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City of Dark by CH Dickinson

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The Paris catacombs. The city’s subterranean shadow. Hundreds of kilometers of tunnels. A land of history and legend, where the underground explorer treads a fine line between reality and irreality. As the top inspector on the counter-terror squad, Khalid Sadiqi thought he knew everything there was to know about the City of Light’s weak spots. But this is new. This is the City of Dark. Seeking to learn more about the world below the city, Sadiqi stumbles on the impish help of Antonia Corrigan. The vibrant young engineer heartens the jaded inspector. Not only can she wend her way through her underground playground with lively agility, she also knows all the myths and legends that will prove to be the key to unlocking the mysteries. But will her knowledge of the tunnels below ground be enough to stop the mayhem above?

Targeted Age Group:: Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
There are hundreds of kilometers of catacomb tunnels below Paris. I started wondering what would happen if those tunnels were taken over by terrorists.

Hell lingering within by Max Kwoa

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People says ageing is a brutal process, but just how brutal exactly? “Hell lingering within” is about to help you find out.
Centered around mid-life crisis, this fiction treats the theme in a blunt manner, with the protagonist’s inner self literally taking shape for a killing spree.
It all starts when Victor, a fashion designer, travels back to his birthplace. As the trip goes, familiar faces starts lurking around. Miraculously making it back home, Victor’s life slowly goes berserk, events of the trip affecting his work and family life. Meanwhile, the mysterious face seemingly followed him back…

Ageing, in all its brutality, will never look the same once you’ve read the last words of “Hell Lingering Within”.

Targeted Age Group:: 25+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Dramatic impacts that mid-life crisis had over people around me (myself included) made me realize how brutal the process can be. Suicide, divorce, ageing is life changing and far more brutal and vicious than any fiction killer could ever be. From there the idea of inner struggle literally coming to life just seemed like the next step.

Tesla by Jason Walker

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Tesla by Jason Walker

Darren Mathews, a former Australian SAS super soldier, is a loving father married to his soulmate, Anna Mathews. They are both devoted parents, living with their daughter, Dana, on a small island off the coast of Florida. They seem to have the perfect family life, but they are hiding a dangerous secret: they both work for the Orange Corporation, an umbrella company of the CIA controlled by the shadow government. From aliens to giants, they have seen all that the Hidden Hand has kept from the world. Almost.

When a routine recovery mission puts Darren face-to-face with original Tesla documents, he makes an impulsive decision which will alter the course of not only his own fate but the fates of his wife and daughter forever. What will Darren do with the Tesla notes and diagrams? Will the shadow government discover what he has done? And will Anna turn her husband over to the Hidden Hand, or will she stick with him for better or worse—until death do they part?

Loss Of Reason by Miles A. Maxwell

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Loss Of Reason by Miles A. Maxwell

One Of The Most Disturbing Stories You’ll Ever Read!
Distant for many years, Franklin out of Pennsylvania and his step-brother Everon out of Nevada are connected by a single link: Their sister Cynthia.

Enter The Nightmare
A nuclear bomb is detonated in New York. Banker, wife, mother, Cynthia lives in New York. The military has quarantined the city, its bridges and tunnels destroyed or blocked. Easterly winds have forced the bomb’s radiation cloud out over Long Island. But the wind is about to change.

Franklin climbs mountains and truly understands people. Everon can fly anything. Cynthia’s brothers are determined to find her. If it were your sister, what would you do?

A ripping good tale of how intelligence and determination can overcome the near-impossible. And the true price of altruism.

