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The Awakening of La Muse

by S. R. Strickland

A 16-year-old American slave is forced to travel from a Virginia plantation to Paris with her owners. The new cultural environment chips away at her emotional and physical shackles. She runs. Acclimates into the city. But quickly learns a French bounty hunter is in pursuit. She battles for her liberty. Resilient, courageous—her journey to emancipation is nothing less than heroic. They took her freedom; she took it back!

Seeking Forgiveness

by Lea Rachel

The narrative memoir Seeking Forgiveness tells the story of interracial adoption in the United States today, from the perspective of a white mother who adopts a Black son, and finds she has no idea what the hell she is doing. Rachel, the adoptive mother of Miles, receives a call from the police in the middle of the night informing her that her son has been arrested. She rushes to the police station to help Miles, consumed with worry that she has failed to protect her son from events beyond hi... more

I Asked the Moon

by Paul A. Rayes

“Hey. Étienne,” he said from the top of the school parking lot, behind me. It’s the last day of junior year when Thad, the quiet, popular guy, approaches Étienne to offer him a ride home. Étienne is immediately suspicious—this has to be a joke, right? But nobody is around, and Thad seems genuinely interested to hang out. All Étienne has ever wanted is to have a guy friend, and here’s his chance to start something new. What would you do? Étienne and Thad have been acquaintances since elemen... more

Choosing Yellowstone

by Carol Anne Douglas

In Choosing Yellowstone, Professor Elaine Flaherty’s opportunity to teach journaling in Yellowstone National Park conflicts with her plan to volunteer with her partner at a Syrian refugee camp. Elaine and Pam must come to a decision that serves their personal needs yet honors their relationship of fifteen years. Elaine chooses Yellowstone while Pam flies to the Middle East. Through emails, they eloquently share details of their summer apart—and worry that something could go wrong. Something doe... more

Joint Venture

by Carol Rhees

Helen has worked hard for her success only to find herself back in her small New England home town after her husband ditches her for a younger model. A messy night out only brings further humiliation to the prim-and-proper real estate agent when she face-plants on the sidewalk… just to be rescued by her old nemesis, Alice. Alice, a recent widow, has always considered Helen to be her complete opposite. Yet much to her surprise, as the township divides bitterly over whether to allow the sale of ... more

Mickey Collins

by Kevin Forde

A life of Petty crime, dysfunctional family behaviour and State involvement in same, as seen through the eyes of a petty criminal growing up in modern Ireland.

The Journey ( No Matter How Far You Run, Your Demons Always Follow)

by Mark T. Rasmussen

“The journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step.” ~ Lao Tzu Raiden, an emotionally troubled 40-something guy at a major turning point, undertakes an epic road trip adventure across North America, all with the aim of escaping the single most transformative event of his life – imminent fatherhood. While he does his best to find himself, the impactful events he experiences along the way will reveal more about Raiden and his nature than the strange assortment of characters he meets on h... more

A Camp Without FIre

by Ignacio Ramirez Bautista

A Camp Without Fire Young Adult’s Perspective of Life during the Great Recession in California Marlene and Derek barely talked in high school. But now, seven years after graduating, they come into contact again thanks to the internet. He is an architecture student. She is stuck behind a desk. Both recently have broken up with their own first love and are desperate for meaning and perspective in life as they battle through their first challenges in adulthood. With the Great Recession... more

Suffer!: A Hollywood Novel

by A.C. Sloan

Theodosia and her bestie Sam are former high school outcasts who find escapism in a popular TV show called Suffer about a victims' rights advocate named Marcia Suffer. When the TV network that owns Suffer announces a contest - the chance to meet the show's star, actress Roxy DeVine — Theo and Sam pull out all the stops to win. These days, Theo needs a win — any win — because lately life has been dealing her nothing but suffering. After all, the girl's got a lot on her plate: attending coll... more

Calvary: The Judas Triangle

by James Boudon

Lightning Lord: A mysterious thief appears at a museum robbery garbed like a medieval druid. This “monk” exhibits a Zeus-like ability to summon thunderbolts from the heavens. Shortly thereafter, a beautiful woman approaches Calvary. This alluring stranger says that she’s traveled back in time to aid in capturing the “lightning burglar.” Julia Percy and her team are soon caught up in a web of betrayal and deceit, where nothing is as it seems, and few people are who they claim to be. Lifestone:... more

Covenant Spring

by Christopher Watson

Danny Ivy is a New Jersey car salesman, a suburban kid raised by an alcoholic mother and a loving but meek father, bullied and beaten until numb to surface pain. But a deeper ache grows, a despairing search for a reason to endure a world that seems arbitrary and cruel. Danny feels himself pushed nearer the breaking point, and dreads what crossing that line may cost.

Enter Mordecai Bass, an itinerant salesman wreathed in mystery thick as his Southern drawl. He’s spent years running... more

Impossible To Be Human

by Robert Kalich

Facing the idiosyncrasies of his life and character, David Lazar mercilessly analyses his success. Can we accept irreconcilable contradictions? Can people change? And what does it mean to be human? Peeling layers of conventions and domestication, Lazar is gradually facing the man he once was, his past emotionless and cold existence. He cannot help but wonder: is he still that man or has the love of his wife redeemed him? Can a driven sports handicapper who climbed 'Mt. Gamble' to become the mos... more

Bluebird At My Window

by Hal Noah

When faced with trauma, how would you react? Would you survive, succumb, or lose yourself to your own meaning of justice? Ann was only seventeen when she died. She tried to be a dutiful daughter, to pray, to repent. But it wasn’t enough. Her mother, Diane, didn’t mean to kill her but when she found Ann consorting with devils, she had no choice. She believed the angels—that in the end, the water would save them both. But every choice holds weight. One death, and Arthur is thrown back ... more

The White Witch's Daughter

by J.C. Wade

--England 1296-- Losing her mother to the witch’s noose -and her father to those who placed her there- Lady Edyth DeVries flees for her life into the wilds of Scotland. With all her hopes pinned upon reuniting with the only family left to her, Edyth is tormented as a keeper of a dangerous secret -one that she is only just beginning to unravel. As King Edward I of England dismantles loyalties and spills innocent blood, Edyth traverses the deadly landscape with little hope of success. On all si... more

You Belong Now

by Ed. D'Agostino

TODD, a minister who suffers from epilepsy, is being discriminated against by the denomination he serves. But even though he is clearly filled with questions about accepting others, Todd would rather turn a blind eye towards the injustice he is experiencing and continue to live in denial of that truth. One evening Todd’s wife ANN cuts herself and Todd must take her to the emergency room for stitches and Todd’s life is about to change. On their way to the hospital they spot a youth... more

Ascendancy

by Patrick Earl Dwyer

An American heritage story, the Saga of the Magoffin and O'Dwyers and the diaspora from Ireland circa 1800 to America, Australia, Jamaica, and Mexico is chronicled in ASCENDANCY. It is a story of Triumph over Tragedy and of two families that cross paths in Ireland at a very turbulent time and again in America, eventually to intermarry. A Saga filled with action and romance, the story is one of History and Fiction Genre in which fiction and non-fiction is woven connecting many historical people ... more

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