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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Second Chances by Anna Edwards

Title: Second Chances
Author: Anna Edwards
Genre: Romance Suspense
Release Date: October 8, 2019
Model: Jered Youngblood
Photography: CJC Photography
Cover Design: Judged by the Cover



At the tender age of thirteen Elena Lopez saw her prima ballerina dreams ruined by injury. Now she passes her love down to the future generation as a dance teacher. A chance meeting at the premier BDSM club in London with the hypnotizing and charming, Ryan North leaves her examining her future. When tragedy strikes and the memories of her youth resurface, she's left fighting for her life. 

MI5 operative Ryan North is struggling to adjust to the knowledge he was misled to by the one person he thought he could trust. His parents wanted him despite what his grandfather told him. The past few years have all been about revenge, can he find something or someone else, to occupy his time and distract him from his failing career. 

Second chances is a standalone novel from International Bestselling Author, Anna Edwards. It explores the collusion of naivete and lies leading to dramatic conclusion that threatens to blow apart a couple's fledgling love.








"Second Chances: a spin off Series that’s just WOW, a book that captivates and draws you into the story. A true emotional tale. There where so many emotions reading this book but the main emotion that flows through this book is love. This is a truly fantastic series that I will be keeping up with to see what comes next. Anna Edwards truly delivered with this story." - Goodreads reviewer


My breath catches in my throat, and a vision of being tied to a St. Andrew’s Cross while Ryan uses a whip on me enters my head.

“Fuck!” I exclaim out loud without realizing it. Everyone turns to look at me. Master Stone included. He raises an eyebrow toward us. Ryan gestures with his hand to tell the other Dom to continue.

“I’m guessing you like the thought of whips. Let’s see how you feel after you’ve watched it.” Ryan’s voice is like smooth, velvet chocolate in my ear, and as he pushes his hips into me, I feel the hardness of his groin.

Shit, shit, shit I chant in my head. What am I getting myself into?

I don’t reply to him, because Master Stone lands the first blow of his whip on his sub’s breast. She lets out a cry, and a glowing red line from the tendrils of the leather appears.

My breath quickens when Emily states, “My Master loves this breast.”

“Good Girl.” Master Stone lowers his mouth to the breast he’s just struck and tugs the nipple into his mouth. He sucks on it, pulling it hard before standing back and striking the other one. Emily repeats her phrase. Two more strikes follow to each breast. Tears are pooling in Emily’s eyes, but she’s not using her safeword.

Next, Master Stone delivers two carefully placed strikes to her stomach, and she responds,

“My master loves my stomach. It cradled his child. The product of our love.”

I can’t take my eyes off either of them.

Ryan leans forward and whispers into my ear.

“If you want me to stop, say red.”

I turn around and look at him, blinking briefly in confusion, but the crack of the whip turns me back to the show on stage. Master Stone brings the leather down between Emily’s parted legs. She cries out even louder this time, and I feel wetness between my thighs. I’m getting so aroused watching this.

Ryan lowers his hand from my waist and pushes under the waistband of my skirt.






All I am a British author, from the depths of the rural countryside near London. In a previous life, I was an accountant from the age of twenty-one. I still do that on occasions, but most of my life is now spent intermingling writing while looking after my husband, two children and two cats (probably in the inverse order to the one listed!). When I have some spare time, I can also be found writing poetry, baking cakes (and eating them), or behind a camera snapping like a mad paparazzi.

I'm an avid reader who turned to writing to combat my depression and anxiety. I have a love of travelling and like to bring this to my stories to give them the air of reality.

I like my heroes hot and hunky with a dirty mouth, my heroines demure but with spunk, and my books full of dramatic suspense.






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50 Dinosaur Tales by Sabrina Ricci

Short Stories, Non-fiction
Date Published: October 8, 2019

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“Gualicho takes a bite out of the ornithopod’s back as it runs away from her, causing it to stumble and fall. She jumps on top of the body and rips open its neck with her teeth. The ornithopod becomes still and limp.

Satisfied, Gualicho begins to feast. But, after only two bites, she senses something is wrong. She lifts her head and sees a Mapusaurus making its way toward her.”

Blending fiction with fact, 50 Dinosaur Tales imagines the way 50 newly described dinosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous lived in their natural habitats.

Also included is a list of fun facts for each dinosaur story, and facts about 108 additional dinosaurs.

If you want to hear more about new dinosaurs as soon as they are discovered, listen to the weekly podcast I Know Dino.





About the Author




Sabrina is a writer and podcaster. She loves nerdy things, like technical specs and dinosaurs, especially sauropods. Sabrina and her husband Garret produce the weekly dinosaur podcast, I Know Dino (iknowdino.com).



