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Victory Blvd.
Victory Blvd.
A highly paid stuntwoman by day and vigilante by night finds her dual life turned on its head when her prosecutor father discovers her secret.In this light-hearted action thriller, Callie Monroe is a stunt double for the world's #1 female action movie star, but spends her nights trying to avenge her mother's murder. Callie is aided in her quest by her grandfather Hank Dempsey, a career criminal who runs a repo yard, and her personal assistant, Aryana Koubalt, a bubbly Valley Girl who's smarter than she seems. All is going well for Callie until her father, Assistant District Attorney Nathan Monroe, discovers her secret during a botched sting operation. Nathan, who is also troubled by his wife's murder, is conflicted: He doesn't know whether to tell his boss the truth, or to help Callie in her quest for justice. But when Aryana is kidnapped by the vicious thugs Callie is investigating, Nathan has no choice but to help Callie and Hank get her back -- though he does have a few conditions first...

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Soren: The Angel & The Prize Fighter (Soren Book 1)
Soren: The Angel & The Prize Fighter
'One girl's fight to save her mother's life...A band of warrior angels guarding a powerful secret...Two worlds collide as the startling truth is revealed'Brand new for summer 2014! Book one in a new trilogy for fans of prize fighter novels and paranormal fantasy novels.Praise for Soren: The Angel & The Prize Fighter“Can Louise Nicks' debut novel hit the bar that has been set so high by the likes of Laini Taylor and Susan Ee? Yes she can, Soren breathes new life into the genre” - Random Redhead Ramblings“I love this story! It took angles and added in fighters for a whole new world to love! Beau is an amazing character... I couldn't get enough of her” - Serenity's Lovely Reads“Louise made the book original. The fighter element had a lot to do with this and the darker undertone to the criminal world added a deeper level of story you could sink your teeth into” - Lost To Books“I think the author, Louise Nicks, nailed it with this book as I found it very attention-grabbing and unique” - A Tiffyfit's Reading Corner“The most redeeming quality about Beau that readers will enjoy is that she is confident and fierce, but that she is also vulnerable” - Life Of A Female Bibliophile“This is a fast paced action fantasy with a touch of romance that pulls you in” - Hines and Bigham's Literary Tryst“It's refreshing to have a female protagonist in a YA paranormal novel that can actually fight for herself instead of needing a prince charming coming in to save her” - The Book LandersBook descriptionMixing the paranormal, romance, mystery and action, Soren: The Angel & The Prize Fighter tells the tale of female friendship and first loves, of an unbreakable bond between mother and daughter, and how some destinies are just too big and terrifying to accept.Flitting between the grimy London underworld where dangerous criminals lurk in every shadow, a prestigious private school for the rich and gifted where bullying is rife yet strong friendships are forged, and a quaint little cottage that's home to real angels, Soren is laced with vivid imagery and settings that soar off the page.SynopsisBeau Tolson is the London underworld’s most famous teenage prize fighter. In a seedy, gritty warehouse hidden deep within London's Docklands she fights tooth and nail. Not for glory, but for money to buy the only medication that can now keep her terminally ill mother alive. You could say that life is already tough enough for the impoverished teen, but it’s about to get crazy...When some of her friends start acting weird, and a mystifying new boy turns up outside the school gates, Beau is told a life changing secret: that not only are her friends angels, but she is going to become an angel too. It isn’t long before Beau finds herself torn between the divine and this world; between her responsibilities and the colossal destiny that awaits. A new paranormal fantasy romance for 2014Soren: The Angel & The Prize Fighter is book one in a new paranormal fantasy romance trilogy. If you enjoy action packed paranormal stories that meld sweet romance, heartfelt emotion, colourful characters and jaw-dropping action with a heart-shuddering ending, Soren is the book for you!Aimed at the young adult / teen fiction / adult crossover market, Soren will please readers of all ages who enjoy stories about good versus evil, fighting for the ones you love, the importance of female friendship, and finding your courage in the face of utmost fear. More praise for Soren: The Angel & The Prize Fighter“The story is well told and merges a darkly toned reality with the concept of angels existing amongst humans” - Sharon Stevenson (author of the Gallows series)“You'll feel pain and sorrow and joy and one girl's fierce determination that nobody is going to take her mother away. I think death himself may run from this girl...” - Emma Faragher (author of The Necromancer's Revenge)

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Flashes of Fiction: Volume 2
Flashes of Fiction (Volume 2)
Stories include:Finder's Weepers: Leonard gets caught up in his own web of lies.Remain Calm: The insane never question their own sanity.Punctilious: Being on time just may be a matter of life and deathAssailant: A strange increase in burglaries occur ahead of a warm front.Laugh Like a Baby: A story of mixed up emotions--Literally!

