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“About Escape to Osprey Cove:

Doug has grown up poor. When he meets wealthy Catherine, he thinks she is his ticket to all that he desires. He marries her for her wealth only to find that he covets one more thing, independence. What he finds in the secret compartment of his new Corvette will grant him this independence and change his and Catherine’s life forever.

Targeted Age Group: all
Written by: Luisa Marietta Gold

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Featured Post: Millie Muldoon & the Christmas Mystery by Mary Vigliante Szydlowski

About Millie Muldoon & the Christmas Mystery:

Is something wrong with Santa Claus? He stopped at their house on Christmas Eve. He ate the cookies and drank the milk they put out for him. But he didn’t fill their stockings or leave them any presents. Why? Was Santa getting forgetful? Was there an emergency back at the North Pole? Could he have put them on his naughty list by mistake? Millie needs to use her detective skills to solve the mystery of the missing presents before Christmas is ruined!

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Featured Post: Unzipped by Lauren Blakely

About Unzipped by Lauren Blakely

Picture this – I’m ready to win back the love of my life, and I’m going big this time. We’re talking boom box, sing her name in the rain, let the whole damn neighborhood know I’m good and ready this time around. After all, if you’re going to grand gesture the ever-loving hell out of a second chance, you need to pull out all the stops.

There’s only one little problem.

My college girlfriend isn’t the one who shows up when I play my “I’ll do anything to win you back” tune.

The woman who flings open the second-floor window tells me my ex doesn’t live here anymore. But she’ll help me win her back. Anything for romance, anything for a guy so willing to go big for love. And that’s what I want at first. Until I get to know my new “romance coach” and discover she’s funny, clever, and keeps me on my toes. And boy, do I ever need that.

Now I don’t want to win anyone else’s heart. I want the woman who’s been helping me all along.

Trouble is – she thinks I’m in love with someone else, and when we take off on a road trip, everything I think I know about women is about to be unzipped and turned inside out.

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Featured Post: Shortcut by Arnold Eslava-Grünwaldt

“About Shortcut:

A popular high school student takes a shortcut across a field on a moonless night and gets shanked for her efforts. The following day, a forgotten old man dies in an apparent slip and fall accident in his garage. On the surface, the two deaths have nothing in common. Or do they? That’s what Detective Sergeant Hamilcar “Ham” Hitchcock and his general assignment squad aim to find out. Fresh off the Keim case, and recovering from the loss of several key members, the Yonkers, New York-based team reinvents itself and dives headfirst into the fray. Before they get too far in their investigation, however, a newspaper intern finds the body of a woman in a dumpster. In the blink of an eye, the team inherits another, equally challenging case-and its a doozy. At the top of their list of clues are several short-cut cherry striped straws and a mysterious, corrosive salve. Is the murderer a jealous BFF? A greedy caregiver? A soft-spoken homeless man? A cruel, sadistic predator? When the stars eventually align in the squad’s favor, an unexpected catastrophe threatens to, once again, temper their success. And the mystery continues.

Targeted Age Group: Adults
Written by: Arnold Eslava-Grünwaldt

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Featured Post: Planar Wars: Apertures (Book 1) by Edmund A.M. Batara

“About Planar Wars: Apertures (Book 1):

A disastrous top-secret military experiment. An amateurish foray into the boundaries of cutting-edge physics and dimensional rifts. Now, worlds and dimensions are merging and fantasy bites our reality.

You suddenly wake up to a world merging with other realities. Dimensions where your sense of normalcy and way of life do not mean anything. Finding out that most modern inventions do not work anymore. Where your very flesh and bones are prized by monstrous predators and powerful beings the like you’ve never seen nor heard before. Worlds only whispered of in rare ancient texts and surreal pictographs.

And more realities are being forcibly brought into this plane of existence. What would you do? How will you survive?

