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First Chapter: The Wanderers by Paul Stutzman

Title: The Wanderers Author: Paul Stutzman Genre: Amish Fiction Publisher: Carlisle Printing Pages: 374 Language: English ISBN-10: 0984644911 ISBN-13: 978-0984644919 BUY THE BOOK Everything in God’s nature, Johnny observed, did what it was created to do. Everything, that is, except the human race. Johnny was born into an Amish family, into a long line of farmers and good businessmen. He is expected to follow the traditions of family and church as he grows to adulthood. But even as a boy, he questions whether he can be satisfied with this lifestyle. He wants “more” — more education, more travel, more opportunity. His restlessness leads him down a dangerous road where
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First Chapter: Buried Threads by Kaylin McFarren

Title: Buried Threads Genre: Erotic Romantic Suspense Author: Kaylin McFarren Publisher: Creative Edge Publishing LLC Pages: 328 Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1492120469 Purchase at AMAZON (coming October 22!) Rachel’s mouth sagged. “You mean you’re really a monk? But how’s that possible? You’re not even wearing a robe, and your hair…” He simply smiled.  A disturbing prophecy sends a treasure hunting duo on an urgent race to rescue a country in Kaylin McFarren’s heart pounding new novel,  Buried Threads. Full of erotic suspense and wild adventures, this is one trip that readers will never forget! Rachel Lyons and Chase Cohen work together as the successful owners of a treasure hunting company.
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First Chapter: Dark Lullaby by Mayra Calvani

Title:  Dark Lullaby Genre: Supernatural/Psychological Thriller Author: Mayra Calvani Publisher: Mayra Calvani Pages: 250 Language: English At a tavern one Friday night, astrophysicist Gabriel Diaz meets a mysterious young woman. Captivated by her beauty as well as her views on good and evil, he spends the next several days with her. After a while, however, he begins to notice a strangeness in her…especially the way she seems to take pleasure in toying with his conscience. The young woman, Kamilah, invites him to Rize, Turkey, where she claims her family owns a cottage in the woods. In spite of his heavy workload and the disturbing visions and nightmares about his
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First Chapter: Alyssa McCarthy’s Magical Missions: From Frights to Flaws by Sunayna Prasad

Title: Alyssa McCarthy’s Magical Missions: From Frights to Flaws Author: Sunayna Prasad Publisher: FriesenPress Pages: 216 Language: English ISBN-10: 1460207017 ISBN-13: 978-1460207017 Purchase at AMAZON Twelve-year-old Alyssa McCarthy can no longer stand the toughness of her uncle and wants a better life. But one day she discovers not only the existence of magic, but also a villain hunting her down. The villain uses magic and magical technology to kidnap Alyssa to the Fiji Islands. As much as she wants to go home, she has to face some dangerous challenges first. Not only that, the villain himself must also be defeated. Can Alyssa succeed, even with the help of her
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First Chapter: Public Enemies by Jess Money

Title: Public Enemies Genre: Political Thriller Author: Jess Money Publisher: Finchville Publishing Pages: 436 Purchase at AMAZON The only thing the elite fear, an uprising of the people, is about to be realized. After bankruptcy took away his dying wife’s medical care, Thomas Paine is on a crusade for a Second Bill of Rights using violence against politicians, banksters, and CEO’s. How far will FBI Agent Darren Medlin go to stop the public from joining Paine’s insurgency? Forced to publicize Paine’s demands, what decisions will talk show host Crystal Dickerson have to make? And which way will the country turn? Chapter 1: Linn Cove Senator Arlen Stowe’s motto was,
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First Chapter: Weak at the Knees by Jo Kessel

Title: Weak at the Knees Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance Author: Jo Kessel Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: 292 Language: English ISBN-10: 1490397604 ISBN-13: 978-1490397603 Purchase at AMAZON “We got so busy living life that we forgot to live our dreams.” Danni Lewis has been playing it safe for twenty-six years, but her sheltered existence is making her feel old ahead of time. When a sudden death plunges her into a spiral of grief, she throws caution to the wind and runs away to France in search of a new beginning. The moment ski instructor Olivier du Pape enters her shattered world she falls hard, in more ways than one. Their
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First Chapter: She Ain’t Heavy by Arnine Weiss

