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Our 1000 Words Heard competition winner! Off Course is written by Maria Burke and narrated by acting talent Katie Leung, who featured in the Harry Potter films as Ravenclaw student Cho Chang, and has also acted in Trainspotting 2, BBC's The Nest, Roadkill alongside Hugh Laurie, and many more.

Off Course is a short story, written in under 1000 words.

Birdwatchers descend on a house in Norfolk when a rare bird is spotted there. Shirley who lives there is not happy being besieged by twitchers. She looks back on her previous life in London and the early years of her relationship to Pete, and comes to a life-changing decision.

Off Course By Maria Burke

FICTION:  Mystery/Thriller, 3rd POV, M/F Dialogue (TEM 122321)

NON-FICTION: Memoir, 3rd POV, M/M Dialogue (R 010522)

NON-FICTION: History, 3rd POV (FAF 010522)

Aidan Marlowe is the superstitious type. He's been playing the same lottery numbers for fifteen years, never hitting the jackpot. Until now. 

On the day of his wife's funeral. Aidan struggles to cope with these two sudden extremes: instant wealth beyond his imagination and the loss of the only woman he's ever loved, the mother of his twin children. But the money gives him and his kids options they didn't have before. They can leave everything behind. They can start a new life in a new town. So they do. 

But a huge new house and all the money in the world can't replace what they've lost, and it's not long before Aidan realizes he's merely trading old demons for new ones. Because someone is watching him and his family very closely. Someone who knows exactly who they are, where they've come from, and what they're trying to hide. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want...

©2022 Carter Wilson (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

The New Neighbor, by Carter Wilson

Read by Gary Bennett

 “The Revivalists is a thrilling, terrifying, surprising, and tender debut, written in such exquisitely precise prose that I felt singed by its imaginary fires and warmed by its beating heart. Chris Hood's nightmarish cross-country family odyssey is also one of the most beautiful love stories I've ever read.”—Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Orange World

A stunning debut novel about a couple’s harrowing journey across a ravaged America to save their daughter.

Bill and Penelope are the lucky ones. Not only do they survive the Shark Flu emerging from the melting Icelandic permafrost to sweep like a scythe across the world, but they begin to rebuild a life in the wreckage of the old. A garden to feed themselves planted where the lawn used to be, a mattress pulled down to the living room fireplace for warmth. Even Bill’s psychology practice endures the collapse of the social order, the handful of remaining clients bartering cans of food for their sessions. But when their daughter’s voice over the radio in the kitchen announces that she’s joined a cult three thousand miles away in Bishop, California, they leave it all behind to embark on a perilous trek across the hollowed-out remains of America to save her.

 Their journey is an unforgettable odyssey through communities scattered across the continent, but for all the ways that the world has changed, the hopes and fears of this little family remain the same as they always have been. In The Revivalists, Christopher M. Hood creates a haunting, moving, darkly funny, and ultimately hopeful portrait of a world and a marriage tested by extraordinary circumstances.

THE REVIVALISTS by Christopher M. Hood

FICTION:  Mystery, 3rd POV, F/M Dialogue (CID 090922)

Mouth Dreams

An unforgettable story of resilience and resistance set during WWII and present-day France on a secluded island off the coast of Brittany Natalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Brittany. But then Francois-Xavier breaks things off with her without warning, leaving her flat broke and in the middle of renovating the guesthouse they planned to open for business. Natalie's already struggling when her sister, Alex, shows up unannounced. The sisters form an unlikely partnership to save the guesthouse, reluctantly admitting their secrets to each other as they begin to heal the scars of their shared past. But the property harbors hidden stories of its own. During World War II, every man of fighting age on the island fled to England to join the Free French forces. The women and children were left on their own...until three hundred German troops took up residence, living side-by-side with the French women on the tiny island for the next several years. When Natalie and Alex unearth an old cookbook in a hidden cupboard, they find handwritten recipes that reveal old secrets. With the help of locals, the Morgen sisters begin to unravel the relationship between Violette, a young islander whose family ran the guesthouse during WWII, and Rainier, a German military customs official with a devastating secret of his own. Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08B5CWVZJ?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon</a><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780593097861">Barnes & Noble</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-10747236?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780593097861&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780593097861">Books A Million</a><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2186/9780593097854?prhc=PRHD39095A662">Bookshop.org</a><a href="http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780593097854?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780593097854&utm_campaign=9780593097854">Hudson Booksellers</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593097854?aff=penguinrandom">IndieBound</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/book/-9780593097854?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780593097854">Powell's</a><a href="http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780593097854&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780593097854">Target</a><a href="https://goto.walmart.com/c/128773/565706/9383?subId1=PRHD39095A662&veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2F%3Fquery%3D9780593097854">Walmart</a><a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1518473390?at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780593097861">Apple Books</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780593097861/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780593097861&c=books">Google Play Store</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780593097861}&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fsearch%3FQuery%3D9780593097861">Kobo</a>

Off the Wild Coast of Brittany by Juliet Blackwell, read by Hope Newhouse, Xe Sands

Award winning SAG-AFTRA Audiobook narrator, engineer and techie, pilot, 12th Man (go HAWKS!), Husband, Father, brother, son, dog-guy.

FICTION: Mystery/Thriller, 3rd POV, M/F Dialogue (TEM 122321)

Gary Bennett - Narrator

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