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The Warm Machine: 

An Apocalyptic Dystopian Thriller

(Humanity Series Book 1)

Scott Beck knows the date and month he will die.

What he doesn’t know is which year.

Minutes away from surviving another April 22nd, someone knocks at his door…

In a near-dystopian future, Artificial Intelligence has uncovered the clockwork nature of the universe.

And now, because of the intervention of a religious organisation of Watchers, soon everyone on the planet will discover the date, month and year they will die.

Combining dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and cyberpunk fiction, The Warm Machine is the first novel in the haunting five-part Humanity Series, depicting a future in which humanity is on the brink of annihilation.

It’s not the end of the world … only humanity.

Begin the adventure before it’s too late!

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Holiday Murder

Holiday Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery)

Mistletoe Murder

The First Lucy Stone Mystery!

As if Lucy Stone’s Christmas schedule wasn’t busy enough, she’s also working nights at the famous mail-order company Country Cousins. But when she discovers its very wealthy founder, Sam Miller, dead in his car from an apparent suicide, Lucy’s gift for suspecting murder shines bright. Now she must track down an elusive killer—one who won’t be satisfied until everyone on his shopping list is dead, including Lucy herself . . .

 

Christmas Cookie Murder

One of the best things about Christmas in Tinker’s Cove has always been the annual Cookie Exchange. But when long-simmering petty rivalries and feuds finally come to a boil, accusations of recipe theft lead to an act of murder. Despite all of the ingredients for danger, Lucy sets out on the trail of a killer and soon uncovers a shocking Christmas secret best left unopened . . .

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Alien Holiday

 

Alien Holiday

It’s Christmastime on Elysia. The weather is as wintery as one can expect in a rain forest and our annual secret Santa game is in full swing. Yet for me, something’s missing. My heart aches whenever I think of mi familia back home. Still, I’m determined to make this Christmas a special one and when I meet a Grinchy, green alien living high on a mountain above our village I’ve suddenly got a project. 

For years this guy has been living in solitude—That ends now. No one should be alone, especially at Christmas. Family is the dearest thing to my heart and I’m going to make this Grinch a part of mine whether he likes it or not. But the one thing I didn’t plan on, was falling in love in the process. 

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Cookies and Christmas: 

A Cozy Murder Mystery 

(Pelican Cove Cozy Mystery Series Book 12)

Anonymous Note Screams Murder

It's Christmas in Pelican Cove and the town is bursting with Yuletide spirit. Jenny King comes home from the tree lighting ceremony to a strange letter on her doorstep. The anonymous sender claims a gruesome murder has taken place and urges her to find the killer. Jenny plunges into the investigation, only to find that the letter might have been fake.

Refusing to give up, Jenny keeps digging for clues. Her friends think she's on a wild goose chase and the whole town thinks she's lost it. But Jenny follows her gut, sure that a crime has been committed.

Meanwhile, Jenny's friends, the Magnolias, are determined to light up Christmas for a few unfortunate families.

Join Jenny as she is challenged at every turn by an elusive criminal and forced to deal with the unexpected.

If you like fast paced cozy mysteries with twisty plots, spunky women sleuths and yummy food, you will like Cookies and Christmas.

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Claus Boxed: A Science Fiction Holiday Adventure

Gingerman: In Search of the Toymaker (Book 8) now available!

In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.

Short, fat and hairy, they have lived peacefully on the North Pole since the Ice Age but Nicholas is quickly swept into the colony’s first and only fracture. The elven known as the Cold One has divided his people. His name is Jack. And Jack’s tired of hiding. Why should they live in a shrinking ice cap when humans occupy the rest of the world?

It’s just not fair.

There’s no stopping Jack from world domination until Nicholas Santa, the only human to enter the elven colony, joins helium-bladder reindeer, artificially-intelligent snowmen, and a merry band of big-footed elven to bring peace back to the North Pole.

And becomes a legend.

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Vampire Hospital

 

Vampire Hospital: The hospital of darkness

Mysteriously struck by a crazed driver in the dead of night, Susie finds herself badly injured. She can see her deceased brother in the distance reaching out to her.

