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The 9th Hour (The Detective Temeke Crime Series Book 1)by Claire Stibbe

Everyone has secrets. Some more deadly than others.

When the ninth young girl falls into the clutches of a serial killer, maverick detective, David Temeke, faces a race against time to save her life.

The Duke City Police Department in Albuquerque, New Mexico is no stranger to gruesome murders, but this new serial killer on their block keeps the body parts of his eight young victims as trophies and has a worrying obsession with the number 9. The suspect is incarcerated in the state's high security penitentiary but Unit Commander Hackett is faced with a dilemma when another teenage girl goes missing.

Detective Temeke and his new partner, Malin Santiago, are sent to solve a baffling crime in the dense forests of New Mexico's Cimarron State Park. But time is running out. Can they unravel the mysteries of Norse legends and thwart the 9th Hour killer before he dismembers his next victim?

This is the first in the Detective Temeke Crime series. A unique noiresque modern detective novel.

Watch out for more from Detective Temeke and Malin Santiago

1.THE 9TH HOUR

2.NIGHT EYES

3.PAST RITES

What people are saying about THE 9TH HOUR:

"Tense action and complex psychological motivation is woven into a wonderfully satisfying novel." ~ Kristin Gleeson – Author of the Celtic Knot Series

"An assured page-turner that leads inexorably to a satisfying conclusion. I can't wait for Detective Temeke Book 2!" ~Jean Gill – The Troubadours Quartet
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The Girl Who Didn’t Dieby Tim Kizer

They told her that her baby died after birth, but it was a lie. Her daughter was stolen.

Thirteen years after her only child, Melissa, died in the maternity ward, Alice Cannon learns that her daughter’s body has been found by a lake in San Diego with multiple stab wounds.

The records of the hospital where Alice gave birth show that she and Melissa were discharged in excellent condition the day after delivery. Did Melissa’s abductor pose as Alice? Were the doctors part of the conspiracy to steal her child?

Alice finds out that Melissa was adopted by a childless couple, Michelle and Norman Keener, and she suspects they were behind her daughter’s abduction. When the Keeners show Alice a video of her handing Melissa over to them, she begins to question her memory–and sanity. Did she forget giving her daughter away or is she a victim of a far-reaching conspiracy?

As Alice looks for clues, she realizes that she might be Melissa’s killer.

Or maybe the real killer is trying to frame her.

Health Habits: The Top 20 Habits of Increasing Happiness, Self-Confidence, and Quality of Lifeby Tom Shepherd

This book has lots of actionable information about the habits you should incorporate in your life to increase happiness, self-confidence and overall quality of life.

Every human being strives for one thing: happiness. But as you well know, everyone strives to be happy by following different methods. So what’s your strategy? Is it wealth creation, is it work, is it spending time with your loved ones visiting the places you’ve always wanted, excelling in academics or learning something new every single day and finding fulfillment from it? What is it?

Well, while happiness for many of us seems to be the end, the truth is that it is a journey; there is just no particular end to our quest to happiness. Moreover, nothing will truly make you happy permanently; you must take deliberate measures geared towards ‘renewing’ your happiness every single day.

This calls for deliberate attempts/efforts meant to make your life a lot better. The good news is that you can make these attempts through adopting healthy habits designed to improve your life.

Is that something you would want to learn? Well, if yes, this book will show you 20 powerful habits that will catapult your happiness, confidence as well as overall quality of life.

Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn!!

• Habits For Increasing Happiness
• Habits For Increasing Self Confidence
• Habits For Increasing The Quality Of Life
• Motivational Habits

Queen of a Kindby Sheila Michelle

13-year-old wealthy heiress Grace Garrett has everything most girls would want. A loving family, a wardrobe to die for, and a house that looks more like a hotel than a home – and she doesn’t take any of it for granted. But there is one thing Grace doesn’t have that she wants – she wants to be Beaumont High School’s 20th Queen.

Beaumont High School in Paradise, Nevada is not your typical, wealthy high school. Having been around for 100 years, it has traditions that no other school has, and the one tradition that stands out among them all is one that they’ve had for the past 75 years, and that’s their prestigious Beaumont High School Queen. A Beaumont Queen is nothing like a one-night-reign Homecoming or Prom Queen, a Beaumont Queen’s reign lasts all four years she is at Beaumont, starting on the first day of school her freshman year, and ending on graduation day her senior year. For a Beaumont Queen, the word reign means the same thing as job since a job is what it is. And since this job is four years, it’s not available every year so a girl has to be lucky to fall into the four-year mark, as Beaumont calls it, to even have a chance at becoming a Beaumont Queen, and Grace is one of those lucky girls because Beaumont High School’s four-year mark is once again here and they have 19 Beaumont Queens to date, and they are looking for their 20th.

Beaumont is serious about their queens and is always looking for the best, and not a girl who thinks she’s the best because she is the best looking and has the best collection of designer clothes, shoes, and handbags out of everyone she knows, as well as being the one that all the boys dream about being with. Bratty and selfish girls also need not apply, but they still do. Since they’re all spoiled in some way because this is just the life that they live, they have to show the Beaumont Queen Organization why they have what it takes to be Beaumont’s 20th Queen because the job is strictly about merit. But no matter how high – or low – a girl thinks of herself, she can’t resist the chance to have a high school job that consists of worldwide traveling, meeting people from all walks of life, and giving talks to sellout crowds – and this is just the beginning. In addition to all of this, she has to deal with media circuses everywhere she goes and escorts always around her to keep them in control, seeing herself online and on TV all of the time, and having a worldwide fan base. But what the girls can’t resist most of all is having a chance at wearing the huge, priceless genuine jeweled crown that comes with the territory of this one-of-a-kind job.

After Grace sees and hears Beaumont’s 19th Queen, Victoria Chandler, speak at her school, Premington Middle School, she sees just how serious the job of being a Beaumont Queen really is. She gets over her doubts about applying and begins her journey to the most desirable job that a high school girl can have. During this journey, she learns about positivity verses negativity, the strength of her intellect, first and ageless impressions, persistence and perfection, and the reality of rejection. Driven by her good moral character, she learns and accepts the true meaning of hard work and discovers the definition of her own self-worth as she tries to make herself go from an ordinary teen to an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind high school queen a reality. But every dream job has its dark sides, and Grace finds out through various sources that the words dream and drama go hand in hand when it comes to having the most desirable job in the world that a teenage girl can have throughout her high school years, and wonders what is really in store for her if she does become Beaumont’s 20th Queen.

The Widowby Lynn Winchester

Leo Watkins is an ill-tempered widower with a busy smithy to run and no desire to adhere to silly niceties. He likes his life just the way it is and doesn’t care what other people think. But when his son convinces him it’s time to remarry, Leo needs a crash course in wooing a bride.

Missy Piers is a school teacher, a young widow, and the only woman in town fiery enough to put a grumpy old blacksmith in his place. So when Leo asks her to help him catch a wife, she’s reluctant to do so.
Until she starts to fall for the awkwardly charming farrier.

Leo doesn’t know what to do about the infuriating yet intoxicating widow. She’s bossy, uptight, and…beautiful. And she makes him feel things he thought long buried.

Falling for Leo isn’t in Missy’s plans, he’s stubborn and entirely too handsome. So why does his presence make her weak and why does his touch make her yearn for something more?

When these two opposing spirits are offered a second chance at what they’ve lost, will they find love or will their hearts forever be lonely?