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Double Knot by Gretchen Archer

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Double Knot Gretchen Archer
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“Powerfully heartfelt and knock-your-socks-off hilarious. I’m a fan!” —Janet Evanovich on Double Knot

“Archer’s bright and silly humor make this a pleasure to read. Fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum will absolutely adore Davis Way and her many mishaps.” —RT Book Reviews on Double Dip

“Archer navigates a satisfyingly complex plot and injects plenty of humor as she goes….A winning hand for fans of Janet Evanovich and Deborah Coonts.” —Library Journal on Double Whammy

 

DOUBLE KNOT

A Davis Way Crime Caper

By Gretchen Archer

“Fantasy, Mother thinks Burnsworth has been in her room.”
“Did you catch him?” she asked.
“No.” Mother shook her magazine. “But that doesn’t mean he’s not a serial killer.”

Hell is other people—and Super Secret Spy Davis Way is about to find this out the hard way in DOUBLE KNOT: A Davis Way Crime Caper (Henery Press, ISBN 9781635110296, Original Trade Paperback, April 12th, 2016), by triple USA Today-bestselling author Gretchen Archer.

Our favorite redhead is ready to take to the high seas in The Probability, a new, $500 million casino ship carrying 50 billionaires on its maiden voyage to the Cayman Islands. The Probability is partially owned by The Bellissimo Resort & Casino, which is why Davis Way, who is pregnant with twins, has a new mission to be the eight-months-pregnant casino owner Bianca Sanders’ body double for the ship’s festivities.

The trip immediately take a turn for the worst when Davis gets locked in a suite with her judgmental mother, who is ignoring the fact that Davis is pregnant with twins; Fantasy, her about-to-be-divorced best friend and co-worker; Jessica, the ship’s hostess who has a crush on Davis’s husband Bradley; Burnsworth, a creepy butler; and Poppy, a maid who appears and disappears eerily fast. Obviously it’s a system glitch and someone is going to show up to save them all soon… Until Davis discovers a note that Jeremy “No Hair” Coven, the head of security, been kidnapped.

“Sit back and settle in, because you’re not leaving your suite. Rest assured no harm will come to anyone as long as you follow these simple instructions: Do not attempt to escape or make contact with anyone… Not only is escape impossible, you will most assuredly jeopardize everyone’s welfare if you attempt any overt attention-seeking endeavors. In other words, Mrs. Cole, don’t start a fire. You’ll burn.”

It’s now up to Davis and Fantasy to save everyone’s skins, but finding a way out is proving difficult to find. Minutes turn into hours and hours stretch into days, especially with her mother driving everyone crazy. Can Davis race against the clock to determine why they’re being held and stop the people behind it?

DOUBLE KNOT is the most exhilarating Davis Way Crime Caper yet as secrets are revealed, antiquities are destroyed, relationships are becoming strained…and they’re running out of clean dishes.

About Gretchen Archer:
Gretchen Archer is a Tennessee housewife who began writing when her daughters, seeking higher educations, left her. She lives on Lookout Mountain with her husband, son, and a Yorkie named Bently. DOUBLE KNOT is the fifth book in the Davis Way Crime Caper series. Visit gretchenarcher.com for more information on Gretchen and her books.

About Henery Press:
Henery Press an independent publisher in the mystery and suspense genre focused on engaging stories with sharp twists and lively characters. To learn more about Henery Press, please visit www.henerypress.com.

DOUBLE KNOT
A Davis Way Crime Caper
By Gretchen Archer
Henery Press
Publication Date: April 12th, 2016
ISBN: 9781635110296
Original Trade Paperback & E-book
Price: $15.95
260 pages

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Broken Ground by Karen Schreck

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“Engaging, lyrical, and inspirational, this is a novel for anyone interested in American history, immigration, gender studies, agriculture, or just a good story about human relationships and all the different directions life can go.” —Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Feathered Bone

“Repatriation” has recently become a more familiar term and a subject of increasing national debate, due to Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency. Conflicts concerning our immigrant population—both legal and illegal—as well as refugees seeking asylum continue to rise. These current events, along with their surrounding rhetoric, eerily mirror a long-suppressed element of U.S. history: the series of deportations without due process that occurred over the course of the 1930s.

Karen Halvorsen Schreck was researching the Dust Bowl of the 1930s for her new historical novel when she discovered information about what happened to the Mexican and Mexican-American population in California at that time.  Schreck already knew she wanted to write about this place and time period, but she had not been aware of how much historical relevance the decade had for our country today.  Tapping into her own family history—her mother was from the Dust Bowl and traveled as a student to California in the 1930s—Schreck has crafted an epic story, BROKEN GROUND (Howard/Simon & Schuster; May 2016).

BROKEN GROUND

A Historical Fiction Novel

By: Karen Schreck

In BROKEN GROUND, Ruth, a woman who is newly married and crazy in love, abruptly becomes a young widow when her husband Charlie dies in an oil production-related accident near their home in Oklahoma.  Ruth is forced to move back in with her disapproving, chauvinistic father and a mother who tries to keep the peace.  When an opportunity to attend a university in California on full scholarship opens up, she packs her bags and boards a train for the Pacific Coast.

