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Friday, August 2, 2019

Paths of Anguish by B.A. Vonsik



Book 1 in the Primeval Origins Epic Saga
Sci-fi Fantasy
Publisher: Celestial Fury Publishing

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Primeval Origins: Paths of Anguish (2nd Edition) - Book one in this epic story of mankind's origins and the creation of the Four Horsemen. Join Nikki, a graduate student working on a field expedition that turns her life upside-down, as she learns of and experiences our undiscovered and hidden history filled with terrible tyrannies, deadly dinosaurs, brutal beasts, ancient gods, and heroic hearts  as the origins of our End Times is revealed, answering the question, "What if all of our myths and legends are true?"



Primeval Origins: Paths of Anguish (Book #1 in this Epic Saga, 2nd Edition)




AWARDS and HONORS

* Young Adult Book of the Year, 2014/2015 Reader Views Literary

Awards.

* Finalist, Fantasy Book of the Year, Readers Favorite 2016 Book

Awards

* Finalist, Fantasy Book of the Year, 2016 International Book Awards

* Distinguished Favorite, Epic Fantasy Book of the Year, 2017

Independent Press Awards

* Fantasy Book of the Year, 2017 NYC Big Book Award

* Winner, Science Fantasy, National Association of Book Entrepreneurs

(NABE) Winter 2018 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award



Epic Fantasy, Science Fantasy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Action& Adventure, Myth & Legend, Dystopian, Good and Evil, Christian Fantasy, Kindle, Nook, iBook/iTunes...and maybe more truth than is expected.

Myths and Legends...just fables and fantasies for those taught to scoff at them is d, as I was taught when a graduate student in the sciences; scorn and ridicule the forbidden. Myths are just...myths. Legends are just...legends. Then, I discovered different, in a South American dig where my life went upside down after finding what should not be with what we thought we knew so much about. My consciousness, my Light, plunged through a maelstrom bound to those of our undiscovered history. I witnessed through the eyes of ancient warriors, Rogaan and others, a wondrous human civilization of old, grand beasts and dinosaurs, and celestial gods of myth in what the modern Hopi and Maya branded our First World-Age. An age deep in blood and conflict born of gods and new man covetous of true powers and self-motivations loosing upon their world tyrannies, energy forces...sorceries, and abominations affronting Creation. Sealing the fates of the age, sword-messengers, warrior angels, risen new to bring forth the Harbinger of Creation's Judgments, slayers of civilizations...both of men and gods, the Horsemen. I am bound to them. In the here and now, standing at the precipice at the end of mankind's Fourth World-Age, I fear what is to come from the others...the Horsemen of Prophecy. And yet, I have hope for what follows. As our ancients did in tablets of clay teaching us our undiscovered past, I Nikki, now share these steel bound epics with you before the sounding of the trumpets.




Other Books in the Primeval Origins Epic Saga





Primeval Origins: Light of Honor
Book #2 in the Primeval Origins Epic Saga

Publisher: Celestial Fury Publishing


Primeval Origins: Light of Honor is the second book of the epic origins story of mankind, our heavenly hosts, and the eternal war between good and evil where all is revealed, through characters both past and present, and tellings of humanity's heroic struggles against terrible tyrannies, deadly dinosaurs, and ancient gods answering the question, "What if all of our myths and legends are true?"

Fleeing across the sea from enemies familiar and unknown, the crew of the Wind Runner and I fight for our lives as we struggle to keep safe our strange and ancient cargo, the unconscious Rogaan and Aren. We have need the help of these warriors of old as we battle deadly Tyr super-soldiers of the New World Order, now commanded by the forces of the Crescent Moon, intent on taking our ancient cargo for themselves. I suffer horribly the wrath of the Tyr when protecting the unrisen Horsemen, hurling me to the brink of death and back into the ancient world of mankind’s first civilization, reliving the past through the eyes of the then young and aspiring warrior Rogaan and the mystic Aren. As my Light, again, plunges into the maelstrom of our deep past experiencing a culture both simultaneously primitive and advanced, as our ancient ancestors struggle against self-corruptions and unseen powers born of jealous entitlements by their celestial gods and unknown intelligences. In these remembrances, I am witness to terrible injustices and impossible trials levied by the covetous tyrannies against Rogaan, Aren, and many others. In the here and now, I find rising deep questions about humanity’s origins and the seemingly eternal battle between the goodness of the Light and the selfish evils of the Darkness. I, Nikki, now standing at the precipice at the end of mankind’s Fourth World-Age, bare testimony of our undiscovered history, in these blue steel epics, revealing the origins of the Horsemen of Prophecy… before the sounding of the trumpets..








