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The Witches of Caledonia by Erin Lavelle

Love, history and mystery in the Scottish Highlands – the scene of Macbeth and the witches!
Excerpt – I turned to get a proper look at the stone and was surprised to see vases of flowers next to it. Nobody ever left flowers at the stone twenty years ago. I noticed there was also a sturdy metal sign erected on the grassy bank above it. That hadn’t been there before either.

The black sign with white lettering read,
WITCHES STONE

From Cluny Hill witches were rolled in stout barrels through which spikes were driven. Where the barrels stopped they were burned with their mangled contents. This stone marks the site of one such burning.

I shuddered. ‘Mangled contents.” It was too horrific to imagine. But were these witches Macbeth’s witches? I’d a vague memory of that theory being described as a myth by our history teacher. But no matter – I dare say the women who suffered this appalling fate were not thinking of eternal fame in a Shakespeare play as they were bundled into a spiked barrel. I dipped into my handbag and pulled out the Witchfest programme that Emma had given me.
Friday the 20th June. 7 p.m. The Town Hall. ‘Macbeth and the Three Witches. Fact or Fiction?’ Speaker: Professor Timothy Malone, University of Aberdeen.

“That’s a definite one to add to Emma’s potions and lotions workshop,” I thought.
I took a last look at the stone which was some size – about three foot by two foot and found myself thinking of the poor women who’d suffered such an appalling death. The sun was beating down and yet I felt a shiver run up my spine.

I shuddered and decided to change the mood by going for a touristy mooch round the gift shops dotted along the High Street. Isla could only make it up for the weekend (teachers and holidays and all that) and was staying at Emma’s. The plan for today was to meet up at the Beastie for a bar supper and drinks at 5.30 p.m. So that gave me a few hours to kill. This afternoon was to be dedicated to browsing and recovery time. I’d three weeks to fit in the more vigorous stuff like hill walks and beach combing.

Download The Witches of Caledonia while it’s free on Amazon 5/11 – 5/12.

Avoidant Attachment Recovery: 5 Steps to Overcome Fear of Intimacy, Strengthen Connections and Transition from Avoidant to Secure Attachment (Fostering Personal Development) by Amy Harper

Avoidant attachment often creates an invisible barrier between individuals and their ability to form close bonds. While autonomy is vital, the warmth and depth of connected relationships are often sacrificed at the altar of self-reliance. Flourishing relationships strike a balance between personal freedom and emotional closeness, kindling the embers of genuine connection.

Amy Harper, an author intimately familiar with the aloofness of avoidant attachment from her own work experiences, presents a blueprint for embracing vulnerability without fear. Even if previous attempts at overcoming your barriers have been futile, this book deserves your attention.

Download Avoidant Attachment Recovery by Amy Harper  while it’s free on Amazon May 9 -13.

DESIREE’S REVENGE: A Romance by K.C. Carson

In 1963 Mississippi, a 12 year-old African-American girl is gang-raped by Ku Klux Klansmen. Relocated to Brooklyn, NY immediately afterward, she sets her sights on revenge. Following eight years of intensive training, having grown into a strikingly beautiful assassin, Desiree Devine accomplishes her mission.

Shortly after returning north, she’s assaulted one late night on a dark street. Upon subduing her assailant, she experiences an unfamiliar sense of exhilaration, even sexual arousal, and soon makes late-night “hunting expeditions” for would-be predators an extension of her revenge.

On one of these expeditions, in Brooklyn’s “Little Italy” section, she’s suddenly surrounded by three ruffians stumbling out of a bar. She dispatches two of them with chops and kicks, but the third pulls a gun. Tony Marino, a local private eye, appears from out of nowhere and knocks the gunman unconscious. Desiree’s reaction is not gratitude, but fury. In her mind, he has interrupted her mission, and she accuses him of “ruining everything.” Having just stepped into her life, Tony watches her march out of his. He is bewitched, though, and without a clue yet as to why.

