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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

Pescadero: a Novel

by Hollis Brady

Fourteen-year-old Hilde, raised on a family farm in Wisconsin, is dragged to the northern California coastal town of Pescadero by a mother fleeing a bad marriage. But Pescadero is worlds away from the conservative Midwest, and Hilde finds herself adrift in a community where all the attitudes she absorbed growing up seem oddly off-key. When her mother hires an undocumented farmworker to tend the goat farm the family is trying to revive, Hilde strikes up an unlikely friendship with him and l... more

End of Beyond

by Jonathan M. Nielson

For history professor Tom Strange summer beckoned. He'd escape the heat of Prescott and go north. Montana called to him. Having recently lost his wife in an auto accident, her memory still heart-achingly fresh, the beauty of Big Sky country seemed like a soul-saving deliverance. She was sitting in his pickup, distraught, terrorized. His student, Abeline Davis, pleaded with him. She'd just witnessed the brutal murder of her mother and little brother. The killer was her estranged father...a co... more

Making Shadows

by Tony McHugh

Making Shadows spans the period from the fall of Singapore in World War 2 to the Welcome Home Parade for Vietnam veterans in 1987. It is a story about what appear to be opposites – life and death, light and shadow, war and peace – when, in fact, they are the same. Joe is a National Service conscript. Assigned to his four-man tent at Nui Dat base, he is scrutinised by three regulars of the 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam. Once they learn he has a degree in psychology, he is nicknamed Shri... more

Naked Girl, a Novel

by Janna Brooke Wallack

Growing up motherless in 1980's Miami Beach, Sienna and her little brother Siddhartha get by with their charismatic and capricious father, Jackson Jones. When a small windfall relocates them to a condemned mansion on the water, the siblings are forbidden traditional schooling and left to live off the land. As Jackson uses their new home to create a communal utopian cult, the siblings are forced to raise themselves in a carefree, chaotic oasis. Living amidst the vagrant seekers who take up reside... more

A Cowboy Christmas An American Tale

by Tom Van Dyke

A MYSTICAL TALE when dreams were chased with reckless abandon, when life was raw and unforgiving, when the adventures of WB, a young boy with a spark for life and a wild sense of freedom encounters the Spirit of the West sparking a magical connection that will forever shape his destiny as he fearlessly ventures into a frontier of untamed majesty, bigger and more beautiful than any dream, inviting us to embrace the magic that dwells within the human spirit.

Spillage

by Michael Gross

Spillage is a wild play on the Faustian musical Damn Yankees, a rock and roll romance, and a wickedly fun throwback to a chaotic time. It's 1976, and The Big Apple is in sorry shape. Besieged on all sides, the city has become a graffiti-coated, garbage-filled, crime-ridden cauldron, teetering on the edge of total collapse. Adding to New York's towering woes, a revolutionary group called the Satanic Vanguard has kidnapped the mayor, set fire to Coney Island and threatened furt... more

Vietnam and the Summer of Love

by Bailley Adams

With military precision, it goes on. It becomes larger and more profound, and for what? The story is an East meets West conflict that continues to repeat itself. It is a geopolitical romance with a slight twist. It speaks of the American culture and power and endless strife. It is the overcoming of barriers and forgiveness and the search for a better world. And the book is a direct hit on America's sagging foreign policy. Do you like to smile? It has some humor and some dark spots, an... more

Finding Fran

by Nancy Christie

Once a best-selling romance novelist, 55-year-old Fran Carter is now dealing with a slow but steady drop in book sales and a major case of writer’s block, complicated by the knowledge that her lover, a professional photographer, has been on the wrong side of the camera (so to speak) with his models. (So much for her author brand, built on the premise that women in their fifties and beyond can still find love and happiness.) Her solution is to spend a week in isolation at a northern Californ... more

Letters From The Saddle

by Michael Wegner

Farm boy sent to find and bring home his brother. While traveling, he meets a former slave (half Cherokee, half African) who is searching for her mother. She is being chased by members of the Klan who recently killed her brother. They travel together through Arkansas in 1868 and into the Oklahoma Territory. During their travels, they meet several people, some good, some bad. There is some violence, but not graphic. Book is suitable for young teens.

The Sparkle Club

by max emerson

THE SPARKLE CLUB is about a gay-baiting influencer and social justice warrior who gets himself cancelled so hard that he’s forced to do a summer of community service in a rural Ohio farm community... while living with the family whose lives he destroyed.

Like Water and Ice

by Tamar Anolic

Figure skater Thad Moulton has his eyes on Olympic gold- but at what price? Thad is one of the most talented skaters of his generation- and one of its most inconsistent. He has won a gold medal at National Championships every other year throughout the 1990s, and his bad performances haunt him. When he skates perfectly at the 1997 World Championships and still places second behind his mistake-ridden Russian rival, Thad decides it is time to retire. Then that rival, Grigoriy Arsenyev, flaunt... more

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