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A tender story of love-obsession, the second novel from Sandy Day, Head on Backwards, Chest Full of Sand chronicles a young woman’s coming of age during the height of the 1970’s women’s liberation movement.

Teetering on the edge of womanhood, clinging to the first love of her life as if her survival depends on it, 17 year-old Livvy is torn between subjugating herself for love or claiming her identity and independence.

When Livvy, lovesick and artistic, spends the summer with the aunt she adores, she crosses paths with a cast of memorable characters in the coastal community of Margaree, Cape Breton Island.

While Livvy’s cousins torment her, house renovations disturb her, an annoying young islander tries to befriend and teach Livvy to disco dance, Livvy prepares for the much anticipated arrival of her boyfriend, Kane.

With poetic fluidity and breathtaking revelations Sandy Day draws you into Livvy’s obsession. Such a deep dive into the dire and agonizing crannies of a love-obsessed young woman establishes Head on Backwards, Chest Full of Sand as a memorable coming of age story.

For fans of The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, Lives of Girls and Women, and The Bell Jar, Head on Backwards, Chest Full of Sand promises to immerse you in the world of a troubled but observant young woman coming slowly to terms with love, life, and all its messy relationships.

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Lisbeth Douglas works as a pilot, mechanic and flight instructor. As a Lady Flyer in the 1930’s, she works in a male-dominated profession. Fearful of ridicule she keeps her dream of becoming a test pilot a secret. A cocky airplane salesman arrives in Saplingville and sets up shop at the airport. He steals her heart but will never take possession of her dreams.

Paul Williams is more comfortable designing airplanes than flying them. To please his father, he takes a job as an airplane salesman. His boss sends him to the deep-south where he meets a ravishing, daredevil of a woman. His heart takes a nosedive at the first sight of her. How can he give up his controlling ways and let her soar?

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Shattered, a word that means broken into pieces or exhausted and it sums up Camille’s life, perfectly.

You met her in When the Vows Break and if you remember, Camille Shannon is who she is. Unapologetically Cam with no holds barred and want what she wants. Until eighteen months ago, when she came face to face with a demon of her past and it sent her spiraling.

From unfaithfulness to drugs, to love and loss; she’s experienced it. Some of it is due to her actions yet when she tries to get her life together, it’s proving to be harder than she expected.

To complicate matters, her dream job is within reach but someone is determined to make sure she’ll never grasp it.

Will Camille find the strength to deal with the skeletons, in her closet, the ones that left her torn and battered; or will she always be Camille Shannon, hiding instead of owning her truth … she’s SHATTERED?

Camille’s character is from When the Vows Break. Due to this, the first couple of chapters may seem familiar but from Camille’s perspective.

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One winter day, Paddy Riordan met the girl of his dreams. Little did he know then of her aspirations—for immortality.

Ten years later, Paddy is dead, his mind uploaded to a virtual world of light and luxury. But something has gone awry, and a year’s worth of memories have been erased from his consciousness. When a mysterious warrior appears with a dire warning, Paddy must sift through what memories he has left to save his mind and the woman he still loves, all while eluding masked assassins, cutting-edge artificial intelligence, and the sinister sorceress Rusalka.

But he’ll find no enemy so cruel as the shadow of the past. What he discovers may condemn him to a fate even worse than death.

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After the loss of her husband, CIA agent Isabella Bendel accepts a promotion to Chief Supervisor—a much less dangerous position than what she’s accustomed to—so she can raise her two children without fear of leaving her children without any parents. But any illusions of safety are shattered when, while on her Sunday morning jog in a Washington, DC park, Isabella survives a brutal assassination attempt. She hauls her assailant into CIA headquarters, confident she can get to the bottom of why he was after her. Her blood runs cold when she learns the truth… as he was trying to take her out, armed terrorists abducted her children and mother right out of her home. Pushed to the brink of what any mother can endure, Isabella calls on all of her training and deadly skills to get her family back. During this mission, she fights her way through assassins, cyber-terrorists, and duplicitous fellow agents, leading her to uncover a Russian threat that is hell-bent on destroying the United States.

