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Sunday, 5 July 2026
Vows of Blood & Deception releases tomorrow!
False Connections
She's ex-MI5.
MI5 wants her dead.
Who can she trust?
False Connections
by Steve Sheppard
Genre: Thriller, Action
"Thriller
addicts won't be disappointed"
"Steve Sheppard has created another great character in Mel Milano."
Three years ago, Mel Milano was an MI5 intelligence officer
with a promising career. Then, during a routine protection and surveillance
operation in Wales, things went drastically wrong and three people died,
including Mel’s partner and fiancΓ©, Liam Webster.
Drummed out of the service on trumped-up charges by MI5 Deputy Director, Sarah
Brook, Mel lost her career, her self-respect, her confidence and her fiancΓ©.
Nothing made sense.
Three years on, she is rebuilding her life, working for a private security
outfit.
But she’s never forgiven the way she was dumped by MI5. One day she’ll discover
the truth about Brook and what was really going on.
Now, though, it’s clear that Mel’s not the only one still holding a grudge.
Suddenly everybody seems to want her dead. But why?
On the run from MI5, is there anyone Mel
can trust to help her uncover the past?
The door opens noisily, bringing with it a gust of
chilly air. I turn on my stool, expecting to see Adam. I’m formulating some
sort of suitably sarcastic barb. It’s not Adam, however. Instead, two men have
entered. Strangers. Adam once said he found it odd that so many people he
didn’t know came to The Crown but the place is his choice and I don’t come here
so often that I’m going to know all the regulars. I look away from the new
arrivals but immediately feel a tap on my shoulder. I’m never happy when strange
men think they have the right to touch me and I tense, my hand gripping the
whiskey glass slightly more tightly.
Still, it isn’t the time and place to make
a scene so I relax again and look at the man who’s tapped me on the shoulder.
He’s about forty, similar height to me, dark suit and tie, blond hair trimmed
to within an inch of its life, and he’s holding a warrant card. I may not know
all the regulars of The Crown but I thought I knew all the local coppers. There
aren’t many and I’ve had dealings with most of them during the past year, one
way or another. This guy is not an East Hampshire plod though. Behind him and
to one side, his colleague, younger, bigger, also fair-haired, is staring at me
with tight little eyes. A bully’s eyes. He looks like he’s itching for a fight.
In other circumstances, I might have been happy to oblige but Kaylee had
clearly been round the bar with a cloth and cleanser before opening and I
wouldn’t want to bloody her handiwork. Nor would the subsequent paperwork have
appealed.
Detective Sergeant Aaron Walcott, I read on
the warrant card. Metropolitan Police. He’s off his patch. He says nothing so I
say nothing right back at him. It’s definitely up to Walcott to start the
conversational ball rolling so I pick up my glass and drain it. I don’t want to
waste any bourbon if this plays out as I’m beginning to think it might.
Eventually he speaks. Maybe he was
rehearsing his lines. ‘Miss Melanie Marie Milano?’ he says.
Steve
Sheppard was born and grew up in Surrey before moving to Buckinghamshire and
then to Oxfordshire, where he spent a quarter of a century living in an
idiosyncratic village that was the affectionate inspiration for his fourth
book, Lazytown. He now lives
in Hampshire. He spent forty years starting to write books but not finishing
them, until belatedly realising that the key is not to give up. The other thing
he has since learned is that he should have become a celebrity before writing a
book, as this would have made selling it much easier.
False Connections is Steve’s fifth book, but the first one written as a straight thriller and not primarily as a comedy, although it does contain humour. He hopes it will be the first of a series featuring feisty, funny but flawed ex-MI5 agent, Mel Milano. He also has three spy thrillers with laughs to his name, all published by Claret Press: A Very Important Teapot (2019), set in Australia, Bored to Death in the Baltics (2021), not set in Australia, and Poor Table Manners (2024), which takes place in Cape Town. These feature an initially fairly hapless hero, Dawson, and a considerably less hapless heroine, Lucy, together with varied supporting casts, most of whom are not who they claim to be. Steve’s fourth book is an out-and-out comedy-murder-mystery, Lazytown (2025).
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Friday, 3 July 2026
Nikki Ash has a NEW small town romance series coming! And the first book will be releasing later THIS YEAR!
Nikki Ash has a NEW small town romance series coming! And the first book will be releasing later THIS YEAR!
Wilde Love is a 4 book series with interconnected standalones, starting with Forsaken Vows, which will be releasing November 12th.
If you read Exposed Ink, Forsaken Vows is TAYLOR’S BOOK! And Casey, her best friend also has a book!
