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- Origins Reign of Blood
by Candace L Bowser - SIGNAL 30
by James Twerell - Mantis Pray for Death
by Candace L Bowser - Trader Vyx (A Galaxy Unknown, Book 4)
by Thomas De Prima - A Galaxy Unknown (A Galaxy Unknown, Book 1)
by Thomas De Prima - Wrath
by Kevin Davison - Valor At Vauzlee (A Galaxy Unknown, Book 2)
by Thomas De Prima - The East Wind
by Anthony Bruce - The Greedy Disciple
by C.J. Mc Neil - The Flight of The Hawk
by Jerine P. Watson
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- The House
- by Aaron Kruse
Purgatory is a cold and unpleasant place, a place where souls are warehoused until they are called to walk the earth again in the form of the living. But if the dead are owed a debt by the living, they can sometimes make a deal to come back before their time and collect on that debt.
Ezekiel Felder, his brother, and his sister, are all warehoused in Purgatory, as they are all the victims of savage childhood abuse. Ezekiel makes a deal with Satan to return to the world of warmth and light, and earn freedom for his brother and sister. All it requires is that he pay Satan a negotiated number of rotted souls, sent to Hell for Satan’s pleasure.
It seems straightforward, but trouble arises when first Ezekiel’s sister and then his brother come back to help him – and both have been modified in ways he doesn’t expect. And then there’s the fact that when you deal with the devil, you never really know all the details.
In a deal with the devil, you never really win.
Ezekiel navigates a path of constantly shifting requirements, unexpected input from his siblings, unwelcome attention from the police, and his own very valid feelings of love, regret and fear. The House follows Ezekiel through an action-packed adventure to a surprising – and unexpected – ending as the devil’s true goal becomes clear.
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- "Thorns of a Red Rose" by RoseMeade
- by Virtuoso Book Distribution
This gruesome mystery takes place first in El Paso, Texas and then in Charleston with many of the characters living very horrific lives. You'll read some scenes that cause you to slam the book down... only to pick it up and begin again later. If you find yourself believing you have the plot figured out, continue to the next chapter. You will find that you may have missed one last detail. Our advice, don't read “Thorns of a Red Rose” while trying to fall asleep, unless you’re the type of reader that “just can’t put the book down.”
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- The Van Gogh Agenda
- by Willard Ceccarelli
It would be unfathomable to think that powerful politicians within the Federal Government would be beyond murder in order to push their agenda into changing the Bill of Rights. The appearance of doing good and gaining huge public support leads to the darker corners of corruption in Washington DC.
Tony Woods now living in Southern California is a bitter and underachieving young man of twenty-six years old. He witnessed his father’s death at the age of thirteen and when his mother sold their Wyoming ranch and moved the family to Southern California Tony gave up on life.
Tony delivers a pizza late one night to wealthy Congresswoman Donna Rockdale’s estate. Tony has a chance meeting with Rockdale and a few other high powered political people visiting the Rockdale estate. Rockdale strikes up a conversation with Tony and later she decides to hire Tony to her California Staff.
While working in the California office Tony is lead by undercover FBI agent, Jenna Kessler into a sinister world of political corruption, compromise and ultimately death.
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- The Beginning of Never by Emily Kurtyan
- by Virtuoso Book Distribution
Amy Wolf is a fifteen year old girl with depression. At-least, she was until the night she killed herself and became a ghost. Amy killed herself because she lost both her father and her grandmother; the only people that actually cared about her. Her mother remarried an alcoholic who abuses both Amy and her mother.
Amy watched her friends deal with grief without her. One by one she says goodbye to each one of them. She finds out that her boyfriend Carter cheated on her with her friend Brooklyn and seeks revenge on them. She says goodbye to her friends through their dreams, which she can enter in a process called “dream walking.”
Amy receives a ghost mentor named Ebony who explains to her what will happen now that she is a ghost. She has roughly a month to get closure before she moves on to Terra Porta Mortuua, or the land of the dead. Ebony tells her the story of her death; a story of love, jealousy, and murder. Amy and Ebony become great friends until she leaves for Terra Porta Mortuua.
After Ebony moves on, Amy meets the boy she must mentor, Evan. She feels an irresistible pull to him, and the two instantly fall in love. Amy tells him her whole story of why she killed herself. At the end of the book she admits that she was raped by her stepfather’s friend, got pregnant, and was forced to have an abortion. Finally, Amy finds love with Evan as a ghost, and peacefully moves on to her next life.
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- PURE BLOODS, Origins
- by Jenna Raven
The bond between seventeen year old twins, Katherine and Amanda is supernatural, but when Katherine’s dead twin sister makes Katherine promise to go to an abandoned house she’s seen in a vision; Katherine will find there are more things in this world that are supernatural than merely talking with your dead twin sister.
A house isolated deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains reads, “House in need of TLC, will rent cheap to someone willing to remodel.” It’s the perfect match, having worked summers renovating homes with her father. Katherine convinces him to give her one month alone in the house to escape the memories of her sister’s death. But, this game isn’t like Survivor. When Katherine’s sister goes into the light, Katherine will face this journey alone. A female ghost who haunts a room and knows Katherine’s name, a devilishly handsome werewolf, and traveling back to the year 1817 will be some of the things Katherine encounters as an evil darkness hunts her. Is it truth or the same insanity that pushed her twin sister to suicide?
