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Illusions: Ravens of Darkness

About Illusions: Ravens of Darkness

An ancient cult. A supernatural addiction. A forbidden love.
Evie Willow is terrified of drowning but she’s even more afraid of her own feelings. When the charismatic, telepathic lifeguard, Talon Renwyck, suddenly turns his affections toward her, Evie’s ability to rein in her feelings is threatened. Talon knows a secret which plunges Evie into the deep waters of her hidden emotions.
As she drifts away from the life she knows into Talon’s beckoning arms, Evie learns that he is much more than just the handsome guy she’s falling in love with. Caught in a dark and supernatural addiction and tied to a secret cult, Talon is crying out for help. Can Evie save him from himself?
Is their love the real deal or is it an illusion?
Nothing is what it seems.

“A clever, chilling, magical novel.” – Amazon Customer Review

Illusions is the first book in the Ravens of Darkness Series.
If you like character driven, paranormal romance sagas with a hint of magic and mystery, then you’ll love the Ravens of Darkness Series.
Get Book One for only 99¢ on Kindle September 7-13.

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Progressive Digression: A Book of Poetry

About Progressive Digression: A Book of Poetry

A collection of mostly free verse poems written throughout the author’s adolescence and young adulthood. This is the familiar story of striving for progression, while continuously digressing. It is an attempt to show the struggle that we all face in growing: we move on, but not always forward, and not always in a straight line. In these pages are stories of unrequited love and sadness, as well as hopefulness, found truly only in One Source.

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World of Shawn

About World of Shawn

This is the story of a lonely kid who develops a computer game, using what little of quantum physics that he has read, that renders game levels from maps of any format; the result is just a little too realistic. When he tries to combine this “World of Shawn” with a favorite game of his childhood, “World of One,” he soon finds Worlds colliding, to the detriment of his friends. Shawn must step up and rectify things, rescue the princess and save the World.

The interaction and constant dialogue between the characters in this story, as well as the humor and action intertwined, have drawn comparison to that in such works as “The Lord of the Rings,” “Harry Potter,” and “Narnia,” so if a reader has an interest in any of those, as well as an interest in video games, either in the past or the present, it would be a safe bet that they would enjoy getting to know Shawn and his World!

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“Your Hero”
(Book Excerpt)

I watch you from afar,
You don’t know who I am,
But I care for you,
And would die to defend you.
You are my Princess,
And I am here to save you.
I am Always,
Your Hero

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“The One”
(Bonus Material)

When no one else is around, you are the one who listens.
When all is darkness, you are the one who turns on the lights.
When the evil in this world seems to have overcome the good and all that was once true is utterly gone,
You are the one who keeps me going just one more day.
You are the one that holds back the tide.
You are the One.

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These are songs that helped me in the development of “World of Shawn” and songs that help recall scenes and elements from Shawn’s World, in chronological order. These would also be awesome for a WoS movie soundtrack, if a movie was ever produced! More will be added as I recall them:

1.Live For The Night – Krewella
2.Surrounded – BT+Aqualung
3.Atmosphere – Kaskade
4.Another Night Another Dream – La Bouche
5.Wake Me Up – Avicii+Aloe Blacc
6.Creep – Radiohead
7.Tidal Wave – Sub Focus+Alpines
8.Wild One Two – David Guetta+Nicky Romero+Sia
9.Starlight (Could You Be Mine) – Don Diablo+Matt Nash
10.Take Me Home – Cash Cash
11.Take Me – Tiesto+Kyler England
12.Never Say Goodbye – Hardwell & Dyro feat. Bright Lights
13.If I Lose Myself – Alesso+OneRepublic
14.Down – Mat Kearney
15.Worlds Apart – Jars of Clay
16.Hurt – Johnny Cash
17.Don’t You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia
18.Save The World-Zedd Remix – Swedish House Mafia+John Martin
19.Pompeii Remix – Bastille+Kat Krazy

Do you have ideas of others that fit well?

