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  • McCulloch's Last Stand

    by AM SARDAR

    Jed McCulloch, a mean disgraced retired Lawyer, is asked to assist in the defense of a teenage girl, Mary Beth Reagan, accused of murdering her new-born baby and facing the death penalty.

     

    Bill Corsair, a corporate lawyer killing time in Abilene whilst his ageing mother slowly dies, reluctantly takes on the case and turns to an experienced criminal lawyer to help him prepare a defense. The ill-matched team is further hindered by the reluctance of the defendant to offer any d... more

  • Surrender

    by Jill Collins
    In the tradition of best-selling psychological thrillers and cozy novels, Surrender is a smart and captivatingly fast paced delight that will leave you guessing ‘whodunit’ until the very end... It promises to engage your mind with its plot twists and turns; ignite your sense of humor with the realities of life that make you laugh; and tug at your heart with a hope filled spiritual thread. Psychiatrist Morgan Jane Winters moved back south to her beloved hometown of New Orleans to help those in... more

  • Death Perception (A Darcy Harbinger Mystery Book 1)

    by Anne Marie Stoddard

    *Previously released under the title Dark Perception*

    A mirror phobia, a caffeine addiction, and one creepy psychic gift...

    Art school student Darcy Harbinger sees dead people--before they actually die. She has premonitions of other people’s deaths, but when she tries to warn these walking doomed—or goners, as she calls them—the news doesn’t go over too well. She’s getting a reputation on campus as a witch, a psychic, an... more

  • Venetian Moon (Lella York Mysteries Book 2)

    by Maria Grazia Swan

    When she felt her new life falling apart, she fled to Venice, and watched her life go to pieces...

    An Italian in California, Lella York proves that you can take the woman out of Italy, but you can't take Italy out of the woman. Convinced her lover is cheating on her with his ex-wife, Lella is hiding out in Venice, Italy, where her son Kyle is wrapping up a film. Passionate, impulsive, and menopausal, she sees her romance hiatus cut short when the papers name her the femme fatale lov... more

  • Gemini Moon (Lella York Mysteries Book 1)

    by Maria Grazia Swan

    When her eyes were finally opened to the truth, she couldn't recognize her own life...

    Italian-born Lella York is trying to figure out who she is. Her husband has died. Her son is grown and, for the most part, gone. And now, her best friend is missing. Upon returning to Southern California after a visit to her beloved Italy, Lella is shocked to learn the mysterious circumstances of Ruby's disappearance as well as the death of Ruby's husband. And Lella's son is the prime ... more

  • Desert Moon (Lella York Mysteries Book 3)

    by Maria Grazia Swan

    When her cat hitched a ride without her, she had no choice but to tail the furry creature...

    From award winning author Maria Grazia Swan comes a story of suspense, romance, and one mischievous cat... How does a domestic black cat from Southern California become a stowaway and end up in Phoenix Arizona? That’s what Lella York wants to know as she crosses the desert, pedal to the metal, to bring her cat, Flash, back home. But something about a full desert moon bewitches Lella into s... more

  • Lip Hooked

    by Chris Gardner
    Finn Cummings is a walking contradiction: experienced deep-sea captain without a boat; domestic-abuse counselor with a hair-trigger temper; loved by the gorgeous multi-millionaire owner of Heaven Scent, a 58-foot Buddy Davis-designed sport fishing yacht, yet unable to free himself from the clutches of Jeena Sterling, a sexual predator who shows up in his bed, dripping wet and wearing a mermaid costume. Finn’s shaky hold on a what should be an easy-going life in the Florida Keys totally unrave... more

  • Reign of the Madman: The Birdcatcher

    by Walter Schenck
    Many books, non-fiction as well as fiction, have been written about the Vietnam War. Heroes, anti-heroes, helicopters battles, tank battles, The Battle of An Loc, The Battle of Kontom, the Battle for the soul. While there are some good non-fiction books out there, those books have the advantage of already being populated with characters, with location, with history, with themes, and story-lines. In contrast, there are few good fiction books written on Vietnam, and in fact, about any kind of war ... more

  • The Dante Deception

    by Jenni Wiltz

    Natalie Brandon has a secret.

