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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Three stories–three different ways of looking at life, dying and death! In a masterful literary prose, author Lynn Lamb, has taken a fascinating look at a subject that eventually we all need to come to terms with. In the end, will you submit to death or fight it? Does death have the power to summon its victims? Free on Kindle.

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. Follow Edgar’s story in this compulsively readable and riveting family saga. $1.99 on Kindle.

You wake up one day and there it is, the great question “Why?”. He’s there, and he won’t go away. You manage to roll out of bed, drag yourself to the bathroom. Toothpaste on your toothbrush, sleep in your eyes. You look up and he’s looking right at you.

“Why does this matter? Why does any of this matter?” he asks.

You don’t have an answer. You sit on the toilet, hold your knees, rock back and forth, the toothbrush idle in your mouth. You’re right, you think, there is no purpose.

And so the search begins.

This is the culmination of that story, a story of hope, of purpose, of searching. Are you ready to lose yourself? Free on Kindle.

“A single woman dives headlong from a ferry into Lake Champlain to rescue a child, and then must figure out what to do with him. Compulsively readable, this is all about what we do for love.” —Boston Globe. $1.99 on Kindle.

‘Asian Shorts’ is a brand-new, unique anthology of nineteen contemporary fiction short stories by nine different authors featuring Asia or Asians as the main theme.. The diversity of countries ranges from China to America and Pakistan to Vietnam. The authors are from various countries too but are mainly living in the USA, the UK and Southeast Asia. $0.99 on Kindle.

Spirits occupy a seaside inn, technology invades a marriage, troubled voices rise from an airliner graveyard, and an atheist is hijacked to Heaven. “One Before Bedtime” gathers a captivating collection of original short stories for young adults, and everyone older—sweeping together Gothic tales, dark mystery, and fantasy, with humor. These accounts offer satisfying reading to everyone for, as author N.S. Johnson has written, “The extraordinary and inexplicable occurs at least once to each of us.” Free on Kindle.