She ends up in the care of Dr Zack Collins, the night-shift doctor at Parkview Hospital. She is drawn to his clean-shaven, handsome face and his emerald green eyes that shine and seem to be hypnotic. His black, straight, shoulder-length hair and his pale complexion add to his perfection and mystery. Susie becomes very attracted to the striking doctor, but she is unaware of the shadows lurking beneath the surface.

After years in Dr Collins tortuous clutches and revelations of his deepest secrets, Susie must battle against her Stockholm tendencies to escape and gain vengeance. If she can find the way, will she survive?

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Bubble Lovers

 

Bubble Lovers - Sexy Challenge

Bubbles are a simple thing, right?

Or, could they be the pathway to sensual pleasure?

That question will be answered in Sexy Challenges Bubbles Lovers. 

Learn how you can create an experience like no other for your partner and yourself using the simple yet exciting world of bubbles. Not only will you learn about the physical pleasure bubbles can create in your relationship you will also learn the deep spiritual side of the power bubbles can carry into the spiritual side of your relationship.  

If you enjoy the physical side or the metaphysical side, or both! Bubble Lovers will forever change your view on bubbles and what excitement they can bring into your life.

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Switchblade Heart

 

Switchblade Heart

Reno Villarrubia has killed more men than she has kissed. A fierce Colombian bodyguard who carries a switchblade in her boot, she protects a black-market kingpin named Victor Pagnolli. When Pagnolli is blackmailed by a cop who knows more than he should, Reno must stay alive on a reckless journey through the criminal underworld surrounded by treachery, murderous jealousy, and pursuing FBI agents. As the clock ticks away, Reno knows she is just one bad break away from being killed or arrested. 

In this suspenseful story, criminal and cop, liar and lover, and innocent and immoral all collide together in an underworld climax where there is nowhere to hide.

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Relics of Dawn: 

A Story Carved in Time

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” - Picasso

An unstoppable mass extinction is underway and history proves society will collapse before it can change. Climate Council scientists have no choice but to unveil the Dawn Project, an audacious and destructive plan to heal the planet… beginning with an exodus to the heavens.

When a superstorm takes her parents, biologist Kaia Badra commits her life to the project’s success at all costs. The work leads her to controversial research from a disgraced geologist named Alan Pearce. Together, they span the eons to combine long lost knowledge with innovative science in a race to decode the climate change mystery written in Earth. Discover the clues buried in ancient civilizations and stretching to planets circling the farthest stars in this mind-bending adventure that rewrites human history to define our future in the age of the Anthropocene.

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Disorder

 

Disorder

Chase is your stereotypical troubled teenager. He skips school, has bad grades, loves loud music, and is a social outcast with only one close friend. However, his life begins to change when someone new appears in it. Chase's reality starts slipping away from him. Strange things begin happening, things it seems only he can see. As things begin to go from strange to dangerous, it's clear that something must be done. Chase will have the ultimate decision to make, but will it be the right one?

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AWAKEN

  

AWAKEN: An Azien Realm Series

Elli Larson stared at her reflection in the bathroom mirror startled to see her dark brown eyes were now a bright glowing blue. "What is happening!?" she stammered, placing her hand on her face as the music from the nightclub blared in the background. An unquenching curiosity had begun to grow within her after observing a mysterious ancient Egyptian hieroglyph that was presented in one of her lectures. Determined to learn what it means, she soon discovers a strange white book, a mystifying man, and a lurking figure that seems to be following her.

The mundane life she had been accustomed to is suddenly shaken when an unexpected blue glowing symbol appears on the back of her hand and a veil of mystery forms before her.

An unforeseen series of events unfolds when a man not of this realm materializes, ushering her through a portal to another world. Somehow, she is the only one who can help him.

Elli is thrust into a quest of self-discovery, choosing to follow her heart, and uncover who she really is as her conscious mind begins to Awaken.

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The Twisty Passages of Time

 

The Twisty Passages of Time, Book 1: 

Veer Left for Home

K.D. Loveridge’s The Twisty Passages of Time is his debut YA novel.

Twisty Passages follows the life of a young boy whose sister died one year prior. As he is about to enter the sixth grade, his sister’s death leads him to a great secret: His family are part of a colony of refugees in time that are hiding in the present from an enemy that nearly brought their people to the brink of extinction. Faced with an uncertain future, he must first endure bullies at school while learning to cope with the new powers he has received to survive in the dystopian world of his grandparents.

