One Red Centby Ellie Ashe

Sarah Girard has a reputation to protect—the paralegal has never failed to serve a subpoena, no matter how reluctant the witness. But this sneaky chef she’s tracking is more slippery than usual.

To get her man, Sarah’s going to have to do the unthinkable—team up with tall, smug, and all-too-handsome investigator Burton Worthington. And if they fail, an innocent man could take the rap for arson.

“One Red Cent is a fun introduction to the Miranda Vaughn Mysteries series—a flirty and mysterious short story that kept me entertained and left me wanting more!” Nikki Haverstock, author of the Target Practice Mysteries.

* * One Red Cent was originally published in the Killer Beach Reads anthology (2015). * *

Pay The Priceby Steven N. Adjei

The truth is that despite all our best efforts, most new businesses still fail.

Starting a business is tough. It’s even tougher building one with strong ethical foundations. Up to 90 percent of UK and US startups fail by the 10th year. This trend is even worse in developing countries such as in Africa, which incidentally is the most entrepreneurial continent in the world.

Strong foundations are impossible without going through the mill. The process. Highs and lows, shame and pain. This dark side of entrepreneurship is not highlighted enough in the literature, possibly contributing to these high failure rates.

There are plenty of business books about success out there. There aren’t nearly enough business books about failure-and how sustained perseverance through pain and repeated setbacks is often the prerequisite for true, lasting success.

This book is different.

You’ll learn how Passion, Pain, Time and Purpose are vital keys to succeed-with plenty of pioneering insights from unusual sources: music, poetry, chemistry, sport, and stories. It even has its own dedicated Spotify playlist.

In here, you’ll discover:

The Five Principles of Ethical Entrepreneurship
The Three Universal Phases of Entrepreneurship: the Honeymoon, the Formative and the Legacy.
How starting with who, NOT why is crucial for building a successful, enduring, ethical business
Overcoming the FOUR kinds of pain that lead to entrepreneurial failure with a brand new Flag Response Model.
Validating Your Business Model and Partner using real theories in Chemistry.
Earning the best Legacy type, the Pathfinder, out of the FOUR available options and much, much more.

College Athletic Scholarshipsby Marc Nolan

This is the first book written for the high school athlete and their parents looking for answers in the New Age of the Transfer Portal, NIL, in the Post COVID Scholarships. The book provides a real path of not just the “how’s” of being recruited in today’s maze of college sports the high school athlete will face, but the real life examples of college sports scholarships with the recent NCAA decisions that each student-athlete and their parents will be involved with over the next several “Wild West” years not only for the day-to-day athlete trying to obtain that elusive athletic scholarship, but to help ensure the path will be one that is a smooth transition to college over the possible issues they will face along this path, both financially and personally.

Rebellion’s Fireby Mary Lancaster

“The MacHeths are coming!”

By 1156, Malcolm MacHeth, one time Earl of Ross, languishes a prisoner in Roxburgh Castle while his rampaging sons raise rebellion in his name. Optimistically, the King of Scots promises the earldom of Ross to landless Norman knight, Sir William de Lanson, if he can somehow defeat the infamous MacHeths.

It wasn’t quite how William’s disgraced wife Christian dreamed of coming home. Capture by the strange and ferocious Adam MacHeth was hardly part of her plan either, although she and William quickly become pawns in his.

Adam, warrior and seer, fights for his father’s freedom and for his family’s right to claim the kingdom of the Scots. Plagued by waking dreams which threaten his sanity and his life, he’s learned to use his prophecies to further his family’s goals. But when he abducts his enemy’s lady, his dreams and his desires are suddenly more personal.

Surrounded by intrigue, ambition and betrayal, Christian must choose between loyalty and love in order to keep a fragile peace for her people and for the man she loves beyond life.

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Last Flame of Alba
Book1: Rebellion’s Fire
Book 2: A Constant Blaze
Book 3: Burning Embers

*Note: Rebellion’s Fire was previously published as Rebel of Ross. This second edition contains new material for readers to enjoy.

Catering to Loveby Joshua Ian

Step into the sumptuous world of Hartridge & Casas, the Edwardian shopping palace, in this exciting new series. Every department serves its customers luxury, and, behind the scenes, serves its employees romance and intrigue.

After training under the famed Escoffier, Henri is now Head Chef at the Royal Tea Room – the jewel in the crown of the newly opened Hartridge & Casas department store. With his sights set on one day opening his own restaurant, Henri has no time for distractions, especially not love. But his moorings are shaken loose when Nico, a charming and gorgeous new waiter, appears.

However, the interfering adventurer Lord Ockley is determined to have Nico all to himself. When he can’t, he threatens to expose Nico and Henri’s relationship, risking not only the destruction of their careers and reputations, but possibly even worse.

Will Henri abandon his career dreams for the love of the only man who has ever touched his soul? Can Nico convince Henri that love is the most important dream of all?

Set against the backdrop of the 1908 Summer Olympics and the historic Franco-British Exhibition, Catering to Love is the story of two men trying to find love in a society where the mere mention of their passion risks ruin.

Buoyed by a colorful cast of characters, they cook up a new meaning to romance. It’s a new century, with London blossoming into modernity, and love is the most important ingredient.

*NOTE: Dragonblade Publishing is proud to have an #OwnVoices division, DRAGONBLADE HEART, a diverse and inclusive line of books that can include LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC characters as the heroes and heroines. Be aware that this novel is part of that line and as such, centers around a love story between two men.

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Departments of Love
Catering to Love
Fitted for Love
Stages of Love

My Fake Fling by Ali Parker

The world is concerned with my bachelor status more than my wealth.

Time to get a fake date to shut them up.

There’s no one better for the job than my ex-girlfriend.

I know everything about her, every curve, every sigh, every way to make her blush.

Even though we have a hard time getting along, the tension adds the right amount of heat in my life.

With that in place, I can focus on my next billion-dollar luxury project.

Until my father goes missing. No way in hell he would miss out on the opening of our next venture.

And it’s far worse than him skipping town for a bit of fun.

A ransom call sends us all in a panic, and my fake fling is the only person I want to cling to.