Daily Archives: December 3, 2020

An Oddity of Some Consequenceby Gary Dickson

He has always lived in mystery; will she be the one to discover his secret?

Robert Valmer moves from Rome to Beverly Hills in 2015, where against his better judgment, he falls for Alexis Roth, PhD, psychologist to the stars. But Alexis wants to know everything. Start from the beginning, she says. The beginning? Can he really tell her about how he fled France during the French Revolution in 1789 or about Italy during World War II? If he tells her even a little, will she think of him as a liar or a freak rather than a lover?

He tries to deflect her probes, pleading shyness, but she knows that reticence is often the veil behind which secrecy lurks. His practice of stonewalling only further ignites her burning curiosity.

As the pressure for honesty mounts, he does what he’s always done–flee. But Alexis is not a lover to be easily dismissed. She follows him to Europe, determined to track him down for an explanation. Where can she start when her quarry doesn’t want to be found? Each clue she uncovers leads her deeper into intrigue.

An Oddity of Some Consequence is a glamorous tale of mystery, romance, and the fountain of youth.

100 Days in Deadland (Deadland Saga Book 1)by Rachel Aukes

Named “Best of the Year” by Suspense Magazine

In one day, the world fell to a pestilence that decimated the living. In their place rose a new species: vicious, gruesome, wandering zombies with an insatiable hunger for the living.

Cash has watched her friends die, only to walk again as monsters. An office worker with few survival skills, when the zombies arrive, she joins up with Clutch, a grizzled Army veteran with PTSD. Together, they flee the city, with nothing but Clutch’s military experience and Cash’s determination to live. As they fight to survive in the zombie inferno, they soon discover that nowhere is safe from the dead…or the living.

100 Days in Deadland is inspired by the first poem in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, the classic tale on the horrors of hell… zombie apocalypse style!

Deadland Saga:
1. 100 Days in Deadland
2. Deadland’s Harvest
3. Deadland Rising

Every Ugly Wordby Aimee L. Salter

When seventeen-year-old Ashley Watson walks through the halls of her high school, bullies taunt and shove her. She can’t go a day without fighting with her mother. And no matter how hard she tries, she can’t make her best friend, Matt, fall in love with her. But Ashley also has something no one else does: a literal glimpse into the future. When Ashley looks into the mirror, she can see her twenty-three-year-old self.

Her older self has been through it all already–she endured the bullying, survived the heartbreak, and heard every ugly word her classmates threw at her. But her older self is also keeping a dark secret: Something terrible is about to happen to Ashley. Something that will change her life forever. Something even her older self is powerless to stop.

Perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and The List, Every Ugly Word is a gripping and emotional story about the devastating consequences of bullying.

Believe Meby KEN MCGEE

Ben Ford is not leading his best life. A college dropout, he moved with a girlfriend to Alabama, only to be dumped six months later for his lack of ambition. That same inertia keeps him in a job moving furniture instead of returning to Saint Louis, until he learns that an uncle has died and left him something in his will. Although that something is quite a significant amount of money, he unearths another mystery that could prove much more lucrative. It appears that his uncle had an object that Anna Dare, a local woman who claims to be a Prophet of God because she won the Powerball twice, desperately wants to get her hands on. Others seem to want it as well and are anxious to buy it or take it by force. His problem is to find It and get his big payday before someone finds it first or kills him.

His Wicked Mouthby Jessica Mills

Can anyone really go home again?

Not when you’re the black sheep of the family.

So I’m far from home, in Vegas, because good things always happen there.

At least for us bad boys, they do.

And who shows up to save my soul?

My brother’s best friend. Pretty little Annabelle.

Hell, her name even reminds me of back home.

Unfortunately for me, her daddy warned her about guys like me.

I can’t help but wonder why this pretty, sweet, southern lady is in the seedy Sin City.

Bachelorette party. Looks like she’s trying to let her hair down a little.

Lucky for her, I can help with that.

This one is playing for keeps, and I find myself wanting to roll the dice.

Somehow, I think this woman is going to change my wicked ways and take me back to the ranch where I belong.

She’s got her work cut out for her.

Change My Mindby Ali Parker

The Santas are striking, and it’s costing me my job.

Good thing I’m marketable, even to the wrong guy.

My best friend’s twin from high school is in need of someone with my talents to pull off the big opening at his ski resort in Vail.

The handsome playboy with more one-night stands than the local motel happens to be my childhood sweetheart.

In his mind, I’m the one that got away. Right, buddy.

If I recall it right, it was him that ran like his ass was on fire while I nursed a broken heart.

He’s looking for a Christmas miracle to make his billion-dollar investment shine like the top of a tree, and he’s staring right at me.

A job is a job though, and I’m determined to show up and show off on this one.

But if he’s looking for love of any sort where I’m concerned, he’s off his rocker.

No amount of mistletoe and eggnog is going to sway my resolve to keep this office arrangement as nothing more than friends.

Unfortunately for me, this wicked hot, filthy rich lost love of mine has other plans.

He’s gonna try and change my mind.