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Jealousy Blitz

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Romantic Suspense, Romantic Thriller

Release Date: September 5, 2022

Publisher: Avoca Press Publishing

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My code name is Jealousy, and I take the moral high road…most of the
time.

Righting wrongs where no justice exists.

In life. In death. And in love.

 

My sniper dot targets the red-hot Irishman as The One. He’s The One,
all right…the one that steals what no one else can…my
heart.

He lies.

He cheats.

He steals.

And so do I…we’re the perfect match.

But when jealousy is a weapon for an assassin faced with a life-or-death
choice,

Love doesn’t stand a chance.

Dive into an elite assassin organization that brings justice to the
world.

 

We are the Sisters of Sin: A new thriller romance novel series you’ll
die for.

 

 

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Excerpt

Chapter 16 – Shayla Byrne

 

Code Name: Jealousy.

Bratislava, Slovakia.

 

When the wheels touch down in Vienna, I take a train to Bratislava under a
fake name. I want to view the countryside on the ground, since this is my
first foray to Eastern Europe. Trains relax me, unlike hurtling through the
air in a metal sausage tube that could fall out of the sky at any given
moment.

It gives me time to prepare for my first official assignment with the
Sisters of Sin and review a few Slovak phrases I’d practiced. I settle
into a comfortable seat in the dining car and place my dinner order.
Brushing back strands of my blunt-cut red wig, I resist the temptation to
scratch my itchy scalp. I hate wearing these wigs and miss my trusty black
knit cap I wore in Ireland.

Mother has made it clear I’m to do a better job of keeping up my
appearance, especially for situations like this job I’m on now.
I’m anxious about working more in the open; I miss the dark blanket of
night where appearance wasn’t the major concern in our family’s
operation back home.

My appearance wasn’t high on my priority list until Collin Stedman
swept me off my feet—and swept my virginity along with them. I wonder
what he’s doing right now. I miss how easy I am with him. He accepts
me as I am without bombarding me with questions about my past.

Unlike our family operation back home, Mother wants us to know who our
marks are and why we remove them. She had assigned Vanity to brief me about
this job before I left headquarters in Rome. Vanity’s specialty was
dealing with the traffickers. She’d explained that my target is a
powerhouse in the human trafficking industry that snatches young girls and
women from Eastern Europe and trafficks them to Western Europe.

I sit up in my seat and open my tablet to read the encrypted email from SOS
intel, then I scroll down to the photos section. The bald, middle-aged man
with an ever-so-charming smile and expensive suit emulates a successful CEO
on the cover of a business magazine.

How quaint.

I move my finger down to note the name of his front company: EuroComm. I
frown at the subheading. The leading edge of Europe’s 5G wireless
network.

Not true. Declan says China has now usurped that desirable
distinction.

My eyes narrow. It makes sense this guy would run his trafficking business
solely by digital means. Cousin Declan had explained how cybercrime
investigation bureaus had hacked into encrypted email between the man in
this photo and other ‘independent contractors’ to trace sources
and IP addresses. The bureaus had followed his pathway through dozens of
servers around the world.

But this sleaze runs a sophisticated network, staying ten steps ahead of
everyone.

Until now.

Apparently, someone had become fed up with Mr. Sleaze’s operation and
relayed his intel to one of the three remaining Conexus board members, Jeff
Lynsey. In the name of humanity, he’d directed Mother to assign this
trafficker as a prioritized hit.

Thanks to Cousin Declan—who taught me well—my affinity for
navigating the dark web, hacking into mobile phones and email has come in
handy. I’d traced the most recent online IP address to Bratislava, and
turned it over to Finn Rogers, Mother’s right-hand man. He and his
staff oversee all things technical, and they’d flushed out the details
of where and when the mark would be most accessible.

I’m not crazy about doing this hit in an up close and personal
proximity. As part of my apprenticeship, Mother is evaluating my ability to
execute close contact hits when situations require it.

My reasoning to accomplish this job from a sniper’s distance fell on
deaf ears. Mother wanted me out of my comfort zone to ‘become more
flexible.’ She didn’t realize what she was asking of someone
with an autistic obsessive-compulsive brain—I refuse to invoke the
word ‘disorder.’ I don’t have a disorder—I just
interpret information differently.

The Uncles call it my extra special gift.

Collin told me I’m not disordered. He made it sound I was more normal
than normal people. And all my life I’d thought of myself as
defective.

I let out a shaky breath, wishing this hit wasn’t my first SOS
assignment.

There is more than enough potential for me to mess this up.

 

 About the Author

LoLo Paige

LoLo Paige is an award-winning author and former wildland firefighter,
whose debut novel, Alaska Spark, received three awards: An Indie B.R.A.G.
Medallion, an Eric Hoffer award, and a Next Generation Indie Book award for
romance. Alaska Spark and Alaska Inferno have ranked No.1 on the Amazon
Bestseller Lists for action adventure and romantic suspense in the U.S.,
Canada, and Australia. The true story about LoLo’s fire crew escaping
a runaway wildfire won an Alaska Press Club award and inspired her fire
series.

