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Featured Post: Western Apprehension by Michael Toledano

“About Western Apprehension:

In the southwest edge of the Great Plains in 1886, veteran US Marshal, Ben Corrigan, is on his way to the town of Iron Horse Junction to escort a jailed murderer, Frank Jameson, to Santa Fe in the territory of New Mexico for trial. Frank gun downed the town’s deputy sheriff while the deputy attempted to arrest him for killing a cattle buyer in a saloon brawl. For Ben, it should be a routine assignment that he has done many times before. But this time it comes while he is seriously considering retirement from a long, illustrious career that he enjoys as a lawman. His love interest, the widow Rachel Langford wants him to leave his dangerous roving profession and settle down with her. She asks him to consider their future while he gets ready to head to Iron Horse Junction. This leaves Ben in a quandary because there are conflicts that make the decision difficult. He’s not ready to retire, and there are other personal problems with the marital union with Rachel that he must resolve.

Unfortunately, a new untimely dynamic comes into play when Frank Jameson’s two friends break him out jail before Ben arrives. Ben, accompanied by a couple of new young marshals, is tasked with apprehending Frank and his gang. A life-threatening, violent confrontation ensues as the desperados resist capture. During the hot pursuit, Ben finally makes his life-changing decision. However, he must survive his present ordeal to fulfill this promise.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Michael Toledano

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Featured Post: Truncate by Michael Toledano

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“About Truncate:

A unique Victorian era suspense story heightened with a touch of mystery and romance. The focus rests on the efforts of the unwitting protagonist to thwart attempts on his life instead of the usual ace detective or the latent genius of an amateur sleuth so typical of the genre. The plot centers on the survival of an unsuspecting member of the rising London commercial gentry toward the end of the nineteenth century.

Timothy Brompton is the proprietor of a thriving pharmaceutical firm, Thames Pharmaceuticals, in the age of growing brand name companies. He has inherited the firm after his father’s untimely death and has effectively managed it to one of the major players in the lucrative pharmaceutical industry in England. Unknown to him, his company’s success has interfered with the expansion of a sinister underground syndicate which deals exclusively in opium and its derivatives- Opium at the turn of the twentieth century was not restricted by law. This clandestine consortium intends to expand their operations into legitimate apothecaries throughout England. Their intent is to further capitalize on the addictive properties of an often times prescribed drug for treating a variety of maladies from depression to body pains.

When an agreement between Thames Pharmaceuticals and the influential Tinsworthy Apothecary in Bristol is imminent, this anonymous group decides to take action and destroy Mr. Brompton as they have others who effectively hinder their plans for expansion.

Timothy Brompton is thrust into one life threatening predicament after another starting with a mysterious package found by his front door. Little does he suspect that he is being fiendishly toyed with by the opium syndicate’s enforcer who has a penchant for teasing his victims much like a cat with a captured mouse before snuffing it out.

The Victorian period has always held fascination for Michael Toledano. A computer programmer/analyst by profession, Mr. Toledano’s avid interest in Victorian England was the perfect vehicle to launch his pursuit of being a published writer. After years of research, he has penned a thrilling Victorian suspense novel, Truncate.

Mike’s aspiration to write began in his college days. Now later in his life he fulfills this dream by publishing a novel having the suspense, mystery, romance, and betrayal in a genre he loves. An avid fan of the classic novels and films of this time period, Truncate is the culmination of years of gleaning the stirring aspects of the Victorian mystery, and creating a unique tale combining these elements. The result is a fast pace Victorian odyssey.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Michael Toledano

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Featured Post: The Heart of a Hussar by Griffin Brady

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“About The Heart of a Hussar:

A tale of chilvalry, love, and conflicted loyalty set in 17th century Poland.

Exploiting Muscovy’s Time of Troubles, Poland has invaded the chaotic country. Twenty-two-year-old Jacek Dąbrowski is an honorable, ferocious warrior in a company of winged hussars—an unrivaled, lethal cavalry. When his lieutenant dies in battle, Jacek is promoted to replace him, against the wishes of his superior, Mateusz, who now has more reason to eliminate him.

Jacek dedicates his life to gaining the king’s recognition and manor lands of his own. Consequently, he closely guards his heart, avoiding lasting romantic entanglements. Unscathed on the battlefield, undefeated in tournaments, and adored by women eager to share his bed, Jacek has never lost at anything he sets out to conquer. So when he charges toward his goals, he believes nothing stands in his way.

Upon his return from battle, Jacek deviates from his ordinarily unemotional mindset and rescues enemy siblings, fifteen-year-old Oliwia and her younger brother, Filip, from their devastated Muscovite village. His act of mercy sets into motion unstoppable consequences that ripple through his well-ordered life for years to come—and causes him to irretrievably lose his heart.

Oliwia has her own single-minded drive: to protect her young brother. Her determination and self-sacrifice lead her to adopt a new country, a new religion, and a new way of life. But it’s not the first time the resilient beauty has had to remake herself, for she is not what she appears to be.

