When Nikki’s ex-lover Will hires her to protect the horses used to film a movie at Santa Anita Racetrack, she learns evil is alive and well in Hollywood.
Keeping Thoroughbreds safe from a director who doesn’t know a horse from a hamster is tricky. More difficult are the unresolved feelings between her and Will, especially when sexy, young movie star, Jamie Jackson, sets his sights on Nikki.
But when a sniper’s bullet shatters the brain of a cameraman close enough that she can smell his blood, Nikki’s need to protect the film crew overrides everything. Her sleuthing unearths a trail of corruption and when she must lie to Will to protect his life, she’s on her own. Can she identify the evil behind the scenes before she and Will become the next victims?
Shooting Star is the fifth rocket-paced story in the award-winning Nikki Latrelle mystery series. If you like protagonists with heart and courage, unexpected twists, and a thrill ride to the finish, you’ll love Shooting Star.
Find out why this series has so many fans. Buy Shooting Star today!
MY REVIEW:
This is the first book by Sasscer Hill I’ve read and the first I’ve read in this series of 5 books. I love horses (who doesn’t?) so I was looking forward to immersing myself in it. If you love racehorses, you’ll probably enjoy the first couple of chapters. However, I thought there was a lot of info dump that had nothing to do with the plot and really slowed down the pace of the story I almost gave up, but I plowed my way through. And I’m glad I did.
I didn’t find Nikki relatable at the beginning, but by the middle, when the action really picked up, I was cheering her on. Some of the supporting characters I liked were Catalina (I know, I know. Not a nice person, but still I felt sorry for her.) and Gabriel (I love Frenchmen, what can I say.) The one character, or horse, that I wanted to know about was London Fog. Did he reinjure his knee. Did he find a nice home?
As for the villain’s, Diamond and Necklace were perfect for the part. Jamie (Dillon) went back and forth on this. More spoiled kid but there is a line and I feel he crossed it several times.
All in all, once I really got into the story it whizzed by, I couldn’t wait to see what happened and I enjoyed it. It fit all the troupes for a solid mystery / thriller story and I recommend it.
A new series release for fantasy author and podcaster, Richard H. Stephens
A novel in the Highcliff Guardians Epic Fantasy Series
Something evil lurks beneath the palace.
A phantasm from a darker past makes its presence known to Khae Wys, Queen of the Elves.
Braving the perils of a haunted tower, the queen seeks the counsel of the mysterious Fae, for only they can predict what is to come. A future that doesn’t bode well for her only living child.
In a desperate attempt to save the heir to the Willow Throne, Princess Ouderling is exiled to the only place capable of protecting her. Highcliff, the home of the coveted Crystal Cavern and the dragons that watch over it.
The Duke of Grim, however, has other plans for the princess.
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The Dragon Witch Wraith has returned.
With the Grim Duke in his place, and a tentative pact with the wizard’s guild, the Queen of the Elves’ only real concern is for her rebellious daughter. Or so she is led to believe.
Buoyed by the news of unrest in the land’s largest city of Urdanya, Duke Orlythe’s new wizard attempts to convince him that a path to the coveted Willow Throne lies within reach of someone bold enough to seize the opportunity.
The return of the Dragon Witch Wraith prompts the ailing high wizard to find a way to thwart his arch nemesis before everything South March has fought for is lost.
Oblivious to the dangers of the world, Princess Ouderling sets out on a quest to locate an ancient dragon, in a desperate attempt to save her mother from an inevitable fate.
Should she fail, the Grim Duke will ascend the throne.
ABOUT Richard H. Stephens:
Born in Simcoe, Ontario, in 1965, I was raised and still reside in Cambridge, Ontario. I began writing circa 1974, a bored child looking for something to while away the long, summertime days. My penchant for reading, ‘The Hardy Boys,’ led to an inspiration one sweltering summer afternoon, when my best friend and I thought, ‘We could write one of those.’ And so, I did.
