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About Mary D. Brooks
Mary D. Brooks is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with a splash of urban fantasy. When there is a heroic woman in history, there is a story to be told!
Passionate about the exploits of heroic women throughout history but especially during WW1 and WW2. After years of not giving birth to the story in her head, she finally relented and wrote her first novel, "In the Blood of the Greeks," about the Greek Resistance during WW2 in 2001. She was inspired by her grandmother, who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, and her grandfather's experiences in the Greek Resistance. Her characters Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros were born - heroic women standing up to the Nazis in Occupied Greece, all thanks to the bravery of unsung heroes.
What intended to be one book has blossomed to ten books! When the characters don't want to leave…
Mary lives in Australia, and by day she's a graphic designer, and by night she writes her WW2-themed fiction and brings forth art into the world. When she's not doing all of that (phew!), she's a voracious bookworm of historical fiction and murder mysteries!
You can find out more about Mary's work at http://www.nextchapter.net.
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Blog postThis is such an amazing story of bravery. On the evening of May 30, 1941, two teenaged Greek boys, Manolis Glezos and Lakis Santas, climbed up the Acropolis and took down the Nazi flag. Manolis Glezos passed away on 30 March 2020 – 79 years after his heroic deed. He was 97 years. Lakis (Apostolos) Santas […]1 month ago Read more
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Blog postThe second episode of Beyond These Gates called “The Light That Shines In the Darkness” will air soon! Check out the new page for the play. I designed the cover. Click here to view The Light That Shines in the Darkness is the second episode of Beyond These Gates. It’s 1917 and Stella Nikas-Lambros has […]3 months ago Read more
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Blog postI’m pretty stoked about this! Beyond These Gates – Episode 1 which was performed by the cast of Sherri’s Playhouse won a Chatty Award! Beyond These Gates goes back to 1917 and introduces two very well known characters of the Intertwined Souls Series – Dr Stella Nikas-Lambros and Tessa Mitsos (first introduced in the book […]5 months ago Read more
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Blog postI’m giving my books a new coat of paint and redoing the covers! Here’s my award winning novel “Where Shadows Linger” This is the 4th edition of the novel in addition to the new cover. Photography of Eva and Zoe by Paul Thomas Gooney from Figurestock. Design of the cover by me. You can purchase […]5 months ago Read more
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Blog postEnemy at the Gate has been selected as a finalist in the Young Adult category for the 10th Annual Kindle Book Awards for 2021! That was a nice surprise! You can find out the full list of winning novels here They took everything. With courage and a crossbow, can one girl survive standing against genocidal […]8 months ago Read more
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Blog postAncient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes is a major exhibition from the British Museum. It features iconic objects that have never before toured the Southern Hemisphere. The exhibition explores the theme of competition through sports, politics, drama, music and warfare, illuminated by more than 170 objects from the British Museum’s peerless collection. National Museum director […]8 months ago Read more
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Blog postMy new radio play series “Beyond These Gates” Episode 1 has been performed by the awesome cast of Sherri’s Playhouse. Beyond These Gates Episode 1 goes back to 1917 and introduces two very well known characters of the Intertwined Souls Series – Dr Stella Nikas-Lambros and Tessa Mitsos (first introduced in the book “Hidden Truths” […]1 year ago Read more
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Blog postI’ve designed a new cover for my novel “Enemy at the Gate” – the Zoe Lambros origin story and prequel to “In The Blood of the Greeks”! They took everything. With courage and a crossbow, can one girl survive standing against genocidal maniacs? Greece, 1941. Zoe Lambros has the heart of a lion. Born into […]1 year ago Read more
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Blog postMy newest radio play is going to air towards the end of the month. It’s called Beyond These Gates – Episode 1 at Sherri’s Playhouse. I’m SUPER excited for you all to hear the amazing, talented cast perform my 4th play with Sherri’s Playhouse. It’s 1917 in Athens, Greece – Love, Discovery and the Impossible. […]1 year ago Read more
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Blog postI wrote a little piece called “The Kindness that Changed My World” on the “I Heart Lesfic” site. It had a monumental effect on my thinking in 2001 and beyond. In addition to my story about kindness, there is a giveaway of my first novel “In The Blood of the Greeks”. Read my contribution here […]1 year ago Read more
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Titles By Mary D. Brooks
It's 1941 in Larissa, Greece. A devastating earthquake shatters Larissa and Zoe races to help her family who are trapped under the rubble. An Italian aerial bombardment brings unimaginable devastation to a shattered people compounding the misery and a loss so great that Zoe vows revenge. The Lambros family are no strangers to heartache; Zoe's brothers have died fighting against the Italians in the Albanian mountains and now their fears of a German invasion come true.
Zoe is determined to join in the fight for freedom but first she has to find the Resistance and join them in order to achieve her goal.
It's 1942 in Larissa, Greece and Eva, the daughter of SS Officer Muller, and Zoe, a Greek woman filled with rage, work with the Greek Resistance to save Jews and Allied soldiers escape capture. They find themselves in an improbable friendship that turns to love. They live in constant peril of their mission and forbidden love being discovered.
Zoe is devastated when her mother is executed by the SS. It sets her on the path of retribution and she's determined to kill Eva, the Sturmbannführer's daughter. A shocking discovery stops her from making a horrendous mistake. Eva has a tortured past, and a secret, if revealed, will get her killed. She is determined to work with the Greek Resistance and the fiery Zoe to achieve her mission and also finish the job she started in Paris in 1941.
