50 States
An Idaho farmer who aches for absolution after a tragedy is given one more chance at redemption. Two runaways cross paths in a Tennessee bus station with only one ticket between them. A family sees looters racing toward their home as they escape an Oregon wildfire. A young couple takes a reckless turn off a state highway in Utah and find themselves in a nightmarish government biohazard area.
Amelia
The book is an evocative story of young romance, fate, and destiny. Amelia is a highly emotional and passionate young woman who uses her imagination to survive her tragedies, loss, and separation. Her early encounters caused her great suffering and depression, and people saw her as damaged. Her late husband, who never really left her, helped turn her life around forty years later, helping her to make peace with the past and live a better life.
Anselm: A Metamorphosis
Christians believe the spirit survives the body. The philosopher René Descartes equated mind and spirit and tried to prove them totally separable from the body. Are they? Cocky young Professor Eric Behrens curses the world and wishes he were someone, anyone, else. He trips, is knocked out, and wakes in the body of a middle-aged, overweight Benedictine monk with a severe heart defect. He must survive in an alien environment and in a defective body, while trying to “go home again.
Basque: Love Stories – rules are there to be broken
Rules are there to be broken
‘I’ll care for you. I’ll create an environment for you to live in that’s warm, comfortable, safe, secure, ensure you’re well-fed. Make you happy. Make your dreams come true.’
Boundary Waters Search And Rescue: Beyond Imagination: Book Two in the Boundary Waters Search and Rescue Series
When a chance encounter in the Emergency Room leaves Ely physician Jack Lockwood reeling from the opening of a long-buried wound, he and Liz struggle to cope. Little did they know the sweeping life changes that would come out of their distressed prayers that night.
FEAR ME NOW: The WAR Annex
This is a special edition of Fear Me Now. It includes a bonus additional chapter at the end entitled “The War Annex”.
“We were just little kids on our way to school that morning, ‘Why were they trying to kill us?’ I thought as the bullets continued to ricochet off the side of the bus. Then the glass shattered…
Finding Eden: A Perilous Quest For a Safe Migrant Homeland
The MV Militobi, a German rescue ship, teeming with 600 Arab, African, and South Asian migrants, patrols the Mediterranean Sea and learns that all European ports refuse entry to asylum-seekers. Captain Anna Kruger has a decision to make: return immediately to the nearest port to place passengers in a detention camp for deportation or head to an uncharted island she found on an old map as a temporary solution.
FINDING MY REFLECTION
From the jungles of war to the beautiful Italian countryside, follow five young men on a wild and humorous ride as they dodge the bullets of war, love, and friendship. Marsh, Ed, Matt, Bruno, and Dudley are five cheeky mates who return home from the horrors of the Vietnam War, believing they are invincible. But is their self-assurance short-lived? Are their battle scars too deep for them to find real happiness? What are their chances of fitting back into society, finding jobs, and falling in love? Does amputee Matt still have what it takes to find the woman of his dreams? Can Marshall re-connect with his Italian heritage? “The story focuses on Italian-Australian soldier Marshall Della Casa as he leaves to fight in South-East Asia, where he joins a tight-knit group of young men. After the war, these soldiers find themselves attempting to acclimate to life back home with sex and drugs as they face both depression and withdrawal. When their paths diverge, the focus returns to Marshall as he sojourns to his homeland in Italy. Finally, the story brings all the men back together to determine their fates.”
LEGENDARY SUITS
Yes, a 500 page novel about boring playing cards. Or, are they just playing cards? Ask the 11 year-old who got them in 1984 and eventually uses them in a poker game at a Brown University fraternity. The mom in Colorado who needs them to distract and calm her Asperger son. How about the assassin in Zurich who leaves a message on them? Or the hundreds of golfers and some caddies at Kiawah Island who enjoyed them after a round. Then there is the pilot, honeymoon couple, Spaniard, high-class Belgian escort, and Vienna cafe owner, and others, who all left their DNA on them in their own unique way. How can they just be boring cards?
