After a long journey, the broken people arrive at their new home. It is the place they wished for, with shelter, food, and all else the weary travelers need. Overwhelmed and ill, Edan reaches the promised sanctuary where he can be more, for himself and Vita. Although he is cautious, Edan hopes wellness and adventures are in his future. Illur is filled with beauty and people who are important. Each person’s duties to the community ensures that every herad is successful. Edan is truly part of this perfect place and surrounded by the newness of things he has never seen. The once silent boy now has everything he could want. Finally recovering, Edan begins to settle into his new life, until he is forced to see what is beyond the requirement of obedience to the elders. The more Edan understands about Illur and his own past, the more unsure he is. It not only affects him, but those he has come to trust and love. Edan has to make the decision to keep everyone safe by obeying or question everything about his new home to find the truth. If you were given everything, would you obey without question?
Meet Cajah Reed
Author of the Divine Land Of Illur, Cajah Reed, fell into writing after the opening line of her first book would not stop cycling through her mind. Continuing to follow the stories in the YA dystopian series felt like an adventure of its own and a way of stepping out of the unpredictability of real life. Her inspiration for the series stems from music, geography, and the humanity of everyone, especially an individual’s need to belong. As an avid reader of all things science fiction and fantasy, Cajah is especially drawn to books with dark oppressive dystopian societies, supernatural characters, or epic worlds unlike our own. It was no surprise that Cajah’s debut series came from one of her favorite genres.
She’s been dead a thousand years. Now she wants her throne back . . .
First one kidnapping. Then another.
A vengeful cult seeks to revive their evil queen whose ancient anger threatens to destroy everything.
As vaunted investigator, Keelan Rae, races to find the missing, he unearths a disturbing pattern: Only those with magic are taken—but why?
Across the border, Crown Princess Jessia Vester vanishes. Fear grips the land as rumors become whispers, then questions, then truth. All evidence points east, toward a powerful neighbor, and a desperate king wrestles with cries for war.
Time is running out.
Will the fragile peace hold?
Can the kidnapped be saved and the Princess found?
And what of the cult and their quest to resurrect their powerful queen?
You’ll love this action-packed adventure because everyone yearns for magic and hope in a time of darkness.
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Meet J.D Ruffin
J.D. Ruffin is the author of multiple bestselling novels, including the epic fantasy series, the Kingdom War.
Ironically, J.D. never really enjoyed reading until a friend loaned him a dog-eared copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring. From that day, he was hooked, discovering fantasy authors Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, Terry Goodkind and many, many others.
Becoming an author was never part of the master plan, but…
As a fourteen-year-old nerdy boy, J.D. and his friends would gather around the D&D dice for hours on end, trading reality for fantasy, if only in their minds. In his quest to “stump his friends” with an impossible campaign, he dreamed up a storyline that captured his imagination.
Then… well… nothing happened. He grew up and went to work in a completely different world.
Too many years later, that story pulled at the corner of his mind, demanding to be heard… to be written.
One drug saved the world. Now, the same drug threatens to destroy it.
Necrophage is the drug that paused the necrotic outbreak and allowed the infected to live among us. But the “cure” the company gave the world might not have been a cure at all. Is there time to save what’s left of the world … or has the inevitable slide back into chaos already begun?
Meet Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant
Sean Platt is an entrepreneur and founder of Sterling & Stone, where he makes stories with his partners, Johnny B. Truant, and David W. Wright, and a family of storytellers.
Sean is a highly-prolific author in both fiction and nonfiction, with more than 10 million words under his belt and more than a dozen published collaborations. He brings a rich sense of place, strong pacing, conflict-filled dialogue, powerful twists, and a flair for high-stakes drama to every story he contributes to. He’s known for bringing out the best in whoever he collaborates with, thanks to his generosity, his adaptability, and his philosophy that “the best idea wins.” Originally from Long Beach, California, Sean now lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two children. He has more than his share of nose.
With nothing but his horse and his Colt, Jack Applewhite is on the run from a posse in untamed Kansas. When he encounters two bounty hunters, Jack discovers his brother has been murdered and vows to avenge his death.
