Release Day / Giveaway: Holiday Terminal

Title: Holiday Terminal

Authors: Gwyn McNamee, Christy Anderson

Cover models: James Ramsey, Heidi Toporowski

Cover design: BlueSky Designs

𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔. 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎. 𝑨 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆.

𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐄

Swirling snow may have stranded me at this tiny airport in the middle of nowhere on Christmas Eve, but it has nothing on the storm raging inside me when he walks into the terminal.

Artemis Warren.

My first love and the man who shattered my world.

I thought I locked my feelings for him safely away in the past, but one look is all it takes for me to drown in his icy blue eyes again.

So much time has passed.

I’m no longer that naïve teenager standing on a beach, wishing the boy would choose me.

Now, I’m hiding a secret that could unravel both our lives.

𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐒

The emergency landing in Nowheresville is more than an inconvenience.

It’s a disaster.

The annual family holiday party in NYC was my chance to make the statement I’ve been dreaming of for so long.

Now, all my best laid plans will have to wait until I can get out of here and back to civilization.

Nothing can salvage this day.

Yet seeing Penelope Barnes again turns this bad situation into the opportunity of a lifetime.

Reuniting with the only woman I’ve ever loved would be the ultimate Christmas gift.

But how can I heal the old wounds and fit into the new life she created?

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒍𝒚, 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒍𝒆?

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About the Authors

GWYN MCNAMEE

Gwyn McNamee is an attorney, writer, wife, and mother (to one human baby and two fur babies). Originally from the Midwest, Gwyn relocated to her husband’s home town of Las Vegas in 2015 and is enjoying her respite from the cold and snow. Gwyn has been writing down her crazy stories and ideas for years and finally decided to share them with the world. She loves to write stories with a bit of suspense and action mingled with romance and heat.

When she isn’t either writing or voraciously devouring any books she can get her hands on, Gwyn is busy adding to her tattoo collection, golfing, and stirring up trouble with her perfect mix of sweetness and sarcasm (usually while wearing heels).

Gwyn is the author of The Hawke Family Series, The Slip Series, The Deadliest Sin Series, The Inland Seas Series, and The Supernatural Love Stories in the Absurd (as her alter-ego D.P. Payne).

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CHRISTY ANDERSON

Writing with a whole lot of sarcasm and humor, mixed with a bit of Southern charm, Christy Anderson ain’t no sweet tea kinda storyteller. As an author of romance, Christy believes it doesn’t always have to be hearts and flowers; sometimes, it is dark and twisted, but romance nonetheless. She mixes terror, revenge, and a sliver of love and hope into stories about family, friends, struggles, blurred lines, and happily-everafters. Christy lives in the beautiful mountains of Eastern Tennessee with her husband and 152 cats (not really, but close), where she enjoys writing one twist at a time.

*Note: her website is currently under construction*

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*Giveaway*

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Halloween Children's Short Story

Suzie’s Halloween Adventure

by

Tich Brewster

Halloween was little Suzie’s favorite day of the year. Her favorite part was not just the bucketsful of candy, it was dressing up. She loved buying material and working alongside her mother creating unique costumes. This year she found the prettiest purple, and right away she decided it would make the perfect witch costume. Her mother helped her cut the fabric and sew it. Suzie’s mother even added pink around the collar and a ribbon of pink around the base of the hat. Once it was done, she tried on her witch dress and hat. It was perfect.

That night her mother took her to the festival down the street. Her friend Timmy had dressed as a skeleton. “Cool costume,” Suzie said to her friend.

Timmy smiled. “Thanks, but I think yours is the best one here.”

That made Suzie beam with pride. She and Timmy went to the games. They decided to toss rings. Timmy got more rings on the pole than Suzie, but they both won a handful of candy for participating.

“Hey, Suzie, awesome costume.” Suzie and Timmy looked up to see their friend, Elijah walking toward them. He had a bucket full of candy and a sucker hanging from his lips. Elijah had rolls of toilet paper wrapped around his body like a mummy.

“Oh, very creative, Elijah. I like mummies.” Suzie said.