Local Color
2019 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD Distinguished Favorite: it’s poetry, essays, and short narratives – New York has a local color. It’s people and diners, subways and buses, libraries and streets. From the psychics who advertise on the trains, to the tourists who selfie their way around the New York Public Library on 42nd Street, everyone contributes to the local color. Born examines the canvas that the City presents every day. Free street theater, something to think about, something to savor. Pick up a Greek diner coffee and sit for a read.
LOCKBOX
A riveting, emotionally charged urban psycho-thriller set in the mid 1990’s.
A young Chicago woman suffering from emotional scars and who desperately wants to become a single mother, fights to control her life in the corporate world through lucid dreaming.
Edwina Jennings, an ambitious young bank employee is desperate to have a child.
Along with the burning desire to become a single mother is her ruthless drive to climb the corporate ladder.
With the help of lucid dreaming, she quickly rises to an upper management position but not without paying a heavy price…
Realizing only part of her vision she abandons lucid dreaming and turns to an intriguing form of mystical philosophy introduced to her by two research doctors and a professor.
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Man Shark: The Legends of Lainjin, Book One
A work of literary historical fiction, Man Shark is based on an unusual story amid the extensive oral literature of the Marshall Islanders that uncharacteristically has no ending. Tarmalu leaves her baby in the care of others while she leads her fleet of proa from the shelter of the Wotho Atoll lagoon out into the open ocean to save their craft from the certain destruction of an oncoming typhoon. Never heard from again, her son, Ḷainjin grows up to undertake an epic search for her creating a renowned navigational chant to record the seamarks along the way. Does he ever find her?
Me & Jay
One hot summer day, two thirteen-year olds decide to cool off by finding Blue Pool a dangerous, off-limits area. They discover adventures and trouble they hadn’t bargain for as they foolishly hop a freight train, accidentally start a grass fire and get chased through a cave by two men desperate to keep the kids from telling what the’ve discovered.
Midnight Owl (Joe Leverette Mysteries Book 1)
The dismembered body of a young woman is found, each grisly part discovered separately by a member of the community. Detectives Joe Leverette and Philip Marsden are assigned the case, but the outlook is grim, with eerie dreams and hooting owls putting their witnesses on edge.
When Carole Sage joins the team, the police are eager to use her gift of ‘second sight’ to gain an advantage. Will the young sensitive help crack the case, or will she become the murderer’s next victim?
Moth Hour
A complex, moving and ambitious poetic engagement with the death of a brother.The family didn’t know what to do about grief. The noisy house went silent. I was fourteen. I lay on the red rug in the sitting room and listened to Beethoven’s Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, op. 120 – over and over because it was there.In 1973, Anne Kennedy’s brother Philip was partying on a hillside when he accidentally fell to his death.
Obsession
Abby had the perfect life: shopping sprees at the mall, a pool in her backyard, a dream bedroom, a BFF… That is, until her family moved to the backwoods of Wisconsin.
Abby plans to prove this backwoods dump is no place for a thirteen-year-old. So when her parents hire a carpenter and his son, Greg, she hangs out with the older boy to make her parents worry. But Greg turns out to be a total creep, and although Abby tells him she doesn’t like him, he continues to make her life miserable, watching her, trying to get close to her, threatening her.
One of Seventeen
Caitlin Eden is one of seventeen orphans adopted by a childless but wealthy young couple, Amelia and Carmen Eden. They adopted two families of children whose parents had either died or were otherwise out of the picture and created a warm and loving family for all of them. Caitlin was a naïve, timid young girl who was always anxious to please but also a bit immature for her age, even as she grew into a teen and young woman.
Pianist in a Bordello
What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth?
Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.
Possessed (Pagan Light Book 1)
Calling Jackie psychic makes her cringe. But Jackie’s no normal seventeen-year-old. She picks up emotions from people and objects like a freak. The emotions make her sick, and the guilt she feels for lying to her church when she was twelve causes her to deny her psychic abilities.But when her jealous friend Trish invites a demon to help her steal Jason’s love for Jackie, Jackie must learn how to use her gift to protect Jason and herself and to heal the negative energies around them. To do so means she must overcome her guilt and accept who she is before the demon claims her soul.
