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The Origins of Time Lines by Karen J Mossman

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Sahara Foley

Time Lines is Karen’s latest release and here she explains its origins:

‘In the sixties there was a programme called The Time Tunnel, which ran from 1966 to 1967. My Dad and I used to watch it together and I was entranced at the concept, and the adventures and situations the characters found themselves in.

I’ve seen many films and tv series since, but it’s those earlier one’s where technology was based on an imagined future where equipment was bulky and large, that interested me most.

When I came to write Time Lines, I wanted something that was simple without the of aid of modern-day technology. Back in the sixties and seventies, they had consoles with large buttons, and knobs with cabinets holding large reels of old-fashioned tape recorders. At the time is looked futuristic and technical.

I wanted Time Lines story to have that kind of a feel to it. The story has a ‘travel room’ that is just a black space with a seat in the centre for the traveller. The technician sits in another room in front of a console with buttons. He watches the travellers heat signature on a large screen mounted to the wall. He sees is a green criss-cross lines on a dark background, a bit like the old computers used to be.

My story tells of Julie travelling back to the past and to wartime Poland. She is there to collect visual evidence of past atrocity. Normally, it’s a straightforward assignment, only this time things go wrong. Julie finds herself in a situation that she has never experienced before, and it is terrifying.

I hope you will accompany Julie on her journey and download the book to take this ride with her.”

Along with Time Lines, here are a few vintage time travel stories that you may like.

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September 2023 Free eBooks – 16th to 30th

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Sahara Foley

Sparrows GIFs | Tenor

We are definitely heading for an early winter. Robins don’t start flocking together until October, yet I haven’t seen one around my feeders since the end of August. Yikes. And talk about all the sparrows. They start hanging together for the winter months. They also can have 2 to 3 broods per year. No wonder there’s so many of them. Wow! They’re as bad as rabbits. 😂🤣

Since I’m predicting the future, I’ll go with free psychic books today.

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Book Trailer for Ruby Takes Chicago by Diann Floyd Boehm

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Sahara Foley

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Ruby Takes Chicago, is the sequel to Rise! A Girl’s Struggle for More. It’s now the 1920s, and a young Ruby Dinsmore leaves her hometown of Oilton, Oklahoma, and heads for Chicago to make her dreams come true. In the first book, Ruby, born in 1904, grows up wanting to be a businesswoman and does everything she can to make it happen. At the end of Rise!, Ruby’s family realizes her dreams can only come true in a larger town where a young woman with a college education would be accepted in the workforce. Once in Chicago, Ruby is surprised to learn that, even in a big city, society as a whole is still reluctant to accept women working outside the home. Determined to stay true to herself, she takes on the challenges of life in tumultuous times of Prohibition, protests, and women’s rights marches. Ruby meets like-minded women, and together they break through the barriers until Ruby lands the perfect job, all amidst discovering the joys of life and love, and heartbreak…and love again.

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#Crystals101 – Tibetan Singing Bowls

Posted on September 11, 2023 by Sahara Foley

Enlighten Singing Bowl — Garrett Benisch

As mentioned in a previous article about cleaning your crystals, you can use sound, which entails a tuning fork, bell, or a singing bowl. I opted for a singing bowl. I actually have two.

However, singing bowls aren’t just for crystals. They can be used for medication, and cleaning water. Did you know that you can set your intentions in water? And that water has a memory? I’ve read about that years ago. It’s quite fascinating.

And then I ran across this video where they could measure the effects of the singing bowl on tap water and the energy field around a person. Very cool.

With the increase in popularity of crystals, there has also been an increased demand for singing bowls. And, like everything else, there are fake ones out there. So beware of what you’re buying. What you need to look out for is the continuous tone (singing) after you strike the rim of the bowl and then run the mallet around the outside in a clockwise motion. It takes some skill, which I don’t have. 🤣😂

Here’s me, attempting to do just that.

I’ve been told that not ALL crystals can be cleansed or activated by singing bowls, but I haven’t been able to find anything to support that statement. Maybe that sort of information can be found in books with more details about crystals and their components. But, for now, I’ll just follow these instructions and go from there. If anything else, it will help clean the energy field around me and my crystals.

