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A is for Amnesia, B is for Bullet
Synopsis: In this action packed follow up to Fruitbasket from Hell, private investigator Alex Cheradon is faced with a nail biting case.

Reeling from the public relations nightmare that accompanied accidentally tackling a senator's daughter, Alex is approached by a man with a lethal case of amnesia. He wants to hire Alex to find out who he is, and since he just happens to have a winning lotto ticket that's worth 10 million dollars, money's no object. But as Alex starts to look into the man's past he finds more questions than answers and a whole lot of people out to kill him.

The clock is officially ticking. The crazies are coming out of the woodwork. And it's down to Alex to save the day...

This is Book 2 in the Alex Cheradon Series.


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Other books in the Alex Cheradon Series:

VOLUME 1-
Fruitbasket from Hell (Alex Cheradon #1.1)
A is for Amnesia, B is for Bullet (Alex Cheradon #1.2)
Little People, Big Crimes (Alex Cheradon #1.3)

VOLUME 2 -
One Time Only (Alex Cheradon #2.1)
Welcome to Crazytown (Alex Cheradon #2.2)
Odd Man Out (Alex Cheradon #2.3)
Full Moon, Half Wits (Alex Cheradon #2.4)
One Tomb Short of a Graveyard (Alex Cheradon #2.5)

VOLUME 3
Lucky Dogs (Alex Cheradon #3.1)
Everything's Coming Up Aces (Alex Cheradon #3.2)
The House Always Wins (Alex Cheradon #3.3)
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
ISAURA (Aberrant 3)
Ruth Silver
Synopsis: They say the truth shall set you free, but my truth will get us all killed.

He’s missing and I should have seen it coming.
No one is to be trusted.
Everyone has their own hidden agenda.

I must venture into Outlaw territory,
Risk exposing my secret,
All while being hunted by those I thought were my allies.

Trust is a commodity I can’t afford.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
A Little Magic
Valerie Gillen
Synopsis: A Hidden Power: Stepdancer Siobhan Kelly didn't believe in magic - until the magic chose her.

A Promise Made: She's been warned magic is evil, but with her grandmother felled by a deadly curse, she must make a bargain with the local Fairie prince - the return of their sacred Jewel in exchange for her grandmother's life.

And it just might work too - if only she can escape the dark witch who's made Siobhan her prey in the hunt for a deadly blood spell.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 8 - 12
Genre: Adventure
A Smile of Fortune
Adam Kisiel
Synopsis: A story of minstrels, mages, murderers and debt collectors!

Carefree bard Crispin coming back home from his parsimonious uncle's funeral does not expect that soon he will be mixed up in a murky intrigue involving magic, fear and a dwarf working as a debt-collector.

A full of adventure and mystery fantasy story.

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Published in Poland, Katowice, 1998.
English edition © 2011
26 pages

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When a chance presents itself to seize a vast fortune, Crispin the bard does not hesitate for a moment. However, it soon becomes clear that with great money comes great trouble, which the minstrel will have to face with a little help from his friends: the reasonable wizard Amerwend, the tough dwarf Marcus and the jolly halfling Bibble.

"Damned Inheritance" is the story in a fantasy series about the misadventures of Crispin, the careless troubadour.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Agnus Sib - The Journey
Arloni Bais Junior
Synopsis: Upon waking in the middle of Greneve, Agnus Sib has no idea of who he is or how he got to that place. During his journey in search of answers he is faced with a great enemy: Markati Shalu. Suddenly, his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself responsible for an entire village. To help him in this mission, only his two friends Lucius and Neville join him in the march towards Rosadelin.

Synopsis:
A man wakes up alone in the middle of nowhere - no city or person around him. As belongings, a bag with some seeds, a pot of ointment and an old sword with the inscription "Agnus Sib”. In the bag, in addition to those seeds, three stones (a yellow, a red and a green one), united in a drop shaped jewel, increased that mystery.

