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Courageous Wild Heart

by Jane Catherine Rozek

Dark hardships play out against the brilliant purity of nature in this achingly poignant novel of survival, love, and loyalty. Dave’s goal to build a cattle ranch in the pristine Canadian wilderness hampers Kate’s desire for tender romance. Her search for spiritual empowerment opposes his old-fashioned religion. With grit and ingenuity, they learn how to be poor and proud of it while being rich with potential.

Blue Wild Indigo

by James Jennings

It’s 1954 in the red rock country town of Serafina, Oklahoma, where racial tensions are mounting in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision declaring segregation in schools unconstitutional. When two White hoodlums sexually assault a Mexican girl and pin the blame on Woody Coats, a young Black man, they nearly get him lynched. Bachelor rancher Harry True knows Woody didn’t do it. So does his best friend’s wife, Bliss Stone, the woman Harry would have married if war hadn’t intervened. They... more

Agnes Treading Water

by Charlotte French

LOVE IS BLIND. LIES RUN DEEP. SECRETS CAN SINK A WEDDING.

Small town recluse Agnes Andersson is financially secure but emotionally adrift. After a rippling romance with an Australian sailor and a subsequent betrayal by him, Agnes is back in Sweden determined to mend her broken heart. Today she'll settle for Thomas, the man her late parents detested, whom she's dated on and off for years.

That she's never met his family matters not. She knows him.

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Resurgius, a Sex Comedy

by E.M. Schorb

Serge Bering-Strait, a young poet living with his activist mother and aunties has just been employed as copywriter for “Women’s Omnibus” magazine. His boss is out to deflower him. On the sly, he’s writing Resurgius, a novel set in a universe governed by women, where the Dongs are in revolt. Serge would rather remain in his garret room writing poetry, but his mother and his aunties have insisted th... more

Bad Sugar Baby

by Erin Carere

In Bad Sugar Baby, a blunt, cash-strapped 31-year-old aspiring writer finds herself pink-slipped from her gig as the social media manager (read: de facto personal lackey) to a reality TV diva, all because she grew tired of sugarcoating the truth. With bills piling high and dreams on hold, she hatches a scheme to dive into the sugar baby lifestyle, intending to chronicle her misadventures for publication and maybe make a quick buck along the way. But with a serious allergy to nonsense and a talen... more

Trifocals: One Man's View

by Ron Stultz

31 “pieces” between the beginning and the end, all different in size, presentation and flavor: from required genetic testing before pregnancy to the “sleep-sees” and “visions” from the time of early man, to the trial of a Holocaust criminal. Presentations of personal epiphanies, both large and small, to muses or ponders that explore and ask more questions than they answer. Machine-gun-burp style storytelling of: staring through a turning airplane propeller; hunting the horned one and the life o... more

Caravan of Specters

by Carlos García Saúl

It is 1898, the Spanish-American War is raging in the Caribbean and the U.S. Army is in the process of seizing Puerto Rico from the Spanish Empire. 24-year-old medical graduate Bailey Ashford has just been assigned to the invasion force's Medical Corps. Lieutenant Ashford quickly realizes that behind all the idyllic tropical beauty, an ugly and mysterious force is hard at work killing thousands of coffee plantation laborers. Faced with an urgent medical emergency, the charismatic and resourceful... more

Life and Death in Suburbia

by Robb Skidmore

In seven penetrating and vivid stories, Life and Death in Suburbia takes you back to a place and time where much was promised. Beneath the conformity and optimism of the American suburbs of the late 20th Century simmered a clash of generations, of economic classes, of childhood and adulthood. These emotionally resonant and keenly crafted stories will powerfully pull you into the dreams and desperation of the souls who inhabit these places: a nine-year-old struggles with a severe spee... more

The Patriots

by John A. Heldt

In The Patriots, two young brothers from the present travel to the Philadelphia of 1776, where they befriend the lovely, spirited daughters of a furniture maker at the start of the American Revolution.

Escaping Hell

by Cindy Horrell Ramsey

Sonya Gail Taylor faces a life-altering decision when her secret past threatens her idyllic present. A successful attorney, wife, and mother living in Georgia with her husband and three teenage children, Sonya thought she was safe from the terrifying childhood she bled onto the pages of a senior writing project trying to leave the pain and fear in her past when she left for college on a basketball scholarship. But thirty years later, her high school English teacher from back home in Mississippi ... more

Savage To Savvy

by Kate Rigby

Psychology graduate, Heidi Harper is appointed to work with Professor Mala, pioneer of a new project to rehabilitate dog-reared feral child, Nicki. Heidi is soon asking questions and her mission takes on sinister overtones. As the truth outs, the lives of all concerned begin to unravel. Savage To Savvy is a psychological novel. Savage To Savvy is a psychological multi-narrated novel following the structure of an academic paper: Abstract, Introduction, Method & Results, Discussion, Conclusions.

Fall of the Mighty

by Larry Forcey

He was abandoned by his mother. His best friend at the orphanage is gone. And now, after a sudden and painful illness, his favorite teacher and mentor, has died. When William Jennings determines he can no longer remain behind the secure walls of St. Mary's, he embarks on a journey in which he discovers the cruelty of society from which he once was protected. As he struggles to find his place in the world, he begins to piece together bits of information that can help him uncover his hidden past. ... more

Imagining Jesus: A saga of passion, love and completion of a life fully lived

by Natasha Rendell

An old man begins to tell the story of his amazing life; villagers, grandchildren listen, entranced by the man’s eloquence and wise countenance. The listeners are transported to a faraway land, and the story begins with the birth of a child, and the greatest story ever told breathes light, love and compassion into every chapter of his fulfilling and traumatic life. Ages have passed since he walked in flesh; Natasha’s imagination reveals a human man and his incredible powers. Yet you and I a... more

Just A Little Christmas B&E

by Laura Pruett

To rob or not to rob? That is the question Matt faces this holiday season. He's no thief, that's one thing for sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures, and the prospect of living on the streets finds him sitting in front of The Crempsen's empty house, gazing at the Christmas lights that turn on every night at exactly 7 p.m. under the watchful eyes of Santa and Rudolph.

Where When It Rains

by John F Duffy

Riley could have been a professional skateboarder if he hadn’t hit his head and woken from a coma with crippling vertigo. Trapped in Phoenix and hoping to pursue his passion from behind the lens, he accidentally lands in the orbit of a narcissistic model where he is captured by the glitz of parties, drugs, and sex. His new friends are equally without direction, and together they drift from night to night in an alcohol fueled hunt for meaning. When chance offers him a shot at real love - and a re... more

The Tearful Trail

by Jonita Mullins

The Tearful Trail continues the gripping story of the dark chapter of American history called the Trail of Tears. Forced to leave their homelands in the southeastern states, the Cherokees, Choctaws and Creeks, and the friends who support them, must take a path marked by sorrow and danger. Caught in the maelstrom of this critical time, the Indians struggle to build new lives in the west and the missionaries who work among them face hardships of their own. While Cyrus and Electra Kingsbury walk t... more

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