You might know Maggie Shayne as a New York Times bestselling romance author and RITA award winner, but did you know that she’s also a practicing Witch? Indeed, Maggie is a High Priestess and licensed Wicca minister who studied in the Black Forest Circle Seminary for three years.
Maggie grew up in a rural area near Syracuse, New York. In the 1980s, her writing ambitions prompted her to take a job watching a neighbor’s horses so she could earn enough money to buy her first typewriter. She quickly finished three manuscripts but couldn’t find a publisher. Her fortune changed in the early 1990s when Harlequin launched its paranormal line, Silhouette Shadows. Her debut, Twilight Phantasies, kicked off her popular “Wings in the Night” series of 23 books.
At the top of today’s Buffet is Maggie’s 1994 classic Forgotten Vows, her first serial-killer story featuring the dreaded “Syracuse Slasher.”
Maggie has numerous writing credits besides her 50 books and dozens of novellas — she’s been an advice columnist and has written many scripts for TV soaps, such as The Guiding Light and As the World Turns.
In October Maggie launched her “Portal” series with Mark of the Witch. Although she uses some of her witchcraft research in her novels, the storylines and descriptions are entirely fictional. However, she’s currently finishing up her first nonfiction book, The Magick of the Witches, which includes real spells and rituals to enhance anyone’s practice.
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Forgotten Vows (A Maggie Shayne Classic)
Romantic Suspense
Author: Maggie Shayne
Ash is a slightly claustrophobic investigative reporter on the trail of a serial killer, who thinks his Ms. Right is Suzy Homemaker. As part of his investigation, he’s pretending to have amnesia. Joey is a Harley-riding psychic with a penchant for caves and a vested interest in catching the same killer. As part of her investigation, she’s pretending to be Ash’s wife.
Neither can admit the truth, nor deny the passion that flares with every touch, and might just cost them their lives.
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The Grey Tier (Essence # 1)
Horror
Author: Michele Scott
What happens when a small-town girl moves to Hollywood to pursue her dreams and winds up smack dab in the middle of a murder investigation, haunted by famous dead celebs, and working for the biggest pop star in the music industry?
Introducing Evie Preston: Small-town girl and under-the-radar healer, currently trapped in a po-dunk Texas town but yearning for something more. When fate gives her the opportunity to move to Hollywood to follow her dreams, Evie finds herself navigating through the land of glitz and glamour, and the realm of (dead) celebrities…
Once in L.A., Evie finds a singing gig at a local dive bar where she meets a slew of interesting characters including the owner himself, a former child star with a hidden past.
Mommy, May I?
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: A.K. Alexander
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Sixteen years ago, Helena Shea was an up-and-coming fashion model, until an affair with a married man, an unexpected pregnancy, and a drug scandal cost her almost everything. Now CEO of her own modeling agency and founder of a home for wayward mothers, Helena has spent years trying to atone for her sins…but with just one horrifying phone call, they come rushing back again.
A depraved killer has set his sights on Helena, seeking vengeance for the day she robbed him of his only chance at happiness. Now he plans to return the favor–by kidnapping Helena’s estranged daughter, Frankie. To save her, Helena must face the demons of her past, joining forces with her former lover and the journalist who nearly ruined her, embarking upon a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse.
Deadly Valentine: A Valentine Mystery Book One
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Jenna Harte
Tess Madison walked away from her two-timing fiancé, a multi-million dollar trust fund, and a cushy corporate law job to pursue the single life, indulging in chocolate and fancy French underwear. But her newly reordered life comes unraveled when she reluctantly accepts an invitation to a dinner party and stumbles upon the host’s dead body.
Now Tess is in the middle of a murder investigation pitting her wannabe-boyfriend police detective against Jack Valentine, a man from her past with blue-green eyes and sinful smile that causes her to rethink her self-imposed celibacy. Tess has many reasons to avoid Jack including the fact that he’s the prime suspect in murder. But Tess doesn’t believe Jack’s the murderer and with an honest attempt to keep her hormones in check, she agrees to represent him.
