Jerry Johnston is a modern day cattle rancher who struggles with life. His only wife died at an early age and he blamed God and, in a way, his children. He is bitter, tough and unforgiving. Then he meets a woman who has the potential to change how he sees things. How will he react? How will his children react?
The Ranchers is set in the Mountain West and will deeply entertain and satisfy. Free on Kindle.
There is Musical War Going On! Unbeknownst to Jeremiah, Renard is a member of the Society of Tyrus; a secretive, demonic cult of musicians with chapters (The Pentagrammatory) that span across the country. Renard prepares a series of musical spells and incantations; prescribed from their secret book (Codified Manual of Tyrus) whose origin dates back to the 9th century and believed to be inspired by Heaven’s (excommunicated) original chief musician, Lucifer. Renard’s intention – use music to erect confusion among God’s people through the worship services. Who will win? Free on Kindle.
Red Clover is a novel about a boy growing up in an upper-class family where he clearly didn’t belong. When he turns eighteen, plagued with serious doubt and fear, he forges ahead to try to cultivate a life for himself—one more conducive to his own character. He meets an assortment of unforgettable people along the way who show him a world poles apart from the one in which he was raised. Red Clover is the story of a young man coming into his own by being his own person despite substantial roadblocks. Free on Kindle.
One of the most rotten humans ever born has found a way to live forever. Nolte discovers the secret to eternal life by way of a loophole in one of the original ‘thirty pieces of silver,’ all he had to do is die, but now that he’s finally dead, everyone wants him to stay that way.
Nolte has risked it all and sold his soul in order to cheat death, but his key to life eternal has been stolen from him. Now he has three days to get it back or pay the ultimate price. Free on Kindle.
Stripped of everything that made life a swanky, booze and babe-filled breeze, slacker extraordinaire Josh McCain embarks on a grueling and often hilarious two-year regimen of self-discipline. Despite skeptics and naysayers mocking him, saboteurs resolving to stop him, and his own questionable past haunting him, Josh is determined to overcome all odds and prove that who he was is not as important as who he can become. Upbeat and inspiring, The Will is a story of goofs and grit, of the regenerative power of friendship, and if Josh doesn’t blow it—real love. $0.99 on Kindle.
All Beth ever wanted from her mother was to be recognized as an adult. When she moved in with her grandmother, she received this recognition from her, but still did not receive it from her mother. Now that Beth’s grandmother has passed on, will Beth be forced to become her mother’s child again, or will her mother see her for the adult she has become? Free on Kindle.
In a world characterized by manipulation, bitterness, fear and insecurities, are human beings are able to love unconditionally? Love is a choice that one makes, not an emotion one falls in and out of. Using verse and photography, the author takes us on a journey of realizing the existence of true love and the liberation that comes with it. Free on Kindle.
Introducing your parents to the person you are dating is always nerve-racking.
What if they dislike each other?
What if your parents think they are not right for you?
But in the year 2030, what happens when your parents disapprove that you are dating a robot? Free on Kindle.
When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay. $1.99 on Kindle.
When a luminous young violin prodigy’s father falls gravely ill, he must make his way down from the mountaintop where he was raised in isolation and into the civilized valley below. Newly orphaned, ten-year-old David has been home-schooled in everything that is good and beautiful, but he knows nothing of the ills of the real world where he finds himself. While the small town folk who take David in try to figure out who he is and what to make of his wondrous ways, the mystery of David’s secluded upbringing unfold. Will life’s realities will threaten this boy’s radiant spirit? Or will David have a life-changing influence upon all he encounters? Free on Kindle.
Winner of the North American Book Award in Historical Fiction, and an Independent Publishers Award Silver Medal.
On a humid day in June 1806, on the edge of Ohio’s Great Black Swamp, seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner watches from behind a maple tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With both her parents dead and all the other settlers out in their fields, Susanna makes the rash decision to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman’s quest to find her sisters, and the parallel story of her sisters’ new lives. $2.99 on Kindle.
Ever want to save an abused teenager, reform a narcissist, bring home a runaway, mete out justice, help someone you care about recover from PTSD? It’s a messy job and you won’t get it all wrapped up in a fancy bow. Oh, did I mention you’ll have to survive a forest fire in a deadly Sierra wilderness? This book has been called a dead sprint from cover to cover. So take a deep breath and hang on. You may not breathe again until the last page. $0.99 on Kindle.
Marie and Richard have the perfect marriage until she discovers his involvement in a corrupt underworld. She flees to another state which she believes is a safe refuge. But between Richard’s threatening attempts to reunite and her discovery of her father’s surprising heritage, Marie feels anything but safe. Free on Kindle.
The first of Tim Vander Meulen’s Dark World trilogy, A Humble Heart introduces the vast world of Ielrenväd, in which dwell numerous races of mythological beings such as Elves and Dwarves. Humans are a separate race, the same as the others. Yet like all worlds, a force of evil draws the souls of many from each race, to become enslaved to the master of darkness and bear the mark of evil.
The leader of the Elves in the south is troubled by an onslaught of the enemy against their homeland. In his investigations, he is met by a band of Dwarves and two human boys who bear the most terrible news. The kingdom of men has been invaded. As far as anyone knows, these two refugees are the only remnants of the human race in the world. The boys had first consulted the Dwarves, and now they ask for the aid of the Elves to recapture their homeland. The leader must decide, per their request, to take the long journey to the West and recapture the lands of men. The survival of the two human refugees, Henty and Clese, is paramount, since they could very well be the last of their kind. $2.99 on Kindle.
