‘I was only twenty years old when I died. Who would have thought that with death came immortality?’

Britchelstone is plagued by a rampant serial killer targeting young women. Mere weeks after turning twenty, Scarlet Cherie finds herself as his first victim; left to rot on the side of the road, she slips into the darkness, awaiting her mortal fate.

Awaking to find herself in the presence of enigmatic Nikolaos, Scarlet’s life is about to change in ways she could never have envisaged. As the killer continues to strike, Scarlet is thrown into an unprecedented reality where fact and fiction are blurred. With an entourage of preternatural creatures, as well as her own newfound powers, she plots to bring her killer to justice, all the while coming to terms with living a life shrouded in shadows and bloodlust.

At times, catching a murderer seems to be the least complicated aspect of Scarlet’s new life. Living with a vampire and delving into arcane truths have their own dark and daunting complexities…

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I started writing The Fire Within My Heart as a short story when I was on break at work as a creative outlet as I was working in the arts, around so many artists and creatives, and yet not able to do any of my own. These people inspired me and brought out that flare in me I felt I'd lost many years prior. Eventually, it blossomed into a full-fledged novel to which I devoted endless hours, many moons, and so much emotion. Without the weird and wonderful creatives of a particular festival at which I worked, though, it never would have become what it is.

How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
This is a hard one! Honestly, they just came to me, the way some characters just do. Once I started writing about them, they just began to flow onto paper and became people within their own right who knew their passions, what they love, and hate, and their history. Sometimes, they take a while to reveal themselves to me (those pesky supernaturals can be quite elusive!) but eventually, they share all!

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It was at that moment I knew I was seconds away from death. Any release from the pain in my body would be welcome. I thought of my mother, father, friends…of what they would think tomorrow when I hadn't returned home. Who would find my body? What would they do with me? I didn't care, I just needed to be free from the agony.

Death was welcome.

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Ayshen Irfan is a born-and-bred Brightonian with a passion for dark fantasy which began at a young age. She first established her predilection for vampires aged nine when she started reading paranormal and urban fantasy. Her first book, The Melancholy Killer, was written and self-published at age twelve.

Whilst she writes urban fantasy, her obvious penchant for magick and the paranormal is displayed throughout her work. As a practising Witch, Ayshen tries to incorporate some of her beliefs into her work.

The Fire Within My Heart, book one in the Scarlet Cherie: Vampire Series, was released on Amazon on August 15th 2020.

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An inspiring story about friendship, courage, and the power of dreams.

“The Mountain of Desires” is the third book of the Big Little Stories series. All books in this series are related by themes and characters but can be read in any order. All stories have something in common—they are all about change and gives the impression that you are the main character of an exciting journey. You will discover the adventures of various characters, but all of them are essential parts of the big little story of our world.

This book tells the story of three young and ambitious friends searching for the truth. One day they decide to set off to conquer the most dangerous mountain. According to legend, at the very top of this mountain lives a mysterious sage who can make desires come true. But the path to the top is full of tests of loyalty, friendship, and courage. And even the mountain itself does not want to let uninvited guests in. The characters will have to face a wild beast, unbearable cold, incessant snowfall, and many other obstacles. This adventure is full of surprises, but travelers hide the main secrets.

Targeted Age Group:: General

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
Life is the best inspiration for me. This book took me hundreds of hours of inspiring work to write and publish. I wrote this book with one simple aim in mind: to provide the readers with an inspirational story about life wisdom.

How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
All my characters are parts of me or people in my life. We can say that all of my characters are real people. Each of us writes our own story. And I sincerely hope this story resonates with your heart.

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Ivan Kuznietsov was born in Ukraine. He is an author of two book series: Big Little Stories and Mindful Moments Collection. Ivan writes books with one simple aim in mind: to provide the readers with inspirational stories about life wisdom.

Also, Ivan Kuznietsov is a certified World Class Manufacturing (WCM) Instructor. He studied extensively at various universities and now teaches how to apply a mindful approach to business processes. Together with the team, he reached the Silver Award for WCM system implementation.

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In the North Carolina mountains two people, destined to love each other, are doomed to be apart.

Vancie Keller is trying to survive on her mother’s failing farm when her life is forever altered by the arrival of two men, Josiah Buckland and Jagger Hill.

One, she will love, the other she will marry. She has a secret neither of them know.

Orphaned as a teen, Josiah Buckland came down from the rugged mountains of North Carolina to try to find work and possibly a home. He didn’t expect to find the love of his life.

Jagger Hill has secrets of his own. When he comes to town and starts to rebuild, nobody knows him for who he really is, but people will soon learn. Some things cannot be kept hidden forever…

A powerful, heart-breaking tale of the tremendous consequences of our choices and actions, sprinkled with revelry in the natural world, faith, song and myth.

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I was attending the funeral of my aunt in South Carolina on a hot July day. While wiping sweat from my brow, a voice in my head said, "This is where the story begins." The book did not start on that particular day, but the compulsion to start did. Words began to appear on the page a few months later while I was on a trip to the North Carolina mountains.

