Deluded by Rainbows: the misadventures of a mother's daughter (The Misadventure Trilogy Book 3) by Stella King Price verified one hour ago

Deluded by Rainbows is the story of a 'wronged' mother and her daughter's reckless ambition to live a 'better' life, regardless of consequences, both moral and criminal. Above EVERYTHING else, Bree was determined -- with an ill-fated and diabolically unrestrained ruthlessness... NOT to be her mother! A tangled web of blind aspiration, deceit, love, lust, betrayal, hate, horror, depravity and death... all mixed up in the paradoxical facets of human nature and basic instinct... AND what happens beyond death. The Misadventure Trilogy by Stella King, comprises: Book 1: Don't Cry Sunday Girl: the misadventure of a vicar's daughter. Book 2: A Descent from Virtue: the misadventure of a goody two shoes. Book 3: Deluded by Rainbows: the misadventures of a mother's daughter. Deluded by Rainbows was originally published in an abridged version, titled 'Mother's Daughter: the bitterest pills' and then as 'The Pursuit of Happiness: the misadventures of a mother's daughter'.

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Hide Away: A Melanie Michaels Novel (The Away Series Book 1) by Elle Anderson (Self-published) (13 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Strong women, sexy males, secluded beaches, and the best friend every girl wishes she had. Melanie Michaels worked hard for five years to get her life back to normal. Her hard work is halted when she stumbles upon two men who belong to an agency specializing in the removal of criminals from society. Learning of the existence of the agency endangers her life once again, but when the men change from being her captors to her rescuers, Melanie recognizes the value of the relationship. With her life still in danger, Melanie goes into hiding where she finds a relationship that builds her strength and confidence and proves to her that she has not been living her life to the fullest. When her new love goes missing, she reaches out to the agency to help her find him. During the search, she learns the importance of love and friends and she must decide what will make her life complete, while battling through an increasingly familiar world of violence and death. The beginning of a thrilling ...

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Palomar Knots by Anndee Fonnesbeck (36 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Thea rarely felt welcome in her own home. After being placed for adoption as an infant, then losing her new mother a few months later, she was left to be raised by a silent, reluctant father. Moving to college seems like the perfect escape, her first chance at independence. When she is forced to return home after just one semester, Thea must finally face everything she had hoped to leave behind. Palomar Knots is a dramatic coming-of-age story about love and learning that family is who we choose.

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Some Call It Trypophobia by Petronius Jablonski (Chandelier Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Clusters of small holes present no obvious danger, yet they induce a primal fear reserved for snakes and death. A recent study only augments the mystery, raising more questions than it answers. Trypophobia is a discovery, not an illness, an encounter with terrible wisdom, the first step on a convoluted path to some dark enlightenment. Found so often in nature, object of apprehension and meditation throughout the ages, this pattern is a symbolic code. Some Call It Trypophobia deciphers it and reckons with the message. Everyday life is more terrifying and bizarre than vampires or zombies. A potent narcotic called Routine numbs you from its primordial strangeness. The essay and stories in this collection peel away the thick callus of familiarity, revealing the world in all its raw horror. Join the Sentinels of the Chandelier. The idea that enlightenment requires a seated posture of meditation is wishful thinking. Accessing the Chandelier of Consciousness, the transcendent mind of ...

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Getaway: A Melanie Michaels Novel (The Away Series Book 2) by Elle Anderson (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Book 2 in the thrilling Melanie Michaels Series. Melanie and Gabriel are ready to live happily ever after. However, there is a hiccup in their fantasy as Melanie attempts to fit her larger than life man in her tiny bungalow. Accustomed to living alone, she feels smothered by the former assassin who has inserted himself into every aspect of her life. As if the stress of a new relationship isn't enough to handle, Simonov has been released from prison and has a vendetta to settle. He will stop at nothing to seek vengeance against Melanie and Gabriel and no one is off limits. Gabriel's sexy ex, two kidnappings, and Ivan's pasty white skin on the beach... a Hawaiian getaway turns into a vacation nightmare! Sex, guns, and sharks... Melanie Michaels is at it again. ***Contains adult content!!!***

