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Opium and the Red Rose

by Michael Rogers

Danny Summers is a film technician working in Hollywood. He is a Vietnam veteran officer who was assigned to film the war for network news during the mid-sixties. While working on a film set, he is contacted by a U.S. Senator who offers him a deal to go to Myanmar and offer a powerful drug lord millions of dollars to burn the year’s opium crop. Danny’s team ventures into Myanmar as a film crew to present the proposal. The project itself is dangerous, and it also has become a thorn in the side of... more

The Diamond Grenade

by Dan Julian

Eden Visits The Orchard

by Erin Spaulding

Mom and Eden have a fun tour guide when they visit the local orchard.

Eden's New Friend

by Erin Spaulding

Eden's mom allows her to get a new pet. Eden learns that taking care of a pet isn't as easy as she thought.

Surf and Sand, The Girl In the Seaside Hotel

by W. B. Edwards

This is the story of an 11-year old girl and her 14-year-old brother that takes place during the summer of 1959 during what came to be called the Gidget era. Set in a formerly grand old beach front hotel, The Surf and Sand Club Hotel, the story also takes the reader back to an even earlier period of the hotel’s history, 1938 and the ball room dancing that the hotel was famous for.

11-year-old Mary Nell Morgan and her brother Lonnie have only been livi... more

Here Comes Ingo

by odeta xheka

Created by Odeta Xheka, Here Comes Ingo is a great example of the benefits of art in early childhood development. This unique picture book encourages children to switch seats with the illustrator via painting, coloring and drawing directly ON the page in order to tap into their creativity and let the imagination soar. The book presents the multi-layered tale of Ingo, a scarlet macaw who drifts off to sleep while sitting on her eggs and dreams of flying into the lush tropical rain forest she ca... more

Love & Daisies

by Jennifer L Rowlands

Ella has spent her life in a small town surrounded by loyal friends, the scent and beauty of her floral shop, and calm predictability. Everything changes when she runs over a newcomer in town. The usually level-headed businesswoman falls clumsily into a future she couldn’t have predicted, and finds herself entangled with a past never forgotten. Despite her resistance, Ella tumbles through romance and comedy into the arms of the man she never imagined she'd find.

Found Objects

by Peter Gelfan

Aldo Zoria, a successful commercial photographer, lives with his wife and their lover in a happy household that includes the lover’s two young children. Domestic bliss shatters when an unexpected guest arrives and threatens to turn their world upside down. Found Objects is a novel about the struggle between values and instincts, ideas and reality, whom we strive to become and whom we were born to be.

Monkey Temple

by Peter Gelfan

A coming-of-old-age adventure Two longtime best friends and rivals, determined to "not go gentle into that good night," set off on a final road trip. Their efforts to face past failures and give meaning to their dwindling futures change their lives forever but not at all as they had envisioned. It's a buddy story with strong female characters and plenty of dark humor as the dreams of youth collide with the realities of a life lived.

Kindred Spirits

by Kevin Christopher Brown

Topher and Skibby are well on their way to freedom after a desperate escape from their ancient cotton plantation--until catastrophe strikes. What begins as a journey of hope and optimism quickly turns to disaster as their chance at freedom disintegrates into a choice between slavery or death ... until the timely intervention of a Seminole war party separates the brothers and triggers a chain of events that sets them on perilous new journeys during the Seminole Wars. Kindred Spirits is a thril... more

Pet Peeves

by Diane Michaels

Can the queen of amnesia and a stand-up comedian turn a failed soap opera into a hit TV show? Kendra Lewis-Frost, a daytime drama writer, unintentionally came up with the idea for a sitcom about veterinarians. Austen Hughes, a comedian, is desperate to land a steady gig, even on a daytime drama. Madeline Puri, a late addition to the cast, may be the answer to everyone’s dreams. Well, almost everyone’s dreams. Life behind the scenes is a minefield of egos, opinions, and romantic distractions as t... more

The Painted Cross

by Hunter Dennis

France, 1788. The winds of change are blowing, and all can feel the air upon their skin. This is the time of the Heirlooms, the age where the two mysteries, the Cross and the Song, are created. The priceless necklace, the Cross of Nantes, lost to the Traversier family in 1759, has reappeared in their ancestral home - on the neck of the girl hit by Xavier’s carriage. Her name is Estelle Guerrier. Legally white, from Saint-Domingue, she will affect all those in her wake, awakening passion, envy,... more

Disposable

by Nicole Saunders, Esq.

In DISPOSABLE, college student Annalyn Winston is desperate to get out of debt. She finds unusual but high-paying work as a surrogate for a wealthy, barren couple. All goes well for a time, with Winston installed in a lovely house and her student loan debt decreasing each month. All goes well, that is, until a routine medical test reveals that the unborn baby has a potentially devastating birth defect. Told in three narrative voices—those of Annalyn Winston; Gerline Caslon, her counterpart a... more

Blind Walls

by Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller

A house of haunted ghosts: it's horror in a sense, but not so much of the "horror genre" as of the small daily torments to which our choices lead us. Based on the enticing legend of the Winchester “Mystery” House—a labyrinthine edifice built by a guilt-ridden armaments heiress—the story is seen through a blind man’s eyes. Raymond Smolett, a veteran tour guide on the verge of retirement, leads his final hour’s gaggle of gawkers through the monstrous maze. For the first time in thirty years, he b... more

As the Winds Change

by Christie Leigh Babirad

If you were given one more chance to talk with someone who passed away, what would you do? What would you say? When April Miller’s estranged childhood best friend, Johnny, is killed in a car accident, April is confronted with his spirit as she’s heading to work one day, making the phrase, “It’s never too late,” all the more poignant.

Lancelot Bottomley the Reluctant Knight

by Terence Goodchild

This is the story of a boy named Lancelot Bottomley from the concept of his birth down the birth canal to the christening, and how in his own words he lives with his silly name his parents have given him, on account his mother had the hots for Richard Gere in the film ( The First Knight). It tells the story through his eyes and words of his experiences going to infant school then on to secondary school and how he had to put up with the taunts and innuendos regarding his name and then puberty an... more

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