Author of the Week: K.M. McFarland

Song of the Vampire


Song of the Vampire is the first book of the Vampyr Series.  Twenty-three year old eighties rock star, Quinn Forrester, was living a dream with a wife, a baby daughter and a hit record until the night he encountered the mysterious Giselle, the vampire who would change his world forever.  After being turned, Quinn wakes to find himself alone in a strange, cold new world.  Sadly coming to the realization he can never return to the world he left behind, he turns away from his music sinking into his own isolated, lonely surroundings.  Eighteen years later, he is the owner of Vampyr, Bourbon Street's hottest music club and vampire bar.  His reclusive world is shaken the night he is mesmerized by the vocal abilities of a young female singer when he hears her voice bleeding into his office from the stage.  When she is revealed to be his abandoned daughter,
Nadia, she demands answers.  Quinn decides to reveal himself and tells her his story.  Moved my his story, father and daughter bond.  Nadia is fascinated by Quinn's world and soon becomes a part of it.  Together they uncover lies, deceptions, secrets and truths culminating in the discovery of circumstances that surrounded Quinn's mysterious disappearance.  As Quinn begins to make peace with himself, a series of recurring dreams leads him to remember a past long buried in his subconscious mind. 

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Under a Bourbon Street Moon
Under a Bourbon Street Moon is the second book of the Vampyr series.  VAMPYR is New Orleans hottest music club and vampire bar.  Vampyr's owners, Quinn and Tristan, reside in their plush Bourbon Street apartments above the night club with their significant other vampires, Giselle and Nadia.  The former eighties rock star turned entrepreneur, Quinn, has taken on another piano bar on St. Charles Avenue called Stiletto that will cater to mortals.  He is having some challenges finding the right people to staff the new club until Pam, a beautiful mortal woman from his past, and adorable country singer Amber Rose, who has just arrived from Nashville, enter his world.  Things get complicated when Quinn learns he has a connection to Amber Rose, and Giselle has suspicions about Pam's intentions.  Someone from Nadia's past has a permanent bond to her and a shocking revelation will have a major influence on all of them.   An encounter with a desperate female ghost from the nineteenth century reveals Tristan's younger years shortly before and after he was turned along with a secret buried long ago.

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About The Author
K. M. MCFARLAND grew up in New Orleans.  She loves the city and the culture calling it one of the most unique cities in the world.  Voodoo, vampires, ghosts, haunted houses and reincarnation have had a strong influence on her writing.  She is intrigued by New Orleans colorful history and it has had a tremendous impact on her stories.  When she isn't writing, she enjoys photography, reading, art, music, and spending time with family and friends.

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Author of the Week: Brian Marggraf

Dream Brother
After Jacob Gavel, a fledgling sculptor, leaves a failed marriage and returns home to San Francisco, he discovers a family secret. He had a twin brother who died in the womb right next to him. In an attempt to rebuild his life, he takes a low-paying job as a mental health case manager, but with all the dot-com money flooding the city, his childhood friend, Paul, has a better idea. 

His fresh start spoils. Events trigger his dreams, and his dreams resurrect childhood memories, propelling him forward on a sleep-deprived, speed-fueled mission to find recognition, love, and revenge. 

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Brian Marggraf's writing has been published in Transfer Magazine and The Olive Tree Review. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He grew up in Ventura County, California, and now lives in New York City.

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Author of the Week: Rene Schultz

Cissy is just your typical hard working, single mother, who leads a very simple life until one day, when a cancer diagnosis leave her spinning in circles. Not one to sit around and do nothing, and with experience in the medical field, she decides to research new medication and clinical studies on the Internet. All of a sudden, she hit a block wall. The pharmaceuticals are holding back and shelving drugs that have the potential to save lives. Why aren’t there clinical studies on these drugs? Why aren’t they being produced and dispensed? Why is this happening? 
Cissy goes on a quest to find these answers and what she discovers is shocking. With an anger that leaves her cynical and with time running out, she sets out to ‘right a wrong.’ She forfeits her integrity and leaves a legacy that will crush the greedy pharmaceuticals and the corrupt insurance companies! 

With the new age of technology, hackers become a reality, and new Robin Hoods emerge. 

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If you were to die tomorrow, what would you be remembered for? 
For Cissy, she was remembered as a nurturing mother, a compassionate friend, and the woman who saved thousands of lives from her death bed. 
What Schultz has done here is created a novel that doesn't only chronicle a woman’sjourney through cancer, but shows the value of living a life that makes a difference for others. Cissy, a woman just shy of her fiftieth birthday, finds out she has cancer and the prognosis does not look good. From the first page of the novel we learn that she did not survive. Knowing she is gone altered the way this story is perceived. Because we know this, we...Click here to continue reading. 

