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"A promising start to an epic, mythical adventure, with great characters and solid world building." –Rosemary's Books BrisbaneAlaezdar thought he had found a perfect home in a small farming community of Valewood. Here he hoped he could bury his past and hide from his mercenary guild that has a death price on his head. His hopes are shattered when an evil sorceress, a wizard, and his goblin-like bloodthirsty followers raid the village and kidnap a teenage girl and take her deep into the goblin tribes forest for a sacrifice. During the raid, the villagers see Alaezdar’s skills with his magic sword, Bloodseeker.In desperation to save the girl, the villagers convince Alaezdar to attempt a rescue so dangerous that they will all most likely die. Before the ordeal is over, he will also learn much more about his role in an ancient elven prophecy where he is the catalyst to the realm’s destruction, and where his death is imminent if he is to turn the prophecy around.

Amazon #1 Best Seller Vocational GuidanceAmazon #1 Best Seller Job ResumesAmazon #1 Best Seller Career GuidesCDI's 2020 Career Innovator Award WinnerThe first all-in-one book of its kind, YouMap®: Find Yourself. Blaze Your Path. Show the World! provides you with a real-world tested step-by-step process to achieve career clarity and execute a winning job search.Kristin Sherry's proven career coaching process is placed in your hands along with the expertise of career services professionals Patricia Edwards, Kerri Twigg, Kamara Toffolo, Lisa Jones, and Donna Serdula, author of LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies.Discover the four pillars of career satisfaction, determine your next best career move, and confidently explain your value in your networking conversations, cover letters, resume, LinkedIn profile, and job interviews!

"Vance has masterfully captured an exciting moment in English history, filled with dark political intrigue and radiantly salacious liaisons." -Michael Hartnett, author of The Blue RatThe King's Favorite is a mystery thriller set during one of the most spirited, scandalous, and memorable periods in English history-the Restoration-when the son of an executed king brought monarchy back to England after the repressive years of the Commonwealth. Following the coronation of Charles II came a reopening of the theaters, with the first women performing on the English public stage. What follows is a devastating London plague and fire, a monarch who openly indulged his sexual proclivities, a series of plots against the crown, and the first true collection of female celebrities-as actresses, mistresses, and even orange girls.

"A fast-paced, heart-wrenching story, both fascinating and horrific." -Margriet Ruurs, award-winning author, Emma's EggsAs the Lotus Blooms is the fast-moving sequel to Logan's first novel, Finding Lien. The story follows Lien, traumatized from her ordeal as a victim of child trafficking in a Cambodian brothel, on her journey of recovery.Despite her recurring bouts of PTSD, this courageous young woman signs on with an NGO, to work with a team to prevent trafficking and rescue victims. It is a dangerous mission for all, especially Lien, whose wounds are deep and emotional stability in question.

"...weaves vivid descriptions of the Revolutionary War era." -IndieReaderLily Van Der Houghton, a newly licensed physician, is lost and unsettled on which way her life is leading her when she goes hiking to the Jacks River Falls. Lily stumbles through a hole in time and finds herself in 1763. She is not on the trail to the falls anymore but is in Indian Territory in the aftermath of the French and Indian War. To her surprise, Lily learns she has a key role in an ancient Cherokee prophecy. The tribal elders prayed for the right woman to come from Beyond to be Red Moon Woman and the right woman for Marcus McCarron. Lily Van Der Houghton, fresh from the new millennium, is the right woman for the job.

Found in Paris, an old, long neglected book that purports to be the journal of one Henry Howard turns Michael Devon's world upside down.Within its tattered pages, Michael finds a rich tableau of mid-sixteenth century life, experienced with all of the wonder and sense of adventure of a teen-aged boy at the brink of manhood. A story of improbable love, loyalty, friendship and courage emerges, set in the tumultuous events of the France of Catherine de Medici and Nostradamus.Woven within this narrative is the story of an emerging poetic sensibility, coupled with an uncanny ability to bring to life a richly imaginative world. Howard provides a subtle sprinkling of linguistic tropes that suggests, in its early stages, the rich language of Shakespeare.The Fall of a Sparrow is a book about language, the beauty of its texture, the force of its eloquence, and the music of its cadences.

"…an interesting [thriller] series about a broken and damaged man named Zander." -N'West Iowa ReviewAfter his risky mission in Key West Florida, Zander needed a break. He didn't want to go back to Frisco, Colorado and join his bar business partner Fats. That wouldn't clear his head from his experience with Sara Jane. He needed to be alone and explore the south on his own.Split second decisions made him turn off highway 41 and spend time in Everglade City. There he found a woman who looked just like his favorite movie star, Natalie Wood. He was in love or as she called it, lust.Zander had no idea that his last encounter with Sara Jane would cause her to become pregnant, and it seemed no one was about to tell him either.

