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Featured Book: So Shall The Tree Grow by Ninie Hammon

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Free from 1/24/2023 through 1/31/2023

Family loyalties, deadly feuds, and international drug wars are brought to life in Ninie Hammon’s new intergenerational tale set in present-day Kentucky, four decades after the rise and fall of the Cornbread Mafia.

When Ruth Hannacker finds a “just-in-case-anything-happens-to-me” letter among her mother’s things after she was killed in a tornado, it opens a new chapter in the family’s decades-long, fraught, and often tragic story with Righteous Weed.

The letter from Jessica Monaghan Hannacker tells of the Tree House, a propane tank buried in the ground where Willie Ray Taggart stashed his marijuana money back in the heyday of the Cornbread Mafia. When Ruth finds the Tree House, she discovers $75,000 in cash and quart jars of Righteous Weed seed, the finest strain of marijuana ever developed.

Over the protests of 72-year-old Riley Hannacker, the only remaining living member of the original Cornbread Mafia, the family decides to grow an indoor crop, illegal in Kentucky, so they can patent the strain and get a license to grow in one of the 11 newly legal states. They plan to market it as a premium boutique cannabis, appealing to the nostalgia of the smokers’ first-time high.

But as so often happens with the best-laid plans, things quickly go awry. Jealousy, resentment, anger, greed, and deeply buried feelings from long gone wrongs resurface and wreak havoc with what is left of the family.

So Shall The Tree Grow is the fourth and final book in Ninie Hammon’s new Cornbread Mafia series, a fictional story inspired by the real Cornbread Mafia that sprang up in picturesque Marion County, Kentucky, and grew into the largest illegal marijuana-growing operation in U.S. history.

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Featured Book: A FEW CASUALTIES SO WHAT by Wilson Jackson

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Some Body wants to start a gang war

Two teens from rival crime families (Prohibition and Hip-hopper) die in a car bomb. Neither family knew about the forbidden Romeo and Juliet romance and the mayor fears a possible gang war between the rival families blaming the other for their children’s deaths. Enter ex hit-man now troubleshooter CHUBBY PONE to stop a gang war by solving the murders of the two teens. But Pone has to protect himself as someone wants him dead before he can solve the case.

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Featured Book: How Long is a Mouse's Tail by Roy Stolworthy

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After serving a 20-year prison sentence for murdering his unfaithful wife, Anton Page returns to his home village. Abused and vilified by those he thought friends, he enlists the aid of ex-convicts to gain his revenge. But events lead to a trail of dead bodies for grumpy DCI Isobel Mattress and acid- tongued Sgt Harry Down to investigate.

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Featured Book: The Big Bad Wolf: Book 1: Blood (A Fantasy Reincarnation Isekai Light Novel) by 13 Pitch Black Cats

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For a limited time after release at $0.99. Valid until January 20, 2023

When a mysterious entity grants a man who died a chance to be a hero in another life in a fantasy world, he cannot believe his luck. The one condition: he must fight the demon king if he shows up during his new iteration.

He accepts and…

Wakes in the body of a young female wolf beastkin named Lucia haunted by the memory of orcs ravaging her town. Not the rebirth he was hoping for.

He soon learns that beastkin are not looked upon kindly in these parts and, because Lucia is an orphaned beastkin, she is drafted into the military. But this new body has its perks as well as its drawbacks. She possesses a hot temper, an incredibly youthful and strong body, and claws. However, the longer he is in this body, the willpower of his former life begins to yield to Lucia’s overwhelming primal instincts.

With the help and magic of an enigmatic female elf at an orphanage, Lucia may have a chance at controlling her violent nature as she contends with this harsh, new alien world. Among the threats: murderous orcish raiders, fearsome beasts, and summoned demons. And quite possibly, the demon king himself.

No small feat for a young beastkin, but it sure beats being dead.

This Royal Road alumnus is a unique reincarnation fantasy adventure featuring plenty of action, twists, and memorable characters that takes place during the hero’s rebirthed childhood rather than glossing over it like most books in the genre. This exciting isekai story with its female lead will transport you to a lush new world filled with fantastical races, unforeseen danger, and powerful magic you won’t soon forget.

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Featured Book: Fatal Memory Book 1 by Ava S. King

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Enjoy fast-paced action adventure, a political thriller, with unforgettable characters and heart-pounding suspense.

Early in her military career, Teagan Stone was recruited from the Navy to work with an elite group, where she became a notorious spy. After many years of service, all she wants to do is focus on her husband and three kids.

Instead of enjoying retirement, she wakes up one day and finds herself
chained to a bed in a 4×4 cell with no memory of how she got there or why. The life she tried to leave behind has dragged her back.

Once again Teagan must rely on her time as a undercover government operative, to work a mission she didn’t ask for, while doing things she hasn’t done in years, in order to save her country.

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Featured Book: The Honeymoon Homicide by J. R. Mathis and Susan Mathis

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Enjoy this Free Small-Town Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple

I’m Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest in a small-town parish who never expected this . . .

