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Review: Haunting You

A past life. A dangerous gift. An unlikely romance.

In the haunted halls of her boarding school, Meredith Monroe hides a dangerous gift. She can communicate with the dead.

Desperate not to stand out, she worries her powers may attract the wrong attention. Like from the alluring but totally not-for-her new student Nathan Vale.

Meredith is impressed Nathan isn’t fazed by the supernatural – not even when a ghost tries to kill him by tossing him off the Rotunda balcony. She’s less impressed with his insistence they share a romantic connection that spans centuries and lifetimes together.

Nathan refuses to let the mistakes of their past influence their chances at happiness this time around. But getting Meredith to fall in love with him a second time may be more deadly than either of them bargain for.

Review: Shelter: A Gripping Suspense Thriller

When Gabriel Warner loses his job, he and his deaf 10-year-old, Anne, hit rock-bottom. So when a new opportunity presents itself, Gabriel jumps at the chance, even though it means heading into the biggest blizzard to hit upstate New York in 20 years.

But hope turns to peril when they’re derailed by a car accident.

Desperate for shelter, they find refuge in an empty house deep in the woods.

Jake Pryor has been a broken man since the senseless loss of his family during a home invasion.

Hell-bent on protecting his new wife and children, he’s constructed an impenetrable fortress to keep them safe. However, while he and his family are out of town, he’s alerted about a break-in.

Able to remotely operate the security system, Jake activates the VaultMode feature, ensnaring the intruders until he can arrive with the authorities.

Gabriel and Anne are now trapped without electricity, communication, food, or water.

They managed to escape the storm, but will they escape their shelter?

Review: The Watchers: The Tomb

John Gideon, a former homicide detective turned PI, has dug too deep and discovered the truth about the world while searching for the only family he has left. John and his new partner, Beth May – a spell wielding demon who has turned her back on hell – are humanity’s last hope to stop a collective of Fallen Angels known as The Watchers and a hierarchy of demons from breaking the first of the Seven Seals of Revelation. If the Seals are broken, they will set free sickness, war, and death on the world until there is nothing left but an apocalyptic wasteland for The Watchers to control. John and Beth have the tools needed and the strength to stop them. The only question is – are they already too late?

Review: Brisingr

The Empire is at war and the stakes have never been higher in the third book of the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings! This New York Times best-selling series has sold over 35 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation.

Oaths sworn…loyalties tested…forces collide. Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king? Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.

When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.

Review: Dragon Ascending

A perilous quest, to find the missing king, and win the heart of a beautiful princess. What could possibly go wrong?

Edrik, son of the murdered Drake regent, never gained his dragon magic and cannot shapeshift into his dragon form. Unfit to marry his love, the Princess Lissara, Edrik embarks on a dangerous mission to prove himself worthy. He seeks Lissara’s missing father, the dragon king, before an enemy usurps the throne.

Unfortunately, the search for the king brings Edrik to a dungeon located in human territory. Inside the prison, Edrik discovers the missing king, whose captors are unaware of his true identity. Edrik must rely on a grubby young dungeon keeper to help them escape without disclosing that his companion is the dragon king. But the dungeon keeper has a secret identity as well, one that will change Edrik’s destiny forever.

Review: Dismantling Vindictiveness

Christopher Parker’s architectural firm is in trouble. Business has dwindled during the recession. The firm’s budget is decreasing at a breakneck pace. Employees fear their funds are being tampered with, and attacks on executives outside of his firm are resulting in murder. Caught in a frightening downward spiral, Christopher, operating only on suspicions, works desperately to unravel the mystery. But time is running out on Christopher in more ways than one. While a saboteur threatens his career, a serious illness threatens his life. Christopher has to find the culprit and make peace with those he has hurt before it’s too late. And help comes from the unlikeliest of sources.

Review: The Axe

Time doesn’t work the way you think it does.

The year 2018: After a successful social-justice hack and a sexy night of celebrating, Micah arrives home to a gift left outside his apartment door. An axe that when touched causes Micah to lose time and allow other people to use his body. After one such event, Micah returns to his body, covered in blood and holding the axe, with police knocking on the door. Micah has to use his hacker skills to evade the police and a corporation hellbent on controlling the axe, all while unraveling the secrets of the gift.

