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FEATURED: Know The Beast by Minerva Hart

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FEATURED: Know The Beast by Minerva HartAbout Know The Beast:

Family can be a real beast.

2010: Meet the Gibbs twins, Poppy and Arthur. Born to an addict mother, with no father, in the middle of Ohio, they have been keeping their dysfunctional little family afloat for years by taking under-the-table jobs and hiding Mom’s stash so she wouldn’t go on yet another bender. It’s a hard life, but at least they have two things to brighten it up a bit: Their mutual love and support, and their dream of making it big in Hollywood someday. But that dream pops like a soap bubble when Poppy gets bitten by a werewolf and, fearing of what she might do to her family, flees with nothing but the clothes on her back and the beast looking at her from every mirror. She is believed dead, and a heartbroken Arthur – who’s become an underage prostitute in order to pay his share of the bills – no longer has anything keeping him in Ohio. He steals his pimp’s black diamond necklace, a gift from the man’s dear dead mom, and abandons his mother to her fate.

2022: After twelve years of self-inflicted wounds and smoking wolfsbane, Poppy’s curse is finally catching up to her. She has days left before her final transformation, if even that. Thus, she resolves to make amends with her twin. What she finds, however, is not the brother she remembers. Arthur has become a D-list porn star living in an LA beach house bought and paid for by his lover, a rich but unremarkable Hollywood director. Despite countless false starts and even falser promises, Arthur is still determined to become a star; not just for himself, but for the sister he loved and lost. But when he finds that very same sister on his doorstep, alive yet inexplicably different, his life is thrown into a nose-dive.

Can the Gibbs twins reconcile, even after twelve years? Or are they destined to be devoured by their respective beasts?

Targeted Age Group: Adults
Written by: Minerva Hart

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Filed Under: *Featured Books, Bargain Books Under $3, eBooks, Heat Level 4 - R Rated, Horror Tagged With: "Fiction", drama, Horror, LGBTQ

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Callus & Crow by DB Rook

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Callus & Crow by DB Rook

Can a path of blood lead to redemption?

Is redemption enough to amend a wayward world?

Morality and reality have shifted from their natural axis. Technology and ideology derive from the remnants of a world long dead and segregated by the monsters that now rule the seas.
Crow, a young ranch hand, is swept into an odyssey of redemption and revenge as he strives to hold back the ravages of fate and the urges born of a curse shared with his new mentor.
Callus, an exile struggling to find redemption whilst keeping his vampiric curse from tainting his new ward, pursues his prey across the sea.
The new world they discover reveals a tyrannical society fixated on their council’s ascension to godhood.

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Filed Under: Bargain Books Under $3, Buyer's Guides, Fantasy, Heat Level 3 - PG-13, Print Books Tagged With: dark fantasy, DB Rook, Dystopian, found family, grimdark, Horror, steam punk, vampire, Wayward World, Weird West

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Rise of Dresca by Tim McKay

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Rise of Dresca by Tim McKay

What evil intended to harm you…

… can become something far more terrible.

Enter a world of fantasy where evil parasitizes the meek and arrogant alike. Where limitless power and knowledge can be yours for a price, not of your soul, but of your mind, your will, and your resolve to be free.

In the land of Naevoroth, a new power is rising.

​​​​​​​And it’s yours for the taking.

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Filed Under: *Featured Books, Buyer's Guides, Fantasy, Heat Level 3 - PG-13, Kindle Unlimited eBooks, Print Books Tagged With: dark fantasy, dragons., Horror, Military Fantasy, monsters, murder mystery, sci-fi, Teen & YA, Tim McKay

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Trapped in Peace by Sterling Stonewood

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Neil Johnstone’s soul is heading for eternal torture in Hell when he dies thanks to some dark magic in his employment contract.
For the past twenty years he has worked as an office administrator in Bleak & Fargon, a demonic multinational company that hunts and traps people, and their souls, by signing them up to their sole product called Peace. Peace renders the unlucky recipient practically invisible to the world, wholly insignificant, and forgotten by anyone who ever knew them.
Neil hates his job. His employers make him a tempting offer, a way out of his misery. Either he remains trapped in Peace or he can be freed provided he does the unimaginable and swaps his place in Hell with his own mother.
He’s thinking about it. Neil has some serious mother issues, but can he really do what it takes to save his own damned soul?
He seems to think so.

