Burke’s Mandarin: Bob Burke Suspense Thriller #5 (Bob Burke Action Adventure Novels)
A Chinese spymaster in DC stealing US Special Ops war plans, a nest of Chinese agents inside Fort Bragg, a Chinese Navy task force headed into the South China Sea to create mischief, and they just shot up Bob Burke’s new pickup truck. Trouble’s brewing in Sherwood Forest, and it isn’t a pot of green tea.
Kidnappings, rockets, spies, naval battles on the high seas, military secrets, sniper rifles, and the Geeks! It’s the most intricate, and exciting Bob Burke action-adventure yet. Grab one and Enjoy!
By the Hand of Dragons: Rook
Sheath has just learned that he is not a boy, but a Chimera, a weapon created by powerful dragon magic to be the perfect warrior and win a war almost no one believes is coming. One of an army of 300 child soldiers, he must master every art of war and become powerful enough to defeat a threat that frightens even the Council of Dragons. Can a boy, no matter how powerful his magic, win against assassins, politicians, giants, the Blood Soldiers of Loria and all the strange creatures, beasts and monsters that call Fuumashon home? He would say yes.
Caddo Bend: Book 1
In Book 1 of this modern romantic fiction series, Maggie McKinley, a beautiful young doctor from New York relocates to the tiny rural town of Caddo Bend, Arkansas on what’s planned to be a two-year commitment to provide medical services to the small community that’s been without a doctor for several years, leaving behind the posh world of Manhattan and her wealthy physician boyfriend, who awaits her return. Her arrival thrills many residents but is viewed by others with suspicion and skepticism—too young, too ‘Yankee’, too pretty, too female. She works hard to provide first rate medical care to the community as she battles gender stereotypes and struggles to fit into a world that is in many ways alien to her. Heartbreak, a mysterious disappearance, personal danger, and a puzzling medical mystery are in store for her in Caddo Bend, where she discovers an unexpected love, people she can count on, and an unlikely place that surprisingly feels like home. (Book 2 also available. Book 3 in production.)
Café de Sophia
While in a café, sixteen-year-old Nate comes across a man who engages him in an intellectual conversation. Fascinated by the discussion, Nate befriends the man along with his other companions of philosophers in order to better understand his purpose and direction in life. Every encounter with the philosophers explores a different topic that shapes the stepping stones of Nate’s journey. This journey toward the beauty of speech, logic, and wisdom is told in the Socratic dialogue fashion through Nate’s perspective.
Cakewalk
Socially conservative Texas is the backdrop where success and nonconformity cannot coexist for Bryan, a Black divorced father of two kids, Lindsey, the athletic golden child, and Lance, the unorthodox queer thespian. Bryan’s mother is prideful, domineering, homophobic, and loves bragging to her high-society girlfriends about Bryan’s accomplishments and promotion to VP at a large multi-national oil/gas company. Bryan vigorously steers clear of conversations with his mother about more grandkids and eligible Black women because Bryan has been secretly dating Nadia, a white transgender woman. With authentic insight, Douglas Bell reveals the harm we do to each other when social and family standards keep us from authentically loving or being loved. Cakewalk is a timely story of a man’s journey to find long-lasting love as he fights through contemporary racism and maligned sexual and gender identity constructs as his biases are revealed while parenting a queer child.
Call to a Nightmare
It was the Roaring Twenties. The era of flappers, bootleggers and G-men. Spiritalism was al the rage. Everyone wanted to talk to the dead. Except Dr. Alex Gabriel, the country’s leading skeptic. Until he met Savannah Bishop, America’s most unique Medium. Together, they set out to solve a series of brutal murders that range fromt the glitz of Hollywood to the backwoods of Arkansas to the Bohemian Left Bank of Paris.
Callus & Crow
Can a path of blood lead to redemption? Is redemption enough to amend a wayward world? Morality and reality have shifted from their natural axis. Technology and ideology derive from the remnants of a world long dead and segregated by the monsters that now rule the seas. Crow, a young ranch hand, is swept into an odyssey of redemption and revenge as he strives to hold back the ravages of fate and the urges born of a curse shared with his new mentor. Callus, an exile struggling to find redemption whilst keeping his vampiric curse from tainting his new ward, pursues his prey across the sea. The new world they discover reveals a tyrannical society fixated on their council’s ascension to godhood.
