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About Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez

My Niece and Nephew joke that I could open a used book store with all the books that I own. I love to read, that is my addiction. I can't go a week without going to a book store. I love crocheting. I love to write stories and poetry. I also love my family, even though they make me crazy at times. I am a huge Donald Duck Fan.

by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | December 2, 2024 · 11:47 am

The County Blitz

Medical Thriller

Date Published: November 7, 2024

For Sam Wyatt, his intern year was going to be the hardest year of his
life. Profoundly affected by violence and death – and long before it was
called PTSD or burnout – Sam and his fellow interns, Wilson Harrison, Gina
Bautista, and Harry Martin must find a way to survive in THE COUNTY.

Doubting their choices, working 90 hours a week, lacking sleep, surviving
on a diet of bad food and black coffee, each must learn to work in the
understaffed, underfunded, and deteriorating hospital taking care of
critically ill patients; for a system demanding they be constantly
overworked if they want to become the doctors they promised themselves they
would be.

Within this brutal system, Sam finds a mentor in Fish – his senior resident
and the only one to tell him the actual rules to survive:

• Everyone will try to kill your patient, except you.

• It’s OK to be wrong, but never unsure.

• Rebels are shot at dawn.

Fish should know. He had been through it just a year before. But would any
of them make it out unscathed?

Set in the 1970’s, this raw portrait of the birth of emergency medicine
bears the roots of many of the problems underlying our broken medical system
and our system of training doctors. Ones that have only progressively
worsened since that time. But…

If you can persevere…

If you really follow Fish’s rules…

Maybe you too can survive THE COUNTY.

About the Author

In a career that spanned 5 decades in emergency medicine, Dr. Zane Horowitz
was there when the specialty began. He worked predominantly in county
hospitals and trauma centers throughout his 45-year career. He has seen the
best and the worst of healthcare delivery. Since those early days, he has
held many roles in the field of emergency medicine. He directed pre-hospital
ambulance systems, supervised a multi-county rural EMS system and an
air-medical helicopter service, and worked in community and rural critical
access emergency departments. Currently, he is a Professor of Emergency
Medicine at Oregon Health Science University, and he practices medical
toxicology as the Associate Medical Director with the Oregon Poison Center.
With over 100 medical publications Zane Horowitz now has written a novel
about the early days of emergency medicine called THE COUNTY.

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The Unraveling Virtual Book Tour

Demons and Angels of Ambition (A Play)

Tragic Play, Self Exploration

Date Published: 05-05-2024

The Unraveling is a play about an ambitious little girl with a demonic
presence inside her who goes through an year long journey of enlightenment
in the woods, that helps her vanquish her demons, escape her past and
restore her faith in the Gods, who have given her a short lived but powerful
destiny.

EXCERPT

Ghost 1 (among the ghosts): she seems changed, from cruel to silent and this is not a harsh silence but rather a calm one. My ghosts, what is your impression of this change?

Ghost 2: I daresay she has become a slave of the Gods. They need no words nor no love from others when they have the claws, the wrath and the signs of the Gods to guide them. These slaves, suffering within themselves, are unharmed and unpredictable for external forces. They are destructive and yet their destruction is for a greater agenda, for a new creation out of the broken pieces.

Ghost 3: look at her looking at the sky when everyone else sleeps in their houses. She waits for her lover on this street and yet in her mind, has no thought of him at this moment. She looks at the sky, and is alive only for the sky. She has bowed down to it. To the Gods. To everything that she can see is beyond her soul and beyond the existence of the world. She has learnt faith in her lost journey. I wish it does her some good.

Ghost 2: come now, the boy comes. Let us take our leave. Our haunting will affect her none and only torment us through her numb gaze. Let us take our leave. Come now, ghosts, let us go back into the dark and leave the girl stuck in the middle of her fate. *Ghosts leave into the narrow dark lanes of the neighbourhood.*

Act 4 Scene 3

Shy boy and Little Girl

Shy boy smiles a sweet smile as he slowly walks toward little girl under the dim streetlight of the dark street. It is a full moon tonight and both of them feel like wild animals being tamed by each other’s eyes.

