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#Giveaway + Excerpt ~ Spent Identity by Marlene M Bell... #books #mystery #readers

On Tour with Prism Book Tours Spent Identity (Annalisse Series #2) By Marlene M. Bell Contemporary Romantic Suspense Paperback & ebook, 378 Pages December 11th 2019 by Ewephoric Publishing To find her missing aunt, she has to unearth the secrets of the past. But lies and deceit run through the very heart of their town…. What started out as a promising relationship with adventurer and tycoon Alec Zavos has fizzled into an uncertain future for antiquities expert Annalisse Drury. Returning to Walker Farm in Upstate New York to see her Aunt Kate should have been a welcome homecoming and distraction. Instead, she finds the childhood home she expected to inherit is for sale, without her permission. What’s worse, Kate’s ranch manager makes a gruesome discovery in the barn: the body of a man, dead by foul play. Annalisse turns in Alec’s direction for help. She and her aunt shelter on his estate in the Catskills while the authorities canvass the scene. But when Kate herself disappears without a trace, Annalisse fears the worst: that one of the many secrets of her hometown has ensnared her family—a secret someone is willing to kill for to keep hidden. Praise for the Book "The story is welcoming and vibrant, and much of it is nuanced and warm. When Bell aims for fun adventure, she hits the bull's-eye." - Booklife Review "...Bell keeps her well-paced story moving. Her use of dialogue to drive the narrative is excellent and she sticks the twist ending nicely, one of the harder tricks to pull off in this genre. Her characters are vivid and spot-on..." - IndieReader Review "Ambitiously written, Spent Identity has lots of action, a solid narrative, and engaging dialogue that give it substance, while the theme of betrayal cuts a wide swath. Enhanced with a cast of well-balanced and wide-ranging characters, Spent Identity acts as more than a run of the mill mystery, with engaging and relatable family relationships woven into the mains storyline. Suspenseful and well-crafted, Spent Identity is a consistently entertaining read." Self-Publishing Review

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EXCERPT Split rail fencing whizzed past Annalisse in a blur. Hundreds of stained boards melted into each other in her sprint to catch up to Ethan. He ran yards ahead in the long breezeway leading from the house to the big barn. Kate was breathing heavily behind Annalisse. Closer to the barn, the air was heavy with the undeniable odor of advanced decomposition, a ripe chemical cocktail so powerful she had to stop to cough and cover her nose. Who died in the barn? She stumbled in the dirt tracks left by farming equipment and twisted her ankle in a hole. Reaching for the nearest post, she held on, closing her eyes, un¬able to take another step. Ethan trotted back to her. “Annalisse, did you hurt yourself?” His words heated her neck. “Need a minute.” Her forehead rested against the grooves where she welcomed the rough edges and oily scent of treated wood. “Sprinting on a cup of Kate’s coffee wasn’t too swift.” “Got a case of the colly-wobbles myself.” Ethan’s tight-lipped smile offered little sympathy. “Colly-wobbles?” Annalisse smiled back, guessing his slang meant he felt as horrible as she did. Kate appeared behind her, out of breath. “No time to dally. Don’t like tracing my steps twice. It’s supposed to be over ninety today. That person isn’t going to smell any fresher by noon. Step it up.” “Remember what the doc said. I don’t keep the AED in the barn.” Annalisse backed against the post, rubbing the soreness out of her ankle. “I don’t plan to use one, and the guy over there’s too dead to need one.” Kate pointed toward the barn, then she asked Ethan, “Anyone we know?” “Shouldn’t we call the coppers?” He lifted his phone from a pocket. Just like Ethan—straight out of a Dick Tracy flick. Ethan’s little house was a museum of action heroes and crusaders. Pristine comic books—American, Japanese, and nineteenth-century penny dreadfuls from the UK—were in clear protective sleeves on every tabletop and free counter space. The mark of a true collector. Other Books in the Series

Stolen Obsession

(Annalisse Series #1)

By Marlene M. Bell

Contemporary Romantic Suspense

Paperback & ebook, 294 Pages

June 30th 2018 by Ewephoric Publishing

People die, but legends live on.

New York antiquities appraiser Annalisse Drury recently lost her best friend to murder. The killer’s identity may be linked to her friend’s expensive missing bracelet—a 500-year-old artifact that carries an ancient curse, one that unleashes evil upon any who dare wear the jewelry created for the Persian royal family.

Weeks later, Annalisse sees a matching necklace at a Manhattan gallery opening. She begs the owner to destroy the cursed piece, but her pleas fall on deaf ears—despite the unnatural death that occurs during the opening. With two victims linked to the jewelry, Annalisse is certain she must act.

