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The Opal Dragon : James A Calderwood
The Opal Dragon
The Dragon starts his life in the Philippines on one of the smaller islands.
Ali is the son of one of the town’s local prostitutes Zeena. He works the markets looking for customers for his mother, who is starting to lose her looks due to her age and the volatile lifestyle she has lead over the years. Drugs in her early years did not help.
Zeena’s lifestyle has not helped Ali in his upbringing. He has been beaten by her customers on many occasions as he has tried to stop his mother being beaten by violent customers.
Ali launches into a life of crime after robbing and stabbing an elderly jewellery trader on his way home from work one night. The police are looking for Ali who slips out of town to stay with his aunt Sasha in the mountains.
He is with Sasha for a long time and has met a nice girl in the village. For the first time in his life the eighteen year old Ali is happy. Gentle Sasha is murdered by a young terrorist. Ali catches him and stabs him.
Ali and Zeena leave their island town for Manilla. A sense of normality finds its way into their life only to be shattered by a chance meeting with a violent customer from her past. Ali and Zeena contrive a plan to murder this violent man. He is garroted with a length of wire as he is having sex with Zeena.
Ali is then involved in the drug trade and is warned about a hit on his life arranged by Emelio Sanchez one of Manilla’s head drug dealers and brothel owners. Emilio has threatened to toss Zeena off the local wharf bound with chains if Ali does not show up. Ali devises a cunning plan to murder Emilio on the way home from church one Sunday. Ali burns Emilio in his car after he causes it to crash. He and Zeena leave the Philippines and catch a small ship for Australia.
In Cairns Australia Ali sees his first beautiful opal. He decides on buying opals and having other people steal them for him in his new base At Coober Pedy. Ali has now conscience when it comes to pay backs to and threat to his new business. People just go missing. He now has others to do these jobs.
A sense of normality enters his life. All of this is shattered when a chain of disastrous events occur over a short time.
There is an intertwining of different characters that are also on a quest to find the beautiful Australian black opal.
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The Curious Tale of Gabrielle : Zachary Paul Chopchinski
The Curious Tale of Gabrielle
A young Gabrielle is driven by her will to explore and see new things. She cannot stop or rest until all within her reach has been experienced and explored. Driven by an astounding will and lack of common fear, she finds herself able to face things most adults might fall before. Yet has there been a journey that has been meant specifically for her all along? Is there a path that has been created just for her to travel?
Follow Gabrielle as she ventures through the lives of many with the experience of only her own. What will happen as she discovers the lives—and tragedies—of the souls who choose her to see their story? It’s a journey through history, life, and love unlike anything that could be imagined—except perhaps by a young girl.
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What Tomorrow Brings : Page Mason
What Tomorrow Brings
Amanda has spent the last two years raising her teenage son on her own. With the help of friends and family, life has remained stable and relatively happy for them both.
Amanda’s best girlfriend, Stephanie, has invited Amanda to the Hamptons for a girls’ weekend. The girls have been friends since elementary school and love spending time together. Distance and life has made it challenging for them to get together as often as they did in the past but this weekend is a treasure for both of them.
While Amanda goes for a run on the beach, she meets someone that will stir something inside her and bring her into the world of dating again. They are from different worlds but the attraction is quick and strong. Are they ready for each other?
As the summer passes, Amanda has to decide if she can commit to this new relationship or focus on her family. Will she take the plunge into a new romance or stay in her comfortable family atmosphere?
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McKnight’s Memory : Paul Kyriazi
CIA Chief James McKnight has three problems – Amnesia, the Mafia and his addiction to the Ultimate Woman
CIA Chief, James McKnight wakes up in a small Colombian Village in the middle of a drug raid with no memory. Returning to Washington D.C. Things get worse as he finds out the Mafia has a contract out on his life.
His only solace in this deadly situation is Carla, the woman he is living with, but can’t remember. She is the most beautiful and erotic woman that McKnight could imagine. With his life in danger, can he trust her?
The jungles of Colombia, the monuments of Washington D.C., the gambling tables of Atlantic City all have dangers awaiting him. Can he solve the puzzle? Can he survive his attackers to win the voluptuous Carla? Or will she be his Doom?
$2.99 Kindle includes a free audio download narrated by Frank Sinatra Jr. Performed by Robert Culp, Nancy Kwan, David Hedison, Henry Silva, Edd Byrnes, Don Stroud, Alan Young, Barbara Leigh & Gary Lockwood.
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The Extended Journeys of a Different Necromancer : James J. Crofoot
The Extended Journeys of a Different Necromancer
At Chris’ ‘urgings’ Thomas agrees reluctantly to attend the coronation of the Prince and Princess, Kaly and Aurora A coronation he helped bring about. His magic he sometimes wishes he never learned changes. What the necromancer doesn’t know is slavers are raiding the coast, putting his family in danger’s path.
Again and again he is called upon to use the magic he will see die, but now…now he pulls together all he knows to save his beacon of sanity. No matter the cost.
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Order In Court : David Osborne
Order In Court
Toby Potts, fresh from Bar School, and clutching his graduation diploma, is a young, aspiring barrister, full of hopes and dreams and intent on becoming the leading criminal advocate of his time. He can hardly wait to get on his feet and impress the jury with his incisive cross-examination, his mastery of all things legal, and his spellbinding final speeches.
Sadly, reality kicks in, and Toby finds the path to fame and fortune far from smooth and uneventful. His trials and tribulations take Toby from his Call to the Bar, his experiences in pupillage, his first brief when he represents the wrong client, through to his great tour de force at the Old Bailey when he goes head to head with the Honourable Mr. Justice Boniface, known to one and all in the profession as Old Sourpuss, and many adventures in between.
