Monday, February 27, 2023

The Girl on the Wildfire Ridge

 

 


The Girl On Wildfire Ridge

Detective Kay Sharp Book 4

by Leslie Wolfe

Genre: Crime Thriller, Mystery 

Her face, beautiful even in death, gazed open-eyed at the azure sky. Her brown, silky hair fanned around her head, bringing out the pallor of her skin. Her lips were slightly parted as if she was still breathing, as if she was whispering her goodbyes.

On a hot summer’s day, the sleepy town of Mount Chester is thrown into turmoil when seventeen-year-old local girl 
Jenna goes missing. Within hours, the case takes an agonizing turn when her body is discovered in the isolated mountains.

Detective Kay Sharp rushes to the scene, hiking for miles to the base of Wildfire Ridge. From the markings on Jenna’s body, it’s clear that she was brutally murdered. Near the victim, Kay finds a butterfly-shaped hair clip with a set of fingerprints that could be a vital clue.

In the hunt for the truth, Kay turns the small town upside down. She learns that Jenna changed dramatically over the past months, no longer the popular girl who always wore a smile on her face. Kay is certain whatever happened to Jenna recently must be the key to her death.

When forensics from the butterfly hair clip comes back, the fingerprints don’t match Jenna’s. Then Kay makes a breakthrough that turns her blood to ice. Jenna was in contact with someone linked to Kay’s own past—and the secret she has spent the last sixteen years burying. If the truth comes out, it could destroy her.

With the clock ticking, and every minute critical, Kay is up against the toughest case of her career. Can she risk everything to confront the past she has been running from, and save another innocent girl before it’s too late?

Thrillers don’t get more addictive than this! You’ll race through this gripping page-turner as you’re hit with twist after twist. Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Rachel Caine.

See what readers are saying about The Girl on Wildfire Ridge:

Woah! Another remarkable Kay Sharp story… As usual, the pace is relentless… And the story was pretty dang amazing. Another brilliant read in the series… FantasticLoads of twists. The twists and turns were so gripping I was glued to my KindleStarts with a bang and kept me hooked until the very end… Gave me goosebumps. It really is a nail-biting read. This was an outstanding story, and my heart was in my mouth.” @rubie_reads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“I 
stayed up literally all night reading this and I was hooked!” Tropicalgirlreadsbooks, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

You may as well forget sleep once you start this one because you will not want stop reading! The author is a master at pulling you into her stories to the point where you will actually live in the book with the characters. The twists in the story just keep coming.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Such a thrill! I don’t know how the author does it, but she has me captivated from the very first pages and before you know it, ALL I’m doing is reading to get to the thrilling ending. I never get anything else done when reading this series. If you haven’t read this series you need to today!! I read a lot of mystery/thrillers and in this series, every book has me hooked and waiting anxiously for the next book to come out. You will not be disappointed.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I devoured this in one day!NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Fantastic… So unputdownable.” Rosemarys Romance Books, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A cracking story that had me gripped from the moment I picked it up. This was a fantastic read.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐


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Leslie Wolfe is a bestselling author whose novels break the mold of traditional thrillers. She creates unforgettable, brilliant, strong women heroes who deliver fast-paced, satisfying suspense, backed up by extensive background research in technology and psychology.

Leslie released the first novel, Executive, in October 2011. Since then, she has written many more, continuing to break down barriers of traditional thrillers. Her style of fast-paced suspense, backed up by extensive background research in technology and psychology, has made Leslie one of the most read authors in the genre.

Reminiscent of the television drama Criminal Minds, her series of books featuring the fierce and relentless FBI Agent Tess Winnett would be of great interest to readers of James Patterson, Melinda Leigh, and David Baldacci crime thrillers. Fans of Kendra Elliot and Robert Dugoni suspenseful mysteries would love the Las Vegas Crime series, featuring the tension-filled relationship between Baxter and Holt. Finally, her Alex Hoffmann series of political and espionage action adventure will enthrall readers of Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, and Lee Child.