Ruth is attractive and smart, and eventually catches the attention of one of her professors who recruits her as his personal assistant.  Things continue to go well for Ruth when a family friend invites her to their home for the holidays, and she develops an interest in their disabled son, Thomas.  Upon returning to school, Ruth’s life turns upside down when her professor crosses a line, but she is blamed and summarily expelled.  Instead of returning home to her narrow-minded father, she boards a bus and arrives on Thomas’s doorstep, where she asks him to bring her into the fold in a Mexican workers’ camp, where he has a teaching job. 

The challenges of Ruth’s transition from student to camp worker slowly dissipate, and she soon earns the respect of the campers by attracting the interests of their children.  Eventually, Ruth teaches by Thomas’s side and helps plan ways to protest the unlawful treatment of the Mexican migrant workers.  Nighttime raids—where entire camps are bused back to Mexico—were all too common, and Ruth needs to ensure the security of the camp, workers, and her new friends.

Karen Halvorsen Schreck is the mother of two Latino children, which brings the treatment of the Mexicans today and in our country’s past closer to home.  She has a passion for these complex issues and hopes that BROKEN GROUND will not only entertain as a novel, but also enhance the conversation about immigration in the United States today.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Karen Halvorsen Schreck is the author of the historical novel Sing For Me (Simon & Schuster), which was praised in a Publishers Weekly starred review. She received her doctorate in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Schreck teaches writing and literature and lives with her husband, photographer Greg Halvorsen Schreck, and their two children in Wheaton, Illinois. Learn more at her blog, http://karenschreck.com/blog/.

Broken Ground
A novel by Karen Halvorsen Schreck
Howard/Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: May 3, 2016
ISBN: 9781476794839
Price: $14.99

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Eating Bull by Carrie Rubin

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Eating Bull by Carrie Rubin

“Carrie Rubin tackles obesity, fat-shaming, and bullying in this unique and original psychological thriller certain to keep you thinking long after you’ve finished reading.”

— Maddie Cochere, author of the Susan Hunter cozy mystery series

“A fast-paced thriller with a climax that nails it.”

— Frederick Anderson, author of I Am Cara, The Butterfly Man, and Hallbury Summer

The American food environment has exploded over the last three decades, with fast-food restaurants and junk-filled convenience stores populating nearly every street. Food manufacturers’ unhealthy combinations of fat, sugar, salt, and hard-to-pronounce ingredients have contributed to widespread obesity and food addiction. Carrie Rubin, a physician and public health advocate, explores this issue in her new page-turner of a medical thriller, EATING BULL, an exhilarating story of murder and a commentary on the reality of food addiction and the food industry’s role in it.

EATING BULL

A Thiller

By: Carrie Rubin

In EATING BULL, Jeremy is a lonely, obese teenager in Ohio who struggles with being overweight, bullying, a lack of friends, and an undesirable home life with his fat-shaming, offensive grandfather who regularly harasses him. Sue is a public health nurse with a rigid view of right and wrong and a long list of enemies. In the emergency room, Sue overhears another nurse belittle Jeremy about his weight, and she pulls Jeremy and his mother aside to persuade him to sue the food industry for contributing to his obesity.

Jeremy accepts Sue’s challenge, but when word gets out Jeremy is the plaintiff in the case, the students at school torment him even more, nicknaming him “Eating Bull” and calling him a coward for blaming others for his size. To make things worse, there’s a murderer on the loose who is stalking and killing overweight people—Darwin, an obsessive-compulsive germaphobe who is repulsed by the obese and who sees them as pathetic “sheep”. With Jeremy’s story saturating the media, Darwin chooses the teenager as his next target, making a statement to America that obese people are society’s weak link. As the murderer circles closer, it’s up to Jeremy to prove to Darwin, the nation, and himself that he is not the faint-hearted, overweight teenager everybody believes he is.

In a fight against the food industry that turns deadly, EATING BULL is a fast-paced and entertaining thriller with a unique exploration of the real-life issues of bullying, food addiction, and the food industry’s role in obesity.

About the author:

Carrie Rubin is a physician with a master’s degree in public health. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two sons, and is the author of The Seneca Scourge. Visit her website and blog at www.carrierubin.com.

 

EATING BULL
By Carrie Rubin
ScienceThrillers Media
Publication Date: November 2015
ISBN 9781940419107
Original Trade Paperback & E-book
Price: $14.99 / $4.99
310 pages

 

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The Light of Grace by Kasey Claytor

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The Light of Grace by Kasey Claytor

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“All of the greatest spiritual teachings are taught through story. Here is a story carefully crafted to entertain while raising your consciousness.” —Kasey Claytor
“The Light of Grace is an amazing journey through space and time and the most
incredible journey of all—the one within.”