Sanctum: Sands of Setesh
There is no choosing between lesser evils. Both must fall to the sword.” When they left Avalon, it was in search of adventure. Now Reynard is dead, and Ser Isolde is trapped in a strange land with no way home. Duty and honour drive her to complete Reynard’s quest beneath the sands. But Setesh is nothing like her mystical realm of Avalon, and Ser Isolde will have to befriend another if she is to survive.
Spellbound (Pagan Light Book 2)
After battling a demon from her great-grandmother’s past, Jackie Turov, a psychic and healer, accepts that all things are possible—even a romantic relationship with the young seminarian, David. But after an elderly church member, an immigrant from Russia, accuses Jackie and her great-grandmother, Babu, of being witches, Jackie questions if Babu was once an evil witch or just someone blessed with healing light. As Jackie sets out to find the truth about Babu’s troubling past, and ultimately about herself, her future with David hangs in the balance.
Sugar and Spice: Book 1 (Essence of Life)
Rayne Jankowski is the middle sister in a family of psychics. The problem is, she the only one without powers. Or so she believes. Unbeknownst to the customers at her health food cafe and Rayne herself, there’s something extra in her muffins, and it isn’t just sugar and spice. Unfortunately for her, her longtime crush Scott Marsten is also partaking of her psychic desserts, which now leaves her to wonder if he asked her out because he’s drawn to her or because she mistakenly slipped him a mojo mickey…
Tell, or the Adventures in Themiddle
Having been expelled from Theffects School for Troubled Boys, William Teller (‘Tell’), the son of a skiving small-town mayor returns home to find an empty house and a farewell letter from his father. Knowing his father to play an arcane prank every now and then, he thinks nothing of it—until the neighbors and representatives from a local orphanage show up.
The Beauty in Her Soul
‘I can’t see my soul,’ she said, searching her reflection. ‘Wait until you grow up and fall in love. You will know it’s there. The man who will love you will see its beauty.’ Diana grows up in the Italian village of Santa Lucia during the 1950s. Abused by both parents, her childhood slips her by. Repercussions of a love once shared with Paolo affect her entire future. She marries Marco, unaware of his sexual dilemma. Coping with her mother-in-law’s overriding hatred, an estranged husband, a torrid affair, a demanding job, and a fake family life has extreme consequences. And her existence becomes meaningless when she discovers the truth about her daughter. Love and forgiveness are behind a locked door. Will someone find the key?
The Bridge Club: Tenth Anniversary Edition
A re-release with added content to celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Bridge Club!
*2010 Foreword Reviews Book Of The Year (General Fiction)*
*2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (First Novel)*
*2012 Indie Excellence Book Awards (Womens Fiction)*
What starts as a monthly card game, turns into forty years that span a woman’s journey from youthful optimism to the challenges and opportunities presented as the years pass. The complexities of women’s friendships are played out through a maze of inevitable scenarios. Laughter and tears lead to a crisis that challenges principles and proves the power of friendship.
The Ninth Passage
Alec Driver, a WWII veteran, uses the GI bill to earn an advanced degree in music from a prestigious university. At age thirty-seven, with glowing recommendations in hand, he secures the post of choir teacher at a small town high school on Florida’s west coast. Soon after assuming his duties he falls in love with Tracy Ashbury a bright, talented and attractive student in his choir. Community outrage aroused by his courtship culminates in a resentful and belligerent student goading Alec into striking him. Influential citizens rescue Alec from potential dismissal. His subsequent marriage to Tracy and national recognition for the choir’s mastery vindicates Alec’s supporters or so it seems . . .
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 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 Time of the Giants
Affectionate yet satirical, this sequence of poems focuses on a family of giants and, in particular, on a young giant woman and her efforts to conceal from her normally sized lover how tall she truly is. The witty verses are infused with warmth and transcend a reader’s everyday reality and experiences. As disturbing and fabulous as a classic fairy tale, this gathering of work showcases the fanciful aspects of contemporary manners.
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.
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.
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.