The Infernal Games
Xlina’s move to Portland, Maine was supposed to be the start of a new life. A normal life. One that didn’t involve her magical-duty-obsessed druid father or her own legacy as a descendant of the Baku: an ancient creature that consumes nightmares.
The Inspiring World of Ella Rose La Fleur
Explore the intrigue and wonder of everyday life with this charming story in verse about a precocious dark-eyed. dark-haired little girl. Six-year-old Ella Rose La Fleur loves singing, dancing, and riding her award-winning pony, Chestnut. She also adores her pets, Jessie and Molly, and her best friends, Mike and Kate, with whom she enjoys many exciting adventures. Hiking, biking, ice skating, and trick-or-treating are just a few fun activities that these best friends forever share. To add to the excitement, Ella Rose learns French to prepare to visit her grandma in Paris. Ella’s family vacations include romps on the beach, sightseeing, lots of yummy food, and her first time on a plane. Life is all about Ella Rose La Fleur and her loved ones in this sweet and lighthearted story highlighting the importance of family, fun, and making memorable connections wherever you go. A holiday surprise will forever change Ella and her family’s lives. What magic can you discover viewing the world through Ella Rose’s eyes?
The Interstellar Police Force, Book One: The Historic Mission
This Science Fiction-Action-Comedy, set on present day Earth, begins in a far-off galaxy. Prodor Moffit and four other prisoners have escaped to Earth and it’s up to two IPF Agents to find them. But, right off, they are met with problems. The first is that they have limited information on the human race that only goes up to the late 1950’s. The second is that the Agents are alien in appearance, so to complete their covert mission they must replicate themselves into humans. The commander’s replication succeeds, but due to a computer glitch his partner is replicated into a Doberman Pinscher. With mid-twentieth century information in hand, the agents successfully land. And with the help of a young Earth girl who unwittingly discovers their true identities, the mission to re-capture Prodor Moffit and the other prisoners is on.
The Keelman’s Fortnight
Wesley Harding is a law student, studying in Galway City. He’s a loner, a misanthropist with grand ideals, who obsesses over his beautiful classmate, Myia Dawkins. When tragedy strikes, Wesley flees to Achill Island, where he joins the primal scream therapy commune, The House Of Novalis. It is here where Wesley flourishes, becoming their undisputed spiritual leader, his teachings causing The House Of Novalis to become an international sensation. Detective Sergeant Jimmy Daniels is at the end of his rope. Based in Galway City, he’s been suspended for doing his job properly, now his superiors are using everything in their bureaucratic power to crush him. He contemplates whether he’s up to the job anymore, has the criminal mind evolved? Or has cancel culture and the technological age gotten so ridiculous that he simply can’t do it anymore?
The lady and the dragon (Ruthfinn romance Book 1)
The poor dragon – could he ever be cured of his boils; and his blisters’ and his sulks? and where oh where was his lovely lovely universe? could anyone find it? or re-create it for him. Could that small girl – er that “lady” – help him before swallowed her up? A tale of depression and rediscovery
The Landlord’s Inheritance
Siblings Mickey Ray and Darcy Jean are informed that the automobile disaster that caused the death of their Mother and their Father’s multiple injuries including brain damage was not an accident but an attempted murder. The local police seem ambivalent, and their Aunt comes in with a forgotten Power of Attorney signed by their Father, Daniel, and tries to take control of the Real Estate holdings. The brother and sister team begin a power struggle and are physically threatened by unknown thugs which results in Mickey’s girlfriend disappearance which is presumed dead and Darcy Jean in hiding. James, Mickey’s best friend, a disfigured Ex-Military Black Ops operative, assists in the hunt to put a stop to the “takeover”. Terry Joe’s novel includes Simple Detective Work, Internet Research, Adventure, Action and Suspense with a Sprinkle of Romance, and a Fast-Paced, Explosive ending.
