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TWO PEOPLE SEEKING ESCAPE IN A VIRTUAL WORLDIn eScape, Kam has it all - a body that works, beautiful friends, her own space, and a wealth of stolen credits. In the real world, she's terminally ill and living in the rundowns, a place where hope goes to die.In the real world, Lyle seems to have it all. As the son of a famous self-help guru, Julia Grace, strangers envy his perfect life and perfect relationship with his mother. Nobody knows the torture she's put him through. All Lyle wants is the escape of anonymity in eScape - where he can be himself by hiding behind an avatar.CONNECTED BY TRAGEDY, DESPERATE FOR LOVEWhen Kam and Lyle meet, they each might be the escape the other is looking for.But Kam can never let Lyle see the REAL her or the hovel she lives in. If he realizes she's a criminal who's stolen everything she has, he'll leave her.She has no idea Lyle is lying, too - caught in a web of his mother's manipulations. Each of them loses everything if they tell the truth - but admitting their lies could get them killed.And not even eScape can protect them from what's coming.Ruthless Positivity is a new stand-alone SciFi Thriller from Avery Blake, author of Vicarious Joe, Family Royale, and Analog Heart.

After losing his wife and son, Orin, due to his alcoholism, Dennis Hoke feels like he really needs a lucky break. He sees the Family Royale online gaming competition as his chance at redemption. This is the moment when he can rise to the challenge and finally become the father Orin needs. They enter the contest together, competing to see which family can come out on top. What starts out as a great bonding experience for father and son soon derails as Dennis becomes addicted to success and his newfound stardom. Orin begins to question just how far his father will go to win? And what's the point in winning the game if you lose your soul? Family Royale is a new stand-alone near-future SciFi novel by Avery Blake, author of Analog Heart, Vicarious Joe, and The Taken Saga.

What if you had a twin - who was a better version of you?When Everett Reyes loses his adoptive mother - the only person who ever believed in him - his bullying stepbrothers find a way to keep Everett's inheritance. They won't even let him keep Mom's cookware, though she's the reason he became a chef.All he has left is a failing cafe, a rattletrap car, and an ex-wife he can't stop fighting with.Bereft of family, he hires a private investigator to track down his biological parents. He's not surprised to learn that they're dead, but he's shocked to discover that he has a twin brother, alive and well, in Austin, Texas.The similarities between Everett and his brother Evan are amazing. They're both chefs, they both married aspiring musicians, and they're both fathers - evidence of their deep twin bond. But the more Everett learns more about his brother, the more he feels like he's looking at the life he should have had - would have had if they hadn't been separated. It's embarrassing how Evan seems to be more successful than Everett in every possible way.His friends tell him to start with a phone call, but Everett decides to drive to Austin and surprise Evan on their shared birthday.After all, what better gift could a man receive than to be reunited with his long-lost twin brother?Spitting Image is a new novel by Harmony Reed, author of Confidence John and Drink.

THEY ARE COMING. THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN...The discovery of objects approaching from Jupiter's orbit sets humanity on edge, sending cities into panic. Most is unknown, but thanks to the popular Astral space app, everyone knows the few facts the government has tried to hide: The objects are enormous spheres numbering in the dozens, maybe hundreds. They are on an approach vector toward Earth ... and they will arrive in six days.Entrepreneur Meyer Dempsey is in New York, realizing the time has come to act on all the preparations he's made without ever consciously knowing why. For years Meyer has been preoccupied by a dreamlike sense of coming peril and knows where he must take his family ... if, that is, they can make it before society eats itself alive with fear.The end is only beginning ...This relentless, page-turning tale of first contact is the first book in the Alien Invasion completed series.

A city-sized prison with little oversight and a snitch economy is the worst place for an ex-cop. Especially one who is losing his mind.Once a respected police officer, Mason Shaw's father threw away his career by going rogue and landing himself in Revival's privately-run prison, HRO22.Now Mason is following in his father's footsteps - he's an inmate with no hope of parole and only two ways out: Chamber Therapy or a body bag.Chamber Therapy promises the miracle of criminal rehabilitation, curing prisoners of their criminal tendencies. But the flip-side of Chamber Therapy's success is its ultimate failure: Pattern Black - the total disintegration of identity that drives the prisoner insane.Worse, Revival seems to be hiding what happens to the prisoners once they go Pattern Black.As Mason makes his way through his new reality, a mysterious Preacher seems to haunt his every move. His only hope is Immunity, a rebel group led by a hacker named Calliope, who's trying to fight the system from inside.Can Mason find the truth - and expose the dark secret behind Chamber Therapy - before Revival finds a way to shut him up forever?It's Escape from New York meets The Matrix in this fast-paced, heart-pounding SciFi thriller by best-selling authors Johnny B. Truant and Sean Platt.

