Category: Author Spotlights - 2 Girls & A Book

Ravens in the Rain by Christie Santos & Jeff Santos

9/22/2021

Check out this romantic thriller from husband and wife duo, Jeff & Christie Santos!

Title: Ravens in the Rain
Authors: Christie Santos & Jeff Santo
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense,
Hardboiled Love Story
Psychological Thriller
Release Date: September 22nd, 2021

Ravens In The Rain is an unconventional noir between a woman with a past and a man with no future where love is no fairy tale. Carney and Pru, down on luck and down on love, meet over a game of chance, and the mystery of the other’s intentions, compounded by their overwhelming attraction toward each other, compels them into a game of cat and mouse. They ante up and play this game of love or survival that has you wondering who’s the villain and who’s the hero and how it will all play out. When murder is brought to their doorstep the game gets serious.

A psychological tale between a poet and a filmmaker that has even the cat wondering if it's really the mouse, what is real, and who is telling the truth. Is love on the table? Or is it life?

Married over 10-years, Christie & Jeff Santo, lucky in love, never would’ve met if Christie didn’t miss her airplane. Luckier still, when a motorcycle accident almost took their lives, it became the driving force toward their writing career together.

Coming from the independent film industry, Jeff has over 25-years of filmmaking experience, directing and writing, with memberships in both the WGA and DGA. And Christie has years of experience in editing, producing, acting, and writing. Christie has her Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing from California State University Long Beach and has freelanced as a ghostwriter for novels.

Jeff and Christie are owners of www.SantoFilms.com. They live in Burbank, California with their two Boston Terrier dogs.

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Author Spotlight on Nathan Timmel

8/26/2021

Nathan Timmel is a stand-up comedian by trade. When he's on the road, he spends his time in hotel rooms writing books. Nathan has penned three works of nonfiction and has just released his first work of fiction. But here's the twist: the book isn't funny. Check it out!

What happens when someone of means organizes and weaponizes people at their wit's end? We Are 100 toys with your moral compass. It makes you question whether or not the “bad guys” are really the villains, since they’re acting as vigilantes against actual evil.

After losing his wife, Evan Francart is depressed. He has an axe to grind with the pharmaceutical company that jacked up the price of her medications, but feels powerless against a billion-dollar corporation. Then he meets Cassandra. She shows Evan a way to both end his life and become a hero. With her guidance, Evan interrupts a company board meeting and blows the building sky-high. As FBI agents Susan Chamberlain and Michael Godwin discover, Evan is the first of many. Ninety-nine more like him wait anonymously in the wings, their targets just as personal as Evan's: the prosecutor who lets rapists walk free, the inept surgeon who maims patients yet keeps operating, the phony evangelist preying on those seeking solace... and that's just the beginning.Will the FBI unearth Cassandra's identity before all 100 have carried out their plans?

Available in Kindle Unlimited

Author Spotlight on Vanessa Morgan

8/20/2021

EVIL SEEDS: THE ULTIMATE MOVIE GUIDE TO VILLAINOUS CHILDREN
EDITED BY VANESSA MORGAN
Genre: horror, movies, cinema, killer kids, evil
children, non-fiction
Cover design: Gilles Vranckx
Layout: Chriskepolis
Publisher: Moonlight Creek Publishing
Release date: August 20 2021

Something's wrong with the children. They're murdering classmates,
torturing parents, speaking in tongues, drinking human blood, and
practicing black magic. Your offspring is on the rise, their blood
no longer innocent. There will be casualties, and you may be among
them.
Featuring nearly 250 of the creepiest, weirdest, and most
dangerous kids ever to inhabit the cinematic landscape and sourced
from over 40 different countries, Evil Seeds is THE comprehensive
movie guide to villainous children in all their incarnations: the
supernatural horror of ghosts and demonic possession, twisted
tales of twins and changelings, dark matters of witches and evil
babies, visceral frights of werewolves and vampires, the lurid
lore of golems and trolls, and shocking drama of murderous
orphans, juvenile serial killers, survivalist youngsters, and
disturbing family values.
From cult classics to obscure fan favorites, Evil Seeds proves
there is no shortage of frightening children. So keep an eye on
your little darlings, or they might just fix their sights on YOU.

