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PRIDE AND PERJURY

by Alice McVeigh

Ever wondered what really made Wickham elope with Lydia Bennet? Or what the Longbourn servants thought about Bingley's disappearance after the Netherfield ball? Ever imagined a glimpse into Lady Catherine de Bourgh's diary? - or mused about how the Eltons’ courtship transpired in Bath? Currently a finalist in Chanticleer’s International Book Awards, McVeigh's celebrated Jane Austen series has a new launch - Pride and Perjury. Previously, novels in this series have been finalists in the UK S... more

CAMELLIA SEASON A Novel

by Natasha Peterson

Set in New Orleans, CAMELLIA SEASON is a laughter and tears, coming-of-age story about Cherie, who longs to escape the clutches of her crazy French mother. Cherie’s touchstone is her Wordless Diary, coded with illustrated numbers only she can understand. Beginning in 1965, we follow Cherie and her friends over five years, as they grow up amid the glorious magic and dangerous mayhem of the city's streets. Nourished by the dark gumbo of local culture, Cherie and her krewe both thrive and are crush... more

What was Beautiful and Good

by Jill Blocker

A novel about a young singer whose ‘joie de vivre‘ is disrupted by the outbreak of the First World War and whose fight for freedom inspired an international art movement.

Till Marriage Do Us Part

by Bianca Bowers

In Australia, the lives of married couple Aden and Bronte are turned upside down when a financial audit forces their family-owned winery into foreclosure. Starting afresh in a seaside suburb, their marriage rapidly deteriorates as Aden mourns his dream life and Bronte seizes an opportunity to pursue the writing dream she buried when she became a winemaker’s wife. In America, Luther is an indie author who is unhappily married to his second wife. With his bohemian mother encouraging him from th... more

Threads of Us

by Greenleaf Book Group

Sometimes the answers we are looking for are hidden in our own stories. The night before the dance performance that could determine Gracie Wilder’s career, her father unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a curious gift with ties to a myth told to her as a child. Desperate to understand her father’s unspoken words, she puts her greatest dream on the line for an opportunity to remember the childhood she tried so hard to forget. A few chance encounters with Beau Griffin, a bighearted building contra... more

Pitching to Giraffes

by Tom Puszykowski

Pitching to Giraffes follows a rambunctious college baseball team trying to learn from past mistakes, overcome an arrogant chief rival, and win a championship. Their well-meaning coach is a fish out of water attempting to corral their hijinks. They need leadership from their top pitcher, but John Light's engagement with baseball is weakened by his desire to actively participate in the counter-culture quest to demand a better world. A student activist with militant connections offers him the act... more

Dance with the Devils

by Paul Frisby

A novel geo-thermal power station is being built in a remote location in Tasmania in the near future. The characters involved from the company's owners to the staff, the contractors to the environmentalists, the nurse who works for the medical team who discovers the power of magic mushrooms growing on the site, are working hard to meet their own objectives. Everyone has their own moral code, but key players are flawed and by the end of the story the reader has to wonder if any are moral at all.

Nicked

by Joanna Hill Bastin

Nickedunfurls a riveting tale of high-stakes art theft, where the worlds of crime and culture collide. A Parisian van, laden with precious fine art destined for a London sale, falls prey to a cunning heist. Amidst this chaos, Alistair, a casual holidaymaker, finds himself thrust into the heart of the intrigue. Urged to chase the thieves, his pursuit catapults him across the Channel, back to France.

Silenced Whispers

by Afarin Ordubadi Bellisario

Brought up as an orphan in a remote desert town, Gohar is adopted by an influential aristocratic family from Tehran and at fourteen married off to a politician forty years her senior. She persuades her conservative husband to take her to Tehran, just as parliament deputies embark on reforms aimed at ending corruption and meddling by foreigners, despite Russian opposition. In a rapidly changing Tehran Gohar joins a group of secular women supporting the reforms and foil the Russian spy master, ... more

Dancing Desis

by Raj

The book is a conversation driven sitcom-style adult comedy of five short stories. It’s a comical adventure of Indian expats causing confusion and disruptions overseas. Fans of sitcoms will love the quirky situations of this Comedy-Crime themed Desi Frenzy. Readers who like adult comedy, odd funny situations, a little bit of shock value and a twist ending might be interested in my book. Please note the book contains strong language and adult theme intended for mature readers.

Nonesuch Man

by Steven Elkins

The mythic origin story of a hybrid child born from the mating of a human being and a Sasquatch. As the child grows to manhood, his quest to solve the mystery of his identity and impossible birth puts him on a collision course with his father, who has been tortured by a haunting memory, once buried but now slowly rising into his conscious awareness - namely the terrible truth about the crime against nature he perpetrated 20 years earlier.

Hungry Crow Babies

by Daria Hilton

A San Francisco water meter reader, Morrigan enjoys her sexually active, but unexamined, life. Her friend Lorita’s unintentional verification of the spiritual significance of crows compromises the structure of the reality Morrigan has taken for granted. Uncomfortable in her realization crows possess a consciousness well beyond academic assumption, Morrigan’s reality crumbles when they begin to outright talk to her. She alternately attempts to escape and make sense of her extraordinary experien... more

The War Photographers

by SL Beaumont

1943 – Bletchley Park, England Mae Webster, immersed in the clandestine world of codebreaking at Bletchley Park, is recruited to help unveil a spy who’s on the brink of exposing Britain's most guarded secret: the cracking of the Enigma code. As war rages around her, Mae's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls in love with the enigmatic New Zealand war photographer Jack Knight. Their relationship develops at pace, but tragedy strikes when one of Jack's photographs risks unmasking an elus... more

The Cicada Spring

by Carolyn McBride

An empty nester must rediscover her inner compass on the shores of the Potomac River, guided by an ancient arrowhead and the captivating marsh man who found it. The Cicada Spring, the first in the Potomac Shores series, is a coming-of-middle-age story about second chances, the enduring bonds of friendship, and the power of nature to heal and guide us home.

A House of Cranes

by James Walter Lee

In 1963, Lucius Cook, an eleven-year-old orphan, comes to live with a lawyer, Kenneth Crane, and his family at their stately Victorian home in the affluent suburbs of Hartford, Connecticut. Quiet and precocious, Lucius is in awe of his surroundings. He discovers he shares Mr. Crane’s creative passion for photography. The Crane’s clever daughter, Beatrice, keeps Lucius on his toes, while the lawyer’s stunning and aloof wife, Eleanor, captivates him. As time passes, his curiosity for Eleanor, twen... more

The Devil's Berries (The Last Favorite's Page: Book Two)

by Patti Flinn

Inspired by the true life of Louis-Benoit Zamor. ~~ Serving Madame du Barry by day and rubbing shoulders with revolutionaries at night, Louis-Benoit Zamor is ready to find his greatness. In this, his time in the sun, he will lend his voice to the revolutionary movement and love like he’s never dared. But the Ancient Régime isn’t done with him, yet. Much like the deadly devil’s berries, Madame’s bitter anger takes root at the chateau. Zamor will discover that when facing the devil in di... more

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