Tag Archive: suspense

Book Review: Quest for Kriya by Rahul Deokar

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Haunted by tragic loss in the 1993 India earthquake, a broken Shakti with a tenuous hold on life is sheltered by her soul-sister Kriya. But when Kriya vanishes without a trace, Shakti is unwittingly swept into a cataclysmic vortex of greed, lust and betrayal. Shakti meets Shiva, a struggling Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and discovers that love is an enigmatic cosmic force. Shakti and Shiva are thrust on a frantic race against time through the dark Mumbai underbelly, forbidden Thailand islands, and treacherous cliffs in the Andaman Sea, where danger lurks in every shadow. As they get closer to the truth, they realize that millions of innocent lives are at stake. Quest for Kriya is an epic saga of love, friendship and sacrifice. The journey is incredible. The emotions are real. The transformation is eternal.

Book Review: The Patriot threat

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Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark. But when his former-boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files—the kind that could bring the United States to its knees—Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four hour chase that begins on the canals in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia. With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and some eye-opening revelations from the $1 bill, this riveting, non-stop adventure is trademark Steve Berry—90% historical fact, 10% exciting speculation—a provocative thriller posing a dangerous question: What if the Federal income tax is illegal?

Book Review: Blood and Discord by Ricardo M Fleshmann

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Armond Fontenot has discovered a family heirloom that may cost him and his partner, Private Detective Moses Byone their lives. In a search to uncover the secrets of his grandmother’s mysterious Ruby Brooch and the truth about the fire that claimed Belle la Vie- the family estate, they unlock doors to the past that may have been better left unopened.

Review: Journey Under the Midnight Sun

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When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are inextricably linked to the crime; the dark, taciturn son of the victim and the unexpectedly captivating daughter of the main suspect. Over the next twenty years we follow their lives as Sasagaki pursues the case – which remains unsolved – to the point of obsession

Book Review: My Girl

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Paige Dawson: the mother of a murdered child and wife to a dead man.She has nothing left to live for… until she finds her husband’s handgun hidden in their house.Why did Ryan need a gun? What did he know about their daughter’s death? Desperate for the truth, Paige begins to unearth her husband’s secrets. But she has no idea who she is up against, or that her life isn’t hers to gamble – she belongs to me. From the bestselling author of Anything for Her, Jack Jordan’s My Girl is the new chilling thriller that you won’t want to miss.

21 Shades of Night – Box set of Paranormal and Urban Fantasies.

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Book Review: Find Me by Romily Bernard

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“Find Me.”These are the words written on Tessa Waye’s diary. The diary that ends up with Wick Tate. But Tessa’s just been found . . . dead.Wick has the right computer-hacking skills for the job, but little interest in this perverse game of hide-and-seek. Until her sister Lily is the next target.Then Griff, trailer-park boy next door and fellow hacker, shows up, intent on helping Wick. Is a happy ending possible with the threat of Wick’s deadbeat dad returning, the detective hunting him sniffing around Wick instead, and a killer taunting her at every step?Foster child. Daughter of a felon. Loner hacker girl. Wick has a bad attitude and sarcasm to spare.But she’s going to find this killer no matter what.Because it just got personal.

Book Review: Korian and Lucy: A Cult of the Cat Short Story (Book #0.5)

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It is the love story of Korian and Lucy (Trinity’s parents) and takes place in The Island of Cats 17 years before the birth of Trinity.

Book Review: November Rain by Shannon A Thompson

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Seventeen-year-old Serena isn’t human. She is a bad blood, and in the city of Vendona, bad bloods are executed. In the last moments before she faces imminent death, a prison guard aids her escape and sparks a revolt. Back on the streets determined to destroy her kind, Serena is spared by a fellow bad blood named Daniel. His past tragedies are as equally mysterious as her connection to them.

Book Review: I Will Faithfully Execute: The Recruitment

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Following six years of being an Army officer and a decorated sniper, William H. Gunderson III has just received his honorable discharge. After ten years that saw him escape from his small Virginia mining town to go to West Point and the US Army, William’s dream is to go to law school and eventually enter public service. More than anything, William harbors an ambition to one day assume high office and wield the power he feels is abused in America of today. However, William harbors dark secrets and desires that have been fueled through his time in Iraq and they test his resolve. Immediately following his discharge he faces the first of several key decisions. Buoyed by his dreams, but still haunted by the darker impulses of his killer instincts, Gunderson must navigate through this minefield of decisions. The correct choices will help him on his ambitious path. The wrong choices could lead to his demise.

