#BookBlitz “There Be Demons (Demons Wars Book 1)” by M.K. Theodoratus

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coverDemon Wars, Book 1
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Britt never dreamed demons existed. Then, the Angeli drafted her to fight them.
When the stone effigy she finds turns into a live gargoyle and tells her she must learn magic in order to fight demons, headstrong Britt Kelly wants to run the other way. She has enough problems fitting into a new high school in the projects and coping with her parents’ divorce, thank you very much.
Gillen, the centuries old leader of the Gargoyle Guardians, knows he has a serious problem–teaching Britt and her teen-aged friends to control enough Grace to survive the coming battles against invading demons.
Britt and Gillen soon fight over the best way to cope with the demons. Will anyone survive?
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Running from Demons
Andor Demon Wars, Book 2
Pillar Beccon travels across Andor to discover her mother’s mysterious past. But danger is never far away as a demon seeks to destroy her.
An orphaned null without a hint of magic, Pillar can’t remember ever belonging anywhere, especially not in the Freemage commune where she grew up. After she graduates from high school, she jumps at the chance to learn why her mother ran away from her family.
During an accidental encounter, Grylerrque, a surviving commander from The Demon Wars, recognizes what Pillar is and decides to feed the girl’s life force to her clutch. The demon sends her minions to capture the girl. Pillar escapes with a help of an unexpected allay, only to learn she was pulled out of the frying pan and thrown into the fire.
Running from Demons tells the story of Pillar’s search to find a place to call her own. The book continues the chronicles of Andor, a land where the mundane world clashes with one of magic and demons from another plane prey. If you love paranormal stories of discovery and mayhem, this is the story for you.”

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About the Author
MK Theodoratus

 

Fantasy has always been part of M. K. Theodoratus’s life from having an imaginary friend to reading. Now she also writes fantasy.

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#ReleaseBoost “Kill, Sleep, Repeat” by Britney King

Title: Kill Sleep Repeat
Author: Britney King
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Release Date: January 16, 2020

๐™๐™ง๐™ค๐™ข ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™—๐™š๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™–๐™ช๐™ฉ๐™๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ค๐™› ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™Ž๐™ค๐™˜๐™ž๐™–๐™ก ๐˜ผ๐™›๐™›๐™–๐™ž๐™ง ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ƒ๐™€๐™ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™š๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™™๐™š๐™–๐™™๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™ค๐™ซ๐™ค๐™˜๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ง๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก๐™š๐™ง, ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ž๐™˜๐™ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ก๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฌ๐™จ ๐™– ๐™ฌ๐™ค๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ฌ๐™๐™ค, ๐™ž๐™ฃ ๐™– ๐™›๐™ž๐™œ๐™๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™จ๐™ช๐™ง๐™ซ๐™ž๐™ซ๐™–๐™ก, ๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ก๐™ž๐™ฏ๐™š๐™จ ๐™๐™š๐™ง ๐™Ÿ๐™ค๐™—, ๐™ข๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ข๐™ค๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ž๐™ฉ ๐™ฅ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ.


Several times a week, Charlotte Jones leaves suburbia behind and boards a chartered flight to parts unknown, where she wraps her hands around the necks of marks for just as long as she has to.

Then she goes back to domestic life with a paycheck, defense wounds, and the sense that she can handle anything.

Which is good, because being a wife, mother, and sociopath, with an insatiable taste for murder, gives the term work-life balance new meaning. When one life unexpectedly bleeds into the other, leading to a secret admirer and borderline insta-fame, Charlotte is forced to ask herself if she really can have it all.

Slick and unnerving, Kill, Sleep, Repeat is a cunning tale of deception and desire that begs the question: Do we ever really know people the way we think we do?

Britney King lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, children, two dogs, one ridiculous cat, and a partridge in a pear tree.

When she’s not wrangling the things mentioned above, she writes psychological, domestic and romantic thrillers set in suburbia.

Currently, she’s writing three series and several standalone novels.

The Bedrock Series features an unlikely heroine who should have known better. Turns out, she didnโ€™t. Thus she finds herself tangled in a messy, dangerous, forbidden love story and face-to-face with a madman hell-bent on revenge. The series has been compared to Fatal Attraction, Single White Female, and Basic Instinct.

The Water Series follows the shady love story of an unconventional married coupleโ€”heโ€™s an assassinโ€”she kills for fun. It has been compared to a crazier book version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Also, Dexter.

Around The Bend is a heart-pounding standalone, which traces the journey of a well-to-do suburban housewife, and her life as it unravels, thanks to the secrets she keeps. If she were the only one with things she wanted to keep hidden, then maybe it wouldnโ€™t have turned out so bad. But she wasnโ€™t.
The With You Series at its core is a deep love story about unlikely friends who travel the world; trying to find themselves, together and apart. Packed with drama and adventure along with a heavy dose of suspense, it has been compared to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Love, Rosie.
The Social Affair is an intense standalone about a timeless couple who find themselves with a secret admirer they hadnโ€™t bargained for. For fans of the anti-heroine and stories told in unorthodox ways, the novel explores what can happen when privacy is traded for convenience. It is reminiscent of films such as One Hour Photo and Play Misty For Me. 