Elijah beamed. “Thank you. My mom helped me get the toilet paper wrapped around me.”

The three friends visited all the games and collected as much candy as their buckets could hold. As they walked back toward the cake walk, a house across the street caught their eye. It was an abandoned house and the gate on the fence was broken.

A group of kids ran out of the gate yelling, “Don’t go in there, it’s haunted.”

Elijah’s eyes lit up with excitement. “Ooh, a real haunted house. Let’s go check it out.”

“What?” Timmy shook his head and stepped back. “No way. What if the ghost is really mean?”

“Maybe it’s not haunted.” Suzie looked both ways before crossing the street with Elijah. She glanced back and saw Timmy looking at the giant house with fear. “Come on, it’s just an adventure into an empty house. There might be treasure in there.”

Suzie was afraid that Timmy would go back to the festival, but right before she entered the gate, Timmy yelled, “Hey, wait for me.” After checking for traffic, he ran across the street. Now that the three of them were together, they could search this old abandoned house for treasure. Maybe they would find some toys they could take home.

As they neared the house they heard a loud groan. “Did you hear that?” Elijah pointed at one of the upstairs windows. “I think I heard a ghost.”

“Don’t be silly?” Suzie said. “There’s no such thing as ghosts.” But then she heard a groan coming from the broken window. Or maybe ghosts do exist.

“I don’t know about this.” Timmy clutched the handle of his trick-or-treat bucket. “This is scary.”

“You can stay here but I came for an adventure.” Suzie pushed open the door that barely hung by its hinges.

The house was dark but the lights from the festival shown through the windows giving her enough light to see. So far nothing scary, just some furniture with sheets draped over them. Elijah came in, followed by Timmy. The groan from upstairs sounded sad and tired so she carefully walked up the stairs.

“Hello,” Suzie called out. She didn’t know if ghosts could hear her, but she hoped that this one could because it sounded lonely. “Can you hear me?”

This time the ghost didn’t groan, it whined. Suzie and her friends followed the sound to a room that was two doors down the hall. The whining quickly turned into panting and a loud bark. In the middle of the room was a fluffy white dog with a brown spot around one eye. He was tangled in a sheet and couldn’t get free.

Suzie set her bucket down and untangled the dog. He licked her face when he was free. Looking at the wrinkled sheet, Suzie got a bright idea. She searched the room and by luck found a pair of scissors. She cut eye holes in the sheet and draped it over the dog. “There, now you have a costume.”

“I guess we really did find a ghost.” Timmy petted the dog through it's ghost costume. “Can I call you Casper?”

The dog barked in approval.

“I like that name,” Elijah and Suzie said at the same time.

Suzie picked up her bucket of candy and said, “Now that we found our treasure, let’s go back to the festival.”

New Release

HAPPY RAID DAY!

About the Anthology

In July of 2019, author Terri A. Wilson contacted other authors with a simple idea. “I think it would
be fun to create an Area 51 anthology and release it around the time of the big invasion. Maybe a
charity anthology - all genres. Any interest?”

The idea caught fire among her writers community, with writers she knew sharing the idea with
writers they knew. In the end, 47 authors of all different genres agreed to try their hardest to craft
a story that honored Terri’s few stipulations.

  1. Stories didn't have to include aliens, but they needed to incorporate Area 51

2. Stories had to be professionally edited

3. Stories had to be submitted on a tight deadline so they could be professionally assembled and
formatted

4. All proceeds from the book would go to the United States veterans foundation selected by the
group. *Due to legal reasons we cannot directly name the foundation in any book marketing.

In the end, twenty-five authors submitted stories to the anthology.

“I am so blown away by the response to this antho.” Wilson said. “The energy is overwhelming.”

Book Blurb:

What’s in Area 51? Is the government hiding aliens? Elvis? Maybe the set of the Apollo moon landing?

Do you know?

We do.

Join this multi-genre group as they explore the hidden recesses of Area 51 which up until now have
only been whispered conspiracies. Don’t bother with the raid. Stay home, read these awesome
stories and learn all you need to know. The truth is just a page-flip away.

