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<span style="color: red;">Have you read the Path of Redemption series and/or the John Baker Chronicles yet? 💥💥Available now in print and kindle format💥💥 The New Breed of Destruction has arrived... http://smarturl.it/TheStoryOfBryceBk1 amazon.com/author/bryanatann #horror #darkfantasy #amreading #kindleunlimited His first novel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Story-Bryce-Kreed-Enforcer-Redemption-ebook/dp/B06XS49ZZ5/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1503108454&sr=1-1&keywords=Bryan+tann" rel="noopener" target="_blank">available now in print and kindle formats (including Kindle Unlimited),</a> <span class="a-size-extra-large" id="ebooksProductTitle">A Story of Bryce Kreed: The Enforcer: Dark Lands (The Path of Redemption Book 1)</span>. For over two hundred years the powerful hands of Bryce Kreed have ended countless lives at the will of the Vampire Council. The thrill of the hunt drove the mighty vampire warrior, causing him to become a ruthless, and violent killer whose acts were performed with no fear of any consequences, sending him down a path of eternal damnation. Today, his path is chaotic and unclear with no direction or goal in sight. Until Mistress Enya Blake came to call with a task that could only be solved by making use of a specific set of skills that have made his name infamous among those that dwell in the shadows for centuries. Now the rules of survival and engagement have changed. The chaotic path of confusion has finally changed shape and shown some direction. Now the Enforcer seeks to take his first steps along… The Path of Redemption. Bryce Kreed even has his own soundtrack! </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The second installment to this series released July 20, 2017. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Story-Bryce-Kreed-Hunted-Redemption-ebook/dp/B0743B8R3F/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1503108454&sr=1-3&keywords=Bryan+tann" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Available in print, kindle and KU, this is one book you will not want to miss!</a> It is Dark Land: The Path of Redemption; A Story of Bryce Kreed, The Hunted. Pittsburgh was just the beginning. Immediately following his victory against the Blood Coven, Bryce Kreed must now seek aid wherever he can to keep Enya Blake safe. Wanted by the Blood Coven, and wanted for questioning by the Vampire Council, Bryce Kreed, the mighty Enforcer is now, The Hunted. From CHBB Publishing The spinoff to Kindra Sowder's Permutation Archives is here. Welcome to the other side of the war. 💥<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Invincible-Heart-Chronicles-Permutation-Archives-ebook/dp/B06ZY5GQRC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1503108454&sr=1-4&keywords=Bryan+tann" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Available now in kindle and print formats!! Or Read Free on KU!</a>💥 The cost of capturing a terrorist can include your HEART. smarturl.it/InvincibleHeart http://amazon.com/author/bryanatann #Political #thriller #Action #KindleUnlimited <img alt="IH Cover" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8510" height="960" src="https://slhreviews.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ih-cover.jpg" width="660" /> His second <strong>published</strong> novel, the spinoff to<a href="https://www.facebook.com/kmkinnaman/"> Kindra Sowder</a>'s Permutation Archives, Invincible Heart: The John Baker Chronicles [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ2znmIBDJE&w=560&h=315] President Emerson King had John Baker created to capture or kill rebel "terrorist" Mila Hunter at all costs. Unfortunately for the President, John's HEART had other plans. <img alt="IH teaser1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9019" height="426" src="https://slhreviews.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ih-teaser1.jpg" width="640" /> </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Now available from HellBound Books! The Carnage of Pestilence is featured in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Demons-Devils-Denizens-Hell-Mattern-ebook/dp/B07469F97J/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1503108943&sr=1-1&keywords=demons+devils+and+denizens+of+hell" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Demons, Devils, and Denizens of Hell anthology</a>! The newest member of the Dark Land, the world where Bryce Kreed himself resides! Read the tale of the Horsemen Pestilence in this visceral origin tale. Released July 2017. <img alt="IMG_20170619_001146_028" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9022" height="640" src="https://slhreviews.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/img_20170619_001146_028.jpg" width="640" /> <img alt="FB_IMG_1497764333410" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9020" height="640" src="https://slhreviews.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/fb_img_1497764333410.jpg" width="492" /> <img alt="FB_IMG_1496919967363" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9021" height="414" src="https://slhreviews.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/fb_img_1496919967363.jpg" width="640" /> </span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><img alt="Bryan A Tann" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8523" height="470" src="https://slhreviews.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/bryan-a-tann.jpg" width="584" /> Known for the Path of Redemption series and the John Baker Chronicles, Bryan also does voice overs and some audiobook narrations. Bryan A. Tann was born in Pittsburgh, PA and has lived in Western PA all of his life except for eight years in New England. His debut novel "The Enforcer" was first written in 2007 and was originally self published in 2009 before being accepted by CH&BB Publishing in 2016 and published in early 2017. Bryan lives a quiet life with his two cats while geeking with his friends. He's got a 1st Degree Black Belt in Kenpo and by day he's a security supervisor. He graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with a Bachelors of Arts in Communication with a Minor in Creative Writing. He used to sing in R&B groups and a Metal Punk Band. Bryan is also a movie fanatic! He proudly has close to 1100 DVD's in his ever growing collection. His favorite shows are The Flash, Arrow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Legends of Tomorrow, Black-ish, Goldbergs, Lethal Weapon, The Walking Dead, Fraiser, Cheers, Friends and Z Nation. His ultimate goal is to live in a cabin in the woods. Or a Double Wide trailer in the middle of nowhere...so long as he can get Netflix... And if he can't have those things then he wants to be the weird guy that people politely call eccentric that won't let anyone on his lawn.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"> Eighteen-year-old Oli cannot remember life outside the barrier, a life before the oil spill that poisoned human kind, killing half the population and infecting the other half until they deteriorated from the inside out, forced to walk the earth as Screamers. It’s a dangerous new world in which barely anyone makes it past the age of twenty, and Oli’s time is running out. Studying the Bible, Oli searches for words to help restore faith in a lost world, and when she receives a message from God telling her to leave the barrier, she knows what she must do. There’s only one problem: Her best friend, Coi, doesn’t believe her, and he’s showing the first signs of infection. But before she can convince him to leave with her, the Governor quarantines Coi and orders his execution. Oli risks it all to rescue Coi, and they set out to find sanctuary away from the safety of the compound, not knowing who or what will get to them first: the Governor, the illness, or the Screamers. When they stumble upon a group of uninfected humans hidden among the rubble of an apartment building, they think they’ve found their salvation. But not everything is as it seems, and their enemies are closer than they thought. Book Links: Anaiah Press:<a href="http://anaiahpress.com/forsaken">http://anaiahpress.com/forsaken</a> Amazon:<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Forsaken-Screamers-Book-Connie-Michael-ebook/dp/B072LNKWGS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500351482&sr=1-1&keywords=forsaken+connie+ann+michael">https://www.amazon.com/Forsaken-Screamers-Book-Connie-Michael-ebook</a> Barnes and Noble:<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forsaken-connie-ann-michael/1126419537?ean=2940154376621">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/forsaken-connie-ann-michael</a> Itunes:<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/forsaken/id1238271269?mt=11">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/forsaken</a> Kobo:<a href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/forsaken-61">https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/forsaken-61</a> Goodreads:<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35209907-forsaken?from_search=true">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35209907-forsaken?from_search=true</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">A new resident of Montana, Connie Ann Michael grew up in a close family on the outskirts of Seattle. Drawn to the Lord she’s followed her calling of service and has taught for twenty-six years, currently the fifth grade teacher at Crow Agency Public School, on the Crow Reservation. Connie loves her family and is lucky enough to have two grown boys. Living with her husband and two dogs in Big Sky country, Connie enjoys any activity that takes her outside and is working hard to overcome her fear of being eaten by a bear to enjoy more hiking trips in the mountains. Website:<a href="http://connie-avidreader.blogspot.com/">http://connie-avidreader.blogspot.com/</a> Facebook:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/connieannmichael/">https://www.facebook.com/connieannmichael/</a> Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/connieamichael">https://twitter.com/connieamichael</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I’d worked in the garden all day, digging up dry, hard dirt in an attempt to thin out weeds that were indistinguishable from the edible plants. I sat back on my heels and looked around at the others digging with sticks and crude tools bent from scraps of metal. I thought back to a history book I’d found in the school across the street from where our tiny speck of civilization sat. The pictures of the cities were faded, but the grandeur couldn’t be dulled. The sun shone from the great heights of the buildings like stars guiding people through their lives. Lives that were full and held the hope of growth and diversity. Lives that were lost, and lives I would never know. I devoured news from the past. I’d read every book I could find until the day the Governor took over and sent the Guard in to gather them all and burn them in a huge bonfire to show us the past no longer mattered.
Only the future mattered now. The future he would make for us.
I’d hidden a few of my favorite books and then ripped out pictures that spoke to me of what could be once more. I had them in my pockets until the day one fell out and the Guard, a group of empowered teenagers doing the dirty work for the Governor, found them. My arms were bound to a table in the middle of the compound, and my hands were hit with a switch twenty times before I was left as an example. My transgression—hope—was the first of the rules scratched on to the wall of rules. Of course, it said act of defiance.
Defiance of what?
Defiance of a rule that took the past and left it there?
I kneeled at the table until dusk when my friends, Bliss and Coi, were allowed to release me. I was expected to continue my duties in the garden the next day as if my hands weren’t sore, swollen, and bloody; as if nothing had transpired.
Take your punishment and step back into the predictable path of your life.
I was much more careful after that and folded the photographs until they were small squares and hid them among my possessions, only giving myself the luxury of carrying one hidden deep in my pocket. After more than ten years behind these fences, we had little to show other than a belief system that was the backbone to salvation slowing being taken from us. Even though I didn’t agree with rules outlined and constantly being revised without question or input from those living under them, this was the only home I’d known since arriving when I was nine.
