Jackson Grady met the love of his life. Unfortunately, he was running drugs for a pimp named Sasha at the time, who asked him to keep an eye on their new acquisition from Russia, the bedraggled beauty named Portia. She touched his heart and forced him to confront the kind of man he’d become. Now, Portia and Jackson both work at The Sugar House. He continuously looks out for her, and longs for her with his every breath, but knows he is unworthy of such an angel. What will Portia do to win not only the heart, but also the body, of the man she loves? Welcome to the world of The Sugar House, and the men and women who will fulfill your every fantasy. But can they find a way to fulfill their own?
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Get on Board Little Children
Categories: YA Dystopian, YA Thriller, Young Adult
Series: Children in Hiding
Author: Victoria Randall
In a future marked by high-tech surveillance, an unlicensed pregnancy is a felony. It can lead to loss of the child as well as devastating fines and imprisonment. Targeted by the corrupt population-control police, Sophie must make a painful decision. She can submit to the state’s harsh demands. Or she can go on the run, relying on the conductors of the revived Underground Railway. Confronted with deception and violence, she must learn to trust her instincts. If she hesitates she risks the loss of everything she values most. Fast-paced dystopian thriller, GET ON BOARD LITTLE CHILDREN takes the heroine from the drone-watched streets of Seattle to the dangerous Tijuana border, while exploring a future that may be closer than we imagine.
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The author has combined her three books, Get on Board Little Children, Come on Home Children, and City of Hidden Children
into a trilogy, The Children in Hiding Trilogy
A New book page has been created at http://j.mp/AwesIndBk484
Life in a Nutshell
When Riley Jones’ husband, Jack, told her he was planning a blow up birthday surprise for her, Riley didn’t expect the surprise to come prettily wrapped as divorce papers. Now Riley is homeless, husbandless and penniless. As the debris of her life tumbles back to earth, Riley scrambles to pick up the pieces. Reinforced with determination and a dollar menu budget, Riley plunges back into single life and into the arms of an old flame, the irresistible firefighter, Deric. Will it be happily ever after, or will their relationship go up in smoke? Whether she’s hanging from a tree, hiding from the police, or making the evening news as a “person of interest” for criminal activities, Riley is unstoppable. Look out world, here comes Riley Jones. She’s somewhere she never intended to be...back out on her own. Except now, she’s divorced, dating and potentially dangerous! What could possibly go wrong?
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Thomas and the Tiger-Turtle
Award: Awesome Indies: APPROVED
Category: Children's Books
Publisher: Evolved Publishing LLC
Author: Jonathan Gould
When Thomas finds a talking turtle in his yard, he's amazed and surprised, especially when the turtle insists, "I'm not a turtle. I'm a tiger!" After a visit to the zoo and a fun chase, the turtle--or is it a tiger?--discovers an important truth and makes a fast friend.
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Sarge (F.IS.T.S. #1)
Award: Awesome Indies: APPROVED
Categories: Erotica, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories
Tags: 00-aa Update card with SN, BDSM, bestseller, erotica, explicit, Gay, military, sci-fi, short story, space marines, violence
Series: F.IS.T.S.
Author: Bey Deckard
Sometimes it’s just about being in the right place at the right time… with the right person. Sarge is the short story of a burgeoning D/s relationship between two Space Marines stationed on an alien planet where an endless war drags on.
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Playing Charlie Cool
Award: Awesome Indies: APPROVED
Category: Gay & Lesbian
Series: Trager Family Secrets
Author: Laurie Boris
Television producer Charlie Trager knows he’s lucky to have a successful career and good friends and family who support him. The man he loves, however, is not so lucky. Joshua Goldberg suffers the spite of an ex-wife gunning to keep him from their two children…and maybe Charlie. Determined not to let Joshua go, Charlie crafts a scheme that could remove the obstacles to their relationship…or destroy their love forever.
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Off the Beaten Track
Award: Awesome Indies: APPROVED
Categories: Memoirs, Non-fiction
Tags: 00-aa Update card with SN, buddhism, crazy, india, Memoir, relationships, SouthEast Asia, travel, YA Romance
Publisher: Grinning Bandit Books
Author: Frank Kusy
My Crazy Year in Asia In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love slave of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in love with someone else, and it got a lot worse. Trapped in a small bedsit in London, with strange foreign curses coming through the door, he jumped at the chance to write a travel book on South East Asia. There followed the craziest year of his life: he got married in a Balinese village, attacked by giant spiders in Australia, and bombed on the Cambodian border. Not to mention starting a new business in India, nearly killing the King of Thailand and receiving the death penalty in Malaysia. Oh, how Frank wished he’d never met that crazy Polish biker chick… …a really enjoyable, rollicking, true adventure set in the non-touristy parts of Asia…
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Delirium – The Rimbaud Delusion
Award: Awesome Indies: APPROVED
Tags: 00-aa Update card with SN, Gay, glbt, history, La Chasse Spirituelle, literature, poets, relationships, Rimbaud, self-realisation, sex, Verlaine
Publisher: Pentalpha Publishing Edinburgh
Author: Barbara Scott Emmett
How many times had I dreamt of coming across the yellowing manuscript of La Chasse Spirituelle? Inside an old book on a stall in Paris, perhaps. Or in the attic of some befriended ancient. How many daydreams had I enjoyed over the possibility that one day…? I shook myself. It couldn’t possibly be true. 1872: The explosive love affair between flamboyant French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine rocks French society. They flee to London, abandoning the manuscript of La Chasse Spirituelle to Verlaine’s scorned young wife. When a lawyer’s clerk salvages it from a dusty deed box, the manuscript begins its journey down the decades, revealing the secrets and betrayals of its various keepers. 2004: Andrea Mann, disenchanted with life and love, travels to France. Driven by her obsession with Rimbaud, she’s chasing her dream – the missing manuscript. Beside the poet’s grave at Charleville-Mézières, she meets a beautiful young man who shows her a single page – from La Chasse Spirituelle. Andrea embarks on a desperate quest. Drawn into a manipulative relationship with the youth and his Svengali-like mentor, the mysterious Albert, she faces unwelcome truths. The closer she gets to the manuscript, the further she veers from reality. But is Albert’s copy genuine? And can La Chasse Spirituelle fill the void in Andrea’s soul?
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Blood-tied
Award: Awesome Indies: APPROVED
Tags: 00-aa Update card with SN, British mystery, crime, Genealogical mystery, mystery, Women sleuths
Series: Esme Quentin Mystery
Publisher: SilverWood Books
Author: Wendy Percival
A desperate crime, kept secret for 60 years. But time has a way of exposing the truth. And the repercussions are only just beginning. Esme Quentin is devastated when her sister Elizabeth is beaten unconscious, miles from her home. Two days later Esme discovers that Elizabeth has a secret past. Desperate for answers which the comatose Elizabeth cannot give, Esme enlists the help of her friend Lucy to discover the truth, unaware of the dangerous path she is treading. Together they uncover a trail of unresolved bitterness, blackmail and dubious inheritance and, as the truth emerges, Esme exposes evidence of a harrowing and pitiful crime. Realising too late the menace she has unwittingly unleashed, Esme is caught up in a terrifying ordeal. One that will not only test her courage and her sanity, but force her to confront her perception of birth and family.
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