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The Wreck & The Rift, Book 1: Christian YA Survival Adventure

Cody and Ashley survive the crash. They may not survive the islands—where visions can be touched, reality bends, and survival means trusting the impossible.Book 1: Cody wasn’t trying to escape the world—just his troubles at home. But when the plane goes down over the South Pacific, escape turns into survival.Stranded on a chain of abandoned tropical islands, Cody and three other survivors must learn fast how to stay alive. There’s no rescue in sight. No adults. No second chances. Food, water, shelter—everything has to be earned, improvised, or fought for. Every day brings new dangers...
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A Debt of Wishes Book 3 : Cult Following: A Supernatural, Procedural Slow Burn Romance

When a conspiracy theorist influencer disappears mid–livestream while investigating a controversial wellness retreat, the internet does what it does best.It panics.Within hours, Detective Caleb Mercer's station is flooded with calls from devoted followers convinced their favorite truth-seeker has uncovered something dangerous.Caleb suspects something far more ordinary.Until he doesn’t.As he begins investigating the retreat—part spiritual sanctuary, part self-optimization empire—he makes one critical mistake.He tells Trixie to leave him alone so he can work.Trixie, who thrives on belong...

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Poison and a Pot of Gold: A Totally Unputdownable Cozy Mystery (A Stella Ray and Rex Cozy Mystery - Book 3)

By: Hope Quinn
Being framed for murder is one thing. Surviving the real killer is another.Café owner Stella Ray's scone wrapper at a murder scene makes her the prime suspect when the town's most despised Irish stew judge is poisoned on St. Patrick's Day. The victim publicly humiliated five contestants at the festival…any of them could be the killer.Armed with friends Rose and Maude, and her ever-loyal bulldog Rex, Stella investigates the bitter business partner, the quiet caterer, the angry culinary grad, and others with deadly motives. But the truth is far more twisted: a twenty-seven-year revenge plot i...
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The Wreck & The Rift, Book 1: Christian YA Survival Adventure

By: Rob Baddorf
Cody and Ashley survive the crash. They may not survive the islands—where visions can be touched, reality bends, and survival means trusting the impossible.Book 1: Cody wasn’t trying to escape the world—just his troubles at home. But when the plane goes down over the South Pacific, escape turns into survival.Stranded on a chain of abandoned tropical islands, Cody and three other survivors must learn fast how to stay alive. There’s no rescue in sight. No adults. No second chances. Food, water, shelter—everything has to be earned, improvised, or fought for. Every day brings new dangers...
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The Wreck & The Rift, Book 1: Christian YA Survival Adventure

By: Rob Baddorf
Cody and Ashley survive the crash. They may not survive the islands—where visions can be touched, reality bends, and survival means trusting the impossible.Book 1: Cody wasn’t trying to escape the world—just his troubles at home. But when the plane goes down over the South Pacific, escape turns into survival.Stranded on a chain of abandoned tropical islands, Cody and three other survivors must learn fast how to stay alive. There’s no rescue in sight. No adults. No second chances. Food, water, shelter—everything has to be earned, improvised, or fought for. Every day brings new dangers...

A Debt of Wishes Book 3 : Cult Following: A Supernatural, Procedural Slow Burn Romance

By: Ann Brown
When a conspiracy theorist influencer disappears mid–livestream while investigating a controversial wellness retreat, the internet does what it does best.It panics.Within hours, Detective Caleb Mercer's station is flooded with calls from devoted followers convinced their favorite truth-seeker has uncovered something dangerous.Caleb suspects something far more ordinary.Until he doesn’t.As he begins investigating the retreat—part spiritual sanctuary, part self-optimization empire—he makes one critical mistake.He tells Trixie to leave him alone so he can work.Trixie, who thrives on belong...

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The Little Grey Plastic Box With The Blue Button: The Perfect Job Plus Five Other Twisted Tales

1.      THE LITTLE GREY BOX WITH THE BLUE BUTTON: THE PERFECT JOB                 Can a dream job become a nightmare? James has spent his whole life dodging work and responsibility. As a result, he finds himself in constant debt. Former friends and family avoid him, and only bill collectors want to talk to him. Getting a job is almost impossible because he has burnt too many bridges with past employers by being unreliable. On the verge of getting evicted, James searches the online job ...

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Woke: Cool Assassins 1

Visualize life in the 2070s. Climate has turned dangerous.  Corporations have usurped human rights, and democracies are threatened.

Dog Breakfast (DB) co-op stands as a lone bastion of freedom and common sense.  The operatives of DB are in a fight for their lives, for corporate mercs outnumber them by thousands to one.

“Woke” introduces striking characters who’ve elevated martial arts to another level.  Yet empathy may be their best weapon.