Title: She Ain’t Heavy Genre: Chick Lit Author: Arnine Weiss Publisher: Academy Chicago Press Pages: 255 Language: English ISBN-10: 0897337220 ISBN-13: 978-0897337229 Purchase at AMAZON Just when counter clerk Teddy Warner is about to be evicted from her Scranton apartment, she bumps into beautiful, brilliant, blond Rachel – her estranged childhood friend whose mother forbid their friendship thinking Teddy was beneath them. Teddy and Rachel reconnect over hot chocolate and under New Year’s Eve fireworks.  Their discussion leads to an invitation. Soon, Teddy’s on her way to Philadelphia, where Rachel is a student, to share an apartment and begin an exciting new life in the City. Teddy views Rachel
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First Chapter: Lila: The Sign of the Elven Queen by Mark J. Grant

Title: Lila: The Sign of the Elven Queen Genre: Children’s Fiction Author: Mark J. Grant Publisher: Mascot Books Pages: 230 Language: English ISBN-10: 162086357X ISBN-13: 978-1620863572 Purchase at AMAZON Lila is a polite six-year-old girl who lives with her mama and papa in New York City. She has two cats, and would now like to have a dog–except dogs are not allowed in her apartment building. After thinking about it for awhile, Lila asks her parents if she can have an invisible dog. Her parents agree, and together they decide to name the dog Fluffy. On their way to the pet store to buy invisible supplies for the invisible
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First Chapter: The Guilty by Vincent Zandri

Title: The Guilty Author: Vincent Zandri Publisher: StoneGate Ink Genre: Thriller Pages: 465 Format: Ebook Language: English Purchase at AMAZON Jack Marconi is back. In The Guilty, Jack finds himself investigating a local restaurateur who’s not only obsessed with the sexy, dark romance novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, he’s accused of attempting to murder his school teacher girlfriend. As the now brain-damaged young woman begins recalling events of that fateful winter night when she was allegedly pushed down the front exterior stairs of a West Albany mansion, she becomes the target of the angry foodie/sex-obsessed boyfriend once again. Only this time, he’s cooking up a plot to keep her
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First Chapter: The Old Rectory: Escape to a Country Kitchen by Julia Helene Ibbotson

Title: The Old Rectory: Escape to a Country Kitchen Author: Julia Helene Ibbotson Paperback: 128 pp. Publisher: New Generation Publishing Language: English ISBN-10: 1909593753 ISBN-13: 978-1909593756 Purchase your copy at AMAZON. Author Julia Ibbotson and her husband glimpsed the old Victorian rectory on a cold January day. It was in dire need of renovation, in the midst of the English moorlands and a mile from the nearest village, but they determined to embark on a new life in the country, to make the sad neglected house glow again and to settle into the life of the small traditional village. As Julia researches the history of the house and village,
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First Chapter: Gem City Gypsy by Kristin Kuhns Alexandre

Title: Gem City Gypsy Genre: New Adult Fiction Author: Kristin Kuhns Alexandre Publisher: Sisterhood Publications Pages: 158 Language: English ISBN-10: 1940016029 ISBN-13: 978-1940016023 Purchase at AMAZON When you read “Gem City Gypsy” you must conceptualize a whole world. Gypsies. Socialites. The Wright Brothers. The KKK. Industrialization leading to WWI. So many vivid elements. The story is about a gypsy girl who must leap over bodies to survive the sinking Lusitania and escape murderous Germans who kill her mentor in Ireland. She later returns to her hometown, recreated as a wealthy woman trying to meld into the upper class.  Neci Star captures our imagination and heart as she claws her
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First Chapter: Rock Haulter by Stephen Hayes

Title: Rock Haulter Author: Stephen Hayes Format: ebook Length: 433 pages Publisher: Stephen Hayes Purchase at AMAZON The second installment in the Magic Crystals series, immediately following the events of ‘The Seventh Sorcerer’. The original villain is back, only this time he is on a different mission, taking orders from the evil and cunning Hammerson Sorcerers, and his path will intersect those of John Playman and his friends on Rock Haulter. A desperate race must ensue, Moran and the powers of the Hammersons against the Chopville teens. The prize will be the most powerful of all the Magic Crystals and a control over the balance of life, but such
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First Chapter: I, Walter by Mike Hartner

