Wilton and Grace Goodbow’ s long marriage was frequently marked by political disagreement— she was the progressive activist, he the conservative, successful businessman. But their love was deep and bonded by a common passion for the sea aboard their ocean sailing yacht, The Sails of Grace. About to die, Grace elicits her husband’ s promise to set aside his political beliefs and take on her last cause: the reunification of Central American parents separated from their children at the El Paso border. Will risks his own freedom to keep his word. Sometimes the letter of the law and the right thing to do meet head-on. Sailing for Grace is a suspenseful exploration of the intersection of law, morality, and personal choice.
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Free: Trails in the Sand
April 23, 2025 By
Sea turtles stumbling toward an oil spill. A mystery threatening a family filled with secrets. A reporter struggling to save them all.
When environmental writer Caroline Carlisle sets off to report on endangered sea turtles during the Deepwater BP oil spill in 2010, she also uncovers long-kept secrets that threaten to destroy her family. The situation is complicated further by Caroline’s love for her late sister’s husband, Simon. An uproar ensues as Caroline’s southern family embarks on a collision with its past and future. At the same time, the oil from Deepwater Horizon continues to spew forth into the Gulf of Mexico and onto its beaches, creating an urgency to save Florida’s wildlife. It’s in this atmosphere that Caroline discovers the truth about her family and writes noteworthy articles about wildlife rescues.
Her relationship with both her sister, who died from an eating disorder, and her mother, whose grief and depression over the death of her brother years earlier shatters Caroline’s own secrets. An adventure involving parenthood and children and mental illness, Trails in the Sand uses the real events of 2010 as the backdrop for the psychological love stories unfolding with some humor and satire on the world of Florida environmental politics.
If you enjoy books that combine fiction with real world events, you’ll enjoy how the timeline and facts from Deepwater Horizon’s oil spill serve as the backdrop to Trails in the Sand, the recipient of a Green Book Award. Free on Kindle.
Who Killed Chatunga?
February 3, 2025 By
Who Killed Chatunga?
By MuVhaki Tasu
In Bulawayo’s most chaotic family gathering since someone forgot to bring the goat to a wedding, tragedy (or karma?) strikes when Chatunga, the golden boy of the Ibwe clan, ends up dead—face down in the carport with a hoe in his back. As the family descends into a storm of drama, accusations, and awkward finger-pointing, one question looms larger than the overcooked sadza: who had the audacity (and the arm strength) to kill Chatunga?
Caught in the madness is Shamiso Mhuri, a Canadian woman trying to navigate her way through the minefield of her fiancé Kuda’s eccentric family. Between dodging side-eyes from her future sisters-in-law, sidestepping her fiancé’s baby mama, and attempting not to trip over Shona traditions, Shamiso quickly learns that surviving a murder investigation might be easier than surviving her in-laws.
Throw in a grumpy patriarch with a flair for theatrics, a police inspector who stammers through more than just his words, and enough family feuds to fuel a reality TV show, and you’ve got a riotous tale that’s equal parts whodunit and cultural comedy.
Who Killed Chatunga? is a laugh-out-loud mystery that dishes up murder, mayhem, and plenty of side-eye. Perfect for fans of witty family sagas with a dash of chaos and a pinch of murder mystery. Just don’t forget to bring the goat.
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Free: Making Music Together
February 1, 2025 By
A beautiful woman with a beautiful voice, Trudy is all Mark has ever dreamed of. But to have her, he must end his platonic relationship with Abigail, his boss’s daughter. Mark follows his heart and incurs the wrath of Abigail and her father, who now seek revenge. Mark’s life goes into a tailspin, and a future with Trudy now seems impossible. Will his faith and courage help him overcome this abuse of power so he and Trudy can make music together? If you enjoy contemporary, Christian romance, get a copy of Making Music Together today. Free on Kindle.
Bunker Mentality
December 20, 2024 By
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Inspired by true events, Bunker Mentality is Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 meets David Graeber’s Bullsh*t Jobs, exploring the meaning of war, morality, madness, honor, and courage in a world of utter insanity.
