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About LM. Preston
Author: LM Preston, www.lmpreston.com
L.M. Preston, a native of Washington, DC. An avid reader, she loved to create poetry and short-stories as a young girl. She is an author, an engineer, a professor, a mother and a wife. Her passion for writing and helping others to see their potential through her stories and encouragement has been her life's greatest adventures.She loves to write while on the porch watching her kids play or when she is traveling, which is another passion that encouraged her writing.
LM Preston
WEBSITE: www.lmpreston.com
BLOG: http://lmpreston.blogspot.com/
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/LM_Preston
FACEBOOK:https://tinyurl.com/hkncygu
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+LMPreston
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LM_Preston
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lm_preston/
Goodreads: https://tinyurl.com/z9sy57j
BUILDING YOUR EMPOWERED STEPS: www.empoweredsteps.com and www.empoweredsteps.blogspot.com
Writing stories for and about kids that overcome the impossible...
L.M. Preston, a native of Washington, DC. An avid reader, she loved to create poetry and short-stories as a young girl. She is an author, an engineer, a professor, a mother and a wife. Her passion for writing and helping others to see their potential through her stories and encouragement has been her life's greatest adventures.She loves to write while on the porch watching her kids play or when she is traveling, which is another passion that encouraged her writing.
LM Preston
WEBSITE: www.lmpreston.com
BLOG: http://lmpreston.blogspot.com/
TWITTER: http://twitter.com/LM_Preston
FACEBOOK:https://tinyurl.com/hkncygu
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+LMPreston
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LM_Preston
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lm_preston/
Goodreads: https://tinyurl.com/z9sy57j
BUILDING YOUR EMPOWERED STEPS: www.empoweredsteps.com and www.empoweredsteps.blogspot.com
Writing stories for and about kids that overcome the impossible...
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Rei was nosy. She’d been told it would always get her in trouble, but it never did. Until she met Megan, who promised her the job of a lifetime. Sure, the high school newspaper wasn’t the ideal job for most, but for Rei, it was a dream. She’d never considered putting her investigative nature to work, but what Megan was asking her to do was way beyond the requirements of a school newspaper. It was p6 months ago Read more -
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The FOURTH book in this series has been a struggle to write. Life has a way of stepping into a writer's life and smacking things down.
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Welcome to YA Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was first organized by author Colleen Houck and me, LM Preston as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors...and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize--one lucky winner will receive one book fro2 years ago Read more -
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Books By LM. Preston
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LM Preston
$9.99
Homeschooling and Working While Shaping Amazing Learners is a nuts to bolts guide for working parents who want to groom exceptional learners through the flexibility of homeschooling. Learn to juggle working and homeschooling your kids while maintaining your sanity. Also, use aspects of homeschooling for after schooling when traditional school isn’t working. Single parents are given options for executing homeschooling or after schooling methods that work in practical bits for the busy parent. Learn how to take your child from an average student to an exceptional student by exploring the possibilities shown in the section on acceleration of learning. From pre-K to homeschooling college, open your eyes to the many options in flexibility this approach to learning can give. You can homeschool and work to shape amazing learners by exploring the possibilities.
Free Course for Readers: www.empoweredsteps.com
LM Preston is an author, engineer, former college professor, and working mother who's been married for over twenty-five years. She homeschooled 3 of her 4 children from elementary school and beyond while she and her husband worked outside their home. Three of her kids graduated with degrees by the age of 17 years old.
Her blog: http://homeschoolandwork.blogspot.com/ details her homeschooling while working journey.
Free Course for Readers: www.empoweredsteps.com
LM Preston is an author, engineer, former college professor, and working mother who's been married for over twenty-five years. She homeschooled 3 of her 4 children from elementary school and beyond while she and her husband worked outside their home. Three of her kids graduated with degrees by the age of 17 years old.
Her blog: http://homeschoolandwork.blogspot.com/ details her homeschooling while working journey.
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Insatiable Darkness (The Vigilant)
Feb 18, 2018
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LM Preston
$0.99
Prequel to Caged Fire the Vigilant Series:
EmVee didn’t know what to think about this new town her father’s passion for boxing lured them. It was an unlikely location for her to pursue her dream of going semi-pro. Just when she started getting used to the school with gorgeous jocks and strange cheerleaders, the depth of the danger her father’s choices dangled them in front of became clear. EmVee hoped Silas and Kayson will be able to help her uncover the mystery identity of the person who is threatening her family. The question is, will she survive to expose the mystery.
