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In the serene and unassuming village of Lanoor, where everyday life moves at a leisurely pace, a fourteen-year-old Dru is on the cusp of experiencing a whirlwind of change. His world shifts dramatically when he meets Armet, an extraordinary boy who possesses an otherworldly gift. This unexpected encounter catapults them into a world of wonder and danger, forever altering their destinies.Their fateful meeting sets into motion a thrilling journey, leading them to Ephaba—a once-renowned wielder of powerful magic—now in desperate need of their assistance. Their mission is to recover the stolen Time Stone, an integral part of a key destined to save their world from imminent peril.She sends th...

BLACK WATER, the China Connection- The action-packed sequel to Danger Close…It is five years since Delta Force stopped a deadly missile attack in the Middle East. Now team leader Jason Patrick is living a quieter life in North Carolina with his family, stationed at Fort Bragg.But that is about to change when a new, even deadlier threat emerges from China. Its hostile president and top scientists have developed “Black Water” – a chemical agent which renders any water it comes into contact with toxic and undrinkable with just a few drops. And, with operatives already in place, they are planning to carry out a massive chemical attack on American soil.So Jason and his special forces brot...

The electrifying continuation of the Bond of Brothers series, Magnanotron… and the stakes couldn’t be higher.Two years after the Black Water threat, Colonel Jason Patrick now lives a quieter life as commander of Fort Bragg Army base – but he longs to be back in the field with his Delta Team brothers, now under the steady and capable leadership of Tex Larson.And it isn’t long before Delta Team is thrust back into the heart-pounding action, as they prepare to test the revolutionary Magnanotron, a defensive weapon that promises to change warfare forever; a literal forcefield around the soldier wearing it. The nano-magnetic technology is stirring amazement and excitement at the very high...

The electrifying continuation of the Bond of Brothers stories...Magnanotron: The Evolution takes the reader two years after the action filled Russia Affair. A remarkable new discovery has come to the creators of Magnanotron and now it has evolved into something much more deadly. Follow Jason Patrick and Commander Ryan as the call of duty comes from the President. America's Military and Special Forces enter the fight to stop another even more unthinkable threat.Now under the capable leadership of legendary sniper and Special Forces soldier Sergeant Major Tex Larson – with the help of Magnanotron, the Delta Team continues to enhance their formidable reputation, with successful missions both ...

Hailed by Reedsy Discovery and the onlinebookclub as a 5-star "must read "  and slated for review by the prestigious Historical Novel Society, The Peacock's Legacy is a captivating masterpiece, which one reviewer has suggested should become a movie.Can a 19th-century Irish woman overcome the shadows of her past? The narrative follows the life of Brigid Power,  a woman whose resilience and determination defy fate to forge her path. Born to a struggling tenant farmer, Btigid survives the devastating Irish Famine of the 1840s, which shatters her family and destroys her youth, Faced with an unwanted marriage, Brigid flees to Dublin, where she finds love and purpose in the Fen...

Set in the New York City of a few years ago, Notes From the Upper West Side is the story of the neurotic, vengeful actor, Paul, who is resentful of any woman who would prefer another man to him. But his real enemy is not sex or the New York theatre, but reality itself.

In Part One he stumbles into a music video — Little Round Jewish Hat, then stumbles into a weird night of sex with a woman fifteen years his junior, all while trying to seem like a traditional father and husband.

It is 1992 and banks are merging at an astonishing rate, but none of them are being held accountable. Teddy DeMarco, a banker with a conscience, strives to hold his financial institution to a higher standard. Indeed, First Northeastern Bank (1NEB) must atone for years of redlining and racial bias in its mortgage lending. Thus Teddy negotiates agreements with two activist groups that champion fair mortgage lending practices for African Americans. But sinister forces, both internal and external, arise to block Teddy's efforts and make his life miserable as the bank’s in-house politician.This novel—both funny and keenly serious—is filled with characters who are true believers. It delves u...

Incidental Dreams from a Myoclonic Jerk is Joe Bugden's first published collection of short stories. 
The collection of thirteen short stories is inhabited by characters drawn from unexceptional circumstances, whose lives are touched by love and loss, by regret and remorse, and who are placed in small and domestic settings as an examination of the everyday, and as a metaphor for the universal and ubiquitous conditions of life.

Who is the man from nowhere--parts of his body found in a remote Australian waterhole? And who was the woman with him on the days before he died? What first looks like a crocodile attack turns into murder. What really happened on that fateful day?

• An arrogant ex-F1 Champion driver moves to be a World Rally Championship competitor.
• Despite his rocky past and multiple crashes with inadequate co-drivers.
• His agenda is to win the Monte Carlo, hiding his true identity.
• Her agenda is to rise in the ranks as a top co-driver. But she is partnered with him.
• Unseen danger threatens. partnered
• But attempts on both their lives, 
• Kidnappings create tension & a bond. 
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But a future together is not on the cards, feelings never declared
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• Is HEA even possible?
   
   

In Frosted With Fear, the first delicious mystery in the Deadly Delights Cozy Culinary Mystery Series, pastry chef Rosie Hart finds herself in the middle of a real-life crime scene when a celebrity baking judge drops dead after sampling her lemon cupcakes. Set in the charming town of Sweet River, this culinary cozy mystery mixes mouthwatering recipes, small-town gossip, and a generous helping of whodunit suspense. With her café under fire and her reputation on the line, Rosie must sift through sabotage, secrets, and scandalous rivalries to clear her name. Perfect for fans of baking mysteries, lighthearted crime fiction, and female amateur sleuths, this series opener will keep readers t...

There's a war being waged between two secret factions. At stake is the heart of democracy itself. The key to victory is a small, seemingly harmless, piece of computer hardware, which in the wrong hands, could bring about a technological Dark Age. The race is on to find it as a trail of death is left in its path. John Cranston is a gardener. He's not really interested in global domination, he'd much rather mow a lawn. He's the current keeper of that harmless looking thing. The problem is - he's the last person to know. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Sutherland and his sidekick Sergeant Bludgeon are working on the mystery of the missing accountants, little knowing that this will...

The new science fiction book - Quantum Highway -offers an exciting viewpoint of a whole wormhole network that can take you almost anywhere. Planetary portals take you anywhere on the surface or within and travel to other dimensions. Space portals journeying vast distances outside space-time.
Strange crafts and artefacts with minuscule quantum engineering cause mayhem to the Space Agency's ordered existence. Setting out on a knowledge-seeking adventure trail, Jim and crew are flung into other strange worlds that coexist alongside space-time. An evil adversary with the same capabilities lures them into death-defying situations.

In 1551 Ottoman pirates abducted the population of a Mediterranean island and sold them as slaves or took the better looking to harems. Those souls needed revenge.

I helped their cause in Vengeance Island assisted by an ancient spirit of Gozo and by the puzzled descendants in modern France.

Alien Exit is driven by a female astronaut, a Palaeolithic mongrel, Glastonbury chaos, steamy sex in space, a journalist and a mad general. All to overcome time-quakes created when aliens depart Earth.

This novel attempts to break tropes: the aliens are not invading, they're leaving; the planet as spheres but s l o w l y.; usual ways to communicate do not work.

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