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Contemporary Fiction
Title: God of Wine
Author: Elizabeth Zahzam
Price:
$.99 Amazon U.S.
£.77 Amazon UK
Synopsis: “Greek tragedy meets Sex In The City”
When god Dionysus manipulates the lives of two struggling performers, the consequences are as dramatic as theatre itself. God of Wine is a dark tale of alcoholism, obsession, and a decision that will mean life or death to a troubled Broadway star.
Title: Portisville
Author: Steve Cushman
Price:
$.99 Amazon U.S.
£.77 Amazon UK
Synopsis: Jimmy Wills, a 34-year-old house painter living in the mountains of North Carolina, gets a telephone call from his dying father in rural north Florida. His father demands that Jimmy come home to kill him. Jimmy knows he won’t do what Truman Wills has demanded, but he finds himself drawn to the place of his birth by forces he isn’t quite able to name.
He discovers that the town is remarkably the same. One of his father’s best friends is still the sheriff and the other is the keeper of the general store. But in the course of his three-day visit, Jimmy begins to uncover dark and disturbing secrets from the past, including the truth about the murder of his mother. Although Truman was charged with the killing, he was later acquitted, and the crime has remained unsolved.
The murdered woman still haunts the dreams of her son, who was taken away at the age of 14 and raised by an aunt in North Carolina. Jimmy has tried since then not to think too much about his father. But when Jimmy pulls up to his father’s house, the two men slowly begin to reconnect, with all of the promise and tragedy that entails.
Contemporary Women’s Fiction
Title: Can’t Live Without
Author: Joanne Phillips
Price:
$2.99 Amazon U.S.
£1.91 Amazon UK
Synopsis:
How does it feel to lose everything you own?
Title: Walking With ElephantsAuthor: Karen S. Bell
Price:
$2.51 Amazon U.S.
£1.95 Amazon UK
Synopsis: Suze Hall is at a crossroads. Her nemesis at work, Wanda, has been promoted and now will be her boss. Her husband, Bob, is leaving her and the three kids for a six-month sabbatical down under. To top it off, her best friend, Marcia, is missing in action—playing footsie with some new boyfriend!Adding to this disaster stew, David, the gorgeous hunk who broke her young-girl’s heart has coincidentally popped back into her life and has something she desperately needs to keep her job.So step into the shoes of Suze Hall and commiserate over workplace politics, titillate your sexual fantasies, ride the wave of a working mother, and fall-down laughing.
Paranormal/Urban Fantasy
Title: A Matter of Perception
Author: Tahlia Newland
Price:
$.99 Amazon U.S.
£.77 Amazon UK
$.99 Barnes & Noble
$.99 Kobo
Synopsis: Take a journey into a world where the hidden becomes manifest and the lines between fantasy and reality blur. This collection of imaginative and entertaining stories about ghosts, sirens, light spectrum mages, realm hopping gods, alien monsters and ordinary people will warm your heart and make you smile, shiver, and maybe even wonder about the nature of reality itself. The theme of individual perception as a result of our assumptions, beliefs and emotional experience bind these otherwise diverse stories into a unified whole.
Title: Amaretto Flame
Author: Sammie Spencer
Price:
$.99 Amazon U.S.
£1.91 Amazon UK
Synopsis: When Olivia Landry screams, people die. No wonder she’s been shunned by humans her whole life. When Olivia makes a huge mistake, she’s banished for a summer to a human town; forced to live as one of them. She’s out for revenge when she discovers the humans are different than she imagined, especially the rugged, sexy guitarist, Jackson Vance.
Pretending to be human isn’t as hard as she thought it would be…until the witch hunters attack. Now Olivia must somehow protect herself, her family, and her new human friends. There’s a problem with that. When you go around screaming, people are bound to learn your secret. Can love really conquer anything?
Title: Fire Baptized
Author: Kenya Wright
Price:
$2.99 Amazon U.S.