The Last Cowboy
As the romanticized period of the American “wild” West wound down, most cowboys rode off into the sunset. Hank Miller must follow a different path. In The Last Cowboy, he survives the Civil War, Texas sized desperados, and the great San Francisco earthquake. With a debt to pay, Hank will place himself and his twin sons in great danger in a new, wild and untamed frontier—Morocco! This is a sweeping tale of a reluctant hero of the West. It is also a story of romance and international adventure, stretching from west Texas to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, London, Tangier and the Moroccan Rif. The novel spans an equally expansive time frame: 1860 to 1912. The backdrop is the American frontier with all its enduring myths and troubling realities. Ultimately, his heroism earns Hank unexpected wealth, friends on three continents, and the love of an extraordinary woman. Now ensconced in a mansion in the most exclusive neighborhood of San Francisco, Hank has a beautiful wife and three remarkable children. He wants nothing more than to enjoy them all and the highly successful international tour business he and Beth now operate. But a last, perilous mission awaits. Hank has a debt to pay and a friend to rescue in a far off land.
The Man In the Arena
Scott Armstrong grew up on the Mississippi in Wisconsin, dreaming of college football glory, but promised his dying grandfather to attend the Air Force Academy instead. His career in Intelligence and then Special Tactics takes him all over the world, battling the enemies of his country, but then it all comes crashing down. His marriage implodes, and then his final mission goes sideways, leading to a strong suggestion that he retire. Although he’s not ready, Scott signs the papers. The only place he knows to go now is back home, to a cabin along the mighty river in southwest Wisconsin. With no family nearby and his high school gridiron glory a distant memory, Scott has to start over. It isn’t long before he discovers that things in his placid home county are not what they seem. Underneath the pleasant day-to-day routine of life along the river lurks an evil that has sent many lives down the destructive path of addiction, and is about to become even more dangerous, setting its sights on the young girls of the county. Trying to stay above the fray, Scott focuses his attention on Beth, a divorcee who has rebuilt her life with her teenage daughter, Emily, a budding volleyball star. But when Emily becomes the target of the criminal enterprise that has already poisoned the county, Scott is forced to become “the man in the arena” his grandfather called on him to be.
The MENtal Fight Of Your Life
The ultimate aim is to have a relationship that is healthy in the sense that it allows for both partners to form a bond that lets them not only grow together but also grow independently as people. The book’s overall attitude regarding the importance of fairness and respect as a way to find happiness in marriage rings true. Chapters discuss familiar topics such as what does it mean to really love your wife and being faithful and consistent in your dealings, understanding what men really need, having dating standards, the things to consider before you say I do among others.
The Munich Girl
The past may not be done with us. What family secrets is a portrait of Eva Braun hiding? Fifty years after WW2, Anna is plunged into the treacherous world of the Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante – and Hitler’s lover – and untangles a web of long-buried secrets. “Historical fiction that reads like memoir.” Philadelphia Inquirer
The Omicron Six
“Cooper stretched his arm over on top of Coupe to quiet him and hold him down. He then reached into Coupe’s mind and urged him to sleep, told him to sleep, that he was safe and could sleep the night through without worrying about those . . . things that came to him. Coupe’s thrashing began to subside. He did not scream at all. He returned to a peaceful sleep.” Cooper Callister cannot speak. Coupe Daschelete is the victim of horrible abuse. No one would expect them to possess superhuman powers. But they do. When a fight in the woods forces them to reveal themselves to each other, they start a journey together that leads them to discover power they never expected, power they were never intended to have. To unlock those powers and fully understand them, they must follow a difficult and dangerous path of self-discovery and self-revelation. Cooper is forced to face the isolation of his silence.
The Perfect Season
Thirteen-year-old Charlie Unger struggles with the death of his nurturing mother and always distant, work-obsessed father. Life’s cruelties fuel a crisis of faith for the misfit genius as he tries to make sense of an absurd world and the bullies that torment him. Charlie finds solace in his unbridled passion for the game of baseball and his beloved Detroit Tigers, intent on using his brilliant brain to elevate the bottom-dwelling Tigers into a World Series champion. When Cameroonian Jasmine Bouba emigrates to Detroit because of social strife and a family tragedy, does the young girl dare approach the peculiar boy across the street who immaculately maintains his front lawn to infield perfection?
