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  • December 16, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Taste of Merlot Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Heather Heyford’s A Taste of Merlot virtual book tour January 5 – January 16!   Title: A Taste of Merlot Author: Heather Heyford Publisher: Lyrical Press Pages: 187 Genre: Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle Raise your glass and join Heather Heyford as she pours a second serving in her series following these headstrong wine heiresses in their quest to strike out on their own… Merlot St. Pierre is struggling to break free from her family name. Her college classmates whisper behind her back that her passion for jewelry design is little more than a hobby, since she’ll always have her father’s fortune. But Meri
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Finding Hope Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stacy Finz’s FINDING HOPE virtual book tour January 5 – January 16!   Title: Finding Hope Author: Stacy Finz Publisher: Lyrical Press Pages: 276 Genre: Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle The small mountain town of Nugget, California, is way off the beaten path. But somehow it helps the lost and lonely find a new beginning in life—and in love One solitary day at a time is the only way cookbook writer Emily Mathews can restart her life—and cope with consuming loss. Still, the former city girl is finding all kinds of odd inspiration and advice from Nugget’s proudly eccentric residents on everything from
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Letters to Loretta from the Radio Shack: A True WWII Teenage Love Story Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Lynn Ashworth’s LETTERS TO LORETTA FROM THE RADIOSHACK virtual book tour January 5 – January 30!   Title: Letters to Loretta from the Radio Shack: A True WWII Teenage Love Story Author: Laura Lynn Ashworth Publisher: Laura Lynn Ashworth Pages: 239 Genre: Non-fiction Romance Format: Paperback/E-copy Read the rare and recently discovered real time letters between Sal, age 19, and Loretta, age 15, during the final terrifying three years of World War II, 1943-1945. Both from the Douglas Park neighborhood in Chicago, the two adolescents discuss with humor and candor, the Navy, war, politics, hit music, life back home and their relationship. Sal nicknamed Slabby for
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Huckleberry Spring Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Beckstrand’s HUCKLEBERRY SPRING virtual book tour January 19 – February 6! Title: Huckleberry Spring Author: Jennifer Beckstrand Publisher: Zebra Books Pages: 352 Genre: Amish Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle “Readers will treasure this series.” –RT Book Reviews Nothing gives Anna and Felty Helmuth greater satisfaction than seeing their grandchildren happily married–except for planning their next matchmaking venture. And as springtime comes to Huckleberry Hill, Wisconsin, the air is filled with promise. . . Ever since the Helmuths’ grandson, Ben, abruptly broke his engagement and moved to Florida, Emma Nelson has kept busy tending her vegetable garden and raising award-winning pumpkins. She can
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Suicide Forest Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jeremy Bates’ Suicide Forest virtual book tour January 5 – January 30!   Title: Suicide Forest Author: Jeremy Bates Publisher: Ghillinnein Books Pages: 350 Genre: Thriller/Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle Just outside of Tokyo lies Aokigahara, a vast forest and one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in Japan…and also the most infamous spot to commit suicide in the world. Legend has it that the spirits of those many suicides are still roaming, haunting deep in the ancient woods. When bad weather prevents a group of friends from climbing neighboring Mt. Fuji, they decide to spend the night camping in Aokigahara. But they get more
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Pump Up Your Book Presents When Santa Goes to Church Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sonja Grimsley Fambro’s When Santa Goes to Church book blitz December 8- December 19!     Title: When Santa Goes to Church Author: Sonja Grimsley Fambro Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 82 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Storytellers have long filled our imaginations with stories about Santa, Santa’s elves, Mrs. Claus, and Santa’s Christmas Eve trip. In fairy-tale land, it is no mystery that he, along with Rudolph and the rest of the reindeer, must have the busiest Christmas Eve night ever. After all, they are famous for going from town to town leaving gifts for good little girls and good little boys.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Amy Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William Clifford’s Amy book blitz December 29- January 9!     Title: Amy Author: William A. Clifford Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 268 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON An experiment in creation, with some religious views, that shows the reasons why, we may not want, what we think we want. How plans take on a life of their own, and there is no going back.     Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Raised in Ancaster, in the country setting. Attended Ancaster High and Vocational School, where I got my diploma. After that I enrolled in the working world until my retirement. I am