Calming Young Minds
If you’re an educator or social worker who wants to make a real difference in the lives of struggling teens, Calming Young Minds is the book for you. Written by Joseph S. McQueen, an education consultant, and director of alternative education with over 20 years of experience working with at-risk youth, this book offers a unique perspective on understanding mental health, de-escalation, trauma, and restorative practices in teens. McQueen’s book delivers an authentic, research-based approach to understanding and working with kids who struggle with social-emotional issues. Unlike other books on the topic, Calming Young Minds draws from real-world experience and practical, research-based solutions that have been tested and proven effective in the trenches of the classroom. McQueen knows firsthand what it’s like to work with kids whom others have written off, and here he shares his hard-won insights and strategies. With strikingly positive feedback from educators and social workers who have attended his training and presentations, McQueen’s book is both practical and inspiring. Whether you’re a teacher, social worker, or another professional who works with kids, Calming Young Minds is an essential resource for understanding and supporting the emotional needs of today’s youth. Calming Young Minds is a call to action for anyone who cares about our children’s and society’s future.
Cama: Your Special Friend
Introducing Cama: Your Special Friend, a unique little elephant who mysteriously arrives just when she is needed most. In this collection of stories, readers will meet memorable characters from diverse backgrounds who are facing relatable struggles. Cama shows up with magical surprises while helping the characters, and the readers, find and express their own inner strengths to overcome life’s challenges. Cama is the special friend you will wish for your children and grandchildren.
Can I Come HOME Now?
In this moving and painful memoir of growing up from age five to adulthood, the author paints a sad and all too familiar story of early sexual abuse from men whom she should have been able to trust that evolves into a shattered sense of self-worth, and ultimately her own dysfunctional and abusive marriage. The story relates how little Barbara came to be vulnerable to such trauma after the break-up of her family and being shuttled among various, not always willing relatives. She details the highly effective and shrewd tactics predators use to keep their victims under their total control. The unrelenting theme throughout is her constant longing for her mother’s elusive love, always just beyond her reach. This is not a story of self-pity but a story of surviving the odds and creating the life you want.
Can’t See Around Corners
Two fraternal twins, Sharon and Annie are the only children of Edna and Warren Karce. They are the future of the highly famed socialite dynasty. The girls have graduated with honors and look forward to their trip to Europe. The sisters’ love for one another is obvious but a sinister force of malicious feelings dwells beneath their façade of shared contentment. Once abroad and with their hypervigilant parents absent, treachery, deceit, and wickedness develop intensely between the girls, and their relationship advances into the vilest possible nightmare, changing their lives forever. The discovery of an ancient, mysterious pendant formerly owned by Vlad, the Impaler from Dracula’s Castle begins an epic spiral of demonic incidents that traumatize not only the
twin girls lives while in Romania but has the ability to penetrate their family’s existence back home in Australia. How will the highly renowned family survive the unforeseen satanic entity, integrated with the discreditable exploits from the once idolized and respected daughters of the Karce Empire?
Canaan City Limits Road Blocks Ahead
A devotional guide to overcoming the giants blocking our entrance into a life of abundance. The intention of this devotional is to help you recognize the roadblocks keeping you on the outskirts of your promise land. Your time spent in the wilderness depends on your ability to believe God instead of the roadblocks facing you outside the city limits of Canaan.
