheepherder Andrew McGarwin and cattleman Tobe Kranston. In return for saving his life, Kranston offers Jack a job on his sprawling ranch…assuming he can stay alive long enough to claim it.
Because here in Ellis Crossing, a war is raging, a cutthroat battle for dominance in a rapidly changing world. And when McGarwin invites Jack to join him for a fateful poker game, the outsider finds himself trapped in a violent conflict that threatens the lives of everyone he has come to know—and the woman he’s grown to love.
**The three novellas of the New Adult paranormal romance Touch Me, now available in one novel-length collection!**
Demons are real.
And now I’m one of them.
I never expected my boring, regular life to change on a night out with my best friend. I only thought I was going to celebrate her birthday at a local club, not end up in a hospital after witnessing supernatural events that couldn’t possibly be real.
Talk about being wrong.
Now I've drawn the attention of the most dangerous forces in the demon world. I’m being stalked by a guy who can be in multiple places at once. I’m overwhelmed by a hunger I can’t shake—an impossible hunger that compels me to feed off the sexual energy of others, even if it might make me kill somebody. I’m losing control and entering a secret world that exists in the shadows of my own—a world filled with vampires, werewolves, and demons who look just like anyone else.
The night was supposed to be simple. Normal. After all, I thought I was human and my life thus far has been unbelievably ordinary.
Now it’s anything but.
Shakespeare's Witches tell Banquo, "Thou Shalt 'Get Kings Though Thou Be None". Though Banquo is murdered, his son Fleance gets away. What happened to Fleance? What Kings? As Shakespeare's audience apparently knew, Banquo was the ancestor of the royal Stewart line. But the road to kingship had a most inauspicious beginning, and we follow Fleance into exile and death, bestowing the Witches' prophecy on his illegitimate son Walter. Born in Wales and raised in disgrace, Walter's efforts to understand Banquo's murder and honor his lineage take him on a long and treacherous journey through England and France before facing his destiny in Scotland.
Chick Lit Romance--With A Touch Of Mystery
Eric Stewart can't believe his sisters would stoop so low.
He's sexy, dangerous and fancy free. He's about to turn forty, and his three sisters think it's high time he found a good woman and settled down.
Eric can't believe his meddling sisters have signed him up with the city's hottest matchmaking agency. The only way to get them a refund is to get himself rejected by every single applicant.
Tessa McBride is working for the matchmaker, and she and Eric have a history. He humiliated her when she was a shy, trusting girl. Well, she's not anymore. She vows to prove to Eric that she's more than a match for his schemes--and show him what he's been missing all these years. But there's more to this matchmaking business than Tessa every suspected.
CAN AN IMPERFECT PAIR RESULT IN A PERFECT MATCH--and maybe solve an intriguing mystery while they're at it?
Author Interview:
Why did you write this particular book?
I was single, and writing is a solitary job. I hired a matchmaker, and instead of a match I got a book! I did get plenty of applicants, but I realized I was more interested in writing than I was in prospects of marriage.
Who's your favorite character in this one?
That would be the hero, Eric. He's just so--male. There's not a subtle bone in his body, which makes him likeable. And he doesn't have a clue what he really wants or needs. You just gotta love him!
OTHER BOOKS IN THIS CHICK LIT ROMANCE SERIES:
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Stand By Your Man
Hope you enjoy!!
Previously published as The Children and the Blood (The Children and the Blood #1)
Never leave the farm. Never talk about the past. Never bring up the night your mother died or the years you can’t recall.
Remember only that you’re safe.
On her farm in rural Montana, Ashley believes she has a normal life. Sure, her father is gone a lot on business and her childhood is a mystery. But life is good.
Until one night changes everything.
Masked men with inhuman abilities attack her home, burning everything and killing all in their path. A strange boy named Cole comes out of nowhere on a frantic mission to save her life. She’s thrust into a world she never knew existed—a world of dangerous secrets, gun-wielding saviors, and magically adept villains who look just like everyone else.
