SIMPLE MACHINES (affiliate link)
The only thing that Master Sergeant Joseph Cevera feared came to fruition during his last deployment in Afghanistan. An unbreakable man began to succumb to the unbearable weight of a decade of action while leading his top team of Special Operations soldiers. Among the death and violence, he begins to unravel while still having an obligation to his mission, country, and, most importantly, his men. The result is a beautifully written, traumatic, and gripping tale of a man searching for a way to drive on and make sure his men make it home.
Master Sergeant Joseph Cevera is a respected man, decorated hero and feared leader of one of the most highly trained and lethal army units in the Global War of Terror. What happens when the unbreakable is broken? We see this erupting world through the eyes of a seasoned warrior as he is pushed to the edge of his humanity. SIMPLE MACHINES takes us deep into the life of the American Army Ranger as he must navigate a combat zone.
Creatus Series Boxed Set (affiliate link)
Ancient myths, superheroes, vampires… Forget everything you’ve heard.
Many questions surround the origin of these sentient beings who are stronger than humans, eat differently, and live longer. But they were created just as we were, maybe even before us. It is from them we obtain our fairy tales–and our nightmares. They are the reason we believe in superheroes–and monsters. Because…they exist.
In the past, creatus kept the human race safe from an anonymous distance. But now, one creatus will endanger them all by falling in love — with a human. In his quest to protect the woman he can never have, a twist of fate propels him into a new role that will cause dissension among his family, igniting a war.
Bound to a Wicked Duke (Taming the Gillets Book 1) (affiliate link)
“Do not mistake lust for love, Madeleine. This betrothal will end…”
With death following him wherever he goes, Duke Percival has avoided London at all costs. Until a vixen falls right into his arms, begging for his help…
Shunned by the ton for her curvy figure, Madeleine is willing to do anything to avoid a forced marriage. Even ask the man she despises with a passion to become her betrothed… and repay him with a kiss…
So Percival agrees but only until the end of the Season. But he cannot resist the temptation to touch her. Not when he knows how much she yearns to fall apart in his hands….
The Book of Lies (affiliate link)
In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world’s most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost to history.
In 1932, Mitchell Siegel was killed by three gunshots to his chest. While mourning, his son dreamed of a bulletproof man and created the world’s greatest hero: Superman. And like Cain’s murder weapon, the gun used in this unsolved murder has never been found.
Until now.
Today in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cal Harper comes face-to-face with his family’s greatest secret: his long-lost father, who’s been shot with a gun that traces back to Mitchell Siegel’s 1932 murder. But before Cal can ask a single question, he and his father are attacked by a ruthless killer tattooed with the anicent markings of Cain. And so begins the chase for the world’s first murder weapon.
Daughter of Redwinter (The Redwinter Chronicles Book 1) (affiliate link)
Raine can see—and speak—to the dead, a gift that comes with a death sentence. All her life she has hidden, lied, and run to save her skin, and she’s made some spectacularly bad choices along the way.
But it is a rare act of kindness—rescuing an injured woman in the snow—that becomes the most dangerous decision Raine has ever made.
Because the woman is fleeing from Redwinter, the fortress-monastery of the Draoihn, warrior magicians who answer to no king, and who will stop at nothing to reclaim what she’s stolen. A battle, a betrayal, and a horrific revelation force Raine to enter the citadel and live among the Draoihn. She soon finds that her secret ability could be the key to saving an entire nation.
The Violinist of Auschwitz (affiliate link)
A son chronicles his Jewish mother’s real-life efforts to save as many young women as possible from the Auschwitz gas chambers during World War II.
Arrested in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz, Elsa survived because she had the “opportunity” to join the women’s orchestra. But Elsa kept her story a secret, even from her own family. Indeed, her son would only discover what had happened to his mother many years later, after gradually unearthing her unbelievable story following her premature death, without ever having revealed her secret to anyone . . .
Jean-Jacques Felstein was determined to reconstruct Elsa’s life in Birkenau, and would go in search of other orchestra survivors in Germany, Belgium, Poland, Israel, and the United States. The recollections of Hélène, first violin, Violette, third violin, Anita, a cellist, and other musicians, allowed him to rediscover his twenty-year-old mother, lost in the heart of hell.
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