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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Moon Deeds Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway #SciFi #Fantasy

  · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you MOON DEEDS Virtual Book Tour May 2 – October 28. Giveaway – Palmer will be giving away autographed copies of her books! · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Inside the Book Title: MOON DEEDS: STAR CHILDREN SAGA BOOK ONE Author: Palmer Pickering Publisher: Mythology Press Genre: Adult Fantasy/Science-Fiction Book Blurb: “The path to power is cloaked in shadows, so if you avoid all the shadows, you’ll never learn anything.” It’s 2090: the last outpost of freedom is the moon, the best defense against technology is magic,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Thunder on the Moor Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Historical #TimeTravel #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Andrea Matthews’ THUNDER ON THE MOOR Virtual Book Tour May 6 – June 6. Inside the Book Title: THUNDER ON THE MOOR Author: Andrea Matthews Publisher: Independent Genre: Historical Time Travel Romance BOOK BLURB: Maggie Armstrong grew up enchanted by her father’s tales of blood feuds and border raids. In fact, she could have easily fallen for the man portrayed in one particular image in his portrait collection. Yet when her father reveals he was himself an infamous Border reiver, she finds it a bit far-fetched—to say the least—especially when he announces his plans to return to his sixteenth century Scottish
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mendel Virtual Book Publicity Tour #UrbanFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Damone Bester’s MENDEL Virtual Book Tour April 25 – May 25. Inside the Book Title: MENDEL Author: Damone Bester Publisher: The Story Plant Genre: Urban Fiction BOOK BLURB: Imagine the mid 1980’s, last day of school, summer break. A teen rushes to meet his mother, who is being released from the hospital after cancer surgery. When the teen arrives, he finds out his mother is dead, but his ex-gangbanging dad, who has been in jail the last seven years, is at the hospital ready to take the teen home. Mendel, is a coming-of-age story about a senior at Chicago’s legendary Mendel
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Erabon Prophecy Trilogy Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Christian #ScienceFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Randy C. Dockens’ ERABON PROPHECY TRILOGY Virtual Book Tour May 2 – June 30. Inside the Book Title: ERABON PROPHECY TRILOGY Author: Randy C. Dockens Publisher: Carpenter’s Son Publishing Genre: Christian Science Fiction Book Blurb: An exciting trilogy where an astronaut, nicknamed Nuke and working on an interstellar gate, is accidentally thrown so deep into the universe there is no way for him to get home. He does, however, find life on a nearby planet, one in which the citizens look very different from him. Although tense at first, he finds these aliens think he is the forerunner to the return
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Riftsiders: Unlawful Possession Virtual Book Publicity Tour #urbanfantasy #paranormalromance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Paul A. Destefano’s RIFTSIDERS: UNLAWFUL POSSESSION Virtual Book Tour April 18 – May 18. Inside the Book Title: RIFTSIDERS: UNLAWFUL POSSESSION Author: Paul A. Destefano Publisher: Wild Rose Press Genre: Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance BOOK BLURB: Enrique Marin wants a quiet life after the death of his wife. Just one problem stands in the way–he’s possessed by the misanthropic English demon, Tzazin. A violent night under demonic influence accidentally leads Enrique to love, and it’s anything but quiet. Shy, autistic yoga instructor Elle thought allowing herself to be possessed by the very-not-shy sex demon Key would help her find love. She finds
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First Chapter: Ticket to Ride by Winona Kent

Title: TICKET TO RIDE Author: Winona Kent Publisher: Blue Devil Books Pages: 230 Genre: Mystery / Amateur Sleuth BOOK BLURB: In Lost Time, the third book in Winona’s Jason Davey Mystery series, professional musician / amateur sleuth Jason Davey was rehearsing for Figgis Green’s 50th Anniversary Tour of England. Now they’re on the road in Ms. Kent’s fourth book in the series, Ticket To Ride. But when a fortune-teller in Sheffield warns them of impending danger, the band is suddenly plagued by a series of seemingly-unrelated mishaps. After Jason is attacked and nearly killed in Cambridge, and a fire alarm results in a very personal theft from Mandy’s hotel
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First Chapter: Sand Dollar Lane by Sheila Roberts

