Can a curse kill? Can the darkness overcome the light? The Christie family has a dark history. Many call them cursed. Few sleep peacefully in the...

The Christie’s: A Christmas Murder 1984 by Daryl Smith

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The Christie’s: A Christmas Murder 1984

Can a curse kill? Can the darkness overcome the light? The Christie family has a dark history. Many call them cursed. Few sleep peacefully in the Christie’s manor.

When ailing wealthy industrialist David Christie dies under mysterious circumstances, on the eve of changing his will to help the poor and downtrodden, it’s up to ace private...

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Jungle Jen: An Amazonian Romantic Adventure

Can faith overcome fear? Can love overcome hate? Are God’s promises for today, or are they just stories for an ancient time?

John Shaw is a bitter man, a hardened solider, a warrior for God, his beloved, the light of his life, taken from him in her prime. Faith useless, his former life and mercenary riches beckon.

Nurse Jen, scorned by her fellow’...

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The Only Weight Loss Book You Will Ever Need: How I lost 25 lbs. in 4 weeks

This book details how I lost 25 lbs. in 4 weeks using a very simple easy to follow diet. I also try to take a common sense look at weight loss that at a minimum will hopefully prevent readers from being scammed in the future by weight loss products that don’t work.
I want to add I’m not a doctor or a nutritionist, just a guy whose lost weight,...

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My weight loss book and the weight loss industry (hint: a lot of BS!) In

In case no one is aware, I have a weight loss book out. It’s very short. There is a very specific reason it’s so short; there isn’t much to say about the process!

In my opinion, and I am right, most of what we see in the weight loss world are scams or are very overpriced. Kind of like the world of book marketing, full of crap. Always there is the latest fad, the latest wonder herb. Ginseng, green tea, apple vinegar…the list goes on and on.

Well, I lost 25 pounds in 4 weeks, and I wrote a book...

Woman’s self-defense is a frequent subject of my books. Jen Bradley in Jungle Jen and the soon to be released Murder in the Amazon is a woman’s self-defense instructor. Other books like the Monroe Street Mangler sometimes has this in it. One might wonder why so many of my books involve woman’s self-defense?

That’s because my real-life wife is a former woman’s self defense instructor, and her young life was greatly shaped by it. My wife took a woman’s self defense class in high school and then...

One real character I thought I'd write about the most godly person I've

I thought I'd write about the most godly person I've ever met, a true prophet of God.. Mary Zissomos is here nam. She is with the Lord now. She always used to ask me, "do you want to live forever." The obvious answer was no. She is in her reward now with our Lord, I am sure, as much as I can be sure, she is very rich in heaven as she placed her treasure in heaven rather than on earth.

In my book, "Jungle Jen" Mary is the character Mary Ziss. Now she didn't live in Providence Rhode Island as I...

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