Chambers politics, strange clients, solicitors who come and go on a whim, and even stranger and eccentric judges, all have their part to play in Toby’s climb up the greasy pole. Moments of courtroom drama, and many more moments of high fiasco, mark Toby’s initiation into the heady world of the Criminal Bar. So much to learn, so little time.
Will Toby succeed where so many have failed? He has the determination, he has the self-belief, but does he have what it takes to reach the pinnacle of the profession? Only time will tell.
One thing is certain – never a dull moment! Why be ordinary, Toby was once told, if you have it in you to be extraordinary?
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Beyond the Ocean’s Edge : D. Andrew McChesney
Beyond the Ocean’s Edge: A Stone Island Sea Story
The Stone Island Sea Stories combine Age of Sail/Naval Adventure, as in C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander, with a unique Science Fiction/Alternate World twist.
“No, sir! Not that, sir!” Hotchkiss was nearly beside himself in his fright, and it fast approached a full panic. Odd, that such a slight distraction could affect Pierce’s friend that way. Isaac had always been the cooler of them.
Hotchkiss continued on. “Ed! You didn’t see it?” The use of his captain’s first name on deck attested to the first lieutenant’s growing apprehension and maddening confusion.
“See what, Isaac, my old friend?” Pierce recognized his shipmate’s state of mind and did not correct his lapse of quarterdeck etiquette. Clearly, a more personal and comfortable approach was needed.
“The stars! The stars, Ed! We weren’t just looking up at ’em. We were amongst them. There was the sea, and then there wasn’t. An’ the stars were below us as well! And we were there, right among them, like we were the stars themselves, or the moon, or….”
“I’m sure you saw what you’ve described. Unfortunately, I chanced not to see it, although I have had a strange feeling of timelessness.”
In 1802 Royal Navy Lieutenant Edward Pierce is on half pay during the Peace of Amiens. He gains command of a vessel searching for a lost, legendary island. When found, Pierce and crew discover the island exists in an entirely different world. Exploring around Stone Island, HMS Island Expedition sails headlong into mistaken identities, naval battles, strange truces, dangerous liaisons, international intrigue, superstition, and ancient prophecies. Detained by the equivalent of Great Britain, Pierce struggles to free ship and crew. Despondent over surrendering and possibly never seeing Evangeline again, Pierce’s discovers new friends working to liberate him and his crew.
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Guitars and Gardenias : Sierra Ann Hill
Guitars and Gardenias
Country western idol Matson Daley had always been surrounded by gorgeous women. But the party was getting old. He was ready to fall in love with the right woman. His woman.
He’d had thousands of miles of highway to think about what she’d be like, and the fantasy turned real when he met Leah Hayes. Matson believes he’s found his true love in Leah, with her incomparable supermodel beauty, knowledge of the music business and kind, generous heart.
Theirs is whirlwind fairytale romance that evolves into something authentic and pure. But Leah possesses a terrifying, life-altering secret that she must reveal to Matson, though she’s not sure how and when.
And Matson Daley has demons of his own. Unknown to him, by becoming his lover, Leah has become a target for murder by some of his violent, obsessed stalker-fans.
Quicksand Paradise : Mary Keith
Quicksand Paradise
Quicksand Paradise is a historical novel offering a candid look into the Deep South during the Civil Rights Era. It tells the horrendous story of one privileged white Southerner’s abuse of power. I believe my book to be the only one of its kind to capture the complete psychotic nature of a misguided Southerner and Ku Klux Klansman at his worst.
Louis Abellard was the only son of a Prohibition-era bootlegger. Wealthy and a prominent member of his Louisiana community, he was also a bully, a drunk, a rapist and a diehard member of the Ku Klux Klan. Louis’ son Charles wants nothing to do with any of this, but how do you turn your back on money, power and a father who manipulates you like a puppet? How do you escape a Quicksand Paradise?
Louis Abellard is led astray early on in life by the influence of an unprincipled father. Set in the Deep South in the 1920’s through the early 60’s, this novel tells his turbulent story as he leaves life after life in chaos–or worse. He doesn’t even stop at murder in the name of the Ku Klux Klan.
Driven by his sadistic nature, he relishes the idea of joining the local Ku Klux Klan. Quickly rising to power, he plots and commits unspeakable crimes that leave him craving more. With anything he wants becoming an obsession, he has no qualms about stealing his son’s girlfriend through manipulation and lies. But a slight happenstance arouses suspicion, and his son uncovers his treachery; Louis’ web of deception finally unravels.
“Looking for a book that will shake you to the core? Look no further! Get inside Louis Abellard’s deranged mind as he lives up to his billing of “the epitome of evil.”
“A thrilling family saga filled with history and riveting drama. I loved it!”
–David Bischoff, New York Times Bestselling Author
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Hot Times In Goa : Linda Banana
To love too much is to lose everything
Traveller’s tale, psychiatrist’s chair, scorching love story
Lee Habash’s diplomat husband dies, leaving her richer and friskier than expected.
Among coconut palms, she meets Rod, retired London villain, and embarks upon a steamy and stormy love affair, reflected in Goa’s social upheaval.
There are demonstrations against the proposed rail link with Bombay.
Moral watchdogs, the Noble Order of Buffaloes are up in arms about the liberalisation of Goa’s annual carnival.
The Hindu festival of Shivaratri is about to turn nasty.
Against Rod’s wishes, Lee helps her landlord’s daughter become Carnival Queen, with explosive consequences.
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