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I Always Cry at Weddings by Sara Goff

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I Always Cry at Weddings by Sara Goff

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“I read I ALWAYS CRY AT WEDDINGS in one big gulp. It’s engaging and funny but also sad and a little scary. Fine writing!”  —Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life

“Sara Goff writes with wit, heart, and courage all her own.”  —Ian Frazier, bestselling author of Travels in Siberia

“Sara Goff’s debut novel manages to be gripping, edgy and soulful at the same time.”  —Susan Shapiro, author of Speed Shrinking and Overexposed

“Here’s an adorable, cautionary tale for the marriage bound or the marriage averse, and that’s almost everybody. Sara Goff’s witty fable will do well.”  —Diane Johnson, author of Le Mariage

I Always Cry at Weddings

By: Sara Goff

Ava Larson is the envy of brides everywhere. She has a glamorous career as a handbag buyer at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City; Josh, her wealthy, New York socialite fiancé; and a lavish wedding on the horizon, to be planned and paid for by her adoring mother-in-law-to-be. But things go terribly wrong for Ava when her friends spontaneously decide to get married at City Hall, and Ava is reduced to tears by the obvious signs of true love exhibited by the newlyweds. Their raw emotion makes her question her own relationship and she wonders whether Josh really and truly loves her.

After an embarrassing attempt to re-ignite sparks in her love life, debut author Sara Goff’s delightful novel I ALWAYS CRY AT WEDDINGS (WhiteFire Publishing; October 2015; $14.99) really takes a spin as Ava throws her impending future with Josh away, cancels the wedding, and flees to her tiny, dingy studio apartment on the West Side of Manhattan. Here in her cocoon she finds comfort in the smiling face of Chris, a homeless man who lives under her front stoop.

In a move as daring as a red satin dress, Ava makes a vow to remain a virgin until marriage, hopefully in order to find true, enduring love. At the same time she comes to terms with her personal crises, word from home tells her that her mom may be succumbing to the ravages of cancer; she gets sacked by Bergdorf’s; her former mother-in-law-to-be decides to move in; and her financial status leaves her in jeopardy of eviction and bankruptcy.

Still the only bright spot in her day is Chris, who soon proves to have secrets of his own. When her plans to remain a virgin are challenged by a charismatic new NYPD officer boyfriend and, to everyone’s horror, she takes a job as a “red-dress” at a sketchy cabaret club, she leans on her friendship with Chris even more. But could she really be falling for the nice guy from under the stoop?

With her life balanced on the head of a pin, Ava is brought to tears over a lot more than weddings. In I ALWAYS CRY AT WEDDINGS she will need to decide how she wants to live her life and what in the world love really means.

To learn more about the author, Sara Goff, visit her website: http://www.saragoff.com/

I ALWAYS CRY AT WEDDINGS
By Sara Goff
WhiteFire Publishing
Publication Date: September 15th, 2015
ISBN: 978-1939023551
Trade Paperback
Price: $14.99
354 pages

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Double Mint by Gretchen Archer

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Double Mint by Gretchen Archer

“Seriously funny, wickedly entertaining. Davis gets me every time.”
– Janet Evanovich on Double Mint

“Fans of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum will absolutely adore Davis Way and her many mishaps.”
—RT Book Reviews

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“Until she could be replaced, Holder’s job fell in my lap. Starting with the Hawaiian wedding. Mission? To keep the Jeep people from killing each other over a Hello Kitty cake.”  —From Double Mint

DOUBLE MINT

A Davis Way Crime Caper

By: Gretchen Archer

Soon after the crazy events at Biloxi, Mississippi’s grand Bellissimo Resort & Casino involving a dangerous monetary scheme, a $40,000 milk-soaked fur coat, and hashtag-happy coworkers, Super Secret Spy Davis Way is thrust into a new misadventure when events manager Holder Darby goes missing during a Hello Kitty vs. Minecraft wedding brawl.

But a food fight is only the beginning of newly-married Davis Way Cole’s misfortunes in USA Today bestselling author Gretchen Archer’s new casino mystery DOUBLE MINT: A Davis Way Crime Caper (Henery Press; ISBN 978-1941962770; Original Trade Paperback; August 2015). Davis steps into Holder’s Birkenstock shoes right as five hundred bankers pour into the casino for an Alabama Bankers Convention…and also becomes the new owner of Holder’s flat-faced, screeching, fluffy yellow cat.

“You need to get another cat,” Baylor said. “You can’t have just one.”
“That’s ridiculous.” Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Bradley’s jaw working, clenching, unclenching. “I don’t even want one cat.”

The plot thickens when Davis’s husband Bradley, the newly-minted casino manager, discovers that four million dollars’ worth of platinum has disappeared from the casino’s vault. Shortly after, Davis and her partner-in-crime Fantasy discover that one of the important guests at the Bankers Convention is gone—leaving a million dollars of counterfeit money in his hotel bathtub. To make matters worse, Davis and Bradley have been forced to move into a voodoo-themed, haunted apartment on the top floor of the casino—which Davis discovers has a counterfeit money-making machine hidden in a secret room.