It was desolate and dying a little more every day, but it was a refuge for those of us who refused to give up a chance of survival. We paid for our residence through tedious chores that never seemed to get us closer to breaking the barrier between survival and living. Every day we woke to the monotonous tasks, doing what needed to be done to earn our place and not be forsaken into the abyss of death waiting outside our fences.
Most days, I found my refuge in the skeleton of a school just outside the safety zone of the chain link. A place once filled with knowledge and guidance but now a shell of a world left far behind.
Dusk had settled, along with a light drizzle. I’d left my tools in the shed after my chores and had spent the last hours of daylight in the school with History books and the Bible I had hidden deep in the bowels of a dilapidated classroom. I’d found loose pages in a pile of trash that listed the nine things needed before a world was considered a civilization; a written language, a belief system, a stable food supply, government, art, ways to improve life, a social structure, lasting settlements, and a trade or economics. If this list was accurate, we had a long way to go before we were considered anything more than a group of young people camping in the middle of what used to be a sports field. I began to cross over the make-shift bridge the Guard had strung between the school and the rickety guard tower they’d erected. I usually slipped through the gate to walk the short distance across the road and through the doors of the school, but I’d waited too long and the path back to the barrier was filled with the infected, the screeching noise of their breathing, earning them the name Screamers, floated up from the road below. I stopped, daring to look down at the small space between my feet and the dozens of clawing fingers reaching up in the small chance they could snag my pants or a shoelace and bring me to my death. I inched forward, hearing the deep rasp of a cough before I saw the figure waiting on the other side of the bridge. I glanced up at the clouds, darkening as they filled with the poisoned rain they would tease us with. A wetness that wouldn’t bring life but instead kill the small plants we nurtured and damage the health of the young who eagerly drank from the barrels before the water was purified.
The cough came again, and as I neared the other side, the tall figure of my best friend, Coi, emerged.
"Bliss missed her work duty for the day," his words came out quickly.
"I’ll find her." I didn’t wait for an explanation, there wasn’t time. I needed to find her before Bliss’s punishment became a new revision on the wall of rules.
Coi grabbed my arm, stopping me. "I was sent after her. She’s at the fence but won’t come back with me. I can’t stall the Guard long."
"I told you, I’ll get her." I stomped down the stairs and took off at a run.
It was her first absence in months, so the punishment would more than likely be a warning. I prayed it would be a warning and nothing more, but I needed to make sure if she was doing anything more than missing work that I got to her before anyone else did. I needed to know she was okay and keep her that way. It didn’t take long to find her. The barrier wasn’t that big.
"Missed you at the garden today," I said quietly, walking up behind her. Bliss was eleven, and I’d practically raised her even though I was a kid myself. She was sitting on the ground watching a small group of Screamers milling around a pile of… of something I didn’t want to know what it was. The barrier was surrounded by trees that, at one time, I was sure provided a cool shade from the sun. Now the needles were red with what looked to be the same fate as us. The school we’d settled in was away from a town I assumed lay out past the trees. I’d always thought it was why it was chosen in the early years… for its seclusion. No one alive today had ever gone farther than the school across the broken road. Very few buildings lay further, a long patch of runway from what use to be an airstrip, but legend had it the large metal buildings housed a mass of those who died from infection, and going that far from the barrier was listed on the wall of laws, so no one I knew ever ventured that way.
"There’s plenty of people to clean the gardens. You don’t need me," she muttered. Her fingers were laced into the metal links of the fence, her eyes glued to the slumped figures across a small dirt patch.
"It’s best we leave them to…"
"To what?" Bliss questioned. Her mood concerned me. Bliss was the happy one. The one whose real name I couldn’t even remember. We all called her Bliss because of her never ending cheer.
I looked at the ground, the water collecting in rounded mounds over the caked earth, not yet soaking into the tightly pressed dirt, and wondered the same thing. It was best we let them be. It was best we left them to do whatever it was they did without anyone watching. "I don’t know, Bliss, but you don’t want to watch them."
Bliss turned to me. "Our existence means nothing if we don’t honor the dead."
I tried not to flinch at her words. "Honor the dead?"
"They were just like us until their luck changed. I don’t think they mean to hurt us. They want to survive… so do we."
I looked at a woman who stood swaying slowly back and forth on the other side of the barrier. Her face was unrecognizable, but even with clothes in tattered strips and covered in mud, I knew who she was. This woman had been the last of what would be considered an adult in our small community of safety. I sighed again and understood what had kept Bliss from her work. The woman had been Bliss’s aunt.
I didn’t want to argue the fact that their need to survive was futile seeing as they were as good as dead, infected with a sickness that if there was a chance of a cure, we certainly didn’t have any way of finding it, but I also didn’t want to agree with her. The Governor had been in control for a few short years, and words used when discussing the methods he had for removing those who questioned him had to be chosen more carefully these days.
Bliss stared out into the growing darkness. "She didn’t do anything wrong."
"She questioned," I said quietly.
"And is that so wrong?"
I shook my head no, but in my heart I knew it was dangerous to question the Governor and his methods. I understood his need to control us. In the beginning, there was no organization and mistakes were made that we continue to pay for today.
"She told the guard she was too sick to work. She snuck out when they were watching the gate." She glanced up at me. "She was with child." Her big eyes blinked and a tear fell. "I would have had a cousin."
I opened my mouth to respond, but words had left me. I wasn’t sure where to start on the list of disturbing questions her words put in my head. The biggest being why she thought her aunt had had a choice in her exile. Finally, I said, "I’m sorry."
"It was her terms not theirs." Bliss let out a long breath, releasing her negativity. "Tell me something good." She wiped at her cheeks with one hand. Her knuckles whitened as she gripped the fence tighter with the other. I placed my hand over hers. When darkness fell completely and the Screamers became frenzied for food, they would come for something as small as a finger. Even the smallest scratch from their infected nails could cause the infection to spread.
"You’re here for a reason. If you weren’t supposed to be here, you wouldn’t be," I said.
The rasps of the Screamers were getting louder as the sky became fully dark and the rain began.
"Please, Bliss," I whispered. "Please. Come to dinner with me."
One of the Screamers came to us, head cocked to the left, jaws chomping at nothing. Bliss took a step back, finally letting go of the fence.
The vacant eyes of the walking corpses drew me in. Many called them lost souls, but they weren’t. These were empty shells of people. People who’d been loved. I’d spent many hours looking into the weeping, yellow eyes of the sick, trying to understand. But when there is nothing in them, there’s nothing to find.
"Please," I said again.
Bliss didn’t divert her eyes from where they stared. "You can go, Oli."
"No. Come with me."
She turned and met my stare. "I need her to know I’m here. I’ll survive for her, and I want her to get strength from that."
I pressed my lips to her temple. "I love you, Bliss. But you can’t be found here. Illness is the only excuse for absence. You can’t stay."
