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Out of the Picture and Into the Picture by Ilyan Kei Lavanway

One thing leads to another as we weave our lives into the tapestry of eternity. An actual event inspires a painting, which in turn inspires a story, which in turn inspires a sequel involving another painting. Paintings have two sides. One of those sides is not the back of the canvas.

Worlds overlap. Time shifts. Space twists. Experience the adventures of an aging pilot overtaken by a strange storm. Within the storm, he is miraculously reunited with his father. Getting home is not as simple as flying back the way he came. Enter an unusual forest with this pilot after a harrowing landing. Walk with him through a vortex that provides his only escape from an environment that appears to be swallowing him. His only way out is in. Come face to face with a spooky historical figure. Learn the origins of legendary creatures. Discover the name of a class of worlds you’ve never considered. Will this pilot ever make it home? Find out. Read Out of the Picture and Into the Picture, today. Don’t wait another minute. A minute may not be what you think it is.

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Title: Out of the Picture and Into the Picture

Author: Ilyan Kei Lavanway and Victor G. La Van Way

Publisher: Self

Release Date: January 23, 2012

ISBN: 978-0-9768004-6-0

Size: eBook; 64 pages (Print version available in June)

Genre: Speculative Short Stories

Shadows in Flight by Orson Scott Card

At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children—the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth’s scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten–a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth’s history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come.

For there in space before them lies a derelict Formic colony ship. Aboard it, they will find both death and wonders—the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and labs in which to explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship’s colony.

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Title: Shadows in Flight (Ender’s Shadow Series #5)

Author: Orson Scott Card

Publisher: Tor Books

Release Date: January 17, 2012

ISBN: 978-0765332004

Size: 240 pages, 6×8, hardcover

Genre: Science Fiction

Series: Ender’s Shadow (bk 1), Shadow of the Hegemon (bk 2), Shadow Puppets (bk 3), Shadow of the Giant (bk 4)

Secrets After Dark by Marie Higgins

Hannah Forester is determined to find her father’s killer, but is shocked to discover the one man who can help her is not completely human. Forced to work with the mysterious Morgan Thornton to break the curse that turns him into a wolf whenever he desires a woman, Hannah stumbles across dangerous secrets surrounding the manor and Morgan’s family. In search for the truth, Hannah finds not only her father’s killer, but also a hidden strength and the only man she could ever give her heart to.

Morgan Thornton is determined to protect Hannah from his family secrets, but he can’t stop wanting to hold her and become a man again instead of the beast the witch’s curse turned him into. Now the witch wants Hannah because of what she knows, and Morgan will do anything to save her, even if it means destroying the witch and condemning himself to live with the curse forever. Morgan discovers more than just the answers to his family’s secrets … he finds true love.

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Title: Secrets After Dark

Author: Marie Higgins

Publisher: Walnut Springs

Release Date: January 6, 2012

ISBN: 978-1599928050

Size: 265 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Gift of Magic by Lynn Kurland

Sarah of Doìre knows the pattern of spells is no accident. With each page, each powerful rune, she and Ruith are being led somewhere, to someone-but by whom, she cannot tell. Sarah’s gift of sight only allows her to see the spells themselves, not the person behind them.

A reluctant sorcerer still learning to trust his own magic, Ruithneadh of Ceangail knows he’s woefully unprepared for the adversaries they’ll face. But he and Sarah must collect and destroy his father Gair’s spells soon. Many mages seek their power, and in the wrong hands, Gair’s magic would plunge the Nine Kingdoms into an eternity of darkness.

But as they pursue the final spells-acquiring strange companions, welcome allies, and unexpected foes along the way-Sarah and Ruith realize that their true quest has only just begun. The real enemy is closer, darker, and more power hungry than they ever imagined; and until he is defeated, the fate of the Nine Kingdoms hangs in dire peril.

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Title: Gift of Magic (The Nine Kingdoms #6)

Author: Lynn Kurland

Publisher: Berkley Trade

Release Date: January 3, 2012

ISBN: 978-0425245200

Size: 320 pages, 5.5×8, softcover

Genre: Fantasy

Series: Star of the Morning (bk1), The Mage’s Daughter (bk2), Princess of the Sword (bk3), A Tapestry of Spells (bk 4), Spellweaver (bk 5)

Shinar 54 by D. Corey Sanders

Title: Shinar 54

Author: D. Corey Sanders

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Release Date: December 22, 2011

ISBN: 978-1-4685-0057-8

Size: 426 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Science Fiction

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Jona McCracken is a broken ex-Marine with PTSD and a host of other personal issues. He stumbles upon a website promising relief from all his ills. The only catch is that he must immigrate to Shinar 54, a utopian city in the Nevada desert to obtain the wonder cure and to meet Lisa, his enchanting recruiter.