God’s Grammar: A Novel
Religion & Spirituality
Author: Mick Mooney
Waking from a strange dream in which God offered to teach him grammar, Sam is startled to discover God is actually in his apartment, ready to start the lesson. While the grammar lesson begins at Sam’s kitchen table, inwardly an epic journey also takes place; a journey out of Sam’s inner Fortress and into the greater realm of his soul.
While God seeks to liberate Sam, the General–a dark co-inhabitant of Sam’s inner Fortress–is determined to keep the revelation of God’s unfailing love from finding a permanent home in Sam’s heart.
The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All
Fantasy
Author: Rod Redux
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“My legal name where I currently reside in the city of Liege, Belgium, in the year 2010 A.D., is Gaspar Valessi, but that is not my real name. The name I was given some 30,000 years ago, when I was born in a Paleolithic settlement in the region that is now called Germany– the name my father gave me shortly after I was voided, bloody and howling, from my mother’s womb– is Gon.”
So begins the saga of the immortal Gon, a 30,000-year-old vampire. This, the first volume of his memoirs, recounts his human life in prehistoric Germany alongside his companion Brulde and his two wives Eyya and Nyala, and details the fearsome events that lead to his transformation from man to undying monster.
Daughter of the Bamboo Forest
Historical Fiction
Author: Sheng-Shih Lin
A story set in war-torn, post-revolutionary China during the 1940s. Alone in the bamboo forest, seven-year-old Little Jade, still dressed in red silk after her father’s recent wedding, wonders whether she will ever meet her real mother. From age seven to twelve, Little Jade longs for the attention of an opium-addicted father and clashes with a desperate, resentful stepmother. The young girl is inadvertently swept by the tides of history, encountering a plague that decimated a village, Catholic nuns in a convent school, and the fabled dragon king along the way.
Disaster Preparedness: Urban Preppers with Kids, Pets & Parents; Disaster Survival for the Family
Advice & How-to
Author: James Mushen, George Hemminger
What have you done to protect you, your family, your parents and pets when the earthquake, flood, fire, hurricane or other disaster suddenly destroys your world? What is emergency preparedness anyway? Do you have any emergency food or will your kids go hungry? What will you do when the power grid is gone and with it the light, heat and water for your home?
This book goes far beyond the basic emergency preparedness handbooks and provides practical, real world advice and answers to questions such as:
- How do I heat and light my house?
- What food should I store?
- How do I protect my kid with a disability?
- How can I harden my home against burglars?
- Where is the “hidden water” in my house?
She Drives Me Crazy: Three Favorite Essays
Humor
Author: Celia Rivenbark
From the bestselling author of You Can’t Drink All Day If You Don’t Start In The Morning comes three wickedly irreverent essays that will resonate with women, mothers, and girlfriends everywhere.
Celia Rivenbark reviews the many oddities in stranger-than-fiction news story, chronicles her transition into the Twitter-sphere, and laments a missed opportunity to be a guest on a certain national talk show.
Stealing the Dragon: A Cape Weathers Mystery (Cape Weathers Mysteries)
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Tim Maleeny
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Soon after an ancient talisman is smuggled out of Hong Kong, a container ship filled with Chinese refugees runs aground on Alcatraz, the crew murdered. The Chinese Triads suspect one of their own, a female assassin named Sally known to have a complex relationship with a San Francisco detective named Cape Weathers. But when Sally goes missing, Cape becomes the focus of the Triads’ attention, and soon the police and FBI have him on their radar. Cape quickly realizes he’s screwed if he doesn’t find out what really happened on board the ship.
He soon seeks the aid of two neurotic cops, a drug lord, an autistic computer genius, a mayoral candidate, and a reporter with sentient hair.