HEAT LEVEL VARIES

Website- https://area51raidanthology.com/ 

Universal book link: https://books2read.com/u/mv22qz

Cover Reveal - I Am Rahab

Title: I Am Rahab: A Novel - Part 2

Author: J.C. Miller

Genre: African American Christian Fiction

Release Date: September 26, 2019 Art by: Brittany Lewis, YUM Production Cover by: Chanel Smith, WPD Web Presences Designs LLC

The streets of the South Bronx rise to meet a Louisiana bred Creole named, Rahab Auguste. With no official introductions, Rahab is instantly tossed into the chaos of her new home. Her stepfather holds a cruel vendetta against her that leads to abuse. While her mother, addicted to alcohol and holding on to the past depends on Rahab, who can't seem to fit in amongst her peers to rescue her from her responsibilities.

A ray of hope shines through the cracks of the concrete jungle when Rahab befriends Lydia and finds escape in teenage companionship as well as freedom through the music and dance of the popular 80s culture.

I Am Rahab: A Novel - Part 2 is the coming-of-age tale of Rahab Auguste who barely escapes adolescence and emerges as a young woman full of shame, fear, and distrust.

When life screams die...Rahab turns up the music to dance!

JC Miller is a freshly anointed, faith-based literary artist. Raised by her mother in the Bronx, New York, she uses her childhood experiences to capture the soul of the ghetto. As a former student of Chicago’s, Moody Bible Institute, and a graduate of, Te'Hillah School of Urban Ministry, she produces a depiction of the pop culture era of which she grew up in and creatively intertwines it with biblically based characters and their divine accounts.

JC Miller is also the co-founder of a nonprofit called, Diamond Daughters Inc.; an organization developed to help educate and uplift women of abuse. She recently co-founded a publishing company, Jess, Mo’ Books, with her childhood friend, Monifa Reel-Spain.

For more information please visit www.authorjcmiller.com

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Recipe: Sweet and Spicy sticky Chicken

Ingredients:
2lbs chicken thighs, cut into bite size pieces (pic above is whole thighs)
1/2 cup water
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1/4 cup white wine
2 tablespoons chili garlic sauce
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/3 coconut palm sugar
1/4 ground ginger
1/4 onion powder

Directions:
Cut chicken into bite size pieces and season with salt and pepper, cook on stove top until no longer pink. Set aside.
Add water, sesame oil, wine, chili garlic sauce, garlic, soy sauce, xanthan gum, coconut sugar, ginger, and onion powder to wok and mix with whisk until xanthan gum is completely dissolved. Cook sauce on medium-high heat until it thickens. Add chicken to coat in sticky sauce, serve.

Recipe: Cod

Ingredients:
4 Cod filets
3-4 tablespoons olive oil
1 lemon, sliced
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon thyme

Directions:
Preheat oven to 400.
In bowl, combine olive oil, lemon, tomatoes, garlic, and thyme. Place cod in baking dish and add mixture, flipping fish to coat both sides. Layer the lemon slices on top of cod and place in oven. Bake 15-25 minutes, or until it flakes with a fork.

I served mine with a cheese stuffed poblano pepper.
Just cut off the top, hollow, stuff with cheese and wrap in foil. Place in the oven with cod.

Recipe: Cauliflower Rice with Broccoli

Ingredients:
12oz bag of frozen cauliflower rice
12oz bag of frozen broccoli
1/2 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 red bell pepper, diced
1 yellow bell pepper, diced
4 eggs
4 tablespoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1-2 teaspoons olive oil
1-2 tablespoons ginger

Directions:
In nonstick skillet add olive oil and scramble eggs. When cooked, not overdone, remove from heat and set aside.
In a bowl, mix sesame oil, soy sauce, and ginger. Set aside.
In same skillet, or wok (I use a wok), combine cauliflower rice, broccoli, onion, garlic, and bell peppers. Cook until veggies start to soften. Add soy sauce mixture and eggs, cooking until liquid is fully reduced, approximately 5 minutes.