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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | January 12, 2023 · 5:00 am

Flames of Winter Blitz

Flames of Winter Series, Book One

Historical Romance, Regency Romance, Historical Fiction

Date Published: January 12, 2022

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In this Regency romance by USA Today bestselling author BREE WOLF, a young
miss succeeds in escaping an unwanted marriage, only to end up finding
love.

A kidnapped young miss.

A protective Scotsman.

And a cabin in the woods in the deep of winter.

England 1804: SARAH MORTENSEN, daughter to BARON HARTMORE, is
desperate…desperate to escape yet another horrible match her parents
arranged for her. Once, she saw it as her duty to save her family from ruin,
to sacrifice herself in order to repay her father’s gambling
debts.

But enough is enough.

Determined to escape her latest fiancé, Sarah places her trust in
the Dowager Countess of Whickerton, known far and wide as Grandma Edie.
After all, no one is as shrewd as the dowager countess…or as daring.
Her plan is outrageous. Her intentions, however, are pure.

And so, Sarah agrees…to a feigned kidnapping…hoping to win
her freedom.

KEIR MACKINNEAR, second son to the chief of CLAN MACKINNEAR in the Scottish
Highlands, questions his own sanity when he finds himself kidnapping a shy,
wide-eyed English lass from her London home in the middle of the night. He
ought never have gone along with the Dowager Countess of Whickerton’s
ludicrous plan! Yet here they are, hiding out in a cabin in the woods in the
middle of winter!

Only the two of them!

Not counting two horses, an old goat, a handful of chickens and a haughty
feline by the name of Loki.

What could go wrong?

After all, the dowager countess is not known to be wrong. Ever.

Yet what slips Keir’s mind is that Grandma Edie loves nothing more
than to play matchmaker. And while she is certainly determined to save Sarah
from her vile fiancé, she might just have an ulterior motive.

Why not hit two birds with one stone?

Some stories can be told in one book. Others cannot. This is one of those
stories.

About the Author

USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of the LOVE’S SECOND CHANCE
SERIES. Bree Wolf has always been a language enthusiast (though not a
grammarian!) and is rarely found without a book in her hand or her fingers
glued to a keyboard. Trying to find her way, she has taught English as a
second language, traveled abroad and worked at a translation agency as well
as a law firm in Ireland. She also spent loooong years obtaining a BA in
English and Education and a MA in Specialized Translation while wishing she
could simply be a writer. Although there is nothing simple about being a
writer, her dreams have finally come true.

“A big thanks to my fairy godmother!“

Currently, Bree has found her new home in the historical romance genre,
writing Regency novels and novellas. Enjoying the mix of fact and fiction,
she occasionally feels like a puppet master, forcing her characters into
ever-new situations that will put their strength, their beliefs, their love
to the test, hoping that in the end they will triumph and get the
happily-ever-after we are all looking for.

If you’re an avid reader, sign up for Bree’s newsletter at www.breewolf.com
as she has the tendency to simply give books away. As a welcome gift, you
also receive the prequel to the bestselling ‘Love’s Second Chance Series:
Tales of Lords & Ladies’ for FREE. Find out about freebies, giveaways as
well as occasional advance reader copies and read before the book is even on
the shelves!

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | January 11, 2023 · 5:00 am

Myth Takes Blitz

Rhyme and reason in the Age of Entitlement

Poetry

Date Published: December 2022

Whether you carry an encyclopedic knowledge of the Iliad and the Odyssey or
think your Ajaxes belong in the cabinet under the sink, you’ll enjoy the
sonic feast within these pages, which reexamine the Greek myths with
purposeful typos, a nod to modern sensibilities and literate, joyful
wordplay.

About the Author

A. Gee has been playing with words since he was little, and has finally
been talked into sharing.

As an avid reader of both English and Russian classical literature and
poetry — English is his third language — he’s been fascinated by the
challenge of creating metrical, rhyming English poetry that wants to escape
out of your mouth and be read out loud — think Dr. Seuss meets Chaucer.
Well, at least half way.

After publishing a science fiction short in his early twenties, he’d spent
the bulk of his career writing code for a living, having created more than
40 video games in the span of a twenty year career in the field, and he
continues to enjoy it. But writing poetry has become an increasingly
important part of his life.