There's no cross like a double-cross. Except maybe a double-double-cross.Assassin Brad Morris has finally been arrested for murder, but not for a murder he actually committed. Now he's cooling his heels in jail - his lawyer seems to have forgotten him, and his boss might have betrayed him.Just as he's starting to lose hope, he gets a visit from the CIA. Agent June Bancroft has an offer for Brad: full immunity, if he's willing to spy on his boss and fellow assassins for her. Worse, Bancroft wants his daughter Hadley's help, too.Brad agrees, but soon finds out how hard it is to answer to two bosses while pursuing an agenda of his own.Can Brad keep his family safe while operating as both a CIA asset and an assassin? Or will his double life destroy everyone he loves?Wake The Dead is the fourth book in the new Stacy Claflin and Nolon King thriller series, Dead For Good. Pick up your copy today!

All Cora wants is a new start. But when your problems come back to haunt you, how far will you go to exorcise them?After the tragic loss of her horror writer father, Cora is starting over in a new town, at a new school where nobody knows her. Nobody knows about her OCD tics. Nobody knows about her time in a mental hospital. Nobody knows she sees her father's ghost.But her new start is shattered when she fails to suppress her OCD tics in class. She finds herself targeted by bullies again. New town, same loneliness and shame. She's afraid to turn to her overworked mother, who is already worried about her mental health.Then Cora meets Emily, the only person who gets her. Homeschooled Emily has suffered serious abuse, and she has a list. A list of people who have hurt her. A list of people that includes Cora's bullies. And Emily wants Cora's help in getting revenge.Can Cora find a normal life by striking back at her tormentors? Or is she being lured into a darkness that will consume the sanity she's desperately clinging to? Emily's List is a character-driven suspense thriller full of dark secrets and twisted revelations, perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and The Haunting of Hill House.

While Las Vegas burns, John Abbot is on fire.What's a Gambler to do when the kind of winning streak he's only ever dreamed about hits just as aliens invade and it looks like the world is coming to an end?Even while Las Vegas catches fire all around him, John Abbot decides to let it ride. For the first time in his life it feels like he can do no wrong. But it's gonna take more than a boatload of chips to survive the alien apocalypse. It might even require him to pull together the motley crew of left-over lowlifes and Vegas vagabonds to embark on a high-risk crusade.In order to get a dying alien to Area 51, and hopefully save the world, John's only hope is a disillusioned showgirl, a snarky comedian, a cynical slot machine junkie, and the rest of the Las Vegas leftovers.Unless they die and destroy the universe along the way.It's a race against time as the aliens arrive in this new stand-alone book in the Alien Invasion universe.

From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense, comes The Memory Closet, an amnesiac nightmare that will keep you reading through the night with all the lights on.Each memory could be her last...When Anne Mitchell was 11, a horrific accident took the life of her little sister-and every one of Anne's childhood memories went with her. For 25 years, people have told her that losing memories is normal. Trauma will do that to a young girl.But Anne knows it is a lie.Dark, fractured memories lurk in the shadows of her mind like monsters. They glide past her mirror in the morning and dance in the reflection of her wine glass at night.Anne has had enough. She is going home to face her demons.But in a small town and a small house infected by unspeakable evil, Anne is about to learn that some memories don't give up their secrets so easily. Some memories can't be bargained with or cajoled or brought to heel. Some memories will drive you to the edge of sanity.Some memories will kill you.Fans of Dean Koontz and Stephen King looking for a dark, gripping psychological thriller with a final twist that will put their jaw on the floor will love The Memory Closet.

She can pay with her life ... or she can pay with her crimes.Alison Tanner thought she was living her best life. Her husband's seven-figure consulting business earned them entry into the country club crowd and paid for her gifted daughter's tuition at the best private school in the area. She lives in a gorgeous house, drives an expensive car, and she could afford designer clothes, if she cared about fashion at all.But when her husband, Tom, is killed in a gang-related shooting, it all comes crashing down. Tom's consulting agency was just a front for his real business: keeping their wealthy neighbors supplied with cocaine, oxycontin, and every other illegal drug money can buy. Tom died owing the local drug lord a lot of money - and now Alison's on the hook.Worse, unscrupulous DEA Agent Banks wants her to be his informant in a sting operation and doesn't care if she survives, as long as he gets his man.Desperate to protect her daughter from both a vengeful mother-in-law who wants custody and a drug lord who wants her daughter to work off Tom's debts in the streets, Alison agrees to go undercover, wearing a wire as she sells drugs to her snobby neighbors and learns more about the drug lord's operation.If she ever gets out of this, she vows she'll take her daughter and disappear forever - but her chances of surviving are getting worse by the minute. Does she have a shot at ever living a normal life again, or is everything blown?Blown is an intense new stand-alone crime thriller from Nolon King, author of Pretty Killer, 12, and the No Justice series. Fans of Ozark and Weeds will love Blown. Get your copy today.

