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Soon to be released: The Gracious Wife by RaeBeth McGee-Buda

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Title: The Gracious Wife Author: RaeBeth McGee-Buda Genre: Christian Living Publish Date: Feb. 5, 2017 Marriage can be surreal, unpredictable, and enticing all at the same time. We find and fall in love with our best friend, and all of our dreams seem to be coming true. We've heard of the princess being rescued by her prince and they ride off into the sunset to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, this isn't how marriage is in real life, especially when you're trying to be what God has called you to be. Marriage is two self-centered individuals coming together to live as one. Given all the foes and dips that may come with marriage, this book gives the basic understanding of marriage the way God intended and not as the way fairy tales has made it out to be. Its meant to help wives be more self-sacrificial toward their husband by acting in grace, love, and forgiveness. In this journey with our best friends, we can work toward being more humbling and giving. It t

Review: The Rules of Restraint by David Wilson

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Title: The Rules of Restraint Author: David Wilson Published: December 19, 2016 Publisher: Endeavour Press Pages: 270 Genre: Mystery, thriller, suspense Review: ebook provided Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  If we fight monsters, do we too become monsters…? Donald Munro has something of a problem on his hands. Just three months after taking over as governor of Greenbank – a unique therapeutic community prison, holding some of Britain’s most dangerous and notorious killers – the place is descending into chaos. An escape, then a suicide, followed by a string of murders in the prison has left in its wake fear and confusion among staff and prisoners alike. Dr Kate Crowther, the prison’s principal psychologist is called on – despite Munro’s initial cynicism – to shed some light on the case and create a profile of the killer. In the meantime, Detective Inspector Nick Knight is brought in to work with her on his investigation. The escapee, Bobby Lomas, dubbed ‘Vars

Review: A Mother Scorned by Michele Bardsley

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Title: A Mother Scorned Author: Michele Bardsley Published: June 1, 2005 Publisher: Hard Shell Word Factory Pages: 17 Review: ebook from instafreebie Genre: Short story Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  Never underestimate the power of a mother's love ... or the rage of a mother scorned. This psychological tale of a mother's love won 72nd Writer's Digest Writing Competition, Royal Palm Literary Award for Best Published Short Story, and it was nominated for the Derringer Awards.

Review: Set in the Woods by Lacey Crowe

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Title: Set In the Woods Author: Lacey Crowe Published: Aug. 9, 2016 Publisher: TWB Press Pages: 75 Genre: Murder, Mystery, Fiction Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  Jordan, a seventeen-year-old dropout struggling to make ends meet, accepts an offer to act in an independent horror film. He finds himself stranded at the set, an abandoned house tucked deep in the woods, with a mentally deranged director.

Review: Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas #1) by Charlaine Harris

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Title: Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas #1) Author: Charlaine Harris Published: May 6, 2014 Publisher: Ace Pages: 320 Genre: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy Review: library ebook Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth...

Review: Eternal Night (The Fates of Betrayal Book 1) by Alayna Ravenwood

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Title: Eternal Night (The Fates of Betrayal Book 1) Author: Alayna Ravenwood Published: Sept. 2, 2016 Pages: 282 Genre: Teens, YA, Urban Fantasy Review: ebook Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  A dark secret lies in her past. A magical world exists just out of reach. A hidden destiny awaits her. After a tragic murder and year of lost memories, Anna finds her world shrouded in mystery. Only the elusive Blake seems to have any answers, but pursuing his knowledge takes Anna down a dangerous path. As she begins to unlock pieces of the puzzle, she gets closer and closer to wanting someone she can’t have while unlocking a dormant power she isn’t sure she can control. Nightfall Academy is only the beginning of a world of deceit, lust, and vengeance. Learning you are part of an ancient race of mages and falling for a dark prince are nothing compared to what Anna's future holds. If she can handle the power in her blood, she may reunite a lost realm with its past. And our wo

Review: Happiness is a Commodity by The Behrg

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Title: Happiness is a Commodity Author: The Behrg Publisher: Pricks Like Thorn Media Published: Nov. 28, 2016 Pages: 108 Genre:  Adult, Dark, Sci-fi Review: Ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  In the future, Happiness can no longer be achieved through natural means, but must be purchased from the government for brief 20-minute increments. And the price is going up. One man documents his experience as he uncovers a conspiracy by the governing elite. Those who are ALWAYS happy. But he will soon discover that the cost of real Happiness may be far worse than living perpetually in the dark. Told through blog-post entries, this non-traditional novella explores a world where darkness and misery are the norm. An allegory for living with depression, this story will open your eyes to the millions lost in darkness around you, and may prepare you for a future that is all too likely to come.

Review: Ayahuasca by Jonathan Huls

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Title: Ayahuasca Author: Jonathan Huls Published: Sept. 1, 2016 Pages: 256 Genre: Murder, Horror, Adult Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  Best friends since childhood, Damien and Paxton are going on a college graduation trip of a lifetime to the jungles of Peru. Their adventures along the way will culminate in a night of consuming the mind-altering drug ayahuasca – the most potent DMT based hallucinogen known to man. Will the experience expand their consciousness and change them into the men society beckons? Or will the young men’s shadowy backgrounds turn the trip so dark that it will consume them and everyone around them?

