SUMMARY: There are secrets that must remain buried . . . Nine people have been slain in New York City—nine strangers with nothing in common—the apparent victims of a frighteningly elusive serial killer. Only one thing links the dead: postcards they received, mailed from Las Vegas, announcing the day they would die. Assigned to the case is a legendary FBI profiler with a troubled past, a drinking problem, and nothing left to lose . . . Abandoned to a monastery is an unwanted son born under a curse on the seventh day of the seventh month of the year 777 . . . Unprepared for a momentous discovery is a post-World War II expedition into the crypts of a clandestine medieval society . . . . . . but all lead to a secret embroiled in destiny, history, evil, faith, and corruption . . . and one terrifying truth that no one must ever know . . .

SUMMARY: Lysander Hawkley Combined Breathtaking Good Looks With The Kindest Of Hearts. He Couldn'T Pass A Stray Dog, An Ill-Treated Horse, Or A Neglected Wife Without Rushing To The Rescue. And With Neglected Wives The Rescue Invariably Led To Ecstatic Bonking, Which Didn'T Please Their Erring Husbands One Bit. Lysander'S Mid-Life Crisis Had Begun At Twenty-Two. Reeling From The Death Of His Beautiful Mother, He Was Out Of Work, Drinking Too Much And Desperately In Debt. The Solution Came From Ferdie, His Fat, Fast-Operating Friend: If Lysander Was So Good At Making Husbands Jealous, Why Shouldn'T He Get Paid For It? So Ferdie Moved Him Into The Idyllic Rutshire Village Of Paradise, Which Teemed With Underserviced Wives Whose Husbands Were Whooping It Up In London. Not Only Did Lysander Cause Absolute Havoc, But As The Husbands Came Roaring Home To Protect Their Property He Was Soon Awash With Cash, Polo Ponies, Yachts And Ferraris Given Him By Grateful Wives. But Husband Rattling Has Its Complications. The Undisputed King Rat Of Rutshire Was A Fiendishly Temperamental, World-Famous Conductor Called Rannaldini, Who Lived In A Huge Haunted Abbey Overlooking Paradise With A Rottweiler Called Tabloid And A String Of Racehorses And Glamorous Groupies. Indeed, The Only Unglamorous Woman Around Rannaldini Was The One Who Ran His Life Like Clockwork, His Plump Young Wife Kitty. Soon Lysander Was Seriously Convinced That Kitty Must Be Rescued At All Costs From Rannaldini'S Sadistic Promiscuity. Frantic To Prove He Was Not Just A Far-From-Cheap Wife-Enhancer, Lysander Enlisted The Help Of Old Blue-Eyed Havoc Maker Rupert Campbell-Black, Who As A Successful Trainer Had His Own Reasons For Wanting To Bury Rannaldini - And The Battle Of The Giants Was On.

Review

"A genre-bending, fast-paced whirl with fantastic characters, a deftly drawn plot and sizzling attraction... " 4 ½ Stars, Top Pick of the Month (RT Book Reviews 20110912)

A compelling debut that smartly mixes history, action, romance, and magic. (Publishers Weekly 20110912)

Sexy, edgy, and stunningly inventive... will have readers begging for more. (Library Journal 20110921)

A surprisingly engaging and action packed read... (Bookaholics Romance Book Club 20110921)

A nice twist on historical romance with a touch of magic. (Drey's Library 20110922)

Fun, exciting and different... too hot to touch and very enjoyable. (BookLoons.com 20110926)

A great read with caring, worthy characters. The mix of cultures (past and present) makes for a wonderful story. (The Long and Short of It Reviews 20110928)

Written with details, depths and has characters that will take your breath away. (My Book Addiction and More 20111005)

Fresh and a little addictive... (Once Upon A Chapter 20111121)

A strongly written, well-constructed magical world with complex characters. (Lazaraspaste Dear Author )

I was surprised to learn that this is a debut novel... Very entertaining. (Books and Quilts )

A stunning mix of new age and old school makes this one sensational! (Fresh Fiction )

I was enthralled by this exciting fantasy. (Beyond Her Book WW Ladies Book Blurbs )

About the Author

Isabel Cooper lives in Boston with her boyfriend and a houseplant she's kept alive for over a year now. She maintains her guise as a mild-mannered project manager working in legal publishing. She only travels through time the normal way and has never fought a demon, but she can waltz. For more visit isabelcooper.wordpress.com.

(20110804)

The legends of Jaq Merril are legion—but legends. Hark, ye, then to the true story of the pirate benefactor of Mankind!

SUMMARY: In Jilly Cooper'S Third Rutshire Chronicle We Meet Ricky France-Lynch, Who Is Moody, Macho, And Magnificent. He Had A Large Crumbling Estate, A Nine-Goal Polo Handicap, And A Beautiful Wife Who Was Fair Game For Anyone With A Cheque Book. He Also Had The Adoration Of Fourteen-Year-Old Perdita Macleod. Perdita Couldn'T Wait To Leave Her Dreary School And Become A Polo Player.The Polo Set Were Ritzy, Wild, And Gloriously Promiscuous.Perdita Thought She'D Get Along With Them Very Well.But Before She Had Time To Grow Up, Ricky'S Life Exploded Into Tragedy, And Perdita Turned Into A Brat Who Loved Only Her Horses - And Ricky France-Lynch.Ricky'S Obsession To Win Back His Wife, And Perdita'S To Win Both Ricky And A Place As A Top Class Polo Player, Take The Reader On A Wildly Exciting Journey - To The Estancias Of Argentina, To Palm Beach And Deauville, And On To The Royal Polo Fields Of England And The Glamorous Pitches Of California Where The Most Heroic Battle Of All Is Destined To Be Fought - A Match That Is About Far More Than Just The Winning Of A Huge Silver Cup...