Book Review: I Will Faithfully Execute: In The Scope

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In the first expansion to the I Will Faithfully Execute universe, Neo Tomes Publishing explores the life of William H. Gunderson III as a newly commissioned second lieutenant.
Newly minted from West Point, Second Lieutenant Gunderson is a newly minted sniper. But he’s not in training any more, and Sadr City is far from the hallowed halls of the Army grounds. Threats await every decision, from insurgent suicide bombers to civilians who are exhausted to the breaking point during the Second Gulf War. The choices that Gunderson makes will dictate whether others live or die. Choose well, or bear the consequences of indecision…

Review: The Voodoo Detective (Detective Byone Series #5) by Ricardo M. Fleshman

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Christmas, 1973. One of the young women from La Petite Fleur Rose has mysteriously disappeared. For the last nine months New Orleans Private Detective Moses Byone has worked the cases that have the entire Crescent City donning him the Voodoo Detective. Mose and Armond race against time to protect themselves from the terribly dark and malevolent forces threatening them and the beautiful, seductive women of La Petite Fleur Rose. Gripping to the last, Detective Moses Byone comes face to face with the darkness and evil he has tried so desperately to disprove as he becomes The Voodoo Detective.

Book Tour Review: Last Vacation by Sarah Elle Emm

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Seven days have passed since Naples real estate agent Megan MacKenna has heard from her twin sister, Madeline, who was vacationing on the beautiful, Caribbean island of St. Croix. Though authorities are not convinced there is a case to solve, Megan knows with all of her heart something happened to Maddy. When Megan receives a direct warning to leave the island or end up like her sister, she turns to the only person who has taken her seriously since she arrived, Gabe, a breakfast cook at a local diner. Undercover DEA agent, Gabriel Walker has been building his cover for months, waiting for the opportunity to work his way into the infamous Torrez crime ring. When Megan shows up asking questions and Gabe realizes her twin’s disappearance might be linked to the Torrez men, he has to convince her to go back to Florida before she becomes their next victim. The closer Megan gets to the truth, the more Gabe begins to suspect he is missing a huge piece of the puzzle. And someone is closing in on Megan…

Book Review: Savage Delight (Lovely Vicious #2) by Sara Wolf

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After a run-in with her mom’s ex-boyfriend, she scrabbles to remember what she’s lost to amnesia. Her ex-nemesis Jack falls deeper into a pit of despair, and his girlfriend Sophia does all she can to keep him to herself. But as Isis’ memories return, she finds it harder and harder to resist what she felt for Jack, and Jack finds it impossible to stay away from the only girl who’s ever melted the ice around his heart. (Official Synopsis)

Book Review : The Many Lives of Ruby Iyer (Ruby Iyer #1)by Laxmi Hariharan

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When her best friend is kidnapped, Ruby will stop at nothing to rescue him. Criminals run the streets of Bombay. Jam-packed with the worst degenerates. The city is a shell of the pride and joy it used to be.
Ruby knows something must be done, but it isn’t until her best friend is kidnapped by the despotic Dr. Braganza that she knows that she and she alone must save city, save her best friend, save the world from total destruction. Armed only with with Vikram, a cop-turned-rogue they are about to embark on a road they may never return from. (official synopsis)

Book Review : Liars Inc.by Paula Stokes

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Max Cantrell has never been a big fan of the truth, so when the opportunity arises to sell forged permission slips and cover stories to his classmates, it sounds like a good way to make a little money and liven up a boring senior year. With the help of his friends Preston and Parvati, Max starts Liars, Inc. When Preston wants his own cover story to go visit a girl he met online, Max doesn’t think twice about hooking him up. Until Preston never comes home. Then the evidence starts to pile up—terrifying clues that lead the cops to Preston’s body. Terrifying clues that point to Max as the murderer. Can Max find the real killer before he goes to prison for a crime he didn’t commit? (official synopsis)

