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A Twist of Fate - Book 2

Sometimes even Angels have to get their hands dirty!
Leah and Mika battle the forces of hell for one another. Sacrifices are made to save a life. A twist of fate tore them and their world apart. Could one of them, alone, put it back together again?

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A Twist in Time

A hundred years in the future homosexuality is a forgotten word as everyone’s love is accepted. Everyone freely marries whomever they wish, except Catholic Priests whose ranks are now filled with female and male ecclesiastics. Follow Priest Mika Cross as she struggles with her desire for Leah Anthal, the poster child for evil.A twist in time brought them together testing Mika's faith and Leah's strength. Romance, action and adventure combine to make this one of the best novels of the year. Theirs was a love that spanned the ages. A twist in time brought them together, only a twist in time co...
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The Swipe That Shouldn’t Have Happened 2: When Love Gets Real, Messy, and Impossible to Ignore

Emma Clarke thought the hard part was falling in love.She was wrong.Because staying in love?That’s where things get complicated.Now officially offline and very much together, Emma and Noah are stepping into something far more dangerous than dating apps and fake relationships—Real life.And real life comes with:Miscommunication that hits harder than silenceCareer choices that pull them in different directionsFamilies who suddenly have opinions about everythingAnd the quiet fear that love might not be enoughWhen an unexpected opportunity threatens to separate them—and a familiar face from t...
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The Slumbering King: Close your eyes, and he takes your mind

"Close your eyes, and he takes your mind."Dr. Aris Thorne thought moving to the quiet, fog-draped village of Oakhaven would save his career. He came to study a rare, localized form of fatal insomnia. Instead, he found a curse.When the sun sets, the villagers are paralyzed by terror that walks the tree lines-an ancient entity that calls The Slumbering King. The rules are simple: stay awake, or become his next vessel. As Aris begins to hallucinate the king's whispers, he realizes his scientific instruments are useless against the creeping dread. Trapped by the encroaching forest, Aris must uncov...
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The LAST TENANT III: The Door Is Everywhere… You Were Never Outside It

The door was never confined to an apartment.It was never trapped behind a wall.It was never something that could be closed.In THE LAST TENANT III: The Door Is Everywhere, the nightmare has evolved beyond recognition.The world feels normal again.The voices have faded.The strange disappearances have stopped.People have moved on.But Daniel knows the truth.The pattern never ended.It simply became invisible.Now, a new tenant discovers a door that shouldn't exist.A door with no number.A door no one remembers seeing before.A door that appears only when noticed.As old horrors begin to awaken in new pl...
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Tares among the Wheat, Volume One

Superstition, mysticism, and religion weave like tangled vines through the tales of Amelia’s newly discovered ancestry. As a widow struggling to sustain herself and her ten-year-old son, Amy’s modest life is tragically disrupted when a dubious lawyer determines her late mother, adopted at birth, was the estranged daughter of the recently deceased Lexington McClary. Although the net worth of the once enormous estate is petty, Amy decides to travel several hundred miles to attend the funeral, in the hope of at least learning a semblance of her newfound ancestry.After the interment, alone in ...
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Name Drop, Me? Never!

Hugging Eric Clapton... drinking espressos with Ronnie Wood... tea with Emma Thompson in her kitchen... turning down an audience with Roger Moore in St. Moritz… it’s all in a day’s work for some random lanky bloke called Sebastian Wocker. But why has this relative nobody continued to cavort with so many household names? In an honest account of his experiences with the great, the good and the occasionally odd, Wocker shares with us his close encounters of the famous kind. ‘A great read. Deserves to be widely read and acclaimed!’&n...
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Battle Lines Drawn

Picking up where things left off, family becomes pitted against family after the reading of a will. Follow along with the Nolans, the Drakes, and others as they shore up positions for upcoming battles among the families. Meanwhile, someone has been lurking in the shadows pulling the strings. Find out who in the third novel of the Milliken Mills series

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Last Will & Punishment

The lives of the Nolan family were rocked with the sudden death of one of their own. Now the reading of a will throws their world into even more chaos. Will it tear them apart for good or bring them closer together? Find out with the second book of the Milliken Mills series.

