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Thursday Escapes: Sensing the Storm

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Thursday Escapes: Sensing the Storm

Sensing the Storm, a prequel to Kari Kilgore’s Storms of Future Past series, is available free on this site for one week only!

The Storm Rises

Dr. Sandy Hughes faces several more hours of an endless shift in a Chicago emergency room.

Wrangling baby docs, residents, and med students.

All doing their best to help people yanked out of ordinary life and thrust into medical nightmares.

Then a mysterious boy yanks Sandy out of her own ordinary life. Forever.

Can Sandy figure out his warning before it’s too late?

Check back next week for Jason A. Adams with his soft-boiled detective romance Dirk Knight: The Case of the Rustled Ranch, and happy reading!

Thursday Escapes: Moulin Rouge

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Thursday Escapes: Moulin Rouge

Jason A. Adams’ historical fiction tale Moulin Rouge is available free on this site for one week only!

In 1955, one Las Vegas pleasure palace took a risk.

Come see the beginning of something new.

Come see a young dancer find destiny and love.

Come see a casino change the city, and the world.

Come see opening night at The Moulin Rouge.

Originally appeared in Pulphouse #7.

Check back next week for Kari Kilgore’s Sensing the Storm, a prequel short story to her post-apocalyptic fantasy series Storms of Future Past, and happy reading!

Thursday Escapes: The Earworms

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Thursday Escapes: The Earworms

Kari Kilgore’s Appalachian fantasy The Earworms is available free on this site for one week only!

What if your whole town had to face the music?

Estonoa, Virginia. A lovely little town tucked deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Hiking and ATV trails. Kayaking along the scenic Clinch River.

A thriving community focused on the future.

Erin Evans loves her hometown, except for one thing.

The Earworms.

Will Erin find the answer before the music drives her and everyone else crazy?

Check back next week for Jason A. Adams with his historical Moulin Rouge, and happy reading!

Thursday Escapes: The Last Dragonkeeper

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Thursday Escapes: Reflections

Kari Kilgore’s fantasy tale The Last Dragonkeeper is available free on this site for one week only!

Wyja, Senior Dragonkeeper of the Upper Abramshire Academy, tends to young dragons and keepers alike.

Each group challenging, and exhausting, in their own way.

Unwelcome change sets in when dragon birthrates drop to dangerous levels.

No one knows why.

Can Wyja solve the problem before it’s too late?

Check back next week for Birth of the Makmorn by Jason A. Adams, and happy reading!

Thursday Escapes: Malaya

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Thursday Escapes: Reflections

Jason A. Adams returns with his Appalachian tale Malaya, dedicated to all the women who won’t put up with it. Available free on this site for one week only!

How well do we ever know our spouses?

Billy Holbrook wonders sometimes.

Malaya loves him. How best to show her devotion?

Strangers in strange lands, even close to home.

Sometimes secrets shared mean secrets kept.

Check back next week for Kari Kilgore’s The Last Dragonkeeper, and happy reading!

Thursday Escapes: Reflections

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Thursday Escapes: Reflections

Kari Kilgore’s fantasy tale Reflections is available free on this site for one week only!

A beloved family home, abandoned and broken.

A so-called adult life, not much better off.

Jessica’s hopes of finding her joy fade as soon as she steps through the door.

Sometimes fear of staying the same hits harder than fear of the unknown.

Can facing her fears, and her memories, make Jessica’s life right at last?

Check back next week for Malaya by Jason A. Adams, and happy reading!