Apparently I didn’t kill my rose bush last winter when I ripped it out of it’s pot savagely and shoved it in the ground. My theory is if the plant can’t live through my brutal replanting methods, it won’t make it through my daily neglectful ways. This little beauty seems to be thriving though. Any minute now it will explode with color.

EXOTIQA (YA Robot Cyberpunk Dystopia) (Divergent meets Freelancer) (EXOTIQA WORLD Book 1)
by M Black
4.6 Stars (28 Reviews)
Genre: Science Fiction | Teen & Young Adult

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Elon Musk announced the NUERAL LACE, a real life interface for the brain, designed by Telsa and SpaceX. My book was written in 2015, released in 2017. My interface is the SLAB. EXOTIQA is the program downloaded into the SLAB. Real life and my fiction are eerily similar!

When the nation is controlled by a popular online program, those that deviate risk their lives. But that never stopped Fione.

Read the second release by author M. Black, which fans of Divergent, Freelancer, iRobot,and The Glitch will enjoy. Filled with haunting questions of consciousness and artificial intelligence, identity and self-awareness, politics and love, life and death, the reader will be engaged in an entertaining story filled with futuristic technology.

Set in the cyberpunk year 2055 in British Columbia, Canada, where humans are part robotic and robots are becoming more humanlike, the line dividing the two is becoming less clear.

When sixteen-year-old Fione meets Maci, a twenty-one-year-old Flexbot who escapes from ImaTech located along the crust of the Coast Mountains, Fione’s life is taken on a roller-coaster ride of events that begins with trying to save Maci from ImaTech Corporation and ends with trying to save the country.

With Fione’s best friend and love interest, a Flexbot named Pix, Fione and Maci must come face-to-face with the greatest dangers their country has ever seen and learn the disturbing secrets of the popular online program Exotiqa — which her friends, family, and most of the country has downloaded onto their Cerebral Slabs. This won’t be easy, since Maci’s only love and greatest enemy, nicknamed Thirty, is tracking her every move.

Fans of Divergent, Freelancer, iRobot, The Glitch, Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), artificial intelligence, robotics, and futuristic technology will enjoy this YA Robot Cyberpunk Dystopian about two young, but strong female heroines who must save the fragile system crumbling around them.

Flexbot dialogue is told in Synchro Let text in print (10 font size in ebook), and human dialogue is told in Baskerville text (12 font size).

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Death or Bounty (McBain Series Book 1)
by I. J. Parnham
4.5 Stars (11 Reviews)
Genre: Action & Adventure | Westerns | Classics

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Spenser O’Connor’s luck has finally run out. After years of riding with Kirk Morton’s outlaw gang, he’s been caught and slammed in Beaver Ridge jail. The noose beckons. Then two bounty hunters, Nat McBain and Clifford Trantor, offer him a choice – die at dawn or help them track down Kirk Morton.
Not surprisingly, Spenser chooses to help them.
But this unlikely team soon discovers that Kirk is an ornery and ruthless quarry. Worse, they’re not the only ones after him and the other bounty hunters will stop at nothing to capture Kirk.
When the bullets start flying from all directions, it isn’t long before Spenser wonders if the noose might have been the better choice.

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The Vanished Priestess (The Annie Szabo Mystery Series)
by Meredith Blevins
4.1 Stars (141 Reviews)
Genre: Women’s Fiction | Mystery | Contemporary Fiction

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Sexy, smart and fun, the feisty Szabo women join forces once again. Annie is the heroine who must walk a treacherous tightrope to save her home and family. Her audacious Gypsy mother-in-law, Madame Mina, uses cures and curses to cover Annie’s back. Engaging and exotic! “Over-the-big-top characters keep the plot spinning, and the mystery pays off with colorful atmosphere, eventful storytelling, and a dramatic finish.” – Mystery Scene

The indomitable Annie Szabo has lost too many friends and loved ones, so the death of Margo Spanger hits hard. Margo, Annie’s neighbor and close friend, was a cultural icon with money and fame — maybe too much…

Margo used one of her projects, a New Age cirque, to fund a women’s shelter. She is found dead on the property, and there’s not one clue about the killer’s identity. When Margo’s partner, Lili, goes missing the day of Margo’s death, the circus and shelter fall into disarray. It turns Annie’s own world upside down, too — her daughter is a resident of the women’s shelter and could become the next victim.

Aided by an ex-cop and Mina’s plant medicine, Annie uncovers Margo’s past. She had rattled a lot of cages: the wine country’s power elite; one sexy trapeze artist; a jealous lover; a captain of industry; her long-lost son; and an ice-blond philanthropist. As Annie delves into their surprisingly tangled lives, one thing becomes clear — the killer is a master of disguise, and time is running out.

The Szabo women learn that, under or outside the big top, anything and everything may be an illusion, and justice sometimes wears a surprising mask.

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We Can’t Be Broken
by H.K. Christie
5.0 Stars (8 Reviews)
Genre: Coming of Age | Family Life

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Always the youngest and tired of being called the baby, nine-year-old Casey is thrilled when her little sister, Anna, arrives in the winter of 1986. Once Anna is born everything changes for the better: a new sister, a new house and a perfect life. It’s as if nothing can go wrong — until Anna gets cancer.
In the wake of seemingly never-ending hospital stays and chemo treatments, Casey and her older siblings, Kelly and Sam, are suddenly forced to fend for themselves while constantly adapting to a new normal, which is anything but. Now growing up in the shadow of their sister’s cancer, Casey and her siblings try to survive as well as figure out their own place in the world. ??
With the family they once had no longer in existence, Casey finds herself wondering what’s next. Will they ever again find peace, happiness or each other?

We Can’t Be Broken is a novel inspired by true events.

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The Cowgirl Takes Her Man (Bitterpill, Texas 78020 series: Book 1)
by Barbara Catlin
4.7 Stars (38 Reviews)
Genre: Romance

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If you yearn for uplifting, unpredictable, humorous romance… with characters who come alive on the pages… Barbara Catlin is your new go-to author! Readers are instantly drawn to the small-town charm of her authentic, pulse-pounding novels. On top of that, fans glory in her sweet yet sensual stories that are praised for their “cleaner than usual” language — and old-fashioned values galore.
So if you’ve loved the past writings of ‘The 3Ms’ — Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery, Ava Miles — but find that you’re clamoring for something fresh, fun and exciting, turn to the books penned by bestselling author Barbara Catlin. Fall in love with the captivating heroes and heroines, with ALL the endearing characters, of tiny Bitterpill, Texas 78020! Could she live with Cameron… but without his love?
Struggling to operate her ranch, Terra Lee Bradford realizes the full extent of the Glory B’s dire financial straits. Cameron Stoner’s neighboring ranch, on the other hand, is thriving. Yet he’s overwhelmed with problems trying to tame his three motherless children — not to mention his libido… Concocted as an instant solution to everyone’s woes, their marriage of convenience soon turns into a lusty battle of wills. He’ll be damned if he’ll give her his heart, and she refuses to settle for less!

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