The bestselling authors of Yesterday's Gone, Pretty Killer, and No Justice bring you book three in this brand new unforgettable thriller series that blends mystery and suspense into pulse-pounding vengeance and fast-paced action.Frank Grimm is in trouble again. Having lost his home and The Wild One gym, Frank and his cousin Stan retreat to a cabin near an isolated beach.The plan? Hide out while they continue their secret pursuit of the serial killer who murdered Frank's daughter.But a misstep gets them entangled in a local feud, bringing the police to their doorstep once again. Frank's attraction to the seductive Carmen Doria doesn't help.Will Frank and Stan catch the killer before the cops decide they're the criminals?Hidden Shame is book three in the King & Wright Hidden Justice series. Start reading your favorite new vigilante thriller today!

The bestselling authors of 12, Pretty Killer, and No Justice bring you book four in this brand new unforgettable thriller series that blends mystery and suspense into pulse-pounding, revenge-seeking, fast-paced action.Frank Grimm has escaped to Wildwood to live with old friends while he recovers, but he's still obsessed with revenge. Without his cousin Stan - the only person he was able to trust - his worst impulses run rampant.If Frank wants to save another young girl from the man who killed his daughter, he must find the strength to stop sabotaging himself.Will Frank's obsession with revenge keep him from saving the girl? Or will he give up his hatred to see justice done?Hidden Virtue is book four in the King & Wright Hidden Justice series. Start reading your favorite new vigilante thriller today!

Once upon a time, the Grimms' fairy tales taught lessons. Now, the Grimm Reaper does.New detective Chelsea Sullivan is partnered with a maverick famous for closing cases and infamous for how he does it. He has a target on his back and a chip on his shoulder. Not exactly how she hoped to kick off her first homicide case.Jim McPherson doesn't mind showing an up-and-comer the ropes, but he does mind when she keeps putting herself in harm's way. Especially since her innocence is exactly the trait the serial killer seems to be targeting. Unless they're missing a crucial detail. And he can't help but think his new partner knows what it is.The body count is rising and the Grimm Reaper is after Chelsea. If they can't catch him before he catches her, there will be no happily ever after.Once Upon A Crime is the first book in Nolon King's new Once Upon A Crime Trilogy. Start reading your favorite new series today!

The sorceress of psychological suspense is back with the sixth book in her highly-anticipated new Nowhere USA series. Ninie Hammon is at her career-best in Blown Away - a story that keeps you guessing even as the secrets are revealed.Viola Tackett's oldest son plays a childish game with disastrous results. What might have remained a personal tragedy, blossoms into a town-wide catastrophe when he lies to his mother about what happened. Now Viola Tackett is hatching a diabolical plot to get revenge. Her plan endangers the life of every man, woman, and child in Nowhere County.Meanwhile, the Reverend Duncan Norman believes he's figured out who murdered his daughter from the clues in her diary, and he has no plans to turn the other cheek. When he goes in search of an eye for an eye, he's not willing to hear that he might have the wrong guy.As the residents of Nowere County squabble among themselves and kill each other, The Jabberwock keeps on silently picking them off one by one.Time is running out for everyone.Blown Away is the sixth book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere.Fans of Justified, Under The Dome, and LOST will find themselves right at home in Nowhere USA.

The sorceress of psychological suspense is back with the fifth book in her highly-anticipated new Nowhere USA series. Ninie Hammon is at her career best in The Witch of Gideon - a story that will make you too afraid to go down the basement stairs at night.10-year-old Lily Topple ran away from home in a little coal town called Gideon on one perfectly normal spring day in 1895 and got lost in the woods. When she found her way back the next morning, Gideon was a ghost town.Everyone had vanished. The Jabberwock took them.Lily stayed in the ghost town. Locals came to call her the Witch of Gideon. And when the Jabberwock returns a hundred years later and imprisons the whole of Nowhere County, systematically making those people vanish, too, former history teacher and genealogist Thelma Jackson seeks out Lily Topple's daughter, Rose. Now an old woman in a nursing home, Rose claims to know secrets her mother told her about the Jabberwock.Will she reveal what she knows about the creature before it's too late?A clock is ticking, counting down the minutes the residents of Nowhere County have left to solve the mystery before the Jabberwock "absorbs" them all.Tick. Tick. Tick.The Witch of Gideon is the fifth book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere.Fans of Justified, Under The Dome, and LOST will find themselves right at home in Nowhere USA.

