Virtual Book Blast: Midnight Rapture by Anya Summers

 Good morning everyone! Please welcome author Anya Summers to Full Moon Dreaming! She is here today to tell us about her new release, Midnight Rapture. Anya will be awarding a $25 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the greater your chances of winning. To find the other stops on her tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

 

MIDNIGHT RAPTURE

by Anya Summers

 

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GENRE:  Contemporary Erotic Romance

 

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Rescued by a hot, kilt-wearing Scot…

 

Freya’s on the run from her abusive ex-boyfriend. She’s exhausted and terrified, but if she stops, she knows he’ll find her – and their infant daughter – and make her pay. Desperation drives her to do something she shouldn’t, that she knows is fundamentally wrong…

 

… and sure enough, she gets caught red-handed. All she can do is beg for mercy.

 

When Jasper catches the gorgeous new maid with her hand in his wallet, his first instinct is to call the police. But Freya’s tearful plea strikes a chord deep within him, and instead he finds himself offering her the protection of his name and family.

 

Their union is meant to be on paper only but Jasper soon finds himself enthralled by his new bride. He starts a campaign to seduce her into his bed, never expecting her to wiggle her way into his heart.

 

And when her past threatens her very existence, he will stop at nothing to keep her safe.

 

Fall headlong into this steamy, fake relationship, stand-alone romance between a fierce Scottish businessman and a single mother as they navigate the road of love with all its pitfalls

 

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EXCERPT:

 

 

 

Marry him? Was the guy clinically insane?

 

Who asked someone they’d just met to marry them? She’d tell you who did stuff like that—crazy people.

 

Holding Maddie close, Freya didn’t know what to think or how to feel about his offer. He was only a few years older than she, by her reckoning, maybe in his early thirties. He could be English, but with a name like Campbell would bet what cash she had left he was Scottish.

 

His voice was sex personified. His Scottish brogue in that sexy baritone made his words sound like a caress. And when he spoke, the potent vibrations shivered through her body down into her toes. A man like him was dangerous to her sensibilities. A hypothesis proven by that reckless kiss. And what a kiss! Her body still hummed with illicit desire.

 

But she had sworn long ago that she would never be taken in by a charming, handsome face again. She’d done that once.

 

Holding Maddie close in case she needed to make a break for it, she asked, “What’s your name?”

 

He cast an arched stare as he rounded the kitchen island and faced her. “Jasper Campbell, at your service. And who is this little lassie?” He nodded toward her daughter. Maddie stared at him in fascination. Like mother, like daughter. But it could just be she wasn’t used to being around men that much, and definitely not one this enormous.

 

“This is Maddie.” Freya said her name, and her daughter grinned like it was the funniest thing she’d ever heard.

 

“I’ve got a highchair in the pantry. Let me grab it, and we can set it by the table. And don’t think of leaving until we’ve finished discussing this matter. You try to leave before we’ve finished our negotiations, and I will call the authorities.”

 

She sucked in a breath at the threat. Rich people really were different. Only a guy who had never interacted with cops would call them the authorities. But she had no plans to leave just yet. Because she wanted to see if he was serious about his offer.

 

Did he really want to marry her for a year to gain his inheritance? Would he really buy her a house and give her twenty million dollars if she agreed?

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Anya grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of books instead of binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Anya never did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.

 

Anya is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres. She also writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and contemporary romance under the name Maggie Mae Gallagher. A total geek at her core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry felines.

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Virtual Book Blast: The Moscow Affair by Nancy Boyarsky

 Good morning everyone! Please welcome author Nancy Boyarsky to Full Moon Dreaming! She is here today to tell us about her new release, The Moscow Affair. Nancy will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the better your chances of winning. To find the other stops on her tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

 

The Moscow Affair

Book 6: Nicole Graves Mysteries

by Nancy Boyarsky

 

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GENRE: Mystery

 

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"The Moscow Affair is a thoroughly entertaining and unforgettable thriller punctuated by smart dialog, richly crafted scenes, and a topical plot." –Dave Edlund, USA Today bestselling author of Valiant Savage

 

In this fast-paced mystery, P.I. Nicole Graves agrees to an unusual, short-term assignment working for MI6 in Russia. It sounds straightforward, even pleasant: a two-week luxury riverboat cruise on the Volga, observing a group of fellow passengers and filing a daily report on their activities. It's simple enough, except for one caveat: No matter what these people do, she’s to tell her handler at MI6—no one else, especially not the Russian police. When one of the riverboat passengers winds up dead, Nicole realizes this assignment was anything but straightforward.

