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Fresh Fiction for August Is Here

Cowboys, castles, and shiftersβ€”this month has it all.

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Hotter than a Tuscan summer.


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Some promises cost you the one you love.


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Only she can pull him back from the darkness.


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One golden retriever knows this is love.


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Trust is the fiercest transformation of all.


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From Himalayan stargazing to the London Blitzβ€”one love endures.

POISON BAY
By: Belinda Pollard

Author Self-Published
April 2015
On Sale: April 9, 2015
Featuring: Jack Metcalf; Bryan Smithton; Callie Brown
294 pages
ISBN: 0994209819
EAN: 9780994209818
Kindle: B00QI99MJW
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Thriller

β€œThe Maori call this place Ata Whenuaβ€”Shadow Land.”

Television reporter Callie Brown likes safe places with good coffee. But she joins friends from the past on a trek into New Zealand’s most brutal wilderness, in the hope of healing a broken heart.

What she doesn’t know is that someone wants them all dead.

Lost in every sense of the word, the hikers’ primal instincts erupt. Surrounded by people who have harbored secrets for a decade, Callie must choose the right ally if she doesn’t want to be the next to die...

β€œA breathtakingly fast-paced and original eco/wilderness thriller.” Karin Cox

"If you want to go to sleep early, don't start this book at night; you'll find yourself avidly turning the next page in the small hours wondering who is next and whether it will be the killer, or the beautiful, savage wilderness of New Zealand's Fjordland that will be the cause of the next death." Leisal, Amazon reviewer

"I felt I was there, with the (gradually dwindling) group, smelling and seeing, touching and experiencing savage nature in all her glory for better and worst." Marianne, Amazon reviewer

Eight people were in the room when a beautiful teenager died. Ten years later, they are together again, invited to trek into the wild heart of Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. Most are not athletes, so why have they agreed to come? Old loves and old rivalries reignite as the group begins to disintegrate.

They were told their expedition would establish an alternative to the famed Milford Track. By the time they understand that its true purpose is much more sinister, it is too late. Far from the reach of outside help, they must face a deadly wilderness and a murderer alone.

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