Shinar is the enclosed haven for millions of people who have overcome sickness and pain. The outside world believes Shinar is a powerful and dangerous doomsday cult. Shinar prepares its people for the next life with a singularity of purpose that impoverishes the United States and sets the two nations on a collision course. As the political and economic tensions ratchet up, the world spirals down into an epidemic of fear, bigotry, and propaganda. World war is imminent. Jona and Lisa find themselves in the middle of it.

Marco Franco, Jona’s friend and confidant, is on his own mission to rescue his younger sister from certain death. Can he do it through intrigue and alliances?

Set in the not-too-distant future, Shinar 54 is a story of conflict between good and evil, truth and lies, and the clash of opposing values. Ultimately, it is a tale of renewal, redemption, and reconciliation.”

Serpent of Time by Eugene Woodbury

Title: Serpent of Time

Author: Eugene Woodbury

Publisher: Peaks Island Press

Release Date: December 20, 2011

Size: eBook

Genre: Speculative/Historical

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Fujiwara Ryo has a decision to make: a husband or the sword.

As the daughter of the last emperor of Japan’s Southern Court, she could have spent the rest of her life in a gilded cage. But a failed revolt against the Ashikaga shogunate has left her with a price on her head and the shogun’s henchman hot on her heels.

Ryo escapes with Sen, her loyal lady-in-waiting, to sacred Mt. Koya. There, Sen’s uncle summons the mighty Kala Sarpa. If all goes as planned, the “Serpent of Time” will transport Ryo far out of the shogun’s reach, across six centuries to the present day.

Except that Kala Sarpa bears a grudge of its own against the Fujiwara clan, and seizes the opportunity to even the scales. Their fates now fully entwined, Ryo must again put her life at risk and return to the past in order to save her future.

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Desert Stars by Joe Vasicek

Title: Desert Stars (book 3)

Author: Joe Vasicek

Publisher: Self

Release Date: December 19, 2011

ISBN:

Size: eBook; 100,000 words

Genre: Science Fiction

Gaia Nova Series: Bringing Stella Home (bk 1), Sholpan (bk 2)

Caution: This book may contain objectionable content. (PG-13)

He was the sole heir to the Najmi camp, a young man raised by tribesmen after falling to the desert from his home among the stars. She was the sheikh’s most beautiful daughter, promised his hand in marriage–if she can convince him to stay.

Together, they must travel to a land where glass covers the sky and men traverse the stars as easily as tribesmen cross the desert. Here, at the ancient temple dedicated to the memory of Earth, they hope to find the answers that will show them the way home.

But when love and honor clash, how can they face their destiny when it threatens to tear them apart?

Wolfhound by Kindal Debenham

Title: Wolfhound

Author: Kindal Debenham

Publisher: Wandering Leaf Publishing

Release Date: December 10, 2011

Size: eBook, 112,000 words

Genre: Science Fiction

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Ensign Jacob Hull never intended to be a hero. As a newly commissioned officer in the Celostian Navy, his goal was to serve well until the day he could retire. Then disaster strikes on his first cruise aboard the CNS Wolfhound, and he will have to display all the courage, skill and determination he has in order to keep the remaining crew members out of danger. Because if he does not, the only ones to tell the tale will be prisoners of war—if there are any left at all.

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Afterlife (Fall of Angels #3.5) by Keary Taylor

Afterlife is the 11,000 word novelette companion to Vindicated (Fall of Angels). It is included in the paperback version of Vindicated.

Cole Emerson never was and never will be a good man. He has his position for a reason. But there are consequences for returning to the world of the living. He is about to lose the one thing he still has, his leadership of the condemned. As if that wasn’t punishment enough, one of his brothers is hell bent on exposing what has happened to Jessica and Cole has no choice but to protect her. And he’ll stop at nothing to do it. Even if it means ending a few lives.

Cole never was and never will be a good man.

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Title: Afterlife (Fall of Angels #3.5)

Author: Keary Taylor

Publisher: K&T Publishing

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ASIN: B00653YZ2A

Size: 43 pages, ebook

Genre: Paranormal

Fall of Angels Series: Branded (bk 1), Forsaken (bk 2), Vindicated (bk 3)

Vindicated (Fall of Angels #3) by Keary Taylor

With the pain of the past behind them, Jessica and Alex are ready to move on with their lives. But moving on is hard when it involves reconnecting with the family who wanted to send Jessica to an institution. And living life isn’t easy when someone who doesn’t belong is watching her, threatening her life, determined to take Jessica back to the afterlife she should have joined months ago.