Have you used a singing bowl? What has been your experience?

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My Book Review of Northwoods Wolfman (Monsters in the Midwest Book 2) by Scott Burtness

Posted on September 10, 2023 by Sahara Foley

DESCRIPTION:

When Dallas, the self-proclaimed Hero of Trappersville, is recruited by an ancient order of monster hunters, he’s more than happy to sign up. The group’s leader, Colton, is solid as an oak. Randall ain’t half bad, despite his tendency to whine. The whip-smart, beautiful, and totally badass Aletia is whip-smart, beautiful, and totally badass. Under their guidance, Dallas learns everything there is to know about hunting monsters (or close enough) and pledges to keep his friends safe.

Now there’s a werewolf in town, and Dallas and Stanley are on the case. As far as Dallas is concerned, monsters are monsters, and they have no place in Wisconsin. Or do they? When an unexpected discovery and an unlikely reunion turn his world upside down, Dallas realizes he may not get to choose which side he’s on.

Booze, bar fights, boo hags, beer cans, Bigfoot, brujas, and a full moon. Who knew that hunting monsters would make life so exciting?

Book Two of the Monsters in the Midwest Series

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Northwoods Wolfman is a great read for fans of Rick Gualtieri (Bill the Vampire), D.M. Guay (The Graveyard Shift), and Christopher Moore (Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story).

MY REVIEW:

I have to say right off, this is my favorite story, so far, in the series. Though Dallas came off as a real douchebag in Wisconsin Vamp, he somewhat redeems himself in this story. In the first book, we saw Dallas through Herb’s eyes, which were tainted with his jealousy and just lack-luster personality.

Now, we get to see Dallas for who he really is. Which is still the self-centered person he was, but he’s full of guilt over killing his best friend, Herb. I always thought Dallas used Herb to make himself look better, but I see that Dallas really did have feelings, other than for himself.

I like the fact that each infection starts with Jerry, the local salesman who travels all over the country and brings the monsters back with him. If he only knew. The author is very clever in how these events happen. Not believable, but definitely unique.

There were some very humorous parts where I split a gut. Like the episode with Stanley and Bigfoot. Too funny. Talking about Stanley, he somewhat comes into his own in this book too. His obsession with documentaries and certain TV shows, makes him the perfect sidekick for Dallas. And he’s the only one that sees what happened to Dallas.

Needless to say, I really enjoyed this story. It was full of action, fast paced, some funny encounters, new romances, and nice surprises. Like Herb-in-a-can. I highly recommend the book and give it 5-stars.

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Fantasy & Paranormal

Posted on September 9, 2023 by Sahara Foley

Searching for your next fantasy escape?

Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer an exciting selection of books. Available for a limited time.

AND MANY MORE

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Featured Free eBook: Warlock of Muscovy (Sun War Trilogy Book 1) by Brien Feathers

Posted on September 8, 2023 by Sahara Foley

When words fail, bring out the guns, swords, and death spells.

Marina is the daughter of Tsar Alexander the Cruel, the most powerful warlock. She’s also a princess of the Court of White Rose. The only problem is that she’s mundane—she has no magic.

On her sixteenth birthday Marina fled from her father’s tsardom to the revolutionist side of Muscovy, and five years later she’s doing all right, working as a seamstress in the United Workers’ Factory. Despite the political police, the never-ending witch hunt, and her best friend living as an orange cat, she’s happy. She gets along with her cottage mates and is even seeing a guy… until the city blows up, she’s implied in the sabotage, her guy turns out to be an enemy, her friends are murdered, and an alchemist maniac hunts her down for a blood vendetta.

With the Red Army and the Alchemist Federation on her heels, Marina runs back to the Court of White Rose, but when death follows her home she must uncover a prophecy, reconcile with the warlock, and stop an oncoming war. It’s a tall order for a seamstress.

The first book in the Sun War Trilogy, this intensely dark tale of magic and mayhem is full of grey characters that blur the line between good and evil.

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Featured Book: Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance by Cassie Alexander

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Sahara Foley

True Love Hurts the Most.

Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance is the story of Rhaim the All-Beast, a cruel beast mage doomed to die at the hands of the woman he must protect at all costs, and Lisane, the sheltered Princess of Tears, who has been given into his care and who needs him to teach her magic so she can be free—no matter how much it might hurt her.

The intro follows . . .

Lisane:

My whole life, I had been a creature used to candlelight.

But I wasn’t accustomed to my own breath hot against my face, or the rough feeling of fabric against my cheek—or knowing that my wrists were tied behind my back, painfully tight.

The last thing I could recall was being in a carriage…We’d been running away from the Deathless . . .

And now I was here.

Wherever here was.

Tied up, in the dark, on the ground, with a bag around my head.

The very thing my father had been afraid of for me for my whole life—and the reason I lived in a gilded cage, only getting to leave the palace when I had throne-sworn mages by my side—had apparently happened.

I had been kidnapped.

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Rhaim the All-Beast:

Every mage gets one clear vision on the eve of their Ascension into their full powers, right before they get the brand of their mage-mark: you see the thing that will cause your absolute demise.

Some men see snowy peaks or waterfalls, others bucking horses, and some lucky few see themselves with old and wrinkled hands, passing peacefully in their sleep.

In all instances, we’re told, the reasoning behind the visions is the same: if you’re strong enough to be trusted with powers, then you must learn to accept the hand of fate, as surely as you’d earned it as your mage-mark.

You need to know, deep in your bones and now scarred on your skin, that while there are things in the world you can change with your powers, death comes for us all.

There is no amount of magic that can escape it.

And so, when a group of soldiers brought a bound and drugged woman to my doorstep, to bribe me to fight in their war, and pulled the bag off of her head and I saw her there—the woman from the vision at my Ascension, and who has haunted my dreams ever since—I knew it was the beginning of my end.

She had no idea who I was, or what we were to each other. She knew nothing about my fate or future with her, or how she was destined to kill me.

Which meant in the present . . . she was mine, to do with as I pleased.

And I wanted to see her crawling.

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Featured Free eBook: Aspected: The Emperor’s Conscience: Book 1 by Michael Combs

Posted on September 6, 2023 by Sahara Foley

Would you become a monster to save those you love?

Evanar Hostric dreams of being a Guardian, but his magic is not like the others at the Temple. It is darker, hungrier, and comes at a terrible cost.

His comfortable life is upended by a group of new students which leads to a dreadful encounter and Evan doubting his dream. He resolves to leave it behind in favor of a more peaceful path when an attack on all he loves forces him to choose: Let them die or become the monster he was meant to be.

Aspected is the prequel to The Emperor’s Conscience series by Michael K. Combs. If you like dark magic and conflicted antiheroes, you’ll love this introduction to the world of The Emperor’s Conscience, where sometimes a monster’s morality is your only hope.

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Featured Book: The Twisted Mark (Witch Trials Book 1) by Sophie Williamson

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Sahara Foley

Sadie Sadler lives in the big city. Takes the train to work each day. Drinks fancy coffee. Does yoga… and never, ever does magic, lest it leads Gabriel Thornber straight to her door.

Sadie’s family have used their magic to protect the small northern town of Mannith for centuries. But now, Sadie’s brother Brendan is on trial for murder, and Gabriel, the charismatic and sinister head of the Sadlers’ only rivals, is moving to take the town. Only Sadie has both the knowledge to save Brendan and the magical strength to face down Gabriel.

The trouble is, there’s a good reason Sadie left home and turned her back on magic: she bargained away her powers and her body to Gabriel to save her damn brother the last time he got in trouble. If she comes home, Gabriel will try to collect… but there’s no way she’ll allow her brother to rot in jail or her family’s strength to wane.

Returning in disguise, Sadie’s plan to save Brendan and get out is tested as she’s dragged back into a world of magic and power, with Gabriel at its centre. Battling both her long-standing terror of him and a growing, dark attraction, she must decide who Mannith’s real villains are and how far she’ll go for her family.

A promise made… a magical debt unpaid. This is a fight that could cost Sadie everything.