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- the DEVIL’S RUSE
by Ruth Welburn - Three Gold Nuggets
by Marty Ray - When The Spirit Moves You
by Thomas De Prima - YESHUA!
by Edmund Jonah - Prophets and the Kings
by R. Phillips - Red, White, Black & Blue
by Chuck Fair - Hellpath 1859
by Chuck Fair - White, Red, Black & Blue
by Chuck Fair - Foxtail
by Paul Freeman - Roots of Life
by Sidney Decker
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- The Sisters of Thistle
- by Christina Hamlett
The first thing that young Michael McKay needed to do once his Virginia tobacco plantation began to flourish was to bring his beloved sister Fiona over from Scotland. The last thing he needed was to not only find out that she had become a nun during his long absence but that she intended to bring the elderly sisters of Thistleburn Abbey across the ocean to join her. There's more than holy smoke, however, that will soon be blowing across Michael's property; romance is in the air in the form of Fiona's dearest friend, Daphne, a beautiful but rebellious Englishwoman who has her own reasons for seeking refuge in turn-of-the-century America.
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- Written In Blood
- by Theresa M. Moore
Children of The Dragon book 8. A historical fantasy of high action, adventure and vampire romance! In 1645 Alexander Corvina persuades his fullblood father Lucien Arkanon to rejoin the world of men after a long period of isolation. They share danger and adventure on the road as they travel to France one step ahead of the Ottoman Turks, and are eyewitnesses to history along the way. Follow their amazing adventures as they approach their goal. Yet their adventures have only just begun. This book includes a series of maps tracing our heroes' journey.
The Children of The Dragon series of SF/vampire books by Theresa M. Moore is a chronicle of the Xosan, living vampires from the planet Antellus who were once human but were transformed by a dragon's blood. They are stories of science fiction, fact and fantasy, myth and history, romance, tragedy and triumph; linked together by the theme of the vampire as hero and told in a daring cinematic style.
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- Roots of Life
- by Sidney Decker
Roots of Life combines a sweeping historical epic with a hunt for a wonder drug lost for over a century. From Boston Harbor in 1838, to the Amazon, and Civil War battlefields the adventures and romances, victories and defeats of a brilliant southern surgeon unfold. The auction of a Civil War era chest leads a young man on an adventure of a lifetime as he follows the surgeon’s trail to find a medicine that could change the world. At every step he is met with intrigue and deception. This novel marries fiction with the actual historic events of a turbulent time.
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- Foxtail
- by Paul Freeman
The murder of a prominent town accountant was the beginning of a virtual war which broke out between competing gangs, on land and sea, anarchy reined; it was all in the name of profit, from the seed of a palm. Miles Stannard was unwittingly drawn into financing one of gangs.
The Foxtail palm (Wodyetia Bifurcata) was a protected plant, placed on the endangered species list; it was not even known to botanists until 1983. The effect of protecting it was the opposite of what was expected.
The palm seed became a more desirable item; groups and individuals illegally went and harvested their seeds, which increased their value dramatically. Added to the seed haul, were rare fauna, such as the Eclectus parrot and various types of lizards and snakes
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- White, Red, Black & Blue
- by Chuck Fair
Against a background of revolution and counter-revolution, a love that should never be burns in war torn Nicaragua. The new revolutionary government wants to pick up the pieces and build a better future for its people, but the newly elected president in Washington D.C. is not about to let a ragtag bunch of communists supported by Fidel Castro exist, let alone flourish. He orders the CIA to get in there and get it right this time, no more screw-ups like in Vietnam, send in American veterans to retrain the fragmented Guardia Nacional driven from the country.
Battered by economic woes and loss of his family to another man, decorated veteran Danny Blaine can find no other way to reclaim his dignity than to accept the CIA offer to train the Guardia Nacional, now euphemistically called Freedom Fighters.
The first woman to join the Sandinista rebels in mountains attempting to overthrow the tyrannical president of Nicaragua, Violet Chavera becomes the highest ranking woman in the post-revolutionary army, locked in never-ending battles against an enemy crossing her country’s borders. Now mentally harden by the death of her infant and the execution of her lover, the female fighter routinely defeats undisciplined Freedom Fighters north of Managua. That is, until the ex-marine Danny Blaine arrives at the border, then events turn against her.
Facing a treason charge after the total destruction of her troops by the American mercenary, the disgraced heroine becomes the perfect scapegoat for political enemies. Sickened by the endless carnage in the border war and disillusioned by contra deceit, the American veteran defects to the Sandinistas.
When the communist commander and the capitalist mercenary find themselves pushed together by an explosion of events, they resist the passion they feel for each other, but are unable to contain it.