 

Soon, Nicole is immersed in a high-stakes game of murder and espionage where trusting a stranger can be as deadly as a bullet.

 

"Nicole Graves is the best fictional sleuth to come down the pike since Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone." –Laura Levine, bestselling author of the Jaine Austen Mysteries

 

The Nicole Graves Mysteries have been compared to the mysteries of Mary Higgins Clark and praised for contributing to the "women-driven mystery field with panache" (Foreword Reviews) as well as for their "hold-onto-the-bar roller coaster" plots (RT Book Reviews).

 

 

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EXCERPT:

 

 

When Nicole opened the door, Kolkov was even more abrupt than on his previous visit. No greeting, just, “Get dressed. I take you in for questioning.” He talked fast and fairly vibrated with impatience.

 

“Why can’t we do it here like before?” Nicole said.

 

“Get dressed!” He shouted, pointing to the bedroom. “I give five minutes.”

 

Kolkov was waiting at the door and seemed to be in a tremendous hurry. As she approached, he stepped toward her and firmly gripped her by the arm, as if he expected her to try to escape. She pulled back, pointing to the closet. “I have to get my jacket,” she said, pointing to the hall closet. He let go so she could pull out her zippered hoody and put it on. It was going to be cold out, and longed for her warm coat, but it was in the hamper, stained with Chet’s blood. Before she could finish zipping up the hoody, Kolkov took hold of her arm again and was pulling her out the door.

 

Other passengers stared as Kolkov led Nicole down to the main deck and across the ramp to the ship next to theirs. Surely they could tell she was being taken from the ship involuntarily; perhaps they recognized Kolkov from the day before. But no one stepped forward to ask what was happening. Nicole wondered what they were thinking.

 

The pair of them drew an even larger audience as they walked through the four vessels anchored between Queen of the Volga and the dock. Finally, they reached the street, where a boxy black sedan was standing at the curb with a uniformed policeman at the wheel. Kolkov put Nicole in back, not relaxing his hold on her until he was about to close the door. He climbed in the the front seat, and they took off.

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Nancy Boyarsky is the author of the Nicole Graves Mysteries. Her sixth installment of the series will be released September 2021.

 

Nancy has been a writer and editor for her entire working career. She coauthored Backroom Politics, a New York Times notable book, with her husband, Bill Boyarsky. She has written textbooks on the justice system and contributed to anthologies, including In the Running about women’s political campaigns and The Challenge of California. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times, West magazine, Forbes, McCalls,  Playgirl, Westways, and other publications. She was communications director for political affairs for ARCO.

 

In addition to writing mysteries, Nancy is producer and director of the “Inside Golden State Politics” podcast.

 

Nancy can be contacted through her website, nancyboyarsky.com. You can find the other books in the Nicole Graves series at https://www.torchflamebooks.com/nancy-boyarsky.

 

 

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Virtual Book Tour: Mafiosa Princess by Liza Malloy

 Good morning everyone! Please welcome author Liza Malloy to Full Moon Dreaming! She is here to talk about her new release, Mafiosa Princess. Liza will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the better your chances of winning. To find the other stops on her tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

 

Mafiosa Princess

by Liza Malloy

 

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GENRE: Contemporary Romance

 

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Two men love her. But only one truly knows her.

 

College Junior Giada Conti wants nothing more than to pursue a normal life fueled by her own choices. Unfortunately, she doesn’t realize her father’s business isn’t completely lawful, or how that fact will completely dictate her future.

 

Pre-law student Adrian Patras is certain Giada is the perfect woman for him, until he meets her family and grasps the extent of his girlfriend’s naivete.

 

As Adrian finds himself unwillingly pulled into the family business, Giada grows frustrated with his insinuations about her father. Meanwhile, Giada’s ex, the notorious Luca Marino, pops back into her life with his own criminal agenda that includes winning her back.

 

Mafiosa Princess is the captivating first book in the steamy mafia romance series that you won’t want to put down.