But avenging Thomas’ death won’t be easy. Jack has to make his way to Paradise City, Nebraska, ahead of those bounty hunters and find his brother’s killer before the posse or the U.S. Marshal catches up to him.
Trouble is, the man Jack intends to kill is innocent.
Meet L.A. Moore
L.A. Moore is a voracious reader and lives in sunny Florida.
Love has no place in War…
Gideon has a plan. Get in, steal the ledger, and get out. He leaves his heart behind and runs, hoping to draw his enemies after him. His plan was perfect until it wasn’t. They strike at him, using Nora to exact revenge and draw him back. There is no place for love in war, and he’s about to show them why.
Meet Lynn Landes
Lynn, a bestselling author, writes mystery and romantic suspense and historic romance novels that are clean with underlying messages of faith. Her book “Mercy’s Promise” won the Illumination Award for shining a light in Christian Fiction. Lynn currently lives in the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia. She has more than thirty books published with more in the works- including two children’s books. If you’d like to receive updates via email about book releases, special events, and other happenings please follow Lynn’s thread and sign up for the newsletter.
Her captain is furious at her. She wasted company resources getting herself killed, and it’s coming out of her paycheck. Now, she’s sitting across from the first other human being she’s seen in six years. His name is Adnan. He claims to come from Earth—but that’s impossible. Earth died a long time ago. If Adnan’s telling the truth, he and the decaying ship the captain pulled him off are nearly a thousand years old.
Wherever he’s from, he’s Shaara’s responsibility now. Which is the last thing she needs. But it’s either that, or the captain sells Adnan into slavery. Shaara knows what that would mean. Most humans do. And something inside her won’t let her abandon Adnan to it: revenant memories, stabbed awake by the look in his eyes.
Facing those memories won’t be easy. It’d be far easier to ignore the feeling driving her forward. Far easier to let it all go to hell, and drift back to sleep.
Until a shadowy new faction starts stoking the fires of war. They’re looking for Adnan; Earth’s last survivor holds the key to unleash a terrible, indiscriminate vengeance on the galaxy that wronged them. Who they are is a mystery—to everyone but Shaara. Hard as she’s tried to forget, she knows them all too well. Which means she’s the only one who can stop them.
The question is: does she want to? Maybe the galaxy’s earned a little vengeance.
Meet Dylan McFadyen
Dylan has been writing science fiction stories since he was old enough to write. He’s been writing original science fiction stories—discounting admittedly awesome fully illustrated Star Trek and Star Wars fan fiction—since he was twelve.
Other than sci-fi and storytelling, Dylan loves history (which is just another form of storytelling, if you think about it). He has a master’s degree in international relations and conflict, and to this day spends as much time reading history as anything else.
When not reading or writing, Dylan enjoys spending time with his lovely wife, Victoria, particularly watching yet more stories, from brilliant favorites like Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse, to joyously terrible films like Miami Connection and Samurai Cop. He also enjoys long walks with their dog, El Doggo, who is the fabled Goodest Boy.
Finally, Dylan enjoys shooting sports, and like all good children of the 90s, video games. He’s played more hours of modded XCOM 2 than some babies have been alive.
He also has a Lord of the Rings tattoo, which in a way tells you everything else you need to know.
“Any deal is better than no deal.” When the desperate reach out and shake A Cold Hand at the crossroads, their lives are no longer their own. Frank, like so many near him, has made a deal, but when he shook that Cold Hand, he never thought the day would come when his bill would come due. Now that it has, he has a choice to make in Frank. “It’s going to be fine, my love. It’s all going to be fine. Don’t worry, my love. It’s going to be fine.” Chris knew every facet of every deal he made, but when the biggest deal he ever made was coming to its conclusion, he had to find a way to renegotiate the terms in Out of Road. Steven was positive who was responsible for his parents’ deaths and he was determined to make him pay in The Ride. A night out turned strange, so strange it still haunts all who were there in The Strange Disappearance of John Whitey Burnett. All he wanted was an escape, but how he went out about it will stay with him in Repeater. Finding love in the strangest places can lead to some strange results in Passing it Forward. Sometimes you owe even though you didn’t agree to the price in A Question of Payment. An obsession grew from a single night out in I Hate the Blues. What Allen finds as he looks into his partner’s apparent mental break challenges his own stability in Man of Flies. A bad day can seem to go on forever in One of those Mornings. A Cold Hand is the third collection of short stories from a HARD PLACE.
