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A symbol of rebirth. Renewal. Always reduced to ashes, but perpetually returning to splendor. Purified. And then there was Kell. Kell. The young boy they called the “Little Phoenix.” Lone survivor of the Cocoon Man – kidnapper, child molester, murderer. Great things were expected of Kell – he was a survivor. But he let everyone down. Family. Friends. Himself. He knew their expectations were misplaced – they didn’t know the truth. He was supposed to be the dead one – but someone else was dead in his place. Because of him. His fault. Kell. The twenty-something street hustler. Fleeing from his past – himself. Indebted to his pimp. Suffering in the freezing cold of a bus stop to meet his weekly obligation. A car. A customer. Warmth. Safety. Illusion. Kidnapped. Tortured. A hell re-lived at the hands of a mysterious man and woman – twisted, sadistic. Deadly. Kell will soon learn that you can’t run from your past – that it is always faster than you can flee. And when it catches you, you have two choices: learn or die from it. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/join daily 0.75 2022-03-03 https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/michael-maryk daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/174d492b-3acf-4fd9-a921-bf4a74906b42/MarykPhoto+Retouched.jpg Michael Maryk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/82cd46f4-1487-4853-b352-9b02645fbdc6/SunpathF+Small.jpg Michael Maryk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/highspeed-shudder daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646444044927-U7QTSO7DN1BUK22C3O9R/Shudder.png High-Speed Shudder - High-Speed Shudder Brent Monahan "...the most accomplished of liars always sew in rags of real life to make the patchwork quilt of their fantastic tales look all the more true." - From HIGH-SPEED SHUDDER The fear of the dark is the fear of the unknown. 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The Russian Army has invaded its long-time foe, Finland, while pursuing the German troops fleeing from Hitler’s self-destructive attack on Russia. Aimo Kekkenen and the children of his village are put on a train for Nilstad, Sweden – and safety. But not for all. Aimo’s sister finds a warm, loving home with Constable Sten Valheen and his family; but Aimo is taken in by the Blixdals: the Reverend Björn, a sadistic, egomaniacal collaborator; and his desperate, loveless and childless wife, Karen. And the remaining refugee children who are not taken in find themselves trapped in the hell of the town orphanage. The question isn't whether Finland will survive to welcome home its lost sons and daughters – but whether its sons and daughters will survive to return home. In Sunpath: The War Orphan Train, Aimo, his sister, cousin and best friend are torn from their idyllic lives in the countryside of Finland and thrust into a maelstrom. They are the Finska Krigsbarn (Finnish War Children): the estimated 70-80,000 children evacuated to neighboring Scandinavian countries, mostly to Sweden, throughout World War II. At war’s end, over 15,000 evacuees never returned home – and of those who did, most did so to parentless lives. Based on author Michael Maryk's interviews with survivors and local research, Sunpath is, at its heart, an examination of the good and bad in all people and the too-soon shattering of childhood innocence – a theme sadly familiar in our world today. 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Ranson Janiss Connelly is still getting her fangs wet as the director of the Cedarcrest Sanctum when new vampires begin to appear - and someone seems hell bent on killing them. Before she can uncover the mystery behind who is doing the creating - and the destroying - Janiss must first confront and resolve the lingering issues of her former life. What happens next sets Janiss' past and present on a collision course that may very well determine the course of her future - and her soul - and puts the Cedarcrest Sanctum in the center of a battle of the undead from which no one may walk away. Once again, Kevin Ranson has created unforgettable - and unforgivable - people whose power no reader can resist. Ranson's authorial command is evident in his tightly woven plot, into which he masterfully entangles Janiss and her Cedarcrest team - and new friends and enemies. The Matriarch: Guardians is a worthy sequel to The Matriarch - and a reading experience not to be missed. Ranson truly has staked out new vampiric territory with his ongoing Cedarcrest saga. