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Free indies/backlist books:

Play Dead by Anne Frasier

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Her USA Today bestseller, SLEEP TIGHT, was called "compelling and real - a great read," by Andrea Kane. "Guaranteed to keep you awake at night," raved Lisa Jackson. With her newest novel, Anne Frasier will really take your breath away... Watch your back, Elise. No one understands the dark side of Savannah better than homicide detective Elise Sandburg. As an infant, she was thought to be the daughter of a famous root doctor-and was abandoned in an ancient Low Country cemetery. Growing up, she was haunted by her possible connection to the local Gullah culture-with its spells and voodoo. Now, however, there's a twisted killer on the loose, and the city is gripped by terror. Someone is using a substance that leaves its victims in a state that mimics death. As their bodies slip into an irreversible paralysis, their minds remain fully, shockingly awake. Before you wake up dead. Step by step, Elise's relentless chase for the killer draws her straight back into the world she most fears. And now, to stop a murderer, she must confront the truth about her own past in ways she never could have imagined...

Hush (crime fiction, police procedural) by Theresa Weir and Anne Frasier

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Theresa Weir writing as Anne Frasier, Originally published by Penguin/NAL 2002, Hush was RITA finalist and USA Today Bestseller

Hush
What's your greatest fear?

It's criminal profiler Ivy Dunlap's job to unravel the psyches of the most dangerous men alive. None haunts her dreams more than the killer who took her son's life sixteen years ago, then silently disappeared into the dark. Now an urgent request for help from the Chicago police has reawakened Ivy's greatest nightmare. The Madonna Murderer has returned to fulfill his calling. This time Ivy understands the killer and will face her greatest fear to stop him from killing again.

Sally Boy by P. Vincent DeMartino (Silk Daddy Publishing)

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Set in the Bronx’s Little Italy, Sally Boy tells the story of Salvatore Scalise and his bloody rise to power in the New York underworld. As a youth, Sal was a member of the Golden Guineas, a feared street gang made up of the sons of Italian immigrants. He learns how to fight, to value a trusted friend, and to respect the sacred code of the streets. Sal’s journey is passionate and dangerous, leading him from the bedrooms of the most desirable women to the perilous jungles of Vietnam.

Back in New York, Sal reaches out to a childhood friend who has graduated to Mafia soldier. Impressed with Sal’s fighting skills, the Mirragio crime family embraces him. However, when ordered to murder his best friend, Sal has no choice but to commit the unthinkable. Consumed with rage, Sal rebels, resulting in his humiliating expulsion from the Mirragio's ranks. In retaliation, Sal forms his own crew and seeks revenge. Using his military training and a savage capacity for killing, Sally Boy sets out to slaughter the Mirragio family and seize control of the Bronx drug trade.

The Women of Tenacity by Shanna Hatfield

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Welcome to Tenacity! Meet the stubborn, independent women who live here and the wild, rugged men who love them.
Callan Matthews lives a hectic life balancing a demanding job as she works to start her own business. Her husband Clay, the consummate prankster, decides it is up to him to get Callan to lighten up and have a little fun.
Jenna Carver is a confirmed city girl even if her husband Josh conveniently forgets that fact as he drags her from one farm adventure to another.
Laken Johnson loves her two kids, but when her husband Tyler unexpectedly drops them off at her gift shop, she doesn't know if she or the store will survive.

B. Quick by C. S. Laurel

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It was a night of triumphal activity for the Society For The Elimination of Good Looking Blonds. By sheer chance, middle-aged literature professor Bill Yates interrupts a murderer in the act of dumping an unconscious young man into the local river. Bill surprises himself by rescuing the young man and unwittingly plunges into a maelstrom of murder, psychoanalysis and Shakespeare. Falling in love with the young man he rescued is either fitting punishment or just reward for his trouble, and it will be a long time before Bill knows which.

I Got Some Bad Muse For You by Michael Angel

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Many artists wait for inspiration to strike. Few know that it does so with a clenched fist.

Broke, drunk, and depressed, the young William Shakespeare suffers from a bad case of writer's block. The good news? His muse has arrived to inspire him. The bad news? She's the muse of *boxing*.

And she's going to help Shakespeare out, even if it kills him.

Included with this story are preview chapters of Michael Angel's latest epic fantasy, Shards - The Darkfell Saga, also available on Amazon.

Novellas/ Short stories:

Fox Chase by Jeff Young

Strangelets with a Side of Grilled Spam by Michael Angel

Liberal vs. Conservative: A Novella by Scott Reeves

Tournament at Bergum by Chris Turner

Blue Ink: A Short Story by Nancy Fulda

In Heaven/Let Down by M.E. Purfield

The Rebirth of Veronica Draper (Sketches from the Spanish Mustang) by Benjamin X. Wretlind

Hexes and Tooth Decay: A Short Story by Nancy Fulda

Phineas (Ordinal) by Joseph Gellene

Traditional Publishing Is My Bitch! (and other inflammatory remarks) by Mike Cooley