A happily married grandfather of four with more on the way, he and his wife
split their time between New Jersey and Texas.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | · 5:00 am

The Time Agents Blitz

Search for the Leon Key

Science Fiction / Time Travel / Parallel Universes

Date Published: November 26, 2022

Time Agent Jon Howe:

Born in the 25th century and trained as an agent dedicated to keeping his
timeline stable. He is a lone wolf with no emotional ties, that is until he
meets Shoshanna. His orders and main goals are to find a way to stop an
invasion from another universe and obtain the love of this strange, somewhat
angry exotic woman, who for the first time in his life has stirred extreme
emotion in him.

He is recruited by the (WQPB) World Quantum Physics and Time Bureau to
travel back to 1939 Morocco because scientists from his time have noticed
strange events at that time and location. Events that point to an imminent
invasion.

He travels to 1939 Casablanca to find a device (The Leon Key: Shaped like a
crystal Pyramid the size of a toaster with a 5″ gold ring embedded in
the center), that will allow him to cross to a parallel universe. He meets a
mysterious dark-haired beauty, Shoshanna, (She’s very fit with straight long
black hair and has extraordinary speed and fighting talent. She’s
headstrong.) Over the course of the story, they go from not liking each
other to falling in love.

He finds out she’s from the other universe and together they get the Leon
Key away from the Nazis and cross over to the planet Moorgliss to fight the
evil dictator Moogur, who is preparing to invade our universe and take over
Earth. The people look just like humans but have extra strength and
powers.

Will he get the device from the Nazis, or be defeated by the obsessed
dictator who wants Shoshanna for himself?

As the story progresses, we learn that Jon is now stuck in the past, as
time travel is currently a one-way ticket. Scientists in Jon’s own time work
to enable travel into the future. Will he get home?

About the Author

Sam Libraty was raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Sam was enamored with science
fiction from an early age but, because of his work commitments, was unable
to start writing until 2020.

One of the critical moments in his life was meeting Gene Roddenberry,
creator of Star Trek, at age 15. After spending the afternoon talking about
science fiction, the seeds were planted. Sam knew that someday he would
write science fiction.

Sam studied music at Kent State University. After college, he dedicated his
life to performing music, but with the birth of his sons Aron and Jonathan
Libraty, he changed his career to work in film and television.

Some of his favorite authors and influences are the Deans of science
fiction from the 1950s-2020s. Authors such as Robert Heinlein, Arthur C.
Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams,
Dennis E. Taylor, John Scalzi, and many classic and contemporary
writers.

After a long entertainment career, he began writing science fiction in his
spare time. His first book, The Time Agents: Search for the Leon Key, was
published in 2022.

Sam is currently working on his next novel. Besides writing, he enjoys
spending time with his family and friends, listening to music, and reading
and watching good science fiction. Sam now lives in Los Angeles, California,
with his wife, Tam, and cat, Butters.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | January 10, 2023 · 5:00 am

Observer Blitz

Science Fiction

Date Published: 01-10-2023

Publisher: Story Plant

If we can alter the structure of reality, should we?

Caro Soames-Watkins, a talented neurosurgeon whose career has been upended
by controversy, is jobless, broke, and the sole supporter of her sister, a
single mother with a severely disabled child.

When she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist
Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, desperation forces her to take
it in spite of serious suspicions.

Watkins has built a mysterious medical facility in the Caribbean to conduct
research into the nature of consciousness, reality, and life after death.
Helped in his mission by his old friend, eminent physicist George Weigert,
and young tech entrepreneur Julian Dey, Sam has gone far beyond curing the
body to develop a technology that could solve the riddle of mortality.

Two obstacles stand in their way: someone on the inside is leaking intel
and Watkins’ failing body must last long enough for the technology to be
ready.

As danger mounts, Caro finds more than she bargained for, including murder,
love, and a deeper understanding into the nature of reality.

A mind-expanding journey to the very edges of science, Observer will thrill
you, inspire you, and lead you to think about life and the power of the
imagination in startling new ways.

Editorial Reviews

“Nancy Kress is one of the greatest living science fiction writers,
and her particular talent for telling stories about people on the cutting
edge of science tipping into something new and marvelous is perfectly suited
to the ideas that have come to Robert Lanza in the course of his
groundbreaking scientific research. Together they’ve written a
startling, fascinating novel.”

―Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times bestselling author

“Robert Lanza has taken the gigantic step of incorporating his ideas
into a science fiction novel with Nancy Kress. This brilliant book will take
you deep into quantum physics, where these often-complex concepts are
illuminated through a riveting and moving story.”