Series Prologue

Diary Entry
December 2019

Hello. I am Eric Weber.
I am twenty-six at the time of writing this.
I am with my girlfriend, Jen Stuart, and it’s now December 2019; I have no idea about the date. Running for your life makes you forget those things. Not that digital watches and cell phones are of any help in our situation.
The assault on the town’s defensive grid also brought with it that bizarre energy field which rendered modern gadgets useless.
The weather outside is freezing, so we’re holed up here in this abandoned hunting cabin and I decided to make the most of our time by writing these notes. Or do we call them memoirs? A diary? I really don’t know.
We intend to reach another reported safe area across the border in Saskatchewan, Canada. Other safe zones were mentioned in the last report we heard but they’re all too far away for us. Hopefully, we’ll make it to an existing safe zone.
The list of sites, though, is shrinking day by day. But the report we have is now a week old, dated from the day before the Great Falls Defense Area fell. That’s in Montana, by the way. We’re lucky we got away. I really don’t know if it’s still valid–but what other option did we have?
I am human, by the way (in case some other entity gets hold of this record). We were the dominant species on this planet until what we call the Event happened.
Now, we don’t know who’s the top dog on this planet we call Earth.

Hell, we don’t even know what we’re sharing the place with.

Targeted Age Group: young adult and up
Written by: Edmund A.M. Batara

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Featured Post: The Lover’s Portrait: An Art Mystery by Jennifer S. Alderson

“About The Lover’s Portrait: An Art Mystery:

When a Dutch art dealer hides the stock from his gallery – rather than turn it over to his Nazi blackmailer – he pays with his life, leaving a treasure trove of modern masterpieces buried somewhere in Amsterdam, presumably lost forever. That is, until American art history student Zelda Richardson sticks her nose in.

After studying for a year in the Netherlands, Zelda scores an internship at the prestigious Amsterdam Historical Museum, where she works on an exhibition of paintings and sculptures once stolen by the Nazis, lying unclaimed in Dutch museum depots almost seventy years later.

When two women claim the same painting, the portrait of a young girl entitled Irises, Zelda is tasked with investigating the painting’s history and soon finds evidence that one of the two women must be lying about her past. Before she can figure out which one it is and why, Zelda learns about the Dutch art dealer’s concealed collection. And that Irises is the key to finding it all.

Her discoveries make her a target of someone willing to steal – and even kill – to find the missing paintings. As the list of suspects grows, Zelda realizes she has to track down the lost collection and unmask a killer if she wants to survive.

Targeted Age Group: 13-100
Written by: Jennifer S. Alderson

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Featured Post: The West Tech Terrorist by Peter Jedick

About The West Tech Terrorist by Peter Jedick

He’s a high school journalist. She's protecting her source. Will they make the front page or the obituaries? The West Tech Terrorist is a mystery romance novel that provides a taste of the home front during World War II America. It is the fall of 1941 at Cleveland’s West Technical High School, one of the largest and most unique high schools in America. The United States is on the brink of World War II. Victor Blazek, the sports editor of the West Tech school newspaper, and his girlfriend, Doris, fall in love as they try to foil a sinister plot by Nazi sympathizers inside the school. But their attempt as amateur sleuths puts both their lives in danger.

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Featured Post: Slugger by T.B. O’Neill

About Slugger by T.B. O'Neill

“Murder or the attempt thereof often occurs while others sleep.” And thus begins a story where danger insinuates itself into the course of ordinary lives. Rod Cavanaugh was, in fact, a regular guy. Suited for his job as a criminal lawyer, he adores his girls and loves his scotch. When the bottom fell out of his marriage and his family splintered he thought he had enough to deal with – mistakes of his doing that needed to be corrected – but that was before he became the target of a client, in a deadly game that put what was left at risk. Who he thought he was, his place in the scheme of things will be challenged by a killer who stalks and bides his time. Only Cavanaugh can stop the carnage, uncover the evil. But the price to pay may be innocence itself.

