Extract – Page 2 – Everything Is Better With Dragons

Extract: The Inheritance, by Anne Allen

The Inheritance by Anne Allen is one year old. To celebrate all the seven books in The Guernsey Novel series will only be £1.99 on Kindle for a limited time. Each of the books can be read as a standalone too.

**The Inheritance – Book 7 –** **https://amzn.to/352abv5**

Extract

Chapter two

Tess – Exeter March 2012

Tess stared in horror at the face of the young boy on the trolley. It was clear he was dead.

‘You all right, Doctor? It’s not someone you know is it?’ The paramedic’s voice sounded concerned.

Tess looked at him, trying to stay calm, but struggling. Surrounded by the perpetual noise of Accident and Emergency with the constant flow of trolleys carrying patients of all ages and injuries, the sight of the dead boy had hit her like a physical blow.

‘No, not really. He…he came in last week after a road traffic accident, knocked off his bike by a car. Nothing serious. What…what happened?’

The paramedic, known for his cheerfulness, looked solemn.

‘He was playing in a football match at school and, according to whoever called us, just keeled over as he was about to score.’ He touched the boy’s head. ‘There was nothing we could do, Doctor. Poor kid. But we had to go through the motions, like. Recorded as DOA, I suppose.’ She nodded as he handed her his report.

‘What about the parents?’ She held her breath, knowing she would find it difficult to face them now. What if it was her fault?

‘Away. The lad’s been staying with friends.’ He nodded towards an ashen-faced woman with her arms around a boy wearing the same football kit as Gary. Both looked as if they were about to be sick. Tess called a nurse over and asked her to take them into a private room and give them tea.

‘Thanks, Tom, would you mind taking the…body – Gary – downstairs? I’ll just sign the report and they can carry on from there.’ She dashed her name at the bottom of the report, trying not to look at the pale, unmarked face of the thirteen-year-old boy who had been so chirpy only a week ago. And alive.

Anne was born in Rugby to a Welsh father and an English mother. As a result, she spent many summers with her Welsh grandparents in Anglesey and learned to love the sea. Now she is based in Devon to be near her daughter and two small grandchildren. Her restless spirit has meant many moves, the longest stay being in Guernsey for nearly fourteen years after falling in love with the island and the people. She contrived to leave one son behind to ensure a valid reason for frequent returns. Her younger son is based in London – ideal for city breaks ☺

By profession, Anne was a psychotherapist who long had a desire to write and Dangerous Waters, her first novel, was published in 2012. It was awarded Silver(Adult Fiction) in TheWishingShelfAwards 2012. Since then she has published six more books in The Guernsey Novels series; Finding Mother, Guernsey Retreat, The Family Divided, Echoes of Time – winner of The Diamond Book Award 2017, a finalist in Readersfavorite awards and granted a ChillWithABookAward, The Betrayal, and The Inheritance, published April 2019.

To find out more about Anne visit her website – www.anneallen.co.uk

You can also find her on Twitter – @AnneAllen21

Extract Post: The Black Ditch, by Simon J Lancaster

The Black Ditch

LAURIE STERNE feels like he’s been cut adrift in space. His father has been shot dead, caught in the crossfire of a gangland war that has also claimed his boss’s life. Laurie is a refugee who lost his adoptive mum years before and doesn’t know where he was born, let alone who his birth parents were. But he’s not alone in the world: someone is trying to kill him.

This is London, 2050, a dumping ground for climate refugees and dissidents. Gangs rule, murder goes unpunished and the police make sure you can’t escape.

In his struggle to stay alive, he finds an ally: his former boss’s secret daughter.
But with the killer predicting his every move, is the man without a past being betrayed by the woman who seems to offer him a future?

Purchase Links:

UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07V1HHTJK/

US – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V1HHTJK/

Extract: ‘The Devil’s Apprentice’ by Kenneth B. Andersen

Blurb

Multi-award winning series, published in more than 10 countries, movie rights optioned!

Welcome to a world like no other!

Philip is a good boy, a really good boy, who accidentally gets sent to Hell to become the Devil’s heir. The Devil, Lucifer, is dying and desperately in need of a successor, but there’s been a mistake and Philip is the wrong boy.

Lucifer has no other choice than to begin the difficult task of training Philip in the ways of evil. Philip is terrible at being bad, but when he falls in love with the she-devil Satina and experiences the powerful forces of love and jealousy, the task becomes much easier.

Philip finds both friends and enemies in this odd, gloomy underworld–but who can he trust, when he discovers an evil-minded plot against the dark throne?

The Great Devil War is a gripping and humorous tale about good and evil seen from a different perspective, making the reader laugh and think. It’s filled with biblical and historical characters and set in a world beyond your wildest dreams. Or nightmares …

https://amzn.to/2pcbFlT

Extract: ‘Demon’s Fire’, by Lee Cockburn

**Information about the Book**

**Title:** Demon’s Fire (The DS Taylor Nicks and DC Marcus Black Series #3)
**Author:** Lee Cockburn
**Release Date:** 7^th November 2019
**Genre:** Thriller
**Page Count:** 322
**Publisher:** Clink Street Publishing
**Goodreads Link:** https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48350666-demon-s-fire
**Amazon Link:** https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07Y8P3CL2

Summary:

Demon’s Fire is the third instalment in the crime thriller series featuring DS Taylor Nicks and DC Marcus Black.