The Placeholder
The Placeholder, a novel by Lynda Wolters –Published: November 1, 2022 Synopsis Successful, middle-aged attorney Serenade Kincaid finds herself sitting in court as a party to a lawsuit. Next to her is snarky, no-filter, sometimes friend, always boss, Carolyn. Recently jilted for a barely-of-age former floater in her firm’s typing pool, Sera is fighting for visitation of her stepdaughters. If this isn’t enough heartache, the just-out-of-diapers floater shows up to court 7-months pregnant, a crushing blow to childless Sera. Following her loss in court, Sera returns to the run-down motel she calls home after signing over her house to her ex as a failed bargaining chip. She ruminates with the soul-stirring songs of Etta James, drinking boxed wine out of a plastic cup and learning to swipe on dating apps. Carolyn, trying to bolster Sera into finding herself, brings her heaps of self-help books designed to stop Sera’s ‘chameleoning’ for every man she meets. But, in everything’s-a-joke fashion, Sera prefers to learn through osmosis rather than read the books.
The Price of Love
Early in the 1700s, a ship named The Golden Fleece sailing the Caribbean was attacked by pirates. The Golden Fleece won the fight and the Captain took the ship loaded with a treasure trove of gold and jewels. He and his crew decided to share the bounty. But a dying pirate warned them the Incas had cursed anyone who misused the treasure for their own selfish ends. Their prize must also be passed on to their descendants, who must not know from whom they received it. If they did not heed the warning, they would lose it all. In the present day, Jasmine Roberts was shocked and delighted to learn she had inherited a mansion. The incredible gift was a mystery, as she didn’t know her benefactor. But the solicitor was not at liberty to tell her the actual history. Within the mansion lay a treasure waiting to be discovered. A prize that came with a curse.
The Private Misadventures of Nell Nobody
The year is 1793, and France has declared war on Britain. Escaping a desperate situation, Eleanor Buccleuch (‘Nell’), a young Englishwoman, dons waistcoat and breeches. Calling herself ‘Ned Buckley’, she enlists in the British army, where she hopes no one will think to look for her. Traumatised and grieving her infant son, she disappears amongst the soldiers of the 69th Regiment of Foot, sent to the Mediterranean where the British hope to take the island of Corsica from the French. After the successful occupation of St Fiorenzo, Ned’s superiors assign him to work with a zealous naval captain by the name of Horatio Nelson, who is spearheading the campaign against Bastia. Ned is to be his ‘liaison’ to the army, which Ned is fairly sure means ‘dispatch runner.’ Recognising Ned’s uncertainty, Nelson makes a point of bolstering his confidence. Ned has one close friend in the army, another rifleman named Jack Mackay. Ned and Jack share a tent with the four other men in their six-man mess, and late one night during the siege of Bastia, an incident occurs that sets off Ned’s post-trauma response, threatening his stability and his disguise.
The Second
A former special ops soldier, Baden McCloud, is still adapting to civilian life when he happens upon a mysterious young woman running from an unknown adversary. His carefree life and independence from others crumbles as he empathizes with her plight and decides to offer his protection. Baden is soon caught up in her troubles, and together they must fight against those who seek to destroy them both.
The Semblant
They have been living with us for thousands of years, and while once close to extinction, the Semblant are now making a resurgence. These genetically advanced beings with heightened libidos also have psychic abilities that can influence, modify, and alter the experience and memories of others. They can hijack another’s identity – sometimes by mutual agreement, sometimes not.
While detectives are investigating both the mystery of a headless corpse at a popular nightclub, and the apparent reappearance of people that have died, they uncover a mysterious breed of people capable of psychic manipulation (The Semblant).
A concurrent case of a serial killer, known as Daisy, who targets gay men, places increasing concerns and demands on the police. Could these two cases be connected?
The Shadow and the Shards
With the creature vanished, tensions rise at the school after it’s revealed that head wizard Almagest’s death may not have been an accident.
Meanwhile having discovered clues to the whereabouts of the feared Firebrand shards, Kuelack sets out to find them together with the disinherited Dragonlord Ramus, whilst Kuelack’s sadistic and power hungry wife Gradine embarks on a campaign to kill and imprison the Bruins and their friends.