SAND DOLLAR LANE BY SHEILA ROBERTS Title: SAND DOLLAR LANE (Moonlight Harbor Series Book 6) Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin / Mira Genre: Women’s Fiction / Romance BOOK BLURB: Brody Green is finding it hard to recover after being dumped by his fiancée, Jenna Jones, then watching her walk down the aisle with someone else. Jenna is determined to make up for her love defection and find him the perfect woman, but Brody is done with love. First a divorce, then a broken engagement. From now on he’s keeping things light, no commitments. Luckily Brody’s business is booming. Beach Dreams Realty is the best real estate company in town.
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First Chapter: They Called Him Marvin by Roger Stark & Giveaway

THEY CALLED HIM MARVIN: A HISTORY OF LOVE, WAR, AND FAMILY BY ROGER STARK Title: THEY CALLED HIM MARVIN Author: Roger Stark Publisher: Silver Star Publishing Genre: Historical Romance/WW2/Family Saga BOOK BLURB: 18-year-old Pvt Dean Sherman goes to church with a friend in Salt Lake City. He meets 16-year-old Connie that will become his wife. After Pearl Harbor Dean applies for pilot training and is accepted. Dean joins Connie’s Mormon Church and they secretly become engaged. By the time Dean has commissioned a pilot, Connie is 18 and they marry and are together for a year and a half before he ships out as an Airplane Commander of a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Cyber Fighter Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Scifi #MartialArts #Action #Adventure

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William Joseph Hill’s CYBER FIGHTER Virtual Book Tour May 2 – 27. Inside the Book Title: CYBER FIGHTER Author: William Joseph Hill Publisher: Independent Genre: Scifi/Martial Arts/Action/Adventure BOOK BLURB: William Joseph Hill’s book CYBER FIGHTER, with its big screen adaptation underway, is a sci-fi/martial arts/action-adventure story that will engage readers in this action-packed “page turner.” Said the author Mr. Hill, “I’m hoping that my CYBER FIGHTER readers have fun with the story and have a few good laughs, along with being thrilled by the action sequences I have in the story. I’d also like them to think about the scientific possibilities
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lost Boys Virtual Publicity Tour #YA

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you N.L. McLaughlin’s LOST BOYS: BOOK 2 OF THE AMERICAN NOMADS Virtual Book Tour March 29 – April 29. Inside the Book Title: LOST BOYS (The American Nomads Book 2) Author: Nancy McLaughlin Publisher: Twisted Sky, LLC Pages: 314 Genre: Young Adult Fiction BOOK BLURB: Life has returned to normal for the Nomads. Finn and Teague are closer than ever. The bond between River and Cash is evolving into something more, and Zac has his family of misfits. Even Beth has come into her own. No longer a greenie, she is now a full, contributing member of the group. Her internet
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Ghost Marriage Audiobook Publicity Tour #Paranormal #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kirsten Michelwait’s THE GHOST MARRIAGE Audiobook Virtual Tour April 18 – May 18. Inside the Book Title: THE GHOST MARRIAGE Author: Kirsten Mickelwait Publisher: She Writes Press Pages: 344 Genre: Paranormal/Memoir BOOK BLURB: Kirsten, at age 31, meets and marries Steve Beckwith, a handsome and successful attorney. Twenty-two years later, Steve becomes unemployed and addicted to opioids, using money and their two children to emotionally blackmail Kirsten. What’s more, he’s been having an affair with their real estate agent, who is also her close friend. Soon after their divorce is finalized, Steve is diagnosed with colon cancer and dies within
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents TICKET TO RIDE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery #AmateurSleuth

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Winona Kent’s TICKET TO RIDE Virtual Book Tour April 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: TICKET TO RIDE Author: Winona Kent Publisher: Blue Devil Books Pages: 230 Genre: Mystery / Amateur Sleuth BOOK BLURB: In Lost Time, the third book in Winona’s Jason Davey Mystery series, professional musician / amateur sleuth Jason Davey was rehearsing for Figgis Green’s 50th Anniversary Tour of England. Now they’re on the road in Ms. Kent’s fourth book in the series, Ticket To Ride. But when a fortune-teller in Sheffield warns them of impending danger, the band is suddenly plagued by a series of seemingly-unrelated
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Grandma’s & Grandpa’s Tales Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChildrenPictureBooks