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Naughty Disney

Naughty Rhymes 

It was such fun to be bold 

these are rhymes for the old beloved characters rewritten

 with me you may not be smitten 

I make no apology each one was written with glee 

Cover is a scribble of mine x

 


 

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Bloody Night VII: AFTER THE LAST SUN

The sun is gone.But something is still watching.After the final battle for the throne, humanity believed it had survived the end of divine judgment.They were wrong.Because in the silence that followed, reality itself began to change.Time fractures in abandoned cities. Shadows move without owners. And deep within the fabric of space, an impossible signal begins repeating across the stars.Jack Cross thought the war was over when he refused the crown.Now he understands the truth:The throne was never the conclusion. It was a trigger.Something ancient has awakened beyond the reach of suns and stars...
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A Letter From August

A Letter From August gently unearths a path between the frayed edges of memory and the unyielding rhythms of the seasons. In her new collection, Tinamarie Cox (Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues and A Numbers Game) opens a new vein of the heavy realities of mental illness. Raw and evocative poetic prose is paired with beautiful and emotionally stirring artwork to create a vivid and visual journey for readers. She depicts the mind as a landscape enduring its own harsh winters, and by looking to nature, she finds a map for survival.Rooted in the cycles of the natural world, Cox's mental heal...
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A Numbers Game

A Numbers Game is Tinamarie Cox’s follow-up poetry collection to Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues. Where Midnight Hues focused on traveling through a depressive episode, A Numbers Game dives deeper and explores the beginnings of her mental health struggles.Cox has curated poetry, prose, images, and artwork from her past and present, which examines the formula that added up to a life-changing decision and shines a light on the effects that lasted for years post-survival. Tinamarie Cox’s unique collection of works has created something just as much poetic as it is memoir. It gives a hu...
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Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues

Through a Sea Laced with Midnight Hues dives into the mentality and emotions that can overtake a person during a depressive episode. This is a journey alongside mental illness via poetry and prose, which includes a raw account of the ups, downs, and hopelessness.Author Tinamarie Cox finds writing poetry therapeutic for her emotional and mental health struggles. Looking back over her notebooks, she noticed a recurring theme in much of her work. At her darkest, she was describing herself as sinking, drowning, and fighting to swim against the heavy currents. These are the relatable elements descr...
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A Collection of Morning Hours

A Collection of Morning Hours is Tinamarie Cox’s second poetry chapbook. This small volume brings together 23 short-form poems under one sun. Written during the early hours of spring and summer days, these poems reflect on the simple beauty of nature as well as the brevity of seasons and life.Within this gathering of morning hours, Tinamarie captures that precise moment when life suddenly becomes visible in a fresh way. She gives new meaning to the sunrise and shares her ideas through imaginative descriptions and with emotional awareness. She contemplates what is important in life as she exp...
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Self-Destruction in Small Doses

Sometimes big things come in little packages. Self-Destruction in Small Doses is a chapbook-length collection of micro poems, with each poem consisting of 150 characters or less. Despite their short length, every poem packs a punch.Cox’s debut chapbook is a small peek into her personal struggle with anxiety, depression, and trauma recovery. Her constant battle against self-sabotaging behaviors. Each poem advances the journey through a self-destructive cycle she struggles to break free from. Through these pages, readers briefly experience the cascading effects of listening to intrus...
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Match Point

 Briony is a rising tennis star, but a wrist injury threatens to end her career before she's ready to walk away. Just when she's fighting to stay in the game, her jealous rival Carrie makes a ruthless move to force her out for good. But Briony isn't giving up without a fight - and this time, it's game on

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Poems and a story with Drawings for Kids: Book 2

Poems and a story with drawings for Kids: Book 2 by a female Irish Author

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Poems and Drawings for Kids: Cute rhyming verses first in a series

Fun wee verses and drawings for kids by a female Irish author.  

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99 Names

Two young people from different sides of the tracks find love and a renewed sense of purpose amid rising racial and religious tensions in south-western Sydney.Returning from his first Friday prayer session at the local mosque, the kid meets Issi, a budding graffiti artist. Both sixteen, both of them loners, outsiders, they find comfort and solace in one another's company. As their relationship blossoms, jealousy, gang rivalry and parental interference conspire to upset the unlikely summertime romance.The kid's home life is mired in dysfunction and despair. He has flashbacks to his childhood in...
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EDDIE

A nine-year-old totally oblivion to his special abilities and a single mom who is not sure what'sgoing on with her son. The mom is not sure who her son talks to or referring to when he points ata person, but she is not able to see or understand what's happening? The first shock wave thatany parent dreads, her son has a special ability and a very dangerous one at that. How can she protect him? Eddie tries to hide from a traumatic event and befriends another young boy while playing in the park, not knowing the real truth about Ben. Not Yet! The story is about how, when truth surfaces t...
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Runway Princess

She was never meant to be a model. He wasn't supposed to care. Young, innocent Angélique Moreau arrives in New York City expecting a brief holiday before starting work as a humble governess back in Europe. But a chance encounter with celebrated Manhattan fashion photographer Xavier Samson changes everything. Almost by chance, Angélique is propelled into the glamorous, cutthroat world of international fashion.Their first encounters in Xavier's penthouse studio are punctuated by friction and mistrust. Working together, as artist and muse, they must suppress whatever feelings lie beneath t...
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Circle of Peace: A Greek Tale

For fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe and Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne comes a Greek mythology adventure about a woman’s fight for peace in the face of chaos.In this captivating retelling of the Greek story, Perse—Circe’s mother and Helios’s wife—returns to her husband with a bold demand: a grand hall of her own in exchange for aiding his troubled sister, Selene, who has enraged Zeus by engaging in an affair with a mortal. Perse succeeds in her mission, but the House of Helios is soon plunged into sorrow when Clymene and Helios’s son, Phaethon, ignores all warnings and commandeers He...
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Threads of Blood

When Lana, a kind homeless shelter worker, is nearly robbed, she tries to make friends with her mugger. His name is Rafael, and Lana wants to guide him onto a better path. Across the city, a burglar called Kathleen enlists Rafael as her young protege. However, she is a police informant.

Elsewhere, across the San Gabriel Valley, there is a spate of disturbing murders. There appears to be no connection, but ambitious Detective Archie Delgado views things differently. His colleagues in the homicide bureau mock his wild theories, but Delgado is determined to prove he is right.

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Private Members, Public Scandals

Unexpectedly elected to the House of Commons in Tony Blair’s landslide victory in May 1997, the 27-year-old Rowan Cannon found herself in the Mother of Parliaments with ambitions to make real and meaningful improvements to the lives of her constituents. Rowan may be bright, vivacious and attractive, but she will soon cross swords with the press who dismiss her as just another ‘Blair babe.’Rowan is determined to assert her feminist credentials against a patriarchal system and seeks to break down class privileges too. However, she soon discovers that politics is far tougher and dirtier tha...
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The Pendragon Prophecy

A modern-day American farmer convinces his wife and a handful of believers calling themselves "The Knights of the Golden Prarie" that he is the last heir to the throne of King Arthur. His misfit Knights of the Golden Prairie have one summer to prepare for The King's Challenge, a secret tournament between knights to determine the world's future and finally rid the world of monsters and magic. Will The Pendragon Prophecy be fulfilled?

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Waking Purgatory

A RIVETING PARANORMAL HORROR MYSTERY exploding with secret family legacies soaked in despair against mankind’s obsession to open and explore the blind spot between heaven and hell... Purgatory, Illinois: A town trapped between heaven and hell... Amanda Lemon and her curious twins quickly learn there is a thin line between madness and genius. Their new home is not the idyllic small town they prayed for after all. What will happen on Halloween? Why is the ancient society known as ECHO lurking in the shadows? Never wake the dead. Never...

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Finding Paul Bunyan

What if the legendary giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his pet blue ox Babe really did exist? Young Billy Bunyan and his disabled brother Hap are determined to find out with unexpected consequences that will change their broken family's future forever.

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The Mermaid Latitudes

A miniature painting of a mermaid drawn in bat’s blood is taking the art world by storm. Why was it adrift at sea in a bottle, a coded message etched in the glass? Who painted it and why? It is up to Larry Settlebottom, a sheltered museum curator, to decipher the riddle. His adventures take him to Mexico and beyond as he encounters modern-day pirates, corrupt oceanographers, and a band of romantic sea gypsies, all leading him to a remote island where madness, death and art live together.

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The Five Pearls

THE FIVE PEARLS is a story of personal redemption against incredible odds, peppered with teen narcissism, secret pregnancies, and misguided burglaries; A true portrait of under-privileged, throwaway kids and mismanaged adult lives in today's America. A part-time teacher has his hands full with a the Tadpoles, a band of disillusioned and rebellious teenagers that don't want or need anyone's help. Or so they think...

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Welcome to Bittersweet

Fifteen-year-old street thief Eddie Doyle has spent his life surviving on the streets of New York—until one desperate act changes everything. Fleeing with his deaf sister aboard an orphan train bound for Kansas, he finds himself in a world both harsher—and more hopeful—than he ever imagined.At Bittersweet Farm, under the watch of Mary Christmas, a retired Wild West Show sharpshooter and her “found family”, Eddie and a group of forgotten orphans learn what it means to belong. But danger lingers beyond the wheat fields, and the past refuses to stay buried.In a land of second chances, E...
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The Calculus of the Stars

In the depths of the Arctic tundra, where isolation meets the cosmos, two brilliant scientists embark on a groundbreaking journey to unravel the mysteries of KX-7—a star system that defies all they thought they knew.Dr. Scarlet Masters has dedicated her life to data, precision, and the pursuit of truth. As she prepares to deploy her high-frequency array at the Aurora Borealis Observatory, she believes that the universe operates on logic and clean calculations. But when she encounters Dr. Mason Lewis, an enigmatic astrophysicist with a penchant for intuition over numbers, her meticulously org...
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All in a Day's Dance by L.R. Lane

There are distinctive benefits in dealing with a hindsight connoisseur, not only in the context of this story, but also in reality.It really is 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗗𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.Logical solutions seem impossible when the antagonist inspires or at least motivates a heroic response to any conundrum, citing everything after the fact.It is not pleasant for the well-meaning principal character.Alas, fun and personal gratification are not the focus of her aims, rather it is learning how to grow and be strong.Every experience magnifies her musicality, so much so that s...
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El coleccionador de arrugas. Poemas de la vejez.