 

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EXCERPT:

 

 

As my eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room, I stared at his face. Luca looked so peaceful in his sleep, not to mention handsome. His bold, dark features relaxed as he dozed, leaving only a cluster of impossibly thick eyelashes and full lips for me to stare at.

 

Nothing I’d learned made sense.

 

I’d known Luca as a kid. I’d stared at his face before he was old enough to shave it. I’d fallen in love with him—and his beautiful face—before he’d gotten the scar just above his left cheekbone. I’d long since memorized every detail of his stupid, perfect face.

 

I’d thought I knew everything about Luca. One week ago, I would’ve said I knew him better than I knew anyone else.

 

Now, I wasn’t sure I knew him at all. I had thought he was intense, but passionate. Possessive, but adoring. Cocky, but self-loathing. I never believed he was perfect, but I sure thought he was perfect for me.

 

Now I realized I had no idea what horrors he might be capable of.

 

I started to recite the prayers of the rosary, certain I’d never fall asleep, not with the man who’d lied right beside me. Except somehow, I did.

 

When I awoke, the sun was up, and Luca was gone.

 

My stomach was still filled with dread.

 

What was the point of knowing Luca wasn’t the man I’d thought he was if there was nothing I could do about it?

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Liza Malloy writes contemporary romance, women's fiction, new adult romance, and fantasy. She’s a sucker for alpha males, bad boys, dimples, and muscles, and she can’t resist a man in uniform. Liza loves creating worlds where her heroine discovers her own strength and finds her Happily Ever After. When Liza isn’t reading or writing torrid love stories, she’s a practicing attorney. Her other passions include gummy bears, jelly beans, and the occasional marathon. She lives in the Midwest with her four daughters and her own Prince Charming. Her books are available in both paperback and ebook, and can be found on Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, and more!

           

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Virtual Book Blast: Bite Me For Christmas by Megan Slayer

 Good morning everyone! Please welcome back author Megan Slayer!  It's always exciting to see what she's been up to! This time it's Bite Me For Christmas. Intriguing title, don't you think? Megan will be awarding a prize pack featuring a necklace made by her to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the better your chances of winning. To find the other stops on her tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

 

Bite Me for Christmas

by Megan Slayer

 

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GENRE: Contemporary Erotic Paranormal Romance (Holiday)

 

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He came to her in a dream, but he’s more like a nightmare in tight jeans, and she wants a taste.

 

Rachael isn’t good at magic, and she’s not versed in life, but this witch wants to lay her hands on the sexy vampire who’s come to her in her dreams. Can she have her Christmas wish -- the vampire?

 

Gavin wants the witch, but he doesn’t believe he’s worthy of her. Part of him wants to devour her magic and save himself, but what if being saved doesn’t involve dying?

 

Anything is possible with a little Christmas magic.

 

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EXCERPT:

 

 

 

Rachael admired the twinkle lights she’d strung around the kitchen. Somewhere people were enjoying themselves. They might even be making love under the Christmas tree. She’d like to try that -- sex in front of the tree.

 

Instead, she’d pulled the chore of kitchen clean-up. She always pulled that chore and the rest, too.

 

She draped the washcloth over the faucet and surveyed the room. Everything appeared to be back in place.

 

When she peeked into the living room, Serena and Millie were deep in another round of cards. The last Rachael knew, they were playing hearts. Rachael tiptoed out to the back porch to admire the snow. The cauldron bubbled with some batch of potions. She had no idea what her sisters made, only that she had to clean out the pot when they finished. The tangy smell filled the enclosed space and made her dizzy.

 

She crinkled her nose. If she knew how, she’d change the scent to something nutmeg-y or pine -- anything but the overwhelming aroma.

 

Something flashed among the white snow. She folded her arms and stepped up to the screened-in windows. Maybe the flash was the play of firelight on the snow.

 

The snow glittered and mesmerized her as it fell -- that had to be it. The flash was falling snow.

 

She hummed the tune of a Christmas carol and fought back tears. Christmas shouldn’t be this depressing, but she couldn’t help herself. She tried to make the day bright, but Christmas Eve would forever be the day her parents died and her world turned upside down. The loss turned her sisters bitter, too. The official account said nothing about her being at fault, but her sisters swore she’d created the fog, which caused the collision.

 

She wished she knew the truth.

 

One day, she wanted to know, but she also wanted to replace the sad memories with good ones. She’d never forget her parents, but she needed to move forward with her life.