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Flashes of Fiction: Volume 1
Flashes of Fiction (Volume 1)
Five short stories for quick, fun reads. Each volume contains stories in various genres, so there is something for every reader. Volume 1: Metro Dome-(sci-fi) In the future, families live domes to protect themselves for the scorching sun, but one man longs for the days when families lived in houses and the worlds seemed endless.Viral Smiles-(humor) A young lady decides to put the theory to test that smiles are contagious with some humorous results. Shannon Elizabeth Riley- (mystery) A little girl finally finds her way home after being lost for 30 yearsOperation Onion- (sci-fi/speculative fiction) Samuel is born with a strange affliction that makes him emits different odors based on his moods and this makes people shy away from him. But, Samuel‘s mother says God has a plan for everyone, so does this mean Samuel will find his place in this world? The Handbag- (sci-fi) Sara finds a handbag that seems to make money on cue, but all good things have a catch. Right?

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Ally Ally Oxen Free
Ally Ally Oxen Free
Tom is fascinated with bones, human bones. He wants to study them and gets his chance when Mr. Dukes allows him to dig in the vacant lot behind his store. What Tom unearths makes the neighborhood kids tremble with fear. "Ally ally oxen free!" These four little words can bring anyone out of hiding.

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Mermaid's Kiss
Mermaid's Kiss
Thomas believes in myths and mythological creatures, and when he reads that a mermaid's kiss has the power to heal, he thinks of his bedridden Grandpa. Thomas sets out to catch a mermaid to heal his Grandpa - if they really exist.

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Dawn of the Shadowcasters: The Stevie Vegas Chronicles
Dawn of the Shadowcasters: The Stevie Vegas Chronicles
Only light can drive back the darkness. Only Stevie Vegas can stop the Shadowcasters. It’s been a year since the 13-year-old skateboarder found out he was an Illuminator with special powers – the ability to read minds and make things happen. Then, he was forced to use his new powers to fight the Shadowcasters. Now they’ve turned up in his hometown wanting revenge, and it will take all his skills as an Illuminator and the help of his friends to beat them again.

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Labyrinth Society: The Versailles Vendetta
Labyrinth Society: The Versailles Vendetta
When 12 year-old Mia Cornell is sent to live at the Tarpley Estate, her ninth foster home, she has no idea what she's in for. Having a kind but mysterious foster mother and three quirky foster sisters is all well and good. Discovering that her new family is a secret society—they use a portal in their garden labyrinth to travel the globe seeking lost art, artifacts, and OSOs (objects of supernatural origin)—is something else entirely. Mia barely has time to wrap her head around the truth when the Society's latest job, tracking down Marie Antoinette's necklace, goes sideways. Mia and her new siblings—Tomi, the historian; Devon, the hacker; and Lily, the muscle—must use their wits, plus a few cool OSOs filched from the Society's vault, to stay a step ahead of a sinister enemy from their foster mother's past. But just how far back does Mrs. Tarpley's past go? And will Mia stand by her new family or cut and run when they need her the most?

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Aachen
Aachen
The life of an 8th century peasant is, as they say, “nasty, brutish, and short”. Stephen of Orlans wants none of that. Peasant or not, he dreams of studying at Charlemagne’s famed Palace School at Aachen. But the sins of war have left him stained with blood, guilt, and despair, and the sadistic step-son of a local count wants him dead. Most importantly, he is beginning to think he would rather spend his life with the beautiful milkmaid Bertrada than in the confines of a monastery. Stephen’s road to Aachen leaves him entangled in the conspiracies of nobility, fighting for his freedom and his life. But it is the struggle between love and ambition, between responsibility and desire that threatens to destroy him. To find his redemption Stephen must confront the secrets and betrayals that have shaped his life, and he will find that some decisions can never be undone.

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The Betrayals of Grim's Peak
The Betrayals of Grim's Peak
Augustus Tomlin was found floating in the waters of the Florida Keys as an infant after a mysterious undersea explosion. Not long after turning sixteen, following an attack by creatures right out of a nightmare near his adoptive parents' seaside cabin, he is pulled away from the only family he has ever known back into the one thing that scares him the most – the ocean.Augie reluctantly follows his new friend Mira and her drac to the centuries old underwater city of Grim's Peak where he must overcome his overwhelming phobia of water and adapt to his new surroundings quickly because it is clear that someone is hell bent on trying to kill him. The only clue he has to his origins is the small medallion he was wearing on the night he was found. Augie's quest for the truth about who he is and what happened to his parents leads him and his friends to secret underground caverns, a dead undersea lake called the Hel-mir, and to several encounters with a dangerous species of half-human/half-fish hybrids called Mers who will seemingly stop at nothing to reclaim the territory now occupied by Grim's Peak that they say was stolen from them by the town's founders almost a thousand years ago. It isn't long before Augie discovers he is part of a centuries old mystery that began with a single lie - a lie so powerful that were it to ever be exposed it would bring everything crashing down around him including the amazing new world he has been introduced to. Time is running out, and to uncover the truth Augie must face earth shattering revelations about his past, survive against incredible odds, and discover the identity of the traitor in his midst who has been living right under his nose all along.

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