Naamah, sister to Noah, was destined to live a boring life as the wife of a poor farmer in the ancient middle east. Her attempt to seduce the wealthy neighbor’s son fails, and she’s left with nothing but a hopeless future.
Until she decides to run away and encounters a strange being — an Angel.
And in return for taking her as his wife, he agrees to show her wonders of the Heaven and earth.
But the world isn’t ready for these angels or their lovers like Naamah.
And their love might not be as eternal as they hope . . .
Check out this prequel to the Holy Shield Angel Romance series and learn the back story of one of the most infamous demons those Vegas angels encounter!
Life as humans know it comes to a close when vampires take over as dominant species in our world, and magic makes its return. It’s up to several unusual heroes to protect the innocent in a select few areas around the world.
The Dancing Crow
The Kingdoms of Blood Book 1
by Des M. Astor
Genre: Vampire Horror, Dystopian Urban Fantasy
Hey, I’m Ares. Big, bad, scary vampire that your kind is supposed to be afraid of. And I’m here to help save you!
They call me the “Dancing Crow”. Don’t ask me who ‘they’ is. No idea. Anyway, my kind has emerged from the shadows and ripped the mantle of ‘dominant species’, or whatever, right from your hands. Shame, really. If only you didn’t erase magic from your history.
Anyway-z, I used to prowl the streets, ripping to shreds the evils of your society. Like some twisted superhero, or something. Everything changed when other vampires had enough, and well, here we are. Now my gang and I are trying to establish harmony in this city, at least. Not many would expect a gang, of all things, to be heroes. But here we are.
Our job is to help you widdle humans by getting rid of an evil tyrant, Ash, in this unnamed city. Well, that’s hard to do, so we got allies. A half-dragon, a Tasmanian Devil shapeshifter, you know, cool stuff like that. Now, if only I could get this vampire hunter to leave me alone. No idea what her deal is, but she clearly can’t kill me despite ‘trying’ her hardest. Ah well, I know my job, and it’s to continue doing SOMETHING to help out here.
CONTENT WARNING: Heavy gore, sexual assault and rescue from it, extreme religious indoctrination/manipulation, and heavy profanity.
This is Book 1, version 2 of “The Kingdoms of Blood” series.
Ever see a Tasmanian Devil shapeshifter before? Well, you’re about to meet one. The name’s Darcia Deville.
We might have established harmony in Elapid City, but there’s a bunch of twisted vampire hunters eyeing us now. If they get their knives into our vampires, well, that can only end badly. So, now, we’re taking the fight to them.
Everything just had to go wrong, though.
My partner, Robert Smoke, a turned vampire, ended up captured by an insane scientist known as Doctor Astral. I need to save that brat in distress before he gets himself tortured to death. Not only that, but this woman is messing around with magic and science to an alarming extent. Wolfmen never existed before.
Apparently, they do now.
CONTENT WARNING: Extreme gore, descriptive sex scenes, profanity, rescue from sexual assault, & graphic torture.
Des M. Astor is a dystopic urban fantasy author who twists everything you know about creatures like vampires. If you’re looking for gory, action-heavy novels that take several steps away from common myth for a flavor of her own, her works are the ones for you. She has a fascination with horror, and is unafraid of spiders, bats, and serpents. In fact, she adores all three. She takes pride in her worldbuilding, to the point where you might question if she’s stepped out of an alternative Earth onto ours in order to tell these stories…
FBI Agent Gene Wyke is the best of the best. But can he find a girl missing in another world?
High in the mountains of Colorado, veteran FBI agent Gene Wyke is tasked with locating ten-year-old Marigold Riley, an assignment he hopes will be the last of his career. But the investigation goes sideways when Marigold’s twin sister Katie vanishes as well. Literally.
In a forest clearing, Gene watches her dissolve into thin air.
To find her, Gene must embrace the seemingly impossible: He must step through a doorway to another world—one filled with wonders, as well as dangers real enough to kill him. In the end, saving the two girls will take more than Gene’s cunning and skill; it will take his heart, and change it forever.
Suggested for fans of Stephen King, Blake Crouch, Frank Herbert, and Dan Simmons
Cutting-edge science. Bloodthirsty aliens. Can this band of nerdy scientists save the multiverse one dimension at a time?
Space Opera/Fantasy Mashup with an Attitude
Brilliant physicist Zeke Travers is on the brink of a scientific breakthrough… and a nervous breakdown. So after the beta test of his interdimensional drive goes off without a hitch, he breathes a sigh of relief. But when an alien warship materializes out of nowhere with guns blazing, Zeke and his team must risk using their invention to jump to a parallel universe.
