Now available in print for the first time, USA Today bestselling author Ella Quinn's second installment in The Marriage Game series is a witty, romantic historical tale about a young lady who must choose between her head and her heart...
Since she was a young girl, Anna Marsh has dreamed of Sebastian, Baron Rutherford asking for her hand in marriage. But that was in another life when her brother Harry was alive, before she vowed to secretly continue the work he valiantly died for. Now as Sebastian finally courts Anna, she must thwart his advances. Were he to discover her secret, he would never deem her a suitable wife...
Sebastian has always known Anna would become his wife someday. He expects few obstacles, but when she dissuades him at every turn he soon realizes there is much more to this intriguing woman. Somehow he must prove to her that they are meant to be together. But first he must unravel the seductive mystery that is Miss Anna Marsh...
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Science Fiction
Release Date: December 25, 2020
Some experiments should never be attempted!
Ex-CIA operative and geophysicist Alex Cave searches for the source of seismic activity in the Pacific Ocean and discovers an ancient alien laboratory. Getting inside is the easy part. Getting out of an alternate reality might be impossible.
A deceptively complicated retrieval throws Nicole into London's criminal underworld
Travel to London and retrieve Abigail Fletcher, a 17-year-old in a study abroad program at the prestigious King’s College in London. The assignment sounds simple enough.
But Abigail’s return is put on indefinite hold when she’s charged with the murder of her boyfriend, a former student at King’s. Nicole believes Abigail has been framed, but the victim’s tight- knit circle of friends and relatives are most unwilling to talk to an American detective. Further complicating the case, is Abigail’s defiant and uncooperative demeanor.
As evidence stacks up against Abigail, Nicole discovers that she herself has become the next target. Nicole’s first solo case abroad as a private detective has just turned a lot deadlier than she ever anticipated.
Crime Fiction
Date Published: November 16, 2020
Publisher: Tekrighter, LLC
A crazed sniper. A loved one wounded, in danger of death. The unforgiving Fake News media. And a hidden villain more loathsome than any that Natalie McMasters has encountered before.
Nattie’s in the crosshairs as a series of seemingly random shootings terrorizes the city. She must fight to keep her polyamorous family from disintegrating, her emotions from running wild and her personal integrity uncompromised. This would be a formidable task for anyone, much less a twentysomething college student who just wants to graduate and get on with her life. Nattie must rely on old friends and new, but how can she even, when friends can become enemies in the blink of an eye? As Nattie nears an emotional meltdown, society collapses along with her, as the sniper’s depredations take their toll on the city.
Sniper! is a twisted, sexy, absolutely gripping descent into darkness jam packed with nail-biting suspense. Don’t miss it!
My Review...
This is the second Natalie McMaster’s book I’ve read by
Thomas A Burns. Both were the same. No, no, wait...I mean each was as good a
read and as exciting as the other, not a replica of one another. Natalie
McMasters is a Private Detective and a pre-law student. She’s an “in your face”
kind of person and lives in what some might call an unusual living arrangement.
I like all of Burns characters. They each have his or her
own place and are created to fit in a very difficult puzzle. This book deals a
lot with people and their views on gun control as well as your normal crappy
political games. Around all of it winds Burns story involving Natalie and her
family.
This is a sort of gripping book with 2 plots. It makes you
want to solve one while constantly wondering what is happening in the other. Don’t
get me wrong. This isn’t a story that switches from one POV to another. It’s very
clear just full of tension and suspense.
I must say there is one thing that began to make me yell at
Natalie. Rather as if you’re sitting on the couch yelling at a football game on
tv. I got tired of Natalie’s constant striking back at everyone. Sometimes in
person; sometimes in her mind. It’s just that the subject seemed to go on and
on. Sort of an “They started it” theme.
However, let me say something about all of this. An author
who writes well enough to evoke enough emotion to get you yelling at the pages
(or e-book) has a way with words, doesn’t he?
Waiting for the next Natalie McMasters book.
“REALISTIC & CHILLING!” - Mystery Thriller Week
Roy and Susie are on a skiing holiday, trying to take a break from the constant reminders of their daughter, tragically killed by a careless driver. Out of the blue they meet Deb and Tom, another couple with a tragic past and a shocking proposal to put things right.
As the bodies accumulate, secrets are revealed and alliances crumble. Ultimate survival depends on following the rules for a perfect murder. And the first rule is… leave no singing bones.
My Review:
This one kept me sitting on the edge of my seat. The author
seemed to build the tension throughout the book. I kept reading fast because I
wanted things to turn out my way. Whether that happened or not is something
you’ll have to read to see for yourself.
This is a thriller (a part of a trilogy called the Talion
Trilogy). It brings up some ethical questions. They all do. Who would think a
fiction thriller trilogy could do so, but this isn’t just a scary thriller.