“Razor-sharp.” —Foreword Clarion Reviews
“…an incisive, surprising novel of the Cold War as office comedy.”—BookLife Reviews (editor’s pick) $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Cell-Jacked: PORTIA BLACK VOLUME 2
December 16, 2024 By
The average length of a human genome is approximately six feet. Which, co-incidentally, is the average depth of a human grave.
When Portia Black wakes up, drugged and in a strange apartment, her first instinct is to run. After all she’s not the kind of girl authorities are sympathetic to. It doesn’t help that she’s a professional vigilante, settling scores for other girls like her who have been failed by the system, and it definitely doesn’t help that Nathan Hunter, her kidnapper, is one of the wealthiest bachelors in LA. But this is no date rape. Hunter is missing, the only trace of him is a severed finger in the freezer, and there’s a sutured knot in Portia’s jaw where her wisdom tooth used to be. The average length of a human genome is approximately six feet. Portia should know, she’s buried more than her share of bad guys with six feet of DNA. But when pieces of the girls she’s rescued begin to turn up with her cells on them, Portia realizes she’s been cell-jacked. Now the only hope to retrieve her stolen genetic identity is to rescue the man who attacked her before someone else finds him first. But as the body parts pile up, the questions she’s been afraid to ask start popping up. Is Hunter really the person everyone thinks he is? How are the girls connected to him? And, most importantly, are her girls really dead?
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Free: The Bowhunter
November 11, 2024 By
When a man values his faith greater than his own life, he will fight for godly justice to his last breath!
Ray Rod knows what it takes to live in a harsh world.
Born into a generations-old ranching bloodline, with a lineage of staunch and uncompromising men and women, survival is in Ray’s blood.
Known as “the Preacher,” Ray has followed in the footsteps of his forefathers his whole life – keeping to their traditions of hunting and honoring the Word of God.
Now an acclaimed host of a popular outdoor show and a prominent writer, Ray is no stranger to criticism from those who disagree with conservatives’ traditions – and is more than ready to defend himself and his core beliefs.
And when a gang of dangerous fugitives hiding in the mountains of Montana condemned four girls and a boy to unequivocal abuse and death, Ray must act and trust in his faith, as he has no choice but to enforce justice to protect the innocent.
But there is more than man’s greed and lies at large, as nature dangers, derange characters and hired agents unleashed their power to silence for good the hunters’ and guns’ advocate.
The bowhunter will have to rely on his abilities to try to survive the many threats allowed to test his faith.
Two questions remain…
Will it be enough to save self and those entrusted to him?
Or is there a limit to how much evil and danger one man can overcome alone?
Discover this gripping tale of survival, honor, and relentless courage.
Will peace return to the mountains? Free on Kindle.
Free: Big City Secrets
June 20, 2024 By
“A raw and visceral journey through the alleys and penthouses of America, Big City Secrets is a striking tale of pushing through pain to discover ones potential. From an abusive childhood and early abandonment issues to complexes around sex, intimacy, money, and success, this book and its sympathetic protagonist shy away from nothing, turning a spotlight on human nature through the smudged and fickle lens of Los Angeles. With gritty, unpolished dialogue that seems like its pulled right from the street, and a matter-of-fact style of storytelling reminiscent of Bukowski or Bret Easton Ellis, this is a sleazy, but urgent sermon on the West Coast mount, an unapologetic journey into the dark heart of Americas illusion.” -SPR Free on Kindle.
Free: Surviving Jane
March 23, 2024 By
Dr. David Scholz is looking for a career change. He’s burnt out and is planning a year-long sabbatical to travel and reset before beginning his ophthalmology residency.
During these last weeks, David is given a tough patient: young Jane Doe, a heroin addict, is brought in with severe injuries. Jane does not want to be in the hospital. As David grows increasingly disgruntled, a surprising source reminds him why he entered the medical field in the first place: to help people.
An emotional journey featuring addiction, recovery, and hope, Surviving Jane is a richly detailed medical drama that provides an intimate look into life in a busy hospital.
From the author of Chasing Rabbits Free on Kindle.