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The Corruption: A Crime Thriller by Peter Hermann (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Lawyers do not go around solving murders, getting killed, physically assaulted, and acting like the stereotypical private investigator. A group of characters similar to those found in mysteries and thrillers. These characters incorporate Jared, the prototypical crime addressing legal counselor; his auntie, who raised him and an exceptionally moral legal advisor; Mark, her sweetheart of numerous years and Jared's proxy father and senior criminal investigator; Jewell, a previous cop, bar proprietor, PI, and semi-rough defender and property manager; Warren, a knockout lesbian correspondent and semi-associate that makes Jared's insane; and presently, David, a wacky inhabitant gofer, and now and again virtuoso. This book is about corruption inside and outside the city government that dates back nearly 100 years, murder, false accusations and imprisonment, liars, semi-Mafioso thugs and corruptors, and various twists and turns.

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The Demon's Crystal: A Thrilling Sci-Fi Adventure by P.J. Jay (108 Reviews)    Price verified 24 minutes ago

For Eric Frost, Madagascar is a place of beauty and learning. A researcher in bio-robotics, Eric finds the sheer variety of flora and fauna fascinating - but when he finds Unseen Madagascar, an unassuming book by a missing British author named Richard Walters, Eric learns that there's more to the nation than meets the eye. The text speaks of an island off the coast of Madagascar known only as Demon Island. There, the author suggests, lives an isolated and hostile tribe of natives who seem to jealously guard something held deeper in the island's interior. Eric, along with his friends Ivy and Max, pledge to get to the bottom of the mystery. They travel to Madagascar and begin to plan a journey out to Demon Island, but instead they meet the mysterious Daniel, a self-proclaimed American explorer full of dark warnings and vague stories. He eventually agrees to help Eric and his friends get to Demon Island, but at a price... ****************************************** Dear ...

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The Birth of M.E. Meegs (Emmie Reese Mysteries, Story #1) by Robert Bruce Stewart (Street Car Mysteries) (62 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Set in Brooklyn at the turn of the 20th century, this short story follows Emmie Reese, an aspiring journalist with a peculiar outlook on life and a poor understanding of currency exchange rates. Our heroine becomes involved with a death in the English county of Lancashire when one of her stories is found in the dead man's pocket. Over several months -- while pursuing her career, visiting a literary sweat shop, and doing some unusual freelance work at the racetrack -- she solves the case through transatlantic correspondence with Scotland Yard. For more information on the series, please visit: HarryReeseMysteries.com

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Five Days in September: The Invasion of England 1940 by P R Burrell (RoadRunner Publications) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Five Days in September (Second Edition) September 1940, the Battle of Britain is over, the Luftwaffe has air superiority over England and the invasion of England has been set in motion. Jimmy Webb and his two lifelong friends, Penny Packard and Harry Hughes, who live in the southeast of England, in a clifftop village between Dover and Folkestone, are all involved in the defence of Britain, despite being only 17 years old. Jimmy is in the resistance, a member of an Auxiliary Patrol, Harry is a member of the Home Guard whilst Penny has been recruited as a local intelligence agent, a member of the Auxiliary Units Special Duties Branch tasked with reporting on enemy actions, troop movements and the morale of the populace. Karl Dressler, leader of an SS Assault Group of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the crack unit of the Waffen-SS, has been tasked with securing and holding the area between Dover and Folkestone, an area that includes the invasion headquarters. ...

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Found - The Andersen Saga: Claire wants peace and quiet and to be alone...then her brother shows up. A heartwarming story about family. (The ... by Jacie Middlemann (21 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Patrick knew from the moment he climbed out of his car and heard the music blasting from the back of the cabin what he would find... his sister was painting. And considering her choice of music, there was every possibility that what filled her canvas wasn't meant to soothe the soul. Claire Andersen Slavik was exactly where she needed to be. The last couple of years had been good ones even if at times filled with difficult moments. She had moved in with her mother when it was obvious she was needed. And never had a single regret for doing so. There had been days filled with joy and others with heartbreak. Now her mother was gone and the world she'd known had once again shifted out of balance. Claire was determined to take this time like a stolen moment to come to grips with the change in her life that the loss of her mother had made. It didn't matter that her kids called almost every day. She understood. But she needed this time away. The quiet and the peace that this little heaven ...