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Featured Post: Her Final Word by Willow Rose

About Her Final Word by Willow Rose

Rather be the hunter than the prey.

Inspired by a true story!

Ella Maria Chauncey walks home after a night out with her friends, hurrying to get back before her parents realize she’s been out with the boy they don’t want her to date. Living in the gated community of Lyford Cay, Bahamas, in one of the world’s wealthiest neighborhoods, she believes it is safe.

Ella Maria never makes it home. She is found the next day floating in her family’s pool, her tongue cut out.

Seven months later Jack Ryder is visiting the Bahamas with his adopted daughter Emily. They’re trying to find Emily’s relatives, but it turns out to be easier said than done. The only living relative they can track down is a woman…in jail. She’s doing time for murdering Ella Maria Chauncey, but as Jack digs into the case, he starts to wonder if she was wrongfully convicted and the murderer is still out there, hunting for his next prey.

As the shocking investigation unfolds, and secrets are revealed, no one in in the lucrative Lyford Cay can be trusted.

This fast-paced bone-chilling mystery by #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Willow Rose will have you glued to the pages late into the night.

HER FINAL WORD is the sixth book in the bestselling Jack Ryder series but can be read as a standalone.

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Featured Post: Currawong Creek by Jennifer Scoullar

“About Currawong Creek:

From the bestselling author of Brumby’s Run comes a heart-warming story of hope, sacrifice and the ultimate triumph of love.

Finalist in the RWA Romantic Book Of The Year Award.

Call it intuition, call it magic – call it love. Something is calling Clare home.

Brisbane lawyer Clare Mitchell leads a structured, orderly life. That is, until she finds herself the unlikely guardian of a small, troubled boy. In desperation, Clare takes Jack to stay at Currawong Creek, her grandfather’s horse stud in the foothills of the beautiful Bunya Mountains.

Here life moves at a different pace, and for Clare it feels like coming home. Her granddad adores having them there, Jack loves the animals, and Clare finds herself falling hard for the handsome local vet.

But trouble is coming. The Pyramid Mining Company threatens to destroy the land Clare loves – and with it, her newfound happiness.

– Praise For Currawong Creek –

‘Heartfelt and passionate.’ SN Weekly

‘A thought provoking, emotive read with a delightful warmth. I’m now going to hunt down everything this talented Australian author has ever written.’ The Eclectic Reader

‘A crisp, well-written tale … sings like a Bunya Mountain breeze.’ Courier-Mail

Bestselling Aussie author Jennifer Scoullar writes page-turning fiction about the land, people and wildlife that she loves.

Currawong Creek is Book 2 in the standalone Wild Australia Stories. Buy it now to discover why Jennifer Scoullar is one of Australia’s favourite story-tellers!

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Jennifer Scoullar

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Featured Post: Saving Chase by Irene Onorato

“About Saving Chase:

Three lives on a collision course with destiny…

Logan Construction Services CEO Dan Logan desperately wants to get away and lick his wounds after being dumped by his fiancée and suffering through a devastating jobsite fatality on the same day. He retreats to a secluded island alone, but his vacation takes a dangerous turn when he rescues a teenage boy who shipwrecks on the rocky shore. A battle of wills ensues that threatens both their lives.

Dory Devereaux, a widow of six years, flees Massachusetts with her delinquent sixteen-year-old son, Chase, hoping to keep him from being placed in juvenile detention until he’s deemed an adult at eighteen. Her world crumbles when she finds Chase missing the morning after arriving at her former in-laws’ house in South Carolina.

Anxiety turns to despair when the police take Dory to the morgue to possibly identify a teen boy whose body was found washed ashore by a local fisherman. Can things get any worse?