Shy boy: our hearts are connected. I sensed your return and here you are, awaiting my arrival. Do you know that some people are destined and we are those? This connection is made by a God, and not by us and this is why we shall always find our way back to each other. I will not speak more about my love, since it will never be enough, not for me to speak and not for you to listen. It won’t capture the immensity.

Now tell me, you disappeared for a year into the great woods and I knew you would come back, even if you yourself questioned it. I know how much you wished it even. But here you are, here you are, with me. We thought we could trick each other through games of love and we did, but we also ended up tricking ourselves and now we are intermingled, I am you and you are me, and in my heart, we are only one.

We thought distance would tear us apart but it has created, instead, a fire within our souls that can only be extinguished by our touch. Do you think that maybe we have become like the Gods through this love, that we have become supreme and greater and infinitely greater than the universe itself, by being so far away from the world of our reality and so consumed within ourselves? Ah! Silly notions for silly lovers.

About the Author

Yashika Vahi is an author, poet, content writer and creator. She loves
travelling and making sudden plans whenever she’s not writing and has
an unhealthy obsession with coffee. She’s vegan and passionate about
talking on subjects like mental health, philosophy and literature.
She’s also obsessed with the idea of romanticising the darkness in
life.

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Death by Blood Virtual Book Tour

Paranormal Romance

Date Published: January 26, 2023

Shawna Davies, a relentless South Beach narcotics detective, is hell-bent
on taking down a sinister drug lord infiltrating the club scene with a
lethal designer drug, La Petit Mort. Tormented by an insatiable longing for
something more in her existence, she grapples with the maddening absence of
a vital piece of her soul. Unsure of how to escape the void in her life, a
flicker of hope emerges with his arrival.

Eric Black, a formidable vampire enforcer serving the council of elder
vampires who govern the paranormal realm, is assigned to assist Shawna in
her treacherous quest. However, Eric faces his own agonizing demons and
dreads the prospect of a partner in his shadowy world. As fate intertwines
Eric and Shawna’s destinies, he must confront the possibility of entrusting
her with his darkest secrets while attempting to resist an undeniable, fiery
attraction. Unbeknownst to him, Shawna harbors concealed mysteries of her
own.

Bound together under dire circumstances, an intense passion ignites between
them. But as their entwined worlds unravel further, Eric’s cryptic past
threatens to obliterate any chance of love. Can they overcome the dangers
lurking behind hidden truths, or will their buried secrets ultimately
consume them both?

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | November 30, 2024 · 5:00 am

Vampire King’s Consort Blitz

Dark Vampire Romantasy

Date Published: October 25, 2024

When forbidden love ignites, ancient rivalries threaten to consume them
all…

With loved ones exiled to memory, the three species were left with strained
relations and an ever-growing hatred. For over a century, Humans, Vampires,
and Lycans remained isolated from one another. Only the occasional meeting
of the three leaders brought any sort of interaction between the species.
That was, until one night…

With the horrors of her past descending upon her, Livia finds herself
face-to-face with the castle of the vampire king, Orion. Despite the
king’s desire to rid his castle of this human intruder, something
compels him to keep her close, no matter what. Unfortunately, whereas fate
can bring two souls together, it can also force them apart, but a forbidden
love will not be broken so easily.

Enter a world of passion and peril in this dark romantasy vampire
series.

Bound by fate, torn by prejudice—can love bridge centuries of enmity?
Get your copy of Vampire King’s Consort today and witness a love that
challenges fate itself!

About the Author

M.J. Sweets is an aspiring author that writes dark romantasy paranormal
novels. At a young age she started her journey by filling notebooks with
ideas and creating different worlds, leading all the way into her adult
life. At first this was a hobby where she would decompress and relax but
after many supporting figures in her life she gained the courage to put her
work out there in the world.

