Max Overton
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Max Overton

Max Overton has travelled extensively and lived in many places around the world--including Malaysia, India, Germany, England, Jamaica, New Zealand, USA and Australia. Trained in the biological sciences in New Zealand and Australia, he has worked within the scientific field for many years, but now concentrates on writing. While predominantly a writer of historical fiction (Scarab: Books 1 - 6 of the Amarnan Kings; the Scythian Trilogy; the Demon Series; Ascension), he also writes in other genres (A Cry of…
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Captain Angus, The Lighthouse Ghost by Wendy Laing

Two children holidaying at the Cape Otway Lighthouse Station in Victoria Australia meet the ghost of an old Scottish sea captain who roams the world helping the 'spirits' of lighthouses and helping 'conserve' the towers. Captain Angus befriends the children and takes them on virtual reality trips via a magic time tunnel. Together, they experience sailing on an old sailor's vessel, see a shipwreck rescue, witness the tower being built, and even meet one of their own ancestors! GENRE: Mid-grade…
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Uncle Billy’s Chicken Hut and Salvation Emporium by Jeffrey G. Roberts

    Uncle Billy's Chicken Hut and Salvation Emporium   West of the bustling metropolis of Phoenix, along Interstate Highway 10, is the magnificent and mystical desolation of the mountains of Southwestern Arizona. It is as alien as the planet Mars, and just as foreboding. Yet, hidden away between the peaks and valleys and desert vistas, is a most incongruous edifice - part diner, part carnival atmosphere, with equal measure of whimsy, and just a smidge of nightmare. And it…
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Killer in Pair-a-Dice by Dennis N. Griffin

Not far from the glitter of the Las Vegas Valley's world-famous adult playground, a serial rapist and murderer--the Phantom--claims his victims, seeking to inflict pain on those who remind him of the unbearable agony he's endured... Detective Steve Garneau of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is assigned as the lead investigator on the case. Working under a microscope of feminist groups and politicians alike, he pursues his elusive quarry but makes an unfortunate comment that an unscrupulous reporter overhears--and…
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Jane Doe Mysteries by Wendy Laing

As the daughter of a policeman who died in the line of duty, Inspector Jane Doe, head of Melbourne Homicide, is single-mindedly driven to seek justice for all. But Jane is no ordinary detective. She can communicate with the ghosts of murder victims. Not wanting to be dismissed as mentally unstable, she must keep her secret from all but her husband and her senior officer, using each victim's information to subtly direct her team in the right direction on each…
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Circles of Deception by Frances Evlin

Who is making the crop circles? The enormous geometric designs have appeared in fields around the world for over thirty years. Novelist Risa McKensie plans to write about the fantastic works of art. When her intent becomes known, she receives an anonymous warning to drop the project. She can't imagine why. Because a fiction book might become a bestseller and draw attention to the circle phenomena? Who would care? Clearly, when the warnings multiply, more than one group. Risa meets…
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Hit and Run by Dr Bob Rich

84-year-old Sylvia barely escapes death when a teenage driver plows down six children and a crossing guard, never looking back. Shaken, Sylvia draws his portrait, creating a connection with this 14-year-old boy that allows the police to locate and arrest him. That night, he appears to her through a supernatural process neither understands. Can one woman's belief in the power of love make a difference in the life of one boy who wants to change? GENRE: Inspirational/Paranormal     ASIN: B07DFF3KBX …
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Woodcutter’s Grim Series, Book 9: Hunter’s Blues by Karen Wiesner

For the ten generations since the evil first came to Woodcutter's Grim, the Guardians have sworn an oath to protect the town from the childhood horrors that lurk in the black woods. Without them, the town would be defenseless...and the terrors would escape to the world at large.   Loosely based on "Little Snow White" by the Brothers Grimm. The year is 2093. When the evil in Woodcutter's Grim unleashed with a vengeance fifty years ago, humans turned into ghouls that…
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Hearts Desires and Dark Embraces by Margaret L. Carter

When Margaret L. Carter first read Dracula at the age of twelve, her spontaneous reaction was to wonder how the undead Count saw the events in which he was portrayed as the villain. She's always been fascinated with the "monster's" viewpoint and relationships between human and nonhuman beings. Most of the stories in this collection can be described as romances, and all involve love and passion in some form. Here you'll encounter vampires, elves, ghosts, and at least one human-monster hybrid.…
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Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series, Book 4: Return to Bloodmoon Manor by Karen Wiesner