Three questions: "Who is he, what was his origin and what is his purpose" made him run the world in search of answers.

Despite of being a person of good behavior, he has deep marks of suffering in his unconscious that make him be at the same time fair and honest but with a strange desire for revenge. This suffering is increased by an amnesia - memory lapses of his childhood and adolescence that plague him constantly. Who are these people that appear in his dreams? Who is he, his family? What was that mission that he took to himself without even understanding its purpose? An invitation to the imaginary and distant lands, fight of good against evil and internal fight complete this saga, split into three volumes.

More than a search for answers is a search for himself – the search that all of us do every day, regardless of era or place.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Artemis Rising
Cheri Lasota
Synopsis: Award-winning Historical Fantasy! A compelling tale weaving myth, history, and romance as a shipwrecked young woman discovers her destiny...

Rejected by her father and yet determined to be her mother’s daughter, Eva takes on the tragic destiny of her namesake: the mythological Arethusa.

Shipwrecked on foreign shores, Eva finds herself torn between the dark and dangerous shipowner's son and the kind-hearted orphan boy who rescues her.

Faced with an impossible choice, Eva must heed the troubling warnings of her goddess-touched visions before her fated destiny destroys them all.

Set against the lush backdrop of 1890s Azores Islands, this Historical Fantasy Romance won First Place in the Chanticleer Cygnus Awards and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

****

"Wish I could give it 10 stars. Love it. The story grabs you and puts you in such suspense and over the edge until the end." -
Lunanima

"Left me breathless and spellbound. I wanted to live inside its pages." - Karen Hooper, Author of Tangled Tides
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Bullied
Christopher Smith
Synopsis: STEPHEN KING: "PUT ME DOWN AS AN ENTHUSIASTIC CHRISTOPHER SMITH FAN. SMITH IS A CULTURAL GENIUS."


DESCRIPTION: A paranormal thriller! The relentlessly bullied 18-year-old Seth Moore is gifted an amulet that ignites within him a wealth of supernatural powers.

If Seth uses the amulet properly, it will protect him from those determined to crush him. But after so many years of being beaten down and humiliated, the question is whether Seth can resist creating a firestorm of horror when the bullies around him create one fatal, awful act that begs for revenge.

Soon, all hell breaks loose. And when it does, a war builds against Seth as others vie to take control of the amulet and use its powers for themselves.

BULLIED is an intense, paranormal thriller that moves at a break-neck pace. It is the first book in the BULLIED series.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Heron's Path
Alethea Eason
Synopsis: Alethea Eason’s newest book, The Heron’s Path, has all the grace of the river that flows through its pages. One steps lithely into the world of Katy and her delicate sister Celeste. It is a world where the old and the new mingle, the Old Ones hold a knowing but genteel sway and the country man perhaps shouldn’t be so trusting of his dulled senses. Will Celeste come to know the purpose of her wanderings and dreams? Will Katy and aged Olena be able to keep her from the clutches of the evil we-nei-la? Follow them “north to the true wilderness, dark with ancient trees, where the Nanchuti struggle to keep their sacred songs from vanishing.” Like the current of the river Talum that witnesses all within these pages, you too will be swept along in the adventure, sometimes in reflective pools, sometimes drawn inexorably to the falls… to find the Heron’s Path.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Mica Elizabeth, Military Brat (Desert Secrets)
Synopsis: In a small town like Coyote, Nevada, everyone knows the new kid. Mica didn’t realize how much some of them would know. Before her first day of school is over, she meets a group of kids that know more about her than she could ever dream. They told Mica her dad works at Area 51, not Nellis Air Force Base like he told her. Now they want her to spy on him to see what’s going on at Area 51. Mica doesn’t feel right about spying on her dad and besides, she’s not even sure Area 51 really exists. She’s used to her dad having to keep different parts about his job secret, but she has a hard time believing he would lie to her about their family. This all changes when she catches him in a lie. Now Mica is on the hunt for answers. Is her grandpap still alive? Does her Dad really work at Area 51? What is this top secret aircraft he is testing? With the help of her new friends, Mica will find the answers she is looking for.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Oracle - Sunken Earth
Giuseppe Lipari, C.W. Trisef
Synopsis: Fall, current day, Atlantic Ocean. Another hurricane tears through the Bahamas, headed for Florida. Among the wreckage: a U.S. Coast Guard rescue boat, one survivor (Ret Cooper), and a spherical object of curious design (the Oracle).