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl Carpinello’s Grandma’s & Grandpa’s Tales Virtual Book Tour April 4 – June 30. Inside the Books Title: Grandma’s and Grandpa’s Tales Books 1 – 6 Author: Cheryl Carpinello Publisher: Silver Quill Publishing Genre: Children’s Picture Books (Ages 4 – 8) Book Blurb: Grandma and Grandpa’s Tales books 1-3 encourage early readers with fun stories incorporating difference aspects of nature. Book 1, Wild Creatures In My Neighborhood and What if I Went to the Circus, explores the wildlife around neighborhoods and introduces decision-making. Book 2, Singers of Songs and The Not Too Stubborn Humpback, explores a common, but not so common
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Breathe In Virtual Book Publicity Tour #PsychologicalThriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michelle King’s BREATHE IN Virtual Book Tour April 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: BREATHE IN Author: Michelle King Publisher: Limitless Publishing Genre: Psychological Thriller BOOK BLURB: Breathe in. Breathe out. This mantra gets Tessa Benson through the day. The man she loves walks all over her, and she just wants to get by without her heart shattering to pieces. If she could find her voice, she’d scream. Everything changes in one night, when she’s snatched from the streets and tied to a bed, a camera set up to capture her dying moment. And the person who paid to watch
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Triangle of Hope Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ContemporaryFiction #LiteraryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Meyer’s TRIANGLE OF HOPE Virtual Book Tour April 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: TRIANGLE OF HOPE Author: Michael Meyer Publisher: Pacific Books Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Literary Fiction BOOK BLURB: If one person can make a difference, just think what three can do. A tender story of love. Three strangers, each harboring a dark secret, become united by chance in a small Irish village, and the wonderful power of the human spirit comes alive. If you believe that love and romance can happen in unusual circumstances, then this book is for you. “From page one, I found myself
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First Chapter: Sparks and Shadow by Ceara Nobles

Title: SPARKS AND SHADOW Author: Ceara Nobles Publisher: Riverside Press Genre: YA Fantasy Seattle is full of monsters, and I’m the only one who can see them. I’ve spent the last 17 years (AKA my whole life) pretending I can’t see the monsters who disguise themselves as humans. I may not have a place to live and my best friend may be moments away from getting in too deep with the city’s most dangerous drug lord, but I’m rolling with the status quo. That is, until I save my arch enemy’s stupid life and find myself in a warehouse full of monsters. Next thing I know, I’m in Monster
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Road To Me Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Drake’s THE ROAD TO ME Virtual Book Tour April 18 – May 18. Inside the Book Title: THE ROAD TO ME Author: Laura Drake Publisher: The Story Plant Genre: Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: Jacqueline Oliver is an indie perfumer, trying to bury her ravaged childhood by shoveling ground under her own feet. Then she gets a call she dreads―the hippie grandmother she bitterly resents was apprehended when police busted a charlatan shaman’s sweat lodge. Others scattered, but Nellie was slowed by her walker and the fact that she was wearing nothing but a few Mardi-Gras beads. Jacqueline is her only
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First Chapter: Floating Underwater by Tracy Shawn