Readers, prepare for a rambling narrative seldom imagined since “1001 Arabian Nights”
 

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The Curse of Dead Horse Canyon: Cheyenne Spirits

An Air Force veteran pays the ultimate price when he discovers a scandal-ridden Top-Secret facility built beneath sacred land, forcing his grieving widow and Cheyenne best friend into a deadly conspiracy where corporate power, ancient prophecy, and government corruption collide.U.S. Air Force veteran, Bryan Reynolds, is an IT guru. When he hears a rumor that a massive U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project is under construction not far from his vacation cabin in the Colorado Rockies he sets out to see what he can find online.What he discovers blows his mind–a massive, underground facility dubb...
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The Little Grey Plastic Box With The Blue Button: The Perfect Job Plus Five Other Twisted Tales

1.      THE LITTLE GREY BOX WITH THE BLUE BUTTON: THE PERFECT JOB                 Can a dream job become a nightmare? James has spent his whole life dodging work and responsibility. As a result, he finds himself in constant debt. Former friends and family avoid him, and only bill collectors want to talk to him. Getting a job is almost impossible because he has burnt too many bridges with past employers by being unreliable. On the verge of getting evicted, James searches the online job ...
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Seven Manipulated Minds

MANIPULATED MINDS·         Alfred, an extremely intelligent man with Asperger’s Syndrome,·         wants revenge against his six worst tormentors from high school.·         Now, eight year later, he has invented a machine to hijack their minds,·         transport them to a nonexistent cyber-room, and wield total control·         of all of their senses.·      &...
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Sim One: A Love and Then-What-Happens Story

We spend our whole lives searching for "the one." Hoping, even for a little while, to make that deep connection, where a lover becomes a best friend and soulmate, someone you can share any experience with and lean on. A life mate. Americans Simone and Tom had a fling (she made the first move)...and found true, bubbly love with each other. Their neuroses meshed nicely, their values matched, they had fun together, so they married, the second time for both. They built separate careers, merged them successfully after 15 years, began training others worldwide, purchased a second home in southern Fr...
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Shattered Lives

London-based Detective Chief Inspector Gerald Croft investigates a heinous case of rape, murder, and mutilation, but the obvious suspect turns out to have an alibi he cannot disprove. Soon, it is evident a serial killer is prowling the streets. Can DCI Croft identify and capture the psychopath, or will his next victim be terrifyingly close to home?

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River Talk (fables of connections-lost)

“Yes, the inquisitive hermit out in the delta seems to have unlocked the greatest secret of them all.”All Mankind once shared the same instinctual connections to the planet as all the other species that thrive, here, on earth. Threading ourselves into the wind, the light, the electromagnetic field and the rhythm of the ocean tides, we were a delicately woven pattern in a wonderous tapestry. In “River Talk (fables of connections‒lost)” the reader is introduced to Marchon Baptiste, a hermit living in the delta who still possesses these instinctual connections and more. He possesses the...
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Store in a Cool, Dry Place

So, you think AI is new?In Store in a Cool, Dry Place Harlan Beauchamp nearing seventy-years of age is drawn into the web of Nautilus, only to realize that this organic super-computer created in the 1940s, left running for all his life has been mapping out, directing, redirecting‒toying with him his entire life:“That’s why I am telling you this. It is the first time I have ever spoken of that night, to anyone. Understand now?  I didn’t just hear it, I experienced it again, but on‒Nautilus’ terms. Understand? It wasn’t just a parlor trick. And it just wasn’t having access t...
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Alien Fury

The Arcon, Thorn Grindstone, finds himself alone and injured, thawing in a disabled cryogenics tank. Making an impulsive deal for a fighter, he launches into a battle with a pirate ship before beginning his search for his people.

After Thorn crash-lands in the widow Roxie Carson’s corn field. Roxie nurses the injured Arcon. As tension worsens between Roxie and her brother-in-law, Thorn turns out to be an unexpected ally.

Roxie is grateful to the handsome alien, but what will happen when the Arcon government finally shows up and takes Thorn away? What will her brother-in-law do then?

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Subzero Quest: Legends Awaken

The world is buried in ice, but for Hannah Anderson, survival means more than braving frozen Chicago—it means finding a way to save her family. When she learns of the Virtual Deck, a groundbreaking tournament where ten thousand players will compete for a prize beyond imagining—life in the sun-lit Equatorial Zone—Hannah seizes her only chance. But the deeper she’s drawn into the brutal contest, the higher the cost becomes. Subzero Quest: Book One blends desperate scavenging, fierce competition, and the fragile hope of escape into a relentless sci-fi adventure where every choice could ti...