 

Someday.

 

The flash returned, but this time, a man appeared among the snow.

 

Her blood sizzled, and she gasped. She knew this man.

 

Her vampire.

 

“Gavin,” she whispered. “You’re here.”

 

“You did ask for me for Christmas.” He moved across the snow and stood in the doorway to the porch. “Said you wanted a vampire for Christmas.”

 

She longed to touch him, but feared she’d draw her sisters’ attention.

 

“You did request me, didn’t you?”

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Megan Slayer, aka Wendi Zwaduk, is a multi-published, award-winning author of more than one-hundred short stories and novels. She’s been writing since 2008 and published since 2009. Her stories range from the contemporary and paranormal to LGBTQ and white hot themes. No matter what the length, her works are always hot, but with a lot of heart. She enjoys giving her characters a second chance at love, no matter what the form. She’s been nominated at the LRC for Best Author, Best Contemporary, Best Ménage, Best BDSM and Best Anthology. Her books have made it to the bestseller lists on Amazon.com.

When she’s not writing, Megan spends time with her husband and son as well as three dogs and three cats. She enjoys art, music and racing, but football is her sport of choice. She’s an active member of the Friends of the Keystone-LaGrange Public library.

 

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Virtual Book Blast: Can't Think Straight by Isabel Scheck

 Good morning everyone! Please welcome author Isabel Scheck to Full Moon Dreaming! She is here to tell us about her new release, Can't Think Straight. Isabel will be awarding a $10 or $15 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the better your chances of winning! To find the other stops on her tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

 

Can't Think Straight

by Isabel Scheck

 

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GENRE: Poetry, LGBTQ

 

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A collection of 35 poems in which a poet thinks about women a little too much... (Sapphic poetry)

 

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EXCERPT:

 

 

Poem no. 7: Scary, Isn’t It?

 

 

I often think about how scary it is;
one minute you’re fine and the next
you’re yearning for a girl you’ve only just met. And the mere thought of her is enough to give you violent butterflies.

 

The more you get to know her
the more she becomes everything you think about.

 

The more you know her the funnier and prettier she becomes until the butterflies aren’t
only reserved for when she’s near;
they’re there forevermore.

 

I often think about how scary it is;
How is it that a singular person has that much of an effect on you?

 

It’s scary because you know that you’re giving her the power to break your heart if she so chooses.

 

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Isabel is a self-published author and artist who comes from England, but lives in Switzerland. She works with children, which she adores, but she also loves to write; especially in the genres of fantasy, poetry and romance. She uses experiences and images as inspiration to create words. Isabel also loves to express herself by drawing.

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Virtual Book Blast: The Cairns of Sainctuarie by Hawk MacKinney

 Good morning everyone! Please welcome author Hawk MacKinney to Full Moon Dreaming! He's here to talk about his new release, The Cairns of Sainctuarie. Hawk will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN GC to one randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the better your chances of winning. To find the other stops on the tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!

 

Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series

by Hawk MacKinney

 

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GENRE: Science Fiction

 

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The Cairns of Sainctuarie Volume I - The Bleikovat Event

Volume II – The Missing Planets

Volume III – Inanna Phantom

 

From a rocky outcrop a battle-widowed Etkaa, gazed down at the death and upheaval. Rancid green Murian blood stanched the dusklit breezes from the haze-dimmed river marshlands. Nothing has been spared by the Green Dragon forces of Bleikovia. In skirmishes along the Feldon River, Etkaaâ's mate is fatally wounded with deadly selvon poison. Through a gruesome mountain trek of icy blizzards, they elude the Green Dragon. The battered starving Feldovats reach the coast at Eedov City only to be confronted by their implacable enemy determined to destroy the remaining Klarvkon rabble. Taking passage on crowded Maalon freighters, the refugees escape toward a new life among their Maalon hosts. Enraged Bleikovats move against the Klarvkons, bringing indiscriminate bloodshed. War once again surfaces, as it did in the muddy filth along the Feldon River of Malfesov, and becomes a different kind of war.

 

Generations after the great Murian upheaval of the Malfesian War against the

Bleikovats, the Accords between planets Terato and Myr are signed.

