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Once Upon a Murder A Fairy Tale Mystery Book 1 by D.E. Dennis

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Once Upon a Murder
A Fairy Tale Mystery Book 1
by D.E. Dennis
Genre: Cozy Mystery
In the town of Castle Rock, many residents live a fairy life but not all
get a fairy tale ending.
The home of Michael Grimm is a unique place where the line between the
haves and the have-nots might as well have been a canyon. The gated
community of Fairy Tails houses the wealthy, royal, and connected
while the simple townsfolk they ignore putter about their lives on
the other side.
Despite the embittered classes, not much happens in their divided town and
Michael, along with his sister Monica, struggle to keep the doors of
Grimm Investigations open.
That is until Preston Charming, the wealthy son of one of the most
powerful families in Fairy Tails, is found murdered in Siren Woods.
The Grimm siblings eagerly take the case, but soon Michael finds
himself on a collision course with the scars of the past and people
who inflicted them.
Amid old enemies, abandoned shoes, hardened servant girls, and infamous
parties; will Michael solve this homicidal puzzle before the killer
sees to it he doesn’t get his happy ever after?
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D.E. Dennis grew up in the United States but has spent most of her life
within the pages of a book. A great novel has the ability to
transport you to another time or place and she loves all the worlds
she has had the opportunity to visit.
Now, she spends her time
traveling the world and visiting new (and real) places and cultures
as her love of being transported to another place only grew as she
got older.
When D.E. Dennis is not writing, she is reading,
eating cheesecake, and changing countries.
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Hide Not Seek (The Not So Reluctant Detectives) by D.E. Haggerty

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Hide Not Seek
(The Not So Reluctant Detectives)
by D.E. Haggerty

 

About the Book


Hide Not Seek (The Not So Reluctant Detectives)
Cozy Mystery/Romance/Humor
3rd in Series
Independently Published (April 18, 2019)
Print Length: 183 pages
ASIN: B07NYSCT6W

I know who you really are.

Pru has a secret, which she has no plans to reveal – ever. But after a woman is murdered and all clues point to her, she has no choice but to disclose her true identity. When her revelations help thwart the killer’s plan to frame Pru for the murder, the killer begins stalking her. With each note he sends, he gets closer. The police are stumped. Pru wants to run away. She really, really wants to run, but Ajax has found the woman of his dreams and he’s not letting her go anywhere. He can be patient. In the meantime, he’ll protect her with his life. Pru isn’t feeling very patient, and her friends, Mel and Terri, are definitely not willing to wait until the police uncover who the stalker is. The three friends take matters into their own hands and jump headfirst into the investigation.

Will Pru and her friends uncover her stalker before he turns his violence on Pru?

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D.E. Haggerty

10 Things I’ve learned

As Hide Not Seek is my fifteenth novel (still find that hard to believe!), I thought it was a good time to reflect on what I’ve learned since I started on this journey.

 

  1. Everyone thinks that a writer isn’t busy. I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the number of times I’ve been asked by friends and acquaintances how I manage not to get bored when my hubby is off working.
  2. A lot of people don’t read. Seriously, they don’t read novels. I am flabbergasted and confused.
  3. Readers assume that the main character of each novel is you only more funny, mad, sad, [fill in the appropriate adjective here].
  4. Self-publishing is not for the fainthearted. If the prejudice against indie writing doesn’t get you down, then the sheer amount of extra work an indie writer needs to do to get noticed will.
  5. Finishing the book is just the start. Now you need to market the book and find readers. And somehow manage not to become discouraged and want to jump off a bridge.
  6. There comes a point in every book when you think: I can’t do this, I don’t know how to end this, where do I go from here? Keep. Writing. If that doesn’t work, alcohol can drown out that little voice in your head.
  7. Always carry a notebook with you. You won’t remember that awesome idea you had in the middle of the night, in the shower, while on the bus, etc. You might want to remember a pen or pencil as well.
  8. Bad reviews are like getting a negative job performance review that everyone just watched on YouTube. And then judges you based upon it.
  9. Grammar is harder than I remember from school. Or maybe it’s just me wanting to start sentences with conjunctions, use hyphens instead of commas, and write dialogues like people really talk. What’s an Oxford comma again?
  10. It’s okay to say you’re a writer even if you aren’t on the bestseller list. Yeah right. Still working on this one.