When I came to Myerton to take over as pastor of Saint Clare’s Catholic Church, I never expected to run into a woman I loved in college twenty years ago . . .

I never expected that woman to be the police detective who solved my first wife’s murder–and saved my life in the process . . .

I never expected to fall in love with her all over again . . .

Most of all, I never, ever expected to receive permission from the Holy Father to marry her . . .

But that’s what happened to me.

So after a wonderful wedding and a honeymoon cruise with my new wife, we’re looking forward to another week together, just the two of us.

But instead, we have to go back home, to Myerton.

You see, my deacon’s been murdered, and I have a hurting flock to tend to.

I’m Helen Parr Greer, Chief of Police in a small-town police department who never expected this . . .

As a police detective in Myerton, I never expected to run into the man who broke my heart twenty years ago . . .

I never expected him to be a Catholic Priest . . .

I never expected him to ask me to solve the murder of his first wife . . .

I never expected to fall in love with him all over again . . .

Most of all, I never, ever expected him to receive permission from the Holy Father to marry me . . .
But that’s what happened to me.

So after a wonderful wedding and a honeymoon cruise with my new husband, we’re looking forward to another week together, just the two of us.

But instead, we have to go back home, to Myerton.

You see, a man’s been murdered, and I have a killer to find . . .

The Honeymoon Homicide is the first novel in the Mercy and Justice Mystery series, a contemporary small town mystery series. The series is a sequel to the Father Tom Mysteries that began with The Penitent Priest and includes the same cast of characters. It features Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest who is also an amateur sleuth in the tradition of Father Brown, and his wife Helen Greer, female Chief of Police and detective in the tradition of Kinsey Millhone. If you enjoy the works of Rhys Dylan, Andrew Mayne, and Mary Stone, you will enjoy this novel.

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Featured Book: Bullies, Bovines, and a Bookmobile by MK Scott

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An unexpected illness of the aunt who raised her, draws reference librarian Tenny back into the tangle of small time life complete with unrequited love, and a mean girl with an agenda. Her goal is to nurse her aunt back to health and start a local library in the process. Unfortunately, she stumbles onto a bovine secret and a life-long rivalry. Can she untangle the mystery while creating a rural bookmobile service?

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Featured Book: Do No Harm by James Cohoon

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Torrey and Matthew meet while attending Stanford Medical School. She wants to become a doctor to save lives; he wants to become a prison doctor for the sole purpose of gaining access to San Quentin where his father's murderer is serving a life sentence. Matthew wants to exact the ultimate revenge.

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Featured Book: The Jabberowk by Ninie Hammon

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Nower County was never a hard place to leave. Now, leaving is impossible.

When drunk teenagers add letters to the Welcome to Nower County sign, making it Welcome to NowHerE County, nobody repaints it. Why bother? Everyone knows they live in the middle of nowhere.

Children’s book author Charlie McClintock and her three-year-old daughter, Merrie, return home to settle Charlie’s recently deceased mother’s affairs. It’s the first time since high school that she and childhood friends Sam Sheridan and Malachi Tackett have been reunited. A beat of happiness before Charlie experiences an unexplainable disaster.

A bizarre storm blows through the Appalachian Mountains and literally wipes Nower County off the map. The outside world forgets the tiny town ever existed, and no one can leave. Anyone who tries wakes up in the Dollar General Store parking lot with blinding headaches, gushing nosebleeds, and no clue what happened to them.

Locals name the shimmering mirage on the county line that imprisons them the Jabberwock.

Abby Clayton thinks it’s Charlie’s pet. Desperate to bring her baby home from the hospital across county lines, Abby is the only person who has dared to “ride the Jabberwock” more than once.

She believes it spoke to her. Brain-damaged, barely able to walk from her injuries, Abby hatches a deranged plot to force Charlie to make the Jabberwock set them free. Will Malachi manage to stop her and save Charlie and Merrie in time?

And can Abby survive one more ride on the Jabberwock?

The Jabberwock is the first book of Ninie Hammon’s new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere.

Fans of Justified, Under The Dome, and LOST will love settling down to spend some time in Nowhere USA.

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Featured Book: Death By Drowning: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery by Abigail Keam

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In spite of having to recover from serious injuries from her fall down a cliff, Josiah Reynolds is back to sleuthing. This time her friend, Irene Meckler, asks Josiah to investigate the death of her nephew which was ruled accidental. Irene has her doubts.

Along with her best friend Matt and Jake Dosh, a physician assistant hired by Josiah’s daughter, Josiah again makes the rounds of quirky characters that can only be found in the mysterious world of antebellum homes, bourbon, and Thoroughbred racing of Kentucky’s Bluegrass region.

Will Josiah discover the real reason for the death of her friend’s nephew? As Josiah fights for her recovery, she fights for the truth regarding a youth and the secret as how he died. In a land where secrets are buried deep in the earth, Josiah searches in a land that doesn’t let go of its past easily. The past never dies in Kentucky – the dark and bloody ground.

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