Dear Reader, Love Kenneth A. Baldwin

 

Dear Reader,

We’re different, you and I. Maybe you remember the first time a grown-up told you that magic was just pretend. I do. When they said it, something didn’t sit well in me. How could grown-ups, people who admittedly didn’t even have an answer to all of a child’s many probing questions about the world, have any credibility to say magic was only pretend?

When I was an adolescent, I set out on a crusade to find where dragons came from. Yes, they told me dragons were only make-believe. But if that were true, why did they seem to pop up everywhere from every part of the world with only minor variations in their description? 

As I got older, I learned the truth about magic is more disappointing than it being make-believe. No. The truth of magic is that it’s right under our noses, and we choose to ignore it. But if you listen closely, at times, you can hear it sing.

It sang for me as I read the diaries of a French aero captain detailing his commission in 1916. He led a group of American volunteer combat pilots called the Lafayette Escadrille. The United States had yet to enter the WWI, but for some reason, magical or otherwise, this group of young men left all behind to risk their lives flying in airplanes and fight in a war for a country not their own. Airplanes had only been invented about ten years prior, but Germany, England, and France were already busy strapping machine guns to their wings. 

What do you call something like that? Courage? Insanity? Several of these pilots abandoned an Ivy League education. Some came from much humbler backgrounds. All of them were drawn to the call of adventure–a call with a scientifically immeasurable characteristics that yield tangible, world-changing consequences.

The Lafayette Escadrille’s celebrity contributed in great part to turning the tide of US public opinion about WWI, leading to its eventual alliance with the Triple Entente.

The hearts and souls of pilots like those men are what power the magic system in my novel series, The Shards of Lafayette. The story follows a young man, Marcus Dewar, who wants more than anything to be like his heroes from the Lafayette Escadrille, but despite being at war for years, can’t bring himself to take the life of another human being. His best friend, Jane Turner, is an aviation mechanic known for her unorthodox (pronounced magical) aircraft repairs. And despite her better judgment, she still believes she can protect her loved ones from the effects of the conflict.

The story celebrates the people and hearts that made history, and allows readers an opportunity to dive into a magic that hinges on what makes human nature so very powerful, in a time when it was almost lost.

If you pick up a copy, I hope that you’ll fall in love with the courage and contradictions of the people that populated one of history’s most enigmatic and important eras. I know I did.

Love, 

Kenneth A. Baldwin

 

Kenneth A. Baldwin writes stories that blur the lines between history, magic, dreams, and reality. He loves finding oddities in history books with unbelievable tales or unexplained phenomena. His first series, The Luella Winthrop Trilogy, takes place during just such a time when late 19th-century Victorians struggled to balance a surge of occultism and never-before-seen scientific advancements.

Before he started writing novels, Kenny paid his way through law school by writing, performing, and teaching humor. You can still catch him on stage or in corners of the Internet that feature sketch and improv comedy. Now, he lives nestled under the Wasatch Mountains with his wonderful wife, sons, and Golden Retriever.

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1918. France. Reports of unexplained rogue attacks have come in from both sides of the Western Front.

When Marcus Dewar is tasked with investigating the aerial bombardments, it’s not because of his aviation record. To make a name for himself, he will have to escort his best friend, a woman named Jane Turner known for her witchlike repairs on damaged aircraft, through some of the war’s most dangerous battle zones.

But when they learn the rogue pilots seek out arcane devices filled with magic powerful enough to alter the war, it will take more than some hedgewitch tactics and smart flying to return with their lives.

And in a conflict that values human life so little, that’s the least they have to lose.

The Shards of Lafayette: Drops of Glass Book 1 is available at Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Drops-Glass-Magic-Shards-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B0C42B144X .

Dear Reader, Love Kimberly Cole

 

Dear Reader,

If you’re searching for a simple bump in the night or a teardrop falling from the sky, this is not your story. But if you seek adventures beyond the unknown—where time bends, danger lurks, and heroes are forged—then step into a mysterious portal to a kingdom on the brink of destruction. This is more than an adventure; it’s a fight for courage, unity, and hope.

I invite you to take an unfamiliar step, reach within yourself, stir up your God-given gifts, and step into your destiny—a journey that often requires great faith. So, let’s embark together. Pack your bags, fall in line, and follow me, because once you move forward, there is no turning back.

