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Hair on Fire

by Daniel McKenzie

A collection of short stories: "A Ghost Story" A solo retreat to a small coastal town turns into something else when a yogi suddenly finds himself in the role of guru to a strange spirit trying to find his way out. "The Day the Children Remembered" What if children all over the world began to remember their past lives? How would it effect society and the individuals who see themselves as victims and perpetrators of past injustices? "The Allegory of the Virtual Reality Headset" With t... more

The Last Magdalene

by Donna D Conrad

The Last Magdalene does for the New Testament what The Red Tent did for the Old Testament. The temple of Asherah has existed in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, disguised as a benevolent society for widows and orphans. Within the sheltering walls, priestesses are taught to honor the goddess through rites of passion passed from mother to daughter and from priestess to priestess. Into this world, Miriam of Bethany, is born. Miriam longs to become The Magdalene, High Priestess of Asherah, as ... more

Fortune Falls

by James L. Peters

After experiencing a mysterious detour on his way home from work that leads him to an ancient slot machine and a disturbing message, Jason Lahey's perfect life begins to unravel. His discovery of a brutal suicide will be the catalyst to his downward spiral of self-destruction. Unresolved regrets over his parents’ deaths haunt him while external threats called forth by the suicide will not only endanger him, but his family. Meanwhile, a larger global crisis awaits as the mysterious slot machi... more

Raise the Wind

by Sarah Shaw

1772: Across the globe people struggle for freedom and justice against the stranglehold of entrenched wealth and power. New knowledge and inventions are changing the world at a breathtaking pace, upsetting the old order even as new notions of equality and human rights seize the public conscience. In this world turned upside down young bride Emily McFarland finds herself far from home and safety, living on disputed land in Colonial Georgia while Zoeth Sinclair struggles to keep his fledgling ... more

Elly Robin on the Lam

by PD Quaver

Accused of a terrible crime she did not commit, sixteen-year-old piano prodigy Elly Robin has narrowly escaped arrest by fleeing Chicago in a Curtiss Flying Boat. But a rough landing in an isolated Amish community leaves her physically battered. Even as they nurse her back to health, a charismatic little Amish girl declares Elly's flying machine to be "an abomination." In fact the child seems to hold the entire community in her thrall. And when Elly at last realizes the terrible fate in store f... more

Lovely Chocolate

by Rod Ballard Award-Winning Author

Every black Queen has their own story. This is just one of many.

Safari’s dark, beautiful black skin wasn’t always perceived as such, leaving her with many insecurities throughout her life. Both she and her twin sister, Nandi, had to learn to embrace their natural look.

Safari, a Defense Attorney, has earned her place as a successful black lawyer. Despite the world’s depiction of African-American women from what they see on TV, Safari has truly come out... more

Monarch: Stories

by Emily Jon Tobias

MONARCH: Stories subverts the reader's common perceptions about how love can heal, how loss and suffering can transform, and how every character deserves a second chance. America's city scars, sewers, alleyways, and bars are landscape to their wars, as characters heal and transform under wind turbines and on open roads, in golden cornfields and with the wails of Chicago blues. Heroes in this collection are the marginalized, the sufferers, the down-trodden, the misfits, the wanderers,... more

Finding Sarah: A Phoenix to Behold

by Nina Purtee

Sarah Wilkinson has found passion as a painter whose skillful talent was shaped and influenced by many, including two past female artists who came from different worlds and different centuries, yet both defied the odds against women becoming successful artists. Evolved from the Annie’s Journey series, Sarah was living in a tent painting the wild animals of the Serengeti in East Africa when Annie met her. They quickly became close friends, but what Annie was unaware of is the heartbreaking chi... more

The Serpent and the Rose

by Catherine Butterfield

Marguerite de Valois was a princess whose life was so sensational in her time that William Shakespeare was inspired to write "Love's Labors Lost" about her. Beautiful, brilliant, and accomplished, Marguerite was also the victim of a politically motivated smear campaign that painted her as a sexual deviant, a reputation she has, to this day, never shed. “The Serpent and the Rose,” highly researched and inspired by her memoirs, paints a sympathetic, humorous, and more accurate picture of this mos... more

Dirty C.O.

by Rod Ballard Award-Winning Author

Tristan Irving decides to take on a career as a Correctional Officer. Entering the prison system with a focused mind—Tristan faces financial problems and is eventually distracted by how much money he can make illegally. Tristan becomes friends with an inmate that pays him a lot of money for different favors. Tristan only plans on making a certain amount of money until he sees that the money he’s making is too good to be true. But wait—it gets better! Tristan meets a female prison guard with ... more

The Half-Caste

by Jason Zeitler

In 1933, a young mixed-race Ceylonese, Vernon Prins, arrives in England to do postgraduate work at the London School of Economics. He becomes politically active and infiltrates the British Fascist Party. He is particularly troubled by the Party's overt antisemitism because one of his closest friends, Saul Maccabee, is Jewish. \tThe novel’s two main themes relate to social justice and human evolution. The title of the novel comes from a term the colonial Dutch used to describe mixed-race... more

Back to Slavery

by Rod Ballard

Royal is an outstanding high school basketball player from Atlanta, Georgia, who has a bright future ahead of him. Even though things are going great for him, he really doesn’t understand how far his people (African ancestors) have come for him to be able to be in the position he’s in. Royal didn’t care much about what his ancestors had to go through in the past. He thought slavery was pretty simple. “Just sit back, do your work in the fields, and listen to the white man. How bad could that be?”... more

Half Crime

by Rusty Barnes

For Roger

by Laura Drake

An emotional look at the right-to-die that looks at both sides, similar to the books of Jodi Picoult. Her much-loved husband is terminally ill, unable to take action, and asking for help, but his situation forces Joan to choose between mercy and the law. Can she grant him the peace he desperately wants and needs? With empathy and a keen understanding of all points of view, this is a story about family, love, and acceptance of tough consequences.

The Pinch of the Crab: and other stories

by Barbara Southard

These ten short stories, set in Puerto Rico, delve into personal crises in the context of social challenges posed by high divorce rates, political corruption, domestic violence and excessive use of force by law enforcement. A small boy feels bewildered when the tiny crab he befriended on the beach pinches him, and his confusion deepens after witnessing the violent arrest of a teenager. A mother is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from her son who has been jailed f... more

Spirit Gift

by Jeffrey A Wellman

Everyone has a gift. Each of us was sent back to earth with a mission to discover and use that gift to help humanity. In this book, Qaletaqa’s near-death experience transcends him through seven spiritual planes where he learns secrets to living a beautiful life and sharing a gift with the world. During his journey he is introduced to his life partner who he desperately wants to find on the earth plane. Can he survive the return journey and find Aki before she is hunted down by a jealous warrior... more

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