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Keeping Promises: To Everyone But Herself by Marilyn L. Hart Genre: Women's Fiction Beth stares at herself in the bathroom mirror and sees a depressed, overworked woman. As she has done many other times in her life, she asks her deceased twin, “Where did I go, Sissy?” Wishing her sister could magically twirl a wand and make her life the one she always dreamed of, not the one she's living. She lets out a deep sigh because looking back at her is the same woman she was staring at before. She walks into her bedroom and plops down on the bed. How is it possible that next month she turns 50 years old? Where did the time go? Why has she continued to work at a job she never wanted or stayed married to a man she should have divorced years ago? She just wants to curl up in a ball, cry her heart out, eat chocolate and junk food and stay in bed for the next two weeks and not attend her yearly master class. Just then, in walks the bane of her existence, her husband Charles. Looking at him s

Martyr      The Immanence Series Book Three by Linda Robertson Reinhardt Genre: Dark Fantasy Publisher: Igni House Publishing Date of Publication: Nov 28, 2022    ISBN:   9781685440091 Number of pages:  635 Word Count: 148,000  Cover Artist: Linda Robertson Reinhardt A renegade angel once changed human society forever… now a new angel will change it again.     Jovienne’s quest to understand her power and claim her freedom leads to a shocking discovery--one that will shake the foundations of modern society and sends her straight to Hell. Listen to the Immanence Soundtrack Amazon The Immanence Series About the Author: Linda Robertson Reinhardt is an internationally published novelist and her short stories have appeared in several anthologies. In 2022, she released The Immanence Series, a dark fantasy trilogy for which she created the covers and all the interior artwork. A life-long musician, she’s also an award-winning composer, so it’s no surprise she also wrote and produced a 72-minute

  Book Details: Book Title: A Measure of Serenity by Bryan Prosek Category: YA Fiction (Ages 13-17), 368 pages Genre: YA Science Fiction Publisher: CamCat Books Release date: November 2022 Content Rating: PG. There aren't any graphic scenes, and no strong language. Book Description: A million thoughts, but only one right thing to do. Eighteen-year-old Serenity Ashdown has a brilliant mind: she counts, calculates, and analyzes everything, all the time. Awkward. When her father suddenly disappears, Serenity follows his trail to a parallel dimension. The feds on the other side claim to want to help her go home, if she helps them reconstruct the right codes for the portal between worlds. But it’s soon clear they want something more: a gateway for invasion, because this version of Earth is dying. When Serenity learns that her alter-ego was killed in battle, she assumes “the other Serenity’s” identity and uses her unique abilities to lead the resistance in a mortal fight against th

From the writer of "Shrek" comes "The Man Who Came and Went," a magically realistic novel about a grill cook who can mind read orders, and a small town diner that changes lives.  The Man Who Came and Went  by Joe Stillman Genre: Magical Realism / Mature YA / Literary Fiction Publisher: City Point Press Date of Publication: 3/1/22 ISBN: 9781947951389 Number of pages: 240 Word Count: 64,000 Cover Artist:  Barbara Aronica-Buck and Susan Stillman A grill cook who mind-reads orders.   A diner that changes lives. Tips appreciated.  Fifteen year old Belutha Mariah, our storyteller, is the oldest of three kids from three different fathers. Her life’s goal is to keep her dysfunctional mom, Maybell, from procreating yet again and then to leave the coffin-sized town of Hadley, Arizona the second she graduates high school.  Along comes the new grill cook at Maybell’s Diner, Bill Bill, a mysterious drifter with the ability to mind-read orders. As word spreads, the curious and de

A Haunting at Marianwood by Dash Hammond  Book Six E.M. Munsch Genre: Mystery Publisher: Mystery and Horror, LLC Date of Publication: October 18, 2022 ASIN: ‎B0BJ4GYGD2 ISBN-10: ‎1949281213 ISBN-13: ‎978-1949281217 Print length: ‎217 pages Life is good for Dash Hammond. He's recently remarried his childhood sweetheart, Dr. Maevis Summers, and together they're raising his four-year-old son, T.J. in the Hammond family homestead in Clover Pointe, Ohio. A retired Army colonel, Dash now keeps himself busy fixing everything from a leaky faucet to an unsolved murder. It is no wonder that his cousin Billy McCafferty calls on Dash for a road trip to Kentucky when  his oldest sister is in trouble. The president of a religious order, Sister Miriam Patrice, Miri Pat to those who knew her before she took the veil, has been hearing things, seeing things and misplacing things. A very competent woman, she refuses to accept an unearthly reason for all this. Marianwood, the motherhouse of the Si

  Raine Down The Shadow Guardians Book 1 by CB Samet Genre: Urban Fantasy, Romantic Suspense Ragnarok happened. Survivors converged on earth many millennia ago, breeding and blending with humans. Now, a secret battle of bloodlines is being waged in the shadows of the real world. Raine Thoren became a Shadow Guardian to protect non-magical humans from threats they aren't even aware of. But the latest killer on the loose has stealth and power unlike any adversary she's faced. She won't be able to bring this one down alone. FBI Special Agent Will Decker prefers to work by himself. When a mysterious woman saves his life, she's suddenly assigned to work with him in his quest to track an elusive killer. The more he learns about his new partner, Raine, and what demons lurk in shadows, the more fantasy becomes reality. If they're going to stop the demon and unravel prophecies of the future, they'll need to work as a team and unlock each others' hearts and unta

  The Ridders by Lisa Towles Genre: Political Action Thriller Brock “BJ” Janoff and his older brother Jonas run a private investigation firm in Venice, CA. BJ is randomly approached by a stranger on the street with a proposition he can’t refuse – one million dollars to deliver a single envelope to a hotel lobby. They pay him up front, which sounds good on the surface, but now BJ’s life is in danger if he doesn’t deliver the envelope in time. Obsessed with the envelope’s contents and the “why me”, BJ follows clues to investigate the players behind what he believes is an organized crime scam. When an act of brilliance changes the balance of power, the safety of everyone he loves is in jeopardy. And the more he digs, the closer he gets to truths he can’t bear to face – about the elusive Bilderberg Group, his missing father, and about the fate of everyone he loves. **Releases November 30th!!** Amazon * Apple * B&N * Kobo * Smashwords * Goodreads Trailer Lisa Towles is an award-win