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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | May 6, 2022 · 5:00 am

Trial & Tribulations Blitz

New Adult Romance, Military Romance, College Romance, Alpha Romance

Date Published: April 8th, 2022

Publisher:‎
Brandylight Ink

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Kate Connelly has been longing for escape from The Academy since the day
she arrived.

Just when she’d settled into her role as an elite cadet and Officer
Ranger Nealson’s wife, her first love, former Elite Cadet Pete
Davenport, crashes into her life once again. Unwilling to let Ranger have
her, he carries out a daring rescue, snatching her back from The Academy and
the possessive arms of her new husband . . . while on their honeymoon in
Mexico.

After the absolute best summer of her life, she discovers that The Academy
has retaliated by abducting her other brother, and a growing reason why she
has to return. Kate makes the heartbreaking decision to leave Pete, arriving
back at The Academy with Ranger’s prized possession. But instead of
welcoming her back with open arms, she’s greeted with a cold shoulder
and finds herself back to square one—with The Academy and with
Ranger.

Before she can even catch her breath, she’s forced, once again, into
carrying out The Academy’s ongoing plans for her. Meanwhile,
Ranger’s ruthless pursuit of revenge and reaching for the next rung in
his career leaves Kate isolated, outcast, and bitterly regretting her
decision to return. But just when things seem to be turning around for The
Nealsons, something crashes into their lives that shatters all that has ever
mattered: past, present, and future. Priorities, alliances, and old
vendettas shift once again. And their lives will never be the same.

Other books in The Academy Saga series:

The Academy

The Academy Saga, Book I

Be careful what you wish for . . .

Cadet-in-Training

The Academy Saga, Book One II

Kate’s destiny has been determined for her.

CAP & Gown

The Academy Saga, Book One III

Katie Connelly is nineteen years old but feels like she’s been fighting for
survival forever.

Find the series on Amazon

All Four Books are FREE on Kindle Unlimited!!

About the Author

CJ Daly grew up on the scrabbly plains of Eastern New Mexico. When she was
supposed to be helping her six siblings with chores on the family ranch, she
was really sneaking behind dusty haystacks to read. And dreaming about
becoming a writer.

After graduating high school, CJ moved to Big D (Dallas) where she quickly
put herself through college while trying to rid herself of her country
accent. She had better luck with college, graduating magna cum laude with a
degree in English literature. After teaching a few years, and pausing to
have back-to-back boys, she began writing in earnest.

A few years later, “The Academy Saga” was born. “The
Academy” is her debut novel, and “The Academy,
Cadet-in-Training” is the sequel. CJ is so proud that both books earned
Readers’ Favorites 5-STAR seals of approval. When she isn’t writing, you can
usually find her running from one athletic field to another, feeding the
array of wild animals that show up at her back door, or kicking back with
her gal-pals to sip cocktails and gossip about favorite books and TV
shows.

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Donnybrook Good-Bye Virtual Book Tour

Urban Fantasy

Date Published: 08-31-2020

Inara Caan is an embittered vestal to The Order of the Avenging Hand. Her job, traveling worldwide with her demon partner, using magic to destroy monsters and mythological creatures wherever the Order finds them. Her next hunt takes her to Boston. She expects to find villainy beyond compare. Instead, she has been tasked with killing a happy family with a young daughter.

For reasons she doesn’t understand, the Order betrays Inara and sends a winged assassin to kill her. She goes on the run, taking the family with her. She battles her way through the streets of Boston, finding help in the unlikeliest of places. As enemies close in from all sides, she stretches the limits of her power trying to save everyone. She may escape the Order but not the demon bound to her soul.