Love,

Kimberly Cole

 

 

Kimberly Cole was born in Baltimore and raised in Millersville, Maryland. She grew up in a very small home with six brothers and sisters. This was the beginning of where the fuse was lit with great expectations of creating stories to be read throughout the world. She completed high school at Old Mill High. Her hobbies are writing novels and reading good books. She finds it an enjoyment to help others by giving to charities, because they go to places she cannot be and charities impact lives which she may never get to see.  Ms. Cole’s favorite authors are C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Frank Peretti (Piercing the Darkness). 

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Liana, a widowed mother of Alicia and Emily, is in a desperate situation. After her car breaks down on a desolate road, she feels lucky to have her daughter’s friend Roger with them. As they begin a trek to seek help, Liana has no idea that she, her daughters, and Roger are all about to embark on the adventure of their lives. After the group finally reaches the vast doors of a mansion in the middle of nowhere, they are greeted by an eerie butler, who leads them to Sir Bronze Pierce, the master of the mansion who soon captivates Liana with his charming personality. Roger and the rest of the group are slowly drawn, one-by-one, through a portal into a different time, where they are soon thrust into a battle with a wicked warlord whose ultimate goal is complete domination. It is up to Alicia, Roger, and Emily to bring back harmony and peace to these strange kingdoms. As the three young people seek the help of the king’s court — a loyal Griffin, a powerhouse rock man, and other valiant warriors– they must unite against the forces of a warlord intent on destroying anyone who stands in his way.

Praise:

“During the late hours of the night, Roger woke up abruptly. He thought he was dreaming; an evil presence drew him out of his bed and into the hallway. He walked through all kinds of twists and turns and stopped suddenly in front of a door needing a repainting…In the center was a narrow slide with a small opening. ‘Look and see! Look and see!’ the voices called him out and urged him on. Bit-by-bit, Roger looked into the slot…” So begins a suspenseful, page-turning, dark fantasy read in the spirit of work like Terry Brooks, Stephen King, Gary Dauberman, and even the author’s literary inspiration, C.S. Lewis, who shares the author’s faith.

What Kimberly Cole does not have in terms of out-and-out, one hundred percent originality, she more than makes up for in terms of overall ideological presentation, characterization, and rich, immersive worldbuilding. You really feel like you’re experiencing a fast-paced fever dream if you delve into the text. There really is this sense of total, emotive immersion in the stakes at play, likely coming from the decidedly personal origins of the work. Cole herself clearly has decided to make this her passion project. The choices feel as much informed by superb storytelling technique, as they do by Cole’s unique vision. Cole herself states the following: “(The Vision of the Quest) was a test for me to write. At times, I struggled to tell my story…pushing on always, faith pulled me through to my goal. This book is special to me because I was talking with my husband sharing how I would love to write a book like Narnia with three children…The next morning my daughter, Meghan, had awoken from her sleep. She came to me excited saying, ‘Mom, I had an awesome dream with three children and their mother stranded on a dark road. I came to a mansion and knocked on a door when a butler answered’. She said there was an evil man named Sir Bronze Pierce and then I had taken the story from there. I could not have completed this book first without God’s help and my husband’s support.”

Indeed, Sir Bronze Pierce is one of the juiciest dark fantasy villains to grace the pages of a work like this in some time. He has this kind of dramatic, old-fashioned menace that at once retains a good sense of fun, while not shying away from what the narrative needs to be. I’m a big fan of a good, scary villain to raise the stakes for our heroes and heroines, and Sir Bronze Pierce is no exception to this. Again, this kind of quality likely comes from the work being intensely personal for Cole. Core aspects of the narrative are inspired by Cole’s daughter’s dreams, which adds a poetic and innocent quality to even the darker aspects of the story, and necessarily menacing scenes. The Christian element is also intriguing. More often than not, popular genre work with Christian themes tends to lean into distinctly paranormal, if not paranormal horror stories. Seeing something appealing to a wide audience with Christian themes is compelling, and a bit different from the usual, pantheistic nature of fantasy. — Cyrus Rhodes

The Vision of the Quest is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Ewings Publishing LLC.