Reluctantly, she agreed and returned with me to the large building where dinner was waiting. The Screamers rarely returned to the barrier. Her aunt had slipped away in the morning. Escaped, we told ourselves. Trying to find others and then return with a great flourish to tell us the world had returned just a few miles down the road. It was best we kept those dreams alive. It was better than the alternative, the one where the Guard led her into the vacant world outside our walls without even a simple weapon. No one who left ever returned. The Guard made sure of that, and I highly doubted it was her aunt. This was just a woman wearing the same dress who happened upon us. I looked down at my own clothes and wondered if this was an outfit I wanted to wear while I walked the earth as a Screamer.</span></blockquote>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Craig Boyack<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Just a fiction writer, trying to reach the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Craig came to fiction writing later in life than most authors. He always had to write, to one degree or another as part of various jobs. Early one winter morning, he conquered the Internet and didn’t feel like shoveling the sidewalk until the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">sun came up. He tried a few pages of fiction and got hooked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Craig doesn’t like limitations and calls himself a writer of speculative fiction. It’s a broad field, but he limits himself to science fiction, paranormal, and a bit of fantasy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">He has eight published works—six novels and two collections of short stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00ILXBXUY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">| His blog: Entertaining Stories https://coldhandboyack.wordpress.com/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">| Twitter https://twitter.com/Virgilante<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9841203.C_S_Boyack<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Mae Clair<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Mystery & Suspense…with a dash of Myth & Romance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">(or maybe I do)….I saw a UFO when I was six. Probably why I write some of the stuff I do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">They say everyone has a story to tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I wrote my first childish “masterpiece” at six and was immediately bitten by the writing bug. Since then, I’ve been composing nonstop, and have dabbled in multiple genres over the years, writing everything from fantasy, westerns, and horror to inspirational fiction, romance, and sci-fi. It took me a while to find my niche, but I’ve settled comfortably into the mystery/suspense genre (with a just a dash of romance tossed in).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Several of my earlier works have strong romantic themes, but all are infused with threads of mystery. I have a passion for folklore, myth, and urban legends and that attraction often factors into my writing. You’ll find threads of archaic tales and mysterious places woven throughout many of my novels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I am a member of the International Thriller Writers and a past president of the Central Pennsylvania Writer’s Organization. If I’m not camped out at my keyboard or have my nose buried in a book, I’m likely looking up blurry images of cryptids on Google, sorting through vintage photographs or imagining life as a cat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Website https://maeclair.net<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Kensington Publishing http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/author.aspx/29541<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Sandra Cox<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;"> Living life. Writing fantasy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Sandra writes YA Fantasy, Paranormal and Historical Romance, and Metaphysical Nonfiction. She lives in sunny North Carolina with her husband, a brood of critters and an occasional foster cat. Although shopping is high on the list, her greatest pleasure is sitting on her screened in porch, listening to the birds, sipping coffee or a latte and enjoying a good book. She's a vegetarian and a Muay Thai enthusiast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Harmony Kent<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Harmony Kent is famous for her laughter, and has made quite the name for herself … she’s also, um, a writer … and fairly well known for that too. She’s even won a few awards. Harmony lives in rural Cornwall with her ever-present sense of humour and quirky neighbours and refuses to admit to her age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Website: www.harmonykent.co.uk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Staci Troilo<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">I’ve always loved fiction, ever since my parents read me fairy tales when I was little. Today, my interests are much more eclectic. I love getting lost in sci-fi battles, fantasy realms, horror worlds, suspenseful intrigues, and romantic entanglements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA;">Website http://stacitroilo.com/<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Marcus of Pendleton is a cat shifter in search of his brother. Then a lead at the Warty Frog takes him on an adventure filled with magic and well…zombies. Can the prince find the fair witch and the answer he seeks? And he might just be the familiar she's looking for...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Genre-paranormal romance, fantasy romance, low heat rating, shifters, m/f, light horror<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tags-shifter, fantasy, witch, fairy tale twist, ghosts, cats, humor, zombies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“You need to focus on finding yourself a princess, not running about the kingdoms slaying beasts and bothering with that fool brother of yours. The last time anyone saw him, he was following some skirt around and blathering on about a missing shoe.” His father shuddered, holding his hand up in disgust. “There were twelve of them. All dressed alike too. The men were talking about it. Prattling, dancing, blonde things with wings.” His wandering eye drifted toward a serving wench with a rather tight bodice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">It's that time of year again. The days are getting shorter, the air is getting cooler and the nights are getting spookier. Yes, it's time for tricks and treats, goblins and ghouls, chills and thrills and huge amounts of sugary sweets. But at the Laughing Vixen Lounge blog it's also time for the 5th annual Attack of the 14 Nights of Halloween Giveaway. Join <a href="http://laughingvixenlounge.blogspot.com/2016/10/5th-annual-attack-of-14-nights-of.html" target="_blank">Laughing Vixen Lounge</a> and our bewitching co-hosts <a href="http://thekidsdidit.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Kids Did It</a>, <a href="http://themommyisland.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mommy Island</a>, <a href="http://www.herdingcats-burningsoup.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Herding Cats and Burning Soup</a>, <a href="http://thehoppingbloggers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hopping Bloggers</a>, <a href="http://mamasmiths.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mama Smith's Reviews</a> and <a href="http://www.womenandtheirpretties.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Women and Their Pretties</a> for a spooktacular Halloween event.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Teenagers are being possessed and turning into sadistic murderers. Priests can’t help, nor can psychiatrists. So who is behind the demonic possessions? Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate, and finds his own soul is on the line. New York Night is the seventh novel in the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cheryl Perez pulled the cork from the bottle of Chianti and sloshed it into a glass. She drank some and went through to her sitting room. She pulled open the drawer of a side table and took out the framed photograph of herself and Eric. It had been in the drawer for over a month – a new record. The photograph had been taken on New Years Eve three years earlier. They’d flown to Vegas for the weekend and seen in the New Year at a show in the MGM Grand. The casino’s logo was in the bottom right hand corner of the photograph. They were both a little drunk and they were holding hands either side of a champagne bucket that Perez was fairly sure contained their second bottle. Maybe their third. They had got so drunk that they had collapsed on the bed in their clothes and woken up the following morning still clothed and wrapped in each other’s arms. ‘You bastard, Eric,’ she whispered. ‘How could you leave me?’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Payable On Death<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Jax Rhodes Series <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Book One<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rachel Rawlings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Print Length: 207 pages<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Publication Date: April 5, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Genre: Urban Fantasy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Publisher: R Squared Publishing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A deal with the Devil. Demons haunting your every step. When an Angel offers you the chance to redeem yourself, you take it. Because eternal damnation isn't all it's cracked up to be. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the streets of Baltimore redemption is..... Payable On Death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> </b>Welcome to Charm City</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Take a tour of Jax’s Baltimore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Baltimore has been in the spotlight in recent years, and not in the way its residents would like. Listed as the nineteenth most dangerous place in the world, the city has certainly seen better but days. But, even amidst the drugs and violence that have over taken certain neighborhoods the people of Baltimore have a deep rooted love for their city. When you wipe away the grit and grime, it’s not hard to see why. From the birthplace of famed baseball player Babe Ruth to the home of beloved author and poet Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore’s history is as unique and interesting as the people who live there today. With an accent unique to the nine districts that make up the city, Baltimore and its residents still have a lot to offer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The idea for Payable On Death came to me when I was driving through the city. It seemed only fitting for it to be Jax’s home town. Let’s take a tour of Jax’s favorite places, all of which really do exist in Baltimore and see why despite its darker side Charm City is really a diamond in the rough. A lot like our heroine, Jax Rhoades. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks for joining me on a tour of Jax’s Baltimore. Known in the late eighties and early nineties as the City That Reads, that moniker still holds today. Baltimore is home to one of the largest free book festivals in the country. Whether you’re in town for Baltimore Book Festival or to see any number of its tourist attractions, why not check out some of these local favorites. They’re well worth the trip!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rachel Rawlings was born and raised in the Baltimore Metropolitan area. Her family, originally from Rhode Island, spent summers in New England sparking her fascination with Salem, MA. She has been writing fictional stories and poems since middle school, but it wasn't until 2009 that she found the inspiration to create her heroine Maurin Kincaide and complete her first full length novel, The Morrigna.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">L.M. Pruitt<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They called it the murder tree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, the town of Silk faces its greatest threat in over two hundred years. No one is safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Available for Pre-Order at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C4LEG3E">Amazon</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Villains are fascinating. Even when they’re horrible, even when they do horrible things, there’s something about the bad guy that draws us to them. It’s why zombies are so popular, why Darth Vader is a cultural icon, why people are pretty much in love with Loki (although that also might have something to do with the actor). Being bad is cool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So when I started thinking of the individual behind the very horrible things happening in the town of Silk, I was faced with a dilemma. How do I make this person so, so bad that their actions are unredeemable but not so bad that people will automatically hate them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wow. If you like a good thriller then this is for you. There are monsters in the woods...and a page turning story to get you reading long past lights out. Interesting characters and a fun plot...I liked it very much! It was so much like one of my horror movies I couldn't put it down.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The kids did, anyway. To the adults, those people who no longer believed in ghost stories and things that went bump in the night, it was known as the old Litz tree. The last living monument to the family who founded the town before Georgia was even a state, giving their money and lives in the process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of them knew the story of the night the Litz family lost their lives before they were even able to read the decades old textbooks grudgingly provided by the Department of Education. By the time they graduated to junior high, all the kids—the cool ones, at least, the ones you wanted at your party or it wasn’t <i>really</i> a party—had camped out next to the murder tree. More than one high school girl had allowed her boyfriend to “comfort” her in the shadow of the ancient mulberry after listening to the story of the Litz family yet again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was the only reason Elias Crenshaw could think of for why he was freezing his balls off on what was shaping up to be the coldest night of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That and the fact Mandy Jones had promised him she’d be there. The way she’d told him, with just the tiniest smile of her bubblegum pink lips and a flutter of lashes, was enough to keep him warm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But only for another hour. After that, he was going home. The guys could rag him all they wanted on Monday morning. They’d be the one with bug bites and frozen fingers and all the other stupid things that happened when you spent the night in the frickin’ woods. He’d be warm and rested and all studied up for the big biology exam in sixth period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Man, if he didn’t get at least a <i>C</i> his parents were going to flip. They’d already been on the fence about letting him camp out the Friday before a test. If he failed, they wouldn’t let him out of the house again until the end of the school year. He’d be the only kid not allowed to go the eighth grade prom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mandy Jones would never go out with him if he was the loser kid who didn’t go to the prom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yeah, it will.” Shephard Jackson widened her already big brown eyes—bug eyes, Mandy called them—and nodded solemnly. “Cross my heart and hope to die.