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Shadow of an Indian Star is a 500-page historical fiction set in the early 1800’s. It accurately brings life to a fascinating era of gun slinging, saloon drinking, hard work, rough living and bittersweet romance. The exploits of heroes, villains and those just trying to survive during this tumultuous era are certain to keep readers aching to turn the next page.  A rich family lore, with momentary appearances of well-known historical characters such as Billy the Kid and General Custer, was remembered and passed on to each new generation until Bill Paul and his wife Cindy became curious enough to determine the accuracy of the tales. As it turned out, the stories were true! Map-lovers will enjoy the insert within the first few pages, which depicts the area that this story takes place in. Three generations of the Paul family history and their bitter feuds are divided into segments, one for each generation. A simple family tree is provided on the last page. Little known facts of the Nat...

  Looking Glass is set in the not too distant future, in a gritty, unrefined, shattered North America. Hackers and IT security technicians fight a different kind of war in cyberspace. A serial killer has found a way to use the network to reach inside his victims brains, and use these brains as his weapon. Shroud is a security network team leader for a large retail company. In the realm of cyberspace, inside a sensory deprivation tank and jacked in to the network, she is fast, nimble, and ruthless. She is just beginning her shift when the killer strikes for the first time. She survives, but her entire team is dead or missing. She is exiled from her corporate resources, and her search for the killer is fraught with peril and overwhelming odds.  As a fan and reader of the cyberpunk genre, I strongly recommend Looking Glass. I won't go into a plot synopsis, as others already have. The writing style is tight, and focused through the window of Shroud's perception and life experience...

  Margaret Lenois is a master when it comes to thrillers! She is back with Don't Go Alone." This 284-page mystery thriller has twists and turns that will keep readers guessing right until the end. I was thinking about the book for days after I completed this review project. I knew it had to be read again from the moment I finished the last page.  Handsome, well-built Michael Bannagan is CEO and founder of a successful computer company – he’s also a womanizer. Unaccustomed to hardship or a messy life, Michael is having a difficult time with his cold and beautiful wife. He’s been caught cheating, again (but he’s not the only one), and she wants a divorce. Out of the blue, he finds he is arrested for a murder he did not commit. All the clues point to Michael and he knows he is being set up – but by whom, and by how many? Are they working together? And WHY?! After all, Michael has never done anything evil in his life. Don’t Go Alone is a story of high-society - of limousines, kept...

  She lay naked on the cold, hard plywood that was beneath her, her long, straight, platinum blond hair framed out in a mass of tangles around her head, adding a mild contrast against the dark brown color of the crate she laid tied up in on the gurney. Her head would not clear the fog that shrouded it and her back ached with a dull throb. The coarse ropes that bound her thin body were causing bright red burns on her darkly tanned skin where they had rubbed the flesh raw. She turned her head slowly from side to side, her large brown eyes surveying the almost bare dark room. The guy, Dennis, was nowhere to be seen. She tried again to think, to focus on where she was, how she had gotten there and exactly what had happened. Ms. LeNois strikes once again with an action adventure romance thriller that will hold the reader spellbound as page after page is filled with mystery and suspense, action thriller, mystery and romance. Ms. LeNois is paramount among contemporary authors of mystery a...

  On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game -- and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . . In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler -- ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president -- views a news broadcast of the bizarre incident and believes she's found the only witness to a deadly conspiracy. Caught between a possible madwoman and a confessed mass murderer, between reality and delusion, Ami races to unearth the terrible truth about dark events that may or may never have happened twenty years earlier in a secluded cabin on Lost Lake. "Lost Lake", an explosive thriller about how a young journalist's "paranoid" theories just might be true. The main character, Vanessa Kohler, is a tabloid reporter living and working in Washington, D.C. She writes...

  What if that magical world of Arthur had really existed? What if we only had part of the story? What if Camelot still existed? No longer in the hands of Arthur or his knights, but in the hands of Morgen le Fey and her court who are determined to reconstruct the Round Table and use it for evil? It would be the ultimate tale of good versus evil. That is just what Kinley MacGregor, medieval historian and New York Times best-selling author (writing as Sherrilyn Kenyon), does as she exposes the dark side of one of literature's most beloved legends in her upcoming novel, "Sword of Darkness". "Sword of Darkness" is the first novel in her much-anticipated new series, "The Lords of Avalon," which marks a complete departure from MacGregor's lauded works of medieval Scottish romance, and the first instance in which she introduces elements of the paranormal, for which her alter ego Kenyon is famed, in her pantheon of works with Avon Books. In "Sword of ...

 Stalin's Door by John St. Clair: 1937 Moscow. The research on the great terror is so immersive, I felt the chill on every page. It starts with a short description on Russian names. Then the world John St. Clair imagined, researched, and wrote enfolds you. The terror of the Gulags, Siberia and the might and size of Russia is expertly described. The author pulled of a three POV work of historical fiction. Magnificent novel.Take a bow dear Jhon, for such a magnificent novel. Hope to see more of your work.  Moscow, 1937. As mortal fear engulfs the capital city, a singular man cements his lethal grip of absolute power over an entire nation. Accusations, mass arrests, executions, and deportations become de rigueur. Stalin’s cult of personality is so fearsome, that even a simple question could get you killed—or worse. Stalin’s dreaded secret police, the NKVD, would pit neighbor against neighbor in the insatiable hunt for the spies and saboteurs which threaten the supreme leader’s ty...