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/the-blood-of-the-covenant daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/7f089ee9-d4a2-4fcb-b0ca-3aca68d430d0/Covenant.png The Blood of the Covenant - The Blood of the Covenant Brent Monahan As if performing an art restoration of a timeless masterpiece, Brent Monahan reveals the true image of the vampire trapped hidden beneath the layers of myth applied by man. Rare books curator Simon Penn has learned the sinister truth hidden within the ancient scrolls fate has placed in his care. He has seen it in the vampire Vincent DeVilbiss - and in the woman he loves, Frederika Vanderveen. But DeVilbiss was merely the herald of Hell's most terrible vampiric emissary - one who will stalk them and the scrolls to the ends of the earth and back to Princeton University for a final confrontation - to ensure that the world is plunged into an unending nightmare of blood. In Monahan's able hands, the vampire transcends past legendary conceptions and modern pop-culture interpretations to become something more...human. Not confined to the night, to mindless bloodlust, to destruction - not even bound by immortality and eternal agelessness. Thoughtful. Charming. Cultured. And flawed. Driven by very human desires and hungers: the lust for power, for pleasure, for freedom - and, after nearly five centuries of servitude to the dark powers, for redemption. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/kevin-ranson daily 0.75 2022-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/7ec3d102-c9e6-4d20-a57b-2a0616d0ca6a/oei59q0fchal8d2rr6hkod835c._SX450_.jpg Kevin Ranson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/51591b45-80c4-41a4-b635-1d42368606e5/Matriarch+Changeling.png Kevin Ranson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/b4b25e8d-7094-4eee-897b-4a8622d6a594/Matriarch.jpg Kevin Ranson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/0caf3adb-f3b3-4816-89db-f12082bd1fba/Matriarch+Guardians.jpg Kevin Ranson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/tainted daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/a6ce0923-fa67-415a-a94e-55f074276aed/Tainted.jpg Tainted - Tainted JD Phillips Being dead is like being born again and again for as long as there are thoughts to occupy...but what if your thoughts are…TAINTED? Nefarious – fronted by the charismatic, but troubled, Mai Evans – is poised for stardom when fate puts amateur guitarist Blue on the center stage. What follows is a fast lane to success - and an even faster downward spiral of drugs and sex…love and jealousy…madness and murder. The end leads back to the beginning – to the pool of Mai's dark creativity…and a curse he believes threatens to destroy everything and everyone he touches. But is the source of evil more mortal – and deadly? The truth awaits in the biggest lie of all. JD Phillips' 2006 breakthrough novel is now available in this exclusive Words Take Flight Books release. Named first runner up in the 2007 Best Books of Indiana Awards, Tainted is a psychological thriller that draws you in to the hard-living - and equally dark and seductive - world of Nefarious. 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Smugglers. Con artists. They played the game without reading or sticking to the rules – and didn’t care who got hurt in the process. Publicly serving as front men for a world Christian relief organization, they were diverting food and medicine to corrupt foreign officials in exchange for "blood emeralds." On a break in London, they opt for a midnight trip in a pre-WWII subway train to visit old Underground site – but their evening jaunt turns into the ultimate "tourist trap." A train wreck leaves Nate and Dan the sole survivors – and somehow transported back to 1940 London at the dawn of the Nazi Blitz. They find themselves trapped in front-row seats to watch what happens to the victims of people like them – people with no regard for the rules or innocent lives. That’s where their perilous adventure in time begins. Saved by those with little to give – and loved by some for whom love was all they had – Nate and Danny’s struggle to escape their time trap turns into a frantic fight to save their lives…and find redemption for their future deeds in the past. Or is it their present? https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/nevermore daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/553668c0-1daa-4f88-a676-8baf3a98fe87/Nevermore.png Nevermore - Nevermore Brent Monahan FACT: In 1849, Allan Pinkerton opened the first detective agency in America, becoming famous for guarding the president and infamous for breaking strikes. FACT: In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, master American author of the macabre, is found incoherent on a bench outside a Baltimore saloon. He died without giving an explanation. WHAT IF: America's first, true detective seeks to solve the mystery of the death of America's creator