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Coming Home by Judith Keim


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Chandler Hill Inn Series, Book 2
Romance, Women's Fiction
Publisher: Wild Quail Publishing
Release Date: October 8, 2019

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Camilla “Cami” Chandler comes home from France to take over the Chandler Hill Inn and Winery for her recently-deceased grandmother, Lettie, as she’d always promised. Determined to succeed in this new venture, she finds herself in trouble from the beginning when she discovers most of her grandmother’s estate intended for maintaining the inn’s business expenses was lost in a Ponzi scheme. She forges ahead to provide her guests with wonderful experiences and to produce the best wines in Willamette Valley. After being ditched by her French boyfriend, she decides that being friends with Drew Farley is the safest way to proceed. He loves grape growing and winemaking as much as she does and isn’t looking for anything beyond friendship.



When a bride planning a wedding at the inn tells Cami that she looks exactly like her best friend, life becomes even more complicated. Never having known even the name of her father, Cami searches for a connection and comes to realize how complicated love and family can be.




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Going Home
Chandler Hill Inn Series, Book 1
Publisher: Wild Quail Publishing
Release Date: February 13, 2019



In 1970, Violet Hawkins’ only wish at eighteen is to escape her life in the Dayton, Ohio, foster-care system and make her way to the west coast to enjoy a mellow life and find the love she’s been missing all her life. She makes it to San Francisco, but soon learns she needs a job if she’s to live properly. A kind, young man named Kenton Chandler offers her a sandwich and a job at his father’s inn and vineyards. With nothing to lose, Lettie takes him up on his offer and begins a whole new life in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. She immediately falls in love with the land and is fascinated with the idea of growing grapes in order to make wines. She, Kenton, and Rafe Lopez become friends as she learns about running the small inn on the property.



At the same time she marries Kenton, a stroke kills his father. And then before she can tell Kenton she’s pregnant, he dies in an automobile accident. Heartbroken and burdened with the gift of the Chandler Hill Inn and Winery, she’s left with the task of making them a success. Struggling to raise a child alone while working to grow the business, Lettie makes a shocking discovery that changes everything.




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About the Author

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Judith Keim enjoyed her childhood and young-adult years in Elmira, New York, and now makes her home in Boise, Idaho, with her husband and their two dachshunds, Winston and Wally, and other members of her family.

While growing up, she was drawn to the idea of writing stories from a young age. Books were always present, being read, ready to go back to the library, or about to be discovered. All in her family shared information from the books in general conversation, giving them a wealth of knowledge and vivid imaginations.

A hybrid author who both has a publisher and self-publishes, Ms. Keim writes heart-warming novels about women who face unexpected challenges, meet them with strength, and find love and happiness along the way. Her best-selling books are based, in part, on many of the places she's lived or visited and on the interesting people she's met, creating believable characters and realistic settings her many loyal readers love. Ms. Keim loves to hear from her readers and appreciates their enthusiasm for her stories.


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The Savage Gentleman by Christopher Harlan





Title: The Savage Gentleman
Author: Christopher Harlan
Genre: Contemporary Romance

 Release Date: October 8, 2019



Blurb

My name is Lucas “The Ghost” Esparza. 

I’m the best MMA fighter in the world that you’ve never
heard of, but if I have my way, I’ll be a household name soon enough. My life’s
been nothing but hard training, crazy partying, and fast women, and that’s just
how I liked it. No man had ever gotten the better of me inside the cage, and no
woman had ever been able to slow down my lifestyle outside of it. 

And then it all came crashing down. 

When I tasted defeat for the first time in the biggest fight
of my life, I was a broken man—my pride destroyed and my dreams of greatness
deferred. 

That’s when Mila walked into my gym. 

When my trainer told me I had to giver her self defense
lessons because she was a ‘special case’, I had no idea what he meant. All I
knew was that she had a body to die for, and a face that made me forget my own
name. I’d been with my share of women, but she was easily the sexiest I’d ever
laid eyes on.

There was only one problem—we hated each other with a
passion!

I thought she was whiny with a bad attitude.. She thought I
was full of myself. But then something happened that changed everything between
us. She gave me the confidence to pursue my dreams once again—to be a champion,
to make it into the UFC, to be the savage gentleman that I was born to be.



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With an introverted mind and a sarcastic sense of humor,
Christopher Harlan has been many things throughout his life. He started life as
a mixed up mixed kid, like his protagonist, Logan, in his bestselling Young
Adult novel “Away From Here”, and now spends his days writing stories. He’s
published over 15 books in contemporary romance and young adult, and has no
plans of stopping anytime soon. The one constant in his life has been his love
of a good book, and his passion for telling stories. He was born and raised in
Queens, New York. 




