In San Bernardino, near the end of the twentieth century, the Fifth Street Crew—who insist they are most certainly not a crew—are bored to tears by their lived reality. The teenagers share a universal thirst for something transformative, something magical to change absolutely everything. For all the gossip about the local gay bakery-owner, crime, smokes, and cancerous moles that never entertain long, lanky Ted witnesses a scandalous event that seizes the attention of the Fifth Street Crew with force. What Ted sees follows them, beguiles them, horrifies them, and makes them laugh well after the streets empty as everyone goes home for the night. Free on Kindle.
Believe Me: The Story of a Narcissist
Kennedy Kilpatrick was born into the world of privilege. His immigrant parents built an empire from the ground up. By the time their son was born, they had amassed a great fortune.
Ken had a tendency to exaggerate everything. Despite this – or maybe because of it – he found himself surrounded by devoted followers.
When he announced he was running for President of the United States, his wife and children were appalled. With the number of skeletons in the family closet, the last thing they wanted was to be in the spotlight. $9.99 on Kindle.
Free: The Dead of August
Life and love on the verge of a nervous breakdown: a bitterly funny, darkly satirical tale of modern-day anxieties and hidden sexual tensions, set across the “fashionable” edges of contemporary London.
“A sophisticated, comic novel that brilliantly captures the triumph and folly of art, media, and publishing.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Free on Kindle.
Love Trumps All!
Indo-American themed novel around High-Tech Immigration, Love and the Pursuit of Happiness. Fresh new global perspectives in the divisive political debates around immigration.
Five friends, five religions, five ideologies, five inseparable interwoven stories of transformation and self-discovery on a global stage.
A story that cuts across Y2K opportunities of the late 90s to the current backdrop of Trump election.
Anant Joshi, a dreamer who chases the American dream during Y2K rush and leapfrogs from a small Indian town to start-up innovative Silicon Valley venture.
Chris O’Brian, an energetic and creative high-tech sales leader from New York who is driven by his passion for life, creativity and making it big.
Sameera Qureshi, a young gynecologist from Hyderabad attending her medical residency in California, trying to find love and her true human identity.
Amy Cohen, a lively, articulate, compassionate pediatrician from Tel Aviv who is ready to ride on larger than life waves and build a legacy.
Madhura Sharma, journalist and social worker from Mumbai driven by her nationalistic ideals and drive to help others.
What happens when their paths intersect and blend amidst their divisions across nationality, religion, and ideals?
An interwoven story of these five unlikely friends, over two decades of tracing their paths and connecting their dots across the globe in Silicon Valley, New York, Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Kathmandu and Khamgaon (small-town India full of youth with stars-and-stripes in their eyes) in a world powered by immigration and ‘reverse immigration’. $2.99 on Kindle.
The ’69
We Run Bad
America’s in the throes of the Great Recession, and Tim’s dreams of flipping a house have collapsed along with the housing market. After abandoning his new home as a lost cause, he’s caught up in the poker craze and moves to Atlantic City with a new dream of “playing poker for a living”, but soon finds himself stuck in a dizzying spell of bad luck at the card tables. Or maybe he just sucks at poker, like everybody else. His money all gone, and finding that it’s actually difficult to drink oneself to death at 1 am, he’s suddenly offered a chance to make his money back, and then some, by running an underground poker game in New York City. Once in New York, Tim finds himself on the road to recovery and making real money for the first time—but at what cost?
We Run Bad offers an authentic and darkly comic look at underground poker culture while serving up an indictment of post-recession America. Here, every game is rigged, and the only way to come out ahead is to be the one doing the rigging. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: My Summer Friend
LOVE, OBSESSION, SECRETS: Charismatic college student Ed Grey’s life is a carousel of one night stands until inheriting his childhood home after his grandparent’s death. As summer arrives, he moves in, reliving his past as a quiet, shy, loner by day and obsessively watching for his childhood crush Elise through his telescope by night. The fragile shell of his identity begins to crack after she doesn’t recognize him during a chance encounter and falls in love with the caricature he has invented. As he becomes entangled in a complex web of lies, a small metal box abandoned in the garage waits to be discovered. The secret it contains changes everything. This edgy novella is a modern American love story that offers a glimpse into the psyche of a disturbed young man. Free on Kindle.
Stim
Robert is different. He has Asperger’s Syndrome. He experiences the world differently to 99% of the population. This is his coming of age journey as he struggles to accept who he really is, tries to understand other people—which he cannot—and find a girlfriend. Especially find a girlfriend—he’s decided it’s his special project for the year. Accompanied by his quirky flatmates, Chloe (who also has Asperger’s and mental illness, amongst other things), Stef (who hasn’t, but doesn’t mind) and their oddly-named kitten, Robert endures a myriad of awkward moments in his quest to meet a nice, normal girl…and not even a major earthquake will stop him. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Regarding Anna
Grace discovers a box in her parents’ attic that contains enough suspicious items to cause her to believe that the people she had called Mom and Dad her whole life may not have been her real parents.
After recovering from the shock of her parents’ deaths, Grace Lindroth is tormented by the uncertainty of her identity and begins an arduous search for answers. When certain clues draw her to a boardinghouse once owned by Anna Vargas, she becomes convinced that Anna was her real mother. She believes the boardinghouse walls have been harboring vital secrets for years, but when she meets up with the cantankerous old woman who had bought the place after Anna’s death, she questions whether she’ll ever be able to peel back all the layers surrounding her parentage. Free on Kindle.
Dodge By Dodge Carter
While living in Mount Vernon, NY, in the late 1920s, Dodge Carter meets a gorgeous woman from the city—Ms. Vivienne Chambers—and feels for her the rush of a new love. As the two become acquainted, Dodge Carter is forced to leave behind his new home, and its tranquility—due to some unforeseen events—and take up residency in the fast-paced New York City. From there, the drama continues, and Dodge sinks deeper and deeper into turmoil. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Lucky Star
Teenager Ben Somerset has three great loves in his life: Sherlock Holmes, designer clothes and a certain song by Madonna. And then Susie appears.