Find Evil Seeds on GoodReads and Amazon
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Amazon US
Amazon UK

Meet the Author

Vanessa Morgan is the editor of the movie reference guides When
Animals Attack: The 70 Best Horror Movies with Killer Animals,
Strange Blood: 71 Essays on Offbeat and Underrated Vampire Movies,
and Evil Seeds: The Ultimate Movie Guide to Villainous Children.
She also has had one cat book (Avalon) and four supernatural
thrillers (Drowned Sorrow, The Strangers Outside, A Good Man, and
Clowders) published. Three of her stories have been turned into
movies. She has written for myriad Belgian magazines and
newspapers and introduces movie screenings at several European
film festivals. She is also a programmer for the Offscreen Film
Festival in Belgium. When she's not working on her latest book,
you can find her reading, watching movies, eating out, or
photographing felines for her blog Traveling Cats.

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Spotlight on Calia Wilde

8/18/2021

Calia Wilde is stoked about her short story in The Thrill of the Chase.

The afterlife is recruiting and it’s only taking the WORST sorts. With dwindling ranks and only a few days until the annual battle against evil, Casca has no time to train a new recruit. Especially a woman who embodies the curse he has been under for almost two thousand years. It would be so much easier to just kill her again.

"Hollow Bones" is the first short story by Calia Wilde in the Undead Mercenaries Universe. The afterlife is recruiting, but only the worst sorts.
This Shape-Shifter Anthology features an amazing group of authors. These authors have taken the theme "The Thrill of the Chase" and made it their own. Enjoy stories from Anne Rainey, Eliza March, Jess Bagnall, AnnaMarie Gardner, Calia Wilde, S. Raven Storm, and Lenore Cheairs.

Meet Calia Wilde

Calia Wilde - also writing as A.R. Case believes the hero isn't always the good guy. Anti-heroes and unlikely heroines are her catnip. She writes contemporary and paranormal romance with sharp edges and varying heat levels because life without variety is simply unbearable. You can find her on Twitter, but you may regret it. :)
For more insight, peeks into works in progress and general mayhem, please visit CaliaWilde.com

Author Social Media Links:
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See a full list of her books on Amazon.

Author Spotlight ~ Destiny Hawkins

8/6/2021

AUTHOR NAME: DESTINY HAWKINS
GENRE: DARK DYSTOPIAN FANTASY

Available in KU

Fail the tests and become a slave. Display defectiveness and be put to death.

Monroe Academy was built to separate the weak from the strong. Pass the biyearly leveling and be released into society upon graduation. Fail to be promoted and be stripped of rank and forced into servitude. That was a rule that applied to all but Rayah Bardeau. A student of Monroe Academy, branded as a Null because of her absence of Lighter energy.

With her mother standing as a slave in her place, Rayah was given until the age of twenty to make level six, but at nineteen-years-old and with only eight months until her twentieth birthday, she was only a mere level one. The same level she’s been since she was ten. With the stress of her upcoming test, the loss of a friend, and the constant wrongdoings towards her, Rayah could only dream of escaping from Lytonia, and escape she did. Only, when she awakened in her dorm, she couldn’t distinguish if she had only dreamt of meeting Soren, a wild and adventurous defect in the Wild Lands, or if she had somehow used her Lighter Form to get there.

But only the elite ― the most powerful of Lighters ― could tap into their Lighter Forms. Right? And what was the dark energy she used when she and Soren were attacked by Depleters? Was Rayah really as powerless as she thought? Was she a defect? And if she used dark energy, could she call herself a Lighter at all?

Bestselling author Destiny Hawkins brings you the first installment of a gripping dark fantasy where a powerless girl must survive in a society that doesn't accept the weak...or the defective.

Content Advisory: The following book contains vivid depictions of violence and death. Reader discretion is advised.

Meet Destiny Hawkins

Destiny Hawkins is a multi-genre author with a dark imagination and a love for magic.

She enjoys working on her graphic designing business : Vibrant Designs LLC, writing, listening to music, reading, and of course watching some anime! Her favorite genres to read and work in are Fantasy, LGBT, Paranormal, Romance, Dystopian, Sci-fi, and young adult.

Destiny loves creating stories and building worlds that both teach and entertain! When writing she sticks to her slogan: Where beauty can be found in darkness.

Get ready for The Unbroken, Book Three of The Descendants Series!

