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The Prodigal by Violetta Antcliff
About the book:
Poppy Berisford has everything going for her: a loving family, more pocket money than the average teenager and much more than her fair share of good looks. So why does she give it all up to go on the run with a boy who has nothing to offer her but toil, sweat and tears? A boy who hasn’t even started to shave and like Poppy is under the impression money grows on trees.
Is this a story of true love between two teenagers, or just a case of juveniles playing at being grown ups, willing to get their fingers burnt? Only time will tell.
Word Count: 10600
Buy at: Smashwords (all formats) ~ Barnes and Noble ~ Amazon
Price: $3.99
Excerpt:
Chapter 1
It was coming up to midnight when Poppy crept out of the house; both her parents were fast asleep in bed. She knew this because when she tiptoed past their bedroom door, she’d heard her father snoring.
Kyle had texted her earlier to say he would be waiting for her at the street corner. He reminded her to bring whatever money she could scrape together, at such short notice, with her.
Being extra cautious, not wanting to wake anybody, Poppy switched off the burglar alarm before opening the front door, then closed it quietly behind her and slipped the key through the letterbox.
As promised, Kyle was stood there waiting for her. He greeted her with, “Did you remember to bring the money with you?”
Poppy tapped her handbag “Yes, it’s all in here,” she said.
“How much?”
“Thirty pounds. Every penny I’ve got. How much have you brought?”
“Fifty—the money I’d saved for the school trip to France. Won’t be going now will it?” he said with a shrug of the shoulders.
“So what’s the plan, or haven’t you come up with one yet?”
“Of course I have. First we make our way to the railway station. It’s a bit of a walk I know, but we’ve got plenty of time.”
“And then what?” Poppy wanted all the details.
“We make our way to Skegness, find someplace to stay and then I’ll get a job. Shouldn’t be any problem this time of the year.”
“Finding someplace to stay could be expensive, and don’t forget we’ve got to eat.” Poppy was being practical, which was unusual for her.
“When I said we would find a place to stay, I was thinking of a caravan, not a big posh family one, just a two birth.”
“And what will I be doing while you are out at work all day?”
“You could get yourself a job as a waitress, you look older than sixteen so you should have no problems.”
“I won’t be sixteen for another three weeks and working as a waitress in some greasy spoon café—” Poppy threw her arms in the air. “Well, there goes my plan for training as a brain surgeon, doesn’t it?”
Kyle laughed. He was one year older than Poppy, although at times he seemed much younger. “And there goes mine as an airline pilot,” he said. “Come on, let’s get a move on or we’ll miss the train.”
The train was on time and they had no trouble finding a seat because at that time of night it was half empty.
Dawn was breaking when they pulled in at the station in Skegness. Poppy, who had slept for most of the journey, was now wide awake and alert, ready for whatever the day ahead held for them.
“Well, we’ve arrived, so what do we do now? Most of the shops will be closed this time of the day,” she reminded.
“There’ll be a shop open somewhere, where we can get a bite to eat,” returned Kyle optimistically.
He was right; more than a couple were already open and ready for business on the seafront. “Look we’re spoilt for choice,” he said choosing one advertising All Day Breakfasts.
The food was good and reasonably priced. The owner of the café, a rotund man, who looked to be in his late sixties, walked over to their table when they had finished eating and stood arms folded, looking down at them.
“You kids here on holiday?” he asked, “or just on a day trip?”
“Working holiday,” said Kyle jumping in before Poppy had time to say anything.
“Where are you staying?” Was his next question.
“Haven’t decided yet,” returned Kyle. “Was thinking of finding a caravan camping site, asking if they had any two-berth vans to let for the season.”
The older man stood, stroking his chin and thinking. “And you say you are looking for work?
Kyle nodded.
“Well, I think I might be able to help you. I have a two-berth caravan parked out back, and if this young lady,” he nodded toward Poppy, “isn’t afraid of a bit of hard work, I would let you have it rent free.”
Poppy was all ears. “What sort of hard work?” she asked.
“The wife’s been looking for some extra help for over the lunch time period, it gets very busy at the height of the season,” he said. “A few of hours a day, let’s say from eleven thirty to two thirty in exchange for living rent free in my old van. What do you say?” He held his hand out, and Poppy took it.