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Men in Books Aren’t Better Virtual Book Tour

Contemporary Romance

Date Published: November 25, 2024

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Pressured by her looming deadline and an unfinished romance manuscript,
author Molly Covington applies her immersive research skills and goes all
in. She hires a male companion for inspiration during three days of research
in Las Vegas.

Enter sexy, confident Jared Washington—an extreme sports enthusiast
and relationship skeptic who moonlights as a Plus One male companion.
Molly’s contract puts him within arm’s reach of buying his own
business and making his dreams come true.

The chemistry between her and Jared is surprisingly easy. Before their
Vegas rendezvous comes to an end, one of them will need to lay all their
cards on the table to discover if they’ll be lucky in love.

EXCERPT

Molly

Searching for an escort was not the same as

searching for porn.

At least, that’s what I kept telling myself as I hit

enter on my keyboard. Holding my breath, I waited as

the list of results⎯Elite Males, Premium Gigolos, Stags

R Us⎯populated my laptop screen. I perched on the

edge of my black leather desk chair in my home office

overlooking the Seattle harbor. All the entries sounded

like adult films. Each one screamed precisely what to

expect, which made choosing any one in particular

impossible.

With one eye shut and a tentative finger, I clicked

on the top entry, Elite Males. An obscene amount of

oiled flesh filled most of my monitor—a close-up photo

of a smooth-chested guy flexing his defined muscles

while lying on his back. The shot highlighted his torso

and prominent tattoos, capturing only his lips and chin;

he was clean-shaven, and his jaw was also, for some

reason, shiny. Ugh! Too much! The home page wasn’t

quite as bad as I’d expected but still cringe-worthy:

almost laughable. The guy in the image provided what

was supposed to be an enticing, yet exaggerated,

display, which I assumed⎯combined with his other

“talents” listed in the reviews that read like porn⎯must

have earned him his five-star rating. To each his own.

The parts of the man I could see on my screen were

considered conventionally hot. However, after reading

the list of customers’ erotic comments, I swallowed

back the bitter tang filling my mouth. I felt dirty just

looking at his image⎯and desperate. But I guess, for

all intents and purposes, I was. My deadline from my

publisher loomed overhead, and I had no manuscript to

submit. My stomach rolled.

“It’s been a year, Molly,” Renee had said last week

after huffing into the phone. “The editors expect

something after that advance. Your reputation will only

buy you so much time. Can you at least give me the

first fifty pages so I can appease them? Try to barter an

extension?”

Picturing Renee’s scowl was easy⎯an otherwise

non-existent crinkle above the bridge of her button

nose, with her perpetual bold lips in full pout mode.

A cold sweat broke out across my forehead. “I’ll

get you something soon. I promise.” My hollow words

sounded more like a question as I brushed off the brittle

ends of hair that flaked onto my sweatshirt, an

inevitable consequence of straightening my Jamaican

locks with my flat iron. However, my hair wouldn’t

have done that if I hadn’t fallen asleep at the computer

the night before, attempting to muscle out some words

that never came. I should have just gone to bed at a

decent hour with my silk hair wrap.

“Look, Molly, you’ve been a real trouper since

breaking off the engagement with Enrique. But I think

gifting your cousin your non-refundable venue for her

wedding was…a mistake. Admirable, but a mistake

nonetheless.”

About the Author

Amanda and Lisa-Marie are a co-writing team of best friends who share
imaginary worlds, including a short story, Shivers, published in Moments
Between. Lisa Marie Potter (BIPOC) is a mom of four who grew up in
Nottingham, England, and now resides in Alaska with her husband and golden
retriever. Amanda Nelson grew up in Maryland and moved to Arizona, where she
attended college and currently lives with her husband and four kids. Both
women are members of the Author’s Guild and were part of a Manuscript
Academy Podcast featuring their writing and critique group. They also review
books on their socials, hike the Olympic National Park, and fight over the
same fictional crushes.

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