 

Provisional Outpost Terato is under construction near a farm where Teratoan orphan Eklam a'Qoc lives with his uncle and cousin. Inquisitive strong-minded Eklam, Ek to everyone in the village, is captivated by the off-worlders technology, and becomes an apprentice to the Outpost Terato's Murian commander, Grand Duke Korvo. Uncle a'Qoc disapproves; wants nothing to do with these outlanders, wants their shimmering doorway portals-of-travel banned from Terato. As Outpost Terato becomes operational it seems to become a harbinger stirring ageless secrets of The Old Ones and their frightful weapons, of ancient Teratoan ruins, mysterious glowing lights, unexplained killings, a sacred book in a language no Teratoan can read, a moon that doesn't behave like a moon in its wobbly orbit.

 

From cosmic reaches beyond space and time the ominous secrets of Terato's

ancient ruins become more threatening. Ek and Korvo realize both their worlds face extinction with any hope buried somewhere in unknown galaxies far beyond a pastoral Terato or the sophisticated star-empire of the Murians; of missing planets in a star system with its single star in a galaxy far-removed unknown to Terato or Myr. They travel across the universe to a place long forgotten to fight this unknown foe with weapons only dreamed of. Together they face the beast that wishes to consume the entire universe.

 

The threat of rift invasions seems long passed. Plentiful harvests abound. The Murian first-contact Terato Outpost has grown into the sprawling Terato-Murian Terminus Terato with a hub of relay portals reaching across the vast uncharted galactic expanses and connecting with its eon-extinct Lantaraan prehistory. An exploratory Terato-Murian Jupiterr outpost is established on the gas giant seventh planet, and its quantum and gravitational energies are used to power outpost portals for an archeological survey of the fourth planet, Eorthe. The Lantaraan database aboard Terato’s ancient Downday moon shows that one or more planets of the Solaris planets have apparently been lost. Expanded archeological records on other Lantaraan orbital bodies in the Solaris system show the fourth planet from the star—Eorthe—to be a sterile wasteland. Except it is not. Eorthe’s civilization is not to the level of the Murian Empire, but it is far advanced to those of a pastoral Terato. Terato and Eorthe form the confederated United Terran League under the nominal figurehead leader of League High Judikarr Eklam a’Qoc. Jupiterr outpost expands into a major League stronghold, Jupiterr Base, when civil unrest erupts in the League, the unexpected return of rift intrusions threatens, and the Murian Emperor Klarvko Celo is assassinated. As they prepare for confrontations with an unknown ancient enemy, the internal tensions on Myr and Eorthe push Murians and Teratoans to dangerous discords.

 

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EXCERPT:

 

 

Volume I - The Bleikovat Event

 

There had been warnings…far from the Feldon River, across the flat prairies and far-flung farming settlements, in the grain fields and remote gelf ranches of the far-west reaches of Feldon provinces.  Most dismissed them, “…idle gossip from those with too little to do.”

           

The onslaught struck late and faraway during the last harvesting moons of the growing season, and once again unsettled whispers passed.  Among the markets and along trade routes far from the fields and farms of the Feldovat fiefdoms the word spread.  That was before dispatch riders and message runners on ponderous muscled claks brought more disturbing rumors:  “Heavy raids and ambushes all along the hinterlands this side of the Bleikov-Bormeikovat frontiers.”

           

One grizzled Murian farmer’s slit-pupils narrowed to thin slivers.  Gently tightened the reins.  Hooked to the plough, the lumbering gelf plodded to a stop.  He laid the planed-wood handles of the plough sidewise onto the fresh furrow.  Without moving from the trenched rows the gelf reached its thick neck to nibble the green tufts around its feet.  The weathered work-aged farmer carefully slipped the reins off his shoulder.  Fingered the split creeping along one sweat-stained handle, “…get this to the woodworker before spring ploughing times.  Get it braced before I have to barter for a new plough handle.”  Pulled off his wide-brim woven hat; wiped his forehead.  Uncorked his gelf-leather water pouch; took long slow swallows.  Spit a bitter-chewed slurry of brown chakklu; scowled, "…ill-tempered uplander Bleikovats."  Another long swallow…re-plugged the pouch.  Bit off another twist of dried chakklu.

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

 

With postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles on chordate neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic behavior in multi-orbital environments.

 

In addition, Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance Moccasin Trace which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series have received national and international attention.

 

www.hawkmackinneyauthor.com

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