The VIGILANT SERIES
Insatiable Darkness (Book 0)
Caged Fire (Book 1)
Unbreakable Darkness (Book 1.5)
Scepter Of Fire (Book 2)
Break The Darkness (Book 2.5)
Rebel of Fire (Book 3)
Sword of Darkness (Book 3.5)
Blade Of Fire (Book 4)
EmVee didn’t know what to think about this new town her father’s passion for boxing lured them. It was an unlikely location for her to pursue her dream of going semi-pro. Just when she started getting used to the school with gorgeous jocks and strange cheerleaders, the depth of the danger her father’s choices dangled them in front of became clear. EmVee hoped Silas and Kayson will be able to help her uncover the mystery identity of the person who is threatening her family. The question is, will she survive to expose the mystery.
The VIGILANT SERIES
Insatiable Darkness (Book 0)
Caged Fire (Book 1)
Unbreakable Darkness (Book 1.5)
Scepter Of Fire (Book 2)
Break The Darkness (Book 2.5)
Rebel of Fire (Book 3)
Sword of Darkness (Book 3.5)
Blade Of Fire (Book 4)
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Break The Darkness (The Vigilant)
Nov 2, 2020
by
LM Preston
$0.99
Rei was nosy. She’d been told it would always get her in trouble, but it never did. Until she met Megan, who promised her the job of a lifetime. Sure, the high school newspaper wasn’t the ideal job for most, but for Rei, it was a dream. She’d never considered putting her investigative nature to work, but what Megan was asking her to do was way beyond the requirements of a school newspaper. It was part of an underground news for favor service. Her partners, Asher and Eli, annoyed her by never trusting her to do a job alone. Maybe, this one time she should have listened, because being trapped with no one to bail her out may surely be the death of Rei. Not only hers but will spill the secrets about her family she’d been withholding, placing every one of them in grave and serious danger.
The VIGILANT SERIES
Insatiable Darkness (Book 0)
Caged Fire (Book 1)
Unbreakable Darkness (Book 1.5)
Scepter Of Fire (Book 2)
Break The Darkness (Book 2.5)
Rebel of Fire (Book 3)
Sword of Darkness (Book 3.5)
Blade Of Fire (Book 4)
The VIGILANT SERIES
Insatiable Darkness (Book 0)
Caged Fire (Book 1)
Unbreakable Darkness (Book 1.5)
Scepter Of Fire (Book 2)
Break The Darkness (Book 2.5)
Rebel of Fire (Book 3)
Sword of Darkness (Book 3.5)
Blade Of Fire (Book 4)
Unbreakable Darkness (The Vigilant)
May 5, 2019
by
LM Preston
$0.99
Dexter never looks for trouble, it finds him. Moving to a small city from New York wasn’t his idea of an improvement. His dream of being a groomed as a pro football running back ended the moment his father uprooted his family. Day one, he landed in jail without bail and realized too late that his father made a deal to get him out—one that would change his life, and put his family forever in danger. Unfortunately, finding love always happens at the worst possible time. Dexter didn’t realize that love could also kill. Again, trouble…it finds him, but this time he’d face it – head on, and hope he survives.
Books in the Series:
Insatiable Darkness (Book 0)
Caged Fire (Book 1)
Unbreakable Darkness (Book 1.5)
Scepter Of Fire (Book 2)
Break The Darkness (Book 2.5)
Rebel of Fire (Book 3)
Sword of Darkness (Book 3.5)
Blade Of Fire (Book 4)
Books in the Series:
Insatiable Darkness (Book 0)
Caged Fire (Book 1)
Unbreakable Darkness (Book 1.5)
Scepter Of Fire (Book 2)
Break The Darkness (Book 2.5)
Rebel of Fire (Book 3)
Sword of Darkness (Book 3.5)
Blade Of Fire (Book 4)
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Thundering Luv
May 7, 2013
by
LM Preston
$0.99
Jewel has always been able to get the guy she wanted. The starting jock on the football team, the team captain on the basketball team, and the lead swimmer on the swim team. Problem is, she didn't find them the least bit exciting. Was she cold or a she-wolf for guys? Colin thought so, and he'd do anything to bring her down a peg or two. When these two collide on the sandy beach during their mixed up summer vacation, sparks fly, making this a summer neither will forget.
Colliding Souls (Purgatory Reign)
Oct 26, 2018
by
LM Preston
$0.99
Argia was strange, and she admitted it. It didn’t mean she couldn’t love, or hope to enjoy the small moments in her life that collided with the most handsome athlete on the high school football team. She desired to be normal, and accepted that it would never be. Argia faked it pretty good, or pretended to. Until the day Micah uncovered her secrets and saved her soul. Argia just had to lose everything she cared about to see the strength he’d uncovered within her. Part of the PURGATORY REIGN Series: PURGATORY RIEGN, DEVIANT STORM, COLLIDING SOULS, FIERCE TIDES.
