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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Angels Around Us

Angels Around Us

Heaven's Torment Book 1

by Victoria Liiv

Genre: Psychological Women's Fiction, Contemporary Romance

After falling out of the sky- quite literally- with an airplane, Amber goes though life simply surviving from week to week. Her traumatic experience keeps on haunting her day and night, but mostly at night, and it seems there's no way out. Nothing left to try for. If life is only a torture, why keep on going?

The answer is simple: Adriaan.

The man has managed to get through her defences and keeps her hope alive. He's the reason the get out of bed in the morning. He's the reason to push through the terror encompassing her. He's also her therapist. A new fear surfaces past the trauma: confessing her feelings for him.

Adriaan couldn't possibly love her back. Not only because relationships between a therapist and their patient are not allowed, but also because she's damaged.

Keeping her obsession secret draws Amber closer to Huub. He's nice. He's successful. He's good in bed. But he's not Adriaan.

Amber struggles through life, holding onto a small spark of hope and the love she keeps on running from.

Excerpt

“What would you like to talk about today?” he asks when he looks up from his notebook. There it is: the question.
“I want to talk about the airplane,” I reply, looking away from him.
“Okay, Amber.” The easiness from his voice is gone as if he is dreading this conversation as much as I am. “You were going to the airport with your sister,” Adriaan recounts.
“Yes, I was. She dropped me off at the ‘kiss and fly’ zone. Getting through security was no trouble; my luggage was taken by the woman at check-in and sent directly to the plane. I only had a small bag with me and a neck pillow. I was early, so the waiting area close to where my flight was going out from was quite empty, but after a while … an older American woman sat across from me. They … they like to talk, Americans. She was telling me how her daughter lived in Amsterdam, and she was going … that she would visit her. How she’d never been outside of the USA before, but there was a first time for everything.
“When the boarding started, it was a lot busier. A guy in front of me in the queue had a skateboard strapped to his backpack. A woman with two young children was trying to find their passports while one of them was pulling her skirt. A couple … So many people, Adriaan. So many … so many lives.”

All you need to know about Angels Around Us:
- written in first person present (have to note it since some people despise this)
- falling for the therapist (forbidden love)
- a slow burn romance
- a healing journey from panic attacks and trauma
- an emotional support dog Angel
- it is Amber's emotional journey first and foremost and romance second. An emotional connection that grows over time. It is not a smutty romance
- it covers several darker topics that can be triggering.

TRIGGER WARNINGS:

This book contains darker topics of life among which is living with trauma, anxiety, emotional abuse, self-harm, and abortion. If you are disturbed by any of that subject matter, then this book may not be for you.

If you find any more triggers I should mention while reading the book, let me know.

"There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel."

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Book Links:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Angels-Around-Us-Heavens-Torment-ebook/dp/B0C1Z4T1KX

Books2Read: https://books2read.com/u/3GVEr8

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/angels-around-us-heaven-s-torment-by-victoria-liiv

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127569124-angels-around-us

Book Trailer:

https://youtu.be/NNLxLiV6yPE

About the Author

Victoria Liiv is a writer, reader, nature lover and traveller at heart. She has been travelling through magical worlds since a very young age and wants more than anything to share the wonder with everyone else eager to escape from all things mundane. Let it be a magical adventure through slowly darkening Earth or a soul crushing fight for survival and love while the world burns. Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of romance.

She self published her debut novel Through Hell & Highwater in 2020 when the pandemics keeping her isolated gave her the reason to follow her dream of becoming an author. She hasn’t looked back since.

Her second novel, Afterworld: Road to Redemption, released September, 2022.

With many more ideas and characters keeping her awake at night this is only the beginning of her writing career.

In her everyday life she found the magic in her partner, who gave her courage to move out of Estonia, the country she was born in, to an equally small but more known The Netherlands.

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Author Links

Website: https://vicwritesbooks.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VicWritesBooks

Twitter: https://twitter.com/liiv_victoria

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vicwritesbooks/

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Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Victoria-Liiv/author/B08NHDSVNV

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20863883.Victoria_Liiv

Giveaway

$10 Amazon giftcard – 1 winner,

Audiobook of Angels Around Us – 5 winners!

Follow the tour HERE for special content and a giveaway!

https://www.silverdaggertours.com/sdsxx-tours/angels-around-us-book-tour-and-giveaway

Monday, September 11, 2023

The Dominion Trilogy

A peaceful kingdom faces an invasion by an ancient enemy of catastrophic proportions.

The Dominion Trilogy

by Chris R. Cloake

Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy

Seventeen centuries of peace in the dominion of Ordefima are shattered by the return of an ancient enemy from the east, bent on revenge for the wrongs of the past.

It falls on Rupert, the youngest son of the Marquis, to meet the challenge of this horror. With subversive forces operating from within, he must try and hold his land, family and life, together. His precious and only sister, Socha, holds a mysterious gift that brings fertility and life. When invasion looms, he faces the desperate consequences of greed and the ultimate price paid by those in love - loss.

Can he, along with the beautiful Socha, survive the seemingly insurmountable odds and find happines or will darker powers and covetous enemies prevail? This unmissable fantasy trilogy is a must for fans of legendary sagas, brooding menace, colourful locations and vivid characters.

Excerpt

Inside, the yellowy parchments were etched with ink that was mostly black but revealed

traces of blue. Flecks of dust obeyed some ancient dance as he leafed through. When

he drew in a large breath it was clear he had found the text they needed. He leaned

forward, raised the spectacles that hung around his long neck, and recounted the

enduring words written so carefully by the hand of their oldest known ancestor, each

sentence setting truth off on a winding journey to an uncertain future.

“It was in the third year since their arrival at the river and the building of the first

houses that the leaders’ master plan was most severely challenged by an enemy from without. For in every swamp there will lay danger. The people learned the meaning of fear in the claws and teeth of the beast and named them Gharids.”

It was decided that weapons must be forged. After a wide search by every able man, woman and child, the ore was found in the depths of the Rolling Hills. With much combined effort, a great many swords, spears, pikes and arrows were made. Two years had passed and many innocents had been taken without reason. Their torn and devoured remains caused much consternation among the people. Such was the anger, a violence was meted out and the peril driven from the world. There was much rejoicing equalled only by a concern that killing might become commonplace. All the weapons were locked away, to be brought out but once every four years to celebrate the triumph at a Festival of Fighting where young men could demonstrate their skills in a peaceful show of strength and ingenuity. It was decreed that a defence should be constructed in case a new evil should rise from that swamp at a future time. The remarkable power of the people came once more to the fore and in under a hundred years the Wall was complete, running from the borders of Reciderva, to Odecama in the south. Assured of peace, the Dominion of Ordefima was declared and work began on a stately home for the newly appointed Marquis Wilhem, grandson of Wilhem the Settler who had claimed the land for his wandering tribe.”

Buy the Dominion Collection and experience the entire mythical odyssey.

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Book Links:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTXFQJ9P

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-dominion-trilogy

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1332607

Books2Read: https://books2read.com/u/boparA

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/books/the-dominion-trilogy-by-chris-cloake

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101829162-the-dominion-trilogy

About the Author

Chris Cloake was born in 1964 and began telling stories a couple of years later. He grew up in Kent, England. He is motivated to write by a deep interest in life, particularly the cruel, deeply flawed nature of people contrasted with their incredible creativity and inspiration. The power of the natural world is a common theme in his work as a writer and professional photographer. He lives happily with his wife, two children and a large collection of music, books and board games.

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