of the first fictional detective? Only one of history's most famous detectives – Allan Pinkerton – could investigate the death of one of fiction’s most famous writers – Edgar Allan Poe. In this fictional imagining of the events following Poe's death, Allan Pinkerton, a real-life embodiment of the famed writer's C. Auguste Dupin, literature's first detective, embarks on a journey into the life and mind of the author and poet to uncover the secrets of Poe's life and untimely – and mysterious – death.Chasing clues and suspects from city to city, Pinkerton pieces together Poe's last days and learns truths about the author – and himself – that threaten Poe's legacy…and literature as we know it. Solving a crime is easy - exposing the truth is deadly. No facts about Pinkerton or Poe were altered in this work that explores – and reinforces – the historical and lasting legacy of an American literary icon. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/about daily 0.75 2022-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/2cf47880-7943-4b30-ae6e-895123f83806/file0001366323512.jpg ABOUT - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/aa1948dc-714d-4b27-99f3-cb4c94821ed1/c51fa0fdeab5c9ae6daaaa947f7c51fc.jpg ABOUT Array of baked goods falling into basket. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/49e455b5-d9a1-4c15-a3b6-04c1fc961531/Words+Take+Flight+Logo+License+copy.jpg ABOUT Freshly baked bread with ingredients on cutting board. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/mitchell-hyman daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/a4c11c7d-1016-46ab-b9bc-ab80562f1115/author-photo.jpg Mitchell Hyman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/8e9f8dae-8e90-4a01-b018-680f21df62e6/Sarcophagus.jpg Mitchell Hyman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/dr-sarcophagus daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646443558318-FXCU57G1XH8MCKRIE7JF/Sarcophagus.jpg Dr. Sarcophagus and His Carnival of Dark Desires - Dr. Sarcophagus and His Carnival of Dark Desires Mitchell Hyman There was a time when the sound of an approaching carnival signaled a rare chance to see people and things only imagined of in dreams (or nightmares). Dr. Sarcophagus and his Carnival of Dark Desires harkens back to a less informed and jaded era when there was more unknown than known, and the strange and unexpected caused equal measures of fear, fascination and revulsion. The good doctor invites you to meet his very special "family" – all he asks for are an open mind and a few of your coins. And, of course, your willingness to explore your darkest desires. Dr Sarcophagus is pleased to introduce: Raggedy Dan: You don't want this "doll" in your bed But Now I See: Taking things at face value can be deadly The Raven Master: Keep not what does not belong to you Barking Mad: Mind your words before you "speak" The Devil and Dr. Sarcophagus: New Jersey goes to Hell Saving Grace: Hearts can be worn on more than sleeves Ends With "Y": Some questions have no answers An anthology of short stories written by some new names in the horror genre, Dr. Sarcophagus and his Carnival of Dark Desires is set in a traveling sideshow in the early 1930s. Dr. Sarcophagus is the leader of - and father figure for - a strange assortment of individuals (and items) who have found a home - and a family - within the canvas tents. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/poetic-justice daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/25bef158-b832-4ced-b79c-39300543e118/Poetic+Jusice.png Poetic Justice - Poetic Justice Thomas Reeder 1930s BEACH HAVEN, NEW JERSEY Nickname: “Queen City” Size: 2.3 square miles Population: Roughly 700...and shrinking What begins with a bizarre murder – a cross-dressing local’s body found in his house, mutilated and decomposing, with a cryptic bible passage scrawled in blood on the refrigerator – becomes one man’s hunt for the truth in a seemingly bucolic, New Jersey shore town’s hidden maze of lies, hatred, lust and death. In their own, shoddy way, the police had just put to bed – even if it wasn't properly solved – the Schweickert case when a new scandal rocked the town: A series of disappearances of women, tied together with a common thread – each of them was an amateur poetess published in the local newspaper. The patrons of Lewis Porter’s bar – and the police – had their own snide, simplistic theories as to why wives would run off. When a friend of Porter’s wife disappears, she asks him to look into it. What Porter finds looking back is a mystery that leads him through a labyrinth of wrong turns and dead ends – from the beaches to the Pinelands – and to deadlier, darker answers, about the town, its people...and himself. In Thomas Reeder’s expert hands, strand after strand of this intricately woven mystery comes together to create Poetic Justice: a tapestry of sin and suspense that will envelop and keep you breathlessly rapt from beginning to end. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/the-matriarch daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/ec8ff8cd-cf71-4426-9523-72cd8a57c322/Matriarch.jpg The Matriarch - The Matriarch Kevin Ranson Meticulous attention to setting, characters who inspire sympathy and dark attraction, and a unique take on the vampire tradition make Kevin Ranson's novel a must-read addition to the genre. Glenville Normal School - 1919 Sarah Louisa "Sis" Linn, class of 1877, is brutally murdered in her home on the school's campus. No motive or murderer is found. Glenville State College - 2013 Nearly 100 years have passed since Sis Linn's unsolved murder. The school's name has changed, and the story of her death and tales of her apparition have become fodder for frightening incoming freshmen. But a century is merely a moment for a spirit - and less than a blink of an eye for even more sinister entities that endure beyond the grave. Student Janiss Connelly will soon learn that not only are some ghost stories true, but that there are greater things to fear in life - and in death - than ghosts. Kevin Ranson takes Janiss and you on a terrifying journey from the past to the present - and from this side of the grave to the next - to uncover not only the truth behind a century-old murder, but behind the centuries-old legends of the vampire. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/the-book-of-common-dread daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646443646406-H3U7WI84QQW1SPO9UB2D/Common+Dread.png The Book of Common Dread - The Book of Common Dread Brent Monahan As if performing an art restoration of a timeless masterpiece, Brent Monahan reveals the true image of the vampire trapped hidden beneath the layers of myth applied by man. Vampire Vincent DeVilbiss's existence is part infernal bargain - and lie. And only the Scrolls of Ahriman, safely hidden in the fortress that is Princeton University's Firestone Library, stand in the way of his finding infernal - and eternal - salvation. But he does not count on his passion for a woman - or the man who becomes his rival for her - to become even more dangerous or insurmountable obstacles to his goals than a sophisticated security system or his satanic master. In Monahan's able hands, the vampire transcends past legendary conceptions and modern pop-culture interpretations to become something more...human. Not confined to the night, to mindless bloodlust, to destruction - not even bound by immortality and eternal agelessness. Thoughtful. Charming. Cultured. And flawed. Driven by very human desires and hungers: the lust for power, for pleasure, for freedom - and, after nearly five centuries of servitude to the dark powers, for redemption. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/stained-glass-windows daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/509d5771-60f7-4ef0-8204-9377303417e7/SGW+6+Small.jpg Stained Glass Windows - Stained Glass Windows Robert Zappalorti In January 1990, two Staten Island men, Michael Taylor and Philip Sarlo, brutally murdered Jimmy Zappalorti – not for money, not for revenge, but out of prejudice and hatred: Jimmy was a gay man. Beaten. Stabbed. His body thrown in the Arthur Kill to hide the crime. But Jimmy was found – and humanity rallied around the inhumanity. Taylor and Sarlo tried to silence Jimmy for being gay – but they only succeeded in giving a voice to change. Jimmy's killing fanned a firestorm of outrage among citizens groups, politicians and the LGBT community that led to the signing on July 10, 2000, of The New York State Hate Crimes Bill – the first of its kind in the state. Stained Glass Windows chronicles Jimmy’s life, death and its aftermath, from his youth in a loving, fiercely religious family, through his recognition of his homosexuality in the US Navy and the subsequent heinous physical assault on him and his partner, and shipmate, in Vietnam. After being medically discharged, Jimmy returned home bearing his invisible physical and psychological scars – and the ongoing conflict between his homosexuality and his Catholic parents and upbringing would pick at those never-healing wounds. But for all of his struggles, for the rest of his all-too-brief life, Jimmy was known as a peaceful, loving man who simply wanted to “be” – to live in his “beach house” by the Arthur Kill, spend time with friends and family, and play the piano. And it is this that makes the timing of the publication of Stained Glass Windows even more crucial. In October 2014, one of the two men, Michael Taylor, serving