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A Painting Called Sylvia by Michael J. Vaughn (Lusterleaf Editions) (138 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

When Chris Weathers finds an oddly alluring artwork in a beachtown coffeehouse, he thinks he's found the answer to the visions invading his button-down life. But when he becomes the patron of its creator, a semi-homeless painter named Marcello, he unsettles the balance of his family. Being the "walking wallet" for a genius daughter and her ultra-nervous mother has its rewards, but aren't parents allowed to have lives of their own? A touching family drama from the author of the award-winning novel The Popcorn Girl.

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Everything We Are (Heart Of The Canyon Book 2) by Jacie Middlemann (38 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Jake wants to see for himself whether his mother is having a mid-life crisis or a later-in-life adventure. He's betting on the second. Mallie's oldest son checked up on her not long after she returned to the canyon and the home she grew up in... the home where she raised her children until a tragedy forced her to make the difficult decision to leave. Now her youngest son is on his way... Jake Westin is returning to the canyon where he grew up. It's been ten years since the last time he was there. He can still vividly remember the circumstances that led to his family's departure all those years ago. It wasn't something he thought of often. Who would want to? Just as much as he wanted to see how his mother was doing since her return to the canyon he was also looking forward to seeing Lizzie. When he was a child the two of them had gone on all kinds of quests together for lizards and anything else that moved, searched for the buried treasure Lizzie swore was to be found somewhere in ...

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History of von Schatt (1913-1960) by Richard Daub (Clay Road Press) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

The man, the monster... This history chronicles the origin of the von Schatt family: from the abandonment of its patriarch, Heinrich, on the steps of an orphanage in prewar Germany; through his apprenticeship on the high seas with a salty drunken smuggler; his flight from the Nazis to Sweden; his kidnapping of a child bride to America; his becoming the most feared Captain in the US military troop transport fleet; his concurrent role as husband and father of two dysfunctional Long Island families; and his lifelong obsession to uncover the secret behind a set of coordinates he'd found written on an old map. ABOUT RICHARD DAUB On a wood paneled wall in his grandmother's Long Island home had been hung a creepy painting of the grandfather he'd never met, a ship captain supposedly so frightening that the author, as a boy, could see fear in the eyes of the adults whenever they spoke of "The Captain", who, by then, had been dead two decades, wild tales of land and sea they probably never ...

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London Lies Bleeding: Introducing a New Kind of Hero (Justin Martello Book 1) by Gomery Kimber (Procursus Press) (27 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Former special operative Justin Martello is being blackmailed. If he refuses British Intelligence's hush-hush assignments, he'll end up in jail - or six feet under... Nice kid Nero has been kidnapped, and his employer wants MI6's top negotiator to get him back. But as soon as Martello begins to investigate, he discovers that Nero has been living a double life. Navigating the mean streets of London's underworld, Martello quickly becomes entangled in a web of drug dealing, people trafficking and political corruption. But after receiving an uncanny message from the kidnap victim, he tracks down Nero to a strange WW2-era installation. Nero's kidnapper, Ramadan, turns out to be leading a double life as well. He's betrayed gang boss Granit, who's intent on taking over the whole London underworld. Rescuing Nero is just the first step. Martello needs to neutralise Granit too, or London will descend into a welter of violence and anarchy. Get your copy right now because you're sure to ...

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A Little Discovery (Manor Drive Book 1) by Kate Bauer (K.A. Bauer) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 24 minutes ago

Lucky is anything but his namesake. First, he gets tricked into marrying a woman when she claims he got her pregnant. Now, he's getting divorce papers claiming he's been unfaithful. To add insult to injury, no one will even listen to his side of the story. A kind hearted bartender saves him from sleeping in his car, but can he handle sharing a house with eight other men? Spencer hates his job as a private investigator. All he wants is to be a professional photographer, but to do that he needs income. Being a PI pays the bills. His last case funded his college exchange course in Australia, but it still leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Coming back home to the house at the end of Manor Drive, Spencer is in for a surprise because the subject of that very case is the man now sleeping on their couch.

