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Blindspot by Maggie Smith

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From the author of the award-winning Truth and Other Lies comes a gripping suspense novel about an ambitious prosecutor on the hunt for her sadistic stalker, only to find herself framed for murder when he turns up dead.

Rachel Matthews is used to stress—from the cutthroat world of the district attorney’s office to her escalating clashes with her teenage daughter. So when a stranger sends a lavish bouquet with a macabre message and leaves a disturbing video on her doorstep, she’s quick to act. Teaming up with an old classmate turned private investigator, she wades through old case files, searching for someone harboring a grudge against her.

But before she has time to pinpoint a suspect, her stalker issues a demand—he wants money, lots of it, or he’ll hurt her daughter. In a dangerous gamble, Rachel agrees to meet her stalker on an isolated beach, only to find herself fleeing from a shocking crime scene. Can she solve the puzzle of who wants to destroy her before she loses her family, her career, and her freedom?

Fans of Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent will embrace this taut tale of long-simmering revenge right up to its surprising and twisty climax.

Targeted Age Group:: Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I'm a big fan of psychological suspense and wanted to write a book about something a woman did in her past twenty years ago that comes back to haunt her when she least expects it. My debut was in the women's fiction genre with a hint of a mystery but this time I wanted to go more deeper into the suspense genre. But I like to say this one is a mother/daughter love story wrapped inside a suspense thriller. I seem to always be writing about that familial relationship no matter what the genre is.

Featured Book: Save Him by William M. Hayes

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About Featured Book: Save Him by William M. Hayes

Rydel Scott, a brilliant scientist working at a secret military lab, accidentally discovers time travel while working on a project designed to save wounded soldiers in the field. Rydel’s dying sister, a nun, tells Rydel that she has received a message from God – save Jesus from the cross… This eight-time award winner is also available on audio.

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Callus & Crow by DB Rook

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Callus & Crow by DB Rook

Can a path of blood lead to redemption?

Is redemption enough to amend a wayward world?

Morality and reality have shifted from their natural axis. Technology and ideology derive from the remnants of a world long dead and segregated by the monsters that now rule the seas.
Crow, a young ranch hand, is swept into an odyssey of redemption and revenge as he strives to hold back the ravages of fate and the urges born of a curse shared with his new mentor.
Callus, an exile struggling to find redemption whilst keeping his vampiric curse from tainting his new ward, pursues his prey across the sea.
The new world they discover reveals a tyrannical society fixated on their council’s ascension to godhood.

The Root of All Evil: A Clara and Iris Mystery (Book 3) by Kim Carter Novelist

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The Root of All Evil: A Clara and Iris Mystery (Book 3) by Kim Carter Novelist

“Awarded a 5-star Editorial Book Review by Reader’s Favorite and Reader Views Magazines!”

Private Investigators Clara Samples and Iris Hadley are at it again. As the two widows celebrate a successful first year of business, Pritchard Pitts of the Atlanta Police Department swings by with an unusual case. One that’s already been solved. But family members of both the victims and the offenders have doubts that the jury got it right.

It’ll be up to the PIs and their trusted team to prove that the two men incarcerated for the double murder are indeed innocent. As they delve deeper into the grisly crime, nothing is as it seems. From Iris working undercover as a waitress to Clara scouring out-of-state pawn shops, the duo soon discovers more questions than answers.

Are the men locked away in one of Georgia’s most secure prisons guilty or innocent?
And will the fearless private investigators and their team survive long enough to get the answer?

Featured Book: The Safe Game by Wes Verde

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About Featured Book: The Safe Game by Wes Verde

Roy, Urbane, and Victoria made a living by separating fools from their money, hopping from one game to the next and only barely staying ahead of the law or poverty and sometimes both. But with a tragic death, the Cons find themselves running afoul of powerful people with secrets.

Their luck may have run out and this particular game could well end in luxury, a jail cell, or an early grave.

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Featured Book: Private Cummings by Pete McGinty

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About Featured Book: Private Cummings by Pete McGinty

A man and a boy whose lives unexpectedly connect are impacted in improbable ways.

Private Hank Cummings didn’t ask for the fate that befell him during his service in WWll. Saving the lives of three men from the burning wreckage of a B-29 left him a hero, albeit scarred and disabled. But when his personal secret was revealed, he recoiled into a life of seclusion and solitude for much of his adulthood.

Never losing his spirit and will to endure, he persevered through his hardships, finding the determination to live a full and prosperous life. His humility caused him to resist the hero’s legacy he so richly deserved and would posthumously receive.