But Desiree’s close friend Lori, whom she’d rescued from an assault, has a mystery to solve. Her big sister was the first victim of the Yellow-Tulip Killer, a serial murderer still at large. Lori insists on hiring Tony to work with them to bring the killer to justice. Using skill, stealth and luck, the three identify the killer and find the incriminating evidence. The problem is that they found it through illegal means.

While Tony strategizes on persuading the police to reopen this cold case, the women take matters into their own hands. They lure the killer into the wooded area where his eight victims were found. With her bare hands and feet, Desiree beats him to death, and plants clues that will lead police to the evidence. Afterward, she lures Tony to her place for violence-fueled sex. When he finds out what she’s done, he’s horrified. But, still, he can’t escape her magnetic pull.

That magnetism, now mutual, brings them together again and again. But as their relationship evolves, her ability to trust is repeatedly tested. When he is inexplicably tailed and shot at, he breaks contact with Desiree to keep her out of harm’s way. She assumes he’s hiding an affair with another woman. Almost as soon as he eliminates that external threat, she sees him leaving his house one morning with a client, a glamorous redhead. The closer she gets to him, the hotter her jealousy flares. Equally hot are their reconciliations, which last only until the next misunderstanding arises.

At one point, the police theorize that Tony might have been the actual Yellow-Tulip Killer. To keep them away from Desiree, he again cuts off contact. This stokes her fury, since she concludes he’s nothing but a no-good liar, who “got his taste for white meat back.”
Lori intervenes at the crisis point, while Tony is on the verge of being framed for murder, and after Desiree has gone off on a violent, self-destructive rampage. Once Desiree understands what’s really going on, she insists on putting herself forward as Tony’s alibi. He reluctantly agrees, and the case against him begins to fall apart.

Desiree’s campaign becomes more purposeful now. She becomes a champion of endangered women. Tony acts as her backup and lookout, as she prowls the night streets on predator patrols. While their love blossoms, in the face of dangerous neighborhood racial hostility, they deal together with wife-beaters, actual and would-be rapists, Tony’s Mafia associates, the crooked cops he once worked with and a pedophile priest, even another serial killer. The remedies they apply are extra-legal at best, but effective.

On their first night living together, Tony realizes that, having fallen in love with an Avenging Angel, he’s bought into Desiree’s unusual moral code. His final thought that night is, “Heaven help us both.”

Don’t miss out on the “Free Days” of DESIREE’S REVENGE by K.C. Carson, May 9 – 13.

The Retirement Planning Roadmap: A Simple 7-Step Guide to Navigating Your Retirement Goals with Confidence, Strengthening Financial Security and Ensuring Peace of Mind in Your Golden Years by Sweet Home Publishing

“The Retirement Planning Roadmap: A Simple 7-Step Guide to Navigating Your Retirement Goals with Confidence, Strengthening Financial Security and Ensuring Peace of Mind in Your Golden Years.” By Sweet Home Publishing.

“The Retirement Planning Roadmap” is your indispensable companion for navigating the exciting journey to and through retirement. Discover how to embrace this transformative phase of life with confidence and make your retirement dreams a reality.

Be sure to download The Retirement Planning Roadmap by Sweet Home Publishing while it’s free on Amazon May 7-9.

Unshackle Your Mind: A Transformative Journey to End Suffering and Embrace Infinite Potential by Kathryn Rollins

In this profound work, Kathryn Rollins takes readers on a transformative odyssey, unraveling the chains that bind the human mind and offering a path to liberation from suffering. With unflinching vulnerability, she weaves her own hard-won triumphs over adversity into a tapestry of wisdom, inviting us to confront our deepest fears and embrace the boundless potential that lies dormant within. “Unshackle Your Mind” is a clarion call to shed the self-imposed limitations that shackle our growth, and to step into a realm of infinite possibilities where the shackles of the past hold no sway. Kathryn’s words resonate with a depth of understanding that can only arise from one who has walked the treacherous terrain of personal demons, emerging victorious and imbued with the compassion to guide others toward their emancipation.

Unshackle Your Mind by Kathryn Rollins is free on Amazon May 7-11.