 

 

 

Dear Reader, Love Jean Hackensmith

 

Dear Reader,

I cannot express how honored I am that you decided to pick my book, "A Dream In The Wilderness" (Book One in The Wilderness Saga) out of the millions of historical romances out there. It sometimes seems that everybody and their brother are writing books these days, and yet you chose mine. There are even AI books arriving on the market as we speak, and I have to warn you. Be careful. As an experiment, I plugged an idea into an AI program one day just to see what it would spit out, and it was atrocious. (Thank God!) It takes a human to write about humans. To express the emotion; the love, the hate, the jealousy, the envy, the complacency. AI can capture none of that, because it is not human. 

 

I began writing over 40 years ago, when I was 22. (And, yes, I'm disclosing my age.) It all started during a phone call with my mom. I was, is, and always will be a doodler and, among all the curly cues, smiley faces, and thingamabobs that appeared on the paper in front of me there mysteriously emerged this line. One sentence. I read it to my mom, and her response was, "Man, that would make a great first line for a book." I still remember it today: "Jenny McCall awoke with a scream on her lips." That was it. I was hooked.

 

My favorite author at the time was Kathleen Woodiwiss. She wrote steamy historical romances. And I mean STEAMY. So, naturally, that's where I began my career as well. Thirty years and eleven novels later, frankly I started to get tired of writing basically the same old story over and over again, just in a different locale with different plot twists and different characters. So, I tried my hand at several other genres, including science fiction, mystery, thriller, and even a political novel. I enjoyed writing every one of them, but I had still not found my niche; that one book that would break through and actually get noticed--until "The Promise."

 

The idea for "The Promise" actually came from my sister. She helped me plan the basic plot, which took place during the 1930's and the Dust Bowl era--and then she passed away. I had about half of the book written by then, and just couldn't make myself pick it up again. It was HER book, not mine. Then one day, I realized I needed to finish it FOR her. "The Promise" was released in early 2024 and has sold over 20,000 copies to date. I cannot help but think that Sue is sitting up in Heaven right now nudging people to buy her book. After all, the most copies I'd sold of any one book before that was around 1000. What would you think?

 

Anyway, to make an already long letter a little shorter, I had discovered my niche. "The Promise" is basically a "sweet" romance (although it does have one steamy romance scene because, when polled, readers told me that's what they wanted and like a dummy, I listened.) They also wanted a sequel. So, I did a sequel AND a prequel. (I'm an author. What can I say?) Both of those are totally absent of graphic love scenes and contain only mild profanity. What a refreshing concept! To actually just tell your characters' story, throw in a lot of history, some humor, heartache, suspense, and sometimes greed (gotta have greed for a good book) and, for me anyway, it was the magic potion that worked. Every book in THE WILDERNESS SAGA, which is now four books strong, has those components. What they don't have is a lot of unnecessary sex and profanity that I finally realized just turns the majority of readers off.

 

So, if you're looking for a good, family-oriented, history-packed series set in the wilderness that was Superior, Wisconsin in the 1840s and will probably run close to 20 books before I'm done, check out THE WILDERNESS SAGA exclusively on Amazon. You won't be sorry you did. Oh, and if you do happen to enjoy those "steamy" romances also, check out my other books at www.jeanhackensmith.com.

 

Thanks, and happy reading!

 

Sincerely,

 

Jean Hackensmith

 

I have been writing since the age of twenty. (That’s 47 years and, yes, I’m disclosing my age.) I am the proud mother of three and grandmother to four wonderful grandchildren. After losing who I thought was the love of my life, my late husband Ron, in November of 2011, I met Rick. So, it is definitely possible to have more than one “love of your life.” Rick and I were married in July of 2018 and are still going strong today. He is my soulmate, my confidant, and my biggest fan. He has read every book I have ever written (even the romances!) 

Next to writing, my second passion is live theater. I founded a local community theater group back in 1992 and directed upwards of 40 shows, including three that I authored. I also appeared on stage a few times, portraying Anna in The King and I and Miss Hannigan in Annie. I am sad to say that the theater group dropped its final curtain in 2008, but those 16 years will always hold some of my fondest memories. 

I moved from Superior 15 years ago, seeking the serenity of country living. I also wanted to get away from the natural air conditioning provided by Lake Superior. We moved only 50 miles south, but the temperature can vary by 20-30 degrees. I guess I’m a country girl at heart. I simply love this area, and am lucky to, once again, have someone to share its beauty. I love the solitude, the picturesque beauty of the sun rising over the water, the strangely calming effect of watching a deer graze outside your kitchen window. Never again, will I live in the city. I am an author, after all, and what better place to be inspired than in God’s own backyard.

