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FEATURED: Demons Live Here by Karen Hopkins

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About Demons Live Here:

In the beautiful and harrowing hills of southern Kentucky, Sheriff Sadie Mills is feeling the doldrums when her best friend and a top-selling realtor, Tanya Beaumont, informs her that their favorite teenage haunt is for sale. The crumbling plantation home is full of buried secrets and unseen perils, but that doesn’t deter Sadie and Tanya from acting on their dream. When the town’s coroner, a Yankee transplant with a sordid past, wants in on the scheme, the trio forms an unlikely partnership.

A triple homicide in a neighboring county, a murder closer to home, and a dangerous drought take Sadie and her friends by surprise. Unforeseen circumstances threaten their carefully laid plans and their very lives. But the real shock is discovering that the Helena House’s shameful slave past is more than it seems. With the assistance of an unexpected ally, Sadie is in for the wildest ride of her life yet.

Sadie’s pursuit of the truth brings stunning revelations as she unravels the plantation’s tale of terrible loss, perseverance, and ultimately, redemption in this thrilling fourth Possum Gap novel.

Enigmatic and gripping, Demons Live Here is an adrenaline-charged reading experience that will keep you turning pages late into the night, as you experience the Underground Railroad, a haunting, and a terrifying cat and mouse game with a deadly group that has their own plans for the Helena House and the land surrounding it.

Targeted Age Group: Teens
Written by: Karen Hopkins

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Featured Book: Murder Under A Cold Moon: A 1930s Mona Moon Mystery by Abigail Keam

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Mona Moon and her new husband, Robert Farley, Duke of Brynelleth are on their honeymoon at last. They are invited to a weekend party by an old friend of Robert’s family—Lady Eustacia. Mona and Robert arrive in a substantial downpour to find several other couples awaiting the appearance of their hostess. When Lady Eustacia fails to come downstairs, Mona and Robert search the manor house only to find the lady missing. It is then they discover the telephone wires have been cut and none of the cars are able to drive into town due to the storm. Mona and Robert believe the invitation was a ruse, but for what purpose? And how do they help Lady Eustacia?

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Death By Theft: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery by Abigail Keam

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Josiah is happy for her pals Lady Elsmere and Shaneika Mary Todd when broodmare Jean Harlow gives birth to a male foal sired by Comanche. The owners of both horses have high hopes the foal will become a stakes winner—maybe even win the Kentucky Derby. The foal has a broad chest, indicating significant lung capacity—important for winning races, but just like his daddy, the foal is ebony with a bad attitude.

Josiah and Shaneika visit dam Jean Harlow early one morning and are shocked to find the prized foal is missing. They frantically search Lady Elsmere’s and Josiah’s farms without success. It’s urgent they find the foal fast as he is not yet weaned and is too young to be separated from his mother. Who would snatch the feisty foal from his mother’s care? And equally important, why?

Targeted Age Group:: 14+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I love to write about the glamorous world of Thoroughbreds, oak-cured bourbon, and antebellum mansions of the Bluegrass where secrets are never buried long. There is a reason that Kentucky is called the "dark and bloody" ground.

Featured Book: The Carnation Murder (Adele Gossling Mysteries: Book 1) by Tam May

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Adele Gossling seeks peace and small pleasures in Arrojo after the death of her father. Peace is exactly what she doesn’t get when she discovers her neighbor’s dead body in her gazebo. The police have a firm suspect but Adele is sure he’s innocent. But if he didn’t do it, who did? – “The story comes alive!”

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

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Halloween is right around the corner when Lady Elsmere throws an elaborate Civil War costume ball. Wearing a nineteenth-century ball gown, Josiah ventures into the party’s corn maze to find her dog, Baby, and take him home, only to find Baby standing over a fallen scarecrow. But is it really a scarecrow?

Josiah doesn’t have time to find out because someone dressed as the Grim Reaper bolts out of the shadows, swinging a scythe and heading straight for her.

Our heroine picks up her skirts and flees, yelling, “Murder! Murder in the corn maze!”