Title: FLOATING UNDERWATER Author: Tracy Shawn Publisher: Turbulent Muse Publishing Pages: 312 Genre: Women’s Fiction / Magical Realism / Psychological Fiction Part psychological fiction and part mystical fiction with a dash of magical realism, Floating Underwater follows a woman’s astonishing journey through the extraordinary and, ultimately, to her self-actualization and power. Fearful that her lifelong premonitions not only predict the future but can also change its very course, Paloma Leary is devastated when her latest vision foretelling a third miscarriage comes true. Falling into a mystifying world of increasingly bizarre phenomena, including a psychic connection with her mysterious neighbor, out-of-body experiences, and visits from her long-dead mother, Paloma grows desperate for
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Unorganized Crime Virtual Book Publicity Tour #RomanticSuspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Judy Serrano’s UNORGANIZED CRIME Virtual Book Tour May 2 – 27. Inside the Book Title: UNORGANIZED CRIME Author: Judy Serrano Publisher: 6K Publishing Genre: Historical Romance/WW2/Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: As Jazz finds herself falling from a helicopter, Gage St. Claire comes to her rescue. Organized crime is once again the culprit of her parents’ situation, and as usual, she is caught in the crossfire. Gage pulls her out of the water and helps her escape to safety. The love between them is undiscovered as he tries to leave her behind in an attempt to keep her safe and move forward with
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents They Called Him Marvin Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway #HistoricalRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Roger Stark’s THEY CALLED HIM MARVIN: A HISTORY OF LOVE, WAR AND FAMILY Virtual Book Tour April 4 – June 30. Inside the Book Title: THEY CALLED HIM MARVIN Author: Roger Stark Publisher: Silver Star Publishing Genre: Historical Romance/WW2/Family Saga BOOK BLURB: 18-year-old Pvt Dean Sherman goes to church with a friend in Salt Lake City. He meets 16-year-old Connie that will become his wife. After Pearl Harbor Dean applies for pilot training and is accepted. Dean joins Connie’s Mormon Church and they secretly become engaged. By the time Dean has commissioned a pilot, Connie is 18 and they marry and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sound of Creation Virtual Book Publicity Tour #SciFi

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gabriella Zielke’s THE SOUND OF CREATION Virtual Book Tour March 1 – 31. Inside the Book Title: THE SOUND OF CREATION Author: Gabriella Zielke Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Genre: Science Fiction BOOK BLURB: Brilliant and relentless tech CEO Ava Lawson built a system to play the currency market and make her billions. Instead, it begins to play strange music and makes normally level headed people behave irrationally, violently, dangerously. While on the run from a coup to steal her code, Ava meets an ethereal stranger who seems to know more about her than she does. The stranger calls himself an
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Floating Underwater Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #MagicalRealism #PsychologicalFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tracy Shawn’s FLOATING UNDERWATER Virtual Book Tour March 1 – April 29. Inside the Book Title: FLOATING UNDERWATER Author: Tracy Shawn Publisher: Turbulent Muse Publishing Genre: Women’s Fiction / Magical Realism / Psychological Fiction BOOK BLURB: Part psychological fiction and part mystical fiction with a dash of magical realism, Floating Underwater follows a woman’s astonishing journey through the extraordinary and, ultimately, to her self-actualization and power. Fearful that her lifelong premonitions not only predict the future but can also change its very course, Paloma Leary is devastated when her latest vision foretelling a third miscarriage comes true. Falling into a mystifying world of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Ignatius and The Swords of Nostaw Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #Fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.A. Mucci’s Ignatius and the Swords of Nostaw Virtual Book Tour June 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: IGNATIUS AND THE SWORDS OF NOSTAW Author: D.A. Mucci Publisher: St. Barts Publishing Genre: YA Fantasy Book Blurb: …languages, witty retorts, and running from a fight. Now he is faced with his first days in high school… …Is there anything worse than high school? When a clever, peace-making verbal volley failed, and the guy pulled a switch blade, Iggy took off. A locket he wore warmed up. Suddenly, he wasn’t in Susquehanna, PA anymore. Before he could gather his wits… …someone had
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sand Dollar Lane Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ SAND DOLLAR LANE Virtual Book Tour April 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: SAND DOLLAR LANE (Moonlight Harbor Series Book 6) Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin / Mira Genre: Women’s Fiction / Romance BOOK BLURB: Brody Green is finding it hard to recover after being dumped by his fiancée, Jenna Jones, then watching her walk down the aisle with someone else. Jenna is determined to make up for her love defection and find him the perfect woman, but Brody is done with love. First a divorce, then a broken engagement. From now on he’s keeping things light, no
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First Chapter: Defiance and Redemption by Maria J. Andrade