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Unable to find a teaching position in the flooded job market that is New York City, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Bentley accepts the position of nanny to Caleb Wachsmann’s three children after the farmer’s wife, parents, and infant son die in the Cholera epidemic of 1834. The twist? The job is in Superior, Wisconsin in the Michigan Territory, an unsettled wilderness located on the northwestern tip of Lake Superior.

Caleb is not looking for love; his heart will always belong to his beloved Annie. What he does need is a woman to watch after the children while he toils in the fields making a living for his family. Sarah turns out to be that woman. She raises his children with a gentle and loving hand and also helps Caleb to overcome an unbearable loss. As Wisconsin vies for statehood, the young couple will face challenge after challenge as they struggle to tame a wilderness that really doesn’t want to be tamed at all.

A Dream in the Wilderness is available at https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Wilderness-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B0DJS19HMH.

Dear Reader, Love P.K. Eden

 

Dear Reader,

As a child, as you read or listened to those wonderful tales of princesses in towers, fairies bringing gifts to the new baby or princes fighting to save his one true love rom dragons, witches, or ogres, have you ever wondered what it would be like if all those wonderful and magical things in the fairy tales really did exist? I know I did. This is why when I decided to write fantasy I chose to write about some of the artifacts in the fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm beginning with Snow White’s Magic Mirror.

But I knew I needed help to properly tell a story that would combine the world of today with the world the Brothers Grimm wrote about in their famous but also rather bleak and often gloomy stories. I asked a wonderful fellow writer, Patt Mihailoff, to help me blend today’s facts with yesterday’s fiction. Fortunately, she agreed, and P. K. Eden was born along with the first book in a three-book series about the Primogen Sentinels. The Sentinels defend the magical objects from fairy tales and folklore across all seven continents from discovery by mankind and from falling into the hands of Taltos, a rogue splinter group with followers who were once Primogens who want to use the objects for personal gain.

In book one, The Mirror, Snow White’s Mirror, has activated and predicts a major catastrophe if Dr. Ben Michaels gets into the cab at Penn Station, New York that is hit by a city truck and explodes. It becomes the calling of Siene Dower, a direct descendent of The Brothers Grimm and one of the Primogen Sentinels, to stop him and find out who wants him dead. She suspects it is the head of Taltos but needs Ben to help her discover why. The answer takes Ben and Siene, along with her brother, Reed, Sentinels from two continents, and both Lina, Thumbelina actually, and Shard, a piece of the Magic Mirror, in a race to find the answers before Taltos gains control.

After reading The Mirror, I’d like to ask you this question - Fairy Tales – Fact or Fiction. You decide.

I wish I could speak with you personally and hear your thoughts on this fantasy romp the blends love, betrayal, and commitment into the story Patt and I envisioned from page one. We both hope you enjoy The Mirror and hope to hear from you in the future.

All the best.

P. K. Eden

Patt Mihailoff and Kathye Quick

 

 

P.K. Eden is the alter ego of multi-published and award winning authors Patt Milhailff and Kathye Quick whose debut novel FIREBRAND was lauded as comparable to the Harry Potter series, garnered 5-Star reviews, and won numerous  Reviewer’s Choice Awards.

Born long, long ago in a place not so far away, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Kathryn Quick has been writing since the Sisters in St. Casmir’s Grammar School gave her the ruled yellow paper and a number two pencil.  She writes contemporary and career romances, romantic comedies, historical romances as well as urban fantasy. 

Kathye has twenty fiction books in print with various publishing houses and one non-fiction compilation of her town’s history at the behest of the Manville Library Bord.  She was honored to have been named an Amazon top 100 Romance Author for Ineligible Bachelor published by Montlake Romance. Other works include a three book  Grandmother’s Rings Series – Amethyst, Sapphire and Citrine, a rom-com series that follows three siblings as they use their Grandmother’s Rings given to them by their mother to find their soulmates. 

Because she has been fascinated by King Arthur and his knights for almost forever, her series Beyond Camelot, Brother Knights, is her vision of how the majestic kingdom may have survived after Arthur. Two books are written in this series with the third and final still in concept.