You can preorder the first two books in the series and Nikki will be back after the release of Secret Seduction to share the tropes and COVERS (yes, plural) for Forsaken Vows with you! And, as always, the audio books will release on the same day as the ebook.
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6JYTHSV
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H6JYTHSV
CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H6JYTHSV
Please note: While Exposed Ink is part of the Imperfect Love series, this series is NOT part of it or an extension of it. This is an entirely brand new series and you do not have to have read any books prior to reading this series. Of course, if you want to meet Taylor and Casey, you can find them in Exposed Ink: a firefighter single dad, tattoo artist romance, which can be read as a complete standalone.
Influencers: If you would like to participate in this series, you can check out the Forsaken Vows interest form here: https://forms.gle/PQTFdk6zyp9Po948A
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
The Hera-Zeta Chronicles
The only freedom of man is the freedom of thought.
That is how human evolution is possible.
Evolution of a man is the development of power and possibilities
which never develop by themselves.
The Hera-Zeta
Chronicles:
As Above So Below
by Zsa Zsa Tudos
Genre: SciFi Fantasy, Extraterrestrial Time Travel
Somewhere between galaxies, soul contracts, and the quiet
chaos of human emotion, the book casually decided to rearrange your entire
understanding of reality. Rude. Brilliant. Slightly illegal.
The Hera-Zeta Chronicles: As Above So Below doesn’t just tell
a story, it initiates the reader. There’s something deeply
precise about the way Zeta’s earthly path intertwines with Hera’s galactic
mission, like it is not just a fiction, but it is decoding something ancient
and quietly slipping it into the reader’s consciousness. The dynamic between
dimensions, the Alpha & Omega Council, the 12 Magi… it all feels expansive
without losing emotional gravity. And then it is anchored in something so
human: behaviour, struggle, longing, connection.
The story embraces millions of Earthly years in cosmic interrelations
emphasising the roles of earthlings in the Great Matrix and the cycle of
nature. It is not only a book but an initiation of the readers, that can truly
highjack their mind and clear misconceptions chiselled in by hundreds of years
of conscious brainwashing.
The 87 chapters introduce events of the multidimensional life of the heroes,
like the 1st generation Hera, a member of the Alpha&Omega Council, Hades's
wife, and her earthly counterpart Zeta, whose mission is to push the knowledge
and help the Haya Sophia, the Magnum Opus, the Sefer Jezeera. Their steamy love
affair with Hades serves as a good example of passion and deep emotional
attachment.
There are no sharp divisions in the book. The story unfolds naturally, through
which a clear vision of the origin and the true nature of mankind is drawn,
providing allowance for the supernatural capabilities they all
possess and the responsibilities they all bear.
Touching upon the creation and the arrival of people on the planet, the book
introduces the effects of prominent astronomical events, migration, purpose,
the knowledge and the lack of it, through the picture that unfolds after
removing the man-made gap fillers, the stories and false events invented by the
groups in power.
With the help of astral travelling, souls go through star gateways, visit
far-away planets, learn and experience to support the one objective of life: to
raise their own vibration. With the interrelations of energies, it creates a
healthier environment below and adds to the frequency required by the above to
fit into the cycle.
However, as it was clearly stated by Antoine Saint-Exupery in his most
prominent book, The Little Prince, WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS HIDDEN. This concealed
treasure is always Knowledge. Nevertheless, there is a catch. One needs to have
enough to understand the lack of it.
Life is a jigsaw puzzle. However, the board is empty and there is no image to
help you with the design. The only certainty is the interrelations between the
pieces.
My strong desire is to help people understand their lives,
events and become knowledgeable enough to take responsibility for their words,
thoughts and deeds. It is a necessary step towards the Nirvana, called
Happiness.
All the wonders!
With
the chip in her hand, Zeta walked to the round table on the terrace. It was
already cleaned and the black ritual cover was laid out. There were few candles
to choose from and some frankincense was lit on the burner. There was a small,
washed and ironed white cotton cloth for the chip that Zoltan brought back from
his trip.
Zeta
decided upon 3 candles. One small white for the altar, one thick red for energy
and fire and the help of Hades and one thick blue for Uranus. She lit them and
invited the brothers to contribute to the ceremony.
The
small, turquoise, pebble-like recording device was lying there, waiting for the
expert touch.
“Wow,
I have no idea how to handle this one,” pondered Zeta. “Let’s be
logical. Looking at the aura it is organic. If organic, it behaves like one,
therefore cracking it open is not an option. The full moon would help,”
entered Zeta’s mind. “But it is still a week away. There is no time to wait.