Gerard’s single wish is to break out of paranoia and mental illness to re-discover his daughter Rosie’s love for her him as a father.
Ashamed he cannot relate to his girl, Gerard accompanies and stays with her for violin lessons at the home of tutor, Ruth Stein.
Ruth, fascinating him for her musical sensitivity, becomes a confidante. Against his better judgement and his wife’s reservations – the paranoid, Gerard, can only cling to believing the tutor can bring him to bond closer to Rosie.
But soon he must wrestle with his suspicions again, for Ruth mothers Rosie, almost smothers…
Reaching out to a broken doll, propped in the darkness at the bottom of Ruth’s garden well, Gerard wants to believe that what he touches and smells is just the decay of rotting sacks enfolding a doll; the closest to a child that the lonely old spinster could cling. Investigating, Gerard’s fears for Rosie’s safety begin to mount.
Rosie notices her father’s new concern and begins to draws closer to him but, if she is in real danger, can Gerard save her?
And even then, can he triumph over the emotional void of paranoia; feel, accept, he and Rosie could share the love of which others speak? $0.99 on Kindle.
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In a tragic turn of events, Roberto Sanchez’s future is altered and he now confronts the darkest of demons. While his family life tumbles through turbulent events, his daughter, Jenny, receives her father’s private journal – the one he promised as her inheritance, once he was dead – it is a race against time for her to get to him…before it’s too late.
This is the story of a broken man’s climb from the furthest depths of human grief to the heights of self-awareness and discovery. It is one that will move you to greater empathy, understanding, and self-directed change on your own journey of discovery and acceptance. $0.99 on Kindle.
Sometimes rotten luck is better than no luck at all.
Jinxed from birth with spectacular bad luck, Murphy Drummer wouldn’t venture beyond his backyard since he was a little boy. Lonely and despised, he utilized his solitude to acquire an array of mystifying talents.
Fast forward twenty-five years and Murphy must find a new sanctuary where people might be safe from his bemusing jinx. He sallies forth and promptly stumbles into Joy Daley, a woman blessed with fabulous luck.
The comical, topsy-turvy effects from the collision of Lady Luck and Murphy’s jinx whimsically upends the lives of everyone in their paths, as no one who falls into Murphy’s orbit can escape the gravity of Murphy’s luck. At first, Murphy’s victims question who he is; at last, they’ll be questioning who they aren’t. A love story of wood-tapping proportions. Free on Kindle.
After centuries of religiously motivated war, the world has been split in two. Now the Blessed Lands are ruled by pure faith, while in the Republic, reason is the guiding light-two different realms, kept apart and at peace by a treaty and an ocean.
Children of the Republic, Helena and Jason were inseparable in their youth, until fate sent them down different paths. Grief and duty sidetracked Helena’s plans, and Jason came to detest the hollowness of his ambitions.
These two damaged souls are reunited when a tiny boat from the Blessed Lands crashes onto the rocks near Helena’s home after an impossible journey across the forbidden ocean. On board is a single passenger, a nine-year-old girl named Kailani, who calls herself The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky. A new and perilous purpose binds Jason and Helena together again, as they vow to protect the lost innocent from the wrath of the authorities, no matter the risk to their future and freedom.
But is the mysterious child simply a troubled little girl longing to return home? Or is she a powerful prophet sent to unravel the fabric of a godless Republic, as the outlaw leader of an illegal religious sect would have them believe? Whatever the answer, it will change them all forever… and perhaps their world as well. Free on Kindle.
A humorous look at classic literature in a collection of fictitious letters and other parodies. Letters never intended. Letters never written. But what would a letter of recommendation from Fyodor Dostoevsky look like? Would you want one? What would a letter of complaint from Marcel Proust to his fruit vendor look like? How did Ayn Rand react to hate mail? How would Mark Twain react to blackmail? How did Emerson react when he saw the state Walden was in after Thoreau left? These and other important questions are answered in this timeless collection of thirty six parodies. Free on Kindle.
A multi-genre anthology of short stories and flash fiction including four dominant emotions, a gonzo inspired tale, a period piece from 1979, horror, comedy, dramas, and more.
Instant gratification through story-telling. $2.99 on Kindle.
The world of nightclub bouncer Jackson Reilly revolves around drinking, smoking dope, casual sex with bar girls, and riding his aging Norton 850 Commando motorcycle, but as a child he was a piano prodigy. For mysterious reasons he gave it all up when he was thirteen, and he’s been at war with the rest of the world ever since.
With the death of his mother and a re-connection with his aging Auntie Jo, who once played piano with some of the cream of the fifties’ jazz scene, he begins to see that what he’s really been battling against for all those years is his own destiny.
Jackson finally learns the meaning of ‘follow your bliss’, but has the lesson come too late? Free on Kindle.
Theo and Hélène embark on a headlong collision only to find themselves inexplicably attracted to each other. Fearing social repercussions, they hide their relationship, but denial will have consequences. As collision turns to collusion, the secret lovers follow a path of discovery, sharing their cultures, secrets and desires, and forming a human bond that only the death of one will undo. $2.99 on Kindle.
A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope, The Art of Racing in the Rain is a beautifully crafted and captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . and it’s all told by a dog. $1.99 on Kindle.
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.
Recently wounded while on duty as a city police officer, a young woman retreats to an isolated Blue Ridge mountain cabin to recover. Soon she meets a county sheriff’s deputy, and together they begin to discover there’s something all too real and sinister behind a local superstitious folk legend. $0.99 on Kindle.
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