C’MON! – My Story of Rock, Ruin and Revelation
Biographies & Memoirs
Author: Christopher Long, C.K. Lendt
Long recounts his personal experiences with candor and wit – from growing up with Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt to being physically threatened by Gene Simmons of Kiss to hanging out at Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate to his ultimate life-changing spiritual awakening.
This compelling and entertaining memoir features dozens of photos as well as hilarious original illustrations by cartoonist, Wendrell Tillett, and a foreword by Jeff “Blando” Bland, guitarist for the platinum-selling rock band Slaughter and Vince Neil.
The 4 Seasons of Marriage: Secrets to a Lasting Marriage
Religion & Spirituality
Author: Gary Chapman
Spring, summer, winter, fall. Marriages are perpetually in a state of transition, continually moving from one season to another—perhaps not annually, as in nature, but just as certainly and consistently. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter—discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times, we experience springtime with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On other occasions, we bask in the warmth of summer—comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life.
The purpose of this book is to describe these recurring seasons of marriage, help you and your spouse identify which season your marriage is in, and show you how to enhance your marriage in all four seasons.
Ripley’s RBI 01: Scaly Tale
Children’s Books
Author: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!
Join the RBI—a group of teen agents with special gifts—on a series of action-packed adventures as they travel the world!The Florida swamplands are home to hungry gators, wild electrical storms, and a most unusual creature. Sightings of a strange lizard-like animal reach Ripley High and the RBI are sent to investigate. During their search, the RBI agents find themselves in the middle of a high-speed airboat chase, a swarm of rats, a mysterious treasure hunt, and DUL agents in disguise. But then that’s nothing unusual when you’re a member of the RBI.
Treasure of Saint-Lazare
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: John Pearce
An old lover brings a cryptic letter to Paris, pulling Eddie Grant reluctantly into a treacherous web of intrigue and death — but giving him a slim chance to find the terrorists who murdered his family seven years before. It launches him on a dangerous quest through Paris and the Loire Valley for the most valuable piece of Nazi loot that remains missing, a famous Raphael self-portrait from the early 16th century, along with the crates of Nazi bullion that accompanied it — all intended to finance the Fourth Reich.
The Mortician’s Wife
Horror
Author: Maralee Lowder
Five miles from the new age Mt. Shasta City, the sleepy Northern California town of Dunsmuir plays host to a nightmarish house – the Old Mortuary – where the mortician’s wife spent four decades alone, and some say insane, sleeping in an alcove off one bedroom where she believed the evil spirits of the house could not get to her, harboring terrible secrets.
With the steady flow of dead bodies through the basement and the murderous events upstairs, this is the story of how the Old Mortuary of Dunsmuir became one of the most haunted houses in America as a result of the personality and misdeeds of one man, Horace Carpenter, whose eternal soul most certainly does not rest in peace, as many will attest, and probably never will.
Winter’s Awakening: The Metahumans Emerge (Winter’s Saga #1)
Action & Adventure
Author: Karen Luellen
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Extraordinary teen Meg Winter and her brothers Alik and Evan are shoved into a new reality when they discover life is not what they thought it was: there is evil hunting them, they are not normal teens, and their mother’s captor wants them back to continue his plans for the perfect race.
For Nothing (An Upstate New York Mafia Tale)
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Author: Nicholas Denmon, Jesse Horst
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Undercover cop Alex Vaughn goes deeper than ever into the organized crime family of Buffalo, NY. Motivated by justice and revenge, he seeks out the assassin that laid his friend Jack low. Professional killer Rafael Rontego traverses the deadly politics of Buffalo’s mafia underbelly. In a city whose winter can be just as deadly as those wielding power, Rontego tries to stay ahead of the game.
Their two worlds collide in this epic thriller that takes the reader on a search for self, justice, and truth.