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A Practical DBT Skills Workbook for Modern Teens & Adolescents: How to Help You Confront Your Emotions and Anxiety, Keep Them Under Control, and Practice Mindfulness

About A Practical DBT Skills Workbook for Modern Teens & Adolescents: How to Help You Confront Your Emotions and Anxiety, Keep Them Under Control, and Practice Mindfulness

This therapeutic technique has helped Lady Gaga and Selena Gomez get through the toughest times in their lives. Here’s how it can help you too.

Your teenage years are a time of great change and new experiences as you transition into adulthood.

You’re undergoing profound changes in your body, facing more challenging ordeals, and feeling deeper emotions, you may not have felt before.

On top of that are the stresses of school, the complications of teenage relationships and the

It can feel overwhelming to be a teen, and sometimes things can get to be too much for you.

Whether you’re feeling hurt, stressed, insecure, angry, anxious, or lonely, know that you don’t have to go through it alone.

You can always turn to your parents, friends, teachers, and mentors for advice, support, and assistance.

But aside from outside help, you can also take actions to help yourself deal with the pressures of teenage life.

One of the most effective ways is Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT.

It is a form of cognitive-behavioral therapy that can aid those struggling with various issues such as depression and anxiety, anger outbursts, frequent mood swings, and more.

With this workbook, you’ll learn to develop useful skills to help you respond better to difficult and stressful experiences.

In A Practical DBT skills Workbook for Modern Teens and Adolescents, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:
A helpful overview of DBT, how it works, and how it can improve your relationships and transform your life
The 4 core components of DBT and how each can contribute to your mental health and wellbeing
How you can change the way you feel no matter what situation you find yourself in using the Self-Soothe method
101 Fun and productive exercises ( 8.5×11 -Self-help Worksheets) to help you develop the DBT skills you need to cope effectively with challenging situations
Emotion regulation techniques that give you more understanding of and control over your emotions
How to apply GIVE skills to enhance the quality of your relationships and deal with conflicts
How to use Distress tolerance skills to improve your daily habits
Step-by-step 30-60-90-day plan to improve your communication and relationships

And much more.

You might be struggling today, but that doesn’t mean you have to struggle forever.

Building and practicing DBT skills will give you the tools to face any challenge without getting overwhelmed by your emotions.

Teen’s and Adolescent’s life may be tough, but you’re tougher, and you can make it through!

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Blood and Silver by Vali Benson

About Blood and Silver by Vali Benson

What is a twelve year old girl to do when she finds herself in the silver boom town of Tombstone, Arizona, in 1880, and her only home is a brothel and her only parent is a drug-addicted mother? If she is Carissa Beaumont, she outsmarts the evil madam and figures a way out.

After tricking the madam, Miss Lucille, into summoning a doctor for her mother, Lisette, she discovers that Miss Lucille has been drugging her. She and the kind doctor make a plan to try to save Lisette by dosing her down on the drug.

Doctor Henderson tells Carissa that the only source for the drug is a Chinese immigrant named China Mary, who lives in Hoptown, at the other end of Tombstone. Carissa has no choice but to go to the powerful woman for help. Many say that China Mary is the one who really controls Tombstone.

China Mary admires Carissa’s brave spirit, and uses her influence to get her a job at the new Grand Hotel, which will free Carissa from her many duties at Miss Lucille’s. She will work along with Mary’s twelve year old niece, Mai-Lin. The two girls become fast friends.

Then, disaster strikes, and the two girls must work together to stay alive.

With a host of colorful characters and meticulous attention to period detail, Blood and Silver is a story of the best and worst of human nature, the passion for survival and the beauty of true friendship.

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Firmament: In His Image

About Firmament: In His Image

It was supposed to be a routine check of a parched planet. That was what Andi expected when she joined the small exploration team, but when their shuttle crash landed, the unthinkable happened–they encountered intelligent life.

Now stranded on the strange world, the team accidentally angers the iron-fisted leader of the village, and the compassionate intervention of a young native named Elasson may be all that’s keeping them alive.

Their shuttle seems beyond repair, the oppressive heat is sapping their strength, and the local ruler is determined to execute them. Can Andi help find a way to escape before it’s too late?

