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Down Under

by Georgia Faye

Sam’s free-spirited nature leads her to Australia and anywhere else that smelled of adventure. Her lust for life often led her down rabbit holes, discovering the places where her fears lived. To create balance, she builds her life around American expats who become her family. Extravagant parties, intimate gatherings and the intrigues of the rich and famous, she finds herself wrapped in a love triangle torn between two suitors - a stalwart Aussie teacher who shares his enthusiasm of the Outback, ... more

The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII

by Kit Sergeant

As the free world crumbles beneath Hitler’s jackboot, the French Resistance is depending on these women to change the course of history... Daring Mathilde Carré has always dreamed of glory. When the handsome Armand invites her to become his second-in-command of Interallié, one of the founding circuits of the Resistance, she jumps at the chance. But when Armand falls for another woman, how far is Mathilde willing to go to exact her revenge? When Odette Sansom, a married mother of three, is re... more

The Bourgeois Anarchist

by Sam Gridley

Susie Alioto is a longtime political militant. After college she spent two decades in an anarchist commune, and at age 66 her beliefs haven’t wavered. She protests with young people to demand justice and human rights. She marches for gun control, for Black Lives Matter, for action against climate change. A portrait of her special anarchist hero, Errico Malatesta, hangs on her refrigerator with an inspirational quote of his: “Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.” Yet Susie no... more

Pressing through Turkey

by Raymond Stanley

A former Buffalo soldier and WWI veteran escorts an OSS officer on a journey through Turkey and the Near East in the late Spring and early Summer of 1944. Set in WWII Istanbul as well as Eastern Turkey, Russian-occupied Iran, and the border with Armenia, Preston Ferguson intermingles his life story with the ever-shifting political landscape being shaped by the imminent defeat of Nazi Germany. Deeply researched, this novel attempts to mesh a fictional character into the true political land... more

The Bridge to Rembrandt

by Nelson K. Foley

When Robert crossed the bridge, he wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary. He was on the way to meet his girlfriend, but when he reached the other side, she didn’t know who he was. Robert finds himself thrown back in time, further and further, reliving the history of Amsterdam through war, riots and the plague. Each time, his fate is bound up with the same woman, and with the work of the Netherlands' greatest painter, Rembrandt. Robert is caught in a race against time. Will he m... more

The Golden Key of Gangotri

by Eyal N Danon

THE GOLDEN KEY OF GANGOTRI A Remote Ice Cave Holds A Stunning Secret. Can She Solve The Mystery Of Her Father’s Disappearance And Find Her Own Path In Life? Harley Green is ready to seize her own future. But after her father vanishes in the Himalayas, leaving behind a mysterious golden key, the twenty-year-old Columbia University student packs her bags for India to clear up her dad’s mysterious fate… and to discover more about his last, unknown companion. Taking the bus from New Delhi to th... more

The Last Roman: Exile

by B.K. Greenwood

Some debts you cannot repay, even if you live forever... Seasoned imperial officer Marcus Sempronius Gracchus leads the 9th Roman Legion into a bloody battle against a fierce barbarian tribe. It's a battle he won't survive. When he awakens three days later, clawing his way from a shallow grave, Marcus must face the reality of his new existence. He will never see the afterlife--but that won't stop him from dying time and again over the next 2,000 years. But Marcus is not the only one cur... more

Burning Ground: A Historical Fiction Novel of Adventure, Tragedy, and Romance in the Early Days of Yellowstone

by D.A. Galloway

A young man travels back in time and joins the 1871 Hayden Expedition as it explores the future Yellowstone National Park, facing the perils of an uncharted wilderness while falling in love with a Crow woman.

Eva's Promise

by M. L. Bull

Wedding bells rang seven years ago―then tragedy struck. Thirty-three-year-old Eva Rose Lucas has the perfect home, a good husband, and an endearing, little boy, but her marriage quickly changes when her husband Andre gets into a terrible car accident and suffers a severe brain injury. Now her once hardworking, self-reliant husband is a disabled, touchy handicap who doesn't remember her and cannot move his limbs. Stress and resentment build upon Eva's shoulders as she helps take care o... more

War Story

by Rolf Margenau

A fresh look at World War II through the eyes of four young people who come of age during the war years. Nine-year-old Achim relates his experiences on the home front in New Haven, Connecticut. He’s a canny Tom Sawyer type with a good heart and a knack for reporting the important events of the times and his adventuresome life. He manages a little business, goes to school, supports the war effort, becomes a black marketer and attempted murderer, and falls in love at least twice all before the a... more

The Devil's Breath

by Tom Hogan

A Jewish detective and his investigative reporter wife are forced by the Kommandant to solve the murder of his accountant and recover millions in Jewish gold. The investigation takes the reader deep into the workings of the camp—the harvesting operation, the killing process and the perils of daily life, culminating in an unforgettable finale.

Maison Cristina

by Eugene Garber

Maison Cristina immerses readers in an existential question: can the powers of storytelling and spiritual searching return to life a young woman sunken by mysterious wounds into a state of catatonia? In Maison Cristina Eugene K. Garber creates a dramatic bond between two memorable characters striving to redeem themselves from failure and suffering, a quest made arduous and uncertain by the deep wounds each has suffered in the past. The medium of their struggle is storytelling. Octogenaria... more

Still The Night Call

by Joshua Senter

STILL THE NIGHT CALL is about Calem Dewayne Honeycutt, a thirty-two-year-old Missouri dairy farmer of few words. But just because he’s quiet doesn't mean he’s simple. In fact, Calem’s internal voice eloquently leads us through his wondrous yet tortured past, his fears for the future of his beleaguered rural world, and his carefully laid plans to remedy the vicious Night Call that haunts his present. All he has to do is get through one last day on the farm, then he can free himself of being a str... more

The Tree Farm

by SETH SJOSTROM

The company Aaron Shepherd works for shutters their doors unexpectedly, leaving him desperate to provide for his family. Accepting a low paying role at a struggling Christmas tree farm, Aaron finds unexpected kinship with his new boss, farmer Hal Jennings. As the holidays roll closer and the Shepherd’s finances worsen, they find themselves homeless. Allowed to live in a long unused cottage on the farm, Aaron learns that the farm is in distress as well. The entire Shepherd family pitches in to sa... more

Woven

by Maureen Morrissey

Woven takes the stories of four families, beginning in 1850, and weaves them together and into the 21st century. It is a family saga and a story of survival and migration; ending in the United Sates with the new generation. It is a story of overcoming adversity and finding strength and hope when it seems impossible.

Bully 4 Love

by Steven Paul Leiva

Bully 4 Love is set in the 1990s and a bit beyond. It is narrated by Adolphus, a history professor at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California (you know, where they do the Rose Parade each New Year's Day). He agrees to teach a nighttime Adult Education class at a local High School as a favor for a friend. On the first day of class, the first student to walk in is Lavinia, a radiant beauty fashionably dressed and expensively bejeweled, especially her wedding ring. Adolphus is intrigued at fi... more

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