The sorceress of psychological suspense is back with the fourth book in her highly-anticipated new Nowhere USA series. Ninie Hammon is at her career-best in The Hanging Judge - a story that will have you looking over your shoulder at every tiny sound.Recently-reunited childhood friends Charlie, Sam, and Malachi have come to a startling conclusion: whatever the Jabberwock is, it "wants to play" with them - and it's imprisoned the whole county to make sure the trio won't abandon it.Meanwhile, Viola Tackett has murdered the only law enforcement officer in the county, and she's staging a kangaroo court to solidify her authority as residents vanish one by one.Can Charlie, Sam, and Malachi survive Viola long enough to defeat The Jabberwock and return their town to the rest of the world?The Hanging Judge is the fourth book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Nowhere USA, a riveting psychological thriller about the residents of a forgotten county that inexplicably sinks through reality to find itself in the middle of Nowhere.Fans of Justified, Under The Dome, and LOST will find themselves right at home in Nowhere USA.

The top-to-bottom guide to taking your writing and publishing business from "Square One" to "Stratosphere." Iterate and Optimize is a behind-the-scenes peek into how indie publishing company Sterling & Stone grew their three-author team into juggernaut - and a next-level guide for authors looking to explode their sales and do the same. In Write. Publish. Repeat., bestselling authors Johnny B. Truant, Sean Platt, and David Wright explained how to build a thriving international publishing empire with no luck required. Rather than resting on their laurels in the years since WPR was written, they've been evolving their once-fledgling business a little bit at a time: expanding to eight publishing imprints, ten high-profile podcasts, a coordinated staff working behind the scenes, millions of words published and hundreds of thousands of books in the hands of eager readers. In Iterate and Optimize, they show you how they grew their business from the ground up in tiny, incremental steps - and give you a road map so that you can do it, too. More than "just another self-publishing guide," this book delves deep into the business behind the success of Platt, Truant, and Wright's company Sterling & Stone, making it the essential "advanced course" follow up to Write. Publish. Repeat. It explains how to tweak your processes over time while maintaining momentum, wringing more profit out of assets you already have. You'll learn how to diversify and create more products with less work, generate more money doing what you already do now, and set yourself up so you can build a readership who will support you in the specific ways you intend to evolve. You'll learn how to grow from a bare-bones, minimum-viable-product business into a slightly larger business or an outright empire - not with massive, flashy (and risky) moves, but by the sustainable magic of incremental growth: small improvements made consistently over time. In this book, Platt, Truant, and Wright give you all the nitty-gritty they've learned and implemented since their last nonfiction publishing bestseller. You'll learn how to "iterate and optimize" the way you handle: • Exclusive versus "going wide" distribution • International and multi-format sales • Advertising and marketing • Optimizing book covers, descriptions, and metadata to increase conversion • Slowly and sustainable building your assistants or contractors, plus outsourcing right • Advanced product funnels, including the changed role of free books • Networking and in-person meet-ups • Workflow management and systems • The writing and pre-writing process so you can "write better faster" • Social media • Podcasting • Crowdfunding - what works and what doesn't • And much more!

Part hero's journey, part crash course in storytelling by the modern mavericks of indie publishing, and the bestselling authors of Write. Publish. Repeat., Fiction Unboxed offers something that's never been offered before: a naked look into two writer's process, as they wrote and published a book in 30 days, from scratch, in front of the world. In 2013 Sean Platt & Johnny B. Truant wrote and published 1.5 million words (a Harry Potter series and a half worth of fiction). The next year they showed the world how they did it. In May 2014, Johnny and Sean, along with their third partner David Wright, launched a Kickstarter campaign to see if their fans wanted to see how they wrote behind closed doors. They promised to start their newest project without knowing their story, characters, or even their genre, and publish the final draft before their 30 days were up. They promised to capture every email, every story meeting, and every word from every draft. They promised to show every molecule of their process, warts and all. They had 30 days for their fans to green light the campaign. It fully funded in 11 hours. Fiction Unboxed is as revealing as it is inspiring, empowering readers and writers as much as it will entertain them. With actionable advice that will benefit any writer, this book is a true gem for anyone who loves a well told story.