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Probably the wrong thing to say when we’re next to the murder tree.” Elias tilted toward her, leaning in with his whole body before hunching his shoulders and shivering. “What are you doing here? I thought you weren’t allowed in the woods after dark.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I’m not.” She huffed out a breath, the puff of frosty air doing nothing to dislodge the white blonde hair seemingly glued to her forehead. She’d bleached it the week before on a dare, just like she’d pierced her nose last month and broken in to the library the month before that. “But that’s Kelly’s stupid rule. She keeps trying to act like she’s my mom or something.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Well, she married your dad.” Elias winced when she reached over and smacked him on the back of his head. “Jesus, Shep.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“You’re not supposed to take her side. You’re supposed to take mine.” She sniffled and swiped her hand under her nose. “That’s what best friends do.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Fine, whatever.” When Shep sighed, Elias rolled his eyes. “It’s a stupid rule and she’s a bitch and she should stop trying to act like she’s your mom.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Thank you.” The pseudo sniffling immediately stopped and she leaned in to him, her slight frame weighing next to nothing. After a moment, she said, “What are you doing here?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Rite of passage.” He nodded at the small group clustered around the carefully constructed fire. Albert had insisted they follow all the safety rules for lighting a fire in the woods, reminding everyone of Smokey the Bear’s immortal saying. “Supposed to be more people coming. Real party.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Oh, please.” She scoffed, the harsh exhalation shaking her entire body. “You’re here because Mandy Jones said she was going to be here. Her and her little group. They’re so… ugh.” She shook her head before turning to scowl at him. “You couldn’t fall in love with some girl who can actually have a conversation for longer than five minutes without mentioning cheerleading or makeup?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“First, I’m not in love with her.” Elias returned her scowl, narrowing his eyes to slits. “We barely know each other.” Truth, even though he’d spent countless hours imagining what it would be like to kiss her. “Second, just because she’s not fighting the power or whatever you do when you’re not pissing off your stepmom doesn’t make her stupid. She’s really smart.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Well.” He paused, racking his brain for an explanation even as he winced. “You know, there are a lot of adults who feel the same way. Like we should all just embrace our current culture and let of our heritage.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Right.” Shep snorted and rolled her eyes. “Whatever.” She jerked her chin at the fire. “Let’s go. Story time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Oh, come on.” He groaned, digging in his heels half-heartedly when she tried to drag him toward the group. They both knew it would be impossible for her to move him unless he helped. She was a hundred pounds soaking wet, barely topping five feet while he’d gained twenty pounds since school started. The only reason he wasn’t as fat as a turkey was the corresponding growth spurt, the new six inches putting him dangerously close to six feet. “Not again. We’ve heard this thing a million times.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“So this will be a million and one. Come <i>on</i>.” She yanked his arm harder, grumbling something under her breath about ogres. “It’s tradition to tell the story at every campout. Besides….” She trailed off, smiling up at him and batting her lashes. “I’m pretty sure Mandy finally arrived.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Well, in that case.” He laughed when she gasped, using her moment of feigned shock to scoop her up and toss her over his shoulder in a fireman’s hold. “You know what’s really great about having you as a best friend? You’re easy to pick up when we’re fighting.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“You’re such a troglodyte.” Shep pounded on his back with her fists, biting back a scream when he took a step forward. “If anybody sees me, I swear—on my mom’s grave—I will make your life miserable for the rest of the year.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Whatever.” Spinning on her heels, she stomped toward the far side of the group, the laces of her combat boots slithering over the dead leaves like a snake. She slid between Albert and Jacob, sneering at something one of them said. Elias watched for another minute before shoving his hands in his pockets and trudging over to join the growing group.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Hey, Elias.” Mandy half walked, half skipped up to him as he neared the fire, linking her arm with his. “I thought you were going to spend <i>all</i> night talking to that weirdo.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“She’s not a weirdo.” The defense was as automatic as breathing. “Her mom died, remember? Like, right in front of her. She’s just, you know, grieving.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Right.” Mandy sighed, the sort of huge, exaggerated sigh Elias knew meant annoyance at his supposed ignorance. His older sister made the same noise every time he asked her a question. “Whatever. I didn’t come out to these stupid woods to talk about her.” She smiled at him, the fire casting shadows over her normally light and bright face. “I came to hang out with you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Dude, we’re <i>waiting</i>.” Isiah Graves, Elias’s second best friend—but number one guy best friend, as Isiah was quick to point out—raised his voice to an almost shout. Since he’d been the one to propose the campout, he’d insisted he get to tell the story of the murder tree. Elias didn’t bother reminding him it was a hollow honor. “Story and then party. Rules are rules, man.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Nobody cares except for you.” Jacob Wesson had the honor of being the oldest person in the group by a month and the first to have a voice which didn’t crack at random moments. “Just get this boring ass shit over with before I die of fucking boredom.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Okay, okay.” Isiah hunched his shoulders and shuffled his feet, shooting a glare around the group at large before straightening to his full height. “The year was 1748. The town of Mulberry was struggling, just as it had been since the Litz family arrived from Germany with a dream of producing silk and other luxury goods.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“He sounds like a really dorky version of Mr. Young.” Mandy’s breathy whisper smelled like cinnamon and Elias closed his eyes for a split second, inhaling deeply. When he opened them again, she was watching him with a knowing look.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Everybody else in the town wanted to use the land for rice, something they could use and sell. But the Litz’s refused to give up their dream.” Isiah paused, drawing out the attempt at suspense. “Finally, the people of Mulberry decided enough was enough.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The entire town, everybody except the children, marched out to the Litz homestead. Josiah Litz tried to talk them down, make them see reason, but he failed.” Isiah stepped back and pointed up at a thick limb jutting out from the trunk in a crooked line. “They strung him up here but the fall didn’t break his neck. So he watched while the town slaughtered his entire family.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“They forgot the oldest son was returning from New York. Franz Litz had been gone so long, it was possible the town had forgotten he even existed.” Isiah rapped his knuckles on the tree trunk, nodding solemnly. “But Josiah hadn’t. And while he slowly suffocated to death under the weight of his own body, he swore his family would have their revenge. And they did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“While the town burned the house and the trees and buried the bodies of the Litz family, Franz, who’d witnessed everything from the safety of the woods, rode in to Mulberry.” Isiah stepped back in to the circle, his low voice forcing everybody to move closer in order to hear. “And hung every last child.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The wind gusted through the woods again, stronger this time, the trees rattling their limbs in protest. Somewhere in the distance, some animal let out a single short cry, quickly cut off by the crunching of something larger and more dangerous. Elias glanced around the circle, surprised at the number of pale faces and large eyes, even as he reminded himself it was only a story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“The townspeople caught him right after he hung his last victim, a baby barely a month old. They hauled him, kicking and screaming, back to the murder tree.” As one, they turned to look at the ancient mulberry. “Even as they put the rope around his neck, he fought. His last words before the noose broke his neck were ‘A cursed ground bears only poisonous fruit’.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Or so they say.” Jacob snorted and shook his head. “Whatever, dude. Stupid story about a whole bunch of dead people.” He nudged Shep with his shoulder and laughed. “Fuck’em. Let’s party.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The circle broke up in to smaller groups, twos and threes and fours, each cluster wandering away from the murder tree. Mandy gripped Elias’s arm tighter and shivered. “That was <i>so</i> scary, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Right.” He wasn’t sure if she was being sarcastic or not and the smell of her floral perfume was too distracting for him to try and figure it out one way or the other. “So, uh, did you want to go for a walk or something?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“A walk?” She laughed and shook her head. “Uh, no.” Still laughing, she slipped away from him, reaching up and pushing her shiny lemon-yellow hair behind her shoulders. “I actually need to go talk to Shanna about the routine for the game tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Right.” Elias nodded dumbly. “Uh, right. Good luck with that. I’ll just… go… talk to Isiah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elias hunched his shoulders, stalking over to the base of the murder tree. Isiah studied his face, rocking on his heels before sucking air through his teeth. “Man, that was an epic crash and burn. Epic.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Shut up.” Elias punched him, pulling back at the last second. Isiah was nearly as skinny as Shep but more fragile looking, as if a good solid blow would break him in two. “She had to go do cheerleading stuff.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Cheerleading stuff.” Isiah snorted. “She’s such a fucking tease.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Dude, stop.” Elias looked up as another gust of wind shook the branches, a handful of leaves falling down around them like confetti. “Did you have to pick the coldest night ever to do this thing?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Nah, that was just luck.” The other boy grinned and attempted to wiggle his eyebrows. “Pretty spooky, right?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Whatever.” Elias nudged him with his elbow. “You bring any good snacks or what?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At first it was just part of the dream. A good dream. A dream where Mandy Jones was dancing with him at prom, telling him how awesome he was and how great he looked and how much she loved him. And then he heard crying but when he looked at Mandy she was still smiling and telling him how she couldn’t wait to kiss him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Elias, wake up. Wake up, Elias, wake up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“G’way.” He rolled over, smashing his face in the lining of his sleeping bag. “Sleeping.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> At the use of his childhood nickname, he rolled back over, opening his eyes until he was able to squint through heavy lids. “Shep?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Quiet.” She cupped her hand over his mouth, leaning down and pressing her lips to his ear. When her cheek touched his, he realized the smooth skin was wet. “We have to run before he finds us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He tried to speak again, glaring at her in the dark when she dug her nails in to his jaw. After a moment, he realized she was attempting to turn his head. Rather than struggle, he let her, blinking in an effort to get his eyes to adjust to the nearly non-existent light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At first he thought someone had thrown a sleeping bag over a branch. Stupid kid stuff. But the longer he stared, the less sense that made and the more details he began to see. Like how it—whatever it was—was thinner at the top, like a rope, before becoming pudgy and then narrowing down to a gentle <i>v</i> shape. How it swung back and forth slowly like an overweight pendulum. How it made a wet, gurgling sound which raised the hairs all over his body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And then the moon broke free of the clouds and Elias realized it wasn’t a sleeping bag. Not even close.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And it wasn’t the only one hanging from the branches of the murder tree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He started to scramble to his feet—to run or hide or help his friends—only for Shep to yank him back down. Her voice was tight and thin when she said, “They’re dead. They’re all dead. We have to go.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nodding dumbly, he let her pull him further away from the tree, deeper in to the woods. She’d begged and pleaded and whined until he’d agreed to sleep next to her, as far away from the fire as possible while still being in the clearing. The tangle of bushes had provided extra coverage against the northern wind, something he’d been thankful for as the fire died down and the cold set in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“My shoes.” Even though he knew he spoke, he was barely able to hear himself through her hand. “Shep.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“There’s no time.” As if to prove her point, she stomped her own bare foot on top of his. “Come <i>on</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elias glanced over his shoulder, nearly tripping and falling when he saw a fire, this one easily twice as big as the one Albert had so carefully built hours earlier. And standing around it were a half dozen figures, lit by the ghoulish flames.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a world where a virus has spread turning most of the population into flesh
eating monsters, there are two friends partying it up in New Orleans when the
infection hits. Far away from home, they are trapped and trying to make sense
of all that has happened with the help of new friends and enemies along the
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devoid of people; even the receptionist behind the front desk was gone. Usually
there was at least one person standing there with the phone glued to an ear. Did
I sleep through a fire alarm or something? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a sign of life. Everything was set up but looked like it hadn’t been touched.
Strange, considering it was already afternoon. Normally stale cereal and that
one scary looking sausage that seemed to have been there all week would be all
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percolator, watching the steam waft up from the foam cup. The smell alone
helped invigorate my dulled senses. Sipping the hot liquid, I started to look
around to figure out what was going on and maybe see about some maid service.