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Spotlight on Amy Bartelloni

7/30/2021

Check out this epic series from Amy Bartelloni as she puts a new twist on Camelot and the Legend of King Author. The series is available to read for FREE in KU or you can snag book 1 for just 99cents. ~ Lynn

Camelot is in trouble. Only they can save it.

Arynn Pendragon grew up on the Island of Avalon, isolated and dreaming of the colorful fires that burn on the mainland. Dragons protect the island, but the Knights have forbidden any other magic.

Arynn and her friend Malik yearn to discover the mysteries they’ve only heard about in whispers and forbidden books. When Malik gives her a way to escape the island, she takes it, even though she knows it means she can never return home.

What they discover on the mainland is more than she ever dreamed. Camelot is a world of magical creatures: magnificent dragons, elves, dwarves, and fairies who shrink when they take flight. But Camelot is in grave peril. King Arthur is missing, and in his place, Kay, the Regent, has waged war on magic. Arynn and Malik must rescue Arthur before Kay can destroy Camelot forever.

Experience the start of an Epic Fantasy saga suitable for all ages, which brings a fantasy twist to the legend of Camelot through Arthur's long-lost niece who must go on a quest to bring magic back.

Defeating Kay’s hold on Camelot will be more difficult than Arynn Pendragon imagined.

Before they can lift a finger to free the magical creatures from his hold, their dragons fall ill–hexed by evil magic. Kay enlisted the help of the sorceress Morgana, and in order to save the dragons, Arynn and Malik will have to confront not only her power, but the secrets she holds over Arynn.

However, Morgana isn’t their only enemy.

On the way to break Kay’s hold, they will need to ask Mordred, the King of Pixieland, to use his unstable magic to help them defeat Kay. Such magic comes at a cost, as Malik has found out. Arynn will face trials and betrayal, and if she can finally break Kay’s hold, will the magical creatures fight for her or against her?

Coming August 17th

After Malik sacrifices his future to save Arynn’s life, her allies are spread over Camelot.

Bringing them together to begin a new era of peace and prosperity won’t be easy. Though Kay is missing, his influence over Camelot remains strong, and there is another rising in his shadow. One Arynn should have realized, if she were paying attention.

She’ll need her uncle’s help, but he’s still trapped on Avalon and unwilling to return. Perhaps if Arynn can find where Kay hid her Aunt Gwen, he’d be more willing to return?

It’s just one more thing on a long list: find and rescue Malik from her mother’s tutelage and release the bind he agreed to, rescue her friend Enid from Mordred’s hold in Pixieland, follow Merlin wherever he took Anorak to save the dragon’s life... oh, and reunite the Kingdom.

The Quest will return them to Pixieland, where she must confront Mordred and beg for his help all the way to the depths of the lost city of Atlantis and the secrets of the merfolk, who usually don’t choose a side. They will this time, but will it be the right one, or will she need to use the phoenix magic she was gifted by Mordred to make one last, terrible decision?

Meet Amy Bartelloni

Amy Bartelloni is a reader, writer, & coffee addict who lives with her husband, 3 children, and various animals in the northeast US. When she's not playing mom-taxi, you can find her with her nose in a book or her head in the clouds. A people watcher and science fiction junkie, she still believes dreams can come true. Some of her favorite authors include Neil Gaiman, Jasper Fforde, Paulo Coelho, and Stephen King.

Author Social Media Links:
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www.facebook.com/amybartelloniwrites
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Author Spotlight on Shae Coon

7/16/2021

Title: Controlling Assets (Marron House Romance Series Book 2)
Author: Shae Coon
Publisher: 4 Horseman Publications
Genre: Contemporay Romance
Release Date: July 15, 2021

Caleb Marron was only eight years old when his mother was taken from him.
He watched, helpless and weak, as his father and uncle fought to bring her back home. Since that day, he vowed to protect the ones he loves at all costs.

Now grown and CEO of Marron House Technology, Caleb plans to destroy the legacy of anyone who hurt his family. That is until a roadblock in the form of a golden-haired, blue-eyed beauty named Talia Stone stands in his way.

Fascinated by the golden goddess, Caleb offers Talia a chance to achieve her dream on a silver platter, but at the cost of her submission. Will Talia accept Caleb's proposition? Will she be able to submit, or will her demons keep her from the pleasure Caleb promises?