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The core idea of the book was influenced by a few factors. In the 1980s there was a speculative TV show called The Twilight Zone. As a teenager I was inspired by the memorable, creative and extreme what-if scenarios. I didn't think back then about writing my own speculative fiction story, that didn't happen until I began this novel a few years ago and discovered that The Twilight Zone's influence had stood the test of time.
For years I worked in various administrative roles in several companies and was saddened at times observing how mindless negative behaviours or actions would conveniently be jotted off to 'just business'. Trapped in Peace at its core is a good vs evil story based in a multinational company and my work experience lended credibility to the setting, and the 'just-business' cop-out attitude, well, that stuck to my psyche just like the Zone. Lastly, the overarching influence and continuing guiding light for this project was a spiritual element, specifically the theme of forgiveness, one that on my own personal spiritual path I have found both intriguing and, admittedly, at times a struggle to apply on a practical level. I've read plenty of non-fiction on the subject but wanted to explore through fiction just how damaging it can be to hold on to anger, fear, resentment and unforgiveness.

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Filed Under: *Featured Books, Bargain Books Under $3, Kindle Unlimited eBooks Tagged With: artificial intelligence, forgiveness, Horror, speculative fiction, spiritual suspense, Sterling Stonewood, supernatural

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Phantom in the Pines by R.K. Latch

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Phantom in the Pines by R.K. Latch

Henry Lawton is a young man in 1930’s Mississippi. He works for his father in the family moonshining business and is one of the best bootleggers around.

He is secretly in love with the granddaughter of a woman the locals consider a true-to-life witch. So he has plenty to keep him busy.

But, when a relentless federal agent enlists the aid of the corrupt local sheriff, things take a turn for the worse. Lives and families are destroyed.

As the death toll mounts and the situation grows dire, perhaps the only thing that can fight man’s evil is the supernatural.

When the spirit of the trees walks free, evil runs in fear.

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Filed Under: Bargain Books Under $3, Buyer's Guides, Heat Level 3 - PG-13, Horror, Print Books Tagged With: dark fantasy, historical fiction, Horror, R.K. Latch, southern horror, supernatural horror

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Hammer and Blood by Viktor Bloodstone

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Hammer and Blood by Viktor Bloodstone

Mercenary assassin versus unstoppable, mask-wearing psycho!

Ptolemy Lindquist, one of the world’s greatest assassins, is contemplating retirement. Cali, his daughter, wants to have a fun vacation with her friends and boyfriend at a popular lake. Thanks to Ptolemy being hunted by other assassins and Cali investigating why the guys of the group are acting sketchy, father and daughter find themselves trapped in a house of horror by Zebadiah Seeley, a murderer and rapist who can’t be killed.

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Filed Under: Bargain Books Under $3, Buyer's Guides, Heat Level 4 - R Rated, Horror, Kindle Unlimited eBooks, Print Books Tagged With: assassin, Horror, killer, mask-wearing, psycho, Slasher, viktor bloodstone

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The Scare by Robert Shaw

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The Scare by Robert Shaw

Is a zombie bully committing murder in Emerald Bay? Are his victims coming back to life to do more killing? Ethan, Shay and their friends must solve the mystery to stay alive.

Haunted by the murder of his little brother, sixteen-year-old Ethan Harris finds a kindred spirit when Shay Cassidy moves to Emerald Bay. Like Ethan, Shay is the product of a guilt-ridden, broken past, and Ethan is drawn to her.