As Jacek battles the Muscovites and Tatars threatening Poland’s borders for months at a time, Oliwia is groomed for a purpose concealed from her. All the while, Mateusz’s treachery and a mysterious enemy looming on the horizon threaten to destroy everything Jacek holds dear.

Targeted Age Group: 25+
Written by: Griffin Brady

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Featured Post: Fortune’s Folly by Cat Dubie

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“About Fortune’s Folly:

Eden Fitzgerald’s story is a romantic saga that follows her from brave child to alluring woman, from naïve innocent to determined feminist. When her father is unjustly imprisoned she vows to have him freed. And when all else fails she dons a disguise and resorts to highway robbery to pay for his escape.

It’s also the story of Alex Banning, whose initial meeting with Eden brands them both for life. Years later, they discover a powerful attraction that, consummated one summer night, cannot be sustained. Having been forced to give up his career in the Royal Navy, Alex is a reluctant agent for the Crown, investigating Eden’s family’s connection to the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Fortune’s Folly includes the stories of the Fontaine men, two brothers and a cousin. André does not love Eden but marries her; Louis is dangerously obsessed with her; Laurent adores her from afar and is the unwitting catalyst for her flight.

Targeted Age Group: 19+
Written by: Cat Dubie

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Featured Post: How Fires End by Marco Rafalà

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“About How Fires End:

A dark secret born out of World War II lies at the heart of a Sicilian American family in this emotional and sweeping saga of guilt, revenge, and redemption. A ”beautiful, mesmerizing” novel (Alexander Chee), that is ”a moving depiction of multigenerational loss and love, grief and gratitude, heartbreak and hope.” (Kirkus Reviews).

Targeted Age Group: 25 and over
Written by: Marco Rafalà

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Featured Post: When We Were Brave by Karla Jay

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“About When We Were Brave:

2020 Pinnacle Book Award, Historical Fiction
2020 IPA Distinguished Favorite Award
2020 TYLER R. TICHELAAR AWARD for BEST HISTORICAL FICTION
2020 First Place Award, Historical Fiction for Reader’s View Contest
2020 Book Excellence Award for Historical Fiction
Blurb: In WHEN WE WERE BRAVE, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish boy whose positive outlook is challenged daily as each new perilous situation comes along. American citizens, Herbert Müller and his family, are sent back to the hellish landscape of Germany because of the DNA coursing through their veins. In the panorama of World War II, these are the high-stakes plots and endearing characters whose braided fates we pray will work out in the end.

Targeted Age Group: adult
Written by: Karla Jay

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Featured Post: A Rosa for Russell by Pamela Ackerson

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“About A Rosa for Russell:

Welcome to Hell on Earth, boys.

Andersonville POW camp…

Russell’s battle-worn body looked defeated. He was a Union soldier; she was a Confederate nurse. But when Rosa looked into his eyes, she saw pure determination. He looked for anything to stay positive. Rosa could take a few lessons from him.
Trapped in desire and drowning in need;
to fall in love with the enemy, there might as well be a mountain between them.
Grab your copy today.

Targeted Age Group: 16+
Written by: Pamela Ackerson

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Featured Post: HOW FIRES END by Marco Rafala

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“About HOW FIRES END:

A dark secret born out of World War II lies at the heart of a Sicilian American family in this emotional and sweeping saga of guilt, revenge, and, ultimately, redemption.

After soldiers vacate the Sicilian hillside town of Melilli in the summer of 1943, the locals celebrate, giving thanks to their patron saint, Sebastian. Amid the revelry, all it takes is one fateful moment for the destiny of nine-year-old Salvatore Vassallo to change forever. When his twin brothers are killed playing with an unexploded mortar shell, Salvatore’s faith is destroyed. As the family unravels, and fear ignites among their neighbors that the Vassallo name is cursed, one tragedy begets another.

Desperate to escape this haunting legacy, Salvatore accepts the help of an Italian soldier with fascist ties who ushers him and his sister, Nella, into a new beginning in America. In Middletown, Connecticut, in the immigrant neighborhood known as Little Melilli, these three struggle to build new lives for themselves. But a dangerous choice to keep their secrets hidden erupts in violence decades later. When Salvatore loses his inquisitive American-born son, David, they all learn too late the price sons pay for their fathers’ wars.

Written with elegiac prose, How Fires End delves into the secret wars of men; the sins they cannot bury; and a life lived in fear of who will reveal them, who will survive them, and who will forgive them.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Marco Rafala

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Featured Post: Western Apprehension by Michael Toledano

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“About Western Apprehension:

Decision time is fast approaching. Marshal Ben Corrigan is nearing retirement
from a long, rewarding career as a roving law officer in the Northeast New
Mexico territory circa 1886. Moving into the unknown and uncertain realm of
retirement has little appeal to him. His romantic interest, widow Rachel
Langford, wants him to turn in his badge and settle down with her. However,
even though he finds it tempting, he still has misgivings which are not all
related to leaving his life-fulfilling profession.