Soldiers stumbling upon mercy and miracles; children sharing gifts of friendship and love; romance finding its way into lonely, war-weary hearts; resistance fighters, spies, families on the home front—all bringing their own rays of hope in the darkest of time.
For this holiday season, we offer you this collection of short stories to lift your spirit, and to remember a time when love and the strength of human spirit prevailed.
We hope you will enjoy stepping back into the wartime Christmases in these stories with us.
Xena: Warrior Princess is a cult classic starring Lucy Lawless & Renee O'Connor. September 04, 2020 is the 25th Anniversary of a show that changed lives forever. A phenomenal fandom - the Xenaverse - was born at the birth of the internet. It set the standard for all other fandoms to follow! Celebrate with us and discover the rich tapestry of the Xenaverse.
It has taken an Amazon Village to produce this extraordinary history of the Xenaverse, the fandom born at the birth of the internet. In this 25th Anniversary Edition, we have fifty-eight authors who have written sixty-eight chapters outlining the evolution of the Xenaverse. There are seventy-one fan-contributed stories of lives changed forever. From fan fiction writers blossoming into published authors, interviews with artists and videographers, webmasters creating sites in the new digital frontier, filmmakers getting their start in the Xenaverse and going on to produce award-winning shows of their own, inclusive of LGBT+ fans, and greater good endeavors that have raised millions for charity...all from one incredible fandom.
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On the night of November 9, 1938 in Berlin, Germany, Kristallnacht raged in Berlin and Eva Muller's life was never the same again. Sent to the village of Aiden at the foothills of the Bavarian Alps by her father where body and mind shattered in the brutal Aiden Research Facility. It's now 1956 and Eva Lambros is no longer a teenager but a wealthy heiress. Poised and confident with the family she has always wanted, Eva has one last obstacle she must overcome. Together with her partner, the formidable Zoe Lambros, they travel to Aiden, Germany, to open a memorial to the hundreds of souls that perished at the hands of the Nazi regime. Aiden left Eva with debilitating mental constraints that have taken years to overcome, but is she ready to confront and overcome her greatest fear?
Zoe not only has to contend with Eva's state of mind, but it pulled into a mystery that involves a woman's search for justice amidst shocking revelations that reach into the upper echelons of Aiden society.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong in the sixth novel of the award-winning historical lesbian romance series imbued with urban fantasy and mystery.
The Intertwined Souls Inbetween Series are standalone novels of the award-winning Intertwined Souls Series. This novel - in the timeline of the series - sits between Where Shadows Linger (Book 2) and Hidden Truths (Book 3).
It's 1950 in Sydney, Australia. Eva and Zoe have found peace following their tumultuous past. Their wish for children is upended when an accident leaves Eva fighting for her life. The accident heralds a maelstrom of unexplained paranormal incidents. Zoe has to contend with the possibility of losing the woman she loves just as their dream of a family is in their grasp. Eva's accident reveals more than anyone imagined. A secret that had been hidden for centuries and a decision, taken by a desperate mother intended to protect the child she loves, will now shatter a conspiracy of lies and deceit.
Love, secrets and lies intertwine in this historical romance imbued with urban fantasy and mystery.
It's 1950 in Australia where Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros have found peace in a land that doesn't understand or tolerate their love. Their peace comes to an end when the brutal Greek Civil War ends and brings unwelcome news for Zoe. She must return to Greece to reclaim her family property or lose her inheritance. While Eva is worried Zoe will lose her birthright, Zoe fears the trip will expose Eva to the pain of revisiting Larissa, the town that almost killed her during World War II. They are aware that the journey home will be filled with painful memories that have haunted them for years.
Their journey to Greece is one of anticipation and fear as they board the ship to take them back. A fortuitous job opening on the ship for Eva gives her the opportunity to make their journey a far more comfortable passage but their mysterious benefactor takes an unexpected interest in them - an interest that is more than what it seems.
While in Larissa, Eva and Zoe find themselves back to where they first met and the town is living up to it's reputation for unwanted surprises when a woman from Eva's past is revealed -- a woman with extraordinary paranormal powers of visions through time. Who really is this woman? How could she foresee events so far into the future? What are the implications for Eva and her future with Zoe?
It's 1950 and Eva and Zoe find themselves in Larissa, Greece. The journey home for Zoe to reclaim her inheritance after the Greek Civil War had ended is a bittersweet homecoming. Eva and Zoe have weathered every obstacle that fate has put before them but now they have to find the strength to confront their haunted wartime memories in Greece. Eva also has to terms with a woman from the past who is a quiet, gentle soul but has an extraordinary paranormal power of visions through time. Faced with a physical reminder of her tortured past, Eva needs all her courage, strength and resilience to confront her harrowing memories and content with the secrets that are bubbling to the surface. Zoe contends with her own soul-shattering memories of helplessness, heart-rendering pain, and loss.
They leave Greece with new friends and family. In Germany, they discover that Eva's grandmother -- the matriarch of the Muller clan -- is not a woman to be taken lightly or ignored. Shocking family secrets that have been hidden for generations are revealed.
Pick up a copy of Awakenings and follow Eva and Zoe's journey of love, resilience and the strength to face down unredeemable foes in this historical lesbian romance series imbued with urban fantasy and mystery.
Eva Muller and Zoe Lambros flee to Australia seeking refuge from World War II ravaged Greece. They struggle in an intolerant society whilst dealing with their haunted war-time memories and hiding their love. With the horrors of the war behind them, Eva and Zoe forge a new life together. The war is over but the shadows from their past emerge to shatter their peace and endanger their lives. They are about to find out the hard way that moving thousands of miles away does not protect them from those that wish them harm.