We weren’t messy people, but somehow our hotel rooms always managed to look
like a disaster zone – overflowing garbage, towels on the ground, running out
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around enjoying the mediocre hotel-provided food. I felt my hackles rise.
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woman covered in what appeared to be blood, was kneeling over a larger mass on
one side of the booth. Her shirt was torn down the front revealing her daisy
spotted bra and deep scratch marks on her chest. She snarled at me, flecks of
whatever she’d been eating spraying from her red stained lips. I took a big
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focused on me like I had just insulted her outfit. I could see the thing she
was on before much more clearly now. Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit! It was a
man. There was a gaping hole in the body cavity, knotted intestines dangled
down the side. I retched at the sight. Did I unknowingly step onto the set of a
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friends could play instruments or sing, not that it's a requirement these
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which has started a chain reaction of one-too-many book ideas dancing around in
her head. She plans on wrangling in these ideas and making full fledged books
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<span style="color: red;">Jack Norris just lost his best friend—who also
happened to be his band’s drummer—to a drunk driving accident. As he navigates
the uncertainty of the band’s future, as well as his own personal demons, his
life spirals out of control. To make matters worse, his dead friend is back, and
it’s wreaking havoc on Jack’s sanity. When a new acquaintance not only hooks
him up with a drummer, but promises to help get rid of his ghostly stalker,
Jack’s life does a one eighty.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Drew MacLellan, the new drummer, is helping to bring
the band back from the dead. He’s also got an insanely hot older sister who is
definitely not Jack’s biggest fan. Jen MacLellan is nothing like the women
Jack’s dated in the past, but the more he gets to know her, the deeper he
falls. The only problem is, she’s got a boyfriend. Caught between his growing
attraction and the desire to do the right thing, Jack does everything he can to
keep things as just friends. The longer it goes on, the more he realizes it
isn’t possible. Can Jack win the heart of the woman he’s fallen for? And can he
figure out how to help his dead friend rest in peace...permanently?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">My eyelids strain against
gravity. Last night’s binge hangs in the back of my throat, threatening to
reappear. Maybe. All I know is the inside of my mouth tastes like a used tissue
and my head throbs, right between the eyes. I don’t even remember how I got
home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“Hey, Jack, get up.” The door
swings open and my brother Ashton pokes his head in. A beam of light cuts
through the darkness and stabs me square in the face. Am I still drunk? <i>Groan.</i>
I shouldn’t have had those last three beers. Or that shot of whiskey to top it
off<i>.</i> Right now, any sudden movement would be a bad idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“Dude?” Ashton widens his
eyes at me and jerks his head to the side, a move that’s one part impatience,
but mostly asshole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">I fold my arms behind my head
to show him I’m not in a rush to do anything. This will piss him off even more,
I’m sure of it. It’ll also give me time to scrape the fuzz from my brain.
“What.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“Uh, funeral?” He looks at
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<span style="color: red;">As if I could forget
something like that. My buddy Eben got tanked a few nights ago and lost control
of his car. It flipped over, skidded across the median, and smashed into the
concrete barriers on the other side. They say he died instantly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">His eyes look like they’re
ready to roll back into his skull. “<i>And</i> you need to get your lazy ass
out of bed. Now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Right. Get out of bed. It
doesn’t seem possible that I’m burying one of my closest friends today. A wave
of dizziness washes over me as I try to sit. My eyes snap shut. That’s it, I’m
never drinking again. “Chill the fuck out. I’m getting up.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“Yeah, well, get a move on.”
He stands in the doorway with his arms folded across his chest and watches me.
Could he be any more annoying?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“What?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“If I leave the room, you’re
just gonna sit there instead of coming out to the kitchen. Where the rest of
the band is already waiting, by the way.” He cocks his head to the side.
“They’re pretty much always waiting on you, aren’t they?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“Go fuck yourself,” I mumble
while I untangle my legs from the blanket. I’m holding my breath now. It’s
funny how smells like stale air and dirty laundry seem magnified when you feel
like you’re gonna puke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Ashton shakes his head. “Grow
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<span style="color: red;">I shoot him a dirty look, but
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<span style="color: red;">“Sometime today.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“Do I at least have time to
shower, or are you gonna stand there with the stopwatch if I do that too?” I
grab a towel from the floor and brush past him, slamming the bathroom door
behind me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">“Hurry up, Jack.” His voice
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<span style="color: red;">The shower turns cold after
the first couple minutes. I stay under the water anyway, tilt my head back and
focus on the mosaic of peeling paint and mold spots above me. Man, I never
realized what a luxury hot water was until I moved in with my brother. I’m
shivering to the point my teeth chatter together by the time I get out, but I
couldn’t possibly be more awake.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I loved this book. Nessie Strange just sucks you in and you tune out the world. The snark, the characters...wow. Bring me more!</span><br />
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Massachusetts native and mother of two who has dabbled in everything from
abstract painting to freelance sports reporting. She also loves a good story,
whether it's reading or writing one. The first two novels in her Living Dead
World series--Living Dead Girl and Reaper Madness--were published in 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Title: Dᴇsᴇᴄʀᴀᴛɪɴɢ Sᴏʟᴏᴍᴏɴ:
A Fᴏʀʙɪᴅᴅᴇɴ Rᴏᴍᴀɴᴛɪᴄ Tʜʀɪʟʟᴇʀ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Author: Lucian Bane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Genre: Forbidden
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<span style="color: red;">***WARNING***<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">This book contains
elements that may be disturbing and offensive. Please read with caution if you
are triggered by events depicting violence and various forms of abuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">On the seventh day of
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<span style="color: red;">Evil keeps a formidable
schedule in Weston, West Virginia. Every seventh year, spirits from the town's
abandoned insane asylum seek worthy souls to command. But this seventh year, a
desecration unlike any before is scheduled to ravage the town. And Solomon
Gorge is lured to the harrowing event by the screams of Silence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Silence focused her
mind, bringing the erratic race of her pulse back into her control. Again. She
was finally there. In The Hallower. She didn’t permit herself to look about but
her peripheral said she’d been wrong about the most holy chamber. The torture
devices and horrific tools she’d imagined hanging from the ceiling and walls
did not exist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Six years. She could
hardly believe it had passed. Six years as 'Silence' ended today. No, six years
of silent Contemplation ended today. But it really didn’t end. There would
never be a time when she didn’t contemplate what came next. And what would her
new name be? She never permitted herself the blasphemy of trying to guess.
Today she'd know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">She carefully slid
her gaze to the single entrance leading in. A small door made of thick slats of
wood, held together by decorative black metal. The entire room was black—walls,
ceilings, floor—all a rough stone painted a shiny looking onyx. And empty. Except
for the single slab of granite in the shape of a hobbit table where she sat in
her ceremonial graduation gown. It reminded her of a wedding dress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Would Master be the
one to usher in the final phase? Her stomach clenched in excitement and she
immediately calmed the fleshly rebellion. She secretly hoped he did. She’d
never met the Order’s Queen but once, and even then Silence was not permitted
to look upon her as an unlearned runt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Silence was used to
Master’s ways, even though all feared him. The Dark Legend of their Order had
trained her personally in the most Holy arts of pain and fear. Any fear borne
outside of her Master’s care was destructive—that was one of her first lessons.
There were good fears and bad. The bad fears were counterproductive to the
Order, the good fears protected it. And Holy Fear with pain were gifts she
received directly from her Master’s hands. And only her complete submission
provided the divine covering required to fulfill her role as the Queen’s chosen
Redemptrix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13319964154749498505noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062423488127791756.post-68664815251159915562015-10-18T00:00:00.000-05:002015-10-21T07:45:51.976-05:00Attack of the 14 Nights of Halloween Giveaway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;">Halloween is just around the corner and it's time for the 4th annual Attack of the 14 Nights of Halloween Giveaway from Laughing Vixen Lounge. 7 wickedly fun shops have come together to create one spooktalcular Prize Pack ($225+) full of Jewelry, Perfume, Clothing, Accessories and more! All shops are offering Gift Cards or your choice of item(s) so there will be something for everyone. Many of the shops have items perfect for any book lover along with lots of other unique, handcrafted and custom designs. You can enter via the Rafflecopter below or visit the Main Giveaway Page on the Laughing Vixen Lounge Blog <a href="http://laughingvixenlounge.blogspot.com/2015/10/4th-annual-attack-of-14-nights-of.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a>.
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<span style="color: red;">Join us daily on the Laughing Vixen Lounge Blog during the giveaway for our Halloween Movie Marathon featuring the Guess the Movie Game and our Murder Mystery Scavenger Hunt. Each event will get you daily entries in the giveaway plus a special giveaway for the Murder Mystery Scavenger Hunt. Find full details for these events <a href="http://laughingvixenlounge.blogspot.com/2015/10/4th-annual-attack-of-14-nights-of.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a>.
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<span style="color: red;">October is the perfect time for watching spooky movies. Along with the Halloween Movie Marathon each of our participating shops, and many of our blog sponsors, will be sharing some of their favorite movie choices with you.