And every day becomes a little harder for Alex. Time is ticking and if it runs out, Alex won’t be returning to the world of the living. It all boils down to Cole’s final words to Jessica: What are you willing to do to save him?

The answer to keeping Alex lies in Jessica returning to the place he saved her from.

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Title: Vindicated (Fall of Angels #3)

Author: Keary Taylor

Publisher: CreateSpace/Self

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-1467909471

Size: 382 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, softcover

Genre: Paranormal

Fall of Angels Series: Branded (bk 1), Forsaken (bk 2)

The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

Title: The Alloy of Law (A Mistborn Novel)

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Publisher: Tor Books

Release Date: November 8, 2011

ISBN: 978-0765330420

Size: 336 pages, hardcover

Genre: Fantasy

Series: Mistborn (vol. 1), The Well of Ascension (vol. 2), The Hero of Ages (vol. 3)

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Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.

Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history—or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.

One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel. Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.

Spellbound by Larry Corriea

Title: Spellbound: Book II of the Grimnoir Chronicles

Author: Larry Correia

Publisher: Baen

Release Date: November 1, 2011

ISBN: 978-1451637755

Size: 448 pages, hardcover

Genre: Speculative

Series: Hard Magic

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Dark fantasy goes hardboiled in #2 of the hard-hitting Grimnoir Chronicles by the New York Times best-selling creator of Monster Hunter International.

The Grimnoir Society’s mission is to protect people with magic, and they’ve done so—successfully and in secret—since the mysterious arrival of the Power in the 1850s, but when a magical assassin makes an attempt on the life of President Franklin Roosevelt, the crime is pinned on the Grimnoir. The knights must become fugitives while they attempt to discover who framed them.

Thing go from bad to worse when Jake Sullivan, former p.i. and knight of the Grimnoir, receives a telephone call from a dead man—a man he helped kill. Turns out the Power jumped universes because it was fleeing from a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. That predator has just landed on Earth.

Scent of a Witch by Bri Clark

Maeve da Paer has lived her life free from the restrictions of the world of sorcery and the Board of Witchery hidden behind the combined protection of her grandparents powerful clan magic—and a lie. Although her life has not been worry free, it is when all that desperation and grief cause her to cast her most powerful spell ever…a spell that will end the pain before it begins on the powerful All Hallows Eve.

Fionn Hughes, an immortal tracker, former heir to a powerful clan of time warlocks is on a mission to restore his honor—instead he finds Maeve da Paer. Following the scent of Gardenias and Honey Suckle, he discovers the last Scent Witch. It’s only after she almost takes off his ear that something more stirs, eventually changing his mission from one of duty to one of need.

What will Fionn do when he finds out Maeve plans to cancel out her own existence? Will he be strong enough to stop her?

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Title: Scent of a Witch (novelette)

Author: Bri Clark

Publisher: Astraea Press

Release Date: October 27, 2011

ASIN: B0060MDBSA

Size: 85 pages, ebook

Genre: Paranormal

The Clone Redemption by Steven L. Kent

Title: The Clone Redemption

Author: Steven L. Kent

Publisher: Ace

Release Date: October 25, 2011

ISBN: 978-1937007027

Size: 368 pages, 4×6.8, paperback

Genre: Science Fiction

Series: The Clone Republic (bk 1), Rogue Clone (bk 2), The Clone Alliance (bk 3), The Clone Elite (bk 4), The Clone Betrayal (bk 5), The Clone Empire (bk 6)

Earth, 2516 A.D.: The Unified Authority has spread human colonies across the Milky Way, keeping strict order with a powerful military made up almost entirely of clones. But now the clones have formed their own empire, and they aim to keep it…no matter who they must defeat.

Infinity Blade: Awakening by Brandon Sanderson

Title: Infinity Blade: Awakening

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Publisher: ChAIR Entertainment Group, LLC

Release Date: October 3, 2011

Size: eBook; Novella

Genre: Speculative

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Trained from birth in swordplay and combat, a young knight named Siris has journeyed to the Dark Citadel with a single purpose: fight through the army of Titans to face the tyrannical God King in one-on-one combat. This was his father’s sacred mission, and his father’s before him, going back countless generations in an effort to free their people from enslavement. But when Siris somehow succeeds where all those from his bloodline previously have failed, he finds himself cast into a much larger world, filled with warriors and thieves, ancient feuds and shifting alliances, Deathless immortals and would-be kings. His quest for freedom will take him on an epic journey in search of the mythical figure known as the Worker of Secrets – the one being in the world who can unravel the secrets of the Infinity Blade.