Captive (A New Life Book 1)
A New Life Series is an epic adventure. TORI FARRELL’s life IS one wild story… escaped from a biker gang and running from drug lords… used by the FBI and hoping to protect her present from her past… IT’S DARK – IT’S BRUTAL, and it’s WORTH EVERY MINUTE OF IT!! (Mature read, 18+ for graphic sexual content and violence, including rape)
Caractacus: Spear of Britannia
43 AD. Britain braces itself for invasion by a brutal and ruthless enemy. All that stands in the way of the Emperor Claudius and his legions is a young warrior, Caractacus, and his brother. Both men have prepared their whole lives for this moment. But as the blow falls, their father the High King suddenly dies and they are alone. Worse, Caractacus now threatens the network of alliances that hold the British nations together by falling in love with Sarah, a Hebrew princess judged to be ill-suited for the kingdom. How will the Briton navigate his way through the diplomatic minefield so that he can fight the invader – while his brother is dangerously under the influence of the Roman officer, Julius Osteria Scapula, who murdered their sister. Then he begins to suspect there is another reason altogether why the Romans are there. It’s because the Christians have arrived in the West and desire to make Britain a base for their operations. This is Caractacus as we have never encountered him before – the brilliant leader of British resistance to Roman rule, and the sophisticated chief of a proud race – put terrifyingly to the test.
Carbon Planet: Our Destiny In The Stars
A group of friends boards a fishing boat, and they venture out on a big lake the weekend they watch their hometown football team play for the championship. Then, they get abducted by an unknown ship. Months later, the FBI investigation of their case goes cold. Instead, their loved ones and families hire a private detective from a comic book ad to continue the search.
Catching Hell
Jinx McGee saw her first demon when she was five…and looking in a mirror. Never one to let life get her down, Jinx turns her unfortunate state of demonic possession into a lucrative career as a demon hunter. It takes a demon to find a demon, and Jinx’s demon is superior at finding the others…when inclined to cooperate. The hours suck, management’s deadly, and her co-workers are almost as weird as her. Still, it beats retail. And once she’s worked enough cases, she’ll figure out how to separate from her demon and live happily—and normally—ever after. But a rebellion is brewing in hell that threatens earth. The leader thinks Jinx and her personal demon hold the key to his victory.
CDL Minded Investor: Have Unlimited Income, Build Passive Cash Flow, and Gain Infinite Returns for Long Term Wealth in Transportation and Trucking Business Industry
Learn how to profitably invest in the Trucking and Transportation Industry by becoming a CDL Minded Investor in a rescission proof industry. You’ll learn how to free up your time and gain financial freedom by making passive income from investing in a $730+ Billion Dollar a year Industry.
Celtic Journeys
The historic and scenic richness of the Celtic countries come to life through encounters with the modern keepers of the celebrated folklore. This collection of journeys to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and other Celtic regions, seeks out the places that inspire the spiritual and cultural origins of the memorable songs and tales that stir the soul. Join the journey to these magical lands and beyond.
Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work
Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work – A Synopsis
Anyone who has faced the challenge embarking on a new career knows how important is to have someone cheering you on and guiding you in developing effective strategies. In her new book Champion Your Career: Winning in the World of Work, Halimah Bellows, MA, MS, CCC, CPC draws on more than twenty years of experience as a career counselor/coach to bring readers the tools for championing their own careers.
With empathy and enthusiasm, Bellows encourages readers to delve deeply and honestly into their experiences to determine an appropriate career path. She provides a wide range of self-assessment tools to enable individuals to explore their personal passions and values and recognize the strengths and skills they can bring to the workplace. Then she offers sound strategies for decision-making, goal setting and networking to move forward on the chosen career path. Special advice is provided for college students, retirees and those changing careers in mid-life.
After developing a clear idea of their career goals, readers are ready to examine the existing job market. Ms.Bellows provides both time-tested and up-to-the-minute suggestions for identifying and researching potential employers. The book includes solid advice on resume writing, interviewing skills and utilizing internet-based tools. The book’s Appendix offers a wealth of additional resources.
The path to a fulfilling new career is a journey of many steps. Champion Your Career has been written to serve as a helpful guide and companion on every step of that journey.
Chaplain’s Walk: The Spiritual Side of Medicine
How important is the well-being of the spirit? Can its condition cause us to live longer? Die sooner? Just as clinicians care for the body, patient care often requires spiritual treatment as well. Providing realistic ways for patients, families, caregivers, hospital professionals, and even visiting clergy to process a wide range of emotions, Chaplain’s Walk addresses challenges of faith and hope. Wherever those we accompany must go mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to cope with illness, we must go as well. Chaplain’s Walk acknowledges we are all humans striving to do the best we can with situations we never anticipated facing, creating a safe place for those in distress to vent, question, and challenge the fairness of life and, if need be, even the love of their God. Illness and tragedy change our lives radically and at times suddenly. Chaplain’s Walk provides a space in time to process circumstances in a way that can strengthen and provide relief of a burden never meant to be carried alone, exploring the pain, mysteries, and miracles of the spiritual side of medicine.