By the Sea: A Comic Novel
March 14, 2024 By
By the Sea tells the stories of an ensemble cast of characters all living in or around the architecturally eclectic Briers Hotel, situated on out-of-the-way, scruffy Leech Beach. With comic verve, their pursuits of happiness in love, art, sex, theater, power, fast cars, and old movies all come together in revelations that change their lives forever. Its a modern comic adult fairy tale of heroes and heroines, villains and jesters, the village ogre and the village idiot.
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The Weight of Water
March 14, 2024 By
This is a novel about two sisters born into an abusive and neglectful poor trash family, and their love for each other. They live in the 9th ward of New Orleans, and Hurricane Katrina is on the horizon. The tension builds as you realize what they are going to have to contend with it. This was a beautiful, sad story, with very believable characters. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Love of Impossible Sums
March 4, 2024 By
Still grieving the loss of his beloved wife, Oliver reluctantly agrees to attend a poetry reading. The poet is Alex, who has also suffered loss, and soon after the performance she and Oliver embark on a whirlwind romance. But the past is never far behind, and a cast of meddling characters stir up tensions that risk coming to a head. “A unique, pensive, and mournful literary style to be savored” – Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize $0.99 on Kindle.
Free: Punks for the Opera
February 24, 2024 By
Marina Quantrill leaves her shattered Oregon life for a new start in San Francisco and runs smack dab into a hot streak. So hot, in fact, that she suspects foul play. A month later, she’s an assistant dog walker, manager of a punk band and creator of one of the strangest fundraisers ever created. “Bravo! Encore!” Free on Kindle.
Riding With Forrest
December 22, 2023 By
Riding off to war with the idealism of youth, John Barrett soon finds himself under the command of the most audacious, bold and fearless cavalry commander of the Civil War. Nathan Bedford Forrest terrified his enemies but endeared himself to those who fought with him. $2.99 on Kindle.
These Things Happen
December 6, 2023 By
Daniel Zimmer will do almost anything to end his painexcept for the one thing that might work. Flashing through Daniels life, past and present, this nostalgic ode to Brooklyn is an unflinchingly honest account of the inevitable ups and downs of recovery and coming of age.
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Free: Whiskey and Suicide
December 3, 2023 By
Whiskey and Suicide paints a kaleidoscope of myriad emotions of the Indian middle class families. In a very informal storytelling style, it narrates the dilemmas of the urban families in dealing with the conflicting emotions arising due to contradictory desires. It is the bonds of family and friendship that allow the protagonists to deal with these crises which are depicted by Manik Bal in a detached but empathetic narrative style reminiscent of the great slice of life storytellers of the east and the west.
This book is raw and real and these people can be anyone truly. It is remarkably heartfelt, endearing, it claws at you at times with its depth and emotion. Hard to put down. One of those books you hand to a best friend and say Read this!
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Free: From Da Big Island – Screenplay and Novel
November 27, 2023 By
Both the screenplay and novel are combined into this one-volume book. How could Hawaii change a New Yorker? With her life in peril, Ruth, needing solitude and change, leaves the Big Apple for the Big Island of Hawaii. She deals with the islands’ customs, her unusual neighbors, marijuana, pigs, and more. Is this the change she expected? FIND OUT NOW! Free on Kindle.
Anne Frank on Tour and Other Stories
November 24, 2023 By
This imaginative short story collection starts fast as Anne Frank survives World War II and becomes a literary star, and Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson agree to an interview that becomes quite candid, and a lonely husband picks up the wrong female hitchhiker. There are also stories about speed dating, people in distress, and famous musicians. $0.99 on Kindle.
Lost Seeds
November 11, 2023 By
The engrossing first book of a series, Lost Seeds addresses various facets of historical racism an
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A novel chronicling the strained relationship between two brothers born into the remnants of their parents former enslavement. One brother seems to overcome, while the other descends further into adversity. $0.99 on Kindle.
The Home I left
November 5, 2023 By
A journey home reveals more than John could ever have imagined secrets, loss, and the surprising power of redemption.