Without a doubt, connecting with readers is the best part of this gig. You can find Britney online here: 

To get more– grab two books for free, by subscribing to her mailing list at britneyking.com or just copy and paste bit.ly/britneykingweb into your browser. 

Happy reading.

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Excerpt “A Degree of Uncertainty” Nicola K. Smith

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A Cornish town is slowly fracturing under the weight of its growing universityโ€ฆ

Prominent businessman, Harry Manchester will not stand by and see his beloved hometown turned into a student ghetto โ€” and many residents and students are relying on him.

But Harryโ€™s stance sets him on a collision course with Dawn Goldberg, formidable Vice Chancellor of Poltowan University, who is set on doubling its size and cementing her career legacy.

As Harryโ€™s marriage falls apart, his business comes under threat, and fellow traders accuse him of halting progress, Dawn is battling her own demons, not least the need to live up to her late fatherโ€™s expectations and erase the memory of his tragic death.

There can only be one victor in this battle for the soul of a close-knit communityโ€ฆ

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This extract features the character of Dawn Goldberg, the ambitious Vice Chancellor of Poltowan University, as she recalls her late father.

Her memory of that day was a blur, almost to the point that she sometimes questioned whether she had been in the car with her father at all. He had been taking her to her entrance exam at the nearby girlsโ€™ school, something he had perceived as a formality for the brilliantly academic Dawn โ€“ not that she possessed the same level of confidence in herself. Until then she had been unduly tainted by her motherโ€™s unrelentingly gloomy outlook, believing that her father was, in contrast, overly ambitious on her behalf, riddling her with a desperate anxiety that she would fail him.

Bramley Hill was a twenty-five-minute journey, along roads that her father had driven numerous times. He loved to drive his green Cortina Mk4, purchased from his savings when it rolled off the production line the year before. She often helped him to wash and polish it on Saturday afternoons, and sometimes he would let her top up the oil and check the water. On occasion she would lie under the car next to him as he worked on the underside, revelling in the dark intimacy they shared, her mother tutting and berating her from the kitchen window. It was during these times that his faith in her began to permeate Dawn’s mind, nourishing her self-belief and feeding her courage; letting her dare to dream. He was a man of few words, often quiet and reserved, but he chose those few words carefully, and she treasured every one of them. How she had longed to know all his thoughts.

Other times he would stand with his head under the bonnet for hours, removing parts and replacing them, humming to himself. It was when he was at his happiest; it was when he was at his kindest.

She had insisted on sitting in the back seat that day. She wanted to do some last-minute, uninterrupted revision on her French verbs. Her father had sat silently in the driverโ€™s seat, his oversized brown suit jacket looking faintly ridiculous on his narrow shoulders. He had bought it when he was promoted to factory manager some two years before. It had always been slightly too big for him, almost as if he thought the higher rank, the improved status, would in itself take up the slack. His hair had been slicked across his head in the way he wore it on important occasions. His very demeanour suggested he had finally arrived, that his lifeโ€™s journey had been about this moment.

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Author BioNK Smith

Nicola K Smith is a freelance journalist contributing to a number of titles including the The Times, Guardian.co.uk, BBC.co.uk, BBC Countryfile and Sainsburyโ€™s Magazine. She lives in Falmouth, Cornwall, a town which inspired A Degree of Uncertainty, although it is set in the fictional Cornish town of Poltowan.

 

 

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#PublicationDayPush “133 Hours” by Zach Abrams

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Arriving at work to find sheโ€™s lost more than five-and-a-half days (133 hours), Briony Chaplin, has no recollection of where sheโ€™d been or what had happened to her. She is distraught. Has she been ill, or had a breakdown, or could she have been drugged and abducted?

Doubting her own sanity, Briony is fearful of what sheโ€™ll find. Yet sheโ€™s driven to discover the truth. When she trawls her memories, sheโ€™s terrified by visions, believing she may have been abused and raped.

Assisted by her friends Alesha and Jenny, and supported by a retired detective, sheโ€™s determined to learn where sheโ€™s been and why.

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Paula is the police officer assigned to take Brionyโ€™s statement and question her about her suspected abduction..Briony has been accompanied by her friends, Jenny and Alesha.

โ€œHave you ever researched to find who your real parents were, or whether you have any other relatives?โ€ Paula asks.

Iโ€™m affronted and itโ€™s not only her questions; I find her style of asking to be confrontational and very intrusive. How dare she make assumptions or try to impress her own values onto me? Iโ€™m also annoyed with Jenny. How could she leave me open to this when she must already know my feelings on the matter?