About the Author

I grew up reading everything I could get my grubby hands on, from my mom’s Harlequin romances to Nancy Drew, to Little Women. When I wasn’t flipping pages in a library book, I was penning horrendous poems, writing songs no one should ever sing, or drafting stories which have thankfully been destroyed. College and a stint in the U.S. Army came along, robbing me of free time to write and read, although on the odd occasion I did manage to sneak a book into my rucksack between rolled up socks, MRIs, t-shirts, and cold weather gear. After surviving the army experience, I went back to school and got my law degree. I jumped ship and joined the hubby in the Netherlands before the graduation ceremony could even begin. A few years into my legal career, I was exhausted, fed up, and just plain done. I quit my job and sat down to write a manuscript, which I promptly hid in the attic before returning to the law. But practicing law really wasn’t my thing, so I quit (again!) and went off to Germany to start a B&B. Turns out running a B&B wasn’t my thing either. I polished off that manuscript languishing in the attic before following the husband to Istanbul where I decided to give the whole writer-thing a go. But ten years was too many to stay away from my adopted home. I packed up again and moved to The Hague where, in between tennis matches and failing to save the world, I’m currently working on my next book. I hope I’ll always be working on my next book.

Hide Not Seek is my fifteenth novel.

Author Links

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New Release – Brushed by Fate by Laura DeLuca

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Elisa Manna gave up on romance after a
string of abusive relationships. She comes off as a brusque biker, but
beneath her rough exterior she longs for something more.

Scott Heron is a Marine veteran trying to cope with the residual effects
of war. His art is his only refuge from the dark memories that haunt
him.

When fate nudges them together, they can’t deny there’s chemistry, but
Elisa is terrified of commitment and Scott’s physical and emotional
scars make him abrasive and unpredictable. Can these two wounded
warriors overcome their damaged past and paint a new future together?

 

Laura “Luna” DeLuca lives at the beautiful Jersey shore with her four
children and multiple cats. Her works include romantic thrillers,
paranormal fiction, contemporary romance, and young adult.

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Magic-Price The Crown of Stones Book 1 by C.L. Schneider

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Magic-Price
The Crown of Stones Book 1
by C.L. Schneider
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Ian Troy is one of the Shinree, a fallen people with an inherent
addiction to magic. Scorned and reviled for the deadly side of their
spells, the Shinree are bred as slaves. Their magic is suppressed by
drugs and used only as it serves the purposes of the other races.
Descended from a long line of soldiers, Ian is conscripted into the Rellan army
and made to fight in their longstanding conflict against the ruthless
Langorian invaders. The downfall of Rella imminent, Ian goes against
orders and turns to the Crown of Stones, an ancient Shinree relic of
untold power. Ignorant of its true purpose, Ian uses the crown to end
the war, and pays a terrible price.
A decade later, still tortured by the aftermath of that day, Ian lives
as a bounty hunter in self-imposed exile. Having renounced his
magical heritage, he curbs his obsession with a steady stream of wine
and regret. He struggles to put it all behind him, until a fateful
encounter with a pretty assassin brings Ian’s past crashing into
the present.
Targeted by a rogue Shinree, and a ruthless old enemy, Ian is forced to use
magic again. His deadly addiction is rekindled and his life of
isolation is brought to a swift end. With the land he gave up
everything to protect once more in jeopardy, and his people’s
future at stake, Ian becomes embroiled in a violent race for control
of the Crown of Stones. To save the realms and those he cares for,
Ian must embrace the thing he fears most: his own power.
Magic-Scars
The Crown of Stones Book 2
Magic doesn’t wound the same as a sword.
The story of Ian Troy continues in Magic-Scars, the second installment in
C. L. Schneider’s riveting epic fantasy trilogy, The Crown of Stones.
Captured by his old enemy, King Draken of Langor, Shinree magic user Ian Troy
was sentenced to prison. Tortured and drugged, robbed of his will,
his memories, and his magic, Ian was made to do unspeakable things.
Rescued, as his body slowly rids itself of the drug, Ian realizes he
has returned to an unfamiliar world gripped with fear. In the wake of
his fall, those he cared for were left to their own grim fates.
Draken has seized control of the realms and named himself High King.
His brutal rein has sparked a desperate rebellion that Ian now finds
himself a part of. His one task: recover and repair the Crown of
Stones, in hopes it will tip the balance in the revolution that is
brewing. In pursuit of the reason behind the artifact’s strange
loss of magic, Ian is driven to release an explosion of retribution
and power that leaves him irrevocably scarred.
Struggling to reconcile the man he has become with the man he once was, Ian
strives to understand the growing number of magic-scars adorning his
body. He searches for the truth behind his link to the Crown of
Stones and uncovers shocking secrets buried for generations beneath
the sand. To become the weapon the resistance needs, he must assume
responsibility for his magical inheritance. But can he curb the
destructive appetite that comes with it?
The price of Ian’s magic and his addiction have never been higher.
Magic-Borne
The Crown of Stones Book 3
No other Shinree has borne as much of magic’s weight, its pleasure, or its guilt.
The fate of Ian Troy is revealed in the final installment of C. L.
Schneider’s epic fantasy trilogy, The Crown of Stones.
In one fell swoop, the resistance was shattered. Lives were taken. Hope
was lost. Peace slipped like grains of sand through his fingers. So
did the Crown of Stones. Now, forced into hiding, Ian Troy grapples
for a way to save the realm—and free its people—from the sadistic
clutches of Jem Reth; Mirra’kelan’s new self-appointed emperor.
Plagued with the knowledge of a tragic future, he strives to
influence events and save those he cares for. But his magic has
betrayed him, and Fate has other plans.
Marked by the crown, hindered by the transformation spell contained within,
each cast brings Ian one step closer to becoming more beast than man.
Each move brings the death and destruction foretold in his vision
inexplicably nearer. With Langor on the brink of war, and King
Malaq’s plan for peace hanging in the balance, Ian returns to the
ancient past; seeking an end to the eldring spell and a means to
thwart Jem’s growing domination. What he finds there sets off a
chain of revelations that leads Ian places he never thought to go.
Entrusted with the future of his race, Ian becomes the linchpin for lasting
change. But how much weight can one man carry? And how much is he
willing to sacrifice in the name of peace?
Born in a small Kansas town on the Missouri river, C.L. Schneider grew up
in a house of avid readers and overflowing bookshelves. Her first
full-length novel took shape while she was still in high school, on a
typewriter in her parent’s living room. While her main focus is adult
epic and urban fantasy, she also pens the occasional science fiction
or post-apocalyptic story.
Though she has been writing all of her life, Magic-Price (the first
installment in The Crown of Stones Trilogy) was Schneider’s first
published novel. With the trilogy complete, she is excited to be
embarking on a new path with her urban fantasy series, Nite Fire.
Learn more about C.L. Schneider and her work at clschneiderauthor.com,
where you can read reviews, excerpts, sneak peeks and teasers,
subscribe to her newsletter, and join her Street Team. Look for book
reviews and guest posts, and follow her journey as an indie author,
on her blog, “Heading Down The Yellow Brick Road”. An
active part of the online indie author community, you can connect
with C.L. Schneider on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and Google+,
where she chats about books, zombies, coffee, and the wonderful
roller coaster of a writer’s life.
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New Orleans Rush by Kelly Siskind