Targeted Age Group: 14-14
Written by: Irene Onorato

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Featured Post: To Love an Outlaw by Laurencia Hoffman

“About To Love an Outlaw:

Lane Cassidy is forced to flee after a botched robbery. When he returns home a decade later, he expects to pick up where he left off but finds that everything has changed. The love of his life, Sarah, is married to the richest man in town and seems to have lost touch with reality. Despite his attempts to rekindle their relationship, Lane struggles to balance his life as an outlaw and his affection for Sarah. With love and fortune hanging in the balance, which one will he choose?

Targeted Age Group: 15+
Written by: Laurencia Hoffman

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Featured Post: The Shifty Minion by Cathy Smith

“About The Shifty Minion:

Shelton “Shifty” Sharpe is no longer trapped in a black magician’s gothic mansion. However, he’s bound in indentured servitude to a hard master. It takes serious skills to work up to the Master’s standards. Especially when the Master’s enemies are attacking them from all sides…

The Shifty Minion is the 2nd book in the Shifty Magician novella series.

Targeted Age Group: 18-45
Written by: Cathy Smith

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Featured Post: Deliberate Deception by Joe Porrazzo

“About Deliberate Deception:

Following the award-winning mystery thriller, SOLEMNLY SWEAR…
Alex Porter is back…and the stakes have got higher. Much higher!

A greedy corporation rigs a multi-million dollar raffle—creating false hopes—now people aren’t winning, they’re dying! What comes next will shock the world!

DELIBERATE DECEPTION heralds the return of Alex Porter; retired United States Air Force OSI (Office of Special Investigations) Agent turned private investigator, in another heart-pounding Joe Porrazzo suspense thriller.

Seven months after leaving New England, Alex, still grieving the tragic deaths of his wife and daughter, gets a call from his friend Joe Prater. Prater’s old army buddy has gone missing from his home in Tucson, and Joe wants Alex to check it out.

HEADLINE NEWS: Tragedy in Tucson

While investigating, Alex gets too close to the truth and becomes a target himself. He finds himself teamed with the very person hired to kill him, as they race against the clock to prevent a mysterious group from striking in Tucson and shocking the world.

Don’t miss the nonstop action; the deception is deliberate, and the results are deadly.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Joe Porrazzo
Illustrated by: Joe Porrazzo

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Featured Post: New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio

“About New Readings of Winesburg, Ohio:

Duane Simolke examines Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, as it relates to Gertrude Stein, gender roles, gay subtext, failed communication, and the machine in the garden. Simolke also looks at Anderson’s concerns about mechanization, loneliness, and the mistreatment of many people.

Ch. I: Introduction
Ch. II: Anderson And Stein: Symbiosis
Ch. III: Teachers Groping In The Dark
Ch. IV: Men And Women
Ch. V: “More Than Man Or Woman”
Ch. VI: Industrialism: The Machine In The Berry Field
Ch. VII: Conclusion: Closing The Book Of The Grotesque

“This work should be required reading in any college course involving the art and craft of short-story writing as well as in courses on Sherwood Anderson, himself.” –Ronald L. Donaghe, author of Common Sons.

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Featured Post: Wild Rugged Daddy by Sienna Parks

About Wild Rugged Daddy:

Bear Paw Mountain is rife with urban legends.

When football superstar, Travis Thorburn, lost his wife in a car accident, he became a single daddy. Overcome with grief and overwhelmed by parenthood, he dropped out of the spotlight with his newborn son and hasn’t been heard from since. Journalists have been trying to find them for four years without success.

As Juliet Abrams sets out on an expedition to Bear Paw Mountain for her next article, she’s intrigued by the town of Cricket. Rumors circulate about the local recluse who flits in and out of their close-knit community with his little boy. Warnings to steer clear of the enigmatic stranger and the mysterious creatures that roam the mountains are rendered obsolete when her strong will and inexperience conspire to bring them together.

Travis can smell an intruder a mile away and track them down with practiced ease. The moment Juliet sets foot on his territory, he can feel her… and the moment their eyes meet, it stirs emotions that Travis thought died the day he lost everything compassion, concern… and desire.

