Hope hates her body. She always has. The fact that she’s a graphic artist who manipulates images of women’s bodies for a living only makes matters worse. Hope’s teenage niece, Lana, has a physique Photoshop can’t touch. But in her dance world, finesse in motion requires mastery of body, which, for Lana, spirals into obsession. Looking into the mirror, Hope and Lana have in mind a continually altering ideal of beauty defined always as thinner than they are in the moment. Hope turns to … [Read more...] about Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons
Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons
Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons Hope hates her body. She always has. The fact that she’s a graphic artist who manipulates images of women’s bodies for a living only makes matters worse. Hope’s teenage niece, Lana, has a physique Photoshop can’t touch. But in her dance world, finesse in motion requires mastery of body, which, for Lana, spirals into obsession. Looking into the mirror, Hope and Lana have in mind a continually … [Read more...] about Body: or, How Hope Confronts Her Shadow and Calls the Flutter Girl to Flight by Sean Coons
War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel
War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel The alien wars are unending. In 2187, Earth has the Katarga trapped on the moon, refusing to allow them to escape. The Piltrak and Jurale are pending threats, which forces Global Command to recruit 15-year-olds as soldiers. Dax, low-status and a non-conformist, never imagined she’d be a soldier, yet she was hand-picked by gruff Commander Viteri, taken from her parents, never to see them again. She doesn’t want to kill aliens, and suspects there’s … [Read more...] about War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel
War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel
Dax, low status and a non-conformist, is stuck in the middle of the unending aliens wars. It's 2187, and Earth has the Katarga trapped on the moon, refusing to allow them to escape. Then there are ongoing threats from the Piltrak and Jurale, which forces Global Command to recruit 15-year-olds like Dax, as soldiers. She never imagined she'd be advanced as a soldier, yet she was hand-picked by gruff Commander Viteri and taken from her parents, never to see them again. She doesn't want to kill … [Read more...] about War and Money, Book 1 by Sofia Diana Gabel
Second Self by JW Robitaille
When Sergeant Cory Marin and Marty Washington begin to investigate the ritualistic murder of an international student, the leads and suspects keep multiplying. Is the killing tied to a similar one twenty years ago? Is the girlfriend's possessive ex-boyfriend responsible? Do the victim's fraternity brothers have a reason to want him dead? Or are the victim's girlfriend or best friend involved? When they discover a tie-in with the virtual world, Second Life, events take a bizarre twist. As her … [Read more...] about Second Self by JW Robitaille
Featured PermaFree eBook: Maniacal: A Detective Jade Monroe Crime Thriller Book 1 by C.M. Sutter
About the Book Sleepy little North Bend just woke up. The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend. As more bodies turn up, the single connection between all of the victims becomes clear—it’s Jade, herself. With each new victim getting one step closer to Jade, time begins to … [Read more...] about Featured PermaFree eBook: Maniacal: A Detective Jade Monroe Crime Thriller Book 1 by C.M. Sutter
Interview with Author – Kirsten McKenzie
About Kirsten McKenzie: For many years Kirsten McKenzie worked in her family's antique store, where she went from being allowed to sell the 50c postcards in the corner of Antique Alley as a child, to selling $5,000 Worcester vases and seventeenth century silverware, providing a unique insight into the world of antiques which touches every aspect of her writing. Now a full time author, her historical fiction novels 'Fifteen Postcards' and its sequel 'The Last Letter' … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Kirsten McKenzie
Oink. A Food for Thought Mystery by J.L. Newton
Emily Addams, foodie professor of women’s studies at Arbor State, finds herself an unlikely suspect in the poisoning of a man she barely knows—Professor Peter Elliott of Plant Biology, the hot shot developer of a new genetically engineered corn. How did her cornbread end up in his hand as he lay on the smelly muck of the university’s historic pig pen? In a quest to find the real culprit, Emily and her multicultural network discover some of the dark secrets of a university that is itself tainted … [Read more...] about Oink. A Food for Thought Mystery by J.L. Newton
Featured PermaFree eBook: Maniacal by C.M. Sutter
About the Book Sleepy little North Bend just woke up. The newly promoted Sergeant Jade Monroe, and her partner, Detective Jack Steele, have just been informed of an unidentified male body found at a local lake. The town is in an uproar. The victim was nearly decapitated, and murder simply doesn’t happen in North Bend. As more bodies turn up, the single connection between all of the victims becomes clear—it’s Jade, herself. With each new victim getting one step closer to Jade, time begins to … [Read more...] about Featured PermaFree eBook: Maniacal by C.M. Sutter
Permed to Death by Nancy J. Cohen
Sassy salon owner Marla Shore is giving grumpy Mrs. Kravitz a perm when her client dies in the shampoo chair. If that isn’t enough to give her a bad hair day, handsome Detective Vail suspects Marla of poisoning the woman’s coffee creamer. Figuring she’d better expose the real killer before the next victim frizzes out, Marla sets on the trail of a wave of wacky suspects. Her theory regarding whodunit gels only after she looks for the culprit closer to home. “A terrific mystery debut for Nancy … [Read more...] about Permed to Death by Nancy J. Cohen
Peril by Ponytail by Nancy J. Cohen
Hoping for a romantic honeymoon at an Arizona dude ranch, hairstylist Marla Vail and her husband Dalton arrive to find a series of mishaps plaguing the resort. A nearby ghost town is suffering similar problems. Is it mere coincidence that Dalton’s Uncle Raymond owns both properties? When Raymond asks for their help in finding the culprit, Marla and Dalton eagerly accept. Then news of a local forest ranger’s death raises the stakes. With sleuthing more natural to Marla than horseback riding, she … [Read more...] about Peril by Ponytail by Nancy J. Cohen
Dangerous Habits by Susan Hunter
Dangerous Habits by Susan Hunter After receiving a mysterious message from a dead nun, journalist Leah Nash reopens the investigation into her teenage sister’s death. As she starts closing in on the answers, someone starts closing in on her. Leah races down dangerous paths in this twisting tale of hidden motives and long buried secrets—until she finds the stunning truth. … [Read more...] about Dangerous Habits by Susan Hunter