But the threat doesn’t end there. The men who burned her home are hunting her for a dark and deadly reason, one that goes deep into the past she’s never been able to remember. One that means they will stop at nothing to find her.
One that means Ashley is far more than she appears.
~ Book One of the Kindling Trilogy ~
#1 – Kindling
#2 – Ignite
#3 – Wildfire
When Cecilia Parish is summoned to her hometown of Destiny Point to aid her sick uncle and his antique curiosity shop, she has no idea that her life is about to change in magical and dangerous ways. An antique and curiosity shop is a mystical place. The items held within have their own story, sometimes centuries old. But there are other more sinister curiosities held within certain antique shops throughout the world. These antiquities are cursed and can cause ill effects to the owner and even death. Cecilia's uncle is one such collector who searches for cursed antiques to hide them away from unsuspecting souls and those who want to use their power for nefarious reasons.
Join Cecilia and her companions as they delve into the unknown and discover mysteries within mysteries in this first book in the Curiosity Shop Cozy Mysteries Series.
The Merlon Murders I (part one of a two part mystery):
When hot shot investigator and math genius Duncan Dewar decides to head a life insurance inquiry, he has no idea what he's soon to encounter. Hoping to learn more about his ancestry, Duncan is drawn to the village of Taye, Scotland, where his past and future are about to collide, altering the trajectory of his life forever. Was the laird of Castle Taye accidently crushed by a merlon from his own battlement, or are more sinister forces at work? Is the alluring widow and beneficiary of eleven million pounds to blame, or innocent? Is a ghost seeking vengeance against members of Clan MacNab for the slaughter of her loved one hundreds of years ago? Will Duncan be the next victim of the merlon murders? Follow Duncan on a culinary tour of breathtaking Scotland as he navigates through relationships with the villagers of Taye in his quest for answers. The Merlon Murders I is part one of a two part mystery.
Books by Victoria Benchley include:
The Snail Man at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O97FE9W
The Merlon Murders I
The Merlon Murders II
The Crime at the Bakery (A short story) - Coming Soon
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t only takes one phone call for Garry’s life to change forever. A desperate old lady, his mother has a heart attack and is lying in her bungalow, close to death. Garry rushes over in a panic, only to find her unconscious on the carpet. She is taken to the hospital, and he sits by her bedside, praying for her to survive. Just before she dies, she wakes and reveals a secret that shocks Garry to the core. To learn of his adoption now and to witness her passing is too much to bear.
He is so mortified, he can’t tell his family, but the revelation eats away at him, and he must find out if his mother’s last words are true. After confiding in his wife, they try to unravel the mystery together. Their search is never easy and when obstacles are put in their way, they realise someone is out to stop them whatever the cost. Who are these people? What are they hiding? And if his determination to learn the truth puts him and his family in grave danger, will he still continue looking for his real parents?
Revised edition: This edition of A Sense of Discovery includes editorial revisions.
It is fall, 1906, near Avignon, in the south of France. Renowned archaeologist Claude-Henri Fillon has just made a startling and disturbing discovery–a Roman artifact that could undermine Christianity itself. Fillon summons his friend and former student Gerard de Montclaire, France’s greatest detective, to advise him and to safeguard the discovery, but too late. The artifact has been stolen, one of Fillon’s assistants is missing, and another student is dead. Montclaire and his associate Sir Francis FitzMaurice must find the priceless artifact and a cunning murderer who appears to have taken it. Unraveling this mystery will lead the pair into an ancient and ruthless conspiracy.
Murder, Mayhem, and Mysticism follow Fr. Raff Rafferty and his daughter Fatima as they travel with a diverse group of pilgrims along the Santiago de Campostela Way to the tomb of St. James in the Basque territory of northern Spain. Can the skills of former police detective turned priest protect this band of pilgrims as death stalks the holy trail?
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