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The Heretics' Revenge - ISBN 9798643973560 - ASIN B082FZ9F6N

by Martin Barrett

Steve Jackson's search for the Cathar treasure and relic results in one of the greatest finds ever and provides a huge dilemma for the Vatican.

A Death in the Family

by Mark Pifher

Tom O’Brien, a journalist, has lost his wife, Laura, to cancer. Katie, his college aged daughter, and Katie’s brother no longer have a mother. In their attempt to mend a strained relationship, father and daughter agree to jointly write a journal, the content of which will focus on their investigation into the brutal murder of a Senate staffer. Their efforts will trigger a chain of events, some planned, others seemingly totally fortuitous. Before they can take the next step in rebuilding thei... more

The Bequest

by B. E. Baker

Two widows, six kiddos, and a will that leaves them a massive cattle ranch, but only if they work it for a year.

Abigail and Amanda may have married brothers, but they have almost nothing else in common (and really, they never did get along very well). After their husbands both pass away within a year of one another, they have no reason to interact. Their connection drops to an awkward phone call on birthdays and an exchange of holiday cards.

Until an eccentric u... more

The Reversible Mask" An Elizabethan Spy Novel

by Loretta Goldberg

My debut novel draws loosely on the career of an adventurer, Sir Anthony Standen, who inserted himself into the religious wars of the day and tried to moderate English and Spanish policy. An English Catholic courtier, he left England in the 1560s and spied for Catholic Spain against European Protestants. But his nationalism was aroused when the threat to England intensified. He became one of Protestant Elizabeth I’s most effective spies abroad, while on Spain’s payroll. My fascination in fictio... more

Blue Woman Burning

by Lâle Davidson

On the altiplano, the high plain, between Chile and Bolivia, Fallon’s family witnesses their mother magically disappear. The inexplicable nature of their loss marks each family member in a different way. For Fallon it is the first step toward adulthood. For her brilliant and troubled older brother, it is an abandonment from which he never recovers. Thirteen years later, back in the United States, Fallon is about to conquer self-doubt and apply to medical school, when another mysterious event sha... more

Boom, Boom, Boom

by Ian Kirkpatrick

Jan Bagan is a Ukrainian YouTuber living in Nide, a small, rural town leaning against the Russian border. While he stocks the only grocery store in town during the night, his love of all things combustible fuel his YouTube channel where he makes art in the sky chance he gets. He's not classically trained by any means, but with a little lick and a strong nose, he's usually pretty good at mixing things to get a satisfying ending.

Though his talents are mostly overlooked in his sma... more

We Have A Plan

by Gregory Ulseth

The mission was to salvage the society we once held dear and eliminate religious and underclass oppression. The plan was to build strength through the subterranean network of outlawed religious institutions and high-tech paramilitary powers to infiltrate and to gather assets along the way. Charlie was one such asset groomed from birth to help these Revolutionaries. Charlie Prescott, a teenager born into an influential family in early 22nd-century America, is forced to grow up fast when he is... more

August in the Vanishing City

by Lakis Polycarpou

Love, Lust & WTF?!!

by Nikki Sitch

Love, Lust & WTF?!!, Daisy's single again and riding the dating rollercoaster, experiencing it all: the orgasmic excitement, the melancholy blah, and the eyes-pop-out-of-your-head ugly of online dating, on her search to find true love. In the blink of an eye, Daisy’s life was flipped upside down when her soulmate, Adam, was ripped from this world, leaving Daisy and her daughters crushed. It has been a long and difficult struggle picking up the pieces and raising her girls alone for two years... more

Shark Bites

by T. C. Bartlett

Humorous shark cartoons that take a bite out of your funny bone.

The Other Shoes of Larry Martin, 1: Book One: Revelation of Lies

by Pavane Ravel

"The Other Shoes of Larry Martin" is a story of transformation; a story of emotional, physical, and metaphysical growth achieved by a remarkable young journalist, Larry Martin. Larry Martin is a young man - the only child of an abusive father - who was unwittingly indoctrinated into the belief system of the Alt-Right. Larry begins his journalism career writing for a right-wing website. After disaster strikes and he becomes homeless and unemployed, he finds the way forward to a prosp... more

Existential Masques

by Steven Furr

Existential Masques is a fictional coming of age story of friendship, love, tragedy, and quests for answers. The narrative delves into mental health, marital problems from a child’s perspective, loss of loved ones, and physical and emotional trauma. While fictional, the book’s subject matter was inspired by events that the author experienced during adolescence. Set at a small private university in the fall of 1977, the story opens during a nightmare that William, a college freshman, is experi... more

Erev: The Evening Years of Reuben Gurewitz

by Anne Shmelzer

A retired Ottawa physician continues to grieve the death of his wife as a resultof a tragic accident five years previously. He resolves that he must restrain his constant ruminations and accept her death. He decides to re-visit the central Ontario city where he was born and bred, finds his once vibrant Jewish community in decline, but remembers Laura, his cherished freind of early years, finds her, and they unite in a twilight-years romance full of hope.

Ellington Hall

by C.J. Sweet writing as Caden St. Claire

After her mother’s mysterious death, all Phoebe wants is a quiet life as a fashion designer—not marriage. But her uncle threatens legal action to take the cottage and land she’s loved since childhood. In order to prevent him from stealing her inheritance she must find the father she never knew and enter into a marriage of convenience. Soon she journeys with her new husband to South Africa in the days leading up to a Boer war, struggling to a past and a future amid assassination attempts, betray... more

If Only

by Matthew Tree

In Saint James' Park, London, the police apprehend a young man who is carrying a bag full of high explosives in one hand and a collection of letters sent to his grandfather by the writer Malcolm Lowry in his inside pocket. In the course of the following interrogation, we discover the strange past and secret phobias of the detainee, and the emotional link between his actions and the Lowry letters.

WAITING FOR PAINT TO DRY

by Lia Mack

Since sprinting away from her sister's wedding (and knocking over a bridesmaid in the process) Matty Bell has lived in a self-made monochromatic life of work-eat-sleep-survive.

In and out of work, she hasn't seen her family in over a decade, lives vicariously through her best friend's seemingly perfect life. And the only goal she has (other than filling her stomach) is to avoid any and all reminders of her birthday. It only brings her pain.

But when life catc... more

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