As my reading horizons broadened, so did my writing. ‘Star Wars’ inspired me to write a 600-page novel about outer space that caught the attention of a special teacher, Mr. Woodley, who encouraged me to keep on writing.
A trip to a local book store saw the proprietor introduce me to Stephen R. Donaldson and Terry Brooks. My writing life was forever changed.
At 17, I left high school to join the working world to support my first son. For the next twenty-two years I worked as a shipper at a local bakery. At the age of 36, I went back to high school to complete my education. After graduating with honors at the age of thirty-nine, I became a member of our local Police Service, and worked for 12 years in the provincial court system.
In early 2017, I resigned from the Police Service to pursue my love of writing full-time. With the help and support of my lovely wife Caroline and our 5 children, I have now realized my boyhood dream. More information about Richard can be found at: Award-winning Fantasy Author | Richard H. Stephens (richardhstephens.com)
To request additional review copies or an interview with Richard H. Stephens, please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com | 403.464.6925.
Bestselling futurist ROBERT J. SAWYER has been called “Canada’s answer to Michael Crichton” by The Toronto Star and “a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation” by The New York Times.
Now he turns his keen eye back on the past in this, the 80th-anniversary year of the beginning of The Manhattan Project. Sawyer’s 24th novel, THE OPPENHEIMER ALTERNATIVE, tells the secret history of the physicists behind that desperate effort to create the world’s first atomic bomb.
As J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of The Manhattan Project, famously observed after the first A-bomb exploded, “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.” And, in our reality, that remains his legacy.
But in the “What if?” vein of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, Sawyer’s novel THE OPPENHEIMER ALTERNATIVE veers cleverly into alternate-history territory. In it, Oppenheimer and his colleagues — including Edward Teller (the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove), flamboyant Richard Feynman, Leo Szilard, Kurt Gödel, and Enrico Fermi — join forces with Albert Einstein, ex-Nazi rocketeer Wernher von Braun and computing pioneer John von Neumann to try to save our planet from impending ecological doom. If they succeed, they’ll be able to declare, “Now we have become Life, the saviors of our world.”
“Every single person in my novel was both real and famous,” says Sawyer. “I spent two years full-time researching this book to make sure I got the characterizations exactly right.”
And do the experts agree? Yes!
Martin Sherwin, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (the basis for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer), declares Sawyer’s novel is “an imaginative restructuring of a phantasmagoric life into an alternative phantasmagorical story. Oppenheimer fans will be intrigued.”
Gregory Benford, physicist at UC Irvine, says: “The feel and detail of the Manhattan Project figures is deep and well done. I knew many of these physicists, and Sawyer nails them accurately.”
Perimeter Institute physicist Lee Smolin, the author of The Trouble with Physics, agrees: “I know the history of this period well and I’m one or two degrees of separation from many of these people. Sawyer’s portrayals ring true to me. I loved it!”
And Doug Beason, former Associate Laboratory Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory, adds that “THE OPPENHEIMER ALTERNATIVE is incredibly realistic: the characters, locations, the era, and even the science. I felt like I was back in Los Alamos — and I should know: I worked there!”
“The trick of this novel,” says Sawyer, “was to never contradict known fact. There’s nothing in the book that’s anachronistic or might not have actually happened. This is as much a secret history as an alternate history. So far as everything that’s been made public is concerned, including the most recently declassified documents, what I’m describing really could have happened.”
Indeed, Oppenheimer himself suggested there was a secret history to it all. When he lost his security clearance because of his Communist ties, Oppie really did declare:
“There is a story behind my story. If a reporter digs deep enough he will find that it is a bigger story than my suspension.”
Deak Parsons, Oppie’s second-in-command at the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Lab, concurred. He told colleagues, in reference to Oppie being cut off from classified information, that even President Eisenhower was in the dark about the truth:
“I have to put a stop to it. Ike has to know what’s really going on. This is the biggest mistake the United States could make!”