Book Review: A Murder of Magpies by Judith Flanders

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It’s just another day at the office for London book editor Samantha “Sam” Clair. Checking jacket copy for howlers, wondering how to break it to her star novelist that her latest effort is utterly unpublishable, lunch scheduled with gossipy author Kit Lowell, whose new book will dish the juicy dirt on a recent fashion industry scandal. Little does she know the trouble Kit’s book will cause-before it even goes to print. When police Inspector Field turns up at the venerable offices of Timmins & Ross, asking questions about a package addressed to Sam, she knows something is wrong. Now Sam’s nine-to-five life is turned upside down as she finds herself propelled into a criminal investigation. Someone doesn’t want Kit’s manuscript published and unless Sam can put the pieces together in time, they’ll do anything to stop it.(official Synopsis)

Book review: Clara’s Song (Haunted Minds #2) by John Hennessy

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Be careful what you wish for.Clara Bayliss dreams of escaping her boring marriage. When her car fails to start after a freakish accident, her fantasy has every chance of becoming the reality.Rescued by the very man she thought had been killed, she takes a ride into the unknown with him, and has no intention of returning home.Her husband isn’t pleased about being dumped. Especially when he finds out the news she’s been keeping from him.And then, there’s a song, the one that Clara would play whenever she needed freeing from a world full of despair.Clara’s Song.It would make her feel good. Strong. Independent. Fearless.Only…her rescuer knows the song too, and for him, it means something else entirely…A dark, psychotic mystery thriller, full of suspense, lost dreams and total paranoia from which there is no escape. A place where marriage really can be murder….

Book Review: The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die by Marnie Riches

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When a bomb explodes at the University of Amsterdam, aspiring criminologist Georgina McKenzie is asked by the police to help flush out the killer.But the bomb is part of a much bigger, more sinister plot that will have the entire city quaking in fear. And the killer has a very special part for George to play…(official synopsis)

Book Review: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good? (official synopsis)

Book Review : No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark

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” Little Lizzie Borden” that was the name given to her by the media and the public when she was tried for murdering her mother and step-father and the house she lived in was a place for ghost stories but years later when she has put her past behind and even the name, her husband buys the very same house for her as a birthday gift. Now she is standing in the very room where she shot her mother and step-father not knowing how to escape from there without having to reveal her past . If this dilemma could not have torn her apart, the murders piling up definitely does

Book Review: Silent Scream (D.I. Kim Stone, #1) by Angela Marsons

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First there was the murder of a school principal and then came the case of another murder by a slashed throat and both shared a familiar background of having worked in a children’s home that was burned to ashes years ago but when there is a third body, the case takes a very deadly shape and Kim Stone will go to any lengths to find out the truth behind the sudden murder of all these previous employees of a burned children’s home even if it means digging up bones

Book Review : The Ghost of Normandy Road (Haunted Minds #1) by John Hennessy

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An old house stands on Normandy Road, uncared for and uninhabited for years, until one day, believing an urban legend that no-one dares to live there, a young boy decides to cross its threshold.Yet the house is far from empty – within its walls, a terrible evil has been disturbed. It will take one brave soul three of the longest nights of his life to unlock its secrets, but will he live to tell the tale? (official synopsis)

Book Review : The Warrior’s Debt (Warriors series, #4) by Ty Patterson

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A serial killer stalks New York city, one whose only weapon is a wooden bat. He grows increasingly brutal with each kill and disappears into the shadows afterwards.The NYPD’s investigation is going nowhere and in desperation they turn to someone who has some knowledge of killing.The NYPD’s hunter pursues terrorists, gangsters, killers of all kinds. He is an assassin himself.However even he makes no progress and hopes that the killer makes a mistake.The killer makes it personal instead.The killer already has the hunter on his radar and has ordered a new set of bats.Then begins a game of Last Killer Standing. (official synopsis)

Three Tales of Vampires (A Tale of Vampires 1-3) by John Hennessy

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Collection of John Hennessy’s first three novels in the Tale of Vampire series, Murderous little darlings, The blood and the raven and Innocent while she sleeps

Book Review : Jack Spade: Dream Detective by Carl A. Chase

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James Harper has a world of dreams that moves with him everywhere and in this dream world he is not James Harper but an aced detective by the name Jack Spade. Right now jack spade is a very strange case that revolve around his new girlfriend Lauren Jefferson. A case where a young socialite is found murdered leaving a whole lot of chaos back.

Book Review: .40 Cal Sayulita by Marcus Schantz

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He never thought that a trip to Mexico with his girlfriend would turn out to be one of the most dangerous trips of his life. So much that his life is hanging by a thread and he is forced to pick up weapons to protect himself and his girlfriend’s life

Book Review: Auditory Viewpoint by Lillian R. Melendez

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Cyber crime is on its rise and everyday tonnes of people suffer from this malice and end up losing their earning and even identity. Even the modern justice system is fighting against this malice but finding it hard. What happens when you become a victim of identity theft and to make it worse comes with a hidden vengeance. who can you trust and where can you hide?