SUMMARY: From the queen of the British bestseller lists comes the classic hit every Englishwoman remembers with a sigh -- Riders, the steamy, scandalous tale of sexual and equestrian competition within the heroic world of international show jumping.Welcome to a world of cutthroat competition populated by fearless athletes, wealthy sponsors, and beautiful starlets and set against the glorious Cotswold countryside and the playgrounds of the world. Within this arena we meet the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands the most difficult horse or woman becomes biddable, who is driven by his hatred of Rupert Campbell-Black, the handsome and supremely confident star of the show ring. They steal each other's horses and love each other's women as they push themselves and their mounts to impossible extremes, until their feud erupts, with devastating consequences, at the Los Angeles Olympics.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: One of the glorious Rutshire Chronicles.Into the cut-throat world of Corinium television comes Declan O’Hara, a mega-star of great glamour and integrity with a radiant feckless wife, a handsome son and two ravishing teenage daughters. Living rather too closely across the valley is Rupert Campbell-Black, divorced and as dissolute as ever, and now the Tory Minister for Sport. Declan needs only a few days at Corinium to realize that the Managing Director, Lord Baddingham, is a crook who has recruited him merely to help retain the franchise for Corinium. Baddingham has also enticed Cameron Cook, a gorgeous but domineering woman executive, to produce Declan’s programme. Declan and Cameron detest each other, provoking a storm of controversy into which Rupert plunges with his usual abandon. As a rival group emerges to pitch for the franchise, reputations ripen and decline, true love blossoms and burns, marriages are made and shattered, and sex raises its (delicious) head at almost every throw as, in bed and boardroom, the race is on to capture the Cotswold Crown.

SUMMARY: There are secrets that must remain buried . . . Nine people have been slain in New York City—nine strangers with nothing in common—the apparent victims of a frighteningly elusive serial killer. Only one thing links the dead: postcards they received, mailed from Las Vegas, announcing the day they would die. Assigned to the case is a legendary FBI profiler with a troubled past, a drinking problem, and nothing left to lose . . . Abandoned to a monastery is an unwanted son born under a curse on the seventh day of the seventh month of the year 777 . . . Unprepared for a momentous discovery is a post-World War II expedition into the crypts of a clandestine medieval society . . . . . . but all lead to a secret embroiled in destiny, history, evil, faith, and corruption . . . and one terrifying truth that no one must ever know . . .

Product Description

A strange shark-like creature that can attack above and below ground as well as in the water causes havoc one Halloween night at Parrot's Cove boardwalk.
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Also INCLUDED: A bonus "Sneak Peek" look at the sequel, "Shark Beast 2: Paranormal Sharkitivity"...

...in the sequel, a group of young film-makers attempt to make a quickie "Shark Beast" exploitation film on the same beach where the attacks happened a year earlier... distracted by sexy behind-the-scenes antics, the young actors and crew don't notice that the REAL shark beast may be back... until it's too late...

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Also available here on Amazon from pop fiction author Russ Cooper...

"Girl On A Laptop" --
A girl hiding under a brass bed with a laptop sends a desperate message to a stranger on New Year's Eve.

But is her plea for help real, or a drunken computer prank--and can young Phoebe afford to take the chance that there might be a madman on the loose?

(Also included in "Girl On A Laptop": Bonus "sneak peek" chapter of Russ Cooper's thrilling "Shark Beast")

("Girl On A Laptop" is currently Cooper's best-selling Kindle book)

"Vampire Lake" --
A forensic pathologist and his ex-wife find their murder plot taking a paranormal turn when they get a little too close to Vampire Lake

Also included in "Vampire Lake": Bonus "sneak peek" chapters of Russ Cooper's thrilling "Shark Beast" and "Girl On A Laptop"

Also available--

"Bonfire of the Vampires" -- an epic tale of vampires in the heart of Vegas

"By All Means, Rome" -- A priceless wine bottle is hidden somewhere in Rome. A feisty young American girl and a mysterious wine-taster race against time, ingenious villains and the polizia as they juggle clues, romance and danger to find it and solve a 300-year-old mystery before time runs out.

"Shark Beast 2: Paranormal Sharkitivity"-- the sequel to the toothy, tentacled best-selling thriller.

Enjoy these fun reads and more soon from Russ Cooper

Gair is under a death sentence. He can hear music - music with power - and in the Holy City that means only one thing: he's a witch, and he's going to be burnt at the stake. Even if he could escape, the Church Knights and their witchfinder would be hot on his heels while his burgeoning power threatesn to tear him apart from within. There is no hope... none, but a secretive order, themselves persecuted almost to destruction. If Gair can escape, if he can master his own growing, dangerous abilities, if he can find the Guardians of the Veil, then maybe he will be safe. Or maybe he'll discover that his fight has only just begun. SONGS OF THE EARTH is the most compelling debut fantasy novel since Patrick Rothfuss first hit the shelves four years ago, with the stunning THE NAME OF THE WIND. Combining superb characterisation with an epic story, it is beautifully told and engaging from the very first word.

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