Chasing Diamonds
Thirty-six-year-old Everett Lentry just wants to run away. Rooted to his idealized past, he is struggling to find his way in a world that never listened to his youthful dreams and visions. Trapped within the merry-go-round of a loveless thirteen-year marriage, Everett’s delicate infrastructure is held together only by the unconditional love he has for his two daughters. Fatherhood is his sole companion.
Chasing Time
A Literary Titan Gold Award winner, Chasing Time takes the reader on a thrilling adventure as history professor Tony Lucas seeks to unravel clues from an ancient time-bending key in an effort to save his wife from the throes of a devastating and deadly disease. The story takes the classic medical drama, historical fiction, and fantasy genres, and turns them all completely on their heads. With its sharp, precise, and witty style, Chasing Time is an engaging, must-read story like nothing like you have read before.
Chasing Time
A Literary Titan Gold Award winner, Chasing Time takes the reader on a thrilling adventure as history professor Tony Lucas seeks to unravel clues from an ancient time-bending key in an effort to save his wife from the throes of a devastating and deadly disease. The story takes the classic medical drama, historical fiction, and fantasy genres, and turns them all completely on their heads. With its sharp, precise, and witty style, Chasing Time is an engaging, must-read story like nothing like you have read before.
CHICAGO JIHAD
Cacotopia, crime, violence of Chicago to Peace when Afghan immigrants are forced to make Chicago safe for themselves, after suffering extreme crime, and others, via Jihad, all whilst Rashid becomes the New Mayor and husband of supportive police captain, thereby Making Chicago Safe and Great, Again. Fiction, Adults. Available on Amazon Now.
Chicks and Dice
Christian is a deluxe gigolo living in Las Vegas. He has many friends, issuing from the same mold: chicks, pimps, crooner, Shylock and other living in Las Vegas. Sin City is built on the fantasies people coming to visit, and dream having fun and excitement. Most of these are about sex, gaming and fame. Christian has a female clientele: patron that enjoys his romantic behavior and the pleasure he can give them for some dollars. So, with those, regular and occasional, he lives a lush life scrolling from casino to casino, from hotel to hotel, bringing them, if they pay for, for luxurious restaurants to fancy bar. A gigolo make love, but avoid falling in love. Until he met Ronny, Ronelle MacArthur. Together, they will live some romantic time until she has to fly back East. Christian usually left a little gift to her passionate patron. But this time, it will lead to a burden. And gaming will add drama to the World Capital of Entertainment. Dreams are usually confused with fame and fantasy. Christian and his friends how to use it for their profit. And trouble too. A 21st century tale of romance, sex, lush and dreams, set in the gaming capital of the world, where fun and drama could happen, as fortune could be made and vanish at once. And entertainment is everywhere as the action goes.
Child Of Nature
Queen Senida and King Dinam, the leaders of the eastern countries, are hunting the obscure and mythical Child of Nature to obtain the child’s powers. In the southwest country are twin princes. Though charismatic, Prince Varian is pompous and snarky, as opposed to his identical twin brother Prince Darven, whose charm is coupled with a calm, gentle air. It is one of these two princes that Princess Amarila, the northwestern royalty, will marry in order to strengthen the alliance between their countries. One of Princess Amarila’s companions is Elyana, the apparently insignificant and quiet girl—who is, secretly, the last Child of Nature. Like all previous children of nature, she is blessed with the power of nature to take care of nature itself and its people. Elyana needs to hide her true identity and appearance to accomplish her predecessor, Jothan’s mission of bringing peace to the mainland.