Quoting Sanderson, “It’s intended as a bridge story between the iPhone/iPad game INFINITY BLADE and the sequel to that game, though I did my best to write it in a way that one does not have to have played the game to understand the story. (Though you should totally play the game. It’s heaps of fun.)”

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Indelible by Lani Woodland

Title: Indelible (Yara Silva, book 2)

Author: Lani Woodland

Publisher: Pendrell Publishing

Release Date: September 27, 2011

ISBN: 978-0982729724

Size: 416 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Intrinsical (bk 1)

Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie. But Yara soon discovers that there are more dark secrets in her school s history than just the curse she broke. While an angry ghost makes Yara question everything she thought she knew about spirits, she and Brent learn that there are long reaching consequences to last year s adventures. As new enemies emerge and old ghosts resurface, Yara finds herself in the center of another deadly mystery, and this time she has to contend with the living as well as the dead.

The Ember Gods by Andrea Pearson

Title: The Ember Gods (Kilenya Series, book 2)

Author: Andrea Pearson

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: September 27, 2011

ISBN: 978-1466381612

Size: 280 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Kilenya Series: The Key of Kilenya (bk 1)

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Jacob Clark has just returned from the world of Eklaron, where he frustrated the evil plans of the Lorkon and returned the magical Key of Kilenya to its rightful owners. His quest is far from over, though—Aloren is trapped in Maivoryl City by the Ember Gods, and Jacob can’t return to save her until he receives the potion that will protect his team from the corrosive influence of the Lorkon.

Balancing between this new world and his own proves tricky. Not only has he started his first year of high school, but his magical abilities are bringing him too much attention. He feels pulled by both sides, hoping he’ll figure out his special powers to save Aloren in time.

Sholpan by Joe Vasicek

Title: Sholpan (book 2)

Author: Joe Vasicek

Publisher: Self

Release Date: September 17, 2011

ISBN:

Size: eBook; 35,000 words

Genre: Science Fiction

Gaia Nova Series: Bringing Stella Home (bk 1)

Caution: This book may contain objectionable content. (PG-13)

She’d rather die than be a slave to the conquerors of her home world.

When Stella McCoy left home to work as an apprentice astrogator, she never expected to fall prisoner to the brutal Hameji space nomads–much less become a concubine to the chief commander of their battle fleets. As she looks for a chance to escape, she finds friends in unexpected places, even as the dangerous world of harem politics threatens to destroy her.

Sholpan is a 35,000 word companion novella to Bringing Stella Home, and follows Stella’s storyline through the first half of the full length novel. About 25% of the novella contains new material not included in Bringing Stella Home.

Embers of Atlantis by Tracy Hickman

Title: Embers of Atlantis (Fireborn)

Author: Tracy Hickman

Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games

Release Date: August 30, 2011

ISBN: 978-1616611002

Size: 304 pages, 4×6, paperback

Genre: Speculative

Powerful scions walk the streets of modern London, oblivious to their true nature. Unknowingly, they carry within them the spirits of reincarnated dragons from an age of high fantasy. As magic begins to emerge once more in the 21st century, long-dormant memories begin to flood the minds of these scions, reminding them of their mystical heritage.

Welcome to the world of Fireborn! Ethan Gallows knows things about his world. He knows there is magic, and he knows he wants nothing to do with it. Yet, when he is sent on the seemingly menial job of filming a museum curator’s antique art collection in London, Ethan discovers that he has much more to learn. After witnessing a violent display of sorcery, ancient memories come rushing back to Ethan – memories seen through the eyes of a dragon! With minions of the Taint now seeking him for their own twisted purposes, Ethan must put his trust in Sojourner – a woman claiming to be a draconic scion. Could he really be a dragon of old, or is this some sort of fanatic conspiracy?

Embers of Atlantis is the first novel based on the acclaimed Fireborn roleplaying game setting.

Bringing Stella Home by Joe Vasick

Title: Bringing Stella Home (book 1)

Author: Joe Vasicek

Publisher:

Release Date: August 2011

ISBN: 978-1-4658-1247-6

Size: eBook; 110,000 words

Genre: Science Fiction (Space Opera)

Series: Gaia Nova

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Caution: This book may contain objectionable content. (PG-13)

When the brutal Hameji battle fleets conquer his homeworld, young James McCoy runs away from home to rescue his older brother and sister, Ben and Stella. Though the undefeated Hameji are feared throughout all of inhabited space, James will stop at nothing to get his family back.