She is a founding member of Liberty State Fiction Writers and has been a part of Romance Writers of America and New Jersey Romance Writers.

She is married to her real-life hero, Donald, and has three grown sons, each having romantic adventures of their own. Her two grandkids, Savannah and Dax, happily cut into her writing time but she still manages to get a few pages done each day.

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Thanks to novelist and editor, Dr. Nathasha Brooks-Harris who invited Patt Milhailff to write for several TRUE CONFESSION lines of magazines where she learned tight and entertaining writing and resulted in the publication of more than two hundred short stories and articles.

One of Patt’s most gratifying experiences was when she moderated a standing room only workshop at the African American Romance Slam Jam in 2004 and has since enjoyed speaking engagements at libraries, book clubs and other forums. 

She was awarded 2009 Author of the year and 2010 Mentor of the year by Romance writers of America, New York City Chapter, a terrific organization that helped her to obtain valuable lessons and insight while on her writing journey. 

Patt is also featured in A Dream Deferred, A Joy Achieved, a non-fiction novella by Charise Nesbit a co-producer at Tyler Perry Studios, about foster care, as well as being included in two of Times Bestselling Author Zane’s anthologies. 

Patt is one half of the writing duo P.K. Eden along with Kathye Quick, authors of Firebrand,  that received a five star Affaire de Couer Reviewer’s Choice Award. 

She is also a member of Liberty States Fiction Writers the home of a magnitude of talented writers and fellow authors and is the author of nine novels.  

Patt was raised, and educated in New York City, residing in  New Jersey, and has since relocated to Delaware.  

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What if you found out the artifacts from the fairy tales you loved as a child were real and one of them just predicted your death? That’s the dilemma Scientist Ben Michaels faces when Siene Dower, descendant of the Brothers Grimm, tells him that Snow White’s Magic Mirror sent her to stop him from getting into the cab that crashed and burst into flame right before his eyes at the intersection at Penn Station, New York City. Does practical Dr. Michaels dismiss everything he knows about reality and science and follow the curious and beautiful woman who just saved his life?

The Mirror is available at Amazon.

Dear Reader, Love Virginia Barlow

 

Dear Reader,

I wrote this book for you, and I couldn’t do it without you and your loving support. I put words together from the depths of my heart to transport you to another world where true love conquers all. Where true heroes exist.

Heroes who listen, understand, and love the way every woman should be loved. As her unique self.

I believe that we are all created perfect, and we should be loved for who we are and not who we can be changed into.

My daughter’s best friend had a boyfriend who told her he would introduce her to his parents when she changed into someone his parents could accept. This was not a religious, ethical, or orientation problem. Just a man who did not see the worth of the beautiful female before him.

My thoughts were, that this is unacceptable.

If there is anything I wish to portray in my stories, it is acceptance, love, and gratitude for every perfect person we encounter. 

Thank you for choosing my book and taking the time to read the words I put together so lovingly for you. You make my world perfect, and I hope I bring happiness and love into yours.

If you have not read one of my stories before and you have one in your hand, thank you.

I find fulfillment in the words and stories I create, and I hope to entertain you. To bring tears to your eyes, to tug at your heartstrings, to make you laugh, and to give you hope.

If I have succeeded in one of these, I am grateful. 

I could talk about crazy times, finding world peace, politics, religion, sports, diverse backgrounds, generational gaps, and what is wrong with the world at large, but truthfully, I would rather write and know that I brought a smile to your lips, or a new dream to your heart.

I have researched my work and portrayed the times to the best of my knowledge and hope you can see the scenes as clearly as I do when I write.

They were created with you in mind, dear reader.

Thank you for your support and love,

Love, Author

 

Virginia Barlow has been a dreamer her whole life. She loves reading, traveling, and roses. She will dive headfirst into any romance she can get her hands on in any genre. Although her first love is Regency Romance and always will be.  Something about the era calls to her soul like a siren’s song rising from the depths.

She loves to write steamy romances whether fantasy, historical, or contemporary, all are liberally spiced with adventure and sensual, seductive heroes. Her heroines are just as compelling with equal parts intelligence, sass, and backbone. They give as good as they get whether saving their man’s life or responding to his heated kisses, they’re all in.