Primeval Origins: Rise of Serpents
Book #3 in the Primeval Origins Epic Saga

Publisher: Celestial Fury Publishing

Primeval Origins: Rise of Serpents - Book three (#3) in the epic story of mankind's origins and the creation of the Four Horsemen. Join Nikki, a paleo-archeologist graduate student on a field expedition, discovering our hidden history, turning her life upside-down and sending her on the run from unknown deadly forces, as she learns of and experiences our undiscovered history filled with terrible tyrannies, deadly dinosaurs, brutal beasts, ancient gods, and heroic hearts as the origins of our End Times is revealed, answering the question, "What if all of our myths and legends are true?"

Seeking refuge from the relentless hunt, we evade the gathering forces of mankind and their guiding masters…the Serpents of Old…the Watchers of humanity. Knowledge and advancements fashioned for humanity’s betterment now turned foul by lord and servant alike, subjugating all to the ever-present examination of the surveilling State. Mankind’s self-subjugation rendering themselves as slaves to the unseen few, who only allow freedoms to peoples paying homage to their institutions of cunning tyrannies. Subtle guidance by the ancient scales now coil tightly about their corrupted human tools to deliver to them the World in arrogant defiance of Creation. It is in this confrontation, I vision the origins of the Old Serpents…in our first civilization, seeing their Lights twisted and fouled by selfish wants and the corruptible doings of their divinities. Their ancient bane…the Horsemen, I see rise, then as now, who through deeds self-driven and compelled leave in their wake punishing destructions as they seek to halt corruptions both mortal and afar. I sense I play a part in the approaching Apocalypse, through my aid to these Horsemen of Prophecy and something more. As I stand at the precipice to the end of the Fourth World-Age of humanity looking out at the coming tempest, I, Nikki, now do as our ancients did in tablets of clay and stone, chronicling humanity’s undiscovered past in these steel bound epics to share with you before the sounding of the trumpets.




Multiple Award-Winning Author of the Primeval Origins Epic Saga



- Primeval Origins: Paths of Anguish (#1)

- Primeval Origins: Light of Honor (#2)

- Primeval Origins: Rise of Serpents (#3)

- Primeval Origins: TBD (#4)


B.A. Vonsik graduated from the United States Air Force Academy and served as an USAF Special Operations aviator. Currently, B.A. Vonsik works in the training and simulation industry by day while at night and all other times detailing the world of Primeval Origins with new discoveries and research in ancient mythologies, creation myths, religions, sciences and technologies. Starting with a curiosity about why many of our mythologic pantheons seemed very similar, B.A. created the Primeval Origins story based on more than 25 years of research integrating our mythologies, ancient alien theory, history, the sciences, and with the stories of the Bible, Qur'an, and Hindu religions. B.A. Vonsik lives with his extraordinary wife in Florida.

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Unexpected Fight by Kaylee Ryan




Title: Unexpected Fight

Series: Unexpected Arrivals #2
Author: Kaylee Ryan
Genre: New Adult Romance

Cover Design: Perfect Pear Creative Covers

Photo: SP Photography
Release Date: August 2, 2019




Blurb


No matter how much you plan or try to prepare for what’s to
come, life always sends you on an alternate path.

We’re taking each curve in the road as it bends.

Except what do you do when you don’t see the curve coming?

We’re struggling, learning to navigate in total darkness.

One breath.
One second.
One minute.
One hour.
One day at a time, we’re learning to live with our
unexpected fight.









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The Truth About Tomorrow by B. Celeste





Title: The Truth About Tomorrow
Author: B. Celeste
Genre: Taboo Forbidden Romance/Age Gap

Release Date: August 2, 2019





Blurb

Age is just
a number.

Just like
he's just a boy and I'm just a girl.

Except
that's not true, is it?

Because
fifteen may be a number, but it's bigger than that. Bigger than us.

It's a
number that separates us.

An excuse
that keeps us apart.

But I'm not
willing to give in until I get what I want.

After all,
how many other girls can bring a grown man to his knees with one little smile?