The City had barely settled back to normal when the sky turned orange as flames licked upwards and smoke billowed out from a quiet industrial estate in Edinburgh.

Blood-curdling screams of those trapped within were muffled by the sound-proofed room as the women climbed desperately over one another to try and escape, their efforts futile against their prison walls, their captors slain where they sat, bullet holes in their heads.

Human trafficking, prostitution, drug dealing, kidnapping, violence and murder hidden in plain sight in Edinburgh City Centre.

Drug dealer Burnett’s grip on the city has no limits, and he will stop at nothing to ensure that remains the case.

Nicks and Black struggle to secure evidence against him within the confines of the law, but an enemy of Burnett, hell-bent on revenge, doesn’t have to play by their rules.

A thrilling story of crime and retribution, good versus evil, Demon’s Fire will have you on the edge of your seat as the tentacles of despair take hold of your emotions.

Hearts are broken and others mended as the tale gathers momentum, the lives of the officers forever entwined by fate.

Book Extract:’The Ruined Land’, by Clare Rhoden

The Ruined Land – Chronicles of the Pale #3

Exiled from the Pale, humachine Hector has found a home with the tribes Outside.

Or has he?

While the canini struggle to care for the human twins, Feather travels Broad Plain to reunite them with their father. But his own family is scattered as the Pale sends out its terrifying army and the land itself buckles beneath them.

Can anyone survive the ruination of the land?

In this gripping conclusion to the Chronicles of the Pale, the citizens of the mighty Pale have as much to lose as the communities of the Outside.

Purchase Links:

UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ruined-Land-Chronicles-Pale/dp/1925652734/

US – https://www.amazon.com/Ruined-Land-Chronicles-Pale/dp/1925652734/

AU – https://www.amazon.com.au/Ruined-Land-Clare-Rhoden/dp/1925652734/

Extract Post: ‘Injections of Insanity’, by Lorraine Mace

**Purchase Links**
**UK –** https://www.amazon.co.uk/Injections-Insanity-Sterling-Lorraine-Mace/dp/1786156830
US – https://www.amazon.com/Injections-Insanity-Sterling-Lorraine-Mace/dp/1786156830

Injections of Insanity
Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling has just six weeks to solve a series of murders by insulin injection, with nothing to connect the victims except the manner of death and a note left at each crime scene.
The murderer, determined to avenge a wrong from many years earlier, gets close to his prey by assuming various identities.
Can Paolo win in his race against the pretender?

Extract: ‘Children In Chains’, by Lorraine Mace

Children in Chains

Detective Inspector Paolo Sterling is determined to shut down the syndicate flooding Bradchester’s streets with young prostitutes.

When a child is murdered, Paolo becomes aware of a sinister network of abusers spread across Europe, and spanning all levels of society. But Joey, the shadowy leader of the gang, always seems to be one step ahead in the chase.

Has Paolo come up against a criminal he cannot defeat?

Purchase Links

UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07KW7C6M2

US – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KW7C6M2

Extract Post: ‘Caught in a Web’, by Joseph Lewis

Blurb
The bodies of high school and middle school kids are found dead from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl. The drug trade along the I-94 and I-43 corridors and the Milwaukee Metro area is controlled by MS-13, a violent gang originating from El Salvador. Ricardo Fuentes is sent from Chicago to Waukesha to find out who is cutting in on their business, shut it down and teach them a lesson. But he has an ulterior motive: find and kill a fifteen-year-old boy, George Tokay, who had killed his cousin the previous summer.

Detectives Jamie Graff, Pat O’Connor and Paul Eiselmann race to find the source of the drugs, shut down the ring, and find Fuentes before he kills anyone else, especially George or members of his family. The three detectives come to realize that the ring has its roots in a high school among the students and staff.

Purchase Links
Amazon US

Amazon UK

Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/caught-in-a-web-joseph-lewis/1128250923?ean=9781684330249

Extract #7 = George Receives A Note
Not just any note. George is full-blooded Navajo and was trained by his grandfather to become what non-Native Americans would call a Medicine or Holy Man. As such, George like his grandfather, believe in the spirit world and he receives “messages” by way of dreams and visions. He has had troubling dreams that he cannot explain or understand. Now added to this is this message from someone in the school.

