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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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Collateral Carnage: Money. Politics. Big Pharma. What could go wrong? by Christine Saper

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Money. Politics. Big Pharma. What could go wrong?

As PTSD therapist Claire Wilheit is about to learn, a whole helluva lot.

A chance after-hours encounter with a fellow therapist reveals falsified patient files and thrusts Claire into a conspiracy poised to revolutionize treatment for US veterans now and for future generations, with deadly collateral damage.

Locked in a race against time to stop the release of one of most dangerous pharmaceuticals ever developed, Claire is plunged into an intrigue of corruption, runaway egos and medical hubris.

But she’s up against greed, power and a clock that’s about to run out.

Targeted Age Group:: adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Anger and fear. The anger part: Living in Phoenix, AZ, it has been impossible to miss the many scandals and horrendous treatment the veterans have experienced at the hands of the Phoenix VA – of course Phoenix isn't alone, but has been rather a ground zero for exposure. Given my background in health care administration and public health, I find Big Pharma to be a social poison in this country. The fear part: a Congress that lacks the backbone to stand up to drug companies and lobbyists of all ilk, dark money, and the threat of privatization of the wrong things.
Setting the book in the near future gave me a chance to explore these themes and leave readers with a subtle warning about things that require our engagement and vigilance as citizens.

The Adulterer’s Handbook: A Novel by Sam Anthony

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I’m about to jump into the canal and pull her to safety when I stop at the edge of the towpath.
What if I do nothing…?
The must-read psychological mystery thriller for 2019.
If you’re having an affair and you don’t want to get caught, you must read this book.
The Adulterer’s Handbook is the story of a happily married man, desperately trying to prevent his wife from finding out about his affair. For months he is successful, but then things take a dark turn…
A love story, a betrayal, an accident, a murder? You decide.
Lee Bolton has it all: a wonderful wife who he adores and two lovely children. But something is missing from his marriage.
Sophia Miller, the office temptress, offers to fill the gap and they begin a carefully regulated and orchestrated affair.
Lee, delighted with his new and improved sex life, walks a tightrope of near discovery; forever trying to keep his secret safe.
But Sophia wants more. She wants it all.
Sophia starts to break the rules, and she puts Lee’s marriage in jeopardy.
How far will he go to protect his family?
Would you commit murder to save your relationship?
Gripping domestic noir with a shocking twist.
Book one in a three book series.

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The idea for this book came when I received a WhatsApp message meant for somebody else. It was innocuous enough, but it made me wonder: what if a ‘happily’ married man accidentally sent a suspicious text message to his wife instead of his lover? Is there a way out of that situation? Why was he cheating if he was happily married? How would he try to rationalise his unforgivable behaviour? Why was his lover having an affair with a married man? What steps could they take to minimise the chance of their affair being discovered? What else could go wrong? And what about his wife? What was her role in this story? Could there possibly be a happy ending?
So many questions, but I thoroughly enjoyed trying to get inside the mind of my main character as his life spiralled inexorably downward.
I loved writing it, and when it was finished, I loved reading it. I hope you do too.

Featured Book: True Mercy by Idelle Kursman

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While walking in her native Moldova, Marina Dobrin, a young computer programmer, is kidnapped by two men from a vicious human trafficking ring. She is forced to endure a horrific ocean voyage with other kidnapped women, all brutalized and fearing for their lives. Once they reach land, Marina escapes and finds herself in suburban New Jersey. Starving, exhausted, and terrified, she trusts no one and has nowhere to hide until she encounters Adam, a young man with autism. He and his widowed father Bruce befriend her and Marina finds a brief refuge from the traffickers. But they are relentless in hunting her down. With the help of her rescuers, will Marina be able to elude her kidnappers and bring them to justice or will she be captured and killed along with the heroic father and son? The clock is ticking and danger lurks everywhere.

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