Book Review: Chemical Attraction by Christina Thompson

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Madeline Pierce stumbles upon an illegal activity in her company and caught up in the middle, she seeks help from FBI but what she got in return was more than she could handle. Joseph Roberts had been popular for two things, his efficiency with woman and solving the trickiest of the cases but when circumstances force him to work with Madeline, his proficiency in both the field seems to be on a threat. At one end is a case that is unlike anything he has dealt before and a woman who is nothing like he had seen before.

Book Review: The Murderer’s Smile by Kevin D’Onofrio

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He had everything. A loving family. A successful career. Money, fame, followers, in fact so much that there were billboards all around the country that proclaimed him to be “The most trusted man”. All that until he was arrested for the murder of his pregnant wife and son. How did the most trusted man and popular News Anchor went on to become “The Death Anchor” ? and most importantly. Did he really kill his wife?

Book Review: Constricted (Flawed #1.1) by Becca J. Campbell

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A short novella of the series flawless and elongating on the first book of the series, Empath, Constricted is the version of Logan where he is in turmoil over his feelings for Jade and trying to cope with his secrets

Book Review: Dream the Crow’s Black Dream (A Tale of Vampires, #4) by John Hennessy

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It was just one innocent night of story telling but that night turned out to be his worst nightmare so much that Seth had never managed to recover from its aftereffect. The Blood and the Raven was just not a spooky urban tale but a real terror that had haunted Seth’s life. Things get ugly when the characters of his story visits him to turmoil his life and threaten his loved ones

Book Review : Death on Canal Street (Detective Byone Series #4) by Ricardo Fleshman

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Detective Byone is back and this time he is being chased by somebody that even he is not able to brush off easily. While guarding age old historical artifacts, Byone has to race against time to stop the piling bodies and also to save himself and his partner, when his enemies refuses to leave any trick untried in grabbing the artifacts

Book Review: Grift by Jason Mosberg

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Piper maybe living in the city of Lights and Glamour, but she is not living in the part of Las Vegas that is envy of all, but she is part of the city that thrives on tricking and robbing of its guests. Piper has known only one world and that is of debauchery and trickery. The world of Grift. She is not alone and have her friends, who is also living this high stakes lives. Things should have been smooth but then world of trickery is not going to leave without playing one on you as well and now she has to apply every trick she has learnt to protect her sister who has been kidnapped against a huge ransom demand

Book Review: The Immortal Crown (Age of X, #2) by Richelle Mead

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Arcadia has been a very volatile neighbor for RUNA (Republic of United North America). Lucian vying for an accolade and votes for the upcoming election decides to visit these treacherous lands and try for a friendly relationship. But he is not going alone and eventually Justin and Mae are forced to travel along with Lucian not knowing the dangers that are awaiting them across the borders. Also both Mae and Justin have their own battles to fight along with the one that is to protect their country

Book Review: The Legacy of Fear: Horror at the Lake (A Vampire Tale) (Book 1) by Vanessa A. Ryan

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Her grandfather’s death had always been a haunting mystery for her and she had tried for ages to find the answers with no apparent success and now she has an opportunity in form of her grandfather’s mansion that has been recently entrusted to her. She takes on the job of finding about the mysteries surrounding her grandfather’s death and what led him to steal artifacts that tracks back to Egyptian civilization

Book Review: Army of the Dead (zombie Attack #2) by Devan Sagliani

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Just when Xander MacNamara’s life was getting settled in otherwise a chaotic world destroyed by zombie apocalypse, Enemies from his past returns and to make things worse, there is a bounty on Xander’s head now. There are forces now trying to nab him for the said bounty and things can go from bad to worse in an instant when everybody is out with a thirst for your blood.

Book Review : Skeletal by Katherine Hayton

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On a construction site, couple of workers stumble upon a body. Well not exactly a body but the remains of it after being buried and left for 10 years to find. Meet Daina Harrow. What follows is a coroner’s trial to find out what happened to her and who exactly Daina Harrow was.