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Excerpt

“Show me how to play,” I say.
Her body leans back as her brows pinch with a dubious stare.
“You want me to teach you how to play piano?”
I nod. “The song you played. I like it.”
She blinks, brushing her fingers through her hair. “It’s
about learning to love people’s faults and pain for what they are. Beautiful.”
My head cocks. “Why is that?”
She wets her bottom lip. “I guess when you love someone, you
don’t get to choose which parts. You’re getting every single piece of their
being, scarred or not.”
Her eyes trail to her hand, scarred with white and pink
marks. My fingers graze over each one, causing her to suck in a breath and
freeze as I caress the marred flesh. They’re rougher than the rest of her hand,
but part of her nonetheless.
Meeting her eyes, we stay like that for a few long moments.
Neither of us says a thing or moves an inch. We just remain touching, staring,
being there in one another’s company.
Then I pull away. “What are the keys I need to learn for the
song?”
She exhales then shows me the basics.
It’s a silent admission between us.
Your scars are beautiful, Charlie. 






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B. Celeste
is the alter ego of Barbara C. Doyle.

Her obsession
with forbidden romance enabled her to pave a path into a new world of love,
sex, sin, and angst.

Her debut
novel is The Truth about Heartbreak.



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Thursday, August 1, 2019

The Secrets Between Us by Katie Mettner



The Secrets Between Us
by Katie Mettner 

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GENRE:  Contemporary Romance





Of three things I was certain...



The first?



Mercy was exquisite in the most devastatingly broken way.



The second?



I didn’t know how to love, but for the first time in my life, I wanted to try.



The third?



The secrets between us could tear us apart forever.



I wouldn’t let that happen.


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“You must need glasses.”



He lowered his drink and tapped the bow of his frame. “Got them on. The eye doctor says I’m twenty-twenty now.”



“I must carry all my weight in the part you didn’t see then.”



He laughed.



It was naughty.



It was sex in the afternoon.



It was making out in the dark.



It was 69 on the bed at six a.m.



“Oh, but I saw it all.”



I shook those thoughts away in order to stay sharp as we sparred. “I’m three-dimensional, last time I checked.” I took a long swallow of the spiked pop and waited.



“Most definitely,” he agreed, leaning on the small island in the kitchen. “The last time I checked, you had a mirror on the dresser in that room at the end of the hall.”



I thought about what he said in the context of that night. My chin fell slowly to my chest. “You were checking out my ass in the mirror? When I was giving you a full frontal?”



He tipped his head and lowered his glass, the ice cubes clinking against the side. “Not to worry, I took in the full frontal, every last inch of it, actually. But, truth be told, nothing excites me more than a nice ass.”



“Me too, but the one I’m looking at isn’t doing it for me.”



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Katie Mettner writes small-town romantic tales filled with epic love stories and happily-ever-afters. She proudly wears the title of, 'only person to lose her leg after falling down the bunny hill,' and loves decorating her prosthetic with the latest fashion trends. She lives in Northern Wisconsin with her own happily-ever-after and three mini-me’s. Katie has a massive addiction to coffee and Twitter, and a lessening aversion to Pinterest— now that she’s quit trying to make the things she pins.


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The Dream Defenders by Neal DenHartog


The
Dream Defenders
by
Neal DenHartog

Genre:
YA Fantasy 

A
vivid, dangerous dream world. Real-life consequences. Better ready
your defense.



When
fourteen-year-old Nolan Erling wakes up with a headache for the
fourth straight day, he suspects the likely culprit to be any number
of things—from his annoying baby brother, to vehicular crashes with
his elderly neighbor, or even his questionable late-night food
choices—not his dreams.


Aeryn
Sandman knows the true cause, though. She is a junior agent with the
DREAM Institute, a secret organization tasked with protecting the
world’s population while they sleep, and she’s on her first
assignment.

Her
mission: infiltrate Nolan’s life—and his dreams—and keep him
safe, all while persuading him to join their protective force.

But
recruitment missions are no walk in the park, and Aeryn’s goes
horribly wrong when Nolan’s powers unwittingly unleash two dream
creatures locked away in a restricted area of the dream world. While
Aeryn and Nolan search for ways to contain the escaped beings, they
uncover a much greater conspiracy.

For
these dreams can kill, and someone is orchestrating their actions in
the dream world. If Aeryn and Nolan can’t figure out who is behind
it, no dreamer will be safe, and neither will the organization that
defends them.




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Neal
DenHartog was born, raised, and currently resides in Iowa. After a
fifteen year career in the sciences he decided to rekindle his
childhood passion for writing. Now, when he's not donning a lab coat,
he writes stories about dreams.