When Juliet realizes who her wild lover really is, will she expose him to further her journalistic career or will she be ensnared by this wild, rugged, mountain man?

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Featured Post: Bipolar Man! Comedic Adventures – The Introduction to Existential Erica by Darren DeSmeaux

About Bipolar Man! Comedic Adventures – The Introduction to Existential Erica by Darren DeSmeaux

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A broken compass, spinning in circles, with no idea which direction he's headed – Jameson Theodore, or Bipolar Man as he jokingly calls himself, has hit rock bottom. He hates his job, is only a year removed from a complete mental breakdown – a public one – and has no idea how to find his true place in the world.

And he’s so high maintenance, when his compass was still working, he didn’t know how to read it anyway.

Currently residing just south of downtown Men-Tal Metropolis, located in the northern tip of Kortecks, Jameson has forgotten who he is, or where he came from; he has become disconnected from the universe. His future was filled with promise, a universal inevitability of greatness, but all of the wrong turns he’s taken throughout life have smothered the fire of hope that once burned deep inside him.

Hiding behind a wall of sarcasm, and inside a thick shell of self-deprecation, Jameson is confused, lost, and desperate…with nowhere to turn. One fateful night out with Midlife Crisis Max is about to change everything.

The first installment of the Bipolar Man! Comedic Adventures series sets in motion a chain of events, perhaps preordained, where Jameson learns there’s more to life than meets the eye. Against his better judgement, something pulls him out of his house to watch over his friend Max for the evening, who is in desperate need of help himself, and an invisible connective energy takes hold of the night.

Jameson’s subsequent chance encounter with a guiding light, and his first sidekick – Existential Erica – illuminates his true life’s purpose…to someday save the world, from itself. A teacher, mentor, and blossoming friend…Existential Erica not only begins to align Jameson’s internal compass, toward a permanent transformation into Bipolar Man, but she also stumbles upon her own unique destiny.

They’ll quickly learn that the universe knows more than they do, and every move they make will be scrutinized by the unwavering judgement of a higher power.

The path will be dangerous, sometimes comical, and absolutely adventurous as Bipolar Man begins his journey toward becoming the truest and most unadulterated version of himself – a hero. Join in, buckle up, and follow the action that will twist and turn through a barrage of life lessons, adversarial challenges, humorous encounters, and a wild spectrum of emotions.

The saga has only just begun…

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Featured Post: Troop of Shadows by Nicki Huntsman Smith

About Troop of Shadows by Nicki Huntsman Smith

Troop of Shadows, free download from 03/31/2018 through 04/04/2018.

A catastrophic pandemic ravages the globe, reducing the human population to extinction levels and cleansing the world of mediocrity.

A doomsday prepper, a molecular geneticist, a journal-keeping loner, and a martial arts-trained nerd survive the disease that annihilated almost everyone else on the planet. Despite the miles between Kansas and California, Texas and Arizona, the four share a connection.

They realize that not dying was the easy part.

Now a year later, they navigate a bleak world…one without technology, without modern medicine, and without law and order. They must unify their diverse strengths not only to rebuild civilization, but to battle those who would forge empires through brutality and oppression.

“There is one who would rule the world or see it burn.”

Fans of Stephen King’s “The Stand” will love this novel. Intricately plotted, superbly paced, and brought to life by fully-developed protagonists, quirky supporting characters, and charming villains, the Troop of Shadows Chronicles is a tour de force. It is the unfolding story of the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and is populated with some of the most entertaining people you will ever meet.