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Blind Gambit: a near-future sci-fi novel

About Blind Gambit: a near-future sci-fi novel

He’s the game’s only hope…

…but the truth is, he sucks.

In the near future, the B-chip allows blind people to see in virtual worlds.

The only time Brian really feels alive is when he’s playing Gambit…even though he’s the worst player.

When a hacker seeks to destroy the game, Brian’s immune to the weapon that’s kicking everyone else out. But immunity isn’t enough.

Brian must level-up to take on Gambit’s biggest threat.

With the help of friends and rivals, he must learn new skills, craft awesome weapons, and discover who or what is trying to tear down the only thing he cares about before it’s too late…

In the real world, Brian is forced to confront his disability. But how can he adjust to a world without sight when Gambit offers so much more?

Written by a visually impaired author, Blind Gambit is a GameLit novel as a fun action adventure, filled with geeky references and an authentic perspective on disability.

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The Cursebound Thief

About The Cursebound Thief

The world wants a hero. The curse needs a thief.
The party of the decade stands between Jerek Holden and saving the people he would do anything to protect. After twelve years, he’s finally found a way to break the curse that ripped all magic from the world and destroyed the peace that took generations to build. All he needs is one, simple artifact. But he can’t steal the heliostone alone.
A girl with a soul of fire.
A vampire bound by a vow.
A werewolf bent on revenge.
A knight torn between honor and duty.
A hacker to keep them all alive.
The fate of magic lies in their hands―if they can survive long enough to pull off the heist of the century.

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Uprooted: Young Adult Epic Fantasy (Four Stars over Ardtaz: Sovereigns Book 1)

About Uprooted: Young Adult Epic Fantasy (Four Stars over Ardtaz: Sovereigns Book 1)

“This is a story to savor. Kandi J. Wyatt brings characters and settings into vivid life with exceptional skill. Epic fantasy lovers won’t want to miss Uprooted.” USA Today Bestselling Author, A.L. Knorr

Who can you trust?

Hest’s dad taught him all he knows about horses, but when the most magnificent stallion he’s ever seen walks through his stable, 18-year-old Hest’s life changes as drastically as it did the day his parents died.

Now in the service of the warrior who owns this fabulous creature, Hest travels far from the only home he’s known and into the world of kings, princesses, and court intrigue.

If only life was as simple as working with a horse, but people are more complex and want more than fresh straw and some oats. If Hest isn’t careful, he’ll end up on the wrong side of a sword or worse—betraying the very people who have taken him in.

Uprooted is the first book in the coming-of-age fantasy series, The Sovereigns. If you like action, rounded character development, and dragons, you’ll love Kandi J Wyatt’s book.

Journey to a new world and start reading Uprooted today!

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The Guidal: Discovering Puracordis

About The Guidal: Discovering Puracordis

In a future where the mention of magic is banned, one paranoid man rules the entire country. Adopting children to become his private bodyguards, they are raised together in a strict institute where sixteen-year-old Aurora struggles to follow the rules. Finding herself disciplined often, she doesn’t particularly like her endless life of servitude.

Soon, she will have to take part in the institute’s annual Unity ceremony where she could end up engaged to a complete stranger!

Aurora’s fears of being different are realised when she discovers something about herself, something which will make most fear her, and her adoptive father will want her killed for.

Friends, bullies, and a touch of something magical, Aurora’s first year in the grown-ups’ quarter is far from ordinary.

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End of Crows

About End of Crows

A DEADLY GAME WHERE HUMANS ARE THE PAWNS…

Prom, dances, boyfriends. Seventeen-year-old Willow holds tight to her imagination; the one thing Dominion can’t control. She replays the stories her mom and dad have told her about freedom and America before the Dominion took over. Her parent’s faction, The Crows, are still in the free zones, gathering and waiting. Willow hopes that once her family escapes, her free life will begin.

