Read this then vote -- poll on the right side bar -- for who I send my In the Midst of the Storm royalties to.
In the Midst of the Storm Webpage.
In the first volume Eye of the Storm Eilida's Tragedy the reader meets Eilida, Evan's second victim and reads about the horrors she suffered at his hands.
In volume 2 The Calm Before the Storm Evan's Sins the reader is taken into his mind and world. They meet him up close and personal. This is the toughest of the series to read and takes a strong stomach but there's no other way to write it. Evan is an egotistical psychopath, even so, he was made into what he turned out to be.
Volume 3 In the Midst of the Storm Tommy's Deception the reader gets to know Tommy. Is he really Evan's protege, killer or something far worse and why? The reader also gest to know Eilida on a different level and see how the horror she suffered has followed her even after May 8, 2014. The reader also meets another victim -- one that has been a victim from birth.
To go even further, reader's have asked many questions about the girls Evan left behind. They want to know what happened to them after. Those secrets will be exposed in the Evan's Girls series. The first book is due next fall and the first 2 chapters are at the end of In the Midst of the Storm.
With all this I decided to donate 100% of In the Midst of the Storm royalties for the entire month of October. That includes ALL pre-orders as I make no royalties on a pre-order until the books official release date.
I plead with you to vote -- poll on the right side bar -- for who I send those royalties to. Both places help victims of crime.
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I picked this one up free and it was intriguing enough I enjoyed it and listened to the entire story. Augustus lives in a world taken over by zombies and he’s doing his normal bit when he gets taken captive by a crazy old lady. The story was a little slow moving and had a major character hole for me. In the beginning he walks into a shop and hears strange sounds coming from upstairs. Tuned into the commotion upstairs he forgets his immediate surroundings leaving him vulnerable and gets him into a sticky situation when an elderly lady grabs his privates then knocks him out. Later in the story he gains backbone. The book is written through his point of view and he doesn’t appear to be a man who puts up with crap. This is where I see a major plot ripple. Why not using his fighting spirit in the first place instead of crumpling? It didn’t make sense or fit the character the author builds.
Lori Beasley Bradley was born in 1958 in Benton, IL, a small town in southern Illinois. Her mother was from that area and her father from Alabama. She has a great love for the South and has traveled extensively and studied the histories of most of those states. Her book, The Legend of the Swamp Witch takes place in southern Louisiana one of her favorite destinations. She is currently working on her second novel about a Kentucky girl who finds herself practicing prostitution in the Old West after the Civil War. Book 1 of The Soiled Dove Sagas, The Ruby Queen, was published in February 2015. Book 2, The Queen of the Cow Towns will be available later in 2015.
The Soiled Doves Saga:
Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. Ranges from MF to Multiple partners scenes. Continuation storyline.
In book one of Soiled Dove: The Ruby Queen is the story of young Mattie Wallace, who must make a living on her own in 1870. She meets a woman who shows her a way. Two women from different upbringings become friends in a time when the strength of a person’s will was the only thing that kept them going.
Betrayal, heartbreak, and shunned, Mattie works to find her place in a time when men set all the rules.
Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences 18+. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. MF.
In book two of the Soiled Dove Sagas: Roxie learns that love is not enough to survive the bitter winters in the mountains, when it costs her everything she holds dear. With Mattie’s help, she moves forward, putting her life back together, piece by piece.
As times change around them, she and Mattie continue to survive the only way they know how—together. But just as Roxie settles back into her life in the Trade, her past returns, opening wounds she doesn’t know how to close.
Losing her heart once almost broke her. Will she be strong enough to keep it from happening again? Or has the path she chose to take in life left her doomed only to have happiness in her reach, then taken away by the callousness others?
Join in the journey as two women brought together by circumstances learn to survive in a time when everyday life was a trial even for the fittest.
Raquel Clairvoux is taken through he history of her family and her relationship to a distant aunt the legendary Swamp Witch Angelique Clairvoux, a mullato girl born in the swamps of southern Louisiana and raised by her grandmother in the ways of Voodoo that she learned on the island of Martinique. Raquel learns the history of the region and culture of the original Creole people of Louisiana and her family. When slave catchers came into St Martinsville to collect undocumented people of color Angelique was attacked and mortally wounded flees into the swamp with her life savings she calls on the Spirits to guard her and her savings. Raquel then learns about the men who men over the next century and a half try to find Angelique's treasure and how they trigger the curse that finally brings them down. She is taken through the history and evolution of a unique culture and historic area of the country and must decide how she and her family fit in there now. While this is a story of pure fiction the author did exhaustive research of the area covering the years between 1712 and the present. The town of St Martinsville is an actual town in St Martin Parish, Louisiana and the Bayou Tesche is located there. St Martinsville was a town that was open to free people of color during the time of slavery and is considered to be the Creole capital of the United States. This book is a work of fiction that mixes historic fact and culture to transport the reader through decades of drama in an evolving southern Louisiana.
Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences 18+. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. MF.
Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences 18+. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. The verbiage and content in this book depicts the timeframe of Historical 1800s. Sexually explicit content. MF.
Silas Tremball was a murderer in life. He was killed by Angelique Clairvoux's curse on the Bayou Tesche in 1867, but the curse has been lifted and Silas is free once more. Travis Maitre is a detective with the St. Martin's Parish Police Department and he's been tasked with solving the string of horrible murders. Kelly DuBois, a medium, steps in to assist with his investigation and they put their heads together to ferret out the killer. Kelly soon detects an ominous presence. Travis is a skeptic, but after Kelly studies some family Maitre family history he realizes his killer could very well be from another time.
Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences 18+. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. MF.