(Sadly, Parsons died the next day of a heart attack before speaking to the president.)
Even Freeman Dyson, Oppie’s great colleague after the war at the Institute for Advance Study in Princeton, felt Oppie was hiding something:
“As a direct result of Oppenheimer’s work, we now know that black holes have played and are playing a decisive part in the evolution of the universe. He lived for twenty-seven years after the discovery, never spoke about it, and never came back to work on it.
“Several times, I asked him why he did not come back to it. He never answered my question, but always changed the conversation to some other subject.”
What was Oppenheimer hiding? The answers are in Sawyer’s fast-paced, character-rich novel. The great alternate-history writer S.M. Stirling says:
“THE OPPENHEIMER ALTERNATIVE is a truly science fictional work of alternate history which turns on the decisions — and discoveries — of the great physicists who wrote the history of the 20th century: Einstein, Fermi, Gödel, and Oppenheimer. They are the vividly realized, all-too-human characters who people this novel, and give its brilliant speculations human life and blood. Bravo!”
Based on the latest research and recently declassified documents, Sawyer will enthrall your audience with stunning revelations about the dawn of the atomic age:
Following Hitler’s suicide, many Manhattan Project scientists did not want to continue work on the atomic bomb. Their initial fear had been that the Nazis would get it before the Allies did, and, once the war in Europe was over, they saw no reason to continue.
The Japanese had been making overtures to surrender through diplomatic back channels for over a year before the US dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Had their one demand been accepted, the war in Japan would have ended in 1944.
Harry S. Truman shocked the hell out of Winston Churchill by deviating from their agreed script and demanding “unconditional” surrender from Japan in a live radio broadcast. Churchill only subsequently backed that demand so as not to be seen as contradicting the American leader.
In the end, despite the posturing about “unconditional” surrender, the Allies gave the Japanese the one and only thing they’d wanted a year earlier, namely letting their divine emperor Hirohito retain his throne (which he did until his death in 1989).
Leo Szilard, who got Einstein to write to FDR urging the creation of an atomic weapon, circulated a petition calling for a demonstration of the bomb for Japanese experts, rather than its use on Japanese cities. Oppenheimer’s boss, General Leslie Groves, had the petition branded “Top Secret” and hidden away — so that the bomb could be tested on an actual city, establishing a post-war order with America as the only superpower.
As an outgrowth of the Manhattan Project, the US was developing an atomic-bomb-propelled rocket called Orion that could have put humans on Mars by 1965. The Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned nuclear explosions in space, scuttled the project.
ABOUT ROBERT J. SAWYER
ROBERT J. SAWYER is a member of the Order of Canada, the highest honor given by the Canadian government, and he’s past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on Rob’s novel of the same name, and he is one of only eight writers in history to have won all three of the science-fiction field’s top awards for Best Novel of the Year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.
A multiple TEDx speaker, Rob has been interviewed on radio and television more than 800 times. He lives in Toronto.
Sarah Kades invites readers to Re-Wild themselves in her latest novel.
Feb 3 2022 – Calgary author Sarah Kades has penned a new novel that combines romantic suspense with strong environmental themes. Wild Not Broken is the second book in her Hearthstone series, an action/adventure series with a strong romantic element that follows the various members of the Tanner family.
“I write novels with strong environmental themes and socially responsible narrative,” Kades, whose full name is Sarah Kades Graham, says. “I am passionate about culture, landscapes, knowledge accessibility, the arts and Momma Earth. I love writing books that remind us of the natural nature within each of us, a re-wilding to our true, authentic, best awesome self!”
Re-Wilding is also a term used to denote conservation efforts aimed at restoring and protecting natural processes and wilderness areas with an emphasis on humans stepping back and leaving an area to nature, as opposed to more active forms of natural resource management in our wild spaces.
For over two decades, Kades has explored both wild and tamed environments first as an archaeologist, and then as an Indigenous Knowledge study lead. From boreal forest beaver dams, to caribou on the tundra, communing with the natural world and exploring our place within it, is a lifelong quest.