Nestled on Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin is a small, secluded town called Bloodmoon Cove with volatile weather, suspicious folk...and newly awakened ghosts.  Don't close your eyes...     Continue the series:         Part I:   "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in awakening, to find that they have been upon the verge of…
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A Heartstopper Horror: Brad Simpson and the Ghostly Field by Robin Helene Vogel

  Continue the series: The Audition; Brad Spots Something Weird   Brad glanced sideways at the other kids gathered for the audition.   He smiled and chuckled to himself.  They all looked so much like him--and like each other--blonde, blue-eyed, tall, slim, with white, blinding teeth!  That was one of the bizarre things about being an actor--when you showed up to try out for different roles, you found yourself in a line-up with as many as a hundred kids who all…
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A Cry of Shadows by Max Overton

(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble)     5.0 out of 5 stars Psychological thriller to keep you reading on. One serial killer would make an interesting read, but two, and from the opposite sides of the world. Fascinating scenario with a doctor on a mad mission, from Australia, and a rejected lover in the USA. Intriguing from beginning to end. Amazon Customer   Flecks of foam covered the dog's…
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Katrina Ogden Mysteries by Victoria Heckman

Honolulu police officer Katrina Ogden, also known as K.O., intends to become a homicide detective but she keeps becoming embroiled in cases that find her rather than the ones she's assigned.  Paradise is filled with danger...   Book 1: KO'd in Honolulu Heroes, Homicide, and Honolulu... Brassy Honolulu police officer, Katrina (K.O.) Ogden, runs a tight ship, calling things as she sees them while serving and protecting the people of Hawaii. But, after K.O. becomes connected to a series of…
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Free Short Story: Kipuka by Victoria Heckman [Paranormal]

Kipuka* By Victoria Heckman Malama Price stepped onto her lanai, carefully balancing her tumbler of gin and her monkeypod cane. She hung the cane on the low railing and slurped a small wave of gin that threatened to overflow. Then she settled herself into the cushions of her koa rocker and eased her new lime-green rubber slippers from her gnarled toes. She tucked her mu'u mu'u around her legs, secured her tumbler in her crotch, and rocked. "Today da kids…
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Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series by Karen Wiesner

  Nestled on Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin is a small, secluded town called Bloodmoon Cove with volatile weather, suspicious folk...and newly awakened ghosts. Don't close your eyes...   Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series, Book 1: Bound Spirits "Harrity Scaritty, on the mountain-side, in the realm of the dead, how will you escape, how will you be fed? With the living and the undead". Nestled on Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin is a small, secluded town called Bloodmoon Cove with volatile…
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Sin Eater by John Schembra

;   [wp_social_ninja id="217179" platform="reviews"] Sin Eater; In folklore, a person who would take on the sins of a dying person through ritual means and for material gain, thus absolving the dying of their sins while taking on the burden of the same. Prologue   He clung tightly to his mother's hand as they walked down the dimly lit hallway toward the bedroom. He could hear the soft sobbing of his aunts in the living room, punctuated once in a…
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Ghosts Dancing On Water by Patricia Bernard

When the heart is destroyed, the mind is capable of unspeakable things in the name of love... Stevie loves his little sister Lily and will always protect her. As children, he was the one who looked after her. If anyone threatened her, she could always depend on him. Protecting her from Roy was the most difficult of all. He had too much power over both of them... Stevie wonders why his sister isn't turning to him for help now. Where…
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Nightmare Island Series by Stella Drexler

Somewhere off the coast of Connecticut is a mysterious island community. To the mainlanders, Flicker Island is a quiet, innocuous community where the citizens live simple lives and rarely venture from their insular shores.   To the residents of the island, it is a place where lies become reality, storms are conjured from a cloudless sky, treachery is second nature, and your dreams can kill you...   Book 1: False Awakening Mia Burke's life was pretty ordinary; that is, until…
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Woodcutter’s Grim Series by Karen Wiesner

For the ten generations since the evil first came to Woodcutter's Grim, the Guardians have sworn an oath to protect the town from the childhood horrors that lurk in the black woods. Without them, the town would be defenseless...and the terrors would escape to the world at large.   Volume I {Classic Tales of Horror Retold} (Books 1-3 and The Final Chapter) For the ten generations since the evil first came to Woodcutter's Grim, the Guardians have sworn an oath to…
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TULPA by Max Overton

    Prologue Uttarakhand, Northern India, 1967   One never expects to see a demon, and cannot rightly prepare for the sight. There is little that mortal man can do to defend oneself from these beings, so one can only hope to survive the encounter. The walking trails in the forest-clothed hills around Nainital in the Kumaon foothills of the Himalayas abound with wildlife. Two young men walking in those hills and known affectionately to each other as 'Boy' and…