The Siren’s Scream
The Thornton Mansion with the giant tide pool in the backyard has terrorized Santa Cruz for over a century. Throughout the years there have been dire and mysterious deaths connected with it. It is now Darcy Wainwrights turn to face the perils of the mansion. The mansion becomes her first sale as a novice realtor and she becomes intricately and inevitably connected to the house and the pool. It is the pool that beckons her, and it is the pool that would decide if she lives or dies.
The Spirit Breakers: A Pueblo People’s Mystery (The Spirit Series Book 3)
After the disappearance of Cecilia Edakee’s cousin, and the confusion over which one of the law enforcement agencies has jurisdiction over the investigation, Sandy and Ben join forces with Cecilia and her cousin Bea to locate the missing woman. The rag-tag investigative team is baffled by a lack of evidence and must follow any trail they can to gather clues. This leads them to Albuquerque, Grants and, finally, the Navajo Nation to pull the pieces of this mystery together.
To complicate matters, Sandy is pregnant with Ben’s first child and he is concerned that the pressure from sleuthing around might be too much for her to handle. While she wants to do all she can for her pueblo ‘family,’ she must weigh her involvement against the preservation of her pregnancy and personal life.
Then matters take a turn for the worse and Sandy has no choice but to thrust herself into the inquiry. Risking not only life and limb…but all she holds dear.
The Truth Now
An adventure tale of an ex-convict who discovers a reason and a purpose at the heart of his troubled past. Released from the correctional facility after 19 years, Sid Green searches the street and the voices in his head for an answer to the questions that pursue him like a jail warden of the soul. Did he do it? Did he kill Meg, the love of his life, the perfect girl, his high school lover and partner in crime? Who is Sid Green, really? To find out, Sid follows the clues to where the faces of the people he loves match the stories he hears from the wind. Follow Sid Green’s unlikely salvation in the year after his release from jail, as he pursues freedom and escapes justice in the Merrimack River Valley and northern New England.
The Two Wolves (A Dying Truth Exposed, Book Three)
The saga continues for Great-Great-Grandmother Annabelle as the Brooks family learns more of their family history and the legacy she left for them. Settling in and enjoying her new life with her Cherokee family while navigating the role of a young mother, she learns more of her family’s traumatic past. As conflict soon arises again, this time from the Lightning-Strongman family in addition to an ever more persistent threat from Indian Agents, Annabelle and her family will all stand before the two wolves while making daring choices to confront the past and fight for their future. Which wolf will they feed? Good or Evil?
The Wedding Ranch: A Novel
A second chance at love awaits two brokenhearted people if they’re just willing to trust each other—and themselves, in USA Today bestselling author Nancy Naigle’s The Wedding Ranch. When Lorri Walker’s husband gifted her with a mastiff puppy on Valentine’s Day, she believed he was recommitting himself to their marriage after going astray. Six months later, he left both her and their dog for someone else. Since her recent move to Dalton Mill to unbraid herself from the past, Lorri’s graphic design business is now flourishing, her growing mastiff, Mister, has plenty of space to romp, and her ex in Raleigh can fade to a distant memory. Ryder Bolt is haunted by the tragic loss of his wife and young son seven years ago. Thankfully, ranching keeps Ryder busy, and spending time with his niece and nephew—whose venue, The Wedding Ranch, has become a popular tourist destination—keeps him from getting lonely. When Lorri and Ryder met, love was the last thing they were looking for. When they’re together, smiles come easier and burdens feel lighter, and both are embracing the possibility of something deeper. But when a long-buried revelation surfaces, the fate that brought them together threatens to tear them apart.
The Write Word at the Right Time
The French writer Gustave Flaubert would spend days worrying over a single sentence until he got the words just right. In today’s world, who has that kind of time?