“Bishop Street” is a heartwarming and redemptive novel that captures the complex relationships between four orphans and their lifetime of challenges. It’s uplifting and with each turn of the page you fall more in love with the characters. 

Margaret Gray for the past twenty years has hidden behind a facade of normalcy. She wasn't always rich and famous. At the age of seven her mother abandons her on the steps of the Bishop Street Orphanage with a note pinned to her coat. Here, under the cruel tutelage of Sister Theresa, Maggie develops a powerful bond with her roommates, Elizabeth, Lucy and Randolph. Their close friendship fortifies them against the years of physical abuse, emotional torment, and manipulation that follow. 

Now, Maggie is thirty-nine and her nightmares are coming back. Despite a successful writing career and a flawless reputation, she is unable to keep all that she has built from crumbling around her. It’s been twenty years since she’s heard from her friends. Why didn't they answer her letters? Had they survived? Had Sister Theresa been right, or had she manipulated them all with lies, aiming to destroy their friendship, forever? 

Sister Theresa is dead and with nothing left to fear, Maggie hires Damon Depre, a private investigator to find her friends, and seek the truth. This starts her down a twisted path that will once again, test her strength of character. Will she find more than just her friends...

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About this author 

I’m divorced and I live in a small community just north of Los Angeles where I raised my two sons. I love to garden, try new recipes, take lots of pictures, and occasionally I enjoy a glass of wine with dear friends. I’ve never jumped out of a plane, climbed Mt. Everest, or seen the Northern Lights of Alaska. But, I have danced in the rain, sent a message in a bottle, and I’ve rode my motorcycle down The Pacific Coast Highway on sunny California days! 

After my divorce, I waltzed into the world of online dating. I didn’t find my knight-in-shining armor, but instead in 2008, I wrote a very successful book on my entertaining experiences. My first book “Searching4MrRight.com” was published by a small press and you can find it on Amazon. 

My first fiction novel “Bishop Street” is coming out July 2013. This story is about four powerful friendships that begin at Bishop Street Orphanage. It continues with lies and deceit after they leave at eighteen. Then, twenty years later, redemption plays out and ultimately the strength that got them through their childhood becomes the catalyst that binds them back together. 

My passion of writing has lead me on the most amazing journey. Now, my focus is on fiction. I thrive on developing strong storylines that showcase today’s contemporary lifestyles. Rags to riches, Robinhood, and surviving the odds, seems to be my one common denominator that showcases my fascinating and diverse characters.

Author of the Week: Andrea Michelle

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Escape The Doubt by Andrea Michelle

Synopsis: 

After the unexpected death of her Dad and the haunting manner in which he died, Riley Shaw built invisible walls around her heart. Barriers she created to protect her from splintering into broken pieces that couldn’t be repaired. She was unable to move forward from her past letting the guilt of her parent’s mistakes dictate her own choices.

Dean Warren was safe. Being with him was innocent and peaceful because she didn’t truly love him. His words held her captive in a false sense of security. His eyes were deceptive and his promises of never pushing her beyond what she was willing to give were broken leaving Riley Shaw in a state of regret and doubt.

Joshua Parker had the power to take what was left of Riley’s splintered pieces and ruin her completely or make her whole again. He was her best friend, her next-door neighbor - everything she wanted and settled on never having. Loving him was as easy as breathing air. The fear of losing him forever was more real to her than the feelings she couldn’t escape.

When faced with the very thing she feared the most and in the arms she thought were safe Riley finds herself questioning every decision she has made over the past two years. When she finally escapes the doubt in her head and accepts the truth in her heart is it too late?

Is taking a chance with your heart worth the escape or was it better to have never loved at all? Can forgiveness really set you free?

*Warning: This is a mature young adult novel. Recommended for readers 17+ due to underage drinking, sexual content and adult language.

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About the main characters:

JOSH- he is the sweetest guy. He met Riley when she was four years old and has been her best friend ever since. That friendship became love and that love shifted into a need to have her be his girl. There isn't anything that he wouldn't do for her even step aside if that meant she would be happy. He loves her enough to wait. 

RILEY- she is broken and sad. She no longer believes in love and happy ever afters. She see's cheating, lies, and betrayal as what is real in a relationship. She carries the weight of her parents mistakes on her shoulders. She loves Josh completely, he is her best friend, everything she can't live without. She is full of doubts about what she wants, needs and deserves to have all because of the guilt she bares after a tragic accident that involved her drunk father and Josh's beautiful mother. An accident that changed everything for them both. 