By Maria J. Andrade Title: DEFIANCE AND REDEMPTION: A LIFETIME OF UNBROKEN BONDS Author: Maria J. Andrade Publisher: Clara Publishing Pages: 250 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Based on a true story, Defiance and Redemption, A Lifetime of Unbroken Bonds, brings to life the joys, dramas, and triumphs of two sisters, Eva and Victoria Alisio and their loyal friend Marta. The sisters are raised by their atheist Grandfather Marcus and religious Grandmother Maria Luisa. Eva, a proud and strong-willed young woman defies her family, society, and culture, faces scandal and disgrace, for her forbidden love affair. Victoria finds herself in the center of a multigenerational conflict as her benefactor bestows a great
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First Chapter: Awaken To Tarot by Karen La Puma

By Karen La Puma   Title: AWAKEN TO TAROT: BE YOUR OWN GUIDE WITH ASTROLOGY, NUMBERS AND THE TREE OF LIFE Author: Karen La Puma Publisher: Soul Source Publishing Pages: 420 (includes pictures) Genre: Nonfiction/Spiritual/Self-Help/Kabbalah/Astrology/Tarot BOOK BLURB: The Tarot is a visual system that reveals both our True Nature and our obstacles. Introducing a new Tarot deck, made with digital collage. Through pictures, symbols, meanings, questions, processes, Kabbalah, key words, and affirmations, you can learn to: Find ways to reflect your inner guidance. Explore the magical journey of evolution Blend Astrology, Numerology, and the Tree of Life with the Tarot Discover the power and implications of the symbols of
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First Chapter: I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories by Ross Dreiblatt

By Ross Dreiblatt Title: I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Author: Ross Dreiblatt Publisher: Stone Tiger Books Pages: 391 Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire BOOK BLURB: I AM NOT BRAD PITT is the first of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions. “I Am Not Brad Pitt” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder. The second story, “Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself,” considers the possibility that Keith Richards (along with, for good measure, Dolly Parton) is, indeed, a vampire. Nobel-Prize laureate Bob
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sparks and Shadow Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #Fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ceara Nobles’ SPARKS AND SHADOW Virtual Book Tour March 1 – 31. Inside the Book Title: SPARKS AND SHADOW (Rising Elements Book 1) Author: Ceara Nobles Publisher: Riverside Press Genre: YA Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Seattle is full of monsters, and I’m the only one who can see them. I’ve spent the last 17 years (AKA my whole life) pretending I can’t see the monsters who disguise themselves as humans. I may not have a place to live and my best friend may be moments away from getting in too deep with the city’s most dangerous drug lord, but I’m rolling with
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Dime Virtual Book Publicity Tour #LegalThriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Luis Figueredo’s DIME Virtual Book Tour March 1 – 31. Inside the Book Title: DIME Author: Luis Figueredo Publisher: Speaking Volumes Pages: 472 Genre: Legal Thriller BOOK BLURB: Pierce Evangelista, a sharp-witted, Harvard-educated lawyer is drawn into the brutal and violent power struggle between the Venezuelan drug cartel and the DEA. Juan Carlos, who holds crippling information about the cartel, sits in the Curacao Prison awaiting extradition. Pierce realizes that his client’s life only holds value to the DEA if he agrees to cooperate. The cartel won’t allow Juan Carlos to tell the DEA what he knows and plans to kill
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Defiance and Redemption Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #HistoricalFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Maria J. Andrade’s Defiance and Redemption Virtual Book Tour February 1 – March 31. Inside the Book Title: DEFIANCE AND REDEMPTION: A LIFETIME OF UNBROKEN BONDS Author: Maria J. Andrade Publisher: Clara Publishing Pages: 250 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Based on a true story, Defiance and Redemption, A Lifetime of Unbroken Bonds, brings to life the joys, dramas, and triumphs of two sisters, Eva and Victoria Alisio and their loyal friend Marta. The sisters are raised by their atheist Grandfather Marcus and religious Grandmother Maria Luisa. Eva, a proud and strong-willed young woman defies her family, society, and culture, faces scandal and
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