The Yellow Baton
Tragedy disrupts the idyllic life for the Kohanow family in 1939. Living on their small dairy farm in Poland the Jewish family immediately becomes embroiled in the tragic events of World War II. Sent to separate prisons, the family loses track of each other but the only child, Jozef, survives the holocaust. After the war he begins rebuilding his life in Poland and eventually immigrates to America. In Wisconsin Jozef marries and raises a fine family of his own. But the after affects of the war trail him there and have a significant impact on his grandson, Caleb. The young boy grows and develops a vengeful attitude toward those who mistreated his grandfather years earlier in Germany. After the death of Jozef, Caleb decides it is now up to him to satisfy the demands of justice. This gripping story follows Caleb’s early life and brings the reader to the point where Caleb is ready to carry forth the rightful sentence. But conflicts enter Caleb’s mind and he must decide the proper step to take. The choice will certainly affect the young man for years to come.
Theo and Sprout
Sprout says she’s there to help him, to guide him. Theo, an introverted, teenage boy form a large family, is not so sure about that. He’s not sure about much of anything at the moment. You see, Theo is thrown into absolute uncertainty one morning after he has showered for school when Sprout suddenly manifests herself physically in his body. Is she a dream? A hallucination?
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
My name is JALEN PENN and I went on a camping trip on the recommendation of my girlfriend STACEY who I made my fiancee` during the trip. She was excited and so was I, but before we could celebrate, nature called. I went into the woods to handle my business and maybe I should have held it, but I really had to go. The forest was dark and cold and naturally at night creepy. I didn’t handle my business on the account I heard twigs snapping and growling. I was attacked by a large furry animal with glowing red eyes and bitten on the arm, but manage to get my pocket knife and stabbed the monster in the neck several times. It released me and ran off. I made it back to camp and Stacey drove me to the hospital. After that night my life change forever: eating habits, appearance, and I even alienated my family. I would find out from the papers and news that something bad had happened after visiting that place.
Things that go bump in the night: Here there be monsters
One city. Two killers. A serial kller who preys on adulterers. A supernatural killer who kills unknowingly once it becomes human again. The city knows bout the serial killer calling himself Sin Killer and leaving a weird poem on his victims. He is blamed for all the murders including the ones he does not commit.
Questions arise throughout the city whether Sin Killer is also capable of cannibalism since his victims are eaten and mutilated.
Poice Captain Frank Penn is under heavy fire. He knows there is more than one killer in his city and one of them is his own nephew.
Three Loves and Other Stories
Myriad human emotions run their course through our lives, sometimes like the weather in England, in the course of a day even. What is the magic wand to be waved, for a newly wed couple seeking to discover each other; or a strictly brought up girl, to settle into a more interactive kind of relationship; or for a girl full of the gift of love, to find happiness? Would the soul really live on and revisit? Does professional excelling at work but a novice at speaking his heart, venture along the path of a relationship, and a child just beginning to blossom- can she survive being bullied? Is it for the daughter to be given in marriage? These stories tell the tale and more. They are all positive, energised and look at completeness in a person’s life. The search for happiness and the finding of it.
Through the Waters and the Wild
Haunted by lost loves and limping through a lifeless career, Conor Finnegan’s discontent mirrors the restlessness of his grandfather Liam, caught as a young man in the crossfire of the Irish Civil War. Drawing from Liam’s wisdom and courage, Conor seeks to reinvent his character and reclaim passions made numb by neglect and loss. Through the Waters and the Wild addresses the timeless questions, “Where shall I go now? What shall I do?”
Tim: The Story of Timothy H. O’Sullivan as a Young Apprentice at Mathew Brady’s Studio
Willy Wonka meets Gangs of New York and Let the Great World Spin
The Story Begins on September 11th, 1850…
Based on the life of Timothy O’Sullivan, Tim is a ten-year-old boy from sleepy Staten Island who is told he must apprentice at Mathew Brady’s daguerreotype studio in 1850.
Tim takes the ferry over to York with his father and rides the omnibus up Broadway to Fulton Street. Across from Brady’s Gallery is Barnum’s American Museum filled with all its relics and wondrous curiosities. As Tim ventures inside, he takes us back into New York’s forgotten past and the history of photography.