Review: Marked by Stuart Park, Jorge Wiles (Illustrator), Clare Robertson (Illustrator)

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Title: Marked Author: Stuart Park Illustrator: Jorge Wiles, Clare Robertson Publisher: Sinister Horror Company Pages: 94 Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy Review: ebook provided by author Buy  Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  Venus and her sister planet concludes their 3,000 year cycle. Stargazers amass to witness this once-in-a-lifetime event, but not Mark, his life is about to change. Mark's chance encounter with the cold but intangibly-carnal Kiko sets him plummeting into free-fall. Kim, his emphatic but emotionally-charged wife moonlights with a shadowy organisation whose intentions are far from transparent. She needs to blame someone for the disappearance of their daughter twenty years ago. No solace is offered by her egocentric therapist who's engrossed in his own agenda. Plagued by visions, Mark struggles to maintain his grip on reality and descends into a vividly-violent web of darkness. As Mark's world spirals beyond his control, it's quite possible this

Review: The Shack by William P. Young

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Title: The Shack Author: William P. Young Published: June 20, 2008 Publisher: Windblown Media Pages: 272 Genre: Christian Review: ebook from library Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as mu

Review: Sink Veins of Fire by Perrin Briar

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Title: Sink: Veins of Fire Author: Perrin Briar Published: Dec. 15, 2016 Pages: 210 Genre: YA, Time Travel Review: ARC provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  A sinkhole is a natural phenomenon. It can happen anywhere, anytime. It drinks lakes dry, consumes jungles, and even demolishes entire mountains. You may have seen one in your street. But these things aren’t lost. They’ve simply been moved. Things are forgotten on the surface all the time. Beneath the crust, they’re always remembered. A monster terrorizes a medieval town. The townspeople are being murdered. Dead bodies rise from hell. One member of town is responsible for it all. But who? SINK. A forgotten world. A lost world. But not for long.

Blog Tour and GIVEAWAY: A Dark Journey into the Light by Josef

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Title: a dark Journey into the Light Author: Josef Series: Standalone Genre: Autobiography Publisher: Self – Published Release Date: Sept 17 2016 Edition/Formats: eBook A dark Journey into the light is the true story of a man who, for sixty years, led a double life. Josef is lost in a secret world of sexual gratification, a true-life Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, unable to halt the “roller coaster of conflicting emotional extremes that never stopped long enough for me to get off.” “I gave myself to that sexual playground completely, and loved every minute of it when it was happening. It was only afterwards that spikes of shame, guilt, and self-¬loathing would be driven deep into my heart.” He traces the beginnings of his obsession to his childhood, where his natural innocent curiosity and need for exploration were at odds with his Catholic upbringing and the view of his extremely repressed mother, both of whom regarded the human body as ‘dirty’ and ‘sh

Review: Z-Minus VI by Perrin Briar

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Title: Z-Minus 6 Author: Perrin Briar Published: June 8, 2016 Pages: 175 Genre: Zombies Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk Once infected, the virus shuts down organs, kills nerve impulses and even reprograms the way we think. The virus becomes us. But the process takes eight hours. If you only had eight hours left to live, what would you do? The ice under Antarctica tells a fascinating story: the Earth's history, revealing its secrets layer by layer. But there is one secret it doesn't yet know, and the researchers at Palmer Station are about to discover it for themselves...

Spotlight: The ABC's of Dee by Danielle Bannister

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The ABC’s of Dee The ABC's of Dee Amazon:  http://amzn.to/19FsPuh    Audible:  https://amzn.com/B01GW5Q5GO It always starts out so innocent. A drink, a laugh, I bet. For 40-year-old Dee Harper, her hum-drum life is about to become… educated. When Dee’s wealthy friend, Gail, makes her a ridiculous bet, she never dreams she’ll actually go through with it. After all, dating 26 men in one year, from A-Z, is ludicrous. Right? Then Gail offers her $50,000 if she succeeds. Now that is an offer Dee can’t refuse. From Adam the cocky limo driver to Kevin the klepto, Dee learns the hard way what sort of guy she doesn’t want and which ones are way out of her league. Filled to the brim with snark and sarcasm about the joys of dating ‘later in life,’ The ABC’s of Dee reminds us that even though life sometimes sucks, there is always someone we can find to laugh with. It’s ten minutes to seven and my underwear has already climbed up my ass more times than people

Review: Inferno (The Gryphon Series Book 6) by Stacey Rourke

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Title: Inferno (The Gryphon Series book 6) Author: Stacey Rourke Published: Dec. 5, 2016 Pages: 64 Genre: YA, Teen Review: ebook Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  With the death of a hero, a dark force has risen. A hellhound is loose on the Rhodes Campus, building its pack with a bloody body count. Any hope for salvation rests in the fiery hands of dashing Irishman, Caleb, with his power over the elements. Fighting to save a dear friend from the internal monster consuming him, Caleb finds the love of his life a target for the vicious attacks. How far will he go to save Celeste from the destiny ravenous to claim her?

Review: Z-Minus V (Z-Minus #5) by Perrin Briar

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Title: Z-Minus 5 Author: Perrin Briar Published: May 11, 2016 Pages: 187 Genre: Zombies Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  Once infected, the virus shuts down organs, kills nerve impulses and even reprograms the way we think. The virus becomes us. But the process takes eight hours. If you only had eight hours left to live, what would you do? Archie is a state-of-the-art computer system. He can sequence a genome within eight hours. He can upload a virus’s make-up into the cloud for research centers all over the world. By the time a dangerous virus arrives, we will already be inoculated against it. Archie will make pandemics obsolete. Unfortunately for us, he was developed too late.