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Each story within Snapshots places the characters in situations where their past behaviors will be changed in a moment that is like a snapshot picture: freezing in time who they are in a moment but facing new challenges that will alter that snapshot and create a new reality.

Eudora Welty’s quote “A good snapshot keeps a moment from going away” is a theme that permeates all of the stories in Eliot Parker’s collection of short stories, Snapshots. These stories are set in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky. In the plots of the stories, the makeup of the characters is more interesting and important than the circumstances that the characters find themselves trying to manage. Each protagonist finds themselves in a complicated set of personal and professional relationships. By their nature, relationships are complicated. The protagonists in these stories are shaped by their backgrounds, life experiences, and expectations of other people. Conflicts arise for these protagonists when decisions and choices made by others alter the expectations and circumstances expected by the protagonists.

In each of these stories, the lives, values, and beliefs held by the characters are deconstructed and each of them face a new reality brought on by an experience or situation that forces them to reexamine who they are and who they need to become. Each of these characters occupy a variety of professional spaces: cops, a rich, successful couple, convicted criminals, and others grieving the loss of a loved one and grieving the absence of love.

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Shania Simmons is a rough and tumble redhead that’s never stepped down from a challenge.  When her supervisor at the local animal shelter leaves her in charge of a full house of wild beasts for a week, Shania’s completely in her element among the Pit Bulls and Rottweilers. The only wrench in her plan?  An unexpected category four hurricane is throttling towards the beach. With the dogs depending on her, there’s no way she can evacuate like the rest of her friends at Coastal College.

Since getting out of prison for malicious maiming, Curtis Young has been keeping his head down and directing most of his energy into custom work on motorcycles and luxury cars at his uncle’s auto shop. Since the conditions of his parole include keeping away from his friends and family members in the Silverthorn Syndicate motorcycle club, he’s become a lone wolf, doing his best not to get attached to anyone. The only person he still gives a damn about is his childhood best friend, Austin Simmons.

When Austin calls in a favor and asks him to keep Shania safe from the storm, neither of them knows what it’s going to cost. The only thing that scares Curtis more than losing his life is losing his heart. 

Driving Forces is the second book in the Vixens In Love series. Each of the books can be read as a standalone.

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Hazel was the first in her clan to forsake the ocean in favor of land. She thought Pine Haven, a town founded for paranormals to live in safety, would be the perfect place. But her involvement with one of the town’s two human residents raises eyebrows and suspicion. 

Why is her nosy neighbor, Leo, keeping tabs on her? And why does he look so darn good in those tight clothes? 

When Hazel finds herself in trouble she learns who really cares about her and how powerful accepting your true nature can be.

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Of a game played between gods where the playing field is the world itself and the pieces, living beings. A young man is caught unwittingly between, in a strange world, without allies or help, and must battle for survival using his wits and magic alone.

Pawn or Player…his fate is his to decide…which will he prove to be?

Accidentally summoned from Earth to the world of Myelad, Kyran becomes embroiled in an eons-old war between the gods. Earning their ire, he is sentenced to die. To escape the gods’ trap, Kyran must become a player in their game that even the gods would learn to fear…

For those who enjoy epic tales of fantasy, this is a coming of age story of Kyran Seversan, a young man from Earth, stranded in another world where magic not only exists, but is part of an elaborate game between immortals. Please note this is an adaptation of the original works, the Gods’ Game. 

Enter the world of Myelad and join Kyran on his epic journey!

“A slow-burning cold case with copious clues, conscientious detection, a high body count, periodic interruptions from the killer’s viewpoint, and all the pages and pages of unraveling you’d expect from such a generously plotted mystery.”―Kirkus Reviews

On the tenth anniversary of a series of unsolved murders, the Five Point Killer is back for blood―and retired cop Arn Anderson could be the next investigator who gets too close to the truth.

Retired detective Arn Anderson never thought he’d be broke enough to take on a cold murder case. Or desperate enough to team up with a TV reporter. Or pathetic enough to go back to his rundown childhood home after he swore he’d left Cheyenne for good. But here he is, hunting a serial killer who also appears to have come out of retirement. On the anniversary of the Five Point Killer’s crimes, Arn’s only option is to survive the carnage of a murderer who may be too twisted―and too brilliant―to catch.

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