The story begins on September 11th, 1850, with Jenny Lind’s premiere concert at Castle Garden near Battery Park — a night that would be remembered for years to come, as the night when the Swedish Nightingale first sang in New York.
All the city is infatuated with Jenny Lind. Great crowds surround her wherever she goes. She is the most sought-after celebrity by all the Broadway photographers, except that her manager, none other than P.T. Barnum himself, will not grant Brady access to Jenny Lind.
Time 2 Die
TIME 2 DIE – an infamous icon from the past is linked to a bio terror plot that is conceived and controlled by a billionaire puppet master. After a successful test, He uses an ingenious delivery method to launch his scheme. Codi and her team must stop an unseen threat that has already taken her to the brink. Feeding on her anger, Codi crawls from the ashes to take on the most impossible odds yet.
Tokyo Games
Virtual video games, the kind where human game characters wear special video glasses that allow a game player to see and hear the action while the game character is following the player’s commands to pick up bits of game magic in the real world. One night a game character witnesses a murder while in the company of a woman he met in a game. However the murderer is more than just a sex-crazed fiend and the woman who witnessed the murder of her friend is no ordinary woman. The battle between the woman who wants revenge for her friend’s murder and the evil person who murdered her begin to pull the game character down an endless rabbit hole into a vastly different reality than he has ever experienced. As this is going down, the game player is dragged along with the game character as that character explores the murderous power of corrupt politicians, despotic religious orders and ancient, flesh-eating, mythological monsters. The goal of the game becomes a desperate ordeal of survival as the evil forces combine to destroy the gamers.
Tomas Cudzis and the Struggle for Justice and Truth: Quadrilogy
Tomas’s sense of inferiority since his childhood has forced him to transform himself physically, becoming the underground king of illegal MMA fights in the heart of Hong Kong. After an unfortunate incident involving the Triads, he is forced into hiding in the United States, where he is actively hunted by them and others.
Trail of Tears: The Story of John Ross
TRAIL OF TEARS One man fights overwhelming odds to survive and protect. Caught between the love of two beautiful women, which one will he choose? What if you are a twenty-year-old, about to attend college, and your whole world collapses? Your mother and sister are missing, and soldiers murder your father, burn your mansion, and take you prisoner. Trail of Tears relives one of the most heartrending chapters in American history as the US Government transports the self-governing, wealthy Cherokee nation from their ancestral homeland to relocate in hostile Indian Territory. The Georgia militia force John Ross, with only a trickle of Indian blood flowing in his veins, to walk the thousand-mile Trail of Tears. After John protects a full-blood Indian girl from the lustful wagon master, the cruel soldier targets John for retribution—until John’s shoved too far. Bitter animosity explodes from a jealous Army Captain as John pushes and pulls his Conestoga wagon over mountain roads made muddy by rain and slippery by snow.
Trial and Redemption
SCIENCE MEETS MAGIC… In his latest inspirational and suspenseful novel, Trial and Redemption, Reilly continues the saga of a mystical Janus key and its time-bending influence on 21st-century characters, first introduced in the award-winning Chasing Time. Disgraced scientist Brian Ellis finds an improbable ally in Julie, a college student trying to reset her life after a family tragedy. Guided by a Janus key with magical powers to predict future events, they embark on a crusade to bring a corrupt pharmaceutical executive to justice, prevent a medical tragedy, and restore peace to their shattered lives. However, Brian guards a dark secret that may imperil both their mission and their redemption. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, memorable characters, and heart-stopping suspense, Trial and Redemption is an emotive mix of medical and legal fiction with a touch of fantasy.
Trial and Redemption
SCIENCE MEETS MAGIC… In his latest inspirational and suspenseful novel, Trial and Redemption, Reilly continues the saga of a mystical Janus key and its time-bending influence on 21st-century characters, first introduced in the award-winning Chasing Time. Disgraced scientist Brian Ellis finds an improbable ally in Julie, a college student trying to reset her life after a family tragedy. Guided by a Janus key with magical powers to predict future events, they embark on a crusade to bring a corrupt pharmaceutical executive to justice, prevent a medical tragedy, and restore peace to their shattered lives. However, Brian guards a dark secret that may imperil both their mission and their redemption. Filled with unexpected twists and turns, memorable characters, and heart-stopping suspense, Trial and Redemption is an emotive mix of medical and legal fiction with a touch of fantasy.