The most important thing in Virginia’s life is her family, and spending time with them. When she is not bouncing a grandbaby in her arms or handing out popsicles, she is writing and dreaming up her next love story.  Virginia has published fifteen romance novels with another two on the way and has half a dozen more circling around inside her head eager to make their debut.

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Bartered to Viscount Hudson Becker by her father, Lady Lavinia Holbrook escapes her arranged marriage and travels to her Godmother, the Duchess of Chauncy to seek asylum. Determined to put men and marriage behind her, she is unprepared for the duke’s interest or his heated kisses. 

The Duke of Chauncy believes love is a weakness and refuses to take a bride despite his mother's scheming. When the duchess makes a wager he will marry by Christmas, he considers the matter a lark. Until Lavinia gets under his skin, and he rethinks his position on love and happy ever afters.

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Dear Reader, Love Jörg H. Trauboth

 

Dear Reader,

You see the cover, read the back  and think: "Oh my God. Why should I read something by an 81-year-old author? Old men are almost always negative!  Who is this old man from Germany anyway, and what qualifies him to call himself a writer?"

Thank you, dear reader, for making it this far. Because this gives me the chance to say who is really sitting behind this typewriter. I truly believe that I have had a somewhat unusual journey, and it has shaped me to my core. 

I was born in 1943 during a bombing raid on Berlin by British and US bombers.  It was quite close, as I welcomed the world in an air raid shelter while explosions and fires raged outside. Perhaps this has left its mark in my genes. From then on, believe it or not, I lived in permanent crisis management:

My girlfriend Martina had a child at 18 with me, I was 19. Not easy at all. We had no money for a family. So I joined the German Air Force, climbed the ranks, made a career, flew 2,000 hours in Phantom and Tornado fighter jets and survived three critical flight accidents. My guardian angels really did a great job. By that time, I had also learned how to deal with personal and political crises, as I represented German interests in NATO in Brussels. But then I became curious about the world outside and left the military as a colonel in general staff service at the age of 50. 

You want to know more about your author? Okay. I then was trained in London as a special agent for kidnapping and extortion, build up my own company, helping people in crisis situations with my task force in over 300 cases. I sold the company and became a crisis counselor for people confronted with sudden death in the family. Pure crisis management, and now not for pay, but out of love for humanity. I love people. 

Meanwhile, I  processed much of my experiences in political thrillers that made me well-known in Germany. Readers say I am the German Tom Clancy. I find that a bit exaggerated, but I feel honored. My books all have a current political backdrop and always end well. I want my readers to be able to sleep well after a page-turner.

I myself couldn’t sleep well when I witnessed how, 500 miles east of me, Putin invaded Ukraine just to annex a country he believes belongs to him. After two years of war, I thought about how to solve the problem in new book.  So, I researched in Kyiv, Moscow, and flew with my plane to the Baltic States and Poland, where people are even more afraid of a Russian attack than in Germany. It took about six months, and then I was ready for the plot of my new thriller:

A group of oligarchs led by Alexei Sokolov wants to overthrow the Russian President Ivan in Moscow. Just as Brutus and the senators did with Julius Caesar in Rome on the Ides of March. The plan is clever, but Alexei has a problem. He is having an affair with Yulia, the partner of the Russian President. Both are under pressure, as Ivan knows something. On the flight to Moscow  the plane with Alexei and Yulia on board is hijacked. The Ukrainian hijacker demands the release of his brother from Russian captivity. When the Russian President refuses, a drama unfolds in the skies over Europe. The hijacker shoots the crew. The plane is without pilots and is programmed to crash into the Berlin Reichstag. The German government considers shooting down the passenger plane, which is legally forbidden. Crisis management between Berlin, Kyiv, and Washington is under enormous time pressure, as the plane is running out of fuel. The former elite soldier Marc Anderson and his family are also on board. They are invited to a wedding celebration in Vilnius. Marc’s wife, Jelke, pleads with her husband, a hobby pilot, to save them all. He and Alexei go into the cockpit and try to take control of the ailing Boeing 737-300. Their chances are extremely slim.Will they manage to fly and land the plane? What will happen to the Russian President, who knows of his partner's betrayal?

At this point, I have to stop. But you can be sure: the ending is spectacular. By page 180 at the latest, you’ll want to know how it continues. Otherwise, you won’t be able to relax. At least, that’s what the readers of the German novel say.  

