Committed

“What makes you think you can be a writer?” – Robert Taylor, “Committed”

“Committed” is a novel. A novel with a love story. And family conflict. But written with real-world answers for writers who would like to see their book in print someday and maybe, just maybe, be able to make a living doing what they love.

Look over the shoulder of aspiring writer Peter Taylor. He wants to know what it will take to be successful. Is it even possible to make money as a writer? How does self-publishing work? Should he sign up with all distributors or exclusively with Amazon? “Committed” follows Peter as he searches for the answers to these questions and more.

When we first meet Peter, he’s scared. Scared that if he starts a consulting job working for his father, he’ll end up just like him; a miserable alcoholic driven only by money and dreaming of what could have been. He’s scared that if he follows his dream of writing novels, he’ll love his work, but end up broke for the rest of his life.

At his college graduation dinner, and pressed by his father to start working at the firm, Peter lays everything on the line. To get past his parents’ objections, Peter agrees to a series of “bullpen sessions,” where he’ll take on three of his father’s top business consultants. He must find a way to prove writing can be a viable career and that he won’t end up delivering pizza and living in their basement when he’s forty, or he’ll be forced to give up his writing dream forever.

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Warrior: The War Chronicles I

Demon-spawn, they call him; evil seed of the UnNamed One. Lirak wonders if they might be right. Sent on a holy quest to test his prophetic dreams, he returns to find his people scattered or slaughtered. Ruthless invaders and their dread warlocks spread death and destruction across the land. Before he can lead the remnants of his people in vengeance, he must win their trust. But blades and arrows alone will not defeat this enemy. His only hope is to master warlock sorcery, turning their own fell powers against them.

Can he learn their arcane secrets in time, or will the deadly power consume him?

Only the Seven Gods could know, but they war amongst themselves, Lirak is a pawn in their divine conflict. Even if he defeats the invaders, he fears his trials are just beginning.

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Silver Bear’s New Mate: A BBW Paranormal Romance

Silver Bear’s New Mate: A BBW Paranormal Romance (Bearford Falls Book 1)

He is beautiful, fearless, and wealthy. And he’ll risk everything, including his life, for the woman he loves…

Jarod Silver has lost his mate, and with her his sanity. Now Jarod is being haunted by the nightmare of the accident, which forces him to relive the death of his mate every day. If he doesn’t get back on his feet, Jarod risks losing everything he has—including his friends and family.

Diana Rocherford is a beautiful and curvy news reporter, with a successful career under her belt, and no luck in love.

After she learns that her husband is an alcoholic and a cheater, Diana decides to call it quits. Her new job takes her to Bearford Falls, the wealthiest and most famous silver bear-shifter town in the country. There, Diana meets a man with crystal blue eyes that puts her heart on fire and makes her insides melt—Jarod Silver.

But Jarod is a broken man, with a secret that threatens their love. Diana is not yet ready to face her demons and Jarod can’t forget the past.

Until danger strikes and Jarod realizes that he’ll have to fight the battle of his life or lose Diana forever.

Content warning: This is a sexy BBW small town paranormal romance for adults. There is mild language, knee-melting love scenes between main characters, action, suspense, lighthearted humor, and a happy end. This book is a part of a series, but can be read as a stand-alone. No cliffhangers.

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The Almshouse

Come travel into the 1930’s and through the doors of St. Margaret’s School for Girls. The place used to be an almshouse, until its previous occupants burned to death thirteen years before. The townsfolk are at a loss as to what started the fire. Some said it was an act of the devil. Some said it was a resident who had too much to drink. The building, miraculously, survived.

When a bag of bones falls on twelve-year old Julia, she finds herself thrown into the spirit realm and face to face with house’s past residents. Her new neighbors aren’t so lively, and some can’t even remember their own names. But as Julia soon discovers, there’s more to these people than meets the eye. One of these ghosts is not like the others, and Julia must find out quickly why someone had been cut from the town records.

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Acorn 666 Episodes 1, 2, & 3

The Human Apocalypse has Ended…

Within the destruction left from the fire that fell from the sky, only the animals remain. Prophesied by the Owl Queen and her loyal army for years, the Apocalypse has started a war of control between the various factions of animals left behind — revealing ancient magic passed down from generation to generation. From the noble woodland creatures led by a quiet and mysterious council, to the domesticated animals who were once companions for humankind everywhere.

The Animal Apocalypse Begins…

Outside of the warring factions of animals left behind, the owls who foretold of the Apocalypse have regrouped. With the return of magic, the war has grown into a struggle of power. Not only power over the arcane, but power over life… and death. The Owl Queen has foretold of a new prophecy. One where owls rule the land under her command. In order to grow her army, the Queen comes up with a painful curse. A curse that will transform anyone who ingests it into a bloodthirsty and frenetic owl, hellbent on destruction. A curse that will make this prophecy come true. The prophecy of Acorn 666.

Don’t eat the acorns.

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Looking for Home

Having grown up as “trailer park trash,” M McCallister is familiar with hardship. In a bid to prove her worth—to herself and to the world—she moves across the country, hoping to build a new life. First, she’ll need her sister’s help.

Jonathan Davenport is handsome, wealthy, and well-bred. And M’s sister has brought unspeakable tragedy to his family, leaving him to raise his baby sister.

She’s sworn off men, and he wants to marry a classy woman with a background similar to his. But they’re both looking for a home.

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Selling Dreams

The pristine blue waters and sun drenched shores of the French Riviera provide a stunning backdrop to the story of two women, Chantal and Flora, both struggling with the heartache of a lost love.