The novel focuses on Lillian Morgan, a disgraced British war correspondent and Colt Tanner, a world champion bull rider with a career-ending injury whose time on the circuit is coming to a close. When Lillian is sent on a week-long trip to the Alberta wilderness to write up the marketing material for a new eco-inn, her local guide is a bull-riding—much younger— cowboy. Both sparks and bullets fly as a double-agent closes in, and dark family secrets are revealed.
Kades explores our relationship with the natural world, including where humans fit; leaning in when nature makes us feel uncomfortable; and the psychological and biophysical hazards of divorcing yourself from nature, while at the same time exploring the inherent responsibility required when interacting with the natural world. Animals, both tame and wild, as well as landscapes team up as characters in this reflective exploration of just where we fit in this incredible planet, we call home.
In our ever-divisive world, storytelling like this that embraces necessary dialogues and creates space to shift points of tension to deeper awareness, are a much-needed reprieve from the constant assault of opposing views must be conquered mentality. Colt, a meat-loving, bull-riding good ‘ol boy who has listened to the wisdom of his little sister is prepared when Lillian, a world-weary vegan who has lived through the darker sides of humanity busts into his life. For her part, Lillian grapples with trusting any man, especially one as earthy as Colt. With the unexpected help of the other, they run head-long into their demons—internal and otherwise.
“When we listen to the heartbeat of Momma Earth, each other, as well as ourselves,” Kades explains, “we navigate our life from a place of thoughtful respect, deep wisdom, and crucial understanding. Connecting with our natural selves, including our brilliant bodies, we are able to live at a deeper, more robust level than ever imagined.”
ABOUT SARAH KADES
Kades is a two-time Energy Futures Lab storyteller and also writes socially relevant nonfiction. She teamed up with active-duty homicide detective, Dave Sweet, to write the unconventional nonfiction police memoir Skeletons in My Closet, Life Lessons from a Homicide Detective (Mischievous Books 2018). In 2019, she presented on the impact of using arts-based approaches to bridge the gap between the public and police at the British Society of Criminology Conference.
Wild Not Broken is the second book in the Hearthstone series, following the 2021 re-release of the author’s novel Kiss Me in the Rain. The books, which can be read as stand-alone novels or enjoyed together, are published by Stark Publishing. Mark Leslie Lefebvre, publisher says that when he first read Kiss Me in the Rain the unique blend of romance, action, and tension, stuck with him. “There’s also an underlying and consistently strong passion for the outdoors, and for the environment in Sarah’s novels,” Lefebvre says. “It’s subtle—there’s no blatant messaging to hit you over the head with, it’s just there. And yet it’s powerful in its subtlety. In fact, the landscape is just as much a character as the fascinating people and the situations and struggles they work their way through that keep you turning the pages. I’m honored that I get to help shepherd Sarah’s books into the world.”
Not an Easy Truce, the third book in the series, is coming June 2022 and is now available for pre-order.
Wild Not Broken is available from multiple retailers and can be found at:
https://books2read.com/wildnotbroken.
To request additional review copies or an interview with Sarah Kades, please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com | 403.464.6925.
The magic continues in this critically acclaimed series by V.K. Tritschler
Released in February by Inkspell Publishing and available in e-book format worldwide!!
Her Grandfather took her father’s life, and now Jess wants revenge.
Heir to a multi-verse kingdom Jess should be the most powerful woman in the world, able to keep her loved ones safe and bring peace to the realms. But with her newfound powers, came newfound dangers.
Jess is determined to protect the people she loves. To keep her sister, mother and boyfriend Peter safe, she sends them away, where her enemies can’t find them. When, Peter’s parents find out she’s the offspring of their mortal enemy, they are determined to keep them apart forever.