George was in a sour mood. His smile was noticeably absent, his dark eyes more intense, his jaw set. Danny met up with him in Spanish IV and couldn’t pull him out of his funk. They stuck together because they were the only ninth graders in the class full of juniors and seniors, evenly split between boys and girls.
He smacked him on the upper arm and said, “What’s up?”
George frowned and shook his head once and Danny backed off.
The first part of the lesson was on conjugating past tense verbs, followed by a short five minute video clip of a mother talking to her daughter about shopping for a dress for her to wear on Saturday night for dinner and a play. The students had to translate the Spanish dialogue to English. For George and Danny, it was as natural and easy as transcribing English to English which was why they were in Spanish IV. The other kids in the class struggled with it and asked George or Danny for help or in a couple of cases, just looked at their papers and copied their work.
After the transcription which was turned in as a benchmark test grade, the students had to come up with a Spanish dialogue discussing the Spanish version of Don Quixote that would be presented to the class the following day. Danny and George were paired together by their teacher, Don Lehmann with the instruction to work on the symbolism of the story.
George picked up his notebook and a copy of his book and sat down on the other side of the room at a desk facing Danny leaving his backpack at his desk. He and Danny talked about the book the entire time in Spanish. Both took notes, laughed a little- Danny more so than George, but were busy the entire time. Those who sat nearby stared at them in awe.
The bell rang which for them meant first lunch. For others, another class before lunch and still others who would go to class, lunch and back to the same class.
Danny gathered his things and waited patiently for George who stuffed his book, his notebook and pen back into his backpack. He slung his backpack over one shoulder and met Danny at the door and together walked down the hallway towards the cafeteria.
They didn’t get halfway there when a girl, neither of them knew or saw before, handed George a note and said, “Some guy asked me to give this to you.” She handed George a folded piece of paper and just as quickly disappeared into the crowd moving the other direction and vanished from sight.
“Who was that?” Danny asked.
Bewildered, George stared off hoping to catch a glimpse of her, but failed to.
“What’s the note say?”
The two boys leaned against the lockers out of the way and read the note together.
George didn’t get scared easily, but he felt himself grow pale and sweat broke out on his upper lip.
“Jesus, George! You have to show this to your dad! Now!”
Rooted to the spot, he didn’t move.
“Did you hear me? Now! Go now!”
George took off, quick-walking to the guidance office dodging huddles of kids dotting the hallways before the bell rang for the next class.

Author Bio

Joseph Lewis has written five books:

Caught in a Web; Taking Lives; Stolen Lives; Shattered Lives, and Splintered Lives. His sixth, Spiral into Darkness, debuts January 17, 2019 from Black Rose Writing. Lewis has been in education for 42 years and counting as a teacher, coach, counselor and administrator. He is currently a high school principal and resides in Virginia with his wife, Kim, along with his daughters, Hannah and Emily. His son, Wil, is deceased.
Lewis uses his psychology and counseling background to craft his characters which helps to bring them to life. His books are topical and fresh and appeal to anyone who enjoys crime thriller fiction with grit and realism and a touch of young adult thrown in.

Social Media Links –
Twitter at @jrlewisauthor
Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/Joseph.Lewis.Author
Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Lewis/e/B01FWB9AOI /

Extract: ‘The Pluckley Psychic Historical Society’, by Grahame Peace

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**Publisher:** Independently published

**Publication Date**: 25th November 2018

**Format:** Paperback

**ISBN-13:** 978-1790331239

**Price:** £6.99

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BLURB
The Pluckley Psychic Historical Society is based in Pluckley, Kent, the most haunted village in England. Its founding members are the noted academic, historian, and Cambridge scholar Winston Hatherton, the white witch Florence Dearden, and the celebrated medium Jocasta Bradman. They are assisted by an 18th-century super-ghost called Jasper Claxton, although none of the society members are aware that Jasper is a ghost.

This is the third book in ‘The Ghost from the Molly-House’ series,and this book describes how the Psychic Historical Society was set up and goes back to the group’s first two official cases in 1919, just after the end of the first world war. The first story, ‘The Jewellery Box’ involves a 16th-century jewellery box made from precious metals, which is found buried in a garden and reveals a 400-year-old mystery.
The second story, ‘The Book of Souls’ is set in Huddersfield,England, at a place called Jubilee Tower or Castle Hill, which was built to commemorate the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria and is on the site of ancient bronze and iron age settlements dating back 4000 years. An old book of spells is found, and once opened, it appears to have released something ominous.

The Ghost from the Molly-House series is a collection of amusing paranormal mysteries, which will appeal to fans of history, period detective novels, tales of haunted houses, and all things that go bump in the night.Although this is the third book in the series, the novel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone story in its own right.

I had planned to review this book, but I’ve been ill and my depression is bad so I’m not managing to keep up with my schedule. Instead, the author has provided an extract from the book to whet your appetites.

Extract: ‘Spiral Into Darkness’, by Joseph Lewis

*Published By: Black Rose Writing*
*Publication Date: 19th January 2019*
*Format: Kindle*
*Price: Free on Kindle Unlimited/£6.23*

Blurb
He blends in. He is successful, intelligent and methodical. There are no clues. There are no leads. The only thing the FBI and local police have to go on is the method of death: two bullets to the face- gruesome and meant to send a message. But it’s difficult to understand any message coming from a dark and damaged mind. Two adopted boys, struggling in their own world, have no idea they are the next targets. Neither does their family. And neither does local law enforcement.

Purchase Links

UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spiral-Into-Darkness-Joseph-Lewis-ebook/dp/B07L15328K

US – https://www.amazon.com/Spiral-Into-Darkness-Joseph-Lewis-ebook/dp/B07L15328K