But town bully, Viktor Sols, harbors his own dark desire for Shay, and will stop at nothing to get her. When Sols is killed during his latest rampage, a series of grisly murders begins, and Ethan is convinced that Sols is coming after Shay from beyond the grave. His friends agree to help investigate, but mystery and death follow their every step.

After Shay vanishes, Ethan refuses to accept that she’s dead, believing instead that Sols has taken her. He and his friends must launch an attack on the dreaded Sols House to try and rescue Shay.

Can they save her before it’s too late, or will the horrifying secret of the Sols family kill them all?

Set in the stormy coastal town of Emerald Bay, The Scare is a contemporary Gothic horror story in which love and friendship triumph over bitter jealousy and brutal lust. It is not for the squeamish: there are nasty bits and mean bits; love, laughter and tears; good friends and deadly enemies. There is blood and there are screams… and a fight to the death

If you like Stranger Things and IT, you’ll love The Scare.

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Filed Under: Buyer's Guides, Heat Level 3 - PG-13, Horror, Print Books Tagged With: Buffy, Horror, IT, murder, mystery, Robert Shaw, Stephen King, Stranger Things, thriller, vampires, zombies

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The Secret Order of the Orchid by Randle Crews

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The Secret Order of the Orchid by Randle Crews

In eighteenth-century France, the mysterious death of one of the clergies is soon followed by the disappearance of another. It quickly becomes apparent that something sinister has invaded their monastery, and only a former cleric from Avignon can solve the mystery of the missing monks. Shortly into his investigation, he discovers that the truth behind the sudden tragic events is much more diabolical than he could have ever imagined.

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Filed Under: Bargain Books Under $3, Buyer's Guides, Heat Level 2 - PG, Horror, Print Books Tagged With: gothic horror fiction, Horror, mystery, paranormal, Randle Crews, suspense, thriller, two-hour literature and short reads

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Steel, Blood & Fire by Allan Batchelder

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Steel, Blood & Fire by Allan Batchelder

On the march, around the campfire, and in the taverns, they tell incredible stories about Tarmun Vykers, the Reaper – how he’s never been cut in battle, how he once defeated hundreds of men by himself, how he exterminated an entire people over an insult. These stories make Vykers seem like a god, but he is a man, an arrogant, ruthless and bloodthirsty man. For all that, he may be the only thing standing between the human race and utter annihilation at the hands of the mad wizard who calls himself the End-of-All-Things. Against this backdrop, smaller, lesser folks struggle to fulfill their own destinies, folks like Aoife, burdened with a secret so dark she is driven to do the unimaginable and seek an alliance with fey powers no mortal has ever encountered.

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Filed Under: Audiobook, Buyer's Guides, Fantasy, Fiction, Heat Level 4 - R Rated, Print Books Tagged With: dark fantasy, epic, grimdark, Horror

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Shadow of Wolves by J.R. White

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Shadow of Wolves by J.R. White

A tortured gunfighter. A Navajo outcast. – And the Creature whose claws would stain the stones of the Mojave red.
Flush with raw silver and ruled by a baron with an iron fist, the tiny mining outpost of Shank’s Point is under siege by a sinister evil.
When the rising sun reveals the claw-torn bodies littered among the rocks, John Swift-Runner calls on his old friend, a vagabond gunfighter, to stand with him against the slaughter he knows will come.
But as their band of misfits hunts for the creature on the burning sands of the Mojave, they stumble into a generations old mystery that goes beyond shamanic curses and into the bloodstained pages of legend.
Can the killing be stopped?
And can a tortured gunman like Kit Barker – with a terrible secret of his own – prevail against something as savage and eternal as the Beast?

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Filed Under: *Featured Books, Audiobook, Buyer's Guides, Fiction, Heat Level 4 - R Rated, Horror, Kindle Unlimited eBooks, Print Books Tagged With: action, adventure, cowboy, gunfighter, Horror, J.R. White, monster, paranormal, werewolf, western

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