Back in 2021 LoLo was invited to collaborate with five other award-winning
and best-selling authors to write in the shared universe of the Sisters of
Sin series, and it has been a wild adventure ever since! It has been an
honor working with these five super talented authors to write
Jealousy.

LoLo also has other books under the romance umbrella. Hello Spain, Goodbye
Heart, and Irish Thunder, are two romantic comedies being published by The
Wild Rose Press. Sign up for LoLo’s email list to learn more about her
books.

 

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Pickoff Blitz

 

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America’s Pastime, Book 3

 

Sports Thriller, Crime Thriller, Romantic Thriller

 

Published: April 2021

Publisher: The Hutchinson Group

A ballplayer. A diva. The mob. Trouble, 1920s style.

Ace major league catcher Joe Rath suddenly finds himself riding the pine when team management decides they’ve got to have slugger Frank Walsh on the roster. Only, Walsh brings along more baggage than anybody bargains for.

Meanwhile, Rath’s troubles multiply. With his wife already discontent back home, he keeps bumping into a certain breathtaking showgirl whose dangerous situation he can’t ignore. A Chicago crime boss enters the picture, and things snowball.

Before he knows it, Rath finds himself not only running the base paths but also running for his life.

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Excerpt from Chapter 3 of GP Hutchinson’s Pickoff

 

Just then, a lone spotlight came on, casting its smoky beam to the baby grand piano on stage. As the piano player commenced the introduction to a slower number, a drop-dead gorgeous blonde in a glittering silver dress drifted into the curve of the piano.

Pinky’s jaw fell open. “Hubba hubba,” he murmured.

Hubba hubba, indeed, Joe mused.

She began to sing, and her voice was as captivating as her appearance. “There’s a saying old, says that love is blind . . . ”

This is that new Gershwin song.” Pinky wiped his lips with the back of his hand.

Shhh.”

Pinky stared at him. “You’re a married man, Joe. You need to leave this one to me.”

He was right, of course. But that voice.

Only man I ever think of with regret . . . ”

Joe stood spellbound. The girl was stunning—fashionable waves crimped into her chin-length hair, smoky eyes, perfect lips. She made the melody ebb and flow, seemingly without effort. Yet just beneath the surface, there was something he couldn’t quite put his finger on.

In a fuller voice, the lovely diva carried the tune along to its elegant chorus. And all of a sudden, there it was. “I’m a little lamb who’s lost in a wood . . . ”

That was it—an air of vulnerability, Joe thought. Despite the aura of sophisticated sensuality, something in the way she held her hands, something in the way she rendered each phrase said she wasn’t so secure.

Come on, he said to himself. How do you know that? It’s a song about a woman in need—

Someone to Watch Over Me.’ That’s the way she’s gotta sing it.Nevertheless, he couldn’t shake the notion. He knew insecurity. He’d felt it himself in some ball games. He’d picked up on it in other ballplayers, even called for a certain pitch to take advantage of it when he sensed it in a batter.

The song ended, and the room resounded with applause.

The girl gave a demure smile, a bashful bow. And then she sashayed off the stage to a dark fellow in a dark suit who gave her his arm and led her through a curtained doorway.

Wow!” Pinky’s gaze was still on the curtains. “I’ll watch over you, sweetheart. Come to Papa.”

Joe glanced Pinky’s way. “Wipe your chin, buddy. You’re drooling.”

Pinky ran his fingers over his chin, then looked Joe in the eyes. “Whatcha talking about, funny guy? Dry as a bone. Anyway”—he pointed—“I saw the way you were looking at her, too. Don’t make me have to tell the little missus back in Baltimore your eyes are wandering when you’re off away from home.”

He knew Pinky was only kidding. Nonetheless, he was right. Mena was already bothered by all their time apart. Joe wondered whether she secretly feared he might fall for some pretty young doll he met along the way and return to Baltimore with divided affections.

One more beer,” he said, “then I’m gonna ankle it back to the hotel, call it a night.”

Hey, I was only joking about you and Miss Little Lost Lamb. Don’t you wanna stick around and see if she’s gonna sing another number?” Pinky clasped Joe’s shoulder.

I don’t know . . . ”

Really. Why hurry off? It’s not like you and me are gonna work a lot of innings tomorrow.”

A flurry of thoughts whirled through Joe’s mind—Mena, the singer, asking Cap Irwin to trade him to a team where he’d have a shot at becoming a star catcher once again. “Probably not,” he admitted.

There you go, then. Let’s get us another coupla drinks.”

Just one more.

About the Author

GP Hutchinson

“GP Hutchinson has the gift to tell a compelling tale, enlighten you without preaching and keep you on the edge of your seat. He takes you on unexpected trails populated by flesh and blood characters of depth and substance,” says Western TV & movie star Alex Cord. Nick Wale of Novel Ideas says, “With great mastery GP Hutchinson paints a West I can see, feel and smell. [He] knows how to write, and he knows instinctively.”

Hutchinson’s first Western novel, “Strong Convictions,” won the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best First Western of 2015, as well as a gold medal from the National Indie Excellence Awards. “Strong Suspicions,” the second volume in the Emmett Strong Western series, garnered a gold medal in the 2016 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards. And “Strong Ambitions” took silver in the 2017 Readers’ Favorite Awards.