About the Author:
Violetta Antcliff has been a member of the Nottingham Writers’ Club for the best part of twenty years. A winner of numerous short story competitions, her work was area short listed in Waterstone’s Wow Factor story competition. Took first prize in Nottingham County Council short story competition with a story called “Irish Mouse Tales,” which was published by Gypsy Shadow Publishing as an eBook in July of 2012. “A Shot in the Dark” is Violetta’s 37th eBook with Gypsy Shadow since 2009 and follows “The Left Hander,” “A Silent Scream,” “The Rough Sleeper,” “The Odd Claims of Lizzy Croft,” “A Shot in the Dark,” and the latest installment in the Jason Foster Series, “Jason’s Teen Years.” She has had her poetry and short stories read on local radio.
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The Lady in the Loch by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Also available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon and dozens of other online vendors.
Basically the same story with a brand new look, Cover Art by Karen Gillmore.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Skillfully cross-stitching history, mystery and old-time urban legend… tension mounts steadily . … an artful work. —Publisher’s Weekly The Lady in the Loch by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
When a woman’s bones are found in the icy dregs of the noxious Nor’ Loch, newly appointed sheriff of Edinburgh, Walter Scott, is called upon. Are these the remains of a drowned witch or religious heretic, or are they perhaps linked to something more recent and sinister? For although Edinburgh is known to be the center of literature, science, and medicine, it is also the haunt of body snatchers who prey upon the living and the dead alike, selling their victims for study by the student physicians at the medical school.
When a band of Travelling People is forced to winter near the city, two young women are taken, one from her bed while she sleeps near her family. Justice from the settled people is rarely accorded to gypsies and the Travellers fear they will be murdered one by one by the ghouls stalking their people.
A young gypsy named Midge Margret is sure that Scott will care. He befriended her family before and once more he promises to help find the murderer who prowls the snowy forest in a black coach. When a patchwork woman with supernatural strength begins hunting the streets as well, Scott and Midge Margret know the crimes are rooted in bloody dark magic. In order to catch the killer, the butchered victims themselves must testify.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough was born in Kansas City, KS. She served as a nurse in the U.S. Army for five years, including a year in Viet Nam. Her interests include weaving and spinning, beading and playing the guitar and dulcimer.
Scarborough is the author of more than 24 solo fantasy and science fiction novels, including the 1989 Nebula award winning Healer’s War, loosely based on her service as an Army Nurse in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. She collaborated on 16 novels with Anne McCaffrey, six in the bestselling Petaybee series and eight in the YA bestselling Acorna series, and most recently, the Tales of the Barque Cat series, Catalyst and Catacombs (from Del Rey). Recently she has converted all of her previously published solo novels to eBooks with the assistance of Gypsy Shadow Publishing, under her own Fortune imprint. Spam Vs. the Vampire was her first exclusive novel for eBook and print on demand publication, followed by Father Christmas (a Spam the Cat Christmas novella) and The Tour Bus of Doom.
EXCERPT:
Available soon in PRINT!
The mother of the corpse wore solid black as she danced round and round the room to the lamenting coronach of the pipes. With her danced the father of the corpse, also in black. The attire of both showed signs of having been recently, hastily dyed for the occasion. Phantoms of the plaid fabric swam beneath the dye of the mother’s gown. The mother wept as she danced and the father scowled. The corpse lay in the middle of the room, her claes deid, her funeral garments, concealing the thirty stab wounds in her chest and the dishonor her killer had subjected her body to before she died. All around the coffin, her brothers and sisters-in-law, her sisters and brothers-in-law, her fiance and her grandmother, all of them weeping, shuffled in their own awkward dancing. The neighbors danced and wept as well. And close by the coffin, the bound and gagged tinkler man was weeping too, less for the murdered lassie than for himself, he who was the accused.
The time was one minute until midnight by the grand-father clock standing in the candle-cast shadows draping the walls, festooning the ceiling and carpeting the floors. The flickering of these same candles lent astonishing expressions to the corpse’s face and deepened the dread on the faces of the other celebrants, dancing, singing, eating, drinking, and weeping for the dead lass.
A danse macabre if ever there was one, Walter Scott mused from his chair in the center of the room, close to the girl’s open coffin. Scott was excused from the dancing both because of his semi-official status in the investigation and because of his lame leg. In a way, it was quite thrilling, this lyke-wake, for it was the first he had attended. Lowlanders and Borderers such as himself, people raised in the strictness of the Kirk, did not practice such rituals, but the girl’s family, the MacRitchies, were transplanted Highlanders. So on the one hand, this gave Scott a wonderful opportunity to observe a ritual of which he had previously only read. But on the other hand, there was the girl in the coffin, and though he had never known her, never heard her name, she was touchingly young, younger even than his own eighteen years. She should have been beautiful too, an Ophelia, a Lily Lady of Shalot, but she was actually rather ordinary-looking, robust even in death, the freckles standing out like blemishes on the waxiness of her skin, her eyes, at present, closed with coins, her red hair too festive for her own funeral.