It’s the story of people just like you and me who have had something happen to a
loved one and want justice. The line is hard to draw. Although this is filled
with lots of twists and turns, I must say the author did very well at keeping
his story clear and easy to follow.
On that note I want to leave a “note” for the prequel titled
“The Trial of Joe Harlan Jr.” which is Book 0 in this series. This is going to
sound like an argument with myself so here goes. In some ways I thought the prequel
helped in setting up Book 1 very quickly. So we could hit the pavement feet
down and running. On the other hand I kept wondering why it wasn’t incorporated
in Book 1. Then Again...sometimes when all of that information is spread out in
Book 1 of a series it seems to bog the story down.
So what does all that mean? The Prequel was explanatory,
Book 1 was great. I intend to read the whole Trilogy and Book 2 (Tooth for
Tooth) is next!
A college Halloween party. A night of fun, dress-up, and laughter. But for Kristy Wise, it quickly became a night of horror.
Now, Joe Harlan Junior, entrepreneur and son of a prominent senator, is at risk of losing everything as he stands accused of a crime he insists he did not commit.
Yet the facts are undisputed: Kristy was drugged, and she did have sex with Joe.
But was it consensual?
Read the story. Listen to the testimony. Is everything that happens next justified?
YOU decide.
What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you?
Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime.
Their planning was meticulous. Their execution flawless.
But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone.
Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble.
The hunters have become the hunted.
Roy Cruise and his pregnant wife Susie barely survived an assassination attempt in their own home. The police now have them under surveillance. Meanwhile, Kristy Wise is a loose cannon—she knows too much and is trying to “set things right.”
What goes around comes around. And in this case, Roy and Susie may have pushed things too far. There are too many dead bodies. Too many foes plotting against them.
Roy and Susie must outwit the police and neutralize their enemies once and for all. If not, their days of retribution may end behind bars... or six feet under.
| Genre: | Thriller, Suspense, Crime, Legal |
| Published by: | Talion Publishing |
| Publication Date: | October 5, 2020 |
| Number of Pages: | 1050 |
| ASIN: | B08KSCHTRX |
| Series: | Talion Trilogy #1 |
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When I try to piece together how this whole mess began, a part of me thinks it may have started over thirty years ago. At least the seeds were planted that far back, in the early 1980s. What happened then, at that summer camp in Texas, set the stage for everything that was to come.
Odd, how something so remote in time and geography continues to impact me here, today.
Sometimes I try to imagine her, how she felt—that eleven year-old girl—as she ran, stumbling and tripping through the woods that night. I try to put myself in her shoes. When I do, I wonder if she was frightened.
Did she understand the consequences of what she’d gotten herself into? I imagine it felt otherworldly to her, like a dream. But not a good dream. No, one of the bad ones—the ones that make your heart machine-gun as you try to outrun some dark thing that’s chasing you. But the faster you try to run, the slower you go, your legs feeling leaden, clumsy, useless.
Panic sets in. Tears of frustration form. Fear takes hold and won’t let go. You open your mouth to scream but realize, to your horror, that you’re paralyzed. It’s not that you can’t scream; you can’t even breathe. Not a dream—a nightmare.
Then again, all that may simply be my imagination. It could just be me projecting what I might have felt onto Joan. Maybe she wasn’t scared at all.
True, it was dark out. The night smelled of rain, but there was no lightning, only the far-off rumble of thunder hinting at a distant storm. There were no trail lights, no visibility but for the moon peeking out intermittently from behind a patchwork of clouds. But, Joan had been down this trail before. She was running toward the main cabin.
She had been at Camp Willow for almost two full weeks. She had been up and down that trail at least ten times a day, every day. Of course, that was during the day, and always with her buddy, or a camp counselor (the children called them troop leaders). Joan had never been on the trail at night. And never alone.
Maybe I imagine Joan was scared because, as an adult, I believe that she should have been. I would have been terrified.
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Excerpt from Eye For Eye by JK Franko. Copyright © 2019 by JK Franko. Reproduced with permission from JK Franko. All rights reserved.
J.K. FRANKO was born and raised in Texas. His Cuban-American parents agreed there were only three acceptable options for a male child: doctor, lawyer, and architect. After a disastrous first year of college pre-Med, he ended up getting a BA in philosophy (not acceptable), then he went to law school (salvaging the family name) and spent many years climbing the big law firm ladder. After ten years, he decided that law and family life weren’t compatible. He went back to school where he got an MBA and pursued a Ph.D. He left law for corporate America, with long stints in Europe and Asia.
His passion was always to be a writer. After publishing a number of non-fiction works, thousands of hours writing, and seven or eight abandoned fictional works over the course of eighteen years, EYE FOR EYE became his first published novel.
J.K. Franko now lives with his wife and children in Florida.