Going alone is perilous, and it’s hard to tell the difference between friend and foe. Determined to bring down her maniacal Grandfather, Jess is just beginning to realize the depth of her ties to those around her and the strength they bring to her.
Will she become the great protector or is she more like her Grandfather than she wants to admit?
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Vital Impetus by VK Tritschler
Lost between worlds, Jess is hunted. Fighting back using newfound powers the teen has yet to understand, her only help is an old childhood friend with secrets of his own. Will their reunion be her salvation or the end of her life?
ABOUT V.K. Tritschler:
VK Tritschler is a full-time busy body, and part-time imagination conjurer. She lives on the amazing Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, having moved there from her hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand. Her family consists of a very patient husband, two rampant boys and too many pets to mention.
She has a wonderful set of amazing writers who support her in the form of Eyre Writers, and in return she offers crowd control services for the Youth section who are the future best-selling Australian authors.
Her first book “The Secret Life of Sarah Meads” was released in 2018 and since then she has participated in the NYC Writing Challenge, the Clunes Booktown, and helped organize and run the Eyre Writers Festival.
Ever available to her readership you can find her at: www.vktritschler.com www.facebook.com/vktritschler www.twitter.com/vktritschler www.goodreads.com/vktritschler
To request additional review copies or an interview with V.K. Tritschler, please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com | 403.464.6925.
Hawk is a wounded doctor bent on losing himself on the Chippewa reservation. Jesse’s a vegan nature photographer trying to find herself on that same wild land. When Hawk shoots the deer Jesse’s photographing, passions flare. Then Jesse hears that Hawk’s friend is dying and sets off alone on horseback to warn him. He deserves the chance to say goodbye she never had. BUT DANGER LURKS EVERYWHERE NEAR THE SMALL MIDWESTERN TOWN OF LURE RIVER. Jesse’s just discovered the twenty-year-old bones of a missing Indigenous girl in her shed and drawn the unwanted attention of two local men. CAN JESSE FIND HAWK BEFORE THEY FIND HER? Ruby Little Bear’s tragic tale weaves through the narrative, reminding us that ONE MOMENT CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING.
Romantic Suspense — Small-town Intrigue
Praise for Lure:
“A sensual romance steeped in nature with a suspenseful undercurrent that’s tensioned with loss, danger, and lust. A must-read for romantic suspense enthusiasts.” — JP MCLEAN, author of Blood Mark
“An engaging and mystifying novel which tells a story that brings readers to a place of compassion, understanding, and relation. The ever-changing emotions, and idiomatic expressions that W.L. Hawkin represented left me feeling as though I was one with the character.” — ALEXA BLYAN, Indigenous activist.
“A redemption story with an engaging suspense plot, plenty of action and a strong, sexy “mountain man” — CJ HUNT, author of the Rivers End Romance Series
“A book for those wanting to find romance, love and acceptance for themselves, and a sense of home. Blending characters readers will connect with, a strong sense of place and mystery, readers will turn pages until the very end.” — EILEEN COOK, author of With Malice
“A finely drawn romance with unique characters and a vivid sense of place. Lure doesn’t shy away from the grittier aspects of small-town life, but it will sweep you away nonetheless.” — AMANDA BIDNALL, editor
“A suspense-filled romantic story about unique and intriguing characters, who are also highly relatable. This story will stay with me.” — DANIKA BLOOM, USA Today Best-Selling Author
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ABOUT W.L. HAWKIN:
W. L. Hawkin writes romantic adventures, often charged with “myth, magic, and mayhem” from her home near Vancouver, Canada.
Her Hollystone Mysteries series features a coven of West Coast witches who solve murders using ritual magic and a little help from the gods. The books—To Charm a Killer, To Sleep with Stones, To Render a Raven, and To Kill a King—follow Estrada, a flawed magician and coven high priest, as he endeavors to save his family and friends while sorting through his own personal issues.
Her latest, the Lure River Romances, is a small-town romantic suspense series set in the American Midwest, in the fictional town of Lure River. The first, Lure, tells the story of Jesse & Hawk.