Uncertain how to return to their native continuum, Zeke’s nerd squad must blind-hop across the omniverse from high-tech galaxies to magic-powered medieval planets. Hunted by ridiculously persistent and savage attackers, Zeke suspects the pursuers are only puppets of a far more shadowy evil. And with every roll of the interstellar dice, he fears they’re falling deeper into its sinister clutches.
Can Zeke uncover the dark force behind the attacks in time to save his crew and avoid interdimensional mayhem?
The Heisenberg Corollary is the first book in the hilarious Slagmaster Cycles, a science fiction fantasy mash-up series with an attitude. If you like quirky characters, non-stop action, and geeky pop-culture references, then you’ll love C. H. Duryea’s snarky, laugh-out-loud page-turner.
Tessa Damon is a modern demon with no plans to ever settle down. She loves her life. She has great friends, an amazing career and dating rules that keep her safe and her sexual appetite sated. Until she meets Devon that is. He’s sweet, funny and sexy. Just her type except he’s her friend brother which makes him off limits. Or does it?
We made it to a new year. As fast as 2023 went by, all we have to do is sneeze and we’ll be at 2025. Or pee our pants. Cuz you know? We’re getting old. 🤣😂🤣😂
So let’s start off the new year with some FREE boxed sets. If I can find some that aren’t just in kindle unlimited.
Two strangers arrive in town, bringing with them a prophecy recorded more than three-thousand years ago, a prophecy that places Amber directly in the midst of a battle that has spanned a millennia.
Queen’s Destiny
Blood Prophecy Book One
by Barb Jones
Genre: Supernatural Horror, Paranormal Romance
Amber Stone, once a child prodigy, has just become curator of a special collection of Macedonian artifacts for the Seattle Museum of Natural History. Chloe, a prodigy of a different sort, holds a position at the museum focusing on tribal art. The two become fast friends, united by Amber’s unsettling dreams and Chloe’s unorthodox ways of dealing with them.
Two strangers arrive in town, bringing with them a prophecy recorded more than three-thousand years ago, a prophecy that places Amber directly in the midst of a battle that has spanned a millennia.
When you are in love with the one you fear and hate the most, it leaves you no options. How can you fight her, protect her, love her, when all it would do is leave you in pieces?
Amber and Chloe are pulled deeper into the Prophecy that reveals itself as the Blood Moon rises. Michael is pulled and torn into different directions. His choice is fated but is not known until Amber embraces her true destiny and is crowned Queen.
Together, all four embark on a journey, joined by new allies, enemies and the past. A child is born to be the instrument of the Queen.
This is the preparation for the upcoming Epic battle that has spanned a millennia.
Bloodshed. Heartbreak. Revelation. When the darkness was compelling and the heart knew no bounds, was there really a right choice?
With Michael’s life hanging in the balance, Amber had a choice: save her star-fated love or keep on the crusade to unite the magical community. For Amber, her fate was sealed even before her birth and it was her destiny to fight the great battle ahead of her. But, when it came to her heart — her friends, her great love — Amber’s torn.
Not only was she the Queen, but she was a human in every sense of the word. She was vulnerable. And so the very people — Chloe and Michael — that gave her strength, quickly became her weakness. It wasn’t her fault she loved too much, was it?
Nevertheless, the Tall Dark Man had set a plan in motion that could threaten the very existence of the Blood Prophecy. Would he gather his dark forces and succeed in destroying Amber once and for all? Or, would she assemble her powerful friends and save the world?
Barb Jones is the award-winning and best- selling author of the Blood Prophecy Series, the Heaven and Hell Series, as well as standalone supernatural thrillers and horror. Having been born and raised in Hawaii, she calls upon her Hawaiian heritage when she writes because she grew up around the supernatural and legends of gods and goddesses. Jones is known for her world building and her exceptional way of creating characters that her readers can relate to. Today, she resides in Florida with her family and her rescue cat, Yuffie. When she isn’t writing, you can find her making live appearances across the US and internationally for book events, public speaking on various topics that are dear to her heart.
I finished the game over a week ago and it still lingers in my mind. I really liked Dragon Age Origins, though I forgot to play the DLC’s. 🤣😂 But this one? This one beats it hands down. I’ve heard from some of my subs on my YouTube channel that they thought the same thing.
And oddly, I didn’t like the beginning of the game. For starters, you don’t get to pick a race. You can choose a class, Warrior, Mage, or Rouge, and then gender. And you’re appearance is already set for you. You can change it, but you’re traveling with your family, so major changes would look … strange. Right?