The sheriff-depute of Selkirk, Scott’s old friend Adam Plummer, stood beside him, both of them shivering, for the room was chill for more common reasons than the eldritch atmosphere that gripped it. The fireplace was cold, as it must be until the body was removed, and the door was still wide open for the moment.
As the clock gonged the first of its twelve notes for midnight, the dancing wound to a shuffling halt and the piped lament died a wheezing death. Plummer crossed the makeshift dance floor in two long strides and closed the door so that it was barely ajar. The mourners hushed, except for one man who continued, unheeding, to gnaw on the drumstick of a goose. As Plummer returned to the corpse’s side, the clock struck its second gong. The mother, Mrs. MacRitchie, let loose with her eerie keening cry, the hullulu, as the Irish so accurately termed it, for that was the way it sounded, a long mourning-dove yell.
The MacRitchies’ large, pleasant stone farmhouse was wrapped in the boughs of the Ettrick Forest, and both forest and farmhouse kitchen could be entered from the kitchen door. The house was not too far from that of Scott’s old friend James Hogg, and his mother. Hogg had been with the search party that discovered the lass’s poor body and also with the party that had flushed the tinklers from their camp in the woods and chased the young man through the trees. The murdered girl’s fiance and her brothers had assumed, as had all the neighbors, that the tinkler lad, since he was in the area, was of course the perpetrator of the crime. Had it been left only to them, the young man would by now be hanged. But Hogg, who had some connections with and sympathy for the tinklers, told the accusers that if they proceeded, the current laws of this district would call them murderers as well, that it was best to send for the sheriff-depute and allow him to conduct a proper investigation. Recalcitrant as the younger laddies were, the elder MacRitchies prevailed and allowed Hogg to send a servant with a message to the home of Scott’s aunt Janet in Sandy Knowe. Scott was visiting his aunt and uncle for the summer, far away from his studies at the university in Edinburgh. He and Plummer had been whiling away the early afternoon playing chess when the MacRitchies’ servant knocked on Aunt Janet’s door and told him of the lass’s death (never calling her by name. One never called the deceased by name unless in court or kirk or on one other occasion, as the sheriff was soon to demonstrate). Plummer evidently was acquainted with the family, however, and had some idea that the lyke-wake was in order. He told Scott that this might prove a more interesting experience than most and urged the younger man to accompany him.
Riding hard, they had reached the farmhouse shortly after sunset, when the forest shadows gave way to the mist rising from the creeks and ponds, and that was joined by the smoke from the kitchen chimney, blowing a solemn ring around the house.
Plummer questioned Mrs. MacRitchie, who had laid her daughter out, about the girl’s wounds. Scott was relieved his friend had felt no need to remove the funeral linens to see the wounds for himself, but he wondered why. Plummer questioned the tinkler lad as well, but the man refused to say anything except that he had done nothing wrong, and to shake his head stubbornly. The brothers and the girl’s fiance, one Robert Douglas, the son of an even more successful farmer than the girl’s father, wanted to “bate the truth oot o’ the knacker,” and in fact, it looked as if they had already made progress toward that goal before Plummer and Scott arrived. Hogg too bore a couple of visible bruises, although no apparent malice toward those who had inflicted them.
The clock gonged for the fourth time. Plummer began, “By the power vested in me by the Sheriff of Selkirk and through him the King, I will noo commence interrogatin’ the victim of this heinous crime.”
“What does he mean, interrogate the victim?” Scott asked Hogg, who had drawn near.
Hogg shrugged. “Used to be done whenever there was foul play, according to Mither,” he whispered back. “Nowadays nane but the law know the way.”
“Why’s that?” Scott asked, but just then, one of the men screamed.
“No! Let her rest in peace! We hae Ma—my bride-to-be’s murderer there. We should hang him and be done wi’ it!”
“Haud yer tongue, man,” Plummer commanded. “Let nane speak but her whose foremost business it is, the last witness to this crime. In the pursuit of this investigation, once more I invoke thy name, Mary MacRitchie,” he said, in appropriately sonorous tones. “Rise up, lass, and accuse thy slayer.”