Thirty years after a chance meeting with an inquisitive thirteen-year-old boy, the two reunite in Hank’s final days, mending tragedy and suffering into self-discovery, peace, and purpose for both.

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Featured Book: The Adventures of Jimmy Crikey: Radioactive! by Wallace Briggs

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About Featured Book: The Adventures of Jimmy Crikey: Radioactive! by Wallace Briggs

Jimmy Crikey, the orphaned alien who chose to make his life on Earth, is not magical, but he has unique skills that come in useful when his family of friends in Roombelow need help.
Roombelow is suffering from the aftereffects of the rock-chewing Scarab beatles that undermined the town and the world of the Diamites, and even the water-world of the Aquamites is crumbling.
Unexpectedly, a hole appeared in the centre of the Aquamites’ Emerald Lake. Not only does the lake begin to empty, but thirty Aquamites have been swept away in the flow and end up in the lake belonging to the Tritians.

Rescue cannot come soon enough because the Tritians live in a radioactive environment that poisons the young Aquamites, and Jimmy’s close friend Annison is seriously in trouble.
Jimmy organises for the young Aquamites to be rescued by his technologically advanced home race in the star world of Attalia. Twenty-eight Aquamites were saved, but one was beyond help. To Jimmy’s dismay, Annison refused treatment until all her friends had been treated. As a result, the Attalians could not save her. Annison slipped into a coma from which they could not revive her.
Is Annison doomed to a living death, or can Jimmy call upon aid from a higher authority? Will the Master of the wizarding world save Annison for a second time?

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Featured Book: The Healing by Karen E Stokes

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About Featured Book: The Healing by Karen E Stokes

Jess was muddling through as a single parent, raising a little boy who was unfulfilled and missed his father.
On the journey home from school, Sam, a fellow pupil, walked alongside Jonas and his mother and then came into the house to play.
Normality can be deceitful and life's distractions present in many ways, but none so strange as from those who cease to exist.

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Featured Book: Haunted Echoes by Ophelia Kee

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About Featured Book: Haunted Echoes by Ophelia Kee

Haunted Echoes
A Mystic Dark Tale

Forbidden Love in the Depths of Darkness

Danika Klein shouldn’t exist, but that isn’t her fault. When a mistake leads to her abduction, a cursed human escapes her kidnappers to be rescued by a man who’s more ghostly warrior than his appearance first seems.

Rorik Skog Vættr is an exile, a draugr, sworn to a man doomed to remain part of the godless dark. After battling the torture of a tragic past, he claims a forest preserve as a sanctuary, and facilitates meetings between immortals of the Spirit Realm and those of the Leaindeail.

When Danika falls into Rorik’s life, the dream tilts, and he needs to help her. His own feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness block the romantic feelings between the two until her abductors come looking for her.

Haunted Echoes is the first novella in a prequel trilogy in the dark urban fantasy miniseries, Mystic Dark. Set in the dream, this spinoff story from the Draoithe Saga tells the tale of a draugr and how he chooses the damned for his mate. If you love powerful magic wielding ghosts and sexy cursed damsels in distress, read Haunted Echoes.

It’s not simply a story; it’s an experience. Welcome to the dream…

Dark Urban Fantasy with Steamy Paranormal Romance, Fated Mates, 18+, HEA! & NC!
***Warning: Adult Themes, Fantasy Violence, and/or Explicit Sexual Situations. Intended for a Mature Audience.

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Cage of Bone by David Dvorkin

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Suddenly, a murderer’s memories force their way into Max Iverson’s mind. Max is horrified and bewildered. Surely this isn’t real!

Max is a private person by nature, isolated from his fellow humans. Now he is forced to know what the worst of them are thinking, and his nights are filled with nightmares.

Even worse, he is drawn into helping the authorities punish the criminals whose thoughts he now knows. He is unaware of the danger this will expose him to. There is a cabal of criminals behind much of the major crime in the city. He didn’t know of their existence, but they become aware of his, and now they are determined to eliminate him.

Max must change from frightened quarry to pitiless hunter. His hunt leads him to the cabal and also to life–changing discoveries about his own history.

Targeted Age Group:: Adult/General Trade

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
My protagonist, Max Iverson, is a lot like me (although he's younger and in much better shape!). Like Max, I'm a very private person, and the idea of other people's violent thoughts forcing their way into my mind is both terrifying and intriguing.

In addition, I've published many science fiction, horror, and mystery novels, and although I enjoy thrillers, I've never written one but have long wanted to.

This novel grew out of the combination of those two factors.