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Rise of Dresca by Tim McKay

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Rise of Dresca by Tim McKay

What evil intended to harm you…

… can become something far more terrible.

Enter a world of fantasy where evil parasitizes the meek and arrogant alike. Where limitless power and knowledge can be yours for a price, not of your soul, but of your mind, your will, and your resolve to be free.

In the land of Naevoroth, a new power is rising.

And it’s yours for the taking.

Sazerac, Sleuth & Slay, An Andi Anna Jones Mystery Book 2 by Mary Cunningham

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Sazerac, Sleuth & Slay, An Andi Anna Jones Mystery Book 2 by Mary Cunningham

It’s gonna be a great day! Or, so she thought.

Andi Anna Jones, so-so travel agent, amateur sleuth, doesn’t suspect her least favorite client, Stewart (The Pain) Payne, will set off circumstances that lead to disappearance and death.

After his wife doesn’t show for a convention in New Orleans, his threat to sue Graves Travel for “ten times more than it’s worth”, and Andi’s guilt over a long-overdue promise made to her dad, leads her to The Big Easy in search of Grace Payne.

Four unsolved murders, a body caught in a crawfish cage, and a mysterious candle, magic, and incense shop, leads Andi deep into the bayou on a hunt for clues. Will another victim be added to the serial killer’s list, or is the main suspect closer to Andi than she thinks?

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

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READERS’ FAVORITE – “GOLD MEDAL WINNER Death By A HoneyBee is an enjoyable read which will capture the interest of most die-hard mystery fans!”

“Abigail Keam writes with vision and understanding. Keam leaves the reader yearning for more.” -Midwest Book Review

Josiah Reynolds is a beekeeper trying to stay financially afloat by selling honey at the Farmers’ Market. She finds her world turned upside down when a man is found dead in her beeyard, only to discover the victim is her nemesis. The police are calling the brutal death murder and Josiah is the number one suspect! Fighting an unknown enemy in the glamorous world of Thoroughbreds, oak-cured bourbon, and antebellum mansions, Josiah struggles to uncover the truth in a land that keeps its secrets well.

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Gemini Rising (Mischievous Malamute Series, Book 1) by Harley Christensen

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Gemini Rising (Mischievous Malamute Series, Book 1) by Harley Christensen

There’s a body in your alley…

Arianna Jackson—AJ to her friends—and her occasionally well-behaved Alaskan Malamute, Nicoh, live a normal, uneventful, admittedly mundane existence, where nothing out of the ordinary ever happens.

Until it does.

Early one morning, AJ stumbles upon a horrifying scene—a girl’s body lies broken in the dumpster behind her home, her face beaten and mutilated.

A secret reveals you’re living a lie…

As if that weren’t enough to upset the balance of normal, things go from bad to worse when she learns of her connection to the murdered girl. Suddenly, AJ realizes her entire life has been filled with secrets and lies.

A killer hunts for you…

Together with her trusty sidekick, Nicoh, and BFF, Leah, AJ must search for answers. But can she, when finding the truth proves to be more deadly than living the lie?

Would you search for the truth if you knew it could kill you?

Join AJ and her pals as they race to unravel the mystery of her past, where the pieces of the puzzle bring more questions than answers and the only certainty is the killer’s end game—AJ’s life.

Find your truth…

Grab your copy of Gemini Rising TODAY and join others who’ve enjoyed this suspense-filled page-turner that keeps you guessing to the end…and beyond.

A Town Called Potato: Galactic Detective Agency Book One by Gary Blaine Randolph

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A Town Called Potato: Galactic Detective Agency Book One by Gary Blaine Randolph

It’s a lighthearted murder mystery … with space aliens!

Gabriel Lake is a not so hard-boiled computer guy who finds himself swept up into a web of interstellar crime when he is recruited into the Galactic Detective Agency, led by the brilliant Oren Vilkas. Can a mere Earthling track a killer across the stars before more lives are lost? Can he negotiate his way around other worlds and understand the ways of extra-terrestrial cultures? Can he even figure out how to use a bathroom designed for aliens? And can he uncover the mystery of A Town Called Potato?