―Rhonda Byrne, #1 New York Times bestselling author, The Secret

“Real science and limitless imagination combine in a thrilling story
you won’t soon forget.”

―Robin Cook, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Nancy Kress is a master storyteller, and her trademark empathy is on
every page. Even as we venture into the heady territory of quantum physics
and the nature of reality that Robert Lanza is known for, we never lose
track of Caro, the brilliant surgeon who’ll do anything to save the people
she loves. Observer is the best of science and fiction—an intellectual
adventure with real heart.”

―Daryl Gregory, award-winning author of Spoonbenders

“Observer is an impressive story! … Lanza and Kress give us
characters with science and spirit”

―David Brin, New York Times bestselling author, The Postman

About the Authors

Robert Lanza, M.D.

Named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,”
Robert Lanza is a renowned scientist and author whose groundbreaking
research spans many fields, from biology to theoretical physics. He has
worked with some of the greatest minds of our time, including Jonas Salk and
B.F. Skinner. A U.S. News and World Report cover story called him “the
living embodiment of the character played by Matt Damon in Good Will
Hunting” and described him as a “genius,” a “renegade
thinker,” and likened him to Einstein. He is the father of Biocentrism,
the basis of Observer, his first novel. He has been pondering the larger
existential questions since he was a young boy, when for play he took
excursions deep into the forests of eastern Massachusetts observing nature
(like Emerson and Thoreau, who grew up just a few miles from him).
This fascination with the nature of life infused his entire career, leading
him to the very frontiers of biology and science.

Nancy Kress

Hailed by bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as “one of the
greatest science fiction writers working today,” Nancy Kress has won
six Nebula and two Hugo Awards for her fiction. She often writes about
developments in science, particularly genetic engineering, as in her
bestselling novel, Beggars in Spain. Her work has been translated into over
a dozen languages, including Klingon. She teaches writing and was
“Fiction” columnist for Writer’s Digest magazine for sixteen
years. Nancy lives in Seattle with her husband, author Jack
Skillingstead.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | · 5:00 am

Now and Always Blitz

Hearts and Haunts Book 1

Paranormal Romance

Date Published: 01-10-2023

Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing

Romance may not be all that awakens while two best friends renovate a
mansion rumored to be haunted.

If you kiss your best friend…

Halloween-loving Ren needs a new job. The only problem? The sole accountant
opening in her small town requires construction experience, which are skills
she lacks. Luckily, her best friend Leo— sexy, grumpy and completely
off limits— is a construction hotshot. Their relationship is perfect
as is, and, despite the intense chemistry, Ren refuses to ruin it with
romance. Leo agrees to teach her, with one condition— she must live on
site with him… and somehow survive the temptation.

You’ d better be sure…

Skeptic, sword-swinging Leo has loved Ren since she mistook him for a
hardware employee in the plunger section two years ago. While he took his
time winning her trust, she caged him in the friend zone. He’ s done hiding
his feelings, and living together— working, sleeping, playing—
at the Gothic mansion he’ s renovating will convince her that best friends
make the best lovers.

It’ s meant to be forever.

Ren resolves to resist Leo, even if he bends every rule. Discovering the
mansion’ s secrets— and lingering spirits, no matter what Leo
claims— offers distraction enough. But with her defenses splintering,
one kiss is all it takes to shatter every boundary, one night of passion to
believe in happily ever after… and one crumbling letter of unrequited love
to awaken ghosts forgotten. If Ren and Leo can’ t piece together the past
for two lost souls, they might lose more than their hearts.

About the Author

Once upon a time, a girl with flat hobbit feet dreamed of adventures in the
woods with an elven hero, fighting off orcs and saving magical rings. All
grown up now, C.J. Burright resides in Oregon (at least she got the trees).
While she faces her duties at the law office day job, she avoids writing
legal thrillers and instead turns toward romance—contemporary
(sometimes with a supernatural flair), paranormal or fantasy. With a 5th Dan
Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, it’s no surprise she prefers feisty
heroines who aren’t afraid to jump into the fight. Her slivers of
spare time are spent working out, gardening, playing the latest
Assassin’s Creed, and rooting on the Seattle Mariners, always with
music. She shares a house with her husband (not elven, alas, but a fine
alternative) and a devoted cat herd while missing her daughter from afar. C.
J. is represented by Brittany Booker of The Booker Albert Literary
Agency.

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