A Machine Divine

• Submitted:       05/12/2022
• Author Name:  Derek Paul
• Category or Genre:    Fantasy
• 2nd Category: Steampunk
• Reader Age Group:    Young Adult
• Language:        English (US)
• Number of Words:      96000
• Link to Amazon:
• Formats available:      .pdf
• SYNOPSIS:

“A Machine Divine” will be released through Amazon KDP on 24Jan2023. Below is the blurb:

Asher Auden is a biology prodigy whose work led to an economic boom for his rural hometown but has left him feeling isolated and alone. Callendra Saint is an introvert and the town’s most prolific, yet reluctant, animal trapper. The two are presented with an opportunity of a lifetime when they are accepted into a prestigious university at the heart of the nation’s capital. As they adjust to new surroundings, Callie embraces her independence while Asher’s gifts land him the social acceptance he’s long desired.

But, they aren’t the only new arrivals.

A gas-masked terrorist has begun plaguing the city, poisoning its leaders, and sowing political discord. Equipped with the prowess to develop an antidote, Asher sets out to protect his new friends while enlisting the support of Callie, the only person he can trust. In doing so, he unknowingly ensnares them both in a covert investigation, an ancient society’s conspiracies, and the ambitions of a deadly menace.

Nomad

• Submitted:       05/12/2022
• Author Name:  Darren Guthrie
• Category or Genre:    Thriller
• 2nd Category: Military Thriller
• Reader Age Group:    Adult
• Language:        English (US)
• Number of Words:      68186
• Formats available:      .epub

SYNOPSIS:

A U.N convoy is ambushed and slaughtered by Al-Qaeda fighters in remote Afghanistan. This seemingly random attack sets off an investigation by Sergeant Tommy Reeves, British S.A.S and the only survivor of the ambush. As his lone investigation unfolds, Reeves learns that much larger forces are at play.

The bodies begin to fall and a conspiracy starts to unravel. As Reeves puts the pieces together, he learns that powerful nations are moving in the shadows, plotting an attack immense enough to shift the balance of power across the entire Middle East.

Time Traveled

• Submitted: 25 January 2023
• Author Name:Krista Marson
• Category or Genre:Travel Memoir
• 2nd Category: non-fiction
• Reader Age Group:Adult
• Language:English (US)
• Number of Words:95575
• Link to Amazon:https://amzn.to/3DaEv9d
• Formats available:  Epub

SYNOPSIS:

TIME TRAVELED is a highly entertaining compendium of travel stories told by an adventurer who loves to hear herself think. Themes such as nature, history, and art rank high on her literary list, as well as loneliness and the importance of having someone to love. Tripping over the remnants of who we used to be, this explorer diligently follows the breadcrumbs left by those who came before.

Dawn of Unity

• Submitted:25/01/2023
• Author Name:Nitish Sharma
• Category or Genre:Fantasy
• 2nd Category: Historical, YA/Adult
• Reader Age Group:Adult
• Language:English (Can)
• Number of Words:192000
• Link to Amazon:https://www.amazon.ca/Dawn-Unity-Last-Seekers-Book-ebook/dp/B0B6Y9ZFVJ
• Formats available:.epub

SYNOPSIS: (From Amazon)

A boy despised by society, another elevated to prominence, both linked by a war.

“Die a criminal or serve your country in this war,” the knight who recaptured seventeen-year-old Will Farmer told him. Locked away for murder, Will escaped only because of a powerful object he found. He takes the knight’s mercy to prove he’s not the monster they say he is. A battle later he’s captured by a boy from the opposing side who holds an object like his.

“Capture an enemy, bring him to the capital, and you will be grand vizier,” the sultan told sixteen-year-old Ahmed Sharfi. He’s improved over nine years at the University of Magi, since the day he accidentally burned down his town’s souk. To sit by the sultan’s side, it’s everything he thought he wanted. Thus he heads to war. Yet, a powerful object, found during his studies, points him to someone in the aftermath of a battle.

Their nations say they should be enemies, but it isn’t so. They don’t understand the war, but for different reasons. Will wants redemption, while Ahmed cared only about his studies, yet they seem to get along so well. They realise their powerful objects may be able to guide them. But who are two boys to change a war others failed to stop?

Valley of Fools

• Submitted:01/02/2023
• Author Name:Brian Martell
• Category or Genre:Literary Fiction
• Reader Age Group:Adult
• Language:English (US)
• Number of Words:75000
• Link to Amazon: https://amzn.to/3HNA7zv
• Formats available:. epub without cover.