Hawkin graduated from Trent University with a BA in Indigenous Studies. It was then that she discovered her great-great grandmother was an Indigenous woman. Wendy went on to study English literature at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, and then teach high school. She found her voice publishing poetry and Native Rights articles in Canadian news magazines and is now an Indie author/publisher at Blue Haven Press.
For the past few years, Wendy has been a book reviewer for the Ottawa Review of Books. A member of the Federation of BC Writers and the Writers Union of Canada, she actively engages with readers and writers at conferences, and is represented by Creative Edge Publicity.
As an intuitive writer, Wendy captures on the page what she sees (visual scenes) and hears (conversations) and allows her muses to guide her through the creative process. She needs to feel the energy of the land so, although she’s an introvert, in each book her characters go on a journey where she’s traveled herself. If you don’t find her at Blue Haven Press, she’s likely wandering the woods with her beautiful yellow dog.
Website:http://bluehavenpress.com
Twitter @ladyhawke1003
Instagram @w.l.hawkin
Pinterest.ca @W. L. Hawkin Author
Facebook @wlhawkin
To request additional review copies or an interview with W.L. Hawkin, please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com / 403.464.6925.
A time traveler has seven days to save the world, but an evil lurks in the shadows.
Tej can travel through time, possess a man, and bend his will. But he is a raw time demon, he needs to be taught.
Then he meets Rigu, his savior, his guru, who bears bad news.
Billions are going to die in a single instant, on a fateful day in the far future. A nefarious entity is concocting this doomsday.
Rigu and Tej together can stop this apocalypse, but saving the world doesn’t motivate Tej. He shares a dark past with his nemesis, and vengeance is due.
As he begins his time travel journey, he realizes his enemy is far stealthier than he thought, and time is running out.
If you like fast-paced stories, you will love this time travel fantasy with unexpected twists.
An old warrior, too stubborn to die. A royal heir, hidden since birth.
Can they save a realm on the brink of war?
Tragedy tears Gerald’s world apart and only his unwavering loyalty saves him. After serving as a soldier for years, a single act of self-sacrifice thrusts his future into the world of politics.
Cut off from all he knows, he becomes no more than a pawn to those in command. Banished with little more than the clothes on his back, he seeks a new purpose, for what is a warrior who has nothing left to fight for?
A fateful meeting with another lost soul unmasks a shocking secret, compelling him to take up the mantle of guardian. Bandits, the Black Hand, and even the king, he battles them all for the future of the realm.
Memories of the past, secrets that shape the future; his adventure is only the beginning.
When you’re down on your luck, you’ll do what it takes to make ends meet. For Kaine, that meant gathering mushrooms in the forest, a dull but safer job than his previous life on a merchant ship. The woman’s screams were the last thing he expected. Dashing to her rescue, Kaine finds himself face to face with a monster that should not even exist, fighting for his life as well as hers.
His world only gets crazier from there. Kaine returns with Lydia, the daughter of the king, to her father’s castle where he unexpectedly finds himself in the king’s good graces. Confused and leery, Kaine reluctantly agrees to remain and help with Lydia’s younger siblings. Life could not have thrown him more.
Kaine is plunged into a world of magical intrigue, unrest, and political maneuvering. Each new event leaves him feeling out of place and, worse, dangerously exposed to a growing threat. The Darian Kingdom stands at the crossroads. Lydia’s upcoming wedding to the prince of the Throatian Kingdom will soon become the defining moment in Kaine’s life.
With the threat of war looming on the horizon, it is going to take every ounce of guile, cunning, and willpower for Kaine to survive, and, if he is fortunate, prevent the fast approaching storm from burning his world to the ground.
Wedding of the Torn Rose is a fast-paced fantasy adventure with mystery, action, and magic. Journey with Kaine as he attempts to prevent a war and save a kingdom in the first volume of the Symphony of Crowns and Gods series.
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