Leslie enjoys engaging with readers every day and would love to hear from you. Become an insider: gain early access to previews of Leslie’s new novels.


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Friday, February 24, 2023

Realm of Enchantments

 

 


Realm of Enchantments

compiled by E.L. Summers

Genre: Epic Fantasy Anthology 

We all wish to escape to a time where the sky is filled with mystical creatures and magic is more commonly found. Replacing not only reality but logic, what adults claim as nothing more than make believe. Yet many throughout the ages hold onto these myths and legends following traditions first created by the ancients. Embark on an epic adventure enjoying these twelve authors, and poets. See firsthand their imagination exploring the realms of fantasy filled with love, family, discovery of your true self, and a bit of dark humor.

There are various fantastical short stories and poems written by E.L Summers, L.N Frost, Katelyn Young, Ben Pick, Natalie Locke, J.M. Celi, Alvin Fraser, Norbert Góra, Lucas Alan Dietsche, Jenna O’Malley, Kurt Wagner, & Samantha Preston-Morris


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Ignited Melodies

by Emberly Lily Summers

Genre: Fantasy Poetry

What lures us into the realm of fantasy? What makes us leave reality behind for a world created inside our head? Everyone dreams about going on adventures hoping to find things many believe are mere myths while discovering themselves along the way. In this collection of poetry, you may just find yourself lured to a world of dragons, sirens, demons, musicians, ocean adventures, and so much more. Brought to you by an author who tried to bring her own dreams to life.


E.L Summers (Lauren Adele) is native to Baltimore, MD and has been writing for the last ten years. She is a blind author and writes poetry, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy. Her debut novel HUNTED: The Immortal’s Kiss cowritten with Luna Nyx Frost is available on Amazon.  She hopes to inspire creativity and imagination to others with her writing. She has had several poems featured in Maryland’s Best Emerging Poets 2019 by Z Publishing and Fae Thee Well: An Anthology and Rogues and Rebels: An Anthology both published by Dreampunk Press. Her inspiration comes from nature, the fantasy and paranormal literature, classic musicals such as The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked and of course, her favorite music ranging from showtunes to punk rock. Emberly also loves reading about magic, mythology, faeries, witches, and dragons.


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The Princess' Pauper

 

 


The Princess' Pauper

A Royal Romance Book 9

by Anna del C. Dye

Genre: YA Fantasy Romance 


Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman

Princess Zinnia’s father is frail and won’t last long on this earth. However, she is a woman in a kingdom where she has power only if a man is by her side. She means to change this even if she has to die for it. Before she can, she has to find a man who will let her be queen and avoid the Vizier burying her.

Kirill’s parents separated when he was five years old. The queen, his mother, took him to the country manor where he grew up as a privileged child in the country.


However, at twenty years old, his kingdom is taken and his father killed without the prince seeing him.

To top it all, the enemy wants his head and he and his brother are on the run. How can he help his kingdom regain freedom without proof he is the heir and without a coin to his purse? Still, after he turned into a human torch, who would want a scarred leader anyway?


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Anna was born in the extreme South along some famous beaches. She moved to the USA to marry her husband Rodney and has resided in Utah since then. Her husband, a native of Idaho, met her in her hometown. They fell in love and she came to Utah on Christmas Eve to be married two weeks later. They are the parents of three princes and a princess. Anna lives in Taylorsville Utah.

Anna is an accomplished seamstress and had the opportunity of doing costumes for the cast of four musicals, a pioneer play and for Utah's own Fantasy Con, which she enjoyed immensely. She is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Anna is an award-winning author of more than thirty publications in Young Adults wholesome fantasy (7 books) and royal tales in the medieval era, (9 books and counting). Christmas stories of the depression era for older teens (4 books and 2 more to come). Middle grade fairytales for pre-teens (1 book). She also writes Halloweeny stories for tweens (6 books) and has a number of tales in different anthologies and articles (6 articles). She has even written short Medieval Romance tales (3).