Choose to Soar: Navigating Disruption In Business And Life
Life is full of storms, disruptions, and challenges, but it is what we do in the disruptions that really matters. Will we sink, swim, or survive? My encouragement as you experience life’s S.T.O.R.M.S. includes: Be Still, Give Yourself Time, Rely On Relationships, Stay Open To Lessons, Manage Your Mindset to Stay Motivated, and Soar Above Your Circumstances. It might be a professional disruption like the great resignation, inflation, 9/11, a pandemic, a merger that leads to layoffs, or bankruptcy; it might be personal disruption like a divorce, diagnosis, or death; or even a literal storm like a flood, fire, tornado, or hurricane. Whether these storms choose you or you choose them, you can decide if these events will define the rest of your life. Inspired by surviving Hurricane Ian on September 28th, 2022, this book is a guide to soar above storms in our lives so that we come out stronger on the other side. Besides showing you how to rise above trouble and become the best you can be, you get access to strategies, tools, and techniques that help you thrive in your professional and personal life. Are you ready to SOAR? Join me as I guide you through your storm, SOARING above your circumstances.
Christmas In Texas
This collection of two novellas and three short stories are full of holiday romance, hope, and love. It’s the perfect way to celebrate Christmas at any time of the year! Includes two novellas – Christmas, Liberty and the Three Minute Man, and Lilah by Midnight. Plus three short stories, now in one collection for the first time ever!
Circles In Stone: Search for the Jewel Of Power
Can the English monarchy be preserved?
Will Arthur have a place to rule from when he returns?
For over 1500 years Merlin’s descendants have held in trust the safe keeping of the Jewel of Power and Authority. Once mounted in the sword Excalibur and thought to have been lost forever, it has been discovered it still exists.
One last Merlin descendant remains. Who and where is he?
Circles, Lines, and Squiggles: Astrology for the Curious-Minded
With the discovery of an old natal chart in his files, the author sets out to understand the principles of astrology and what his chart says about his life as a writer.
Claiming Lily
Can the billionaire win her trust, and rescue her? While studying abroad, I was drugged, kidnapped, and imprisoned . . . in a Hong Kong brothel. After several failed attempts to escape, I know my time is running out. My innocence is about to be sold to the highest bidder.
Coalbrookdale: The Bangham Family Story
Coalbrookdale is a work of fiction based on the life of my ancestor Joseph Bangham, who lived in the Severn Gorge three hundred years ago. He worked for the Coalbrookdale ironworks when Abraham Darby was perfecting the use of coal in the production of iron. These developments facilitated the mass production of iron and as the technology spread, industry thrived. This was a pivotal moment in the history of the modern world.
This is a story of an ordinary family living at an extraordinary time and in the district known as the ‘cradle of the Industrial Revolution’. Their lives changed fundamentally as the agricultural evolved into the industrial way of life. The book traces the story of the Bangham family as they move from Banghams Wood where they have been coppicing for decades, across the Gorge to Coalbrookdale and a very different way of life, regulated not by the seasons but by the demands of the furnace.
Coco Rose The Girl with Two Homes: Summer Break
Coco Rose has had two homes ever since she was a baby and has always gone from one house to the other for as long as she can remember. When Coco Rose is with her dad, she misses her mom, step-dad, and brother, and when she is with them, she misses her dad.
Codename Poltergeist
Best Mystery Novels review Fans of spy novels and political thrillers might like this entertaining novel that blends in a dash of the paranormal. Codename Poltergeist by William Joel features many familiar thriller tropes – conspiracies on Capitol Hill, CIA, local lawmen at loggerheads, and a hero who finds his world is no longer quite home. This last is quite literal – our hard-boiled hero James Halyard (whose codename is Poltergeist) is from a race of angelic-type beings (possible aliens) who monitor the Earth. After an assassination attempt on his life results in the brutally sudden death of his beloved wife, Halyard is given a new position among his kind. Halyard transforms from a valued secret agent known for being almost invisible, into a supernaturally endowed investigator who can literally vanish.
Codename Poltergeist: Some call him a ghost
The President of the United States, cabinet members, and the CIA covertly enter into an agreement with the Palestinians to remove certain key Israeli government figures in a plan to enable the United States to claim that they engineered peace in the Middle East and gain the favor of Arabic countries. Sentinel, a group of angelic-type beings who monitor the Earth, are very concerned that the United States could be igniting a major conflict if the Israelis learn of the plan and retaliate. The CIA tried to eliminate their most efficient and deadly agent, James Halyard, Codename Poltergeist, believing Halyard was a possible threat to their plans. They failed, but killed Halyard’s beloved wife, Karen, in the process. Sentinel rescues Halyard, heals him, and gives Halyard the option of becoming an agent for their purposes with highly augmented mental and physical abilities. Halyard truly becomes Poltergeist and is sent to unravel and thwart the conspiracy with the Palestinians.