DEAN- He is Riley's boyfriend of two years. He is safe because she doesn't love him, half the time she doesn't like him. He is the typical high school boyfriend which means he is selfish and doesn't really care about her either. Why is she with him? Well that is a very good question, one even Riley can't answer herself. She doesn't want to be alone but she isn't okay to give anyone the power to break her heart and Dean doesn't have that power therefore he is safe for her. 

SIDE CHARACTERS THAT PLAY PIVOTAL ROLES: Riley's mom and sister Tatum, Josh's dad and sister Joey, Emily (Riley's BFF), Collin (Josh's BFF), Preslee (school slut), Brandt and Rebel (not as involved as the other side characters but involved in the story line). 

About The Author: My name is Andrea Michelle. I am married to my best friend and I am a mom to 3 beautiful daughters that love to dance. I am also a passionate dance teacher and have a huge love for performing arts. New Orleans, Louisiana is where I call home, but Texas is where I live. I love reading, writing and listening to music (in no specific order and with equal passion). I love to capture memories in photographs. I have an addiction to reality television and am obsessed with the Voice at this moment. I love thunderstorms but hate the Spring in Texas. Tornadoes freak me out, I would much rather ride out a hurricane.  I cannot survive a day without coffee or sweet tea. I love chatting about books with friends and enjoy getting to know new people. Random fact: My writing was born out of my love for music and singing. I created songs with poetry that I never shared with anyone other than my husband and my loyal notebook. One of my songs and also two of my poems are in my debut novel.  

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Author of the Week: Jacelyn Rye

Shattered By Fate
Part 2 of Fates Path
By Jacelyn Rye

One heart cannot remember. Another heart cannot forget. Both hearts reach toward something to grasp. For Sarah, it is her past. For Will, it is to bring that past back. The only thing standing squarely in their way — is their future. Each has promised their heart and life to another. But where happiness should be, instead are the dark billowing clouds of a storm of reckoning. The thunder of regret splits a horizon now raining down upon them in shards of shattered promises and unreachable memories.      

     In Book One of this three-part saga, fate seemed it would not be denied, bringing Sarah and Will together in a turbulent world, uniting young hearts for the right reason: love. But — almost as if it has eyes — fate sees to it that no love that is meant to be is allowed to be, without it being tested to the passionate edges of chance.      
     Accidents. Small ones are remembered and retold with a laugh. Useful ones are celebrated.  But shattering ones — those are the ones that slip from the fingers of fate. The kinds that are followed by silence as it roars the sound of life changing. And it is this pounding drone that Sarah and Will — once inseparable — now hear when they listen to their hearts.      
     After her accident, Sarah awakens in a hospital room and into a very different life. Will, accidentally buried by heavy timber when he heroically saves a fellow worker, is also delivered into his own unforeseen, disoriented new life. Destiny’s dust never settles.        
     And nothing is clear when doubts appear. Sarah is betrothed to Adley, while Will is engaged to Margaret, yet both are still connected to each other by an indescribable draw seemingly groping out from the deepest reaches of fate. A fate that deliberately leaves the door of temptation cracked open, giving Will a yearning peek at the naked truth of Sarah, who reaches out with the same tortured passions.  A fate that leaves both to fight the desperate desires of wanting what each knows they cannot have.  A fate that dares them to ask, “What will happen if I finally feel you?”

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About Jacelyn Rye 

Jacelyn Rye is many things. She can be as alluring as the love that flows from her pen: pure, honest, simple. But then, like a storm that suddenly appears over the mountain, she can also have you running for shelter where there’s no place to hide. Like life, itself, Jacelyn delivers the hard with the soft, the pain with the joy, the instant with the forever. All of it, for a reason. And it’s there that one can best enter her life.

“I believe in signs, I believe everything happens for a reason,” she’ll tell you. If you know someone like that, you already know a primal piece of Jacelyn — a person who actually listens to the Universe because there, she knows she’ll find more than answers, she’ll find reasons. And those reasons give her insights about nature, and human nature, both of which she invites us to explore with her.

Growing up in the blue sky country of Colorado doesn’t leave an impression, it becomes a lifeblood. For Jacelyn, the clarity of that truth flows through her stories, her characters and her inherent spirituality that somehow knows faith, in the end, triumphs over despair.

Through her storytelling — firmly stimulated by that early country life that taught her to always be prepared when venturing forth — Jacelyn’s uncanny ability to “see” what could happen takes readers into a crystal ball where the future’s many possible outcomes await in a swirl of incandescence, right down to the details of smell, touch, fear, love.

Because life also presents its possibilities in dreams, Jacelyn holds dear that open door. “My dreams mean a lot to me. I listen to them, solve problems in them, learn from them,” she confides. It figures, then, that when you read her stories, you’d best get ready for a trip with an original dream weaver.

