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Back to School!

The kids are back to school, so now it’s time for mom to have her very own little escape.  What better and cheaper way to escape than with a fabulous fall read?  Reading can take you far away to another land, to another life, make you laugh, cry or just escape reality for a little while.  Kingsmuir Press is here to help you find your perfect back to school break from reality.

Check out Lyoness Bradley’s Imperfect World.  This story begins in the late 70’s in an upper middle class high school dealing with court ordered school desegregation.  Leigh Webster struggles through her senior year facing the challenges brought by the influx of desegregation students and extremely overbearing parents, not to mention the fact that her father is their high school principal.

With college looming ahead Leigh is pushed towards the “right guy” while secretly loving a guy who her parents would never, ever approve of.  As life plunges ahead Leigh follows the path of least resistance but when tragedy strikes, she finds herself once again, face to face with the man she once loved.  This is one of those stories that will leave you asking, does God have a master plan for us, or was all this really just a coincidence?

Our second author Jean Marie Stanberry has a whole host of books that we love.  Her newest book Heartless-A Star is Dead is an epic murder mystery that will leave you positively breathless.  The brutal murder of an aging Hollywood movie star has detective Doug Bellamy stumped.  Between the troubling lack of evidence and her severely dysfunctional family.  When he finally finds a break in the evidence he must coordinate a desperate nationwide search for the murderer who has a final victim in their sights.  Can they get to the intended victim before the murderer exacts one final act of revenge?

Also check out Jean’s epic coming of age tale, The Illusion of Order. This book has rapidly become one of the most popular books in the UK and for good reason.  Everyone loves a feel good story and this book is no exception.  It will prove to you, that once you’ve hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up!  Brits still adore following the lives of their noble families and when there is a scandal it makes it all that much better.  This book will give you scandal on a silver platter. Sure those noble families look perfect in their family photo shoots, but what’s really going on behind the scenes?  That’s the “Illusion of Order”.

Finally, coming soon for you lovers of naughty vampires we have R. J. Hanrahan’s One Small Bite.  This ancient vampire dynasty has two families struggling for control of the crown and they will do whatever it takes to return it to their own family.  This sweeping drama transports young Pemberthy Parker from her lower middle class life in the late 70’s to a mediaeval castle far away where she learns she is of noble blood and she soon  finds herself embroiled in an elaborate intrigue to return the throne to a family who lost their rights to the crown years ago.

Pem finds herself to be merely a pawn in a society with ancient rules and customs she really doesn’t understand. She must struggle to fit into this new life within a society of vampires who have powers and desires that she can’t even really understand at first.  If you know anything about vampires you know that not only do they crave blood, but they have other “cravings” that must be satisfied and they will do just about anything to satisfy their lust.  It is these “cravings’ that will eventually lead to the downfall of the royal family.

That’s four great reads you must put on your list.  Take a little “me” time, escape the real world for a while with a fabulous book.  Check out these and all our great titles available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com and select privately owned bookstores.  These books are also available on all major e-readers and top e-reader lending sites.

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Success is not an “Illusion”

Thanks to our loyal UK fans, Jean Marie Stanberry’s third book, “The Illusion of Order” has been enjoying quite a bit of success in the UK lately.  Well, why wouldn’t it?  This well written romp combines a delightfully unexpected romance with the UK sport of Royal watching.  The fascination with the monarchy doesn’t end at the palace gates.  The royal family has all sorts of distant and not so distant relatives who are titled and therefore expected to conduct themselves as thus.  Though their misjudgments and sometimes public drama have always been a spectator sport for those living in the UK.

This book gives fans an inside look at that drama and the never ending battle to keep their private lives, private.  In a world that is constantly watching and judging them, these titled gentry have no choice but to hide their pain to the public and project “The Illusion of Order” or the idea that everything in their lives is going splendidly, when many times it is not.

“The Illusion of Order’ is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and on all major e-readers.  Don’t miss the book UK readers can’t get enough of.

Vaughn Thompson-Kingsmuir Press

Boston, Dundee, Auckland

Don’t forget to visit Jean at her website jeanstanberry.com and you can follow her @jeanstanberry

Time is Running Out!

Time is running out, so don’t miss your chance to win a copy of Jean Marie Stanberry’s hot new novel, Heartless-A Star is Dead.  This mesmerizing murder mystery has been racing up the charts since it’s release and you definitely don’t want to miss it.  If you don’t win, don’t worry.  You can get your own copy at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com and select privately owned bookstores.  Also available on all major e-readers.  Stay ahead of the game, read the book now, before it becomes a movie.

Here’s the link for a chance to win your copy https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/b119d4635fcbeb4b

jeanstanberry.com  @jeanstanberry

Book Excerpt: “Blood, Sweat and Fears”

Looking for an epic late summer read? Why not pick up a copy of Jean Marie Stanberry’s “Blood, Sweat and Fears”. This action packed drama has been racing up the Amazon charts and intriguing readers all over the world with it’s unique writing style and dual viewpoints.

We hope the following except will wet your appetite for all the intrigue this story induces. “Blood, Sweat and Fears is the first book in the “Heart of a Phoenix” series and it is available at Barnes and Noble and Amazon and on all major e-readers.

“Unfortunately, dinner that night turned out to be a complete fiasco. Alexander was seated with the “stars” at the front of the cafe, wedged between Marika and Maria Gastineau, an alcoholic, bulimic mess of a woman who seemed to have her heart set on seducing him. Continue reading Book Excerpt: “Blood, Sweat and Fears”

Hot books to read this summer!

Lounging in a hammock, lazing away the day in a sunny lounge chair, these hot summer days are made for enjoying a good novel and we at Kingsmuir Press have a few suggestions.

Our hottest  author Jean Marie Stanberry has been heating up the book charts with her newest release “Blood, Sweat and Fears” a heart pounding drama that will transport you to Paris in the early 1980’s, where one man’s desperate plan to escape the communist Soviet Union goes awry and shakes up the entire cast of the European Theater Company.

Jean Marie Stanberry has three other books to choose from in genres to suit just about any reader. Check out “Laying Low In Hollywood” (Romance), “One World United” (Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction) and “The Illusion of Order”
(Romance).

If you are looking for a coming of age romance that will tug at your heartstrings, I urge you to check out “An Imperfect World” by our newest author Lyoness Bradley. This novel, set in the late 1970’s tackles the issue of court ordered school desegregation and the drama it created at one high school, when the heroine forms and unlikely friendship with a desegregation student that eventually develops into a romance, things get dicey.

Whatever your tastes, we have a great book that is sure to satisfy it. All books are available on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com and you can get more information about Jean Marie Stanberry, or any of her books at her website, jeanstanberry.com