Book Review : The Warrior Code (Warriors series #3) by Ty Patterson

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Twin sisters Megan and Beth Petersons are attacked while they were enjoying a trekking trip in Yellowstone park. while at first glance it looked like a random incident, a repeat attack made everyone have a second look at this incident and it is then that deeper conspiracies are dug out and with each secrets the danger gets closer grip on the twins and there is only one person who could save them.

Book review: Unburied Past (Oakshade Manor, #1) by Larissa Ladd

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Alexis has recently lost her job and to save her money she moves into a new apartment but as soon as she starts living there she experiences paranormal activities and midst them she gets clues about her missing mother. Suddenly there are a whole lot of secrets revolving around Alexis to unravel

Book review : Headhunters by Jo Nesbø, Don Bartlett

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Roger brown is the best in his field. An accomplished Headhunter, his selections are the golden words and no candidate he has ever chosen for a post has ever gone home empty handed but on a personal front, his luxury lifestyle is pushing him into debts and to survive this, Roger has a secret life. But things turn ugly when he meets the wrong person

Book Review : Unbeautiful (Unbeautiful, #1) by Jessica Sorensen

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Emery has been living a very protected and sheltered life and was always told that all she requires is to be beautiful and train herself to be an obedient and loyal partner to her fiance and adhere to the rules of their community but now she wants to move out of her cocoon and explore the world for herself but the problem lies with her family who is far from your conventional parents and nor is the neighborhood she has been living in. The more she tries to escape, the more she gets dragged into a deeper world of secrets

Book Review: The Blood and the Raven (A Tale of Vampires, #2) by John Hennessy

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A group of friends under the shadows of moon decides to tell each other the scariest of tales known to them but things does not go as anticipated as an ancient curse visits them. or is it really a curse?

Book Review: Murderous Little Darlings (A Tale of Vampires, #1) by John Hennessy

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Three siblings who were orphaned on birth struggles with the fact that they are vampires and have to make certain choices ,even if it makes them turn against each other.

Book Review: Dark Winter: The Wicca Circle (Dark Winter, #1) by John Hennessy

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Romilly Winter is going to be 16yrs old while others get dresses or chocolates as gift, Romilly is given a mirror by her grandmother and if it was not enough, her grandmother tells her that the mirror holds a lot more power than she could ever imagine and that it is her duty to protect it with her life and before she could learn anything more from her grandmother, she is left alone with a mirror that she has no idea what to do with and added to this is the fact that supernatural creatures are suddenly at her doorsteps trying to kill her.

Book review: Death Before Daylight (Timely death #3) by Shannon A Thompson

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Two worlds collide in this final trilogy. The inevitable fight is finally happening between the descendants of the two worlds of Dark and Light and while lives are at stake, a cruel decision has to be taken to ensure the safety of their world and its peoples. The final trilogy is were Eric and Jessica finally face Darthon but midst preparing themselves for the war, their personal relationship is threatened by revelations of many untold truths.

Wattpad Book Review : Bound by Blood

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Light was never ordinary. Her mother a crazed lunatic obsessed with perfection and dolls, her hatred for the impure is strong. Trying to create the perfect doll family. Beaten and wounded light slowly turns phsyco. Losing her mind to the voices in her head turning her into the murderous doll her mother can be proud of. Until she meets one of Mothers new dolls, then things really do turn to the worse. Dolls to murders to asylums what else could possibly go wrong?

Wattpad Book Review: Consumed

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Lucy Hanson thought it was a plain journal left behind by some previous owners until she realizes the contents were far from someone’s scribbling or fantasy. It was confessions. Confessions and chronicles of murders done by the serial killer O, who has been terrorizing the city with gruesome murders. How far can you go before the danger comes knocking at your door?

Book Review: Trust Me, I’m Lying by Mary Elizabeth Summer

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Learnt from the best, her father itself, Julep Dupree is a master in the art of conning and her tricks are not something that can be left unnoticed but she is put to the ultimate test when she has to use all the skills she has ever learnt to find her missing father, and piece together the clues he has left behind to find him before its too late.

Book Review: The Rataban Betrayal by Stephen Alter

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Calm and Serene Mussoorie is startled when bullets ricochet through the heart of these silent valleys killing a CIA agent and what follows is a revelation of a huge conspiracy that is threatening to spread chaos by killing one of the most prominent figures of modern world. Set across the Background of Himalayan Valleys, It tells the muffled struggles of Tibetan natives taking refuge across the world and who is fighting daily to get back to their home