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The Voice of Reason by Kat Clark

Women’s Lit

Date Published: June 1

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

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There’s nothing like young love. But from the beginning, Amy’s wealthy, opinionated parents disapprove of Josh Everett. Josh is a high school drop-out working for his father’s modest construction company, when Amy becomes pregnant during her senior year of high school.

Her parents begrudgingly throw a lavish wedding for her and Josh to avoid the scandal of an unwed and pregnant teenage daughter. Freed from her parents’ expectations, Amy begins to thrive as a wife and mother. But Josh and Amy’s simple love story endures an unwanted plot twist when Josh is struck by mental illness and begins suffering from auditory and visual hallucinations.

Confused and scared, Amy does her best to hold her little family together. When his symptoms escalate and Josh lands in a locked hospital ward, Amy’s parents see an opportunity to sabotage the relationship. Unless Amy divorces Josh and returns home to them, they will move to take custody of the couple’s young son.

An embittered legal battle ensues, and Josh and Amy are thrown from hospital to court room. Time is running out as Josh grapples with what’s real and the couple searches for an accurate diagnosis. In order to save their family, they must face the biggest obstacle in their relationship and fight together against everything – and everyone – determined to tear them apart.

About the Author

Kat Clark is an award-winning writer with a degree in psychology and a passion for storytelling. She found writing on a frigid winter night while holed up with a crying baby, a travelling husband, and a precocious three-year old.

Kat has been a stay-at-home mom to her two sons for eleven years. She also homeschools and advocates tirelessly for awareness of and accommodations for special needs. Her free time is spent volunteering with various church ministries including working with children with a variety of needs. Her personal experience with mental illness and her previous work with the chronically mentally ill population sparked her determination to remove the stigma from mental illness.

Kat is a contributing author for The Mighty website. She also shares a You Tube channel (Sonny Mom INC.) with her son and a blog with her sister-in-law at www.killingjunecleaver.blogspot.com. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, two children, two large, obnoxious dogs, and two cats who hate each other.

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The Christian Christmas Condition by Scott Rankin

Christian - Holiday - self spirit improvement

Date Published: December 2019

What do you want for Christmas? We all hear this question everywhere, but author Scott Rankin invites us all to slow down for a moment and ask a different question... What does God want for Christmas? Our Lord desires that we become more Christ-like every day (1 Corinthians 11:1). To accomplish this goal, He tells us to renew our minds (Romans 12:2). But how do the Christmas holidays help accomplish this goal if so much busyness and stress make it hard to focus all our attention on Christ and completely rest in His peace? In an easy-to-read format, "The Christian Christmas Condition" takes a new and refreshing look by asking the question, “How does our Lord feel about Christmas today?” encouraging Christians of all ages to examine Christmas-time traditions from God's perspective. Filled with Bible references, this study will boost your faith, increase your knowledge, and strengthen you to fully honor Jesus in the midst of Christmas, traditions, and busy holiday activities, and reveal the secret of what God says in the Bible about Christmas today! Whether your family participates in Advent, Hanukkah, midnight mass, uses a Christmas tree, or watches for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, this powerful book encourages all Christians to become more Christ-like in our thinking and our actions each, and every day of the year... not just in the winter holidays!

About the Author

Scott Rankin graduated with a degree in music education and spent his 20's and 30's as a successful music director, visual designer for marching groups, and a professional clinician for high school and college music programs.

In 2009 he was injured in a bicycle accident where he was instantly paralyzed. Today as a healing quadriplegic, Scott's passion for teaching has been re-focused from music to writing Christian books and public speaking.

Scott Rankin is a gifted educator and effective public speaker. His ability to take complex subject matter, break it into bite-size pieces, and re-assemble those through simple, logical, and enjoyable teaching techniques makes his material easy to understand and hard to forget!

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Luca by Nyssa Kathryn

Title: Luca

Series: Project Arma #1

Author: Nyssa Kathryn

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: May 26, 2020

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Former Navy
SEAL, Luca Kirwin, is both well trained and deadly. Recruited into a
non-government sanctioned project, he was turned into a weapon. Now, with the
help of his team, Luca must find every last soul who was responsible for the
project and make them pay. When a new neighbor with alluring green eyes moves
in next door, his instincts tell him to trust her - but could she be one of the
enemies they’re searching for?