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“A fun mixture of magic, sensuality, and iconic pin-up girl style. The
romance in New Orleans Rush will leave you smiling and filled with optimism.”
– Helen Hoang, author of The Kiss Quotient
Falling for your surly boss is a rotten idea.
Letting him saw you in half is even worse…
Beatrice Baker may be a struggling artist, but she believes all hardships have
silver linings…until she follows her boyfriend to New Orleans and
finds him with another woman. Instead of turning those lemons into
lemonade, she drinks lemon drop martinis and keys the wrong man’s car.
Now she works for Huxley Marlow of the Marvelous Marlow Boys, getting
shoved in boxes as an on-stage magician’s assistant. A cool job for
some, but Bea’s been coerced into the role to cover her debt. She
also maybe fantasizes about her boss’s adept hands and what else they can do.
She absolutely will not fall for him, or kiss him senseless. Until she
does. The scarred, enigmatic Huxley has unwittingly become her muse,
unlocking her artistic dry spell, but his vague nightly activities
are highly suspect. The last time Beatrice trusted a man, her bank
account got drained and she almost got arrested. Surely this can’t
end that badly…right?
A small-town girl at heart, Kelly moved from the city to open a cheese
shop with her husband in northern Ontario. When she’s not neck deep
in cheese or out hiking, you can find her, notepad in hand,
scribbling down one of the many plot bunnies bouncing around in her
head. She laughs at her own jokes and has been known to eat her
feelings—gummy bears heal all. She’s also an incurable romantic,
devouring romance novels into the wee hours of the morning.
2015 Golden Heart® Finalist
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New Release – The Devil is in the Details (The Broken Halos series Book 1) on sale for 99c for a limited time

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Nothing can brighten up a day like
hunting demons…OR…like opening up the portal to Hell!

Helena lived her life with a rigid sense of ethics until one mission
went wrong and caused her to question everything. Now she must place her
trust in a handsome demon, but at what cost? Will she have to sacrifice
redemption for love, or is this just another demonic trick?

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