I will try the frequencies.”
As she
said that few musical instruments were fetched and placed on the table.
“Logic
dictates that I should use the opposite frequency to irritate the mass to open
up. It is a high frequency energy. I will use deep sounds. The starting point
should be the A sound. For lower vibration, I need to go down by either 5 or 7
pitches to follow the structure of the universe. I go down an octave. This name
is confusing. There are 7 sounds between the two pitches, why is it called
octave then?
They
represent the 7 colours of the rainbow as the 7 natural colours, the 28 days
moon cycle, 7 days of the week and so on. On musical terms they count the
frame. Starts with A and finishes with A. So, the finishing A is the beginning
of another octave. It shows infinity just like the number 8. It could be. But
it is still confusing,”
ran a train of thought Zeta. “This African drum would do the trick,” she
said and hit the leather.
The
pebble moved and its colour started changing however, stopped a minute later.
“All
right. I might need to hit it 7 times in a certain rhythm, like the heartbeat
of the universe.”
After
the last beat the recording device started to show significant changes in its
energy field. A rainbow emerged slowly growing until it covered the table. “I
have to get ready to take notes,” ran Zeta for a notepad and pen.
When
the energy covered the whole terrace, it began to concentrate at a point few
steps away from her, until it formed an almost human-like being, who started to
talk in a warm and deep voice.
“Greetings
Hera. I am the messenger. My function is to deliver the message from the
Pleiadeans. Listen very carefully. You cannot rewind me, I am not capable of
answering questions that form in your mind while listening, and I cannot argue.
I exist
until I speak. After, I become the organic part of the device yet again. The
message is quite lengthy therefore you should make yourself comfortable,” it announced and paused for a minute.
Although Keta is an old planet, human life here is relatively young. In
all of our 5 planets we count humanoid times in the millions, while you are in
the early thousands. That is why souls coming down here still store memories of
our existence, our schools, some of them might have even lived among us.
The
structures of the planet and our physical appearance are almost identical.
However, there is a big difference in our ways of living, and consequently our
way of thinking. From now on, when I say: us, I mean the 3 planets living in
unity. These are: Mekhranat, Muskhat and Mughat. The other 2, Quilwan and
Nowtey walk different paths.
Following that thought, our planets are not visible from Keta. The
stars’ cluster you call Pleiades received its name from people who cherished
the Knowledge and noted everything within the interrelations of energies. These
people you refer to as the Greeks. Unfortunately, they succumbed to the blind
force of ignorance, similarly to the great majority of the planet, at one
stage. I will talk about it later.
Coming
back to the stars, as far as you are concerned, they are named after the
daughters of Atlas and Pleione. The 9 of them together show a close unity.
However, like other stars, these are not equipped to support humanoid life on
their surface. Here, you live in a solar system with a sun at the core, from
where you gain your energy, knowledge and fire. In our case it all comes from
the sisters, notably from Maia and Marope.
The
Haudi solar system, where Keta lives, is an old and wise organic energy mass.
The planets ooze wisdom, especially that of Keta. Knowledge was the main
objective when the decision for establishing a human life form here, was made.
Knowledge shouldn’t be wasted. Without Knowledge the Great Matrix falls apart.
The more the Knowledge the higher the resonance and stronger the Matrix. This
should be an important clue for Keteans. To understand the Matrix of the Universe
and their place within it.
Life is an extraordinary journey. It is full of challenges
and unsolved tasks that are put in front of us on the constantly moving and
changing road towards Nirvana, the place that today we refer to as Happiness.
In my journey, I visited 103 countries, lived in 7, on 4
continents. I learned about the interrelated micro- and macrocosm. I became a
REIKI Master-Healer, an Initiated Witch, an Orixa Shamanic Master, and a
Phoenix Initiated Educator to teach the ancient wisdom of Khem, the Royal Art
of Al Khemi.
Today, I have an established philosophy - I call AKIA - that
explores the interrelations between earthlings and nature, and Earth and the
universe. I have 12 books published and many faithful students. I am an
Intimacy & Family coach and help people to find their purpose. The joy of
seeing them succeed gives me the strength to find new adventures and learn from
new experiences.
I believe that learning is the only way to understand life
and the self within. This unique knowledge makes us or breaks us in the end.
I am British and living in London.
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Monday, 29 June 2026
Taboo by Jenika Snow #Review
This was a bite size read which can easily be consumed in one sitting. Bastian is everything to Juliet but will he stop fighting the connection between them?
I enjoyed this quick read. Bastian tried his best but it’s hard to resist Juliet.

