Burning Bridges (The Bleeding Heart Trilogy)
Action & Adventure
Author: Nadege Richards, Silviya Yordanova
In a world that has been divided amongst the Hunter race and the Warrior, prisoners who have fallen prey to King Cyrus’ decrees are forced into the arena to fight until death. Winner is granted mercy and privilege to see another sunrise. Death unto the weak. In an attempt to get back at everyone who has ever shut her out, seventeen year-old Princess Echo becomes another victim, dragging Ayden–her forbidden love–along in a race to freedom, to find out who she really is, and to put a world that has been swallowed by lies back together again.
How to Publish a Best Seller on Amazon – Understanding the KDP program, Free Downloads, Free Marketing, How to Price your Ebook, Formatting to Kindle
Business & Investing
Author: Nicholas Black
This is the ultimate How-to book for publishing and launching a successful ebook on Amazon, maximizing your downloads, and generating a consistent income from your ebook. You’ve put all the effort into writing it, now it’s time to see some of the rewards.
Amazon is the biggest marketplace in the world. This how to book describes the steps you need to take to maximize your visibility not just on Amazon, but also on Google. Let Amazon and Google work as a team to build velocity behind your books, catapulting your ebook downloads into the best seller lists.
Hair Gone Wild! Recipes & Remedies for Natural Tresses (Herbs Gone Wild!)
Advice & How-to
Author: Diane Kidman
Tired of your hair’s unruly behavior? Ready for some natural hair care that not only works but brings your hair’s true beauty to light? Whether you’re looking for a few quick remedies to end your hair woes, or you’re ready to go all out and learn the magic behind the no ‘poo phenomenon, Hair Gone Wild! will take you there with easy-to-understand instructions and a good dose of that most ancient of remedies, humor. Everything from how to make homemade hairspray and gels to how to ditch the shampoo and grow magnificently manageable hair that you’ll finally love.
Magic of Public Speaking: A Complete System to Become a World Class Speaker
Business & Investing
Author: Andrii Sedniev
A comprehensive step-by-step system for creating highly effective speeches based on research from the top 1,000 speakers in the modern world. The techniques have been tested on hundreds of professional speakers, and they work. You will receive the exact steps needed to create a speech that will keep your audience on the edge of their seats. The book is easy to follow, entertaining to read and uses many examples from real speeches.
The Fantastic Slow Cooker Cookbook
Cookbooks, Food & Wine
Author: Suzanne Summer
Using the crock pot (a.k.a. slow cooker) to prepare meals is one of the simplest way to prepare delicious meals. If you’re a busy mum like me, using the crock pot is the way to go. Just set the timer for the crock pot and leave for the day, expect a sizzling hot meal upon returning home. This cookbook is filled with 50 unique and delicious one-pot meals that are easy to prepare. Includes:
- Grilled Carne Asada Chill
- Caribbean Shredded Pork
- Clam and Corn Chowder
- Arroz Con Pollol (Chicken and Rice)
- Meatballs in Marina Sauce
- Chicken and Black Bean Tortilla Soup
Allegiance: a Border War Thriller (Book #3) (The Cruz Marquez Thrillers)
Men’s Adventure
Author: Derek Blass
After exposing one of the most notorious rings of police corruption in history, lawyer Cruz Marquez planned on starting a new life south of the border. That plan unraveled when an extremist group of Minutemen captured and tortured him and his wife. The Minutemen aren’t his only problem. Cruz will have to navigate the waters with Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel, Los Punos, to escape the grips of the Minutemen. But, will he just find himself indebted to an even worse master?
Arcadia’s Gift (Arcadia Trilogy)
Horror
Author: Jesi Lea Ryan, Vicki Keire
When 16- year-old Arcadia “Cady” Day wakes in a hospital after experiencing what can only be called a psychic episode, she finds her family in tatters. With her twin sister gone, her dad moved out, her mom’s spiraling depression, and her sister’s boyfriend Cane barely able to look at her, the only bright spot in her life is Bryan Sullivan, the new guy in school.
