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Swallowtail : Sheri Meshal
Swallowtail
Chicago wife, mother and finance executive, Claire Cummings arrives at work one morning to discover her friend Julia has embezzled millions and vanished. Blindsided and devastated by the betrayal, she’s sent home pending further investigation.
Claire’s bizarre death the following day sends everyone reeling, guessing and looking for her in all the wrong places. In no time she’s addicted to an enchanting menagerie of tricks and techniques for getting the living’s attention, but most people are harder to reach than she’d ever dreamed and even harder to set free. She was still a mother, a wife, a daughter and a friend… she’d move heaven and earth to keep it that way.
Sheri Meshal’s Swallowtail is a haunting story about life, love, loss and just how far we’ll go to control it all. This debut from a thought-provoking new voice in fiction begs the question… what would you do if all the rules changed, and you were suddenly bestowed powers beyond your greatest imagination?
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Romeo is Homeless, A Love Story : Julie Frayn
Romeo is Homeless, A Love Story
Yearning for more than pig slop and hand-me-downs, August Bailey runs away from her farm home — and from her family.
In the big city, she discovers that reality and fantasy don’t mix. When her money runs out, a seventeen-year-old street kid comes to her rescue.
Reese has electric eyes, a gentleman’s heart—and a heroin addiction. For him, each day is a struggle to make the right choice.
They fall for each other, and August wants to save him from his horrid existence.
But the truth behind his pain might be more than she can bear. Could their love ruin her life?
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Wynter’s Horizon : Dee C. May
Wynter’s Horizon
College senior, Wynter Murello, has a secret. One so devastating, she can’t even share it with her closest friends. The weight of it drags her down as she tries to forget. And slowly, she begins to come undone. Making mistake after mistake, she finally hits rock bottom when the only other person who knows the truth catches her in his trap.
As Wynter spirals down, fate throws her a rope. She meets the mysterious Reginald Beck: handsome, kind, chivalrous, and just a bit mysterious. While something about him and the world he comes from scares her, their connection is undeniable. He seems to be the only person who understands how to mend her broken pieces.
Beck feels it too. From the moment he first spots her across a crowded bar, she triggers an attraction unlike anything he has ever felt—and a memory he can’t place. Intrigued and attracted to Wynter, he pursues answers, uncovering secrets about her life—and his own. But some decisions have lasting consequences, and time is running out for the two of them.
Beck’s past is coming back to haunt him, and his supernatural powers have been exposed. Beck and Wynter must confront the truth or risk losing each other, forever.
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Goodbye Junie Moon : June Collins
Goodbye Junie Moon
This memoir has been described as ‘wild and riveting’. It is not the usual family history type memoir but a page turner of corruption, sex and adventure.
The story alternates between the innocent, growing up years of the author in Australia and the harrowing years during the Vietnam War. For three and a half years she remained in Vietnam at the height of the war. Initially, she entertained the troops herself, first as a magicians assistant then as a solo dancer. Eventually she hired Philippine entertainment groups and scheduled them into the camps.
There was plenty of romance and adventure until corruption and heartbreak over the deaths of so many young men finally stopped the music. Junie Moon followed her conscience, sacrificing everything she had worked for to become a whistleblower and set things straight. Her life was placed in danger from the corrupt military army clubs she had been dealing with. When all looked lost, fate stepped in with a surprise ending.
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Six Days : Kelli Owen
Six Days
Jenny Schultz wakes trapped in a pitch-black basement with no recollection of how she got there. With no outside stimuli, Jenny naturally turns inward and revisits her guilt-ridden past, desperate to figure out which wronged person would be angry enough, evil enough, to do this to her.
She must survive her own demons, and then time itself when she finds remnants of previous captives—a plate, a tooth, a bone. Scratched hashmarks in the stone walls around her, leave her to wonder what happens next. What happens after six days?
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Police Don’t Move! : N. E. Wood
Police Don’t Move!
Ride along in the patrol car as we see hear and feel the reality of life on the streets as a police officer on the Gold Coast – Australia’s glitter strip. Meet the mad, the bad … and the sad, in all their glory. Be amazed at the rat like cunning, the guile – and of course the abject stupidity of offenders as they cross this talented author’s path.
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The History of Ours, Book I: The Guardians : Natalia Lynn
The History of Ours, Book I: The Guardians
Trust Evolution.
At the dawn of the 21st century, hive-mind awareness is achieved by “chipping in.” Downloading your mind into a singular collective consciousness called 4D, is a revelation that drives our society to the brink of destruction.