Though he had never seen such a thing before, Scott had read of the dead accusing their slayers, but had thought it only superstition. He, with the other occupants of the room, held his breath, waiting, to see what would happen, what, if the victim indeed rose up, she would say.
Even the gnawer of the goose bone had finished all the flesh and, putting away his bone, realized that the room was now completely still except for his ever-more-cautious chewing and the echo of Plummer’s invocation, and the heartbeats and expirations of all of those who were not now allowed to speak. The first sound other than those was a slight slipping, like jewels against a lady’s velvet dress, and then a hollow clink as the coins fell from the girl’s eyes and dropped into her coffin as if it were a wishing well.
Even the tinkler was still, as with a sussuration of the claes deid and a long, pain-wracked groan, the body raised itself, hands still bound across its chest, to a sitting position.
With the raising, Scott caught the stench of corruption emanating from her, washed and freshly dressed as she was. On such a warm summer day as this had been, her body had already begun to decay.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Kari and Fai, wandering teenage sorcerers and lovers whose spells occasionally work, just want to relax in the city of Jayen—only it’s vanished. Things just get weirder when they learn from a child goddess that the city’s been catapulted thousands of years into the future, and they need to follow it with her to avert disaster.
But the future is more terrifying than they expect—a dystopian technological nightmare, where a crack in reality is keeping two versions of the city trapped. To save Jayen (and maybe the world) Kari and Fai must venture into the Crack and confront the mysterious Dweller within.
Word Count: 26500
Also Available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other vendors worldwide!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nyki Blatchley is a British author, poet and copywriter who lives just outside London. Alongside a varied career that’s involved selling books to royalty, care for disabled people and posing for artists, he’s had about seventy stories published by, among others, Penumbra, Daily Science Fiction and The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories. His novel At An Uncertain Hour was published by StoneGarden, and he’s had novellas out from Musa Publishing and Fox & Raven.
Nyki is an administrator for the online fantasy writers’ group Fantasy-writers.org. He’s also had numerous poems published and has performed poetry and music at various venues around London. This included frequent appearances at the legendary coffee-house Bunjies, which in the 60s hosted artists such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and David Bowie.
WEBSITE: http://www.nykiblatchley.co.uk
BLOG: https://nyki-blatchley.blogspot.com
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/NykiBlatchley
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/nyki.blatchley
EXCERPT:
I
“So,” demanded Karaghr, gazing around the unbroken jungle, “where exactly is this city?”
Failiu raised her eyebrows at him, jerking her head suggestively at their guide. Her face looked torn between anger and tears, and he reached out a comforting hand to her. She’d been looking forward to reaching the city of Jayen and its comforts even more than he had.
Da-Zheng, the guide who’d brought them all the way up the river, stood staring around. Had the man brought them to the middle of nowhere deliberately, for some nefarious purpose? It seemed unlikely, from what Kari had seen during the journey of the stolid, reliable man, but he put his hand on his knife-hilt, just in case.
“I don’t understand it.” Da-Zheng turned to them, his pale face even more blanched than usual. “This is the place. Jayen should be here.”
“But it’s not, is it?” snapped Fai. “You’ve brought us the wrong way.”
“No.” The Thaal guide shook his head, his eyes stunned. “It’s all as it should be. The bend in the river. The ridge we crossed two hours back. Anyway, we followed the road.”
That was true. The paved road was clear enough that Kari had wondered occasionally why they needed a guide, although Da-Zheng had been valuable in steering them through the customs of remote villages.
“Could it be a different road?” he suggested. There must be a simple explanation.
“I know the road to Jayen. There isn’t a route in these parts I don’t know.” From anyone else, the retort might have been angry, but Da-Zheng seemed to have no temper to lose. He made a broad gesture to indicate trees, undergrowth, the riverbank a few hundred paces away, the three of them standing in the steamy heat still rising from the last downpour. From a distance came an animal cry that Kari didn’t recognise. “Here,” the guide insisted in his slow voice. “This should be the south gate.”
Kari pulled Fai closer to himself, taking comfort by giving it. “So what are you saying? That an entire city has vanished, and the ground taken back by the jungle since you were last here? Just how long ago was that?”