He soon finds a band of interstellar mercenaries who agree to take him in, but what he doesn’t know is that Stella has become a concubine to the main Hameji overlord–and Ben has been brainwashed and made an elite shock trooper in the Hameji Army.

A new series of epic space opera.

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Breathe Again by Bonnie R. Paulson

Maggie Lachlan is struggling to get over the death of her husband. After being overcome by emotion during a shift in the E.R., she’s suspended indefinitely. Making things worse, she needs a place to stay after the quick sale of the house she shared with her late husband.

Fortunately, her friend Ryan Stewart offers her a room while she gets her life in order, much to the chagrin of his brother and housemate, Brodan Steele. Brodan doesn’t want to like Maggie, not when he knows Ryan has feelings for her too. But it’s hard to deny the attraction he feels for her when she’s sleeping under the same roof.

Being so close to Brodan awakens something in Maggie, something she never felt during her marriage. But as long as she’s haunted by the past, she can’t open herself up to the future…

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Title: Breathe Again

Author: Bonnie R. Paulson

Publisher: Carina Press

Release Date: August 22, 2011

ASIN: B005CRQ58M

Size: 161 pages, ebook

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Shadow Valley by Michael R. Collings

Title: Shadow Valley: A Novel of Horror

Author: Michael R. Collings

Publisher: Borgo Press

Release Date: August 20, 2011

ISBN: 978-1434435217

Size: 196 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Horror

Shadow Valley is an isolated farming community known to few, but in one of its ramshackle farmhouses dwells a power that threatens death and destruction to any who walk within its walls. Now, Lila Ellis arrives to make the final arrangements for a project that will flood Shadow Valley for a reservoir–and the house is not happy. When she enters the old place, she alone must face its terrors–beginning with a pile of seventy boxes of chocolate, one piece missing from each, that have been delivered to the decaying ruin each year on St. Valentine’s Day. Can Lily escape the horror that fills the Stevenson place? Or will the curse continue for yet another generation?

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The Unwilling by C. David Belt

Title: The Unwilling (The Children of Lillith, Volume 1)

Author: C. David Belt

Publisher: Parables

Release Date: August 19, 2011

Size: eBook

Genre: Speculative

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In all the 6,000 years that the Children of Lilith have walked among us, there has never been an unwilling vampire . . . until now.

Carl Morgan has lost everything. His wife and children were killed in a senseless accident. Then he witnesses the murder of his sister at the hands of a beautiful and mysterious woman named Rebecca. When the police cannot locate the killer, Carl takes matters into his own hands. But his search for justice costs him everything he holds dear.

Carl is unknowingly transformed into the world’s first and only unwilling vampire. He is cut off from the light, damned to an eternity of darkness, barred from heaven and any hope of a reunion with his family.

Moira MacDonald, a repentant vampire, has roamed the earth alone for centuries seeking redemption. The very existence of an unwilling vampire, something she thought impossible, changes everything. Has she finally found a path to redemption . . . and an end to her loneliness?

Carl and Moira discover that Rebecca’s vampire Master, Michael, plans to unleash a plague of vampires on the city. Can Carl and Moira stop the slaughter of countless innocents?

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Blood and Guitars by Heather Jensen

When Aurora meets Trey, a famous singer and musician, she’s only hoping to get her fill of human blood for the week. The last thing Aurora expects is for Trey to make her feel alive for the first time since she was, well, alive. It begins with a casual painting lesson at her art studio, The Waking Moon, and quickly turns into a forbidden romance. Aurora is forced to hide her true identity from Trey, while keeping her relationship with the human a secret from other vampires in her Brood.

Trey’s band is recording a new album and with Aurora as his muse, Trey is writing songs like never before. After being hired by their record label to paint the cover of the new album, Aurora has a legitimate reason for spending so much time with Trey and his band mates. Aurora can’t deny the unexpected connection she has with Trey, which is fueled by glimpses into his emotions every time they share a kiss. Caught between two worlds, Aurora must attend celebrity award shows and vampire rituals, find time to feed, and protect Trey from the dangers of the night, all while preserving her secrets.

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Title: Blood and Guitars

Author: Heather Jensen

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: August 17, 2011

ISBN: 978-1463511883

Size: 358 pages, 5×8, softcover

Genre: Paranormal Romance