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Meet Shae Coon

I am a native Texan, wife, and mother. I started writing soon after my daughter was born in 2012 but only recently decided to publish my work. I hadn't been into any particular genre until I took on a well-known romance title and fell in love. Since then different scenes have played out in my head, and I couldn't help but jot down my ideas with any available scrap of paper. Never did I think I would actually take the leap to actually putting my work out there for all to see. It took me four years to finish my first manuscript because I kept putting it down and coming back to it later in life. But with the support of family and friends, I finished it and am now able to live my dream of taking others to a world of seduction and romance through my writing. Who knew that the stories playing out in my head would bring me to this point?

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Preorder ~ HEARTRENDER by V Romas Burton

7/6/2021

Eman is gone. Silas is gone. Claire is gone.
When Addie returns to Ramni after her devastating encounter with Ophidian, she finds her heart broken from her recent losses. Yet, even though she is grieving, Addie continues her journey through the Twelve Lands of Decim to unite the Twelve Magisters.

HEARTMENDER
In the land of Barracks, the economy thrives on the barter of their citizen's most precious commodity—a human heart.
Winner of the Next Generation Indie Award in YA. National Indie Excellence Award Finalist.

HEARTBREAKER

After finding out she is the Bellata—the prophesized warrior meant to save Decim—Addie, along with James, returns to Barracks to unite the Twelve Magisters.
(Heartmender #2)

Amara by Tristan Hutchinson

5/10/2021

Well this certainly sounds terrifying! Coming June 30th. #PREORDER

I live for your nightmares.
You won't see me....hear me....or know me, but sooner or later I will come for you. Up from the ground, on the winds, or down from the sky. You will then see me.... you will scream.... you will die.

Aaron Wolfe wakes up unsure of where he is, surrounded by a darkness deeper than night with a distinctive metallic smell he could almost taste. Using the flashlight on his phone he makes a gruesome discovery. The smell is blood coming from the bodies of people who have been ripped apart. Everywhere in the town he's in the people are all dead. A feeling deep inside of primal fear and the scent of death surrounds him. He's the only survivor in a town that's been torn apart.

Trying to make sense of it all, realizing that the pervasive blanket of darkness must be blocking the electronics signal from his cell phone and afraid of what being the only survivor in a massacred town will suggest to others. He realizes he must get away from whatever is blocking his phone and reach out to his partner Jaclyn Hunsaker. He knows she will work with him to solve the mystery of who or what laid waste to the lives of every single person in town. But first he needs to get a signal on his phone.

Meet the Author

Tristan Hutchinson is an author and empath living in New Hartford, NY. The son of a children's book author, Tristan still holds the same creative imagination he did as a child. His love of Stephen King, the Star Wars franchise, and other unique books and movies fuel his creative spirit. As a supernatural thriller and horror writer, Tristan hopes to transport his readers into the worlds he creates, allowing them to explore their wild imaginations.

Tristan's degrees in interactive media design and criminal justice give him the ability to use vivid imagery while remaining realistic in his crime and investigative details. A husband, father, and brother, Tristan's family has played a large role in who he is. And, at the basis of his personality is his spirit animal: The wolf. Tristan believes that you are never too old to let your imagination run free and unleash the wolf hiding within.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eonwolfproductions/

Author Spotlight ~ Kelsy Ketch

3/2/2021

Death Island: The Journey
By Kelsy Ketch
Genre: New Adult Adventure/Fantasy
Release Date: November 25th, 2020

After arriving at Death Island, Meriden Cummings became haunted by dreams of a young Mayan woman’s death. A death, Meriden fears, foreshadows her own. And she soon discovers that in this tropical paradise, there are many ways to die. On top of that, the pirates after her great-grandfather’s treasure are not far behind. Can she and her crew stay one step ahead of them and the Mayan god that inhabits the island?

Meriden is not the only one haunted by the young Mayan woman’s death. Gregory Wilson has had similar dreams the moment he stepped foot on the island. In addition, he has seen the Mayan god of death, Ah Puch. Will he be able to protect Meriden from the earthly dangers as well as the supernatural forces seeking her demise?

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Meet Kelsey Ketch

Kelsey Ketch is a young-adult/new-adult author, who works as a Wildlife Biologist in the state of North Carolina. During her free time, she can often be found working on her latest work in progress. She also enjoys history, mythology, traveling, and reading.
For more information, please visit her site at kelseyketch.com.

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