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                                                                                   click on the image to go to amazon  Sometime in 936 A.D.,  Athelstan King of the United Kingdom has a life-changing event and vows to be a better king. He promises to address treason, theft, and social order to make his kingdom fair and just. Move forward more than a thousand years to the present day and we meet political leaders facing one of, if not the greatest test of their governments. As prison inmates over the globe start to die, no one is safe. Through glimpses into the leaders and how they react to social media exchanges of individuals, the scope of the crisis is laid bare. But what do King Athelstan and a 70-year-old woman in London have to do with what is happening and what is her relationship with Bob? In The Knackerman Who Salvaged the Stars, Caroline A. Connell creates an intertwined, fast-moving novel. In The Knackerman Who Salvaged the Stars, Caroline Connell takes a hard look at what we

                                                                click on the image to go to amazon The Chocolate Prophesy – E.L. Ward falls comfortably into the genre of Epic Fantasy. The story starts with Jek the unimportant lighthouse keeper and his wife Audrey –though she looks more like and Aaliyah- who are both kidnapped by The Old Man on the very day that the Inquisition and the Inspector also come for their respective duties. They go on a harrowing journey to find the Indigo Knights who must help save the world. They have to run from the Despotopian assassins and make allies out of some of the most unlikely enemies. Visit the Wading Island and converse with Dragons. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Idriulthoronton Archipelago, Parissah and Horus Templar follow their own journeys that will lead them to join the unprepared saviours of the world. In the tradition of Tolkien, a grand adventure begins with two characters who go on an unexpected (though forced) adventure, then the

                                                                     click on the image to go to amazon or go to  Smashwords In Wings of Mayhem by Sue Coletta, Shawnee Daniels lost her parents when she was young and spent some time living on the streets where she was taken in and trained to be a cat burglar. She uses her skills to steal from the corrupt who steal from unsuspecting victims.  She can find her targets through her work with the police as an IT specialist.  She lives with her best friend and her cats. As she searches through her latest mark – Jack Delsin’s home she discovers a secret so horrifying that she flees the home and spends the next few days in fear as she realizes that Jack knows who she is and is now threatening her loved ones. She has to navigate her life making sure that her loved ones are safe while working hard with her Lieutenant to try and apprehend The Creator before he strikes again. Wings of Mayhem is a suspenseful thriller that will keep you on the edge

  "A hunter, a necromancer, and a vampire walk into a feral den...what happens next is anyone's guess."                    Kiss me deadly - Jessie Thomas.                                                                      click on the image to go to amazon Vampires, Necromancers, Hunters, and Psychopathic cults all come together to make a great YA Fantasy in Kiss me deadly by Jessie Thomas. Sera is contacted by Nate to help him find his son. Meanwhile, she has to try and solve the murder of her previous client and becomes mixed up in an ominously overfriendly cupcake cult. All of this while she has to rebuild her relationship with her sister, whose best friend is a ghost from the Victorian era. This was a pleasure to read; the plot was interesting and the characters believable. The action is non-stop and intense, while the themes of prejudice, friendship, and family are woven into this action-packed fantasy. Readers who like Jim Butcher might find these enjoyable. I rec

Now that Sam and Dean have finished their work in America, a new kind of hunter has started working down under... click on the image to go to amazon Meet Zack Bolder a trained parapsychologist, a priest trained in the paranormal who represents the Catholic Church in cases where the supernatural or occult is suspected. In Bolder Blindsided we meet up with Bolder in the town of Walhalla where two young men have gone missing. Detective Wellock is on the case and seeing as the town is mostly known for its supernatural activity, it is an old mining town that is mostly deserted with a few residents who try to make a living off of the tourist trade.  Mostly there are Ghost Tours and guaranteed paranormal activity in most of the bed and breakfasts in town.  Bolder is called in and together with some of the townsfolk they follow a trail of disappearing tourists, encounter their fair share of spirits and a devil worshipper,  Bolder is in tune with the spirit world and knows how to read the clues

                                                                       click on the image to go to amazon or go to  Smashwords “If living in the pass taught me anything this last year, it’s to expect the unexpected.”   In this, the second part of the Wild and Ruin Trilogy by Jennifer Edelson, situated in New Mexico, we pick up the story where Ruby is on the brink of her final months of school before graduation.   She lands a spot at an archaeological dig close to La Luna.   Here she meets the mesmerizing Lee, who is the lead at the dig and brings a great deal of mysticism with him.   Ruby and Ezra are together, and she has decided not to leave La Luna after graduation so they can look after the Gate at the Pueblo ruin together. Despite the warning she received the previous winter.   Her relationship with Angel takes an unexpected turn when his father shows up as a sub at Ruby’s school.   Her world is thrown into chaos when she comes face to face with more shifters.   Some of them a

" Emotion shifts through his irises they're no longer blocked.  Suddenly I can see into the oceanic depths of them. I could get lost there if I'm not careful.  I would drown and it would not be pleasant.  At least I don't think it would be.  I wouldn't want it to be.  What if it was?" click on the image to go to amazon I n a world where Vampires share their world, running businesses that prey on the weaknesses of humans.  Evangeline or Eva is one of the teenagers who are acutely aware of the effect that the Vampires have had on their society. From the age of 25 Vampires can compel humans to do what they want.  At 18 Evangeline is trying to save her mother from a gambling addiction.  The problem is that her mother gambles at the Alabaster Heart, better known as the Blood Casino, because when you want to gamble you donate blood for chips. A legal way for the Vampires to get blood and make money at the same time. The second thing Eva desperately wants to do is