And then, there’s serendipity. To know Jacelyn is to accept a dance with chance. She accepted one such chance when she moved from her beloved Colorado to an unknown life awaiting her in Southern California, where she lives today. “I knew another beautiful world was out there.  I was ready for adventure,” she says, with the confidence that proves her faith is more than just words. “I moved from Colorado as soon as I graduated from college, thanks to a great job offer. The night after I received my job offer, I saw a commercial that said, ‘California, find yourself here.’  In that moment, I stopped debating the move and took it as a sign that my adventure would be found in California.”

As Jacelyn does so well, she shares those adventures in her writing. In her first book series, you’ll find Jacelyn’s experiences of this major life change play out in Sarah, who also moves from Colorado to California. “What I’ve seen and felt enable me to write realistically about how a Colorado mountain girl feels about living in California.”

In the quiet mornings, you’ll find Jacelyn savoring her coffee, outside. To her, it’s all about listening, breathing in, appreciating being here for another day. And of course, there’s time spent in the mountains, fishing, wading in creeks with the people she loves. Curiously, this girl who comes from the mile-high mountains, still fears the miles-deep ocean she frequently visits, but only to sink her toes in the hot sand and watch, in awe and respect, the thundering surf.

On any given day, be it in the mountains, at the beach, or on her terrace, Jacelyn is dreaming and writing, her way of sharing something meaningful with those who come to know her.

One thing is for sure, wherever she goes, wherever she’s been, Jacelyn is aware and thankful for the gifts around her. Indeed, although she does not get back to Colorado that often, she’s there in spirit, and in absolute detail, in a moment’s call. “The smells, the sound aspen leaves make when the wind asks them to dance, how tall pines gently sway back and forth against a backdrop of the bluest blue I’ve ever known.” That’s someone who takes it all in, who takes it all with her, and who offers it to everyone who opens her books.

Author of the Week: BA Wolfe

Away
What good is running AWAY when you only end up lost? 


Cassandra Pierce had her whole "perfect" life planned out by her parents. One night of pure weakness and lust has her running away from it all and seeking refuge in Alamosa with her best friend. But it seems life has other plans for her when she finds herself lost in the small town of Keaton. 

Jason Bradley is a charming country guy. He lives a simple life that’s nothing like what Cassandra is used to. A single moment in life changed everything he thought he once knew, leaving him with a broken heart and an unplanned future. 

What happens in Keaton is nothing Cassandra or her heart could have ever prepared for. The instant connection she shares with Jason is no secret, but what they're keeping hidden from one another is. Will these two be able to find a way to trust each other or will their secrets tear them apart?

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About The Author

B.A. Wolfe is a girl with a passion for reading and writing, and lives in the good ol’ state of Colorado with her husband (her biggest cheerleader), and her two crazy min pin fur babies. These days, her life is anything but calm, and there isn’t one thing she’d want to change. She spends all her free time either furiously typing stories on her laptop or happily reading through her endless TBR on her Kindle. Her list of favorites would be long enough to fill a book, but most would likely fall under the romance category. She is a sucker for a good love story that makes her cry, and an amazing book boyfriend who will melt her heart. Away is B.A. Wolfe’s debut novel.

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Author of the Week: Chelle Bliss

Kayden: The Past 

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** CAN BE READ AS A STAND ALONE NOVEL** 

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual situations, graphic language, and material that some readers may find objectionable. 

Kayden Michaels has a past filled with sex, addiction, and heartache. A past that he’s avoided sharing with the love of his life, Sophia, and held close to his core not risking rejection. Needing to get his addictions in check and gain control of his life for the sake of his family, Kayden is forced to confront his past and make amends for the path he’s walked. 

Kayden must recount every carnal act and the betrayal from those he’s loved to identify the triggers that spur his addictions and overcome it all to be worthy of Sophia’s love. 

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Untangle Me
Kayden is a bad boy that never played by the rules. Sophia has always been the quintessential good girl, living a life filled with disappointment. Everything changes when their lives become intertwined through a chance encounter online.

Hundreds of miles separate them, but the connection that draws them together is too much to be denied. As the layers of their lives peel back, Kayden keeps the dangerous parts of his past hidden to protect the woman who is becoming more important to him than he should allow. What starts as a pursuit of carnal pleasure turns into a complicated love story. His past is a tangled web filled with addiction, an obsessed ex-girlfriend, and problems with the law. 

One mistake he thought he had left behind may end up ruining it all.


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About the Author
Chelle is an avid reader; consuming contemporary romance, dark reads, young adult, and all things erotica. Chelle wanted to create a book filled with characters that readers could relate to with real world problems and matching wallets.

Chelle loves to travel and her favorite cities are New Orleans and Paris. She currently lives in Florida with her amazing boyfriend. He's showed her the love and passion that she has poured onto the page.

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