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Adrift

by Charlie Sheldon

A burning ship, abandoned. Missing lifeboats and crew. An ancient tug racing for a salvage prize. How many lives will this disaster cost? Gulf of Alaska, December. William knows that life can change in a heartbeat, but he never expected to find himself and other crew members fleeing a ship fire during a raging winter storm. When his lifeboat engine stalls, they are helpless, blown toward a wild and dangerous shore William knows will kill them all. Louise Hunt, a second generation salvag... more

Strong Heart

by Charlie Sheldon

A trek through a mysterious wilderness. A teen vanishing into thin air. A story transcending the boundaries of reality. Washington State. Tom Olsen wasn’t expecting a granddaughter. Blindsided when Sarah Cooley, an ornery thirteen-year-old, arrives on his doorstep, he reluctantly agrees to bring her on his long-planned hiking trip through the magnificent wild forests of the Olympic Peninsula. But when the stubborn girl claims to have seen a strange but realistic bear and shows him a sketch as... more

NINJANS 4 Operation Tomahawk

by Dave Kwan

Tommy completes Martial Arts training with his Grandfather, Carl Long Grass, and becomes a Ninjan Master. Since graduating from High School, Tommy has worked at the Auto Shop, while dating his girlfriend Sarah, who he met at Gold Eagle Martial Arts. Now, as a 21 year old, Tommy looks to the future and considers his options. He can stay at the Garage as an Auto Mechanic, apply to College for Construction Technology, or join the Military. After careful delibera... more

BlackWash: The Untold Stories of Reverse Racism

by Rodney Cloud Hill

It is a psychological norm for individuals to not empathize with issues that do not affect them. History is often written by those who win in battle or conquer the minds of a population. America and much of this world have had a one-sided telling of history that is perpetuated into society. The victims of this perspective have been the descendants of Africa and other indigenous people around the world. We do not know how the Continent would have been if not interfered with. However, what if a ne... more

Hostile Saint (Steel Stallions MC Novel, 1)

by India R. Adams

There is one word; evermore It is why I fight so hard to find her It is why I will do whatever it takes It is why I will kill anyone who tries to stop me Evermore... Yes, that is what she is to me Left for dead, Tate is given little choice as whether or not he should trust the strangers that roll into his life on motorcycles that sound like dragons. Will they help him? Or bring more harm to the one he loves most. Hostile Saint is an MC novel about a young man’s journey to sur... more

Starring... John Dillinger

by Bill Walker & Brian Anthony

Everyone’s out to get him. When he hits it big on the silver screen, will it make him immortal… or a bigger target? Chicago, 1934. John Dillinger is weary of life as an outlaw. So when the FBI surrounds him at the Biograph Theater, the notorious thief surprises everyone and surrenders. And desperate to prove to the world he’s gone straight, he makes a film from prison encouraging youngsters not to choose crime. John Dillinger in front of a camera proves as deadly as a Thompson submachine gun. H... more

The Ring

by Florence Osmund

Two women, strangers, from culturally different neighborhoods struggle with their fathers’ deaths, each coping in her own way. Fate brings them together, and when certain disturbing truths are unveiled, they discover they have something in common that is inconceivable and shocking. And it all started with “the ring.”

Common Kindred

by Isaac M. Lawton

Following a rash, life-changing decision, Joe concludes that he has hit rock bottom. Although he has escaped a torturous existence, he finds himself alone and without purpose. Wandering aimlessly, he happens upon an entrancing, jubilant setting. Uncertain about whether to encroach, a beautiful, majestic woman lures him in.

It is exactly the refuge he needed. The peculiar assortment of personalities he encounters helps him to perceive his potential as a friend, a partner, and a person. H... more

In the Aftermath

by Jane Ward

When David Herron—overwhelmed and despairing, his family’s business and finances in ruin due to the bursting lending bubble of 2008—takes his own life one chilly spring morning, he has no idea the ripple effect his decision will set into motion. Two years later, his widow, Jules, is now an employee of the bakery she and David used to own—and still full of bitterness over David’s lies, perceived cowardice, and ultimate abandonment of her and their now-teenage daughter, Rennie. Rennie, meanwhil... more

House of Fragile Dreams

by Anne Moose

Still recovering from a divorce and the death of her parents, Rachel is living in the large house she grew up in. Upon meeting an African American veteran and his five-year-old son, she begins to hope for a new life. But when her estranged brother shows up demanding to move in to her back cottage, he threatens to ruin everything. He is disturbed, gun-obsessed, and, as Rachel discovers, involved with people who threaten much more than her dream of a happy home. Addressing themes of love, hate, so... more

Fourteen Ghost Stories

by Nicholas Foster

A variety of ghost stories for the curious. Stories more thoughtful than violent but where the Past can meet the Present in a short sharp shock. Ghosts harmless and ghosts malign, ghosts of the road not taken. From Tibet to the Sudan and from the Baltics to medieval Cyprus, from University towns to small villages. Hauntings where the worst may often happen in bright sunlight. Ghost stories with a dose of crime and of History. Stories as puzzles and stories with an after-life.

Beyond Poetry

by Nathan Jarelle

A Black teenager grieves through poetry after his younger brother is killed in a crossfire between rival gang members.

American Faust

by Rick Brown

American Faust follows the lives of three Americans from different time periods who make a deal with the devil and end up together on a country estate frozen in time.

More Than One Way

by Zandra Strother

Danforth Williams, a young black boy, saw his future in Guyana, B.W.I; a weekly journey to the Kaietuer Gold Mine with the crew from his village. He rejected it. 'Little Will' walked away from the mine into the path of Karl, an American of Dutch descent, who hoped to rehabilitate a defunct sugar cane plantation and create a new life. Will becomes a driving force at the plantation, but secrets of opium poppy fields and the death of an Amerindian bush girl, drive Karl back to America. K... more

Unbroken: A Collection of Stories

by J.S. Rosen

For readers who like quick reads and stories full of heart.

Losing a grandparent. Going to a college party. Watching baseball. Getting divorced.

What do these events have in common? They all affect us in some way—causing grief, discomfort, joy, reevaluation, or other strong emotions. Each character in this collection of stories is impacted by one of these events, but what they take away from the experience is far more important than the ev... more

Voices From a Wendy House Contrivance

by Thomas Walters

This story is set in the late seventies on the staff of an old London Primary School. Architecturally, the building is a late Victorian gem. Educationally, it is a multicultural kaleidoscope of four hundred children and twenty staff, who aspire to the cultivation of a learning community-against all the odds! The story concerns the staff only and the children will be heard in the background and referred to from time to time but never seen! The National Curriculum and OFSTED are as yet but twinkle... more

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