Armed with her red hair, computer-cracking skills, and her trigger-happy gun, summer is over for Davis Way as she finds herself climbing into vents, stealing her ex-ex husband’s car, accidentally shooting at Dionne Warwick’s assistant, and being thrown in jail for the umpteenth time. Can Davis connect the dots between the Bankers Convention, the counterfeit money, and the missing Holder Darby before it’s too late?

DOUBLE MINT: New money, old sins, jail…and a cat.

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 MINT is the fourth book in the Davis Way Crime Caper series. To learn more about Gretchen Archer and her books, visit her website: http://gretchenarcher.com/

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 MINT
A Davis Way Crime Caper
By Gretchen Archer
Henery Press
Publication Date: July 21st, 2015
ISBN: 9781941962770
Original Hardcover, Trade Paperback & E-book
Audible Audiobook narrated by Amber Benson
Price: $15.95
260 pages

The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts by K.C. Tansley

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The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts“Ghosts don’t exist. They can’t touch me. They can’t hurt me. They aren’t real.”

This simple mantra has saved 17-year-old Kat Preston’s life on countless occasions. It stops ghosts, which she calls “unbelievables,” from manifesting in her world. Refusing to believe is the only way to protect herself from the ghost that tried to steal her life when she was a child.

But some things can’t be ignored, and the ghosts are done letting Kat have a normal life in this YA time-travel murder mystery THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS (Beckett Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-943024-00-1, August 2015), by award-winning author Kourtney Heintz as K.C. Tansley.  When Kat is alone doing research for her prep school teacher on the mysterious wedding night murders at Castle Creighton in 1886, the ghosts make their reappearance. Kat uses everything she has to keep them from breaking through, but she knows this project is putting her ghost-free world at risk.

Working on this project is the stepping-stone to her dream school, Georgetown University; however, Kat can’t keep the ghosts away and solve the wedding night murders that are steeped in unbelievables. The mysterious deaths of the bride and groom, Cassie Mallory and Sebastian Radcliffe, triggered the “Radcliffe Curse”—a curse that leaves the oldest Radcliffe male heir dead on his 23rd birthday. This project sets Kat on a collision course with all the unbelievables.

If it were just about the murders, Kat might be able to say no. But when she finds out that the ghost who saved her life and the ghost who nearly stole her life were both bridesmaids at this wedding, the murders become about her and the ghosts. Kat has to find out what happened to those ghosts and why they both came into her life, and that means being a part of this on-site research project.

Kat and the uptight project leader Evan trek to Castle Creighton, an old fortress that resides off the coast of Connecticut on the remote Isle of Acacia. The project takes a dark twist when they learn they only have a few weeks to solve the mystery before the current Radcliffe heir, Joshua, dies on his 23rd birthday.

Kat must confront her fear of the unbelievables when she’s yanked through a magic portal and Evan follows her. They are transported back in time to 1886 and fall into the bodies of two wedding guests, Toria Langley and Alistair Kingsley. With each passing day, Kat and Evan grow weaker and have more and more trouble staying in control of the bodies they inhabit. Together, the must try to figure out the wedding night murders before they fade into the past forever.

THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS is a fast-paced YA time-travel murder mystery novel that combines time-traveling, paranormal, and gothic mystery genres to weave a tale full of ancestral curses, powerful spells, strange connections, and inherited surprises.

About Kourtney Heintz:
Kourtney Heintz is the award-winning author of the novel The Six Train to Wisconsin (2013), and is debuting her first Young Adult novel THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS under the pseudonym K.C. Tansley. Heintz is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She lives with her warrior lapdog, Emerson, on a hill in Connecticut. Never one to say no to a road trip, she’s climbed the Great Wall twice, hopped on the Sound of Music tour in Salzburg, and danced the night away in the dunes of Cape Hatteras. She loves the ocean and hates the sun, which makes for interesting beach days. Find out more at: http://kourtneyheintz.com/

THE GIRL WHO IGNORED GHOSTS
By K.C. Tansley
Beckett Publishing Group
Publication Date: August 1st, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-943024-00-1
Original Trade Paperback & E-book
Price: $11.99
258  pages

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The Man With the Overcoat by David Finkle

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“Why would anyone—he was soon to ask himself innumerable times—take a coat from a complete stranger only because it had been offered?”

You are standing, waiting for an elevator.  The doors open and a strange man hands you an overcoat, which you accept without thinking.  After a beat you realize that you are now standing at the same elevator in possession of said overcoat and its “owner” is nowhere to be seen.  Now what?