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Stealing Home by Harlow Cole






Title: Stealing Home
Series: St. Michaels Duet #2
Author: Harlow Cole
Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance
Release Date: August 1, 2019




Blurb


Ashley
I’ve given up. On my childish dreams.
On getting out of this town. On love. On him.
On everything.

I’m barely treading water.

Brayden
I’m the man with it all.

The pinstriped jersey covering my back garners easy cash, flashy cars and
fast women. My gilded name drapes over the city in neon. I have everything.
Everything, except the thing I crave most. Ashley Foster.

There’s one addiction I never tried to beat.

They say you can never go home again. I’m out to prove them wrong. But
what if returning requires facing all the things you destroyed? To what lengths
would you go to earn forgiveness?

Would you beg? Would you borrow? Would you steal?

Stealing home is the riskiest move in baseball. But the reward... If it
works? Winning her back is a chance I’m finally ready to take.

My pockets are filled with stars.
It’s time to follow them home.

This
time, I don’t want to steal her firsts,
I want
to lay claim on all her lasts.








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Excerpt

I pumped
the gas pedal a half-dozen times, trying to will the thing back to life, as I
coasted to the gravel shoulder on the side of the road. I slumped forward,
resting my forearms and brow against the oversized steering wheel, locked
inside disbelief of the shittiest luck possible. I’d become one of those
blow-up punching dolls with the sand in the bottom. The kind fists keep
pummeling ’cause the stupid thing never has the sense to stay down.

Begrudgingly,
I popped the hood release and hopped down out of the cab. I had no clue how to
diagnose the problem, but broken-down suckers on the roadside always pretend to
look at the engine.

I played
along.

Stepping up
onto the rusted front bumper, I stared at the pile of dirty metal while
daydreaming about tossing a match inside and walking away. At least bending
over under the hood shielded part of me from the rain.

The sound
of tires crunching through the gravel behind the truck brought a sigh of sweet
relief. I looked back up at the heavens and felt bad for not trusting my angel
to send help. Jumping down from my perch on the bumper, I brushed my hands down
the front of my khaki shorts as I rounded the front of the cab to call out to
my hero. Cruel disbelief blossomed in the back of my throat.

“You’ve got
to be shitting me. This is not happening.”

He’s still in town?

It had been
almost a week. A week of trying to make myself believe our run-in at Foxy’s was
just another bad dream. Six freaking days of convincing myself life couldn’t
possibly be that cruel. I’d avoided the town gossip machine buzzing furiously
about his sudden return. But no one else would drive that car. It looked like
money on wheels. The black paint and sleek lines made my truck’s chipped blue
exterior and scratched marina logo look even more pathetic. Some folks in St.
Michaels had seen a Maserati.

Nobody in
town drove one.
Certainly
not one with New York plates.

I lifted my
face to the rain, letting it wash away my urge to cry, as the driver’s side
door popped open, and my worst day of the week took a turn for my worst day ever. He was dressed casually in a pair
of shiny black athletic shorts and a plain gray sweatshirt, slightly frayed
across the bottom hem by time and fondness. The hood bunched up around his
neck, framing the sharp jawline that sported thick, dark scruff.

Brayden
Ross turned gym-rat attire into the costume of a sex god.

He suffered
from that strange anomaly that saddled people with fame and fortune. As a
little girl, I’d seen it in his father and his father’s friends. They seemed
crisper around the edges or something. Like brand-new bills freshly spit from
the ATM instead of crumpled dollars that spent life stuffed in back pockets and
sweaty bras.

He didn’t
walk toward me; he prowled.
Slow and
steady with this sexy gait that deserved its own theme music.
The rain
didn’t even try to touch him.

This second
sighting didn’t level the same sucker punch. More like a queasy dysphoria. A
bad case of déjà vu that punctured skin and vein. Half of me wanted to run,
throw my arms around his waist, and hold on for dear life. The other half
wanted to put my hands around his neck and squeeze hard.






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Harlow Cole
is a former journalism student, turned techie, turned mother, who finally
decided at age forty-plus what she wants to be if she ever she grows up. Her
writing journey first began in sixth grade, when she and her best friend penned
boy band fanfiction in an old spiral notebook. Harlow is a connoisseur of
peanut M&Ms, brand-new school supplies and angst-filled love stories that
always end happy. At fifteen, she met her first love. They’ve now been married
for twenty years. They reside in suburban Washington, DC, where Harlow
moonlights as a taxi driver for their farting beagle and teenage twins. Interference
and Stealing Home are her debut novels.



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