$2.99 Barnes & Noble/Nook
$2.99 Kobo
Synopsis: Set in a caged habitat, where supernatural beings have been trapped by humans, the dark fantasy Habitat series follows Lanore as she solves mysteries while struggling for equality in the face of prejudice among supernaturals.
Since the 1970s humans have forced supernaturals to live in caged cities. Silver brands embedded in their foreheads identify them by species: a full moon for Vampires, a crescent moon for Shifters, a pair of wings for Fairies, and the list goes on, for each supernatural species has been tagged and categorized by humans. Lanore Vesta is marked with a silver X, the brand of Mixbreeds; second-class citizens shunned by society. She stays to herself, revealing her ability to create fire only during emergencies. All she wants to do is graduate college and stop having to steal to survive. But when she stumbles upon a murder in progress, she catches the attention of a supernatural killer. Now all she wants is to stop finding dead bodies in her apartment. Enlisting help from her Were-cheetah ex-boyfriend Meshack and a new mysterious friend named Zulu, she is steered through the habitat’s raunchy nightlife. But their presence sometimes proves to be more burden than help as they fight for her attention. While the corpses pile up, and the scent of blood fills the air, Lanore is left wondering: Will she find the psycho or die trying?
Historical Fiction
Title: The Ice King
Author: Geoff Woodland
Price:
$1.50 Amazon U.S.
£.98 Amazon UK
$1.50 Barnes & Noble
$1.50 Kobo
Synopsis: In 1804 Liverpool was the largest slave trading port in Great Britain, yet her influential traders felt threatened by the success, in Parliament, of the ant-slavery movement. Few, in Liverpool, condemned the ‘Trade’.
William King, son of a Liverpool slave trader, sickened by what he experienced aboard a Spanish slaver, was one of the few who did speak out against the Trade.
This epic, during the dying days of this despicable practice, has generational change, moral wickedness, greed, romance and the fortunes of war woven through the lives of father and son caught up in the turmoil that preceded the implementation of the British Trade Act of 1807, which would end Britain’s involvement in the slave trade.
To Liverpool slave traders, if this Act gained Royal Assent, it could mean their ruin.
Mystery/Suspense
Title: All the Blue-Eyed Angels
Author: Jen Blood
Price:
$.99 Amazon U.S.
£.77 Amazon UK
Synopsis: The truth will set her free… But is freedom worth the price?
Investigative journalist Erin Solomon sets out to solve a mystery that’s haunted her since childhood: a fatal fire at the Payson Church of Tomorrow, the isolated fundamentalist community where Erin lived with her father for the first ten years of her life. When what was presumed to be cult suicide turns out to be anything but, Erin returns to her hometown to find the truth behind the tragedy. Now, isolated on the Maine coast with an old flame and a handsome newcomer with his own dark past, Erin will risk everything to uncover the secrets of Payson Isle – secrets someone will kill to keep buried.
Title: The Temporary Detective (Humorous Mystery)
Author: Joanne Sydney Lessner
Price:
$2.99 Amazon U.S.
£3.08 Amazon UK
Synopsis: Phones, light typing…and murder.
Think breaking into show business is hard? Try landing a temp job without office skills. That’s the challenge facing aspiring actress Isobel Spice when she arrives in New York City, fresh out of college and deficient in PowerPoint. After being rejected by seven temp agencies for her lack of experience, Isobel sweet-talks recruiter James Cooke into letting her cover a last-minute vacancy at a bank. New to his own job, and recently sober, James takes a chance on Isobel, despite his suspicion that she’s a trouble-magnet. His misgivings are borne out by lunchtime, when she stumbles across a dead secretary in a bathroom stall. With her fingerprints on the murder weapon, Isobel sets out to prove her innocence by investigating the crime herself. While learning to juggle phone lines and auditions, she discovers an untapped talent for detective work–a qualification few other office temps, let alone actresses, can claim.
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