I like playing a rouge so selected that class. I’m glad I did because as a Rouge, you also get a dog companion to take around with you. I named mine Barney. 🐕🐕
With Origins, I had 135 recorded game play episodes. And, mind you, that’s without the DLC’s that I totally forgot about. I was just happy to beat the Arch Dragon at the end. But with Dragon Age II, with the two DLC’s included, I’ll end up with 77 recorded episodes. So, it’s a lot shorter game, I’m still in the process of uploading my videos.
Even though the second game was shorter, it was more impactful. Every decision you make along your journey will come back and bite you in the end. It will make you rethink all the different interactions you had with your party members and the NPC’s you either met, or did quests for. So, well done.
Art/Graphics – 9 / 10
After completing Pillars o Eternity, I felt the graphics just weren’t as good. There were some very impressive views. The Wounded Coast was amazing and so were some o the ruins we came across. However, I got used to water actually moving in Pillars of Eternity, which doesn’t happen in this game. Sorry. LOL.
Voice Overs – 10/10
The narration was amazing. I loved the voices for Fenris and Verrlic. And the actress for Flemeth, Kate Mulgrew, retuned. Actually, there were cameo’s from several of the different characters from the Origins.
And to set the timeline straight, this story starts toward the END of the Blight. I was a bit confused about that part. If you’d saved your prior game, you could upload it to the EA platform which would have changed some of the dialogue during your gameplay. I didn’t, so I was able to pick an ending that closely followed what I did in Origins.
Storyline / Plot – 10/10
As I said before, this game is still lingering in my mind BECAUSE of the storylines and plots. It’s so much darker and personal. There was death and betrayal in the first game, but this one stepped up those emotions to where it felt like a punch in the stomach when someone died or betrayed you. I guess I didn’t romance some of my characters the right way. LOL.
The overreaching arc is the tension between the templars and the mages. You’re constantly being forced to choose a side and you know a huge confrontation is inevitable. Depending on the class and gender you choose, you’ll get different situations. Then, there’s the Qunari conflict. Wow. I didn’t think I’d survive that one. I can’t wait to see how this all plays out in the third game.
Party Members – 10/10
As with the first game, you have companion quests, like most RPG games with party members. I just loved Avaline’s quest. It lightened up the, otherwise, dark nature of the game. I tried romancing both Anders and Fenris, but they came from opposite sides of the whole mage vs templar feud that I couldn’t get close enough to Fenris. Though I loved his character and his voice. Yum. Still, having them travel together made for some interesting conversations between the two.
Then there’s Verrlic. He’s the one narrating our story to a Chantry Seeker. He’s a wonderful character and they built up his dialogue very well. He makes the game.
My least favorite character was Merrell. If you played as a Dalish Elf in Origins, she comes in at the very beginning of that game. But once you get tainted with the Bligh, you don’t see her again. In this game she’s just too slickening sweet and her obsession with that damn mirror make me have to do some horrible killing. Something I didn’t want to do. Again, I’m surprised I survived. LOL.
I did notice that my party members interacted a lot more between each other and other NPC’s, which made them more lifelike. I hope that carries over to the next one.
Path Finding / Mechanics – 9/10
In Origins, I kept getting stuck, or the the game crashed every time I went through a doorway. I didn’t have that problem with II, thank goodness, but sometimes it would take forever for the game to even launch. I think it’s because I couldn’t just start the game from Steam. I had to have the EA program up and I kept getting that their servers were unavailable. Other than that, I only had the game crash one time, just before the boss fight in the ruins under Harrimans’ mansion. And then my character did get stuck after I did a backstab on an abomination that was standing against a wall. I had to restart the game & redo the fight. Oh well. Shit happens.
I also didn’t have the issues with steps like in Origins. Though I did get lost a lot. I’m horrible with directions. I hope Inquisitions is better.
DLC – 8/10
As I said before, I totally forgot about doing the DLC’s in Origins. I wanted to go back and do them, but then I remembered how glitchy the damn game was so decided not too. For II, out of the two DCL’s that came with the Ultimate Edition, my least favorite was Mark of the Assassin. I didn’t like Tallis and I felt all the different antics the developers threw into the game made it feel childish. Like they were gearing it toward younger players.
I really enjoyed the Legacy one though, a it helped fill out our father’s backstory and where we fit in the scheme o things with the Gray Wardens. If you buy the bundle, you also get a lot of special equipment for yourself and your companions. So be sure to check those out before you start diving into the harder fights.
I really enjoyed this game and highly recommend it. You can also check out my Let’s Play below.