Evie Scott can’t afford a relationship. She was in a one once and it almost
killed her. Running and hiding has become her normal. But when her new neighbor
gives her a job in the small town of Marble Falls, avoiding him becomes almost
impossible. While protecting her secrets, Evie begins to suspect Luca has his
own. Can he protect her from her past or will it destroy them both?

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Increasing her pace, a chill worked its way through Evie’s limbs. The sun
was almost finished setting, and that meant it would be dark soon. Evie hated
the dark. She was automatically at a disadvantage with Troy in the dark.
Another disadvantage she should say. He could still see, she was blind. It was
an extra layer of protection for him, like he needed that.

Luca had offered Evie a ride, but she’d declined, hoping the fresh air
would clear her mind. As the echoes of her steps filled the air, she started to
regret her decision. At this very moment, she could be sitting next to him in
his warm car, breathing in his musky scent.

Evie could almost hear his deep voice in the back of her mind. Feel the
vibration of his words. A smile touched Evie’s lips at the thought.

No. What was she doing?

Shaking her head, Evie pushed down the feelings. Feelings were dangerous.
They were the reason she was where she was in her life at the moment. Luca was
dangerous to her. She had to keep her distance, no matter how much her body
wanted her to do otherwise.

As the hairs on the back of Evie’s neck stood up, she suddenly had the
feeling of being followed. Subtly, as to
not draw any attention, Evie turned her head to look down the road behind her.
Nothing.

Taking a calming breath, she forced herself to maintain her pace, even
though her legs wanted to race. She could see her house up ahead. Then she
would be inside with the semblance of safety. Not far to go.

A rustling noise behind Evie sounded. This time she did stop. Turning,
she stared out to the empty street. Again, there was nothing. About to turn
back, the sight of fresh shoe tracks in the mud next to the path caught her
attention.

Turning back to her house, this time, she did increase her pace.

Stop being stupid, Evie, there are dozens of people who use this path.

So why did it stick out to her?

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Author Bio

Nyssa Kathryn is a romantic suspense author. She lives in
South Australia with her daughter and hubby and takes every chance she can to
be plotting and writing. With a background in teaching, Nyssa finds that she
can let her mind wonder in the writing world. Always being one to read and
write when she should have been working, Nyssa decided to take the leap and
make writing her career.

Nyssa has always been an avid reader of romance novels. As a
teenager she would lose herself in Young Adult and Contemporary Romances. As
she got older her interest moved onto the romantic suspense genre. It was from
here that she started dabbling in writing. Nyssa wrote her first novel in 2017
but didn't start publishing her work until three years later. Working in the
industry has solidified Nyssa's love for all things romance.

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Devious Savior by Lynn Burke

Devious Savior
Lynn Burke
(Vicious Vipers MC, #6)
Publication date: June 25th 2020
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense

I was responsible for my soulmate’s death, and twenty years later, the demons of guilt still try to suffocate me. Drowning them with liquor doesn’t work, so I run, leaving everything—my colors, my brothers, and my addictions behind.
Fate brings me to a place that matches my dried out soul—Vegas.
A ray of pole-dancing sunshine breaks through my darkness, giving me hope for a future. An independent, stubborn woman, Casey doesn’t need me to be her knight in shining armor, but I can’t give up my addiction to her.
She’s an inescapable temptation. A curvy glass of thirst-quenching water. And she’s off limits, under the protection of the Vegas Chapter.
When Casey’s life is placed in my hands, will my lies and her manipulation be our undoing or will facing our insecurities save us both?
*This is the sixth book in the Vicious Vipers MC series and may be unsuitable for someone under 18 years of age. HEA guaranteed, however, secondary characters make appearances in other’s stories. Reading in order is recommended.

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Author Bio:
Lynn Burke is a full time mother, voracious gardener, and scribbler of spicy romance stories. A country bumpkin turned Bay Stater, she enjoys her chowdah and Dunkin Donuts when not trying to escape the reality of city life.
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Beyond the Next Star by Melody Johnson

Beyond
the Next Star

Love
Beyond Series

Book
One

Melody
Johnson

Genre: Sci-fi Romance

Publisher: Incendi Press, LLC

Date of Publication: June 23,
2020

ISBN:

ASIN:

Number of pages: 392

Word Count: 91, 815

Cover Artist: Robin Ludwig Design
Inc.