“Last summer.” Da-Zheng was wandering around the immediate vicinity now, as if the buildings might be hidden behind one of the trees. “It was a thriving city last summer, and I’ve heard no news of disaster. In any case, what about that merchant? He’d been in Jayen, hadn’t he?”
That was true, and Kari cursed himself silently for forgetting it. The merchant they’d passed on the road five days ago was effusive about the prices he’d got for his goods in the city’s many markets and the rare commodities from the north that would make him even more when he returned to the coast.
That was Jayen’s importance, as a meeting-point for the road and river trade that came from both north and south of the great forests dividing the Thaal kingdoms in half. In spite of its remoteness, trade made it a rich and luxurious city, everyone said.
Fai trembled, and she was as pale as her dusky Errishi complexion would allow, but she let Kari help her shuck her pack before collapsing to sit on it. He joined her, holding her hand. A speckled snake, longer than he was tall, slithered along a branch high above, but took no notice. It was of a type Da-Zheng said wouldn’t attack humans unless it felt threatened.
It had seemed such a good idea to go on a trek through the jungle to find the city of Jayen. The Lost City, Failiu insisted on calling it, though it was nothing of the kind, and the trek was a stroll along a good road. Still, finding lost cities was what you did when you were teenage outlaw sorcerers, and that’s what they’d been since they were kicked out of the temple in Errish for studying forbidden volumes. It was an adventure.
Da-Zheng still wandered about, looking stunned. “It doesn’t make sense,” he muttered.
“All right.” Kari felt he should be positive for Fai’s sake. “Could you be mistaken? I mean, the jungle’s confusing. I know you know it, and there’s the road, but is it possible… I don’t know, there’s another bend in the river and another ridge just like the ones you know? Or… something?”
The guide looked at them blankly. He was an emotionless, middle-aged man who hadn’t seemed flustered by anything that had happened on the journey—not even when his young charges had wandered away for an exuberant lovemaking session and got lost—which made his attitude now more frightening.
“No. No, there’s no chance I’m wrong. This is where Jayen should be.”
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EBOOKS and SOME PRINT BOOKS: Oldest First…
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Jason’s Teen Years by Violetta Antcliff, Released March 6, 2019
Jason finds being a teenager is something not to be taken lightly. Jason Foster’s teen years are a roller coaster of rip-roaring adventures. BOOK 7 in The Adventures of Jason Foster series.
Ti, Au79 by S. R. Jaborsky, Released March 29, 2019
Seron Ti once again returns to Earth to battle aggression and confront emotions within her own heart. BOOK 3 in the Seron Ti series. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
The Definitive Biography of Saint Arborius of Glossopdale and his Thin Dog by Mark P. Henderson (AKA A Learned Scholar), Released April 2, 2019
Did this fictitious saint in Dark Age England really work miracles—or was it his guardian spirit, a foul-mouthed thin dog?
A Silent Scream by Violetta Antcliff, Released April 8, 2019
Lied to, abused, stabbed in the back by her supposed best friend. Will Kelly find the rainbow she is seeking, or is that too much to ask?
The Hound in the Heather by C.J. Heckman, Released May 17, 2019
Eamon is called forth to slay the fearsome beast that killed his brother. To succeed, he must face the guilt that has long haunted him.
The Empty Houses by John Paulits, Released July 15, 2019
Can Dougie and Gwen find out who pushed Curly to his death from a second floor porch? With Curly’s ghostly help, they plan to try. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
G. Baxter & Flint CASE: The Tangled Web by Violetta Antcliff, Released September 16, 2019
Can G. Baxter and Flint, private investigators, sort out this Tangled Web to the satisfaction of both parties? Or is this just one case too many for our dynamic duo? BOOK 2 in the G. Baxter and Flint detective series.
After 25,000 Masses by Joe Novara, Released September 23, 2019
A seventy-two-year-old priest decides to leave more than his parish when he retires. A woman who admired him as her high school chaplain opens him to loving one person after a lifetime of loving everyone.
The Godmother by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Released October 31, 2019
Elizabeth Ann Scarborough’s The Godmother puts a new twist on contemporary fantasy with the assertion that fairy godmothers exist here and now, and they have magical power that allows them to intervene in real-world problems. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
Scarborough Fair by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Released October 31, 2019
Scarborough Fair and Other Stories includes ten works by the author of the Nebula Award–winning The Healer’s War and many other novels. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
Song of Sorcery by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Released October 31, 2010
A portentous song sparks an unlikely adventure in this lighthearted contemporary fantasy by the Nebula Award–winning author of The Healer’s War. BOOK 1 of Songs from the Seashell Archives. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
G. Baxter & Flint CASE: Crossbreed Versus Pedigree by Violetta Antcliff, Released November 5, 2019
A wet nose, wagging tail, man’s best friend, regardless of pedigree… what more could one ask for? BOOK 3 in the G. Baxter and Flint detective series.