Trintarious: A Prodigal Son Story
Trintarious: A Prodigal Son Story delves into the parable Jesus told in Luke 15 in an imaginative way to try and make sense of its biblical context while enabling the reader to see the human side of the story. It is a coming of age story exploring themes of friendship, love, acceptance and forgiveness.
Trintarious: A Prodigal Son Story
Trintarious: A Prodigal Son Story delves into the parable Jesus told in Luke 15 in an imaginative way to try and make sense of its biblical context while enabling the reader to see the human side of the story. It is a coming of age story exploring themes of friendship, love, acceptance and forgiveness.
Triskele
Triskele is a psychological story about a family torn apart by tragic and unexpected circumstances, portraying the events that will shape a young boy and his little sister being reared by an alcoholic single mother. Each member of the familial group will make choices that influence, or perhaps determine, where their futures will lead them. The story explores the irrational behaviors people embrace and the seemingly antithetical, yet underlying reasons, for their actions. Paul is nearing the final stages of his inner city deaconship. As he approaches ordination circumstances arise that place his assured lifelong road to the priesthood in sudden jeopardy. He is consumed with feelings of guilt, tormented by terrifying nightmares and loses his balance in the face of an abrupt lust for a woman, Lillian who seems unattainable. Beth, a promising art student, acts out in promiscuous and myriad self-destructive ways that threaten her success, not only at the university, but also on the greater art scene of Greenwich Village. Particular works of art illuminate Beth’s psychic demons and desires throughout the story.
True Story of the Perfect 36
When the Rossi household wakes up in a world strangely changed, Vanessa is the only member of her family who knows something is wrong. The timeline has shifted–and it’s up to her daughters, Maddie and Becca, to fix it. Philip, from the future, is to blame for setting the timeline askew, which makes Maddie and Becca view him with distrust and loathing. He caused the death of their beloved father. They can never forgive him. But they will have to work with him. It’s the only way they can set things right again. Together, the three time travelers hop a freight train to 1920s Nashville to ensure the Nineteenth Amendment is passed, giving women the right to vote–and correcting history. But their hilarious journey hits some bumps along the way, and by the end of this adventure, it’s more than Philip’s ego that’s bruised.
Trust Me
How far will a psychologist go when one of his clients is a suspect in his daughter’s kidnapping? Alex Johns is a Philadelphia psychologist who loves his profession, is fulfilled watching his clients succeed and knows keeping their secrets is the key to good therapeutic relationships. Alex Johns also is a husband and father whose life is ripped apart when his daughter, Mei, is kidnapped during a family vacation in Maine and the sheriff investigating the case thinks one of Alex’s clients might be the kidnapper. Set in Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell and cheesesteak, Trust Meexplores Alex’s gut-wrenching dilemma: whether he should stick to straight therapy or play amateur detective while performing therapy. Lives – including those of Alex, his wife, Ashley, and Mei – are at stake in the first book in the Alex Johns Series.
Twisted Fate
Twisted Fate Synopsis Linda Boroff lindaboroff2927@gmail.com Set in the late 2020s, the novel follows the struggles of young Silicon Valley worker Zoe Ohrbach and her boyfriend Brian Snyder, amidst an outbreak of a new prion (“Mad Cow”) disease that gradually turns people into psychopaths. Prions, discovered in 1982, are not alive like bacteria or viruses, but are instead twisted bits of protein in the brain. They cause “Mad Cow” or in humans the horrifying variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). Prion diseases are incurable and have extremely long incubation periods—even decades. There is no vaccine. “Prions are like an enemy within, the alien in some B-movie that transforms people to an evil version,” says prion biologist Edward Hoover of Colorado State University. “The immune system doesn’t see them coming.” This particular prion has been spreading unsuspected for decades.
