Author Highlight: Lincoln Cole

For the month of December I'm doing an author highlight once a week, so I hope you can find some new books to read. These are all authors who won the Kindle Scout contest. I won in 2015 with SOLSTICE.

Introducing Lincoln Cole:


Lincoln Cole is a Columbus-based author who enjoys traveling and has visited many different parts of the world, including Australia and Cambodia, but always returns home to his pugamonster and wife. His love for writing was kindled at an early age through the works of Isaac Asimov and Stephen King and he enjoys telling stories to anyone who will listen.

Featured book of the week RAVEN'S PEAK, available at Amazon:

Summary:

A quiet little mountain town is hiding a big problem. When the townsfolk of Raven's Peak start acting crazy, Abigail Dressler is called upon to discover the root of the evil affecting people. She uncovers a demonic threat unlike any she's ever faced and finds herself in a fight just to stay alive.

Abigail rescues Haatim Arison from a terrifying fate and discovers that he has a family legacy in the supernatural that he knows nothing about. Now she's forced to protect him, which is easy, but also to trust him if she wants to save the townsfolk of Raven's Peak. Trust, however, is something hard to have for someone who grew up living on the knife's edge of danger.

Can they discover the cause of the town's insanity and put a stop to it before it is too late?

Author Highlight: Jessica Knauss

For the month of December I'm doing an author highlight once a week, so I hope you can find some new books to read. These are all authors who won the Kindle Scout contest. I won in 2015 with Solstice.

Today, I'm featuring J.K. Knauss, author of Seven Noble Knights. An epic of family, betrayal, and revenge medieval Spain, Seven Noble Knights, debuts on Kindle today, and will be available in softcover on January 16, 2017, from Bagwyn Books. Get the ebook instantly here.

Introducing Jessica Knauss:





Jessica's book:
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Summary:

Spain, 974. Gonzalo, a brave but hotheaded knight, unwittingly provokes tragedy at his uncle’s wedding to beautiful young noblewoman Lambra: the adored cousin of the bride dead, his teeth scattered across the riverbank. Coveting his family’s wealth and power, Lambra sends Gonzalo’s father into enemy territory to be beheaded, unleashing a revenge that devastates Castile for a generation.

A new hero, Mudarra, rises out of the ashes of Gonzalo’s once great family. Raised as a warrior in the opulence of Muslim Córdoba, Mudarra must make a grueling journey and change his religion, then chooses to take his jeweled sword to the throats of his family’s betrayers. But only when he strays from the path set for him does he find his true purpose in life.

Inspired by a lost medieval epic poem, Seven Noble Knights draws from history and legend to bring a brutal yet beautiful world to life in a gripping story of family, betrayal, and love.

Cool map!
I love using maps in my books (my historicals all have them), so I love it when authors put in a map.

From the author:

As readers of this blog know, history is thrilling. Seven Noble Knights takes place in tenth-century Spain, a time when the Spanish language had barely differentiated from Latin, when Castile, which is now the dominant Spanish culture, was a rough-and-tumble borderland, and Córdoba in Andalusia was arguably the most elegant city in the world.

The “Christian” kingdoms in the north were still consolidating their power and starting to ship away at the mighty Caliphate of Córdoba. What would it have been like to be raised as a warrior during this time, with so many expectations that you would hold the front and “reconquer” more territory? How would a noble lady feel, torn from her homeland and obliged to marry someone two decades older than she? Could two people from the different religions understand each other enough to fall in love? And where would the loyalties of someone with family in both north and south lie?

Author Highlight: M.N. Arzu

For the month of December I'm doing an author highlight once a week, so I hope you can find some new books to read. These are all authors who won the Kindle Scout contest. I won in 2015 with SOLSTICE.

Introducing M.N:



M.N. Arzu was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and fell in love with books at age 9, when her oldest sister translated The Chronicles of Narnia for her. Those books would set her on a journey of literature and other languages that continues till this day.

She graduated as a Graphic Designer, and she now feeds her creative world with equal measures of fantasy and science fiction, always seeking adventures in other realms.


M.N.'s featured book this week is UNDERNEATH, which is available on Amazon:

Summary:
An injured merman is found washed up on a beach in Maine. After being brought to a special facility, doctors are at a loss for how to help him. Worse, how are they to keep him away from the eager hands of the military?

One reporter is hot on the trail of what she believes is an elaborate hoax—or the story of a lifetime. A story that has her tracking elusive clues into an ever-growing house of secrets surrounding one of the richest families in New York City.

For merfolk have been hiding in plain sight for centuries, and are now torn between sacrificing one of their own—or telling humanity the truth.
              

Author Highlight: Kristy Tate

For the month of December I'm doing an author highlight once a week, so I hope you can find some new books to read. These are all authors who won the Kindle Scout contest. I won in 2015 with SOLSTICE.

Introducing Kristy Tate:



Kristy lives in Southern Orange County with her husband, son, and her Schnauzer, Grendel. She studied English Literature at Brigham Young University and at BYU’s international center in London. She is an award winning and Amazon bestselling author.

Kristy's featured book this week is THE LITTLE WHITE CHRISTMAS LIE which is available on Amazon.

About THE LITTLE WHITE CHRISTMAS LIE:

Carson Trent doesn't know that the beautiful Millie Cruise who literally falls into his lap on the morning train is really Camille Harper, a rock star of the romance industry.

Millie doesn't know she is headed for Carson's grandmother's picture perfect inn in a quaint New England town.

Neither Carson or Millie know that their lives are about to spin out of control thanks to a patch of black ice, a cow, and a little white Christmas lie.