eTLC - A Showcase for Independent Authors
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The Between
L J Cohen (author)Product Description
High school senior, Lydia Hawthorne, is less than grateful when Oberon has her snatched from the mortal world and she finds out she’s actually Fae. And not just any Fae, but a trueborn with enough inherent magic to tip the balance between Oberon and Titania’s warring Bright and Shadow courts . . .
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The Royal Sheikh
Katheryn Lane (author)Product Description
Clare McKay is a dedicated architect with no time for womanising men. That is, until she accidentally meets Sheikh Rafiq Al Kahil, an Arabian prince, known in the international press as the Playboy Prince . . .
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Poised to start a new school year, Phoebe watches her world dismantle before her eyes. A future, hundreds of years beyond her time, has come to throw her fragile life into turmoil. Rescued by friends from a hidden enemy she never knew she had, Phoebe begins to rescue her saviours in return . . .
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Truth Teller
Kurt Chambers (author)Product Description
How could a modern day girl like Charlotte ever envisage that magic really exists? Even with her own vivid imagination, the place for other realms belonged in a child’s fairy tale. Or so she thought, until she stumbled across a hidden curio shop and an even stranger shopkeeper. He gives her a gift that resembles . . .
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This Time You Lose
Chris Stralyn (author)Product Description
What would you do if street thugs invaded your home? What if you’re a daycare provider, caring for a dozen children at the time? Lisa Kaamp, a most unlikely heroine, faces just such a nightmare in This Time You Lose, the suspense driven story of one woman’s struggle to survive when she and the children she cares for become victims of a home invasion gone terribly wrong . . .
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Sitting with Warrior
Carl Hitchens (author)Product Description
The glowing campfire was irresistible to his wandering spirit. He had taken many roads, many paths since he had left the war in Vietnam. Each path, each road had taught him something, but still he was nagged by the enormity of what he had experienced. The words that flowed on occasion, the silence that filled the moments in between never seemed . . .
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Chicken Feed
Ellen Ghyll (author)Product Description
Despotic market owner Sheena McKinley rules her market and car boot sale with an iron fist. When, as a cost-cutting exercise, she allows the inmates of the local open prison to pick up litter, there are rumblings of discontent amongst the regular traders, particularly the car-booters . . .
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Trials of Life
Junying Kirk (author)Product Description
This novel is sequel to The Same Moon, and we follow Pearl in her journey and pursuit in personal and professional fulfilment. The story is told in different voices, painting a full picture of Pearl’s new life in the UK, Will she find love or will she be confronted with more trials and tribulations?
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Le Cirque De Magie
Marsha A. Moore (author)Product Description
The circus is a blur of commotion with last minute preparations for the spring tour. Ravi, the high-wire heart throb, becomes jittery when he meets the company’s newly-hired female dwarf. Hours before departure, his magical perceptions are on fire as he witnesses her involvement in a gory bump off . . .
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On the Road to Death’s Door
M J Williams (author)Product Description
A retired small town police officer and a retired history professor find themselves at the center of a murder investigation involving a politician, a corporate executive, and a hippie priest. Emily and Stan Remington’s maiden voyage in their newly inherited RV goes awry when a body falls off . . .
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Featured Novels
An American Branch
Kenneth Wayne (author)Product Description
The Japanese post-war economic miracle halted in the 1990s, a time that has been called the “lost decade” by many. Although the country suffered a severe downturn, it was still flush with revenue, so certain sectors prospered. Due to the belief that college ensured a successful career and to the large number of young people at the time, higher education was in great demand. The domestic universities were unable to handle the short-term surge, so some Japanese companies formed joint-ventures with dozens of foreign universities to provide an “international” alternative.
An American Branch finds Wayne’s everyman, Charles Journeyman, as the director of an English language program at a new American university branch in Osaka. He is happily married to a lovely Japanese woman, but their inability to have children has created a distance between them. This increases as Journeyman becomes busier with work. Unexpectedly, he is given a seductive reward . . .
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Clip
Kenneth Wayne (author)Product Description
Imagine you’re watching a video posted on the Internet and catch a glimpse of yourself in it. The only thing is, you were never in the place where the clip was shot and you don’t know any of the people in it.
Charles is an expatriated American living in Japan who spots himself in a sex video that has gone viral. Initially, he dismisses it as a fluke. His apprehension fades after . . .
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Featured Anthology of Short Stories
Words to Music (Volume 1)
Wells, et al. (Authors)
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Short story anthology written by 40 authors from 12 countries. Authors from Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Lebanon, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom and United States collaborated with the common goal to entertain readers around the globe. The authors have chosen to give their royalties from this book to several deserving charities . . .
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Dedicated to Fukushima
The Tunge Pit
Kevin Kato (author)
Product DescriptionJon Dolan reaches for his cell phone, unaware he’s helping to kill a woman a mile away. A woman he’s never spoken to. A woman he can see. A woman who will spend her own last moments watching him die first. Kris was sure she knew what she was doing. But sometimes our decisions go wrong. Horribly wrong . . .
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