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Obscure Reflections at Dawn by Jack Clubb (Archlight Publishing) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

"Fantastically grim horror- Obscure Reflections at Dawn is a must for horror fans." -OnlineBookClub When an artist wakes up in an underground chamber with no memory of how he had gotten there, his attention falls to the dead man whose body is in a chair as if to still be alive. Looking for answers, he finds a curious star engraved into the stone bedrock of the floor and performs a ritual to contact powers from beyond the light and dark to guide him safely out. Meredith Hook is an insurance lawyer and amateur violinist who, after purchasing her grandparent's home, finds herself amidst a looming backdrop of memories and frightening enemies who are out to settle old scores. She's plunged into a world of terrible enemies, all serving a mad god who is seeking revenge. It's all in Meredith's attempt to see the brightest light there is to behold, but she must first face an impossible horror. Join Jack Clubb as he takes the reader into a world where he holds up an ornate mirror, reflecting ...

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Fracked, Part One: The Hunter by Maureen Driscoll (6 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Author's Note: FRACKED was originally published on Kindle's Vella platform for serialized storytelling. This novel contains episodes one through thirty of the FRACKED Vella saga. It is a serialized novel and each of the first three books ends on a cliffhanger -- similar to seasons of a TV show -- until the story concludes in the fourth and final book. If you don't like cliffhangers, you will not like these books. Fracking has opened up a portal to hell in the California desert in this dramedy saga of good versus evil. And while there are actual demons wreaking havoc on the nearby area, there are also demons of a metaphorical kind. Racism, the war in Vietnam, homophobia and the economics of growing older but poorer are all featured in this series by a former writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. In this first installment, 52-year-old Stephanie Matthews inherits a house in an over-55 community in the California desert, after the sudden death of her aunt. As demons emerge from a nearby ...

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Listen To The Colours by J.L. Dupont (28 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

One war, five years, three lives - two childhood friends separated by Nazi ideology, and a twelve-year-old French boy who's not like other boys. Three distinct struggles to come to terms with loss and suffering and the absurdity of war. Until in the waning months of the war, Germany's deployment of its secret V1 weapon irrevocably entangles their lives in the forests of Normandy. Listen To The Colours is the author's second novel, inspired by the memories of those who witnessed the construction of the V1 ramps in the forests of Normandy. They suffered in silence, and helped change the course of the war.

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Welcome Home Billionaire: A Small Town Second Chance Romance by Bertie Stein (18 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

He's a NYC Billionaire. My best friend's brother. And the father of my daughter. Nick Pope, Sienna's older blue eyed, totally ripped, completely off limits brother. It's been years since he left town. I thought I'd never see him again. Losing Sienna drew us together for just one night. And then he was gone, for what I thought would be forever. But now he's back... more handsome and sexier than I remember. And he has a proposition... for me. There is definitely still an attraction between us, but telling him about his daughter now could ruin everything. Ava is my whole world and I don't want to risk losing her, or my second chance with Nick.

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The Last Letter (The Letter Series Book 1) by Kathleen Shoop (2,658 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

"Gripping historical fiction -- A tale of two women finding meaning behind all that went wrong in their lives. A timeless tale of redemption with the best plot-twist at the end I've seen in a long, long time. Can't wait for book two!" New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Melissa Foster Katherine wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't found the letter... In the summer of 1905 Katherine Arthur's mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she would do her best to make a go of it. For Jeanie's husband Frank it had been a world of opportunity. Dreaming, lazy Frank. But, it was a society of uncertainty--a domain of natural disasters, temptation, hatred, even death. ...

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Pretty Little Flowers by Joyce Kay (9 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

What I wouldn't give for you. I would sacrifice everything. I would give my life. All you have to do is ask and I would stand upon the peak of a great mountain and fall to my certain death. In Victorian England, everything is done according to the rules of society, but when the Duke of Fetterfield dies, his daughter discovers a freedom that had been denied to her; the freedom to marry for love. And when Mr York comes back into her life, she believes her prayers have finally been answered. But her father's death also uncovers a shocking secret that could destroy them all. Pretty Little Flowers by Joyce Kay is about the choices we make, and how those choices force us to confront the truth of who we are.

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Connections eMagazine Vol 9 Issue 1: 1st Quarter 2023 (Connections eZine Book 21) by MPSmith Publishing (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Connections eMagazine is a quarterly publication created to help authors connect with readers, reviewers, and bloggers. The magazine is produced seasonally. IN THIS ISSUE... Naked and Afraid - Sam Mouzer bares it all. Exclusive interviews with critically acclaimed authors KC Frifant, Jennifer Lieberman, WL Hawkin and the writing duo Charles Breakfield and Roxanne Burkey, short stories, new releases and so much more

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