SYNOPSIS: (From Amazon)

The city is a watershed. Every street leads down. Just start walking, sooner or later you’ll end up down by the river.

Valley of Fools is the story of a rebellious young man, Emerson, who comes of age in a home for ‘depressed morons and crazy bastards.’ At age 24, he suddenly finds himself out in the streets with nothing but his principles, a bad attitude, and a suitcase full of underwear and cigarettes.

Through a series of unfortunate coincidences, Emerson is caught in the media spotlight, the central figure of a political scandal involving the storage of nuclear waste on the greatest river in the nation, and an election campaign focused on providing dental health care for the homeless population of the city.

Among the bums, madmen, and visionaries of the Brewery Street Community, Emerson learns about truth, pride, and the cost of living, where ‘it’s damn hard enough without watching somebody else not even try.’

Pulstar I – The Swan Barely Remembers

• Submitted:13/03/2023
• Author Name:Giancarlo Roversi
• Category or Genre:Science Fiction
• 2nd Category: Mystery
• Reader Age Group:Adult
• Language:English (US)
• Number of Words:107809
• Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXJZ14P

SYNOPSIS:

Three strangers who share a forgotten past confront a vengeance they incited when their bodies weren’t human.In Astralvia, a nation on the brink, astronomer Jeral Murh’s life is in limbo.She’s woken from a coma with fresh memories and is certain of two things:

1. Her past actions are already haunting her present.
2. She is not entirely human.

She must abscond from Astralvia before an ancient enemy wreaks revenge. Everything is against her. Also, she must find Aris Castilho, her former ally, and make him remember what they once meant to each other. She can’t leave without him.

Will she find Aris and convince him of their common past?

Will they reach Esther, their third ally?

Time is short … the ultimate reckoning is coming … and it’s unthinkable, indescribable—the worst thing that can happen to any human being.

Pulstar I took over ten years to make and has a soundtrack in production.

The Blue Man

• Submitted:       15/03/2023
• Author Name:  Leilanie Stewart
• Category or Genre:    Ghost horror
• 2nd Category: Psychological literary fiction
• Reader Age Group:    Adult
• Language:        English (UK)
• Number of Words:      80306
• Link to Amazon:          https://amzn.to/3JJekdy
• Formats available:      .EPUB

SYNOPSIS:    

Two best friends. An urban legend. A sinister curse.

Twenty years ago, horror loving Sabrina told her best friend, Megan, the terrifying Irish folk tale of the Blue Man, who sold his soul to the Devil in vengeance against a personal injustice. What should have been the best summer of their school days turned into a waking nightmare, as the Blue Man came to haunt Megan. Sabrina, helpless to save Megan from a path of self-destruction and substance abuse as she sought refuge from the terror, left Belfast for a new life in Liverpool.

Twenty years later, the former friends reunited thinking they had escaped the horrors of the past. Both were pregnant for the first time. Both had lived elsewhere and moved back to their hometown, Belfast. Both were wrong about the sinister reality of the Blue Man, as the trauma of their school days caught up to them – and their families.

Why did the Blue Man terrorise Megan? Was there more to the man behind the urban legend? Was their friendship – and mental health – strong enough to overcome a twenty year curse?

Social Vampire

• Submitted:         14/03/2023
• Author Name:  James Schannep
• Book Title:        Social Vampire
• Category or Genre:    Coming of Age
• 2nd Category: Humor
• Reader Age Group:    Young Adult
• Language:        English (US)
• Number of Words:      80000
• Link to Amazon:         https://amzn.to/3Tgqv4u
• Formats available:      .epub

SYNOPSIS:

At a new school, you get a chance to reinvent yourself, so…why not be a vampire?

Gordon is hiding something. Is it the fact that he’s secretly a vampire? No, of course n-wait. Yes. That’s exactly what he’s hiding. Let’s go with that.

So when this nerdy teen moves to a small town where all the kids are obsessed with vampire fiction, he reinvents himself as their dream character: dark & brooding, cool as hell, and overly susceptible to stabs through the heart.

While rivaling the alpha male jock, garnering the attention of the most popular girl in his class, and forming a hilarious friendship with the girl next door (the only one who knows his secret), Gordon might find that his new school is the perfect place for him to shine-or, better yet, sparkle.

But if his classmates dig up the truth, it’ll be the nail in his coffin…

Oblivion’s Cloak

• Submitted: 17/04/2023
• Author Name: Dylan McFadyen
• Category or Genre: Science Fiction
• 2nd Category: Space Opera
• Reader Age Group: All Age
• Language: English (US)
• Number of Words: 135000
• Link to Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNXT5422
• Formats available: epub