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Featured Post: Sorcerers’ Dynasty by Stephen Perkins

About Sorcerers’ Dynasty:

What would you give up for immortality?
More seductive than sex.
More addictive than any drug.
More precious than gold.
And one man is willing to sacrifice the entire world to get it.
Beyond the arctic wall of ice lies a new and unknown world. The CEO of the world’s most powerful corporation, Theodore von Buren, plans to sacrifice the known world and everything in it to gain immortality in paradise. The world may be filled with lies and liars but America’s most controversial alternative media journalist Dan Sheraton will do anything to find out why. Strange things have been seen out in the deserts of New Mexico, and when an even stranger phone call leads him on a dangerous adventure to a mysterious destination, Sheraton discovers earth shattering epiphanies. When a shadowy global corporation threatens the survival of mankind and the world the most unlikely hero emerges. But is the savior man, machine, god or devil?

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Featured Post: The Dark Skies Trilogy: Books 1-3 by Lysa Daley

About The Dark Skies Trilogy: Books 1-3:

An ancient prophecy. A terrifying threat. A regular girl destined to become a hero – whether she wants to or not.

Yesterday, Astrid was a normal sophomore at an elite college in a sleepy California town. Her biggest problem was trying to figure out how to get hottie Chad Olson to notice her. But today, after an otherworldly meteorite nearly destroys her home, she discovers a shape-shifting bounty hunter is hot on her trail. Her only hope for survival is to team up with Jax, the arrogant handyman, who works for her uncle.

Lucky for Astrid, Jax turns out to be more than meets the eye. In her quest to stay alive, Astrid learns the dark truth about her past, along with the knowledge of how she fits into an ancient intergalactic prophecy that foretells the fate of the entire planet.

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Featured Post: MANUS DEI Harbinger by Edmund A.M. Batara

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The former Light-Bringer’s time to rule is coming. And there’s nothing humanity can do about it. Yet the Devil is prophesied to lose everything in the end. Destiny or not, the fallen Archangel has other plans.

Thus the tumultuous last stages of a conflict as old as time. Fought in this world. With the weapons and science of humanity.

But though the time of the Apocalypse is nearing, Heaven waits. And in preparation for the final conflict, the minions of Hell have started infesting the world. Corrupting humanity and stealing the heavenly spark that connects mortals to God. Unless stopped, when the end comes, most of the divine power that exists in every person will belong to the Adversary. The Serpent has no plans of losing again. With enough heavenly power, he believes that even a divine prophecy can be broken.

Against the forces of Hell, it falls to the shoulders of a few good men and women at the side of diminished angels to delay Armageddon. A retrograde action against the forces of darkness.

One of them is Keith A. North, SEAL E-6, left for dead in the sandbox. Recruited by the secretive Khamsa, an organization almost as old as recorded history, he learns how to fight against nightmares made real. Limited by rules as ancient as the struggle against Hell.

Targeted Age Group: young adult and up
Written by: Edmund A.M. Batara

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The Bizarre Adventures of Bob Handsoap Book One: The Being from the First Universe by Broc Theil

“About The Bizarre Adventures of Bob Handsoap Book One: The Being from the First Universe:

In a bizarre town in West Virginia, a series of supernatural events begin taking place. A rather goofy teenage dude named Bob Handsoap falls into the middle of such supernatural activities. As he dives deeper into the unknown, he learns more about the city’s humorous and even sometimes horrific monsters and also its dark past.

Targeted Age Group: 8-13
Written by: Broc Theil

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Blue Jellyfish’ Dubious Alibi: Alien invasion romance books by Elena Zhuravleva

“About Blue Jellyfish’ Dubious Alibi: Alien invasion romance books:

It would be better if he stayed at home that day…
A regular guy went fishing and suddenly met a beautiful but unusual creature who needed love and earthly sex. A monster in the guise of a beautiful woman? Scared, he ran away and tried to forget… But suddenly this beautiful creature became a part of his life when he saw somebody trying to kill it. He hurried to save it, but where is it now?
It is a love story without a definite happy end. They are too different. Why does he need monster love? How can they be together?

Targeted Age Group: G
Written by: Elena Zhuravleva

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Beneath the Roots: The Aure Series, Book 1 by W.K. Greyling