Set in England in the summer of 1984 Lucky Star tells of Ben’s introduction to the world of shoplifting, music, politics, love and heartbreak. Free on Kindle.
Whispers Among The Prairie
Set in the American West of the 1860’s, it incorporates Chief Black Kettle’s plight of saving his people from encroachment of their land from settlers and keeping the peace with the U.S Army. His adopted daughter Morning Dove becomes a bridge between two worlds as she has been taught and understands the English language. She develops a friendship with Captain Clinton McKay and before they know it their feelings have changed towards each other They both question what this means as they are both on opposite sides of a war. Will their love develop? Will they remain on their opposing sides? $6.88 on Kindle.
The Counterfeit Smile
In Paris, in 1910, two rascals meet one another and become fast friends. Young and cocky, when they weren’t feeding their appetite for food and flesh, they were selling works of art “stolen” from the Louvre. But their life suddenly changes when the Mona Lisa is actually stolen from the Louvre. The Counterfeit Smile is a lusty novel about the Golden Age of Paris, charged with characters like King Edward VII. famous artists, bistros, brothels and beautiful women. $3.96 on Kindle.
Free: The Sinking of Bethany Ann Crane
A country on the cusp of war. A town suspended in time. One girl’s desperate attempt to escape her eternal childhood.
Bethany Ann Crane is a motherless eight-year-old living in Grover Springs, SC at the beginning of the Cold War.
After her patriotic small town agrees to enter into a government experiment geared to give the Americans an edge over the Russians in space, she, along with the rest of the town, is preserved in a scientific stasis state and Bethany Ann becomes ensnared in her pre-adolescent body.
As the girl matures mentally, she experiences more grown-up emotions and aspirations, but her family and neighbors refuse to recognize her as anything but a child.
Will her only friend be able to save her? Will Bethany Ann ever be allowed to “come of age?”
The Sinking of Bethany Ann Crane is the gripping story of one girl’s yearning for adulthood in a world where time stands still. Free on Kindle.
Free: Advancing on Chaos
Reminiscent of Confederacy of Dunces, Advancing on Chaos received an Honorable Mention in the Great Southeast Book Festival and was one of the semi-finalists in the Faulkner/Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
In this wickedly funny, thought-provoking novel, no one, religious or secular, is safe from critique. Free on Kindle.
Free: Advancing on Chaos
Mock My Words
Free: Bowl of Fruit (1907)
Pianist in a Bordello
What would happen if a politician decided to tell the truth—the whole truth?
Richard Youngblood, aspiring Congressman, is about to find out. He’s running on a platform of honesty and transparency—and against the advice of his friends and advisers, he’s decided to start with himself. His autobiography will lay his entire life bare before voters just days before the election.
And what a life he’s had. Born in a commune and named Richard Milhous Nixon Youngblood as an angry shot at his absent father,
Richard grows up in the spotlight, the son of an enigmatic fugitive and the grandson of a Republican senator. He’s kidnapped and rescued, kicked out of college for a prank involving turkeys, arrested in Hawaii while trying to deliver secrets to the CIA…Dick Nixon Youngblood’s ready to tell all.
He’ll even tell his readers about the Amandas—three women who share a name but not much else, and who each have helped shape and define the man he’s become.
Are voters really ready for the whole truth?
Are you?
Pianist in a Bordello is a hilarious political romp through the last four decades of American history, from a narrator who is full of surprises. $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Dis’ Taste
Set in pre-WWI Congo Free State, the story follows two Belgian Colonial officers, Philippe and Augustine and the latter’s wife, Clementine.
The violent environment creates a surreal world where each person attempts to forge a new life for themselves, but eventually descend into an ever darkening world of lost dreams, disillusionment and hatred. At the start, Philippe is brutally and savagely maimed in an attack. The aftermath causes him to deal with an ever-increasing post-traumatic shock, whilst managing a company rubber plantation, using opium as a crutch. Free on Kindle.
The Little Guy
Free: The Madness of Grief
London 1969. While men are walking on the moon, a series of dramatic events threaten to have lasting repercussions for 16-year-old Jane and the people she loves. “A richly complicated, and deeply engaging coming-of-age tale.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Best Books of 2018. “A rollicking good read” – Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize Free on Kindle.
Free: Hidden
A possibility…
What influences our choices, our tendencies? Is it in our genetic nature or is it nurtured in our environment?
The Führer and his love were often separated as the war began to turn against the Nazis not seeing each other for months. Eva Braun’s child could have been born at the Berchtesgaden. Whisked away by the midwife, he was raised by another of the Braun sisters long before Eva and her beloved Führer ended their brief marriage.
Years later the truth stumbles into the open inspiring skinhead Nazi radicals and ultra right Jewish gangs to pursue their sociopathic prize.
Would you not be shocked to find out YOU are that prize, that target?
As their target, how will you react – if you knew your history? Free on Kindle.
Figures of the One Must Go
Figures of the One Must Go is a book that dares you to read it. This modernist philosophical work adopts a playful attitude with the words within. Words evolve, multiply, surprise, and delight in this chronicle of the four different paths of life. Are you brave enough to walk down the philosophical path, the psychological path, the political path, and the lyrical path? Each one presents challenging ideas about the nature of life and the long history of the human race. While these ideas have serious ramifications, author Victor Living never loses his love of language. His unique voice keeps the conversation going and makes the speaker feel like an old friend. $0.99 on Kindle.

























































