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Anachronist

What would you do if you could change your past?   For fans of Harry Potter and Doctor WhoA coming-of-age story about a teenage boy and his journey into the secret world of time guilds, memory vampires and extinction curators** Josh has spent the last 17 years trying to stay out of trouble and failed miserably - one more strike, and he's going to jail. His mum is sick, and they're deep in debt to a local gang - there's nothing left to sell except for the TV, and that's the only thing keeping her sane. Desperate, he breaks into the house of the local eccentric, the Colonel, and his life changes forever. Josh stumbles into the secret world of the Oblivion Order, a secret organisation of time travellers sworn to protect the future by altering the past. Moving back through time using ancient artefacts, Josh encounters extinction curators, seers, memory vampires, chapter houses constructed from rooms in different centuries and Caitlin, a beautiful librarian who teaches him about the past and shows him a future he never dreamed he could have.
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The Most Eligible Bachelor

Takumi had thought he had escaped his mother’s match matching attempts when he came out of the closet. After all, it’s not easy finding other gay men in straight laced Tokyo. That was until Japan got their very own Bachelor TV show. The man they picked for the role? A reclusive billionaire who swung both ways. So of course, his dear mother decided to catch her recently-come-out-gay son the biggest fish of them all. Worst of all, he was picked to go on the stupid show and no amount of whining was getting him out of it! At least the man was eye candy, so Takumi decided that he was just going to hang back and enjoy ogling the man while staying out of all the inevitable drama. It’s not like love could be found on a reality TV show, right? 38,000~ words. A lighthearted gay romance with a HEA. **
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Cronica Acadia

Hearken back to a simpler time, when all your problems could be solved with an axe!"Deering appeals to readers who have enjoyed The Lord of the Rings series and gamers...A witty tale that revels deeply in computer-game tropes." - Kirkus ReviewsDangalf returned to the Keepers' room, which was dark. Even the fireplace was out, and there was an unpleasant chill in the air. He lit the first lamp he could find in the darkness and looked about. On the other side of the room was a chair with a hoodie sweatshirt draped over it. He thought that was very odd because, even though he loved hoodies, he did not expect to find one in a twenty-thousand-year-old dwarven fortress carved into a mountain.His mind flashed back to his childhood when in his darkened bedroom he saw his chair occupied by a bloodthirsty monster with murderous intent. He had been frozen in fear until he screwed up enough courage to shine a light on the monster, and it was proved to be only a hoodie draped over a chair. And...
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The Wages of Sin

A page-turning tale of murder, subversion and vice in which a female medical student in Victorian Edinburgh is drawn into a murder investigation when she recognizes one of the corpses in her anatomy lecture.Sarah Gilchrist has fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1882, the first year it admits women. She is determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, but Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself: professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and—perhaps worst of all—her female peers who will do anything to avoid being associated with a fallen woman.Desperate for a proper education, Sarah turns to one of the city's ramshackle charitable hospitals for additional training. The St Giles' Infirmary for Women ministers to the downtrodden and drunk, the thieves and whores with nowhere else...
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Education, Education, Education

It's May 1997. Tony Blair has won the election and Katrina and the Waves have won Eurovision. Channel 5 is a month old. No one knows who Harry Potter is. Britain is the coolest place in the world.At the local secondary school it's a different story. Miss Belltop-Doyle can't control her Year 10s, Mr Pashley has been put in charge of a confiscated Tamagotchi, and Miss Turner is hoping that this muck-up day goes smoother than the last. Tobias, the German language assistant, watches on. Things can only get better.Education, Education, Education is The Wardrobe Ensemble's love letter to the schools of the 1990s and asks big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies.Inventively theatrical and irreverently funny, Education, Education, Education was co-produced with Royal & Derngate Northampton and Shoreditch Town Hall. It premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, where it won a...
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Sector 64: First Contact: A Sector 64 Prequel Novella

From the Bestselling Author of Solitude! As part of the Greatest Generation, Major Anthony Spinelli, a World War II fighter pilot, flew into combat to save his family and keep them free. Two years later, he lost them in the blink of an eye, leaving Tony rudderless and without purpose. Then, on a dark, moonless night, in the skies above 1947 New Mexico, he has an encounter that will change humanity forever. However, when an accident threatens to unleash unimaginable destruction, Tony must race against time and unwinding plots to save us ... and maybe himself along the way. Grab your copy and start reading today! **What the Critics are Saying KirkusReviews.com: "Cole tackles the first-contact scenario with bombastic flair. His vibrant prose delivers the high-resolution imagery of a Hollywood blockbuster. A technologically riveting dream for sci-fi action fans." AudiobookReviewer.com: "SECTOR 64 was a highly imaginative action-packed apocalyptic assault on your mind." IndieReader.com: "SECTOR 64 is an engaging book from the very first page to the final words of the Epilogue." Audiobook-Heaven.com: "Cole has a good thing going ... His descriptions of aerial battle and his knowledge of the aircraft themselves fascinated me ... Sector 64 is a great read." Scroll up and grab your copy today! **
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Akaoni

Locked in the back of a minivan headed for who knows where, Azusa Saito realizes she has been kidnapped. Just when she thinks there's no hope for escape, she is rescued by a man with glowing red eyes. Or is she? Her supposed rescuer forces her to live in a town of vampires. There she learns the story of her kidnapper, a red-eyed vampire charged with the bothersome role of guarding her from enemy covens and from escaping. He is the dreaded Akaoni, the only vampire all other vampires tremble in fear of. Oddly, he doesn't scare her though. What will happen between a powerful, ostracized vampire who never drank blood and a girl who is hunted for her blood? Will love blossom between them when enemies abound within and without the coven? Find out in this thrilling shoujo light novel series!
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