The book contains all the elements that my readers love: an exciting story against the backdrop of the current political situation, featuring the hero Marc Anderson, who suddenly wavers but then rises again, with love, sex, and plenty of flying. So, it's a thriller from real life. My life.

By the way, I’ve been married to the young girl from back then for 60 years. We have two wonderful sons and three grandchildren. And my next Marc Anderson thriller is already in the pipeline. 

81 is not old, right?

Enjoy The End of the Kremlin Czar by a German bestselling author. 

 

Jörg H. Trauboth, born in 1943 near Berlin, logged over two thousand flight hours as a Weapon Systems Officer Instructor in the Luftwaffe, flying PHANTOM F-4F / RF-4E and TORNADO fighter jets, and over 3000 hours in light aircraft. At the age of fifty, he left the service with the rank of Colonel in the General Staff. He received training as a Special Risk Consultant from the English Control Risk Group and served as Managing Director Germany, dealing with extortion and kidnapping cases in South America and Eastern Europe. Shortly thereafter, he founded his own consulting firm, quickly establishing an outstanding international reputation. Trauboth protected his clients with a 24-hour task force during product extortions, product recalls, kidnappings, and image crises. He was the first President of the European Crisis Management Academy in Vienna and President of the American Yankee Association.

He is known as a respected expert in the media on security-related topics. He volunteers as an emergency counselor and is a member of the Crisis Intervention Team (KIT Bonn) of the German Foreign Office. He is a private pilot, married, with two sons and three grandchildren.

In 2002, Trauboth wrote the now out of print standard work “Crisis Management for Company Threats”.

In 2016 the follow-up work was published with Jörg H. Trauboth as editor in collaboration with five authors: “Crisis Management in Companies and Public Institutions”.

Terror expert J. H. Trauboth presented his debut novel in 2015 with the Germany thriller “Three Brothers”. (Available in English). In 2019 “Operation Jerusalem” followed and in 2020 “Omega”. The trilogy is about the former elite soldier Marc Anderson and his team. With these three self-contained thrillers, Trauboth is rated by many readers as the “German Tom Clancy.” The trilogy is available as a printed edition, eBook and audio book.

His first detective novel, “Jakobs Weg” (German), followed in 2021. The highly explosive topic of “sexual abuse of children” is processed sensitively in a scenario on the Way of Saint James and at the end offers contact options for those seeking help.

In 2022, the novella “Bonjour Saint-Ex” was published (German) in which the passionate pilot Jörg H. Trauboth turns the last flight of the legend Antoine de Saint Exupéry into an exciting literary event.

Readers wanted a sequel to the Marc Anderson series. In 2023, ZarenTod – Das Ende der Präsidenten was published, a highly topical political thriller. The Russian president and new tsar, Ivan Pavlenko, suddenly shows his true face during the war in Ukraine. He wants the old Soviet Union back. The world is on the brink. The influential oligarch, Alexei Sokolov, wants to prevent Ivan’s megalomaniac plans and is planning a fundamental new beginning for Russia. To achieve this, the Russian president must be removed. But the plan goes awry. Ex-elite soldier Marc Anderson intervenes. Will Czar Ivan die? What will become of Europe? The book 8/ 2024 in English „The Death of the Kremlin Czar” is the fourth political thriller in the Marc Anderson series.

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Russian President and new Czar Ivan Pavlenko suddenly shows his true colors during the war in Ukraine. He wants the old Soviet Union back. The world is on the brink. The influential oligarch Alexei Sokolov wants to prevent Ivan’s megalomaniacal plans and is planning a fundamental new beginning for Russia. To achieve this, the Russian president must die. How will the US President react to the CIA’s proposal to support the oligarch, who has a romantic relationship with the Russian President’s partner, Yulia? 

The poison attack is perfectly prepared, but the Boeing with the oligarch Alexei Sokolow, his lover and over 100 passengers on board is hijacked by a Ukrainian terrorist and is supposed to crash over Berlin after knocking out the crew by shooting. Former elite soldier Marc Anderson is on board with his family and takes over with Alexei. The two flight amateurs try to get control. Will the landing and the assassination succeed or will the Kremlin Czar strike back brutally after realizing the role of Yulia?

The Death of the Kremlin Czar is available at Amazon (U.S. edition) and Amazon (German edition).