And as A. C. Dye she had penned Halloweeny bilingual stories for children (6 books) and bilingual health book for toddlers (5 books).


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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

The Adventures of Winston the Pig

 

 


The Adventures of Winston the Pig: Meet Winston

Written by Sarah Ambrosia Mulleneaux

Illustrated by Nadiya Lobanova

Genre: Children's Picture Book 



Winston the pig is not like the other animals where he lives. He has big red glasses and loves eating more than almost anything. He also has a habit of getting into trouble. Join Winston on the first of many adventures as he tries to find his place in the world and learns some valuable lessons along the way.


Sarah lives in Arizona with her husband, kids, and menagerie of pets including Winston the pig. She is a surgical nurse who loves writing and has enjoyed working on this book with her friend and colleague, Nadiya. She and her two sons also run a pooper scooper business called The Poop Fairy.


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Deaf Row

 

 


Deaf Row

by Ron Franscell

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction

Retired from a big-city homicide beat to a small Colorado mountain town, ex-detective Woodrow "Mountain" Bell yearns only to fade away. He's failed in so many ways as a father, a husband, friend, and cop that it might be too late for a meaningful life. When he stumbles across a long-forgotten, unsolved child murder, his first impulse is to let it lie ... but he can't. He's drawn into the macabre mystery when he realizes the killer might still be near. Without help from ambivalent local cops, Bell must overcome the obstacles of time, age, and a lack of police resources by calling upon the unique skills of the end-of-the-road codgers he meets for coffee every morning—a club of old guys who call themselves Deaf Row. Soon, this mottled crew finds itself on a collision course with a serial butcher.

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DEAF ROW is more than a tense mystery novel, more than an unnerving psychological thriller drawn from Ron Franscell's career as a bestselling true-crime writer and journalist. It is also a novel of men pushing back against time and death, trying not to disappear entirely. DEAF ROW is a moving, occasionally humorous, portrait of flawed people caught in a web of pain and regret. And although you might think you know where this ghastly case is headed, the climax will blindside you.


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A veteran journalist, Ron Franscell is the New York Times bestselling author of 18 books, including international bestsellers “The Darkest Night” and Edgar-nominated true crime Morgue: A Life in Death.” His newest, “ShadowMan: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling,” was released in March by Berkley/Penguin-Random House.

His atmospheric and muscular writing—hailed by Ann Rule, Vincent Bugliosi, William Least-Heat Moon, and others—has established him as one of the most provocative American voices in narrative nonfiction.

Ron’s first book, “Angel Fire,” was a USA Today bestselling literary novel listed by the San Francisco Chronicle among the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century West. His later success grew from blending techniques of fiction-writing with his daily journalism. The result was dramatic, detailed, and utterly true storytelling.

Ron has established himself as a plucky reporter, too. As a senior writer at the Denver Post, he covered the evolution of the American West but shortly after 9/11, he was dispatched by the Post to cover the Middle East during the first months of the War on Terror. In 2004, he covered devastating Hurricane Rita from inside the storm.

His book reviews and essays have been widely published in many of America’s biggest and best newspapers, such as the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury-News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and others. He has been a guest on CNN, Fox News, NPR, the Today Show, ABC News, and he appears regularly on crime documentaries at Investigation Discovery, Oxygen, History Channel, Reelz, and A&E.

He lives in northern New Mexico.


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Monday, February 20, 2023

"They" in Writing

 

“They” in Writing

 

I

You

He, she, it

We

You (plural)

They (plural)

They can be referred to a person who is insignificant, the name is unknown, or the gender is unknown.

 

Oxford says:

People, animals or things that have already been mentioned or are easily identified.

Used instead of he or she to refer to a person whose sex is not mentioned or not known.

 

When not referring to personal gender preferences, the use of they also tends to confuse authors as much as when to use a comma.

When learning the English language, there are always quirky moments. For example:

Each person in the chorus had a solo…they stepped forward to shine in the spotlight.

They refers to a singular ‘unknown’ of each choral member, and it also refers to the chorus as a whole. Much easier than saying he, she, or each member. Or, the author could have said ‘each stepped forward’.