Desperate, Annalisse enlists the gallery owner’s son to help—even though she’s afraid he’ll break her heart. Wealthy and devastatingly handsome, with a string of bereft women in his wake, Greek playboy Alec Zavos dismisses Annalisse’s concerns—until his parents are ripped from the Zavos family yacht during their ocean voyage near Crete.

Annalisse and Alec race across two oceans to save his mother, feared dead or kidnapped. When the killer changes tactics and goes after Alec behind Annalisse’s back, can her plan to rescue Alec’s mother save them all?

Hold on for a heart-thumping, thrilling adventure through exotic lands in this fast-moving romantic suspense mystery by Marlene M. Bell.

Praise for the Book

"Debut author Bell delivers a great, slow-building romance, gently examining her characters' painful pasts." — Kirkus Reviews

"An irresistible page turner and a successful melding of thriller and romance. With a splash of international adventure and plenty of surprises, Stolen Obsession is an entertaining read and a great beginning to the Annalisse Series." — Self-Publishing Review, ★★★★½

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About the Author

Marlene M. Bell is an award-winning writer and acclaimed artist as well as a photographer. Her sheep landscapes grace the covers of Sheep!, The Shepherd, Ranch & Rural Living, and Sheep Industry News, to name a few. Her catalog venture, Ewephoric, began in 1985 out of her desire to locate personalized sheep stationery. She rarely found sheep products through catalogs and set out to design them herself. Marlene and her husband, Gregg, reside in beautiful East Texas on a wooded ranch with their dreadfully spoiled horned Dorset sheep, a large Maremma guard dog named Tia, along with Hollywood, Leo, and Squeaks, the cats that believe they rule the household—and do.

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Large Spa Tin – Lavender scents

Autographed novel by Marlene with companion wire bound notebook

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Fantastic Adult Coloring Books by Steve McDonald

Fantastic Structures Coloring Book Review

 Steve McDonald has completed it repeatedly and once more!

Steve’s newest e book is entitled Fantastic Machines! The cowl photograph made me really feel very nostalgic, it’s a pinball machine.

Fantastic Machines – A Coloring Book of Amazing Devices – Real & Imagined

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Fantastic Planet – A e book of actual and imagined locations

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Fantastic Structures

We simply acquired Steve’s new e book Fantastic Structures and actually, I prefer it higher than the unique? Why you ask? Well, it’s not QUITE as intimidating as Fantastic Cities and lots of the iconic buildings on this one are close to and expensive to my coronary heart.

“Steve McDonald applies his distinctive photo-based strategy to create lovely, detailed line drawings of fantastic buildings and different constructions from around the globe in Fantastic Structures.The globetrotting choice contains buildings from six continents, together with Pragues Astronomical Clock, Istanbuls Hagia Sophia, Antoni Gaudis Casa BatllO in Barcelona and dozens extra, with fun-to-color element sections from iconic constructions just like the Eiffel Tower, London Bridge, and the Chrysler Building.The pages are crisp and white, conducive to a variety of creative purposes, and have the illustrations at a uniquely massive and immersive measurement, with a center margin figuring out the constructions and retaining the art work totally colourable on the web page. A dozen imaginative architectural mandala illustrations additionally complement the wonderful all actual constructions on this beautiful grownup colouring e book. I believe you’re going to fall in love with this one!

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Katie Couric explores the Adult Coloring Book “Craze” for Yahoo News that includes Steve McDonald creator of Fantastic Cities.

We are very excited that Mr. McDonald has determined to department out from structure in a brand new coloring e book accessible to pre-order referred to as Fantastic Collections!

Artist Steve McDonald makes use of his distinctive photo-based strategy to create lovely and intimately detailed line drawings of fantastic collections of objects. Finding inspiration within the uncommon (museum collections, antiques, and quirky toys) and the on a regular basis (leaves, butterflies, classic cameras, retailer product shows),McDonald creates playful and immersive illustrations which are as beautiful as they’re enjoyable to paint. The high quality of the massive, crisp white pages are conducive to a variety of purposes, whereas a center margin retains all of the art work totally colorable. A dozen meditative mandalas created from the drawings spherical out this beautiful grownup coloring e book.”

In a  information story launched September 2, 2015  by Katie Couric about Adult Coloring Books, Steve McDonald shared how reluctant he was to enter the coloring e book area together with his artwork, contemplating himself a “real artist” who had his cityscapes in artwork galleries and business design tasks paying the payments. Why create a coloring e book?