Perverse Consequences by Robert Blain

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Australian private investigator Andrew Schlakier is hired by a mysterious government agency that wants a conviction on a ten-year-old murder case – and is willing to pay handsomely if he delivers. Broke, burnt out and binge drinking since splitting with his girlfriend, Schlakier takes on the cold case against his better judgement. He begins tracking the whereabouts of Christopher Hohl – the eldest son of one of Australia’s richest families. Questions hang over him concerning the disappearance of his wife a decade earlier, for which he is widely believed to be responsible. But far from unearthing a man of murderous intent, Hohl’s back story reveals a family tragedy in which he was an innocent victim. Is Hohl the cold-blooded predator the media paints him as or just fodder for a vociferous press baying for blood? Schlakier seems to be the only person who believes his target is not guilty, even while evidence to the contrary continues to mount. But as Schlakier traverses the streets of Melbourne, the state and the entire continent in search of clues, each lead propels him further into jeopardy – and a step closer to the man who could put his very own life in peril.

Targeted Age Group:: 18-100

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
This work is inspired by the life of Robert Durst and the documentary, The Jinx, which chronicles it. I just couldn't get the true-life story of Robert Durst out of my head. From the way he saw his mother commit suicide by jumping of the top of his home as a child to the incredible way he confessed to multiple murder at the end of the documentary. I didn't think I'd feel sorry for him but I did. How much did the trauma as a child contribute to his violent tendencies as an adult? I hoped writing this novel would help me understand.

War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel

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War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel

The alien wars are unending. In 2187, Earth has the Katarga trapped on the moon, refusing to allow them to escape. The Piltrak and Jurale are pending threats, which forces Global Command to recruit 15-year-olds as soldiers. Dax, low-status and a non-conformist, never imagined she’d be a soldier, yet she was hand-picked by gruff Commander Viteri, taken from her parents, never to see them again. She doesn’t want to kill aliens, and suspects there’s more to the wars than keeping the aliens at bay. The problem is, can she survive long enough to find the truth?

Featured Book: The Irish End Games, Books 1-3 by Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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A fun family vacation turns into an apocalyptic nightmare when a couple and their young son find themselves trapped in the Irish countryside after an international crisis. With all contact outside the country gone, this suburban American family must reach deep within their reserve of brains and courage to survive.

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Featured Book: GIRL NEXT DOOR: An edge of your seat – vicious serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

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About Featured Book: GIRL NEXT DOOR: An edge of your seat – vicious serial killer thriller by Willow Rose

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Inspired by a true story.
He came in the morning when they were still making lunches and getting ready for school and work. He killed them all – mother, father and children. Brutally slaughtered them in the comfort of their own home.

They called him the Monday Morning Killer.

That was forty years ago, but now it is happening again. A mother and her daughter are brutally murdered in their house, on a peaceful Monday morning in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

Detective Jack Ryder has enough on his plate being home alone with six kids and his wife – country superstar Shannon King – on tour. This case takes his anxiety to a new level when he realizes the crime scene matches unsolved murders from four decades prior. He worries that a deranged serial killer has returned to Cocoa Beach.

No one feels safe, especially not the girl next door, who just bought the house where the first family was killed forty years ago.
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Featured Book: Three Weeks in Washington: A Titus Ray Thriller by Luana Ehrlich

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CIA intelligence officer, Titus Ray, jeopardizes his career to interrogate a terrorist and learn the truth about an Iranian deep cover operative living in Washington. What he learns sends Titus on an intelligence operation spanning two continents and leads to the discovery of an Iranian general obsessed with destroying America’s capital with chemical weapons.

As time runs out, Titus engages the enemy in a treacherous game of cat and mouse to save the lives of thousands and defeat the terrorists. Can his faith sustain him as he faces his greatest challenge? Is he willing to lose Nikki to save his country?

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Featured Book: Obsession by Belinda Austin

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Forced into marriage by a shotgun wedding, Dr. Brad O’Boyle and his wife, Ronni, have always had a horrible marriage. When Brad returns home from a medical convention, he seems transformed into a loving husband and father. But then Brad begins acting like a Jekyll-Hide. He is the nice Brad and then he is the Brad who looks at his wife as if he would like to kill her. Something bad happened at that medical convention.

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