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The Deal by MaxShephard
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(The Deal was optioned by TNT!) The mysterious Lee Cutter and his Carnival of Wonders hold a secret darker than any of the citizens of 1930's Junction City, Kansas can imagine. When Mr. Cutter shows up to town early one morning promising an end to the dust storms that have decimated the town's crops and stricken many of the children with the brown plague, young Matthew Porter is spellbound. His little brother Luke is deathly ill from breathing the dust-laden air. Plus, it would be amazing to hear the sound of the rain on his tin roof again. But at what cost? In this chilling short story about sacrifice and the cost of happiness, Matthew will come face to face with the terrifying secret Mr. Cutter's Carnival holds and learn the heart-wrenching truth about what it means to make a deal with the Devil. Excerpt: The man leaned down and fetched a matchbook out of the black boot that rested on the bench. There was no dust there, either - not even on the bottom. He stood up and brought one of the matches to the tip of the cigar. I never saw him strike it, but it fired just the same. He held it to the cigar and puffed on it several times until the end looked like the inside of a coal stove. "Lot of 'em 'round here?" he asked again, shaking the match and exhaling the thick smoke into the air above my head. "Yes, sir. All over. They eat what's left of the crops, even the roots. My pa says that's the real plague." "Does he now?" The man looked amused. "He says we won't ne'er grow a crop again until God sees fit. No rain either." He turned his head and scanned the street like he was looking for someone. "You ever see God here in Junction City?" I looked up at him, squinting, but didn't know how to answer. I'd never seen God anywhere. "My name's Lee," he said, holding out his hand. "Lee Cutter. What's yours?"
The Dollhouse by theartofhearts
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[COMPLETED] ❝Image is everything.❞ Set in the 1960s, The Dollhouse is the haunting story of Lydia and Violet - forced to uproot to a new town and live with an old-fashioned family they barely know. The sisters soon discover that image can be deceiving, and that no one else can truly know the horror behind closed doors. [ cover by @madeofclumsy ].
Addison by theartofhearts
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[COMPLETED] During World War II, the world is suffering. Her husband is a Nazi, and she's a war spy - living under a fake identity in Occupied France. For Rhea Brandt, this may prove to be the death of her. No one is safe. And no one can be trusted.
Prosper (War Shadows: Book 1) SAMPLE by SicSemperT-Rex
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- A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY - The year is 1942. War has been raging across Europe for nearly two years now, and the Nazis, hell-bent on expanding their empire and anti-Semitic views, are winning. Only Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union are left to fight them, now. For Evelyn McIntyre, the war is just beginning. She's about to be dropped into enemy occupied France with a rough-and-tumble Jewish man by the name of Gene Rosenberg to fight the Nazis. However, they don't fight in long, drawn-out battles in which the enemy they're fighting is clear. They fight a secret war, one that could prove to be just as deadly as the war the rest of the world sees. This is a sample! The full book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Prosper-War-Shadows-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07GV8DJ3M/ref=pd_ybh_a_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=XYC4FGB7X9WA8T96K36P
Enforcing Boundaries (Book 1) by EvaHarper
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The wolves were never the most frightening thing in Margo's world. No, the most frightening thing had to be the people under the wolves' fur. Because it wasn't wild wolves who killed her parents, it was the wolf shifters who decided to turn her entire life upside down. And it wasn't wolves that declared war against her and her newly found mate, it was the monsters beneath. It was the wolf shifters who made her fear the mark, the bite, the shift, and the mate that accompanied life in the werewolf world. Will it be a shifter that shows her just how sinfully delightful being the Enforcer's mate can be? Follow Theo and Margo as they navigate their new relationship, angry Alpha wolves, and one secret that could ruin them all. Book 1 in the Boundaries Series. *Complete*