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One Brief Shining Moment by ERFolsom
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A young and impressionable Elizabeth Bruce begins an illicit affair with President John F Kennedy, and must decide if one brief shining moment in a Camelot era world is worth destroying everything she holds dear. ***** In the summer of 1963 when President John F Kennedy first set eyes on the young Elizabeth Bruce, she was just a girl from a wealthy American family. But she was different than the other women he had seduced; she was unpolished and unrefined, but there was something fresh and new about her that he craved desperately. And she was entranced by him and the glory and wonder of the Camelot world that he brought with him. Follow Elizabeth's story as she begins an illicit and dangerous affair with the most powerful man in America, and find out just how much it cost to have 'one brief shining moment' in Camelot. ... #52 IN HISTORICAL FICTION (October 2021) DISCLAIMER: This story and the events depicted in it are entirely fictional.
Merry Sister Mary and the One and Only Killer by Jules_Haigler
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🏆Wattys 2019 Winner for Mystery & Thriller🏆 Sister Mary has lost her way, or so people think. Kicked out of her convent and sent away to be reformed, this jolly nun discovers her gift of glee is perfect for solving murders and the occasional naughty peek. ________________________________________ Merry Sister Mary is the world's most happy-go-lucky nun, and where the nuns are concerned, possibly the worst. She has none of the qualities reserved for a traditional lady of the cloth: a fear of water, an odd relationship with an umbrella, and no talent in teaching or nursing, yet Sister Mary believes she has a special God given power, laughter. Such a belief has led her to be kicked out of her convent in Chicago for accidentally flashing a group of churchgoers and deemed in desperate need of reform. She is sent on a bus to a stricter convent in New Orleans, Louisiana, but in a drama fueled twist, God has different plans for the joyous nun. She is to solve a murder. After missing the bus Sister Mary is forced to seek refuge with a Catholic family in the small town of St. Francisville. A horrific murder occurs sending the town into a frenzy of bittersweet joy. The person killed has long been despised and so named the Stanton Witch for the mystery surrounding her husband's death and the decades of misfortune since her arrival. In an effort to expose the truth, Sister Mary finds herself in the middle of one family's terrible and insidious secret. As the bodies pile up she uses her gift of glee to uncover the clues missed by the police and hopefully stop the killer from claiming another innocent victim. Her goal-- prove to the world once and for all that one does not need to be traditional to make a difference. Comedy ■ Mystery ■ Thriller [COMPLETED] Copyright © Jules Haigler No parts of this book may be distributed, copied, or sold on any media without permission of the author. All names, places, and themes are a work of fiction.
THE EPOCH CHRONICLES | ✔ by risen_phoenix
risen_phoenix
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‪ THE WORLD IS DYING.‬ ‪Global warming, lack of resources, and the collapse of authority across all seven continents has caused worldwide strife. People are willing to do anything to survive. ‬ ‪The solution? Project ERAA, humanity's last effort to preserve the planet for the future - by going back into the past.‬ ‪━━━━‬ ‪Specially chosen for the hazardous task of colonizing the Kimmeridgian era, young paleontologist Amelia Doveare and her colleagues are forced to adapt quickly to their new and dangerous lives in the Jurassic.‬ ‪But truths on their mission are stirring, and so are the creatures beyond and traitors among them.‬ ‪As love, honor, and time shatter, Amelia has to know: were humans meant to break the barrier that so separated them from the dinosaurs?‬ ‪Or were the true monsters alongside them all along?‬ [BOOK ONE: PROJECT ERAA ✔ BOOK TWO: MISSION KRONOS ✗] 🏆🏆🏆 featured by StoriesUndiscovered on 14/03/2020 featured by YASciFantasy on 04/04/2020 featured by PsychologicalNovel on 12/05/2020 featured by ScienceFiction on 26/09/2021 featured by PrehistoricCreatures on 14/01/2022 reached 1 of 281 stories for #worldproblems reached 1 of 33 stories for #epoch reached 1 of 50 for #twopov 🏆🏆🏆 ❝ the chapters are amazingly written and that's what's keeping me hooked! i absolutely love the author's descriptions! ❞ - reader ❝ it almost reminded me of a modern Jules Verne book. ❞ - reader ━━━━