Video Trailer: Aegis Rising

Aegis Rising

Over a remote northern forest, a small plane carrying five teenage friends flies into a freak storm. Struck by lightning, the aircraft crashes and the passengers find themselves cast into a life-changing adventure.

In a hidden valley, a mysterious people gaze at the stormy sky as a glowing object with fiery wings disappears behind a mountain ridge.

In a distant city, a secretive organization led by a shadowy figure initiates a sequence of cataclysmic events designed to wreak havoc across the planet.

As the three worlds collide, unlikely heroes arise.

Aegis Rising, the young adult science fiction adventure by S.S. Segran, is available at Amazon.com, Amazon UK, and other online retailers.

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Book Brief: Murder by Misrule

Murder by Misrule eBook Cover MediumMurder by Misrule
by Anna Castle
Genre: Fiction – Historical Mystery
Word count: 89,000

Francis Bacon must find out who is murdering barristers in Elizabethan London before he becomes the next victim.

Francis Bacon is charged with investigating the murder of a fellow barrister at Gray’s Inn. He recruits his unwanted protégé Thomas Clarady to do the tiresome legwork. The son of a privateer, Clarady will do anything to climb the Elizabethan social ladder. Bacon’s powerful uncle Lord Burghley suspects Catholic conspirators of the crime, but other motives quickly emerge. Rival barristers contend for the murdered man’s legal honors and wealthy clients. Highly-placed courtiers are implicated as the investigation reaches from Whitehall to the London streets. Bacon does the thinking; Clarady does the fencing. Everyone has something up his pinked and padded sleeve. Even the brilliant Francis Bacon is at a loss — and in danger — until he sees through the disguises of the season of Misrule.

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