Collected Stories
This special collection features 50 of Don Tassone’s best short stories. The author has dedicated this book to his granddaughter Alice, who has Down syndrome. He is giving the proceeds to the National Down Syndrome Society.
Coma Kids Series: 3 Ebook Box Set
During the night of their thirteenth birthday, ten children from all over the USA and Canada fell into a deep coma. When each child awakened three days later, they could hear people’s thoughts, so they reached into the darkness to discover if anyone else was telepathic. With no clue why they were granted this gift, the kids form deep bonds and soon realize their differences are unique pieces of a much larger puzzle.
To protect themselves, the kids work to enhance their skills and create a new society, but an arrogant doctor seeks to unmask their secret talents. While they hide from the world, an advanced alien race makes contact to explain why they are telepathic.
In Book 2, the ten Coma Kids are rescued by the Thorans who fly them to a moon orbiting their planet in a faraway galaxy. Here they meet five other species from various planets with whom they work to develop their telepathic powers and to face fighting off the Yarm, overcoming a life-threatening illness, and escaping from aliens who attempt to enslave them. But through their various trials, the kids do amazing things with their minds.
Come to the Table
The remarkable true story of how God called a 55 year uncompromising atheist, and the three months of futile resistance that followed.
Confessions of an Ethical Drug Dealer
Confessions of an Ethical Drug Dealer is a psychedelic travelogue and memoir, as well as a witty and enlightening treatise on the responsible use of psychedelics told through the lens of a fifty year journey buying, selling, and consuming psychedelic drugs. It is also about the value of free-thought, critical thinking, rationality, and how to make a perfect cup of tea.
Confronting Chaos: The Civility Crisis
In “Confronting Chaos: The Civility Crisis,” Nelson dives deep into the heart of America’s current societal turmoil, pinpointing the root cause: the erosion of civility. With a blend of insight, compassion, and urgency, Nelson navigates readers through the complexities of this crisis, offering both analysis and solutions.
Corrupted Souls
Chicago detective Joe Erickson returns to the force following medical leave, and right away a high-profile murder falls in his lap. The body of a graduate student, the son of a prominent Jewish attorney, washes up on the shore of Lake Michigan with a swastika cut into his back. The hate-crime investigation leads Joe and his partner to suspect neo-Nazis, and as he digs deeper into the young man’s death, he uncovers a conspiracy that nearly gets him killed.
Cradle of Fire (St. Antoni – The Forbidden Colony Book 5)
“A must read. A fast-paced Sci-Fi novel of adventure, suspense and romance.” “A desperate woman takes a perilous gamble to
Crazy Time: A Bizarre Battle with Darkness and the Divine
What if God is out to get you? Lily Henshaw, an agnostic, suffers from increasingly bizarre traumatic events that convince her she’s in a crossfire between God and Satan reminiscent of the Book of Job. She doesn’t take sides: preparing to confront even the Almighty, she follows psychics, Satanists, preachers, and corporate executives toward an apocalyptic showdown. Crazy Time: A Bizarre Battle with Darkness and the Divine is a literary horror novel, a dark, surreal, contemporary supernatural fantasy that offers scares and suspense but seeks to terrify more on the level of concept, filling your head with thoughts and images that don’t fit right and perhaps shouldn’t even be.
Cryptic Spaces: Foresight
A brilliant young mathematician, and a world-famous young violinist are recruited to a clandestine organization with time travel technology. The organization, Observations, Inc., is probing the myths and mysteries of mankind, things like the Loch Ness Monster, Atlantis, the Bermuda Triangle, Zombies, Witches, Secrets of the Pyramids, and more. When introduced to the time grid for their first assignment, they discover that the time grid has a dark side, and what we have always believed to be merely myth and mystery are part of a carefully hidden history – one whose weave could mean the end of everything.