Escaping to Italy was the easy part. Figuring out how to stay forever is where the adventure begins...When disheartened American Jacoby Pines arrives in Italy on vacation, he has no idea that a family photograph from the previous century would start a search for ancestry through the streets of Florence and the hills of Tuscany. Jacoby's quest includes encounters with a septuagenarian ex-pat, an elusive heiress in hiding, a charming Australian museum guide, a Pearl Jam-crazed artisan shoemaker, malevolent hunters, a needy border collie and one very large wild boar. Along the way there are magnificent, wine-soaked meals at every turn and immersion in the sensory splendor and la dolce vita of Il Bel Paese. At the end of the novel, on the morning of Jacoby's dreaded return to America, a chance of remaining in Italy arrives in stunning news from abroad. But is it too late?

"An infectious, salacious and highly entertaining erotic horror novel set in the deep south." -Best ThrillersKatarina The Killer picks up where Trent St. Germain's debut novel The Incubus and The Others leaves off. Vampire Flannery Lanehart finds herself face-to-face with her old foe and Maker, Katarina Castille. While fending off a murderous Katarina, Flannery is strong-armed into providing her Creator room and board at Ten Points, the 198-year-old former plantation the Lanehart family calls home in north Louisiana.Further challenges come in the way of Dr. Remy Van Buren, who arrives searching for answers about the disappearance of his identical twin brother from the estate; the return of the demonic Conrad-in a new form-to wreak havoc and revenge on the lives of Laneharts; and, a dark secret in the nearby woods that will shake Ten Points to its foundations.

Five-year-old Joey Harrison's world is turned upside down when he and his seven-year-old sister, Beth, are placed in foster care in 1942. With the war in Europe underway and the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, the children's father joins the Army despite the pleadings of his young wife.From 1941 until 1947 Joey's mother will have five additional children fathered by another man. All of the children are subsequently placed in foster care where Joey and his siblings suffer unconscionable abuse at the hands of foster parents. They are shifted from foster care to foster care, including one stay in an orphanage for Joey.Joey's mother is age 40 when she dies due to cirrhosis of the liver and the children's father petitions the State of New York, requesting that Joey come and live with him. What follows for the boy, as well as his siblings, is a loveless path of more foster homes, formidable hurdles, and abuse until Joey ultimately triumphs and reaches the top of the stairs. It's an inspirational journey the reader will witness as they see Joey and his six siblings become reunited after overcoming multiple hardships and are finally reunited over twenty-five years later.

Winner of the Pen/Corvino Award for NonfictionRunner Up D. Earles Medal for First-Time MemoiristsOn an ordinary January afternoon, a disturbing revelation about his wife hurls one man into a maelstrom of public humiliation and heartbreak, and eventually on a spree of run-ins with lawyers, judges, therapists, and law enforcement. Land of July tells the true story of a teacher/student sex scandal that not only shocked an entire school and small suburban community, but made national news. It's a story filled with countless anecdotes about marriage, trust, infidelity, grief, and the desperate search for hope and family in the face of ruin. Practically ripped from the daily headlines, Land of July is as salacious as it is sobering. At its best, it's a cautionary tale that might just inspire an awakening of morality; at its worst, it's one man's tumultuous journey to hell...and possibly back.

"An enjoyable crime novel that will make readers hope for future volumes of the series." -Kirkus ReviewsSomeone is shooting up Dirty Sam's. Will the Long Harbor police get their man, or woman, before a casino heist, a slots player who disappears in a puff of smoke, a crossbow-toting florist, and an undercover agent who makes a mean goulash, complicate the investigation?Oh, for the simpler days of illegal gambling.

Best Book Awards 2019 Finalist - NovellaIt's 1888, in Hazard, Kentucky…What will one day be known as The French-Eversole Feud (due west of the notorious Hatfields & McCoys) has ignited.Teenager Ezekiel Snopes must recover quickly from the loss of his younger sister-gunned down by a greedy feudist. He must now decide if he wants to live or die, remain at home, or, take a stand against such lawlessness in the Appalachian hills.Regardless of what he does, the feud wages on…This is a real period of American history.And Ezekiel Snopes is just unlucky enough to be born in the midst of it.

"If you are a fan of mythology, paranormal, suspense, or YA in general then I recommend that you start this series as soon as possible." -Eric Dunn from Just Another Book Guy BlogSecret Seekers Society and the Beast of Bladenboro follows the young protagonists Hunter Glenn and Elly Ann through an adventure ripe with adversity, paranormal monsters, secret societies, and most haunting of all, a life without their parents. Both siblings suffer emotional struggle from the sudden loss of their parents, as well as their physical journey into a new and strange "home"; an ancient and creepy mansion known only as the Belmonte Estate. The children slowly unravel the secrets of their parents' true identities, the origin of the strange mansion and their inheritance into an ancient secret society of monster hunters.