But once in the free zone, Willow realizes her life will never be what she had imagined. Premonitions of her faction being destroyed flood her dreams and she fights to prove that she’s not the spy others believe her to be. As the Dominion draw closer, will Willow succeed in convincing her faction that they are all in danger or will they all perish?

“The comparisons of Willow to Katniss Everdeen of Hunger Games fame are clearly evident as Willow’s talent as a fighter and her determination to win come to the surface. Without training of any kind, she displays great skill in the use of a variety of weapons as well as her bare hands. But, Willow possesses more than these physical abilities and as the story unfolds, her supernatural gifts become more evident and specific to the plotlines. Also like Collins, R.A. Lingenfelter writes tight, straight-to-the-point sentences and paragraphs that propel the reader through each event and scene without undue and unnecessary detail.
In particular, Lingenfelter’s ability to build characters simultaneously to the ever-increasing tension of the primary plotline is evidenced by her multiple appearances at the top of Amazon’s bestseller lists. End of Crows, while standing on its own, is also the perfect lead novel in the four-book series. Highly recommended for readers who enjoy fast-paced action/adventure stories with hints of the supernatural and powerful lead characters like Willow!” ~Reader’s Favorite Review

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Anxiety Girl

About Anxiety Girl

From best-selling author, Lacey London, comes the story that everybody is talking about and the critics are raving over.

Join Sadie Valentine as she discovers who she really is and learns the true meaning of friendship…

Loving life in the glitzy Cheshire village of Alderley Edge, Sadie Valentine thought she had it all.

With her best friend, Aldo, for company, Sadie spends her time sipping bubbles amongst the glitterati in her many local bars and restaurants. However, unbeknown to the outside world, a series of unfortunate events cause her to fall into a lonely hole.

Keeping her mask in place on a daily basis proves harder than Sadie anticipates, and when she is dealt yet more blows, her positivity starts to crumble.

Despite her efforts to battle her demons, Sadie soon realises that sometimes it’s not quite as simple as picking yourself up and carrying on.

With Aldo by her side, can Sadie crawl out of the impossibly dark hole and take back control of her life?

The next book in the series, Anxiety Girl Falls Again, is available now.

The other books in the Anxiety Girl series are exclusive to Amazon.

A note from the author…

“Anxiety and depression can affect people for any period of time and in varying degrees of severity. I wanted to create a story which showed that mental health issues can happen to anyone, regardless of who you are or what you have. I also wanted to address that there aren’t any rules with anxiety.

Although no two cases of anxiety are the same, I really hope Anxiety Girl can help other sufferers to realise there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that they’re not alone in their struggles.

The characters in this novel might be fictitious, but the feelings and emotions experienced are very real.”

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Beast Born

About Beast Born

Beast Born is the story of a young boy, living a rough home life. He is bullied at school and home with no bright light at the end of his tunnel. Until one night, when he is attacked by a mysterious creature in the dark, Arthur is saved by a man with inhuman abilities and powers Arthur had never seen before. After meeting the man once again, the boy discovers the man who saved him is a Werewolf and he is locked in a never-ending war with Vampires, hiding away from the sight of humanity. While reeling from that realization, Arthur is then given the chance to join the war and become a Werewolf himself. Through brutal trials and challenges, and near-death battles, Arthur discovers an entirely new world he never knew existed right under his nose. Under the watchful eye of his new mentor, Cratos Mane, Arthur will battle through impossible odds to become the greatest Werewolf the world has ever known.

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Bloody Spade

About Bloody Spade

A girl full of heart
A thief touched by darkness
A hot-tempered golden boy
An unwitting servant of evil

The era of magic was once thought to be a myth, but after the Reemergence ushered forces both dark and light into the mundane world, it has since become a harsh reality. Now those affected by this strange power—a specialized group of Empowered called Jokers, known collectively as Cardplay—must protect their world from the darkness that threatens to consume it, all the while fighting for equality in a society clinging to normalcy.

But the Reemergence was only the beginning.

When another influx occurs on the seventh anniversary of that fateful event, an unfortunate encounter at ground zero lands Iori Ryone, a teenage boy in possession of a corrupt and legendary magic, in the care of recent Joker graduate Ellen Amelia Jane. From him, she learns the Reemergence may not have been the inevitable natural disaster it first seemed.