THE GUARDIANS is set in the aftermath when society has stabilized, controlled in eight domed colonies called “Centrs;” all that remain of western civilization.
Governments and religions have been replaced by the Guardians, a consciousness steering the course of human events to rebuild from the parallel reality of 4D. There is no violence, no hunger, and no war. “The Guardians Provide.”
Grace River26D, a young and stubbornly brilliant utility engineer resigned to Maintenance1, the lowest sector in Centr8, is unable to reproduce. She is looked upon as a burden by her community and struggles to prove her worth, though still revels in the comfort and security of Centr life.
After witnessing a brutal murder, Grace is forced to flee into the barren lands that border, embarking on an epic journey to seek truth and face an overwhelmingly complex enemy that controls all chipped consciousness. Grace can trust no one while battling between freedom of thought or a future of total control.
THE HISTORY OF OURS begins a compelling YA science fiction series that raises questions of morality, roles of technology, and the future of human evolution.
History is written by the Victorious.
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Enemies Closer : L.E. Truscott
Enemies Closer
Hell hath no fury like a weapons expert scorned.
L.E. Truscott’s action-packed debut novel, Enemies Closer, follows Cassandra Broderick, a former US Marine now working in the weapons industry, and Antonia Parker, the CIA Agent who thinks she could be the key to breaking open her latest case.
They have two things in common: they’re both about to have their hearts broken and their lives turned upside down. After an event attended by some of Washington DC’s most powerful figures in the military industrial complex, Cassandra and Antonia awake from having their drinks spiked to a room full of dead bodies.
Someone is setting them up – for murder and espionage – and it doesn’t take long before they are at the top of everybody’s most wanted list: FBI, CIA, US military, Chinese military, deadly assassins.
To clear their names, Cassandra and Antonia must trust each other on a journey that will take them from Washington, D.C. to Beijing. And together they will find out that it pays to keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
L.E. Truscott is an Australian author better known to her friends and family as Louise. The Cassandra Syndrome, the sequel to Enemies Closer, is due for release in late 2013.
What readers are saying:
“Couldn’t put it down. I want a sequel now!”
“Intriguing and compelling…lead characters are strong, sassy… four stars”
“A good first read for the genre…four stars”
“Engrossed…five stars”
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Double Occupancy : Elaine Raco Chase
Double Occupancy
Meet Casey Reynolds – she is NOT thin, petite, clueless, virginal or submissive.
Which is exactly why Travis Craig wanted to ‘kick down her door and throw her on that bed.’
Read the couple that reviewers have said:
“their witty banter will have you laughing but their hot and steamy moments will have you begging for more.”
“a book with solid characters & lots of humor” “amazing read, I wish it was longer.”
Read why this erotic duo has been on FB’s What to Read After 50 Shades of Grey – top 50 books – for 1 YEAR!
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A Baker’s Dozen : Eleanor Cawood Jones
A Baker’s Dozen – 13 Tales of Murder and More
Love mysteries? Love short stories? Put them both together and you’ve got a wonderful 5-star debut! A Baker’s Dozen: 13 Tales of Murder and More is a diverse compilation of short stories spanning 30 years, crafted by a former journalist and including two contributions by her mother, a court reporter and professional proofreader.
From murder in the mountains of Tennessee to the adventures of an all-woman air conditioning repair crew in Northern Virginia, a trip down the runway of a senior citizen beauty pageant, and the secrets revealed in the aftermath of a violent tornado, this page-turner is a blend of psychological suspense, surprise endings, satire, tearjerkers, and just plain, laugh-out-loud fun.
Stories include: “Dog’s Best Friend,” where a farmer’s wife has to make the ultimate decision between life and death; “Mrs. Gallagher,” featuring a determined 85-year-old who is most definitely not what she seems; “The Sampler,” the co-author’s award-winning short story about a happy retired couple with a really big secret; and “Burying Toby,” a touching yet humorous story of two teenagers who help their beloved younger sister stage a funeral for her recently deceased favorite pet.
Other don’t-miss tales include an affectionate and rollicking satire of Nancy Drew, the story of a young boy’s convenience store run that morphs into a fantastical adventure, a tongue-in-cheek piece on soap operas and game shows, and a first-person account by a very intelligent house cat who witnesses a brutal murder and lives to tell the tale.
Readers of authors as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock, Ellery Queen, and Maeve Binchy will enjoy these stories. Each one is unique and an unexpected twist or surprise ending is guaranteed in each tale.
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