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wake Up, Lien. Think For Yourself! Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William Van Vynck’s Wake Up, Lien. Think for Yourself book blitz December 29- January 9!     Title: Wake Up, Lien. Think for Yourself! Author: William Van Vynck Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 313 Genre: Religious Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON “Wake up, Lien. Think for yourself!” describes the origins and some of the history and the excesses of Christianity and Islam. It shows how mind-control enters into the formation of these religions, and it urges the reader to free himself or herself from the out-dated notions that may have been implanted in his mind by parents, teachers, and religious functionaries. It suggests the Eastern
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Education of a Poor Country Boy Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jack Evans’s Education of a Poor Country Boy book blitz December 29- January 9! Title: Education of a Poor Country Boy Author: Jack Evans Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 140 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Education of a Poor Country Boy by Jack Evans captures the old and new of the construction world from 1942 to current times. The book also includes inspirational pieces that show God is at work even in construction.   Jack Evans was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. He is an eighty-seven-year-old father of five children, grandfather of fourteen grandchildren, seventeen great grandchildren and two great, great grandchildren.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Bad Can Be Broken Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Raven White’s Bad Can Be Broken book blitz December 29- January 9!   Title: Bad Can Be Broken Author: Raven White Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 186 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON A rebellious and willful woman, author Raven White spent years stewing her organs in lethal concoctions of alcohol, meth, marijuana, and cocaine. Running from relationships and self-medicating was routine. Colon cancer and a life expectancy of three to five years became the “cure” she needed to hear God’s voice. In Bad Can Be Broken, she narrates the story of how stage four colon cancer at first was her nemesis, but how it
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sahara Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Angella Ricot’s Sahara book blitz December 1- December 12!   Title: Sahara Author: Angella Ricot Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 240 Genre: Fiction/Suspense Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON When three sisters overhear their father’s overwhelming deal to sell them into prostitution, they immediately take fate into their own hands in search of their own destiny. They embark on a powerful and compelling journey that takes root in the exotic realm of the Caribbean island of Labadee, later to spring fully fledged in the glamorous cosmopolitan city of New York. Out of the struggle emerges the valiant and beautiful heroine, Sahara, a sensational gold thief
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Dangerous Marriage Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William Blunt’s A Dangerous Marriage book blitz December 8- December 19!     Title: A Dangerous Marriage Author: William Blunt Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 332 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON In A Dangerous Marriage, Julia Davenport’s social life has drifted into a backwater. Then she meets Peter Medea at a business reception in New York City. She is drawn by his aura of power and erotic magnetism and is lured into a hasty marriage. By indulging her compelling emotional and physical needs she finds immediate gratification, but at a devastating cost. Her romantic adventure turns out to be fraught with conflict and betrayal.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Make A Stand Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Agnew Smith’s Make A Stand book blitz December 8- December 19!   Title: Make a Stand Author: Agnew Smith Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 260 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Terry Freeman is a disgruntled computer salesman and talented musician and songwriter who, along with his best friend, Damon King, is attempting to fulfill his musical dreams through their popular band, Infinite Noise.  It appears the sky is the limit for Infinite Noise until tragedy strikes, derailing Terry’s and his band members’ dreams of fame and success. Nearly two years later, Terry tries to put the tragedy behind him and rekindle the magic
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Social Media Overload Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Corey Perlman’s SOCIAL MEDIA OVERLOAD virtual book tour December 1 – 31! Title: Social Media Overload Author: Corey Perlman Publisher: Garnet Group Pages: 169 Genre: Business Format: Paperback/Kindle You shouldn’t be on any social media site without a clear direction or purpose. This book will help you: • Determine which sites are right for your business and ignore the rest • Avoid website mistakes that are costing you business • Attract more prospects by outperforming your competition on Google • Stay “Top of Mind” with prospects using content marketing • Strengthen customer relationships and earn referrals using Facebook and LinkedIn For
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sagacious Teens Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Thompson’s Sagacious Teens book blitz December 8- December 19!   Title: Sagacious Teens Author: J. Thompson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 208 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Adolescents are wiser than we believe. Today’s youth face multiple challenges—many of which are portrayed in the adolescent drama, Sagacious Teens, that shares a multicultural glimpse into the lives of more than a dozen teenagers from diverse backgrounds. From Carlos who shares a far-fetched story of a weekend gone awry with his friend Ernesto to Richard who is having trouble balancing his girlfriend’s demands with his own needs. Seasoned teacher J. Thompson provides eye-opening