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<span style="color: red;">The giveaway runs October 18th - November 1st and is open worldwide. 1 winner will win the Prize Pack and 1 winner will win the Scavenger Hunt Prize Pack. Laughing Vixen Lounge is responsible for all giveaway details. Please visit the Laughing Vixen Lounge Blog
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13319964154749498505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062423488127791756.post-43695109855619375342015-09-28T00:30:00.000-05:002015-09-28T00:30:00.720-05:00Dark Secrets Virtual Book Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Release Date: August 24, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ollie Dormier's tattoos are
deadly. She is a Scrivener—an employee for Death—and her skull tattoos mark her
clients for their demise. She does her job, and she stays out of trouble. But
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That power is exactly what Reaper
Brent Hume is counting on. A hot, scruffy rebel, who does marvelous and
terrifying things to Ollie's insides. Now he needs Ollie's help—and her
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<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">First of all, I chose Abby to write my story because she was the first to pick up on my super-sonic brainwaves. Poor thing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Once I got her attention, I screamed in her ear every second of every day. Easy-peasy, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Well, it wasn’t<i>.</i> According to her boyfriend, Abby is stubborn and known to dawdle. So, I went for a more aggressive approach like dancing the running man dance on her bed in the middle of the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Abigail Baker shares her home
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mundane human names that people think are cute. In addition to writing about
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for THE BLOODSUCKER and first place in RWA’s Golden Network’s 2011 Golden Pen
in Paranormal Romance for TATTOO OF YOUR NAME ACROSS MY SOUL (now THE REAPER’S
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">By Rin Chupeco<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Title: The Suffering<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Author: Rin Chupeco<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Release Date: <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1762270854" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 1, 2015</span></span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">"Rin Chupeco's <i>The Suffering</i> is a horror lover's dream: murders, possessed dolls, and desiccated corpses. I cringed. I grimaced. You won't soon forget this exorcist and his vengeful water ghost."<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">--Kendare Blake, author of <i>Anna Dressed in Blood</i><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">“Chupeco deftly combines ancient mysticism with contemporary dilemmas that teens face, immersing readers in horrors both supernatural and manmade. <i>The Suffering</i> is a chilling swim through the murky waters of morality.” <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Breathtaking and haunting, Rin Chupeco’s second novel is a chilling companion to her debut, The Girl from the Well.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The darkness will find you.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: AGaramondPro-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">It’s still early morning when our group is given clearance to enter. Aokigahara is a deceptive forest. It has all the hallmarks of a popular tourist destination: narrow but well-maintained hiking trails with a surprising amount of litter, not to mention strips of tape and ribbon wrapped around tree trunks. The leader explains that hikers use them as markers to maintain their bearings. Later on, one of the other volunteers whispers to us that some of the tapes were left by those who came here to kill themselves, in case they decided to change their minds. The revelation horrifies Callie.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: AGaramondPro-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">A few miles into our hike, anything resembling civilization disappears. Roots crawl across the hard forest floor, and it’s easy to trip if you’re not constantly looking down. We’re outside, but the trees make it feel claustrophobic. They reach hungrily toward the sun, fighting each other for drops of light, and this selfishness grows with the darkness as we move deeper into the woods.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: AGaramondPro-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">It’s quiet. The silence is broken by the scuffling of feet or snapping of dry twigs as we walk. Every so often, volunteers call back and forth to each other, and rescue dogs exploring the same vicinity that we are will bark. But there are no bird calls, no sounds of scampering squirrels. We’re told that there is very little wildlife in Jukai. Nothing seems to flourish here but trees.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: AGaramondPro-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">This deep into the woods, any roads and cleared paths are gone. At times, we’re forced to climb to a higher ledge or slide down steep slopes to proceed, and there’s always some root or rock hiding to twist an ankle.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: AGaramondPro-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">And yet—the forest is beautiful. I like myself too much to seriously think about suicide, even during my old bouts of depression, but I can understand why people would choose to die here. There is something noble and enduring and magnificent about the forest.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: AGaramondPro-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">That sense of wonder disappears though, the instant I see them. There are spirits here. And the ghosts mar the peacefulness for me. They hang from branches and loiter at the base of tree trunks. Their eyes are open and their skin is gray, and they watch me as I pass. I don’t know what kind of people they were in life, but they seem faded and insignificant in death.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: AGaramondPro-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">I’m not afraid, despite their bloated faces, contorted from the ropes they use to hang themselves or the overdose of sleeping pills they’ve taken. If anything, I feel lingering sadness. I can sympathize with their helpless anguish. These people took their own lives, hoping to find some meaning in death when they couldn’t find it in life. But there’s nothing here but regret and longing.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: AGaramondPro-Regular; font-size: 12pt;">And there’s that tickle again, so light it is nearly imperceptible. Something in this forest attracts these deaths. It lures its unhappy victims with its strange siren’s call and then, having taken what it needs, leaves their spirits to rot. A Venus flytrap for human souls.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“[A] Stephen King-like horror story.” -<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Told in a marvelously disjointed fashion.” <i> -Publishers Weekly STARRED Review <wbr></wbr> <u></u><u></u></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“</span></i><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">This gorgeously written story reads like poetry.” -<i>Brazos Bookstore <wbr></wbr> <wbr></wbr> <u></u><u></u></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Darkly mesmerizing.”<i> -The Boston Globe</i><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“A superior creep factor that is pervasive in every lyrical word.” -<i>Booklist<u></u><u></u></i></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Summary:<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> <i>The Ring</i> meets <i>The Exorcist</i> in this haunting and lyrical reimagining of the Japanese fable.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Okiku has wandered the world for hundreds of years, setting free the spirits of murdered children. Wherever there’s a monster hurting a child, her spirit is there to deliver punishment. Such is her existence, until the day she discovers a troubled American teenager named Tark and the dangerous demon that writhes beneath his skin, trapped by a series of intricate tattoos. Tark needs to be freed, but there is one problem—if the demon dies, so does its host.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">With the vigilante spirit Okiku as his guide, Tark is drawn deep into a dark world of sinister doll rituals and Shinto exorcisms that will take him far from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Japan. Can Okiku protect him from the demon within or will her presence bring more harm? The answer lies in the depths of a long-forgotten well<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><b>Second Annual “Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble</b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><sup><b>™</b></sup></span><b>” to Feature Unique Special Events, Author Appearances, Exclusive Content, Giveaways and More</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><b>Highlights Include Throwback Thursdays, Time Travel Weekend, DC Comics Days, Comic Convention Collectibles, a Harper Lee Celebration, Minions Fun, Fangirl Friday, Vinyl Day, a Dr. Seuss Spectacular and Much More</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><br /><b>New York, New York - June </b><b>25</b><b>, 2015 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. </b>(<b>NYSE: BKS),</b> the nation’s largest retail bookseller and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the second annual Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble, a month-long celebration of pop culture with special events customers won’t want to miss. Building off the success of last year’s campaign, this year’s Get Pop-Cultured celebration at Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest</b> will feature a series of 20 very exciting events and activities perfect for the whole family to enjoy, in addition to author signings, panel discussions, contests, exclusive content, giveaways and prizes, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble was first established in 2014 to bring to life customers’ favorite books, characters, movies, artists, illustrators and pop-culture icons. This year it expands to feature an even more robust lineup of events great for customers of all ages, including weekly Throwback Thursdays celebrating a different decade each Thursday from the 1950s through the 1990s, DC Comics Days, a Harper Lee Celebration, a Minions Fun event, Star Wars Saturday, Manga Mania, Fangirl Friday, Vinyl Day, James Patterson Day, a Dr. Seuss Spectacular and many more unique events and promotions. For more information on what’s happening during Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble month at Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest</b>,<b> </b>customers can visit the store or <a href="http://www.bn.com/getpop-cultured" target="_blank">www.bn.com/getpop-cultured</a><<a href="http://www.bn.com/getpop-cultured" target="_blank">http://www.bn.com/getpop-<wbr></wbr>cultured</a>>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><u><b>Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble </b></u><u><b>@Champion Forest</b></u><u><b> Lineup:</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">The cornerstone of the Get Pop-Cultured campaign, customers are invited to Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest</b> every Thursday in July for a nostalgic journey through the most iconic moments in pop culture from the 1950s through the 1990s. Customers will experience the decades as they explore the dynamic influence that books, toys, games, music, movies, TV and fashion had on society during those time periods. The store will feature a specially crafted display wall containing fun facts, images, products and more that influenced each decade and brings them back to life. The display wall changes weekly for each new decade and is perfect for taking pictures to share on social media, using the hashtags #TBT and #GetPopCultured. Celebrate the 1950s on July 2, the 1960s on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084220" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 9</span></span>, the 1970s on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084221" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 16</span></span>, the 1980s on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084222" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 23</span></span>, and the 1990s on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084223" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 30</span></span>. Special offers, giveaways, and events and activities each Thursday will round out the fun. <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">On July 3 at 7pm, Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest</b> is celebrating <i>Doctor Who.</i> Customers will enjoy trivia, giveaways, a special offer and more, and are invited to come dressed as their favorite character.