Liam Fennly had a typical childhood growing up in a small oceanside town called Stonehelm, Oregon. He’s the youngest of five children and has a best friend named Richard Sommers. The pair grew up together, attending elementary school, sharing a paper route, eating lots of junk food, and playing video games.

On Liam’s eleventh birthday, his sister, Mariam, died unexpectedly from a mysterious illness that took the lives of fifteen other teenagers living around Stonehelm all within a few months. Exactly one year later, two crows bring him clue that her death may have been a lie. Facing sixth grade, Liam soon discovers his family has been keeping a great secret from him. Everything typical about his childhood is about to end as he begins a journey to discover where his family came from and what happened to his sister.

This is a great book for kids between the ages of 10-18. A great gift for parents of children that loved books like Percy Jackson, Fabel Haven, or Leven Thumps.

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Summoner: Tales From The LegendNomad 

Summoners, individuals who are upstanding guardians of the peasants, can call forth Elemental Spirits from nature. They live and thrive with their traditions, but for every day there is a night. The Kakusa are deadly warriors of the dark. Family and devotion are their creeds. As one great war reaches a climax, another begins when a group of ruthless killers emerges from the shadows, working for an unknown goal. Delving into these mysterious groups is Eclipse, a Summoner with one passion; to prove he is worthy. But having always stood in the shadow of his prodigy brother, Sol, Eclipse will have to Sacrifice more than he can possibly imagine if he is to find peace. Meanwhile, Sol’s desire is simple; to bring peace to his people and to have his brother by his side once more. Summoner tells the story of these brothers, this land, and the war that threatens to tear them apart

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Relive

 

Relive: A Time Travel Adventure 

(The Journeyer Series Book 1) 

The perfect blend of Back to the Future and The Shawshank Redemption.

★★★★★

Gerald Holstrom is serving his life sentence trying not to think of the crime that led him to 47 years inside. His hands hurt, his back aches, he waits to die. 

Death comes swiftly at the end of a sharp piece of metal. 

Gerald fades, his regrets flood him. He wishes only to see the sky without barbed wire blocking his vision. 

He fades out…

Then back in. 

The sky is clear, his hands don’t shake, his body doesn’t ache. 

He’s 19 again, is his future set? His Journey is just beginning!

KJ Nelson’s fast-paced debut novel “Relive” is the first in the Journeyer Series. 

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Shimmers

When a team of particle physicists conducts an advanced test at the Edison Laboratory in Milan, Ohio, they break through the boundaries of time and space. Their initial enthusiasm crashes when they realize they have released a mysterious and malevolent force. Fifteen miles away, James and Joshua, identical three-year-old twins, frolic near the woods at a local campground. Unaware they are the only ones who can see the anomaly, they approach the spherical Shimmer. Joshua steps into the mist and disappears. Through the years, James continues to encounter the Shimmers – some good…some terrifying. Determined to find his missing sibling, James partners with his younger brothers Matt and Mark, and his lifelong friend Bob on a mission to find Joshua and bring him home.Their exploration sets up a life and death struggle – and the future of the world as we know it hangs in the balance.

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Benita Renee Jenkins: Diva Secret Agent

This first edition of the action-packed urban series centers on a young Brooklyn hairstylist who finds herself in the wrong place at the right time.

Growing up in "Do or Die Bed Stuy" Brooklyn, Benita Renee Jenkins has everything going for her--a great job, loving family, loads of friends, and the hope of one day becoming a crime scene investigator. However, things change when she unknowingly crosses paths with Miguel Perkins, a hot secret agent working for a clandestine agency created to throw the book at the most untouchable of bad guys. He is hell-bent on recruiting Benita to infiltrate the life of an ex-gangbanger who has built his music empire on corruption. When Benita is set up for a crime she didn't commit, Perkins gives her a choice: go to jail or come work for him. She knows she must give up her old life to keep the ones she loves safe. With combat training and a full-fledged makeover, this former hairstylist turned secret agent plans to take down the bad guys one thug at a time.

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Benita Renee Jenkins: Diva Secret Agent 

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