TWO GOOD MEN
Two Good Men begins as a tragedy when two young fathers are killed within a two-week period. The book quickly becomes a heart-warming and inspirational story as the surviving families become neighbors, and the two young boys, Manny and Kenny, become inseparable best friends. With the love and direction of Manny’s grandfather, a retired Marine, the boys develop a sense of character and personal responsibility well beyond their years. When the boys go off to college together, they become indignant over the deceit of the football coach. After agreeing to leave college, they decide to join the Marine Corps, which everyone has always known was Manny’s life-long dream. After boot camp, Manny and Kenny are assigned to Camp Pendleton, California. During a weekend liberty the boys visit Disneyland where they meet two attractive cousins. Kenny falls hard for Suzy and Manny thinks Lori is very nice. The two couples grow closer but their relationships are cut short when the boys deploy to Vietnam where Kenny is severely wounded.
Two Moons of Merth
Written in the whimsical tone you will find in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, the Two Moons of Merth takes readers to an extraordinary planet—where adventure and danger await. Aadya, the main character, begins life as a lowly peasant, but her goals are mighty, and she finds her way to becoming the queen of all the land. Her mission in life is to gain respect for herself and all the other women of Merth. Through her heroic efforts, she changes her society and elevates the status of all women once referred to as ‘breeders.’ Follow the Karda family through two generations in this alluring tale as they lead their people with the guidance of the Matong and kinetic sight. This imaginative saga of quests, romance, intrigue, and magic will have you spellbound as you turn each page to find out what happens next.
UFOs and God
UFOs and God is not single-themed but a medley of characters kayaking through the erratic channels of life. Some of these stories are sharp edged. Others are as inviting as a cozy room with a few adding a pinch of humor.
Unsaddened (Steel and Desire Book 4)
She’s not looking for love. He’s open to the possibility. Will love conquer all?
Special Agent Molly Masterson is in a dark place after the tragic death of her husband, Sam. If it wasn’t for the nanny, her four-year-old daughter, Justice, would have suffered severe neglect. Her boss finally confronts her along with her three best gal pals, also FBI agents, forcing her back to work with the lure of heading a new task force targeting the newly coined crime: Sextortion. She soon discovers being back at work is exactly what she needed.
VENGEANCE ISLAND
Fact: pirates abducted the entire population of the island of Gozo in 1551. Fiction: spirits demand revenge and make a modern couple fall in love. One descends from the pirates, the other from the enslaved islanders, but which is which.
Vestiges
When anthropology professor Oneida Graham is summoned home to Hopewell, her estranged and dying grandmother entangles her in a Michigan Relic mystery, which is possibly why someone murdered her grandfather Graham fifty years ago. Before the woman dies, Gran dubs Neida The Awaited One and pleads that she fulfill the prophecy and return the relic before it’s too late. Neida pairs up with archaeologist Lance Graham, a long-separated cousin of sorts, connected through her grandmother’s marriage. When the duo discovers pertinent clues in Hopewell’s library and Gran’s old journals, the pair embarks on a frantic hunt to find the treasure and the person responsible for their grandfather’s demise. But they are running out of time. The diabolical forces at play just might beat them to the target and destroy the treasured secrets for good. Will Neida learn in time the key to her pragmatic heart and what she desperately needs? Will she and Lance uncover the vestiges of the past and understand just what they mean to the rest of the world? Only her last unthinkable discovery will tell the ultimate tale.
Voice of A Mummy
Award Winner – First Place – Bookfest – Spring 2022 – Historical Fiction – Mystery Ever wonder why we are okay with digging up and moving every mummy that we find while holding our own modern-day grave as holy land not to be touched? Are we disturbing their restful afterlife? This award-winning historical fiction explores this very question. A Mummy. A Mystery. A discovery. Will Kaili live to tell the world? On a historic mummy hunt for the legendary Cleopatra, Dr. Kaili Worthy has no idea that she’s stepping into the path of a mysterious curse that stretches back nearly 4,000 years. What Kaili finds will change the way the world views death and ancient rituals and even paranormal reality. To bring their discovery out into the open, Kali, her husband Derek and friend Doris will risk breaking the law, shunned in their profession, and possibly their own death.