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">On July 4 at 10am, customers will travel back millions of years with <i>Magic Tree House:</i> <i>Dinosaurs Before Dark. </i>Young paleontologists are invited to explore the age of dinosaurs with fun activities, giveaways and a special offer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">On July 5 at 2pm, customers will be transported to the intriguing world of the popular <i>Outlander</i> series with trivia, giveaways and more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>DC Comics Days - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084224" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 8-12</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Customers are invited for a special offer on all DC Comics graphic novels and a free <i>Young Gotham</i> comic collection and poster, while supplies last. There will be other giveaways and activities, and as always during Get Pop-Cultured, cosplay is welcome.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>Comic Convention Collectibles - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084225" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 9-12</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Customers can visit Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest </b>to get the highly anticipated convention exclusives representing some of the hottest licenses, including fan favorites, while supplies last. Customers should get to Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest</b> early on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084226" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 9</span></span> as many of these collectibles will sell out fast!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>Harper Lee Celebration - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084227" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 13-14</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084228" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 13</span></span>, all Barnes & Noble stores nationwide will read Harper Lee’s classic <i>To Kill a Mockingbird </i>from start to finish. The Read-A-Thon will feature a variety of special guest readers, including local authors or celebrities. On <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084229" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 14</span></span>, Harper Lee’s highly anticipated new novel, <i>Go Set a Watchman</i>, goes on sale. Barnes & Noble stores nationwide will open early at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084230" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7am</span></span> so customers can get their copy first, and those who visit the Barnes & Noble Café from <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084231" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7am to 10am</span></span> will get a free tall hot coffee with their purchase of <i>Go Set a Watchman. </i>Plus, the first 20 customers to buy the book in every store will receive a free exclusive <i>To Kill a Mockingbird </i>reusable tote.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>Minions Fun - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084232" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 17 at 7pm</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Customers are invited to sign up now for the Minions Fun event and become a certified Minion and attend Villain-Con in Barnes & Noble stores, where they will search for the most despicable villain to follow. Activities and giveaways will round out the fun. Customers can contact Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest </b>to sign up today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>Star Wars Saturday - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084233" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 18</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><i>Star Wars</i> fans of all ages are invited to Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest</b> for exclusive products, activities, cosplay, trivia and a chance to win a <i>Star Wars</i> character standee (terms & conditions apply). Customers should contact Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest</b> for complete details.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>Manga Mania - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084234" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 19</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Customers can visit Barnes & Noble <b>@Champion Forest</b> to discover this popular style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels. Manga Mania will feature a special offer, activities, and giveaways.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>Fangirl Friday - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084235" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 24 at 7 pm</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Barnes & Noble is inviting<b> </b>fangirls to unite and celebrate fandom. Fangirls should visit their local store to get introduced to the Women of Marvel, enjoy cosplay, giveaways and much more. Additionally, while supplies last, customers can pick up the Vinyl Vixen Metallic Wonder Woman, available only at Barnes & Noble.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>Vinyl Day - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084236" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 25</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Fans of vinyl records can explore Barnes & Noble’s growing assortment and participate in events celebrating vinyl culture, including giveaways, special offers and exclusives.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>James Patterson Day - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084237" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 26</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">Customers are invited to Barnes & Noble to celebrate America’s bestselling author with a special one-day-only offer on all adult, kids’, and teen books by James Patterson.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol, serif;">· </span><b>Dr. Seuss Spectacular - <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084238" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 28 at 7 pm</span></span> and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084239" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 31 at 7 pm</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">In celebration of the newly discovered Dr. Seuss book <i>What Pet Should I Get?, </i>kids of all ages are invited to help Barnes & Noble decide what pet to get at a special Storytime event on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084240" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 28 at 7pm</span></span>. Get Pop-Cultured ends on a high note on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_671084241" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 31 at 7pm</span></span> with a Dr. Seuss Spectacular, a celebration of Theodor Seuss Geisel, known to the world as the beloved Dr. Seuss. There’s fun to be done before Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble comes to an end!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> – Red Moon Romance (Eileen Wiedbrauk, Editor-in-Chief) has announced Demons, Imps, and Incubi, a romance anthology edited by Laura Harvey, is available in trade paperback and ebook today, Tuesday, June 23, 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Demons, Imps, Incubi: dark, powerful, and forbidden. Only the foolish would seek one out for seduction, and yet . . . deals are struck. Souls are ensnared. But must a demon's agenda always be demonic? Can he be redeemed? Or does being bad feel too good to bother with redemption? Long ago, imps were more mischievous and playful--naughty, perhaps?—and perceptions of them have only grown more sinister over the centuries. The incubus craves sex, but what makes us crave him? Explore dark and sensual worlds with eight brand new stories of magic and seduction that will set you aflame by Cori Vidae, Alexa Piper, Erzabet Bishop, Mark Greenmill, Nicole Blackwood, J. C. G. Goelz, Jeffery Armadillo, and M. Arbroath. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Demons, Imps, and Incubi is available in trade paperback and ebook via Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Kobo.com, and other online retailers, and for wholesale through Ingram. You can also find Demons, Imps, and Incubi on Goodreads. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Laura Harvey is an editor, writer, bibliophile, horsewoman, historian, teacher, debate coach, nerd, DIY junkie, and occasional rescuer of kittens. She holds a BA, MA, and is ABD, making her an exceptional asset in Trivial Pursuit. She loves reading so much that all of her handbags share one crucial ability: fitting a standard paperback or Kindle. She lives in northern California with a menagerie of beasts (dogs, cats, horses, and family members). </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Red Moon believes in romance. We believe reading should be fun. We believe that at their core, romances are courtship stories, focused tightly on the emotions of the relationship. We don’t raise an eyebrow at any woman’s reading choices because we believe a woman deserves whatever fiction incites her passions. Whether a sweet fairy-tale ending or a scorching hot love affair, we believe in giving a woman what she wants. Hot romance, it's what we do. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kobo: <a href="https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/demons-imps-and-incubi" target="_blank">https://store.kobobooks.<wbr></wbr>com/en-US/ebook/demons-imps-<wbr></wbr>and-incubi</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All Romance: <a href="https://www.omnilit.com/product-demonsimpsandincubi-1840028-166.html" target="_blank">https://www.omnilit.<wbr></wbr>com/product-<wbr></wbr>demonsimpsandincubi-1840028-<wbr></wbr>166.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">Welcome to Peaceville, population 2067
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<span style="background: white;">Luke Chester has had enough. He’s the school
geek, the girls laugh at him, he’s lost his dead-end job at the pizza place,
and in the midst of the world’s messiest divorce his parents don’t even know he
exists. An overdose of his mom’s tranquilizers and a stomach full of whiskey
should solve all his problems...</span><br />
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booted out of the afterlife for not dying a natural death, with nowhere to go
but back to his recently vacated corpse and reality. How the hell is he going
to pass for one of the living without someone trying to blow his brains out for
being one of the undead?</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">And it just gets worse. He’s got to fight his
own desperate craving to consume the living, evade the weird supernatural
hunter who’s having a field day with the new undeads rising, and there’s this
creepy black shadow following him around. Add to that the distraction of female
fellow undead Annabelle burning to avenge her own murder, and clearly there’s
no rest for the wicked. Jeez, all he wanted to do was R.I.P.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">Web page – </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.pippajay.co.uk/#!restless-in-peaceville/c19is"><span style="background: white;">http://www.pippajay.co.uk/#!restless-in-peaceville/c19is</span></a><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white;">Add it to your Goodreads TBR here – </span><span lang="EN-GB"> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22062985-restless-in-peaceville">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22062985-restless-in-peaceville</a>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: red;">After spending twelve years
working as an Analytical Chemist in a Metals and Minerals laboratory, Pippa Jay
is now a stay-at-home mum who writes scifi and the supernatural. Somewhere
along the way a touch of romance crept into her work and refused to leave. In
between torturing her plethora of characters, she spends the odd free moment
playing guitar very badly, punishing herself with freestyle street dance, and
studying the Dark Side of the Force. Although happily settled in the historical
town of Colchester in the UK with her husband of 21 years and three little
monsters, she continues to roam the rest of the Universe in her head.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pippa
Jay is a dedicated member of the </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://sfrcontests.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Science Fiction Romance
Brigade</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> and </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://broaduniverse.org/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Broad Universe</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, blogging at </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://spacefreighters.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Spacefreighters Lounge</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://pippajay.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Adventures
in Scifi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, and </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://romancingthegenres.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Romancing the Genres</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: 11pt;">Her works include YA and adult
stories crossing a multitude of subgenres from scifi to the paranormal, often
with romance, and she’s one of eight authors included in a science fiction
romance anthology—</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.sfrbrigadetales.blogspot.co.uk/"><i><span style="background: white; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tales from the SFR Brigade</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; font-size: 11pt;">. She’s also a double SFR Galaxy Award winner, been a finalist in the
Heart of Denver RWA Aspen Gold Contest (3<sup>rd</sup> place), the EPIC
eBook awards, and the GCC RWA Silken Sands Star Awards (2<sup>nd</sup> place).