Ret Cooper is a simple young man with mysterious origins, unique physical features, and no memory of his past. His new family and friends discover he is truly extraordinary, with supernatural powers and strange scars on the palms of his hands. But what is his destiny?

The Oracle is the key to Earth's unity and full potential, too perfect to be man-made. Legend claims it can unleash limitless power when filled with Mother Nature's six, pure, original elements. But where are these elements? And which of our planet’s ancient secrets will be explained in the process of locating them?

The first book from new author C.W. Trisef will have you cheering for Ret as he travels a submerged road, discovers a lost city, climbs an electrifying mountain, and begins to unravel the mystery of the Oracle...all during his first year of high school.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Santa Claus and Little Sister
Synopsis: “Santa Claus and Little Sister” is autobiographical in nature, selfishly therapeutic in design, and hard proof that we cannot control our future regardless how hard we try.

This is a journey of one young optimistic East Coast teacher who taught at New Beginnings, a Los Angeles placement home for at-risk, mentally and physically abused, abandoned, gang, and socially-emotionally disturbed girls.

He discovers that truth often becomes lies, moral transforms into immoral, and fear builds knowledge.

This is a memorable adventure with two of these students, or catalysts, Chata and Lupe, and their frightful connections to a notorious Mexican child trafficking cartel and LA Gangs.

Chata, a bold and controlling overweight active member of the Baby Locas Division of the 18th Street Gang in South LA, struggles between two worlds and purposely brings both together in the back alleys of Los Angeles. Lupe, a small beautiful Mexican girl, identified only by the alias assigned to her by the FBI, is suddenly missing from the placement center leaving only her most cherished possession behind, a self-made book of poems and artwork entitled “To Santa Claus and Little Sisters”.

Refusing to accept the hypothesis that Lupe ran away on her own free will, risks would have to be taken by this naive Boston-born teacher and the mouthy 17 year-old Chata. Both would have to question their belief system many times in order to survive when circumstances were not in their favor.

To these young catalysts, Chata and Lupe, I am forever grateful for the spark that you ignited in me. Any survivor characteristics that I possess is probably due to you. Thanks girls.

This inspirational and captivating Novel deals with mature subjects including teen suicide, teenage problems, drug use, physical and mental abuse, and gang lifestyles.

Inspired by the poem "To Santa Claus and Little Sister" by Anonymous. 
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
School of the Ages: The Ghost in the Crystal
Synopsis: Ghosts, elementals, time travel, magic duels, teen romance, sacrifice, and ultimate loss... Simon, thirteen, is drawn by surprise into America's greatest magic school: New York City's School of the Ages. When the evil spirit of a bitter and scheming heretic from ancient Alexandria attacks, he must risk everything in order to save his soul. Kids and adults won't stop reading -- The Ghost in the Crystal.

This is the first book of a multi-volume series. Three more novels and two short collections are available, with more to come.

Revised and expanded second edition issued 2/28/16 features a new cover, various editorial corrections, and several pages of new content, including new characters and new scenes.

Editorial Reviews:

"There is a strong Jewish and biblical current, but it's about magic rather than religion, and the magic is impressive. I got the feeling I was attending the school by correspondence, and that the magic was authentic. A seemingly dull curriculum turns out to be otherwise. Simon has friends and enemies and aspires to romance as he struggles to make his way. This is good reading." -- Piers Anthony, world-famous fantasy author

Feel free to contact Matt (that's me) for reader to author conversation via my Facebook fan page.