In the interview he credit his youngsters with getting him to place his distinctive detailed drawings into books for individuals to paint in. We be his checking account is comfortable that he listened to them as Fantastic Cities is on the perfect vendor checklist on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Steve loves the concept he’s now collaborating with individuals and pulling them into a part of the method together with his artwork.

“Instead of just creating one piece and putting it on a gallery wall, each piece gets a life that’s far more extensive and far more lasting,” McDonald mentioned. “The idea that I’m presenting these drawings to people all over the planet and asking them to finish the drawing with their own color, to me that’s incredibly exciting.” Source: Yahoo

As you’ll be able to see with the cityscape samples beneath, these pictures are fairly detailed and appropriate for superior colorists who get pleasure from Johanna Basford and Millie Marrota varieties of books however need some inorganic shapes to deliver to life. This e book could be an effective way to get the boys in your life to get pleasure from your coloring passion women.

Steve McDonald has been humbled by the response and success of this new chapter in his artwork profession

“I thought creating and producing something like a coloring book, maybe that was beneath me as an artist,” he mentioned.  “I’ve come to realize that that was a silly opinion to have.”

About Fantastic Cities Coloring Book

Fantastic Cities measures 11 three/4th inch x 11 ¾”inch and is 29 pages with 58 illustrations on wealthy thick paper printed on each side. Many of the pictures within the e book are two web page spreads. You might want to take care with what kind of artwork supplies you selected to paint in these books with. Colored Pencils together with fantastic tipped non bleeding pens could be your finest guess. If you like to make use of markers you possibly can both decide and select which pages your wish to colour probably the most or purchase two books.. at solely $9.50 a replica that could be a fairly good purchase.  

Fantastic Cities Postcards by Steve McDonald

Steve McDonald – Fantastic Cities Free Pages to Download

Picadilly Circus, London Manhattan, New York Amsterdam, Netherlands Ladakh, India Tokyo, Japan Paris, France Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jodhpur, India Bremen, Germany San Francisco, California

Purchase Steve McDonald coloring books right here:  US  ~  UK ~ Canada We advocate the identical markers to paint on this e book because the Basford books

Staedtler Colored Pencils 

Great for prime detailed coloring as these coloured pencils sharpen them to a really fantastic level they usually mix properly. They have a coating across the led that produces much less breakage than different pencils. Click right here to Order

For bigger areas of coloring the place you don’t want the fantastic ideas you may wish to use the upper high quality artist coloured pencils like Faber Castel Polychromos, Derwent, or PrismaColors  and for these tiny spots you may wish to try Prismacolor Verithins

. However many discover that the cheaper Crayola coloured pencis or our favourite price range pencil, Marco Raffines 

work simply fantastic for them.

Staedtler Pigment Triplus Liners

Are fantastic for double sided coloring books due to their vibrant colours and slim nibs. They gained’t leak by means of the pages of your good high quality coloring books and are advisable by Johanna Basford.Click to buy Staedtler Triplus Fineliner Pens – search for the set with the get up case that may be very useful to your coloring station at house or whenever you take them with you in addition to retaining them protected.  There is a set of 36 however the opinions on Amazon say the extra colours aren’t excellent or are repeats of those and for the value this field of 20 is a greater buy. The bigger set additionally doesn’t include their get up field.

About the Author Steve McDonald

Steve McDonald doesn’t simply draw the cities of the world. A lifelong traveler since his household moved to the Middle East in 1979, he’s lived in Saudi Arabia, Italy, India, and Indonesia, visited dozens of different nations, and spent the higher a part of 20 years touring his native Canada from coast to coast through automotive, bus, helicopter, canoe, ship, and on foot. Everywhere he goes he soaks up the native colour, the structure, and, most of all, the traces.

Steve’s course of contains observing, sketching on-site, and taking images for reference within the studio, in addition to working from many famous photographers’ materials. He lays down preliminary groundwork traces in pencil or on a pill after which will get busy with the main points. Although he works in lots of media, together with acrylics, watercolors, and coloured dyes, his favourite is easy pen and ink.

When he’s not knee-deep within the intricate particulars of his drawings, Steve is probably going browsing (most lately within the waves off the coast of Bali, the place he lived for 2 years together with his household) or cross-country snowboarding within the snowdrifts of rural Ontario, which he presently calls house.

A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Steve’s work has been showcased in lots of gallery exhibitions, tv documentaries, and varied publications, and will be discovered in lots of personal properties and company collections worldwide.

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