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  click on image to go to amazon The Roach by Rhett C Bruno is an excellent example of Noir fiction.  Set in the 1980s in Iron City, The Roach, or Reese Roberts is a vigilante who prowled the streets and took care of the criminals in the city.  After making a rescue, he is shot and paralyzed.  This is where we meet him, on the river’s edge in his wheelchair contemplating suicide.  A cry for help diverts him, and from this point on, the story develops into an adrenaline-pumping grungy thriller.  After again sustaining immense injuries while saving a little girl, Reese wakes after a month in a coma to find that someone had stolen his identity and was killing in the city.  Reese, in his wheelchair, solicits the help of a young man he tried to help and embarks on the search for the one scumbag reporter that may have answers.  Reed makes the comic book heroes look like little girls playing dolls as he races through the city in his wheelchair to try and...

click on image to go to amazon   Intercession by Kevin J Haar is an excellent novel of Historical Fiction. The story begins with the birth of Aoife, the daughter of Niall and Izette.   As the sun does not come through on the morrow, the child is called cursed by the superstitious residents of Innis Aer, a small Irish island housing a nunnery and priory. At the priory, brother Declan hides a shameful secret that could be the end of his peaceful existence at the priory. Almost twelve years later, the fates of Father Declan and Aoife intercede.  They become embroiled in a mystery that threatens Aoife’s life with her father at their Inn, as well as bringing Father Declan to a crucial crossroads in his life.  As the political strife of the outside world closes in on this small island, Aoife stands on the brink of womanhood and will do whatever it takes to be rid of the curse everyone says she is carrying.  She searches for the witch that interceded at her birth. ...

  click on image to go to amazon In The Murderess of Mayfair, author J. M. Shannon weaves a story of a young widow, Elise Bristol, who has been dubbed a murderess by the Ton after her husband was found dead with a dagger in his back. Because of this, her chance at a second marriage is slim. She secures the services of Oliver Woodgate, a known womanizer and a retired Bow Street Runner, to find her husband’s murderer. Elise has sworn that no man shall ever have control over her nor touch her ever again but when a serial killer tries to kill her she is whisked away to Oliver’s house and he swears to keep her safe, especially from himself. Elise wears her haughty cold mask to keep herself safe. But neither will be able to protect their hearts in the race to stop one killer and also find another. The Murderess of Mayfair: A Second Chance at Love is a Regency romance with everything it needs to make a wonderful read. There are balls, deceit, disguises, and do not forget the heart-racing ...

  click on image to go to amazon Requiem by Rachel V Knox is a Paranormal Fantasy Romance that is more new adult than young adult.  The story follows Hagar as she performs magic in Sera, where all magic is against the law.  Her friend from childhood, Noq, is a magical creature, and only she sees him. After she is caught burning down the furrier’s barn, the elders offer her an offer she cannot refuse.  She is sent to Vanar university in Candesa as a spy; she is exiled from Sera, and only through spying on the University will she receive permission to see her father.  Hagar takes the chance to study magic formally amongst other magical people her age.  She makes friends and enemies in her year at University.  She and her friends can join multiple legal and illegal secret societies, but navigating University politics and petty jealousy is difficult, mainly because negative emotions cause shade.  Shade is dangerous and poses a threat to Light in the w...

     click on image to go to amazon As a foundling, Carin has had it hard in the house of her adopted parents, and when she is encouraged by the town's wise woman, she starts on a long trek north in search of her home. She unknowingly stumbles onto the lands of Lord Verek, a Warlock, grieving the loss of his wife and young son. In the woods, Carin also meets a wood sprite living in the land's trees that Verek had cursed on the death of his wife and son. Soon it becomes clear that Carin is immune to some of Verek's enchantments. He sees in her the opportunity to find out the message hidden in a book in a foreign language that Carin can read. Carin fears the Warlock and the secrets he keeps. Why is he obsessed with the unique book, and what will his experiments in the magic vortex in the bowels of his house lead to? When Carin is forced to help him to interact with another world, something goes wrong. What will become of Carin? Is Verek a black-hearted Warlock with no feeli...

                                                                               click on image to go to amazon The Shape of Memories begins where Alpha Tyler Grisham calls his wife from space and informs her of an important decision that he has made.  Moments later, he and his crew are on a flight for their lives as a debris field around planet UP-117 threatens to destroy their vessel –aptly named the Mayflower.  The crew are sent out in their pods, evacuating the vessel, leaving Tyler with the vessel until he too is ejected by the safety system of the vessel. When Elizabeth and the crew return to the Mayflower to salvage what they can, they encounter an alien entity that threatens the lives of the crash survivors. Meanwhile, Tyler wakes up an...

  click on image to go to amazon The Kingdom war by J.D. Ruffin is a fantasy that starts with a prophesy inscribed in a glassy black stone. A loyal servant sworn to her cause will see Irina, the most powerful mage on the continent, return when the time is right. Hidden in the mountains between the Kingdom and Melucia, the Children have waited patiently for the time to come for them to fulfil their destiny.  Now, all over the continent, Gifted are taken and not seen again. With a team specially picked for the task, they quickly trace the missing healer to Melucia and the Kingdom border. In Melucia, the Healer Tiana is taken, and Lt. Keelin Rae is placed in charge of the investigation. Meeting up with Declan, Keelan’s brother and a Ranger, they enter the mountains following Tiana’s trail. As Keelan and his team sneak over the mountains into the Kingdom, Declan is sent on his own secret mission. Meanwhile, in the Kingdom, 16-year-old Crown-Princess Jessia runs away with him...

  “Finding Hope” by Erin Brockus is a Contemporary Romance in which Hope Collins, a predictable and stable woman, gets dumped by her comfortable boyfriend. At the same time, she is passed over for a promotion, and she resigns on a whim. Out of the blue, she wins a dive resort on the Caribbean Island of St. Croix and decides that being unpredictable might have something to offer. Relocating to St. Croix, she takes over the resort where she encounters Alex Monroe – the perplexing divemaster. Both of them have baggage and trust issues, but as they work alongside each other, they come to terms with themselves and the feelings both of them are trying to escape. Throw in a couple of life and death situations that push them towards each other, and you have a beautiful romance in the making.                                                   ...

  "There was a legend..." In Haldia, there are girls who can charm the sea; they are called Navia. They are pledged to a patron who makes an offering to them, and in return, they then would protect at all costs through making offerings at the sea goddess. Mila had already been rejected twice and has all her hopes that she will be chosen as Navia and find a Patron this time.                               Finn is a Fae Cartographer from Whynne, Haldia's neighbour and enemy. Finn needs to find a boat to take him to Whynne when he becomes Mila's patron by chance.  She is excited and takes her duty seriously and finds a ship that will take him home, but the way home is through the Barren Sea, where ships are wrecked, and unknown creatures live. The heart of the legend of the sea goddess lies at the bottom of the Barren sea.              ...