The year 1810: In the woods of Western Canada, something is stalking and devouring people. Entire settlements have been abandoned, the residents missing. The people refer to the monsters as demons. Mehall, a demon-hunting nomad, has returned home, leaving a trail of dead demons behind her. By her hands and her tomahawk, she continues killing the creatures even as she begins having visions from the future.

The year 3015: The Circle, an oppressive governing religion, is trying to insight an AI genocide while also releasing a plague on the universe to control its people. Life is as normal as it can be for Miko, a social outcast and data broker. While on a routine data delivery gone bad, Miko is chased to the galaxies edge, where she is confronted by a mysterious ship that leads Miko on a mission to stop the Circle itself.

All three lives are more interconnected than they know. One thing wants them all dead: the Infection.

One thing binds them all together: the axe.

Review: Brightness Falls

Brightness Falls isn’t just the name of the TV show that womanizing man-child Andrew Ware has been painstakingly creating for the last couple years, it’s also his hometown. A town that he loves as much as he hates.

By request of no one, Andrew returns home to help his sister separate from her husband, only to become sidetracked by a beautiful woman. A few drinks and few compliments later the woman is dead, killed in a tragic oral sex accident. In which Andrew would have lost his own life if it weren’t for the dapperly dressed, antler-headed, human skeleton named Doug. Who loves Andrew’s work, but escaped The Other Side to warn Andrew of a self-proclaimed god with desires to return to Brightness Falls.

Wow, that is a lot to take in. That above paragraph is jammed packed with a lot of crap. Thou the oral sex accident sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Let’s take the whole thing down a notch. Let’s try it again, please…

With the town’s annual festival, Brightfest, which commemorates the deadly day it’s population collectively walked to the bottom of the lake, only days away, and the threat of an inadvertently bloodthirsty, self-proclaimed god returning to reenact the event, Andrew is sent scrambling to save his sister, friends, lovers, and the town he’s loathed in, before the god is able to complete his predestined experiment to bringing his wife back. If Andrew can get out of his own way to unravel the towns dark secrets, as well as his own, maybe he’ll come out of it with a new TV show idea. Oh and save the town.

Well f–k, that wasn’t much better. Still, a lot going on in that paragraph, too. Here let me try…

This is the story of a man who loves women, hates his home town, and has to goes through a shit tone of shit for both of them. Oh and someone dies during oral sex, can’t leave that out.

Boom nailed it! Best book description ever – Your Mom

Review: Tethered

There is a ghost penis monster and a giant hell spider in this book, you’ve been warned!

In 1982, Moe killed a man while defending his son. The next day the man came back. In 1982, Moe went missing. The man continued to come back. In 2014, events are repeating themselves.

In a race against time, reason, and more time, Shane has to unwind mysteries of the past in order to save his friend Jason who has gone missing.

Ugh…that sounds heavy. While all the above is true, this book also has a ghost dick monster that stabs his ghost dick into a guy’s shoulder…seriously, that actually happens in this book.

Also, the main dude Shane, mentioned a couple paragraphs above, well he and his wife are having issues. They both want to bang more, but they aren’t good about talking about it, so it’s this whole thing. Anyway, they are cute together by the end, wow…is that a spoiler?

Anyway, this book has laughs, sex, monsters, mysteries, and a dick ton of other really cool stuff that I won’t spoil here. You want to be cool right? Well, then you better listen to this book, I mean all your cool friends already have. Don’t ask them, just trust me.

The first book in the Aurora Wasteland Literary Universe, which combines horror, sci-fi, and humor.

All books in the Aurora Wasteland Literary Universe are interconnected but are also stand-alone novels, and can be listened to in any order you’d like.

Review: A Shaded Room

Judd Farnon had no choice but to risk death in escaping prison. If he stayed, he was a dead man.

An old boarding house where if you are honest, no questions are asked offers him the start of a new life.

While trying to forget his past and the events that put him in jail in the first place, Judd finds more and more people are showing up in his room at the boarding house claiming it as their own. If this wasn’t odd enough, the town itself has a tragic history, and a street of open-air jail cells does not sit well with a former convict.

When a murder is committed, all eyes fall on him.

And yet, Judd can’t bring himself to leave. But why?

If you love atmospheric horror tinged with dread, you’ll love A Shaded Room.