Compounding his uncertainty is his own survival. A routine assignment to
transport a man who murdered a deputy sheriff in the town of Iron Horse
Junction to the territorial capital of Santa Fe goes awry. The struggles
he endures during this incident will finally cause him to make his
fateful decision, Whatever he chooses – everything hangs on his ability to
survive his present ordeal.

Targeted Age Group: Adult
Written by: Michael Toledano

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Featured Post: Jack Ballas Classic Western Collection, Volume 3 by Jack Ballas

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“About Jack Ballas Classic Western Collection, Volume 3:

From Alabama to the Rockies; these difficult and deadly life contests are painted in the Old West by the life and death with man and nature. Ballas’ characters are entwined in these complex struggles with carpet baggers, gun-fighters, Comancheros, bandits, cattle rustlers and western spies.

This land of opportunity is full of those that will take advantage of weaker people, but also men that will not stand by to see citizens bullied.

The Jack Ballas Classic Western Collection, Volume 3 includes: The Rugged Trail, Trail Brothers, West of the River, Hanging Valley, Land Grab, The Homesteader, and A Town Afraid.

Targeted Age Group: 25-54
Written by: Jack Ballas

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Featured Post: The Upside of Hunger, a true tale by Roxi Harms

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About Featured Book: The Upside of Hunger, a true tale by Roxi Harms

Based on a true story, The Upside of Hunger is the epic tale of a teenage boy’s coming of age as Hitler plunged Europe into war, and the man he became as a result. At 15, fleeing from a domineering father yet again, Adam found escape at the military recruitment station in Vienna. Shivering in a frozen foxhole on the Eastern Front until a Russian bullet found its mark, he was catapulted into a series of terrifying captures and daring escapes from as he crossed war-torn Europe on foot to find his family. Spanning decades and continents, follow Adam’s journey to find love and build a life in the aftermath of WW2, and overcome the limitations that history had placed on him. If you enjoy books like All the Light We Cannot See and Beneath a Scarlet Sky, you’ll love Adam’s story. $2.99 for a limited time!

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Featured Post: Where do you go to by Jean Cerfontaine

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“About Where do you go to:

When the young Marie-Claire wakes up in Rome, she has no idea who she is or how she got there.

Her tale of adversity starts in the biting cold, her past unknown and her future uncertain. Our heroine gets adopted from the Marcigliana orphanage by a French diplomat, initiating a journey of self-discovery across post-World War II Europe.

In Athens, she discovers a talent for ballet, which gets elevated to greater heights when the family moves to Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Marie-Claire blooms into a social butterfly, joining the high society in Paris and mingling in social circles with the famous singers, writers, and artists who inhabit the City of Light in the early 1960s.

Her marvelous travels across Europe include adventurous summer vacations in the French Riviera, weekends at the family country estate in Chantilly and winters in snowy St Moritz.

Interspersed with the coming of age tale of her young life, is her attendance of an embassy party in Paris as a young woman in 1965. Now a student at the Sorbonne, Marie-Claire meets up with figures from her past in the Soviet embassy and faces a painful reminder of an event which forever changed her life in Moscow.

The epic account of Marie-Claire’s life is an enthralling literary adaptation of Peter Sarstedt’s famous song, celebrating 50 years since he won the 1969 Ivor Novello award for “Where do you go to (my lovely)?” The mystery of her origins is finally uncovered, revealing the tragic time prior to that cold night in Rome, bringing an unexpected end to her persistent nightmares and morning tears.

Targeted Age Group: Adults
Written by: Jean Cerfontaine

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Featured Post: Where do you go to by Jean Cerfontaine

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“About Where do you go to:

When the young Marie-Claire wakes up in Rome, she has no idea who she is or how she got there.

Her marvelous travels across Europe include adventurous summer vacations in the French Riviera, weekends at the family country estate in Chantilly and winters in snowy St Moritz.

Targeted Age Group: Adults
Written by: Jean Cerfontaine

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Featured Post: SECRET MARRIAGES by J.P. Reedman

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“About SECRET MARRIAGES:

Eleanor Talbot, newly widowed after the Battle of Blore Heath, meets Edward, Earl of March.
It is a time of trials when the Lancastrians and Yorkists fight for supremacy…and the throne of England.
The Talbots are staunch Lancastrians; Edward is the Son of York.
The Battles of Mortimer’s Cross and the bloodbath of Towton lead to Edward taking the crown.
A secret marriage is hatched between the young King and Eleanor, but the “secret queen” is never announced to the Council.
King Edward’s womanising reaches new heights as, within a short time, his eye falls on another widowed beauty, Elizabeth Woodville, whom he also marries in a private, hidden ceremony.
Mortified by all that has happened, Eleanor seeks atonement in religion,…but will her past catch her up?
Will the secret remain secret?
A story of love and lust spanning two families, the Talbots and the Woodvilles, and two women both similar and yet very different. One who became Queen of England, and one who might have been.

Targeted Age Group: ADULT
Written by: J.P. Reedman

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