EXCERPT

Once the monster was well gone, his body shimmered, changing back into the tall Korean man in the
same running attire. Except this time, he wore a bright yellow headband.
His mouth twisted into a crazed smile. The laughter rolled out of him hard and fast for thirty-some-odd
seconds before he wrangled his outburst back under control.
What a lumbering idiot.
Having calmed himself, he ran through a series of standing stretches in the manner of someone loosening
up for a long run. He leaned against the side of the church. Air slipped from his lips. The whistle turned
into words as he sang the Taylor Swift song “Shake It Off,” culminating in a moonwalk away from the
wall. He finished with a spin.
His giggles almost knocked him over. A challenge to rein in this time, he came down off his fit only to
fight off another burst of laughter.
A homeless woman stood at the corner of the church and gawked at him.
“Seems you need to go back on your meds, Alice.” He morphed into a giant red devil with horns and
scales, then pointed an accusatory finger at her.
Alice screamed as she fled into the rainy night.
The man changed back into a jogger. He stood upright and straight. The cursed laughter threatened to
retake him, but he fought it back valiantly. He jogged in place, bringing his knees up higher than necessary.
Ready, he jogged out into the street, shooting a glance to the sky one last time. The rain resumed with a bit
more gusto.
“All it takes is a little nudge sometimes,” he informed no one as he turned the corner before sprinting
down the street.

About the Author

Martin Cullen has been a musician, bouncer, infantryman, and worked in museums. He immigrated from Ireland at a young age (sorry no accent). Martin walked the storage rooms of the American History Museum, worked backstage for a magician, drank more than he should, and sang more than most folks would have liked. Now he brings some stories into the world for your enjoyment.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | May 5, 2022 · 5:00 am

Sword of Darkness Reveal

The Vigilant, Book 3.5

YA, Urban Fantasy

Date Published: 07-08-2022

Publisher: Phenomenal One Press

Reece had a thirst for the adrenaline rush that came with taking risks.
He’d avoided paying the price for most of his push of the envelope
until he met one person that used his lust for fast cars, wicked weapons,
ditching school, and beautiful girls to trap him in the most seductive ways.
Someone he least expected put her life in danger to save him from himself,
and he wouldn’t waste her sacrifice. Reece would use the anger fueled
by the strikes to an innocent to start the beginning of the turn of justice
that will change the course of his life. He hoped his family could forgive
him for the deal that put a target on their heads.

Read other books in the Vigilant series: Insatiable Darkness, Caged Fire,
Unbreakable Darkness, Scepter of Fire, Break the Darkness, Rebel of Fire,
Sword of Darkness, and Blade of Fire (end of 2022).

About the Author

L.M. Preston, a native of Washington, DC. An avid reader, she loved to
create poetry and short-stories as a young girl. She is an author, an
engineer, a professor, a mother and a wife. Her passion for writing and
helping others to see their potential through her stories and encouragement
has been her life’s greatest adventures.She loves to write while on
the porch watching her kids play or when she is traveling, which is another
passion that encouraged her writing.

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I’m a Contract Killer Virtual Book Tour

The Aberration Series: Book 2

Thriller / Noir

Date Published: 03-07-2022

Publisher: Happy London Press

This is the second book in the Aberrations Series, a collection of ten new, short stories to tease and tickle.

How would you feel if you came face to face with a contract killer? I did, and it formed the basis for my title story .

But then, most, if not all of my yarns have a foundation in something I’ve heard, read or personally experienced.

I’ve kept a diary, for example, but have not had as macabre an experience as the old man in my tale, Dear Diary .

One might wonder, for example, whether, given the chance, the leopard might ever change its spots? Read my take on it and find out for yourself. This story was based on an actual event involving my wife, when she was just six years old. Her mother was so appalled by what happened, she refused to ever speak about it, or hear about it for the rest of her life.

I am not, and have never been a Gigolo, but decided to have our hero from Book 1 meet his comeuppance in Book 2 when he meets a Courtesan, who tumbles his well-kept secret. It’s all there for you to appreciate.

In this second Book in the series, I’ve also looked at taxidermy, car crime and conditions under which an innocent journalist might be tortured and imprisoned in Vietnam? All based on personal experience, or else events I’ve read about in the press which struck me as being worthy of a view to be expressed in a short story .

These are just a few tasters of a collection of tales I hope you’ll enjoy reading as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them.