After years of service, John Furst settled into a low-key bureaucratic post within the US military, coordinating funeral arrangements for soldiers. With a loving woman in his corner, and a punchy work crew he enjoys, he could ride this thing out to retirement. Then a call comes in. His father’s cracking voice informs John that his disliked elder brother has suddenly died.
John must journey home to face the questions around his drug-addicted brother’s death, the conflicted family members who remain, and his own ghosts haunting through four generations of small-town minds. Drawing on patience, drinking, laughter, tears, and screams, John and his estranged family face tragic loss, and he learns that while before his life once seemed secure, it now appears held in place by stagnation.
While crossing a bridge to work one morning after the funeral, John decides to take a leap unforeseen.
Join John on his transformative journey as he navigates the complexities of family, love, and self-discovery. Discover the power of second chances and the resilience of the human spirit in a story that will tug at your heartstrings and leave you pondering the choices that define us all.
The Home I Left is a gripping tale that reminds us that, sometimes, it’s the journey back that leads us forward. $3.99 on Kindle.
100 Heartwarming Short Stories for Seniors
October 29, 2023 By
Are you searching for the perfect gift to brighten the lives of your beloved elderly women and men? Look no further and dive into a treasure trove of 100 heartwarming, easy-to-read short stories that will whisk you away on a nostalgic journey!
Yearning for the years gone by? Seeking a way to keep your mind and soul engaged and entertained? Longing to share stories with newfound friends?
Curious about the wisdom hidden within lifes simple moments?
Join us between the pages of 100 Heartwarming Short Stories for Seniors and rekindle the warmth of cherished memories and souls like a cup of tea on a chilly morning.
$0.99 on Kindle.
The Seduction of Emy and Other Stories
October 4, 2023 By
35 crisp, literary short stories, packed with human drama, quirky sex, nutty religion, and lots of not-gonna-take-it-anymore women, both human and otherwise. See the author’s website, ARGregory.com, for some sample reading, and see “The Seduction of Emy and Other Stories” trailer on YouTube. $2.99 on Kindle.
Free: Black Seagull
October 1, 2023 By
Unravel the captivating family secrets of a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Israel in “Black Seagull,” a gripping family saga with a thrilling mystery at its core.
Embark on a captivating journey through generations as “Black Seagull” unveils a mesmerizing family saga filled with long-buried secrets. This gripping tale unravels the complex web of relationships, cultural tensions, and clandestine mysteries within a Russian Jewish immigrant family in Israel.
Follow Tamara Atias, a single mother and a forensic science expert, as she delves into a chilling murder case that leads her to a frozen Siberian city. As Tamara unearths the truth, she confronts family secrets that challenge her closest bonds and set her on a path of self-discovery.
Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous immigrant experience, this novel masterfully explores the price of keeping secrets and the profound impact on one’s life. Rinat Klein’s debut work blends the allure of a gripping mystery with the richness of a family saga, making “Black Seagull” a must-read for fans of literary fiction and crime thrillers alike. Get ready to be spellbound by this unforgettable tale of love, betrayal, and the unyielding pursuit of truth. Free on Kindle.
Free: The Watermelon King
September 29, 2023 By
After being laid off from his job at a prestigious consulting firm, Dean decides to embark on a journey across East Africa with his younger brother. Unknowingly, they travel into bandit territory where a medical emergency forces them to choose between their safety and their health.
Inspired by true events, The Watermelon King follows the journey of two brothers as they backpack across one of East Africa’s most inhospitable regions. As they endure endless days of difficult travel, a series of short stories written by their father begins to uncover their inherent desire for adventure and their connection to the past. Along the way they begin to understand the beauty and frustration of life in Africa. Free on Kindle.
No Lifeguard on Duty
September 20, 2023 By
It’s July of 1970. The decaying beach town of Asbury Park, New Jersey erupts with racial unrest that propels three unlikely teenage friends into turmoil. Adam, Mollie, and Howard struggle with family conflicts and their racial, cultural and class identities in the midst of the chaos. Town and teens will never be the same. $0.99 on Kindle.
