My poor chickie Summer. She looks almost “Oven Ready” as they say. It is that time of year again. The time when it looks like my sweet chickens were attacked because there are feathers everywhere. The first time I witnessed my sweet chicken molting, I thought for sure I was going to see a dead body scattered all over the yard. When I saw her standing there naked, I had to laugh. They look absolutely awful! I never take pictures of them when they are molting. I think they would know I was laughing at them and it would make them feel bad. Thankfully the weather is hot, so no sweaters for Summer. Just lots of treats.

On the Edge of the Loch: A Psychological Novel set in Ireland
Joseph Éamon Cummins
4.7 Stars (23 Reviews)
Genre: Literary Fiction | Contemporary Fiction | Thrillers | Action & Adventure

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AUTHOR’S NOTE This literary novel tells an inspirational story about individual spirit, survival, redemption, and the need to live free. A psychological suspense saga about four impassioned people dealing dangerously with life, love and staying sane. Several pre-publication reviewers asked: Did a real event prompt me to write On the Edge of the Loch. The answer is yes, a chance encounter with a graceful but enigmatic woman, whose intensity infuses the entire story. This woman is one of two main protagonists. The other is a driven man, burdened with and hardened by an equally dramatic past, now negotiating adult freedom for the first time. Both are obsessed with imagined futures.

In Arizona, no one came to meet Irishman Tony MacNeill that day. After nine years locked up that’s how he wanted it. All he needed was a life. Not the one that had been taken from him. Not the youthful one either. But the life he might have lived, to be who he was once meant to become. At fourteen he had lost that, his boyhood, and Ireland. Now 27, to stay alive he’d held his own through a thousand rounds of trouble. But he was shedding the weight of injustice, barely, and managing. Then Lenny Quin appears, out of the blue. To him she’s an apparition that belongs to fantasy. Too much hopelessness and destruction had marred the years since he watched ‘home’ fade into vapour. Now, by irony, in this tiny seafaring village in western Ireland, the unlikeliest resurrection looms. In all his darkness, a woman like Lenny Quin was undreamable; the love-inspired hope she promises forges in him an oath no one or no power will defeat. Not that he desires trouble. But even here, in search of nothing but spirit, the warning signs were clear from their first meeting, even as their fires fused intimately. Soon, spine-chilling events erupt and force them apart. Secrets and silence fog what’s true. And old wounds and new dreams collide. Is the past a forever prison for each of them? Is fate too powerful a foe? Against all that divides them, and for all they together might be, Tony MacNeill will once again become unstoppable.

From Ireland to America to the underbelly of Baghdad, this psychological tale spins with surprises as it unveils the extremes indomitable people will go to, and the frailty and resilience of the human heart.

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The Ghost of Death
Anna Morgan
3.6 Stars (21 Reviews)
Genre: Mystery

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Sarah was so full of life, she was a joy to be around, and she made Ellis’s life so much brighter. However, a trip to the doctor’s office revealed that all was not well, and Sarah only had a short time left. After her passing, Ellis was distraught, his world had fallen apart, and he was struggling to enjoy life. … and then one day, Ellis learns about a colleague’s cousin who is going through the same thing. He too has recently lost someone close to him. Colin and Ellis get together to support each other in their grief and similar experiences, Ellis’s world turns upside down. Why is there a picture of Sarah in Colin’s home? Why does she look so happy, when she should be lying in a cold dark grave? Why are women being struck down with terminal illnesses? And leaving their loved ones behind?

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The Last Spartan: Different Paths
A. E. McCullough
4.3 Stars (48 Reviews)
Genre: Science Fiction | Action & Adventure

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IN THE YEAR 2212, IAIDO ‘ACHILLES’ SPARTAN IS A HUNTER OF MEN. As a former Spec-Ops warrior, Spartan has found that the skills given to him by the Coalition government are well suited to his new occupation. After retrieving a lucrative bounty, Spartan returns to Terran space and finds that one of his oldest friends has been murdered. Vowing to track down the killer, he soon becomes the unwilling pawn in an interstellar power struggle between two old rivals, his former Omega Squadron Commander and the President of the Coalition. When Spartan is forced to kill his mentor in self-defense, he is arrested by Galactic Marshals and detained. But when the Marshals kill a Federal Agent and pin the murder on him, he is forced to flee Earth with a small group of friends. Now the hunter becomes the hunted. Spartan finds that having a bounty placed on his head to be troublesome as he evades the authorities, tracks down his old commander and struggles to clear his name. Unknown to all, an ancient evil has awakened and has plans of its own for mankind and they include death, destruction and chaos. Are the skills Iaido ‘Achilles’ Spartan gained over the years enough to save the day and clear his name? The Last Spartan: Different Paths is the first book in a Sci Fi adventure novel series following a genetically engineered super-soldier on his quest for redemption and discovery of his purpose since leaving the service. Typically a loner, Iaido ‘Achilles’ Spartan learns the bittersweet truth that that no man is an island and nothing is more valuable than friendship. He might have been designed to be nothing more than a killer but in the end, he chooses to walk a different path. Carpe diem.

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Seven
Susan Renee
4.7 Stars (47 Reviews)
Genre: Romance

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DEVASTATION Moving back home wasn’t anything I ever wanted. But after enduring the worst, Going home was the only answer. Being back is everything I thought it would be… Awful, isolating, a constant reminder of what I lost. And the last thing I need–or want–is another reminder of my past, Especially Bryant Wood. GUILT That’s all I feel–all I can see when I look at Savannah Turner. I want to hold her, feel her, love her, And thank her for what’s she given me. But I can’t show her the gratitude. The relief. The gift she’s given me. I won’t. It’ll ruin everything. A secret I must keep–a secret that could break her. Shatter her. Destroy her. All over again.

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Self-Portrait of a Dying Man: A Novel
Michael E. Henderson
5.0 Stars (10 Reviews)
Genre: Horror

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A gripping and exquisitely crafted novel, Self-Portrait of a Dying Man is as powerful and moving as any work in contemporary literary fiction.

Haunted by the Angel of Death, Margold James sets out on an journey of self-discovery and atonement that takes unexpected turns for himself and his family. Informed by Death that he has six months to live, Margold is desperate to be forgiven by those he’s wronged, and to atone for the evil he has done. Finding the forgiveness of others to be a rare thing, however, he sets out to find atonement through other, less orthodox means. At the same time, he decides to paint a series of self-portraits. Something of himself by himself to ease his family’s grief. As the deadline speeds nearer, he finds Death to be an unrelenting foe. Self-Portrait of a Dying Man is a deeply moving portrait of one man’s struggle to find forgiveness and atonement, and to escape the clutches of Death, and the effect it has on his family. An unforgettable, mesmerizing, and intelligent page-turner with strong female characters.

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