Chantal Gardinier runs her real estate agency in Antibes with an iron fist. A tough businesswoman on the surface, Chantal is hiding a tragic home life and a secret love affair. When faced with a moral dilemma, she is unsure which path to choose.

Flora McKenna arrives in town with high hopes of finding happiness. When she immediately lands a great job, she decides that this exotic paradise might be just the place to help her heart heal. Selling houses to expats looking for a dream home in the sun would be the ideal existence if it weren’t for her demanding boss, Chantal—a woman with no scruples when it comes to bending the rules.

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Fatal Reaction

Paramedic Anneliese Ashmore’s routine shift takes a startling turn when she answers the call she was never meant to hear–a call to a crime scene where her sister Sydney is the victim of an overdose suicide.

The evidence says otherwise.

In the midst of a heated divorce, motive implicates Sydney’s soon-to-be-ex husband, but while the police focus on the single lead, Ana makes her own discover.

A chain of e-mails between Sydney and her surgeon’s office sets Ana on a search for answers about her sister’s recent diagnosis and the life-altering treatment that saved her. The body count rises as Ana closes in on the truth, and on the man of her dreams.

With the help of Dr. Jared Monroe, an unhappily married physician with a bit of a crush, Ana uncovers a ring of greed and corruption and exposes the fact that Sydney’s medical treatment may have been the catalyst for her murder.

Unfortunately for Ana, she may be next.

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Second Skyn

If it weren’t for his Digital Life Assurance, Toronto Police Detective Finsbury Gage would be dead—smeared across the highway by a crazed man in a stolen urban assault vehicle. Finsbury hung together long enough for the recovery team to arrive. His wife wasn’t so lucky.

Now, six months later, his mind restored to a prosthetic brain, wrapped in a healthy new body, and technically immortal, Finsbury is back to a life that no longer exists. He’s all alone, his home a shrine to everything he lost. He’s been reassigned, knocked from Homicide to busting bit-heads and chasing after lost minutes of the idle rich. And his thoughts connect directly to the internet.

The only thing keeping Finsbury from blowing his plastic brains out is the memory of his wife’s death. It’s 2.57 seconds long and plays on repeat, every time he closes his eyes. But from within this loop of pain and grief he discovers a reason to go on—the haunting glimpse of the wild-eyed man responsible for his wife’s death.

Finsbury’s gonna find this guy, no matter what he has to do.

But Finsbury isn’t the only one on the hunt. Something is coming for him. Something like the world has never seen. Something that will force Finsbury Gage to abandon everything he believes—everything he is—to survive.

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This is the first of a five-part series. I’ll be releasing three books in December and one each in January and February. Visit my website at damienboyes.com for more info.

Release dates:
Books 1 & 2 – Dec 5, 2015
Book 3 – Dec 26, 2015
Book 4 – Jan 2016
Book 5 – Feb 2016

Warning, these books contain cliffhangers and Canadian spelling.

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Beware of Warlocks Box Set

Can two warlocks be too many?

Yes, if one happens to be your ex-husband trying to kill you for a witch divorce.

The other, a sexy Aussie that makes you forget all the rest.

Catherine walks in on her husband in bed with her best friend. What is a woman to do? It helps that she is a witch. Unfortunately, so is her husband. Before you can say spell battle, Catherine high tails it up the coast of California to clear her head. Lucky for her, she finds an Aussie hitchhiker. She’s going to have to face her husband in the awaiting spell battle. Can she have a little fun with her newfound boy toy, or will he get scorched in the foreplay?

But nothing turns out as you think. Catherine runs to Las Vegas with Jeff finding her feelings for him the saving grace from the dangers of Las Vegas. Confused between her husband cheating and a new addition to her heart, she will have to choose between the two of them. Will she marry either, or end it all in a spell battle that will bring Las Vegas to its knees. Only time will tell. No one knows the mind of a witch better than herself. Unless, she falls in love.

**This box set includes the novelette titles:
Never Marry A Warlock
Never Fall For A Warlock
Never Cross A Warlock

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The Tatterdemon Omnibus

In 1691 the town of Crossfall taught the witch Thessaly how to die. They beat her, they shot her, they hung her – but nothing worked. When they finally tried to bury her alive Thessaly set the field against them. The first man died as a gust of wind harrowed the meat from his bones. A root, flung like a dirty javelin, cut a second man down. Many more deaths followed. The Preacher Fell impaled the witch upon her very own broom but she dragged him down into the field to wait for three more centuries.

Three hundred years later Maddy Harker will murder her bullying husband Vic. She will bury him in the field as she buried her abusive father years before that. The very same field where the revenant spirit of Thessaly Cross lies waiting.

In three days Vic will rise again – a thing of dirt, bone and hatred.

Men will call him the Tatterdemon.

And hell – and Thessaly – will follow.

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The Keeper and the Rulership

Raneh has magic.

That’s not a good thing.

In the Rulership, landowners are forbidden to use magic, on pains of death. She will get killed if she’s caught, but she can’t stop the stuff from growing. So she shoves it into weeds, hoping nobody will notice, and tries to maintain a typical lifestyle for an eighteen-year-old heir.

Hiding it is working just fine, until the Ruler comes to visit. The Ruler seems to have some ulterior motive . . . and she’s the one who forbids magic. Raneh would do anything for her family, but it’s impossible for her to stop growing the magic that will make them all a target.

Her options are shrinking fast . . .

(This book is 78,000 words long, or 256 pages in length.)

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