    She knows a 700-year-old Dante manuscript up for auction is a fake, but no one believes her because she was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child. To stop the auction, she enlists the help of her sister Beth, a history professor.

    But when the forger’s scheme crumbles, he seeks revenge…because the sisters have cost him more than money. Natalie and Beth have just disrupted an even bigger plot – a web of lies spun over forty years an... more

  • THE AFTER WAR, Part I: To Alice

    by Brandon Zenner

    Two years have passed since humankind faced extinction: Cousins, Brian and Steven, are leaving the protection of their underground bunker for the first time, after a cataclysmic war and unrelenting disease ravaged the earth. On the other side of North America, a young survivalist is leaving the seclusion of his cabin deep in the woods, traveling with his aging canine companion, Winston. For individual reasons, these men are traveling east, facing the terrible wake o... more

  • Big Flies

    by Keith Hirshland
    After Chester Daniel David, highly celebrated travel writer and hospitality critic, dies in an automobile accident, his son, Leland, is the heir to his prosperous estate. Among the late writer’s possessions are stacks of magazines hidden in an attic that suggest that his stories about his world travels were less than authentic. As Leland grew up, it seemed as if his father was never home. If he wasn’t at the exotic locations depicted in the various publications, then where was he? And what was h... more

  • He Can See Heaven

    by J.B. Keats
    He Can See Heaven is the fast tale of Ellen Shea, an intrepid doctoral candidate on a dangerous search, first for a cache of ancient scrolls, and then for her lost faith. Along the way Ellen learns that the real history of early Christians and their literature has been hiding in plain sight and that like the New Testament, it's been much altered by time and human nature. She interacts with a parade of intriguing characters including two alluring men, sharing their spiritual perspectives while tr... more

  • The Eye of Lies

    by Terri Johnson
    A small town in Georgia holds the secrets to a girl’s nightmare. Journey Navers, abused by parents who should have protected her, learned the chilling secrets, releasing a young spirit that haunted her waking days. For her, the gruesome nightmares came nightly. Determined to move forward in life and overcome the abuse, she runs away, all the while missing her brother, presumed dead. When she returns to her hometown years later, she discovers a body hidden within the wall of the house she grew up... more

  • The Cats Who Crossed Over From Paris

    by R.F. Kristi
    Inca, a Siberian puss, tells the story about her furry family – her brother Fromage, who is addicted to cheese and considers himself a cheese monger, and her sister, Cara, a gorgeous but timid Siamese. Inca, an avid fan of Dr. House, considers herself the leader of the troupe and responsible for the well-being of the family. They own, according to Inca, Missy, a young humanoid who has a well-established cheese shop in Paris. The story revolves around how Missy decides to move to London with her ... more

  • Murder Across the Street

    by Alisa Schindler
    Could a murderer be living across the street from Molly Davis? Could her neighbor, the same civilized, middle-aged man wearing peach Izods and waving amiably while getting his mail have actually killed his wife? Or could, as her husband and friends seem to think, she be dreaming up the whole sordid affair? Could she once again be creating some drama in her tedious, suburban mom life? But she wasn't imagining the sketchy phone call she overheard and she wasn't imagining the blood she saw stai... more

  • A Reservation for Murder

    by AJ Basinski
    Retired LAPD homicide detective, Lt. Mario Morales, traveled to a small Florida island, hoping for a romantic relationship with a beautiful Chinese woman. Instead, he finds himself involved in the investigation of two murders and the young woman disappears. Is it gold that provided the motive for the murders and the disappearance? Or is it something more sinister? When Lt. Morales gets to the bottom of the crimes, he is astonished as to who the murderer is: someone very close to him.

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