โ€œI know who my real parents are โ€“ theyโ€™re the ones whoโ€™ve cared for me and raised me for the last twenty-five years. Just because some man and woman went through a random act of fornication, resulting in an egg being fertilised, doesnโ€™t make them parents. It certainly doesnโ€™t make them my parents. Thereโ€™s no reason why I need to, or want to, find out more about my biological mother and father.โ€

I know Iโ€™m sensitive on this issue and I shouldnโ€™t let it get to me. Maybe itโ€™s guilt, because, if I were to be honest, Iโ€™ve often thought Iโ€™d like to research where I came from, but I donโ€™t want to upset Mum and Dad. They havenโ€™t ever discouraged me, but Iโ€™m concerned it might be taken as a betrayal. Itโ€™s nobodyโ€™s business but mine, so I wonโ€™t have anyone, whether they be police, friend, or anyone else, trying to tell me what I should have done.

โ€œIโ€™m sorry,โ€ Paula says. โ€œI didnโ€™t mean to upset you. The purpose of my question was to find out if there might beโ€ฆโ€

โ€œMight be what?โ€ Iโ€™m trying to calm down but itโ€™s a struggle.

โ€œIf weโ€™re going to properly investigate to find out what happened to you, then you need to be completely honest with us. We need as much information as possible, so we donโ€™t waste resources looking down blind alleys and so we explore every relevant avenue. You may think it improbable, but we need to research whether your adoption has any relevance to the enquiry.โ€

โ€œIn case Iโ€™ve inherited any mad genes,โ€ I say, my tone caustic.

Jenny places her hand on my arm. Whether itโ€™s to support and comfort me or to restrain me, I canโ€™t tell. Iโ€™m intolerant and shake her off.

โ€œI wonโ€™t pull my punches,โ€ Paula replies. โ€œYes, itโ€™s our job to consider every possibility. We canโ€™t rule out that your complaint might be frivolous. We also need to consider whether any family members could have an involvement, be they birth or adopted family. Statistically, a very high percentage of crimes are committed by family members, so we will want to carry out checks on your birth family. For what itโ€™s worth, I believe what youโ€™ve told me. However, Iโ€™m duty-bound to follow the standard procedures.โ€

I inhale deeply, considering her words. โ€œIโ€™m sorry if I overreacted. My emotions are very near the surface.โ€

โ€œThatโ€™s understandable, given your situation.โ€ She continues, โ€œI think it best if we can move on.โ€

โ€œYes,โ€ I agree, nodding.

โ€œAre you currently, or have you recently been, in a relationship?โ€ Paula asks.

I frown and shake my head.

โ€œPlease answer, verbally, for the recording.โ€

โ€œNo, nothing serious.โ€

โ€œCan you tell me the last time you had sexual intercourse?โ€

Jenny clasps my hand, and this time I donโ€™t withdraw. She knows the answer because Iโ€™ve told her about it. I should have expected this question. I expected to be questioned about my personal life, but nevertheless, someone I donโ€™t know quizzing me on such personal issues feels intrusive.

โ€œSaturday night,โ€ I reply. โ€œThe Saturday before last Friday,โ€ I correct. I feel the need to explain further. โ€œMichael and I were in a relationship for over a year. We were very close. I thought we would get engaged, but then he was offered a transfer to a big job in Newcastle. This was six months ago, about the same time as I was being recruited at Archers.โ€

I sigh, then carry on. โ€œI was telling you the truth when I said I havenโ€™t recently been in a relationship. When Michael moved away, we agreed to have some time apartโ€ฆ see how it worked as a long-distance relationship. At first, we talked daily but gradually it became less frequent. He called to tell me he was coming up to Glasgow last weekend. We met on the Saturday and it was as if weโ€™d never been apart. We shared a meal and a bottle of wine. He stayed that night at my flat and yes, we did have โ€˜sexual intercourseโ€™, but in the morning he admitted to me heโ€™d found someone new in Newcastle. I was furious because he took advantage of me, acting as if we were a couple and not telling me it was a one-night stand. I threw him out and told him I never wanted to see him again.โ€

Despite my determination that Iโ€™d never let the bastard upset me again, I feel the trickle of tears roll over my cheeks. Jenny is holding my hand reassuringly and Alesha has taken my other hand.

Much as I donโ€™t see the point, Paula takes Michaelโ€™s contact details.

โ€œIโ€™ll contact his local police force and get them to speak to him,โ€ she says. Knowing he may be inconvenienced doesnโ€™t displease me, even a bit.

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Zach AbramsAuthor Bio

Having the background of a successful career in commerce and finance, Zach Abrams has spent many years writing reports, letters and presentations and it’s only fairly recently he started writing novels. “It’s a more honourable type of fiction,” he declares.

Writer of the Alex Warren Murder Mystery series, set in Scotland, Zach has also written the psychological thriller, Ring Fenced and the financial thriller, Source, as well as collaborating with Elly Grant on a book of short stories.

Zach is currently producing a non-fiction series to help small businesses – using the collective title Mind Your Own Business. The first, So, You Think You Want to be a Landlord, is already available.

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