Tagline: An intolerable order. A
desperate charade. A deadly secret.

Book Description:

“She wasn’t dreaming, in a coma,
having a mental breakdown, or in hell.

She was abducted by aliens.”

Before Commander Torek Renaar can
return to active duty, he’s ordered to purchase an animal companion to help
relieve his PTSD symptoms. But having been a caretaker for and lost a loved
one, keeping even one little human alive is a challenge he feels doomed to
fail. It doesn’t help that his animal companion is the newest, most exotic
breed on the market, demanding constant attention, daily grooming, and delicate
handling. If she doesn’t die first in his incompetent care, she’ll be the death
of him.

After witnessing the murder of
her domestication specialist, Delaney McCormick allows her new owner to treat
her like the pet he believes her to be. If anyone suspects she’s more
intelligent than a golden retriever, her murder would be next. She endures the
humiliation of being washed, the tediousness of being trained to “sit” and
“come,” and the intrigue of hearing private conversations. But in Torek’s care,
she finds something unexpected on this antarctic planet, something she never
had in all her years on Earth while house-hopping between foster families: a
home.

As companionship grows to love,
must Delaney continue the charade, acting like an animal and hiding from the
murderer waiting on her misstep? Or can she trust Torek with her secrets, even
if the truth threatens everything he holds dear—and both their lives?

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About
the Author:

Melody Johnson is the author of the
“out of this world” Love Beyond series and the gritty, paranormal romance Night
Blood series published by Kensington Publishing/ Lyrical Press. The City
Beneath (Night Blood, book 1) was a finalist in the “Cleveland Rocks” and “Fool
For Love” contests.

Melody graduated magna cum laude
from Lycoming College with her B.A. in creative writing and psychology.
Throughout college, she wrote contemporary love stories, but having read and
adored the action and dark mystery of vampires her whole life, decided to add
her fingerprint to the paranormal genre.

Melody's unique perspective on
vampires lends fresh bite to a classic paranormal genre. In addition to a
reimagined transformation—the requirement of night blood—vampires have
gargoyle-looking, vicious day forms, an orgasmic bite, and as the series
progresses to Sweet Last Drop (book 2), a mindless, rampaging, zombie-like
breed is introduced. Melody is constantly upping the stakes, and Day Reaper
(book 4) is no exception.

Beyond the Next Star is an exciting
branch from Melody's paranormal romance roots, keeping the dark grit from her
Night Blood Series and taking it to new worlds. Told from the dual perspectives
of both human pet and alien owner, Melody's story weaves a slow-burn romance
that explores the bonds of love in all its forms, navigating the main
characters’ relationship in delicate stages from oblivious ownership to woke,
romantic love.

After moving from her northeast
Pennsylvania hometown for some much needed Southern sunshine, Melody now works
as a digital media coordinator for Southeast Georgia Health System’s marketing
department. When she isn’t working or writing, Melody can be found swimming at
the beach, reading at the pool, and exploring her new home in southeast
Georgia.

Website: http://authormelodyjohnson.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authormelodyjohnson

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MelodyMJohnson

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10707142.Melody_Johnson

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melody-johnson-20ab7334

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One Hot Texas Summer
Nicole Flockton
(Prentice Brothers of Sweet Ridge #1)
Published by: Tule Publishing
Publication date: May 26th 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

She’s been fooled before by sweet words and hot kisses
Kelly Turner loves being a florist, and being asked to take the lead on the new site for the town’s festival is an honor. If only she didn’t have to work closely with the town player, Tate Prentice. After being burned once by a serial cheater, her inconvenient attraction toward Tate needs to be nipped in the bud.
Tate Prentice’s focus is on ensuring his father recovers fully from his stroke and making sure the family’s peach farm continues to thrive. When his brother nominates the farm to be the satellite site for the festival, he’s less than impressed. The only good thing is he’ll be working with Kelly – even though he knows she’ll never give him a second glance, not with his reputation.
The more time Kelly spends with Tate, the more she sees the man behind the reputation. Can she trust her instincts, or will her heart be broken once again?

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Outside, the sounds of summer surrounded them. Crick- ets trilled, calling for company. A light veil of humidity hung in the air, not quite stifling yet. Come July and August, humidity would be heavy and unpleasant. Hopefully, Mother Nature would play nice for Founders’ Day and make the days and evenings pleasant.

