This is the last few days of the Christmas season and I am hanging on to them for dear life. I love this time of year, but the actual Christmas day feels the end of a great show. You get a whole month of magic with twinkling lights and giddy decor, and you get used to the joy, then it ends. I still have a few more days left and I want to do something festive. I also want to sit on the couch because all this festiveness is exhausting. There are Christmas pillows on the couch, so napping on the couch is festive. Perfect!
Quiet The Dead: A Promise McNeal Mystery (Promise McNeal Mysteries Book 1)
by Morgan James
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Mystery
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MURDER IN SLEEPY APPALACHIA. AND PSYCHIC CLUES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE…
Promise McNeal is startled awake one night by a jarring dream: she sees a beautiful woman, hanging over a shallow creek, strangled to death with a red scarf. An unsettling image to say the least for a woman who recently left her lucrative job as a psychologist in bustling Atlanta for the mountains of North Carolina, hoping for some peace and quiet. Promise begins to dig into the mystery surrounding the woman’s murder… until a brand new murder occurs… and Promise’s hoped-for peace and quiet flies right out the window.
Promise has always been a little psychic, and a little embarrassed about it. But here in the mountains, the effect seems magnified. Now making her living as a struggling country-store owner, she has to rely on her psychologist’s knowledge of what makes people tick to make her way through the thicket of intrigue within the family of the dead woman.
Along the way, she makes a surprising art world find, and starts to fall in love (maybe, just a little… ) with a very attractive new man. Her tentative relationship with Daniel, the father of Susan, her semi-Goth, twenty-something employee, is one of the major delights of this slightly psychic cozy mystery. Both Daniel and Susan are renowned bluegrass musicians and, well… characters. Despite what’s right in front of her nose (and what Susan tells her), Promise’s psychic abilities fail her when it comes to mountain men — because Daniel is most definitely “sweet on her,” as Susan attests. And, true to form, opposites attract here — alien as he may seem to this city girl, something deeper is responding.
Meanwhile, there’s that murder mystery. Daniel, despite his endearing over-protectiveness, is able to help out there too, and so is Susan. Allthewhile, Promise’s amusingly sexist friend, Garland Wang, provides just the right dash of humor.
The fiftyish Promise is an attractive new female sleuth who’s sure to appeal to fans of cozies, especially those by Julia Spencer-Fleming and Louise Penny, and those with a light sprinkling of psychic suspense; admirers of amateur sleuths and their close sisters female private investigators; readers of supernatural suspense and psychic detective fiction of all sorts; and especially to fans of other great North Carolina mystery authors like Margaret Maron, Barbara Neely, Elizabeth Daniels Squire, and Vicki Lane.
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The Planter’s Daughter
by Michelle Shocklee
Genre: Religious & Inspirational Fiction | Religion & Spirituality | Romance
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Adella Rose Ellis knows her father has plans for her future, but she longs for the freedom to forge her own destiny. When the son of Luther Ellis’s longtime friend arrives on the plantation to work as the new overseer, Adella can’t help but fall for his charm and captivating hazel eyes. But a surprise betrothal to an older man, followed by a devastating revelation, forces Adella to choose the path that will either save her family’s future or endanger the lives of the people most dear to her heart.
Seth Brantley never wanted to be an overseer. After a runaway slave shot him, ending his career as a Texas Ranger and leaving him with a painful limp, a job on the plantation owned by his father’s friend is just what he needs to bide his time before heading to Oregon where a man can start over. What he hadn’t bargained on was falling in love with the planter’s daughter or finding that everything he once believed about Negroes wasn’t true. Amid secrets unraveling and the hatching of a dangerous plan, Seth must become the very thing he’d spent the past four years chasing down: an outlaw.
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Seers of Verde: The Legend Fulfilled
by M Williams
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Science Fiction
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Marauders from a renegade planet attack an Earth colony ship forcing landing parties to split into two groups in a desperate attempt to escape. The attackers are killed, but the colonists pay a terrible price. Their vessels are destroyed stranding them without their technology on either side of an imposing mountain range on the planet Verde Grande.
Descendants of a mysterious Seer now protect their people but become the bane of the hunter society on the other side of the mountain. All attempts to scale the mountain are thwarted for two centuries by the powerful Seers who want to preserve their religion and way of life no matter the cost.
One day, a party of hunters sets out to climb the mountain. To their dismay, the Seers cannot control a strange unreachable young woman who finds the passage to their protected valley. The reunion triggers a decades-long conflict between the Seers and the children of the “lost ones” — a struggle that forever changes the people of Verde Grande.
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The Baker’s Daughter – Braving Evil In WW II Berlin
by Douglas P. Cornelius
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Religious & Inspirational Fiction
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“A stirring story of Berlin teens’ contributions to the Resistance.” — Kirkus Reviews
While chaos reigns over WW II Berlin, seventeen-year-old Liddy returns to her family’s bakery only to be confronted by a new customer — Keppler, a Nazi officer. Marek, a young man with a secretive past, labors just a few paces away in the kitchen, but where do his loyalties lie? With the Nazis? With Liddy?
Liddy’s father, Klaus, secures a night job as a prison guard where anti-Nazi dissident, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is being held. Klaus smuggles out the pastor’s letters, but tensions rise as Keppler establishes a tenuous relationship with Liddy’s young brother, Willy. Does the Nazi officer wish to recruit Willy, or is Keppler there to spy on Liddy’s family?
From air raids to the Hitler Youth, Liddy becomes enmeshed in a world of spies intent on betrayal. When Liddy makes a critical mistake that endangers a loved one, she faces a decision that puts her own faith on the line and her family’s safety in jeopardy.
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Fatal Justice: Vigilante Justice Series 1 with Jack Lamburt
by John Etzil
Genre: Action & Adventure | Literature & Fiction | Thrillers
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A small-town sheriff’s dark past may be the only thing that keeps his town alive…
Jack Lamburt has a bright future as the sheriff of a quiet town. He knows the locals by name, he’s dating the bar mistress, and nobody suspects his dark secrets. When big city mafia stirs up trouble in his small town, Lamburt retaliates with swift, violent action. Now the crime syndicate is in search for answers… and blood.
With the lives of the people he swore to protect in grave danger, Lamburt will need every weapon in his arsenal to outmaneuver the mob. Even if it means he’ll risk exposing his past.
Fatal Justice is the first book in a series of vigilante thrillers starring Sheriff Jack Lamburt, the Ultimate Sheepdog. If you like gritty realism, high-tech surveillance, and no-holds-barred justice, then you’ll love John Etzil’s gripping series starter.
Buy Fatal Justice now to begin this vigilante thriller series today!
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The 12 Days of a Great White Christmas
by Chris Bresky
Genre: Arts & Photography | Humor & Entertainment | Children’s eBooks
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The Classic Shark-Christmas Book: “The 12 Days of a Great White Christmas” Sing along to the mixed up holiday classic as 12 species of shark take a crack at decking the halls! Hilarious, sweet & hand illustrated. Educational as well! Be introduced to rare, unfamiliar shark breeds and learn even more about them in the “Holly Jolly Shark Fact Section!” A Great White Christmas tradition for the whole family! Get the printed book at the12daysofagreatwhitechristmas.com
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