0.99 BOOKS ON SALE Author - Maverick Montgomery ENDS MAY 31, 2025 - https://nishapromotes.weebly.com/ About the author - (Crime Fiction, Thriller, Suspense) Maverick currently lives in the Midwest with his wife of 7 years, his two dogs and cat, Austen, Ava, and Jude. Maverick considers himself to be a self-proclaimed gamer nerd and gear head. Before he got into writing he grew up playing video games and watching Alfred Hitchcock movies which inspired his love of all things mysterious. He can usually be found drooling over cars and motorcycles. He usually has no fewer than five project cars in mind when he can only find the time to actually work on them. When he’s not writing, he can be found in his man cave gaming, reading Marvel or Dick Tracy comics which might inspire me for his next upcoming book, or usually indulging his wife’s ridiculous next project antics and finding ways to avoid telling her she’s right. Stone's Edge (The Stone Chronicles Book 1) - Ten 5-star ratings on Amazon When justice is on the line… leave no stone unturned. Private Investigator, Jack Stone, is closing in on his rival when an unexpected twist throws his investigation - and his life - onto a different course. Going head-to-head with a demon from his past in his quest for vengeance puts Jack’s family and friends in the line of fire, and he must use every resource in his arsenal to bring an end to the tyrant threatening his future. Paperback - $9.99 Kindle Unlimited - FREE with Kindle Unlimited Membership $0.99 to buy with 1-Click https://www.amazon.com/Stones-Stone-Chronicles-Maverick-Montgomery/dp/B0CR83WNC9 Blood From A Stone (The Stone Chronicles Book 2) Four 5-star ratings on Amazon When justice is on the line...leave no Stone unturned. Bloody and armed with the answers he was willing to die for, Jack Stone is sent spiraling into the city’s seedy underbelly to find the enigmatic Drac. His search comes to a screeching halt when unforeseen events force him to rely on questionable strangers. Now with a price on his head, and his loved ones in the crosshairs as collateral damage, Jack must race to find the man who wants him dead. Paperback - $9.99 Kindle Unlimited - FREE with Kindle Unlimited Membership $0.99 to buy with 1-Click https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Stone-Chronicles-Maverick-Montgomery/dp/B0CYPGF8ML

April 16th, 2007 Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead. On April 16, 2007, 32 people died after being gunned down on the campus of Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho, a student at the college who later died by suicide. The Virginia Tech shooting began around 7:15 a.m., when Cho, a 23-year-old senior and English major at Blacksburg-based Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, shot a female freshman and a male resident assistant in a campus dormitory before fleeing the building. Police were soon on the scene; unaware of the gunman’s identity, they initially pursued the female victim’s boyfriend as a suspect in what they believed to be an isolated domestic-violence incident. However, at around 9:40 a.m., Cho, armed with a 9-millimeter handgun, a 22-caliber handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, entered a classroom building, chained and locked several main doors and went from room to room shooting people. Approximately 10 minutes after the rampage began, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The attack left 32 people dead and more than a dozen wounded. In all, 27 students and five faculty members died in the massacre. Two days later, on April 18, NBC News received a package of materials from Cho with a timestamp indicating he had mailed it from a Virginia post office between the first and second shooting attacks. Contained in the package were photos of a gun-wielding Cho, along with a rambling video diatribe in which he ranted about wealthy “brats,” among other topics. In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting, authorities found no evidence that Cho, who was born in South Korea and moved to America with his family in 1992, had specifically targeted any of his victims. The public soon learned that Cho, described by students as a loner who rarely spoke to anyone, had a history of mental health problems. It was also revealed that angry, violent writings Cho made for certain class assignments had raised concern among some of his professors and fellow students well before the events of April 16. In 2011, Virginia Tech was fined by the U.S. Department of Education for failing to issue a prompt campus-wide warning after Cho shot his first two victims. #Crime, #Virginia, #Shooting,

Word of the Day: Nom de plume noun 1. An assumed name used by a writer instead of their real name; a pen name. Example Sentences. 1."I'm thinking of using a nom de plume for my romance novels since I also write children's books." 2."The journalist's controversial articles were written under a nom de plume to protect their identity." 3. "She chose a different nom de plume for each new genre she experimented with." Word Origin. French, mid-19th century Translated directly from French, "nom de plume" means "pen name," which is the chosen name an author might publish under, instead of their real name. Sometimes an author might want to maintain anonymity — perhaps the writing is of a sensitive nature — and other times …