Using pronouns in narration shouldn’t be vague when referring to a known or unknown character in a sentence, clause, or paragraph. Ambiguous statements result from creating sentences without anticipating issues that may occur in narration or dialogue.

They must be used in a clear statement to one antecedent. It avoids uncertainty for the story, and the reader. The constant use of he, he, he or she, she, she becomes redundant in writing, and can cause issues when there is more than one person involved in the scene. Adding a proper noun or noun can also alleviate confusion.

 

Compare:

The supernatural whispers echoed, warning her with ghostly heavy footfalls of those who were haunted. They ravaged and despoiled with no conscience. They wrought their anger until it became a disease spreading uncontrollably. There came moments when they refused to be pushed any farther and struck back.

 

The supernatural whispers echoed, warning Thalia with ghostly heavy footfalls of those who were haunted. They ravaged and despoiled with no conscience. The specters wrought their anger until it became a disease spreading uncontrollably. There came moments when the victims refused to be pushed any farther and struck back.

 

Precise identification prevents misunderstanding.

Not just ‘they’, but them, it, him, her, and you can also be confusing if not applied clearly in a sentence or paragraph.

Many authors confuse indefinite pronouns with the use of they. They isn’t an indefinite pronoun. Indefinite pronouns rarely have antecedents. An example of indefinite pronouns: everyone, either, somebody, anything, etc.

Keeping pronouns in agreement with number, person, and gender with its antecedent will keep the passage clear for the reader. Lack of conformity is confusing.

Not sure? Block out the word or phrase and change the pronoun if needed.

 

Janet, like many people, don’t know how to trim their trees.

Take out ‘like many people’.

Janet don’t know how to trim their trees.

Nope. I know you see it!

Janet doesn’t know how to trim her trees.

Janet, like many people, doesn’t know how to trim her trees.

They, like Janet, doesn’t know how to trim her trees.

Remove ‘like Janet’.

They doesn’t know how to trim her trees.

And you say, no, no, no!

They don’t know how to trim their trees.

They, like Janet, don’t know how to trim their trees

 

I hope this helps. I’ve heard rumors about how grammar is changing. It’s not. Writing styles are changing. Grammar will always be solid. Just like 1 + 1 = 11, oh wait, I mean 1 + 1 = 2.

Perhaps, we can tackle the comma killers again?


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Friday, February 17, 2023

Pride

 

 


Pride

Animal Senses Book 9

by Jacqueline Paige

Genre: Paranormal Romance 


Banished by her Alpha, who happens to be her father, Amari learns how to survive without help. Driven by revenge, she discovers there are a few things in life she’s good at, but none of them are skills normal society would find acceptable.

Rogue shifters that were only without a clan because they were hiding from the organization hunting and caging their kind are responsible for the death of Tripp’s father. After securing his mother and sister a home where they’ll be safe, he ends up as an outlaw – until the Shifter Alliance takes him in and puts him on the one team that fits his off-the-rail, and a little bit crazy style.

His only objective is to end the organization terrorizing his kind. Until he meets his female equal that takes ‘out of control’ to all new levels and he has no idea how to handle it—or her.


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In Jacqueline Paige's Animal Senses Series, hearts and tempers collide with wild passions and animal instincts.

Animal shifters live among normal humans (one-forms) and have since the dawn of time. They blend in without any cause for notice until a crime organization finds out and starts hunting them to sell off across the globe.

The shifter alliance is formed to protect all their kind. Their teams are working endlessly to rescue all of theirs from lives of servitude and shutting down any involvement in the underground organization.

The first six books in the series have accumulated over 1.1 million reads on apps and the momentum of this series keeps building with each new release.


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Revenge is never the answer. Until it is.

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Jacqueline began her writing career in 2006 (as a joke) and her first book was published in 2009. She hasn't stopped since then. She is an avid reader and will read 'anything with words', whether it's a novel, article, or even every sign she passes.

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