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Angels in Disguise Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dolores McNany’s Angels in Disguise book blitz December 8 – December 19!   Title: Angels in Disguise: Stories from America’s School Nurses Author: Dolores McNany Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 166 Genre: Medical/Nursing Format: Paperback/Ebook Purchase at AMAZON School nurses serve on the front lines of the everyday struggle for our children’s health, yet they are often perceived as little more than glorified dispensers of bandages. This false perception, held by many parents, officials, and administrators, does a serious disservice to this dedicated group of health professionals. Angels in Disguise tells the oral history of school nursing through the eyes, ears, and hearts of school
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Culture Without Accountability Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Julie Miller and Brian Bedford’s CULTURE WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY – WTF? WHAT’S THE FIX? virtual book tour December 1 – 31! Title: Culture Without Accountability – WTF? What’s The Fix? Author: Julie Miller & Brian Bedfore Publisher: Criffel Publishing Pages: 142 Genre: Business Format: Kindle What happens when businesses, families or individuals fail to be accountable for their actions and decisions? It can be devastating for business results, relationships and reputations. Culture Without Accountability – WTF? What’s The Fix? is full of real life stories of what accountability looks like, what can go wrong without it, and offers a proven process for installing
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Love is Poetry Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Charles and Boyd Hooks’ Love is Poetry book blitz December 1 – 12!     Title: Love is Poetry: My Dreams and A Tribute to My Dad Author: Charles and Boyd Hooks Publisher: Xlibris Pages: 188 Genre: Poetry Format: Paperback/Kindle I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR…..That was my oath to my god and country in August 1963. I was an infantryman and a paratrooper for the U.S. Army. I fought for my country in Vietnam. After my discharge I was a self contractor and had a son and daughter. To this day that has been my life. Literally no legacy to be remembered by maybe my
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Would a Maharajah Sleep Here Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephen and Leanne Troy’s Would a Maharajah Sleep Here book blitz November 17 – 28! Title: Would a Maharajah Sleep Here? Author: Stephen and Leanne Troy Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Inspired by a movie, television show, book, or stories from friends, we may find ourselves daydreaming about trips to exotic locations with exciting adventures. For some lucky ones, these dreams become reality. Would a Maharajah Sleep Here? presents firsthand stories of luxury travel and discovery by two fun and experienced travelers. Authors and travelers Stephen and Leanne Troy provide accounts of historic exploration, luxury hotel stays, and encounters with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Four Noble Truths Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.D. Buxton’s Four Noble Truths book blitz November 17 – 28! Title: Four Noble Truths Author: J.D. Buxton Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 397 Genre: Action/Adventure Format: Paperback/Kindle Dragon is a handsome, passionate and deeply devoted young man with a hidden, horrible past that haunts him into his present life. After suffering unimaginable abuse in a child pornography ring in Taiwan and an addiction to Heroin, Dragon’s only light on a path of darkness is his love, Raven, who more than fulfills his physical and emotional needs. United by the organization that found and ultimately saved Dragon, he and Raven happily bask in the love
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Ed Grizzle, author of It’s Your Decision

Ed Grizzle started a ministry called It’s Your Decision that helps addicts, prostitutes, and others who face difficult circumstances. He and his late wife, Mary, raised two children. Grizzle currently lives in Illinois. Can you tell us why you wrote your book? I wanted to share my life with people and how accepting and living for Jesus Christ made my life truly worth living. Which part of the book was hardest to write? Basically it was all easy to write because it was on my personal life. Does your book have an underlying message that readers should know? I guess I would say the underlying message would be that living
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Last Casualty of the Great War Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gregory M. Galvin’s The Last Casualty of the Great War book blitz December 1 – 12!   Title: The Last Casualty of the Great War Author: Gregory M. Galvin Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 250 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle John Alston quietly wonders what it is about his face that makes other people think he is someone else. Even though he looks nothing like his three siblings or anyone else in his family, in his eyes, he is just a normal middle-aged man trying to make his way in the world. But one day during a chance encounter with a German visitor at the World
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Guide to the Study of Basic Medical Mycology Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kee Peng Ng’s A Guide to the Study of Basic Medical Mycology book blitz December 1 – 12!   Title: A Guide to the Study of Basic Medical Mycology Author: Kee Peng Ng Publisher: Partridge Singapore Pages: 92 Genre: Medical Format: Paperback/Kindle Mycotic diseases are gaining importance because of the increase in opportunistic fungal infections in patients whose immune systems are compromised. The identification of fungi isolated from clinical material has posed a variety of problems to many laboratories because of lack of expertise and experience, especially in the identification of recently emerged rare fungi that had not been previously reported. A Guide
