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  Back to the Bedroom

  Janet Evanovich

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  She was the mysterious woman in the long black cloak. He was the sexy guy next door. They shared a common wall between their Capitol Hill townhouses and not much else—until disaster scored a direct hit on the mystery woman’s bedroom and the sexy guy’s heart. He baked her a cake, she learned to throw a football, there were some misunderstandings in the living room, some mishaps in the yard, and some romantic moments everywhere...

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  Be with the Dead - A Twisty Tale...

  Matty Dalrymple

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  An invitation to speak at the Gotham Crime Fiction Conference draws Ann Kinnear into a mystery within a mystery, where the stakes are not just reputation and riches--they're life and death. 
  ★★★★★ "A riveting, fast-paced, intriguing read with a colorful cast of characters who pull you in and don't let go!" —Lisa Regan, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Crime Fiction Author 
  Ann Kinnear has been invited to the Gotham Crime Fiction Conference to give a talk on "Making the Supernatural Super in Your Novel," but she isn't enthusiastic about adding public speaking to the offerings of Ann Kinnear Sensing. 
  Ann's conference liaison, editor Darren Van Osten, has problems of his own. His client, bestselling thriller author Jock Quine, was killed during a burglary at his Princeton mansion, and Darren is despairing of being able to coach Jock's bookish son Alec to pick up the authorial torch from his larger-than-life father. Darren's best hope of staying solvent is to capitalize on his most mysterious client, Lara Seaford, whose debut novel is sweeping the thriller awards. 
  Meanwhile, cozy mystery author Marilee Forsythe is demanding that her son and daughter-in-law, Jeremy and Jeanette, provide the money she needs to buy out her cozy contract and switch to her true calling: thriller novels. When Marilee is attacked at an author event and refuses to leave her Ocean City, Maryland, condo, the couple entertains guilty visions of a life without her disparaging comments and unreasonable demands. 
  As Ann's involvement in Darren and Jeanette's dilemmas deepens, she finds the cases have more in common than mere authorial posturing ... and that the stakes are life and death. 
  Find out in Book 6 of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels!

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  Two Offers - From their pens to...

  Frances E W Harper

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  Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born free on 24th September 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland which, at that time, was still a slave state. 
  By age 3 Frances had been orphaned and thereafter raised by her maternal aunt and uncle who also gave her her surname; Watkins. 
  At 13 she was working as a seamstress and then as a nursemaid for a white family that owned a bookshop.  Here any spare time was used to read books in the shop and work on her own writing which from 1839 included pieces in anti-slavery journals. 
  By the age of 20 Frances had published her first poetry book ‘Forest Leaves, or Autumn Leaves’, marking her out as an abolitionist voice of note.  Her second book, ‘Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects’ followed and was reprinted many times.  It was the beginning of a remarkable career both for her literary pursuits and also her social activism. 
  In 1850, at age 26, she moved to teach domestic science at Union Seminary, a school for Black students near Columbus, Ohio.  She was its first female teacher.  
  After joining the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1853, Frances began her career as a public speaker and political activist. 
  In 1858, Frances refused to vacate her seat or ride in the ‘colored’ section of a segregated trolley car in Philadelphia.  That same year her poem ‘Bury Me in a Free Land’ was published in The Anti-Slavery Bugle.  She created literary history in 1859 when her short story ‘Two Offers’ was the first short story published by a Black woman.  
  In 1860 she married a widower named Fenton Harper. They had one daughter together in addition to his three children from a previous marriage. When her husband died four years later she kept custody of their daughter and moved to the East Coast. 
  Frances founded, supported, and held high office in several national progressive organizations.  In 1886 she became superintendent of the Colored Section of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Women's Christian Temperance Union.  A decade later she helped found the National Association of Colored Women and served as its vice president. 
  Throughout her activist activities she continued to write, weaving politics into her fictional narratives.  Although her canon is small it contains work that advanced thinking on the roles of black women in society.  
  Frances E W Harper, abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer, died of heart failure on 22nd February 1911 in Philadelphia.  She was 85.  Women were still not permitted to vote,

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  The MMRPG Apocalypse 3

  Jeremy Chambless

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  Mike Reynolds is a Necromancer in a post-apocalypse world where an RPG system has been imposed on planet Earth. The former gas station clerk has risen to the challenges of the game and continues to stay ahead of the level curve imposed by whoever controls the game.After a devastating earthquake designed to restructure the game, Mike and his powerful team must find a new place to call home. However, with the reorganization of the game, comes new threats even more powerful than the last. Mike and his team must race to level up before the Gnoll City destroys everything they have worked so hard to protect—their lives.From the bestselling LitRPG author of the RPG Apocalypse series.

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  Hattie Brings the House Down

  Patrick Gleeson

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  Troublesome directors and fastidious assistants soon become the least of Hattie’s worries as, a week into rehearsals, an actress is found dead backstage on the same day that an extremely valuable theatrical mask goes missing. 
   
  Hattie begins investigating both mysteries, all the while trying to keep the dysfunctional cast and crew on track for opening night. As she delves deeper into the secrets behind the scenes, her allegiance to her theatre, cast and crew will be tested to destruction. 
   
  Follow this unconventional detective as she delves into the alluring and exquisitely perilous world of the theatre.

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  Daughters of the Nile

  Zahra Barri

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  RUNNER-UP: Comedy Women in Print Prize
  Paris, 1940. The course of Fatiha Bin-Khalid's life is changed forever when she befriends the Muslim feminist Doria Shafik. But after returning to Egypt and dedicating years to the fight for women's rights, she struggles to reconcile her political ideals with the realities of motherhood.
  Cairo, 1966. After being publicly shamed when her relationship with a bisexual boyfriend is revealed, Fatiha's daughter is faced with an impossible decision. Should Yasminah accept a life she didn't choose, or will she leave her home and country in pursuit of independence?
  Bristol, 2011. British-born Nadia is battling with an identity crisis and a severe case of herpes. Feeling unfulfilled (and after a particularly disastrous one-night stand), she moves in with her old-fashioned Aunt Yasminah and realises that she must discover her purpose in the modern world before it's too late.
  Following the lives of three women from the Bin-Khalid family, Daughters of the Nile is an original and darkly funny novel that examines the enduring strength of female bonds. These women are no strangers to adversity, but they must learn from the past and relearn shame and shamelessness to radically change their futures.

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