Songs from the Seashell Archives by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Released December 2, 2019
Magic, Dragons, Unicorns, Dastardly villains and more! Songs from the Seashell Archives is a six book collection of some of the finest fantasy writing you’ll ever read. Together as one set for a limited time only at this special price. Don’t miss the chance to grab this collection at a great discount.
G. Baxter & Flint CASE: The Left Hander by Violetta Antcliff, Released February 22, 2020
This is a case of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. BOOK 4 in the G. Baxter and Flint detective series.
The Ascender by Tracey Pacelli, Released March 11, 2020
What if a 12 year-old boy is the personal target of The Mandela Effect, an energy wave that frequently attacks, erasing pieces of Billy’s past and inserting new details into his life script? BOOK 1 in The Ascender Series. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
The Victims of Innocence by Chet Pleban, Released March 20, 2020
When a man convicted of rape, after spending seventeen years in prison, seeks a DNA test to prove his innocence, evidence of prosecutorial, judicial and political corruption surfaces. BOOK 3 in the Felbin Legal Dramas. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
The Rough Sleeper by Violetta Antcliff, Released April 20, 2020
Not all rough sleepers are alcoholics, as Darren is to find out for himself.
Return to Zoron by John Paulits, Released May 7, 2020
A distant planet… A transporter beam called the Tappa Ray… Adventure and Danger await! Princess Zayla summons Mark Foy back to Zoron to keep her from being bored, not knowing she is about to get both of them into a mountain of trouble. BOOK 3 in the Planet Zoron Trilogy, which is also available in PRINT!
The Goshmen by John Paulits, Released May 14, 2020
Paul, Billy, and Argo encounter the Goshmen, a strange people forgotten in time, who hold a secret Shumbus has been searching for. They learn the secret, but can they escape the Goshmen and return home with the news? BOOK 3 in The Golden Mushroom Trilogy, which is also available in PRINT!
American Pig Dogs by Joseph Hirsch, Released May 22, 2020
It’s the 80s and the Cold War is at full freeze, and that freeze is pretty literal for Corporal Chris Talworth and his two friends, Private Legg and Specialist Jablonski.
Kill Zone by Damir Salkovic, Released May 22, 2020
Frank Clayton has lost everything dear to him to powerful corporate interests. Forced to join a murderous reality show, he discovers he still has revenge to live for. ALSO AVAILABLE IN PRINT!
G. Baxter & Flint CASE: The Odd Claims of Lizzy Croft by Violetta Antcliff, Released June 24, 2020
Mad, devious, or an accomplished liar? Which of these can Mrs. Croft be? Number 5 in The G. Baxter and Flint detective series.
A Shot in the Dark by Violetta Antcliff, Released August 10, 2020
When Kate Grant bid for a house unseen at the auction, did she get a bargain or more than she bargained for?
Star Dancer by Tom Olbert, Released August 10, 2020!
In a dark interplanetary future… Sabine DeGuerra, an exotic and deadly concubine, risks her life on a desperate mission of rescue.
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http://www.gypsyshadow.com/StevenSouthard.html#LeonardoIn 1515, Leonardo da Vinci built a mechanical lion to entertain the King of France. The fate of that strange clockwork creation, and its real purpose, have remained unknown . . . until now. Leonardo’s Lion, a short story by Steven R. Southard. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
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Today on the GSP Legends Promo we welcome back Steven R Southard. His book we are highlighting to day is Leonardo’s Lion.
In 1515, Leonardo da Vinci built a mechanical lion to entertain King Francis I of France and his guests. Until now, no one knows what happened to this amazing clockwork creation. Over half a century later, when a ten year old boy discovers the lion in a royal storeroom, young Chev doesn’t know he will soon embark on a strange and dangerous mission. His quest will lead him many leagues through a French countryside devastated by religious war in search of Leonardo’s greatest secrets of all, hidden mysteries that could affect the future of all humanity.
Excerpt:
With his good hand, Chev opened the door, eased through it, and stood with his back against the oak portal, panting.
“Mon Dieu!” An old man looked up from his desk…
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