Title: I, Walter Author: Mike Hartner Publisher: Eternity 4 Popsicle Publishing Pages: 224 Language: English ISBN-10: 0973356154 ISBN-13: 978-0973356151 Purchase at AMAZON This is the life story of Walter Crofter, an English commoner who ran from home at the age of 11.  After two years living on the street, he ended up on a Merchant Mariners boat in the service of the Crown. On his first voyage, he rescued a girl from pirates.  A very important girl, who stole his heart before she was returned to her home. This is the story of his life.  What adventures he had at sea; what took him off the waters, and what
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First Chapter: Brimstone and Water by Sharon House

Title: Brimstone and Water Author: Sharon House Format: Paperback & Electronic Length: 264 pages Publisher: Tate Publishing Purchase at AMAZON Orphaned as a toddler, Caralynn Davidson grieves the loss of her grandfather as she takes over the reins of the family estate near a small Swiss village, but the Brimstone and Water from millennia ago that destroyed an ancient civilization is about to change Caralynn’s life. She receives a letter from her grandfather, charging her with the mission of bringing an ancient soul to rest. “But I thought only God could bring a soul to rest,” she whispers with the loosely held pages still in her hand. Mynah is
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  • August 5, 2013
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First Chapter: The Seventh Sorcerer (The Magic Crystals Series) by Stephen Hayes

Title: The Seventh Sorcerer Author: Stephen Hayes Format: ebook Length: 345 pages Publisher: Stephen Hayes Purchase at AMAZON On the surface, Chopville appears not unlike any other small town in rural Australia. However, its underbelly is more than extraordinary. Amongst its modest community reside six people from two very different families — they make up the six most powerful people in the world today. Branded as “Sorcerers”, they are the only six people in the world with true magical power. Yet these two families do not cooperate together and although there is no open fighting in the year 2010, things weren’t always that peaceful. John Playman knows this as
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First Chapter: The Controlled by Becky Komant

Title: The Controlled Author: Becky Komant Publisher: BK Press Pages: 292 Language: English ISBN-10: 099181150X ISBN-13: 978-0991811502 Purchase at AMAZON Sarah Ruiz thought she had it all – until someone entered her life who was hell-bent on destroying her. Sarah Ruiz is a business owner, a fitness trainer and a mom.  Married to the ever-so-charming and wealthy Alex Ruiz, Sarah appears to have the perfect life.  But behind closed doors, he revealed a side of himself that destroyed her love for him.  With five beautiful children and unable to leave her situation, Sarah knows she must make changes. Sarah’s journey to freedom take a turn when a man, Gabe
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First Chapter: Lion’s Head Deception

Title: Lion’s Head Deception Author: Chuck Waldron Publisher: Booklocker Pages: 318 Language: English ISBN-10: 1626463689 ISBN-13: 978-1626463684 Purchase at AMAZON In the prologue, the backdrop for Lion’s Head Deception is set, amongst rioting and unrest in a destabilized city. Matt Tremain is a shy, private person who discovers a passion for writing blogs—a mission that propels him into investigative reporting. A tipster warns him of a diabolical scheme Matt simply can’t ignore. After the tipster is killed, Matt honors his memory by going forward to investigate the truth behind the conspiracy. He meets a television reporter and a cameraman also investigating the intrigue. Are they potential partners or rivals?
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{First Chapter} Marcie by Carly M. Duncan

Title: Marcie Author: Carly M. Duncan Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Language: English ISBN-10: 148011832X ISBN-13: 978-1480118324 Purchase at AMAZON When Kate’s mother, Marcie, dies mysteriously she is forever tormented by the many questions surrounding her mother’s death. In Marcie’s absence Kate clings to her mother’s husbands, searching for solace. As family secrets are revealed Kate works to build her own life and family, but the mystery of her mother’s death sidetracks her until she finally gets the answer she’s always hoped for. First Chapter: FEBRUARY 1977 A call in the middle of the night can never bear good news. In fact, the sound of each ring sends a
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{First Chapter} Training Temptation by Diana Baron