El coleccionador de arrugas. Poemas de la vejez. 2ª edición. 2021. 246 páginas. ISBN 9798783170911. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU."soy / frágil / ... /un pañuelo desechable / una pensión devaluada / uno número para el terror de las estadísticas / una sombra sin luz / una voz muda / una mirada ciega / un sueño encerrado sin ilusiones..."En estos poemas de la vejez, el poeta expone el lado sombrío y triste de los viejos: la soledad, el abandono, la enfermedad, la depresión, la ilusión vana, la desesperación, entre otros temas. Son poemas duros co...
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Confesiones.

Confesiones.  2ª edición. 2024. 234 páginas. ISBN 9798876121042. (Poemas escritos en 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.Confesiones fue escrito en 2019 y es el segundo libro de poesía visual del poeta.La obra reúne un total de 36 poemas en los que el autor equilibra el uso del lenguaje coloquial con el lírico, manipulando los espacios físicos, diferentes tipos de letras, fotografías y dibujos para crear un paisaje, muchas veces irónico, de los diversos temas de la vida cotidiana: el amor, los recuerdos, los sueños, la soledad, la esperanza, la frustración, el existe...
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Fuga da cidade de máscaras. Poesia visual.

Fuga das cidades das máscaras. Poesia visual. 2ª edición. 2023. 230 páginas. ISBN 9798391562269. (Poemas escritos em 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.A massificação nas grandes cidades, o consumismo desenfreado, o anonimato nas ruas, a solidão nos prédios e condomínios, as máscaras que se usam na vida cotidiana e nos relacionamentos pessoais, a luta do individuo — como ente único — para não perder a sua identidade e a sua essência na vida tumultuada nas grandes urbes, são alguns dos temas de Fuga das cidades das máscaras.Escritos com rebeldia, sarcasmo e intrig...
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Un momento en el tiempo. Los cuentos de la atemporalidad

Un momento en el tiempo. Los cuentos de la atemporalidad.3ª edición. 2025. 172 páginas. ISBN 9798312963694. (Cuentos escritos en 2019)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU. Un momento en el tiempo. Los cuentos de la atemporalidad es un libro optimista, tal vez utópico, de ensueño.Los siete cuentos de este libro hablan del amor y de la amistad que sobreviven a través de los años, cultivando las remembranzas, la lealtad, alimentando el fuego de esas relaciones personales que no deberían desaparecer.Los personajes de estas historias son hombres y mujeres adultos que están entre ...
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On Green II: Love and Speed

Dash
By: Dash

In the wake of his exodus from his life in New York, Dustin Cameron returns to his hometown of Sanford, Florida, to lie low and pick up the broken pieces of his life once again.

However, after discovering the local street racing scene, he learns that the Orlando chapter of the club is being threatened by a reckless and dangerous new champion whose actions hit too close to home.

With a war brewing for the club's future, Dustin's cover is blown when he is tapped for help by a familiar, iconic face. Cylinders fire when he decides to take matters into his own hands.

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On Green

Dash
By: Dash
Having escaped a troubled past, Dustin Cameron now lives and works as a mechanic in Queens, New York. Struggling to make ends meet, he takes an off-hours gig as a rideshare driver to supplement his income. But what started as an ordinary night on the job ends up leading him into a harrowing encounter with wealthy billionaire playboy Bob Bellhorn, owner of Bellhorn Logistics.After the encounter, Bob exploits Dustin's past as a criminal street racer and hires him to compete in a mysterious and highly illegal world-wide street racing ring on a business deal. Spiderwebs begin to form, however, whe...
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War Torn

War Torn: A Riveting Tale of Love, Sacrifice, and Survival in the Heart of WWIIAmid the horrors of war, can love cross enemy lines and survive the battle within?October 1942. Frances Meyer, a gifted violinist, faces an unthinkable choice: stay in Nazi-occupied France under the menacing gaze of an SS officer obsessed with her or risk everything for freedom. With her ailing Jewish husband, she boards a fragile boat to escape, but fate has other plans. Shipwrecked in the unforgiving Atlantic, her fight for survival lands her in the last place she expected—a German U-boat. Commanded by the enigm...
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