“Where did you park your car?” he asked.

“Behind the shop.”

“Okay.” Tate headed in that direction, aware that he still had his arm around Kelly’s shoulders. Interesting. Why hadn’t she shaken him off? Not that he was complaining. She fit snugly, and he could get used to it.

A second later, she took a step to the right and his arm slipped to his side. The universe liked to give and then take away from him pretty quickly.

“You don’t have to walk me to my car, Tate. I’m a big girl and can get there by myself. The town is safe.”

He shoved his hands in his pocket to stop from reaching for her again. “I’m aware of that, but Dad would box my ears if he knew I’d let you walk alone after spending the evening with you.”

“Ahh, the gentlemanly gestures. It’s kind of sad they’re dying out.”

“You sound like you don’t want that to happen. You do know you just told me I didn’t have to do one of those gentlemanly gestures with dinner.”

She shrugged. “I have mixed feelings. I’ve been on my own for a long time. I’m an independent business owner. I’m in charge of my own life. And I love that, but when I listen to Mom talk about the early days of her and Dad’s courtship, it kind of makes me sad that some of those traditions are being lost. Some days, I’d like to experience it, and other days I don’t.”

Tate itched to rest his arm on her lower back as they walked down the darkened alley by her shop. Would this be one of those gestures she wanted? He compromised and raised his hand to her lower back, not touching but close enough that he could if she needed it. “I’m sure in time a balance will be struck that will please everyone.”

“I hope so,” she murmured as they stopped by her car, unlocking it. The flashing lights brightened the night for a heartbeat.

Deciding to risk it, he leaned around her and opened the door for her. “I had a really nice evening tonight, Kel. Thanks for asking me to join you.”

She looked up at him, the action bringing her face closer to his. In the muted glow from the only light in the parking lot, he caught the way her tongue darted out to moisten her lips. Tate bit back a groan. Memories from earlier in the day when he’d been tempted to kiss her in his kitchen slammed into him. His blood heated and his lower body tightened in his jeans.

He didn’t miss the increase in her breathing. “Kel?” he asked, sure of what he wanted but not wanting to assume she wanted the same thing.

“Tate,” she whispered and swayed a fraction toward him.

He rested his hand on her hip and lowered his head, keeping his eyes open. If she pulled back, he would give her space. Only she raised her face and their lips met.

Author Bio:
USA Today Bestselling author Nicole Flockton writes sexy contemporary romances, seducing you one kiss at a time as you turn the pages. Nicole likes nothing better than taking characters and creating unique situations where they fight to find their true love.
On her first school report her teacher noted "Nicole likes to tell her own stories". It wasn’t until after the birth of her first child and after having fun on a romance community forum that she finally decided to take the plunge and write a book.
Apart from writing Nicole is busy looking after her very own hero – her wonderfully supportive husband, and two fabulous kids. She also enjoys watching sports and, of course, reading.
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Three Strikes by Allana Walker

Title: Three Strikes

Series: Demon Disciples Series Book One

Author: Allana Walker

Genre: MC Romance/Suspense

Release Date: June 1, 2020

From the moment I turned fifteen, my life was planned out right down to the man I was to marry one day.

Until one night changed my life for good.

Welcome to the screwed up world of Daria Denver.

Strike One; She walks into my Clubhouse uninvited.

Strike Two; She steals from me.

Strike Three; She keeps a nine-year-old secret from me.

Daria Denver will learn never to piss off a Demons Disciples.

Especially me, Striker Xanders.

SiKReviews 5 stars - “I read this book in one day. It is rough to read some of it, but it had me in tears through it too.”

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Goodreads Review 5 stars - “Though their story is unconventional and doesn't have a perfect start, it's theirs and it will keep you on the edge of your seat.”

Allana lives in Dundee, Scotland with her husband and two daughters.

She has always had a passion for reading and until a few years ago, started secretly writing. She had always debated sharing it but never had the confidence to do so, until now. In her words; 'Life is too short to regret things we could have done and wishing the should've, would've, could've's.'

She wants to show, not only her daughters but to everyone else, that you can do whatever you want when you put your mind to it.

She loves reading a range of genres, particularly MC, Mafia, and romance.

Other than reading and writing, Allana loves to help out other authors, watching WWE, dancing around the room with her daughters, or at the cinema with her husband. She also loves to bake, it's her stress reliever.