Title of Book: TRAINING TEMPTATION Genre: Erotic Romance Author: Diana Baron Website: www.DianaBaron.com Publisher: Amazon Digital Services PURCHASE TRAINING TEMPTATION HERE SUMMARY: Caught in a web of deceit, Caroline must run the race of her life to save her family home. Her reputation as the high society owner of the #1 stable for Ponygirls in the world is on the line. And, there’s only one man who can help her win. Edward Hastings is steamy, passionate, and dangerous. With molten brown eyes and a rock hard body, the notorious playboy could have any woman in the world, but he only wants her. The first time he’d seen Caroline dressed
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First Chapter: Traveling for Love by Becky Due

Title: Traveling for Love: Searching for Self, Hoping for Love Author: Becky Due Publisher: Telemachus Press Pages: 178 Language: English ISBN-10: 1937698173 ISBN-13: 978-1937698171 Purchase at AMAZON Amanda’s life is suddenly turned upside down when her husband tells her he wants a divorce. She realizes she no longer knows who she is – her life revolved around her husband. At age 40, she finds herself divorced, childless, living in an apartment with a roommate, with little education and no career path. Can Amanda heal her pain and find love again? Will she find the career of her dreams? When will Amanda realize that she deserves to be happy? First
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First Chapter: A Voice in the Night by Ernestine Dail

Title of Book: A Voice in the Night Genre: Children’s Mystery Book Length: 46 pp. Author: Ernestine Dail Website: www.bookstop.wix.com/children-books Publisher: Avid Readers Publishing PURCHASE A VOICE IN THE NIGHT AT AMAZON SUMMARY: Brian, Josh, and Thomas arrived at Blackstone Cabin with great expectations of fishing and having fun. Now in the midst of a raging storm, and a hooded stranger frantically knocking at their door, the boys desperately wished for Josh’s father, Mr.Joplin, to return to the cabin. Will he return in time to save the boys from danger, or will the boys open the door to the frantic knocking of the hooded stranger outside. FIRST CHAPTER: BLACKSTONE CABIN
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First Chapter: Incidental Daughter by Val Stasik

Title: Incidental Daughter Author: Val Stasik Format: Paperback, ebook Length: 280 pages Publisher: Armery & Hallquist Publishing Purchase at AMAZON When successful publisher Liz Michaels’ marriage to blue blood, Addison Tiffin Payne, fails after the loss of their baby and his growing alcoholism, she pours all her creative energy and passion into her work and finds comfort in her friendship with the co-owners of her company as well as the appearances of the spirits of her Polish mother and grandmother, who never speak except in dreams she cannot remember. Only her feelings from those dreams linger. When Liz’s ex-husband plans to stage her suicide by pushing her off the
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{First Chapter} The Fulton Incident by Jordan Ekeroth

Title of Book: THE FULTON INCIDENT Genre: Suspense Author: Jordan Ekeroth Website: www.jordanekeroth.com Publisher: Amazon Digital Services PURCHASE THE FULTON INCIDENT HERE SUMMARY: International intrigue rooted in a secret history. Mysterious and unlikely allies. The memory of a lost love. A race against time. Josh Fulton is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame after catching a charismatic leader in an act of infidelity. But when he finds himself alone and hunted through the dark streets of a foreign city, he is forced to face the truth that he has found himself embroiled in a far deeper conspiracy than he’d ever imagined. As his search for truth takes him across
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First Chapters: San Francisco Secrets by Greg Messel

Title: San Francisco Secrets Author: Greg Messel Format: Paperback, ebook Length: 405 pages Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Noted novelist and newspaper editor Edgar Watson Howe once said. “A man who can keep a secret may be wise but he is not half as wise as a man with no secrets to keep” As the spring of 1958 arrives in San Francisco, it seems that baseball player turned private eye, Sam Slater and his fiancée, TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan, are surrounded by people who have secrets. A prominent doctor, John O’Dell is being blackmailed by someone who has discovered a dark secret from his past. When the private investigator trying to
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First Chapter: The Birr Elixir by Jo Sparkes