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Behind the Taffeta Curtain Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Verne Casstress’ Behind the Taffeta Curtain book blitz November 10 – 21! Title: Behind the Taffeta Curtain Author: Verne Castress Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 102 Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Clair, a small-town girl attending Iowa State University in 1940, has her palm read for a laugh—and gets a surprisingly specific prediction about her career, marriage, and children. She laughs it off, with no idea of how accurate it will turn out to be. After a failed romance, she hastily marries a man named John, has two children, and very soon finds herself miserable. John is not only abusive and controlling, but also a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Grysdcaen Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Natsuya Uesugi’s grydscaen virtual book publicity tour November 3 – 14! ABOUT GRYDSCAEN       Title: grydscaen Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author: Natsuya Uesugi Publisher: Xlibris EBook: 288 pages Release Date: July 21, 2011 Follow the lives of the main characters as they come together in the backstory to grydscaen:retribution, the first volume of the grydscaen saga. Faid is tired of life on the run in the Echelons, trying to keep his psychic power in check, he founds the Packrats establishing a safe haven for psychics. As a hacker he uses his jack to support his neurocyne habit. Lino is recruited by the Psi Faction and
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Juan Carlos Marcos, author of Warriors at the Helm

Juan Carlos Marcos was born in Cuba and immigrated to the United States in 1962. He spent almost four decades in leadership roles in human resources in the corporate world, including experience in multiple industries. Among the companies he worked at included Saint Mary’s Hospital Medical Center, in Madison Wisconsin, Graber Industries Inc., Boston Market and McDonald’s Corporation. Now retired and working as a consultant, he took the time to fulfill his dream of writing his first book. Juan holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Northern Illinois University and a master’s degree in business from the University of Wisconsin. Juan lives in Evergreen, Colorado, with his wife Randi.
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Steven Fujita, author of Toe Up to 10K

Steven Fujita was born in Los Angeles and raised in Torrance, California. He attended college in Washington, D.C., and currently lives in Long Beach, California. Listen to Steven Fujita’s interview on the Book Club with John Austin, which aired November 2, 2010, about his novella, Sword of the Undead, a re-telling of Bram Stoker’s vampire novel, Dracula. http://www.internetradiopros.com/bookclub/?p=episode&name=2010-11-01_zbookcub_for_110210_1st_segment_steven_fujita.mp3 His other book, $10 a Day Towards $1,000,000, is available on Kindle. This book promotes the idea of using time and savings to build wealth. His new book, Toe Up to 10K, was released in September 2014. This book chronicles his recovery from spinal cord injury he sustained in 2012. Visit
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I’ve Got Good News and Some Bad News: You’re Old Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Bernsteins’s I’ve Got Good News and Some Bad News: You’re Old virtual book tour November 3 – November 28!   Title: I’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News: You’re Old Author: David Bernstein Publisher: Dynamic Learning Pages: 202 Genre: Health/Fitness Format: Paperback/Ebook Life is an aging process. Each of us will go through it in our own way. How we lead our lives when we are old, particularly as we near the end, is, I believe, worth pondering. In this way, “I’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News: You’re Old” serves as a guide for all of
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  • October 13, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Four Before Their Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Timothy Spillane’s FOUR BEFORE THEIR TIME virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: Four Before Their Time Author: Timothy Spillane Publisher: Skitterbird, LLC Pages: 342 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Anne had it all. She was a physician, an Army officer, and a great wife. She’d be a great mom, too. But the joy of pregnancy is short-lived after an ultrasound reveals that Anne isn’t just pregnant, she’s really pregnant – with quadruplets! Now her dad, Tim Spillane, is a grandfather four times over, and much too soon. Just 24 weeks into her pregnancy, Anne delivered, and not one of Tim’s grandkids
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Oath of Nimrod Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Brody’s OATH OF NIMROD virtual book tour November 3 – November 28! Title: Oath of Nimrod Author: David S. Brody Publisher: Eyes That See Pages: 283 Genre: Historical Suspense Format: Paperback/Ebook A mysterious race of North American giants. An ancient Hebrew inscription in a Cherokee burial mound. A blood oath made by blindfolded Freemasons. Are these three historical oddities the reason the CIA is trying to brainwash historian Cameron Thorne and his fiancée Amanda Spencer-Gunn? The answer lies buried in the legends of the Knights Templar, within the rituals of the secretive Freemasons and, most significantly of all, inside the
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