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<span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Adventures in Scifi - </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.pippajay.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.pippajay.blogspot.co.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Goodreads - </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5054558.Pippa_Jay"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5054558.Pippa_Jay</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Heart pounding hard enough to make his chest ache, Connor stood very still. He stared into the misted grey orbs of her eyes. She stared right back. Not at him, but through him, as though something infinitely more desirable lay far beyond anything she could see. He read a kind of dull desperation in her blank face. A longing. Even if that longing was just to tear him apart and devour him. Or maybe that was his imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">"Hello?" His voice came out as a dry croak and he wet his lips. He had to try something. He couldn't spend the rest of his life in silence and alone. Even this poor shell of a human was better than that. And maybe—just maybe—he could reach her. Maybe even help her find a fragment of her lost humanity. "Can you hear me?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">"Hey!" He banged on the glass, but even that didn't break her hungry stare. Perhaps she couldn't hear him, let alone understand or respond. Losing those higher functions must have included any communication ability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">After spending twelve years working as an Analytical Chemist in a Metals and Minerals laboratory, Pippa Jay is now a stay-at-home mum who writes scifi and the supernatural. Somewhere along the way a touch of romance crept into her work and refused to leave. In between torturing her plethora of characters, she spends the odd free moment playing guitar very badly, punishing herself with freestyle street dance, and studying the Dark Side of the Force. Although happily settled in the historical town of Colchester in the UK with her husband of 21 years and three little monsters, she continues to roam the rest of the Universe in her head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Pippa Jay is a dedicated member of the Science Fiction Romance Brigade, blogging at Spacefreighters Lounge, Adventures in Scifi, and Romancing the Genres. <span style="background: white;">Her works include YA and adult stories crossing a multitude of subgenres from scifi to the paranormal and often with romance, and she’s one of eight authors included in a science fiction romance anthology—</span><i><span style="background: white;">Tales from the SFR Brigade</span></i><span style="background: white;">. She’s also a double SFR Galaxy Award winner, been a finalist in the Heart of Denver RWA Aspen Gold Contest (3<sup>rd</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>place), the EPIC eBook awards, and the GCC RWA Silken Sands Star Awards (2<sup>nd</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>place).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In
the summer of 1979, Eckert, Wisconsin, was the sight of the most unique UFO
encounter in history. A young couple observed a saucer-like aircraft hovering
over Hollers Hill. A blue beam blasted down from the center of the craft into
the hill and caused the ground to rumble for miles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thirty years later, Eckert is experiencing nightly rumbles that stir up wild
rumors and garner outside attention. The earthly tremors are being blamed on
everything from earthquakes to underground earth dwellers. Two pre-teens
discover a pipe out behind Packard’s Flea Market uprooted by the “booms” and
come into contact with the powerful ooze bubbling from within. What begins as
curiosity will end in an afternoon of unbridled terror for the entire town.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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before the final page is swiped or turned."</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> -
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small town (or intimate invasion) alien pieces. Like a reader’s digest version
of Late Night Horror Television presentations (every region had one, for me it
was "Fright Night Theatre") of "Invaders From Mars",
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers", "Night of the Creeps" or
"Xtro"” – </span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Zachary, Mouths of Madness Podcast<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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have been rattling a small eastern Wisconsin city for at least two nights,
baffling residents and local officials who were left stumped Tuesday after
ruling out numerous theories, from earthquakes to water pressure problems.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is part of an article
written by Carrie Antlfinger that appeared in The Huffington Post back in March
of 2012. I saw the report on “Good Morning America” and snapped my fingers. I
knew this was horror fiction worthy. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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one of my favorite radio shows, “Coast to Coast AM.” Well, after four days of
rumbling, booming, and shaking, scientists finally solved the mystery. It
appears batches of mini-quakes were “amplified by the unique bedrock beneath
the state of Wisconsin.” (CNN Report) The fun part for me was that the reports
said these “booms” and other “strange sounds” caused by the mini-earthquakes
were only happening at night and non-existent during daylight hours. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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night, quieting down during the day. Absent of any explanations, residents were
left to their own devices to come up with explanations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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author, that opens up a lot of cans of imaginative worms! I considered
underground worms, but thought that would tread too close to “Tremors” (which I
love by the way), but I think once George Norry mentioned it on “Coast to Coast
AM,” my brain pulled me toward me something extra-terrestrial. I wrote the piece
without fully deciding what was going to be behind the “booms” and originally
had the mysterious ooze as something akin to the pink ecto goo from “Ghostbusters
2.” The story just didn’t work like that. I knew deep down that I wanted to do
an alien story, but I didn’t have the balls (at first) to cross that
Horror/Sci-Fi bridge. However, I’m glad
I did. “Boom Town” is one of my favorite pieces that I’ve written so far
(probably my second favorite behind my forthcoming werewolf novel, “Blood and
Rain”).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Glenn Rolfe is an author, singer, songwriter and all around
fun loving guy from the haunted woods of New England. He has studied Creative
Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, and continues his education in
the world of horror by devouring the novels of Stephen King and Richard Laymon.
He and his wife, Meghan, have three children, Ruby, Ramona, and Axl. He is
grateful to be loved despite his weirdness.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">He is the author the ghost/mystery/thriller
novella, ABRAM'S BRIDGE (Samhain Publishing, Jan. 2015) and his latest novella,
a Horror/Sci-Fi mash-up, BOOM TOWN (Samhain Publishing).<span class="apple-converted-space"> A full-length novel, BLOOD AND RAIN, will
come out this Fall from Samhain Publishing and THINGS WE FEAR, a novella, is
set to publish from Samhain in 2016.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">His debut novel, THE HAUNTED HALLS (James Ward
Kirk Publishing, 2014), is available now, as well as his short story
collection, SLUSH (Alien Agenda Publishing, 2014).</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Look for his punk rock band, The Never Nudes, on
Amazon and Facebook.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Check out his website:</span> <span style="background: white;">www.glennrolfe.com</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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soulless creature of the night, has a problem. Carly, the love of his life has
just died in an accident and in three days will pass to the other side. Without
a soul, he cannot cross over with her and the thought of spending eternity
without his beloved is unbearable. Is seventy-two hours enough time to find a
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lev moved swiftly through the hallways, darting </span><span lang="EN-CA">in
and out and around what, to him, were slowly moving nurses and orderlies—those
unfortunates working the midnight shift. Faster than any human eye was capable
of detecting, he made it to Carly’s room in a flash. In fact, he made it there
just in time, nostrils plucking the acrid scents from the air better than any
dog’s.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He sat on the bed beside her in the dimly lit </span><span lang="EN-CA">room
and noticed, thankfully, she had no roommate. The bed beside Carly was recently
vacated. The scent of death still lingered heavily and sadly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Taking her delicate hand in his, Lev noticed a monitor </span><span lang="EN-CA">clipped on an index finger. It seemed it measured her pulse and
heartbeat. He noticed too that her heart was beating slowly, though he didn’t
need a monitor for that. He heard its throb, and it made him think of a dying
battery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">However, relief settled on him as he realized </span><span lang="EN-CA">he
was the first to arrive after the accident that had left her comatose. Carly’s
family was nowhere near yet. It would take hours for them to get here from the
other coast. He had time, plenty of it. Stealthily, Lev glanced into the
hallway from his perch in the darkened hospital room. The occasional nurse
strode past, but it was late, or perhaps the better term was early. In the wee
hours of the morning, there would be fewer staff than during the day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With a sigh, he took Carly in. Her blonde hair </span><span lang="EN-CA">was
matted and dirty, even though it looked as if someone had tried to clean her
up, perhaps finger combing her thick mane and tucking it behind her head. Her
face was still perfect. Not a single scratch had sullied her beauty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A knot twisted in his belly. Why hadn’t he </span><span lang="EN-CA">known?
He could have saved her if only he’d known. But even Lev couldn’t know
everything. It was his brother, Alexei, who’d given him the news moments ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Brother,” he’d said, “there’s been an </span><span lang="EN-CA">accident.
Go now to the hospital or you’ll never see your precious Carly again.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He hadn’t asked the how, the why, the when. </span><span lang="EN-CA">Alexei
had dropped his mental barriers. Lev felt them fall like a drawbridge. His
brother had let him in. It was easier than speaking—Lev was able to glean
whatever information he needed in an instant. But with the simple facts of
Carly’s accident came the realization his brother was happy for the turmoil. A
hint of a smile had curled Alexei’s full lips, and his eyes were bright. Lev
was not surprised.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He pulled his thoughts from Alexei and looked </span><span lang="EN-CA">down
at his beloved’s hand in his. The pallor of it matched his own. He listened to
the slow rush of blood through her veins, willing it to grow stronger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">I've been a
part of the publishing industry for over twenty years, working first as a
freelance journalist, then as an in-house editor for LexisNexis Canada. I
currently work as a freelance editor and writer. I’m represented by the
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paranormal romance, has been optioned for film. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Invisible</i> is an Amazon bestseller both domestically and
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<span style="color: red;">Another of
my novels, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nowhere to Run</i>, tells the
story of Lily Valier, a woman of substance and beauty, and her dilemma when she
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<span style="color: red;">Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes. But from the moment they arrive, Sunshine feels her world darken with an eeriness she cannot place. And even if Kat doesn’t recognize it, Sunshine knows that something about their new house is just ... creepy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">In the days that follow, things only get stranger. Sunshine is followed around the house by an icy breeze, phantom wind slams her bedroom door shut, and eventually, the laughter Sunshine hears on her first night evolves into sobs. She can hardly believe it, but as the spirits haunting her house become more frightening—and it becomes clear that Kat is in danger—Sunshine must accept what she is, pass the test before her, and save her mother from a fate worse than death.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The Haunting of Sunshine Girl was a book I couldn't put down. I received the book as an arc from work (bookstore) and was thrilled. I watched the Youtube video and loved the creativity behind it and was not disappointed in the book.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Sunshine has just moved from sunny Texas to the Pacific Northwest and isn't really happy about it. Her mom has a new job and she struggles to fit in. The house they move into is creepy (her words) to the extreme and the uber pink bedroom resembles an exploding pepto bismal bottle. When things start to go bump in the night, Sunshine realizes there is a lot going on with her new house. She is changing too. But that is only the start of her problems. Her mother may be possessed, her new friend is creating some romantic tension and the odd teacher at school may know more than she is letting on about the goings on at her house.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">If you love haunted house tales, this is one for you!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This collection of fairy tales is far from the sanitized versions we are used to seeing in today's media. From big bad wolves to nectar seeping goddesses, spirits of leopards, witches with fierce lusts and things that haunt the night wind, these tales are not for the faint hearted.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1.) Little Dead Red – Mercedes M. Yardley</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2.) Nectar – Allison M. Dickson</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3.) The Leopard’s Pelt – S.R. Cambridge</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4.) Hazing Cinderella – C.W. LaSart</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5.) The Night Air – Stacey Turner</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I enjoyed every single one of these dark jewels but my absolute favorite was Little Dead Red by Mercedes M. Yardley. An original re-write of the Red Riding Hood tale, you won't expect the ending of this twisted little story. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nectar was a fantastical trip into the witches lair-futuristic style. Loved it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Leopard's Pelt was an exercise in the strength and weaknesses in all of us. Great story!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hazing Cinderella was bold, sexy and diabolically thrilling. The raw imagery was page turning. Excellent read!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Night Air is every parents' nightmare. When children go missing how do you live your life? I too was waiting for a lottery to appear. It reminded me of Victoria Holt novels and I was enveloped in no time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I also have to mention the gorgeous cover art. Wow! I would wear that on a shirt any day. Absolutely inspiring and beautiful!</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5/5</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24465810-grimm-mistresses">Goodreads</a></span><br />
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