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Voices in the Past: Journeys Beyond the Peaks (The Journeys Saga) by M.F. Erler

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Voices in the Past, Journeys Saga by M.F. Erler
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In this historical fiction novel, thirteen-year-old Cinda Parker knows she and her brother Ian have a special mental connection. When a mysterious stranger, Lexi, arrives from the future, they realize they are more than typical mid-twenty-first century children.

Lexi convinces the siblings to travel back 200 years into the minds and lives of their ancestors, in order to help their father, who is dealing with grief over his own father’s death and anger with his brother’s questionable choices.

When their family line is disrupted, Cinda and Ian learn the true value of one single life.

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Journeys Beyond the Peaks: Voices in the Past is a spin-off of M.F. Erler’s popular seven-book series: The Peaks Saga. As the first book in this new saga, “Voices in the Past” moves the characters from time-travel future to time-travel past. Based on stories of the author’s ancestors, this book offers unique and interesting perspectives of how descendants can learn from their past, and sheds more light on the families first introduced in The Peaks Saga. As these characters move through their lives, they show how all of us are products of our pasts, our present, and the future.

An M.F. Erler novel. Visit PeaksAndBeyond.com

Time of Death, Not all Secrets Stay Buried by Carrie Merrill

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Time of Death, Not All Secrets Stay Buried, by Carrie MerrillREAD A SAMPLE | SHARE | BUY
~ A PARANORMAL GHOSTLY THRILLER

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Evan finds herself lost in a world between life and death, but something else is there with her. Something sinister, demanding that its secrets be revealed.
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Dr. Evan Jensen is a fourth-year resident in a General Surgery program at St. John’s Hospital in Chicago, where she must face life and death decisions on a daily basis. After she is the passenger in a horrific car accident, she is taken to the same trauma hospital where she works. Comatose and with life-threatening injuries, random and misty images dance around in her silent brain. Evan finds herself lost in a world between life and death, but something else is there with her. Something sinister and terrifying.

Once she awakens, she is locked in a body that is unable to walk and with a serious brain injury. Through weeks of painful therapy in the hospital’s rehabilitation unit, she becomes aware that she didn’t return to this life alone. Perhaps the waking nightmares and whispers in the dark of her room are a product of a damaged brain, or maybe they come from somewhere else, in the most hidden corners of the hospital. Maybe, they are a warning from the locked north wing on the seventh floor, a place that nobody will talk about. A place where something tragic and terrible occurred years before Evan arrived there. And now it demands its secrets to be revealed.
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A Carrie Merrill novel. Visit CarrieMerrill.com

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War Under the Mango Tree, a military satire

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“Loaded with plenty of whiskey-tango-foxtrot moments, War Under the Mango Tree is a thoroughly entertaining lampoon of the US military machine via a fictionalized mission in an equally fictional Central African country… Not since Catch 22 has a novel this brilliant come along. Five cheeky stars!” —David Edlund, USA Today bestselling author of “Guarding Savage” 

“. . . a brilliant satire of the hypocrisy, bureaucracy, banality, and ineptitude of the military. . .scathingly funny and often feels absurd—yet other times, all too real.” —David Aretha, editor of multiple award-winning military books

At a remote military camp in Africa a small detachment of American soldiers and their local allies wage a high-tech manhunt to neutralize the notorious warlord Daniel Odoki and defeat his rebel army. As the quixotic campaign unfolds, a cast of glory seeking generals, rapacious mercenaries and corrupt government officials are determined to finish off Odoki, though each for different reasons. Meanwhile, a hapless band of compatriots, pawns in a mysterious shadow war, race to discover the truth about Odoki before it’s too late.

In the tradition of writers such as Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Evelyn Waugh, War Under the Mango Tree exposes the absurdities of modern warfare as it intersects with media culture, technology, politics and big business. The result is a darkly painted satire of war, money and corruption on the far flung reaches of Pax Americana.

The Gisawi Chronicles, Book 1: War Under the Mango Tree

Glen Voelz, Author
Glen Voelz, Author

Glenn Voelz served for twenty-five years in the Army as an intelligence officer. During his career he worked on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the White House Situation Room and at NATO headquarters. He has published on a wide range of topics including diplomatic history, government contracting and military innovation.

Glenn lives in central Oregon with his family and enjoys spending time outdoors hiking, biking and cross-country skiing. He is a volunteer member of the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team. His first novel is entitled War under the Mango Tree and he is currently working on a sequel—Operation Hermes.

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Off the Record: A Shae Rose Mystery, Book 1

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Off the Record, A Shae Rose Mystery by Diana Kilpatrick
Off the Record, A Shae Rose Mystery by Diana Kilpatrick

Diana Kilpatrick’s debut novel, “Off the Record”, introduces us to Shae Rose, a feisty and loveable court reporter who lifts the veiled curtain, offering a unique and entertaining peek into the secretive world of deposition court reporting.
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As a busy court reporter in a small Idaho town, Shae Rose ordinarily minds her own business: sharing a duplex with two elderly sisters, Bernice and Clarabelle Darling, riding a Harley on fine sunny summer weekends, and devoting time to her Chihuahua, Hercules. And though she is privy to people’s legal troubles, large and small, she leaves her work at the deposition room door. She wouldn’t dream of meddling.

All of that changes when Shae finds herself embroiled in a case involving a wealthy prominent local family. At first the case appears straightforward, but the court reporter soon discovers dark secrets lay just beneath the sheen of the family’s polished exterior.

Her troubles begin after taking possession of an unusual deposition exhibit. Intrusions and personal attacks ensue, confirming a horrible truth: Shae has become the unwitting central player in events that have been forty years in the making. It doesn’t take long for Shae to realize that someone is willing to do anything to keep the truth from being revealed.

With her career and her very life on the line, she accepts the aid of the handsome Sergeant Jackson Landers. As his investigation heats up, so does Shae’s attraction to Jax, as he’s known by his friends. But can she reveal her suspicions to him?

Will Shae be able to protect herself and those she loves, help solve a mystery, while maintaining her mandated professional confidentiality?

When the World Grows Cold, Book 4 The Peaks Saga

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When the World Grows Cold, A Peaks Saga, Book 4 by MF ErlerWhen the World Grows Cold (The Peaks Saga, Book 4)

[UPDATED AND REVISED 2018]

Thirty Years Later… Ginna and Dany have been back from their time travels with Jon, Jale, and Martina for almost thirty years. Danny has settled into a normal twenty-first century life. But Ginna, nothing has been ‘normal’ since her return — for she discovered she was pregnant, with no idea who could be the father of her child. Then Celestia, daughter of Jon and Martina, appears from the GAP, to take Ginna, and her daughter, Annemarie, to the future, hopting to help them find answers to their many questions.

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“…a page turner!” —Judith Seidel

“I remember fondly reading The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe when I was in middle school. The Peaks at the Edge of the World has a similar mix of fantasy and adventure with a moral tale at its center. This is a book that’s appropriate for a younger audience than most sci fi/fantasy novels. Enjoy the read!” —Kathy Dunhoff, Zola Award-winning Women’s Fiction Writer

“…start with a religious/fantasy base, then adds a dollop of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’, mixed in a sprinkling of ‘Narnia’ and spice it up with a little romance.”

“M.F. Erler is an intriguing story-teller. The Peaks at the Edge of the World was hard to put down. I had many sleepless nights because I couldn’t wait to find out what happened next!”