—Mark Anthony, the Psychic Lawyer

 

Since the dawn of time, people have believed in the existence of a higher power, whether it was in the form of a specific god, guardian angel, or unnamed universal force. Inspirational speaker and metaphysical teacher Kasey Claytor trusts that there is a higher power at work in the universe, and that angels are the guardians and messengers who do the day-to-day work.  In her new epic tale, THE LIGHT OF GRACE: Journeys of an Angel (April 2016; Balboa Press; Price xx), Grace, a newly-assigned angel, is given four humans from different time periods to guide.  She does this by leaping through time and space. Grace is accompanied by her loyal emissary, Aelfraed, who takes the form of a dog, wolf, cat, and fox so he can keep watch on Grace’s people and help them in desperate situations.

THE LIGHT OF GRACE

An epic fable through time and faith

By: Kasey Claytor

Mumbie is a clever, innovative prehistoric girl who loses her tribe and becomes part of another, but they are wary of accepting Mumbie and her different customs. Garth is a devout 14th century Christian who questions his faith in God after his home is repeatedly hit by death, plague, and war. Arnina is a sensitive woman living in the 21st century who is in a constant personal battle with anxiety and fear, which she numbs with feel-good drugs. Alistair is an extraordinary man living in the 26th century who explores the planes of consciousness.  His research travels to a space station orbiting Mars turn precarious when his ship is endangered by pirates.

Grace’s humans live in different time continuums on Earth, but they are all connected by a thread of intense emotion: if one of them is feeling immense despair, a burst of joy, or if Grace sends one of them a beam of extraordinary love, they can all feel it. With Aelfraed’s support on the ground, Grace can send her humans messages, sensations, and clues as she takes form as a spiritual conscience, and makes a rare appearance in human form. She guides them through hardships like clan battles, war, space travel, and lost loves, and celebrates with them as they fall in love, explore and test their strengths, and earn their hard-wrought wisdom.

Grace is entwined with her humans from their first breath to their last, and through every triumph and failure. THE LIGHT OF GRACE is an epic metaphysical journey that spans thousands of years, and teaches readers that they are not alone on life’s journey and that its secrets can be found by looking within.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kasey Claytor is a metaphysical teacher, certified meditation instructor, money manager, and inspirational speaker. She loves to teach others ways to find happiness and has penned several books on prosperity and spirituality, including The 7 Laws of Raising Financially Independent Kids and The God of Anna. Claytor lives with her husband and dog on a lagoon in Florida.

THE LIGHT OF GRACE
Journeys of an Angel
By Kasey Claytor
Balboa Press
Publication Date: April 1st, 2016
ISBN:
Hardcover & E-book
Price:
xx pages
 
 
Visit www.kaseyclaytor.com.
 
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Men Against Women by Laura Hart McKinny

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Men Against Women by Laura Hart McKinny

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The Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s was notorious for misconduct, corruption, and overall bad behavior. Laura Hart McKinny was doing on-site research for a screenplay at the time, and was allowed access to the Police Academy and ride-a-longs to inform her understanding of the day-to-day happenings at the 77th precinct, in one of the most dangerous districts in L.A. This summer, some of McKinny’s most shocking observations will be found in her debut novel, MEN AGAINST WOMEN (Stone’s Throw Media; August 2015; $$).

Morgan is a tough-minded cop and single mom who has requested a transfer out of her sleepy suburban town to the gritty streets of Los Angeles and the 77th precinct. She has experienced some hard times, being a woman in a male-dominated profession, but what she finds downtown is a much more serious problem that could put her life in danger. At the 77th, there is a clear division between the men and the women on the force, and the animosity and insults create a sullen atmosphere that is hard to shake.

Soon after she arrives, the women fill Morgan in on the secret club the men attend after hours called Men Against Women (MAW) — where they vent their frustrations at having to share their jobs with women. There is also her partner, Moon, who does everything he can to point out how dissatisfied he is with a woman at his side. The list of problems goes on and on: the substandard, makeshift women’s locker room; the lack of back-up response to female officers’ calls; the incompetent women who are clearly there for the numbers and not for their skill; and the senior female officers who will do anything to weed out the male trouble-makers, even at the expense of one of their own. When Morgan is unceremoniously demoted to “report car” when she refuses to rat-out a fellow male officer, she discovers a cover-up that could bring down MAW and change the face of the 77th forever.

Today it seems that there is much greater equality and tolerance in law enforcement for women. But as McKinny notes in MEN AGAINST WOMEN, women may contribute a “difference” based on the way they solve problems that could be invaluable. At one point in the story, Morgan talks to Moon about “community policing” whereby the citizens living in a difficult area come together to encourage “good behavior”; to report to the police when there is something illegal going on; and in general to support and protect each other from the negative elements living among them. In the novel, this idea is immediately dismissed. But for McKinny it is an issue that shows how the differences between how men and women affect law enforcement should be exploited, not hidden behind political correctness and a modern day equality that may not really be equal after all.

MEN AGAINST WOMEN is a novel that uses the past to raise questions about how the police could be enforcing the law today. And, with strong female characters, McKinny also applauds the strength of generations of women who have endured abuse and humiliation in order to change things for the better.