Andrew Segal

EXCERPT

The glint of steel defined the blade held in the man’s right hand.The
shank was at least eight inches long. Its owner, in his twenties, over
six feet tall, in tight blue jeans, with muscles bursting from his shabby
white T- shirt, frowned like one intent on a task in hand. His three
colleagues, of similar height and build,seemed equally absorbed.They
were fanned out across the pavement like a herd of approaching
buffalo, in the otherwise deserted street, on what was a cold grey
October afternoon.
The object of their attention was the two men approaching them.
The older of the two, in his early forties, bull-necked,shaven headed,
around five feet eight, his companion, in his late teens, lean built and
slightly taller.
The younger man spoke first, his voice tremulous,“Christ dad. I said
we shouldn’t have come down this street. It’s asking for trouble.”
“It’s a free country son.We don’t need permission to walk any street
we want.”
“But what’re we gonna do? There’s four of ‘em.”
“Stand still son. Now! Let them come to us.We start nothing. Maybe
they’ll walk on. If they start getting clever[…]”
Excerpt From:Andrew Segal.“I’m a Contract Killer: Murderous,
Explosive, Deviant.”
“otherwise deserted street, on what was a cold grey October
afternoon.
The object of their attention was the two men approaching them.
The older of the two, in his early forties, bull-necked,shaven headed,
around five feet eight, his companion, in his late teens, lean built and
slightly taller.
The younger man spoke first, his voice tremulous,“Christ dad. I said
we shouldn’t have come down this street. It’s asking for trouble.”
“It’s a free country son.We don’t need permission to walk any street
we want.”
“But what’re we gonna do? There’s four of ‘em.”
“Stand still son. Now! Let them come to us.We start nothing. Maybe
they’ll walk on. If they start getting clever, well, just remember what
I’ve taught you.”
The four were closer now.“Dad?” The boy sounded frightened, felt
frightened, his heart hammering painfully in his chest.

About the Author

My inspirations have come from real people, events or situations that have presented themselves. Titles like, I am a Contract Killer, I am a Gigolo, Death Zone, License to Kill, are all based on my own lifetime experiences, questions asked, incidents occurring.

Let me be reassuring, thus-far, nobody has been murdered on my watch. But the notion gave rise to the impetus to write my first murder mystery, The Lyme Regis Murders. Could I make the jump after years of writing macabre short stories to a full length drama? That familiar beating in the gut, said, ‘Yes, try it. Give it a go.’

And so to that cosy coastal town where nothing untoward ever happens. Or perhaps it does. The author seeks to shatter notions, change people’s perceptions, spoil long held views. That was my intention in entering into the world of crime thrillers. I’ve found that ‘nice’ people are not always what they seem. The helpless can be transformed into the most dangerous, the most dangerous become the most harmless. It’s all up to the writer and what they’re hoping to achieve.

For me there have been 10 children’s books, 4 books of short stories and so far, three novels, with a fourth in the mixer.

Whilst a short story might be written with a flurry of adrenalin in the space of a few hours, a book will need more than just a flash of creativity. It will need perseverance, discipline and dogged determination.

But then, isn’t that what is required of every ambition?

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Someone Knows Reveal

Thriller

Date Published: 7/1/2022

Publisher: Acorn Publishing LLC

Meet Jason Vincent, a good man doing a bad thing. A school principal, he
has allowed himself to slip into an affair with one of his teachers. Now,
haunted by guilt, he decides to end it and get back to being the husband his
wife deserves. But this is only the beginning of Jason’s problem. It
seems that his secret wasn’t a secret after all. Someone knows what
he’s been up to and that someone is ready to make him pay. Jason has
gotten to know guilt. Now he is going to meet terror.

About the Author

Mark Atteberry’s life has been spent working with words. He has been
a teacher, counselor, and speaker; high-impact roles where every word
matters. In 2020, Mark retired and devoted himself fully to writing. While
still penning his own books, he has dedicated the majority of his time to
ghostwriting. His body of work now sits at fourteen books, including the
multiple award-winning suspense novel, Dream. Currently, Mark lives in
Florida with his wife, Marilyn.

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