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Matt Posner is the author of School of the Ages series, of How to Write Dialogue (a fun manual for writers) a very adult novel, Squared Circle Blues (about professional wrestling in the 1980s) and, with Jess C. Scott, co-author of Teen Guide to Sex and Relationships. Matt is a reader-friendly author who is glad to hear from you anytime about your thoughts.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
Sleeping Kings: Dark Force - Book One
Synopsis: Fans of Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider series, or Charlie Higson’s Young Bond books will find themselves on the edge of their seats with this YA action adventure set in the French Pyrenees.

Nik was a normal teen computer geek until her parents split up and her father dragged her off to France.

The move cost her everything; friends, family, even her obsession; an online computer game.

Then she meets a dead guy who’s protecting a secret as old as the mountains themselves, and suddenly people want her and the most gorgeous boy she’s ever met, dead too.

When she finds out who she really is, things get freaky. The race is on, and she’s got to beat the clock – a clock that’s been ticking for seven hundred years.

Time has just run out for Nicola Roscoe.

It could be...Game Over!
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
The Aduramis Chronicles: Destiny of the Wulf
Synopsis: 'A Master Storyteller.' - Jaime Polychrones. Book Expo America 2017.

In the eternal battle between dark magic and light, brothers Coinin and Marrok Wulf are called by an ancient Brotherhood to fulfil a great prophecy that will tip the fate of their world forever.

At play are the greatest forces of darkness in the universe: Death himself and dark wizard, Lordich Secracar, who will stop at nothing to thwart the brothers’ journey and pull Er’ath, their beloved home world, into the void.

To head off Death’s ultimate plans to rule the gods and bring chaos to the heavens, the two brothers must follow their destiny to unite the five sacred Swords of Cerathil, in the Tower of Elyia, as the ancient seer, Aduramis foretold.

In their path lie untold enemies and unspoken treachery. Torn between the powers that be and their call to fate, Coinin and Marrok must overcome all that stands in their way, or let their precious world fall into ruin …

Journey now into the brave new world of The Aduramis Chronicles, a coming-of-age fantasy series that is as diverse as it is dense--combining all of the classical elements of the fantasy adventures you love with the plot-driven, multi-faceted character dramas of the modern age.

Take off with Book One, Destiny of The Wulf, into a world unlike any other, as the ticking hand of fate moves ever closer towards destruction ...
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
The Rising (The Lost Children of Managrail)
Synopsis: The Utopian society of Managrail has lost its young king, and Queen Raina must raise their twins, the impetuous Lila, and her sullen brother Simian alone. No one could know that one of Lila’s demands will change the lands forever. Lila and Simian have awakened the Fergay, ancient beasts that hunger for flesh, and it is plentiful in Managrail. Armed with magic talismans the Light Bringers, they will face challenges beyond their imaginations. Privilege won’t save them from death, nor will it save them from a journey of love and betrayal that will last two years. A colorful cast of characters joins them and together they will face an evil long forgotten. A magic war is on the horizon, and all the tribes will unite for one last time to stand against the Sorceress Shantra from the White Realm. With Lila’s help Shantra hopes to break free from her frozen prison of one hundred years. Will the talismans and revenge finally be hers? Little does anyone realize that the Light Bringers hold their own secret plan.
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure
The Summoning Sphere (A Blake and Riley Adventure)
Synopsis: Ten-year old Blake and eight-year old Riley are just your average suburban brothers spending their summer vacation honing their skills at Mario Kart and swimming at the pool. But the boys’ predictable summer changes in an instant when they find a strange gold sphere in a box in their neighbor’s shed. As Blake and Riley ponder their discovery, they are suddenly whisked away to a medieval world and thrust into a desperate attempt to save a young princess in danger.

Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Adventure

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