Someone is trying to tear down the barrier that separates the magical realms from the mundane. The question is, can Cardplay stop them before it’s too late?

Bloody Spade is the first installment in an upper YA urban fantasy duology that follows a cat-eared thief and a spirited girl as they try to navigate his wild magic, her hotheaded brother, a sinister plot, and the feelings they’re developing for each other.

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The Light and the Loyalists by Viera and Veronika Landis

About The Light and the Loyalists by Viera and Veronika Landis

In a twist of fate, outcast Zaharina crosses paths with quirky college boy Emir, and they soon discover a shared destiny. Together, they search for other chosen ones to help them save the world from intergalactic war, but enemies trail close behind and danger lurks at every turn. An epic found family adventure with a side of sweet romance.

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The Light and the Loyalists

About The Light and the Loyalists

Zaharina, an outcast in her desert clan, is used to hiding both her scars and her power. That is, until she meets Emir, a quirky college boy on a mission to foil a government plot that will plunge his people into danger.

When he passes out at her feet, she takes pity on him and he soon cracks her toughened exterior, convincing her to help him. But Zaharina has discovered a destiny of her own, and enemies trail close behind as they bring together an unlikely crew of chosen ones to help save the world from intergalactic war.

Join Zaharina and Emir on an exciting adventure of found family and self-discovery in this first installment of the Lodestar Diaries.

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Ring Fold by Scott Swisher

Ring Fold by Scott Swisher

“High-octane, engrossing, and action-packed. A truly unmissable sci-fi read.” — Readers’ Favorite

“An exciting, heartfelt time travel novel. Scott Swisher mixes up scene-setting and action-based adventure exceptionally well. His imaginative descriptions of different historical periods transport readers with ease, and strong character development make this enjoyable sci-fi tale a standout.” — SPR

Jordan Zesker is one of only five surviving descendants of “The Ring.” She thinks the 1920s are tough, but family debt and speakeasy blues will soon seem insignificant. Her blood type, a bona fide blessing and a curse, has placed her in the sights of TEMPUS. Shadowy forces have long worked to weaponize the chosen few endowed with the gift to transcend time and space … and absolutely nowhere is safe.

When Jacob appears out of the blue, bearing news too strange to believe, a staggering decision must be made: will Jordan cling to her desolate life or trust this stranger and help assemble an intergenerational team to somehow save humanity?

Accessing the Fold, an extra-dimensional passageway through time, Jordan must race to find her fated kin across the ages. Rocco in 1956. Paul in 1973. Steffi in 1984. Carissa in 2015. Each will prove essential in the battle for humankind’s future—and past.

Should diabolic entities succeed in overtaking the Fold, it won’t just mean the end of Jordan’s kind but all things good.

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Dead Weapons: A standalone, near-future, YA science-fiction thriller

About Dead Weapons: A standalone, near-future, YA science-fiction thriller

Violent gangsters want his hardware. Droid soldiers are after his blood. Can a son searching for his dad survive the fight of his life?

London in the near future. Ciaran Richards refuses to accept his heroic father’s death. So to uncover the true fate of his dearly departed parent, the fifteen-year-old agrees to deliver his criminal brother a rare AI-powered gun. But Ciaran barely escapes with the prized hi-tech piece when the illegal pickup goes south, and he’s framed for murder.

With the government’s intelligent weapon now fused to his hand and both cyborg black ops and mobsters hot on his heels, the embattled teen is desperate to unearth the truth. But when he ropes in his hacker ex-girlfriend to unlock the firearm’s gruesome secrets, he fears the grim reality of his father’s demise exposes an ugly and dangerous conspiracy.

Can Ciaran outrun those who want him exterminated in time to save the innocent?

Dead Weapons is an exhilarating standalone YA thriller. If you like cyberpunk tech, pulse-pounding action, and page-turning shootouts, then you’ll love Simon Paul Woodward’s mind-bending story.

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