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Monday, October 7, 2019

Halloween Spooktacular tour for Haunted Flint by Roxanne Rhoads and Joe Schipani


Downtown
Flint’s Five Most Haunted Locations


Home to ancient Native American
battle sites and burial grounds, the Sit Down Strike of 1936-37, unsolved
murders, economic depression, social injustice, and a water crisis - Flint’s
unholy brew of energy has led to macabre tales of ghostly encounters and
stories of demonic possession.
            
Is there something sinister
lurking in Flint’s history to blame for all the hauntings? Do the souls of
Flint’s murdered linger, craving justice by haunting the land until they get
their vengeance? Whatever the reason, Flint is filled with frightful sites and
terrifying tales.

From ghostly graveyard
apparitions in Glenwood and Sunset Hills to spooky specters spotted in downtown
Flint’s Capital Theatre and The Whiting, Flint is filled with ghosts.

Here are downtown Flint’s Five
Most Haunted Locations.

Stockton
Center at Spring Grove

The Stockton Center at Spring Grove is a haunting example of Italianate architecture.  The house first belonged to Colonel Thomas
Baylis Whitmarsh Stockton and his family before becoming a hospital and then a
nursing home. Considered to be Flint's most haunted location countless ghostly
encounters have occurred in this building. Some believe the Stockton Family
still reside in the home, Colonel Stockton himself watching over it for
eternity.

The
Masonic Temple

Officially dedicated in 1911, the Flint
Masonic Temple is located in the heart of downtown. Shadowy figures, strange
noises and the distant haunting sound of organ music fill this old building.
Many who have worked in the building have experienced strange encounters and
ghostly apparitions.

Whaley
House

The Whaley House started life in 1859 as
an Italianate but Robert Whaley hired an architect to transform it into a
Victorian. In 1885 the Whaley family moved into the newly remodeled home.
Levitating tarps, moving toys, ringing bells, curtains blowing with no wind,
and shadowy figures fill this haunted mansion. In the basement, you may feel an
unearthly chill and a sense of being watched.

The
Capitol Theatre

The Capitol first opened its doors at 140
E 2nd St on January 19, 1928. Rumors of hauntings have swirled about The Capitol
Theatre for decades. Strange knocking sounds, disembodied singing, shadowy
figures…The Capitol’s recent renovations returned the building to its original
glory. Did this calm the restless spirits or make them more active?

The
Cornwall Building  

Construction began on
the house in the early 1870s by Royal Ripley who lived on premised from 1874 to
1881. In 1881 Er Milner purchased the home and completed construction on it in
1883. The ghost of Jennie Milner Cornwall is said to haunt the premises.
Sometimes you can see her looking out the window.




Haunted
Flint
Haunted
America Series
Roxanne
Rhoads and Joe Schipani 

Publisher: The History Press

Release Date: September 2, 2019

ISBN-10: 1467143049
ISBN-13: 978-1467143042

Book Description:

Sinister
Secrets in Flint’s History

Home to ancient burial grounds,
unsolved murders, economic depression, and a water crisis, Flint emits an
unholy energy rife with ghostly encounters.

Colonel Thomas Stockton’s ever
vigilant ghost keeps a watchful eye over his family home at Spring Grove, where
guests occasionally hear the thump of his heavy boots.

Restless spirits long separated
from their graves lurk among the ancient stones in Avondale Cemetery.

Carriage maker W.A. Paterson’s
spirit continuously wanders the halls of the Dryden Building, and something
sinister and unnamed resides in a Knob Hill mansion waiting to prey on
impressionable young men.

Join authors Roxanne Rhoads and
Joe Schipani on a chilling tour of Flint’s most haunted locations.

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About the Authors

Roxanne
Rhoads

is an author, book publicist, mixed media crafter, and lover of all things
spooky.

Roxanne is the owner of
Bewitching Book Tours, a virtual book tour and social media marketing company,
she operates Fang-tastic Books, a book blog dedicated to paranormal and urban
fantasy books, and she runs the blog, A Bewitching Guide to All Things
Halloween, which is dedicated to everything Halloween related. Roxanne’s sells
handcrafted jewelry, art, and home decor through The Bewitching Cauldron.

When not reading or writing,
Roxanne loves to craft, plan Halloween adventures, and search for unique
vintage finds.

Joe
Schipani

is an integral part of Flint’s Art Community with ties to local artists,
galleries, book stores, and the Flint Cultural Center. He is the Executive
Director of the Flint Public Art Project and the FFAR Project Assistant at the
Community Foundation of Greater Flint.

He has a weekly column on All
Things Halloween titled Freaky Flint History showcasing true crime and weird
but true tales of Flint deaths.

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