Meet R A Jacobson
Three years ago Rick began writing a series of adult paranormal fantasy stories resulting in three collections of short stories, a podcast, a graphic novel and a novel. The rabbit hole goes deep, and the joy he found in recording the podcast, bringing the stories to life with his voice, resulting in as of this August over 100 episodes of the podcast Stories from a Hard Place.
Alien invaders plunge earth into a post-apocalyptic world of shapeshifters and alternate realities. Below the surface of everyday life, humans are being used in dramas that help the alien civilization find a new god for their society. Strange new gods appear on earth.
Young college student Kristen-Kate McCutchan and biomedical engineer Stephen D. Spiros are on separate quests to expose the alien threat. Both are subverted by strange controlling forces and find themselves merging minds with a mysterious other. They team up and try to put a face on this other, the fate of the human race in the balance.
The adventure story of a geologist, Roger Hunt, who bemoans and lives with the loss of his family, which resulted from a fatefully lengthy battle with his devils, and of a chance reunion with an old acquaintance and alter ego that eventually leads him back to the Alaskan wilderness, ten years ago during his excursion, is told in “The Seven Magnificent Mind-Sets of Success: Adventures With The Magnificent Mind-Man.” by Russ Hamblin. One of several things that makes this book valuable and a must-read is Mr. Hamblin’s superb and comprehensive storytelling. It offers a fresh perspective on motivating literature.
It takes readers on a journey from inspirational messages to thrilling experiences, replete with all the elements people would expect to find in a book. He leads the audience on perilous and exhilarating journeys of soul-searching in quest of achievement. The tale follows a deep journey of human fragility, self-discovery, confrontation, truth, redemption, forgiveness, and betterment – as well as techniques for achieving and surpassing all of these goals, in the form of the Seven Magnificent Mind-Sets of Success.
The message is more than a fictional story about motivational and success principles. Rather, the message is all about second chances in life; that it is never too late to make changes. One of the most important ideas discussed is that the roads that lead to the greatest successes in life are often paved with the foundational stones of many setbacks, disappointments, and failures that one must experience in order to gain the perspective needed to grow and attain sustainable joy and happiness.
Meet Russell Hamblin
Russell D. Hamblin was born in 1957 in Preston, Idaho, and grew up in Visalia, California. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Oregon State (Geology, 1983) and a Master’s Degree from Brigham Young University (Geology 1985). He is a highly successful professional scientist and businessman with over 37 years of professional experience in the industry of environmental management and consulting. He has managed thousands of environmental projects throughout the globe and has worked and traveled in all 50 US states, seven Canadian provinces, and in over 45 countries on six continents.
We see a man who must face his day of reckoning (“Captive”); tourists who head into the wilderness looking for wild tigers (“Tiger Walk”); tiny children who select victims and then reveal their every nuance of thought, of behavior (“Human”); butchered beings who prey insidiously on humans (“Witherpools”); a psychologist and his disturbed patient who head into backcountry and are stalked by a grizzly bear (“Yellowstone”); a disturbed man who plans to gun down four people (“Johnny Apple”); three men who attempt to save an eight-year-old girl from alien invaders (“Green Smoke”); a man who discovers he is no longer earthly, no longer mortal (“Dark Running”); and many more tales of dark pleasures and strange enchantments.
Meet Jason Durant
Jason Durant is the author of fantasy and paranormal novels. He has written Witherpools: A Story Collection, Kiss da Wolf: A Novel, and A Wound in the Earth: A Novel. These titles are available in eBook and paperback on Amazon. He has found inspiration from writers as diverse as Hemingway, Hawthorne, Poe, and Twain.