How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
Some of my characters are based on real people from my life, especially my father and paternal grandmother. The main character is named for my grandmother. The villain strangely is based on a former minister. Others are amalgams of people I have known. Some just appeared.

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A red-tailed hawk rose on the currents of the afternoon thermals, gliding round and around the crown of the weather-beaten pine before resting upon an outstretched branch. From his perch, the bird looked out upon the vista that stretched before his keen eyes. Below him a rustle in the grass turned his attention from the heavens to the earth. A small cottontail emerged from its hiding and nibbled at wildflowers on the edge of the cliff. Before the hawk could muster its instincts to respond, another motion entered the scene just below the rabbit. The head of an Eastern diamondback rattlesnake emerged over the rim of the ravine and flattened out as it wound its way closer to its prey. The rabbit saw nothing and knew nothing until a flash, the sensation of warm fluid oozing into its cranium, and the stiffening of limbs and darkening of senses. The snake coiled in bliss around the twitching final pulsations of the ball of fur and fluids.
Its revelry, however, was short-lived. In another flash, a convulsion of pain interrupted the snake’s pleasures as piercing talons penetrated its flesh and lifted it skyward. Soon, the hawk sat upon his perch once again and tore the eyes from the stilled serpent. Had the bird cared to notice, at that moment a man descended from the peaks above and another wound his way up the rugged escarpment below. The blood lettings of men were about to play out again beneath the watchful eyes of the bird, but hawks are creatures of the air and take no notice of the affairs of men. That he would leave to the one who made them. Slowly, the raptor lifted and again rode the warm afternoon breezes, oblivious to all hungers but its own.
 

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Jim Gulledge was shaped by his large, Southern extended family and was taught at an early age never to let facts get in the way of a good story. Much of Jim’s own story has been lived out in the small village of Misenheimer in North Carolina. As a young man, Jim chose to attend Pfeiffer College where he met his wife, Linda. He has now worked there for the past thirty years currently serving as the Director of Academic Support Services and Assistant Professor of Developmental Studies. The passions of his academic life are helping young people in their life journeys and teaching a course every other year on the works of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Jim was prepared for his career by earning a B.A. in Christian Education from what is now Pfeiffer University, an M.A. in English from Clemson University, and a DMin. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts.In his spare time he explores the nearby Uwharrie Mountains with his dog, Shasta; serves as a guardian ad litem for abused and neglected children in his community; and continues in his futile attempts to master the ukulele.

A Poor Man’s Supper was recently selected for inclusion in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

What do a gardener, missing accountants, and a Detective Inspector on the verge of retirement have to do with a grand plan by an evil mastermind for world domination?

Who are the mysterious Society?

All is revealed in a humorous adventure spanning from London to the seaside as the disparate threads are drawn together for a grand finale.

“…a fun and fast paced thriller that tows the line between the serious espionage of James Bond and the absurd escapades of Austin Powers.” Literarytitan.com

“An exciting thriller, crafted with great finesse, and an entertaining story.” readersfavorite.com

Targeted Age Group:: MG to Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The Saturday matinee serials of childhood, where the end of each episode finishes on an unresolved question or cliffhanger, my favourite Hitchcock films, The 39 Steps and North by North West. Pure escapism, adventure and thrills which I wanted to capture in prose. Also I wanted to include humor, I think this can work well with drama – it provides some light relief. I didn't want to write something too dark.
Also my Mum was a great fan of Alastair Maclean and my Dad loved a good laugh, so I thought I'd write something that they could have both read and enjoyed.

How Did You Come up With Your Characters?
Some of the characters are the classic tropes, the jaded detective on the verge of retirement, secret agents, covert agencies and the antagonist intent on world domination. All standard "ingredients" but like all recipes its how they're combined. Into I threw the main protagonist, John Cranston, a gardener. Its about as far as I could get from ex cop/commando etc, so when introduced (unwillingly) into a parallel shady world, that's when the adventures start.

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They raced down the stairs and on the lower floor the Ninja peeked around the exit and raised his clenched fist above his shoulder, indicating they should halt. John noticed he didn’t say much, which he put down to the pillowcase being wrapped too tightly around his head. The Ninja continued to sign, not wanting to make a sound in case he revealed their position. He pointed to his eyes and then outside. He executed a small mime with his fingers walking around, followed by a circle scribed in the air with his index finger.

‘It’s a film, four words, first syllable,’ John guessed.

The Ninja silently slapped his head with the heel of his palm, looked heavenward, counted to five, and then suddenly burst through the door.

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Bexhill-on-Sea writer David C Mason is the author of the new novel Pandora's Gardener, an adventure thriller with added humour.
Originally from London's East End he "escaped" to the seaside to see out his last years of climbing the corporate greased pole, before giving up to do something more interesting.
After thirty odd years of writing plans, outlines, proposals, strategies, business cases, most of which could have passed as works of fiction (or "scenarios" as they were known), he is no stranger to making things up.
He thought it would be a shame to let all that experience go to waste.
When he's not writing, thinking about writing, or out with his camera, he can sometimes be found telling people that "no, Bexhill-on-Sea is nothing to do with Southend-on-Sea…"

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