Theater critic, book reviewer, and writer David Finkle, whose characters encountered extraordinary people and events in his first book of short stories People Tell Me Things, is as entertaining as ever in his debut novel, THE MAN WITH THE OVERCOAT (Nth Position Press; April 28th, 2015; $6.99). In his book, Finkle focuses his creative talents on the main character Skip Gerber—a man in a quandary who travels through the depths of New York City to find the mysterious owner of the overcoat, which by the way, Skip and others have noted, actually suits him quite well indeed.

THE MAN WITH THE OVERCOAT

By: David Finkle

 “Skip wasn’t about to tell his mother he was in Central Park looking at the statue of a man wearing an overcoat eerily similar to one he’d accepted for no good reason a few short hours earlier. She wouldn’t believe him. Who would believe him? He half didn’t believe himself.”

While following the clues he finds in the nooks and crannies of the coat itself, Skip is harangued by phone, by his mother Bernice, his broke brother Jerry, and his  snooty, sort-of fiancé, Faye—who is waiting for him to meet her for dinner with friends, downtown. People who help Skip with his scavenger hunt are taxicab drivers who believe that Skip is being followed; a group of partying drag queens who rename him Alice; and a woman he rescues from robbers—could she be the love of Skip’s life?

Where did this overcoat come from? Why are so many people interested in it? Has somebody been following him since the moment Skip put it on? And why are the gargoyles on the tops of buildings falling? Is it all a coincidence, or is the overcoat that has been placed in Skip’s care a dangerous talisman?

Like a classic Hitchcock thriller, THE MAN WITH THE OVERCOAT challenges its protagonist to venture out of his comfort zone and the life he thought he was happily living, into the strange unknown.

About the Author:
David Finkle is a New York-based writer who concentrates on the arts. He writes regularly for The Huffington Post, The Clyde Fitch Report, and The Village Voice. He’s contributed to many publications, including The New York Times, The New York Post, The Nation, The New Yorker, New York, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and American Theatre. Learn more at http://www.davidfinkle.com/

 

The Organ Takers by Richard Van Anderson

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“Robin Cook fans will relish this taut and powerful medical thriller set in Manhattan…Van Anderson makes good use of his own medical training in the service of a superior page-turner.”
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

“In this engaging novel, the author wields dynamic characters and intelligent prose like a skilled surgeon’s instruments.”
—Kirkus Reviews

The Organ Takers

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White Light Press Releases First in a Trilogy of Medical Thrillers

For more than three decades, Robin Cook has used his experience as a physician to bring authority to his novels of medical suspense, and now, former cardiac surgeon Richard Van Anderson has done the same. Using his knowledge of surgeons, surgical diseases, and the operating room, Anderson brings the sinister world of black market organ transplantation to life in his debut novel THE ORGAN TAKERS (White Light Press; November 2014). Storylines are drawn from current medical topics and include human organ trafficking, transplant waiting list abuse, human stem cell research, tissue engineering, and organ fabrication.

Set primarily in lower Manhattan, THE ORGAN TAKERS opens with former surgery resident Dr. David McBride in exile from the surgical community. While under the mentorship of transplant surgeon and biomedical researcher Dr. Andrew Turnbull, McBride was coerced into manipulating the liver transplant waiting list, then failed to bring such an egregious violation of moral and ethical standards to the attention of his superiors. Both men were eventually discovered, subsequently fired, and lost their licenses to practice medicine. Turnbull moved his lab to rural New Jersey, while McBride settled for operating on rats in a surgical research laboratory at an uptown university medical center.

Down but not out, McBride never gives up on his dream, and after applying to nearly every surgical residency in the country, he is rewarded with a second chance to complete his training and pursue a career in surgery. But, as David stands on the threshold of a new life, the malignant underside of his fellow man intervenes. Under the threat of violence to himself and his pregnant wife, David is forced to perform illegal organ harvests, in a makeshift operating room, hidden within a dilapidated meatpacking warehouse. Interfacing with a spook known only as Mr. White, McBride is unaware that Andrew Turnbull is behind his recruitment as black market organ harvester.

Unable to resolve the excruciating moral dilemma faced each time he invades the body of an unwilling victim, David fights to free himself from the situation and finds himself increasingly isolated as the dangers mount. As NYPD detective Kate D’Angelo closes the net around him, and the organ-snatching conspiracy takes his wife hostage, McBride must find help, and he turns to a most unlikely source: a drug dealer whose life David had saved while still a surgery resident.

THE ORGAN TAKERS is an exhilarating medical thriller that has both the good guys and the bad balancing precariously on the edge of good and evil. The story not only entertains, but ventures below the surface to explore how men of intelligence, drive, and compassion sometimes choose, or are forced, to venture down dark paths. Learn more about Anderson and his book at http://rvananderson.com/

THE ORGAN TAKERS: A Novel of Surgical Suspense
By Richard Van Anderson
White Light Press
Publication Date: November 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9907597-0-6
Hardcover price: 25.99
292 pages
Trade Paperback & E-book also available