When Bryan’s around, Cady can almost pretend she’s a regular girl, living a regular life; when he’s not, she’s wracked with wild, inexplicable mood swings. As her home life crumbles and her emotional control slips away, Cady begins to suspect that her first psychic episode was just the beginning…
FEARLESS (King Series)
Horror
Author: Tawdra Kandle
Tasmyn Vaughn didn’t expect much when her dad’s job moved them to a small town in Florida; it was just another new school. But there is more to King than meets the eye, and soon Tasmyn’s ability to hear others’ thoughts is the least of her worries. Entangled in a web of first love, quirky and secretive townsfolk, magic and blood rituals, she discovers the town’s secrets aren’t just bizarre, they’re deadly.
Final Passage: The ocean must give up its secret
Action & Adventure
Author: Timothy Frost
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What is the dark secret that Martin Lancaster’s family seem determined to stop him uncovering? When Martin was eighteen, his father was tragically lost at sea during a transatlantic yacht race. Twenty-five years later, Martin discovers hidden logbooks in his mother’s attic, and vows to find out the truth. His quest takes him racing across the Atlantic in the Columbus Cup, the world’s largest-ever regatta, an event that becomes a personal voyage of discovery and disaster. On the Caribbean island of St Lucia, with his enemies closing in, Martin must make one desperate final sea passage to discover the shocking truth about his family – and himself.
Among Women
Contemporary Fiction
Author: J. M. Cornwell
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Abandoned in New Orleans and left with $50 and the clothes on her back, after six weeks, Pearl believes she’s found a way to reclaim her life. She couldn’t have been more wrong.
Arrested and jailed in the Orleans Parish Women’s Correctional Center without any way to reach the outside world, Pearl retreats into her own frantic thoughts until slowly the voices of her fellow prisoners reach past her fear. No longer alone, Pearl begins to listen to their stories—stories that must be told. Through their tales Pearl finds her own voice, a source of strength and a way out.
Anon
Horror
Author: Peter Giglio
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Rory Ellison, victim of his own misdeeds, wallows in misery. Then a door opens. Now he’s got a new job, a dream assignment to rewrite the darkest mistake of his past, and a strange new companion in his head. Wielding powers beyond his comprehension and control, Rory returns to …
… Faith. She possesses the perfect husband, kids, and home. But when Rory falls back into her world, old wounds open wide, shattering her ideal life.
At the center of the mayhem stands Anon, a seemingly benevolent organization with a sinister past of its own. “Helping you realize your dreams sooner,” the company promises. But what do they stand to gain? How far will they go to get what they want? And if they make dreams a reality, what about nightmares?
Satin Pleasures
Romance
Author: Karen Docter
Dan McDonald walked away from the American dream, a life full of money, glamorous women and power. Now nothing can lure him back into the corporate death trap. Except…. Dan’s scheming aunt snares him into opening a lingerie shop in Tess Emory’s shopping mall. Tess is everything Dan has vowed to avoid…sexy, smart, and obsessed with work.
Tess is determined to make her life a success and right the wrongs of her past, no matter the cost. They’re both going to discover that true love breaks all their rules.
Wine & Roses
Romance
Author: Susan R. Hughes
A widow at 42, Abby Wells has poured her heart into the restoration of The Roses Inn, a historic Niagara-on-the Lake establishment reputedly haunted by a 19th-century ghost. In walks Jason Brinleigh, a gorgeous winery owner nine years Abby’s junior, intent on buying the place from her. The transaction falls by the wayside as Abby and Jason fall for each other. But the scars left by past loves run deep, challenging them both to surrender their hearts. When unexpected events threaten to tear them apart, will it take a little intervention from the spirit world to set things right?
How to be Totally Awesome
Advice & How-to
Author: Melody Litton
Do you know someone who lights up a room every time they walk into it? Or someone who makes you feel great inside after even a few moments of conversation? If so, you know a totally awesome person. The goal of this book is to share the secrets of totally awesome people. The hope is that these secrets will help create a world chock full of people radiating total awesomeness.
Perfect for both men and women, old and young. Its simple and humorous style makes it a perfect fit for both avid and casual readers.
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