Cyclist Down: Mariner’s Story 1 (Mariner’s Story)
Cyclist Down – Mariner’s Story #1
Shelly is the perfect young mother cycling home from work. Chuck is out of control, drinking, drugs, dangerous, but he is driving a big car and feeling good. A terrible accident happens and Detective Mariner has to find the evidence and fight for justice in court. The outcome will change people’s lives.
Dancing Beneath You
When Carmen Peterson attends a show of Native American song and dance at a casino in Michigan, her life is changed forever. One look into the dark eyes of the lead dancer, Ben Colter, and an encounter with a live wolf that same night, leads Carmen into the arms of a modern-day warrior, and into the danger and hidden secrets of South Dakota’s Badlands.
Dancing With Ghosts
Alex will never dance again. Her parents and her dreams, all lost in one fateful night. Unable to put her faith in love and happiness, not even for Nicholas, the man she loves, she escapes to Chernut, a country town far from the reminders of her past. Here at the beautiful Lovelet Manor, inhabited by a family who are as lost as she is, Alex finds solace in the picturesque gardens of which she is caretaker, accepting that her life can never be full again. But when she meets Edward in the grand gazebo, she discovers that her heart may not be done with her yet. And for the first time in a long time, she allows herself to be loved. But is she losing her mind? Will the ghosts of her past keep her running forever? Or will Alex find herself before she runs out of time?
Danger in Plain Sight
For fans of Scott Turow, Lee Child, and Raymond Chandler. “Weissbourd has created an entire genre—Seattle Noir… I devoured the novel in a single night, and I think you will, too.” —Jacob Epstein, writer and executive story editor, Hill Street Blues Celebrated restaurateur Callie James is stunned when her estranged ex-husband, French investigative reporter Daniel Odile-Grand, strolls into her restaurant on what could have been any Seattle evening. After fourteen years, the story he tells is even more unlikely than his sudden appearance. As she throws him out into the darkness, her nightmare begins. Daniel is deliberately hit by a car, hurled through the front window of her restaurant—broken, bloody and unconscious… Reluctantly, Callie hides him. Returning to her restaurant, she is greeted by two assassins insisting that she produce Daniel or pay deadly consequences. Overwhelmed, and hopelessly out of her depth, Callie hires the only man she knows who can help her: Cash Logan. Callie can’t imagine relying on Cash, a soldier of fortune… and her former bartender, a man she had arrested for smuggling ivory through her restaurant two years earlier, a man who still hasn’t forgiven her. After a devastating attack on her restaurant, with danger in plain sight, Callie and Cash face kidnappers, murderers, weapons dealers, and treachery at every turn. Ultimately, Callie is forced to change—to become authentically self-aware—with stunning consequences.
Darcy and Fitzwilliam: A Tale of a Gentleman and an Officer (The Pride and Prejudice Family Series Book 1)
Darcy and Fitzwilliam is the romantic and humorous tale of Pride and Prejudice’s two cousins, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Colonel Fitzwilliam, close as brothers and fierce competitors – their lovers and wives – and one crazy old aunt. Book One in the Pride and Prejudice Family Series begins where Pride and Prejudice ended, immediately after the wedding of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet, following the young couple through the ups and downs of learning to live with the person you adore. Add to the mix Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam returning to London after the Battle of Waterloo, eager to shake off the bitterness of war with a little bit of scandalous behavior, only to find the love of his life.
Daria’s Secrets
A half century after the Holocaust, Daria Abramson, suffering nightmares of the Lodz ghetto and her time with its infamous ruler, Chaim Rumkowski, turns for help to a sensitive but dogged therapist. During their intense sessions, she lays bare buried memories and faces deep feelings of guilt about the war and the death of her husband. Secrets long held by Daria spill out in fierce succession, revelations disclosed to those she loves most – her daughter, granddaughter, and Ruth, a lifelong friend and fellow survivor. In turn, they expose their own shocking surprises. In Daria’s Secrets, by Jeff Ingber, we travel together with a courageous woman as she attempts to overcome the anguish of the heart’s remembrance, in order to finally live.