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Rebel of Fire (The Vigilant Book 3)
Oct 8, 2021
by
LM Preston
$3.99
Who knew that taking a job at a High School Newspaper would weave Rei into an underground news operation? She’d stupidly sacrificed her family and was blackmailed into becoming a member of a Vigilant operation to save the unsuspecting human population in what most thought was Newport, RI. Rei was no longer living in ignorance, but knowledge came with a price. Love wasn’t an emotion she could give into when the ransom of her family’s life was at stake. Asher was sent to help her, but she felt he was sent to ensure she paid the debt owed in order to save her family. Rei didn’t relish being held hostage by Megan and her puppets or being thrust into interfering with a war instigated by magical beings, and their fight to control humanity. Rei had no idea how she could create a diversion that would save her, destroy an unimaginable evil, and teach her to love – again. Read other books in the Vigilant series: Insatiable Darkness, Caged Fire, Unbreakable Darkness, Scepter of Fire, Break the Darkness.
Purgatory Reign
Feb 7, 2017
by
LM Preston
$3.99
Peter Saints' life stinks. But things are about to get much worse. First, his parents are murdered in front of him. Then another victim dies in his arms. Visions plague Peter with warnings that something wants him for a sinister cause. It desires the one thing that Peter refuses to give, his blood. Peter carries within him the one gift or curse that could unlock a secret to destroy the human race. On the run with Angel, a scruffy kid, Peter starts to unravel the mystery. It is the one treasure the heavens sought to hide from the world. Unfortunately, when Peter finds the answer he hopes that will save the girl he loves, he opens the door to a great evil that happens to be salivating to meet him. Purgatory Reign is Book 1 in the series including Deviant Storm, Fierce Tides and Kindle World novella Colliding Souls from Runes World.
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Wastelands (Bandits Book 2)
Nov 24, 2014
by
LM Preston
$3.99
There's nothing left for Daniel to fight for, except his father's honor, on the brutal prison planet which holds his brother. This time, he's going to do things right. He'll turn his training as a famed Zukar thief into something his father will be proud of. The only thing holding him back is the loss of Jade's love, the only girl who had the guts to put him in his place. And just one prison Warden who believes he has the power to keep Daniel away.
Scepter Of Fire (The Vigilant Book 2)
May 2, 2020
by
LM Preston
$3.99
Dexter didn’t like being a pawn. It seems life was taking him there though. He and his father never saw eye to eye, but being captured and tortured for his father’s mistakes gave Dexter too much to think about. First, the girl he lost; he’d never forget what they did to her. It changed him, and made him see the small city where his father moved him was a prison for magicals, the damned, and now him. Too bad, the creator of the Void didn’t realize they would be better off if they’d set him free, because now he was fighting for his life, and someone he’d have to hide his feelings from to protect, not just from those that want to drag them back, but from himself—a vigilant.
Books in the Series:
Insatiable Darkness (Book 0)
Caged Fire (Book 1)
Unbreakable Darkness (Book 1.5)
Scepter Of Fire (Book 2)
Break The Darkness (Book 2.5)
Rebel of Fire (Book 3)
Sword of Darkness (Book 3.5)
Blade Of Fire (Book 4)
Books in the Series:
Insatiable Darkness (Book 0)
Caged Fire (Book 1)
Unbreakable Darkness (Book 1.5)
Scepter Of Fire (Book 2)
Break The Darkness (Book 2.5)
Rebel of Fire (Book 3)
Sword of Darkness (Book 3.5)
Blade Of Fire (Book 4)
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Bandits
May 2, 2011
by
LM Preston
$3.99
Daniel's father has gotten himself killed and left another mess for Daniel to clean up. To save his world from destruction, he must fight off his father's killers while discovering a way to save his world. He wants to go it alone, but his cousin and his best friend's sister, Jade insists on tagging along. Jade is off limits to him, but she insists on changing his mind. He hasn't decided if loving her is worth the beating he'll get from her brother in order to have her. Retrieving the treasure is his only choice. But in order to get it, Daniel must choose to either walk in his father's footsteps or to re-invent himself into the one to save his world.
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Building Your Empowered Steps
May 1, 2018
by
LM Preston
$6.99
Building Your Empowered Steps is your guide and personal mentor in making your life into the experience you desire. A tool to use to redirect your way of thinking about your ability to change and your worth in reaching for it through active exercises and simple bites that when taken can guide you in building your dreams and aspirations, one step at a time.
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