In addition to his interest in the Old West, GP Hutchinson has been a longtime enthusiast of baseball, America’s first true national pastime, a game played from coast to coast by the late 1800s. While he enjoys the game as it is played today, his most recent novels are tales of players caught up in life-and-death struggles during the early years of professional baseball. Steeped in the actual history of the game, as well as societal realities of the times, these stories feature both fictional and actual characters, teams, and leagues.

A graduate of Louisiana State University and Dallas Theological Seminary, Hutchinson has lived in Costa Rica and Spain. He currently resides in upstate South Carolina with his wife, Carolyn. Besides writing, he enjoys spending time in the mountains and horseback riding whenever the opportunity arises

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Overland Blitz

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Dramatic Thriller, Romantic Thriller

 

Date Published: November 10, 2020

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

Skyla Overland is proud to work for Overland Insurance, the company founded by her grandfather. She enjoys sharing an apartment with her best friend, Pauline, and is in love with Edmond. Besides one nerve-wracking insurance fraud case in the past, her sheltered life is uneventful and just the way she likes it.

Until one day, everything changes…

Skyla and Troy, the manager at Overland Insurance, are the last ones to leave the office. In the empty parking lot, Troy takes her in his arms. Why would he ruin their easy-going friendship by kissing her, especially since he knows she’s dating Edmond?

Left alone, Skyla hurries to her car, puts on her seatbelt, and glances in her rearview mirror.

The face of a stranger grins at her from the backseat. “How nice to see you again,” he hisses close to her ear.

Regaining consciousness, Skyla finds herself on the backseat of her own car, with her hands tied behind her back. Is she getting kidnapped? Who is he? And where is he taking her?

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About the Author

Ramcy Diek fell in love with the United States during her travels with her husband. The Pacific Northwest became their new home, where they built up their RV Park and raised their two sons.

During this time, Ramcy also made a slow transition from reader to multi-genre writer. Her debut novel “Storm at Keizer Manor” received multiple awards. This inspired her to spend more time doing what she loves most: writing stories.

Eagles in Flight, a romantic suspense novel, is her second book. Her third novel “Overland”, a dramatic thriller, followed in November 2020.

Follow her on Social Media to stay informed about the release of her next novels. She loves to hear from you.

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Awakening – Blitz

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Romantic Thriller
Date Published: November 17, 2018
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Is it possible that the entirety of one’s life has been steered by the hand of fate towards a single moment? For Brooklyn French program teacher – and single parent of two- Tess Shapiro, it would certainly seem so. After discovering that her life and her marriage were artificial constructs based on lies and deceit, Tess must undergo the ultimate reality check. She delves deep into her subconscious, venting her frustrations by indulging in a lifelong habit of drawing graphic novels starring her glamorous alter ego, an international spy by the name of Andrea Chambers. Meanwhile, in the real world, anti-French terrorism is taking the world by storm. What, and who, is behind the vile attacks against French-speaking people everywhere from Brooklyn to Burundi? As she suspects that her new lover may not be who she thought he was, Tess’s ability to perceive truth through a distorted collage of deception, brings comic book fantasy and real world tragedy crashing together in a whirlwind of romance and political intrigue. When, in a single moment, Tess realizes the totality of the lie she has been fed and believed, and the impossibility of the truth, she makes a staunch decision that will change her life, and how she perceives the world, forever.
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Originally from Canada, Jackie Goldman now lives with her two children in Brooklyn, NY. She began writing full time as a passive-aggressive means of enforcing quiet time in the apartment.
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The Redemption – New Release

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The Redemption

by Brooke Sivendra
A Deacon Thomas Novel
Publication Date: January 31, 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romantic Thriller

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He dug his hands into the wet, muddy soil, searching for his murdered girlfriend’s remains, but what he found was something very different…

Deacon Thomas is facing his past and fighting for his future-for another chance at happiness. But when a dark secret emerges, one that shatters Marianne’s world, he will be forced to make a decision that will forever change his life.

Deacon couldn’t save Nicole, but he’s determined that history will not repeat itself.

This is his chance for redemption.

The Redemption is the second and final installment of the Deacon Thomas Duet.

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They say time heals all wounds, but that’s a lie. . .

Seven years ago, Deacon Thomas’s girlfriend was brutally murdered. Every single day, he lives with the crushing truth-they killed her to get to him. Time hasn’t healed his wounds. Not even a little. But he’s found one way to survive: to suppress the memories of her-the good and the bad.

Until now. One image changes everything, and whether he wants to or not, life is going to force him to face his past. But life is also going to give him something else: a second chance at happiness-if he can find the strength to forgive himself.

About Brooke Sivendra

Brooke Sivendra lives in Adelaide, Australia with her husband and two furry children-Milly, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, and Lara, a massive Great Dane who is fifty pounds heavier than Brooke and thinks she is a lap dog!

Brooke has a degree in Nuclear Medicine and worked in the field of medical research before launching her first business at the age of twenty-six. This business grew to be Australia’s premier online shopping directory and Brooke recently sold it to focus on her writing.

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