Title: The Birr Elixir Author: Jo Sparkes Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Sparkes Productions Language: English ISBN-10: 0985331836 ISBN-13: 978-0985331832 Purchase your copy at AMAZON. Book Synopsis: Marra had never heard of Birr Elixir. But when Drail of the Hand of Victory saw the words in an old book, she found herself agreeing to make it. Even lacking the right ingredient. And after drinking it, the Hand of Victory defeated a Skullan team, something no one had ever done before. Now Drail walked the path his grandsire had walked, and Marra was offered a place as Brista, his potions mistress. She doubted her ability, but took the chance to escape her slave-like
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First Chapter: Revived by Grace by Emma Clay

Title of Book: REVIVED BY GRACE Genre: Christian Memoir Author: Emma Clay Website: www.EmmaClay.com Publisher: Metokos Press PURCHASE REVIVED BY GRACE HERE SUMMARY: Emma Clay lived a life of rebellion, led astray by her own desires and her attraction to an indulgent life and a difficult man. This book is her memoir, telling the powerful story of her downward decline and the way God brought her back to himself through his love. Moving between personal storytelling, Biblical reflection, and political application, Revived by Grace is a book that speaks to the wounded place in all of us that can be healed only by the grace of God. FIRST CHAPTER:
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First Chapter: The Beloved Daughter by Alana Terry

Title of Book: THE BELOVED DAUGHTER Genre: Inspirational Fiction Author: Alana Terry Website: www.alanaterry.com Publisher: CreateSpace PURCHASE THE BELOVED DAUGHTER HERE SUMMARY: In a small North Korean village, a young girl struggles to survive. Catastrophic floods have ravaged her countryside. But it is her father’s faith, not the famine of North Hamyong Province, that most threatens Chung-Cha’s well-being. Is Chung-Cha’s father right to be such a vocal believer? Or is he a fool to bring danger on the head of his only daughter? Chung-Cha is only a girl of twelve and is too young to answer such questions. Yet she is not too young to face a life of
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First Chapter: When the Morning Glory Blooms by Cynthia Ruchti

Title: When the Morning Glory Blooms Author: Cynthia Ruchti Format: Paperback, ebook Length: 352 pages Publisher: Abingdon Books Purchase at AMAZON Becky rocks a baby that rocked her world. Sixty years earlier, with her fiancé Drew in the middle of the Korean Conflict, Ivy throws herself into her work at a nursing home to keep her sanity and provide for the child Drew doesn’t know is coming. Ivy cares for Anna, an elderly patient who taxes Ivy’s listening ear until the day she suspects Anna’s tall tales are not just idle ramblings. They’re Anna’s disjointed memories of a remarkable life. Finding a faint thread of hope she can’t resist
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  • May 9, 2013
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First Chapter: The Spellcaster’s Grimoire by Mark All

Bestselling witchcraft author Trish Sinclair has a shameful secret: she’s a lousy spellcaster, and the spells in her books belong to others. So when a dying warlock entrusts her with an ancient and powerful grimoire, she runs for her life from his murderer, psychotic witch Kate Cavanaugh. Kate pursues Trish relentlessly to obtain the grimoire, which holds spells to command the fearsome power of a magic crystal hidden in town—and Kate is determined to have that power. When the town coven refuses to help Trish protect the grimoire, she is forced to turn to cynical warlock Aidan McCarthy, who has a secret agenda of his own, and Rain Devereaux,
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First Chapter: Search for the Last Realm by Kraig Dafoe

Title of Book: SEARCH FOR THE LAST REALM Genre: Fantasy/Adventure Author: Kraig Dafoe Website: www.KraigDafoeBooks.com Publisher: CreateSpace PURCHASE SEARCH FOR THE LAST REALM HERE SUMMARY: Search for the Lost Realm is an epic journey in which a young man named Varan wants to find a power which has been missing from the world of Kantania for thousands of years. Varan sets out but soon discovers his true mission is to save the worlds creator from a spiritual bond placed upon him by the powerful demon, Eldrok. From demons to dragons and sorcerers to soldiers, battles erupt and Varan must hurry or the world could be lost to darkness forever.
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