prison time for Jimmy’s murder is due for parole – Philip Sarlo died in prison in 1997. Said Mr. Zappalorti, “It is appropriate that one month before he has the chance to be freed from a life sentence that the world should hear the story of the man whose life he callously took – Jimmy Zappalorti – and that of the family he devastated by a son’s and brother’s murder.” Mr. Zappalorti tells Jimmy’s story in his own voice: that of a brother who was Jimmy’s protector in life and champion after his death, whose efforts continue to keep Jimmy’s legacy alive to help maintain the fight for LGBT rights through the New York City-based, not-for-profit organization The Zappalorti Society. Founded by Robert “Bert” Coffman, it is an active group of LGBT psychiatric survivors organized for peer support, self-help and mental health advocacy. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/brent-monahan daily 0.75 2022-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/665386d1-ef4b-4ef2-8d72-916e2ee436b2/Brent+M+Headshot.jpg Brent Monahan - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646443646406-H3U7WI84QQW1SPO9UB2D/Common+Dread.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/785e9744-de54-4c44-bad9-3571e87bbc6b/Stout+Stick.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646444326444-LITF0GMANRJR0MGZ7IBQ/Neighbor.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/553668c0-1daa-4f88-a676-8baf3a98fe87/Nevermore.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646444999975-IFSMY9DH5MSHHQOO1U5U/Time+Step.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/7f089ee9-d4a2-4fcb-b0ca-3aca68d430d0/Covenant.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646444044927-U7QTSO7DN1BUK22C3O9R/Shudder.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646444197611-FNJX0AIIOIPQUXMHPXQS/Illusion.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/8c18a151-7264-47e9-b90f-e8e089984fee/Escaping+Berlin+Front+Cover.jpg https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/the-stout-stick daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/785e9744-de54-4c44-bad9-3571e87bbc6b/Stout+Stick.png The Stout Stick - The Stout Stick Brent Monahan "I want to do something to effect change. I want to make the callous two percent who control the country personally feel the consequences of illegal gun sales, assault rifles, thirty-round clips filled with cop-killer bullets." - From THE STOUT STICK Powerful D.C. politicians are being removed from office by something other than elections – execution-style killings for which FBI Special Agent Nick Nettles is under pressure to find answers and suspects. That's when a weapons smuggling investigation drops Nick in the middle of an international scheme to expand gun distribution, block tighter U.S. gun laws and manipulate the public conversation on Second Amendment rights. For Nick, a lawman and gun-control advocate, uncovering the truth is personal – and could destroy his career and rock the nation, from the heights of government and industry to every citizen. But he isn't alone – someone else has bought into the high-stakes game and is going all-in to run guns off the table. Who will win when Death calls? HELP TO UN-WRITE THE STOUT STICK. ENSURE THAT THE LIST OF GUN ATROCITIES LISTED IN ITS APPENDIX STOPS GROWING. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN THE FIGHT TO EFFECT SANE GUN LAWS. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/the-matriarch-changeling daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/b49aa03a-a05b-44ca-ab82-cdbbbcc45991/Changeling.png The Matriarch Changeling - The Matriarch: Changeling Kevin Ranson "Throughout American history, every major conflict has been due to either a misunderstanding between parties or a failure to live up to a promise – and needless bloodshed was always the result." - From The Matriarch: Changeling And bloodshed was something with which Janiss Connelly was all too familiar, either by her own or someone else's hand. Friends. Lovers. Enemies. But as the administrator of Cedarcrest Sanctum, it was a necessary evil: keeping the facility's residents safe – and, thanks to infusions of her vampiric blood, alive – was both her responsibility and mission. It is a mission that is jeopardized by a very old – and private – vampire living and working as a college professor in Charleston, West Virginia. Janiss visits to determine her undead "neighbor's" true intentions, only to find that she and Cedarcrest are on the professor's "syllabus." Left with no choice, the administrator must become the student and ask her own hated teacher for the deadly tutelage she needs to rescue the Sanctum. In The Matriarch: Changeling, Janiss will learn that friends and enemies are never who they seem to be – a lesson that must be paid in blood. Kevin Ranson continues to paint layer after layer of nuanced suspense, mystery and horror onto the canvas of his Matriarchseries. With each keystroke, he makes his characters deeper and more nuanced, and, in turn, them - their pasts, presents and futures - more real. Interweaving historical fact and fiction, his landscape is smart, rich and, combined with Janiss and the friends and foes of Cedarcrest, makes The Matriarch: Changeling a worthy penultimate chapter in this groundbreaking vampire saga. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/illusion daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646444197611-FNJX0AIIOIPQUXMHPXQS/Illusion.png Illusion - Illusion Brent Monahan "I perform the seemingly impossible because I have practiced long and hard. There is no such thing as magic.” - From Illusion So spoke Frank Spiegel, “Master of Illusion,” in a shop that shouldn’t have existed in a deserted, desert town in Middle of Nowhere, New Mexico – a missed turn on his way to the Big Time. Frank knew that his witty stage presence and simple, but elegant, tricks weren’t going to get him to the top. He needed something special – and found it in GAMES AND MAGIC: an Egyptian sarcophagus that the shopkeeper assured him possessed real magic. His troupe – Sonder, the equipment manager; Dexter, the prop master, driver and mechanic; Bess, Frank’s assistant and the troupe’s “mother” – traveled as a family, all willing to give up their lives for Frank’s dream…and the chance to escape their pasts. Now, they were asked by the shopkeeper to part with “their most precious illusion” to help fulfill that dream. They would learn that magic was very real – and that the illusion that each of them most prized was that they had nothing to lose. And on New Year’s Eve, the sarcophagus would prove that they were wrong. Dead wrong. Once again, Brent Monahan succeeds in creating believable characters and weaving their lives into a tightly woven story that doesn’t give up its final secrets until the ball drops on New Year’s Eve. In Illusion, he will take you from this world to the next – and to what lies in between – in a supernatural tale that blurs the lines between magic and illusion, and reminds us all of the bonds that unite family and friends. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/robert-zappalorti daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/509d5771-60f7-4ef0-8204-9377303417e7/SGW+6+Small.jpg Robert Zappalorti - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/maryanne-kane daily 0.75 2024-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/c1b526c5-720d-4360-b17c-2dc4ff71e30c/Maryanne+Kane.jpg Maryanne Kane - Make it stand out Dr. Kane and her mother https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/f68047a4-7299-4ec3-a27d-b228b3aad2fe/Yellow+Butterflies+FC.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/292ad955-5bad-4382-b664-ce643a875dec/Tattletales.jpg https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/love-my-neighbor daily 0.75 2022-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646444326444-LITF0GMANRJR0MGZ7IBQ/Neighbor.png Love, My Neighbor - Love, My Neighbor Brent Monahan The place where we lose our faith is often where we find it again – and with it, we find the most important faith of all. Many of the "good" people of Skytop Road in Bunhouse, New Jersey, thought that goodness and faith were measured in kilowatt hours. Every Christmas, the neighborhood "Illumination Mafia" poured their hearts and wallets into garish displays that earned them newspaper notices. New and mysterious neighbor Ernest Love refuses to play in their reindeer games – and his "Xmas Canceled This Year" display, highlighted by a dead deer, lands him in court and then at the local church for community service. Yet there is more to Mr. Love than meets the eye – and through him the residents of Skytop Road come to see that their cold Christmas lights are blinding them to the true warmth and meaning of not just the holiday, but of faith itself. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/escaping-berlin daily 0.75 2022-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/4205fac2-cb67-4136-ae83-5f900e38cba3/Escaping+Berlin+D5a.jpg Escaping Berlin - Escaping Berlin Brent Monahan In the waning days of World War II, as Germany’s last fortress, the city of Berlin, prepares to fall, one man survives by following his father’s words: “Stick your neck out for no one. Depend on no one. To survive, you will think only of yourself. You must become absolutely ruthless!” His self-serving quest takes an unexpectedly dangerous turn when his guise as a decorated – and very dead – soldier earns him a detective’s badge with the Kriminalpolizei, or Kripo, Germany’s police force. While trying to mastermind his freedom to the West, he becomes ensnared in a murder investigation that’s one part cat-and-mouse and many parts chess game. It’s a game made more deadly and personal when he finds his most powerful piece in taking down the crime’s king – the queen – in the form of a Jewish woman hiding from the authorities – who just happens to be his childhood sweetheart. As he steals and creates new identities to stay one step ahead of capture and execution, the real mystery he must solve is his own. He can escape Berlin – but can he escape himself? Brent Monahan is at the top of his historical mystery game in Escaping Berlin. He expertly weaves meticulously researched fact, with lead characters based on individuals who lived in World War II Germany, with an intricate web of fiction to create an outstanding, hard-boiled, in-your-head and in-your-face detective story that will keep you guessing until the powerful, inescapable conclusion. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/tattletales-from-school daily 0.75 2022-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1646445014901-H8I7JDZFZLJWV6TFSCND/Tattletales.jpg Tattletales From School - Tattletales From School A Novel of Bullying in the 60s Maryanne J. Kane, PhD Bullying is a sad reality of life that begins all too soon and forever changes the bully and the bullied. In Tattletales From School, Dr. Maryanne Kane tells the story of two, young girls, Annie Fitzgerald - loving and awkward - and Carrie Jacobs - angry and resentful - who are trapped in their own and shared cycles of pain and violence. Dr. Kane sensitively explores - and unflinchingly depicts - Annie’s and Carrie’s experiences, separately and together, to reach the roots of what leads one child to physically, emotionally and psychologically abuse another. Raw and real, it is also a tale of how all of us can find not only the strength to rise above our challenges, but personal forgiveness and redemption, through faith - both in ourselves and something greater. The most important lesson from school for Carrie, Annie and us is that there are no definitive answers to any of our questions - but there is always hope. Read From the Editor’s Desk to learn why all proceeds from the sales of Tattletales From School will be donated to UNICEF’s work in Ukraine https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/jeffrey-stundel daily 0.75 2022-08-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/4b8fe124-b558-47cd-9e52-b701690ea5d8/JMS+WTF+Headshot.jpg Jeffrey Stundel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/8b97bd5f-6aac-47a1-9576-474e35d25cb0/Book+Cover+7.jpg Jeffrey Stundel - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/michael-gavin daily 0.75 2023-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/1338e225-e9dd-4c57-ada3-e3db2c227482/296978010_3402559476692941_7327386978235025877_n.jpg Michael Gavin - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/8b97bd5f-6aac-47a1-9576-474e35d25cb0/Book+Cover+7.jpg Michael Gavin - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.wordstakeflightbooks.net/yellow-butterflies daily 0.75 2024-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/621c122e38f3b16d69ec59eb/f68047a4-7299-4ec3-a27d-b228b3aad2fe/Yellow+Butterflies+FC.png Yellow Butterflies - Yellow Butterflies Maryanne J. Kane, PhD “At school, I learned that cruelty and kindness can’t coexist without one devouring the other.” Theresa O’Mara’s precocious first-day observation proved a grim foreshadowing. Cruelty and kindness were the bookends of her life in the Irish countryside of the 1920s – and beyond. Though her mother died in childbirth and her father descended into heartbreak and madness, she was sheltered by her brothers’ unwavering love. Bullying at school was tempered by friendship and a passion for learning fanned by the nuns who taught her. But an equally horrifying accident and flight to America to avoid punishment left Theresa without a lifeline of hope – or faith. Yellow Butterflies follows Theresa from innocent child in Ireland to reluctant pre-postulant and disillusioned nun hiding in an American convent – with cruelty and kindness fighting to consume themselves - and her. Will Theresa’s journey into the darkness of life – and her own soul – end in tragedy or redemption? The answer is a tale of embracing guilt to find acceptance – and escaping self-hate to reclaim self-love. Proceeds from the sale of Yellow Butterflies go to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. IndieReader GivesYellow Butterflies4.5 Stars “Author Maryanne J. Kane combines humor with the right amount of pathos inYELLOW BUTTERFLIES, a moving meditation on faith, family, and redemption.”